Free VPN Providers

Article SOURCE as marked Free VPN Providers Virtual Private Network ('VPN')   VPN = "Virtual Private Network" = protection of:  online identity, privacy etc. Free VPN Services Free VPN services available (some listed below, as at 2013) What's Needed for VPN Online [subscriber VPN provider example used] 1  VPN Server linking up to VPN Provider end of the business, at different locations 2  VPN Protocols VPN provider uses:  secure, encrypted communications 'Tunnel' Looks like this is what the VPN provider does: "VPN creates a secure tunnel using most powerful VPN protocols – hides your original IP behind one of its own – encrypts all your communication and passes through the secure tunnel allowing you to surf the web freely and anonymously"  [https://hide.me/en/] The https://hide.me/en/ provider, for example, offers:   -- free web proxy   -- Get new digital identity  connect (via VNP servers / via 'encrypted tunnel')   -- assigned new online anonymous ID   -- actual IP address -- record reportedly not kept     -- for access to blocked websites (ie censored)   -- access to geo-restricted content   -- to surf the web anonymously   -- to encrypt whole internet connection   -- unblock Skype and other VoIP tools    -- chat - inside & outside of country location   -- ISP for real IP address sees:  unreadable encrypted traffic  [https://hide.me/en/] 3  Encryption Makes communications unreadable to all, other than the receiver. ISP for real IP address sees:  unreadable encrypted traffic. LINUX  -  Uh-Oh: *Ubuntu's integrated VPN client only supports PPTP which has known security issues, according to hide.me. Hide.me recommends:   OpenVPN IPsec IKEv2 (StrongSwan) for security & speed. Source https://hide.me/en/ FREE VPN PROVIDERS Info as at 2013: OpenVPN -- SSL/TLS based VPN -- provides high security & privacy *need to install open VPN client software to use OpenVPN service *does not work on mobile services HOWEVER:  works on Windows, Mac & Linus http://www.openvpn.net/ VPNBook = VPNBook = Romania-based = 100% free VPN service = advanced cryptographic techniques = free & secure PPTP & OpenVPN service access * Note:  PPTP has known security issues [as at 2013] = claims: do not collect any info or log any internet activity http://www.vpnbook.com/ SecurityKiss -- tunnel service -- ensures data security & privacy  -- redirects all your traffic through an impenetrable tunnel -- everything in the tunnel is encrypted http://www.securitykiss.com/ Get US VPN -- Free VPN service client -- service in Fast, Secure, Convenient -- from both USA & UK data centres http://www.websitevpn.com/ Tor Browser - Privacy Browser Tor Browser -- privacy / anonymising tool -- by 'bouncing your communications' -- around 'distributed network of relays' around world -- prevents successful surveillance of internet connection re sites visited -- prevents sites you visit knowing physical location -- permits access to blocked sites LINK | Tor Project Tor Browser sounds a lot like the above tools, I think. Not sure what the difference is. Check out the difference.  Difference noted section below. LINK | Post:  Tor vs. VPN ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Got curious about masking online ID after downloading the WikiLeaks freebie book from Verso, and realising that my fake e-mail address and fake registration isn't much good when my online ID etc isn't masked.  Didn't think to use Tor, though.  Doh!  But because the Tor communication would have maybe been linked to the e-mail used, maybe that option wasn't as secure as it could be?  Not sure about that.  But I'm guessing a freshie e-mail might have been better than the temp sort of partitioned one.  LOL ...  I'm not really good at hiding. Being a tech dumb-dumb I didn't really know what I was supposed to do and, so far, I've been too lazy to make the effort to find out more about online privacy. Got onto  the above information in a round-about way, by following a trail from a comment about some download site, to references about 'Tor', 'Open Proxy' and VPN. Tor I'm good for, but I still haven't checked out 'Open Proxy' and I didn't really know what VPN was until today ... LOL.  If I came across it in my travels, I didn't take in the info or take an interest.  Not sure what this proxy stuff is about ... might have a look at some point.  In a rush now. The Romanian VPN:  would probably check to see what their relationship is like with the US before playing with that ... & probably keeping fingers crossed in case it's run by cyber crooks or something ... LOL.  Quick check indicates that VPNBook has been referred to in court discoveries and indictments against hactivist group members, by the look of this July 2013 article.  I've not read comments. OpenVPN sounds the best to me. Found out today that if you CTRL-C copy files and then delete the source of the files, you're left with nothing but a 'source not found' type message.  Lucky it was only a boring photo of my porridge breakfast (again) ... LOL. I Tor a little most days, but I'm still hooked on normal browsing. Reverted to Google search engine when I changed my OS (again) and stayed there because I was too lazy to find alternatives.  Due to Google's provision of assistance to US-led multiple state actor aggression in the Middle East, I've ditched Google for https://duckduckgo.com/ (doesn't track), but I find myself hopping back onto Google frequently, as it's hard adjusting to being somewhere else and scrolling through search engine data, sort of feeling like you might be missing out on something vital (or missing what you think is quick and easy detection of key info).  But in terms of the organisation overall, not too sure how reliable Google would actually be in that sense.  With the US state being embedded in Google and Google being in bed with the US state, they're probably hiding info from us instead of helping us find it.  ;) I'm over looking at this stuff:  OPSEC etc. might have to wait for another time.

TOR vs VPN | WHICH TO USE

Source The Tin Hat ... lol https://thetinhat.com/tutorials/darknets/tor-vpn.html   TOR vs VPN | WHICH TO USE Tor & VPN described as often conflated -- but Tor & VPN are different -- which is more suitable depends on context Essentially: Tor:  for activists & 'secret squirrels' / not for video downloads [caution:  not bullet-proof] vs VPN:  for (not vital) everyday anonymity / good for downloads VPNs -- take connection -- encrypt connection -- pass connection through server -- contact goes via VPN server to connection site sought -- ie:  it provides encryption & diversion of your online traffic A.     -- what you are doing & who you are connecting with not visible     -- eg. public wifi:  those watching get jumbled info sent to random server     -- same applies to Internet Service Provider (ISP) B. -- site visited does not know your geolocation (privacy enhanced)     -- this permits by-passing geographic restrictions on services Note: * what you do through VPN is know by operator of the VPN * VPN services claim not to log activity  but this is only a representation that may be dishonoured * eg. if VPN provider is issued with a court order for info on your activities * VPN provider would likely find some way to link your activity back to you * So:  VPN = good for low risk situations * BUT not so good for anonymity against a state actor Tor Browser -- works differently -- instead of connecting directly to server -- your connection is encrypted, bounced around x3 servers ('relays' or 'nodes') -- before being decrypted & sent to destination -- FIRST SERVER - knows your location -- SECOND SERVER - only knows data from FIRST SERVER -- THIRD SERVER - only knows that data from SECOND SERVER -- anonymity is provided as the third server cannot know origin of data -- majority of Tor servers not 'malicious' (do not log activity) -- nearly impossible to associate end-data of chain to origin -- very effective / takes significant state actor effort to de-anonymise -- bonus:  encryption by Tor to prevent - eg. ISP from seeing your traffic -- caution:  decryption at last server ('exit relay')  = point of vulnerability -- it is at this point your data can be spied upon -- therefore regular HTTP unencrypted connection relay of data (a no-no) -- can be read in its entirety at the exit relay by the operator of the exit relay -- however, using an add-on like HTTPS-Everywhere -- equals safely encrypted data -- with HTTPS even malicious server could not de-anonymise     * unless content contains personal info (email, name, address, etc)   COMMENT: I'm confused.  If HTTPS is supposed to be an encryption add-on -- how can a malicious server de-anonymise if personal data is included -- if encryption is supposed to be in place? -- makes no sense to me:  that's not encryption TOR - HIGHER SECURITY PRIVACY BROWSING ANONYMITY vs SPEED -- much slower than VPN -- but far better re anonymity -- avoid watching videos or downloading torrents -- bad for entire network & extremely slow -- best for high level anonymity needs -- eg. high threat levels = law enforcement scenarios -- journalists dealing w. sensitive sources, whistleblowers, political activists -- those living under oppressive state surveillance etc [comment:  all of us under US empire mass surveillance oppression ... LOL] -- use Tor if adversary is "more dangerous than a DMCA complaint" (copyright) -- promises provided by VPN companies = not enough. Use Tor. -- *do not treat Tor as if it were bullet-proof -- with enough time, de-anonymization is possible by agencies such eg. NSA -- using Tor = best bet, unless you are an NSA high-value target -- using tor for low bandwidth static sites helps 'populate' the Tor traffic -- & providing cover for those who need Tor for vital reasons -- note:  Tor is only an ANONYMITY TOOL -- without operational security (see OPSEC), anonymity tools rendered useless -- watch bad habits - can reveal ID to the motivated adversary -- keep torrenting to VPN -- VPN - EVERYDAY BROWSING PRIVACY -- VPN good for low-risk/bandwidth-heavy purposes -- VPN's are good for VIDEOS & TORRENTS task OPSEC -- operational security https://grugq.github.io/ The Grugq -- teach operational security (OPSEC) -- ie good security habits http://grugq.tumblr.com/ Source:  The Tin Hat https://thetinhat.com/tutorials/darknets/tor-vpn.html

WikiLeaks: Google & Al-Jazeera Encouraged Civil War In Syria

Article SOURCE http://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-google-al-jazeera-encouraged-civil-war-syria/215163/ http://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-google-al-jazeera-encouraged-civil-war-syria/215163/ WikiLeaks: Google & Al-Jazeera Encouraged Civil War In Syria Together with Al-Jazeera, Google developed a tool to track defections in Syria, hoping to encourage more former Assad allies to join the civil war. By Mint Press News Desk | March 29, 2016  MENLO PARK, California — Tech giant Google collaborated with Al-Jazeera to develop an interactive online tool to encourage defections during the Syrian civil war, according to emails in WikiLeaks’ archive of Hillary Clinton’s emails.  [Comment:  Al-Jazeera Qatar state & partial Thani ruling family funding] “Please keep close hold, but my team is planning to launch a tool on Sunday that will publicly track and map the defections in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from,” wrote Jared Cohen, the founder and director of Google Ideas, of the proposed online tool in a July 25, 2012 email sent to Jacob J. Sullivan, deputy secretary of state under Clinton. “Our logic behind this is that while many people are tracking the atrocities, nobody is visually representing and mapping the defections, which we believe are important in encouraging more to defect and giving confidence to the opposition.” “We believe this can have an important impact,” Cohen added. The archive reveals that Sullivan forwarded the email onto Clinton, adding, “This is a pretty cool idea.” Clinton, in turn, sent it to an assistant with instructions for the email to be printed. In his email, Cohen revealed that Google Ideas was collaborating with Al-Jazeera, which published the tracker in English and Arabic shortly after Cohen’s email was sent. Although it was offline when this report was written, an internal analysis by Google called it “one of the most viewed visualizations on their site” and the tool later won an Online Media Award for the TV news network based in Doha, Qatar. Google Ideas, which was renamed Jigsaw in a major company reorganization last year, is a think tank which maintains close ties to the State Department, according to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his 2014 book “When Google Met WikiLeaks.” [here] Before leading Google Ideas, Cohen served at the State Department from 2006 to 2010 under Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Clinton. Assange wrote: “It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in Iran. His documented love affair with Google began the same year when he befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post-occupation wreckage of Baghdad. Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen’s natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a ‘think/do tank’ based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head. Google Ideas was born.” An op-ed published on Saturday by RT criticizes Western media for largely ignoring the story of collaboration between Al-Jazeera, Google, and the State Department, although a few mainstream sites like U.K.’s The Independent did cover the story. Michael William Lebron, a media analyst that publishes under the name “Lionel,” told RT: “I don’t expect a reaction from Western media because Western media hasn’t even read this, has no idea about this … But can you imagine if the same set of facts were involved with the different countries, different corporations around the world depending upon your frame of reference. This would either be an outrage or ‘well, maybe this is a delightful and benign cooperation, an independent tech giant … and all for the common good of liberty’ and whatever. It depends upon your perspective.” http://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-google-al-jazeera-encouraged-civil-war-syria/215163/ Other "Clinton emails leak – on Syria, Regime Change & Other" LINK | Hakawi ---------------------- ---------------------- Book:  'When Google Met WikiLeaks' ---------------------- ---------------------- LINK | Hillary Clinton E-Mail Archive WikiLeaks COMMENT There's nothing 'benign' about the American state and American corporate aggression against the sovereign state  of Syria and Syria's government:  in particular its leader, Bashar al-Assad.  Actors who wish to further Saudi, Gulf oil states, Israeli and allied American and Western corporate and geopolitical interests have been involved in the concerted attack on Syria by proxy and by every other means possible (for years now), in order to attack not only Syria, but ultimately Syria's ally, Iran, which the American camp and its followers (especially the powerful pro Israeli camp) have been targeting with sanctions (to weaken) and lobbying hard to attack for years now. Libya sanctions were lifted in 2003, just as the Iran sanctions have recently been lifted. It took the Western alliance 8 years to set up opposition in the Libya and to attack Libya in 2011, in the guise of 'protecting' the civilians:  a population that was then pitched into civil war that still continues. We know that these parties are also not averse to civil war or to sectarian war in Syria, just as they weren't in Iraq or in Libya, as their intentions are *not* benign:  these countries are targets of conquest and internal dissent, violence, Balkanisation -- internal weaknesses -- serve their purposes. So I'm guessing that the lifted sanctions re Iran (and Cuba) are more of the same.  They're lifting sanctions to get close enough to build up opposition in those countries, to the point where *defending* the activities of the 'opposition' (ie their proxies) & 'defending' 'hooman rights', can then be used as an excuse for what is war of aggression planned by the West. That's my theory so far, but I'm taking wild gut instinct guesses instead of knowing all the ins and outs of this (I've yet to read my copy of The WikiLeaks Files). Syria should be supported in view of this brazen, concerted, aggressive US & friends led campaign to destroy and Balkanise a nation, much like they did Iraq,  by illegal conquest, for perverse exploitation by the same coterie of American-led aggressors. PS ...  Check out how close the Twitter & Google tech mob are to the US Department of State:  no wonder all we get is controlled media propaganda and CENSORSHIP of real voices on these communication and information platforms that have been hijacked and monopolised by those that are engaged self enrichment, along with US state political agenda pushing.

Actual Crimes vs. 'Theoretical' Crimes - USA: Free Viktor Bout

Article SOURCE as marked Actual Crimes vs. 'Theoretical' Crimes USA:  Free Viktor Bout https://www.rt.com/news/337906-viktor-bout-american-prison/ Yoga, foreign languages & anecdotes: Viktor Bout marks 8yrs in US high-security prison Published time: 31 Mar, 2016 15:55 Avoiding depression and keeping in good shape are the key to survival in a top security American prison, says Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who was extradited to the US and later sentenced to a 25-year prison term, despite Russia’s belief his case is political. Russian citizen Viktor Bout was arrested in Thailand in 2008 after a sting operation by US agents. He allegedly admitted in a conversation that it was theoretically possible for a foreign terrorist group to purchase anti-aircraft weapons. In 2010 Bout was extradited to the United States, and one year later was convicted of conspiracy to kill US citizens. The allegations were based on the idea that guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) could in theory have been the buyers of the weapons he could reportedly sell. The United States ranks FARC as a terrorist organization. In April 2012 the businessman was sentenced to 25 years behind bars and placed in a top security prison. This March signals eight years since Bout’s arrest in Bangkok. Russia called the judge’s decision in October to refuse Bout’s retrial plea “regrettable,” and proof the probe and trial were politicized from the very beginning. “This is yet another regrettable decision. As far as we know the defense lawyers have prepared a solid base of materials to ask for a retrial, they had serious arguments. The fact that the court ignored them again surely is a proof of our understanding that Viktor Bout’s case has been politicized by the American side from the very beginning,” Russian Foreign Ministry human rights envoy Konstantin Dolgov told TASS. ‘A sound mind in a sound body’ RIA Novosti contacted Bout via phone for a rare interview to share his experience of serving a term in an American top security prison. To remain in good physical shape, Bout practices yoga every morning and does high-intensity interval training during the day. The only alternative to keeping fit is falling into depression, which would result in being prescribed pills by the prison authorities, Bout told RIA Novosti’s Evgeny Belenky, who was among the first journalists to contact him in 2008. Bout continues studying foreign languages such as Turkish, Arabic and Farsi, but he has problems with obtaining new books and lacks mother-tongue speakers to practice with. He reads any book he can lay his hands on and is free to communicate with anybody in his block from 6am to 10pm, yet, naturally, there are certain communication problems. “It’s kind of an endless submarine independent cruise here, with the difference that the crew has been picked up randomly, without considering psychological compatibility and other subtleties,” Bout said, adding that sometimes it takes days before he can get out of his cell and talk with someone. Unlike America’s medium-security prisons, the jail where Bout is serving his term does not allow visits or team sports. He tells anecdotes from the Russian media he receives to entertain inmates he is on friendly terms with. “Everything is in our hands, the environment is neutral, even in the communications control block of a top security prison,” Bout said. “There is a saying that hell and paradise do not relate to geography, but to psychology. My motto is: any hell we turn into paradise.” Bout says you can help keep depression and pessimism away by beginning the day with a couple of good anecdotes and yoga, together with physical training and personal mind control. “Your glass is always half-full, not half-empty,” he says. Being a vegetarian, Bout finds it difficult to feed himself in a prison which has no alternative for those who don’t eat meat. Only once, when he complained about his vegetarian diet, did he get boiled beetroot, but the rest of the time he is fed like everybody else. ‘Where does the money go?’ Bout says that according to open US Congress sources, a maximum-security prison like the one he is in spends $981,000 a year from the US budget on every prisoner – a sharp contrast to the $34,000 needed to keep a man locked up in an ordinary prison. He believes that for that money, the prisoners could have decent food and vegetarians could be given a separate menu, yet inmates get food that leaves much to be desired and “nobody ever investigated” why the cost is so high. According to Bout, the prison he is serving his term in was built back in 1963 and has not been renovated since, and as a result is “in bad shape.” However strict the conditions of a top security prison are, Bout remains full of optimism. On Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticized the detention in the US of people like Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot sentenced in 2011 to 20 years in jail for allegedly participating in a plan to smuggle drugs to the United States. Peskov said the Russian government regards such actions as an attempt to project American jurisdiction to the rest of the world. “It was exactly in this context that these names [of Bout and Yaroshenko] were mentioned in the talks with [John] Kerry,” Peskov said, speaking about the head-to-head talks Russian President Vladimir Putin had with the US secretary of state this week. https://www.rt.com/news/337906-viktor-bout-american-prison/ http://www.religionnews.com/2016/02/24/italy-faces-fine-over-cia-abduction-of-egyptian-cleric/ Italy faces fine over CIA abduction of Egyptian cleric Rosie Scammell | February 24, 2016 | (RNS) Italy must pay compensation to an Egyptian imam’s family after a European court ruled his human rights had been breached in a CIA operation that had him abducted in Milan and sent to his country of birth, where he was tortured. The European Court of Human Rights ordered Italy to pay 115,000 euros ($126,500) in damages and legal expenses to Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and his family.  [Comment:   got to be kidding.  What kind of compensation is that for kidnap, deportation & torture?] The cleric, who is also known as Abu Omar, was living in Milan in February 2003 when he was snatched from a street in a CIA-led operation. He was then flown to a U.S. airbase in Germany and onward to Egypt, where he was tortured during interrogation, Deutsche Welle reported. Concluding the case on Tuesday (Feb. 23), the Strasbourg court said: “(The) Italian authorities were aware that the applicant had been a victim of an extraordinary rendition operation which had begun with his abduction in Italy and continued with his transfer abroad.” Nasr had moved to Italy in 1998 and was granted political asylum three years later. Although Italy has convicted CIA agents for their role in the extraordinary rendition, the Italians have not requested they be extradited.    [Comment:  some of the CIA figures have been 'pardoned', so all is 'forgiven' and this was really a farce so that Italy, Germany and the Americans can pretend they're law abiding states.] Ferdinando Pomarici, a former Milan prosecutor who worked on the Abu Omar case, said on Wednesday that the ruling was a blemish on Italy’s justice system, in which “no one could ever say they had been deprived of their constitutional rights.” (Rosie Scammell is Rome correspondent for RNS) http://www.religionnews.com/2016/02/24/italy-faces-fine-over-cia-abduction-of-egyptian-cleric/ ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT The US makes sure that it is not held accountable for the crimes it commits -- crimes against entire countries (eg illegal bombing Serbia; illegal invasion Iraq; massive civilian casualties Afghanistan; 500,000 dead children Iraq; destruction of Libya; proxy attack on Syria; destabilising Africa and Middle East (plus loss of life, displaced persons etc) and so on. Actual crimes. IRAQ - 500,000 Dead Children 'WORTH IT' But the US has 'unsigned' itself from the Rome Statute, has bullied other countries into granting the US immunity to commit crimes against humanity, and has signed into law authorised military attack on any nation that attempts to bring the US (and their partners in crime) to justice. But it has locked up a Russian businessman on the basis of a *theoretical* possibilities catch-all, in what is described as a politically motivated violation -- without allowing retrial, where he obviously has a case for retrial or he wouldn't have a lawyer presenting it, after 8 years in prison. Free Viktor. The Americans consider that they *have* jurisdiction around the world and they'll  extend their jurisdiction beyond borders, no mater what it takes. Check out their over 30 CIA agents kidnapping and illegal transfer for torture from what is supposed to be a sovereign state:   Italy (above). The US regime snatches targets (often *wrong* targets) off the streets! That's what the mafia does. But I bet the mafia isn't making mistakes.  So not only is the US regime lawless; it's incompetent as well.

Ukraine Intelligence (SBU) and CIA - Plot to Seize Russian FSB Officer Uncovered

Article SOURCE http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/03/31/CIA-trained-Ukrainian-spy-arrested-in-Russia/1101459427710/ Ukraine Intelligence (SBU) and CIA - Plot to Seize Russian FSB Officer Uncovered http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/03/31/CIA-trained-Ukrainian-spy-arrested-in-Russia/1101459427710/ CIA-trained Ukrainian spy arrested in RussiaLt. Col. Yuriy Ivanchenko allegedly offered his services to the FSB with the aim of becoming a false informant. By Ed Adamczyk Follow @adamczyk_ed Contact the Author   |   March 31, 2016 at 9:42 AM MOSCOW, March 31 (UPI) -- A Ukrainian counterintelligence officer who attempted to infiltrate Russia's Federal Security Bureau will be deported, the agency said Thursday. The FSB noted in a statement that intelligence agencies, including the United States' CIA, are working with the Ukrainian Security Forces (SBU) in Kiev, Ukraine, and that the SBU's Lt. Col. Yuriy Ivanchenko, called "a top-tier employee" of the SBU, was sent to Russia to become a false informant for the FSB. Ivanchenko's plan, it said, was to supply an FSB employee with false information, and then arrest him. "At some point, the SBU and CIA had planned to seize the FSB officer while obtaining information from Ivanchenko," the statement said, adding that Ivanchenko was trained by the CIA. Ivanchenko illegally entered Russia on a pretext of visiting relatives, and was arrested March 26 on suspicion of treason. Ukrainian law prohibits its special security forces from leaving Ukraine. The FSB detained Ivanchenko before any intelligence was compromised, it said. He will be deported to Ukraine and banned from entering Russia. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/03/31/CIA-trained-Ukrainian-spy-arrested-in-Russia/1101459427710/ Other | More https://news.mail.ru/incident/25314991/ TRANSLATED from Russian According to the FSB, Colonel Ivanchenko, an employee of the Central Intelligence apparatus of the SBU. Ivanchenko was arrested on March 26 at the territory of Russia. For information about the detention of its employee confirmed chairman of the SBU Basil Hrycak. Ivanchenko, arrived in Russia under the pretext of visiting a relative, according to the FSB. At the same time leaving the territory of the Russian employees of Ukrainian special services prohibited, stressed the Russian Ministry. FSB reported that before arriving in Ivanchenko Russian employees of the Russian authorities have received information that he was prepared to the SBU, as well as the CIA to participate in Operation "on Substituting the recruitment of the FSB."  [LOL ... Russians have an insider?] Ivanchenko, according to the agency, the FSB had to offer their services for the extraction of sensitive information. Meanwhile, the head of the SBU Basil Hrycak said that access to state secrets of Ukraine to the Federal Security Service detained an employee of the SBU was closed early as mid-2014. According to him, the detainee wrote a report to emigrate to Russia, but the SBU was not agreed. Then he went to Russia alone.  [Comment:  oh, yeah, sure he did.  LOL   Man up, Ukraine.  It's Ukraine's Keystone intelligence services ... hahhhaahhaaaa] The FSB claimed that Gritsak actions did not cause damage to the security Russia, so he will be deported to Ukraine. Entry into the territory of Russia will be closed to him. Ivanchenko, according to the Russian side, the FSB has offered its services in 2014. https://news.mail.ru/incident/25314991/ -------/\/\/ ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Deported?  That's not much of a consequence for attempting to infiltrate the Russian Federation. Why not a prison sentence or something?   Is Russia going soft?

Book: THE WIKILEAKS FILES - 24-hr Freebie: e-book

1-DAY FREEBIE THE WIKILEAKS FILES book re geopolitics:  analysis of US cables by experts Freebie e-book One day ONLY register - here download link is e-mailed  [source:  @WikiLeaks] -------/\/\/ Freebie E-Mail Mail.Ru (English Loggin Login) FREE Calibre - Open Source Reader here ---------------------- ---------------------- SUCCESS Ignore all my whinging below ... got an e-mail with link to download for e-book.   Downloaded.   Just downloading Calibre free, open source reader: above & here. How exciting!   :))) Wow, thanks Verso!  AND WikiLeaks!! [I'm messing around without having had sleep ... think I'd better sleep so I can read] COMMENT *Got the e-book:  ignore the complaining  Was going to give it a miss because I'm weird about registering for anything. But I guess I can try to dig up some fake e-mail of mine. I don't remember them and identities and passwords frustrate me. Even tracking with notes doesn't help me.  LOL -------/\/\/ It took me forever to find my e-mail and to get something happening.  It looks like I'm done.  Maybe not:  it's 'preparing to personalise my download'.  Got an e-mail confirmation but no e-book so far.  Don't know what's going on there.  Nothing yet.  It's still personalising.  WTF?  How about just making it available for download, guys?  While it's doing that, I can explore what's going on at the e-mail service.  I think.  I'm really uncoordinated and everything is taking a million years to do ... but time is passing at super-speed.  As in real time.  Hard to explain, but it really is.  LOL Also above is a freebie e-mail service.  Easy to use.  E-mail service has anonymised e-mail set-up, if you don't want to use your proper addy on the service.  And the bonus is:  it's not American.  LOL Of course, there's probably not much point in fake e-mails when you're downloading without bothering with Tor or something like that.  Waiting is doing my head in.  Can't possibly take that long to 'personalise' a download.   I give up. They've got a bunch of other one-day freebie downloads if you go to their main page.   Waiting for download wondering what's going on is too frustrating for me. -------/\/\/ Hey, I've found a Russian 'Twitter' (something called 'My World') that's a service of the mail.ru service.  They need a translation thingy, because it's hard work translating all the feed manually.  Unlike Twitter, this is a static list of posts. Yikes! Don't know if that's from a movie or something. Too chicken to watch it, in case it isn't.

The Kitchen - Scallopini

The Kitchen Chicken Scallopini (Very overdone ... oops) Click to Enlarge  Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge  This looks so pretty  Click to Enlarge ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT This went really well while I was all fired up and focused on meal preparation.  But then I had to wait ... and wait ... and wait.  The waiting drives me mental, in terms of feeling like I'm on standby and from a practical sense.  Anyway, I go and I do my thing while I'm waiting for the 'ritual' to end. Find that my embedded videos are all blocked by Blogger, YouTube (or Google that owns it) -- which I think are all one and the same. There should be some laws about concentration of ownership in media and communications media.  This is not good. Extremely angry and frustrated fiddling here online. So engrossed I forgot about dinner, even when it was good to go.   The final stage of meal prep was hell:  it was a scramble, rushing to get things going from where I left off, feeling distracted and feeling as if I'd been assaulted by Google. Chicken seemed to take FOREVER to fry.  The thicker pieces must have been thicker than I thought they were -- even though I filleted & bashed them beforehand. Had to keep checking by slicing into the thick part:  sort of put me off seeing uncooked chicken and then seeing the 'mutilated' pieces.  Chicken was overdone because I got distracted doing something online.  No biggie.  I don't care if my chicken's overdone.  Normally I'd get a complaint but I didn't this time because the sauce was heaven.  LOL I did my own thing with the sauce.  Last lot I did was oil/butter & white wine reduced.  Alone.  As in, that's it.   This time I added a little garlic, small amount of flour as a thickener, and after the white wine reduced I threw in loads of fresh cream.  Strained the sauce because there was too much going on in there for my liking. Kitchen looks like a bomb site. Forgot to serve the carrot and had my meal cold, because I was preoccupied with being pissed off with Google. Not really good at taking photos.  I move too much maybe.  Would probably be better with a decent camera.  This is just a basic, but it does the job.  Sort of ... if only I could keep still.  LOL The cabbage fry & the carrots colours are amazing.