Pompeo: Russia 'pretty clearly' behind massive cyberattack
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday blamed Russia for the massive cyberattack against multiple U.S. agencies and thousands of individual federal and private entities, saying the country was "pretty clearly" behind the attack.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administrat...ive-cyberattack


US government caught blindsided over sophisticated cyber hack, experts say
Russia has long been viewed as a threat in cyberspace. But after one of the most successful cyber intrusion campaigns in U.S. history, questions are being raised over how the federal government was so completely blindsided by an attack many experts have seen coming.

The successful hacking of multiple federal agencies and tens of thousands of individual federal and private entities — widely presumed to be a Russian intrusion and which federal officials warn is ongoing — managed to subvert sophisticated protections by targeting third-party software contractor SolarWinds.
“We shouldn’t have been surprised, the Russians are very sophisticated, they are very dedicated and relentless, and this appeared to be a soft target they were able to exploit,” Christopher Painter, the former State Department cybersecurity coordinator under both the Trump and Obama administrations, told The Hill on Friday. ...

... The idea of strengthening cybersecurity defenses and zeroing on critical supply chains for federal agencies is not a new issue on Capitol Hill, with both gaining wide bipartisan support. However, partisan gridlock on other issues has made it increasingly difficult for legislation to move through Congress, slowing down cyber priorities.

One item that has gained bipartisan support is the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes the widest range of federal cybersecurity improvements in years, including provisions establishing a White House cyber czar and strengthening CISA’s powers.
President Trump has announced his intention to veto the bill over other concerns, drawing bipartisan backlash, and has not yet commented on the breach, despite being reportedly briefed on the topic.

“This cyber attack likely perpetrated by the Russians spotlights the glaring vulnerabilities of our federal cybersecurity system,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, tweeted Friday. ...
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/53...ack-experts-say

A return to fake right-wing outrage: Without Trump, Republicans run back to sexist resentments
Desperate to keep the rubes riled up, the right reverts to faking umbrage at "unladylike" self-expression

For Republican politicians and right-wing media, whose careers are centered around feeding silly victimization narratives to the right-wing base, there was all manner of made-up nonsense to get the rubes riled up. For months, the right-wing narrative was focused on claims that the coronavirus pandemic and/or measures to contain it were all a giant conspiracy aimed at tanking Donald Trump's re-election chances. The fall was then consumed by similarly bonkers conspiracy theories about "voter fraud" and Joe Biden somehow "rigging" the election.

And while both narratives are still being pushed by right-wing media — and Trump himself is still raving like a madman on Twitter with his election conspiracy theories — it's becoming clear to many in the right-wing media that it's time to move on. There's going to be a Democrat in the White House, and it's time to put to bed the grievance narrative of "deep state trying to take a good man down!"

So the right is returning to the strategy of the Barack Obama years, churning out a steady stream of fake outrage over supposed Democratic transgressions — remember how angry they were that Obama wore a tan suit? — all to feed their metanarrative that Democratic governance is inherently illegitimate. And they know that the quickest way to stir the furies of right-wing America is to tell them stories about how all those Democratic women are out of control. Who do those b*tches think they are? ...

... The purpose of these hysterics isn't mysterious. It's about triggering resentment in men who cannot accept the idea that women might not only be smart, but smarter than they are. It's also sexist policing, insisting that it's Biden's duty to hide her intelligence and achievements to preserve the tender feelings of insecure men.
Barack Obama got the same kind of response from racists, including Trump, who spent years insisting that his many academic achievements (a bachelor's degree from Columbia and a law degree from Harvard) must be either fake or the result of cheating. ...

... Also this week, another sexist storm of feigned offense swirled up after Jen O'Malley Dillon, Joe Biden's campaign manager and incoming White House deputy chief of staff, correctly described Republicans in Congress as "a bunch of f*ckers."

The quote was in a Glamour interview in which O'Malley Dillon actually defends her boss' promise to make efforts towards bipartisan cooperation, but Republicans like Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida nonetheless erupted in feigned outrage, whining about the name-calling. While Trump is still actively pouring out lies and accusing not just all Democrats but a big chunk of Republicans of stealing the election from him, causing material harm — such as in Houston, where a deranged conspiracy theorist held up an air conditioning repairman with a gun to accuse him of smuggling fake ballots — the fake indignation from Republicans is just further proof that O'Malley Dillon was, if anything, understated in her assessment of their collective characters. ...

... This is what we have to look forward to for the next four years: One fake "scandal" after another about women in Biden's orbit who transgress against 19th-century ideas of what constitutes ladylike behavior. As with everything else they do, Republicans and the media enablers are focused on finding any way they can to distract from their unpopular policies. Male resentment over women's growing power is and will remain a favorite go-to, because apparently that well isn't close to running dry yet.
https://www.salon.com/2020/12/18/a-retur...fedc32c19ef33b4

Spot on.

Tucker Carlson claims vaccine distribution is “eugenics” against white people
Carlson: “It's been a very long time since anyone close to what we consider the mainstream has endorsed eugenics and that is exactly what that is. It's eugenics”
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tu...st-white-people

Bernie Sanders: ‘Democracy Has Gotten a Reprieve With Biden’s Victory. That’s All It Is.’
Trump may have been defeated, but his extreme agenda poses an ongoing threat, the Vermont senator told Nation Festival attendees.

... We have gotten a reprieve. Democracy has gotten a reprieve with Biden’s victory. That’s all it is. We did not win a rejection of what Trump stands for. We have got to ask ourselves, “Why are we at a place where democracy is now so very threatened, and what do we do about it?” That is the question that every American should be discussing. ...

https://www.thenation.com/article/politi...ction-festival/

He is exactly right. And that's why this country over the long run is doomed. The masses of dumbfucks will destroy it. Willingly.

Trump administration takes one more shot at women's health care while it can
The Trump administration has placed a conservative evangelical view of 'religious freedom' above all other rights.

The anti-choice policies pushed by Donald Trump and Mike Pence will likely soon be a thing of the past, but the outgoing administration is going to do as much damage to reproductive freedom as it can before Jan. 20. ...
https://americanindependent.com/donald-t...igious-freedom/

Brianna Keilar Hits Pearl-Clutching Republicans With A Very Long List Of Trump’s Insults
The CNN anchor pointed out the hypocrisy of Republicans who got upset that a Biden official used an expletive to describe them.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brianna-k...5b607e6348ad911

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaDHTCbmijI&feature=emb_logo

Brianna as always, with a razorblade sharp mind and right to the point. These hypocritical fuckers deserve nothing less. :-)

‘Enough To Actually Put Him In Jail’: Doctor Calls Trump’s COVID Response Medically Criminally Negligent
During an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Thursday night, Dr. Kavita Patel said that Donald Trump’s negligent response to the pandemic would be grounds for a malpractice lawsuit or even time behind bars if he were in the medical field.

“If he were actually a clinician, his license would be taken away,” the doctor said. “He would be stripped of any privileges to do anything, not only sued for medical malpractice but enough to actually put him in jail.”

Dr. Patel called the “death and destruction” caused by the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic “mind-boggling.” ...
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/12/17/...-negligent.html

Rep. Eric Swalwell@RepSwalwell
While Republicans are losing their minds on Trump Island, the United States Government is being hacked.
Anyone want to tell the President? Maybe, I don’t know, protect our country and the businesses affected?
11:00 AM · Dec 17, 2020

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpdHUwiUUAAv...=jpg&name=small

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #384

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Millions Of COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Stuck In Warehouses Until Federal Orders, Pfizer Says
Stunned states, meanwhile, have been told that their expected vaccine shipments over the next two weeks have been cut nearly in half.

Millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are languishing in warehouses awaiting shipment instructions from the Trump administration — even as states are clamoring for them — vaccine manufacturer Pzifer said in a statement Thursday.

The startling bottleneck is occurring as America is breaking daily COVID-19 death tolls. The U.S. lost more people on Wednesday alone (3,611) than the number of people who died on 9/11.

Officials in several states said they were told Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine next week has been mysteriously reduced, CNN reported. That triggered fears by states that the Trump administration may be incapable of hitting the target of delivering enough vaccine doses for 20 million injections by the end of the year. A source told The Washington Post that Pfizer executives were “baffled” that the Trump administration wasn’t immediately shipping out all of the vaccine. ...

Stumbles already on vaccine distribution echo the Trump administration’s critical problems getting ventilators and protective gear to states as COVID-19 began to surge earlier this year.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pfizer-wa...5b6094c0ff08c4a

Meanwhile, the Commander in Chief is AWOL (absent without leave) -im Deutschen Vernacular fuer "unerlaubtes entfernen von der Truppe"- und verbringt lieber seine Zeit damit, ueber seine verlorene Wahl zu jammern und zu luegen und dabei dann, mit anderen Repugnian assholes, der kommenden Administration so viele Knueppel wie moeglich zwischen die Beine zu werfen.
Zum Nachteil der Nation. Wie sich das fuer einen Repugnian eben gehoert.

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #408

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Rep. Eric Swalwell@RepSwalwell
While Republicans are losing their minds on Trump Island, the United States Government is being hacked.
Anyone want to tell the President? Maybe, I don’t know, protect our country and the businesses affected?
11:00 AM · Dec 17, 2020

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpdHUwiUUAAv...=jpg&name=small

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #410

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #408

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Rep. Eric Swalwell@RepSwalwell
While Republicans are losing their minds on Trump Island, the United States Government is being hacked.
Anyone want to tell the President? Maybe, I don’t know, protect our country and the businesses affected?
11:00 AM · Dec 17, 2020

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpdHUwiUUAAv...=jpg&name=small

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Der Typ ist wirklich voll dreist. Eigentlich wäre er der Letzte, der sich äußern dürfte...

btw, "Swalwell failed to register more than 1 percent in a single poll, and when he dropped out yesterday, it was so early in the race that candidates from his own state were still getting ready to jump in."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...ops-out/593533/

:-)

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And finally here he comes -this treasonous piece of shit. And guess who he is trying to blame -away from Putin:

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality.
I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control.
Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of....

... ....discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!).
There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election,
which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA.
10:30 AM · Dec 19, 2020

Pompeo says Russia ‘pretty clearly’ behind cyberattack on US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Russia was “pretty clearly” behind the grave cyberattack against the United States, the first administration official to publicly tie the Kremlin to the widespread intrusion at a time when President Donald Trump has kept silent on the failure to protect government and private-sector computer networks.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-...def2a6dcf826611

Law & Order Liberal@LawLiberal
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Trump defends Russia again instead of defending America. Biden’s presidency can’t come soon enough.
10:31 AM · Dec 19, 2020


“Some Americans will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun to suffer the consequences.”
- Thomas Sowell

Make that " all 70 million of them" who helped.

Eugene Gu, MD@eugenegu
Trump cares more about making false accusations of voter fraud to steal power for himself like a selfish, deranged dictator
than he cares about our country and our people when we are cyberattacked by the Russian government in such a brazen act.
Trump lets Russia walk all over us.
10:33 AM · Dec 19, 2020

Mike P Williams@Mike_P_Williams
Replying to @eugenegu
He's actually out here defending Russia for hacking the US election.
What on earth do they have on him?
12:41 PM · Dec 19, 2020

It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses
The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time. It’s not about the left vs. the right; it’s about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/28/its...mp-2016-brexit/

Die Konterrevolution der Elite gegen die "ignoranten Massen" hat begonnen...

White House Blocks a Statement Acknowledging Russia’s Role in Cyberattack
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday night that Russia was “pretty clearly” behind a huge cyberattack on U.S. agencies that compromised sensitive information. But his commonsense conclusion pitted him against the president, who insisted on Saturday that it was only the “Fake News Media” blaming “Russia, Russia, Russia”—and the hack may have been the work of China. Now, CNN reports that officials at the White House were preparing to put out a statement on Friday that blamed Russia but others forced them to nix it. The statement was going to say Russia was at the forefront of the attack, while also claiming that other countries may have been involved. It wasn’t clear who stopped the statement from going out or why it was scrapped. Trump tweeted on Saturday that “everything is well under control” and the hack—which Bloomberg says hit more than 200 companies and government agencies—was no big deal.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-hous...fedc32c19ef33b4

Walter Shaub@waltshaub
Donald Trump is a Russian puppet.
2:17 PM · Dec 19, 2020

Mel Powell@MelPowell
Replying to @waltshaub
"No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet." The first of many projections. HRC was right.
2:18 PM · Dec 19, 2020

Trump Is Already Wondering What Airport Will Bear His Name
The president has been asking aides and advisers what the process is for getting an airport named after him—another sign his mind is drifting to a post-presidency.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-tru...fedc32c19ef33b4

Barr refutes Trump on Hunter Biden, voting machines, Russia hack
Attorney General Bill Barr told reporters Monday that he sees no reason to name a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, there is no basis for the federal government to seize voting machines, and that he agrees with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's assessment that Russia was behind the massive recent hack of federal agencies.

Why it matters: Barr has rarely contradicted President Trump so openly, but did so three times in his last press conference as attorney general. ...
https://www.axios.com/barr-special-couns...e43cad6931.html

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #418

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Trump Is Already Wondering What Airport Will Bear His Name
The president has been asking aides and advisers what the process is for getting an airport named after him—another sign his mind is drifting to a post-presidency.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-tru...fedc32c19ef33b4

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Zitat von Leto_II. im Beitrag #420

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #418

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Trump Is Already Wondering What Airport Will Bear His Name
The president has been asking aides and advisers what the process is for getting an airport named after him—another sign his mind is drifting to a post-presidency.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-tru...fedc32c19ef33b4

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Vielleicht wird es ein Carrier, eine echte Kampfmaschine.

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Feds have discussed making a legal request for Giuliani's electronic communications, say two sources
The federal investigation of the president's personal lawyer is ongoing, said two sources familiar with the matter, with one saying it is "very active."

Federal prosecutors have discussed making a legal request for Rudy Giuliani's electronic communications, two sources familiar with the probe tell NBC News, a sign that the investigation into President Donald Trump's personal attorney remains active and may soon be ramping up.

Prosecutors for the Southern District of New York have been in communication with Justice Department officials in Washington about gaining access to Giuliani's emails, the two sources said. The Southern District needs Washington's approval before its prosecutors can ask a judge to sign a search warrant for materials that may be protected by attorney-client privilege, according to department policy. It is not known whether Washington has been granted that approval.

The scope of the current investigation is unclear, but in October 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported that prosecutors from the Southern District were reviewing Giuliani's bank records as part of an investigation into his dealings in Ukraine. Two of his former associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arrested that month on charges of campaign finance fraud and have since been charged with additional crimes related to wire fraud conspiracy. Parnas and Fruman have pleaded not guilty. ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice...ations-n1250714

Rudy hat offensichtlich auch einen kommenden starken Bedarf an einem trumski Pardon.

Trump Pardons Blackwater 4 for Nisour Square Massacre in Iraq, because Whites must never Suffer for Killing Innocent Brown People
On Tuesday, Trump the Mad pardoned 4 Blackwater mercenaries who killed 14 Iraqi civilians, including nine-year-old boy, with indiscriminate fire at Nisour Square in downtown Baghdad on September 14, 2007. The four were convicted at then VP Joe Biden’s insistence, and were serving jail terms.

WaPo says, “Investigators for the military and the FBI later described the shootings, in which the contractors unleashed a blaze of gunfire and grenade explosions in a busy Baghdad square, as unprovoked and unjustified. Federal prosecutors said that many of the victims, including women and children, some with their hands in the air, “were shot inside of civilian vehicles while attempting to flee.” ...

... Trump’s four years in office have been one big effort at running interference for white supremacy, and it is the real reason for these pardons.

Blackwater was owned by Trump crony Erik Prince, the brother of plutocrat/ secretary of education Betsy DeVos.
https://www.juancole.com/2020/12/blackwa...e-innocent.html

Trump Goes Whole Hog, Grants Pardons For House Allies And Russia Probe Figures
President Trump went on pardon tear Tuesday night as his presidency wanes, with the White House announcing grants of clemency for key figures in the 2016 Russia investigation and for congressional allies of Trump who were prosecuted during his administration.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump...hunter-stockman

The war in the Repugnian Party is in full swing:

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
Republicans in the Senate so quickly forget. Right now they would be down 8 seats without my backing them in the last Election.
RINO John Thune, “Mitch’s boy”, should just let it play out. South Dakota doesn’t like weakness.
He will be primaried in 2022, political career over!!!
6:54 PM · Dec 22, 2020

Global Mission for Children@globalmission4
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
STAND UR GROUND MR PRESIDENT> DON'T SIGN THAT GODLESS STIUMLUS BILL!!!
Let the heathen rage. Stand alone if need be.
Proverbs 17:15 “He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even THEY ARE BOTH AN ABOMINATION to the LORD.”
12:40 AM · Dec 23, 2020

John Aravosis@aravosis
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Prove it. Try to make the Republicans lose the Georgia senate races.
The only way to prove that you helped them win, is to make them lose. Otherwise, it’s just talk.
7:00 PM · Dec 22, 2020

😂