TREASONOUS PoS's

https://qz.com/1521847/major-gop-donor-len-blavatnik-had-business-ties-to-a-russian-official/

https://www.newsweek.com/company-russian-oligarch-millions-aluminum-plant-mitch-mcconnell-1397061

Facebook takes down network of fake accounts, pages linked to Israeli firm

social media giant identifies entity behind network of’ ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ as Israel’s Archimedes Group

Social media giant Facebook said Thursday it had taken down 265 Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages, groups and events linked to the Archimedes Group, an Israeli firm that was involved in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” targeting users in countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

“The people behind this network used groups of fake accounts to run pages, disseminate content and to act to artificially increase engagement and make the content more popular than it was,” said Nathaniel Gleicher, head of Cybersecurity Policy at Facebook, in a phone briefing with reporters.

The countries targeted in Africa included Niggeria, Togo, Angola, Nigger and Tunisia, he said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/facebook-takes-down-network-of-fake-accounts-pages-linked-to-israeli-firm/

These accounts and pages identified themselves as local, including making themselves look like local news organizations that published supposedly leaked information about local politicians. The pages and fake accounts would frequently post about political news, with topics like elections in the various countries, candidates’ views, and criticism of candidates.

A small county in Florida's panhandle that voted overwhelmingly to support President Trump in the 2016 presidential election is one of two that were penetrated by Russian hackers in that election, according to reports.

Russia's spy agency, known as the GRU, got into Washington County's voter registration database, two officials told The Washington Post. Trump won the 25,000-person county in 2016, garnering 77.4 percent of the vote, according to Politico.

County Elections Supervisor Carol F. Rudd, declined the Post's request for comment on the reported breach but told the newspaper that federal, state and local authorities need to be able to communicate with confidentiality.

“If each agency gets suspicious of the other’s ability to follow the rules of confidentiality, then those tenuous lines of communication quickly break down,” she said in an email. “That would set our security capabilities back years and severely compromise our ability to protect our elections. THAT would be a big win for the Russians going into 2020."

Ken Detzner, who was Florida's secretary of state during the election, told the Post that he was “prohibited by law from commenting.”

“The citizens deserve and have a right to know important things with regard to their election security," he added. "Over time, it’ll come out.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Tuesday that Russian hackers got into voter data in two of the state's counties during that election after being briefed by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. He declined to say which counties were breached, saying he "signed a disclosure agreement.”

Special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election, wrote in his report that the GRU gained "access to the network of at least one Florida county government."

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/444234-small-florida-county-that-backed-trump-one-of-two-targeted-by-russians

>The comedian Ahmed Ahmed poked fun at negative stereotypes of Middle Eastern people. An audience member lodged an anonymous complaint.

>The comedian Ahmed Ahmed was performing in Naples, Fla., last weekend when he poked fun at negative stereotypes about Middle Eastern people.

>“Clap if you’re from the Middle East,” Mr. Ahmed said. “All right. We got a handful of us in here, nice. But, hey, it only takes one of us …”

>He waited a beat, as the audience roared, “… to tell the joke,” he finished.

>One man in the crowd apparently took Mr. Ahmed’s set more seriously, calling the local sheriff’s department the next day to lodge an anonymous complaint that the comedian had seemed to support terrorism.

>Deputies arrived at the club that day and talked to Mr. Ahmed, quickly realizing that the complaint was without merit.

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/us/ahmed-ahmed-jokes-comedy.html

Funnier than any of his jokes.

>imagine the Ramp....

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/10/china-carrier-new-offense-defense-navy-planavy/
commercial satellite photos published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington show what is almost certainly the early stages of construction of China’s third aircraft carrier.
This new vessel will be a major leap in capability compared to the two ships the Chinese navy has sailed so far—and it represents the evolution of Chinese carrier aviation from an adapted Soviet model to a Western-style fleet, one that speaks to China’s ambition to be the leading strategic power in Asia.
Like many facets of China’s modernization, its carrier program is a process of copying, adaptation, and innovation. The copying part came first. China bought the Varyag, a half-finished Soviet-era vessel from the Ukraine—little more than rusting hulk, really—and built a respectable midsize ship, the Liaoning, which is now evolving from a training vessel to one with some operational capabilities. China got the blueprints for the ship from the Ukraine, too, but it didn’t just finish the ship as the old Soviet Navy intended—it adapted and innovated.
Soviet carriers of the late 1980s were not built for the same purpose as U.S. carriers, gigantic floating airfields that allow power to be pushed far overseas. They were constructed with an entirely different operational concept in mind: protecting the near seas against foreign aircraft and surface ships. Soviet ships were smaller and armed with a battery of huge long-range anti-ship missiles under the flight deck. They were cruisers with a couple dozen fighter aircraft on board rather than true U.S.-style super carriers.

Teen waitress killed when she accidentally rode bike into the path of lorry could have been wearing headphones.
>mfw sjw feminists still think that its safe for women to be allowed to leave the house without male supervision even though women repeatedly demonstrate that they lack the necessary physical coordination, spacial awareness and basic adult judgement to so much as ride a bicycle without accidentally dying.
Olivia Wojciechowska, 18, was crushed to death under the wheels of the lorry after having a 'momentary lapse of judgement'
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5515074/teen-waitress-killed-when-she-accidentally-rode-bike-into-the-path-of-lorry-could-have-been-wearing-headphones/
Olivia Wojciechowska, 18, tragically rode into the path of the truck as it turned into the road she was crossing after she failed to activate a pelican crossing light.
She was struck by the cab of the lorry and dragged underneath the wheels during the horror on September 1 last year as she cycled home from work.

The waitress was rushed to hospital but she sadly didn't make it and died the following day.

Police found a broken set of headphones at the scene in Salford, Greater Manchester but it was not known whether they belonged to Olivia or if she was wearing them.

The driver of the truck, Krzysztof Charewicz, was cleared of any blame after investigators said the 5mph impact was unavoidable.
The 18-year-old had been cycling home from her job as a waitress
Tragic Olivia died in hospital the next day
An inquest in Bolton today heard how Olivia had just left work at Smiths Restaurant in Eccles when she approached the busy junction from the pavement.

Mr Charewicz, who at the time was working for Delivery Service Company 'DX', said: "I heard something and stopped, I didn't know what it was.

"I thought I had clipped the kerb or the barrier. I wondered if another vehicle had attempted to undertake me and I had caught it. I wish I could turn back the clock that day."

do you think they told IDF how to hack the voting machines again?

israel first
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-desantis-cabinet-israel-20190514-g2gikllpkzfxlc734i3nh27y5i-story.html%3foutputType=amp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgzqUU_Fios

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pelosi-says-border-situation-is-a-crisis-and-blames-trump
“We have never not said that there was a crisis. There is a humanitarian crisis at the border, and some of it provoked by the actions taken by the administration,” the speaker said when asked if there is an actual crisis at the border.

“But, yes, it is a crisis. We’ve always said that it gets to be more of a humanitarian crisis the more that Republicans — the administration, I won’t paint all the Republicans with this — the more the administration acts in the shameful way,” Pelosi said.