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US Sanctions Russians Over Military, Intelligence Hacking (reuters.com)
The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on three Russian individuals and five companies on Monday, saying they had worked with Moscow's military and intelligence services on ways to conduct cyber attacks against the United States and its allies. From a report: "The United States is engaged in an ongoing effort to counter malicious actors working at the behest of the Russian Federation and its military and intelligence units to increase Russiaâ(TM)s offensive cyber capabilities," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. "The entities designated today have directly contributed to improving Russia's cyber and underwater capabilities through their work with the FSB and therefore jeopardize the safety and security of the United States and our allies," Mnuchin said, using an acronym for Russia's Federal Security Service.
And he did the same last month
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
Unlikely given 2-days ago Trump was asking for Russia to be re-admitted to the G7
"three Russian individuals and five companies".
Three individuals. Five companies.
This is the new Republican standard operating procedure for progressing corruption in their favor.
You do the worst things you can do, inflict as great cruelty as you can through intermediaries... then when punishment is incoming, you pick out a few token groups to slap on the wrist, then don't mention in a year when you dismiss exactly those punishments.
It's basically organized crime tactics. The bosses use stooges, ideally across jurisdictions, to make all punishments possible ineffectual. As long as the crimes can be pay for the punishments, it's all a cruel form of accounting.
It's also how limited liability company shell companies and white collar crime work.
As if Snowden can't name a lot of people who can forsee Russian sanctions for doing the same and more.
But isn't Trump working for Putin?
Honestly, we don't know for sure but he's "working overtime" to try and shut down the investigation that would allow us to find out.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
So.... You are saying Trump, who is supposed to be the stupidest man to ever serve as president, is smart enough to actually arrange for this kind of diversionary tactic, but the American public is stupid enough to fall for it, but the press is willing to overlook it? (Not likely, perhaps, no way in HE double tooth picks.)
Who's off in the weeds here?
Could it just possibly be the government working as it is currently implmented? That the Russians have been hacking and we are dealing with it in the standard bureaucratic way and the administration has little to do with this?
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
I expect Trump to step in personally, and reverse these sanctions, just like he did to all previous anti-Russian actions. He is Vladimirs stooge. The only way the sanctions would remain in place is if these oligarchs are political enemies of Putin.
But he chooses not to. He's playing 53-dimensional chess with cancer.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Because the republicans turn on him or because the democrats intend to commit suicide if they manage to eek out control of the house?
The last time a president was impeached and not convicted over things that where not "high crimes and misdemeanors" it didn't go well for the party that let it happen. There is not a chance the senate convicts and less of a chance Trump choses to resign. So what will you accomplish?
But by all means, keep talking about it. It can only increase republican turn out when you do.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
So on one hand Trump tells the G7 that Russia should be allowed back in the club, while on the other hand congress is approving sanctions against Russia. Maybe he doesn't seem to understand the contradictions or is so far out of his depth he wasn't sure what the G7 club was about?
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Jesus Christ! Even the editors can't control their smart quotes! Get it together man!
So... it'd be okay now if Russia and China sanctioned say, Microsoft and Oracle for improving the capabilities of the CIA/NSA?
That's Military, Comma, Intelligence --two words with a comma in between! said the White House press agent. That ought to reduce the "fake news" by a third. One-third, got it?
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
A lot of what Trump says is just meant to make the press go crazy and distract them from something else. They're like cats chasing the red dot of a laser pointer. I swear sometimes he just does it for entertainment purposes. You can take the Reality TV star off his series but you can't get him to stop playing Reality Star. It's like we have the Apprentice 2.0, DC Whitehouse Version.
That may be true, and I like you laser pointer illustration.. But do you actually THINK that some investigative reporter wouldn't love to expose Trump if they could? Or do you think they are all just too busy chasing their tails to miss a real live story hitting them in the face?
Trump may be enjoying the attention from the press, but you really have to think the press is stupid enough to just ignore a story that could scuttle a guy they obviously loath? Yea, I'm not buying that idea. The press isn't that stupid. They play along with the president because it's good for ratings, they chase that red dot because they know it sells advertising. I don't think they would give up the ratings bonanza that covering a story that legitimately made Trump look bad and either not see it or willingly ignore it. I think they'd jump at the chance to obliterate Trump, if they could...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
So if Trump does something to hurt Russia, it's a smokescreen and if he does something to help Russia it's proof of collusion?
I won't be either the first or the last to point this out, but this looks like staged chaff to distract the feeble-minded American public away from the new psy-ops operations now gearing up for the next election cycle.
So easy to think: "Ha. If Trump was colluding with the Russians would he allow this!" (stupid libs.)
Obvious answer: No.
Correct answer: Not so fast.
More likely it’s just the Trump administration working out a ‘legal’ way to initiate a funds transfer into the Trump Organization. After all, we hit ZTE with sacntions and what happens literally days later? Chinese government authorizes a $500M loan to Trump and all of the sudden we are costing the Chinese people too many jobs. So he’s just sticking his hand out asking for another check.
"cyber and underwater capabilities"
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What happened under water? Some optical got tapped into? "Tracking?"
The list has NotPetya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The original of the code was something from EternalBlue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"U.S. energy grid and on internet routers and switches".
Finally something in the USA?
Back to "underwater capabilities".
Then a jump to "nuclear facilities"?
So Russian now has "design, manufacture and supply" of " professional diving equipment"? Sanctions.
EternalBlue lost to the wild of the internet? Sanctions.
Something cyber something nuclear facilities? Sanctions.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Bannon is a traitor to his country, to freedom, to democracy, and to people of good will everywhere.
(All these wanna-be Nazis and RaHoWa types marching to the tune of a man who's stated quite clearly that he seeks to emulate Vladimir Lenin. Oh, the irony.)
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
What a waste.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Insulting your allies and saying dictators are "great guys" just to distract the press? If he's playing stupid as a strategy then it is a very stupid strategy.
There are still some good reporters out there looking for real stories instead of focusing on the ridiculous crap that Trump rips off the top of his head at every opportunity. They just seem to get lost in the howls of outrage.
It's working though. Instead of his numbers dropping they have been steadily rising over the last few months.
Look, as an American I must point out the US/Israel leads the world in hacking for information gathering and for sabotage. Can't forget the stuxnet virus, used to destroy uranium centrifuges in Iran and a derivative of the same used to hack into Proximus in Belgium to eavesdrop on GSMs in Europe. The WikiLeaks Vault 7 release showed us that the NSA had developed and deployed hacks that would leave false clues leading to blaming third parties. The sanctions, on the other hand, are acts of war designed to weaken a foreign country. If the same sanctions were declared against the US, the post 9/11 laws would lead the US military to attack those responsible. All of this based on hacking incidents where no objective proof has ever been put forward.
Don't kid yourself. I remember in the 1980s when I visited the journalism building, don't remember why. Anyhow, Reagan was President and all they could talk about was how terrible he was. You would have thought he was grinding up baby cats in the WH basement or something. I remember one Prof actually saying Reagan killed a baby on camera. I asked when was that and he got very vague. I said it never happened, did it. After about 5 minutes of back peddling he admitted he made it all up. That's what they teach - lies.
There could be a good honest reporter out there, however if they are one they're going to be a conservative reporter. Certainly not a liberal one because they can't stop drinking the cool aid (ok, probably the pot cigarette) long enough to think. Trump trolls them well and like the cat & laser bit he plays them well and gets things done.
You don't seem to understand, his number among "voters" are going up. It's easy enough to see, virtually every poll shows climbing approval numbers.
There are reporters that don't let their biases control what they report. It's just very few are part of any major news outlet. Those are all agenda driven.
Roll those sanctions back before Vlad gets annoyed at you, Donnie. Traitorous scumbag that you are.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
"sanctions, on the other hand, are acts of war "
Um, where have sanctions ever been considered an act of war? Clue: they haven't...they're different from embargos, which can be considered as such. And no proof is required to implement them, it's totally up to Congress and the Executive branch to decide if they want to impose sanctions.
Just another day in Paradise