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>>134758
"Detaining" (a polite term for political kidnapping) foreigners trying to leave the country is not a good sign. They be usefull pawns. Then again, I wonder how much of our own propaganda is clouding this issue.

>>134758
If you really think N. Korea has the capabiltity to nuke another country you're retarted for being sucked into sensationalism.

>On Tuesday, Trend Micro’s researchers plan to release their report detailing cyberattacks in recent weeks against Mr. Macron’s campaign — as well as members of Germany’s Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung, a political foundation linked to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political party — in what appears to be the latest Russian effort to influence political outcomes in the West.

>The Kremlin scoffed at the report. Dmitri S. Peskov, the spokesman for President Vladimir V. Putin, said Monday in Moscow that “this all recalls the accusations that came from Washington and which are still suspended in thin air.” In remarks to Russian news media, he added that Russia had “never interfered” in foreign elections.

>But the report’s findings gave some credence to the “strong suspicions” voiced weeks before Sunday’s voting by Mr. Macron’s digital director, Mounir Mahjoubi, that Moscow was the source of what he said had been a barrage of “highly sophisticated” efforts to gain access to the campaign’s email accounts.

>Mr. Mahjoubi said in an interview Monday and earlier in April that he had no proof of a Russian role, but that the nature and timing of so-called phishing attacks and web assaults on the Macron campaign had stirred worries that Russia was repeating in France what American intelligence agencies say was a concerted effort to undermine Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

>“The phishing pages we are talking about are very personalized web pages to look like the real address,” Mr. Mahjoubi added. Anyone could easily think he was logging into his own email. “They were pixel perfect,” he said Monday night. “It’s exactly the same page. That means there was talent behind it and time went into it: talent, money, experience, time and will.”
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>The goal was to obtain the email passwords of campaign staff members so a cyberattacker could lurk unseen inside an email account reading confidential correspondence. “If you are speed reading as you sign on, and everybody speed reads online, it’s something you might not notice,” Mr. Mahjoubi said. “For instance, it uses a hyphen instead of a dot, and if you are speed reading you don’t look at the URL.”

>Unlike the attacks aimed at Mrs. Clinton’s staff, those directed at the Macron camp, Mr. Mahjoubi said, failed to gain access to any email accounts used by the candidate or his lieutenants.

>This winter, the campaign’s website also came under attack. The attacks coincided with highly slanted articles about Mr. Macron on the French language services of Sputnik and RT, formerly Russia Today. Both are state-funded Russian news media outlets.

>The coincidence of the hacking of the Macron campaign website, the phishing attacks and the slanted articles caused Mr. Mahjoubi to consider that there might be Russian involvement. “That was only a supposition,” he said, based on the timing.

>Mr. Mahjoubi described the phishing attacks as the “invisible side” of an apparent Russian campaign to hurt Mr. Macron, while the “visible side” took the form of fake news or slanted stories in the French-language Russian media.

>Russia, or at least its state-controlled media, clearly favored Ms. Le Pen, who criticized European Union sanctions imposed on Russia after it annexed Crimea in 2014 and voiced support for Moscow’s intervention in Syria to prop up President Bashar al-Assad.

>The success of its cyberattacks in the United States has only bolstered the Russian hacking group’s ambitions, security researchers say.

>“This is the new normal,” said Tom Kellermann, a cyberintelligence expert and the chief executive at Strategic Cyber Ventures. “Geopolitical events will now serve as harbingers for these types of attacks.”

Ohh NY Timed. You're so adorable. Just keep pushing that narrative, guys.

Welp this seems like it'll be a lesson in common sense.

>>134760
Why does Sweden have an embassy in North Korea?

>>134772
Not to promote Ikea.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/07/24/ikea-may-open-a-west-bank-store-but-decides-against-north-korea/

>They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack.

So much for the previous claim that they blew up a rebel chemical weapons factory.
I guess when one lie fails just reach for another.

Related:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/13/this-is-how-the-russian-media-covered-the-missile-strikes-in-syria/
>On Tuesday, the White House released an intelligence report accusing Russia of trying to cover up the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad through a global disinformation campaign replete with “false narratives.”

>As a professor of Soviet history with an interest in media studies, I’ve been following Russia’s response to the chemical attack and subsequent U.S. missile strike — the various television and print news stories, tweets and analyses put forth by Russia’s domestic and international media outlets.

>Together, they’re reflective a larger Russian information strategy: Stress a unified message at home but sow discord abroad.

>Inside Russia, all state-run media outlets and many independent ones are emphasizing that the Trump administration has wrongfully (or at least prematurely) condemned Assad for being behind the April 4 attack, has taken military action overseas without congressional or United Nations authorization and has indirectly helped terrorists by damaging an air base essential to fighting the Islamic State.

>Their stories echo positions championed by the Russian government.

>When news of the chemical attack broke, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry posted a YouTube video explaining that the Syrian air force hadn’t dropped chemical bombs on civilians. Rather, it had destroyed a warehouse where militants — unbeknown to the Syrian government — were producing land mines packed with toxic chemicals.

>And after the U.S. missile strike, the Foreign Ministry published a report detailing numerous cases in which (it claims) terrorist groups have deployed chemical weapons and then blamed Assad.

>Meanwhile, Russia’s Kremlin-funded, English-language media, intended for a foreign audience, are echoing these claims, but with a twist.
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>>131557
"I dindu nuffin wrong" assad

Find something else to fap about

I'm just curious about the hype. Where these investigational photos or were they just nudes?

>>119480
just nudes, from the bits i've seen on /b/. also some lesbo shit or something

>Developments beyond Mr. Page’s trip may have heightened the F.B.I.’s concern about Russian meddling in the campaign. Paul Manafort, then Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, was already under criminal investigation in connection with payments from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. WikiLeaks and two websites later identified as Russian intelligence fronts had begun releasing emails obtained when Democratic Party servers were hacked.

>When the F.B.I. opened its investigation in late July, agents were just beginning to explore whether Mr. Trump’s advisers had contacts with Russian government officials or intelligence operatives, according to the current and former American officials, who spoke about the continuing inquiry on the condition of anonymity. In the months that followed, they said, more evidence came to light, including intercepts of Russian officials discussing Mr. Page and other Trump associates.

>In his talk at the New Economic School in Moscow, Mr. Page criticized American policy toward Russia in terms that echoed the position of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, declaring, “Washington and other Western capitals have impeded potential progress through their often hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change.” His remarks accorded with Mr. Trump’s positive view of the Russian president, which had prompted speculation about what Mr. Trump saw in Mr. Putin — more commonly denounced in the United States as a ruthless, anti-Western autocrat.

>Mr. Page’s relationship with Mr. Trump appears to have been fleeting. According to former Trump campaign officials, the two men have never met, though Mr. Page has said he attended some meetings where Mr. Trump was present.
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>But last spring, when Republican foreign policy experts were distancing themselves from Mr. Trump, Mr. Page served a purpose for the flailing Trump campaign. Dismissing the notion that his campaign was bereft of foreign policy expertise, the candidate read aloud a list of five people who had offered to advise him on world affairs — including “Carter Page, Ph.D.”

>Mr. Page was unknown in Washington foreign policy circles. But his doctorate and his Russian experience were real. He had worked as a junior investment banker for Merrill Lynch for a time, living in Moscow from 2004 to 2007.

>He subsequently started his own investment firm, Global Energy Capital L.L.C., and partnered on some deals with a Russian businessman, Sergey Yatsenko. Mr. Yatsenko had been deputy chief financial officer for the Russian energy giant Gazprom, which is majority-owned by the government and has close ties to Mr. Putin.

>Mr. Page’s role in the Trump campaign appears to have been minimal. Papers he wrote on energy policy languished unread. Former campaign officials play down his significance almost to the vanishing point, saying Mr. Page had no ID badge, desk or email address from the campaign.

>“If the Russians were attempting to collude with him, they were attempting to collude with someone who had no influence on the Trump campaign,” said Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Mr. Trump. “I think he’s a self-promoter — not that there’s anything wrong with that.”

>But for Mr. Page, temporarily wearing the title of adviser to the man who would become president appears to have been gratifying. “The half year I spent on the Trump campaign meant more to me than the five years I spent in the Navy,” he said in an interview last month.
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>He denies that there was ever any possibility of his being recruited to spy for Russia, including his 2013 encounter with the Russian intelligence officer. “Zero risk then or ever in my life,” Mr. Page said.

>After The Washington Post broke the news last week of the court warrant the F.B.I. had obtained, Mr. Page went on a Trump-like media blitz, defending his bona fides and asserting that he was the victim of a smear campaign by Obama administration officials and Hillary Clinton aides.

>“You talk about fake narratives,” Mr. Page said on Fox News. “When you introduce false evidence in a court of law, including the FISA court,” he said, referring to the court that issued the warrant targeting him, “that is illegal. So, let’s see what happens.”

>He added, “I’m very encouraged that all of the lies that have been a drag on this administration are finally coming out into the open.”

>Few who have met Mr. Page during his career appear to have pegged him as a likely prospect for either suspected spy or statesman. Born in 1971 in Minnesota and raised in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., he graduated in 1993 from the Naval Academy, where he was in the selective Trident Scholar Program, but left the Navy before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He earned an M.B.A. at New York University and completed a doctorate a decade later at SOAS University of London.

>Richard Guerin, who was in his academy class and remains in regular touch, said Mr. Page had “a complicated mind.” “He’s genuinely one of the smartest people I’ve ever met,” Mr. Guerin said. “I get a bit offended when I read reports of people calling him an ‘idiot.’”
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>>135233
https://twitter.com/spacelordrock/status/856860498054307840

>>135233
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Friendship_Arch

banderas even deleted pictures of it on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances

Ukraine should have kept their nukes.

omg it's funny enough that he had "extra" laying around

>>135196
Not all heroes wear capes

underrated story

Ward told cops that she had told the victim his wife would “have a heart attack if she knew about his fetish for black women.”

Ward was arrested last week on larceny, voyeurism, and disseminating voyeuristic materials charges. She is locked up in lieu of $100,000 bond.

According to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Ward--who has also used the surname Ahmad--is a Tier II sex offender. She was convicted in October 2000 of an attempted lewd act on a minor, a felony for which she served state prison time.

Ward is required to register as a sex offender in both South Carolina, where she was convicted, and Connecticut, where she now resides.

>>135145
>Backpage.com
Miss that place. For $200/hour you could get a cutie (not a whale like her) to stomp your balls and fart in your face
Ironically they closed down all sex ads because of prostitution, but the illegal prostitution stayed (under dating section now) while the legal domination stuff is gone

How unfortunate.

7 Hour War soon.

I doubt trump has the balls to do that...would be great if it happens...a lot of gooks would get toasted

>>135090
Ive heard this one before, tell me the one about Susan Rice!

>>135216
Did she take payments from Turkey and another country under international sanctions?

I've given up hope that we'll ever get justice. They successfully gamed our electoral system for their own gain but the party in the majority in Congress is openly complicit with their obstructionism and the Democrats are even worse; they're just scared and weak.
They're going to be over and done laundering the most incriminating details by the time anyone investigating in good faith finally manages to access what evidence there is.

>>134866
ohohohoho. Well it was good for a laugh, but it's probably his opinion and not really news as per the /news/ sticky.

>>134866
10 Ways Putin will Bring Down Trump

(#7 will make you say "oi vey!")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut9F5d3vxUY

at least the evil white man isn't in power anymore amirite?

>>134960
mugabe is a white skinned black tho

>"As far as the boundary issue is concerned, I have also maintained that we don't share our boundary with China, but we share our boundary with Tibet."

SEVERELY DAMAGED

>China has repeatedly criticized visits by foreign officials to Arunachal Pradesh, which it calls South Tibet and over which it has a long-standing claim.

>In its latest broadside, Beijing said that by ignoring China's concerns and persisting in arranging the trip, India had "severely damaged China's interests and China-India relations".

>"We demand that India immediately cease using the Dalai Lama's mistaken behavior to damage China's interests," Hua added. "It will not bring any benefit to India. China will take necessary measures to firmly safeguard its territorial sovereignty and legitimate rights."

>The Dalai Lama fled in 1959 over the border not far from the Tawang monastery, the largest of its kind in India. At the start of his tour, he was reunited with an elderly Indian border guard who had helped him to safety.

>He now resides in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala, where his supporters also run a small government in exile. He has renounced any political role in leading the Tibetan diaspora.

>The Indian government has rejected China's criticism of the Dalai Lama's visit - his first to Arunachal Pradesh since 2009.

>"The government has clearly stated on several occasions that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a revered religious leader, who is deeply respected by the Indian people," it said in its latest statement on the matter.

>"The government, therefore, urges that no artificial controversy be created around his present visit to Arunachal Pradesh."

>Copyright 2017 Thomson Reuters.

lama troubles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT4ySwoh27Q

China sure is eternally butthurt about the Dalai Lama

>>137583
17 Iraq
In the Dora District of southern Baghdad, assailants detonated a roadside
probably remote-controlled VBIED near a police checkpoint, killing 12 civilians,
and wounding 38 others, and causing unspecified damage to the checkpoint. The
Mujahidin Shura Council in Iraq (MSC) [Majlis Shura Mujahidin fi al-'Iraq] claimed
responsibility.

21 Iraq
In At Taji, assailants kidnapped approximately 64 Ministry of Industry factory
workers employed at the al-Nasr General Complex as they were leaving work, by
hijacking five buses and several cars transporting them home. Subsequently, 30
hostages, mostly Sunni women, were released. On 22 June 2006, Iraqi police
raided a farm near Baghdad, Iraq, and freed 17 other hostages. On 28 June
2006, authorities stated a total of 11 of the employees had been found bound,
tortured and with bullet wounds. In an ambiguous internet statement, the
Mujahidin Shura Council in Iraq (MSC) [Majlis Shura Mujahidin fi al-'Iraq] claimed
responsibility, but it was not clear if they were referring to this incident.

23 Iraq
In the city center of Al Basrah, a suicide bomber attacked a line of vehicles
waiting for fuel at a gasoline station on Bashar Street, killing ten civilians,
wounding 16 others and two police officers, and damaging several cars, the gas
station, and a nearby market. No group claimed responsibility.

23 Iraq
Near Ba'qubah, assailants detonated an IED placed inside a garbage can at the
rear entrance to the Sunni Hibhib al-Kabir Mosque, killing 12 civilians, wounding 20 others, and damaging the mosque and several nearby cars. No group claimed
responsibility.

26 Iraq
In Kharnabat, Diyala, assailants detonated a roadside, probably remotecontrolled
VBIED near the town's main square and market, killing 12 civilians and
10 children, wounding 33 other civilians, and damaging the public market. No
group claimed responsibility.

>>137583
>2006
Not current, not news, and not a valid news source.

Good combo offtopic shitposting, though.
Try posting this on >>>/pol/ instead, they will no doubt eat it up.

>>137584
26 Iraq
In Al Hillah, Babil, assailants detonated an IED near a public market, killing 15
civilians, wounding 53 other civilians and three children, and damaging the
market. No group claimed responsibility.

1 Iraq
In Sadr City, Baghdad, assailants detonated a VBIED at the al-Ula or Suq al-
Auola market, targeting a mobile police patrol that had already passed by, killing
as many as 70 civilians and at least one child, wounding between 87 and 124
civilians and at least one child, and damaging the market, including as many as
40 stores, the fronts of several buildings, and dozens of vehicles. The group
Supporters of the Sunni People (SSP) claimed responsibility.

6 Iraq
In Al Kufah, a suicide bomber attacked Shiite pilgrims by driving his minivan,
VBIED, between two buses near the Shia Maytham al-Tammar shrine, killing
eight Iranian Shiite pilgrims and four or five Iraqi pilgrims while wounding 22
Iranian pilgrims, between 14 and 25 Iraqi pilgrims, one 16-year-old vender and
several other vendors who also were minors. The attack damaged two buses, a
vendor's stall, the facade of the shrine, and a nearby cemetery. No group claimed
responsibility.

8 Iraq
In the Al-Jihad District of western Baghdad, assailants detonated a VBIED in a
public garage near the Shiite Fatima Zahra mosque, killing nine civilians and
three children, wounding 18 others, and damaging the mosque, the garage and
five parked cars. No group claimed responsibility.

9 Iraq
In the Kasra area of Adhamiya District, northern Baghdad, assailants detonated
two VBIEDs in a marketplace near the Shiite Ahl al-Bait (Ahal al-Bait) mosque,
killing five police officers and between 14 and 20 civilians, wounding 59 others, and damaging the mosque, the market place, and five vehicles. No group claimed responsibility.