Topic: POLITIK - on July 28, 2016 at 11:38:00 AM CEST
Guccifer 2.0: All Roads Lead to Russia
In our initial Guccifer 2.0 analysis, ThreatConnect highlighted technical and non-technical inconsistencies in the purported DNC hacker’s story as well as a curious theme of French “connections” surrounding various Guccifer 2.0 interactions with the media. We called out these connections as they overlapped, albeit minimally, with FANCY BEAR infrastructure identified in CrowdStrike’s DNC report.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 26, 2016 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win - Michael Moore
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president. And now I have even more awful, depressing news for you: Donald J. Trump is going to win in November. This wretched, ignorant, dangerous part-time clown and full time sociopath is going to be our next president. President Trump. Go ahead and say the words, ‘cause you’ll be saying them for the next four years: “PRESIDENT TRUMP.” Never in my life have I wanted to be proven wrong more than I do right now.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 25, 2016 at 1:27:00 PM CEST
Is Edward Snowden a Russian Agent?
I think the best way to begin this is with a leading question. Do you believe that Edward Snowden simply happened to wind up in Russia, or do you raise an eyebrow at the fact that a self-described human rights activist settled under one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet? This saga galvanized authoritarian and libertarian minded Americans, with one side declaring Snowden a traitor and the other a civil rights hero. The sheer amount of information that he disclosed enables anyone to craft any argument about his motivations, and the President of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maassen made his conclusion earlier this year: “This would be a spy operation connected to a disinformation and influence operation. A wedge would be driven between the US and its closest allies, especially Germany.”
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 25, 2016 at 1:25:00 PM CEST
How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President
Evidence suggests that a Russian intelligence group was the source of the most recent Wikileaks intel dump, which was aimed to influence the U.S. election. Close your eyes and imagine that a hacking group backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin broke into the email system of a major U.S. political party. The group stole thousands of sensitive messages and then published them through an obliging third party in a way that was strategically timed to influence the United States presidential election. Now open your eyes, because that’s what just happened. On Friday, Wikileaks published 20,000 emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee. They reveal, among other things, thuggish infighting, a push by a top DNC official to use Bernie Sanders’ religious convictions against him in the South, and attempts to strong-arm media outlets. In other words, they reveal the Washington campaign monster for what it is.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 22, 2016 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
Thiel für Trump: Rede von Paypal-Mitgründer schockt Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley-Investor und "Arbeitsgeber" von Laura Rudas bekennt sich offen zu Trump Peter Thiel ist für seine politischen Ansichten berüchtigt: Schon 2009 schrieb er, dass seiner Meinung nach Freiheit und Demokratie nicht kompatibel seien. Außerdem beschwerte er sich über den Sozialstaat, die Übernahme der USA durch "Hippies" und US-Universitäten wie Harvard und Stanford, die er mit der "katholischen Kirche im Jahr 1514" verglich. Zuletzt sorgte Thiel für Aufsehen, indem er das umstrittene Medienportal Gawker an den Rande des Ruins brachte. Thiel hatte Ex-Wrestler Hulk Hogans Prozess gegen Gawker finanziert.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 22, 2016 at 11:39:00 AM CEST
Forget Trump: Peter Thiel Is So Dangerous and Fascinating
Tonight, Peter Thiel, an openly gay immigrant hailing from San Francisco, will address the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. His speech will close out the coronation of Donald Trump as the nominee claof his party, which three days earlier finalized a platform affirming the definition of marriage as “between one man and one woman.” Thiel may seem an unlikely warm-up act for a raving nativist like Trump. But the pair are actually an impeccable ideological tag-team. In fact, Thiel outmatches Trump both in the preposterousness of his capitalistic ambition and in the sheer pathology of his political inconsistency.
theintercept.com Peter Thiel thinks he’s a Trump supporter. But really he’s Trump’s enemy. kottke.org
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 20, 2016 at 1:26:00 PM CEST
Erdogan emails: Turkey blocks access to WikiLeaks after release of 300,000 secret government emails
Turkey has blocked access to WikiLeaks in the country after the whistleblowing organisation released nearly 300,000 secret emails from the incumbent Justice & Development Party (AKP). The Telecommunications Communications Board, Turkey's Internet watchdog, said it had taken an "administrative measure" against the website – a term it commonly uses when blocking access to sites.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 20, 2016 at 12:56:00 PM CEST
Nigel Farage crashes and burns on live radio after a caller sets the perfect trap
Nigel Farage crashed and burned on live radio on Sunday when a caller to his weekly phone-in show set him a beautifully laid trap – and Farage walked straight into it. Here, the caller tells The Canary why he felt compelled to hold Nigel Farage to account.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 20, 2016 at 12:54:00 PM CEST
Inside Donald Trump’s 3,000 Bizarre Domains
The first evening of the RNC was a spectacle. Viewers were treated to a variety of characters all making the case for Trump in their own way, and naturally, a new controversy came with nearly each segment of the show. It was a fascinating window into what day-to-day Donald Trump could be like, given the GOP at his side. In all, the night was a fitting extension of Trump’s abrasive and scattershot overall strategy. I don’t presume to be a political writer. Thousands of smarter people are already analyzing almost every angle of Donald Trump and his actions. Something I haven’t really seen touched on is Trump’s online strategy — not so much his unfiltered Twitter account or legion of supporters, but his entire online strategy. Before the campaign and before Twitter, how did The Donald operate online?
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 19, 2016 at 4:38:00 PM CEST
Donald Trump brags that he reads even less than Sarah Palin
Donald Trump doesn’t read. While the GOP nominee for president admitted he gets most of his news from “the shows,” meaning the Sunday morning talk shows, Trump doesn’t read about the news or the world the way other presidents or candidates for president have. “Presidents have different ways of preparing to make decisions. Some read deeply, some prefer to review short memos that condense difficult issues into bite-size summaries, ideally with checkboxes at the bottom of the page. But Trump, poised to become the first major-party presidential nominee since Dwight Eisenhower who had not previously held elected office, appears to have an unusually light appetite for reading,” the Washington Post writes.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 19, 2016 at 4:36:00 PM CEST
Turkey's president says all he wants is same powers as Hitler
In a world first, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses Hitler's Germany as a positive role model for his constitutional reforms. Turkey’s controversial President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sparked mockery and condemnation by defending new powers he wants to give himself as being similar to Adolf Hitler’s. In a statement that surprised even his critics, Mr Erdogan responded to arguments that putting political power in the hands of the presidency would not work in a "unitary state".
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 14, 2016 at 4:43:00 PM CEST
Boris Johnson: How Britain's new foreign secretary has insulted the world
In case you have just emerged from a desert island or a long sleep: the UK has a new prime minister, Theresa May, who in turn has appointed a new foreign secretary. The man who will be representing Britain's interests abroad is Boris Johnson. Yes, that Boris Johnson, the tousle-haired, barrel-bellied engineer of the UK's exit from the EU. It's an appointment that's been treated with some shock around the world - not least because he has been less than diplomatic about other countries and their leaders before. Some of his positions, often outlined in his newspaper columns, also risk clashing with his own government's official stance.
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