The key findings from the US intelligence report on the Russia hack, decoded
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Late Friday afternoon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a declassified version of its report on Russia’s interference in the US presidential election. The report, which draws on intelligence gathered by the FBI, CIA, and NSA, concludes with “high confidence” that “Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election” that included hacking the personal email accounts of Democratic Party officials and political figures.
According to the report, Putin’s aim was to impugn Hillary Clinton’s credibility and boost Donald Trump’s chances of winning the election, and more broadly to make the US electoral system look shady and untrustworthy.
High school teacher's Facebook page 'urged people to vote for Donald Trump so Muslims could be butchered'
Barack Obama was described as the 'Imam-in-chief'
The publicly available posts on an account in the name of Dan Close, a history teacher and athletics coach at Dewey High School in Oklahoma, included a series of rants in which Islam was described as a “death cult” and same-sex marriage as “a sin against nature”.
Donald Trump's America where bigotry, hatred and intolerance will be seen as normal Please welcome back the 19th century
Japan's draconian marijuana laws against ongoing trends
“That’s why many advanced economies such as the Netherlands and some U.S. states such as Washington and Colorado permit not only medical use, but have decriminalized possession, and other countries, such as Britain and Germany do not penalize possession of small amounts for personal use. In some countries, there are heavier fines for smoking on a public street,” he says. “Only Japan is going against the world currents on this. Mobilizing 30 police to arrest a violator, and then pillorying the accused in a media frenzy is unthinkable in Europe or North America.”
According to Reefer Madness and J-Men Forever once you've started down the road of smoking marijuana heroin will soon be your best friend Perhaps the Japanese should stop watching these bs movies and join the new millennium
Ex-vice minister, ex-presidential aide questioned over blacklist |
Special prosecutors questioned the former vice-culture minister and the ex-presidential secretary on Saturday as they pressed on with the probe into suspicions the presidential office created a blacklist of cultural figures who were considered not to be in favor of the government.
Former Vice Culture Minister Chung Kwan-joo and ex-presidential aide Shin Dong-churl appeared at the investigation team's office as the prosecutors are looking into the influence-peddling scandal surrounding President Park Geun-hye and her friend, Choi Soon-sil.
Senator Joseph McCarthy the Red Baiting anti Communist from the 1950's would be so proud He liked blacklists too
Dam leaves Crimea population in chronic water shortageThe North Crimean Canal, once provided 85 percent of Crimea's drinking and irrigation water.
Taigan, Ukraine - The Taigan reservoir in central Crimea, once about 200 hectares (500 acres), has shrunk to a third of its former size; its shores a cobweb of cracked clay, its waterline metres below the nearest tree or bush even after several torrential rains in late November.
The image is opposite to how many Russians picture the Black Sea peninsula - a postcard paradise with palm-fringed beaches, azure waters and cheap local wine. After all, that's what the 2014 annexation was about - to regain the Soviet Riviera, the crown jewel of Russian czars, a naval and trade outpost once ruled by Roman emperors, Mongol khans and Ottoman sultans.
Using water as a weapon how humane of the Ukrainian government
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