Thursday 27 October 2016

Nato squares up to Putin

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As Russia beefs up its military might on Europe's border, West responds with biggest show of force since the Cold War

  • Armoured force including 800 UK troops will be sent to Estonia for six month deployment next May
  • They will then be relieved by soldiers from another Nato nation to keep up a continuous presence
  • It comes as Vladimir Putin has launched nuclear defence drills in Russia and is building more ships
  • Russia has also unveiled pictures of its largest ever nuclear missile that could 'destroy France-sized area
Russia's military escalation on Europe's border has triggered the West's biggest show of force in the region since the Cold War as Nato continues to square up to Vladimir Putin.

Britain is to deploy troops, tanks and jets to Estonia to deter Russian aggression while UK and Romanian forces will also join a US battalion in Poland.

As part of the biggest military build-up in Eastern Europe since the Cold War, RAF planes are also being dispatched to patrol Romanian airspace for the first time.

The moves are designed to stop Moscow taking over or undermining its former Eastern European satellites as it has with Crimea and Ukraine.

The US is hoping for European nations to fill four battle groups of some 4,000 troops as part of Nato's response to Russia. More troops will be sent to the Baltic states and eastern Poland early next year. They will be backed by Nato's 40,000-strong rapid reaction force.

France, Denmark, Italy and other allies are expected to join the four battle groups led by the United States, Germany, Britain and Canada to go to Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, with forces ranging from armoured infantry to drones. 

It comes after Russia unveiled pictures of its largest ever nuclear missile – Satan 2 – which is capable of obliterating the UK. 

The UK is sending 800 troops to Estonia as part of a Nato reaction to Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, with both sides increasing their military capability in eastern Europe in the biggest military build-up since the Cold War

Read Full Article on dailymail.co.uk

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Monday 24 October 2016

Taliban Release Drone Film Of Suicide Attack In Afghanistan

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Demonstrating their recent technological advancement, over the weekend Afghanistan's Taliban released drone footage showing a suicide bomber driving a Humvee into a police base in Helmand province and blowing it up this month. Cited by Reuters, an Afghan government official said the video posted online appeared to be authentic. While the use of video taken by a drone is unusual for the Taliban, it has become common among the more media-savvy Islamist groups fighting in Iraq and Syria.



According to Al Jazeera, the video, 23 minutes long, begins with the purported suicide bomber speaking in front of the Humvee, a vehicle provided to Afghan forces by American advisers. "This is the happiest moment of my life," the man says, dressed in a black turban and white tunic.

The 23-minute-long video, which begins with a self-proclaimed suicide bomber speaking in front of an explosives-rigged Humvee, was released on Saturday appears to be authentic, according to the Afghan defence ministry.

"I am telling the Afghan stooge forces to repent and join the Taliban or we will use this equipment the foreigners gave them, against them and they can't do anything about it."

A drone-mounted camera then films the Humvee speeding towards a compound and detonating in flames blowing up the entire building.

"This proves that we are well step ahead in sending our messages to people of Afghanistan in many sophisticated ways. Anything that helps us in destroying our enemies [Afghan and US forces] will be used with full force," Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, told Al Jazeera. "This video has proved to be very influential and we have many people supporting us."

Mujahid said the video was of an attack on October 3, when the fighters overran parts of Helmand province.

"The remote-controlled drones to capture footage of their [Taliban] fighters conducting attacks is nothing but to instill fear among people and to indicate how far they can get in defeating us, but in fact, using a drone is not something they can call an achievement," Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the defence ministry, told Al Jazeera by telephone.

A government official in Helmand said the district police chief and several other officials were killed in the attack on October 3, when Taliban militants overran much of Nawa district. The official, who declined to be named, said the video depicting the attack appeared to be authentic.

As Reuters adds, the video's producers used graphics of target-like overlays to give the footage a video game-like feel, an effect used by Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

Perhaps the video was a retaliation to U.S.-led forces, who have often used military-grade drones against the Taliban in Afghanistan's long war since 2001. Commercial drones favored by hobbyists and video producers are far simpler and cheaper, while suicide bombers in Afghanistan appear to be more accessible and in greater abundance than US-operated lethal drones.

The following map courtesy of Al Jazeera shows the fragmented territory of Afghanistan in which the contested areas between the Taliban and the government have seen a surge in deadly violence over the past year.


Check Out the Original Article on aljazeera.com

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Thai junta asks Google and YouTube to remove royal 'insults'

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Google says governments can request content removal, though material likely to breach lèse-majesté laws is still online



Thailand has sent a high-level delegation to meet Google to push the company to remove any content that defames the royal family, a criminal offence in the south-east Asian country.

King Bhumibol Adulyadej died on 13 October, aged 88, after seven decades on the throne. At a time of focused discussion on royal affairs, lèse-majesté laws mean people deemed to have offended the monarchy can face years in jail.

The deputy prime minister said he met Google representatives in Bangkok on Friday and added that the company affirmed it would help the government remove videos from YouTube, a Google subsidiary.

“If any website is inappropriate they said to get in touch with them and inform them of the URL and the time the content was found,” Prajin Juntong told journalists.

Google said this conformed with its global practices. “We have always had clear and consistent policies for removal requests from governments around the world. We have not changed those policies in Thailand,” the company said in a statement emailed to the Guardian.

“We rely on governments around the world to notify us of content that they believe is illegal through official processes, and will restrict it as appropriate after a thorough review.”

Google’s terms of service say it may remove or refuse to display content it “reasonably believe[s]” violates the law, providing the company with a measure of control.

Sensitivity around the reputation of the monarchy is at an all-time high in Thailand and the government has been under pressure from ultra-royalists to show it is upholding the reputation of the monarchy.

Authorities have announced a 30-day mourning period during which people are expected to wear black or dark clothing.

Companies have also sought to show solidarity with national anguish and Google and YouTube in Thailand have changed their online logos to black.

The visit by senior officials to Google will be seen as an attempt to publicly appease people who want a renewed crackdown on royal defamation.

However, Google and YouTube searches on Monday appeared to still show online content available that is likely to be in violation of lèse-majesté laws.

Google did not provide the Guardian with specific examples of content removed in Thailand but pointed to its transparency report, a quarterly statement on requests from courts and government to remove content. The latest examples are for 2015.

Rights groups have criticised the country’s lèse-majesté laws.

Last week, the justice minister said Thai people should “socially sanction” those who defame the monarchy. A Thai woman accused of insulting the late king on social media was forced to kneel before his portrait outside a police station in front of jeering crowds.

See Original Article on theguardian.com

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Sunday 23 October 2016

At least 11 dead after tour bus, truck crash in Calif

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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — At least 11 people returning from a casino outing were killed Sunday when a tour bus and a truck collided on Interstate 10 near this resort city 100 miles east of Los Angeles.

Emergency personnel could be seen removing at least 11 bodies from the scene. NBC News, citing officials with the Riverside County Coroner's Office, put the death toll at 13.

California Highway Patrol officer Stephanie Hamilton said all the fatalities were passengers in the tour bus. Hamilton said the death toll could rise as rescuers make their way through the tangled crash scene.


Original Source: usatoday.com

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Doctor Strange Launches To Perfect Rating On Rotten Tomatoes

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It looks like Doctor Strange is poised to enchant moviegoers when the film debuts next month. The next film from Marvel Studios promises to take audiences on a trippy, mind-bending ride through space and time. Today,d reviews of the film hit the Internet, allowing fans to decide for themselves whether they’ll see Doctor Strange - and they definitely should. The film currently boasts a perfect rating over on Rotten Tomatoes.

With 12 reviews under its belt, Doctor Strange ranks as the highest rated Marvel Studios project according to Rotten Tomatoes. Each review certified the film as ‘fresh’ as sites like USA Today, IGN, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter sung the praises of Doctor Strange. The film also has a fan-poll on the site that indicates 99% of users indicated they wanted to see the movie once it premiered.

Of course, there is still time for the film’s rating to change in the coming weeks. Future reviews could alter the overall score for Doctor Strange, but it appears that most top critics are definitely satisfied with Marvel’s latest film. The press seems to be bewitched with the film’s psychedelic visuals and refreshing storyline. So, if you are one of those people who wondered how Doctor Strange’s cult status would mesh with a blockbuster, then you can let those worries go now.

With Doctor Strange’s current rating, the film has shuffled the the rankings of Marvel Cinematic Universe projects. Luke Cage is now in second place at 96% while Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD sits at third. The fourth spot belongs to Iron Man, making its the next cinematic installment after Doctor Strange. The top ten then rounds out with Jessica Jones, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Agent Carter.


If you’re interested in checking out reviews of Doctor Strange, then you have come to the right place. ComicBook.com has already rounded up the best reviews of the film for your reading pleasure. And, of course, we’ve also shared out own review of Doctor Strange - and Jeff Cannata calls it “one of the very best Marvel films to date.”

From Marvel comes DOCTOR STRANGE, the story of world-famous neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange whose life changes forever after a horrific car accident robs him of the use of his hands. When traditional medicine fails him, he is forced to look for healing, and hope, in an unlikely place – a mysterious enclave known as Kamar-Taj. He quickly learns that this is not just a center for healing but also the front line of a battle against unseen dark forces bent on destroying our reality. Before long Strange – armed with newly acquired magical powers – is forced to choose whether to return to his life of fortune and status or leave it all behind to defend the world as the most powerful sorcerer in existence. Join Strange on his dangerous, mystifying, and totally mind-bending journey.

The cast features Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Star Into Darkness, The Imitation Game), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Rachel McAdams (Sherlock Holmes), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) and Tilda Swinton (The Grand Budapest Hotel).

Marvel's Doctor Strange will open in theaters on November 4, 2016.

 Original Source: comicbook.com

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WIKILEAKS BOMBSHELL EXPOSES Clinton Campaign and Mainstream Media “RIGGED POLLING”

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We’ve known all along that the polling was fixed.

All you have to do is open the PDF and look at the samples.

However, now thanks to Wikileaks we have proof and a peak inside how and why Clinton’s campaign oversamples and sends info to media pollsters.

At first, the pollsters were wildly oversampling Democrats – however, they got called out in that mercilessly, so now they’ve switched to oversampling women and “degreed people” who tend to favor Hillary.

They do this to get the polling result they need to promote their narrative that Hillary is CRUSHING Trump and it’s HOPELESS for Trump.

According to these polls and the electoral map (based on the over-sampled polling), it will be a REAGAN/CARTER BLOWOUT for Hillary.

Her “average” rally attendance is 380 people, and Trump’s average is 7k.

Um. OK.

As I have said all along – DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE.

Our North Korea-style government run media is in on the fix.

According to the Wikileaks email, the Clinton campaign gathers all their “oversampling” data and then feeds it to their MEDIA POLLSTERS.

See how this rigged system works?


Original Source: truthfeed.com

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Understanding a DDoS attack

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To Understand What is a DDoS attack you can watch the following video.


A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. They target a wide variety of important resources, from banks to news websites, and present a major challenge to making sure people can publish and access important information.

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