Anonymous exposes 364K files on Russia's censorship of the invasion

A Ukrainian hacking group associated with Anonymous released 364,000 files Thursday from Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency that monitors and censors information by the media. The documents were generated as late as Saturday, this past weekend.

The documents show that Moscow censored everything that referred to Russia's military action as an invasion,  and in fact, some Russian citizens were totally unaware an invasion of Ukraine took place.

"Roskomnadzor has given instructions about what can be said and ordered media outlets to delete stories that call Russia's invasion of Ukraine an Invasion," Anonymous said in a message posted online.

Russia President Vladimir Putin signed a new law on March 4th that makes it a crime to report anything that goes against the government's narrative over that what Russia did was not an invasion of Ukraine, it was a "special military operation." It's almost as if Russia is taking its cues from our Big Tech companies.

The foreign news outlets decided they had to protect their reporters, including the Compromised News Network (CNN), which stopped live broadcasts from Russia. The BBC also suspended the reporting of its Russia correspondent. When the law was put in place, that day Putin blocked its citizens from going on Facebook but in spite of that, many Russian citizens have been using virtual private networks to bypass the government's censoring of real news.

In another online development, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) says that it temporarily made allowances for some violent speech on its platform, such as "death to the Russian invaders" that would normally violate its rules. But it will still prohibit violent speech against Russian civilians and keep Donald Trump from accessing the platform.

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On Feb. 26, the Anonymous group announced on Twitter that it had successfully taken control of Russian streaming services and TV channels, replacing state-sponsored broadcasts with "the truth about what happens in Ukraine."

Anonymous also claimed credit for hacking Russia's Internet service providers as well as leaking content from a Belarusian weapons producer.

Anonymous warned in late February that it had declared a cyberwar against Russia for invading Ukraine and targeting civilian populations across the Eastern European nation.

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Will these attacks happen today?

You know them as Anonymous, a group of online activists who recently have vowed to fight against ISIS.

Yesterday, Anonymous said they discovered intel claiming ISIS plans an assault at the WWE Survivor Series event at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, GA on Sunday, today, at 7:30 pm EST. They also plan other attacks including multiple events in Paris and the hacker group lists them (see below).

Anonymous wrote in this statement: "The goal is to make sure the whole world, or at least the people going to these events, know that there have been threats and that there is possibility of an attack to happen. Another goal is to make sure Daesh knows that the world knows and cancels the attacks, which will disorient them for a while."

The list is as follows: 

1. Demonstration by Collectif du Droit des Femmes (Paris)

2. Concrete Invites Drumcode: Adam Beyer, Alan Fitzpatrick, Joel Mull at Concrete (Paris) 

3.  Cigales Electroniques with Vocodecks, RE-Play & Rawtor at Le Bizen (Paris)

4. Feast of Christ the King celebrations (Rome/worldwide)

5. Al-Jihad, One Day Juz (Indonesia)

6. Five Finger Death Punch (Milan)

7. Universal Pastoral Day (Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon)

Anonymous said: "We only appeared now because our goal was to remain undercover and report everything to the right authorities and let them take all the action. But when authorities do not take action, Anonymous does. This part of the op started last Monday and has [been] and will be active 24 hours a day as long as the op is going on."

The group said they have informed the CIA, FBI, MI5, and the Australian government. They have not released the proof they used to make their findings. Of course, it is entirely possible that the proof is bogus and they are being manipulated by ISIS. 

But who knows?

If the attacks happen, Anonymous is proven right. If the attacks do not happen, was it because Anonymous helped prevent them from happening?

Like I said, who knows?



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Liberals Defined by their Emails

Whether or not the Sony Pictures document dump obtained by WikiLeaks is, as Julian Assange claims, "public domain," the information Assanges' Web site revealed is incredibly illuminating and reveals the true hearts of liberals.

WikiLeaks unveiled the database of over 30 thousand documents and 172 thousand emails the hacker group Anonymous stole from the Sony film division back in last November.

Assanges' actual quote was: "This archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation. It is newsworthy and at the center of a geopolitical conflict. It belongs in the public domain. WikiLeaks will ensure it stays there."

Some of the information revealed in the WikiLeaks documents was that Sony has close ties to the Democratic party and the company also tried to gather "intelligence" on rival studios including Oliver Stone's soon to be released film on the scumcrumpet, Edward Snowden. (Yes, I know that some of you might see Snowden as a hero, but I see him as a traitor for allowing the information to get into the hands of Putin.)

Amy Pascal, a liberal, and the head of Sony movies left her position with the company after her hacked emails were revealed to the public. She had emailed a friend, Scott Rubin, asking him what questions she should ask President Obama at a breakfast they would be attending for Hollywood brass.

Pascal emailed: "What should I ask the president at this stupid Jeffrey breakfast?" referring to a breakfast hosted by DreamWorks Animation head and important Democratic donor Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Rudin replied: "Would he like to finance some movies."

Pascal, ever the racist, replied: "I doubt it. Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?" to which Rubin responded: "12 YEARS."

Pascal continued trying to guess the movies a black president might prefer, perhaps those starring black actors: "Or the butler. Or think like a man? [sic]."

Rudin: "Ride-along. I bet he likes Kevin Hart."

Amy Pascal donated $5000 to the Obama re-election campaign and $30,800.00 to the DNC, according to OpenSecrets. So in spite of the fact that she seems focused on race, being a liberal trumps her racial feelings.

Of course, after they were "outed" Rudin wrote to Deadline.com: "Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended. I made a series of remarks that were meant to only be funny, but in the cold light of day, they are, in fact, thoughtless and insensitive--but not funny at all. To anybody I've offended, I'm profoundly and deeply sorry, and I regret and apologize for any injury they might have caused."

Scotty, words don't cause injury unless you're a liberal who wants to shut up people with opposing opinions (see American college professors, for more on this). 

Pascal sent her apology to Variety: "The content of my emails were insensitive and inappropriate but are not an accurate reflection of who I am," she lied. "Although this was a private communication that was stolen, I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended."

If she was being genuine in her apology, she wouldn't have tried to soften it with mentioning that the emails were stolen. 

It's what people say to their friends when they believe nobody else is able to hear them, that is most revealing about what they really think. 

The same is true of corporations.

Sony Entertainment CEO, Michael Lynton, thought the email issues with WikiLeaks was old history but instead, they drew attention to Lynton's directorship at the Rand Corporation, a US military intelligence think tank. WIkiLeaks then went on to mention a dinner Lynton attended with our so-called president at Martha's Vineyard and that Sony tried to establish a fund-raising collective "to get around the $5,000 limit on corporate campaign donations," the site stated.

But the real FunFact was WikiLeaks revealing that actor, Ben Affleck, the guy who went off on Sam Harris's criticism of Islam on Bill Maher's show, was trying to hide the fact that his ancestors were slave owners and tried to hide the fact by censoring it from the PBS show "Finding Your Roots."

In a hacked email from July 22, 2014 now in the hands of WikiLeaks, the "Finding Your Roots" host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., wrote to Michael Lynton asking him how to go forward with this: "One of our guests has asked us to edit out something about one of his ancestors--the fact that he owned slaves. Now, four or five of our guests this season descend from slave owners, including Ken Burns. We've never had anyone ever try to censor or edit what we found. He's a megastar. What do we do?"

Guess what the sneaky liberal Lynton replied.

His advice was to leave out Affleck's family secret, as long as nobody would find out. He wrote: "On the doc the big question is who knows that the material is in the doc and is being taken out. I would take it out if no one knows, but if it gets out that you are editing the material based on this kind of sensitivity then it gets tricky."

Gates admitted to Lynton that he was aware that censoring the documentary goes against PBS rules. Lynton responded that "It is tricky because it may get out that you made the change and it comes down to editorial integrity," to which Gates then responded "It would embarrass him and compromise our integrity."

What integrity?

Lynton caved and liberal injustice was served.

I marvel at the lies liberals (and some conservatives) will tell in order to appear to be seen in the image they see themselves. I don't care one iota if Affleck's great-grand-whatevers owned slaves, but he is worried that people will see him as less a liberal. 

I do believe, however, that if his ancestors owned slaves, the chances are excellent that they were Dixiecrat/Democrats.


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Snarky Anger Makes Me Laugh

I blogged about my predictions regarding tonight's debate and posted it this morning. I mentioned how Newt has a large ego and Mitt has attacked him and vice versa. This is more than my opinion, it's fact and it's historically true, and it's part of the campaign process that seems to have morphed into a verbal confrontation amongst candidates. It happens on both sides and for me, it's unfortunate as I would rather see an intellectual exchange based on policies, rather than ad hominem attacks based on truths, half-truths, and lies.

But someone named "Anonymous" attacked me for "playing psychoanalyst" as I mentioned that I played one, in jest, when, in fact, I worked for over 20 years as a psychotherapist, using cognitive-behavioral techiques. I specializing in depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, particularly Panic Disorder, with and without Agoraphobia, as well as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Social Anxiety. I have since retired from this field, not to manage a McDonald's as my attacker suggested, but to write and do photography. I have done both successfully like, I imagine, Anonymous has attacked others successfully. How sad AnonyMouse has to do this to make herself or himself happy--I'm not sure of the gender, but while the word usage sounded masculine, the method of attack sounded feminine-feline.

I briefly touched upon Ron Paul, who I believe would lead America down a self-destructive path with his foreign hands-off-Iran-Can-Build-Whatever-It-Wants policy, and his anti-Zionist sentiments. I suspect Anonymous is a Ron Paul fan and the word 'fan' comes from 'fanatic,' so you know where I'm coming from. If he is not a Ron Paul fan, then I have no doubts he's a liberal-socialist-Marxist-Obama-tingler.

Anyway, I love making people like AnonyMouse rant and rave because they think they matter in the final analysis. But the truth is, in the final analysis, nobody who rants and attacks others for their beliefs from a safe anonymous position, has done anything to build America. In fact, they would do what they could to change America (sounds a little like the O-Man?), but fortunately, they are impotent to change anything, including their clothing without their mommy's help. 

American core values should never change, which is why we should respect the Constitution--and why Ron Paul is half right, because he does, in his own funny way. But it was interesting, this attack on me, saying that I should go back to my job managing a McDonald's, as if this mouse who roared thinks she could manage anything at all. I apologize to all restaurant managers, and all of us who actually work for a living. 

For you, Anonymous

The only thing she was able to manage, was to get me to laugh at her feeble attempt of insult and pseudointellectual banter, disguised as criticism. I honestly feel sorry for her, or him, or whatever. Closet attackers have no courage, which is why they do nothing to build the nation, only try to tear it down along with those who love it. 

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