https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/business/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html
Category: Evil
Recent Spear-Phishing Attacks Originate From Legit Accounts
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/recent-spear-phishing-attacks-originate-from-legit-accounts-a-15604
If the phishing email is opened, the user is presented with a “View Documents” link embedded in the message. This leads to a domain hosted on the Joom, Weebly or Quip landing page, and the victim is then asked to click another link.
“The attacker attempts to legitimize the campaign with official-looking landing pages similar to those used by eFax,” according to the report.
If clicked, the second link directs the victim to the final phishing domain and asks the user to input their Office 365 credentials, which are then harvested by the fraudsters.
Release International: Nigeria: Slaughter in a time of lockdown
Source: Release International: Nigeria: Slaughter in a time of lockdown
Release International, which supports persecuted Christians around the world, is again calling on Nigeria to take urgent steps to protect its vulnerable Christian communities from attack – even as they face the new threat of the coronavirus.
In the latest attack on April 14, armed Fulani militants shouting, ‘Allahu akbar’ [Allah is greater] surrounded a village close to the state capital, Jos. Firing their guns, they drove the villagers out and killed them as they fled – including three small children.
Attack
Partners of Release International say the armed Fulani launched their attack on Hura village at 7pm.
‘Fulanis came and almost surrounded the village, shouting “Allahu akbar! Come out, come out!”‘ said one witness.
Added another: ‘The attackers appeared from different directions in large numbers and set many houses ablaze.’
One heavily pregnant villager, Victoria John, fled with another pregnant woman, who was trying to escape with her five-year-old child.
‘The child was screaming,’ she said. ‘She slipped and fell and they killed her.’
The militants killed nine villagers. They included 50-year-old grandfather, Sunday Biri and his five-year-old grandchild, Luka; Talatu Daniel, who was pregnant, and her three-year-old baby.
From washingtonpost.com
Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers Tuesday when he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his reelection — including a section in his briefing materials in all-capital letters stating “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” according to officials familiar with the call.
Trump also chose not to heed talking points from aides instructing him to condemn the recent poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain with a powerful nerve agent, a case that both the British and U.S. governments have blamed on Moscow.
The president’s conversation with Putin, which Trump described as a “very good call,”
China TEARS DOWN crucifix from church in fresh crackdown on Christianity | World | News | Express.co.uk
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/932981/Christianity-end-attack-China-tears-down-crucifixes
shocking footage, shared on Twitter by one of the priests witnessing the act, shows the moment when local Communist Party chiefs use a crane to remove the last cross standing on top of the Shangqiu Catholic Church South Cathedral in the country’s Henan Province.
An unidentified group are said to have burst into the church without any official documentation or notice and occupied it by securing the doors and shutting down electrical power.
Priest and nuns reported the intruders to the police in vain, as the authorities once arrived confiscated their phone and quarantined them, barring anyone from entering or leaving the church
NYTimes: Trump Assails Mueller, Drawing Rebukes From Republicans
Trump Assails Mueller, Drawing Rebukes From Republicans https://nyti.ms/2GINHmV
lashing out at what he characterized as a partisan investigation and raising questions about whether he might seek to shut it down.
Mr. Trump has long suggested that allegations that he or his campaign conspired with Russia to influence the election were a “hoax” and part of a “witch hunt,” but until this weekend he had largely heeded the advice of lawyers who counseled him not to directly attack Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, for fear of aggravating prosecutors.
Now as Mr. Mueller extends his inquiry with a subpoena to the Trump Organization evidently in search of business ties with Russia, the president appears to be losing his patience. While his lawyers had reassured him that the investigation would wrap up by Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then early in the new year, it seems increasingly clear that Mr. Mueller is not about to conclude his inquiry any time soon.
From cnn.com
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/18/opinions/trump-mccabe-firing-loyalty-opinion-obeidallah/index.html
firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe on Friday night felt like something you’d see in a third-world dictatorship, you aren’t alone.
It reminded many of authoritarian leaders in other nations who purge those from the government who have not shown absolute loyalty or who have dared to publicly contradict them.
In a vacuum, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ firing of McCabe approximately 26 hours before he would be eligible for early retirement benefits could turn out to be above reproach.
From thehill.com
the company often filed paperwork with New York City saying it didn’t have any rent-regulated tenants in the buildings it owned.
But, according to the AP, it had hundreds of rent-regulated tenants across the city.
From cnn.com
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remarks/index.html
Trump also praised China’s President Xi Jinping for recently consolidating power and extending his potential tenure, musing he wouldn’t mind making such a maneuver himself.
“He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”
From latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-rick-gates-plea-deal-20180218-story.html
indictment alleged that both men, who for years were unregistered agents of the Ukrainian government, hid millions of dollars of Ukraine-based payments from U.S. authorities.
According to the indictment, Gates and Manafort “laundered the money through scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships and bank accounts” and took steps to evade related U.S. taxes.
Fact-checking Trump’s error-filled tweetstorm about the Russia investigation
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. … They probably have them. I’d like to have them released.”
Trump later said he was joking. He rejected allegations that the Russians had targeted DNC or that the Russians were attempting to help him get elected. He accused Democrats of fabricating Russian ties to Trump because they were embarrassed about WikiLeaks’ release of the documents — even though the previous month, he had said that the DNC had hacked itself.
Lake Oswego Restaurant Owner Pleads Guilty To Using Forced Labor . News | OPB
https://www.opb.org/news/article/forced-labor-curry-hurry-lake-oswego/
“Human trafficking is a degrading crime that undermines our nation’s most basic promise of liberty,” said U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams for the District of Oregon. “This defendant preyed on the hopes of vulnerable workers, using fear to compel them to work long hours for little pay. He turned a promise of employment and a better life into a human tragedy for his own financial gain.”
Paul Jumroon, who officials say is also known as Veraphon Phatanakitjumroon, accepted a plea agreement in which he admitted to facilitating the acquisition of fraudulent E-2 visas to bring four victims to the United States to provide cheap labor at Curry in a Hurry and a second restaurant, Teriyaki Thai, in Ridgefield, Washington.
From cnn.com
“(The) President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under (the Constitution’s Article II) and has every right to express his view of any case,” Dowd told Axios.
The new defense comes after a tweet from Trump’s account suggested the President knew former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI when he was fired in February, raising questions about whether Trump knew about Flynn’s lying before pressuring former FBI Director James Comey to let go of inquiries into Russian election meddling.
Trump lawyer says president knew Flynn had given FBI the same account he gave to vice president – The Washington Post
Trump was aware of the issue a couple of weeks before a conversation with then-FBI Director James B. Comey in which Comey said the president asked him if he could be lenient while investigating Flynn, whom Trump had just fired for misleading Pence about the nature of his conversations with the Russian.
According to notes kept by Comey, Trump asked if he could see “his way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” Trump fired Comey in May.
From cbsnews.com
Paula Reid was repeatedly cut off by a DOJ spokesperson as she attempted to ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the Civil Rights division’s investigations into systemic discrimination.
Washington Post uncovers fake Roy Moore story ‘sting’ – BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42150322
Project Veritas has posted a series of tweets claiming to expose bias at the Washington Post. It claimed the newspaper was attempting to divert attention by inventing the “sting operation” story.
But many journalists on social media claimed the attempt to prove the Washington Post had published unverified claims had backfired – and showed the opposite.
From cnn.com
President delivered his first moment of shock and awe with his Achilles’ heel on foreign policy: Russia. In an act of defiance, he said he believed President Vladimir Putin’s claimthat Russia did not intervene in the 2016 US election despite all the evidence to the contrary, including from US intelligence agencies.
Activate! Justice: Talk about money and moral wrongs 