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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/22/2017 11:18:32 AM
	CIA Launches Manhunt For “Traitor” Who Showed The World They Spy On EVERYONE APRIL 20, 2017 By Claire Bernish CBS News first reported a manhunt inside the Central Intelligence Agency in search of the source who provided thousands of top secret documents to WikiLeaks, published in its “Vault 7” — which revealed the clandestine agency’s hacking tools and surveillance practices. “Sources familiar with the investigation say it is looking for an insider — either a CIA employee or contractor — who had physical access to the material,” CBS reported Wednesday evening. “The agency has not said publicly when the material was taken or how it was stolen. Much of the material was classified and stored in a highly secure section of the intelligence agency, but sources say hundreds of people would have had access to the material. Investigators are going through those names. Investigators surmise the source of the massive leak was either an agent of the CIA or a contractor with the agency — someone with physical access — rather than an outside hacker. In a statement coinciding with the Vault 7 release, WikiLeaks announced, The archive appears to have been circulated among former US government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive […] In a statement to WikiLeaks the source details policy questions that they say urgently need to be debated in public, including whether the CIA’s hacking capabilities exceed its mandated powers and the problem of public oversight of the agency. The source wishes to initiate a public debate about the security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons. Unnamed sources from inside the U.S. Intelligence Community told Reuters less than 24 hours after WikiLeaks published the first selection of the damning cache of documents the agency had expected their public disclosure since 2016. Officials from the CIA and FBI quickly reviewed the case and, within one day, initiated a joint investigation of the release — including the internal manhunt in question. WikiLeaks — itself, fraught by rumors of enemy State collusion and political opportunism — was lambasted by CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who also had choice words for the pro-transparency organization’s founder, Julian Assange, in his first public comments since taking that role: It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: A non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia. WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange — incidentally deemed a “demon” by Pompeo — responded to the wholly unproven accusation, stating, In fact, the reason Pompeo is launching this attack is because he understands we are exposing in this series all sorts of illegal actions by the CIA, so he’s trying to get ahead of the publicity curve and create a preemptive defense. Former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell claimed within days of the Vault 7 disclosure it had to be an ‘inside job.’ “This data is not shared outside CIA,” Morell said. “It’s only inside CIA. It’s on CIA’s top secret network, which is not connected to any other network. So, this has to be an inside job.” Investigators continue to pore over the hundreds of names of hundreds of contractors and agents who would have had physical access to the high-security area, urgently seeking the unknown person or persons who could have managed such a devastating theft of information. Given the nature and scope of WikiLeaks’ trove — estimated of greater impact than spying practices revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden — whoever was behind the breach is likely to become a transparency and anti-surveillance folk hero. Thus far, the CIA has not commented on the ongoing probe — nor on the authenticity of documents in the WikiLeaks trove. Assange, in the same statement released in tandem with Vault 7, noted the content of the cache, The disclosure is also exceptional from a political, legal and forensic perspective. (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/22/2017 5:12:20 PM
	91 wildfires burn across Florida; thousands evacuated By Nicole Chavez and Matt Rehbein, CNN Updated 0950 GMT (1750 HKT) April 22, 2017 Aerial view of brush fire in Polk County, Florida on April 21, 2017. (CNN)Thousands of homes have been evacuated as firefighters continue to battle 91 wildfires across Florida, the state's forest service said. Since Thursday, more than 25,000 acres have burned in the state, Florida Forest Service spokesman Joe Zwierzchowski told CNN on Friday. "The state is really dry. Thank God we have the firefighters we have all around the state," Florida Governor Rick Scott told reporters. Out of the 91 wildfires, two fires caused the evacuation of thousands of homes in central and southwest Florida. Southwest Florida Families have been forced to leave nearly 2,000 homes in the Naples area following mandatory evacuations, Zwierzchowski told CNN. A fire in the Golden Gates Estates section of Naples grew to 4,800 acres and destroyed nine homes, he added. An additional 5,000 homes were in a voluntary evacuation order, officials said. On Friday, the governor deployed the state's National Guard, including five UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters to help firefighters mitigate the massive wildfire, which started on Thursday. The fire was 10% contained by Friday, officials said. Central Florida Aerial view of brush fire in Polk County, Florida on April 21, 2017. About 800 homes were evacuated in Indian Lake Estates, a golf and fishing community near Lakeland, state officials said. The fire had burned about 600 acres and destroyed several structures by Friday night. Firefighters were still battling the wildfire early Saturday. Local officials didn't have an estimate of the fire's containment Friday and said it was too early to tell whether any homes have been lost to the fire. "We know people have pets at home. We know there's a lot of valuable property inside the homes," said Kevin Walter with the Polk County Fire Rescue. "The thing that will help our firefighters do their job is staying out of this area. That's the main thing that needs to happen right now." Aerial view of brush fire in Polk County, Florida on April 21, 2017. The fire is the latest in "a series of suspicious fires here in the last two or three weeks," County Sheriff Grady Judd told reporters in a news conference. Authorities have not determined what caused the fire but they are offering a $5,000 reward for information about how the fire started. "If someone is setting these fires, we will find out who they are, and we will put them in jail. That's a promise," Judd says. The number of arson wildfires across the state is up nearly 70% compared to this time last year, the Florida Forest Service said. The area is no stranger to threatening wildfires. Firefighters managed to contain a fire in February that burned 4,000 acres, a fire officials at the time said was the worst they'd ever seen, according to CNN affiliate WFLA. CNN's Joe Sutton, Jamiel Lynch and Jeremy Ryan contributed to this report.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/22/2017 5:59:02 PM
	Total Chaos: Cyber Attack Fears As MULTIPLE CITIES HIT With Simultaneous Power Grid Failures: Shockwave Of Delays In San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York Mac Slavo April 21st, 2017 SHTFplan.com The U.S. power grid appears to have been hit with multiple power outages affecting San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. Officials report that business, traffic and day-to-day life has come to a standstill in San Francisco, reportedly the worst hit of the three major cities currently experiencing outages. Power companies in all three regions have yet to elaborate on the cause, though a fire at a substation was the original reason given by San Francisco officials. A series of subsequent power outages in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City left commuters stranded and traffic backed up on Friday morning. Although the outages occurred around the same time, there is as of yet no evidence that they were connected by anything more than coincidence. The first outage occurred at around 7:20 a.m. in New York, when the power went down at the 7th Avenue and 53rd Street subway station, which sent a shockwave of significant delays out from the hub and into the rest of the subway system. By 11:30 a.m. the city’s MTA confirmed that generators were running again in the station, although the New York subways were set to run delayed into the afternoon. Later in the morning, power outages were reported in Los Angeles International Airport, as well as in several other areas around the city. Via : Inverse The San Francisco Fire Department was responding to more than 100 calls for service in the Financial District and beyond, including 20 elevators with people stuck inside, but reported no immediate injuries. Everywhere, sirens blared as engines maneuvered along streets jammed with traffic. Traffic lights were out at scores of intersections, and cars were backing up on downtown streets as drivers grew frustrated and honked at each other. Via: SF Gate The cause of the outage has not yet been made clear, though given the current geo-political climate it is not out of the question to suggest a cyber attack could be to blame. It has also been suggested that the current outages could be the result of asecretive nuclear/EMP drill by the federal government. As we have previously reported, the entire national power grid has been mapped by adversaries of the United States and it is believed that sleep trojans or malware may exist within the computer systems that maintain the grid. In a 2016 report it was noted that our entire way of life has been left vulnerableto saboteurs who could cause cascading blackouts across the United States for days or weeks at a time: It isn’t just EMPs and natural disaster that poses a threat to the grid, but there is also the potential for attacks on individual power substations in the vast network of decentralized and largely unguarded power grid chain. A U.S. government study established that there would be “major, extended blackouts if more than three key substations were destroyed.” Whether by criminals, looters, terrorists, gangs or pranksters, it would take very little to bring down the present system, and there is currently very little the system can do to protect against this wide open threat. Whether the current outages are the result of a targeted infrastructure cyber attack or simply a coincidence, most Americans think the impossible can’t happen, as The Prepper’s Blueprint author Tess Pennington highlights, a grid-down scenario won’t just be a minor inconvenience if it goes on for more than a day or two: Consider, for a moment, how drastically your life would change without the continuous flow of energy the grid delivers. While manageable during a short-term disaster, losing access to the following critical elements of our just-in-time society would wreak havoc on the system. Challenges or shut downs of business commerce Breakdown of our basic infrastructure: communications, mass transportation, supply chains Inability to access money via atm machines Payroll service interruptions Interruptions in public facilities – schools, workplaces may close, and public gatherings. Inability to have access to clean drinking water Full report: When the Grid Goes Down, You Better Be Ready! It is for this reason that we have long encouraged Americans to prepare for this potentially devastating scenario by considering emergency food reserves, cleanwater reserves and even home defense strategies in the event of a widespread outage. The majority of Americans have about 3 days worth of food in their pantry. Imagine for a moment what Day 4 might look like in any major city that goes dark. This exclusive clip from American Blackout shows what an extended outage might look like: Prepare for the worst, because this is one scenario you do not want to face. (shtfplan.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/22/2017 8:27:11 PM
	Japanese destroyers join US strike group amid tensions on Korean Peninsula Published time: 21 Apr, 2017 14:52 FILE PHOTO. U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships. © U.S. Navy / Reuters Two Japanese Navy destroyers have joined the carrier strike group ‘USS Carl Vinson’ heading towards the Korean Peninsula for a massive show of force as North Korea prepares to mark the 85th anniversary of the foundation of its military. The Japanese warships, destroyers ‘Ashigara’ and ‘Samidare’, left the navy’s Sasebo base early on Friday for a rendezvous with the ‘USS Carl Vinson’ group off North Korean shores, NHK reports. Defense Ministry officials said the details of the joint US-Japan naval exercise are yet to be determined. The drill comes as an apparent show of force aimed at deterring North Korea, which will mark the 85th anniversary of the foundation of its military next week. Read more Trump’s ‘armada’ turns toward North Korea as White House defends misleading remarks Though little is known about the naval exercise, the event was announced by the Japanese Navy earlier last week. “Japan wants to dispatch several destroyers as the ‘Carl Vinson’ enters the East China Sea,” said one of the Japanese military sources, as cited by Reuters. The source added that the drills would involve helicopter landings on both American and Japanese ships as well as communications training. The American strike group includes Nimitz-class aircraft carrier‘USS Carl Vinson’ with her air wing, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers ‘USS Wayne E. Meyer’ and ‘USS Michael Murphy’, as well as Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser‘USS Lake Champlain’. The strike group will operate in the region under the operational control of the 3rd Fleet as part of the 3rd Fleet Forward initiative, according to the US Navy. Its arrival to the Western Pacific was marked by a string of conflicting statements from the White House and the Pentagon. Last week, US President Donald Trump told Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo that “we are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful – far more powerful than the aircraft carrier.” The news, however, was downplayed by US military officials after it emerged that the strike group was heading to Australia instead of the Korean Peninsula. Some American media reported that the USS Carl Vinson and her escort ships were operating near Indonesia. Read more N. Korea could have sarin-tipped missiles, Japanese PM says ahead of Pyongyang's ‘big event’ Earlier this week, a senior White House official accused the military of misleading the president and his team about the deployment of the ‘Carl Vinson’, according to the Wall Street Journal. Defense Secretary James Mattis provided a rather vague statement, saying: “The Vinson, as I’ve said on the record, was operating up and down the western Pacific … And that is, we’re shifting her, instead of continuing one direction as she pulled out of Singapore she’s going to continue part of our cruise down in that region, but she was on her way up to Korea.” The latest flare-up in tension between the US and North Korea has been triggered by reports that the state was about to conduct its sixth nuclear test or fire a nuclear-capable ballistic missile. Washington threatened to solve the ‘North Korean problem’unilaterally, arguing that Pyongyang poses a threat to US interests in the region. North Korea said it was ready to defend itself with all means available, including weapons of mass destruction. In a series of extraordinary statements, China, North Korea’s main trading partner and ally, warned that the region was on the brink of an all-out war. Russia, which shares a land border with the hermit state, urged all parties to refrain from the use of military force. (RT)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/22/2017 8:43:52 PM
	Sat Apr 22, 2017 \| 10:33am EDT Hundreds more join Mosul exodus as Iraqi forces retake two more western districts Displaced Iraqis display a white shirt being used as a flag as they flee after a battle between Iraqi rapid response forces and Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq, April 22, 2017. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed By Maher Chmaytelli \| MOSUL, IRAQ Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after Iraqi forces retook two more districts in the west of the city from Islamic State. After walking for miles, families were taken by bus from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps housing more than 410,000 people displaced since the offensive to retake Mosul began in October. "We left with no water, food or electricity," said 63-year-old Abu Qahtan, the elder of a group of 41 people from five families. "We left with the clothes on our backs." Iraqi forces have taken much of Mosul from the militants who overran the city in June 2014. The military now controls the eastern districts and are making advances in the west. Islamic State fighters, holding out in the Old City, are surrounded in the northwest and are using booby traps, sniper and mortar fire to defend themselves. On Saturday, artillery and gun fire could be heard as families arrived from Hay al-Tanak district which they said was still half controlled by the militants. Troops, backed by helicopters, were moving towards the al-Nuri mosque where, nearly three years ago, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced his self-declared caliphate spanning parts of Iraq and Syria. A Reuters reporter, standing within sight of the mosque, saw heavy smoke in that area after an air strike. The U.S.-trained Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) has retaken the nearby al-Thaura and al-Saha districts, statements said. CTS commander Major General Maan Saadi said his troops were linking up with Iraq's Federal Police moving in on the Old City from a different position. "We are completing the encirclement of the terrorists in the Old City," he told Reuters. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are still trapped in western Mosul, where Iraqi forces are making slow progress against Islamic State in what is a labyrinth of narrow streets. As of April 20, some 503,000 people have been displaced from Mosul, of which 91,000 have returned, a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said, citing government figures. Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, is the militants' last urban stronghold in the country. (Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Louise Ireland) (Reuters)
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