(Zero Hedge) Over the last 18 months, Chinese hackers breached several unidentified Navy contractors, stealing large amounts of data related to undersea warfare, including top-secret programs to develop supersonic anti-ship missiles for submarines, officials and experts said, triggering top-to-bottom review of cyber vulnerabilities for the Navy.
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“They Used Us For Crisis PR” – Facebook’s Fact Checkers Are In Open Revolt
(Zero Hedge) A group of former and current factcheckers hired by Facebook to flag false news have come forward to say they’ve “lost trust” in the social media giant after it did little to actually crack down on fake news.
What America Has Done To Its Young People Is Appalling
(James Ostrowski) Critics are perhaps too quick to judge America’s young people, citing declining SAT scores, obesity, drug overdoses, addiction to smart phones, bizarre alterations of personal appearance and high rates of (alleged) mental illness.
“Unconstitutional Disaster!”: Trump Celebrates After Judge Strikes Down Obamacare
(Zero Hedge) Update: The White House says that the ruling will be put on hold during the appeals process after California Attorney General Xavier Becerra indicated his coalition of Democratic attorneys general would appeal the ruling.
Kremlin To Release US-Russia Communications On Election Meddling If Trump Agrees
(Zero Hedge) Russia will declassify all correspondence with the United States regarding election meddling in the 2016 US election if the US agrees to it, according to state owned RT, citing a senior official of the Cyber Threats Response Center.
WATCH: Three Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers To Testify About Tax Fraud, Pay-For-Play
(Zero Hedge) Following allegations of sloppy accounting, potential tax fraud and pay-to-play, the Clinton Foundation will be under a Congressional microscope this week after three whistleblowers have come forward and agreed to testify – one of whom secretly submitted 6,000 pages of documents to the IRS and FBI in August of 2017, and all three of whom have submitted various documents to Congressional investigators. (Watch complete hearing below)
“I Know Where All The Bodies Are Buried”: Clinton Foundation CFO Spills the Beans to FBI, IRS
(Zero Hedge) The CFO of the Clinton Foundation, thinking he was “meeting an old professional acquaintance,” admitted to investigators that the charity had widespread problems with governance, accounting and conflicts of interest, and that Bill Clinton has been commingling business and personal expenses for a long time, reports The Hill‘s John Solomon.
Even The NYTimes Thinks Its ‘Curtains For The Clintons’
(Zero Hedge) When it comes to the Clintons’ heavily promoted speaking tour, it seems that even the crickets are taking the night off.
Former President George H.W. Bush Dies At 94
(Zero Hedge) George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States and the head of one of the most prominent political families in American history, arguably best known for assembling the multinational coalition that liberated Kuwait and launched a permanent US presence in the middle east, died Friday at the age of 94. Bush governed the nation from 1989 to 1993, making him the last president of the Cold War era.
Russia To Verify Whether USA Actually Landed On The Moon
(Zero Hedge) The head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has vowed to verify whether or not the United States actually landed on the moon, according to the Associated Press.
Trump Proposes Worldwide ‘Truth’ Network To Counter CNN’s “Unfair, False” Reporting
(Zero Hedge) Perhaps President Trump was still nursing a grudge from his visit to France earlier this month, or maybe he spent some time ruminating about his low popularity ratings among key US allies. Or maybe he’s still pissed about the whole Jim Acosta thing.
Ivanka Trump Found To Have Used Personal Email To Conduct Official Government Business
(Zero Hedge) Ivanka Trump used her personal email account to send “hundreds” of emails last year to White House aides, assistants and Cabinet officials, according to the Washington Post, citing “people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence.” Of that, however, she discussed government policies “less than 100 times” – and none of the content was classified.
Deep State Take Down? Michael Avenatti Arrested For Allegedly Beating His Wife
(Zero Hedge) This could complicate the launch of Avenatti 2020.
Democrats Win Control Of US House As Republicans Keep Senate — As of This Morning
(Zero Hedge) Nearly an hour after Fox News predicted the Democrats would regain the House, moments ago NBC confirmed as much, and called the House for the Democrats.
China Boosts Antarctic Presence With Planned Permanent Airbase, Cites “Strategic Needs”
(Zero Hedge) China is set to significantly expand its presence in Antarctica as it takes the crucial step of establishing its first permanent airport and large landing strip close to its small research outpost, Zhongshan station. After nearly a decade of planning construction of the airport is set to begin in November, which state media and officials are calling a “permanent” base.