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President Joe Biden intends to strike back against Russia for their cyberattack on the United States government, the New York Times reported. It might be the start of something with China as well.
According to the report, the response against Russia will take place in the next three weeks as the U.S. aims to "impose a steeper penalty on rivals who regularly exploit vulnerabilities in government and corporate defenses to spy, steal information and potentially damage critical components of the nation's infrastructure," the Times said.
<p>It's the first move against Russia in years as former President Donald Trump was never capable of holding Russia accountable. </p><p>"The issue has taken on added urgency at the White House, the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies in recent days after the public exposure of a major <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/technology/microsoft-hack-china.html" target="_blank" title="">breach in Microsoft email systems</a> used by small businesses, local governments and, by some accounts, key military contractors," the report explained. </p><p>In that case, Microsoft identified China as the intruder in the system, but the Pentagon and national intelligence agencies have not done so publicly.</p><p>"The White House is undertaking a whole of government response to assess and address the impact" of the Microsoft hack, a statement from the White House said. <span></span></p><p>It's possible that if state-sponsored hackers in China are concluded to be behind the attack on Microsoft, Biden could also act against China. </p><p><span></span>"I actually believe that a set of measures that are understood by the Russians, but may not be visible to the broader world, are actually likely to be the most effective measures in terms of clarifying what the United States believes are in bounds and out of bounds, and what we are prepared to do in response," said Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security adviser.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/us/politics/microsoft-solarwinds-hack-russia-china.html" target="_blank">Read the full report at the</a> <em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/us/politics/microsoft-solarwinds-hack-russia-china.html">New York Times. </a></em></p>
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John Oliver takes down Fox News for refusing to cover domestic terrorism over fake 'canceling' of Dr. Seuss
March 08, 2021
The last word on the Fox News Dr. Seuss nonsense came from John Oliver, who called out the right-wing for their fake conspiracy that the beloved children's book author was canceled. As Oliver explained, he wasn't, his estate decided not to publish six of his books anymore, which Oliver explained as an example of the free markets at work.
Oliver explained that the real reason that Fox News wanted to get people up in arms about Dr. Seuss was to avoid talking about domestic terrorism in the United States.
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During the fake scandal, FBI Director Christopher Wray was testifying before Congress, a story carried live by every major news network except Fox.
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"We at the FBI don't tend to think of violent extremism in terms of right, left, that's not a spectrum that we look at," said Wray. "What I would say is that it is clear .... a large and growing number of the people that we have arrested so far in the connection with the 6th are what we would call militia violent extremists like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers ... and some already who emerged that I would have been in the racially motivated extremist bucket."
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According to conservatives, the attack was prompted by "fake Trump protesters," a conspiracy theory that gained traction <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/conservative-antifa-lies-scapegoating-conspiracies/" target="_blank">off of a false story published by the <em>Washington Times</em>.</a> It was a myth that Wray dispelled, but Fox News viewers never found out about it because they were too busy making up another conspiracy that Democrats somehow canceled Dr. Seuss.
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"We have not seen evidence of that," Wray told the senators this week.
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"Yeah, of course, you haven't because it's not f*cking true," said Oliver. "Despite everything, it's still amazing that he has to debunk a conspiracy theory that is so obviously false. It'd be like to swear under oath that three lemurs in a trench coat didn't commit the Oklahoma City bombing. Of course, they didn't, and anyone who suggested that they did clearly has some significantly bigger problems."
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"Now that testimony was pretty newsworthy," continued Oliver. "But while some networks took the hearings live Fox, not surprisingly, barely covered it. In fact, across conservative platforms, you'd hardly know that hearing happened because they were too busy with this."
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He went on to show a montage of conservative hosts losing their minds over Dr. Seuss. He went on to dispel the conspiracy theory and have the last word on the right-wings desperate attempts to make something "cancel culture" that hasn't actually been canceled.
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UK needs some American liberation: US viewers blast cruel royals after shocking Meghan and Harry interview
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It was the interview that Americans couldn't take their eyes off. Meghan and Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, revealed the truth behind their departure from the monarchy was due to Buckingham Palace's refusal to help protect the couple against a torrent of racist attacks that flooded them with death threats.
Meghan revealed that things were so bad at one point that as an expecting mother she was ready to harm herself or commit suicide. Harry explained that he would come home from working to find his sobbing wife breast feeding their baby after Archie was born. The couple begged the palace, which they called The Institution and "the Firm," for help even for mental health professionals but were denied.
<p>Over and over the couple said that they did everything that they could to hide from the press, at one point Meghan said she didn't leave the grounds but twice in four months. Still, the tabloids had decided that Meghan was the enemy and the palace refused to do anything to fight back. </p><p>They decided that <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/prince-harry-desperate-help-palace/" target="_blank">they had no other option</a> but to leave the UK and set out on their own. Given the British press is still fanning the racism and hate against Meghan, the couple spoke out in an hours-long interview with Oprah Winfrey that will continue Monday morning on CBS. </p><p>For now, some Brits who are still awake are raging, but the Americans are celebrating it as another win against the once-foreign overlord of the colonies. Others are learning for the first time that the British are just as racist as the U.S. </p><p>See the tweets below: </p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c861fcfb39879834c9adfce8f2712a8d" id="c6f81">
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