u. s. s. state department, along with some western diplomatic missions, has called on the jury as government to reverse its decision to ban twitter. it also condemned threats to arrest users. logos allowed are outlawed, excuse me, the social network saying that it is persistently used to undermine the countries existence. it comes after the platform deleted the post by the countries president, which warned national separatists of consequences unless they relent. but while twitter claims that a free and open internet is an essential human right, it appears to operate according to a different set of principles elsewhere. as our chief done of explains the free speech wing of the free speech boxing. this is how twitter executives love to define that platform. the self righteousness of this is only matched by how far the twitter executives are detached from reality lately, the band, the jury and president over this to eat. many of those misbehaving too, too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the nigerian civil war. those of us in the fields for 13 months,

u. s. system and think of reforms that could make this process much easier for me because i do need protection that need to come tonight, states the u. s. s. s. department says it's recovered more than half of a ransom that was paid to hackers who attacked the country's largest fuel pipeline . last month, the ransomware task force seized more than $2000000.00 in bitcoin from an account used by a russia base hacker group, not cyber attack on colonial pipeline disrupted supplies along the east coast. today we turned the tables on dark side by going after the entire ecosystem that fuels ransomware and digital extortion attacks, including criminal proceeds in the form of digital currency. we will continue to use all of our tools and all of our resources to increase the cough and the consequences of ransomware attacks and other cyber enabled attacks. matthew goods is the founder and ceo at block tower capital. he says the case highlights how government agencies are putting more resources into understanding crypt currencies. it's an interesting story coming to the spotlight and i think highlights a few important points that might be kind of counterintuitive f

u. s. government. now at the moment, we do not yet have clarification from the u. s. government about whether in fact they did take this action. the state department has indicated that the department of justice will give information later today regarding this situation. but if one goes to the website, one will find a statement from the department of justice and the f. b, i with their official seals saying that the website was seized due to laws allowing for the trafficking and nuclear, chemical, biological, or radiological weapons, technology or material, or the manufacturer and importation of sale or distribution of a controlled substance to be criminal forfeiture property. furthermore, it invokes an unusual and extraordinary threat and a declaration of a national emergency indicating that may have been the president himself that ordered the seizing of the website. again, still no clarification from the united states about that now. it, what's interesting to note is that while iran is a country that speaks the language of farsi, this statement is on the website in english and arabic, but not far as the the iranian language, which is quite interes

u. s. major computer has, over the past year, the big one being solar winds would compromise all big tech manufacturing auto companies as well as 5 ranches of the u. s. military, the state department, the postal service, nasa the n h glowing homeland security. so that's quite a list and the only thing that you can do to ensure is do a better job of safeguarding their own system. like for example, the colonial hack was made possible by a single compromise password. and now the white house had repeatedly said, months ago that it would take aggressive actions both seen and unseen against russia. in the wake of the solar wind pac, some russian diplomats were expelled, some russian companies and individuals were sanction. and that's about it. and as of wednesday, the white house may soon and economic sanctions against individuals according to bloomberg. but then here's the thing. when you haven't taken any action at all, even after something as massive as solar winds, telling people who have been picking your pocket that there are further actions you'd be prepared to take if they don't change their ways. that doesn't seem all that threatening, especially if you can flush, don't have th

u. s. israel very close allies. what we heard if anything, out of the u. s. so far about this incoming change of leadership. well, on an official basis, absolutely nothing. the line from the white house from state department is that it will not comment on domestic processes in other countries. that being said, there's no doubt that there's a sigh of relief in the white house in particular with the changing government in israel now. and the way, the reason for this is because the by an administration has made very clear that it needs another type of government and israel to serve us national interests. now, it must be important to point out how different this administration is from the previous one. the trump administration was rooted in a policy with regard to israel, of self interest and, and narrow political base. the n jelly calls in the us to form a massive part of tramps support and who are very pro israel, but the bite and administration basis of policy is something else that's a much wider element. and that is, it's a primary policy. intention in the region is to resolve the issue with iran, now that netanyahu government was a massive obstruction to this netanyahu, an absolute opponent of any form