Internal Security (1): CSIS Boss Speaks to Biz Leaders about Threats to #CAN
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- “CSIS director warns business leaders of ‘state-sponsored espionage in Canada’ “
- “Remarks by (CSIS) Director David Vigneault at the Economic Club of Canada” (CSIS info-machine)
- “Cyber threats, spying bigger threat to Canada than terrorism: spy chief”
- “An INTREPID Podsight: CSIS Director David Vigneault” (A Podcast Called INTREPID)
Internal Security (2): PMJT’s India Trip
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- “RCMP should have alerted PM’s protective detail about Jaspal Atwal: review”
- “RCMP bungled response after getting tip about Jaspal Atwal’s possible presence in India: report”
- “Special report into the allegations associated with Prime Minister Trudeau’s official visit to India in February 2018” (National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians)
Internal Security (3): Other Stuff
#UKR – Op UNIFIER (1): #KerchStrait
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- “General Jonathan Vance: Situation in Sea of Azov not to affect operation UNIFIER”
- “Ukraine calls for further Canadian sanctions on Russia after boats seized”
- “Ukraine prosecutors show re-enactment of Russia’s Kerch Strait attack – media”
- “More than 10 Russian officers to be notified about suspicion in attack at Ukrainian ships”
- “Poroshenko: Ukraine stands against Goebbels-like Russian propaganda”
- “President: Ukraine stands against Russian propaganda whose methods are similar to those of Goebbels” (UKR Pres info-machine)
- “With ‘Azov Debacle’ as Pretext, Russia Further Militarizes Crimea and Obstructs Passage Through Northern Sea Route”
- “Anatomy of a Russian Media Escalation” (polygraph.info fact checking site)
- “170 vessels wait for passage in either direction in Kerch Strait”
- “Kyiv Says Russia ‘Partially’ Unblocks Ports On Sea Of Azov”
- “Over 600 Russians denied entry to Ukraine under martial law – Ukraine’s border guard head”
- “Ukraine, NATO discuss ban on Russia entering ports of ‘civilized countries’ “
- “Ukraine to lodge lawsuit with International Court of Justice over Russian aggression in Black Sea”
- “UN International Court to consider case of Kerch incident as episode of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”
- “President: Russia will pay a high price – Ukraine is preparing claims to international instances for the act of aggression against Ukrainian ships” (UKR Pres info-machine)
- “Small vessels are not allowed to enter Black Sea in Odesa region”
#UKR – Op UNIFIER (2): Other Stuff
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- “CBC News: Ukraine asks Canada to renew training mission as crisis with Russia heats up”
- “One Ukrainian serviceman killed, two wounded in action in Donbas on December 4”
- “Russian special services tried hacking networks of Ukraine’s judicial system”
- “Donbas update: Two Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donbas in past day”
- “One Ukrainian soldier killed, another one wounded in Donbas”
- “One Ukrainian military killed, two more injured amid hostilities in Donbas on Tuesday – JFO”
- “Special Operations Command urges Ukrainian servicemen to turn off geolocation while doing selfie”
- “Kiev again trying to drag Russia into Donbas prisoner exchange – Kobtseva”
- “Russian threat highest since 2014: Ukraine military chief”
- “Russia, ORDLO at TCG reject Kyiv’s offer to release hostages before Christmas holidays” (UKR media)
- “Ukrainian Police Search Russian Orthodox Churches, Homes Of Priests”
- “Moscow Patriarchate Priests in Four Cities of Ukraine Were Searched by the SBU” (pro-RUS site)
- “Media: Secret British 77 Brigade is involved in special operations in Ukraine” (rusnext.ru, in Russian)
- “Russian TV Crew’s ‘Suspicious Behavior’ Triggers Military Alert, Public Warning In Britain” (RFE/RL US-funded media)
- “Public warning after Russian TV crew sparks military alert” (BBC)
- “Russian reporter denies trying to enter military base” (BBC)
- “Russian embassy indignant over doxing of Russian reporters by British media” (RUS state media)
- “Ukraine sees shortage of beetroots, key ingredient of Ukrainian borscht”
#LVA/Europe – Op REASSURANCE/Cold War 2.0
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- “Nato accuses Russia of breaking nuclear missile treaty”
- “Official text: Statement on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty” (NATO info-machine)
- “U.S. Issues 60-Day Ultimatum for Russia to Comply With Nuclear Treaty”
- “The US just took the first step to leaving an arms control treaty. What happens next?”
- “NATO Foreign Ministers To Discuss Missile Treaty Impasse, Kerch Confrontation”
- “NATO Foreign Ministers meet in Brussels” (NATO info-machine)
- “Kremlin Regrets U.S.-Russia Dialogue Is Not Working Out”
- “Russia Won’t `Beg’ for Meeting With Trump, Kremlin Aide Says” (RUS independent media)
- “Russia, China Are Running Hybrid Wars With West, Czech Spies Say”
- “Two more Borey-A submarines to be built by 2028” (Russian strategic nuclear forces blog)
- ” ‘We can do better’: The Navy’s newest fleet commander says US ships and sailors got ‘beat up’ during NATO’s biggest exercise since the Cold War”
#CANinIRQ/Mid East – Op IMPACT
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- “Minister Sajjan and Secretary Mattis to co-host Meeting of Defence Ministers from the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Ottawa” (DND info-machine)
- “Pentagon chief to attend security meeting in Canada on defeating ISIS”
- “Shrinking territory of Isis forces its leaders into the open, and into the crosshairs”
- “US Army Soldier Swore Allegiance To ISIS, Kissed Their Flag, And Plotted A Mass Shooting, Prosecutors Say”
- “A Russian official has said there are 1000 Russian women who had been married to Islamic State extremists and are eager to return home. Tatyana Moskalkova, Russia’s human rights commissioner, said in a conference it had received more than 1000 requests from Russian nationals who left with their husbands to Syria and Iraq and are eager to return home …”
- “ANALYSIS-Shi’ite rivalry paralyses Iraq’s government”
- “Outgoing UN Iraq envoy pays farewell visit to Erbil, meets PM Barzani, security chief”
- “With the jihadis gone, booze is back in Iraq’s Mosul”
- “Victims look to punish Iran for attacks against US troops in Iraq”
#MLI – Op PRESENCE/Africa
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- “Mali: MINUSMA Deployment, September 2018” (UN Cartographic Section)
- “Mali: State services in an insecure environment: Perceptions among civil society in Mali” (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
- “Nord du Mali : La vérité amère sur le DDR à Kidal ?”
- “Mali: On the brink: why 2019 may be another bad year for beleaguered Mali” (The Conversation)
- “Mali: La MINUSMA soutient la formation des membres de la Commission Vérité Justice et Réconciliation” (UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali)
Way Up North
What’s Canada Buying?
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- Big Honkin’ Ships “Questions raised about propulsion system on new Canadian warship amid fears engines could conk out”
- “Gun shy: A protracted procurement to replace the general service pistol” (Canadian Army Today)
- “Air force to contract out some fighter-jet work to free up frontline technicians”
- “The Mark Norman files – the official list of those who knew about discussions on supply ship project, according to PCO investigation”
Other Military News
#CHN/Pacific Rim
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