During his interview with NBC News' Lester Holt, Donald Trump again pleaded innocent to colluding with Russia and said that "I want to find out if there was a problem with the election having to do with Russia....
The ransomware has been identifed as WannaCry
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Update 2: Security firm Kaspersky Lab has recorded more than 45,000 attacks in 74 countries in the past 10 hours. Seventy-four countries around the globe have been affected, with the number of victims still growing, according to Kaspersky Lab. According to Avast, over 57,000 attacks have been detected worldwide, the company said, adding that it "quickly escalated into a massive spreading."
With an endless barrage of both Democrats and Republicans spouting off on the situation between Trump and Russia, clogging up every possible media outlet while parroting familiar party lines, we decided to present a "third party", libertarian view.
Are You Ready to Die?
Paul Craig Roberts
In George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel, 1984, information that no longer is consistent with Big Brother’s explanations is chucked down the Memory Hole. In the real American dystopia in which we currently live, the information is never reported at all.
Pretty much no one emerged a 'winner' from today's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing other than perhaps Andrew McCabe. From the mainstream media to Trump to Congressional Democrats, pretty much all of the narratives surrounding the FBI's Russia investigation and Comey's sudden dismissal were succinctly obliterated by McCabe's testimony.