Mr. Yang Liu is a seasoned executive with 15 years of experience in an array of industries including technology, finance and investment banking. Mr. Liu served as the Chairman of the board and the Chief Executive Officer of Color Star Technology Co. Ltd, a Nasdaq company, from March 2019 to July 2020. Through a series of acquisitions and dispositions, he successfully transformed the company from a traditional Chinese manufacturer into a global technology company in education and entertainment. He also served as the CEO at Wave Sync Corporation, an OTC technology company from July 2017 to August 2018.
FL Studio 20 Crack Incl Full Reg Keygen Full Free Version
Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely Intact. President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party. Civil-liberties groups were among those outraged that the White House sanctioned the use of harsh intelligence techniques - which some consider torture - by the Central Intelligence Agency, and expanded domestic spy powers. These groups are demanding quick action to reverse these policies. Mr. Obama is being advised largely by a group of intelligence professionals, including some who have supported Republicans, and centrist former officials in the Clinton administration. They say he is likely to fill key intelligence posts with pragmatists. The intelligence-transition team is led by former National Counterterrorism Center chief John Brennan and former CIA intelligence-analysis director Jami Miscik, say officials close to the matter. Mr. Brennan is viewed as a potential candidate for a top intelligence post. Ms. Miscik left amid a slew of departures from the CIA under then-Director Porter Goss. Advisers caution that few decisions will be made until the team gets a better picture of how the Bush administration actually goes about gathering intelligence, including covert programs, and there could be a greater shift after a full review. The Obama team plans to review secret and public executive orders and recent Justice Department guidelines that eased restrictions on domestic intelligence collection. Most of those being discussed as candidates for director of national intelligence and director of the CIA have staked out a middle ground between safeguarding civil liberties and aggressively pursuing nontraditional adversaries. Mr. Brennan is a leading contender for one of the two jobs, say some advisers. He declined to comment on personnel matters. Gen. James L. Jones, a former North Atlantic Treaty Organization commander; Thomas Fingar, the chief of analysis for the intelligence director; Joan A. Dempsey, who served in top intelligence and Pentagon posts; former Rep. Tim Roemer of Indiana, who served on the 9/11 Commission; and Ms. Harman have also been mentioned. Ms. Harman has also been cited as a potential secretary of homeland security. Another option for Mr. Obama would be to retain current intelligence Director Mike McConnell, who has said he would stay on for a reasonable time until a successor is named. CIA Director Michael V. Hayden also is open to considering an extension of his time in office, according to a senior intelligence official. However, Mr. Obama voted against Mr. Hayden's nomination as CIA director to signal his frustration with the administration's warrantless-surveillance program, which Mr. Hayden helped launch as National Security Agency director. [Gorman/WallStreetJournal/11November2008] Former Kazakh Spy Chief Hurt in Suspected Kidnap Bid. Kazakhstan's former spy chief Alnur Mussayev, who is living in exile in Austria, was seriously hurt in a suspected abduction bid, according to the Austrian prosecutors office. Mussayev was attacked by three men in late September when he was walking near the city's university, in "what could have been an attempted abduction," according to prosecutor's office spokesman Gerhard Jarosch. Michaela Renner, from the prosecutor's office, said Musayev had been "seriously injured" in the attacked, which happened on September 22. His attackers escaped. Mussayev was the head of Kazakhstan's Committee for National Security (KNB) between 1997 and 2001. [Focus-Fen/4October2008] Jarrah's Spy Equipment Found in Lebanon. The Lebanese Army has raided the residence of two Lebanese brothers accused of spying for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad. During the search operation, the army found sophisticated communication and surveillance equipment. The two brothers, identified as Ali and Yousof Jarrah, allegedly had been involved in passing information about various Lebanese activities to Mossad. An earlier Lebanese Army statement said that the members of the spy ring had 'confessed to gathering information about politicians and their parties'. The detainees were also involved in 'espionage activities against Syria'. [PressTV/9November2008] Transition Vulnerability. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the United States is vulnerable to attack or other incidents during the presidential transition period and that the military is ready to respond. "When you go back and look at the number of incidents that have occurred three or four months before an inauguration to about 12 months out, back to the '50s, it's pretty staggering the number of major incidents which have occurred in this time frame," Adm. Michael Mullen said, noting that the danger is compounded by current world conditions. The Sept. 11 attacks, for example, occurred eight months after President Bush took office, at a time when many key appointments had not been made. Recent preparations for the transition in the Pentagon were aimed at preventing any attacks, and if an attack or incident does take place, the military is ready to respond, Adm. Mullen told Sara A. Carter, national security reporter for The Washington Times. The chairman said he is concerned about the transition because of the global threats and opportunities facing the United States at the present time, namely in Iraq and Afghanistan. The four-star admiral, who is the designated chief military adviser, stated that the military serves "one commander in chief always" while at the same time he will be going to "great lengths" to respond to the Obama transition team. The team is expected to show up "very rapidly in this building," and Adm. Mullen said he and his staff are ready to help. Adm. Mullen is halfway through his two-year term as chairman. [Gertz/WashingtonTimes/6November2008] German MPs OK Domestic Espionage Bill. Germany's lower house of parliament passes anti-terrorism legislation which will give the federal police the power to spy on computers. The measure which has taken months of debate will also allow tapping of conversations. At the moment, the only authority given such powers in the country is the foreign intelligence service. Germany's lower house of parliament passed the measure at 375-168 with six abstentions and it is widely expected that the legislation will also pass the upper house and take effect before the end of the year. The measures were proposed by the country's top security official, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, and will in effect increase the powers of the Federal Criminal Office, Germany's equivalent of the FBI. He also defended the measures as necessary tools in the fight against international terrorist networks saying the order 'meets the criteria of our constitutional law'. Opposition and rights groups have meanwhile criticized the new measure as infringing on the privacy rights guaranteed by the constitution and members of the opposition Free Democrats have said they will challenge the law in the nation's constitutional court. [PressTvIR/13November2008] Russian Spy in NATO Could Have Passed on Missile Defence and Cyber-war Secrets. A spy at the heart of NATO may have passed secrets on the US missile shield and cyber-defence to Russian Intelligence. Herman Simm, 61, an Estonian defence ministry official who was arrested in September, was responsible for handling all of his country's classified information at NATO, giving him access to every top-secret graded document from other alliance countries. He was recruited by the Russians in the late 1980s and has been charged in Estonia with supplying information to a foreign power. Several investigation teams from both the EU and NATO, under the supervision of a US officer, have flown to the Estonian capital Tallinn to assess the scope of what is being seen as the most serious case of espionage against NATO since the end of the Cold War. "The longer they work on the case, the more obvious it becomes how big the impact of the suspected treachery really is," according to Der Spiegel magazine. A German official described the Russian penetration of NATO as a "catastrophe". Comparisons are being drawn with the case of Aldrich Ames, the former head of the CIA counter-intelligence department who was in effect Russia's top agent in the US. "Simm became a proper agent for the Russian government in the mid-1990s," says the Estonian deputy Jaanus Rahumaegi who heads the country's parliamentary control commission for the security services. On the face of it, the Simm case resembles the old-fashioned Cold War spy story. He used a converted radio transmitter to set up meetings with his contact, apparently someone posing as a Spanish businessman. As in the 1950s and 1960s, it seems that the operation was a husband-and-wife team. His wife Heete - who previously worked as a lawyer at the national police headquarters - has also been detained on charges of being an accessory to treason. Mr. Simm was ensnared because of blunders that have dogged modern espionage ever since the KGB first pitted itself against the West. First, he bought up several pieces of valuable land and houses including a farmhouse on the Baltic Sea and a grand white-painted villa outside Tallinn. Second, his contact officer got careless and tried to recruit a second agent - who reported the incident to the security authorities. That is when the Estonian mole-hunters began to reconstruct the movements of the supposed Spaniard and followed the thread back to the agent inside NATO. But Mr. Simm was not some relic from the days of Kim Philby or other notorious deep-cover agents. He was at the cutting edge of one of NATO's most important new strategic missions: to defend the alliance against cyber-attack. Mr. Simm headed government delegations in bilateral talks on protecting secret data flow. And he was an important player in devising EU and NATO information protection systems. Estonia - described by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as "NATO's most IT-savvy nation" - conducts much of its government and commercial business online. People vote and pay their taxes online, government meetings involve almost no paperwork. As a result, when it angered Russia in 2007, by removing a Soviet war memorial, it became the target of hostile attacks on the internet. Estonia has been lobbying hard to put cyber-defence on the NATO agenda, and has set up a Cyber Defence centre in Tallinn which is supposed to help the Alliance as a whole. Now that project could be compromised. The other important question in the Simm case is whether he was operating alone. A senior Estonian police officer claimed asylum in Britain in the 1990s reportedly telling the authorities that he was trying to escape pressure from the Russian secret service to sell secrets. The Russians, it seems, were keen to buy as many place-men as they could: the prospect of NATO forces hard up against the northern Russian border was too alarming for the Kremlin. Moreover, Mr. Simm was for many years in charge of issuing security clearance: he could have nodded through other Russian agents. Mr. Simm is likely to be formally arraigned at the beginning of next year after the damage control teams from NATO have completed their work. If found guilty he could face between three and fifteen years in prison. Neither the Simms, nor their defence lawyer, have commented on the charges. NATO too has refused to say anything. But there is no doubting that the case is a serious embarrassment. And though Russia may have lost an agent - "a gold card operative" according to one Estonian newspaper - it has achieved a tactical victory by sewing suspicion between western NATO members and the new east and central European entrants. [Boyes/TimesOnline/16November2008] Al Qaeda in Iraq on 'Verge of Defeat,' CIA Chief Says. Al Qaeda no longer sees Iraq as the central front in its war on the West, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Thursday. "Al Qaeda in Iraq is on the verge of strategic defeat," Hayden said in a major speech on the continued threat posed by Osama Bin Laden's thugs. "Today, the flow of money, weapons, and foreign fighters into Iraq is greatly diminished, and Al Qaeda senior leaders no longer point to it as the central battlefield," the spy chief told the Atlantic Council. The politically astute official's remarks - and his argument the Afghan-Pakistan border is now ground zero in the global jihad - is in sync with President-elect Barack Obama. The Bush appointee's remarks sharply departed from the current President's talking points, and came as Obama is deciding if he wants Hayden to stay or go. On Sept. 9, Bush said, "Al Qaeda leaders have repeatedly declared that Iraq is the central front of their war with America." Hayden - who is known to want to keep his job - also repeated his view that Bin Laden is too bent on staying alive to oversee his henchmen's plots against the West. "He appears to be largely isolated from the day-to-day operations of the organization he leads," the CIA chief explained. Of immediate worry is that Pakistan's lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan is a safe haven. "Virtually every major terrorist threat my agency is aware of has threads back to the tribal areas," Hayden said. Intelligence officials say any future U.S. attacks will have been planned there. The CIA is engaging in a massive offensive in those areas. Unmanned drones have fired missiles 20 times since August. A rising fear is that Iraq insurgents will "bleed out" to commit terror elsewhere. "Iraq [insurgent] veterans have been involved in planning attacks in Europe and the U.S.," he said. [Meek/DailyNews/14November2008] 2ff7e9595c
Comments