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Step Aside North Korea: According To New "Theory" Sony Hackers Are In Fact Russians
Remember when evil North Korean hackers were blamed by everyone in the administration for penetrating the firewall of one of the wealthiest, most sophisticated, most secretive multi-national corporations in what now everyone realizes was an epic publicity, not to mention, punking stunt? Well, now that Kim Jong-Un has served his purpose, and the Interview has generated far more revenue than it would have otherwise (but not before North Korea got to troll the US, showing it too has lost all respect for the leader of the free world after it called Obama "A monkey in a tropical jungle") it is time to milk The Interview for some more propaganda talking points.
And sure enough, here comes the Seattle-based cyber security firm Taia Global, which according to the NY Daily News as cited by the Mail has analyzed the "data" and concluded that not so Lil' Kim was right (the FBI was wrong) and it wasn't North Korea after all. So who was it? Why the evil Russians of course.
A new theory has surfaced that downplays North Korea's involvement in the Sony hacking scandal and suggests the people responsible are actually Russian, based on a linguistics study of the leaked emails.
Security experts believe the origins of the now-infamous Guardians of the Peace are Russian after analyzing about 1,600 words attached to the Sony emails the hacking group leaked to a variety of media outlets.
The words were investigated by Seattle-based cyber security firm Taia Global.
'Our preliminary results show that Sony's attackers were most likely Russian, possibly but not likely Korean and definitely not Mandarin Chinese or German,' the company wrote in a Christmas Eve blog post, according to The New York Daily News.
Wait a minute: it was just ten days ago that the infallible FBI announced it "now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for" the Sony hack, and will "impose costs and consequences on individuals, groups, or nation states who use cyber means to threaten the United States or U.S. interests." The statement promptly served as a basis for Obama to do his now traditional press conference demanding that North Korea suffer "costs" - that now most entertaining aspect of US foreign policy (such as the "cost" contained in Europe's triple dip recession as a result of Russian sanctions, or the "cost" to America's imploding shale industry as a result of the "secret agreement" between Kerry and Saudi Arabia to put Russia out of business).
Of course, since the propaganda was incomplete and the now traditional false-flag, fabricated YouTube clip "proving" North Korean involvement was missing, some were dubious. But that didn't matter: the US population, eager to swallow any BS story hook, like and sinker, did just as it was expected, and went out to prove its patriotism by showing those evil North Koreans just who is boss by watching a C-grade comedy flop.
Well, now it is time to move the propaganda goal posts once more. Enter evil Russia.
The firm deducted that while the analysis did not clear North Korea of any involvement in the hack, it was unlikely.
That is based on the phrasing and language used by the hackers, who communicated in English.
The Taia Global study determined 15 out of 20 phrasings in the emails matched the Russian language.
Nine matched Korean, and none were Mandarin or German.
The Mail adds that since their so-called hacking of Sony, "the hackers appear to have turned their attention to the FBI and on December 21 they posted a message which cynically 'praised' the FBI's investigation into the hack, with a link to a video that repeated the phrase 'You are an idiot' repeatedly.
Judging by the latest spin, they were right. But more importantly, they were, drumroll, Russian.
At this point we stopped reading because the lies upon lies were just too much. We do wonder, however, which upcoming movie flop it will be Americans' sworn patriotic duty to watch: Rocky 56, Red Dawn 2, or the sequel to The Hunt for Red October, which the Russians will vocally object to and demand to be banned, only for the producing studio to release the film straight to internet and collect $5.99 for the rental.
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I must bleak you.
kill two birds with one stone (r movie)
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... after it called Obama "A monkey in a tropical jungle"
Dear Kim Jong-un:
D.C. is NOT a tropical jungle
Well, it's not tropical anyway.
Time to build a porch off the West Wing for the "Monkey" to sit on.
Next time hackers will speak Dothraki.
Then what?
The Dothraki are tools of North Korea, Russia, and Iran. It is known.
The occupants certainly are tropical. And they like going to tropical island vacations.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Rahm Emmanuel
Problem is, what do we do when we don't really know HOW to exploit the crisis? Today the default position is to blame the Russians, even if the FBI initially concluded it was the North Koreans. Talk about fucked up idiots running our gov't.
I love the picture of Drago & Rocky. Just imagine Putin saying to little feminine Obama, "I must break you."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygQvB6OjHOU
Putin is 5'3, 115 lbs and has had cosmetic surgery....if you're gonna hitch your star to a tough guy, why not somebody like Inspector Callahan or Marshall Jim Duncan?
And........you're trying to imply that.....one on one.....that Obama could take Putin?
Would that contest include reach arounds or just fisticuffs?
.
...think you meant fist-i-butts, right?...
As of 2011, Putin weighted 77 kg (170 pounds).[409] His height is 170 cm (5'7") according to The Guardian,[410] or 169 cm (5'7") according to the Moscow Times.[411] Therefore, his body mass index is 26.6 to 27.0.
It's really telling when the Putin haters are so desperate to find something to criticize that they have to fabricate stats about his size and weight.
That tells me that they are completely out of ammo; unable to make any meaningful, factual based comment to support their pro Obama positions.
170 and 5'7 still isn't Drago... Hell, I know women that big... LOL
I'm not hitching my star to anyone, Bill. But, if I had to choose a leader, I'd prefer Putin to Obama any day - and that's not saying much. Remember, Napoleon, Hitler and even Stalin were puny guys, but they new how to wield power effectively. Not a defense - just saying size aint everything.
(And I think Putin is a multi-level black belt, too.)
Maybe he meant HI?
Too many 'scientists' and 'engineers' contend for the biggest-sell-out-rat-bastard-motherfucker-on-the-planet award with glee, doing everything from fabrication and falsification to outright evil and malice.
"Just doin mah job."
Lead scientist Dr. Shlomo Argamon says the evidence is indisputable unless you are an antisemite...
http://taia.global/ < (I wouldn't click this link if I were you...)
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Are they not also based in McLean, Virginia? Hmmm...
Oh yes! As a matter of fact, at 1650 Tysons Blvd, Suite 1580! Why would you ask?
What?
Oh heavens! Let's not start with that silly conspiracy theorizing again.
Have you seen my low voltage tin foil hat? I thought I'd left it somewhere over here.
What!
On my head all the time!
Hah ha ha ha
Oh, silly me!
oi vey!
NO INTERNET FOR YOU MEIN FREUND !!!
I don't really give a fuck about the propaganda anymore. I would, however, pay good money to watch Dolph Lundgren give Sly a beatdown in real life.
I'd pay for courtside.
Or rabbits, as Vlad would say.
Wait just a second ZH conspiracy fans; Taia global sounds like a yid/hasbara/mossad/rothschild operation.
I thought they were running cover for the NWO?
There is a statistically significant segment of the USA population who would believe it was Osama Bin Ladin's fault
nailed it Zio-Dave!
nailed it Zio-Dave!
http://ktla.com/2014/12/29/manhunt-underway-after-2-lapd-officers-ambush...
2 LAPD shot at in assassination attempt.
They hate us for our freederp.
Saddam Hussein hacked Sony!!!1!
"Security experts believe the origins of the now-infamous Guardians of the Peace are Russian after analyzing..."
Hey, Brits — is that how you spell 'analyzing?' Thought you spelled it 'analysing,' in which case this Daily Fail article was probably authored in Langley, Virginia. Double-derp...
Had this discussion with my father when he said something about 'I can't believe the NKs would actually have the balls to pull something like this, especially over a movie' I replied that I couldn't believe everyone was buying that line of bullshit anyway, and I didn't buy it myself. I then asked how he can go from complaining about how nearly everything the Obama admin tells us is a lie, but then still believe this. I will have to call him and ask him about it now. But, no doubt, the same people who were absolutely convinced it was the norks will still believe it when they are told it was the Russians this time. I swear, the teevee could tell them some Martians did it, and they would believe it
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Eurasia* - hold on, we're getting reports that it was with Easta - hold on again - it's Eu, no it's Eastasia. Yes! That's final - it's Eurasia.
Hold on, we're getting reports....
We've always been at war with Indo-Euratlantarctica.
We've always been at war with Mars!
We have met the enemy and it is us.
Martians hate us for our water !!!
Well it seems we are losing.
Greenskeeper_Carl really did make an excellent point. Most people will simply buy whatever "the authorities" tell them. Contradictions don't matter, and neither does proof. People have been conditioned not to think but to simply absorb whatever they're told by the glowing box in their living room.
It's scary that Orwell had all this pegged more than half a century ago.
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You are a damn good guesser...
It should be alarming to anyone who has read the books, how many elements of Orwell's and Huxley's worlds are now present in ours. The fundamental transformative step from living a 'normal' world to living in a bigBrudda world is the abandonment of mutual exclusion. Initially it's because the authorities told you so, and you are stil able to separate the mutually exclusive elements to expose the contradiction. With enough passing time and rewiring of neural nets, it becomes more and more difficult.
I think each of us is born with a reasonably accurate bullshit detector, but a lot of people's eventually stop working or are purposefully broken or discarded.
Once a critical mass is reached, "the authorities" can get away with pretty much anything.
I feel like it is the exact opposite for some people. You might go your whole life respecting their authority until one day you don't. Perhaps you were raised that way through and through. One day, the BS meter just starts up. Sometimes it is slow and sometimes fast.
If people can be brainwashed they manipulated the other way too.
It was Oceania.
The CIA should be looking l lot closer at "The Duchy of Grand Fenwick". That country has had the bomb since Peter Sellars stole it from the USSA in the '50s. The only thing holding this planet together is a 'bobbi pin'
LMFAO
Damn, I thought was Oceania today. I have not been able to think straight since my chocolate ration was increased by -50%.
I thought we were at war with obesity.... or drugs...... or the American people...... or some stpid shit like that.
We're at war with reality and losing badly.
Bada boom!
Ye shall know the truth and it shall set you bat shit fucking crazy.
That right there is called bumpersticker material. You could easily be a hundred or a thousandaire with that.
Edit: Err, do you mind if I borrow that?
Blame Canada: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBpgcZ1zYJs
That is the same damn conversation I had with my Faux News watching mother-in-law. It's amazing how the "press" can get people to believe whatever they want.
Yes, the Daily Fail is run by the Media Propagation Division of CIA (Cheerful Informative Analyziz), located in Langley, Virginia.
But hey, unlike Russia Today, it is not financed by the Russian Government, so you know it can be trusted! Not a speck of cereal. Nothing but the best for my dog.
Godzilla.
The banksters need to repay us.
Godzilla. Zilla-God. Zion-God. Zionism.
Just make shit up.
Did they teach us that in school? I don't know, maybe I skipped that day.
There was an article on here a few days ago about how 2014 was the year when absence of evidence presented as evidence became acceptable to the mainstream media. Here's yet another example.
Ignorance of the law is indeed an excuse, especially if you are the law.
Approved by SCOTUS and Judge Dredd.
Ignorance of Article 3, Section 3, is not an excuse.
Neither is "following orders."
The banksters need to repay us.
"Just make shit up. Did they teach us that in school? I don't know, maybe I skipped that day."
You haven't been paying attention to the DC US' gestapo, the FBI. Better known as the "Federal Bureau of Invention."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-...
They even create fake cyber attacks. Imagine that.
http://rt.com/usa/154652-leaked-sabu-hammond-docs/
The banksters need to repay us.
Monkey see, monkey do... monkey swing from tree in jungle. Monkey disrupt wedding.
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey named who flung poo.
Yep, definitely Russia.
Leave it to the storytellers to fuck up and toss their masters (FBI) under the bus while trying to paint Russia in a bad light.
Maybe these Russians were IN North Korea and did it? Yeah, that's the ticket! And, and, they just got there cause they blew up that plane in the Ukraine.
pods
At least the North Koreans DID call Obozo a monkey (with or without a banana...). That much is indisputable !
That picture pretty much sums up the usa leadership: stupid, can barely speak and loves to take a pounding.
... and writes the script and directs the movie.
NEWSFLASH
Scotland Yard has announced that Vladimir Putin is Jack the Ripper.
See the News at Ten.
Bah.Bah.
I just snorted snot in my nose.
Wanna know the truth? Subscribe to Russia Today, fucker! Unlike a private Daily Mail, Russia Today is financed by the Russian Government! No bullshit there! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
That's true, everything written in Wikipedia is the God Honest Truth.
Honest!
What's worse in your opinion ? A news company that is paid by government to play its propaganda (like RT), or a "private" one (Daily Mail, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, or whatever...) AND/OR an "independent" one (like BBC) which does the same shit on their own buck ? State propagandists are understandable, private ones are just pitiful...
Where's the NSA?
NSA NSA NSA
KGB anyone?
KY jelly, anyone?
Let's see, who has the budget to do anything they want, the wherewithall to do anything possible on the weband finally the MOTIVE ( sure it is twisted but still they already confess to criminal activity against American citizens)????
NSA NSA NSA
Well, the fact that it was leaked that a certain female co-star was being paid less than her male co-stars makes one wonder.
It's that damn War on Women again. See! See!
That's right! Now all the feministas will be wanting government subsidized penises.
TPTB cannot make up their minds and are arguing over the next global conflict paradigm.
the war against radical islam or cold war part deux
makes you wonder why the focus on those, rather than the elephant in the room.
It's pretty much irrelevant at this point since they are too bankrupt for either...
I'm so confused. Somebody please tell me what to believe.
Dr. Engali, I believe you should have a drink. I believe that you should believe that you should have a drink.
Either way, that's what I'm going to do!
Everyone has to believe in something, I believe I'll have another beer. W.C. Fields.
Cask strength whiskey and fine herbs for me this fine night. Seasons greeting from Hollywood, USA! telling us all what to believe, since the time they have been telling us what to believe.
Herbs?
It was Martians Doc.
Same fuckers shrunk my dinner jacket at least two sizes.
Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
it's a jungle, out there?
If in doubt, double defence spending? A Great CyberWall?
Well, at least this time Russian could have done it ... if physically located near the studios (to leech the required amount of data in a reasonable time).
Good luck attempting to shake the biggest "Sequoia" in the forest while Uncle Sam has his hands wrapped around his tiny dick expecting it to fall just by yelling "TIMBER"!!!
Jesus H. Christ but we're the most pathetic lot!
shocking, let's shift the blame to a more pertinent Zio-enemy...
"Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them."
I heard a guy call that a couple of days ago.
Two hackers, one mup.
Yes, headquarted in and financed from Moscow, RT is the standard of free speach reporting! Don't waste your time looking out of your window to find out what's going on. Turn on RT! You'll still have no idea on what's really happening to real people in real Russia but you'll get a nice image of decaying America!
so? every media system has to deliver many truths to better hide it's lies
it needs a modicum of credibility. even... FOX
Hey pal.... I have in-laws in St. Petersburg and my Russian wife of 15 plus years talks to them every morning. Despite all the hysterical bought-and-paid-for-western MSM's braying about the sky falling for average Russians and Russia being on its heels, my in-laws haven't noticed much of a change in prices or availability for basic goods and services since the mess started in Ukraine earlier this year. They do however express concern about the USA's rampant violent crime and worry about us experiencing a home invasion, car jacking, or the knock-out game. Since one of my neighbors experienced a home invasion a few months ago, I confess that I worry about it as well. Does that fix it for you?
That took longer than I thought it would, but hey, "Better blame late, than blame never."
Next phase involves the Zionists snapping up Sony's DC US assets cheap, and out from under the flush Chinese.
Pascal and Rudin will later show up in better positions somewhere, maybe even at the same studio under the new owners, as a reward for falling on the grenade.
The banksters need to repay us.
That Dolf Rundgren is just dreamy...
.
Ah, ah, the hermit of Mink Horrow.
That's Todd Rundgren, Dolf's cousin once removed
+1 - You beat me to it!
Wonder how he picked up chicks dressed like this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsezr0qiFIc
Ok Losers. Repeat after me. Inside Job. Inside JOb..Now you get it....
They just managed to hack into North Korea's main government computer , a Commodore VIC-20 clone , but they discovered it's tape recorder was jammed and totally incapable of loading up any 8 bit hacking software. In it's memory there were a few references to some hacked kids Password Journal's from Toys R Us , but nothing serious.
Because Billy, we have to bomb someone for this outrage, we just have to.
Meanwhile, this dupe wants compensation for his failed attempt to profit off the dupes who thought they were being patriotic by watching a B-grade comedy produced by known prejudiced, hypocritical, racist, narcissists at Sony.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/man-wants-refund-after-buying-dollar650-in-tickets-to-%e2%80%98the-interview%e2%80%99/ar-BBhiBEK
It can only get weirder now if Sony offers this guy 50 free tickets to their planned sequel, “The Settlement”. It’s a film attempt to appease everyone who was offended, starring the real Kim Jong-Un and every other hypocritical narcissistic A-list celebrity Sony insulted in their internal emails. In it, the cast, each playing themselves in real life, seek revenge by engaging in a three-hour raging military battle against an oppressive movie studio which has been secretly coopted by the CIA. But, the best part of the film is during the closing credits when the entire hero-wanabe army (including the ones who die in the film) does a Gangnam Style dance led by Kim Jong Un, Angelina Jolie, and Dennis Rodman.
Meanwhile, the Donbass militia fighting Ukraine's nazis wish you all a merry Christmas. Here is their Christmas tree.
https://pp.vk.me/c540103/v540103149/1b2c2/0P2eSfEyCgc.jpg
It's nice to see that just because you have to kill people, who are trying to kill you because you don't want to be in their club anymore, doesn't mean you have to lose your sense of humor.
I'll bet petrodollars to donuts that the real hackers are sitting in the NSA
right now. All this shit is manufactured by the CIA whenever they want to change the channel back to Gilligan's Island on the American people. Think mass psychology and mass production of scripted advertising
en masse and you will discern the players, and the corporatists, behind the motives and modus operandi. If the NSA controlls the scripts to the movies, and news releases, at any given moment in time, they must by definition be in control of the minds that are receiving the message in so far as people absorb the message if it is repeated often enough. With regard to hacking, this is just old school cold war copy of spy-vs-spy, double agent, propaganda, on the part of the superstructure of the Gubberment.
same old whine in a new bottle with a different label.
Occam's Razor.
It was Paramount Pictures who did the hack.
Maybe Fox. Rupert doesn't mind a bit of sleaze to kill the competition.
this "analysis" likely at the monkey's behest as he sorely has vlad in the sights.
You see, if you are directly financed from the state budget (as are RT, ITAR-TASS, etc) you can care less about your revenue because you don't need it to survive. Propaganda financing is being constantly expanded in Russia despite collapsing currency, oil and economy. After 15 years of black magic (brought to you by the FED and rising Asia) now collapsing ruble and Russian economy can "suddenly" and "unexpectedly" expose Putin and his crony friends as those liable for those unhealthy developments. Now, I've been reading ZH for over 4 years now and I understand your disappointment in Western leadership etc. But I suggets you take all the injustice, cronism, destruction of currency etc done in the USA, multiply it by 10 and only then you might start figuring out what is really going on in Russia. I was born and have lived all my life in Moscow and it's been definitely OK. But I visited the rest of Russia and, trust me, you would never want to trade your "Aiowa" for "Siberia" or those other "anti-american green pastures" without electricity, primitive healthcare or even roads. You may want to find some Russian-speaking ppl to translate the following:
http://uglich-jj.livejournal.com/62312.html
http://uglich-jj.livejournal.com/62883.html
http://uglich-jj.livejournal.com/67006.html
http://uglich-jj.livejournal.com/74417.html
These pictures were taken by different people in different Russian (Cities!!!) by different people in the past 3 years. Some pictures were taken in Zimbabwe: they compare Zimbabwe hospitals to those in modern Russia. And that's no fucking joke!
..........from the state budget (as are RT, ITAR-TASS, etc) .............
You forgot to list
Radio Free Europe
BBC
Deutsche Welle
....
Radio Vatican (for that matter)
....
....
Any reason, why you ommited them?
In foggy affairs like this, sometimes it simpler to examine who comes out ahead financially. That'll lead us only one direction: Sony did it to boost a terrible movie.
It was Canadian's who hacked Sony. They speak Russian occasionaly.
They have computers in Canuckistan?
Maybe you can-a figure that I'm really Canadian, eh?
Tak ...
Our government is a Fucking Joke. NOGAS (Nobody gives a Shit) what they say...
THis is one of the dumbest posts ever. Some guy claims that the hackers' notes sounded like Russian English rather than Korean English. Really?
Hey-a boys-a. Maybe you can-a figure that I'm a-really Mario Draghi?
No no no. It was caused by bad humors and gremlins inside the internets. We've all seen the bugs bunny cartoon...
I think I took a wrong turn at Albuquerque ...
The jews learned how to polish one of their holly-wood turds.. Using taxpayer money (FBI hype) the got the media frenzy they needed to sell this dog turd of a movie.
Now, the beat goes on...
Now that the FBI looks like dolts, time to change the story to fit the war narriative..
BLAME THE RUSKIS.
This GOV and country are so doomed.
Ebola hacked Sony!
It was professor Plum, in the study, with the computer.
They will come in peace.
They should prehaps probe a little bit closer to the dialect of the letters maybe to find that theser are not ordinary Russians but perhaps Russian Jews. To spin the Hollywood dog wagging the tail.
Lavrof is not amused.
Waiting for Iran or Syria to be blamed and we have the script of idiocy complete. The worst thing out of all this is knowing there are so many people who actually believe this shit.
Whoever Smelt it Dealt it comes to mind. Those who accuse others are the most likely culprits.
I blame Snowden for sharing and teaching the Ruskies all our hacking secrets? Hell, he probably has all the passwords/usernames to everyone's accounts anyway.
Yo, Adrian. As a kid I did not realize how ridiculously fake all of Rocky's boxing scenes were until I started watching a little MMA decades later. You see how many dozens of punches he takes to the noggin, how many body shots. MMA has really ruined classic action movies for me as well. You just can't but laugh at a Steven Seagal movie.
In case any of you guys and gals in uniform were wondering "why" the propoganda is getting so thick by your government it requires hip boots -look no further.
Don't make Henry Kissinger's statement(s) about your intelligence come true. Be creative and start thinking out of the fucking box for a change. After 13 years of what you've already racked up in the Middle East you certainly better grow some gray matter fast!
http://investmentwatchblog.com/realist-news-russia-launches-new-swift-pa...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-29/gold-held-ny-fed-vault-drops-lo...
Hey,
You got your job.
They got theirs.
No need to be insulting. You don't like their job? Stop paying them to do it.
No need to be insulting. You don't like their job? Stop paying them to do it.
head shovel
The rest of the world knows a loser when it sees one! Too bad Americans have been living in a pipe dream these last 15 years and are just now starting to realize how hated they've become when they turn everyplace else they visit into a lavatory!
I think after the string of "Mission Accomplished(s)" in the "war on terror" starting with our military and it's torture wards and drone strikes, it's time to put away the yellow ribbons and the U.S.A.... U.S.A... chants once and for all and start focusing on how we make ourselves better without doing it at everyone elses expense!
Some fun questions to ring in the New Year!
Russia’s Vladimir Putin refers to himself as “Russia’s humble public servant.” This humble public servant’s net worth is:
a) Negligible – after all, he’s merely a humble public servant;
b) On a par with that of Russia’s oligarchs, who often are required to get clearance for important transactions from Mr. Putin himself;
c) Greater than that of most oligarchs, since approval by Mr. Putin for large transactions is a given, and naturally, “palms will need to be greased”; or
d) Quite modest, Mr. Putin preferring to be paid in bottles of Baltika No. 3.
For those that answered (b) or (c), a follow-up question:
Mr. Putin’s extraordinary wealth is the result of:
a) Blatant corruption and quid pro quo deal-making;
b) Skimming from the Russian treasury;
c) A night job working on the KaMAZ truck assembly line; or
d) Generous donations via Western Union from loyal Zero Hedgers.
Follow up question:
Vampire Squid's extraordinary wealth is the result of:
a) Blatant corruption and quid pro quo deal-making;
b) Skimming from the US treasury;
c) A night job working on the Ponzi Derivative assembly line; or
d) Generous donations via Western Union from loyal financial regulators.
Russia is certainly far from perfect, but is pretty much the last thing standing to seriously challenge the Wall Sr hegemony NWO.
You can't answer my simple questions, can you, Bob?
Nor can you answer mine, Bloyd Llankfein.
The Russian ruble tumbled on Monday, building on 2014's record decline, after new figures showed the country's economy shrunk in November for the first time in over five years.
The U.S dollar rose as high as 58.91 against the ruble on Monday—a more than a 9.5 percent change—after the Russian economy ministry said that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.5 percent last month. This was the first drop since September 2009, according to Reuters, and comes after the Russian government forecast that GDP could decline by as much as 4 percent next year.
Russia's manufacturing sector also shrank for the first time in six months in December, according to the HSBC purchasing managers' index out Monday.
The renewed ruble turmoil came after a few days of stabilization that saw Moscow attempt to reassure markets the worst was over. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that liquidity fears had receded and the currency had found its equilibrium, the U.K.'s Financial Times newspaper reported on Christmas Day.The ruble has declined around 70 percent since the start of the year, taking a hit on the military incursions in Ukraine and the subsequent imposition of international economic sanctions on Russia.
Investor concerns have also focused on the country's slowing domestic economy and the potential hit from the dramatic slump in international oil prices.
Boris Schlossberg, managing director of currency strategy at BK Asset Management, told CNBC that Russia's fortunes were heavily tied to the price of oil next year.
"If you have oil staying at $50 for a year it's really going to create a tremendous amount of pressure over there," he said.
Nick Hungerford, the director and CEO of investment firm Nutmeg, said he was avoiding assets with exposure to Russia, both in his personal and professional investment portfolio, because of the "confused" political situation.
"We're not touching them; I don't think many people are," he told CNBC Monday. "Simply, you don't know what's going to happen."
You guys are quite powerful, but the Vampire Squid is having a hard time winning hearts and minds these days.
Here's a bit of free wisdom, you little moron: NOBODY cares about what's posted at the tail of the chain ! You're welcome...
Since some Russians may have called our IBF idiots, I'm sure all options are on the table.
New theory is that the ZH Putin ManCrush team is suspected of hacking Sony..... Details at 11.
I blame it rather on the exceptional nation, led by no birth certificate Barry Soetoro Hussein Obanana.
So, if hacker talk too much of "moose and squirrel" or even if has read too much our zerohedge friend Boris Alotovkrap, can conclude is Russians responsible? God my. Is all Alotovkrap.
(No worries Boris-- I not say you North Korean-- you real deal Russian accent).
Ah the neocon trolls. zzzz....
Here's the thing, Jeff Carr is a fucking idiot.
http://thediplomat.com/2010/10/was-china-behind-stuxnet/
As for Taia global - another neocon, Zionist creation. Shlomo and Carr show up in all the right places...
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0412/iranian_drones.php3
Sony insiders are quite possible, also possible are American neocons who would like to get more federal control over the internet. Legislation that's been previously offered has focused on cybersecurity but generally had a "hate speech" element, as well as removal of the shallow anonymity we can all enjoy. The usual suspects, of course, always line up in favor of more government control.
In any event - however their "linguists" got to their conclusions - they ain't telling.
http://taia.global/2014/12/taia-global-linguists-establish-nationality-o...
I'm not the sort of expert Carr is - so well beloved in neocon circles - but their explanation of their conclusion reads like absolute horseshit to me. Horseshit, per se, but also fairly telegraphs the idea that the people who did the hacking were cognizant of fuzzy tools like NLI [ https://sites.google.com/site/nlisharedtask2013/home ] to identify the best/native language, and.... would therefore bake that into the cake.
Old Shlomo got quite a bit of space in Nicole Perlroth's NYT article - and does nothing to make the 'It was Russians!' theory seem any more credible: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/new-study-adds-to-skepticism-am...
Weird they didn't test for English or Hebrew, eh?