by JiminNH
It has become a common occurrence for the western ruling elites, and their propaganda ministries of the mainstream media euphemistically called the “free press”, to immediately blame Russia for a litany of perceived misconduct, whether there are grounds for such allegations or not. Often such baseless allegations are conflated with other events in the western narrative to give the allegations an aura of credibility and convince the western public of the nefarious threats to western civilization caused by “a resurgent Russia.” Readers of this blog need no reminder of the list of such false allegations, of which the MH-17 attack is among the more blatant.
What is also a common occurrence is that when the initial allegation of alleged Russian “misconduct” or “aggressiveness” is proven to be wholly without merit, the reporting on the incident frequently not only fails to correct the record or retract the initial allegations, it most often reports on the real findings of the incident without even mentioning that Russia was initially, and incorrectly, blamed for the event.
A loyal reader of this blog has pointed out one such recent event, and has co-authored this post at my request to help set the record straight in regards to a widely reported cyber attack of western banks last year that was falsely blamed on Russia, as the light of truth needs to be shone whenever possible on the dark side of the false Western narrative.
In August, 2014, it was widely reported that the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) had opened an investigation into allegations that a massive data hack of five major western banks, most significantly JPMorgan Chase & Co., was the work of Russian hackers intent on exacting revenge on the West for the imposition of sanctions on Russia. In the hacks, data on upwards of 83 million of the banks customers were breached.
For example, an article published by the media titan Wall Street Bloomberg Business, with the headline “FBI Said to Examine Whether Russia Tied to JPMorgan Hack”, opened the report by declaring “Russian hackers attached the U.S. financial system in mid-August, infiltrating and stealing data form JPMorgan Chase & Co. and at least one other bank, an incident the FBI is investigating as a possible retaliation for government sponsored sanctions.” The article stated “Attacks on the U.S. financial sector from Russia and Eastern Europe have jumped over that last several months, according to several cyber security experts. Companies and U.S. officials are examining the possibility that the uptick is related to the conflict over Russia’s behavior in Ukraine”, stating that “The incidents occurred at a low point in relations between Russia and the West. Russian troops continue to mass on the Ukrainian border and the West tightens sanctions aimed at crippling Russian companies, including some of the country’s most important banks.”
The article declared that “The sophistication of the attack and technical indicators extracted from the bank computers provide some evident of a government link” while acknowledging that the attack may simply be a criminal, not state sponsored, breach. The report is given additional significance by mentioned that the National Security Agency was aiding the investigation. Further plausibility was offered for the attack being blamed on Russia; JPMorgan was reported “singled out for criticism when it blocked a payment from the Russian embassy to the affiliate of a U.S. sanctioned bank” wherein “Russia’s foreign ministry called the move by New York-based JPMorgan “illegal and absurd.” The article quoted security consultant who boldly declared that “Russia has a policy of reactionary attacks in relation to political contexts.”
Likewise, Britain’s Telegraph headlined an article on the hack as “FBI Investigates alleged Russian cyber attack on Wall Street,” stating that “The FBI is investigating whether Russian hackers staged a cyber-attack on major Wall Street businesses this month in retaliation for US sanctions imposed over Ukraine”, citing the Bloomberg report. It went on to say “There has been a rise in the number of cyber attacks on US financial institutions this year from Russia and eastern Europe as relations have deteriorated between Washington and Moscow during the Ukraine Crisis.”
As did Bloomberg, the Telegraph report asserted that “The sophistication of the attacks appeared to be beyond the capability of normal criminal hackers” which “fueled suspicion that the operations may have been launched in retaliation for the US imposition of tougher sanctions on Russian banks and companies for Moscow’s aggression over Ukraine.”
As part of the propaganda barrage, the authoritative Janes360, a defense and intelligence service, published an article on August 27, 2014 entitled “Sanctions on Russia will increase risk of cyber attacks against Western companies and critical infrastructure” in which its bulleted “Key Points” declared that “Increased Western sanctions against Russia suggest that retaliatory cyber attacks are more likely.” The article referred to the JPMorgan Chase hack, and reported that “the attacks were the work of Russian hackers, as the level of sophistication was too high for normal criminals, suggesting state sponsorship. As well as state and financial assets, critical national infrastructure (CNI) and large companies considered to be “symbolically Western” are likely to be within the target set for any potential state-sponsored cyber attacks.” The article then went on to air a laundry list of alleged Russian cyber attacks against western institutions.
More importantly, Janes used the alleged JPMorgan cyber attack to remind its audience that the US Congress “has continually failed to pass cyber security legislation, hindering the ability to counter cyber threats.” It reminder the reader of warnings by Richard Clarke and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta “of Russian retaliatory cyber attacks in April, 2013 as a natural counter to Western economic sanctions” with Panetta calling cyber attacks the “battleground of the future” and said that Russia is second only to the US in cyber capabilities.” Janes forecast that although hundreds of millions of dollars/pounds were budgeted by western powers to develop national cyber security strategies, the author feared that “any government measures are likely to be restricted by budgetary constraints,” a not so subtle call for even more Western defense spending to ward off the evil cyber forces of the East.
Needless to say, many other western media outlets dutifully repeated the allegations, adding them to the war hysteria that existed during the height of the war in the Donbass last August, where Novorossiyan armed forces were in the midst of their successful counter-offensive that saw them close the Ilovaisk cauldron, liberate Novoazovsk and move on Mariupol, while threatening to break out and attack north towards Severodonetsk, Starya Krasnnyanka and Artemovsk. The Minsk I accords were signed on Sept. 5th, just one week after this spate of reports of alleged Russian responsibility for the JPMorgan hacks.
Flash forward a year, and you will find reports that emerged on July 21, 2015 that four people were arrested for the JPMorgan and other bank cyber attacks of August, 2014, with a fifth suspect remaining at large. Unsurprisingly, those arrested were not “Russian state sponsored hackers.” Also unsurprisingly, very few of the reports included any reporting that informed the reader that the JPMorgan hack was initially, and incorrectly, blamed on Russia.
The MSM reports detailed how the four suspects, two Israeli citizens as well as US citizens Joshua Aaron and Anthony Murgio, were charged with using the hacked data in a “complex securities fraud scheme”, as reported by Fortune, where the data was used for a “pump-and-dump” stock fraud, using bulk emails and pre-planned trading to pump up the targeted stocks for their own personal benefit. USA Today, among others, reported that the scheme also included an “illegal bitcoin operation.”
Perusing the reporting of the titans of western MSM, from Bloomberg to Fortune to Reuters to USA Today to CNBC, it is difficult to find any reporting on the arrest that point out that blame for the subject cyber attacks was initially placed upon a “resurgent” Russia. Apparently most of the western presstitutes, as our friend Paul Craig Roberts calls the Western “free press,” did not find it fit to print that the cyber attacks were premised upon no motive greater than the foundational virtue of Western capitalism, namely greed.
A specific search for any reporting of the arrest by the “respected defense publisher” Janes360 found zero results. Presumably minor criminal arrests for fraud are outside the scope of reporting by a major mouthpiece of the military industrial complex.
In direct contrast to the reports of “sophistication” of the alleged Russian cyber attack, the august titan of the financial media industry Bloomberg, whose “Russia did it” headlines screamed so loudly in August 2014, meekly reported that “Digital Misfits Link JPMorgan Hack to Pump-and-Dump Fraud.” While reporting that “JPMorgan officials argued initially that one of the largest J.S. bank hacks in history was the work of the Russian government,” the report failed to provide any details of the initial assertion that the hack was Russian “retaliation” for Western sanctions related to the Ukraine coup. The article did note that the JPMorgan chief information security officer was reassigned “amid discord over his handling of the breach”, wherein the ISO and his boss, a former head of the US Air Forces cyber combat unit, “were the chief advocates of the theory that the Russian government was involved in the breach.”
Among those outlets that maintained some semblance of journalistic integrity was the Washington Post, which wrote that “The charging documents make no mention of the intrusion into JPMorgan, which garnered front-page headlines last year for the theft of data belonging to 76 million households. Bloomberg Business reported that the breach was the work of Russian hackers, possibly sponsored by the Russian government in retaliation for Western sanctions over its behavior in Ukraine. Instead, the people allegedly behind the hack have nothing to do with the Russian government or Russian crime rings, said a second individual.”
The NY Times also found the link fit to print, albeit buried near the end of the column, that “The attack on JPMorgan garnered major headlines and attention last year because of the number of people affected and a theory that it may have been tied to Russian gangs, with possible ties to the Russian government. Federal authorities, however, quickly ruled out the Russian government as a suspect, as well as the possibility of direct ties to Russian gangs.” Apparently being genetically incapable of completely exonerating the evil Russians though, the Times reported that “The court filings on Tuesday, however, suggest some loose connection to Russia.”
Finally, Reuters did the same, with the second to last sentence of the article informing the reader that “The JPMorgan attack initially prompted speculation that Russian hackers were involved, but U.S. investigators ruled out Moscow early in the case.” No mention of linkage of the alleged Russian state involvement to the Ukraine or Crimean sanctions regimes was made.
(http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/21/us-jpmorgan-fraud-idUSKCN0PV24L20150721)
It is interesting to contrast the reporting of the initial allegations versus the actual arrests in the trade publication arstechnica.com. ARS also dutifully propagandized the initial Bloomberg report, and the “sophistication” of the cyber attack. That same website reported on the actual arrests for the cyber attack on JPMorgan, without mentioning once its lengthy, but faulty, initial report.
(Compare http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/08/jpmorgan-other-banks-hacked-and-fbi-looks-to- russia-for-culprits/ with http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/4-men-reportedly-arrested-in-relation-to-jpmorgan-chase-hack/ )
This incident aptly demonstrates how the ruling elites of the AZ empire frame the false Western narrative of Russian “misconduct,” vociferously asserting baseless and unsubstantiated allegations of Russian responsibility for wrongful acts without the slightest hesitation even before an investigation is undertaken, while meekly and mildly, if at all, reporting on the results of the actual investigation that demonstrate the false nature of those boisterous initial allegations.
This incident is obviously not the first such example of the clear disconnect between factual events and the false Western narrative directed against the target of Western ire, and the despicable charade of the more than one-year long investigation of the MH-17 tragedy will likely not be the last in a long string of initial bombastic propaganda directed against Russia and the others members of the resistance to the AZ empire being proven false. Such incidents, however, should not escape examination of those who seek the truth, and need to be highlighted whenever they occur.
JiminNH is a USAF veteran who resides in NH. The motto “Live Free or Die” on the license plate should not be just a quaint historical relic of a once great constitutional republic
How could it be Russians? It was the Chinese.
Or the North Koreans.
Or the dastardly people over at the Saker’s Vineyard.
IMHO the dastardly people from Haifa !
The ‘Russia is evil’ meme vitriol is baked in with the originating propaganda which a week after being published -more than sufficient time given the lack of continuity and lack of any depth by the average reader- is totally resistant to any kind of retraction, apology or update.
The linkage is broken -as is intended.
If only the expertise in western propaganda was instead applied to making the world a better place….
Falsely accusing other countries of crimes is more American than apple pie.
The best example is America’s decade-long lies… sorry, “mistaken intelligence” about Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.
What’s really disturbing is how the American people in the main will dutifully parrot these accusations and lies no matter how many times in the past that they have proven to be false.
Why is this?
American national identity is based upon the delusion that America is the essence of goodness and hence, any nation that opposes the USA must by definition be … evil. This is just a version of American Exceptionalism and indeed derived from Western imperialist civilization in general.
Moreover, this warped American worldview is what causes Americans to instinctively smear other countries, while denying or rationalizing the greatest criminal of them all: their own empire.
After the known lie of ‘Saddam’s WMD’ (created by the Zionazi ‘neo-conservatives’)clearly known by its peddlers to be false, and false since the mid-90s, was exposed, these psychopaths would not give up. They invented the even more preposterous lie that ‘Saddam pretended to have WMD’, a truly impudent untruth when one remembers the years of constant Iraqi declarations that they had totally disarmed, uttered with increasing fervour as the death-roll from the genocidal sanctions regime mounted. But when dealing with the leading thugs of the Zioamerican Real Evil Empire you are dealing with some of the most Evil creatures Homo psychopathicus has ever produced.
“American national identity is based upon the delusion that America is the essence of goodness and hence, any nation that opposes the USA must by definition be … evil. This is just a version of American Exceptionalism and indeed derived from Western imperialist civilization in general.”
I would suggest that this is indeed fortunate since it affords myriad opportunities to opponents.
“I would suggest that this is indeed fortunate since it affords myriad opportunities to opponents.”
The use of the recent Litvinenko enquiry focusing on his demise thereby obscuring events in Russia in August/September 1999 blamed by some including Mr. Litvinenko on the FSB, may afford just such an opportunity when allied to MH17 investigations.
But not even the Exceptional passport will pass a Chosenite sentry, if held by one with ‘untermensch’ ancestry:
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/palestinian-americans-detained
Is the no-fly zone against Syria going to be reversed? According to Thierry Meyssan of Voltaire, it didn’t have Obama’s approval, was undertaken by Gen’l John Allen w Erdogan. They have not accepted the reversal, but have appealed the decision to the Atlantic Council (the thinktank above the Bilderbergers). There too they were rebuked and Erdogan told not to bomb PKK except within Turkey or in case of hot pursuit, according to the article.
Many other surprising elements in this article including why Petraeus & Allen both were earlier removed due to some alleged “extramarital matters” & why Hillary retired her position shortly thereafter..
http://www.voltairenet.org/article188337.html
According to an interview on Webster Tarpley’s last World Crisis radio program, Mr. Meyssan in interview there stated that there was a secret agreement between Iran & US to stop the war against Syria! And accordingly, Obama had ordered Erdogan to stop supporting ISIS. Erdogan’s daughter is admin head of the Turkish hospital where ISIS wounded are cared for and one of his sons owns the freight company that carries the supplies to ISIS. However, since I have always understood that the supplies are “Made in US” I’m unable to fully understand.
Not pretending to know, but it has been reported that Erdoghan’s son’s company handles the oil coming out of ISIS land. And Turkey is going to have plenty of cheap food and weapons, so what would have to be “Made in USA”? Perhaps only certain military supplies.
While speculative, there are reports of Putin giving threats to Turkey over ISIS. Things like this:
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940513001210
We can’t really know about the specifics, but ISIS is a serious threat to Russia. They seem like they are designed to be moved. Perhaps to hit Iran, but perhaps the Caucasus. Or maybe both. Russia already has a lot to deal with in the Ukraine. Imagine if Turkey decided to open up her borders with Adjara and help guide ISIS into that whole region? It would be a threat to not only Dagestan or Chechnya, but even Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. And Russia needs all of those places to function in a somewhat normal way, not like the Ukraine or Syria do.
In follow-up to your comment: “We can’t really know about the specifics, but ISIS is a serious threat to Russia. They seem like they are designed to be moved.”
Whereas ISIS is just the latest generation of fundamentalist Sunni jihadist that trace their heritage to the old British asset Muslim Brotherhood, through the US & Saudi backed “Arab Afghan freedom fighters” where Osama Bin Laden cut his teeth, onto Chechnya and the Balkan wars, and now back down to the middle east proper in Libya, Iraq and Syria, history proves that the various iterations of fundamentalist Sunni jihadists are indeed movable, and malleable, while always serving the geopolitical interests of the AZ empire in their new “Great Game.” Which is why such jihadists are now fighting in the Ukraine on behalf of the post-coup puppet regime. Undoubtedly they will find gainful employment in some of the nations you mention, as well as other central asian states through to the Uighur province.
Thanks for the response, Paul II. Re: Putin responding angrily to Turkey, I followed the story back and it seems to originate w Gordon Duff, so not reliable.
I have seen a couple of confirming stories about Gen’l Allen acting in contradiction to Obama’s instrux re Syria, but who knows.
Moon of Alabama has a nice short but detailed story about trading a temporary partitioning in return for safe passage for about 40k civilians. Story was picked up by Info Clearing House.
At any rate all of this is pretty grim for Syria.
I forgot to tell you that not only is Thierry Meyssan living in Syria, but he’s an advisor to the the govt. More of the same article:
“However, one fundamental element has profoundly changed the game : Israël and Saudi Arabia, who not so long ago supported the idea of creating a Kurdistan and a Sunnistan in Iraq and Syria, are now opposed to it. Tel-Aviv and Riyadh now understand that these two new states, if they come to be, will not be controlled by them, but by a Turkey which is no longer hiding its imperial ambitions, and will become a de facto regional giant.”
That is, France and the US had promised Turkey, thru implementation of Juppe/Wright Plan partitioning of Syria & Iraq to return to Turkey a portion of the Ottoman Empire, and acc to the author Israel & Saudis have taken fright.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article188337.html
Really, this is a must read.
The most sophisticated and the most aggressive nation responsible for spying and hacking in the U.S. is Israel. It is something of which the FBI, CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies are acutely aware and from time to time express publicly, though for the most part their criticism is muted.
It is not surprising that the mainstream media doesn’t examine this possibility, but it is something the alternative media should investigate.
You’re not going to get the New York Times too excited about a bunch of Jews practising millennial group talents. That would be ‘antisemitic’, surely, and ‘self-hating’.
Oh, there is one truth the Western financial oligarchy is very concerned with, and that is that might makes right. They want a global dictatorship, and are not happy that Russia is standing in the way.
And these oligarchs are correct in blaming Russia for standing in the way. It is just that many in the West as well as Russia are either dishonest in terms of admitting this reality or a bit naive in dismissing it.
Flash forward a year, and you will find reports that emerged on July 21, 2015 that four people were arrested for the JPMorgan and other bank cyber attacks of August, 2014, with a fifth suspect remaining at large. Unsurprisingly, those arrested were not “Russian state sponsored hackers.” Also unsurprisingly, very few of the reports included any reporting that informed the reader that the JPMorgan hack was initially, and incorrectly, blamed on Russia.
The MSM reports detailed how the four suspects, two Israeli citizens as well as US citizens Joshua Aaron and Anthony Murgio, were charged with using the hacked data in a “complex securities fraud scheme”, as reported by Fortune, where the data was used for a “pump-and-dump” stock fraud, using bulk emails and pre-planned trading to pump up the targeted stocks for their own personal benefit. USA Today, among others, reported that the scheme also included an “illegal bitcoin operation.”
Gee, why am I not surprised.
In direct contrast to the reports of “sophistication” of the alleged Russian cyber attack, the august titan of the financial media industry Bloomberg, whose “Russia did it” headlines screamed so loudly in August 2014, meekly reported that “Digital Misfits Link JPMorgan Hack to Pump-and-Dump Fraud.” While reporting that “JPMorgan officials argued initially that one of the largest J.S. bank hacks in history was the work of the Russian government,” the report failed to provide any details of the initial assertion that the hack was Russian “retaliation” for Western sanctions related to the Ukraine coup. The article did note that the JPMorgan chief information security officer was reassigned “amid discord over his handling of the breach”, wherein the ISO and his boss, a former head of the US Air Forces cyber combat unit, “were the chief advocates of the theory that the Russian government was involved in the breach.”
Well, we cant have the “goy smucks” making an Israeli or Jewish mafia crime syndicate connection, now can we.
obviously the names of the two Israeli ‘suspects are very difficult to spell, Hebrew being such an exalted language i tremble even mentioning the sacred text.
oldnik007, the very great danger for humanity is that the leading elements amongst Jewry, having established a national redoubt in Israel, and having taken over Western polities and much of the most lucrative parts of the economies of those states and the MSM brainwashing apparatus, are plainly inclined to continue in like fashion. Their mythology, their narcissistic group psychosis of total superiority over all others, has been confirmed, so they can do whatever they want, it being God’s Will.
Everywhere they look they see groveling sycophancy. Their Fuhrer, the loathsome thug Satanyahoo, addresses a braying, ululating mob of hysterical supplicants in the supposedly all-powerful US Congress. They leap and caper, gibber and screech their adoration, scared rigid that less than hysterical adoration will be noted, and punished. The various US Jewish blogs boast of their dominance, of their innumerable Nobel Prizes, their mythological intellectual superiority over all others, their control of Hollywood and of the financial rent extraction apparatus and their dominance of the ‘New Economy’ of Silicon Valley. And any criticism of any action by any Jew anywhere is instantly either censored or denounced as ‘antisemitism’. The Jews, from Sharon to the settler Judaic Taliban, have been, in effect, declared eternally and globally incapable of crime or misdemeanour or even mistake and error. But, for goodness sake, don’t ever dare notice.
Israel itself, as socially unequal as Mexico, even for low-ranking Jews, is a global centre of every unsavoury business enterprise one can imagine. Trafficking in sex-workers, drugs, human organs, arms, blood diamonds etc, dominance in all types of pornography, and in surveillance and repressive methods and means, all tested on the human guinea-pigs of Gaza. On-line gambling and pay-day lending, the latter also favoured amongst the Diaspora, also reap rich pickings.
All, of course, hardly unique to Israel and certain elements of Jewry, but who could argue that the extreme antipathy towards non-Jews so clearly evidenced by many Jews does not have an effect on the Jewish attitude to exploitation? It’s precisely the same indifference to the fate of others you see with all racisms, class hatreds and other manifestations of psychopathy, only this is 3500 years old, has been turned into a religion, and periodically creates such resentment and hatreds amongst its victims that horrors unfold.
You can see plainly how Jewry is preparing just such a disaster again now. The key to the process is the absolute refusal to compromise, to come part way to the interests of the goyim. No compromise with the Palestinians, just utter sadistic brutality and horror. Any who dare object are vilified as ‘antisemites’ for standing up for decency and humanity. A total refusal to live in peace with Israel’s neighbours, just relentless aggression and subversion, and genocidal destruction according to the ‘Zionist Plan for the Middle East’ visited on Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Sudan etc, and to what end? Territorial expansion, the ‘Eretz Yisrael’ from the Nile to the Euphrates, or simple blood-lust? Real compromise with the Palestinians would end most regional opposition, but, of course, as the group ideology has it, the goyim ALWAYS hate the Jews and wish to destroy them-an irredeemable hatred that dictates ETERNAL enmity.
The belief system is hard-wired to produce antagonism and enmity. Useful, perhaps, in ancient Canaan for group defence and territorial expansion, but destined to produce one cataclysm after another, either in provoking war with the relentless Romans, or declaring economic war on Germany in 1933. For all that innate xenophobia, Jews have long lived in peace with their neighbours, interspersed with periodic pogroms, against the Jews and by the Jews inflicted on others (these may never be mentioned in polite society) often in Europe really class revolts where the Jews were picked out as money-lenders and tax farmers for the feudal elites. Where strong central powers were able to suppress Jewish exploitation, as in al-Andaluce, things went along pretty peacefully and co-operatively for centuries.
Unfortunately for the Jews, or any other such group, the worst tendencies are self-reinforcing. Over the millennia many Jews have drifted away from the religion, either out-marrying or growing tired of the dogma. The growth of Judaic fundamentalism in Israel is a truly disastrous development for Jewry, the fanatics hating their non-fanatic Jewish fellows almost as much as they despise the goyim. Their cruelty, aggression and bellicosity is increasingly the face of nuclear-armed Israel, which may yet get another genocidal war in Iran, because they can. Unfortunately, in a world careering towards self-destruction, this Masada cum Samson Complex that has gripped Israel and the xenophobes in the Diaspora seems to me the most dangerous, ironic and tragic threat. Which, as I have often been abusively informed, apparently makes me an ‘antisemite'(TM).
Well said.
It is all a closed loop.
Rational criticism or appeals to domestic, international, or moral law = “self=hate” or “anti-Semitism.”
It is on the Zionist side that there is no rational interlocutor, not on the Palestinian-Arab side.
This intellectual dishonesty kind of neutralizes the genuine intellectual and artistic accomplishments of people who happened to be members of the Jewish faith.
wonder how many of the Nobel Prizers etc. were or are Zionists?
Mstislav Richter was one who saw the light. A musical genius who turned away from Jewish xenophobia and lies, just as he eventually saw through the surface of the Soviet totalitarian system.
Katherine
Sorry, I meant Mstislav Rostropovich, the cellist.
Not Svyatoslav Richter, the pianist.
Katherine
“…..and need to be highlighted whenever they occur.”
Perhaps you are unaware of other potential considerations/dimensions given that the hubris of opponents is often useful in facilitation.
When your opponents consistently exhibit a predeliction towards linear projection, it may be at least ill mannered to disabuse them.
About MH17: it shows how weak the West really is.
When you’re genuinely mighty you don’t pull stunts like this.
Take away the printing press and they’re nothing.
Their power is dependent on others’ compliance and/or greed.
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/stratfor-conversations-us-medias.html
video link about the USA misleading the world about Russia
not watched it so can’t vouch for it
intresting
“LONDON, August 4. /TASS/. Russia’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom Alexander Yakovenko has accused Great Britain of “squeezing” Russian diplomats out of the country through chicanery, delaying the issuing of visas for Russian diplomats.
This practice “is out of keeping with international commitments” of the country, the diplomat wrote in Twitter, saying the number of embassy staffers was reducing as a result.
© EPA/ANDY RAIN
Embassy source accuses Britain of complicating Russian diplomats’ work
“One can get the impression that the British side has concentrated on artificially creating difficulties in our activity in violation of its commitments under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961,” an embassy source told TASS in earlier comments.”
The Empire has no credibility anymore, has not had any for decades now. To therefore pay any attention to what it says is to waste one’s time completely. The Empire is best left ignored.
Suffice that one spell out the truth for the whole world to know, on an ongoing basis, … and to not forget.
The world must indeed learn to live without the evil Empire. Better begin to act immediately, and as much as it is reasonable to do so, as though said Empire did not even exist… yet being always fully prepared for total war.
Yeah — I don’t read newspapers, I don’t listen to radio or watch TV, and I ignore most of the stuff from the empire source I run across unless it’s reference in an alternative news outlet or a blog.
I just got an ad from ‘Infinity’ — Comcast — for Internet and TV for a special $90 a month. I think that’s pretty special: spending all that money, mostly for TV — Orwell’s telescreen — to be brainwashed and giving that money to the evil bastards who are doing the brainwashing.
Maybe the key to making money now is to start a daily delivery service — 5 pounds of horse manure to the customers house every day for only $100 a month — the way things are going I’d have to refuse to sign up Americans and put them on a waiting list.
It’s amazing. It’s a nation of drug addicts, including ‘information’ drugs. It’s the new pornography, often having nothing to do with sex at all, and it seems most people never figure it out, but apply their lessons from school: ‘sit down, shut up, do what you’re told, and don’t think about it’. Especially don’t think about it — don’t even notice of it.
The odd thing is that this has become such an integral part of the culture that it’s spread even to the oligarchs and the Washington Consensus bubble so that the ‘fearless leaders’ are as blind and believing as their herd of sheep. They watch the TV too and are infected with their own poisons.
I do agree. What amazes me most about the Empire is the degree of dogmatism and of fanaticism that its propaganda manages to generate in a little more than 300 million Americans, and even among the best “educated”! Every time I find myself in front of such a brainwashed specimen, I can hardly believe it. How is that still possible in a globalized world, at a time when the means of communication have never been so diverse, so largely disseminated throughout the world, … when travel has never been so generalized, with mass tourism being so widespread, etc.? Honestly, that such a degree of ignorance, of lack of culture, of narrow-mindedness can still exist in an “exceptional”, and so-called “indispensable” Empire is beyond me. It leaves me speechless.
Mind you, I wish I could explain, if only to myself, how such blindness, such lack of lucidity, etc. are possible. — See, that is an ideal topic for a Ph.D. thesis (and for prolonged postdoctoral research I’m sure…), if you’re interested… Assuming you be, in due course, let me know what you have discovered….
I’m way past time for such PhD stuff, but remember that the other phrase for that abbreviation is ‘piled hip deep’, and it’s unusual for an academic to escape the clutches of the funding, memory hole, and adviser system which funnels even advanced students down the ‘right’ paths. The university system is deeply immersed part of this bubble. Don’t think the nobility and plutocracy would leave such things uncontrolled.
The MSM reports detailed how the four suspects, two Israeli citizens as well as US citizens Joshua Aaron and Anthony Murgio, were charged with using the hacked data in a “complex securities fraud scheme”
Yup, sure sound like a Russian operation to me. LMAO!
More importantly, Janes used the alleged JPMorgan cyber attack to remind its audience that the US Congress “has continually failed to pass cyber security legislation, hindering the ability to counter cyber threats.”
Aha! So now we see what this is really about. Remember when the Norks supposedly hacked Sony? And then there was Anne Applebaum’s screed against the internet. It looks like they’re slowly building the case for a massive AZ firewall to ‘protect’ us from the truth.
It was nice knowing you, Saker :-(
The word “Truth” haven’t got the same meaning on the West and on the East.
We, people of East, believe too much in The Truth. Watch at Russians – they believe they have reached The God’s mercy, when it is proven they were right, and they were telling the truth.
But it only consternates The West’s – for them The Truth is something that can be spread on bread, or to be poured into the reservoir – those things are The Truth. Also, they like to be right, and to make everybody yells “Yess, you’re telling the truth”, but the truth is theirs wealth.
What means “democracy” – “our command”, “stabilisation”-“our interests are insured”. So “truth” means “what is good for us” and nothing else.
In the West, the ‘Truth’ is whatever the powerful say it is. The Big Lie of Western discourse is ‘Freedom’. In fact in the West freedom of opinion is reviled. Groupthink and obedience to power are the greatest virtues. I started getting into trouble in high school when I pointed out that my ‘religious studies’ teacher, a florid imbecile and ignoramus, was wrong when he raved on in ‘anti-communist’ ecstasy. One or two of the other teachers informed me that they knew I was correct, but to ‘get along’ one kept one’s trap shut.
In Australia, a sad, sicked, rapidly failing wreck of a society, Groupthink is well-nigh 100%, save for a few outposts in the Internet. Rupert Murdoch, an utter totalitarian, decides the opinions of his 70% dominant Evil Empire. As was plainly evidenced in 2003 when all but one of his 150 odd organs urged the aggression against Iraq, and now urge further slaughter to be inflicted on Iran. Blood-thirsty monsters one and all. Revolt, and refuse to join the Crusade to kill and destroy or craft a society of vicious inequality, ecological ruin and social savagery, and your career is OVER. Yet the vermin that such a system produces have the gall to abuse Russia and China, and decry any dissenting voices as ‘Putin-bots’. Honestly, I can see no future for the West but either well-deserved and long overdue collapse into vicious social strife and cruelty, or nuclear annihilation if one of their more deranged aggressions goes wrong. Societies totally dominated by Rightwing psychopaths must destroy themselves-there is no other feasible end to their essential malignancy.
@Seamus Padraig on August 05, 2015 · at 1:57 pm UTC
Thank you for the link, definitely very informative
@blue on August 05, 2015 · at 5:51 pm UTC
Yes, you are definitely right all of the universities around the world are infiltrated, but we are on the turning point in our history right now and the coming generation can see this very clearly that the change and clean up must to be done as soon as possible.
They are NOT going to watch the financial enslavement and the pilling up student loans.
Change is in the air even it doesn’t seems to be right now.
The idea that some hacking procedures are “too sophisticated” for criminals and therefore must be the work of some foreign government is laughable in the extreme.
I won’t point anyone to any specific sites, but if you do a search on, say, “zero-day exploits” you will eventually arrive at sites that will sell you extremely sophisticated hacking software that takes many months to develop and that can cost as much as $250,000 per copy.
Why not put in your order and take one for a test drive? :-)
I remain very optimistic because we have now begun to realize that simply blaming the United States for our problems will not help us progress toward great personal freedoms. But does this mean that Islam is unholy?