Besides, the family has all agreed to cancel Christmas this year seeing as no one has any money to buy anyone anything.
"Obama says Sony shouldn’t have shelved ‘The Interview’" by Matt Viser, Globe Staff December 19, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama, citing Boston’s determination to move forward after the Marathon bombings, sharply criticized Sony for canceling the release of the satirical movie “The Interview” after a disruptive cyberattack that the FBI says was orchestrated by North Korea.
Obama also said the United States “will respond proportionally” to North Korea’s actions “at a place and time we choose.”
That is what warlord Bush said before he invaded Iraq.
Suggesting that Sony had overreacted, the president said the decision to pull the movie set a dangerous precedent and could damage free expression by allowing a foreign leader to determine what pieces of work Americans can view.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: Sour Grapes
Who is deciding what I see?
“We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States,” Obama said, speaking at his end-of-year press conference at the White House briefing room. “Because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they don’t like or news reports that they don’t like.”
Says the executive order issuing president.
I don't know if I can take another two years of delusional hypocrisy from this man.
Unlike Sony’s action in canceling its movie, he said, Boston decided to go ahead with its Marathon.
“We can’t start changing our patterns of behavior any more than we stop going to a football game because there might be the possibility of a terrorist attack,” Obama said. “Any more than Boston didn’t run its Marathon this year because of the possibility that somebody might try to cause harm.”
Look, YOU GUYS are the ones who have been WAVING the FALSE FLAG of FEAR all these years! You have NO ONE TO BLAME but YOURSELVES!
Obama’s remarks came several hours after the FBI concluded that North Korea was responsible.
Just wondering how can you possibly believe the FBI, but....
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At a time when his power to make dramatic policy changes in Congress is diminished, Obama inserted himself into a controversy that straddles issues of geopolitics, culture, and freedom of expression. The next steps regarding North Korea, however, were left unclear.
Yeah, it's a real serious issue (but, as noted, been there, done that).
“I think it says something about North Korea that it decided to mount an all-out attack about a satirical movie starring Seth Rogen,” Obama said, referring to one of the film’s stars.
No, this whole absurdity says something about you and the government you head.
He chided the entertainment company for not having more backbone. “I wish they had spoken to me first,” Obama said.
Wow! He REALLY DOES BELIEVE he is a DICTATOR!
Yeah, why don't we run everything by this guy?
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Sony chief executive Michael Lynton tried to distance the company from the decision not to show the movie, saying it was theaters that were choosing not to show the film after threats that they could be attacked. Lynton disputed Obama’s contention that Sony hadn’t been in communication, saying they had been in close touch with senior Obama administration officials.
Oh, OBAMA LIED AGAIN?!!?
“We have not caved, we have not given in,” Lynton said on CNN. “We have persevered and we have not backed down. We have always had every desire to have the American public see this movie.”
I have no desire to see it, even before all this ludicrousness.
In the movie, a talk show host played by James Franco and his producer, played by Rogen, get an interview with the North Korean president, who is a secret fan of their show. The CIA then recruits them to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
Maybe if they had been FBI instead?
During his final news conference of a year where his party lost the Senate majority, Obama defended his policies on health care, the economy, and foreign policy. The president also made history by calling on eight reporters during the hourlong press conference, all of them women. He displayed a easygoing style, joking and smiling in the hours before he left for a two-week vacation with his family in Hawaii.
That means the tide is coming in.
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It was the first time Obama held a press conference since the day after his party was pummeled in the midterm elections six weeks ago. Since then, he has signed several executive actions on immigration, began restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, and settled a far-reaching climate agreement with China.
Related:
Obama Cuts Deal With Cuba
Cold War Fallout From Cuba
O’Malley hails US-Cuba thaw
Also see: Obama Gums Up Peace in Asia
Time to get unstuck.
“He clearly has decided that he is not going to let the Republicans set the agenda. He’s not going to let them make the first move,” said Christopher Mann, a Louisiana State University political science professor. “He’s doing what he thinks he can do within executive powers.”
Yeah, forget the voice of the people. That's what dictators do!
But the president has struggled to find a way to work with the Republican leaders who in January will control both the House and the Senate. He has also been criticized by some populist Democrats such as Senator Elizabeth Warren, who have said the White House is too tied to Wall Street.
See: Last Lame Duck Se$$ion
Obama said the economy is improving. Some 321,000 jobs were added in November and the Dow Jones industrial average surged more than 500 points this week. Obama said on Friday that the federal bailout of the automobile industry was officially over, with the final loans having been repaid.
'course, US taxpayers lost billions.
“Pick any metric that you want, America’s resurgence is real,” Obama said.
OMG!
My metrics:
"The typical US household saw its net worth actually decline 1.2 percent from 2010 to 2013....
Incomes for the highest-earning 1 percent of Americans soared 31 percent from 2009 through 2012....
And after 30 years of skyrocketing income inequality, the top 1 percent now control a bigger share of wealth than they have since FDR, [and] not only are the rich getting richer — they’re getting taxed less, too."
What a $LAVI$H A$$HOLE!
Obama disclosed details of his discussion Tuesday with President Raul Castro of Cuba, the day before he announced he was normalizing relations with the island nation. In the first time the nation’s two leaders held official discussions since the Cuban revolution in 1959, they swapped jokes about one another’s long-windedness.
Yeah, everything is great for the rulers and their slave political cla$$.
The press conference comes in a year during which Obama saw his approval ratings sink to the lowest of his presidency. Forty-three percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing, according to the latest weekly average from Gallup. The only second-term president who had a lower approval rating at this point since 1950 was George W. Bush.
Meaning the true approval rating is about half that, and welcome to the club, Obummer. You are now as reviled as Bush.
“My presidency is entering the fourth quarter,” Obama said. “Interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter.”
What is that, some sort of scary cryptic threat?!!
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Related: Obama speaks out after FBI ties attack to N. Korea; President plans to hear options for retaliation" by Michael S. Schmidt and David E. Sanger, New York Times December 20, 2014
It's pretty much a reedited and rewritten regurgitation of the above, and that shell-game censorship shit is really getting old.
Once again, the question must be asked: WHAT are they HIDING!!
The F.B.I. said it had assembled extensive evidence that the North Korean government organized the cyberattack that debilitated the Sony computers....
I addressed that above.
The bureau said that there were classified elements of the evidence against the North that it could not reveal.
PFFFFFFTTT!
The F.B.I.’s statements “are based on intelligence sources and other conclusive evidence,” said James A. Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “Now the U.S. has to figure out the best way to respond and how much risk they want to take. It’s important that whatever they say publicly signals to anyone considering something similar that they will be handled much more roughly,” Lewis said. "The North Koreans are crazy, and they have nuclear weapons, and the US response needs to be sensitive. That is not true for others in the world."
Why did that last part have to be edited out?
Btw, the U.S. is the ONLY NATION that EVER USED a NUCLEAR WEAPON, and we did it twice! As with torture, AmeriKa has no standing here.
While American officials were circumspect about how they had collected evidence, some has likely been developed from “implants” placed by the National Security Agency.
Those are the infamous trapdoors the NSA has installed on computers worldwide for hacking and data collection purposes, but don't you mind that!!!
North Korea has proved to be a particularly hard target because it has relatively low Internet connectivity to the rest of the world, and its best computer minds do not move out of the country often, where their machines and USB drives could be accessible targets.
Private security researchers who specialize in tracing attacks said that the government’s conclusions matched their own findings.
Oh, well then, who could doubt it?
Who could doubt $elf-$erving war profiteers expert analy$i$.
George Kurtz, a founder of CrowdStrike, a California-based security firm, said that his company had been studying public samples of the Sony malware and had linked them to hackers inside North Korea — the firm internally refers to them as Silent Chollima — who have been conducting attacks since 2006.
In 2009, a similar campaign of coordinated cyberattacks over the Fourth of July holiday hit 27 American and South Korean websites, including those of South Korea’s presidential palace, called the Blue House, and its Defense Ministry, and sites belonging to the United States Treasury Department, the Secret Service and the Federal Trade Commission. North Korea was suspected, but a clear link was never established.
But those were all “distributed denial of service” attacks, in which attackers flood the sites with traffic until they fall offline. The Sony attack was far more sophisticated: It wiped data off Sony’s computer systems, rendering them inoperable.
Some of the methods employed in the Sony attack were similar to ones that were used by the North Koreans against South Korean banks and news media outlets in 2013. That was a destructive attack, as was an attack several years ago against Saudi Aramco, later attributed to Iran. While there were common cybertools to the Saudi attack as well, Mr. Obama told reporters on Friday he had seen no evidence that any other nation was involved.
“The cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment was not just an attack against a company and its employees,” Jeh C. Johnson, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement. “It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.”
OMG!
This is so over the top of jumping the shark it would be silly were these psychopaths in charge not serious.
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I was also told in print that North Korea's alleged attack on a U.S. business is unacceptable, and that a military response seems unlikely.
Related: Panel to advise against penalty for CIA’s computer search
Ooooh, you never mind that hack to defend AmeriKan torture.
And maybe it is just me, but weren't the Target and Home Depot hackings more of a threat to Americans?
"Media overreach in Sony hack" by Michael A. Cohen December 20, 2014
Even non-fans of Seth Rogen or James Franco should be troubled that Sony has canceled distribution of the film after a devastating computer hack by the North Korean government, the leaking of reams of confidential internal documents, and the murky threat of terrorist attacks against theaters that showed the movie. It’s a full-scale assault on free expression — and one in which America embarrassingly surrendered.
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Media outlets, from Gawker to the New York Times, have gorged themselves on titillating gossip about Hollywood executives and movie stars gleaned from the hack. The majority of stories were far more of prurient interest than they were of public interest — with the latter generally used to justify the former. But hey, clicks are clicks.
Not long ago, when nude pictures of celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were stolen and put online, media companies acted quickly to protect the victimized stars.
I didn't see them.
“The Internet is used for many good things. Stealing people’s private photos is not one of them,” Google solemnly declared. Apparently, for some, profiting from stolen e-mail communications and corporate financial information is what the Internet is good for.
There is a lot more than that ma$$ media garbage and propaganda pre$$ out there.
Perhaps the most troubling example of media overreach came after screenwriter Aaron Sorkin wrote an op-ed in The New York Times lambasting media outlets as “morally treasonous and spectacularly dishonorable” for trafficking in the material. One of the companies Sorkin criticized, the Daily Beast, used the stolen cache to respond. The news site ran a story featuring a private e-mail exchange between Sorkin and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd in which Sorkin allegedly bad-mouthed Hollywood actresses. The story was of virtually no public interest and rather amazingly was published under a pseudonym. While it might not have been the direct intent of the story, it felt as much like a warning as it did a news article: “Criticize our coverage and we can mine the hack for embarrassing details about you, too.”
Related: NSA Unlocking Your Secrets
All of a sudden, the insanity of the ruling class and this society make sense!
By feasting at the trough of misbegotten gains — and conspiring in the privacy violations of Sony and its employees — major media outlets increased the pressure on Sony to cave.
But in the end, the last piece of blame lies with us.
Speak for yourself, not me.
What finally killed “The Interview” was the hazy, apparently meritless threat of violence. Although Americans are more likely to be killed at the movies by a fellow citizen with a legally purchased gun (or a steady diet of concession stand food items) than from an angry North Korean, we are a pathetically skittish lot.
Whose "we?"
Theater owners understood that the moment “terrorism” was mentioned, a country that likes to believe itself resilient and unbowed in the face of the nation’s enemies would turn tail and run — free speech be damned. You almost have to give the hackers credit; they knew exactly which of America’s buttons to push.
HMMMMM!
Yeah, WHO is pouching those propaganda buttons!
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"More Sony Hack/North Korea Psyop Fun: Team America World Police Screenings Canceled
by Melissa Melton
The Daily Sheeple
December 19th, 2014
Hey government and mainstream, lapdog establishment media: I thought we were supposed to be afraid of ISIS… Now it’s North Korea?
What a ridiculous reality we live in.
Right now the mainstream media is flooding the news cycle with story after story trying to rile people up about how the FBI has officially blamed North Korea for the Sony hack which led to the company canceling its scheduled release of the upcoming Seth Rogan movie “The Interview,” ostensibly to avoid terror attacks at theaters.
Yesterday The New York Times ran a story titled, “U.S. Weighs Response to Sony Cyberattack, With North Korea Confrontation Possible.” Voice of America, one of our government’s more openly official propaganda arms, ran with the headline, “US: Sony Cyberattack is ‘Serious’ National Security Matter.” I saw the headline on VOA and went, “Uh-huh. Suuuuuuure it is.”
The Telegraph is even saying China helped
And it’s official: the mainstream media sound like a bunch of children stomping around flailing their arms, “Look over here, look over here!! Pay attention to me, dammit!” for a story that most people aren’t even sure they should waste eyeball juice on.
At the same time, alternative media outlets are rightfully calling this whole thing what it very likely is: a U.S. intelligence operation, and a huge (and frankly ridiculous) distraction.
Two family members have individually asked me now what I personally think of the Sony/North Korea story. My first response when I saw the headlines prior to the ridiculousfest blowing up the last few days was a yawn and a stretch. My response today, however, when they asked was more along the lines of *insert mind-melting scream here* akin to the sound of a rabid ninja camel fist-fighting a giant zombie anteater on crack with lightning bolts for eyes.
So people are actually buying this crap? Really?!
Well, not my Facebook friends (a lovely bunch).
“It’s all sleight of hand… Look over here [while we do this over here.] People are fed up with this crap!” Mike Baysek agreed when I said I thought the media was stomping around like a bunch of children who want attention. He continued, “This is almost as stupid as that fake movie the CIA put out about Mohammed a couple years ago.”
Kevin Pick wrote, “It’s really surprising to me how many people believe N Korea did it with zero evidence whatsoever.” I know Kevin. It somehow still manages to surprise me, too.
Thomas B. chimed in with, “First off, I’m surprised they didn’t blame it on Iran and secondly, you’re spot on, this is mind pablum to distract. Absent of Kardashian’s ass redux, feast on the NK psy-op for now.”
I responded with, “Kim Kardashian’s ass is a more believable distraction story…and that’s saying a lot.”
Apparently ten people on Twitter agree with me…
On top of everything else, they are going so far now as Paramount canceling the make-up showing of Team America: World Police, which, if you’ve seen the comedy put out by the guys behind the hit cartoon South Park, involves lampooning both America, North Korea, and the whole War on Terror in a pretty direct way.
Because scary North Korea and terror and stuff.
Of the decision to pull it, Gizmodo wrote, “Paramount Cancels Team America Screenings Because Everyone’s a Coward“:
Terrorist threats are no laughing matter, of course, but the Department of Homeland Security has found no credible threat, and evidence that the Guardians of Peace have any sort of manpower that could do anything within the boundaries of the United States (much less at thousands of locations simultaneously) is practically non-existent. This sort of panicked cowardice would be absurd if it wasn’t so damn sad.
Of the decision to pull it, Gizmodo wrote, “Paramount Cancels Team America Screenings Because Everyone’s a Coward“:
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.WETh1Qg1.dpuf
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.WETh1Qg1.dpuf
At least the Alamo Draft House chain has big enough sense of humor to laugh at this ridiculousness in the first place.
I think it’s even worse than everyone being a coward, though. I think it’s just one more piece of propaganda pie to shove down the throats of the American public today that we should all be shaking in our boots scared of…North Korea. (Again, really?)
North Korea is like the ghost in a sheet with holes cut out for the eyes that they pull out of the basement as a wild card when they’ve got nothing else new going on to scare people with.
It goes something like, “Ooh, you know, we need a distraction for the fact that other really important stuff that actually directly impacts the lives of every American is going on right now…Let’s see.” (Pulls out Magic Book of Psyops and False Flaggishness.) “Ah! We haven’t had a fake North Korea threat in a while…better get on that.”
While all this is taking center stage in the foreground and everyone is pointing and staring at it cooing, “Ooh, look, shiny things!” do you know what’s actually going on in the background?
Aside from the fact that the police state in America has gotten to a 1984 thought crime/Minority Report pre-crime level, with our militarized and soon-to-be federalized police force assigning each of us a color-coded threat level based on all of our data including our social media posts, the economy is still floating around on magic fairy farts that are bound to run out sometime, and Obama just quietly announced sanctions on Russia’s Crimea, once again poking the bear with a pointed stick and trying to provoke the cold war into a hot one.
But yeah. Sony hack, Seth Rogan movies and North Korea as a boogity boogity ghost.
yadda yadda blah blah blah.
You know, you could do a nicer thing for your brain by just taking a nap; it’d serve you and your brain cells much better than reading and believing the fat bag of North Korean distraction propaganda being dumped out in the mainstream media cycle.
But yeah. Sony hack, Seth Rogan movies and North Korea as a boogity boogity ghost.
yadda yadda blah blah blah.
You know, you could do a nicer thing for your brain by just taking a nap; it’d serve you and your brain cells much better than reading and believing the fat bag of North Korean distraction propaganda being dumped out in the mainstream media cycle.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.WETh1Qg1.dpuf
yadda yadda blah blah blah.
You know, you could do a nicer thing for your brain by just taking a nap; it’d serve you and your brain cells much better than reading and believing the fat bag of North Korean distraction propaganda being dumped out in the mainstream media cycle.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.WETh1Qg1.dpuf
I think I’m going to go do that now actually.
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Me, too. Sorry.
I promise I will return tomorrow if not later tonight.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
About that interesting fourth quarter:
"His letter to Michelle, Chandler said, was timely then, as a president and a child grappled with fear and innocence — and it is timely now. Michelle said that at the time she wrote the letter, her parents often discussed current events with her. The threat of nuclear war hung heavily over the nation, she said."
So WHAT EVIL IS BEING PLANNED in the bowels of Washington, Tel Aviv, and London?
"North Korea proposes joint investigation of cyberattack" by Martin Fackler, New York Times December 21, 2014
TOKYO — Warning of “serious consequences” if the United States retaliates against it over the damaging cyberattack on Sony Pictures, North Korea on Saturday insisted it was not behind the attack and offered to prove its innocence by taking part in a joint investigation with Washington to identify the hackers.
Okay. Is the retaliation by Obummer going to be nuclear then?
As for the rest, I believe North Korea on this one over my lying government and its mouthpiece media whores and Washington will never allow that since the hack was a false flag by the NSA.
The message, attributed to an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesman and carried by North Korea’s state-run news service, appeared to be the secretive government’s response to President Obama’s statement the day before that the United States would take action in response to the hacking, which has shaken one of Hollywood’s largest studios.
Right, it's the North Koreans that are secretive -- and yet somehow my garbage media knows what's going on.
And just ignore Obama and his prosecution of whistle-blowers along with endlessly redacted reports protecting national security, the massive surveillance system that can't seem to catch perverts and looters along with anyone else (what are they doing at the NSA then?), the national security letters, the warrantless spying, I mean, at some point you get tired of dog shit war media, period.
US officials said the hackers’ methods and other clues had led them to conclude that North Korea was behind the attack, which resulted in the posting online of confidential Sony e-mails and some unreleased movies.
They also concluded that Saddam had nucular weapons, Assad used poison gas, Gulf of Tonkin, etc, etc, etc. -- by the LEAD LIAR for WARS, the vaunted New York Times!
A thought just occurred to me: this goddamn government has to be on the naughty list.
The cyberattack and e-mailed threats of terrorist attacks against movie theaters prompted Sony to cancel the Christmas release of “The Interview,” a comedy about a plan to assassinate the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
North Korea has previously denied responsibility for the hacking, although it called the attacks a “righteous deed” by its “supporters and sympathizers.”
So we are being told by my pri$m of a paper.
On Saturday, North Korea described the US claims that it was behind the attacks as slander and warned the United States not to reject its offer of a joint investigation, said the statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, according to the Associated Press.
They are, just like all false accusations by liars.
It quoted the unidentified spokesman as saying any joint inquiry would prove that the North was not behind the cyberattack.
And that is the last thing US officials want.
“The US should bear in mind that it will face serious consequences in case it rejects our proposal for joint investigation and presses for what it called countermeasures,” the spokesman said in the statement, the AP reported.
“We have a way to prove that we have nothing to do with the case without resorting to torture, as what the CIA does,” the statement said.
Nice little stick back there.
It is unlikely that the Obama administration will take the offer from the North seriously.
I explained why.
While some computer experts still express doubts whether the North was actually behind the attack, US officials said it was similar to what was believed to be a North Korean cyberattack last year on South Korean banks and broadcasters.
But we will NOT BE SEEING ANYTHING FROM THEM in this pathetic propaganda.
As for the similar type hack, that is contradicted by their own reporting saying the North (if they did it at all, doubtful they did) usually relies on denial of server attacks.
One key similarity was the fact that the hackers erased data from the computers, something many cyber thieves do not do.
I'm sorry, but the "fact that" my propaganda pre$$ cites a fact causes me to not believe. Sorry.
Some US officials have said that North Korea appears to have embraced cyberterrorism as its new weapon of choice for making political points and is possibly trying to extort new concessions out of the United States and its allies.
By hacking Sony?
SIGH!
While North Korea is an impoverished nation with so little Internet usage that it is essentially a black hole in cyberspace, the attacks showed a high level of sophistication and hacking expertise.
First of all, they should be real easy to track, right?
Yeah, somehow these internet illiterates are geniuses. Where did they recruit them, Silicon Valley?
The hackers did considerable commercial damage to Sony Pictures, posting embarrassing e-mails, detailed breakdowns of executive salaries, digital copies of unreleased movies, and even the unpublished script for an upcoming James Bond movie.
As if anyone cared.
Sony said the threats against theaters left it no choice but to cancel the Dec. 25 release of “The Interview,” in which Seth Rogen and James Franco play television journalists who get a scoop interview with Kim and then find themselves recruited by the CIA to kill him.
On Friday, Obama faulted Sony’s decision to withhold the movie, saying that it created a precedent of studios giving into intimidation.
Related:
"The FBI accused the North Korean government of being responsible for a hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, which shelved a satirical film about a plot to assassinate North Korea’s leader under threats from the government of dictator Kim Jong Un. President Obama pledged the United States would respond to the attack ‘‘in a place and manner and time that we choose, “ but said Sony ‘‘made a mistake’’ in giving in to the threats . “We cannot have a society in which some dictatorship someplace can start imposing censorship,” Obama said."
Then this blog will be here throughout eternity, won't it?
Of course, when he is the executive order issuing dictator that's different.
The administration has limited options for acting against North Korea and quick action would be difficult, analysts say. The United States already has severe trade sanctions in place, and military action is considered unlikely.
Better be.
Even if investigators could identify and prosecute the individual hackers believed to be responsible, there’s no guarantee that any arrested overseas would see a US courtroom. Ordering US government experts to hack North Korean targets could encourage further attacks against American targets.
What's that? Innocent, altruistic AmeriKa also hacks?
Say it ain't so, Joe! Say it ain't so!
Earlier Saturday, North Korea angrily denounced a move by the United Nations to bring its human rights record before the Security Council and renewed its threat to further bolster its nuclear deterrent against what it called a hostile policy by the United States to topple its ruling regime, the AP reported.
Pyongyang ‘‘vehemently and categorically rejects’’ the resolution passed by the UN General Assembly that could open the door for its leaders, including Kim, to be hauled before the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, according to a Foreign Ministry statement carried by KCNA.
The Security Council is due to meet Monday to discuss Pyongyang’s human rights situation for the first time.
When are they taking up the Senate torture report?
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"US wants China to cast cybernet on North Korea" by David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth, New York Times December 21, 2014
More NYT slop.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has sought China’s help in recent days in blocking North Korea’s ability to initiate cyberattacks, the first steps toward the “proportional response” President Obama vowed to make after the assault on Sony Pictures, senior administration officials said.
“What we are looking for is a blocking action, something that would cripple their efforts to carry out attacks,” one official said. The administration’s initiative is also intended to issue a broader warning against future hacking, the sources said.
So far, the Chinese have not responded. Their cooperation would be critical because virtually all of North Korea’s telecommunications run through Chinese-operated networks.
I wrote OMG!! in the margin of my paper!
That means that CHINA KNOWS NORTH KOREA DID NOT DO THIS! And if they know, you know because you are reading this, and I know because I'm typing it -- and THUS THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS WHO IS REALLY BEHIND THE HACK despite this prop slop from the NYT!!
It is unclear that China would choose to help, given tensions about computer security between Washington and Beijing since the Justice Department in May indicted five hackers working for the Chinese military on charges of stealing sensitive information from US companies.
Pffft!
Excuses, excuses, always excuses from this goddamn government.
The secret approach to China comes as US officials, convening a half-dozen meetings in the White House Situation Room last week, including one of the top national security team Thursday night, have been developing options to give to the president during his vacation in Hawaii.
They include new economic sanctions, mirroring those recently placed on Russian oligarchs and officials close to President Vladimir Putin, which would cut off their access to cash — the one perk that allows the elite surrounding Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, to live lifestyles their starving countrymen can barely imagine.
Remember those economic matrixes I posted above?
Factor in the statistics that 25% of Americans are hungry along with burgeoning homelessness -- and then remember that Federal Reserve printing press and purchase program that has pumped up stocks and made the elite the NYT's serves wealthy beyond belief.
Then take that piece of sit propaganda paragraph in context.
The sessions also included discussions of “information operations” directed at the North Korean people, officials said, but similar efforts by South Korea to sway opinion in the North have often created a furious backlash.
That means a HACK, but AmeriKa don't so that.
As part of the administration effort to plan a response, the president has asked the military’s Cyber Command, which is led by the same four-star admiral who directs the National Security Agency, to come up with options that could be directed at North Korea.
OMG, I think we FOUND the HACKERS!!
For now, the White House appears to have declined to consider what one Defense Department official termed “a demonstration strike,” which could have included targets such as military facilities, computer network servers, and communications networks.
Is that a missile and bomb demonstration, or a hack?
One potential target is Yongbyon, the center of North Korea’s nuclear program, where the state has invested huge sums to produce plutonium and uranium fuel for its small arsenal of nuclear weapons.
They want to BOMB NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES and spread those poisons across the region?!!!! Never mind the 300 tons of radioactive water leaking from Fukushima each and every day.
Because of its geographic and technological isolation, Yongbyon is considered a harder target to attack than were Iran’s nuclear facilities, the subject of a previous US cyber operation.
I wrote HUH??? in the margin of my paper.
Of course, that would be the infamous Stuxnet virus, and I'm sure a search might bring up other nasty things like Dooku or Goss or Flame.
The administration’s restraint grows out of a concern about the risk of escalation with North Korea because the United States has far more vulnerable targets than North Korea.
“There are a lot of constraints on us because we live in a giant glass house,” one official involved in the high-level debates said.
Which administration idiot claimed that?
Related: Barack Obama: The Least Transparent President in History
And I'm not even a DN fan.
The official said the challenge was to find a mix of actions that “the North Koreans will notice” but that will not be so public that Kim’s government loses face and feels compelled to respond.
By some accounts, what the administration is trying to create is a computer equivalent to an effort begun in the Bush administration to stop the shipment of nuclear materials and other weaponry.
But in cyberspace, that is a far harder task because it is easier to reroute computer code at lightning speed than to reroute a cargo ship carrying missiles.
That's a vague way of saying the U.S. has an offensive hacking program.
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And if China won't help (because they can't prove a negative), then they must have either allowed it or been involved, right? And since Sony is Japanese it makes perfect sense, right?
I'm sorry, readers, but I will be canceling blogging today. I've got some personal matters to attend and am also feeling a little under the weather. I may not be back tomorrow, either, and it is possible I am done blogging for the rest of December. I'm just sick of running in circles and having my mind polluted by this goddamn garbage coming from the U.S. government and its pre$$titutes.
Of course, there is no guarantee I will return in January, either. Then again, I may be back here tomorrow. Maybe not. Sorry.
What a ridiculous reality we live in.
Right now the mainstream media is flooding the news cycle with story after story trying to rile people up about how the FBI has officially blamed North Korea for the Sony hack which led to the company canceling its scheduled release of the upcoming Seth Rogan movie “The Interview,” ostensibly to avoid terror attacks at theaters.
Yesterday The New York Times ran a story titled, “U.S. Weighs Response to Sony Cyberattack, With North Korea Confrontation Possible.” Voice of America, one of our government’s more openly official propaganda arms, ran with the headline, “US: Sony Cyberattack is ‘Serious’ National Security Matter.” I saw the headline on VOA and went, “Uh-huh. Suuuuuuure it is.”
The Telegraph is even saying China helped.
And it’s official: the mainstream media sound like a bunch of children stomping around flailing their arms, “Look over here, look over here!! Pay attention to me, dammit!” for a story that most people aren’t even sure they should waste eyeball juice on.
At the same time, alternative media outlets are rightfully calling this whole thing what it very likely is: a U.S. intelligence operation, and a huge (and frankly ridiculous) distraction.
Two family members have individually asked me now what I personally think of the Sony/North Korea story. My first response when I saw the headlines prior to the ridiculousfest blowing up the last few days was a yawn and a stretch. My response today, however, when they asked was more along the lines of *insert mind-melting scream here* akin to the sound of a rabid ninja camel fist-fighting a giant zombie anteater on crack with lightning bolts for eyes.
So people are actually buying this crap? Really?!
Well, not my Facebook friends (a lovely bunch).
“It’s all sleight of hand… Look over here [while we do this over here.] People are fed up with this crap!” Mike Baysek agreed when I said I thought the media was stomping around like a bunch of children who want attention. He continued, “This is almost as stupid as that fake movie the CIA put out about Mohammed a couple years ago.”
Kevin Pick wrote, “It’s really surprising to me how many people believe N Korea did it with zero evidence whatsoever.” I know Kevin. It somehow still manages to surprise me, too.
Thomas B. chimed in with, “First off, I’m surprised they didn’t blame it on Iran and secondly, you’re spot on, this is mind pablum to distract. Absent of Kardashian’s ass redux, feast on the NK psy-op for now.”
I responded with, “Kim Kardashian’s ass is a more believable distraction story…and that’s saying a lot.”
Apparently ten people on Twitter agree with me…(at least at the time of posting this article not too long after I posted the Tweet).
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.gmErAmXw.dpu
Right now the mainstream media is flooding the news cycle with story after story trying to rile people up about how the FBI has officially blamed North Korea for the Sony hack which led to the company canceling its scheduled release of the upcoming Seth Rogan movie “The Interview,” ostensibly to avoid terror attacks at theaters.
Yesterday The New York Times ran a story titled, “U.S. Weighs Response to Sony Cyberattack, With North Korea Confrontation Possible.” Voice of America, one of our government’s more openly official propaganda arms, ran with the headline, “US: Sony Cyberattack is ‘Serious’ National Security Matter.” I saw the headline on VOA and went, “Uh-huh. Suuuuuuure it is.”
The Telegraph is even saying China helped.
And it’s official: the mainstream media sound like a bunch of children stomping around flailing their arms, “Look over here, look over here!! Pay attention to me, dammit!” for a story that most people aren’t even sure they should waste eyeball juice on.
At the same time, alternative media outlets are rightfully calling this whole thing what it very likely is: a U.S. intelligence operation, and a huge (and frankly ridiculous) distraction.
Two family members have individually asked me now what I personally think of the Sony/North Korea story. My first response when I saw the headlines prior to the ridiculousfest blowing up the last few days was a yawn and a stretch. My response today, however, when they asked was more along the lines of *insert mind-melting scream here* akin to the sound of a rabid ninja camel fist-fighting a giant zombie anteater on crack with lightning bolts for eyes.
So people are actually buying this crap? Really?!
Well, not my Facebook friends (a lovely bunch).
“It’s all sleight of hand… Look over here [while we do this over here.] People are fed up with this crap!” Mike Baysek agreed when I said I thought the media was stomping around like a bunch of children who want attention. He continued, “This is almost as stupid as that fake movie the CIA put out about Mohammed a couple years ago.”
Kevin Pick wrote, “It’s really surprising to me how many people believe N Korea did it with zero evidence whatsoever.” I know Kevin. It somehow still manages to surprise me, too.
Thomas B. chimed in with, “First off, I’m surprised they didn’t blame it on Iran and secondly, you’re spot on, this is mind pablum to distract. Absent of Kardashian’s ass redux, feast on the NK psy-op for now.”
I responded with, “Kim Kardashian’s ass is a more believable distraction story…and that’s saying a lot.”
Apparently ten people on Twitter agree with me…(at least at the time of posting this article not too long after I posted the Tweet).
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.gmErAmXw.dpu
What a ridiculous reality we live in.
What a ridiculous reality we live in.
Right now the mainstream media is flooding the news cycle with story after story trying to rile people up about how the FBI has officially blamed North Korea for the Sony hack which led to the company canceling its scheduled release of the upcoming Seth Rogan movie “The Interview,” ostensibly to avoid terror attacks at theaters.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.gmErAmXw.dpuf
Right now the mainstream media is flooding the news cycle with story after story trying to rile people up about how the FBI has officially blamed North Korea for the Sony hack which led to the company canceling its scheduled release of the upcoming Seth Rogan movie “The Interview,” ostensibly to avoid terror attacks at theaters.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.gmErAmXw.dpuf
What a ridiculous reality we live in.
Right now the mainstream media is flooding the news cycle with story after story trying to rile people up about how the FBI has officially blamed North Korea for the Sony hack which led to the company canceling its scheduled release of the upcoming Seth Rogan movie “The Interview,” ostensibly to avoid terror attacks at theaters.
Yesterday The New York Times ran a story titled, “U.S. Weighs Response to Sony Cyberattack, With North Korea Confrontation Possible.” Voice of America, one of our government’s more openly official propaganda arms, ran with the headline, “US: Sony Cyberattack is ‘Serious’ National Security Matter.” I saw the headline on VOA and went, “Uh-huh. Suuuuuuure it is.”
The Telegraph is even saying China helped.
And it’s official: the mainstream media sound like a bunch of children stomping around flailing their arms, “Look over here, look over here!! Pay attention to me, dammit!” for a story that most people aren’t even sure they should waste eyeball juice on.
At the same time, alternative media outlets are rightfully calling this whole thing what it very likely is: a U.S. intelligence operation, and a huge (and frankly ridiculous) distraction.
Two family members have individually asked me now what I personally think of the Sony/North Korea story. My first response when I saw the headlines prior to the ridiculousfest blowing up the last few days was a yawn and a stretch. My response today, however, when they asked was more along the lines of *insert mind-melting scream here* akin to the sound of a rabid ninja camel fist-fighting a giant zombie anteater on crack with lightning bolts for eyes.
So people are actually buying this crap? Really?!
Well, not my Facebook friends (a lovely bunch).
“It’s all sleight of hand… Look over here [while we do this over here.] People are fed up with this crap!” Mike Baysek agreed when I said I thought the media was stomping around like a bunch of children who want attention. He continued, “This is almost as stupid as that fake movie the CIA put out about Mohammed a couple years ago.”
Kevin Pick wrote, “It’s really surprising to me how many people believe N Korea did it with zero evidence whatsoever.” I know Kevin. It somehow still manages to surprise me, too.
Thomas B. chimed in with, “First off, I’m surprised they didn’t blame it on Iran and secondly, you’re spot on, this is mind pablum to distract. Absent of Kardashian’s ass redux, feast on the NK psy-op for now.”
I responded with, “Kim Kardashian’s ass is a more believable distraction story…and that’s saying a lot.”
Apparently ten people on Twitter agree with me…(at least at the time of posting this article not too long after I posted the Tweet).
On top of everything else, they are going so far now as Paramount canceling the make-up showing of Team America: World Police, which, if you’ve seen the comedy put out by the guys behind the hit cartoon South Park, involves lampooning both America, North Korea, and the whole War on Terror in a pretty direct way.
Because scary North Korea and terror and stuff.
Of the decision to pull it, Gizmodo wrote, “Paramount Cancels Team America Screenings Because Everyone’s a Coward“:
I think it’s even worse than everyone being a coward, though. I think it’s just one more piece of propaganda pie to shove down the throats of the American public today that we should all be shaking in our boots scared of…North Korea. (Again, really?)
North Korea is like the ghost in a sheet with holes cut out for the eyes that they pull out of the basement as a wild card when they’ve got nothing else new going on to scare people with.
It goes something like, “Ooh, you know, we need a distraction for the fact that other really important stuff that actually directly impacts the lives of every American is going on right now…Let’s see.” (Pulls out Magic Book of Psyops and False Flaggishness.) “Ah! We haven’t had a fake North Korea threat in a while…better get on that.”
While all this is taking center stage in the foreground and everyone is pointing and staring at it cooing, “Ooh, look, shiny things!” do you know what’s actually going on in the background?
Aside from the fact that the police state in America has gotten to a 1984 thought crime/Minority Report pre-crime level, with our militarized and soon-to-be federalized police force assigning each of us a color-coded threat level based on all of our data including our social media posts, the economy is still floating around on magic fairy farts that are bound to run out sometime, and Obama just quietly announced sanctions on Russia’s Crimea, once again poking the bear with a pointed stick and trying to provoke the cold war into a hot one.
But yeah. Sony hack, Seth Rogan movies and North Korea as a boogity boogity ghost.
yadda yadda blah blah blah.
You know, you could do a nicer thing for your brain by just taking a nap; it’d serve you and your brain cells much better than reading and believing the fat bag of North Korean distraction propaganda being dumped out in the mainstream media cycle.
I think I’m going to go do that now actually.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.gmErAmXw.dpuf
Right now the mainstream media is flooding the news cycle with story after story trying to rile people up about how the FBI has officially blamed North Korea for the Sony hack which led to the company canceling its scheduled release of the upcoming Seth Rogan movie “The Interview,” ostensibly to avoid terror attacks at theaters.
Yesterday The New York Times ran a story titled, “U.S. Weighs Response to Sony Cyberattack, With North Korea Confrontation Possible.” Voice of America, one of our government’s more openly official propaganda arms, ran with the headline, “US: Sony Cyberattack is ‘Serious’ National Security Matter.” I saw the headline on VOA and went, “Uh-huh. Suuuuuuure it is.”
The Telegraph is even saying China helped.
And it’s official: the mainstream media sound like a bunch of children stomping around flailing their arms, “Look over here, look over here!! Pay attention to me, dammit!” for a story that most people aren’t even sure they should waste eyeball juice on.
At the same time, alternative media outlets are rightfully calling this whole thing what it very likely is: a U.S. intelligence operation, and a huge (and frankly ridiculous) distraction.
Two family members have individually asked me now what I personally think of the Sony/North Korea story. My first response when I saw the headlines prior to the ridiculousfest blowing up the last few days was a yawn and a stretch. My response today, however, when they asked was more along the lines of *insert mind-melting scream here* akin to the sound of a rabid ninja camel fist-fighting a giant zombie anteater on crack with lightning bolts for eyes.
So people are actually buying this crap? Really?!
Well, not my Facebook friends (a lovely bunch).
“It’s all sleight of hand… Look over here [while we do this over here.] People are fed up with this crap!” Mike Baysek agreed when I said I thought the media was stomping around like a bunch of children who want attention. He continued, “This is almost as stupid as that fake movie the CIA put out about Mohammed a couple years ago.”
Kevin Pick wrote, “It’s really surprising to me how many people believe N Korea did it with zero evidence whatsoever.” I know Kevin. It somehow still manages to surprise me, too.
Thomas B. chimed in with, “First off, I’m surprised they didn’t blame it on Iran and secondly, you’re spot on, this is mind pablum to distract. Absent of Kardashian’s ass redux, feast on the NK psy-op for now.”
I responded with, “Kim Kardashian’s ass is a more believable distraction story…and that’s saying a lot.”
Apparently ten people on Twitter agree with me…(at least at the time of posting this article not too long after I posted the Tweet).
On top of everything else, they are going so far now as Paramount canceling the make-up showing of Team America: World Police, which, if you’ve seen the comedy put out by the guys behind the hit cartoon South Park, involves lampooning both America, North Korea, and the whole War on Terror in a pretty direct way.
Because scary North Korea and terror and stuff.
Of the decision to pull it, Gizmodo wrote, “Paramount Cancels Team America Screenings Because Everyone’s a Coward“:
Terrorist threats are no laughing matter, of course, but the Department of Homeland Security has found no credible threat, and evidence that the Guardians of Peace have any sort of manpower that could do anything within the boundaries of the United States (much less at thousands of locations simultaneously) is practically non-existent. This sort of panicked cowardice would be absurd if it wasn’t so damn sad.At least the Alamo Draft House chain has big enough sense of humor to laugh at this ridiculousness in the first place.
I think it’s even worse than everyone being a coward, though. I think it’s just one more piece of propaganda pie to shove down the throats of the American public today that we should all be shaking in our boots scared of…North Korea. (Again, really?)
North Korea is like the ghost in a sheet with holes cut out for the eyes that they pull out of the basement as a wild card when they’ve got nothing else new going on to scare people with.
It goes something like, “Ooh, you know, we need a distraction for the fact that other really important stuff that actually directly impacts the lives of every American is going on right now…Let’s see.” (Pulls out Magic Book of Psyops and False Flaggishness.) “Ah! We haven’t had a fake North Korea threat in a while…better get on that.”
While all this is taking center stage in the foreground and everyone is pointing and staring at it cooing, “Ooh, look, shiny things!” do you know what’s actually going on in the background?
Aside from the fact that the police state in America has gotten to a 1984 thought crime/Minority Report pre-crime level, with our militarized and soon-to-be federalized police force assigning each of us a color-coded threat level based on all of our data including our social media posts, the economy is still floating around on magic fairy farts that are bound to run out sometime, and Obama just quietly announced sanctions on Russia’s Crimea, once again poking the bear with a pointed stick and trying to provoke the cold war into a hot one.
But yeah. Sony hack, Seth Rogan movies and North Korea as a boogity boogity ghost.
yadda yadda blah blah blah.
You know, you could do a nicer thing for your brain by just taking a nap; it’d serve you and your brain cells much better than reading and believing the fat bag of North Korean distraction propaganda being dumped out in the mainstream media cycle.
I think I’m going to go do that now actually.
- See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/more-sony-hacknorth-korea-propaganda-team-america-world-police-screenings-canceled_122014#sthash.gmErAmXw.dpuf
