Obama's expulsion of thirty-five Russian diplomats based on charges of Russian hacking is just more of his schoolboy theatrics which have nothing to do with reality.
There was more of it today regarding a laptop belonging to a power company which was found to be carrying some malware. Of course that was blamed on Russian hackers but only by the FBI / DHS and, presumably, the CIA. (RT: ‘Russian hackers’ penetrate US power grid with ‘outdated Ukrainian malware’)
Meanwhile, a number of IT specialists that have analyzed the code and other evidence published by the US government are questioning whether it really proves a Russian connection, let alone a connection to the Russian government. Wordfence, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in protecting websites running WordPress, a PHP-based platform, published a report on the issue on Friday.
Wordfence said they had traced the malware code to a tool available online, which is apparently funded by donations, called P.A.S. that claims to be “made in Ukraine.” The version tested by the FBI/DHS report is 3.1.7, while the most current version available on the tool’s website is 4.1.1b.
“One might reasonably expect Russian intelligence operatives to develop their own tools or at least use current malicious tools from outside sources,” the report says.
There was more of it today regarding a laptop belonging to a power company which was found to be carrying some malware. Of course that was blamed on Russian hackers but only by the FBI / DHS and, presumably, the CIA. (RT: ‘Russian hackers’ penetrate US power grid with ‘outdated Ukrainian malware’)
Meanwhile, a number of IT specialists that have analyzed the code and other evidence published by the US government are questioning whether it really proves a Russian connection, let alone a connection to the Russian government. Wordfence, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in protecting websites running WordPress, a PHP-based platform, published a report on the issue on Friday.
Wordfence said they had traced the malware code to a tool available online, which is apparently funded by donations, called P.A.S. that claims to be “made in Ukraine.” The version tested by the FBI/DHS report is 3.1.7, while the most current version available on the tool’s website is 4.1.1b.
“One might reasonably expect Russian intelligence operatives to develop their own tools or at least use current malicious tools from outside sources,” the report says.
- RT
Putin didn't do anything in reaction to Obama and this further clarifies his role as a leader and not just a politician.
Where this gets comical is in seeing Fox News trying to slap Trump down by heavily criticizing Obama's reactions to the so-called hacking because they weren't sufficient. John McCain even said this fantasy hacking is an act of war. Tip: that lunatic seriously needs a muzzle.
Meanwhile, Trump was saying Putin's reaction was very smart since he didn't respond to Obama with theatrics of his own. I agree with Trump but neither agrees with Fox News.
It looks like the Republican team has a bit of a problem with a sticky wicket.
Ed: what's a sticky wicket?
It's something to do with cricket and you don't want one. Beyond that, no idea.
In their own political concert of chaos, the Democrats are trying to paint Obama like Francis of Assisi but they have only shown thus far, that sorry remaining lot of the Democrats, they never read the news in any depth.
The lack of awareness of anything much in the news is being generically relegated, here at the Rockhouse, to the Facebook Effect due to cloistering of people with like beliefs and general filtering of news by the Facebook software. Facebook gets tagged the most with that since it's where I see it the most. Twitter and Google+ are much more wide open than that.
The determination to provoke conflict coming from what's left of the Republicans and what's left of the Democrats isn't hard to see but what absurdity prompts it when anyone can see such a war cannot be won. Even if it could be won, what does anyone hope to gain by it. Even if all of Russia becomes an American colony, most of the wealth coming from it would still go to the heavy heavies in Russia who run it just as it does now over there and also here in America so what's the difference.
How about throwing in a twist with the Bilderberg Group and that usually comes with a hefty dose of anti-Semitism in talking of domination by the Rothschilds, etc as part of the Great Jewish Conspiracy to take over the world or some such.
Whatever else the Bilderberg Group may be, it's not stupid and deliberately driving toward a war makes no sense. There's an inconceivable amount of money to be made in peace if we can only demilitarize and it shouldn't be hard to effect demilitarization since relatively few benefit in large riches from it. The mystery continues hanging of why the arms racing doesn't stop and why hardly anyone suggests it should.
The general cop is the media manipulates the news so much it engenders uncontrollable fear in people and they stop thinking straight. It's a novel cop and it's even true MSM tries to do that but the majority of people are not stupid or the IQ bell curve means nothing. Why should they fall for it.
We're extremely glad Putin stays cool. There's really no other move when everyone else goes full Luna la la.
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