Walk like a Putin

[Deranged Rhino]

http://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-reports-russian-military-activity-crimea-border-armored-column-488283?rx=us

[GG]

http://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-reports-russian-military-activity-crimea-border-armored-column-488283?rx=us

 

Pargaon of stability, eh?

[Deranged Rhino]

 

Pargaon of stability, eh?

 

Compared to the west in the past 24-36 months, yes. But let's see what happens. Lots of conflicting reports saying this one isn't true.

 

Red-baiting is high on the media's agenda. Need to push that second cold war to the forefront to keep those checks coming.

[Deranged Rhino]

Buckle up...

 

 

Russia accuses Ukraine of trying to get saboteurs into Crimea

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-crimea-attack-idUSKCN10L1EE?il=0

[B-Man]

How a Putin ‘surprise’ could rock the election — and the economy

By John Crudele

The financial markets should start preparing themselves for an October surprise.

October, of course, has always been a tricky month for Wall Street. But the markets would be wise to prepare ASAP for a surprise — because it could come in September or even this month, depending on when Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to make trouble.

But there’s so much more to this story and “the surprise” because there are, in fact, a number of surprises that are possible.

You’ve already heard stories — including one published recently by Politico — about how the Democrats are worried that Putin will try to interfere with the US presidential election by releasing the missing personal emails of Hillary Clinton.

But Putin and his gang of spies aren’t the only ones with those emails, according to a very reliable source of mine in the intelligence community.

The NSA — the National Security Agency — also has copies of Hillary’s private emails.

{snip}

The Russians got Hillary’s email more easily. As I’ve written before, they stole the password for Madame Secretary’s BlackBerry probably during one of her 2012 trips to that country.

Once they had the password, the Russians could see everything that Hillary was emailing and could record every conversation on that non-secured line.

And the NSA, all along, was watching the Russians monitor Hillary. That’s how the Adm. Michael Rogers-led NSA, which specializes in global monitoring and collection of data, came to have Hillary’s emails, according to my source.

The NSA even offered the emails to the FBI when it was conducting the probe that ultimately found that Hillary was “extremely careless” with sensitive government information. The FBI declined the NSA’s offer, I’m told. The emails, the FBI contended, would have been useless in court if Hillary had been indicted because of the way they were obtained.

 

The NSA would never officially release the emails, but that’s not to say a rogue agent might not leak ’em. There is, I’m also told, bad blood between Hillary and the NSA that goes back to her early days as secretary of state.

[DC Tom]

 

The NSA would never officially release the emails, but that’s not to say a rogue agent might not leak ’em. There is, I’m also told, bad blood between Hillary and the NSA that goes back to her early days as secretary of state.

 

 

 

Is there any government agency that doesn't have bad blood with Hillary.

 

She's managed to royally piss off just about every national security organization, at least. Including her own friggin' bodyguards.

[Deranged Rhino]

RT source so discernment advised:

 

 

‘Kiev has turned to terrorism’: Putin on foiled sabotage plot in Crimea

 

Ukraine is “playing a dangerous game,” the Russian leader said when talking to reporters on Wednesday, while calling Kiev’s actions “stupid and criminal.”

Moscow cannot turn a blind eye to the deaths of its servicemen who were killed during special operations to prevent terrorist attacks in Crimea, Putin said.

Given that the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR MOU) was allegedly behind the thwarted terrorist attacks in Crimea, it is “pointless” to meet with Ukraine’s current authorities to seek a solution to the country’s crisis, Putin said.

The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany were to meet in the so-called “Normandy format” to discuss the peace process in Ukraine on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 in China.

https://www.rt.com/news/355419-putin-crimea-terrorism-kiev/

Sketchy source with more info:

https://www.sott.net/article/324852-Russian-FSB-foils-terrorist-attacks-in-Crimea-plotted-by-Ukrainian-intel-agents

[GG]

Next thing you knew, there will be a mysterious Kremlin fire or an apartment bombing with a clear link to Kiev, right?

[Deranged Rhino]

Next thing you knew, there will be a mysterious Kremlin fire or an apartment bombing with a clear link to Kiev, right?

 

Let's see what happens. It's clearly the more important story than what's being splashed all over screens stateside.

It took a few hours, but here's the first corporate media reporting of it I've found:

 

Russia accuses Ukraine of attempted Crimea 'incursions'

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37037401

[drinkTHEkoolaid]

At this point I'm hoping Putin saves us from our own stupidity. He's our only hope.

[Deranged Rhino]

Russia announces war games after accusing Ukraine of terrorist plot

The Russian leader met his top military and intelligence service brass on Thursday and reviewed "scenarios for counter-terrorism security measures along the land border, offshore and in Crimean air space," the Kremlin said.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he had ordered all Ukrainian units near Crimea and in eastern Ukraine onto the highest state of combat readiness. He was seeking to urgently speak to Putin, the leaders of France and Germany, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and European Council President Donald Tusk.

Oleh Slobodyan, a spokesman for the Ukrainian border guards, said Russia had massed troops on Ukraine's border with Crimea in recent days following an uptick in Russian military activity in northern Crimea and heavier fighting in eastern Ukraine.

"These troops are coming with more modern equipment and there are air assault units," he told a news briefing in Kiev.

The Russian Defence Ministry said its navy - whose Black Sea Fleet is based in Crimea - would start to hold exercises in the area to practice repelling underwater attacks by saboteurs.

 

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-idUSKCN10M1LN

[DC Tom]

Russia announces war games after accusing Ukraine of terrorist plot

The Russian leader met his top military and intelligence service brass on Thursday and reviewed "scenarios for counter-terrorism security measures along the land border, offshore and in Crimean air space," the Kremlin said.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he had ordered all Ukrainian units near Crimea and in eastern Ukraine onto the highest state of combat readiness. He was seeking to urgently speak to Putin, the leaders of France and Germany, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and European Council President Donald Tusk.

Oleh Slobodyan, a spokesman for the Ukrainian border guards, said Russia had massed troops on Ukraine's border with Crimea in recent days following an uptick in Russian military activity in northern Crimea and heavier fighting in eastern Ukraine.

"These troops are coming with more modern equipment and there are air assault units," he told a news briefing in Kiev.

The Russian Defence Ministry said its navy - whose Black Sea Fleet is based in Crimea - would start to hold exercises in the area to practice repelling underwater attacks by saboteurs.

 

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-idUSKCN10M1LN

 

 

I'm mildly surprised he'd even bother speaking with the US, given how our ****-ass foreign policy has at best exacerbated this whole mess.

[Deranged Rhino]

Coincidence? Or payback?

 

 

RT hit with string of cunning DDoS attacks https://www.rt.com/news/355610-rt-under-cunning-ddos-attack/

https://www.rt.com/usa/355600-reddit-is-down-users-faces/

[Dante]

Coincidence? Or payback?

 

 

RT hit with string of cunning DDoS attacks https://www.rt.com/news/355610-rt-under-cunning-ddos-attack/

https://www.rt.com/usa/355600-reddit-is-down-users-faces/

I couldn't get to the site at all yesterday. The establishment afraid that RT and Putin might actually reveal something truthful? There is some creepy stuff going on right now with the media. Not sure this has anything to do with RT but just a example of weirdness happening.

 

http://observer.com/2016/08/tech-companies-apple-twitter-google-and-instagram-collude-to-defeat-trump/

Edited August 12, 2016 by Dante

[Deranged Rhino]

And more surprises: Putin shakes up his cabinet, removing his longest ally, former KGBer and Crimea-invasion advocate Ivanov

 

Shock in the Kremlin as Putin fires chief of staff Sergei Ivanov

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/12/shock-in-the-kremlin-as-putin-fires-chief-of-staff-sergei-ivanov/

 

Russia's Putin sacks chief of staff Sergei Ivanov

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37058751

[drinkTHEkoolaid]

And more surprises: Putin shakes up his cabinet, removing his longest ally, former KGBer and Crimea-invasion advocate Ivanov

Shock in the Kremlin as Putin fires chief of staff Sergei Ivanov

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/12/shock-in-the-kremlin-as-putin-fires-chief-of-staff-sergei-ivanov/

Russia's Putin sacks chief of staff Sergei Ivanov

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37058751

Interesting developments going on

[Deranged Rhino]

Interesting developments going on

 

And now this:

 

EDWARD SNOWDEN: Russia might have leaked alleged NSA cyberweapons as a 'warning'

 

 

On Monday, news broke that a group calling themselves "Shadow Brokers" is claiming to have hacked Equation Group, a world-class cyber-attack group believed to be part of US spy agency NSA(National Security Agency).

As nominal "proof," Shadow Brokers has released a selection of files — including alleged exploits and scripts — that it claims were stolen from Equation Group, and says it is auctioning off more.

Cybersecurity experts are assessing the unidentified group's claims, with some tentatively suggesting it could be legitimate (albeit dating back from 2013). But an equally important question being asked is: Just who is Shadow Brokers anyway?

The answer that many are considering: The Russian intelligence services.

(snip)

Edward Snowden, who worked as an NSA contractor before fleeing into exile and leaking details of the United States' surveillance apparatus to journalists, explored this possibility in a stream of tweets on Tuesday.

First, he reaffirmed what other experts have been saying — that if the hack is legitimate, the NSA itself wasn't hacked, but rather a particular server used by Equation Group for an operation was. This kind of successful attack on an NSA server isn't unheard of, Snowden says. "A rival publicly demonstrating they have done so is."

"Why did they do it?" the outspoken privacy advocate asks. "No one knows, but I suspect this is more diplomacy than intelligence, related to escalation around the DNC hack ... This leak is likely a warning that someone can prove US responsibility for any attacks that originated from this malware server [that the hacked files originated on]. That could have significant foreign policy consequences. Particularly if any of those operations targeted US allies."

In other words, Snowden thinks Russia is sending a warning that if the US decides to publicly blame it for the DNC, it will retaliate by leaking potentially damaging information about US cyber-intelligence operations to the world.

Snowden's tweets laying out why this is an issue in the article:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-shadow-brokers-russia-leaked-nsa-equation-group-files-warning-dnc-hacking-2016-8?r=US&IR=T

More: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wikileaks-release-pristine-copy-nsa-cyberweapons-hack-data-1576331?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news&yptr=yahoo

Edited August 16, 2016 by Deranged Rhino

[GG]

 

And now this:

 

EDWARD SNOWDEN: Russia might have leaked alleged NSA cyberweapons as a 'warning'

 

 

On Monday, news broke that a group calling themselves "Shadow Brokers" is claiming to have hacked Equation Group, a world-class cyber-attack group believed to be part of US spy agency NSA(National Security Agency).

As nominal "proof," Shadow Brokers has released a selection of files — including alleged exploits and scripts — that it claims were stolen from Equation Group, and says it is auctioning off more.

Cybersecurity experts are assessing the unidentified group's claims, with some tentatively suggesting it could be legitimate (albeit dating back from 2013). But an equally important question being asked is: Just who is Shadow Brokers anyway?

The answer that many are considering: The Russian intelligence services.

(snip)

Edward Snowden, who worked as an NSA contractor before fleeing into exile and leaking details of the United States' surveillance apparatus to journalists, explored this possibility in a stream of tweets on Tuesday.

First, he reaffirmed what other experts have been saying — that if the hack is legitimate, the NSA itself wasn't hacked, but rather a particular server used by Equation Group for an operation was. This kind of successful attack on an NSA server isn't unheard of, Snowden says. "A rival publicly demonstrating they have done so is."

"Why did they do it?" the outspoken privacy advocate asks. "No one knows, but I suspect this is more diplomacy than intelligence, related to escalation around the DNC hack ... This leak is likely a warning that someone can prove US responsibility for any attacks that originated from this malware server [that the hacked files originated on]. That could have significant foreign policy consequences. Particularly if any of those operations targeted US allies."

In other words, Snowden thinks Russia is sending a warning that if the US decides to publicly blame it for the DNC, it will retaliate by leaking potentially damaging information about US cyber-intelligence operations to the world.

Snowden's tweets laying out why this is an issue in the article:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-shadow-brokers-russia-leaked-nsa-equation-group-files-warning-dnc-hacking-2016-8?r=US&IR=T

More: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wikileaks-release-pristine-copy-nsa-cyberweapons-hack-data-1576331?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news&yptr=yahoo

 

Leaving aside the validity of this story, exactly how would Snowden get a hold of this information?

[Deranged Rhino]

Leaving aside the validity of this story, exactly how would Snowden get a hold of this information?

The story is real. The hack and subsequent auction offer has been reported in various outlets since yesterday. Snowden's own words answer your second question.

[GG]

The story is real. The hack and subsequent auction offer has been reported in various outlets since yesterday. Snowden's own words answer your second question.

 

His words are an explanation. How does he know that it is FSB & NSA?