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- Sony Hacking Case Shockingly Linked To Obama Regime
- Obama threatens retaliation after FBI accuses North Korea of Sony Hack
- Galaxies spiral into each other, create spectacular light show
- Palestinian UN draft against Israel act of war
- US Troops in first ground battle with ISIS
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Posted: 19 Dec 2014 08:56 AM PST
 A new report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) circulating in the Kremlin today states that their new “cyber troops” division, along with assistance provided by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), have discovered a “false flag” Obama regime operation against the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation designed to cover-up the US intelligence communities role in the making of propaganda movies, while at the same promoting a war against North Korea. According to this report, on 24 November, the US-located television and film production/distribution unit of Sony (Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) had its computer systems compromised by the notorious Nigerian 419 email scammers that the Palo Alto Networks famed Unit 42 threat intelligence team warned this past summer had evolved from simple phishing scams to more sophisticated cyber threats that target businesses. On 21 November, this report continues, these Nigerian 419 hackers sent an email to Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, Chairwoman Amy Pascal and other executives that read: “[M]onetary compensation we want. Pay the damage, or Sony Pictures will be bombarded as a whole. You know us very well. We never wait long. You’d better behave wisely.” Important to note, MoD analysts in this report note, is that the 21 November email wasn’t signed by the mysterious GOP or Guardians of Peace, who have since taken credit for the hack, but by “God’sApstls,” a reference that also appeared in one of the malicious files used in the Sony hack and which is a known religious name used by some Nigerian 419 hackers. With Sony refusing to pay the Nigerian 419 hackers, however, this report says, on 24 November these cyber gangsters began publically releasing many of the files they had stolen, the most damaging to the Obama regime being internal emails showing that theUS State Department and the RAND Corporation consulted on and approved a movie called “The Interview” depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. These leaked emails show that Sony enlisted the services of Bruce Bennett, a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation who specializes in North Korea, in making this assassination movie and further revealed that Robert King, US special envoy for North Korean human-rights issues, and Daniel Russel, US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs were helping to consult on this film as well. As to why the Obama regime would be so involved in making a movie depicting the assassination of a foreign leader, this MoD report states, can be found in an email written by the RAND Corporations senior defense analyst Bennett who worked on this movie and said: “The North has never executed an artillery attack against the balloon launching areas. So it is very hard to tell what is pure bluster from North Korea, since they use the term ‘act of war’ so commonly. I also thought a bunch more about the ending.  Even worse, this report warns, is that the fanatical Obama regime war mongers consulting on this movie are supported by the new US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, who in 2006 advocated the bombing of North Korea, and in 2012, along with the RAND Corporation senior policy analyst Ashley Tellis, in a conference sponsored by the Asia Society titled “The U.S. Strategic Rebalance to Asia: A Defense Perspective”, further advocated to an American “total war” to gain supremacy in this vital region. Also to note about Carter, the SVR in this report notes, was his secret trip to Japan this past week (under the guise of his having a mysterious back ailment the Obama regime refused to comment on) during which he met with top Sony Corporation executives who agreed not to allow the release of this movie. And not just has the Obama regime been successful in keeping from the American people their role in making this assassination movie, this MoD report continues, they have also completely taken over the hacking of Sony using their advanced spying tool Regin, that according to cyber experts, “displays a degree of technical competence rarely seen and has been used in spying operations against governments, infrastructure operators, businesses, researchers, and private individuals.” As to the “technical route” the Obama regime used in completing the hacking of Sony using Regin, MoD analysts in this report say, was through their Sony Pictures Belgium location and, perhaps, best explained by the leakers of Edward Snowden’s documents who wrote: “Complex malware known as Regin is the suspected technology behind sophisticated cyberattacks conducted by U.S. and British intelligence agencies on the European Union and a Belgian telecommunications company, according to security industry sources and technical analysis conducted by The Intercept.To why the Obama regime has taken over the hacking of Sony, this MoD report further warns, is in order to blame North Korea for it and then retaliate in kind, an absurd stance that even some of the world’s top experts are now deriding, including: Sean Sullivan, a security adviser at Finnish security firm F-Secure, who said, “There’s no direct, hard evidence that implicates North Korea. There is evidence of extortion (the Nov. 21 email [to Sony executives which demanded money]) and the hackers only mentioned [the movie] The Interview after it was brought up in the press, which they then used to their advantage.” Robert Graham, CEO of Atlanta-based Errata Security, who said, “There’s no evidence pointing to North Korea, not even the barest of hints. Some bit of code was compiled in Korea — but that’s South Korean (banned in North Korea, [which] uses Chinese settings). Sure, they used threats to cancel The Interview — but after the FBI said they might.” Jeffrey Carr, founder and CEO of Seattle cybersecurity consulting firm Taia Global, who said, “Is North Korea responsible for the Sony breach? I can’t imagine a more unlikely scenario.” Notwithstanding the truth, however, this report concludes, the American people will nevertheless be led into another disastrous Obama regime war even though George Friedman, the founder and CEO of the global intelligence company Stratfor, known as “Shadow CIA”, warned this past week that the evidence proves that the Obama regime plotted the deadly coup which took place in Ukraine in February 2014 in response to Russia’s policy in Syria, and which to date has cost nearly 5,000 lives. Source           |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2014 07:59 AM PST
 “They caused a lot of damage and we will respond. We will respond proportionally… in a place, time, and manner that we choose, ” said the US president at a year-end news conference on Friday. The hack which has been described as the most devastating cyberattack on a US business has paralyzed Sony Pictures and led to the cancelation the release. “I wish they had spoken to me first… We cannot have a society in which some dictatorship someplace can start imposing censorship,” Obama said, calling the cancellation a “mistake.” Earlier in the day, the FBI said in a statement it “now has enough information to conclude that the North Korean government is responsible for these actions.” Hackers have threatened 9/11-style terrorist attacks in the United States because of a controversial movie, “The Interview,” that depicts the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Last month, Sony executives received an email warning them not to release their “movie of terror,” referring to “The Interview.” A trove of sensitive documents was also exposed in the hacking incident. Source      |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2014 07:20 AM PST
 The galaxies, named NGC 2207 and IC 2163, were “caught in a grazing encounter,” NASA said in a statement. The two have hosted three supernova explosions over the last 15 years, producing “one of the most bountiful collections of super bright X-ray lights known.” These super bright X-ray lights are called “ultraluminous X-ray sources” ‒ or ULXs ‒ which have far brighter X-rays than most “normal” X-ray binaries, or star systems consisting of a star in a tight orbit around either a neutron star or a “stellar-mass” black hole. The strong gravity of the central object pulls matter from the companion star. As this matter falls toward the neutron star or black hole, it is heated to millions of degrees and generates X-rays, according to the space agency. The kaleidoscopic composite image of NGC 2207 and IC 2163 contains Chandra data in pink, optical light data from the Hubble Space Telescope in red, green and blue (appearing as blue, white, orange and brown), and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope in red. The new Chandra image contains about five times more observation time than previous efforts to study ULXs in this galaxy pair. Scientists now tally a total of 28 ULXs between the two galaxies, which are slowly merging. Of those, seven were previously undetected because they were in a “quiet” phase during the earlier studies.  They note there is a strong correlation between the number of X-ray sources in different regions of the galaxies and the rate at which stars are forming in these regions. The compilation shows that X-ray sources are concentrated in the spiral arms of the galaxies, where large amounts of stars are known to be forming. It suggests that the companion star in the binary systems is young and massive. Researchers believe that the stars associated with the ULXs are about 10 million years old.  The larger NGC 2207 and smaller IC 2163 are both “spiral galaxies,” as is our own Milky Way. This means that they consist of a flat, rotating disc containing stars, gas and dust, and a central concentration of stars known as the bulge. These are surrounded by a much fainter halo of stars, many of which reside in globular clusters.  The pair of colliding galaxies located 130 million light-years from Earth was discovered by John Herschel in 1835. Together they measure 180,000 light-years across. Source      |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2014 06:44 AM PST
 The Israeli intelligence minister describes as an “act of war” a Palestinian draft submitted to the UN Security Council to end Israeli occupation by the end of 2017. “The Palestinians made sure to remove any mention of Israel’s status as a Jewish state from the draft, which means this is not an act of peace, it’s an act of war,” Israel Radio quoted Yuval Steinitz as saying on Thursday. The draft was presented to the UN by Jordan, said Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour at a press conference on Wednesday. “We need to consider every move including cutting off economic ties with” the Palestinian Authority, Steinitz said. “If the PA continues to incite against us, against our existence, against the Jewish nation, if it [continues to] take unilateral action, we need to respond not just in the international sphere but also in the Palestinian sphere and to consider, if there is no other choice, dismantling the [Palestinian] Authority,” he added. Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman also said in a statement that the resolution will be of no avail for the Palestinians. “[Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas is undertaking actions with the sole purpose of taunting Israel. They serve no real purpose for the Palestinian people. On the contrary, these actions will only worsen the conflict and will not advance a peace deal because without Israel’s agreement, nothing will change [on the ground],” he said in a statement. He further described as “gimmicks” the Palestinian draft, urging the UNSC to consider more pressing issues in the world. “The Security Council is better served dealing with issues of true importance in the world, like how to handle the deadly terror we saw this week in Australia and Pakistan. Or the Syrian civil war, or Libya, and not waste its time on Palestinian gimmicks,” he added. The Arab-backed draft initially set a deadline of November 2016 for Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories, but France pushed for a softer resolution. Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state on the territories of the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the besieged Gaza Strip and are demanding that Israel withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories. Tel Aviv, however, has refused to return to the 1967 borders and is unwilling to discuss the issue of Jerusalem. Source      |
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Posted: 19 Dec 2014 06:01 AM PST
 American forces were involved in their first ground battle with Islamic State fighters, according to Kurdish media outlet Shafaq News, near the Ain Al-Assad base in the Anbar province of Iraq early Sunday. The report could not be independently verified. US forces allegedly came to the aid of tribal fighters and the Iraqi Army battling Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) militants in the Al-Dolab area, 10 km (6.2 miles) from the Ain Al-Assad base, which is about 90 km (56 miles) west of Anbar’s capital, Ramadi. “US forces intervened because … ISIS started to come near the base, which they are stationed in so out of self-defense, they responded,” said Sheikh Mahmud Nimrawi, a tribal leader in the area, according to Shafaq. The base hosts about 100 US military advisers, the report claimed. An Iraqi Army field commander in Anbar said that “the US force equipped with light and medium weapons, supported by fighter force model F-18″ was able to hit Islamic State targets, forcing them to retreat from Al-Dolab. The clash with Islamic forces lasted for more than two hours, as American jets also hit several Islamic State fighters, according to Colonel Salam Nazim. “We have made progress in Al-Dolab area, in which ISIS has withdrawn from to the villages beyond, after the battles which involved a private American force” that surprised Islamic State fighters, tribal leader Sheikh Mahmud Nimrawi said. The American forces returned to Ain Al-Assad base after the mission, according to Nimrawi, who added that the “US promised to provide tribal fighters who are in that region exclusively with weapons.” The Pentagon has not released information on any American involvement in ground fighting with Islamic State. Since announcing US-led-coalition airstrikes against Islamic State in August, US President Barack Obama has repeatedly stated that he would not commit troops to another ground war in Iraq. Yet the Pentagon’s top brass have since said that the option remains on the table. US Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress last week that President Obama “has been crystal clear” about his preference to rely on local forces to defeat the Islamic State. But Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that any congressional authorization of military force against Islamic State militants should not ban the use of American ground forces, or place a “geographic limitation” on the effort. “[W]e certainly believe this is the soundest policy, and while the president has been clear he’s open to clarifications on the use of US combat troops to be outlined in an AUMF, that does not mean we should preemptively bind the hands of the commander in chief – or our commanders in the field – in responding to scenarios and contingencies that are impossible to foresee,” Kerry said. Meanwhile, Iraqi Kurdish forces began Wednesday an operation to retake Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq, after US-led coalition airstrikes targeted Islamic State positions overnight, Kurdish security officials said, according to Reuters. “At 8:00 this morning the ground offensive began to liberate Sinjar town,” said one official in the region’s Security Council, adding that coalition jets hit the area beforehand. “There’s evidence that a lot of IS fighters abandoned their weapons and fled the area.” Should the offensive prove successful, it could open a path to Sinjar mountain, where hundreds of Yazidis – an ethnic Kurdish minority – have been trapped by Islamic State since August. Upon authorizing airstrikes in August, Obama said the action was necessary to protect American personnel and to offer humanitarian aid to the besieged Yazidis Kurdish forces have regained much ground lost to Islamic State in northern Iraq since the summer, according to Reuters. Source     |
