Something was wrong with this picture (both literally and figuratively): a comedy about the assassination of the young and inexperience leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, who, like JFK, has his head blown apart, in this case when a missile hits the helicopter he is hanging onto! The methods differ, but the outcome is the same.
During an interview with Press TV, I explained that this was a “colossal act of stupidity” which could have unforeseen consequences and that the cyber attack on SONY may not have come from North Korea but from inside sources because of a strenuous conflict that has arisen between SONY Japan and SONY Hollywood.
Wayne Madsen, for example, has explained that SONY Japan was upset with SONY Hollywood because Japan is engaged in sensitive negotiations with North Korea over the release of 840 Japanese prisoners North Koren has been holding for decades and was profoundly concerned that the film might scuttle the process.
New information identifies a source within SONY, known as “Lena”, as an insider who was in the perfect position to pull this off. And the film itself might not be an act of such stupidity if it were being used to set up North Korea to play “the patsy” for Israel when it takes advantage of these circumstances to take out Barack Obama.

My initial reaction to the film

An analyst says the making of a comic movie by a US entertainment company about the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was a “colossal act of stupidity,” Press TV reports.
James Fetzer, a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, told Press TV that the production of the film “The Interview” by Sony Pictures was also provocative.
“The creation of this movie from the beginning was a colossal act of stupidity and I can’t believe that Sony is going forward with its release under these circumstances,” he said, after the US company announced it would release the movie.
He further said that Hollywood is now very much under the influence of the Zionists.
US officials say Pyongyang targeted Sony Pictures in a hacking attack to halt the planned release of the movie. North Korea denied any involvement in the cyber attack and proposed a joint investigation with Washington.
The hack, which has been described as the most devastating cyber attack on a US business, has paralyzed Sony Pictures and led to the cancellation of the screening of the controversial movie.
The hackers threatened 9/11-style terrorist attacks on the US movie theaters screening “The Interview.”

It wasn’t North Korea

The FBI and President Obama were quick to conclude that the hacking had been done by North Korea, but they based their conclusion on feeble evidence and presumptions that have not been borne out. An excellent analysis of the flaws in their reasoning has been published in The Daily Mail (Updated: 15:04 EST, Friday 26 December 2014):

A growing number of cybersecurity experts are coming forward to say that North Korea and their leader Kim Jong-un (above) could not have been behind the Sony hack
Too strong: This after President Obama (above) said in a news conference on Friday that the United States would retaliate following North Korea’s actions
The problems with the FBI’s investigation are best explained by Marc Rogers in an article he wrote for The Daily Beast. Working as both the director of security operations for DEF CON, the world’s largest hacker conference, and the principal security researcher for the world’s leading mobile security company, Cloudflare, Rogers may be one of the foremost experts when it comes to hacking.
The first FBI claim that Rogers tears down also happens to be one the strongest that the FBI has, saying in their statement; ‘The malware used in this attack revealed links to other malware that the FBI knows North Korean actors previously developed.’

There are two problems with this interpretation, according to Harris, both of which have to do with the bureau basing its findings on assumptions as opposed to facts:

First, while a similar malware may have been used in a previous cyber attack that North Korea has been linked to, that does not serve as definitive proof that this attack was carried out by North Korea.
Harris then further chips away at this statement, pointing out that he and many security experts do not believe North Korea was involved in those previous incidents, whose coding the FBI is referencing to tie the attacks together.
What’s more, the coding for one of the two malwares, Shamoon, was leaked according to Harris, and would not be difficult for any hacker to find.
He then takes aim at the FBI conclusion that since the IP addresses used in the attack are addresses used by North Korea in previous attacks, they must be responsible.
According to Harris, the reasoning is flawed as these addresses are used by everyone from major hackers to even small time Internet criminals to avoid detection, meaning these addresses could tie virtually anyone in the hacking community, or even someone using stolen credit cards to shop online and avoid detection, to the attack.
Then, there is the fact that the demand by the hacking group, who call themselves the Guardians of Peace, that the The Interview not be released was not announced until weeks into the hack, and only after some members of the media had begun to perpetuate the now widely accepted story that the goal of the hack was to make sure The Interview would never be distributed by Sony.

Hacking group motive contrived

Moreover, many skeptics have been pointing out that North Korea’s alleged motivation was discussed in publications by some media outlets before the group that was allegedly responsible for hacking SONY advanced it, which makes it an “all too convenient story”. Consider, for example, what several cyber security experts have had to say about this:

Kurt Stammberger, a senior vice president with cyber security firm Norse, echoed many of Harris’ statements in a separate interview, and said that given the severity of the hack it had to have been an inside job.
Stammberger, whose company decided to carry out their own independent investigation, told CBS News; “We are very confident that this was not an attack master-minded by North Korea and that insiders were key to the implementation of one of the most devastating attacks in history.”
That’s not all either, as he says their research seems to be pointing them towards a woman named “Lena” who even claims be a member of Guardians of Peace.
“This woman was in precisely the right position and had the deep technical background she would need to locate the specific servers that were compromised,’ revealed Stammberger.

A deeper, darker alternative

Under the circumstances, there are more and less sinister interpretations of what is going on here. The more innocuous would be that the hype is calculated to draw crowds into theaters for a mediocre film that otherwise would not do well. That, of course, would be par for the course in Hollywood: the greater the hype, the greater the payoff!
Given the domination of Hollywood studios by persons with strong affinities to Israel, however, there is another, overwhelmingly more troubling possibility: that the plan is to put the patsy in place–just as Lee Harvey Oswald was positioned at the Texas School Book Depository–before taking out the President of the United States, Barack Obama.
It turns out that the PM of Israel made a very strange reference to “the grassy knoll” of the assassination of JFK in a speech to the Kinesset, which appears to have been in retaliation for a reference to him as “chickenshit” by a senior Obama administration official, which apparently was not received with pleasure by Benjamin Netanyahu:

Should this be taken seriously?

As Justin Raimondo has written, “The scandal was created, unsurprisingly, by Israel’s semi-official flack-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, a former Israeli prison guard turned journalist, whose pronouncements carry the authority of someone with impeccable connections in both Tel Aviv and Washington. Writing in The Atlantic, he reports:

“The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. ‘The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit’ this official said …”

A more complete account of what was said also appears in the same article as follows:

“’The good thing about Netanyahu is that he’s scared to launch wars,’ the official said, expanding the definition of what a chickenshit Israeli prime minister looks like. ‘The bad thing about him is that he won’t do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states. The only thing he’s interested in is protecting himself from political defeat. He’s not [Yitzhak] Rabin, he’s not [Ariel] Sharon, he’s certainly no [Menachem] Begin. He’s got no guts.’”

Andrew Adler, the Editor of The Jewish Times, a mainstream Jewish publication, has called for the Mossad to assassinate the President of the United States, because Obama has not been sufficiently committed to the safety and security of Israel. He even writes, as the third of three options for Israel to defend itself, that Netanyahu should do this:

“[G]ive the go-ahead for U.S-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.”

I wish I could say that there is no good reason to believe that might come to pass. But the Prime Minister of Israel is notoriously thin-skinned and surely resents being described as “chickenshit” by one of the Obama administration’s highest officials. What better way to show “he has guts” than by taking him out?
Indeed, the most important condition for actually assassinating the President of the United States has already been put in place with the creation of a most conspicuous international patsy, Kim Jong-un. I would like to believe that the Secret Service will protect Barack Obama, but they were also “on the job” in Dallas.

Jim Fetzer

A former Marine Corps officer, Jim Fetzer has published widely on the theoretical foundations of scientific knowledge, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and evolution and mentality.
McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he has also conducted extensive research into the assassination of JFK, the events of 9/11, and the plane crash that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone.
The founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, his latest books include The Evolution of Intelligence (2005), The 9/11 Conspiracy (2007), Render Unto Darwin (2007), and The Place of Probability in Science (2010)

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