http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/08/obama-to-putin-stop-hacking-me.html
The U.S. is calling out Russia for a "dramatic rise" in cyber espionage against America. It's part of a veiled threat to the Kremlin: We know what you're doing online. Ever since the U.S. government hit Russia with economic sanctions last year, Russian hackers have started new cyberspying campaigns to steal information from U.S. government agencies and corporations, according to current and former American intelligence officials and cybersecurity experts. Now, American officials are fighting backâby outing the hackers and issuing what some see as veiled threats to Moscow.
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @09:53PM
Not bad MDC, very on topic with only mild ramblings... not bad at all. The anecdote about him driving the taxi is rather amusing.
Still I think it is premature to pawn it all off on his financial situation. Rather that I think it did contribute, but in sense it hurt his pride. So while some megalomaniacs are born, others are raised.
But regardless of origin, neither can be cured, well other than by lead I assume.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday August 11 2015, @11:47PM
Bush and Clinton are to be blamed rather than Reagan. Something happened between the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin. That something was called "shock therapy":
https://paullikoudis.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/the-plunder-of-russia-in-the-1990s/ [wordpress.com]
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/ufd_shocktherapy.html [pbs.org]
http://www.4thmedia.org/2012/06/neoliberalism-failures-and-limits-of-shock-therapy-in-russia/ [4thmedia.org]
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1998/eirv25n32-19980814/eirv25n32-19980814_056-how_imf_shock_therapy_was_impose.pdf [larouchepub.com]
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:45AM
And its not just that they didnt know where their next meal was coming from but that they were all James Bond and Peter Gunn fans.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]