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RT has also already debunked this story: https://www.rt.com/op-edge/368...

http://www.snopes.com/anti-tru...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nb...
http://www.alternet.org/electi...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...
https://www.rt.com/viral/36431...
http://occupydemocrats.com/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/video/u...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/...
https://thinkprogress.org/sher...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fb...

Don't act as if this is some one-sided thing. Please.

Look at the vile hatred that was spewed from one side in particular.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nb...
http://www.alternet.org/electi...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...
https://www.rt.com/viral/36431...
http://occupydemocrats.com/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/video/u...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/...
https://thinkprogress.org/sher...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fb...

Don't act as if this is some one-sided thing. Please.

The vast majority of people on either side are completely peaceful. But when you look at the retoric that was spewed by one candidate in particular, it's not hard to see why people are angry.

Also, what happened to the whole "rigged election" thing? Seems like the ol' Trumpster clammed up on that subject right around November 8th, didn't he?

http://www.snopes.com/anti-tru...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nb...
http://www.alternet.org/electi...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...
https://www.rt.com/viral/36431...
http://occupydemocrats.com/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/video/u...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/...
https://thinkprogress.org/sher...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fb...

Don't act as if this is some one-sided thing. Please.

http://www.snopes.com/anti-tru...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nb...
http://www.alternet.org/electi...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...
https://www.rt.com/viral/36431...
http://occupydemocrats.com/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/video/u...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/...
https://thinkprogress.org/sher...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fb...

Don't act as if this is some one-sided thing. Please.

http://www.snopes.com/anti-tru...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nb...
http://www.alternet.org/electi...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...
https://www.rt.com/viral/36431...
http://occupydemocrats.com/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/video/u...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/...
https://thinkprogress.org/sher...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fb...

Don't act as if this is some one-sided thing. Please.

http://www.snopes.com/anti-tru...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nb...
http://www.alternet.org/electi...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the...
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/1...
https://www.rt.com/viral/36431...
http://occupydemocrats.com/201...
http://www.nytimes.com/video/u...
http://mashable.com/2016/03/12...
http://edition.cnn.com/videos/...
https://thinkprogress.org/sher...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fb...

Don't act as if this is some one-sided thing. Please.

...and here is why: -

There was a report that Alibaba generated more revenue than Ebay and Amazon combined. Have a look

I am afraid we in the west may soon cease to be that relevant when it comes to global or worldwide money matters, though I must admit that this is still way far off.

Assange never gives out details about who his leakers are, but even he took the time to state categorically that the Podesta leakers are did not come from the Russian government.

Clearly he feels that there is some danger here for him to take this extraordinary step.

Or his source has never clearly identified itself as the Russia government and he's trying to maintain plausible deniability as to not destroy Wikileaks' credibility.

And in other news, we have Obama encouraging illegals to vote, which would appear at first glance to be Obama committing a felony on camera.

Which is why you should take a second glance. Did you notice how her question doesn't actually make sense? That's because someone cut off the first part of it and I'm very suspicious of what they left out. What seems to be the general question and answer is the following:

Interviewer: American citizens who are the children of illegal immigrants are scared to vote because they they'll draw scrutiny and cause their families to be deported.

Obama: That will not happen.

What the fuck is happening to this country?

People are lying to you about the state of the world, and you believe them.

But in addition, "U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia's electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin's command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary, according to a senior intelligence official and top-secret documents reviewed by NBC News."

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that this is insane?

Assange never gives out details about who his leakers are, but even he took the time to state categorically that the Podesta leakers are did not come from the Russian government.

Clearly he feels that there is some danger here for him to take this extraordinary step.

Instead of setting up a hair-trigger response shouldn't we first have an investigation, and then approach this through diplomatic channels?

Ye gods, Putin has to keep the appearance of strength in his country. What do you think he'll do if we start messing with their electrical grid?

And in other news, we have Obama encouraging illegals to vote, which would appear at first glance to be Obama committing a felony on camera.

What the fuck is happening to this country?

The US political system has not so much shifted to the right as jumped to a parrallel track. So a corporatists scale of those who want to steal everything on the left and those who want to kill everyone on the right. The scale is then a balance of how much they want to steal and how much they want to kill, weird as fuck (seriously it's the reality). The Russian stuff on US main stream media, well, boy who cried wolf much, seriously US main stream media guys, you bullshitted so much in the US elections, no one gives a crap about what ever you say, lies, truth, fairy stories, aliens, 'Anonymous' takeover, what ever - DON'T BELIEVE YOU. Sorry but it is your own fault. As far as I am concerned US main stream media might as well report Putin as the alien love child reincarnation of Rasputin (note the similarity in names) and I am still more fucking likely to believe that, than anything else what so ever reported by US main stream media.

When it comes to reading any story on US main stream media it just means, hmm interesting yarn, let me just check that story else where to see of there is any reality what so ever in the story and that's only if I could be bothered with the story. What normally happens read the head line, read the first paragraph check the source, oh US main stream media and forget what I just read a move on (if using stumble upon thumb down the story, simply not worth getting any story from US main stream media as it means having to check that story else where - independent media sources et al or from RT https://www.rt.com/).

I have no idea how US main stream media will rebuild it's reputation because it's shit and as sych they are simply not worth bothering with. Blatant in your face corporate censorship and propaganda and those corporate ass holes pretty much thought they would get away with if forever, fuck em, with Rupert Murdoch as the lead arse hole. Pretty much prove it in court or shut the fuck up (don't blame me for that flood of bullshit). https://www.youtube.com/watch?... they will have to add a new line for US main stream media.

The letter is "UK bank to close RT accounts, 'long live freedom of speech!' – editor-in-chief" (17 Oct, 2016)
https://www.rt.com/news/363013...
Enjoy the freedom to read the text in full :)

Talk about CNN, I see funny when CNN edited an interview with RT's Anissa Naouai, in which CNN’s Amanpour definitely planted to show her "guest" is a fool. Forget about "freedom ranking", I saw here is Anissa was much more open, transparent and smarter than Amanpour.

This has "Hillary" written all over it.
https://www.rt.com/usa/361459-...

Coincidentally, RT is reporting that their UK bank accounts are being shut down.

https://www.rt.com/news/363013...

I guess someone's anxious to make sure RT's message doesn't get out. Heaven forbid that some news outlet might question the Western media propaganda.
Growing up in the Cold War years, I never imagined a day that I would have to consult Russian media sources to get full coverage of world events.

Russian server operator says, "[October 2] If the FBI asks, we are ready to supply the IP addresses, the logs." However, he says, "Nobody is asking⦠Itâ(TM)s like nobody wants to sort this out." . Now oh best beloved, this is NOT because the NSA has taps on all traffic within Russia. They don't,and as all you IT folk know, there is nothing as useful as logs from the server itself (if it was just used a reflector) or other network devices within the provider.

But the FBI seems content to let this attack be originating from Russia. The same FBI who is 100% behind Clinton, who wants to start Cold-then-Hot war 2.0. You're being played, folks.

What is most astonishing is that the FBI could have feigned interest, sent people over there to meet with this fellow and gather all available evidence,and then just pretended not to find any. Corroborating with the operator of a compromised server is chapter-one stuff. So damned obvious it hurts.

Which illuminates the most disturbing aspect of all. We are not merely dealing with conspiratorial bias, and laziness. There is a big measure of stupidity mixed in.

Please don't vote for stupid.

Base on RT's article, the replacement is MyOffice, a cloud-based, similar to Office 365, running on browsers or as standalone applications for Window, Android, iOS.

If MyOffice is made by Kremlin Software won't that make MyKrSoft Office?

Base on RT's article, the replacement is MyOffice, a cloud-based, similar to Office 365, running on browsers or as standalone applications for Window, Android, iOS.

Oh looky, Slashdot has its own Joshua Ryne Goldberg!

"Hacktivists, who have released WADA files that greenlighted therapeutic use of banned substances by US athletes, did a public service, as greater transparency is needed so as to understand whether the system is impartial, independent writer Rick Sterling told RT." ref

Wrong, faggot. The U.S. government revoked his passport, so he cannot leave.

Much easier to turn him into a RUSSIAN BOOGIEMAN when you make him stranded there, isn't it?

https://www.rt.com/usa/162144-...

There is not much difference between the European angle and the American angle. If you truly want another angle, then you will get it with sites like Al Jazeera.com, RT and Chinadaily.

https://www.rt.com/usa/fbi-cri...

Describes them as informants on the payroll. I don't have a link to their source.

it boils down to a woman who openly questions the science of everything from GMO's to simple vaccination,

Wrong.
The smear campaign by the Hillarites was extremely effective - even intelligent (and ostensibly well-informed) people like you got deceived.

Once an inspiring effort at tech news, Slashdot now seems more driven by marketing and reckless government propaganda...

Domestic propaganda was re-legalized three years ago. That's a big part of it. The globalists know that trust in the mainstream media, which they have long controlled, is eroding, especially with the youth. Grassroots is the only way to reach a large number of people now.

Hillary Clinton openly admits that she will take direction from the globalist, secretive Council on Foreign Relations. David Rockefeller, a chairman of the board of the CFR, openly admits that a world government is the goal.

Donald Trump wants ideological tests for immigrants. I believe he started out as an arrogant, vain, blowhard with some pretty OK ideas about national sovereignty, but has now been co-opted by the globalists. A wall was a dumb idea. Ideological tests for immigration is downright scary. Now, that's some globalists, Nazi shit right there. You can bet your ass that advocation of personal liberty and gun ownership will be red flags on any such test, once cornerstones of the American way of life.

And, ugh, Gary Johnson now says he would support and sign the TPP.

I used to be a Christian who believed all the blood-for-blood, supernatural mumbo jumbo. That is the co-opting of the message of Jesus. Look at what Jesus actually said. "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" Those who speak the truth, today as then, will be martyrs. "[F]ear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

Oblig.: Wake up sheeple

You're kidding right?
Surely you can't be that ignorant of Google's power?!

Here's a quick search to answer your question.

Google literally have the power to change leadership of entire nations and sway voters, and even make or break an entire company!

Google products are 100% voluntary, if you don't want to use them, then don't...

Err, no they're not.
You're Google's product and slave whether you like it or not.
It's easy (for a technical person) to simply not use facebook and block their 2/3 domains, but it's almost impossible to do that with Google, considering GoogleAPIs, Captcha, Doubleclick, Analytics, GoogleAdServices, GoogleSyndication, GTM, Plus, etc, etc.

https://www.rt.com/usa/353840-...

"US intel head calls for end to hyperventilation over Russiaâ(TM)s alleged role in DNC hack

The Director of National Intelligence says Washington is still unsure of who might be behind the latest WikiLeaks release of hacked Democratic National Committee emails, while urging that an end be put to the reactionary mode blaming it all on Russia."

It's interesting that the Western press isn't reporting this.

It's payback time for Crooked Liar Hillary! leading this:

Election-meddling fiasco hits US-Russia relations

Revelations about email transactions between the US State Department and the Russian election watchdog Golos prior to Russia's parliamentary elections threaten to bring the reset to a grinding halt.

Golos, an independent watchdog that has been monitoring elections in Russia for 10 years, was fined 30,000 rubles ($1,000) last week by a Moscow court for publishing “election-related opinion polls and research” after a deadline for publishing such material had passed (it is illegal in Russia to publish such information five days or less before an election).

Duma officials who petitioned to start a probe with the prosecutor’s office argued that the NGO was funded by “foreign organizations” hoping to influence the results of the elections.

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"We favor foreign observers monitoring our political electoral processes. We favor this, we are not against this," he said. "Howeverwhen financing comes to some domestic organizations which are supposedly national, but which in fact work on foreign money and perform to the music of a foreign state during electoral processes, we need to safeguard ourselves from this interference in our internal affairs and defend our sovereignty.”

If big pharma could produce a product with the therapeutic benefits of pot without the high and the effects of the high (or the smoke) that would be something that would have a very large market.

They have, and it has been incredibly foolish. Real marijuana would have been much, much less unsafe, and easier to produce.

Group stigmatization and blame is appropriate and should be meted out when the group is responsible. Individuals alone should be held out as bad actors when they are not representative of the group. So let's go through some of your examples:

All Muslims are terrorists.

Individual. See numerous muslims condemning terrorist attacks. See a substantial number of the group condemning terrorism here, here, and numerous other places if you spend literally 15 seconds searching online.

I used the search term "muslim condemnation of terrorism"

All gun owners are murderers.

From what I see, gun owners very quick to condemn those who use them to murder others as being "madmen and terrorists," and advocate that having more guns would result in fewer murders. See here, here, and the commonly known meme "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

You can disagree with whether they are right about their approach, but I'm sure you agree that they think mass murders are a problem which need to stop.

All computer gamers are anti-social psychopaths.

I haven't heard anybody make this accusation in recent years. I'll also note there is a lot of academic research going on to study if this is true or not, and if so how it can be addressed.

All police officers are bad actors

Uhh... I did a quick search and didn't see any groups associated with the police, and have seen nobody condemning police killings. Instead I see things like arrests of protesters, and conspiracies of silence and not turning in bad apples

All I see is prosecutor after prosecutor exercising discretion to not go after police corruption or murders, and the few times they do the carefully selected jury not holding them accountable. Maybe I'm only seeing a subset of the news, in which case I'd honestly love it if you could post counter-examples I could look at.

Oh, and to add:

Their lives are often at risk.

No, it isn't. They are #14, just after taxi drivers and construction laborer. Nobody talks about how noble Roofers are and how they deserve extra special honor and privilages due to the dangerous work they do.

Police have a miserable job which puts them in contact with bad situations (like psychiatrists, lawyers, and doctors)... but they seem to be the only group which tries to put itself on a pedestal and say they deserve extra-legal privileges because of it.

if it wasnt guccifer, i wonder how RT had copies of Hitlerys emails in 2013 then.

https://www.rt.com/usa/complet...

However Brexit has brought to light much scarier implications.

"The idea of a common European military headquarters has been revived by the head of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, shortly after the UK’s citizens voted in favor of Brexit. “We need more cooperation in the European defense policy,” Elmar Brok told Die Welt [Original in German]. The new armed forces could be modeled after the Franco-German model, making European foreign policy much more effective, Brok believes."

Because apparently Europe doesn't feel secure enough under NATO, it requires its own army for "foreign" policy. And incidentally to crush dissent from any other member nation that attempts the wrong kind of democracy.

This was true once upon a time, but no longer. The United States taxes former citizens (even ones who have renounced their citizenship), or indefinitely without renouncement.

So no, you do not have a choice.

Atheists aren't lining up to wipe people out over their lack of belief in deities.

The militant atheists of USSR have killed hundreds of thousands of priests — because religion competed for people's hearts and minds with Communism. As early as in 1919 Lenin — still alive and hale — wrote to Dzerzhinsky:

“...it is needed to get done with the priests and religion as soon as possible. Arrest the priests as the enemies of revolution and saboteurs, execute them without mercy everywhere you spot them. As many as you can! Churches should be shut down. The cathedrals have to be sealed and used as warehouses."

Criticism of irrational views and cultures which promote them is not 'hate.'

Communists' excesses aside, the sad reality is that the alternative to a well thought-out and established religion is not the sophisticated agnosticism, nor even the atheism, but the nasty superstitions and the crappier religions — including Islam.

> Don't think for a second that something similar wouldn't happen in the United States or Europe

It already did:

"Two Florida men are in trouble with the law after being arrested last week for agreeing to sell thousands of dollars’ worth of bitcoins to undercover agents."

https://www.rt.com/usa/bitcoin...

I'm not making it up: "Those with a job could still work but would have the monthly income deducted from their salary. ".

So if the people who work also get the "universal income" where exactly do you think the money will be coming from?

they lack merit for the reasons I already presented

Those "reasons" just being an assertion that all people are equally bad. That requires putting on blinders or pretzel twisting to explain what's going on in Europe due to immigration:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

https://www.rt.com/op-edge/345...

http://www.breitbart.com/londo...

http://www.breitbart.com/londo...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Then can you guarantee Sweden would allow me to become a citizen?

Yes. Go to Sweden. Ditch your passport and any other identification. Claim asylum refugee status and claim to be under 18. Presto, you are in:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Will you purchase my fixed property or guarantee me property in exchange in Sweden?

Put it on the market and you will get market value.

Will you arrange transportation of my portable goods?

One must make some personal sacrifices to avoid their dastardly neighbors and help the poor migrants, right?

But even if they are lions, I'm already beset by tigers and bears. And snakes. Lots of snakes. Why don't you care about the snakes I do have to face right now?

Then provide details. Where do you live? What, exactly, have these horrible people done to you or others?

Okay, fine. Show me where the "world" terrorism is predominantly by Islam (rather than people). Africa's terrorism is done by black local warlords. Note that some of those people may be Muslims, but it's not religiously motivated. Sure, there are white Muslims, but when I don't know of any instances in which a white Muslim has committed a terrorist act. That isn't to say there haven't been, I am just looking for sources.

Hmmm... Remember all those little schoolgirls last year that were kidnapped by Muslims and given away as sex slaves? Where was that again? Oh, yeah... Africa. Admittedly there is also a lot of lawless warfare over there, but it is hard to call it terrorism where there is no effective government or society to overthrow.

Christians cannot claim that the New Testament 'retracts a lot of the violence' while simultaneously citing Sodom and Gomorrah as 'proof' that their god hates gays. You take the entire book or you take none of it. Also, your assertion is incorrect. There are no passages that seek to deny or 'retract' the atrocities of the Old Testament.

Or, sorry... We were talking about the religion as written in the last exchange and now you chaned to the individules in that religion. OK. Who is cutting off heads again?

It was not an equal example - the GP tried to correlate distaste for a particular group with the condemnation of an entire religion. He's free to reword the example and try again, but as of now, his argument is invalid. Anyway, there are definitely Muslim-based groups that are "okay to hate" - ISIL, Boko Haram, Muslim Brotherhood. I'm sure there are more, depending on your area of the world.

So if it is not exactly equal, it is pointless as an example? I guess we can have no examples then as now two things are exactly equal. Oh, and the whitehouse has said that hating the Muslim brotherhood is a bad thing and anyone who does is racist.

There are 40+% more Christians in the world than Muslims, so I'd imagine it's more a matter of scale rather than 'political correctness' or whatever you intended to imply with your last sentence. But speaking about the US (again), we generally don't have Muslims attempting to inject their religion into our laws - that's been almost exclusively a Christian move, and that's why they get the biggest, baddest rap in the West, making some people think there's some sort of anti-Christiatn conspiracy going on. Get out of politics/government, and you'll see the sentiment largely change.

Population is changing... https://www.rt.com/news/246381... As for the law thing, are you seriously that delusional? This is simply the one closest to me. http://www.thepoliticalinsider...

https://www.rt.com/usa/199480-...

1. Finding cars with large numbers of parking tickers (See "Parking Wars")
2. Finding wanted vehicles, fugitive warrants, suspended or revoked drivers’ license and stolen cars.
A few vehicles driving around a large city will scan every car maybe once a month. That is useless to track a vehicle's movement.

How else are you going to watch your house burn down from 300 miles away unless you've got it crammed to the gills with the latest home automatation gimcrackery?!

These internet-connectimacated micropaphones are obviously the latest HOT product from the NSA. They also are handy for Russian & Chinese haxx0rs to steal your precious secrets.

Now instead of the local miscreants ringing your doorbell and running away, bored global jackaninnies can sonically assault you with Ministry at 3 AM, flick your lights on and off and turn off your beer fridge so your beer gets warm.

I'm conflicted by this action, and other recent actions in the news.

On the one hand, I'm four-square in favor of human rights, and against these sorts of laws. (So don't bother explaining the situation to me.)

On the other hand, I don't like going outside the process to overturn a result you don't like.

So for contrast and comparison, how is this different from people asking Amazon to drop Trump-branded merchandise, because they want to stop him from running for president?

How is this different from Visa and MasterCard blocking payments to Wikileaks, which seriously crippled them?

How is this different from credit reporting companies putting "terrorist" on their credit reports for certain people? (As mentioned by John Oliver last Sunday.)

In all cases, it's having a powerful entity hurt someone or some group because they don't like what they stand for, and without oversight or judicial reason.

I was also a little uncomfortable with overturning proposition 8 in California. I could 'kinda justify negating it because it tended to favor *less* control of one set of people by another. It shouldn't be up to one group to dictate what another group can do, so long as they're not hurting anyone.

Is that the answer here as well?

So... I'm just a little conflicted.

Can someone lend me a machete to help me through my mental thicket?

When I read comments like yours, I always start wonder if you're on the payroll of Lockheed Martin. I mean seriously, what exactly does an armchair expert like you know about the Russian T-50 fighter jet or the Russian T-14 tank or what exactly does anyone know about T-14 armor? Both of these projects are still in testing stages (the Indian FGFA will be based on T-50). India just agreed to continue investing in the FGFA project development to the tune of 4 billion USD.

As for the T-14 tank, you can't really argue that it's behind the western tanks. It has a crewless fully autonomous turret, an armored crew cell, a very extensive electronic counter measures suite, and a design that's meant to accept a higher caliber gun in the future, all of which make it, at least on paper, a step or two ahead of all of western tanks.

Here are a couple of link with beautiful images of the T-50 and T-14 just from days ago:

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1841727.html

http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1834857.html?thread=180674921

NASA is trying to distance themselves from these crackpots - https://www.rt.com/news/338810...

There you have it. Anything to do with weather and climate, etc and it's from NASA, it's an opinion at best. It's a shame that it takes a third world country with one satellite to call bullshit for us to actually admit NASA doesn't do climate.

Should be clear. Bad hurricane - MMGW. IT's too hot - MMGW. It's too cold - MMGW. Nothing happened for 15 years - Still have MMGW. Anything happens - MMGW. Nothing is natural anymore.

Yes it's warming up. It's been warming up for over 1000 years. Not man's fault. Even NASA is distancing themselves from the bullshit some of their "scientists" have put out there - https://www.rt.com/news/338810... . If Turkey can tell you're full of crap, isn't it a bit obvious guys?

BTW, understand that Bill Nye isn't a scientist. He just plays one on TV. Check out his bio.

In other news rt.com suggests this is all a George Soros trick to impugn Putin. Should be believe their propaganda machine or their spy?

You can't buy politicians the American way: Google 'beats Goldman Sachs' in political campaign donations Oct 18, 2014 - Google has ramped up its political contributions and spent more money on political campaigns this year than global investment bank, Goldman Sachs https://www.rt.com/usa/197104-...

Here's a picture with better perspective: https://www.rt.com/news/313141...
I suspect that protuberance with the windows is an enclosed bridge for conning the boat in cold weather, and not part of the pressure hull...diesel boats have to spend a lot of time running on the surface.

True, but another inherent property of Diesel-Electric submarines is they can operate submerged in extreme silence ... nuclear subs make a very small but detectible amount of noise at all times underwater ... which in this case might be a contributing factor in the overall uncertainty on both sides, as to whet, exactly, is going on (such as "is it simply damaged, or sunk, or what, exactly").

On another topic raised here (regarding the possibility that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, aka "North Korea") might blame the west for a sinking of the sub), there is the problem in that there is a fine line that must be drawn with regard to what sanctions and what incentives can be applied or offered to North Korea in order to moderate it's behaviour.

The problem is you can't go too hard because as a generally regarded rogue nation, you don't know how desperately they would hold onto power or (essentially) how many lives they would be willing to risk in order to maintain their control over the nation, and presumably, beyond. Blaming the USA, Korea (aka "South Korea") or Japan, etc is a near perfect pretence to escalation and who-knows-what aggressive action.

Here's a picture with better perspective: https://www.rt.com/news/313141...
I suspect that protuberance with the windows is an enclosed bridge for conning the boat in cold weather, and not part of the pressure hull...diesel boats have to spend a lot of time running on the surface.

Kozen Sampson, a Buddhist monk and co-founder of the Trout Lake Abbey retreat, said he was attacked Monday during a visit to Hood River.
He doesn't remember much, but says a man, who seemingly thought he was Muslim based on his clothing, attacked him for no reason.
....
But instead of anger and hatred towards that man, Sampson said he only feels forgiveness and compassion.