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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1050707)	1/26/2018 12:32:41 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

Tyler Durden is (mostly) Daniel Ivandjiiski, a former Bulgarian hedge fund manager, who went to work for Russian intelligence after his hedge fund failed. ... As early as 2009, speculation that Ivandjiiski could be behind the blog appeared in US media, with a New York Post article titled "BLOGGER MAY HAVE A PAST" speculating that he was in fact behind Zero Hedge. Ivandjiiski worked in a hedge fund before being kicked out of the securities industry during the height of the financial crisis in 2008 for insider trading, the report says. ..... businessinsider.com ...... Lokey revealed to Bloomberg last week that Durden was actually three men: two wealthy financial analysts, Daniel Ivandjiiski and Tim Backshall, and Lokey, a recent M.B.A. from East Tennessee State University—their hired hand. By his own account, Lokey was writing as many as fifteen posts a day, among them most of the political pieces. The gig had a certain formula, he told Bloomberg: “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.” For Zero Hedge, Syria was a special obsession, a sign of the essential strength of authoritarian regimes and the weakness of democracies. (“Putin Is Winning the Final Chess Match with Obama,” one Zero Hedge article claimed last fall.) ..... newyorker.com You could just look at the material to realize you're reading propaganda pushing a Kremlin line.