Recent Events Prove Western Nations Are Highly Vulnerable To Cyber Calamity
As most people are aware, this month there was a sweeping internet outage across the US which led to a failure in roughly 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices. Disruptions included banks, airline networks, emergency call centers, online retailers and numerous corporate networks. The outage is estimated to have caused at least $5.4 billion in profit losses and it only lasted about a day.
The alleged cause of the breakdown was Crowdstrike, a cyber-security company that uses large scale data updates to Microsoft Windows networks to counter cyber threats. Instead, the company uploaded bugged code and caused a cascading outage. Mac and Linux machines were not affected.
The scale of the shutdown was immense – Over 25% of Fortune 500 companies were frozen. Travel essentially stopped. Business transactions for many companies ceased. Some banks including Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, TD Bank and Wells Fargo could not function and customers could not access their accounts.
The event reminded me of the panic surrounding the Y2K scare 25 years ago. Of course, that was all nonsense; US systems were definitely not digitized to an extent great enough to cause a disaster should there be an internet crash or a software crash. But today things are very different. Nearly every sector of the American (and European) economy and many utilities are directly dependent on a functioning internet.
The fear that prevailed during Y2K was unrealistic in 1999. Now, it makes perfect sense.
I often hear preppers talk about the impending danger of an EMP leading to a grid down scenario. However, this kind of attack is highly overblown. Even major solar storms have not caused the kind of electrical breakdown that theorists suggest might happen. Instead, I would recommend worrying a lot more about cyber threats. I believe these events will become far more common in the next few years for a number of reasons.
First and foremost, there is the potential for random error like the Crowdstrike incident. Then there’s the potential for a foreign attack on US and European digital infrastructure. Then, there’s the potential for a false flag event BLAMED on random error or a foreign government in order to foment war or economic collapse.
In 2021 in my article ‘Cyber Polygon: Will The Next Globalist War Game Lead To Another Convenient Catastrophe?’ I warned that if the pandemic crisis failed to achieve the centralization goals of the World Economic Forum and other globalist institutions, they may use a cyber crisis instead. WEF head Klaus Schwab incessantly compared the idea of a “Cyber Pandemic” to the covid pandemic. He suggested that governments would have to respond to both in a similar fashion (i.e. lockdowns and extensive controls on individual freedoms).
In the past I have mentioned a very interesting event that was barely covered by the corporate media called the “Fastly Outage.” I examined the implications of this and more in my article ‘Obama’s Weird New Movie And America’s Extreme Vulnerability To Cyber Attack’.
In June of 2021 there was an internet outage that led to large swaths of the web going completely dark, including a number of mainstream news sites, Amazon, eBay, Twitch, Reddit, etc. A host of government websites also went down. All this happened when content delivery network (CDN) company Fastly experienced a “bug.” Although Amazon had its website back online within 20 minutes, the brief outage cost the company over $5.5 million in sales.
A content delivery network is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. They make up what is known as the “backbone” of the internet. Only a handful of these company’s support a vast majority of internet activity. All it would take is for a few to go down, and the internet goes down, taking our economy with it.
The recent Crowdstrike situation is perhaps the worst web disruption of all time, and that was just a bug in a software update. Imagine if someone wanted to deliberately damage internet functions for an extended period of time? The results would be catastrophic.
With supply chains completely dependent on “just-in-time” freight deliveries and those deliveries dependent on efficient digital communications and payments between retailers and manufacturers, a web-down scenario for more than a few days would cause an immediate loss of consumer goods. Stores would empty within hours should the public realize that new shipments might not arrive for a long time.
Keep in mind, I’m not even accounting for payment processing between customers and retailers. If that shuts down, then ALL sales shut down. Then, whatever food you have left in your pantry or in storage is what you will have to live on until the problem is fixed. If it is ever fixed…
Network attacks are difficult to independently trace, which means anyone can initiate them and anyone can be blamed afterwards. With the increasing tensions between western and eastern nations the chances of an attack are high. And corrupt government officials could also trigger an internet crisis and blame it on foreign enemies – Either to convince the public to go to war, or to convince the public to accept greater authoritarianism.
I believe a cyber attack is the next most likely global disaster. We weathered covid and defeated the draconian mandates. The economy is in the midst of a stagflation crisis but the system is still operating. But what if the next ploy is a complete shutdown of the web and a fast moving financial collapse?
Figuring out who triggered the breakdown would be nearly impossible. We could suspect, but proving who did it is another matter. In the meantime, western officials controlled by globalist interests could lock down internet traffic and eliminate alternative media platforms they don’t like, giving the public access to corporate news sources only.
There are millions of Americans out there ready for a systemic collapse. According to surveys around 30% of adult Americans now consider themselves preppers. But that leaves 70% of the population in a daze, unaware and panicking should the supply chain break. Will they care who was behind the attack? Probably not. They’ll be far more concerned with simple survival.
What are the most practical solutions to this? As always we can store necessities to protect our families and friends. To protect data, I recommend shutting OFF Windows Updates to prevent something like a Crowdstrike error from affecting your devices. You can also set up a Linux-based device with all your important data storage secured.
You can purchase an exterior hard drive and clone your computer data, then throw it in a closet or a waterproof case. Then there is the option of building a completely offline device (a computer that has never and will never connect to the internet).
These options protect you and your valuable files, but there’s not much that can be done to prevent a national scale cyber attack and the damage that one could cause. Organizing for inevitable chaos and violence is all you can do.
With a cyber-event there is the distinct danger of communications disruptions – No cell phones, no email, no social media, nothing. So, having knowledge in ham radio and radio communications is a must. I’m a general class ham and I’m still finding there’s more to learn, but a basic knowledge of radios, frequency bands and repeaters will help you to at least listen in on chatter and get important information outside of controlled news networks.
The people who used to claim it’s “doom mongering” to examine the threat of cyber attacks have been proven utterly wrong this past month. We just witnessed one of the worst internet implosions of all time and more are on the way. Prepare accordingly and remember that technological dependency is a double-edged sword. Use your tech wisely and don’t let it run your life.
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House Dems Pressure FEC to Censor Grok’s AI Art Generator Before Election: ‘Critical For Our Democracy’
House Democrats are pressuring the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to impose new rules to censor the X platform’s Grok-2 AI art generator before the presidential election.
Democrat House members sent a letter to FEC Acting General Counsel Lisa Stevenson pleading that the agency “restrict” the Grok-2 AI art generator because it “has the potential to severely misinform voters, causing confusion and disseminating dangerous falsehoods.”
“This election cycle we have seen candidates use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in campaign ads to depict themselves or another candidate engaged in an action that did not happen or saying something the depicted candidate did not say,” the letter reads.
The letter went on to complain about Trump using “misleading” AI-generated memes and argued censoring Grok is “critical for our democracy.”
On August 14, 2024, X (formerly Twitter) introduced their AI image generator Grok-2 with few rules to combat its misuse. In fact, there are no policies that would allow the platform to restrict images of public figures that could be potentially misleading.
Less than 24 hours after its debut, fake images of presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama appeared on X. Candidate Trump has even gone as far as promoting false endorsements from celebrities like Taylor Swift on his social media platforms.
“The proliferation of deep-fake AI technology has the potential to severely misinform voters, causing confusion and disseminating dangerous falsehoods. It is critical for our democracy that this be promptly addressed, nothing the degree to which Grok-2 has already been used to distribute fake content regarding the 2024 presidential election,” the letter concludes.
But FEC Chairman Sean Cooksey swiftly shut down the Democrats’ request, asserting that restricting free speech is “not optional.”
“Let me be clear: the First Amendment is not optional. I’ll never support shutting down political speech online, including your memes,” Cooksey responded on X.
Democratic House Members are now pressuring the FEC to issue new rules to censor @elonmusk‘s new Grok-2 AI art generator before the election.
— Sean Cooksey (@SeanJCooksey) August 27, 2024
Let me be clear: the First Amendment is not optional. I’ll never support shutting down political speech online, including your memes. pic.twitter.com/0SnmkjijRk
Trump last week shared an AI image of Taylor Swift dressed as Uncle Sam with the caption, “Taylor Wants YOU to vote for Donald Trump!” to which Trump added, “I accept!”
Trump has since deleted the post, possibly to avoid a costly lawsuit since Swift has a reputation for sending cease-and-desist letters to anyone who uses her name, image or likeness without obtaining prior consent.
“I don’t know anything about them, other than somebody else generated them,” Trump told Fox Business. “I didn’t generate them.”
“Somebody came out. They said, ‘Oh look at this,’” he continued. “These were all made up by other people. AI is always very dangerous in that way.”
But the Democrat Party isn’t concerned about “disinformation” given they’re the progenitors of plenty of false narratives (Russia collusion, COVID lab leak, Hunter Biden laptop, Jan. 6, Jussie Smollett, etc.).
Rather, they’re terrified that AI-based memes are devastating their narrative, especially when shared by President Trump.
For example, a Grok image Trump shared that’s garnered over 80 million views depicts Harris giving a speech with the communist hammer and sickle flag hanging in a Chicago arena and an audience of Maoists standing at attention before her.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2024
Other viral AI-generated memes and obvious parodies have mocked Kamala’s copycat proposal to build a wall on the southern border and communist plan to impose price controls.
OK, WHO DID THIS?????? pic.twitter.com/zNWShT9xYo
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) August 27, 2024
Changing the clown won’t change the circus. pic.twitter.com/AydNps8Nv3
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) August 23, 2024
Good vs Evil 2024. pic.twitter.com/TRzomm59er
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) August 16, 2024
— Jamie White (@whiteisthefury) August 14, 2024
“Equity is a goal of ensuring everyone ends up in the same place” – Kamala Harris pic.twitter.com/Tj6LLh6DiZ
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 14, 2024
? Just in:
— ????????????????™ (@1776Diva) August 21, 2024
.@VP .@KamalaHarris ????? ??????? ???? ??????? ?? ??? ?? ???????. ?
(This is parody) pic.twitter.com/e0WVk6LyAP
Since Kamala loves to use AI I think we should too. pic.twitter.com/pxtuLsQXSY
— BoomBoomJenkins (@JenkinsBoom) August 18, 2024
Kamala caught hammering a bottle of vodka. No just kidding this is a picture Grok made. AI. Looks pretty good. pic.twitter.com/Ly1BF4FtP0
— Joey franko (@franko_ufo) August 18, 2024
Kamala Harris at the upcoming debate. pic.twitter.com/yuPa5gsluE
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 27, 2024
New York City Begins Spraying Population With Pesticides Citing Mosquito-Borne Viruses
New York City has begun spraying pesticides on the population to combat the spread of mosquito-borne viruses, according to city officials. The announcement comes days after Dr Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease official […]
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Flip-Flopper Kamala Steals Another Trump Policy: Build The Wall
Biden “border czar” and Democrat nominee Kamala Harris claims if elected she’ll build a wall at the southern border, a bizarre reversal on an initiative first spearheaded by former President Donald Trump.
Harris announced her renewed commitment to securing the border during her speech at the Democrat National Convention last week, stating she’d support a bipartisan border security bill, which incidentally includes $650 million in funding for building Trump’s wall.
Harris’ support for a physical barrier at the border comes in light of previous vocal criticism of Trump’s wall, which she once dubbed a “medieval vanity project.”
Congress did not appropriate these funds for Trump’s medieval vanity project. Let’s be clear: Trump’s wall has never been about keeping the American people safe. https://t.co/tlZ9GRp7Wd
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 27, 2019
The strength of our union isn’t in the walls we build. Our power is found in our diversity.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 29, 2019
As I said, Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won’t make us any safer.https://t.co/YFK7yb3SHX
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 2, 2020
Mexico isn’t paying for Trump’s stupid border wall — we are. https://t.co/5pwZo0RDhJ
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 5, 2019
Trump’s border wall is just a stupid use of money. I will block any funding for it.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 21, 2017
JUST IN: Kamala Harris wants to build a border wall after telling people for years that walls are a bad idea and don’t work.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 27, 2024
Kamala Harris has also dyed her hair gold and has changed her last name to Trump.
According to Axios, Harris is pledging to spend hundreds of millions of… pic.twitter.com/7QU6BxTJii
Pressed on the flip-flop by Axios, a Harris advisor claimed the bill “didn’t include any new money to continue building the wall,” however, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) who negotiated the bill told Axios it most certainly contains wall funding.
“It requires the Trump border wall,” Lankford said. “It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction.”
Trump running mate JD Vance blasted Harris for not using her current term to implement the initiative.
Kamala Harris is a fake.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 27, 2024
If she wants to build the border wall, she could start right now! https://t.co/EXyBzk1DpR
The support for the wall comes as ABC mocked a new Harris campaign ad earlier this week that absurdly featured images of Trump’s wall while claiming she’ll be tough on the border.
? ABC just CALLED OUT Kamala Harris for using video of President Trump’s border wall in her new ads
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 26, 2024
If even *ABC* is calling her out for her hypocrisy, you know it’s REALLY bad ? pic.twitter.com/R9DakoOKw5
Harris is now also facing scrutiny for co-opting yet another popular Trump idea in efforts to swoon undecided voters, following her campaign’s theft of the former president’s “no tax on tips” policy and his campaign’s child tax credit initiative.
Social media users trolled Harris for once again copying Trump’s homework.
They must be joking at this point ? pic.twitter.com/P6RxpgUEvD
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 27, 2024
“Listen, María José, we’re not going back, but YOU are” https://t.co/vygpLf5Oyg pic.twitter.com/DNadsjXa6y
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) August 27, 2024
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) August 27, 2024
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) August 27, 2024
Kamala in 2020: “Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won’t make us any safer”
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 27, 2024
Kamala in 2024: let’s build a border wall
Which policy will she flip flop on next and steal from Trump? pic.twitter.com/tDlOEKUyB2
Kamala didn’t flop in the order wall, she just wanted it to spark joy.
— Prison Mitch (@MidnightMitch) August 27, 2024
Prototype below: https://t.co/wLbTHrpOTW pic.twitter.com/0PLkK7baTR
KamalaHQ running to delete 7000 tweets when Kamala was against Trump’s border wall pic.twitter.com/sIIGsdM83R
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) August 27, 2024
Kamala now says she wants a wall on the southern border? ?
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) August 27, 2024
All she does is lie and copy Trumps policies pic.twitter.com/46Dg6yVAFB
2015: Kamala opposed the wall
— Chad Gilmartin (@ChadGilmartinCA) August 27, 2024
2016: Kamala opposed the wall
2017: Kamala opposed the wall
2018: Kamala opposed the wall
2019: Kamala opposed the wall
2020: Kamala opposed the wall
2021: Kamala opposed the wall
2022: Kamala opposed the wall
2023: Kamala opposed the wall
2024:… https://t.co/KWSx6opx5M
Harris’ running mate Tim Walz’s previous “ladder factory” statement slamming the wall also recirculated in the wake of her newfound support for the project.
Kamala is now saying she wants to build a border wall. Does she know her running mate said he would help illegals get ladders to scale a border wall if Trump built one? pic.twitter.com/EQVTGoutRQ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 27, 2024
Others tried to predict which policies she’ll steal next.
First she stole no tax on tips, then she stole JD Vance’s parents tax credit, and now she’s going to build the wall after calling it racist for 8 years.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 27, 2024
I now fully expect Kamala to tweet “drill baby drill” and “keep men out of women’s sports” in the next few days. https://t.co/7QYpPASsb9
X users also pointed out when the Biden-Harris regime took power on Day One it halted work on Trump’s wall, leaving tons of steel fencing rusting near construction sites.
Kamala will never be able to run away from this
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 27, 2024
She and Biden wasted billions of taxpayer dollars — and costed countless lives — to halt border wall construction for politics
The steel bollards are rusting in piles to this day https://t.co/rzcy4A4Bkk pic.twitter.com/4n6R1BrQ7K
While Democrats flail with their newly installed deeply flawed candidate – who has yet to release her policies and constantly avoids the press – stealing Trump’s ideas is their only option.
OK, WHO DID THIS?????? pic.twitter.com/zNWShT9xYo
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) August 27, 2024
Bill Gates Opens mRNA Factory in Africa for Global Mass Production of Monkeypox Vaccine
Bill Gates-funded Big Pharma company BioNTech has established an mRNA factory in Rwanda with the stated purpose of creating a “vaccine ecosystem” that will mass produce monkeypox vaccines for the international market. The grand opening […]
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Trump Rally Sniper Exposes FBI ‘Cover-Up’ in Trump Assassination Attempt: ‘Evidence Tampering’
A SWAT counter-sniper who was working the Pennsylvania rally where former President Donald Trump was shot last month has come forward to expose what he believes is a FBI cover up of what really happened […]
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