Tuesday, November 21, 2023

One Trick Pony: How Our Government Works Today (archive)

(archived from June 9, 2015)

by Scott Creighton

By Deception, thou shall make fascism. One Party mandate

One manufactured crisis psyop after another. That’s how our government works these days.

President Obama signed into law the U.S.A. Freedom Act on June the 2nd. On June the 1st and most of Tuesday, June 2nd, certain provisions of the Patriot Act had been allowed to sunset, to expire. Those were controversial sections of the law which provided legal cover for things like collecting mass amounts of personal data from everyone, the “lone wolf” provision and roving wiretaps.

 

Suddenly, on June the 2nd, right before congress was set to start debate on the “Freedom” Act, a story broke:

Multiple bomb threats against U.S. aircraft were made on Tuesday, according to NBC News. Government sources said the threats were not credible.

The threats, five in total, were similar to chemical weapon threats against aircraft last week. It was determined that the claims were fake, and there was speculation that the threats could have been made by an ISIS “lone wolf,” NBC News reported. CNBC

The contentious bill moved forward in the senate without debate that day and was hurried over to the White House for Obama to robo-sign into law.

The masters of the universe were happy. They finished their “Snowden” psyop by successfully passing a law that doesn’t stop the mass collection of your personal data, instead it codifies it and privatizes it. The mass collection of your “tangible things” will continue and now becomes even easier with the Freedom Act’s “emergency production of tangible things” clauses.

And all it took was a manufactured hero and a few manufactured bomb threats.

Well, now that that part of CISPA is part of our national laws, it would appear yet another set of manufactured events are taking place in order to bring about the real meat and potatoes of CISPA… cybersecurity.

Two days after Obama signed the Freedom Act, a massive breach of security was announced. The culprit, they claim, is China. Of course, there is no real evidence of that, nor of the actual hack itself for that matter. The “hack” supposedly occurred back in April, according to the unnamed sources, but the victims, according to the story, have yet to be notified. What do you think they were waiting for?

Hackers working for the Chinese state breached the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management in December, (unnamed) U.S. officials said Thursday, and the agency will notify about 4million current and former federal employees that their personal data may have been compromised. Washington Post, June 4

Of course, Obama decides he has to leap into action, calling for some sort of cybersecurity plan to be pushed through congress yesterday while he was over in Germany in some old castle talking with other leaders at the G7 conference.

We have known for a long time that there are significant vulnerabilities, and that these vulnerabilities are going to accelerate as time goes by, both in systems within government and within the private sector,” Obama said at news conference from the Group of Seven summit in Germany.

Obama declined to say who the U.S. thinks is responsible for a massive hack attack that exposed the data of about 4 million current and former federal employees. Several media reports have indicated, however, that investigators believe Chinese hackers are to blame. CNBC

Not an hour after Obama made that statement, lo and behold, some Syrian “terrorists” hacked a U.S. Army website, according to Twitter accounts.

A hacker group backing the Syrian government claimed responsibility for hacking the official website of the US Army, just hours after President Obama called for new cybersecurity laws at the G-7 summit in Germany. RT

What a coincidence, huh?

So far we have Chinese and Syrian hacker “terrorists” disrupting our precious interwebs. Anyone else? Oh yeah… “hacker ISIS”

Monday’s attack may have been the first breach of a website directly operated by the US military. In January, a group calling itself the “Cyber Caliphate” hijacked the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), posting links to documents they claimed to be confidential files pilfered from US military computers. RT

How could I forget “hacker ISIS”?

There are several versions of cybersecurity bills in congress right now. It’s a hot topic, something Big Business wants very badly.

In the House there is the Protecting Cyber Networks Act which was approved back in late April of this year and in the Senate we have Feinstein’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act which also does the same thing basically that the House version does, turns internet policing into a public-private partnership.

Congress is hellbent on passing a cybersecurity bill that can stop the wave of hacker breaches hitting American corporations. And they’re not letting the protests of a few dozen privacy and civil liberties organizations get in their way.

On Wednesday the House of Representatives voted 307-116 to pass the Protecting Cyber Networks Act, a bill designed to allow more fluid sharing of cybersecurity threat data between corporations and government agencies. Wired

Here’s what the EFF has been saying about CISA:

The Senate will begin to push the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). The bill would grant companies more power to obtain “threat” information (for example, from private communications of users) and disclose that data to the government without a warrant—including sending data to the National Security Agency. It also gives companies broad immunity to spy on—and even launch countermeasures against—potentially innocent users. EFF

Now that they have achieved their first measure of success with the passage of the “Freedom” Act (and all it took was a fake hero and some bomb threats) it would appear they are ready to reach for that brass ring once again and go for broke in an effort to grant corporations an absolute dictatorship over the internet.

Apparently, the way they see it, all it takes is a few more of their manufactured crises and they will get it. Another fake hack that never happened, maybe a fake hero or two and in the end, a couple more bomb threats to move those stubborn senators one more time.  Maybe some anthrax just in case?

They’ll do whatever it takes to get what the masters of the universe want. They’ll manufacture crisis after crisis. They’ll resort to terrorism if they must.  After all, no one’s watching them. No one dares. So they’ll continue with their plots and plans until they successfully remake the very fabric of this nation just as they have done time after time across the globe.

This is their one trick and they will use it till it stops working. Which is one reason they really want to shut down the internet as a free and open venue for sharing information.

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