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A tiny Chinese microchip may have infiltrated numerous American
governmental and military systems…
A number of issues ago I
mentioned how during the Obama presidency Chinese hackers grabbed federal
employment databases and stole thousands of supposedly secure files including
those of of us who once held Top Secret Security Clearances. The Chinese employ two fulltime divisions of
hackers and universities who do nothing but steal tech and other secrets from
the US and other nations.
What the Chinese couldn’t
steal from Boeing, Bill Clinton was kind enough to give them. Make no mistake, the ultimate goal of the
Chinese is to overtake the United States as the premier power on the
planet. Russia is their junior
partner. Their financial interests in
Africa , the South China Sea and elsewhere overshadow ours & Europe. Their merchant fleets are massive compared to
ours and Great Britain…the previous administration let our military
preparedness against China slide especially in terms of cyber warfare.
Yet, the Democrats only
concern themselves with the file from a discredited ex-MI6 agent that the DNC
paid for and Mueller appears to have no end in sight to his hunt with the Left
urging him onto find some kind of collusion between Trump and the
Russians. Good luck with this endless
diversion…as a pinhead on twitter told me “I want to know.”
No one with a brain was
ever coerced by the Russians into voting for Trump.
China
Hacks America-And Few Seem to Care
It isn’t hard to imagine a time in the near future when great
numbers of Americans take to the streets. Maybe the trigger would be another
divisive presidential election, with half the nation refusing to accept four
more years of an administration they loathe. Maybe the trigger would be
impeachment hearings or a particularly controversial decision by “Brett
Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court,” such as restricting abortion.
Whatever the spark, it isn’t hard to imagine America’s
intensifying domestic tensions exploding into mass riots.
Imagine how such a scenario might play out, with some
“help” from outside adversaries: Governors call in the National Guard to
support local law enforcement. Other military units are deployed to hundreds of
cities. But law enforcement and military units are also ideologically divided,
and unable to unite against the chaos. After weeks of carnage, few employees
are willing to risk leaving their families for work, so businesses stop
operating. Food supply chains begin breaking down. In cities, scarcity and
looting become rampant.
Global markets take their worst plunges in decades, but
the leaders of China and Russia look on eagerly. They quietly activate armies
of hackers. Legions of operatives set to work exploiting vulnerabilities
secretly planted in U.S. computer systems years earlier and locating new weak
spots.
Within hours, the U.S. military suffers a global failure
of communications satellites operating with Ka band frequencies. The sudden
silence makes clear that the satellites have been hacked and compromised, but
authorities can’t identify the origin of the assault. The Pentagon scrambles to
reroute communication lines, with limited success.
Meanwhile, a dozen West Coast cities simultaneously go
dark. The electric power grid has been hacked and fed poisoned code, taking
numerous power stations suddenly offline. Adjoining stations shift into
overdrive attempting to carry the extra burden. They fail, and secondary
outages roll down from Washington to Arizona. Blackouts and brownouts begin
spreading inland.
Nationwide, domestic turmoil is intensifying. City grocery
stores have stood empty for weeks, and rampant hunger fuels unspeakable
violence.
The Pentagon calls U.S. naval groups and submarines in to
help contain the domestic chaos. Suffering from serious communications and
weapons-system hacks, they fail to receive Washington’s message. Meanwhile, a
fleet of American F-35s crash into the South China Sea after their vaunted
Distributed Aperture Systems are hacked, leaving the pilots flying utterly blind.
America is imploding from within and under debilitating
cyberattack from without. It is suddenly vulnerable to invasion.
This may sound like a far-fetched, dystopian
science-fiction plot. But recent reports and trends show that such a scenario
could soon become reality. And Bible prophecy reveals that America is headed
for such a future.
China’s ‘Big Hack’
Bloomberg Businessweek published a bombshell report on Oct. 4, 2018, claiming that
microchips the size of a grain of rice have been secretly planted on numerous
server motherboards made by the hardware manufacturer Super Micro Computer Inc.
According to the report, the chips were secretly inserted
at factories operated by manufacturing subcontractors in China, by operatives
with direct links to the Chinese military. Bloomberg said U.S. investigators “concluded that this
intricate scheme was the work of a People’s Liberation Army unit specializing
in hardware attacks.”
Around 30 U.S. companies have used Supermicro’s products,
including Apple and Amazon. The Department of Homeland Security, both houses of
Congress and nasa have also used their chips. And the alleged hack also has
alarming implications for the U.S. military. The compromised hardware, Bloomberg
said, “could be found in Department of Defense data centers, the cia’s drone operations, and
the onboard networks of Navy warships.”
The chips were placed on the motherboards in locations
that would allow attackers to remotely “alter how the device functioned, line
by line, however they wanted, leaving no one the wiser,” Bloomberg
wrote. “Deviously small changes could create disastrous effects.”
The report said: “This attack was something graver than
the software-based incidents the world has grown accustomed to seeing. Hardware
hacks are more difficult to pull off and potentially more devastating,
promising the kind of long-term, stealth access that spy agencies are willing
to invest millions of dollars and many years to get.”
Apple, Amazon, Supermicro, Homeland Security and others
disputed the Bloomberg
report, and the Chinese government denied the allegations. But even if this
particular report remains unconfirmed, it is not the only time firms with
suspected links to the Chinese government have come under scrutiny by the U.S.
for similar activities. In May 2018, the Pentagon said no phones built by
Chinese manufacturers zte and Huawei can be used on U.S. military bases. And there are
ongoing congressional investigations into Facebook and Google regarding their
data-sharing with Huawei. In all these scenarios, the concern is America’s
national security.
On October 5, John Bolton, who leads the U.S. National
Security Council, declined to confirm the hack alleged in the Bloomberg
report, but he addressed the broader cyberthreat posed by China. “I don’t want
to address anything that might touch on specific intelligence questions,” he
told reporters. “But I will say the Chinese efforts to threaten us in
cyberspace and across the information technology spectrum are a very high
priority for us.”
Some experts say that since the U.S. is so dependent on
computer technologies with supply chains linked to China, such threats are
something America must learn to live with. “I think we’ve already kind of
passed the point where we can, for national security, just insource
everything,” Katie Moussouris, ceo of Luta Security, told npr on October 6. “I think we’ve passed that point at least
30 years ago.”
America’s Achilles’ Heel
Consider these statements delivered
by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, at a Jan. 18,
2018, congressional hearing: “It’s not just that China poses a threat,” he
said, “it’s that the kind of threat is unlike anything the U.S. has ever before faced.” China has
“weaponized” its investments in America “in order to vacuum up U.S. industrial
capabilities from American companies,” he said. China’s goal, he added, is “to
turn our own technology and know-how against us in an effort to erase our
national security advantage.”
In recent years, the Chinese have repeatedly
engaged in acts of industrial espionage, often targeting assets that America
has spent billions to develop. Theft and other more subtle, underhanded tactics
have allowed China to procure U.S. software and military secrets that have long
given the U.S. a battlefield edge, including the blueprints for the U.S.’s
top-of-the-line F-35 fighter jets. “Again and again,” Politico wrote on May 22, “high-tech products and military
equipment have popped up in China that bear a too-striking resemblance to their
American counterparts.”
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New
York Democrat, discussed the endemic problem on the Senate floor last year,
saying, “China continues to steal our family jewels, the things that have made
America great: the intellectual property, the know-how in the highest-end
industries. It makes no sense.”
In ordinary circumstances, Schumer would be correct in
saying this ongoing nation-threatening thievery of the U.S.’s most prized
knowledge and assets “makes no sense.”
China’s ongoing espionage, hacking and theft of American
intellectual property will equip it with the knowledge needed to spearhead this
historic besiegement against the English-speaking countries.
If China has
infiltrated numerous American governmental and military systems with the
Supermicro chips, or even if the nation is able to keep stealing the U.S.’s
vital security assets, it is or will be in position to implement a siege.
The bad news
unfolding around the world today makes the powerful case, though most do not
realize it, that the world needs a different type of government. It shows that
the governments of West and East are failing. The bad news shows that we need a
drastically more aware form of government.
China’s cyber assaults on U.S. computers and in
its theft of American security secrets are a real danger that are ignored by
our media who act more like bloodthirsty wolves in their pursuit of trying to
hang the President.
Yours for a more secure future,
Bruce ‘the Poor Man!’
Final Notes…
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5 Steps for Millennials to Pay Off Student Loans (FOX Business)
The nations’ student loan debt has ballooned to
over $1.5 trillion, the highest in U.S. history, while late fees and calls from
lenders have sadly become the new normal. With the weight of student loans
carried by people in their twenties and thirties, long-term debt is now
delaying life’s major milestones for many millennials.
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All of President Trump’s efforts to make America great again are
being undermined by the Deep State…
It has become clear that Trump is not the “savior” that the
liberty movement was hoping for, but many people will continue to defend him
all the same because of a specific factor: The increasingly deranged
political left.
Consider the endless
absurdity of Russiagate; a conspiracy theory with absolutely no evidence to
back it. It never seems to die despite all logic and reason, but the motives
behind it are not what conservatives assume. Russiagate is a drug, a drug for
leftists. They love it, they need it, it dulls the pain of their loss in 2016
and it confirms their biases. They didn't “fail” in 2016, the election was
“stolen” from them by Trump and his Russian handlers. Therefore, they are now
justified in any level of insanity they display in their activism and
opposition. They believe they are righteous.
Three weeks from now the government shutdown fight is set to
return. The mainstream media has been avidly reporting that the uncertainty is
over, but this is a preposterous conclusion. What the nation faces now is even
greater confusion with as the shutdown fight prepares to accelerate in February
or a national emergency is declared, or both. My concern is that this is
leading to conservative support for extreme measures.
What would a national emergency entail? Simply building a border
wall? Building a border wall using the military? What about martial law on the
border?
It seems to me that the fight between left and right is being
driven beyond the information wars and beyond activism into a realm that could
include actual civil war. If the current trend continues, I see no other
outcome. But as always, we must ask who benefits the most from this?
While the left has gone off the deep end into cartoonland and must
be stopped.
As I shared in 2016 [and was confirmed again by Sen. Lindsay
Graham on the evening news last night] this nonsensical file by a disgraced MI6
agent, paid for by the DNC/Hillary Clinton and its magical reach to find “collusion”
between Trump and Russia has succeeded in finding some bad players associated
with his campaign and by some wishful thinking among Dems made all of us vote
for Trump at the polls and somehow tainted the election. Like sharks circling for blood they hold out
hope Mueller’s team will find something that will enable them to lynch Pres.
Trump…
Finally, grab
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Additional
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How to Survive the War on the Middle
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