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Disturbing as the nearly nonexistent coverage of such major news may be (i.e., that literally millions of Americans are unable to access their bank accounts online) it also serves as an illustration of media complicity in the march to war.
After the almost universally read West Australian (!) broke the story September 26 – which was actually September 25 (Tuesday) in the United States – FOXBusiness picked it up and sought the reaction of that paragon of middle eastern objectivity, Joe Lieberman who – among a host of other things too ugly to mention in mixed company – is chair of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
FOXBusiness got what it wanted (and what AIPAC likely told it to get): A juicy quote blaming not the group that actually claimed responsibility, but – wait for it – Iran.
The funny thing is, FOXBusiness didn’t feature the incendiary words. It buried them.
Maybe it’s because they had to go back five-plus days to Lieberman’s appearance on C-SPAN to get his response to LAST week’s attacks.
However, Sen. Joe Lieberman [...] said he believes the attacks may have actually been carried out by Iran and the Qods force, which he said has its own developing cyber attack capacity.
“I don’t believe these were just hackers,” Lieberman said Friday evening on C-SPAN, adding that they may actually be retaliation for U.S. economic sanctions on Iran.
Iran’s civil defense agency head, Gholam Reza Jalali, denied on the country’s semi-official Fars news agency earlier this week claims that Iran was behind the cyber attacks on U.S. bank[s].
Ladies and gentlemen, why would FOXBusiness bury this quote, and why would FOX itself run this piece only on its business arm? I’ll repeat my earlier question: Are not attacks which prevent millions from accessing whatever (increasingly worthless) dollars they have MAJOR news?
Sure they are. Or would be, if
a) Wall Street and the media conglomerates were not scared to death of a bank run, and
b) AIPAC was not vigorously pursuing war with Iran.
By burying both the news itself and Lieberman’s quote in particular, the FOXBusiness write-up becomes one of those exhibits which will doubtless be added to a presentation at the United Nations x number of months (weeks? days?) hence, given by some spangled militarist with a crew cut, laying out all the reasons war is “unfortunately” our only option.
Anthony Noel is a facilitator of the New Progressive Alliance.
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Fascinating. I had not heard a single thing about this. Thanks Noel!
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Thanks TCU. If you search on “Wells Fargo site hacked” you’ll get a few things, but almost all of those from MSM outlets were published within the past few hours.
I’m no expert on matters Internet, but it seems unlikely indeed that any NGO could deny service for this long. If Americans get pissed enough and begin to believe the message Lieberman is conveying – one which increasing numbers of other “concerned officials” doubtless will repeat as this drags on – a certain percentage of the population will demand action.
And that is all it has EVER taken.
This recalls a rumor I heard an posted as such to a ctuttle diary on the Empire induced crisis in Syria:
http://my.firedoglake.com/ctuttle/2012/08/30/nato-to-bypass-un-security-council-on-syria/
I can’t remember where I heard it–Max Keiser, maybe?
The rationale LaRouche and others give is that the TBTF Looting Empire that most must agree by now, control Western “democracies” are inciting war in the Middle East as a way of holding a gun to the head of China and Russia which are not insolvent and not in their control. In effect, “your money, or your life.” The strategy is referred to as “encirclement.”
The Oligarchical crazies in control in the West may just be crazy enough. They wax lyrical about drastic population reduction, routinely–obsessively. After all, the human herd (by their Club of Rome reckonining) is becoming un-manageable, something radical must be done.
http://larouchepac.com/node/23877
Oh yeah, the other rationale is that the Empire is broke, insolvent, Too Big to Bail. Fail State.
http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2012/09/dissecting-operation-ababil-osint.html
Thanks Kurt. Based on your link, I’ll stand corrected on my supposition above, that only a government entity could affect service this drastically for this long. But given the author’s “virtually anyone” bottom line, I’ll put my money (if I can access it!) on AIPAC.
Reminiscent of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Yahiye_Gadahn
This post might be a good one to see get expanded and followed up on in the new “Bytegeist” section.
Interesting. Looks like it’s still going on, too. Now, isn’t somebody trying to get an Internet Security Bill through the Senate? Facebook is reportedly in favor of it. Odd that the attack is traced back to a Facebook page (from Kurt Sperry’s link at 6). If I didn’t trust my government I might wonder if it were a false flag op.
Aye!
Just one more reason why people should move their money to Credit Unions. Somehow, I just don’t see anyone targeting Credit Unions in something like this.
Well, apart from the big banks themselves (once everyone transfers their money).
Security bill ? It’s up to the damn banks to stop chiseling out on their internet connects, routers and switches and security software.
Ding! In fact, the original headline referenced AIPAC’s continuing push for war. False flag is the first thing I thought of.