By Jack Burns
While Hurricane Matthew this week has captured the attention of many U.S. residents, threatened by the damage it’s been inflicting on our Eastern coast, The United States and Russia are creeping closer and closer to military conflict. Although, for now, it may only be a skirmish of cyber-war, the Russians have re-positioned nuclear weapons along its border with Poland, prompting written responses from German officials. Adding fuel to the fire of political rhetoric, the U.S. has now openly and officially accused Russia of being behind the Democratic National Party’s email hacks, and tampering with our nation’s election equipment.
Prior to the official announcement on Friday, the U.S. had been increasing its political rhetoric directed at Russia’s support for the Syrians and Bashar Al Assad’s regime. The U.S. wanted Russia and Syria to implement a 7-day cease-fire to stop bombing rebel-held areas of Aleppo. According to Al-Jazeera, the Russians saw the request for a cease-fire as a way for the U.S. backed rebel troops, whom Syria considers “terrorists,” to rest from fighting, stock up on supplies, and sleep. But no cease-fire was reached and direct talks between the U.S. and Russia broke down this week, further escalating the conflict, which the Obama administration now admits may lead to the U.S. to take military action against Syria. Reportedly as a consequence of Washington’s tough talk, the Russians have now deployed anti-aircraft batteries to protect their bases in Syria — backed by threats to shoot down US jets.
After the collapse of talks and amid threats by the Russians to shoot down any unidentified aircraft over Syria, tensions further escalated on Friday when the U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) issued a statement saying it, “is confident that the Russian Government,” was behind the DNC hacks this summer. The statement alleged Russia, “directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations.” The statement further added, “The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts.”
The announcement marks only the second time in history that the U.S. has called out a foreign government for cyber-hacking. The first time was when the U.S. openly accused North Korea of hacking Sony over its release of the feature film The Interview.
The USIC claims the Russian hacks on U.S. government accounts were intended to disrupt the election process and used, “servers operated by a Russian company” in order to do so. While many in government claimed the Russians were behind the hacking of the DNC servers this summer, the USIC’s official announcement marked the first time intelligence officials publicly charged the Russians with cyber-hacking claiming, “we are not now in a position to attribute this activity to the Russian Government.”
Saturday, on NBC Nightly News, correspondent Richard Engel said 20 American states have reported attempted break-ins of their election systems. Using specific IP addresses provided by the FBI, ThreatConnect, a U.S. based security firm, identified the server it says was used to hack into those systems. ThreatConnect’s Dir. of Research Operations, Toni Gidwani, told NBC News the servers were, “owned by a company called King Servers based in Russia.”
Engel then traveled to Russia and tracked down the server used to hack into election-related systems in the U.S. His investigation led him to the industrial city of Biysk, Russia in Siberia, where he found Vladimir Fomenko who runs King Servers and rents out his server space anonymously to paying clients. Flamenko admitted his servers were indeed used to hack into the U.S. based elections systems but says he has no way of knowing who did it. The majority of his clients use his server space to peddle porn, but Russian journalist Andrei Soldatov told Engel he believes Vladamir Putin ordered the hacks as retaliation against Hillary Clinton for organizing political protests against him in 2011 and 2012, when Clinton served in the Obama Administration as Secretary of State.
The U.S. has promised to retaliate against the cyber-attack for which it now openly says Russia is responsible but will not disclose how they will respond. Politico said a senior administration official stated in an email,
The president has made it clear that we will take action to protect our interests, including in cyberspace, and we will do so at a time and place of our choosing…Consistent with the practice we have adopted in the past, the public should not assume that they will necessarily know what actions have been taken or what actions we will take.
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Meanwhile, back in Russia, war games are underway, with late word the Russians have deployed nuclear missiles into Kaliningrad, along the border with Poland. The nuclear-armed projectiles known as Iskander missiles, have a 450-mile range, and are capable of hitting Berlin. Addressing the increases in hostilities between the West and Russia, Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement, “It is more dangerous than the cold war.” Steinmeier called on the Russians as well as the West to “end the madness in Syria” saying everyone involved should “leave no stone unturned” in attempting to put an end to the regional conflict in Syria. He added everyone needs to work to “find a way out of this hell.”
But all hope of a peaceful solution to the conflict was lost on Saturday when competing resolutions to stop the fighting in Aleppo failed in the UN. The French introduced a resolution to the UN Security Council for Russia to cease indiscriminate bombing in the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo. The Russians introduced their own resolution. Both resolutions were vetoed, and nothing was achieved. But the Russians are blaming the U.S. for not separating their so-called “moderate” rebels from extremists (like ISIS), which echoes what The Free Thought Project has reported, contending the U.S. is working with ISIS.
Some say President Obama is hell-bent on overthrowing the Asaad regime, but with time quickly running out in his presidency, others are wondering just how far the president is willing to go to effect regime change. Some are questioning whether the president is willing to go to war with the Russians in order to do so, or is all the threats, the rhetoric, and the official charge of cyber-hacking just a political bluff on the part of the U.S. to put pressure on Russia to withdraw from Syria.
However, de-escalation is not likely when looking at the saber rattling the US has been engaged in with Russia for the last year. Couple this with the fact that Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told an audience at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. this week that he’s ready to go to war with Russia and we have a recipe for disaster.
“The strategic resolve of our nation, the United States, is being challenged and our alliances tested in ways that we haven’t faced in many, many decades,” Miley said. “I want to be clear to those who wish to do us harm … the United States military — despite all of our challenges, despite our [operational] tempo, despite everything we have been doing — we will stop you and we will beat you harder than you have ever been beaten before. Make no mistake about that.”
“While we focused on the counter-terrorist fight, other countries — Russia, Iran, China, North Korea — went to school on us,” he said. “They studied our doctrine, our tactics, our equipment, our organization, our training, our leadership. And, in turn, they revised their own doctrines, and they are rapidly modernizing their military today to avoid our strengths in hopes of defeating us at some point in the future.”
However, it is not Russia who is invading foreign countries and oppressing their people. It is not Russian weapons found in the hands of ISIS. It is not the Russians who bombed the Syrian army to protect ISIS. And, it’s not the Russians provoking the Chinese in an attempt to bolster the output of the military industrial complex. No, all of these maneuvers toward war have been carried out by the ostensible land of the free.
Jack Burns writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared.
I live in a country run by war mongering psychopaths and have a media run but full fledged Zionists whose main aleigence is for Israel.
Yes we do. And it is absolutely disgusting…
The US will retaliate by sending more advanced classified technology to Skolkovo (think Russian AI, Google-Eric Schmidt, Microsoft- Bill Gates), for which Killary will get another multi million $$$ kickback from Zio Russian Oligarchs.
Dr. Strangelove and The Dream of The Terrorism War That Never Ends -> line up for your smart biometric tracking card or get chipped while people around the globe are sprayed like cockroaches. BTW, mushroom cloud nice touch to juice amygdala firing. Someone in Tavistock knows upwards of 80 percent of all the white matter connections (telegraph wires) in our brains are processing visual images = powerful emotive signals that interrupt memory and processing in the neocortex.
Hello blue 579. Your comment of an hour ago appeared after I posted my comment, only a few minutes ago.
I find it interesting that a few persons receive and understand some of my thought processes, while others have access (illegal) to my computer.
Your comment was deleted or moderated but this one went through OK? I’ve had the same problem, Eddysachs too, and some others have reported the this. Also, I often don’t receive Disqus notices of some replies, some were important connections.
P.S. You were interested in Lila Rajiva’s exploration of Assange’s background on VT. Since then, Eddy tipped me off to a Henry Makow article on Assange revealing his connection to a cult in Australia linked to a psychiatric institute connected to the CIA. Here’s the relevant link: http://www.henrymakow.com/stranger_than_fiction_life_of.html
Thanks, read it and perceive possibilities of subterfuge. Also, think that the more folk that receive LSD therapy the better the world would be.
Maybe so..I’m thinking of Graham Hancock’s TED presentation and the fascinating book about JFK and a woman he was close to: Mary’s Mosaic. Are you aware that Aldous Huxley was directly involved with MK Ultra and the recruitment of Leary to kickoff the psychedelic movement? Jan Irvin and his colleagues at Gnostic media proved the connection with careful research and FOIA requests. Like most things, LSD appears to be a double edged sword. Check out Huxley’s bio on Wiki. There’s this famous 1949 quote to Blair/Orwell: “Within the next generation I believe that the world’s leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”
…along with the Jesuit credo…”Give me a child between the ages of 3 & 7 years old
& we have them for life”
Exactly spot on, Eddysachs. A bit of synchronicity too, the past few evenings I’ve been relaxing re-listening to sections of a Richard Grove interview of John Taylor Gatto discussing this primary conspiracy.
Mary´s Mosaic contains much useful information and one major zinger that I have not found elsewhere.
The OSS/CIA secreted Josef Mengele MD into the US +-1945, who continued the development of his MKUltra techniques, which the CIA adopted. They were not discontinued.
Proverbs 22:6 KJV: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Whether correct or not, instilling a belief system in a child, from birth til puberty, locks the brain; The belief system “locks in” the right-wrong valuation, whether accurate or not. Critical thinking skills are trained to function within the established belief system.
Both you and Eddy read my thoughts! ‘Great minds’ again…
My comments derive from my experiences, thoughts and continued studies. Many of us share similar thoughts.
FYI: drbhelthi, MAPS is doing FDA approved studies using LSD and other psychedelics for the treatment of anxiety and PTSD, with a location in my area – I understand some excellent responses. http://www.maps.org/research/mdma With all those brilliant holistic docs, I imagine Germany is doing the same.
If the experimentation is FDA approved, it is insidious and controlled by Dr. Mengele types.
There is something sinister about the re-introduction of marijuana for recreational purposes. My guess is it’s TPTB’s “soma” and explains why Soros has been funding the legalization of marijuana – not for medical and personal freedom. Perhaps the same can be said about the allowance of psychedelics for treatment, it is viewed as a way to soften cultural attitudes, in the manner TPTB were behind the creation of the psychedelic era in the 60s. Maybe the simpler explanation is there was a strong professional push and the goal is to allow a venting while maintaining a tight leash on distribution.
smelled fishy to me immediately
When Aleppo falls to the Syrian Arab army, it will be all over and America will be the recipient of another Vietnam defeat. Hopefully it will cause America to quit the Middle East.
“America” and Americans are not the faulty ones. Rather, the foreigners and Israeli 1st treasonists in control of the USGov are manipulating the US Military.
The Zionist Khazarian Mafia with their dual-citizen parasites conveniently placed in nexus power positions throughout the Matrix… hijacked the Federal US gov on 9-11…. is another way of stating the obvious…once one has done their homework….cheers
u r right there but who stops them , the american people or someone else ?
They can’t answer those simple and direct questions.
They make too much sense. They would rather try to confuse you with long winded rhetoric of how much they know the broken playbook. They are very impressive you know.
That’s right. And when you were in the military you were just doing your job. You didn’t have anything to do with the corruption.
Just like all cops aren’t bad, some just turn their heads.
A report was recently published that George H. W. Bush, chief sorcerer for the CIA since 1953 or earlier and emeritus leader of the Republican Party, plans to vote for Hillary Clinton. One wonders if Bush Sr. also plans a magnified version of the “October Surprise of 1980,” which he accomplished with the leadership of Iran via the services of Judaism´s MOSSAD. (details in “Profits of War Inside the Secret U.S. – Israeli Arms Network”, pp 68-75) Considering the CIA/MOSSAD- controlled ISIS-ISIL subterfuge against President Assad and his Russian forces in Syria, the recent threat by Israeli 1st generals in the Pentagon, to use tactical nukes in Syria, requires consideration. An “October Surprise of 2016” would not be a simple switch of presidents as occurred in 1980-1981. Nor would the destruction be limited to the nuke demolition of 3 buildings and the murder of 3,000 innocent victims. Initiating the use of tactical nukes in Syria will incite nuclear demolition that will spread to major cities of the earth and kill many millions of innocent victims.
Some nasty Kabal surprises for sure drbhelthi. More division in the US too as a large new release of CIA-Wikileaks ‘revelations’ paints Hillary in a bad light at the same time a tape of Trump saying some provocative things is released to the circus audience. I’ve posted this before, you may have seen my comments wondering about the timing of the fracturing of nations in the middle east dovetailing with the Wall Street Journal floating a trial balloon summer 2015 on a literal fracturing of the US and a few months before in May the Rothschild owned The Economist published a detailed analysis of the eventual break up of Russia due to its economic fragility and discord with ethnic groups on the outer reaches of its territory. Then we had Brexit with a possible fracturing of the UK. Masses of refugees scattered to Europe. Complete breakdown?
Always edifying to observe someone else’s discerning research paralleling my own BIG PIC gestalt ..cheers
Witness the results of neoliberal elitist politicians that think higher education and wealth means you have the high ground in telling people what to do. Egg on one’s face is not tolerated. We are defending both Obama’s ego, HRC’s ego, and the petrodollar at the cost of real lives. The US is not justified to hold a tyrannical grasp on the world – our leaders need to grow up and wake up before more lives are lost.
Obama is creating a ‘false flag’ operation. Deliberately poking the bear to start WWIII and make it look like Russia started it. Russia does not want war. Putin knows U.S. is a much stronger force despite Obama’s attempt to degrade U.S. military. All of this is NWO attempt to overtake America so as to lead the world themselves. I know. Sounds like propaganda but people can believe it or not. Obama will take down America one way or another. An America at war would be a weakened state, creating an opening for UN to move in.