1.) The file transfer speed of the leaked DNC files was too high to have been done over an internet connection, meaning it was obtained locally.
2.) Crowdstrike attributed the hack to Russian APTs by pointing to traffic from IP addresses associated with the actors, but those IP addresses had been blackholed by the time the file leak occurred. There was no direct tie to Russian APTs within the period of the actual leak.
"Cybersecurity professional." That's some sloppy propaganda.
Career advice: Don't give up your day gig as an "immature father."
From the Crowdstrike website:
"Why did the DNC hire CrowdStrike instead of just working with the FBI to investigate the hack?"
"The FBI doesn’t perform incident response or network remediation services when organizations need to get back to business after a breach."
"Did CrowdStrike have proof that Russia hacked the DNC?"
"Yes, and this is also supported by the U.S. Intelligence community and independent Congressional reports."
"Following a comprehensive investigation that CrowdStrike detailed publicly, the company concluded in May 2016 that two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries breached the DNC network."
"This conclusion has most recently been supported by the Senate Intelligence Committee in April 2020 issuing a report [intelligence.senate.gov] validating the previous conclusions of the Intelligence community, published on January 6, 2017, that Russia was behind the DNC data breach."
"The Senate report states on page 48:"
“The Committee found that specific intelligence as well as open source assessments support the assessment that President Putin approved and directed aspects of this influence campaign.”
Hillary Clinton launched 'Russiagate' during the 2016 debates when she claimed 'Russia hacked' and '17 spy agencies confirm.' She was referring to the DNC servers and Pedodesta emails, but I marveled at how the media morphed her statement into 'Russia hacked the election.' SHE launched 'Russiagate.' No one ever asked her what she meant (obviously, it could not have been 'hacked the election' prior TO the election) or how she was able to state that '17 spy agencies confirmed.' PLEASE pull on this thread! LOVE your work!
No retribution for Hillary's Dossier! The Federal Election Committee only awarded a samall fine for laying about paying for the DOSSEIR. Her Collusion with Foreign Agents, Steele and Duchanko was not considered as "Interference in an Election!
As an IT person with direct experience with Crowdstrike I can say this:
1) Crowdstrike and their analysis is very dependent on what the owners of the computers give them. When someone has a virus infection, everyone has the same motive, to use the facts to make sure it never happens again. There is no incentive for IT people to lie to Crowdstrike.
2) When an entity like the DNC wants to cover up a crime/fraud and they call Crowdstrike, the motives are very different. The DNC in this case is claiming they were hacked and they provide evidence that matches their claim (even if it isn't true). As others have discovered before, the timestamps on the copied files prove that it was a local copy, not possible from Russia. The Death of Seth Rich with very mysterious circumstances linked with the WIkileaks data, shows that a Staffer (Seth Rich) leaked what he saw as crimes in the DNC. This is what exiled Jullian for years and the condition for his 'get out of jail free' card was to delete the information he had on the DNC.
3) Crowdstrike may or may not have been complicit. We know that the DNC was guilty and blamed it on Russia. Unless Crowdstrike starts talking about what the DNC told them, we won't know if they were part of the coverup, or just a willing tool to perpetuate the lie that the DNC was hacked.
The FOIA case to get the contents of Seth Rich's laptops from the FBI just had a major development. The judge ordered the FBI to review and index every document on the work and personal laptops by February 2025, and either produce that list (called a Vuaghn index) or give an explanation of why they can't release certain documents.
Spoiler, for a botched robbery nothing on the two computers will have a legitimate reason to withhold. If the FBI releases bogus documents of no significance then their are going to have to explain why they fought the FOIA request in court for years.
February 7th, 2025 is going to be a very interesting day.
Yes! I'm with you. I believe it was an inside job.
Crowdstrike on DNC Russian computer hack: Before Congress:
"We did not have concrete evidence" that alleged Russian hackers actually took the emails from DNC servers. "There's circumstantial evidence, but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated," Henry testified that CrowdStrike did not in fact know if such a theft occurred at all.
I believe the Democrars found out one of their own did it, and that's why Seth Ridh was offed. Till this day they are struggling to kick it under the rug.
The Clinton campaign created a fake narrative that the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians. The disclosure of the DNC emails was a major embarrassment. Why not blame it on the Russians and Trump. It's a win/win. And if they get caught in the lie, no problem. No jury in DC or NYC will vote to convict them.
The only retribution Hillary got for the horrible DOSSIER was a small fine by the Federal Election Committee for lying about paying for it and NOT ELECTRION INTERFERENCE, or COLLUSION WITH FOREIGN AGENTS , Steele and Duchanko.
Democrats use it as the defence of THEIR Democracy. They especially like the "PEE TOWER" thing and love it as much as STORMY MOVIES.
08/15/24: Agreed. I'm glad Musk liberated Twix, but I'd rather do another two years in the army than get sucked into The Vortex of the Internet Pandering Poohbahs (subscribing to X, etc.) YouTube is my one exception. If this can be posted on YT, that would be excellent!
LOVE your portmanteau of Twitter and X - Twix. Hope you don't mind if I use that - I will give credit to 'a genius on Substack' to protect your anonymity. 😉
08/15/24: I must confess that I did not invent it.
No need to preserve my anonymity; I'm 72 years behind schedule, and each year, that number increases by one, which, in all, guarantees an absolute lack of interest by others as to who I am, what I say/write, etc.
I am indeed a luckier man than Al Capone, who was driven to soaking his fingers in acid to eliminate his fingerprints (he would also absent-mindedly pick his nose, which led to frightful complications).
Finally, I discourage you from your stated course of action because if you do identify me in your intended complimentary manner, we will be instantly deluded, swamped and drowned in lawsuits filed by the pre-existing 85,000 (self-proclaimed) "Geniuses on Substack."
08/16/24: You, my dear, have ruined my enviable record of being completely misunderstood. Correspondingly, the chances of my becoming a spiffy wax dummy in the showcase window of Madam Tussaud's on 42nd Street are diminished. There I was to be, alongside Joe Biden, portrayed as two of the biggest mental stiffs of the 21st century. Oh, well. (!)
Congrats, Mom. I got temporarily suspended from YT for calling out Lies of the Whitehouse Flaks. Hate speech, apparently. It was either that or praising S. Korean Peaceniks... or both! ;-)
08/18/24: As Pauline Kael once obnoxiously said, "That's out of my ken" (52 years later, it hasn't lost a scintilla of OB, has it?). At any rate, this one (your response) never made it back to Home Office here in Okinawa (Oklahoma). Instead of Rooster Teeth (scary lookin' stuff!), may I recommend someone who should have been in your neighborhood at a much earlier date?: "The Letters of Ann Fleming" [1913-1981], edited by Mark Amory [1941- ]; Collins Harvill [publishers] (1985 hardcover). Do read. I would LOVE to here your reaction to it. Just tried to read "Yours for probably always" letters by Martha Gellhorn (briefly part of the Hemingway circus), and might have succeeded had the publisher put ink in his printing press.
Ditto for me and I had even stuck up for Elon when he took over and throughout. Then many accounts started getting suspended suddenly in May like Tim Poole who has a big acct. A few times they briefly unsuspended ppl and resuspended accts 4 or 5 times in a week or 2, as if they were playing a game then suddenly like you mentioned they were no longer suspensions but permanent ones it seems, (though I've never been given a reply ) without telling people why. Mine happened the night Trump was found guilty of charges in the Fraud NYC court, May, 30th late in the evening we were all talking about and sharing the fund raising site to donate to Trump. Suddenly the page went wonky and a message popped up saying my acct was suspended an I could no longer post. As I mentioned to someone else. CodemonkeyZ had warned on X that the FBI were still part of the platform as they were under Dorsey. I asked Elon, and he didn't say yes or no. Sooo here we are off a so called free speech platform! Oh the irony...smh
CodemonkeyZ had said the FBI were still on the platform as they had been under Dorsey. I asked Elon and he didn't respond. Against my hope and having supported him once he came to Twitter I guess I wanted him to be someone he couldn't. I think he is trying to please both sides and straddle the fence by removing conservatives. About the time I was suspended or maybe banned, Tim Poole was too, but only briefly because his account is big and Libs of TikTok, one of Elon's $$ makers on the platform questioned Elon. For darn sure Elon is afraid of Libs of TikTok. She can use the term Trannie on the platform but I and others got dinged for using it once. I am hoping for them to reply to me this time and tell me my acct status as they never replied to my numerous appeals on 5/30/24, the night Trump had been found (faux) guity by the joke jury and judge in NYC.. We many of us were posting and trying to donate to Trump's account but it was overwhelmed. Next I knew I suddenly couldn't post and saw a message flash saying my acct. was suspended. As I said not one reply since then to any appeals asking what was the reason. I paid in January for the Premium Membership and also pay a monthly fee for the 6 account subscriptions I follow like Babylon Bee, Elon, Julie Kelly etc. But am unable to interact with, can't post at all. My rt and likes by phone get reversed and I can't do even that on the pc.. I don't know and have asked them how that is legal to take my money but not allow access to the platform and not even reply as to why they either suspended or banned me. They also removed the meme of Jesus and the Devil arm wrestling I had pinned saying to pray for Elon and his and Trump to be protected by God as this was a Spiritual Battle between Good and Evil we are all in. (The meme was from the memes on X and had been up for months).It shows 0 followers and 0 following on my page too. I'd like to think they didn't remove me due to my posts referring to religion and spiritual battles and God being in control but there is no other reason possible, sad to say. Satan is always on the prowl and often wins here on earth, his domain. Overall, God wins and is in control though!
"How can I learn to trust that God is in control?"...
The Peter Thiel "PayPal Mafia," and their spying software company Palantir that is used to spy on us all. Opposed to everyone who is not in the elite jet setter class.
Folks should read former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazelle's account of taking over the DNC at Hillary's request when Debbie Wasserman Schultz's massive ethical problems became too much even for the Democrats. It was chaos with special , and highly illegal, diversion of funds from the DNC to Hillary and all kinds of stuff going on with the computers.
My recollection , from reading several books written by others, that the computers were a mess. Recall that Hillary Bleachbit Rodam Clinton had lots of stuff disappear from her computers although it was not the end.
After rushing to clear Hillary of keeping classified information (her attorney was allowed to sift through and remove files that she did not want to disclose and she erased other computers.) Unfortunately she had sent massive amounts of classified informer to former Aide Huma who in turn assigned her husband the job of downloading and printing the classified docs on the same internet connected computer that he used in the pursuit of young women, under the name "Carlos Danger". Again it only took the fbi a few seconds to determine that there was nothing here of significance.
The most glaring issue with HRC's private server, the thing that never gets mentioned in the MSM, is that the only reason to have a private server, instead of the more secure government server, is to retain control over the contents. That way, if anyone ever wants to examine anything she didn't want looked at, then she could delete it with impunity. Which is exactly what happened.
Her official excuse was that it allowed her to have everything on just one device, whereas a government server would have required another device (a work phone and a personal phone) but in a interview after she became secretary of state but before the email server fiasco she said that she had 5 devices, two phones, a tablet, and two laptops. She actually said "yeah, I'm a bit of a hoarder."
In other Debbie Wasserman Schultz news, Tim Canova tried to primary her.
The results were, ah, slightly unusual. A news station released the 'results' a day before the election. Debbie won, and by almost exactly the same margin as the strange 'early results.' The election official for the district, Broward Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes, lost the electronic copy of the scanned ballots, illegally destroyed the paper ballots (several months early and during pending litigation, both illegal), 'found' the electronic records much later but they showed evidence of tampering, etc., etc. The FBI never responded to Tim's requests to investigate but they did get involved to protect Snipes and company from harrassment.
D ebbie was the chair of the DNC and HRC's election campaign at the same time, which is not a conflict of interest at all.
If you ever want to show someone what a patently fraudulent election looks like, this is the one, Tim Canova vs Debbie Wasserman Schultz. There is more in the local papers too (national news ignored it) and in Tim's court case (the judge was flabbergasted at the enormity of it all)
Thanks for sharing this . Interesting to note that you could not get into her building (where the office was located ) without a government ID. But not so much required to cross the border. Folks are also not aware that our Border Czar allows illegals entering the country to board aircraft without being photographed . There’s a sign reminding their of the right . Why … Because Camoola and gang to not want a photo on file to match with crime scene evidence .
America has a voting system where the candidates are picked by what has been compared to a yacht club. "In that August 2017 dismissal order, Senior U.S. District Judge William Zloch appeared reluctant to grant relief on matters concerning the internal workings of the Democratic Party." Voters in primaries are thus disenfranchised; results are a charade, and often have to be "corrected" (as by Brenda Snipes). Somehow we are supposed to believe these machinations are limited to primaries and not the general elections?
Even if the final elections are real (no dead voting in Chicago which elected JFK? "See the system works!") we end up with the oligarchs' candidates (most recently the Hobson's choice of Hillary vs Trump, Genocide Joe vs Trump, and now Kamala vs Trump). And of course the Establishment is erasing third party candidates such as RFK Jr from ballots, and booting out Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush (at the primary stage).
"American Democracy!" has always meant US puppet dictators abroad (and removal of democratically elected leaders, usually in coups) and with increasing State Dept/CIA influence domestically, the same tricks will be used to 'pick' the proper officials. Whatever America does abroad, comes home, " the chickens come home to roost".
The investigations also showed that Hillary maintained a SCIF in her home so she could receive and send classified information. She gave her maid access to the facility, not so she could clean but so she could check for messages. Again the feds drew the "nothing here so see" curtain down to protect Hillary .
In an earlier scandal the Clinton White House had been requesting a large quantity of classified investigative files on their enemies. They were kept in a room in the White House that was not secure. It was obvious that the purpose of the files were to have the agencies conduct spying on political enemies and perhaps friends who could be blackmailed. There was a sign out sheet for the files but no security. The same FBI that excused the Clinton classified computer story, the Huma classified file transfers after Huma left the government and this was in the "hear no evil/see no evil mode."
Americans should have realized the signs of corruption that would continue with Joe Biden, Hunter and folks like Louie Freeh ( former head of the FBI, Federal Judge and in private law/influence peddling) business. Freeh was essentially a partner with Hunter and Joe on the Burisma influence peddling deal. His role was to use his position to influence and gain information from senior government officials. Hunter's emails document his efforts with the State Department and DOJ on behalf of Burisma. When the news that Hunter's laptop had fallen into Rudy's hands Freeh suddenly exited the practice of law and pretty much dropped out of sight.
https://bidenlaptopemails.com/index.php a search of this collection of Hunter Biden emails for emails with Hunter and Freeh will produce a large quantity of emails covering the extensive use of Freeh to influence Federal agencies on behalf of Burisma and others.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz had the Awan brothers doing IT for the Democrats at this time. They would sell anything/ anytime for a buck, even to Wikileaks.
Sadly I forgot the author of a great book on the Awan's huge involvement with Democrats - probably including Hillary. It was by a cyber expert in government at that time and discusses the harassment and I believe finally driving her out of her job. When the FBI went to check Hillary's computers (after she left government) the allowed her attorney to review the emails and destroy thousands of them . When the Huma/Carlos Danger scandal arose the FBI dismissed it over a weekend.
One of the things that all of this did was also to drive a lot of the honest people out of the government, leaving more promotions for the corrupted.
Racket News, of course, is not social media. But the platforms needed to publish?
Just know I am not going to register for anything I don't have to. Including, at my local convenience gas station which I visit all the time.
In a related story, we got a notice 30 days ago from Ticketmaster, c/o Cyberscout (whoever the hell that is), that they had an event that "may have involved (my) personal information . . ." I cannot even TELL you how long ago I used Ticketmaster --- a very long time. I can't believe they don't think I'm dead.
Yes, it more likely was an inside job. I know next to nothing about hacking and such, but I have a very geeky cousin who explained that the transmission times in the emails pointed to an internal transfer. Maybe Mr. “ Password” Podesta would enlighten us… because we know who is not available to shed light on this….
That "transmission time" thing, while it's a geeky technical detail, is crucial to determining how the material got from the DNC to Wikileaks. There are basically 2 possibilities:
o A "hack", which would come from outside the DNC's servers (this is the story we've been fed from the get-go by the MSM)
o A "leak", where someone *inside* the DNC copies the files onto a portable device, most likely a USB thumb drive
If the files were hacked, it would take a *lot* more time to transfer the files from the server to the hacker's computer, since they have to be sent over the internet. Fortunately, servers keep track of such things as how long a file transfer took, so we can see from the shorter times that the files were leaked from within, not hacked from without.
The FBI admitted during pretrial motions in my case that they never examined the computer servers of the DNC relying entirely on a quote report from crowd strikes, which claimed that there was an online hack of the DNC by Russian intelligence. The judge specifically denied that report to my defense attorneys at trial. Only later did we learn Crowdstrikes head of cyber security, Sean Henry, who just happened to be a former deputy to FBI director Robert Mueller testified that his "draft report" actually contained no proof that the Russians hacked the DNC.
The judge strictly prohibited the testimony, Bill Binney , or the introduction of forensic evidence that would have approved that there was no online hack of the DNC.
Federal prosecutor Jonathan Kravis filed a " sur reply" with the court in my case, claiming the government had evidence that the Russians had hacked the DNC beyond the crowd strikes report, which was a fraud upon the court. In fact, the intelligence agencies have no proof whatsoever hacking of the DNC.
There are several key facts surrounding your case I need to revisit. If memory serves we got to see search warrants for Guccifer 2.0's Twitter account and other key investigative steps that came in 2017 and 2018, much later than one might have expected.
I think the key point to our recent reporting is, if the totality of evidence supporting the hack & attribution outside of Crowdstrike comes from these other Clinton operatives, everyone should be concerned.
Y'know, Roger, I'd put a whole lot more store by your comments if I didn't have to contend with the realization that you're kind of a necrophiliac about Richard Nixon. Just can't stomach that ...
I believe he offered a reward for info on who killed Seth Rich. Has also said Podesta and DNC emails were from separate sources, neither were state actors, and both were leaks.
Matt would you mind asking Elon if he will allow your followers who are permanently or temporarily suspended to be able to utilize and view Spaces for your story tonight.
08/16/24: I used to write that on the palm of my hand when cheating on poli-sci exams (it worked!). Then they found out and that was the end of my kindergarten diploma.
WSJ had a similar story. It’s interesting the story did include the CIA telling Ukraine not to do it, which presents a reason (alibi?) for their involvement in this caper. I highly suspect their actual involvement includes planning, execution and funding, but that’s just based on their normal shenanigans. Maybe the real truth will come out some day.
Contempt prior to investigation is always a mistake. Joined with an open mind.
Take away: spaces currently sucks. As a podcast platform - 1-4 participants, maybe, and probably much better with just two participants.
Sound quality was really poor. Contributions by guests ranged from ok to useless. Questions from guests often excellent - which means guest contributions can be delivered as chat messages.
Racket has to have a Spaces presence. I get it. I suspect, however, many would be much more satisfied with the full video live-streaming - option Just saying. Many thanks to all who participated.
Two important points:
1.) The file transfer speed of the leaked DNC files was too high to have been done over an internet connection, meaning it was obtained locally.
2.) Crowdstrike attributed the hack to Russian APTs by pointing to traffic from IP addresses associated with the actors, but those IP addresses had been blackholed by the time the file leak occurred. There was no direct tie to Russian APTs within the period of the actual leak.
Thank you for providing the far more sophisticated version of my point!! 😉
Two important points:
1) Bullshit.
2) Bullshit.
"Cybersecurity professional." That's some sloppy propaganda.
Career advice: Don't give up your day gig as an "immature father."
From the Crowdstrike website:
"Why did the DNC hire CrowdStrike instead of just working with the FBI to investigate the hack?"
"The FBI doesn’t perform incident response or network remediation services when organizations need to get back to business after a breach."
"Did CrowdStrike have proof that Russia hacked the DNC?"
"Yes, and this is also supported by the U.S. Intelligence community and independent Congressional reports."
"Following a comprehensive investigation that CrowdStrike detailed publicly, the company concluded in May 2016 that two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries breached the DNC network."
"This conclusion has most recently been supported by the Senate Intelligence Committee in April 2020 issuing a report [intelligence.senate.gov] validating the previous conclusions of the Intelligence community, published on January 6, 2017, that Russia was behind the DNC data breach."
"The Senate report states on page 48:"
“The Committee found that specific intelligence as well as open source assessments support the assessment that President Putin approved and directed aspects of this influence campaign.”
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/
Hillary Clinton launched 'Russiagate' during the 2016 debates when she claimed 'Russia hacked' and '17 spy agencies confirm.' She was referring to the DNC servers and Pedodesta emails, but I marveled at how the media morphed her statement into 'Russia hacked the election.' SHE launched 'Russiagate.' No one ever asked her what she meant (obviously, it could not have been 'hacked the election' prior TO the election) or how she was able to state that '17 spy agencies confirmed.' PLEASE pull on this thread! LOVE your work!
'Pedodesta' 🤣
No retribution for Hillary's Dossier! The Federal Election Committee only awarded a samall fine for laying about paying for the DOSSEIR. Her Collusion with Foreign Agents, Steele and Duchanko was not considered as "Interference in an Election!
As an IT person with direct experience with Crowdstrike I can say this:
1) Crowdstrike and their analysis is very dependent on what the owners of the computers give them. When someone has a virus infection, everyone has the same motive, to use the facts to make sure it never happens again. There is no incentive for IT people to lie to Crowdstrike.
2) When an entity like the DNC wants to cover up a crime/fraud and they call Crowdstrike, the motives are very different. The DNC in this case is claiming they were hacked and they provide evidence that matches their claim (even if it isn't true). As others have discovered before, the timestamps on the copied files prove that it was a local copy, not possible from Russia. The Death of Seth Rich with very mysterious circumstances linked with the WIkileaks data, shows that a Staffer (Seth Rich) leaked what he saw as crimes in the DNC. This is what exiled Jullian for years and the condition for his 'get out of jail free' card was to delete the information he had on the DNC.
3) Crowdstrike may or may not have been complicit. We know that the DNC was guilty and blamed it on Russia. Unless Crowdstrike starts talking about what the DNC told them, we won't know if they were part of the coverup, or just a willing tool to perpetuate the lie that the DNC was hacked.
The FOIA case to get the contents of Seth Rich's laptops from the FBI just had a major development. The judge ordered the FBI to review and index every document on the work and personal laptops by February 2025, and either produce that list (called a Vuaghn index) or give an explanation of why they can't release certain documents.
https://lawflog.com/ -The lawyer, Ty Clevenger's blog.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17211651/huddleston-v-federal-bureau-of-investigation/
-The very last entry, dated August 15th 2024
Spoiler, for a botched robbery nothing on the two computers will have a legitimate reason to withhold. If the FBI releases bogus documents of no significance then their are going to have to explain why they fought the FOIA request in court for years.
February 7th, 2025 is going to be a very interesting day.
Yes! I'm with you. I believe it was an inside job.
Crowdstrike on DNC Russian computer hack: Before Congress:
"We did not have concrete evidence" that alleged Russian hackers actually took the emails from DNC servers. "There's circumstantial evidence, but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated," Henry testified that CrowdStrike did not in fact know if such a theft occurred at all.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2020/05/13/crowdstrike_president_under_oath_no_proof_of_russia_dnc_hack_510974.html#!
I believe the Democrars found out one of their own did it, and that's why Seth Ridh was offed. Till this day they are struggling to kick it under the rug.
The Clinton campaign created a fake narrative that the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians. The disclosure of the DNC emails was a major embarrassment. Why not blame it on the Russians and Trump. It's a win/win. And if they get caught in the lie, no problem. No jury in DC or NYC will vote to convict them.
The only retribution Hillary got for the horrible DOSSIER was a small fine by the Federal Election Committee for lying about paying for it and NOT ELECTRION INTERFERENCE, or COLLUSION WITH FOREIGN AGENTS , Steele and Duchanko.
Democrats use it as the defence of THEIR Democracy. They especially like the "PEE TOWER" thing and love it as much as STORMY MOVIES.
I was permanently suspended from X. Any other way to listen?
I don't want to be on or sign up for X. Is there any other way to listen? Will it be posted later here or via private YouTube link?
08/15/24: Agreed. I'm glad Musk liberated Twix, but I'd rather do another two years in the army than get sucked into The Vortex of the Internet Pandering Poohbahs (subscribing to X, etc.) YouTube is my one exception. If this can be posted on YT, that would be excellent!
LOVE your portmanteau of Twitter and X - Twix. Hope you don't mind if I use that - I will give credit to 'a genius on Substack' to protect your anonymity. 😉
08/15/24: I must confess that I did not invent it.
No need to preserve my anonymity; I'm 72 years behind schedule, and each year, that number increases by one, which, in all, guarantees an absolute lack of interest by others as to who I am, what I say/write, etc.
I am indeed a luckier man than Al Capone, who was driven to soaking his fingers in acid to eliminate his fingerprints (he would also absent-mindedly pick his nose, which led to frightful complications).
Finally, I discourage you from your stated course of action because if you do identify me in your intended complimentary manner, we will be instantly deluded, swamped and drowned in lawsuits filed by the pre-existing 85,000 (self-proclaimed) "Geniuses on Substack."
I like the way your mind works! And, FYI - we are in same cohort, so I understand where you're coming from. 😘
08/16/24: You, my dear, have ruined my enviable record of being completely misunderstood. Correspondingly, the chances of my becoming a spiffy wax dummy in the showcase window of Madam Tussaud's on 42nd Street are diminished. There I was to be, alongside Joe Biden, portrayed as two of the biggest mental stiffs of the 21st century. Oh, well. (!)
I’ll jot that in purple for you…
You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your relatives. Mom
True story.
Hi Mom!
Elon suspended Mom from X? ??? What is this world coming to?
Congrats, Mom. I got temporarily suspended from YT for calling out Lies of the Whitehouse Flaks. Hate speech, apparently. It was either that or praising S. Korean Peaceniks... or both! ;-)
Why?from X???
08/15/24: Because we ran out of all the other letters. I'm thinking about podcasting from a can of alphabet soup, do ya think it will work?
This is becoing a bit Warholian.
Or McLuhanesque.
You're funny to boot!!
Headline, "WBD's Cartoon Swoon" [NY Post "Business" 08/10/24]:
"After reporting a net loss of ... $9.1 billion write-down for a drop in value of its cable TV networks..."
"Warner Bros. Discovery pulled the plug on" ---
CNN?!
Can this be?!
" --- The Cartoon Network's website."
Oh.
I thought perhaps you would be mourning 'Rooster Teeth'. https://roosterteeth.com/
08/18/24: As Pauline Kael once obnoxiously said, "That's out of my ken" (52 years later, it hasn't lost a scintilla of OB, has it?). At any rate, this one (your response) never made it back to Home Office here in Okinawa (Oklahoma). Instead of Rooster Teeth (scary lookin' stuff!), may I recommend someone who should have been in your neighborhood at a much earlier date?: "The Letters of Ann Fleming" [1913-1981], edited by Mark Amory [1941- ]; Collins Harvill [publishers] (1985 hardcover). Do read. I would LOVE to here your reaction to it. Just tried to read "Yours for probably always" letters by Martha Gellhorn (briefly part of the Hemingway circus), and might have succeeded had the publisher put ink in his printing press.
No idea.
Ditto for me and I had even stuck up for Elon when he took over and throughout. Then many accounts started getting suspended suddenly in May like Tim Poole who has a big acct. A few times they briefly unsuspended ppl and resuspended accts 4 or 5 times in a week or 2, as if they were playing a game then suddenly like you mentioned they were no longer suspensions but permanent ones it seems, (though I've never been given a reply ) without telling people why. Mine happened the night Trump was found guilty of charges in the Fraud NYC court, May, 30th late in the evening we were all talking about and sharing the fund raising site to donate to Trump. Suddenly the page went wonky and a message popped up saying my acct was suspended an I could no longer post. As I mentioned to someone else. CodemonkeyZ had warned on X that the FBI were still part of the platform as they were under Dorsey. I asked Elon, and he didn't say yes or no. Sooo here we are off a so called free speech platform! Oh the irony...smh
Hi Mom!
You’re not my mom!
I didn't know there was a permanent suspension. When was that enacted? I only ever saw a temporary suspension category or outright banned.
I got banned and yes post Elon Xer, it's a fake "free speech" site.
CodemonkeyZ had said the FBI were still on the platform as they had been under Dorsey. I asked Elon and he didn't respond. Against my hope and having supported him once he came to Twitter I guess I wanted him to be someone he couldn't. I think he is trying to please both sides and straddle the fence by removing conservatives. About the time I was suspended or maybe banned, Tim Poole was too, but only briefly because his account is big and Libs of TikTok, one of Elon's $$ makers on the platform questioned Elon. For darn sure Elon is afraid of Libs of TikTok. She can use the term Trannie on the platform but I and others got dinged for using it once. I am hoping for them to reply to me this time and tell me my acct status as they never replied to my numerous appeals on 5/30/24, the night Trump had been found (faux) guity by the joke jury and judge in NYC.. We many of us were posting and trying to donate to Trump's account but it was overwhelmed. Next I knew I suddenly couldn't post and saw a message flash saying my acct. was suspended. As I said not one reply since then to any appeals asking what was the reason. I paid in January for the Premium Membership and also pay a monthly fee for the 6 account subscriptions I follow like Babylon Bee, Elon, Julie Kelly etc. But am unable to interact with, can't post at all. My rt and likes by phone get reversed and I can't do even that on the pc.. I don't know and have asked them how that is legal to take my money but not allow access to the platform and not even reply as to why they either suspended or banned me. They also removed the meme of Jesus and the Devil arm wrestling I had pinned saying to pray for Elon and his and Trump to be protected by God as this was a Spiritual Battle between Good and Evil we are all in. (The meme was from the memes on X and had been up for months).It shows 0 followers and 0 following on my page too. I'd like to think they didn't remove me due to my posts referring to religion and spiritual battles and God being in control but there is no other reason possible, sad to say. Satan is always on the prowl and often wins here on earth, his domain. Overall, God wins and is in control though!
"How can I learn to trust that God is in control?"...
https://www.gotquestions.org/God-is-in-control.html
Sorry for the long reply. Be sure to follow God and you will be fine! God bless.
Elon Musk is the biggest free-speech hypocrite of them all.
Yep, should be the 1st entry under “controlled opposition.”
OK ... but controlled by whom, and opposed to whom?
The Peter Thiel "PayPal Mafia," and their spying software company Palantir that is used to spy on us all. Opposed to everyone who is not in the elite jet setter class.
What for?
Seriously? I navigate my way around X reading the people I’m interested in. I don’t ever comment. I learn a lot and ignore the ever so obvious trolls.
Folks should read former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazelle's account of taking over the DNC at Hillary's request when Debbie Wasserman Schultz's massive ethical problems became too much even for the Democrats. It was chaos with special , and highly illegal, diversion of funds from the DNC to Hillary and all kinds of stuff going on with the computers.
My recollection , from reading several books written by others, that the computers were a mess. Recall that Hillary Bleachbit Rodam Clinton had lots of stuff disappear from her computers although it was not the end.
After rushing to clear Hillary of keeping classified information (her attorney was allowed to sift through and remove files that she did not want to disclose and she erased other computers.) Unfortunately she had sent massive amounts of classified informer to former Aide Huma who in turn assigned her husband the job of downloading and printing the classified docs on the same internet connected computer that he used in the pursuit of young women, under the name "Carlos Danger". Again it only took the fbi a few seconds to determine that there was nothing here of significance.
The most glaring issue with HRC's private server, the thing that never gets mentioned in the MSM, is that the only reason to have a private server, instead of the more secure government server, is to retain control over the contents. That way, if anyone ever wants to examine anything she didn't want looked at, then she could delete it with impunity. Which is exactly what happened.
Her official excuse was that it allowed her to have everything on just one device, whereas a government server would have required another device (a work phone and a personal phone) but in a interview after she became secretary of state but before the email server fiasco she said that she had 5 devices, two phones, a tablet, and two laptops. She actually said "yeah, I'm a bit of a hoarder."
In other Debbie Wasserman Schultz news, Tim Canova tried to primary her.
https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/why-i-had-to-leave-the-democratic
The results were, ah, slightly unusual. A news station released the 'results' a day before the election. Debbie won, and by almost exactly the same margin as the strange 'early results.' The election official for the district, Broward Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes, lost the electronic copy of the scanned ballots, illegally destroyed the paper ballots (several months early and during pending litigation, both illegal), 'found' the electronic records much later but they showed evidence of tampering, etc., etc. The FBI never responded to Tim's requests to investigate but they did get involved to protect Snipes and company from harrassment.
D ebbie was the chair of the DNC and HRC's election campaign at the same time, which is not a conflict of interest at all.
If you ever want to show someone what a patently fraudulent election looks like, this is the one, Tim Canova vs Debbie Wasserman Schultz. There is more in the local papers too (national news ignored it) and in Tim's court case (the judge was flabbergasted at the enormity of it all)
Thanks for sharing this . Interesting to note that you could not get into her building (where the office was located ) without a government ID. But not so much required to cross the border. Folks are also not aware that our Border Czar allows illegals entering the country to board aircraft without being photographed . There’s a sign reminding their of the right . Why … Because Camoola and gang to not want a photo on file to match with crime scene evidence .
America has a voting system where the candidates are picked by what has been compared to a yacht club. "In that August 2017 dismissal order, Senior U.S. District Judge William Zloch appeared reluctant to grant relief on matters concerning the internal workings of the Democratic Party." Voters in primaries are thus disenfranchised; results are a charade, and often have to be "corrected" (as by Brenda Snipes). Somehow we are supposed to believe these machinations are limited to primaries and not the general elections?
Even if the final elections are real (no dead voting in Chicago which elected JFK? "See the system works!") we end up with the oligarchs' candidates (most recently the Hobson's choice of Hillary vs Trump, Genocide Joe vs Trump, and now Kamala vs Trump). And of course the Establishment is erasing third party candidates such as RFK Jr from ballots, and booting out Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush (at the primary stage).
"American Democracy!" has always meant US puppet dictators abroad (and removal of democratically elected leaders, usually in coups) and with increasing State Dept/CIA influence domestically, the same tricks will be used to 'pick' the proper officials. Whatever America does abroad, comes home, " the chickens come home to roost".
The investigations also showed that Hillary maintained a SCIF in her home so she could receive and send classified information. She gave her maid access to the facility, not so she could clean but so she could check for messages. Again the feds drew the "nothing here so see" curtain down to protect Hillary .
In an earlier scandal the Clinton White House had been requesting a large quantity of classified investigative files on their enemies. They were kept in a room in the White House that was not secure. It was obvious that the purpose of the files were to have the agencies conduct spying on political enemies and perhaps friends who could be blackmailed. There was a sign out sheet for the files but no security. The same FBI that excused the Clinton classified computer story, the Huma classified file transfers after Huma left the government and this was in the "hear no evil/see no evil mode."
Americans should have realized the signs of corruption that would continue with Joe Biden, Hunter and folks like Louie Freeh ( former head of the FBI, Federal Judge and in private law/influence peddling) business. Freeh was essentially a partner with Hunter and Joe on the Burisma influence peddling deal. His role was to use his position to influence and gain information from senior government officials. Hunter's emails document his efforts with the State Department and DOJ on behalf of Burisma. When the news that Hunter's laptop had fallen into Rudy's hands Freeh suddenly exited the practice of law and pretty much dropped out of sight.
https://bidenlaptopemails.com/index.php a search of this collection of Hunter Biden emails for emails with Hunter and Freeh will produce a large quantity of emails covering the extensive use of Freeh to influence Federal agencies on behalf of Burisma and others.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz had the Awan brothers doing IT for the Democrats at this time. They would sell anything/ anytime for a buck, even to Wikileaks.
nationalreview.com/2017/07/debbie-wasserman-schultz-pakistani-computer-guys-bank-fraud/
Or maybe the Awans killed Seth Rich? The Democrats' circle of power is small (thankfully I'm far away).
Sadly I forgot the author of a great book on the Awan's huge involvement with Democrats - probably including Hillary. It was by a cyber expert in government at that time and discusses the harassment and I believe finally driving her out of her job. When the FBI went to check Hillary's computers (after she left government) the allowed her attorney to review the emails and destroy thousands of them . When the Huma/Carlos Danger scandal arose the FBI dismissed it over a weekend.
One of the things that all of this did was also to drive a lot of the honest people out of the government, leaving more promotions for the corrupted.
Huma has recently betrothed Soros the younger. Could anything be more clear?
Carlos Danger (aka Mr Huma ) has been set free to return to the internet.
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Hope you replay this as I don’t have any social media accounts.
Me either. Good for you, James.
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Yea, I know but this doesn’t feel like a real SM account. Lol
Racket News, of course, is not social media. But the platforms needed to publish?
Just know I am not going to register for anything I don't have to. Including, at my local convenience gas station which I visit all the time.
In a related story, we got a notice 30 days ago from Ticketmaster, c/o Cyberscout (whoever the hell that is), that they had an event that "may have involved (my) personal information . . ." I cannot even TELL you how long ago I used Ticketmaster --- a very long time. I can't believe they don't think I'm dead.
Is there any proof that a hack took place? What about an inside job?
not according to former nsa, Bill Binney: he says it had to have been an inside job
Yes Binney was on Jimmy Dore when the emails came out. It had to be an inside job. That's why people speculated about Seth Rich.
Yes, it more likely was an inside job. I know next to nothing about hacking and such, but I have a very geeky cousin who explained that the transmission times in the emails pointed to an internal transfer. Maybe Mr. “ Password” Podesta would enlighten us… because we know who is not available to shed light on this….
That "transmission time" thing, while it's a geeky technical detail, is crucial to determining how the material got from the DNC to Wikileaks. There are basically 2 possibilities:
o A "hack", which would come from outside the DNC's servers (this is the story we've been fed from the get-go by the MSM)
o A "leak", where someone *inside* the DNC copies the files onto a portable device, most likely a USB thumb drive
If the files were hacked, it would take a *lot* more time to transfer the files from the server to the hacker's computer, since they have to be sent over the internet. Fortunately, servers keep track of such things as how long a file transfer took, so we can see from the shorter times that the files were leaked from within, not hacked from without.
No hack; it was a leak.
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I wish there were another way to view this important discussion rather than on X. Matt, any possibility of including an additional forum?
At this point, you might as well assume anything attributed to Russia is BS. Remember when they supposedly blew up their own pipeline?
Or when that guy was poisoned in Britain, and the chief army nurse just happened to walk by at the same time?
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/british-army%E2%80%99s-chief-nursing-officer-first-adult-to-help-double-agent-sergei-skripal
The FBI admitted during pretrial motions in my case that they never examined the computer servers of the DNC relying entirely on a quote report from crowd strikes, which claimed that there was an online hack of the DNC by Russian intelligence. The judge specifically denied that report to my defense attorneys at trial. Only later did we learn Crowdstrikes head of cyber security, Sean Henry, who just happened to be a former deputy to FBI director Robert Mueller testified that his "draft report" actually contained no proof that the Russians hacked the DNC.
The judge strictly prohibited the testimony, Bill Binney , or the introduction of forensic evidence that would have approved that there was no online hack of the DNC.
Federal prosecutor Jonathan Kravis filed a " sur reply" with the court in my case, claiming the government had evidence that the Russians had hacked the DNC beyond the crowd strikes report, which was a fraud upon the court. In fact, the intelligence agencies have no proof whatsoever hacking of the DNC.
There are several key facts surrounding your case I need to revisit. If memory serves we got to see search warrants for Guccifer 2.0's Twitter account and other key investigative steps that came in 2017 and 2018, much later than one might have expected.
I think the key point to our recent reporting is, if the totality of evidence supporting the hack & attribution outside of Crowdstrike comes from these other Clinton operatives, everyone should be concerned.
Is this the real Roger Stone? You have white hair, which means you’ve had decades to learn to write and type properly, but haven’t.
Get a life. Sometimes talk to text is imperfect. By the way, is it difficult to be nobody?
It was a silly comment on his part, I’d agree. These comment sections are always full of typos, a point that is not important.
Well, yeah, except that you'd think the guy would have enough self-respect to at least fucking proofread his comment before hitting "Post". Sloppy.
Well, the language is pretty well done for at this point ...
Y'know, Roger, I'd put a whole lot more store by your comments if I didn't have to contend with the realization that you're kind of a necrophiliac about Richard Nixon. Just can't stomach that ...
Didn't Julian Assange allude to the "hacker"'s identity as Seth Rich?
I believe he offered a reward for info on who killed Seth Rich. Has also said Podesta and DNC emails were from separate sources, neither were state actors, and both were leaks.
Matt would you mind asking Elon if he will allow your followers who are permanently or temporarily suspended to be able to utilize and view Spaces for your story tonight.
I want to know why we're still being force fed the story that the USA didn't cause Nordstrom 2 to blow up. "Bombshell" indeed, Daily Mail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13745985/Senior-Ukrainian-military-officers-came-idea-blowing-Nord-Stream-pipeline-night-heavy-boozing-ignored-Zelenskys-pleas-not-ahead-carried-plot-technically-qualifies-attack-NATO-bombshell-report-claims.html
08/15/24: Because it blew itself up, silly boy (the suicide rate of the international fuel pipelines is simply staggering).
Covid-19 infection increases the self-implosion rate of natural gas pipelines by 1 million %.
08/16/24: I used to write that on the palm of my hand when cheating on poli-sci exams (it worked!). Then they found out and that was the end of my kindergarten diploma.
WSJ had a similar story. It’s interesting the story did include the CIA telling Ukraine not to do it, which presents a reason (alibi?) for their involvement in this caper. I highly suspect their actual involvement includes planning, execution and funding, but that’s just based on their normal shenanigans. Maybe the real truth will come out some day.
Well, it’s CrowDstrike … but there might have been crows in Mueller’s head.
Contempt prior to investigation is always a mistake. Joined with an open mind.
Take away: spaces currently sucks. As a podcast platform - 1-4 participants, maybe, and probably much better with just two participants.
Sound quality was really poor. Contributions by guests ranged from ok to useless. Questions from guests often excellent - which means guest contributions can be delivered as chat messages.
Racket has to have a Spaces presence. I get it. I suspect, however, many would be much more satisfied with the full video live-streaming - option Just saying. Many thanks to all who participated.
Why not Rumble?
For that matter, why not just post it on the regular place, Racket News? (Here)