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    New WMD threats (Economic Warfare against the United States)

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...=all#pagebreak

    A Pentagon-sponsored report warns that the United States faces new threats from mass destruction weapons in the form of cyber, electronic and financial attacks, in addition to more well-known dangers from nuclear, chemical and biological WMD arms.

    “In addition to the prolific conventional [weapons of mass destruction] threats posed by a vast network of state and non-state actors, the U.S. must also contend with emerging threats that are not conventionally recognized as WMD,” said the report produced last month for the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.

    “Very few of America’s adversaries will attempt to challenge the unmatched strength of the U.S. military in a traditional conflict, but they may employ alternative asymmetric approaches.

    “It is therefore necessary to consider emergent, nontraditional threats, such as cyber, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and economic attacks, in a comprehensive discussion of WMD threats.”

    On financial warfare, the report mentions the 1999 Chinese military book, “Unrestricted Warfare,” which advocates that China’s military utilize stock-market crashes, computer viruses and currency manipulations.


    # You can read the FBIS translation of the Chinese military book, “Unrestricted Warfare,” online
    # Here: http://www.cryptome.org/cuw.htm

    “Essentially, any threat to the U.S. economy is a threat to the country as a whole, and the potential impact of an economic attack is considered increasingly significant,” the report said.

    The new Pentagon report appears to build on one produced for the Pentagon in 2009 by financial consultant Kevin Freeman, who stated that the United States’ 2008 financial crash may have been deliberate sabotage by terrorists or foreign states.

    That study was criticized by senior Obama administration officials, including the Pentagon’s special operations policymaker, Michael Vickers, who is currently undersecretary of defense for intelligence. U.S. officials said Mr. Vickers blocked further study into possible financial warfare behind the economic crisis. Mr. Freeman wrote a book on the issue called “Secret Weapon.”

    # Some stuff about the book; "Secret Weapons": http://secretweapon.org/ and
    # http://globaleconomicwarfare.com/201...ancial-system/
    # used copies seem to be selling starting at $7.

    The new Pentagon report said the May 6, 2010 “flash crash” when markets fell by 10 percent “may have been caused by an economic attack by one or a combination of methods,” including the manipulation of computer algorithms that control trading or exchange traded funds that allow traders to short sell mass quantities of stock quickly and anonymously. It also could have been the result of covert currency-manipulation by the holder of a significant U.S. debt — such as China — designed to intentionally weaken the value of the dollar by preventing the United States from selling its debt to others.

    On cyber-WMD, the report said that in an age when 2 billion people use the Internet, “a coordinated cyberattack could compromise national security, shut down commerce and destroy the U.S. power grid.”

    According to the report, China currently has some 180,000 cyberspies; and, during attacks in 2007 and 2009, they hacked into Pentagon networks and “stole several terabytes of data, including the blueprints for U.S. F-35 and F-32 joint-strike fighter planes, essentially compromising America’s defense technology.”

    Russia conducted cyberattacks in 2008 against the Republic of Georgia prior to its military strikes. The cyberattacks disabled Georgia’s national network “effectively eliminating the chance to mount an appropriate response to the attack.”

    Another emerging WMD threat is an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack — the up to 1,000-mile-wide disruption of all electronics produced by a nuclear burst or a high-tech EMP weapon.

    “The detonation of an EMP weapon would cause the disruption or destruction of electrical-based systems, which would lead to chaos by impoverishing or neutralizing a society, rather than annihilating it outright,” the report said.

    The United States’ heavy reliance on electronics means an EMP attack would be devastating.

    The report concludes that economic vitality is key to U.S. national security; but, with the global economy, the country is facing significant vulnerabilities.

    The report urged the U.S. government to develop a national strategy and capability to defend the U.S. economy from every form of economic attack.

    The September report, “Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Evolving Threat,” was produced by contractor Universal Strategy Group, Inc., for the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and its Combating Terrorism Support Office.


    # I'm not finding the report online.

    ...

    Mr. Freeman, the financial security specialist, took issue with the report. He said that former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson revealed in a 2010 book that Russia dumped American bonds in 2008 and urged the Chinese to do the same.

    “The Chinese did not at that time but this does not mean they won’t,” Mr. Freeman said in an email.

    He said the Pentagon report was “naive” and provided a “politically correct answer” that failed to address what he said were very real risks from Chinese financial warfare.

    A number of scenarios exist that would involve China's government taking coercive action to dump or threaten to sell off U.S. bonds, Mr. Freeman said.

    “If they perceive us as wounded, they might be willing to suffer in the short term to accomplish larger goals,” he said.

    Also, the report’s assertion that dumping U.S. securities would be inflicting harm on China “assumes a domestic economic stability [in China] that may not exist ,” he said. “The situation is much more complex than that."

    -t
    Last edited by tangent4ronpaul; 10-22-2012 at 12:27 AM.



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    Say, I have a great idea for them. To prevent the possibility of a cyber-threat disrupting commerce to any great extent, we should make money operate on the same principles as the internet. Encourage its decentralization to the fullest extent possible, with as much hard specie of varying types circulating, in as many individual hands as possible.

    Or, we could have everything currency-related concentrated into something analogous to two giant centralized towers, so that something equally analogous to a couple of hijacked planes can crash into them one fine morning. We could always continue with that option as well.

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    Well , straight up , if they lock the banks computers up , not going to mean a whole lot to me.

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    Great article tangent!

    The article says 30-70% of the decline in price of Lehman Brothers was due to naked short selling(a form of "strategic" fail-to-deliver (FTD/FTDs...counterfeit shares of stock)). Which, of course, is patently illegal.

    8 years ago, the SEC, the DTCC, and New York media denied naked shorting existed. Then they said FTDs(shares that have failed to deliver) might be a problem...then they grandfathered in all the failed trades (to protect the illegal proprietary trading strategies of their hedge funds benefactors)...

    Who enabled it, who exploited it, who allowed it to continue?

    1) criminal hedgefunds and dirty players on Wall Street(~5% of Wall Street) figured out how to create fake shares (FTDs): main players being Steven A Cohen, David Einhorn, Daniel Loeb, Jim Chanos; high frequency trading helps create a fake demand.
    2) prime brokers allowed the hedge funds to continue to fail to deliver (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch)
    3) Loopholes, like the Madoff exemption (Bernie Madoff)
    4) Captured regulators at the SEC, Senate Banking Committee, DTCC, and DOJ failing to close loopholes and failing to effectively punishing those breaking the law.
    5) A revolving door between the regulators and the lawfirms hedge funds employ.
    6) A captured/planted Main Stream Media (Jim Cramer, Carol Remond, Bethany McLean(Goldman Sachs), Herb Greenberg, Jeff Matthews, Maria Bartiromo, Joe Nocera, Floyd Norris, Cheryl Einhorn, Roddy Boyd, Barron's, WSJ, Fortune, BusinessWeek, New York Times, New York Post, The Street.com, CNBC)
    7) hedge fund political appointees.... Eliot Spitzer

    For the Lehman case, David Einhorn was all over Lehman smearing them on conference calls, in publications, and likely in deliberate coordination with the mentioned media outlets. Always good to know that the minority owner of the New York Mets plays on the same team as Russian Mafia/KGB/Chinese sabotaging the American economy as long as money flows to his pockets.


    Tangent, I think the article is likely coming from the crowd fighting Wall Street criminals --- because Washington DC is entirely captured by Wall Street, the good guys are trying to get the CIA, Pentagon, and NSA involved in stopping domestic economic terrorism by demonstrating what happens when foreign adversaries start doing the same thing. Then the channel gets shut down.

    On the other side, Goldman Sachs, 5% of Wall Street, Federal Reserve, and Henry Paulson are all enablers and/or perpetrators of domestic and international financial terrorism... So this could also be misdirection from the enemies within trying to shift blame towards perceived or real international adversaries.

    The international financial terrorists were just late to join the bandwagon of domestic terrorists already plundering America.

    The domestic terrorists hedge funds:
    http://www.deepcapture.com/rut-roh-t...call-somebody/

    The prime brokers enabling them to do so(see the redact):
    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...#ixzz1v0HLbfvH

    The international terrorists that learned the domestic trick:
    http://www.deepcapture.com/the-miscr...al-terrorists/
    Last edited by LibertyCitrus; 10-24-2012 at 05:03 AM. Reason: Naked Shorting is illegal

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    Did the Pentagon mention gold as the enemy's best weapon of choice?

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    The new Pentagon report appears to build on one produced for the Pentagon in 2009 by financial consultant Kevin Freeman, who stated that the United States’ 2008 financial crash may have been deliberate sabotage by terrorists or foreign states.

    lol. I checked under my bed again. Still no terrorist, and still no cyber-attacker.
    We have allies many of you are not aware of. Watch the tube. Show this to your 30 and under friends. Listen to it. Even if you don't like rap, it has 2.7 million views.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU#t=0m16s

    Cut off one min early to avoid war porn.

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    No terrorist under my bed , just ammo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    No terrorist under my bed , just ammo.
    Are spiders considered terrorists (my wife says they are)? That's all I found under the bed, that and lots of dust.
    "When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it—without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud—to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed." - Bastiat : The Law

    "nothing evil grows in alcohol" ~ @presence

    "I mean can you imagine what it would be like if firemen acted like police officers? They would only go into a burning house only if there's a 100% chance they won't get any burns. I mean, you've got to fully protect thy self first." ~ juleswin



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    I thinks it is really ridiculous to expose your water pipes above ground and then complain that they freeze in the winter.
    Of course, if you are asking for control of the weather, then maybe that would make sense...not?
    "When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it—without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud—to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed." - Bastiat : The Law

    "nothing evil grows in alcohol" ~ @presence

    "I mean can you imagine what it would be like if firemen acted like police officers? They would only go into a burning house only if there's a 100% chance they won't get any burns. I mean, you've got to fully protect thy self first." ~ juleswin

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    No terrorist under my bed , just ammo.
    The government is aware that you are not sleeping on a twin bed and your excess ammo stock has been noted by the DHS. Sweet dreams.
    "Perfect safety is not the purpose of government." - Ron Paul

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven Douglas View Post
    Say, I have a great idea for them. To prevent the possibility of a cyber-threat disrupting commerce to any great extent, we should make money operate on the same principles as the internet. Encourage its decentralization to the fullest extent possible, with as much hard specie of varying types circulating, in as many individual hands as possible.

    Or, we could have everything currency-related concentrated into something analogous to two giant centralized towers, so that something equally analogous to a couple of hijacked planes can crash into them one fine morning. We could always continue with that option as well.

    oh the sarcasm....LOL
    "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it."
    James Madison

    "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams



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    Quote Originally Posted by paulbot24 View Post
    The government is aware that you are not sleeping on a twin bed and your excess ammo stock has been noted by the DHS. Sweet dreams.
    But did he remove the little tag on the mattress? That's the important question! Better send SWAT to find out...

    -t

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    Quote Originally Posted by paulbot24 View Post
    The government is aware that you are not sleeping on a twin bed and your excess ammo stock has been noted by the DHS. Sweet dreams.
    I dunno if it ever had a tag , it was pretty cheap , bought it in China $#@! em.



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