July 2021 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Cyber Polygon: Internet and Grid to be Brought Down
by grarpamp 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Here's What Happened At Cyber Polygon... And You're Not Going To Like It https://www.theorganicprepper.com/cyber-polygon-2020/ https://2020.cyberpolygon.com/results-2020/ https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/why-are-conspiracy-theorists-worrie… https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0oZA1B3ooI CyberGrid - The New Coronavirus https://fee.org/articles/the-president-has-an-internet-kill-switch-a-bipart… https://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents-Definitive-Collected/dp/02263… Cyber Polygon 2020 – a simulation about a “cyber pandemic” – took place July 9, 2021. Many Americans felt widespread concern prior to the event. Why is this? In short, because past simulations ended up becoming a reality. Could the Cyber Polygon simulation become a reality? Many Americans thought so. Derick Broze points out in his article that the world has experienced many simulations that came to fruition only a short time later. For example, on October 18, 2019, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum, and the John Hopkins Center for Health Security conducted Event 201. Event 201 was a simulation of how the world would react if a coronavirus pandemic swept across the planet. Less than six months later, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. Interestingly, just as Cyber Polygon was about to start, a real attack occurred. From NBC News: One of the most prolific ransomware gangs, REvil, conducted its boldest attacks yet over the Fourth of July weekend, on Kaseya, which services customers who in turn contract with thousands of businesses. Though the dust has yet to settle, researchers say the hack allowed REvil to infect more than 1,500 different organizations. The gang seems to have bitten off more than it can chew and has asked for a $70 million lump sum to unlock all infected computers. Cyber Polygon 2020 Digital Pandemic is Now Complete Many may wonder just what in the world happened there. The convention was kind enough to publish the findings for the rest of us to peruse at our leisure. As noted by the official website, “The central theme of the event was a ‘digital pandemic.’ No surprise to those of us who paid attention. It’s because of this moniker that so many people have been concerned in the first place. Videos published by the World Economic Forum set mental alarms off for Americans nationwide. According to this video, a cyber attack could be 10x more prevalent than what we’ve experienced with COVID-19. The narrator within the video states, “Fortunately, at least until now, cyber-attacks have not impacted our health the way pandemics have. At least until now.” The video goes on to state, “The only way to stop the exponential propagation of a COVID-like cyber threat is to fully disconnect the millions of vulnerable devices from one another and from the internet.” How Would a Full Disconnect Be Implemented and What Would the Effects Be? One possible way would involve the use of an internet kill switch. Not only do those exist, but the US government has access to one. Theoretically, if you can turn off the internet, large segments of the population will be disconnected from one another. Meaning, what happens in one geographic region will go utterly unrecognized by citizens everywhere else. Think about the practical implications of such. Think about the potential for further human rights violations. Perhaps a world where all news sources disappear overnight, with your favorite collectivist news agency being the only website still on the air? Just Take a Look at Egypt in 2011 Protests by citizens fed up with the constant human rights violations they experienced under the current administration spread throughout the entire nation of Egypt in 2011. In an attempt to disband the protesters and keep them from organizing, Egypt hit its internet kill switch. Egyptians responded by resorting to mesh networks such as Firechat (which is sadly now gone) to communicate with one another. Still, there’s no doubt that the internet shutdown was a significant blow to both the people and their businesses. Though the internet was “dead” for only five days, it cost the Egyptian economy approximately $90 million US. Approximately 5 million People From 57 Nations Tuned in to the Live Stream The Cyberpolygon 2020 live stream “featured global leaders and experts, including Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, and Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum, as well as top officials from INTERPOL, ICANN, Visa, IBM, Sberbank, MTS and other organizations.” These leaders and experts spoke on the subject of cyber threats and cyber pandemics. But that wasn’t all. From the official website: The experts addressed the latest trends and technological threats, shared their experience in creating cybersecurity ecosystems, talked about the transforming threat landscape, and discussed the problem of fake news and how to discern misinformation on the Web Coincidentally, one of the end goals of Cyber Polygon was to determine how to do a more thorough job of silencing all criticism that goes against the mainstream narrative. If One Can Shut Down All Alternative Viewpoints, One Can Become the Sole Provider of “Truth” If you’re a regular reader of The Organic Prepper, you’ve already seen this up close and personal. We were defunded roughly just one month ago. Why? For being a ‘misinformation site.’ It doesn’t matter how many scientists a person has to back up what they say. It doesn’t matter how many links to scientific journals a person adds. If anyone dares go against what the politicians and their ‘fact checkers’ deem to be correct, they will be silenced. I believe “alternative” news sites are the only trustworthy source of news at the moment. Sites such as Zero Hedge, Children’s Health Defense, Daily Expose, Activist Post, The Last American Vagabond, Technocracy News, Survival Blog (and of course The Organic Prepper) are the only sites I trust to give me accurate information. As far as I’m concerned, all else is misinformation. It’s propaganda. However, these sources are just a fraction of the size of the major players (and you know who they are). If they are successfully stamped out, we will quickly end up in the type of situation warned of by FA Hayek in his excellent book The Road to Serfdom. >From Hayek: “If all the sources of current information are effectively under one single control, it is no longer a question of merely persuading the people of this or that. The skillful propagandist then has the power to mold their minds in any direction he chooses, and even the most intelligent and independent people cannot entirely escape that influence if they are long isolated from all other sources of information.” (Hayek has much else to say about our current situation within the chapter ‘The End of Truth.’ It virtually reads as a play-by-play of the last year and a half.) Technical Training Followed the Live Stream Here, a collection of some of the best cybersecurity workers in the world gathered together into two teams to simulate a cyberattack of massive scope in real-time. This simulation involved 120 teams from 29 countries, and “the event was joined by state and law enforcement agencies, financial, educational and healthcare institutions, organizations from the IT, telecom, energy, metal, chemical, aerospace engineering and other industries.” The good guys were the Blue Team, which protected their little chunks of infrastructure from the cyber-attack. The bad guys who conducted the attack were the Red Team. This simulation split into two halves: the real-time threat and the post-attack investigation. Throughout the real-time simulation, the Blue Team had to contain the cyberattack as best they could. The banking industry and companies within the realm of IT “demonstrated the highest resilience.” However, it was also discovered that, as a whole, “technical specialists are better prepared for investigation than for defense.” The entire investigation process involved regular forensics as well as a concept known as Cyber Threat Hunting. Cyber Threat Hunting is looking for cyber attacks that haven’t set off your early alert system. You may have anti-virus software, but it only alerts you to what it sees. If it doesn’t see it, no alarm is raised. With Threat Hunting, you seek to discover the hiding places where a cyber attack is lurking – or has already taken place – outside of the realm of where your traditional alarm systems would have guarded. Cyber Polygon 2020 May Be Over, But it’s Not the End If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’re likely familiar with the concept of situational awareness. I’m of the mind that a thorough understanding of current events is a critical part of this. If you don’t know what’s going on around you, you’re going to get blindsided by reality. A working understanding of what is happening out there in the world – to me – is well worth the time. I believe an understanding of Cyber Polygon is a part of this. So continue to monitor the waters. Pay attention to what’s happening out there. In the past year alone, ransomware gangs have launched several high-profile attacks, including on a major pipeline and a meat supplier. If you’re looking for actionable steps you can take to mitigate your disaster risk, we have a host of articles detailing what you can do.

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Dear Leaders: We don’t trust you because you’re untrustworthy
by grarpamp 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/dear-leaders-we-don… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVMwfduHVA Leaders: We're too dumb to learn, too lazy to act, so keep raping us, please, we like it https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-big-pharma-and-dc-politicians-got-million… https://www.bitchute.com/video/hMUeZ4vz6cU/ Swine Flu Snafu https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-s… https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-experimentation-am… Dear Leaders: We don’t trust you because you’re untrustworthy by Joe Jarvis This time, things will be different. He’s abused me in the past, but I’m sure he’s changed. At the core, he really loves me, he just has a strange way of showing it. Does this sound like a healthy relationship to you? A partner who gaslights you, acting like you’re the crazy one for being suspicious… when you’ve been lied to and manipulated so many times in the past. Someone who sows division to isolate you from your friends and family so you have no one to rely on but the abuser. Here’s a crazy idea: we shouldn’t trust consistently untrustworthy people and institutions. Literally, people act like you’re the crazy one for being skeptical of some of the least trustworthy institutions in existence. If you asked a typical extreme leftist in early 2020 if they trusted big pharma, they would laugh in your face. They might talk about pharma-bro Martin Skrelli hiking drug prices, or correctly note how the Perdue family made billions partnering with the government and doctors to get Americans hooked on legalized heroin pills. But today, utter the phrase, “I’m not so sure about these vaccines,” and prepare for the gaslighting. You’re CRAZY for not trusting big pharma’s “safe and effective, safe and effective, safe and effective” vaccines 100%, no questions asked. People had the same attitude back in 1976 when the government urged Americans to get a new swine flu vaccine. Hundreds died, and thousands were left with neurological disorders. The news show 60 minutes, back then, was trustworthy, and reported on this. Today they run factually inaccurate, deceptively edited hit-pieces on politicians like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, for not becoming public health dictators. Another example of the crumbling trustworthiness of essentially every centralized powerful institution. But back then, 60 Minutes investigated the government’s deception when it came to the vaccine it was pushing. YouTube– another untrustworthy institution– deleted the video, but it’s still up on Bitchute. This is probably a good time to remind you that I post all my videos on alternative video sights, and you should follow me on at least one other platform– unless you totally trust YouTube to allow me to keep spreading the truth. Anyway, the old 60 Minutes shows that even back in the 70s, the CDC director used a familiar line: 9:57- “I think the consensus of the scientific community was that the evidence relating neurologic disorders to influenza immunization was such that they did not feel that this association was a real one.” Ah yes, the scientific consensus. There was also a scientific consensus in 1967 when the New England Journal of Medicine published a study which found sugar was not as unhealthy as it seemed, and in fact excess fat in the diet was the main culprit for poor health. The study didn’t mention that it was paid for by the Sugar Research Foundation– an industry group dedicated to selling more sugar. It also didn’t mention that a researcher for the study sat on the Sugar Research Foundation’s board. But that study was used as a foundation of scientific consensus for decades to downplay the negative health affects of sugar, and blame fat– which turns out to not be so bad after all. Only anti-science conspiracy theorists at the time believed that honorable scientists could be so easily manipulated into doing the bidding of the sugar industry. Then there are the doctors– surely you can trust doctors. That’s what hundreds of black men believed when the US government offered them free healthcare in 1932 to treat “bad blood”. In fact, the government knew, these men were infected with syphilous. But they were not told of the diagnosis. They were used as lab rats to observe the untreated progression of ultimately fatal syphilous. This went on until the 1970s– the Tuskegee Syphilous experiments. Today, understandably so, black people are some of the most skeptical of the government/ scientific partnership pushing vaccines. It’s like Schrödinger’s systemic racism: black people are supposed to simultaneously believe that every institution is hopelessly infused with racism, but they can totally trust the doctors and scientists today. Some of these things happened a long time ago. They say hindsight is 20/20– only from some distance can we see the lies and manipulations of the government, scientists, and doctors. But today, people seem to think we are immune from this. Do they seriously believe that things have changed for the better? Are we so naive that we can believe institutions which were corrupt and incompetent in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s suddenly became paragons of truth in the 00s forward? It is absolute insanity to think that governments today are different from the way governments have always been. Over the past year, Facebook fact-checkers banned mention of the possibility that Covid-19 came from a lab leak at the Wuhan Virology lab within spitting distance of where the outbreak first occurred. They based that decision on a letter orchestrated and signed by a man named Peter Daszak who said it was xenophobic anti-Asian hate to suggest, or investigate, the lab leak theory. Turns out, Daszak repackages federal grant money, and had funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Shockingly, when he was sent to investigate with a World Health Organization task force, he found no evidence of any wrongdoing. He didn’t bother to look at the viruses sequenced by the lab, or inquire about the three gain of function researchers– genetically modifying viruses to be more contagious and deadly– who went to the hospital in November 2019 with Covid-like symptoms. Frankly, the burden of proof is not on us skeptics to show why any particular government or big pharma or big tech campaign does not deserve our trust. These are untrustworthy institutions. They have shown us over and over again that they cannot be trusted. They could bend over backwards to regain the public’s trust, but that’s not what they have done. They have attempted to shame and ridicule anyone who dares challenge the narrative. Like an abusive, gas-lighting boyfriend trying to convince you YOU’RE the crazy one, for being fed up with his bullshit.

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Anarchists Vs anti-social criminals
by professor rat 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Even vacuous imbeciles - like our three resident FBI-informant-types - Semich - Batshit and Gramps - might be curious about how an anarchist society will deal with criminal govt garbage like them. https://www.theyliewedie.org/ressources/biblio/en/Malatesta_Errico_-_Crime_… We will dox you - Ddos you - destroy you. Youse can run but you can't hide.

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Cuba and Haiti - USA Blamed With Its Ties to Propaganda, Assassination, Mercenaries, Oppression
by grarpamp 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Hatian assassination squad linked to US Nationals and Corps. Cuban President Blames US-Backed "Mercenaries" For Protests, Urges "Revolutionary Citizens" Fight Back Cuba's President and Communist Party chief Miguel Diaz-Canel has blamed unprecedented large-scale protests gripping Cuba's streets this week on foreign meddling, specifically charging the United States with stoking and fueling the anti-government demonstrations which have seen fierce clashes with police. At a Monday news conference, the same day Joe Biden said "We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom" - Diaz-Canal further called on "revolutionary" citizens to counter the protests which he said are led by "vulgar criminals". "The order to fight has been given – into the street, revolutionaries!" the Communist leader urged. He further ranted about external agitators waging a "nonconventional war" especially utilizing the internet and social media with Washington's help, slamming US-led sanctions in place for over a half-century a "policy of economic suffocation". Protests in Havana, Cuba via AFP "This policy of sanctions that prevents any kind of fuel arriving in Cuba has put us in a very difficult situation," Diaz-Canel continued while denouncing "those who seek to discredit the revolution and fracture the unity of our country." And according to BBC, "Mr Díaz-Canel said the protesters were mercenaries hired by the US to destabilise the country, and called for his supporters to go out and defend the revolution - referring to the 1959 uprising which ushered in Communist rule." Multiple international correspondents on the ground have pointed to initial small scale protest quickly exploding across the island via social media despite government attempts to impose a blackout on coverage of protests. It appears to have started south-west of Havana in Antonio de los Baños. Cubans are facing one of the worst economic crises in years which has included acute fuel and food shortages, soaring prices for basic necessities, and government mismanagement and fumbling of the coronavirus pandemic. The police and security crackdown appears to be growing in harshness, fueling further outrage in the streets... these scenes emerging from the protests in Cuba are absolutely heartbreaking :( pic.twitter.com/WHaishz4io — Rob (@robrousseau) July 12, 2021 One protester was cited by BBC as saying, "There is no food, no medicine, there is no freedom. They do not let us live." In some instances the protesters' desperation and attempted crackdown by security forces has turned violent: Posts on social media showed people overturning police cars and looting some state-owned shops which price their goods in foreign currencies. For many Cubans, these shops are the only way they can buy basic necessities but prices are high. Officials in Havana are seizing on these scenes to highlight the "criminality" of the "agitators" while calling on Cubans to safeguard the Communist revolution. The United States stands with the Cuban people seeking freedom and respect for their human rights. Violence against peaceful protestors is abhorrent. We urge restraint and respect for the voice of the people. pic.twitter.com/XYoKAM42XM — Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) July 12, 2021 The US has responded to this escalation in rhetoric by President Diaz-Canel, with top US diplomat for Latin America, Julie Chung, stating: "We are deeply concerned by 'calls to combat' in Cuba." Meanwhile, hawkish senators like Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz have continued their calls for the Cuban regime to be consigned to the "dustbin of history" - as Cruz put it yesterday, also with the Mayor of Miami Francis Suarez going so far as to call for a Libya-style military intervention. "Arab Spring"-style US ops and intervention in the Caribbean? Re: Cuba protests. 🇨🇺🇺🇸 I'd just like to point out that the US House appropriations budget has just alloted $20 million to "democracy" projects in Cuba. What they mean by "democracy" is made clear when they say that not one penny can be used to help the Cuban govt. pic.twitter.com/InYTmw4JrH — Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) July 12, 2021 Suarez told a rally on Monday that an international intervention led by the United States is needed "to protect the Cuban people from a bloodbath." However, we can't imagine that such simple jingoistic 'solutions' as this actually helps the protesters' cause.

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Normalcy bias no longer holds at C-punks
by professor rat 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

The old Mongoloid cretinism can no longer hold with just three FBI-informant-types Gramps - Batshit and Semich More cryptoanarchy is unleashed on the world. Let’s start here by quoting the preface of Shemon Salam and Arturo Castillon’s excellent book The Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Uprising: At least 28 people died in the wave of social unrest that rocked the United States from late May until July in 2020. In this 10-week period, there were 574 riots; 624 arsons; 2,382 incidents of looting; 97 police vehicles set on fire; and 12,241 people arrested for protest-related activities. In addition, at least 13 police were shot, 9 were hit by cars and 2,037 were reported injured in the riots, mostly because of the tossing of rocks, bricks, and other projectiles. This uprising caused at least $2 billion in property damage, the “highest recorded damage from social unrest in US history,” and forced more than 200 cities to impose curfews and mobilize 96,000 national guard troops in 34 states. These stats are not a Fox News pundit trying to fear-monger a right-wing audience with hyperbole, but rather come from an authentic attempt on the part of a State and capitalist funded think tank to internally study what happened for reasons of its own self-preservation. They are undoubtedly a low estimate. Thousands of hours of video footage, mountains of arrest data, and hundreds of personal stories and narratives all demonstrate conclusively that this attack on capitalist and State infrastructure was proactive, massive, widespread, popular in nature, and done by large crowds of oppressed peoples acting in coordinated and intentional rage

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Re: JIM Bell is now a giant dead weight on our great cypherpunk revolution
by professor rat 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

On indulgence - lets put to *another* side the quality of activism ledger. Lets open the books on anti-social criminality. As you argued in your AP essay it would not be ' Wild in the Streets ' chaos. I take that to mean you distinguish between anarchism and anti-social criminality. Like most of us; I certainly hope so. Onto the alleged crimes of Julian Rand Paul ASSHAT. Unless c-punks are defending the right to break and enter computers at will it appears there may be a case to answer here. If found guilty in an Au court any priors relevant to a charge may then be read. JA has priors for breaking and entering computers. US courts may be different - but could still work in this information somehow. Much as in the Ross Ulbricht case. Once some evidence is seen its hard to unsee. So long as the USG continues to exist ( despite yours and mines best efforts ) it can carry on legal proceedings as it wishes. Yes? Anyone serious about saving JA should be an APster enthusiast by now - come ON! The computer intrusion case cited may be a little shaky since Bradass was on the pointy end, which brings us to the added extra's. Espionage - he's not American - I hear you - but spies get shot, hung etc all the time as foreigners. Julius even claims to be a spy himself ( a spy for the people ) I expect the main charges here are aiding and assisting a fugitive suspected spy - Snowball - and encouraging Anon's to spy and leak for WL. Something, I'm told professional journalists don't do. These charges might be shaky as the first, and capable of graymailing aLa Joshua Shulte. But is any of this worth our while? JA has identified as a fucking lowlife, scumbag CORPSE-MEDIA journalist for years now. He sold all his crypto. He is clearly washing his hands of cypherpunks and practicing vast amounts of social-distancing from crypto-anarchism. He never raised a finger when the cops were locking you, Carl and I up. You look possessed by what you hate when you say this enemy of my enemy is my friend. But that's your funeral. For me taking down the USG is strictly business - its not personal. Yes there are some anti-social crimes associated with crypto-anarchism - but not from me or anyone close to me and I'll tell you why. Its bad for business - that's why. Associating cypherpunks with carpetbaggers and conartists is a recipe for disaster. Julio ( and Ross and Craig Wright! ) made their own bed - let them lie in it - alone. Their lies precede them and their graves lie open in front of them - revolutions famously devour their young, donchaknow. Bring on the Guillotine ( They got Capone for spitting on the sidewalk )

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Re: JIM Bell is now a giant dead weight on our great cypherpunk revolution
by professor rat 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

JIM BELL asks... Where was the discussion where people concluded that Assange was a "fascist"? Julian Assange recognised that the language of what amounted to the WikiLeaks Manifesto might appear a little “overblown”. He recognised that it had about it too much the flavour of “anarchy”. But in general when it was written he was pleased. John Young was not. In early January 2007 he decided that WikiLeaks was a CIA-backed fraud. “Fuck your cute hustle and disinformation campaign. Same old shit, working for the enemy … Fuck 'em all.” “We are going to fuck them all. Chinese mostly but not entirely a feint,” Assange cryptically replied..." https://cryptome.org/0003/assange-manne.htm And, as you lean Libertarian Party USA, JB... https://reason.com/2011/02/03/julian-assange-and-israel-sham/ Plenty more where that came from. Going by Jacob Appelbaums description of Tim May as fascist, there is as much - or more - evidence Julian Assange is one. Caveat lecter.

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Re: JIM Bell is now a giant dead weight on our great cypherpunk revolution
by professor rat 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Put to one side for the moment whether or not Assmange is fascist or not. Does his journalism or activism or ' cypherpunk revolution' , whatever justify our solidarity and support? I would say, " No' , based on his record. He himself washed his hands of everything up to mid-2013 anyway. ( " I can rule from abroad " interview - July 2013 ) Then his anti-Hillary work was great and well worth supporting by all cypherpunks. But the problem here is attribution. That election was so close its hard to say if his contribution was decisive. Give him the benefit of the doubt and then new problems crop up with his closeness to Camp Trump. Summing up - whatever small good he did in his active period - 2005 - 2019 its negated by the piles and piles of bad. Closer to Alex Jones and Hannity than Woodward and Bernstein. Nothing really consequential to see here - sound and fury signifying nothing. A tale told by an idiot - and Pooter / LOL-GOP puppet.

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Re: Cuba and Haiti - USA Blamed With Its Ties to Propaganda, Assassination, Mercenaries, Oppression
by professor rat 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > https://news.antiwar.com/2021/07/13/miami-mayor-says-the-us-should-consider… notice how the same US govt turd ..." Yes. Fuck yes! And I'm sick and tired of listening to this driveling pro-USA govt propagandist asshole. Fuck him and all the NAZI FAG MORONS ( Semich, Batshit, etc ) who sail in him.

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Destabilization: Nuclear War Pending
by grarpamp 15 Jul '21

15 Jul '21

Shit getting weirder... Be prepared... Chinese Communist Party Officials Share Viral Video Urging Nuclear Strikes On Japan Bombers being intercepted, warning shots being fired against ships. Racist propaganda being pushed and fomented worldwide.. "Sick Of Westie Whites" Blatant Anti-White, Anti-Asian Racism In Schools Fake social justice warriors just got caught lying to a judge... https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1411882228423041024 Several Colombians Arrested In Haiti Assassination Received US Military Training says Pentagon Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont - in more or less an official 'oops,' chalked it up to 'a grim reminder that US assistance to other countries can take unexpected turns.' US Air Force Plane Makes Unannounced Landing In Taiwan, Outraging Beijing On Thursday a United States Air Force plane briefly touched down an Taipei's international airport, enraging China over what it perceives as another severe violation of the 'One China' policy, also coming a month after a group of US Senators visited Taiwan in a large military cargo plane. The US initially didn't explain why the short stop happened, which was described in local media reports as "unannounced". It prompted a statement out of Beijing saying "Any foreign military planes landing in Taiwan need China’s approval," according to Bloomberg citing a defense ministry official statement. The Chinese statement reiterated prior warnings that the United States must "not play with fire" and to "immediately stop its risky and provocative actions." The defense ministry statement also vowed to destroy any "attempts" toward "Taiwan "independence".

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