Know What You’re Doing
Danger Room reports on an effort by Israeli hackers to enlist assistance in attacking web sites that are considered “pro-Palestinian”. All you have to do is download and run their software and you will be helping the Israeli cause.
Except, their little “Patriot” program gives them control of your computer, and you have no idea what they are really going to be using it for, according to security experts.
Oh, BTW, if you are in the US, you might also want to read the text of 18 U.S.C. 1030 about the consequences of participating in a distributed denial of service [DDoS] attack on other people’s web sites. Free speech means everyone’s speech, not just those you agree with.
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Curious coincidence. 🙂 I was just brushing up on DDoS server protection methods. 🙂 I’m going to try this after some sleep! 🙂
DoS Protection via APF, BFD, DDOS and RootKit
As for Israel using hackers… Aha. Not exactly a new tactic for them (or pretty much any other Nation for that matter.) 😉
Our broadcast news services seem to have had enough of Israel. Most seemed to be having trouble keeping a civil tongue regarding what is happening in Gaza, and have been all over the UN (seen as victims here). Here’s a lovely example:
more…
ABC: The Gaza massacre
Seems even some *real* Jews are sick of Israel. 😉 I am sure the pro-massacre Jews (and neo-Christians etc.) have a different opinion. LOL
And just for contrast, our ABC published a typical US news item relating to the Gaza massacre:
‘Hard’ for Israel to spare Gaza civilians: Rice
Riiiiight. *sigh*
How about one more. 🙂
30 dead after Israel shells civilian safe-house: witnesses
Too bad I don’t have any of those super-activated Botulinum bio-weapons the US *doesn’t* have, or a few neutron missiles (the US also *doesn’t* have… Well, technically, the US doesn’t have any. The US calls them ‘ERW’s). 😉 Israel would cease to be a problem. If I was really annoyed… maybe a Cobalt bomb. Except that the term *collateral damage* would have a whole new meaning. I’d show them genocide since they seem to love it so much! Let them have it I say.
I’m annoyed… Can you tell?
I think I have moved from considering Gaza in terms of the Warsaw Ghetto, with which it shares a lot of similarities, to the reservations that Native Americans were forced to live in as a result of the westward expansion of the United States.
That is a direct analog of what happened to the Aborigines in Australia, and many other areas subjected to European colonization, and people need to understand that the Israeli ruling class is European, not Middle Eastern. They don’t want to live in the Middle East, they want to convert it into central Europe.
One possible way of stopping the rocket attacks is genocide and the Israelis know it. The best alternative is to make peace, but they lack the courage to do that, making excuses anytime it seems possible. The Israeli government can’t do anything to control their own extremists, and, in fact, bring them into government, but complain about the inability of the Palestinians to control theirs.
The UN and ICRC are both very conservative about what they say publicly, and they don’t make wild claims. The Israelis refuse to allow independent journalists into the area because they know what the journalists will see.
The Hedgemony hasn’t done the Israelis any favors allowing this to go on. It’s hard to tell what the EU will do once the area is open to full inspection, but the movement for strong sanctions against Israel has certainly been strengthened by the massacres occurring in Gaza.
The Israelis keep talking about rocket attacks on Sderot. They don’t mention that Sderot is on the land of the Palestinian village of Nadj, that was overwhelmed by new Jewish settlers in the early 1950s. The Palestinians haven’t forgotten.
Israel used to have a large well of good will left over from its beginnings. That well is about dry now.
No, no one wants to allow genocide — by anyone including former victims thereof. It’s time for the Arab/Israeli warriors to make peace or just fight it out with sticks and stones and no money or technical help from any other country. Disarm them and let them duke it out? Cut all of them off from everyone else?
Gaaaah.
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We need to break this codependency link to Israel. They don’t coordinate with the US, and they actively spy on us, so cut them loose. The US government needs to think about US interests.
Israel has done the least for the US and gets the most support. It’s madness.
As you say – send them to the middle of the Negev and let them fight it out while leaving the rest of the world alone.
Errrmm… As were the Nazi’s in WW2, Israel has been actively attacking the USA for some time. German U-Boats were sinking US ships and US citizens were being killed for years before the USA finally decided to enter the war. I guess it took the MIC of the day some time to figure out there was a lot of money to be made off the suffering of others. So, this isn’t the first time by far the USA has put ignorant self-interested politics ahead of their duty to the American people, or their duty to the human race per se. 🙂
The Gov of the day pacified the public outcries by announcing the creation of a new ‘Tenth Freet’ specifically to address the U-boat problem and make travel on the high-seas safe again. As always, it was nice rhetoric from a US Gov. The only small problem was that it was a paper fleet. They never had any ships and had only 50 people at any time.
Admiral Doenitz launched Operation Paukenschlag in December of 1941 comprising 5 U-boats withe veteran crews against the US Eastern seaboard. The US had Admiral Andrews defend the East Coast. He had a fleet of 4 Yard Patrol Boats, 4 Subchasers
1 Coast Guard Cutter, 3 WW I Eagle boats and 5 operational aircraft (from over 100 aircraft, 95% of which couldn’t fly). The Germans thought it must be Christmas. During a 10 day raid on the Eastern Seaboard, they sank some 25 US ships (mainly merchant vessels totaling about 200K tons). Not a single U-boat was ever detected or attacked. The U-boat crews certainly had the unwavering belief that God, was indeed, on their side. Churchill became so concerned because much of this cargo and oil tankers were headed for the UK and were much needed by England, that he sent a very sharp communication to the President asking (essentially) WTF is going on and when will they do something about it? He was not at all pleased. Even the US Chief of Staff, General Marshal wrote: “The losses by submarines off our Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean now threatens the entire war effort…”.
During this attack on the East Coast, the US lost a lot more people and resources (ships, cargo, etc) than were lost at Perl Harbor. The US Politicians sure as hell were not on the side of the US people. Of course, nobody in the USA today even mentions this and is always talking about *the tragedy of Perl Harbor*.
Because of the US incompetence and stupidity, the German U-boats were supremly confident and became very successful. During the USA’s first year in the war, over 1,000 Allied ships were sunk by German U-boats, most of these were within the US defense zone. This represents more than half of all ships sunk by U-boats during WW2 from 1939 to 1945.
This is all documented and not too hard to find. 🙂 And there are many other examples (some I personally know of) where the US Gov has put their own interests ahead of their people, or indeed, the rest of the World. I could mention Cambodia, Vietnam… the list is long.
It would be amazing if the US government would begin thinking about US interests. They never have so far as I can see. They have been motivated by political self-interest for almost a Century. I don’t see it changing soon, unless the public finally wakes up and understands they are, and have always been, totally screwed by their own Government. The Israel Government has learned will from their US counterparts and best friends.
I won’t hold my breath for anything to change. 🙂
Lots of German sympathizers in the US, Kryten, especially among the investor class who were making a lot of money from the war in Europe. When we finally joined there were curbs put in place to slow down war profiteering and people were fined heavily for some of their less than neutral policies.
The amazing thing is that no one talked about the fact that the “rebirth” of Germany was largely do to Keynesian policies of large public projects, like the autobahns. No point in bringing up the niceties of economic theory when there is money to be made.
Yes. And the most infamous of the US wealthy Nazi sympathizers was the Bushmorons Grandfather, Prescott Bush (and other members of the Bush family). The UK Guardian published an expose in 2004 that of course went unregarded in the USA. I did quite a lot of research with other bloggers in 04/05 and we blogged a series about it that was linked to around the World by blogs. it didn’t make any difference in the USA of course. 🙂 The Bush family became very wealthy thanks to WW2.
How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
Of course, as ex Intel types know… hindsight is a wonderful thing isn’t it? 😉 We were just like the mindless & clueless masses never had any foresight or recognized a fact when it was there to see. No… we just stumbled around in the dark… Like the clueless masses, when a fact presented itself, we all shouted “what a load of BS” and pretended it didn’t exist. 🙂 Right? yeah.
The reason why all the good, smart people left the Intel biz, was because it just wasn’t worth trying to convince anyone the truth was the truth. People didn’t want truth, they wanted blissful ignorance. Things haven’t changed much.
‘Stupid is as stupid does!’ 😉
There is nothing worse than hearing generals or the “Commander in Chief” mouthing total garbage about something that could get people killed and not being able to say anything because it is classified. I came to the realization that the classification system was really designed to keep voters ignorant, because the enemy certainly knew what its capabilities were.
Listening to Reagan was really painful if you knew what Soviet technology was really like. Claiming they were this massively capable military juggernaut while their trucks wouldn’t start because of a shortage of spark plugs was really annoying.
There were areas we didn’t annoy because we knew if some fool tried to launch aircraft people would probably die because the terrible condition of the base. Of course, they were marked in the event of a real event, because we knew there was a minimal chance of an effective response.
It was politically useful not to acknowledge what a mess the Soviet Union was in, and then everyone looked stupid when it collapsed, even though many of us were surprised it lasted as long as it did.
That’s for sure! My Russian contact here in the 80’s all had no intention whatsoever of going back to the USSR. 🙂 They had it good here, and they knew it. However, it wasn’t at all easy (as you would know) making sure they were useful to us and stayed alive to be useful! If the Soviets got any hint that one of theirs was being less than discrete, their life and there family’s lives were over. We used to always laugh at the US press after reading US intel reports which somehow accidentally came into my Russian friends possession… Ooops. Still… it kept them alive and useful to us. 🙂 The USA should be very careful how it treats it’s supposed allies and friends. 🙂 Some of us don’t like to be played or treated as fools. We look after *our* interests first. The US always had this misbegotten belief that we and the Brits and anyone else was primarily looking after their interests! News flash… No way in hell! LOL (Until Howard/Blair anyway). Anyway, suffice to say that thanks to the USA we were able to make good use of Soviet & Chinese contacts and keep them happy. 🙂 So long as it couldn’t bite us in any way… *shrug* All’s fair in love and war and the Intel biz! LOL Of course… If we’d believed that the USA were truly our friends, things may have been a bit different. The USA screwed us in WW2 also. We didn’t forget, or forgive. 🙂 It was very useful to us to allow the US to put certain bases and *secret* installations here. Amazingly, those darned Commies always somehow knew all about them! Hard to keep a secret isn’t it? 🙂
A note to the individual calling themselves CadyAbeda,
That web site reference pretty much guarantees your being considered spam.
If you really are wondering why this article is not “balanced” in your view, it is because this isn’t a media outlet, it’s my personal space and I see no reason to present an argument for any opinion but my own. In this particular case the other side would involve approving of something I really dislike, DDoS. They are pointless and tie up resources that could be put to better use.
If you believe the other side needs representation, start a blog.