Transcript for 7/19/24: CROWDSTRIKE – GLITCH SOCIETY W/ JAMES PONDER

This morning, I woke up with a computer that went into fail-safe mode... It was doing so to protect it from some malware attack. Luckily I was able to restart my computer and install updates to get it working again. 

I sometimes forget that the computer needs to be turned off and on again to receive updates. As you may know, I rely heavily on my computer to research shows I produce. Anytime I see a glitch or the blue screen of death I panic because as much as I use the computer -- I don't know anything about how it runs -- it is just there.

It is like I can drive a car, but I need a mechanic to get it to run sometimes.

Ron Patton notified me that there was a massive outage of Windows-based computers.

It apparently has impacted systems all over the world. Doctors’ surgeries, airlines, train stations, television stations, payment platforms – virtually all sectors of human society have been impacted. Traffic is backing up, flights are grounded.

The Starbucks up the street could not get their computers to work -- so I needed to dip into my reserves. 

Again, we have been warned that a computer glitch and the introduction of a new Utility is the proposal of the World Economic Forum. This has been part of their Cyber polygon proposals for years-- they have been running exercises where banks, hospitals, and air traffic control, all fail due to a cyber attack or major malfunction. 

So far Microsoft is blaming a “third party”, and ruled out a cyber attack. The “third party” has been named as CrowdStrike, a company specializing in safe-guarding systems against cyber attacks.

So that’s either highly ironic…or something else.

Windows PCs all around the world are crashing, and it's getting uglier fast.

The question is just who or what is CrowdStrike and why should we all be concerned.

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that provides a safeguard called Falcon Sensor.

Flacon sensor is software designed to prevent computer systems from cyber attacks. Earlier this morning, , the company warned its users that Windows systems are "experiencing a bug check/blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor," and said that its engineering teams are "actively working to resolve this issue."

An update to the Falcon software is what caused the issue; the company rolled back the update but numerous machines are still affected.

Both Microsoft and CrowdStrike have now acknowledged the issue, which is only present on Windows machines, while Mac and Linux computers aren't affected.

In the meantime, it looks like travel is off the table for a lot of people. You’d be forgiven for thinking this is yet another fake crisis designed to disrupt everyday life and normalize these types of restrictions. Or maybe it’s just a symptom of over-reliance on automation.

Real or not, contrived or not – this should bring home to everyone, once again, the importance of cash, hard copies, and self-reliance.

CrowdStrike's software is popular and widely used, and as a result, there are numerous outages across platforms including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft 365, Azure, Instagram, eBay, Visa, and AT&T. several banks, such as Chase, Wells Fargo, TD Bank, and US Bank appeared to be having issues as well.

CrowdStrike is also a familiar name as they were called to investigate the breach of Hillary Clinton's e-mails.

The DNC contacted CrowdStrike to respond to a suspected cyber attack impacting its network. The DNC was first alerted to the hack by the FBI in September 2015. According to testimony by DNC IT contractor Yared Tamene Wolde-Yohannes, the FBI attributed the breach to the Russian Government in September 2015 -- this began the Russiagate conspiracy theories that were pushed by the left.

CrowdStrike’s conclusion that Russia was behind the DNC hack is supported by the U.S. Intelligence community.

Interesting timing that all this is going down during a time of turmoil in the political arena.

The problems are widespread enough to have caused some airlines, including Delta, American, RyanAir, and United Airlines, to be grounded due to communications issues, apparently related to the outage.

Even electronic payment systems in some supermarkets are down, rendering people unable to pay for groceries.

In a notice to users, CrowdStrike said that there is no need to open a support ticket with CrowdStrike as the company's engineers are aware of the issue and are actively working on it.

Get this:

Technology experts have said the disruption is at the scale expected from Y2K or the 'Millennium Bug', a computer programming shortcut that was forecast to cause chaos as the year changed from 1999 to 2000 but never materialized.

Back then we could only anticipate the horrors that awaited us in Y2K --enough to wonder if it would plunge us back into the dark ages.

The CrowdStrike software-triggered global IT outage has had varying levels of impact across Union Pacific’s freight network, but most major rails in the U.S. were operating normally.

Ports from New York to Houston and Los Angeles reported temporary container terminals shut down overnight, but were mostly operational by early morning.

Air freight was hit the hardest, with many global airlines grounding flights, and the complex air cargo system is facing a recovery period that could last days or weeks, but UPS said its airline continues to operate normally.

The new issue for the global supply chain comes amid a rise in global demand, with shipments up 13% year-over-year in June. Air freight supply has increased, but only by 3% year-on-year, already causing higher costs for shippers due to the limited capacity.

Shippers already had concerns about air freight capacity due to huge increases in demand in 2024, driven largely by the extraordinary growth in e-commerce goods being exported from China to Europe and the U.S.

Available capacity in the market is already limited so airlines are going to struggle to move cargo tomorrow that should have been moved today.

Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, told CNBC on Friday morning that what the government is watching for over the day, as the issue has been identified, is “the kind of ripple or cascade effects as they get everything back in their networks back to normal.”

He said the FAA’s operational systems, like air traffic control or most systems within the U.S. Department of Transportation, as well as major urban transit systems, such as New York City’s MTA, were operating though there could be “spot” issues throughout the day. But “as far as the airlines themselves we are going to definitely be expecting more there.

Back in January of 2021, there was a meeting at Davos with the World Economic Forum called Cyber Polygon. Cyber Polygon’s focus was on supply chain attack simulations which coincidentally, happened in real time -in Europe. The targets of the cyberattack were the banks and government facilities and government data facilities that have information about you and me.

They stated in their meeting that in the years to come we were going to face a cyber disaster unless a proposed utility could be found to ensure the continuity of commerce.

Was that Utility Falcon Sensor?

is it leaving operating systems vulnerable to devastating glitches that are controlled to disrupt the business as usual of the world?

Unlike their unofficial counterparts over at the WEF, the UN also speaks about basically regulating the global digital future.

The unelected organization uses phrases such as “international cooperation” and “many stakeholders” who will “advance principles, objectives, and actions” to describe this globalist agenda.

The UN describes this goal as “an open, free, secure and human-centered digital future.”

The digital future as envisaged by these groups is going to be quite the opposite of open, free, or human-centric, however.

As far as the UN’s “vision” for a future global financial system, it is supposed to be harmonized with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

It would be governed by something called “the apex body” that is yet to be set up.

they will be the overseers of data -- and if course will use Falcon sensors and other data guardians to reveal a person’s identity, behavior, associations, physical or medical conditions, race, color, sexual orientation, national origins, or viewpoints. Emerging technologies illustrate these risks clearly. 

For instance, data from wearable health devices can disclose detailed medical conditions and physical activity patterns; smart home devices can track daily routines and behaviors; and social media analytics can infer political views, social connections, and personal preferences based on patterns of interactions, posts, and likes.

Additionally, geolocation data from smartphones and Internet of Things (IoT) devices can map an individual’s movements over time, potentially identifying their location history, frequented places, and daily commutes, as well as patterns of whom they spent time with. Photo, video surveillance, and face recognition data used in public and private spaces can identify individuals and track their interactions, while biometric data from various other sources can confirm identities and provide access to sensitive personal information.

The government has already been given sweeping powers to search and seize electronic data, but without clear, mandatory privacy and data protection safeguards. This poses a serious threat to privacy and data protection. 

Conditions and safeguards, fail to protect human rights, by deferring safeguards to national law, rather than laying out strong protections to match the increased powers that are being proposed.

The results are obviously flawed, and I am sure the glitches can be deliberate to disrupt the flow of infrastructure. It can be used as a form of punishment.

Individuals need to find ways to challenge abuses -- and they need more transparency when companies like CrowdStrike have had relationships with criminals and controversial issues like alleged election meddling.

It has also been theorized that the Q Anon psy-op is also a product of CrowdStrike. That it was part of a psy-op called FBI Anon provided by none other than CrowdStrike.

In November 2020 Reuters reported that the very first social media accounts to promote the “Q Anon” persona were seemingly “linked to Russia” and even “backed by the Russian government”. For instance, the very first Twitter account to ever use the term “Q Anon” on social media had previously “retweeted obscure Russian officials”, according to Reuters.

These alleged “Russian social media accounts”, posing as accounts of American patriots, were in contact with politically conservative US YouTubers and drew their attention to the “Q Anon” persona. This is how, in early November 2017, the “Q Anon” movement took off.

British investigator David J. Blake – who for the first time was able to conclusively show, at the technical level, that the “Russian hacking” operation was a cyber psyop run by the FBI and FBI cyber security contractor CrowdStrike – the Reuters report may in fact indicate that “Q Anon” was neither a hoax nor “Russian”, but another FBI psychological cyber operation.

Of note, US cyber intelligence firm New Knowledge, founded by former NSA and DARPA employees and tasked by the US Senate Intelligence Committee, in 2018, with investigating alleged “Russian social media operations” relating to the 2016 US presidential election, was itself caught faking a “Russian social media botnet” to influence the 2017 Alabama senate race.

If the “Q Anon” persona – similar to the Guccifer2.0 “Russian hacker” persona played by an FBI cyber security contractor – was indeed an FBI psychological operation, its goal may have been to take control of, discredit and ultimately derail the supporter base of US President Trump. In this case, the “Q Anon” movement may have been a modern version of the original FBI COINTELPRO program.

CrowdStrike inquiries about Ukraine were the very thing that started the Impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump.

According to the transcript released by the White House, Trump said to Zelensky: “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people…The server, they say Ukraine has it.”

In a footnote to his complaint, the whistleblower wrote: “I do not know why the President associates these servers with Ukraine.” The whistleblower added that Trump had previously connected the DNC server to Ukraine in television interviews.

Former FBI director James Comey, who led the early phases of the Russia investigation, testified in 2017 that it would have been better if the DNC had given the servers to the FBI, but the FBI was able to get the forensic information it needed from CrowdStrike. Mueller later brought detailed criminal charges against Russian hackers for their involvement in the hacks.

The company was owned by a wealthy Ukrainian. Its co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is Russian American.

CrowdStrike has also worked with the Republican Party in the past on cybersecurity issues, helping the party’s House campaign arm investigate email thefts by hackers in 2018.

This of course deepens the conspiracy.

The whole cyber shutdown feels like yet another FBI Psyop. And wouldn't you know it CrowdStrike is all connected to the FBI, the hacked Hillary emails, Q anon, and Trump's first impeachment.

It is just one more distraction as the election is in shambles and the investigation into former President Trump's assassination is getting buried in the news agenda.

Nevertheless, the power elite will continue to carry out their Great Reset since so much of their world takeover project greatly depends upon it. Toward that end, CYBER POLYGON plays an integral role in the global controlled demolition of cyberspace as a necessary precursor to their long-planned CBDC roll-out.

It ought to be obvious that such a massive and far-reaching international outage just doesn’t happen by accident; rather, this was a classic intentional mishap to cover up something or distract from something else.

The Tyrannical Technocracy has been ordered to change the entire dynamic that now dominates throughout cyberspace.

n fact, so much radioactive truth and raw facts are being disseminated daily that even the most advanced AI monitors are unable to keep up, especially when even Autonomous Superintelligence cannot decipher all the powerful new memes in real-time.

Hence, for the dark side to successfully execute their plans for a total planetary lockdown, they must exert complete command and control over all of cyberspace.

Cyber crisis is Cyber Polygon -- and it is only just beginning.

We are being acclimated to failures and breaches of security and this is what they think we deserve,

As recently as the aftermath of 9/11, the vast majority of Americans were able to put aside their political differences to respond to a disruptive event. 

Today, the hyper-polarized nature of American society has broken any semblance of a national bond that can supersede political and cultural considerations.

The attempted assassination of Trump proves that and so does the velvet-gloved coup that is happening to President Biden.

Those who hate America — and who hate Trump as a result — have no filters for their rhetoric, no boundaries for their contempt, and no restrictions on their destructive actions.

“If they’re willing to assassinate a future president, what would they be willing to do to the future economy?”

We saw what they did with Covid --and now we cannot even fathom the impact of the CrowdStrike glitch. Crisis after crisis is happening in a world that has been pretty dependable -- not it is as if we do not care about who is in charge and who is pulling the strings.

Regardless of what happens during the election, we must be ready for turmoil that could start a domino effect on our economy-- Imagine what would happen if the bullet killed Trump, Biden stepped down and a massive cyberattack would cover the tracks of the criminal element in Washington.

Well look around you the plan is in play -- and we are going to have to face either a constitutional crisis or a civil upheaval.

This can't continue without reprisal.

The fragility of our economy means that post-election riots and even domestic terrorism could interrupt supply chains. Moreover, they could prompt more massive cyberattacks that could affect infrastructure, travel, and communications. In such scenarios, the economy will be dramatically hampered even in the best-case scenario.

People will run out of food and resources.. it is just one more way to starve the populists by creating a simulated scarcity economy.

If the grid goes down, banks close, or the U.S. Dollar collapses, how are you going to handle it? The unthinkable is happening a lot -- it is a pattern, and while you still are hanging in there -- you better be prepared for massive change.

U.S. officials have often said that the United States has unrivaled offensive cyber capabilities. Why hasn’t that deterred anyone? It’s simple. The United States is so reliant on computer networks that we’re afraid to launch a tit-for-tat exchange in cyberspace. It was true during the Obama administration and remains true today. 

But as we see with intelligence operations that use CrowdStrike.

They’re gradually upping the ante, looking to impose as much pain as possible without triggering serious consequences. The longer we go without an effective response, the more pain we’ll suffer. And if we wait until enemy hackers manage to kill lots of Americans, as they could, we risk a U.S. response so sudden and harsh that it sparks a war.

The beauty of it all is that it would be difficult to prove an inside job-- only by reputation, meaning the FBI and their relationship with ubiquitous systems that have been involved with various cyber scandals that affect the entire world.

Does anyone find any of this suspicious?

The dark day has come when we are now seeing the fragility of the internet and its ability to crash.

The enduring truism is that no network is ever 100 percent secure. We simply cannot foresee all the variables. 

.The thing that can take down an unbreakable system is the thing we don’t see coming; that we haven’t thought about. That principle never changes-- and neither does the vast conspiracy to lock down information in case of a major war or in our case the election upheaval where things are changing rapidly --and security seems to be nonexistent everywhere, even in cyberspace.