The Left’s Economic Terrorism Playbook: Coalition to Destroy US Capitalism and Redistribute Wealth
‘Alert All of Your Friends’: Beck Responds to Chilling ‘Economic Terrorism’ Audio
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The Left’s Economic Terrorism Playbook: Coalition to Destroy US Capitalism and Redistribute Wealth
‘Alert All of Your Friends’: Beck Responds to Chilling ‘Economic Terrorism’ Audio
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Terror Alert on Texas Border: Somali terror suspect may try to enter U.S. through Mexico
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Cyber attack ‘could fell US within 15 minutes’
Written By: Alex Spillius
Richard Clarke claims that America’s lack of preparation for the annexing of its computer system by terrorists could lead to an “electronic Pearl Harbor”.
In his warning, Mr Clarke paints a doomsday scenario in which the problems start with the collapse of one of Pentagon’s computer networks.
Soon internet service providers are in meltdown. Reports come in of large refinery fires and explosions in Philadelphia and Houston. Chemical plants malfunction, releasing lethal clouds of chlorine.
Air traffic controllers report several mid-air collisions, while subway trains crash in New York, Washington and Los Angeles. More than 150 cities are suddenly blacked out. Tens of thousands of Americans die in an attack comparable to a nuclear bomb in its devastation.
Yet it would take no more than 15 minutes and involve not a single terrorist or soldier setting foot in the United States.
The scenario is contained the pages of his book, Cyber War: The Next National Security Threat, written with Robert Knake.
And Mr Clarke has been right before.
As anti-terrorism tsar under Mr Clinton and then Mr Bush, he issued dire warnings of the need for better defences against al-Qaeda, and wrote about his futile campaign in the 2004 book Against All Enemies.
Now he argues that a similar lack of preparation could exact a tragic price.
“The biggest secret about cyber war may be that at the very same time the US prepares for offensive cyber war, it is continuing policies that make it impossible to defend effectively from cyber attack,” says the book.
In part, the US has been hampered by the unforeseeable success of the internet and expansion of computerised networks, which are now used in almost every aspect of industry but have led to a hazardous degree of over-dependence.
The belief in the internet as the freewheeling, free-spirited epitome of American free speech has made government intrusion politically difficult, leaving the private sector particularly vulnerable to well-trained hackers.
Successive administrations, including President Barack Obama’s, have failed to get to grips with the scale of the problem, believe Clarke and Knake, though they have kindred spirits dotted around the establishment.
The military has yet to open its new Cyber Command center, amid disagreements about what role different agencies will play.
Meanwhile America may have invented the internet, but at least 30 nations have created offensive cyber-war capabilities, which aim to plant a variety of viruses and bugs into key utility, military and financial systems of other states.
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“We need to rethink the premise that just because this took place with bits and bytes it wasn’t a dangerous and destabilizing action,” said Mr Knake, who said they wrote the book “to start a conversation”.
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Mayor Bloomberg Jumps to Conclusions about Bomber
NBC News Host ‘Frustrated’ Times Square Bomber Is Muslim
CNN: ‘Pressure’ of Foreclosure Contributing Factor to NYC Terror Plot?
Beck: We Need to Mirandize NYC Bomber
Security slip let suspect on plane, near takeoff
Bomb Suspect’s Citizenship Raises Questions About Naturalization Process
Times Square Suspect Was Trained, but Picked the Wrong Explosive, Officials Say
Foreign Connection in Times Square Case Underscores Growing Pakistan Threat
Apparent Links Found Between Times Square Suspect, NYC Subway Bomber
Times Square Car Bomb Suspect Faces Terrorism Charges After Admitting to Plot
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“There Are Many More Like Me . . .”
The would-be assassin of the 278 innocents aboard Northwest Airlines flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, made that boast/threat after his bombing attempt failed due to a faulty detonator.
I just hope and pray that the FBI and CIA have a sufficient supply of Hershey bars to entice Mr. Abdulmutallab to “tell all” and spare the lives of others among us whose greatest sin might be a desire to travel to visit loved ones. Heaven forbid that anyone might even consider making dear Mr. Abdulmutallab (who is, after all, only alleged to have attempted a terrorist act) uncomfortable in any way. Only rightwing zealots would even think of waterboarding. The mere suggestion of such uncomfortable acts is ridiculous when we all know that Hershey bars and double frequent flyer points for the flight he almost blew up will surely provide enough “incentive” for Abdulmutallab to spill his guts.
Dear Mr. Abdulmutallab, as you lift your pretty little Muslim-terrorist head from your soft pillow this morning, my suggestion would be that you unfurl your little Prayer Rug, point it in the direction of Mecca, drop to your knees, and thank Allah that George Bush is not President! Not to fear, you will live to fly again. Those promised virgins are still within your reach . . .
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