A.I. Jacob

All the world is a stage and we are merely the players. Author of 'Artifice:Humanities Deception from Time Immemorial'.

[Real Mac Report @RealMacReport]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Was there a stand down order Ms. Cheatle? Was there a conspiracy to kill President Trump?"

Cheatle: "Absolutely not."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We are waiting for your letter of resignation."

[Oversight Committee @GOPoversight]

🚨 ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING: The Secret Service Director DOESN’T HAVE a comprehensive timeline of events nine days after the assassination attempt on President Trump’s life.

[WorldNetDaily @worldnetdaily]

Israel confirms two more hostages dead in Hamas captivity
https://t.co/H5mrmFHdbp

[Media Research Center @theMRC]

Rep. @Jim_Jordan is rightly furious at Kimberly Cheatle

"It looks like you won't answer basic questions. Looks like you got a 9% raise and you cut corners when it came to protecting one of the most important individuals..."

[Against Forced Organ Harvesting @AgainstFOH]

Officials in Washington have examined the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting, as another U.S. state passes legislation to ban insurance coverage for organ transplants in China.
https://t.co/C06MZl0k8A

[Michael Guimarin @Guimarin]

Note on CrowdStrike “outage.”

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This is a case study in greyzone/hybrid warfare.

The CrowdStrike outage is an example of a deniable infrastructure attack.

It relied on a human being “pushing” a missconfigured patch update to all crowdstrike’s customers.

Was this deliberate or accidental? We’ll never know.

But why would it be an attack rather than incompetence?

Timing. Incentive. Method.

Let’s start with Method.

Going back over a decade there have been numerous complexity cascades kicked off by single points of failure within large IT infrastructures. Out of this experience a kind of professional methodology has emerged.

First, do not have single points of failure in your infrastructure. This seems obvious but is devilishly difficult to do in practice as the “surface” your protecting is complex and constantly changing.

Second, when you do have a single point of failure, create process to gate updates to that point so that it doesn’t take out your production infrastructure. Every large organization has even in their contracts a proscribed process between client and vendor for updating these single points of failure.

Third, when you cannot avoid a full simultaneous change to production, schedule it well in advance and on a weekend. It is almost inconceivable that an honest actor at CrowdStrike would touch a system, let alone push an update that could immediately affect production customers without following their process. Honest people in the industry know that this is possible and don’t want hospitals, airlines, banks, going down because they wanted to push an update at a random hour.

Fourth, all of these systems are heavily reliant on compliance and automation to push updates. In crowdstrike’s side and on customer’s side. There is a huge amount of software to prevent changes like this from going everywhere all at once by accident. It’s always possible, even probable, that bugs will exist that circumvent all this software. That is what happened here.

Incentive.

As a security person I would not use CrowdStrike. I wouldn’t use them because there is a Nexus of corruption surrounding Ukraine, and CrowdStrike is attached to that Nexus. They lied about the DNC hack and they have stakeholders who benefited handsomely from that lie. Also if you look at the incentives for all the people involved to buy and deploy CrowdStrike, it’s not something I want to be anywhere near.

Timing.

These kinds of errors happen. But I’ve not worked with an engineer on such a critical system who would be messing about with this sort of thing when it happened. I’ve been a part of dumb deployments that have taken out global infrastructure for lots of people. Like, tens of millions of people effected. It happens. No doubt. It’s possible an honest error happened here, but not probable.

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So what do I personally believe happened?

25% actual human error.
75% deliberate outage.

If it’s a deliberate outage, and I think it was, who and why? Harder to quantify, but I’d surmise there is infighting going on between the Deep State and some of their factions. Imo, CrowdStrike is a rootkit/dead man’s switch into most of the Megacorp infrastructure. Similar to SolarWinds but instead of being an op that was stolen/co-opted, this is more like the Clipper chip. From the beginning a deliberate single point of failure.

Anyway the Ukraine war is going poorly, and I think somebody somewhere on the side receiving money there wants to remind everyone they have leverage.

It’s also a convenient time to do that to change the media story coming out of the RNC/donald Trump assasination attempt. If everyone is focused on something tangible like not being able to use the bank, hospital, or plane, they are more likely to forget the intangible. But I don’t think that was motive enough.

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

Talk about the passage of time

It has now been 9️⃣7️⃣7️⃣ days since the Biden-Harris Administration passed its $42 billion plan for expanding Internet

0️⃣ Americans have been connected

0️⃣ Shovels worth of dirt turned

Is that “the passage of time” that VP Harris had in mind ?

[Anthony Hughes @CallMeAntwan]

Trump to hold call with Ukranian President Zelenskyy👇🏼

[Belaaz News @TheBelaaz]

More footage of the Tel Aviv explosion. Damage reported. No word on the cause.

Updates to follow

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Location of blast in Tel Aviv is close to several embassies and consulates, cause not yet clear.

[A.I. Jacob @AuthorAIJacob]

@IntelStream Always spot on - good analysis

[Intel Stream @IntelStream]

I'm hearing Biden is to step down by Sunday. If this is true it's actually a good thing.

For states with early primaries or caucuses (like Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada), the deadlines to get on the ballot have passed. It's highly unlikely that a new candidate could be added to the ballot in these states in time.

There are larger states that in their constitution, like California's election law generally does not allow for changes to the candidate list after the filing deadline which ended on December 8, last year and for the primary on March 5, 2024. Once the ballot is set, it's challenging to add or replace candidates.

Texas has a relatively rigid deadline for ballot access. Once the filing period ends, it's difficult to make changes to the ballot. That filing Deadline was December 11, 2023 (for the primary on March 5, 2024).

Georgia’s rules are strict about ballot access and changes. Once the candidate list is finalized, it is difficult to make replacements. Their filing Deadline was December 15, 2023 (for the primary on March 5, 2024).

Michigan generally requires candidates to meet deadlines for ballot access, and making changes after the deadline can be extremely complex. Their filing Deadline was November 28, 2023 (for the primary on February 27, 2024).

New York has strict deadlines for candidate filing, and changes to the ballot are difficult once the filing deadline has passed. Their filing Deadline was on December 31st, 2023 (for the primary on April 2nd, 2024).

Ohio has firm deadlines for candidates to be added to the ballot, and replacements after the deadline are generally not allowed. Their filing Deadline was December 13, 2023 (for the primary on March 5, 2024).

Pennsylvania's rules for changing candidates are stringent, particularly once the ballot has been set.
Their filing Deadline was on December 12, 2023 (for the primary on April 23, 2024).

At this point, unless the Democratic Party pulls off some crazy legal shenanigans, it will be impossible for them to win.

Yes, I said impossible.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Texas

[A.I. Jacob @AuthorAIJacob]

@SarahHuckabee Sadly @NEWSMAX didn’t broadcast your speech and instead talked over it with their talking heads.

Thankfully @RealAmVoice did - great speech.

Note to both: we want to hear the speakers not your talking heads

[Sarah Huckabee Sanders @SarahHuckabee]

Last night I didn’t want to speak just about President Trump’s successful policies, but about the man that I know.

Watch my full convention speech ⤵️

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

🔴A 700 meter-long tunnel route was dismantled by IDF troops in the Rafah area. 4 Hamas terrorists tried to infiltrate Israeli territory through this tunnel route.

Inside the tunnel that was destroyed, the troops located further offshoots of the tunnel, blast doors, a terrorist hideout and electrical infrastructure.

We will continue working to dismantle and neutralize Hamas’ underground network of terrorist tunnels.

[NTD+ @NTDPlus_]

NATO has now officially accused the CCP of being a “decisive enabler” of Russia in the war in Ukraine.

And NATO is now reaching out to Asian countries, in what appears to be an expanding global alliance that recognizes CCP as a threat to the free world.

https://t.co/dVM976dxTA

[Greg Rubini - GregRubini.com @GregRubini]

2) And the CORRUPT PA police was COMPLICIT too, of course!

The PA police saw the shooter with the rifle 30 minutes before he shot the bullets.
They did nothing.

They let it happen.
(They were told to STAND DOWN, and let the shooter alone)

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Holy shit.

Turns out the local counter sniper team was inside the building where Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter who tried to assassinate Trump, climbed on and opened fire.

So basically law enforcement let the shooter get on the roof, knew about him being there before Trump got on stage, and then they let him open fire on President Trump and his supporters.

Looks like these local snipers need to be charged.

This is UNACCEPTABLE.

This was an inside job. How are these officers not being interrogated and charged?

They basically let it all happen.

[Inconvenient Truths — Jennifer Zeng Reports @jenniferzeng97]

Xi Jinping Reportedly Suffers Stroke at CCP’s Third Plenary Session https://t.co/r2Zqt4aJI9