Conspiracy theories and the media (10 min)

A look at the consequences that conspiracy theories have in the real world.

Source: Conspiracy theories and the media | USA | Al Jazeera

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Jan 13, 2019

Conspiracy theories involving powerful forces orchestrating global events have a long history.

Ideas that Jews, Freemasons, the Illuminati, lizard people or aliens are secretly running world affairs have been around for centuries. But in the past year conspiracy theories have been taking centre stage in mainstream politics both in Europe and the United States and have also been linked to deadly crimes.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made fears of a migrant invasion orchestrated by George Soros a central part of his election campaign last March.

Then, in late October, prior to the midterm congressional and senate elections, US President Donald Trump alluded to a conspiracy theory that Soros was funding a migrant caravan travelling towards the US from Honduras. That was after the theory had been propagated by a host on Fox News and tweeted by a Republican senator.

“George Soros is a useful character because he taps into this pre-existing far-right narrative about Jewish control,” says Kelly Weill, who covers conspiracy theories and the far-right for The Daily Beast. “And throughout the years we’ve seen this anti-Semitism turn into a documented conspiracy theories.”

People feel very destabilized, I think, in our current news environment … And when you offer conspiracy theory often that’s a way of sort of simplifying the world. It gives people an easy answer in a world that feels scary and confusing. Kelly Weill, reporter, The Daily Beast

Also in the US, both Cesar Sayoc, the man alleged to have sent a series of pipe bombs to figures on the mainstream left – including Soros, and Robert Bowers, who allegedly shot dead 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last November, were animated by, according to their social media posts, conspiracy theories linked to the migrant caravan.

Conspiracy theories about the migrant caravan had been seeded on anonymous chat forums that are well-known for white supremacist rhetoric well before they emerged into the mainstream.

“Key to the growth of these series is them not just living on places like 4chan or Reddit but them making the leap to these more widely used social media platforms where they can garner a much wider audience,” according to Shannon McGregor, assistant professor of Communications at the University of Utah.

Social media has been key to the success of the breakout hit of conspiracy theorising in Donald Trump’s America. The QAnon conspiracy theory was born over a year ago on the anonymous chat forum, 4chan when a mysterious poster identifying as ‘Q’ began to allude to current events relating to the Trump administration in cryptic comments referred to as ‘crumbs’.

YouTube hosts countless videos created by QAnon believers explaining the tenuous logic behind “proofs” of Q’s prognostications, and dozens of private Facebook groups are dedicated to reinforcing the beliefs of those who subscribe to the theory.

“What’s interesting about QAnon is that it’s not a passive experience for people who believe it.” Travis View, cohost of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast says, “It’s very gamified, it’s very fun but the problem is that they don’t actually really think it’s a game, they think that they’re actually genuinely uncovering some sort of secret from deep inside the government.”

In recent months, QAnon believers have been emerging into the open, appearing at Trump rallies. Celebrities such as Roseanne Barr have tweeted about the theory and in December, a California city council member became the first legislator to reference Q in a speech.

The dangers of conspiracy theories leaking into the world of politics are obvious, especially when they exaggerate fears, prejudices and harmful divisions in society. However, it would be simplistic to blame the social media platforms and also wrong to stigmatize believers who, perhaps with some justification, have little trust in the mainstream media.

“People feel very destabilized I think in our current news environment,” says Weill. “They don’t know what’s real. And when you offer conspiracy theory often that’s a way of sort of simplifying the world. It gives people an easy answer in a world that feels scary and confusing.”

Contributors

Travis View – cohost, QAnon Anonymous Podcast
Kelly Weill – reporter, The Daily Beast
Shannon McGregor – communications professor, University of Utah

Source: Al Jazeera

An Anarchist Explains How Hackers Could Cause Global Chaos

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by Tyler Durden

Mon, 03/05/2018

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Artists and criminals are often the first to push the boundaries of technology. Barrett Brown is a criminal who has actually helped inspire art – the TV show Mr. Robot. Its protagonist is a hacktivist – a hacker who breaks into computer systems to promote a cause.

Brown was connected to Anonymous, a group that hacked a private security firm to reveal secrets. He is now out and living in a halfway house in Dallas.

He had spent years in a prison cell thinking about what he might do when he got out. And he says he is ready to change, so next time he gets involved in hacking a corporation he is able to inflict maximum damage.

“Certainly, I haven’t gotten any less militant in the course of having these things done to me,” Brown says.

Barrett Brown served time for being part of Anonymous, a group that hacked a private security firm to reveal secrets.

Courtesy of Barrett Brown

Since most hacktivists operate in the shadows, Brown offers the best look at these cyber-revolutionaries and their motivations.

The 36-year-old Brown was born in Dallas. His father was a wealthy real estate investor, until he was investigated by the FBI for fraud. Brown’s father was never charged, but the family lost all its money and his parents divorced.

“It was something that I’m sure instilled in me the idea that there was a degree of arbitrary power out there that could come down at any time and disrupt your life, as it did to me when I was a child,” Brown says.

He hates arbitrary power and always has. He is an anarchist who believes the U.S. government is fundamentally corrupt. And he says most Americans are too complacent to do anything about it.

“That’s what … in part brings me to contempt for the American citizenry,” he says. “Obviously, I have no respect for the laws, for the government or for the voters.”

Instead, he says, his own code of values drives him.

He became a radical intellectual — more interested in spreading revolutionary ideas than in protesting in the streets. But in 2006, Brown saw a potential outlet for his anarchist dreams — the hacktivist group Anonymous. It was leaderless, crowdsourced and militant.

Anonymous managed to organize a massive attack on Scientology, even taking down its website. Brown started covering Anonymous as a journalist but soon became deeply involved.

“I saw this as the very first ripples in something that would grow to be one of the great dynamics of the 21st century, that we would see more of this emergence [of] online warfare essentially against institutions including nation-states,” he says.

For many years, Brown was a sort of unofficial spokesman for Anonymous, appearing in interviews dressed in a beige corduroy or navy blue jacket and dress shirt, a cigarette dangling from his hand. He looked more like a preppy than a revolutionary.

In 2011, the group began targeting companies that contracted with the U.S. government. One of them was Stratfor — a global intelligence firm. Emails released after an Anonymous hack included sensitive information on top-secret government missions like the killing of Osama bin Laden. The emails also show Dow Chemical hired Stratfor to spy on activists trying to get money for families who suffered during the Bhopal disaster.

Brown viewed this as a private corporate version of COINTELPRO — the FBI’s effort in the 1960s to discredit activists like Martin Luther King Jr.

Brown created Project PM, an online chatroom where participants looked through thousands of hacked emails to find the most incriminating. One email contained thousands of credit card numbers — and stealing credit cards is a crime.

In September 2012, Brown was at home talking online with members of Project PM. “I heard a rustling at my door and I walked over to the door. I was holding a beer in my hand,” he says. “[I] thought it was another friend of mine.”

But when he opened the door there was a SWAT team equipped with shields and helmets. Brown says they were yelling, “Put your hands up buddy.” Brown says they had him on the floor and put a boot on his back. The audio of the arrest was recorded by someone in the Project PM chatroom.

Brown faced up to 100 years in prison. His mother was charged with hiding his laptops.

Brown admits he went a bit off the rails. He posted a video on YouTube attacking an FBI agent.

“I was a former heroin addict,” Brown says. “I was getting off Suboxone at the time, which is a synthetic opiate. And I was sort of suddenly feeling emotions again that have been kind of bottled, kept down a few months. I was very upset about my mother being threatened with indictment.”

Still, Brown was a cause célèbre among certain activists and journalists. Many felt he was being put away for simply looking through hacked emails — something any journalist would do.

Brown eventually pleaded guilty to threatening a federal officer and to two other charges. The government imprisoned other members of Anonymous. The group kind of faded away, but its tactics did not.

During the 2016 election, Russian state-supported hackers used some of the same tools as Anonymous — hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee and posting them on WikiLeaks to embarrass Hillary Clinton.

I wondered, is there really any difference between a foreign agent trying to undermine our democracy and hacktivists like Anonymous? Is Brown a hero or a villain?

I turned to an unlikely expert to help me figure that out — Sam Esmail, the creator of the TV show Mr. Robot. “Their spirit is in activism,” Esmail says. “Their spirit is in exposing these frauds and abuses by people in power. And that’s just something on a human level I respect.”

But Mr. Robot is hardly a glowing portrait of hacktivists. Its hero, Elliot, is a drug addict who can’t access his own emotions. Sound familiar? Elliot leads a group called fsociety that takes down the world’s largest corporation — erasing everyone’s debt. Chaos erupts.

Mr. Robot actor Rami Malek (from left), writer/producer Sam Esmail and actor Christian Slater, at the Critics’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2016. “Their spirit’s in exposing these frauds and abuses by people in power,” Esmail says of hacktivists. “And that’s just something on a human level I respect.”

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Esmail says he is looking at an age-old dilemma. “Do we commit a criminal act for something that we feel is just, even though the consequences could be great?” he says. “That’s such a kind of loaded, huge, but very relevant question today.”

Brown doesn’t seem interested in examining the moral ambiguity of hacktivist crimes. But he says he is learning from past mistakes. Ultimately, Brown feels that Anonymous was disorganized and lacked leadership.

So he is designing a software program called Pursuance, which he says will take hacktivism into the future. It will be fully encrypted, anyone could use it to sort through a trove of hacked documents, and it could even be used to recruit a team of hackers.

Brown says when people tweet and post their opinions on social media it’s just “slactivism.” “The next great act of hacktivism, if it really is going to be great, it has to be an act of reaffirming the idea of civic duty,” he says. He says he wants to provide a mechanism for people who do feel that sense of civic duty to really have impact.

Brown is ready to be a martyr for the cause if he has to be. He would even go back to prison.

“I want to be in a position to defeat my powerful adversaries in public,” he says, “where everyone could admire the pluck in which I did it.”

Brown is casting himself in a starring role in the new world. And in his mind Mr. Robot is no fantasy. It’s what the future really looks like.

Anonymous Shares A Message For 2018 That Will Change The Way You Look At Social Media (15 min)

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Arjun Walia

January 7, 2018

  

Social media has changed tremendously within the past few years. Not only have social networks been used to “connect” the world in several different ways, they’ve also come at a tremendous cost, as discussed in the video below which was recently released by Anonymous. 

The video features several snippets from two former major Facebook executives, Chamath Palihapitiya and Sean Parker.

In it, they discuss the real implications of Facebook that are probably unbelievable to some people. These are the, as I like to call, “little big things” that we’re not really aware of, and when presented with this type of information, it’s common for one to roll their eyes because sometimes it’s so out of left field.

Why? I’m not sure, what they say makes perfect sense and given who these people are and where they’ve worked, they obviously know a thing or two about the platform

Another strong point here is that sentiment like this doesn’t receive much attention from mainstream media, which is another indicator of why one should be looking into it.

What is social media today? It’s created an environment where some, not all, are starving for likes and attention. We constantly share parts of our lives with others, so we ourselves can be seen. It’s a total ego trip for the most part, but others do use it for genuine purposes other than attention grabbing. 

At the same time, social media became a great platform to share information that’s not presented in the mainstream. Whether it be important scientific papers that’ve been published on GMOs or vaccines, social media has brought light into several worlds of darkness.

Information started going super viral, and it wasn’t uncommon for popular alternative independent media outlets to see a couple million people on their site by mid-afternoon.

Sharing of classified documents, government corruption, and creating awareness on technologies, ideas and innovation were at the forefront of independent media. More people were becoming aware of false flag terrorism. There are important publications out there that would never have seen the light of day if it wasn’t for social media, like the multiple studies that’ve been published in major science and engineering studies that conclude, without a doubt, that the twin towers were brought down by controlled demolition.

You can find those studies linked within multiple articles that we’ve published on 9/11.

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Anonymous – We Told You Something is Coming and Now It’s Here… (2017-2018)

Scumbag of the Day: YouTube Channel “Anonymous Official” Exposed

YouTube channel, “Anonymous Official”, is notorious for stealing videos created by actual Anons, revamping them, and calling them their own.

Source: YouTube Channel “Anonymous Official” Exposed

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By anonsnow

September 17, 2017

Most, who follow the Anonymous movement, have heard of the YouTube channel, “Anonymous Official”, which is notorious for stealing videos created by actual Anons, revamping them, and calling them their own.

Over the last five years, Anonymous Official has slowly gained a monopoly over ‘Anonymous’ on YouTube. They have made a hefty profit off the theft of other’s hard work and accomplishments. Meanwhile, they’ve contributed nothing to the movement itself.

This behavior has largely gone unchecked due to the fact Anons do not take their battles to the courtroom. This is a technicality Anonymous Official is using to their advantage.

After observing Anonymous Official over the years, what initially started as mild gratitude, quickly turned to suspicion. This one channel pumped out “Messages” from Anonymous by the masses, many of which originated elsewhere.

Sharing videos created by those within the Anonymous movement – those who are actually trying to bring about change in the world – is entirely appropriate. Recreating Anonymous videos to make them appear as your own for the purpose of recognition and profit, is unacceptable.

Through a mixture of over-confidence and hubris, the sole owner of “Anonymous Official” made himself known to us through one of our little birdies.

Meet Anthony Vaiana, an English and Film Studies teacher at the Niagara Catholic District School Board in Niagra Falls, Ontario. He lives in Buffalo, NY:

Retrieved from: YouTube

Anthony formerly worked as a painter in Rochester (NY) before attending school at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He likes the New York Yankees, photography, and threatening people who report videos he’s stolen:

Source: Anonymous

Anonymous Official/Anthony Vaiana’s counter notification reads:

Display name of uploader: Anonymous Official

This is our original content and you own NONE of the rights to it. Remove this strike imminently.

I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good-faith belief that the material was removed due to a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.

I consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the district in which my address is located or, if my address is outside the United States, the judicial district in which YouTube is located, and will accept service of process from the claimant.

Anthony Vaiana

56 Baker Ct

Buffalo, NY 14218 US

anonymousofficialyt@gmail.com

(716) 235-1631

No, Mr. Vaiana, we won’t see you in court. We’ll just expose you. We’re Anonymous. You should have expected us.

 

Anonymous believes NASA is poised to announce discovery of aliens (VIDEO)

That’s not going to happen.

Source: Anonymous believes NASA is poised to announce discovery of aliens (VIDEO) — RT Viral

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Published time: 24 Jun, 2017 18:19 Edited time: 4 Jul, 2017

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Hacking collective Anonymous claims US space agency NASA is about to announce the discovery of intelligent alien life.

“NASA says aliens are coming!” the group wrote on their website.

Anonymous’ claim is based on a number of recent NASA discoveries coupled with comments made by one of the agency’s spokesmen during a congressional hearing titled ‘Advances in the Search for Life,’ in April.

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Professor Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, told the hearing that NASA’s recent advances, such as the discovery of hydrogen in Saturn’s moon Enceladus and the Hubble team’s promising results from the oceans of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, are signs that we’re closer than ever to discovering evidence of alien life.

READ MORE: Europe’s Space Agency approves alien-hunt project

“Taking into account all of the different activities and missions that are specifically searching for evidence of alien life, we are on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented, discoveries in history,” said Zurbuchen during the hearing of the committee on American Science, Space and Technology.

In their video on the issue, Anonymous go on to cite several other alien-friendly comments made by astronauts and space exploration enthusiasts in the past, as well as various alien and UFO ‘sightings’ as evidence that “something is going on in the skies above”.

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Mainstream Media Freaks out over New Anonymous Video Predicting WWIII

Source: Mainstream Media Freaks out over New Anonymous Video Predicting WWIII

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Written by Alex Thomas

May 10, 2017

The hacktivist group known as Anonymous is almost impossible to nail to the wall. The computer whizzes have undergone a huge transformation since their humble beginnings, and today the beast that once brought major corporate and government websites to their knees seems to be content growling in the shadows. Former leader Christopher X is on the run in Canada, and the collective appears to have moved on to other interests. They did a lot of sabre-rattling during the 2016 election but came up with little ground-shaking information.

However, the mainstream media hasn’t forgotten that with the right group of hackers assembled for an “operation,” the group can still be dangerous, and when a YouTube channel using the Anonymous banner uploaded a video last week, people took notice.

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In the video, the group warned of an upcoming world war, declaring “all the signs of a looming war on the Korean peninsula are surfacing.”

The video continues:

“Unlike past world wars, although there will be ground troops, the battle is likely to be fierce, brutal and quick.”

What follows is a brief run-down of the escalating situation on the Korean peninsula; however, there is little new information other than the suggestion that Australia will play a pivotal role in the coming confrontation.

Mainstream news sites had a field day with the Anonymous video. Since it was the first time the group has spoken in a while, every outlet was eager to push a story. Pieces summarizing the video appeared on The Daily Mail, The New York Post, The Independent, and a number of other sites. The Courier Mail‘s Facebook page described the video as “chilling.” Even the right-leaning Drudge Report linked to the story.

Of course, there’s always a good chance that Anonymous has inside information–that they’ve hacked into the Pentagon and listened in on Trump and his generals talking war. However, if they have, they didn’t share it in this video. But, eager to get a few clicks, the mainstream media has sensationalized headlines and helped us remember that the Guy Fawkes mask is never far away — and neither is the mainstream’s penchant for pushing fear-based narratives about war.

Anonymous: World War 3 is on the Horizon (12 min)

Source: Anonymous: World War 3 is on the Horizon (2017) – Anonymous

For the last two months, Anonymous has been reporting on a possible global conflict involving World War III between the United States and its allies in West, and Russia and its allies in the East.

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Transcript:

Greetings World, We are Anonymous.

For the last two months, we have been consistently reporting on a possible global conflict, World War 3 between the United States and its allies in the West, and Russia and its allies in the East.

The dispute on the South China Sea has severely damaged the United States relations with the Peoples Republic of China. After the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled that China’s nine-dash-line claim in the South China Sea, and its land reclamation activities on islets are invalid and unlawful, the United States has been preparing to sail in the area under a so-called Freedom of Navigation principle.

This has angered the Chinese. In August, the Chinese Defense Minister, Chang Wanquan told his country’s citizens to prepare for, what he described as the peoples war at sea. Mr Wanquan was referring directly to the United States planned provocation under the pretext of Freedom of Navigation. China has since vowed to take all necessary measures available to protect its sovereignty over the South China Sea, revealing that it had the right to set up an air defense zone on the sea.

China has also since been positioning and testing its nuclear weapons, and planning military drills on its waters with Russia. Even the United States has confirmed that China has tested an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, which is capable of striking everywhere in the world within half an hour.

Moving away from the South China Sea, we arrive in Syria. It is an open secret that the civil war in Syria is a proxy war between the United States and Russia. Russia has even intervened physically on the request of the Syrian government. The United States, unable to get any invitation, has been openly and secretly arming many rebel groups in the country, with open plans to overthrow the Syrian government.

Of course, since Russia honored the invitation of the Syrian government last year, the war has been turning in favor of the Syrian government, which was falling before Russia’s intervention.

As we speak now, tension is mounting between the United States and Russia. Nerves are at their highest since the Cold War era. The United States, at the moment, is sitting on tenterhooks. Many officials in the president Obama administration are frustrated and confused regarding the situation in Syria.

The United States has announced that it has ended all contacts with Russia in Syria. This announcement by the United States comes as Russia, beginning on September. 22nd, intensified its military operations in Syria, with the intentions to capture the city of Aleppo for the Syrian government. Diplomatic efforts to put an end to the fighting in Syria, have collapsed.

As the Aleppo operation continues, Russia has given the United States a stern warning not to take any action against the Syrian government forces. In fact, there are many Russian jet fighters stationed in Syria, ready to shoot down any United States jet fighter that attempts to strike on the Syrian government forces.

These developments from Moscow are not going down easily with the United States. The United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, is said to have urged president Obama to intervene and face the consequences from Russia. He is said to have even favored a nuclear deterrent against Russia.

However, it appears that before Kerry could even make this suggestion to president Obama, the Russians had already gathered intelligence on the happenings within the White House. According to Zvezda, a Russian defense ministry Television channel, the country has started preparing its citizens for a possible nuclear war with the United States – because of the mounting tensions in Syria. Russia has since moved to deploy nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in its western-most region, Kaliningrad, which borders on NATO members of Poland and Lithuania.

Due to how the situation has become, some top officials at the United States defense headquarters have finally spoken. These Pentagon officials have admitted that World War 3 is imminent, and that its going to be deadly and fast. The military generals were speaking on a future-of-the-army panel in Washington.

“A conventional conflict in the near future will be extremely lethal and fast, and we will not own the stopwatch,” Major General William Hix said.

General Hix also stated that China and Russia’s armies are becoming increasingly technological, and that the Pentagon was getting ready for violence on the scale that the United States Army has not seen since Korea.

His comments were also echoed by lieutenant Gen Joseph Anderson and Chief of Staff, Gen Mark A. Milley, who described war between nation states as almost guaranteed.

The generals also said apart from the conventional battle, cyber battle, too, has become a reality against the United States, revealing that even smaller nations are launching it against the country.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.

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3. http://www.hngn.com/articles/220042/…

 

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Anonymous: “The Elimination Of George Soros Has Begun” Women’s March, Ukraine Conflict, and More

Source: Anonymous: “The Elimination Of George Soros Has Begun” Women’s March, Ukraine Conflict, & More – Collective Evolution

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Kalee Brown

January 26, 2017

  Anonymous recently published a video titled “The Elimination of George Soros Has Started,” and to be honest, I’m pretty excited about it. George Soros is a key member of the shadow government disguised as a philanthropic billionaire.

His donations seem heartfelt and meaningful, but if you look a little closer, you’ll realize that every donation he makes has an ulterior motive behind it, helping to secure his control over the political landscape and in turn profit from it.

George Soros’ History: How He Gained Political Power

George Soros’ current net worth is $23 billion. After selling his company, Soros Fund Management, in 2000, he’s been focusing on his “humanitarian efforts” through his philanthropic Open Society Foundations (OSF). Soros started making strategic political donations to essentially fund revolutions in different European countries and made a fortune amidst the chaos. He also made a killing off European forced migration and other colour revolutions.

In 2004, Soros started making heavier investments in the U.S., stating, “I deeply believe in the values of an open society. For the past 15 years I have been focusing my efforts abroad; now I am doing it in the United States.” Could “open society” be referring to a New World Order?

Soros has donated money to a number of “left” groups such as the Tides Foundation, Center for American Progress, and the Democracy Alliance to influence campaign finance laws. As a result, any democratic politicians that don’t support or express “progressive narrative” either receive cuts to their funding or are targeted by the media. This would be easy for Soros to influence, as he uses OSF to funnel money into Media Matters, which directly contributes to mainstream media outlets such as NBC and the New York Times. (source)

Soros also heavily funded many of the “Black Lives Matters” movements. Don’t get me wrong — I’m a strong advocate for equality and am happy to see people supporting one another. However, Soros’ investments in anti-discrimination movements seem to be politically driven, intent on stirring up conflict.

According to the most recent tax filings of OSF, Soros donated at least $33 million to support the activists in Ferguson in one year alone. According to the Washington Post, these donations ultimately resulted in a nationwide movement, social media campaigns, more protestors, and stirred crime in Missouri. Other Soros-funded groups were instructed to create “academic research and editorials to disseminate to the news media to keep the story alive.”

In addition to funding these movements, Soros is actually tied to the creation of the term “Black Lives Matter.” Kassandra Frederique, Policy Manager at the Drug Policy Alliance founded by Soros, works directly with Opal Tometi, who runs the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter. According to those same tax filings, Soros donated $100,000 to Black Alliance for Just Immigration in 2011.

The #BlackLivesMatters groups Soros donated to actually attacked Bernie Sanders and supported Hillary Clinton. This isn’t surprising, as Soros is good friends with the Clintons, taking on a senior role in the “Ready for Hillary” group and donating more than $15 million since 2013 to pro-Clinton groups and Super PACs.

Why Anonymous Is Targeting Soros

It’s clear that Soros could easily influence foreign policy wherever he has investments. In a 2014 CNN interview, Soros actually discusses his ties to the conflict in the Ukraine.

CNN host Fareed Zakaria asks Soros, “First on Ukraine, one of the things that many people recognized about you was that you during the revolutions of 1989 funded a lot of dissident activities, civil society groups in eastern Europe and Poland, the Czech Republic. Are you doing similar things in Ukraine?”Soros responds, “Well, I set up a foundation in Ukraine before Ukraine became independent of Russia. And the foundation has been functioning ever since and played an important part in events now.”

Just to be clear, the “events” he is referring to are the conflicts and war that occurred in the Ukrainian region of Donbass, which resulted in over 10,000 casualties, the displacement of over 1.4 million people, and even a plane crash that killed 298 passengers. This was good news for Soros though because he profited from the chaos yet again, including the acquisition of the state-owned energy monopoly, Naftogaz.

Anonymous discusses Soros’ link to the conflict in the Ukraine and how he was partially responsible for the Western-led coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine. Anonymous also points out the relationship former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden held with the natural gas company in the Ukraine. The good news, highlighted in the video, is that George Soros is losing friends in power with the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Check out the Anonymous video here:

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I often wonder how far did the FBI and the NSA infiltrate Anonymous. I suspect they are embedded deeply in it. But until further proof comes out I will still listen to their videos, as they utter all the appropriate words. Which is how I would do it.

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Anonymous Hits New York Stock Exchange, World Bank, The Fed, and Vatican — Total Media Blackout

The attempt to conceal the scope and breadth of the Anonymous operation from the public reveals the fear the elite harbor toward those they prey upon.

Source: Anonymous Hits New York Stock Exchange, World Bank, The Fed, and Vatican — Total Media Blackout

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Jay Syrmopoulos

May 26, 2016

Amidst a global media blackout of Anonymous’ ongoing worldwide attacks on the “corrupt banking cartels,” the hacking collective has now taken down some of the most prestigious institutions in global governance. OpIcarus has recently taken offline the World Bank, the New York Stock Exchange, five U.S. Federal Reserve Banks and the Vatican.

 

After announcing a global call to arms against the “corrupt global banking cartel,” the hacker collective, known as Anonymous, in conjunction with Ghost Squad Hackers, have taken over 30 central banks offline, including striking many targets at the heart of the Western imperialist empire.

An Anonymous press release explained the intention behind the operation:

The banks have been getting away with murder, fraud, conspiracy, war profiteering, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, have put millions of people out on the street without food or shelter and have successfully bought all our governments to help keep us silenced. We represent the voice of the voiceless. We are uniting to make a stand. The central banks which were attacked in recent days were attacked to remind people that the biggest threat we face to an open and free society is the banks. The bankers are the problem and #OpIcarus is the solution.

Operation Icarus was relaunched in conjunction with a video release announcing the beginning of a “30-day campaign against central bank sites across the world.” Since that time, the scope and magnitude of the attacks have increased exponentially, with Anonymous, Ghost Squad Hackers, a number of Sec groups and BannedOffline coordinating attacks — each focusing on separate financial institutions in an effort to maximize the number of targets hit.

In a previous interview with the Free Thought Project, an Anonymous representative clarified that the operation is in no way intended to impact individuals’ accounts held within the banks, explaining that OpIcarus is directed solely at the 1% perpetuating injustice:

We would just like to make it very clear that all targets of #OpIcarus have been Rothschild and BIS central owned banks. In fact most of the targets so far such as Guernsey, Cyprus, Panama, Jordan, British Virgin Isles, etc are in the top 10 places of tax havens for the elite. No on-line consumer accounts were harmed, no ATM’s were blocked and no personal client data was leaked. This has been a protest against the Central Banks and the 1% — no innocent or poor people were harmed.

The operation began with an initial attack on the Central Bank of Greece and was quickly followed up with a similar DDoS attack on the Central Bank of Cyprus. The hackers then targeted the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, the Dutch Central Bank, the Central Bank of Maldives, and Guernsey Financial Services Commission, according to the official @OpIcarus Twitter account, which has been taken offline — presumably by Twitter. The National Bank of Panama and the Central Bank of Kenya were also reportedly targeted a day later, according to hacking news publication HackRead.

Additionally, reported Ghost Squad Hacker, s1ege also tweeted about taking the Central Bank of Bosnia-Herzegovina offline and provided a screenshot to verify. The Twitter account @BannedOffline also reported the Central Bank of Mexico had succumbed to a DDoS attack by the hacking collective. The online hacktivist groups have continued to conduct a series of high-powered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which forced the website of Central Bank of Jordan, Central Bank of South Korea, Bank of Compagnie, Monegasque and the Central Bank of Montenegro offline.

Last Saturday, hackers conducted a series of 250 Gbps DDoS attacks on the Bank of France, Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, Central Bank of Tunisia, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and Philippine National Bank. That was followed up by an attack on  the Central Bank of Iraq.

The initial attacks were reported in global corporate media, such as Reuters, with subsequent strikes being reported by independent outlets such as the IBTimes and HackRead. The most recent press release from Anonymous summarized some of the attacks of the past week, as global media has curiously stopped reporting on the attacks altogether.

Greetings citizens of the world, we are OpIcarus a collective of citizens from around the globe working on exposing the 1% through the global banking systems. The elite are responsible for the corruption currently taking place in all governments, media, drug cartels, sex trafficking and money laundering. This last week we have had success in taking down the banking systems of the Bank of International Settlements, the World Bank, the Vatican, Morocco, Macedonia as well as the Central Bank of Venezuela. We stand with the people of Venezuela as they protest their corrupt government and all should expect our support through operations during these uprisings wherever they may arise. We are the people, We stand with the people, We support the people.

After announcing OpIcarus at the beginning of May, Anonymous released a list of institutions the collective plans to target, which is divided into four sections; websites associated with the U.S. Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), sites owned by the World Bank, and over 150 sites associated with national banks around the globe.

In just a few weeks, OpIcarus hackers have hit dozens of financial institutions listed in their online manifesto. Any questions about whether the hacktivists would be able to take out some of the more high-profile institutions seem to have been answered with the recent successful attacks on the World Bank, the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks, the Bank of France and the Bank of England — the central banks of the U.K. and France – and the Vatican.

https://www.facebook.com/AnonymousLegionForJustice/videos/1610825099235931/

The attack on the Bank of England was unique from the previous attacks, as it reportedly took down the internal email server.

While some have questioned the effectiveness of OpIcarus, senior director at Corero Network Security, Stephanie Weagle, told Info Security magazine:

While the impact on the individual targets of the DDoS attack campaign, ‘OpIcarus’ is unclear; obstructing or eliminating the availability of email servers is significant. In an online world any type of service outage is barely tolerated, especially in the banking industry where transactions and communications are often time-sensitive, and account security is of utmost importance.

In the world of high finance, time is money and every minute that a bank is forced offline it is losing potential revenue, which in turn hurts the bottom line of those that support the imperial war machine. Thus far, all targeted banks have refused to comment on the damage inflicted by the continuous cyber attacks.

Make no mistake that this operation has already been extremely effective — evolving and growing rapidly. The fact that global corporate media is refusing to report on these numerous high-profile attacks is indicative of the fear the 1% have of OpIcarus garnering massive public support. The attempt to conceal the scope and breadth of this operation from public purview reveals the visceral fear the elite harbor toward those they prey upon. It seems the only thing the ruling class can do now is attempt to conceal and suppress the information about what’s transpiring in hopes of keeping the populace ignorant.

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Jay Syrmopoulos is a geopolitical analyst, free thinker, researcher, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He is currently a graduate student at University of Denver pursuing a masters in Global Affairs. Jay’s work has been published on TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared, Ben Swann’s Truth in Media, Truth-Out, Raw Story, MintPress News, as well as many other sites. You can follow him on Twitter @sirmetropolis, on Facebook at Sir Metropolis and now on tsu.

Operation Icarus continues, banking systems taken down, Chase Bank ATMs not dispensing cash

To tell you the truth, I wonder about Anonymous claims, especially after the FBI infiltrated them, but they have a cool mask and say the right words. What do you think?

Chase Bank systems down, ATMs still not dispensing cash, customers worried

Source: Operation Icarus continues, banking systems taken down, Chase Bank ATMs not dispensing cash » Intellihub

(INTELLIHUB) — The hacktivist collective Anonymous vowed to wreak havoc on “banking and other financial institutions” this week and quite possibly may already have as it has been reported by hundreds that Chase Bank ATMs are still not dispensing cash at this time and haven’t since Friday night.

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Now countless customers have taken to social media to hammer the banking cartel, who still is not letting account holders access their funds.

 

Additionally it was reported that credit cards are “double charging.”

Moreover, customer service workers and some tellers were reported to have left their posts.

As of 8 a.m. EST ATMs are still reported to be down.

Additionally due to problems in Kenya, Chase Bank customers withdrew $1.6 billion K Sh over the past three days causing yet even more turmoil for the brand.

Fortune reported:

Members of the secretive collective on Tuesday successfully hacked the Bank of Greece, an unidentified official at the bank told Reuters. According to the official, the hackers were able to take down the Bank of Greece website, but it only “lasted for a few minutes.” The bank’s security systems prevented any data leaks, the official told Reuters.

Still, it was an ominous threat that could have an impact on banks across the world. Indeed, an apparent Anonymous member said in a video posted to YouTube that members of the hacking collective have decided to attack “central bank sites across the world.” While the video didn’t say which bank websites would be attacked, it was noted that the campaign would last 30 days.

Anonymous said in their latest video to “expect us.”

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OpIcarus: Anonymous hackers shut down Bank of England, call for ‘online revolution’

Now, if they could wipe out the world’s debt to these parasites…

Source: OpIcarus: Anonymous hackers shut down Bank of England, call for ‘online revolution’ — RT UK

RT UK

13 May, 2016

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Hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched cyber-attacks on major financial institutions across the world, including the Bank of England, in order to “start an online revolution.”

Hackers claimed to have taken down the Bank of England’s internal email server as part of an operation dubbed ‘OpIcarus.’

Mail.bankofengland.co.uk was down for part of Friday.

 Hackers affiliated with Anonymous also claimed to have shut down several international banks over the past four days, including the National Reserve Bank of Tonga, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the central banks of Sweden, Myanmar and Laos.

A hacktivist who goes by the name ‘S1ege’ claimed responsibility for the attacks, stating they want to “start an online revolution” to retaliate against the “elite banking cartels putting the world in a perpetual state of chaos.”

S1ege, who is thought to be a member of the Ghost Squad branch of Anonymous, said the focus of future cyber-attacks will be “NASDAQ, NYSE and Paypal.”

According to IBTimes, none of the institutions subject to attack have disclosed the extent of damage.

While some banks were taken down for only a few minutes, others were left offline for hours.

Over 1 Million Users Access Facebook Via Dark Web

Caveat: Nothing is ever as it seems. Personally, I believe that the FBI has already infiltrated Tor and Anonymous. Proceed with cautionary prudence.

Tor browser helps internet users to communicate on the internet via end to end encryption and helps the in hiding their identity with their full privacy.

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Source: Over 1 Million Users Access Facebook Via Dark Web AnonHQ

By legion

May 8th, 2016

Cyber Security

 

Every internet user wants to retain their privacy on the internet—especially when they are being watched by third parties. This month, Facebook observed an increase in the number of users using the social media platform via the Tor Network. The Tor Network is the only network that protects the user’s identity and does not watch their internet activities.

Tor Network is renown for its cyber criminals, activists and many others who want encrypted communications. Facebook introduced their social network inside the Tor Network, where users can communicate with end-to-end encryption and with full privacy. We can also use Facebook on the Tor Network via mobile sites, which were also introduced by Facebook.

You can log on to Facebook via the Tor Network (However, make sure you are logged on to the Tor Network to access Facebook’s Onion site.)

https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion

Mobile site: https://m.facebookcorewwwi.onion

You can also connect to Facebook via Tor through the Facebook android application by enabling the option or connections through Orbot.

Facebook added:

“People who choose to communicate over tor do so for a variety of reasons related to privacy, security and safety. As we’ve written previously, it’s important to us to provide methods for people to use our service securely particularly if they lack reliable methods to do so.”

How Do I Get Started With Tor Network?

In order to access the Dark Web, Onion Router or Tor Network, you must first download the Tor Browser.

Download Tor Browser

After downloading the Tor Browser, you should know how to safely access Tor sites via this browser, which you can read from the Tor Browser’s official site: https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.

What is Tor Browser?

Tor Browser helps internet users communicate on the internet via end-to-end encryption, helping to hide your identity.

“[Tor Browser] is pre-configured to protect your privacy and anonymity on the web as long as you’re browsing with the Tor Browser itself. Almost any other web browser configuration is likely to be unsafe to use with Tor.”

To access Tor Sites {.onion}  you need to be logged on to the Tor Browser; it isn’t available on the normal network. Tor Network is an underground world, which you will explore much more than the usual network. In this ‘underground’ world, famous hackers can often be found.

However, there are some pitfalls that can be noted, as stated by the Tor.org website. In addition, you will need to “change your [browsing] habits” to remain ‘safe’:

“Be smart and learn more. Understand what Tor does and does not offer. This list of pitfalls isn’t complete, and we need your help identifying and documenting all the issues.”

Some websites that are quite unexpected and interesting:

http://vfqnd6mieccqyiit.onion/ – UK Passports

http://en35tuzqmn4lofbk.onion/ – US Fake ID Store

More websites can be found via the link below:

http://pastebin.com/Vw5jNeK0

 

How to Access Tor Network Via Mobile | Smartphone ?

All you have to do is download the smartphone application ORBOT, which helps you access the Dark Web or Tor Network.

NY Times Reporter Found Dead After Exposing CIA’s Alleged Mind Control Program

Source: NY Times Reporter Found Dead After Exposing CIA’s Alleged Mind Control Program AnonHQ

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by hqanon

April 15th, 2016

A former New York Times reporter has been found murdered in the Dominican Republic following her exposure of MKUltra

Sarah Kershaw was found asphyxiated due to strangulation on Monday at her apartment in Sosua.

Project MKUltra, often referred to as the CIA’s mind control program, was the code name given to an illegal program of experiments on human subjects, designed and undertaken by the the CIA. Ms Kershaw published an article with the New York Times exploring this subject in 2008 with her article Sharing their Demons on the Web, writing:

 

“For people who regularly visit and write on message boards on the mind-control sites, the idea that others would describe the sites as promoting delusional and psychotic thinking is simply evidence of a cover-up of the truth.”

Abreureport.com reports:

In her article, Ms. Kershaw wrote that people who felt they were being targeted had found the support of Missouri Representative Jim Guest, who told the Times: “I’ve had enough calls, some from credible people — professors — being targeted by nonlethal weapons. They become psychologically affected by it. They have trouble sleeping at night.”

When Ms. Kershaw wrote her article, psychotronic warfare was not legal against US citizens, but that all changed with the National Defense Authorization Act 2013. In response to the legalization of psychotronic warfare, Abreu Report published an article, writing:

“Psychotronic weapons are those that act to take away a part of the information which is stored in a man’s brain. It is sent to a computer, which reworks it to the level needed for those who need to control the man, and the modified information is then reinserted into the brain. These weapons are used against the mind to induce hallucinations, sickness, mutations in human cells, ‘zombification,’ or even death. Included in the arsenal are VHF generators, X-rays, ultrasound, and radio waves.”

Is it possible that Ms. Kershaw stumbled upon some new information that made her dangerous? Considering the speed at which the capabilities of psychotronic weapons has improved, the possibility is extremely high.

Via yournewswire

Canadian Woman Faces Up To 10 Years In Prison For Giving Pigs Water To Drink [Video]

A court in Canada has charged a woman with criminal mischief including the interference with the use, enjoyment of and operation of property, in a preliminary hearing after she gave water to pigs heading to the slaughterhouse to drink on a hot summer day in …

Source: Canadian Woman Faces Up To 10 Years In Prison For Giving Pigs Water To Drink [Video] AnonHQ

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by Amando Flavio

December 4th, 2015

A court in Canada has charged a woman with criminal mischief including the interference with the use, enjoyment of and operation of property, in a preliminary hearing after she gave water to pigs heading to the slaughterhouse to drink on a hot summer day in June 2015.

The woman, Anita Krajnc is a known animal rights activist. She has been campaigning against cruel treatment of animals across Canada. She founded the organization, Toronto Pig Save to bear witness to the suffering of animals in transport and at slaughterhouses in Canada.

If Anita is found guilty by the court, she could face a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, according to court documents seen by local journalists.

According to the account of the story, the pigs were in a truck heading for the slaughterhouse in Toronto. The driver of the truck stopped to have a rest. Anita then rushed to the truck to give the pigs the water. Her actions reportedly led to a brawl with the driver of the truck.

A Recorded video of the incident which was later posted on Social Media showed Anita shouting at the driver: “Jesus said, ‘If they are thirsty, give them water.’” The driver then responded: “You know what? These are not humans, you dumb frickin’ broad”. The driver threatened to call 911.  The two appeared to be filming each other. The driver used his cell phone to record Anita. Anita too is seen holding a camera and the water.

The owner of the pigs, Eric Van Boekel later filed a police complaint the day after the incident. He claimed his pigs were treated in accordance with all national standards and regulations.

But Anita said Canada is behind the rest of the Western world when it comes to animal transportation regulations. She claimed animals are treated very cruelly before being killed in the country.

After the pre-trial procedure of the case, Anita told reporters that she did not do anything wrong, and that she will not allow the case to deter her from her activism.

 

 

She was quoted as saying “Everyone knows that compassion is not a crime. In fact, I did nothing wrong when I gave water to thirsty pigs; many of you have given water to thirsty pigs, and we’ll continue to do that”. The next trial is set for December 15. The RT English News reports that the court proper will hear the case no earlier than August 2016. Anita’s organization, Toronto Pig Save also issued a press release condemning the nature of Canada’s transportation system for animals. “Canada has the worst transportation regulations in the Western World, worse than Australia, New Zealand, the European Union and the United States”, the organization said.  

 

Social media users have started several online petitions to support Anita. On Twitter, the hashtag is #StandWithAnita. Many have twitted to the new Prime Minister of the country, Justin Trudeau to intervene in freeing Anita. PM Trudeau has not yet responded to the petition.

Another online petition we have seen has over 131,000 people signing. It is targeting the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General in Milton Courthouse where the case is being heard.

The petitioners wrote “Compassion is NOT criminal! Why do inmates on death row get a last meal, but innocent pigs are denied water? Why are praised for helping thirsty dogs and cats, but charged as criminals for helping pigs?”.

We are closely following the case. We will report on the latest if there is a new development. Stay with us. Expect us.