Cyber Sabotage and the Key Bridge Collapse By Cliff Kincaid On April 16, the Washington Post reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is conducting a criminal investigation into the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Three weeks earlier, the same day of the “accident,” Bill DelBagno, the FBI Special Agent in charge of the Baltimore Field Office, had categorically claimed there was “no specific or credible information to suggest that there are ties to terrorism.” The other explanation is cyber sabotage, a form of warfare already used by Russia, China, and Iran against U.S. water facilities. Rather than acknowledge the obvious, the Biden Administration narrative is developing, as reflected in the “news” coverage, that there were “electrical issues” or other “deficiencies” with the ship that somehow caused it to go off-course and strike the bridge, and that the crew was at fault. I smell a rat. It is like the mysterious fuel tank explosion that supposedly caused TWA 800 to crash off Long Island in 1996, killing 230 people. As a long-time media critic who has witnessed the paper’s increasingly strange behavior under current owner Jeff Bezos, I believe the Post story about a “criminal investigation” was designed to divert the attention of the public away from a state of war with Iran that now exists and which threatens to escalate dramatically and sink Biden’s re-election effort. Anyone with a casual familiarity with the Post understands that this Washington, D.C.-based paper is a mouthpiece for the U.S. intelligence community and that in this case it wants the public to believe that “accidents happen,” rather than acts of war that were not detected or prevented by the FBI, CIA, and NSA. Playing the tune offered by the Intelligence Community, which still can’t figure out that the China virus came from a Communist Chinese lab, the media and their “fact-checkers” are unanimous that the collapse was not the result of terrorism and that the “authorities” can be trusted to inform us of the ultimate truth when they’re good and ready. The “criminal investigation” by the FBI is supposed to convince us that the probe will be thorough before a member of the crew is likely blamed. When a missile or missiles hit TWA 800, the FBI went through the motions of an investigation before calling upon the CIA to do a cartoon video to discredit the eyewitnesses to a missile attack. The joint FBI/CIA cover-up story then became that the fireball in the sky was the result of a fuel tank mysteriously exploding through a mechanical malfunction of some kind and the plane continuing to climb after it was broken in half by the missile. It was physically impossible. Nevertheless, the media accepted the cover story, as then-President Clinton coasted to re-election. In the same way, the Biden team doesn’t want a terrorist attack on American soil as he campaigns for another term and wars continue to engulf Europe and the Middle East. Various chronologies have been offered about what went wrong, in terms of the cargo ship going dark seconds before it crashed into the bridge. But these chronologies ignore the context of the war expanding in the Middle East, as Israel contemplates military retaliation against Iran. In my special report on the bridge collapse, I argue that the evidence suggests retaliation by Iran during a war-time situation through cyber warfare. According to WBAL, a Baltimore television station, the official chronology of the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse shows the cargo ship at 1:25 a.m. on March 26 completely dark without any lights. At around 1:26 a.m., the ship’s power appeared to come back on. Around 1:27 a.m., vehicles could be seen going across the bridge span just before the ship crashed into the bridge at 1:28 a.m. Here is the chronology that really matters:
This is the result of Biden’s undeclared war on Iran that has now been pulled back, in the wake of the Iranian attack on Israel (backed by Russia) and the promise by the Jewish state to retaliate. Biden’s people clearly don’t want this war to “get out of hand,” especially when Russia is backing Iran and a U.S.-Russia military confrontation could be the result. On the “Just Security” website, two analysts sympathetic to the Biden Administration noted that the U.S. cyber-attack on the Iranian ship in February could have been “a simple jamming operation that interfered with transmission of information” or “another type of cyber operation” which could potentially explain why the Iran-backed Houthis’ mistakenly fired a missile on a cargo ship bound for Iran rather than an American vessel. In other words, these cyber-attacks are so effective that they can affect the operations of ships and missile guidance systems. The authors added, “U.S. and Iranian redlines in cyberspace are unclear, and even non-lethal cyber-attacks may have unintended consequences.” As a veteran observer of corrupt federal agencies in action, such as in the TWA matter, I dispute the notion that the federal government will figure out what happened and tell us the truth. A cover-up is underway, in the same way we saw various federal agencies conclude that a mysterious fuel tank explosion brought down TWA 800 in 1996 in the face of hundreds of witnesses who saw a missile or missiles hit the plane. These agencies include the FBI, CIA, and the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board). It’s significant that on February 21, only five weeks before the bridge collapse, the feds issued a “U.S. Maritime Advisory on Worldwide Foreign Adversarial Technological, Physical, and Cyber Influence,” alerting “maritime stakeholders of potential vulnerabilities to maritime port equipment, networks, operating systems, software, and infrastructure.” Insurance companies are interesting in finding out what really happened, since they are on the hook for financial damages, with one firm declaring that “one question that is still in the air is whether there was any cyber-attack behind this incident” and declaring the investigation in their view “is still ongoing…” While the president of the Westwood Insurance Group accepts the “official verdict,” he nonetheless says that “some in the security business” are wondering, “Just how difficult would it be for hackers to create a catastrophe like this?” He says the answer is “sobering” and quotes security experts as saying that ships are easy to hack, track, send off course and even sink. He links to a 2018 article that begins this way: “Modern container ships already face a number of serious perils at sea. Now new research from Pen Test Partners shows just how vulnerable these ships are to new dangers from hacking–including being steered off course and sunk–thanks to their use of always-on satellite communications and general lax security practices on board.” The article cites Pen Test Partners (PTP), a security services firm, which “demonstrated a number of methods for hacking into the satcom systems of ships, which can allow bad actors access to shipboard systems and wreak potential havoc for the vessels and the shipping industry.” PTP says it has been providing “cyber security expertise” to a huge variety of industries and businesses since 2010 and is paid to hack and test security systems. While the author of one PTP article believes it is “incredibly unlikely” that someone could take full remote control of a container ship, it is “entirely viable” that an attacker could impact the vessel’s power management system or Integrated Alarm and Monitoring System, “leading to the vessel blacking out and the associated loss of steering and propulsion.” This appears to be the case with the Key bridge collapse.
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Winning or Losing Two Wars at Once By Cliff Kincaid One way to win the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East is to change the regime in Moscow and put former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin on trial for communist crimes against humanity. But the Joe Biden Administration doesn’t have the will to win. Israel does, but it has been put in an American straitjacket. Moscow is waging a direct war on Ukraine and is waging a war on Israel through Iran, under KGB control since the 1979 Iranian revolution installed Ruhollah Khomeini as Ayatollah. Even if Israel hits Iran, it will miss the mark. By the same token, much of the commentary in the media about whether Israel will retaliate misses the point. The invasion of Ukraine was made in Moscow, and the invasion of Israel was also planned there. Anybody who disputes this fact doesn’t understand the reality of Soviet/Russian communism and the work of the KGB in backing and even controlling Islamic and “Palestinian” organzations. The Iranian attack on Israel was arranged and paid for in Moscow, the same sponsor of the regime’s nuclear weapons program. Iran has been under KGB control since the Iranian revolution of 1979, made possible by another weak Democratic president, Jimmy Carter. As our report on the KGB-Muslim alliance demonstrates, “What may not be known is that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was trained at the KGB’s Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.” Khamenei, who has led the Islamic regime for more than 30 years, was the designated successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He died in 1989. Khomeini was also a KGB agent, as noted by a former Polish espionage chief, Michael Goleniewski, who defected to the West. The news organization UPI reported these charges at the time but they were ignored by the Big Media such as the Washington Post and New York Times. I personally reported this information back in 1979 in a journal known as the Washington Weekly. Khamenei was not only a graduate of Patrice Lumumba University but maintained “close ties to the Palestine Liberation Organization and has a record of supporting Iranian cooperation with the Soviet bloc and radical Third World states against the West,” journalist Smith Hempstone reported at the time. Russia Today (RT) television, a Moscow-funded propaganda network, had itself mentioned Khamenei’s graduation from Patrice Lumumba University in a story about the anniversary of the institution, now referred to as the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, without of course noting its KGB connection. As I have argued in the past, the invasion of Israel on October 7 demonstrated the folly of those self-styled “conservatives” who oppose aid to Ukraine. Whether they realize it or not, they are making sure Ukraine gets taken over by many of the same elements invading Israel, all of them backed by Russia. Yet, some of them support Israel while calling for aid to Ukraine to be terminated. This position, articulated by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, makes no sense. If Ukraine falls, NATO-member Poland gets invaded by Russia, and millions of Europeans flood into the United States. Then we have another refugee problem. Faced with this nonsensical view among some in the MAGA movement, Speaker Mike Johnson must figure out some way to ensure American aid to Ukraine and Israel, while doing so in the context of understanding that the Biden Administration doesn’t want either country to win its wars against Russia. As we can see, brain dead Joe sent the Ukrainians into battle, failing to provide the weapons they needed for victory. It has become Biden's Bay of Pigs. Israel, on the other hand, has a nuclear arsenal that it won’t give up. Plus, it gets weapons from the United States, at least for the time being. Former President Trump is correct that the wars would not have occurred had he been in the White House. That is just a matter of fact. Unfortunately, that currently leaves Ukraine and Israel involved in quagmires that amount to no-win wars. The only thing these countries can do is attempt to hold on until Trump wins a second term and comes to power. Israel is armed and ready for a military confrontation with Iran. But it can’t go after Iran’s sponsors in Moscow, which also started the Palestinian “liberation” movement, without U.S. help. Biden won’t even help Israel strike Iran, let alone Moscow. Equally significant, Biden is pressing for another terrorist state to be established next to Israel. The problem for Ukraine is it believed a previous Democrat president, Bill Clinton, who arranged for the former Soviet republic’s nuclear weapons to be transferred to Moscow, in exchange for a Russian guarantee to respect Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity. That 1994 deal was known as the Budapest Memorandum. A subsequent deal arranged by then-Senator Barack Hussein Obama and Senator Dick Lugar urged the destruction on other arms maintained by Ukraine, including 15,000 tons of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and light weapons, and 1,000 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS). These maneuvers left Ukraine almost completely defenseless when Russia invaded for the first time in 2014, when Obama was president. Then, under Biden, Russia invaded again. It is significant that these advances by Russia have been made under Democrat presidents. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is aware that Russian philosopher and “Putin brain” Alexander Dugin has explained that a “strategic alliance” exists between Iran and Russia, and that Russia supports Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. He regards the Jewish state as a “capitalist” state and “ally of American imperialism” and favors the complete destruction of Ukraine as an independent nation. Dugin’s genocidal impulses are documented in our 2014 book, Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire. Our book Red Jihad, published back in 2016, cited substantial evidence of Russian involvement with the Jihadists targeting Europe, the United States, and Israel. Everything we feared would happen has come to pass. The worst is yet to come.
The Truth About Abortion
60 million dead through abortion in America; one billion dead worldwide. Holocaust? Genocide? There have been MORE abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned. My new column, Make Sodom and Gomorrah Great Again, looks at the dangerous times we are in. I hate to bring you bad news, but former President Trump made a very bad decision on abortion, and it probably will sink his campaign. He will lose millions of conservative votes. In my view, you can’t flip-flop on the most important moral issue of our time. To make matters worse, his wife (a Catholic) is raising money for the gay rights lobby. I also posted the facts about the Arizona pro-life law. On Fox, Greg Gutfeld says abortion is an “acceptable evil” in America. I disagree. I will continue to defend Trump against the weaponization of the “justice” system. But the system is still rigged against the unborn, and Trump says he’s okay with that. He thinks America can live half slave, half free. Wrong. What Trump doesn’t grasp is that people can refuse to vote or they can vote for a third party, such as the Constitution Party, meeting in two weeks. Here is their position: “We affirm the God-given legal personhood of all human beings from fertilization to natural death, without exception. The first duty of the law is to protect innocent life, created in the image of God. No level of civil government may legalize or fund the taking of life without justification. Legalizing the termination of innocent life of the born or unborn, whether by abortion, infanticide, euthanasia or suicide, is a direct violation of their unalienable right to life. As to matters of rape and incest, we empathize with those abused and assert the need to provide immediate protection and care in a safe environment. Instead of the further violence of abortion, the mother and the child should be provided with compassionate care. We find it unconscionable to take the life of an innocent child for the crimes of his father.” In 1990, testifying against David Souter for the Supreme Court, Howard Phillips, chairman of The Conservative Caucus and founder of the Constitution Party, said: The Declaration of Independence asserted that "We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and that, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The Declaration rested on the assumption that there exist "the laws of nature and of nature's God." Is the unborn child a human person entitled to the protections pledged to each of us by the founders of our nation? He went on: If an unborn child is not human, I would ask Justice Stevens, "What is he?" "What is she?" In the Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court indicated that, if the unborn child is a person, the state could not allow abortion even to save the life of the mother. In fact, in the majority opinion deciding Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court said that "if the personhood of the unborn child is established, the pro-abortion case 'collapses', for the fetus's right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the Fourteenth Amendment." As Notre Dame law Professor Charles Rice has pointed out, "This is so, because the common law does not permit a person to kill an innocent non-aggressor, even to save his own life." Note: The Fourteenth Amendment declares in part that “…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Sodom and Gomorrah afire by Jacob de Wet II, 1680 (public domain) Make Sodom and Gomorrah Great Again By Cliff Kincaid Republicans are now acting like Democrats as they sacrifice the lives of the innocent unborn in a desperate appeal for votes from feminist soccer moms who regard a “fetus” as an inconvenience. Meanwhile, Melania Trump is raising money for the “gay” Republican group, the Log Cabin Republicans, in an event scheduled for Trump’s home Mar-a-Lago. “Make America Great Again” is becoming a Republican recipe for continued moral decline and destruction. Trump’s endorsement of the state’s rights approach to abortion means more abortions, on top of the 60 million that have already occurred. Indeed, since the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade abortion-on-demand decision, abortions have actually gone up, according to a report from the Society of Family Planning. We are told by the feminists that these were “unplanned” or “unwanted” pregnancies but abortion has become a rubber stamp for sexual promiscuity by terminating the unborn human life that results. Indeed, for these people, abortion is birth control, which is what Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, an early supporter of “abortion rights,” intended. He wanted women to be sexually available for men. Hence, when they got pregnant, the babies had to be aborted. Promoting Gay Rights In the matter of the gay “lifestyle,” also supported by Hefner, former President Trump and his wife are active cheerleaders. In December of 2022, former President Trump had himself hosted an event in honor of the Log Cabin Republicans’ 45th anniversary, featuring such “Republican notables” as former Ambassador Ric Grenell, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus, and former GOP gubernatorial candidate from Arizona (and now Senate candidate) Kari Lake. “We are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard,” said Trump. “With the help of many of the people here tonight in recent years, our movement has taken incredible strides, the strides you’ve made here is incredible.” Conservatives are getting the message that their votes are being taken for granted. Indeed, as noted by Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth, “Perhaps it's time for Trump to read the Bible rather than merely sell it. There he would find God's clear truth revealed against homosexual practice as sexual sin.” “It appears Donald Trump is escalating his pro-homosexual policies in advance of a possible second term,” LaBarbera went on to say. “By having his wife (a Catholic) host a fundraiser for a gay activist group at Mar-a-Lago, Trump is coming out of the closet as a social liberal, after selling himself previously as a conservative.” Trump’s betrayal on the pro-life issue consists of defending extreme pro-abortion laws on the state level, in the name of state’s rights, and accepting abortion on the national level in cases of rape, incest and life of the mother. The life and health of the mother always must be protected and defended. But human beings conceived in the rare cases of rape and incest are still innocent of any crime. To kill them for the sins of their father is a perversion of the justice system. It constitutes the weaponization of the justice system against the most innocent and vulnerable. Prosecuting Abortionists On top of President Trump’s reversal, from pro-life during his first term to pro-abortion as he seeks a second term, Trump and other Republicans are decrying an Arizona decision that a pro-life law on the books is still valid. The law stated, “A person who provides, supplies or administers to a pregnant woman, or procures such woman to take any medicine, drugs or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman, unless it is necessary to save her life, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than two years nor more than five years.” The term “procure a miscarriage” means abortion. It is being denounced as “archaic” but is a perfectly defensible effort to save the lives of the innocent unborn by holding abortionists accountable under the law. The pro-life group Alliance Defending Freedom argued for the Arizona law in court. Republicans like Trump and Kari Lake who said they favored a state’s right approach to abortion now say they don’t want this particular state law. Clearly, they are scared to death of offending the feminists and taking on abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood. Regarding Melania Trump raising money for the Log Cabin Republicans, we have come a long way from the days when conservative icon Howard Phillips referred to gays as “anal sex practitioners,” a reference to how male homosexuals have sex. LaBarbera notes that the Log Cabin Republicans is a gay activist group that supports homosexual “marriage” and other radical LGBTQ agenda items. Cultivating the “gay rights” movement runs counter to President Reagan’s winning strategy of having a “three-legged” stool of political support – fiscal/economic, foreign policy, and Christan/social conservatives. Reagan was elected for two terms. With some self-described MAGA spokespeople already in favor of sacrificing Ukraine to Vladimir Putin’s Russia, jeopardizing the “peace through strength” element of the Republican coalition, the drift to the left on abortion and gay rights runs the risk of alienating conservatives and Christians. We are seeing the same drift within major organs of the conservative media. On Fox, Greg Gutfeld declared that “abortion, whether you like it or not -- and I'm pro-life -- it's become an acceptable evil.” He advocated taking abortion “off the table,” which he claimed would enable Republicans to win votes and “be in power forever.” But that “logic” assumes that social conservatives will continue to vote for the Republicans if their views are disregarded. Perhaps they will decide not to vote. At Newsmax, supposedly a conservative alternative to Fox, a top officer of the firm is Richard Grenell, a former Trump national security official who wants to use the power of the federal government to spread homosexuality to Christian and Muslim lands, a prescription for more conflict and wars. Since he is still close to Trump, it can be expected he will get another top position in a second Trump administration. Homosexual Imperialism The former Acting Director of National Intelligence under Trump, Grenell’s interview on the topic of Gay Pride 2020 is still featured on the intelligence agency website, where he described working with the Harvey Milk Foundation to launch global campaigns to decriminalize homosexual activity. This started under Trump. Before he went to Newsmax, Grenell was also Trump's U.S. Ambassador to Germany and went to the United Nations to promote what he called a global initiative to force all U.N. members to approve homosexual conduct. He was joined in this demand by Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Kelly Craft, who lectured the 69 countries which have laws making homosexuality illegal. She told them that “human dignity” requires that every country on the face of the earth embrace the practice of homosexuality. It appears to be a case of Grenell hijacking U.S. foreign policy for the benefit of his friends in gay groups such as the Log Cabin Republicans. A foreign affairs advisor to Mitt Romney during his 2012 presidential campaign, Grenell has a same-sex partner and claims to be a Christian. Then, suddenly, he became a Trump supporter in 2016 and rose through the ranks. Big money has been driving the push in the GOP to accept and approve homosexual conduct, a major source of the STD epidemic infecting America. Years ago I wrote a major report on the homosexual infiltration of the Republican Party, driven in large part by financial hedge funds. It got no attention from Fox News, which has been part of the homosexual lobby for decades, having poured tens of thousands of dollars into the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. Peter LaBarbera’s report “Unfair, Unbalanced and Afraid,” on Fox selling out to the gay lobby, documents this trend. Hence, while Republicans and some conservatives publicly denounce DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), they practice it in their politics and hiring policies. “Sadly,” said Peter LaBarbera, “Trump has steered the GOP away from its socially conservative platform, even as he counts on the support of evangelicals and traditional Catholics to win in November. Far from Making America Great Again, Trump is contributing to our nation's moral and spiritual decline.” Under these circumstances, it can be argued, America can’t and won’t be great again. Unless Trump reverses course, millions of Americans from his MAGA base will be alienated and dispirited and may not turn out to vote for him.
The Truth About the Arizona Pro-Life Law Editor’s note: the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) defended the law in court. These are excerpts from their news releases about the case: What does Arizona’s pre-Roe law say? Arizona’s law protects unborn children from the moment of conception—a position that has been bolstered by 50 years of scientific research since Roe v. Wade was decided. Contrary to the so-called “viability” rules adopted in previous court cases, research shows that unborn babies’ hearts begin to beat at just six weeks—months before they can survive outside the womb. At eight weeks, babies have visible fingers and toes. At ten weeks, their fingerprints begin to develop, further affirming their unique personhood. Arizona’s law forbids all people, including physicians, from performing an abortion except to save a mother’s life. The law is designed to protect unborn children, and it is also crafted to protect women from the heightened risk of illness and physical or mental trauma that can come with elective abortions. Why is it important to defend this law? First, Arizonans have chosen to protect life through their elected representatives for decades. The state’s pre-Roe law was initially codified as a territorial law in 1901, and it was reenacted in 1977. In September 2022, an Arizona judge again affirmed the law and ruled that it could take effect. Arizona also passed another law protecting life after 15 weeks, and that law specifically stated that it did not repeal the pre-Roe law at issue in this case. Despite all this, Planned Parenthood is attempting to strike down the law. Dr. Hazelrigg and Dennis McGrane understand the importance of protecting unborn children and upholding Arizona’s duly elected laws, which is why they chose to intervene in this case. Second, elective abortions not only kill unborn children but also put women in danger. Women who undergo elective abortions suffer a heightened risk of death, illness, and psychological trauma. Abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood rely on performing abortions to make a profit. They lie to women about abortion and its consequences and pressure women into thinking that abortion is their only option. Arizona’s law and others like it around the country will ensure that women actually receive the care and support they need. “Life is a human right, and today’s decision allows the state to respect that right and fully protect life again—just as the legislature intended,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jake Warner, who argued before the court. “Life begins at conception. At just six weeks, unborn babies’ hearts begin to beat. At eight weeks, they have fingers and toes. And at 10 weeks, their unique fingerprints begin to form. Arizona’s pro-life law has protected unborn children for over 100 years, and the people of Arizona, through their elected representatives, have repeatedly affirmed that law, including as recently as 2022. We celebrate the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision that allows the state’s pro-life law to again protect the lives of countless, innocent unborn children.” Trump Bails on Protecting the Right to Life By Cliff Kincaid President Trump’s “state’s rights” approach to abortion is the same recipe for disaster that brought us the Civil War. The nation must be free, and that begins with human beings from the moment of conception. His new position solves nothing, and makes his attempt to get back into the White House much harder. Trump’s position will not mollify the ardent feminists who believe abortion is a sacrament to their pagan deities. In fact, it has become a form of child sacrifice common during the pagan era of Moloch worship. The former president has been led astray, so much so that it jeopardizes his effort to evict the squatter, Joe Biden, from the White House. It was a critical miscalculation by advisers who think you can equivocate on the greatest moral issue of our time. His new position undermines his credibility, perhaps fatally. Trump’s new position will sap the strength from those of his supporters who had appreciated his right to life stand during his first term, The Supreme Court gave us the state’s rights approach to abortion, and Trump now says that’s fine with him. He’s against any effort to make the right to life into a federally-protected right. In short, he’s playing politics with the most important issue of our time. The advisers behind this fateful decision are worse than the Swamp that Trump wants to drain. Abortion is the leading cause of death in the world today. We are not given that information in those terms because the media treat the unborn human being as a non-person. They prefer the term “reproductive health care” as a euphemism for killing the unborn and they want our tax dollars to carry out the procedure. Trump should learn something from the new Argentinian President Javier Milei, who said, “Philosophically speaking, I am in favor of the right to life. Beyond that, there is a scientific justification to be had. It’s the fact that life begins at conception, it’s at that very instant that a new being begins to evolve with its own unique DNA,” Milei said. “Beyond that, there is a matter of mathematics,” he explained. “Life is a continuum with two quantum leaps: birth and death. Any interruption in the interim is murder.” House Speaker Mike Johnson was honest enough to have written an op-ed in 2005 referring to abortion as “a holocaust.” How else is an objective observer supposed to describe the murder of tens of millions of unborn innocent babies? Johnson comments, “The Left openly celebrates the extinguishing of innocent and beautiful life through the evil of abortion.” If the issue is framed in terms of science, morality, and the war on the unborn, Republicans have a chance to win the argument. Trump did not choose that path. We are inundated with public service announcements for animal rights groups with pictures of starving dogs in need of a rescue. Pet lovers respond with their donations, sometimes in exchange for a T-shirt. But images or pictures of aborted babies are taboo. One heroic pro-life Democrat, Terrisa Bukovinac, is running for president to stop “abortion extremism” in the Democratic Party and to show “the victims of abortion to the American people…” Her campaign is running 30-second TV ads showing in gruesome detail the remains of five babies killed by late-term abortion. Bukovinac says she captured the footage when she recovered the remains last year outside an abortion business in Washington D.C. “These are the faces of a genocide,” she says. And one of the faces behind the carnage is “genocide Joe,” a so-called “Catholic” who wants to make the “right” to abortion into a constitutional right. But that’s what the Supreme Court overruled in the Dobbs decision. Hence, sticking to a state’s rights approach does not guarantee the right to life of the innocent unborn. Incredibly, the very liberal Pope has just come down on the side of the right to life, reaffirming the heinous nature of abortion in the Vatican Declaration on Human Dignity, Dignitas Infinita. The media have emphasized his opposition to transgenderism, which is a fact, but the document is also truthful and forthright on the issue of abortion. This is the position that Trump should have taken. It would have been a winner with traditional Catholics and many other conservative Christians. “In addressing some of the many grave violations of human dignity today,” the document declares, “we can draw upon the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, which emphasized that ‘all offenses against life itself, such as murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, and willful suicide’ must be recognized as contrary to human dignity.” The section on abortion declares in part that “…no word has the power to change the reality of things: procured abortion is the deliberate and direct killing, by whatever means it is carried out, of a human being in the initial phase of his or her existence, extending from conception to birth.” (italics in the original). It goes on to say that unborn children are, thus, “the most defenseless and innocent among us. Nowadays, efforts are made to deny them their human dignity and to do with them whatever one pleases, taking their lives and passing laws preventing anyone from standing in the way of this.” The document proclaims that it must, therefore, be stated with all force and clarity, even in our time, that “this defense of unborn life is closely linked to the defense of each and every other human right,” adding, “It involves the conviction that a human being is always sacred and inviolable, in any situation and at every stage of development. Human beings are ends in themselves and never a means of resolving other problems.” What Trump doesn’t understand is what led Whittaker Chambers to break with the Communist Party. “Abortion was a commonplace of party life,” he wrote in his classic 1952 work Witness. “There were Communist doctors who rendered that service for a small fee. Communists who were more choosy knew liberal doctors who would render the same service for a larger fee. Abortion, which now fills me with physical horror, I then regarded, like all Communists, as a mere physical manipulation.” It was all physical because, in the communist view, there was nothing spiritual. Chambers was better known as the former Communist who would expose top State Department official and United Nations founder Alger Hiss as a Communist agent. But Witness was about an even greater struggle between the forces of darkness and light, of which communism versus freedom was just one chapter. It’s terrible news that Trump has failed to understand this element of the great struggle we find ourselves in. He may have just lost the election to Genocide Joe.
The Keystone Cops Are Running America By Cliff Kincaid There is a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza is the scream heard around the world from those trying to create a second Holocaust for the people of Israel. This “humanitarian catastrophe” could have been avoided if Hamas had not launched terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7 and if the terrorist group had surrendered in the face of Israeli retaliation. The terrorists want civilians to suffer. That is why they are a terrorist group dedicated to Israel’s destruction. Simply put, the people who brought Hamas to power are suffering the consequences, in the same way the Germans bore the brunt of Hitler’s defeat in World War II. Tragically, some in Israel have grown soft in the face of the terror, agitating for the removal of the one Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who understands the need for total victory. Softer yet, in the name of solving the crisis, is President Joe Biden, exposed as someone who, for the sake of votes in November, is willing to sacrifice the existence of the state of Israel in exchange for saving Hamas and getting “humanitarian aid” into the hands of those who brought Hamas to power. If this is another no-win war, the kind that America has been waging since World War II, Israel will face the emergence of another “Palestinian state” dedicated to its destruction. But Netanyahu is smart, as evidenced by the precise military strike on the Iranian generals waging war on Israel from the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria. That headquarters is no more. I usually don’t take the anti-American website, Global Clearinghouse, seriously. But its headline, “Israel and US Are at War with Iran, Russia and China,” is correct. In truth, Biden is waging a war on Iran, through his tepid support for Israel, but Iran has been striking back hard with Russian and Chinese support. That is the meaning of the Key bridge collapse. I stand by my reporting on the weak or even non-existent arguments for an “accidental” event. The Baltimore Sun reports that the collapse of the Key Bridge could rival or beat the maritime industry’s largest-ever financial loss, with an estimated cost of $1 billion or more. You can be sure that China Joe won’t demand retaliation against the perpetrators. He was on the phone yesterday with the Chinese dictator and has never demanded compensation for the more than one million Americans killed by the China virus. Our intelligence agencies still can’t figure out where the virus came from, and whether it was deliberate or accidental. They don’t understand the communist mind of total war. But the FBI already somehow knows that the cargo ship going off course and hitting the Key bridge was just an accident. These people are worse than the Keystone cops. We laugh at the Keystone cops. But the FBI is not a laughing matter. Anybody with a brain understands that ruling out terrorism in the bridge collapse, only a few hours after the fact, makes no sense. The politicians assembled at the news conference after the event were covering their asses and trying to mislead the American people. They had no time to investigate. Instead, they spent their face time congratulating one another for the "quick response.” Now we are seeing endless stories about how Maryland’s young black governor Wes Moore is facing a test over his leadership. How much money can he spend? And how fast? Biden has already said the taxpayers would foot the bill for reconstruction. Like Israel, we are at war. What the FBI and the politicians didn’t tell you was that warnings have been accumulating for the past several months about cyber warfare and other threats against American ports. On February 21, just about one month before the Baltimore bridge collapse, the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration issued a threat warning and defined it in these terms: “Foreign Adversarial Technological, Physical, and Cyber Influence.” It was directed to maritime industry stakeholders, “including vessel owners/operators, shippers, and port operators exposed to these risks” and advised that they “should apply cybersecurity best practices for Access Control (identity and access management), vulnerability mitigation, and configuration management…” It advised these stakeholders to position themselves to “increase their cybersecurity and cyber resiliency to respond to and report any incidents that could inhibit their ability to continue operations,” including being “wary of untrusted network traffic” and treating all traffic transiting their networks – especially third-party traffic – as “untrusted until it is validated as legitimate.” The evidence indicates a cyber-attack conducted by Iran with Russian and Chinese help. But after the bridge collapse, all of these warnings are ignored, as if they did not happen and are irrelevant. It’s a typical cover-up. Don’t forget that America’s ability to detect and deter foreign attacks was compromised by the defection to Russia through China of Edward Snowden, the former NSA/CIA analyst. He gave our enemies, including Islamic terrorist groups and states, the ability to evade surveillance by the NSA. Despite his bloody hands, presidential candidate Robert f. Kenedy, Jr. wants to pardon and honor him. Strange. His own father was killed by a Palestinian Marxist, Sirhan Sirhan, but he doesn’t believe that, either. By contrast, the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria demonstrates the superiority of Israeli intelligence. Netanyahu knows the enemy. And now the enemy is in the White House, screaming about the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza. The catastrophe is made worse for America, suffering under what Trump calls the Biden Bloodbath of open borders, by the inability of the American intelligence “community” to figure out “Havana syndrome,” the “mysterious” attacks on U.S. personnel overseas. They began in Communist Cuba, which is perhaps a clue to what is going on. Their own people are suffering and they can’t understand why, after eight years of investigations. Why do we waste our money on the CIA, FBI, and the NSA? The CBS show “60 Minutes” linked a Russian military intelligence unit to the attacks, citing eyewitness testimony and documents, but the U.S. intelligence agencies are still in the dark. No wonder they need to lie about the Key bridge collapse. These scandals and wars result in death and destruction, in addition to financial costs that America cannot afford. They could have been avoided if we had honest men and women in charge.
Making Food from People is the Next Phase of Revolution By Cliff Kincaid When Washington, D.C., Cardinal Wilton Gregory criticized Joe Biden on Easter Sunday for being a “cafeteria Catholic,’’ he ignored the fact that top Catholic officials have committed crimes of a serious nature, as a Lavender Mafia within the church has been sexually abusing children, one of the worst sins. Meanwhile, in Maryland, one of the most Catholic states in the nation, church officials are putting up half-hearted objections to a bill to legalize human composting, the first step in using human remains to grow food. Human bodies are being made into mulch. Maryland has a legislature dominated by Democrats, many of them Catholics. Why Catholic officials are still being treated with reverence is beyond me. They have laid the groundwork for Biden’s betrayal of Christian values through his support for transgenderism, abortion, and making mind-altering substances such as marijuana more available to our youth, subjecting them to mental health problems such as psychosis. For those still wedded to the notion that pot is harmless, I suggest spending some of your entertainment time watching a series, “Murder at First Sight,” about a pothead who beat a pastor to death in West Virginia. Pastor Ron Browning’s face was “disfigured beyond recognition” after being struck repeatedly by a glass jar, according to a local news report. An autopsy revealed that the pothead, 22-year-old Camille Browne, tried to strangle Browning with a cord, crushed his chest and cut his eyes. She had already testified that Pastor Browning told her just before his death that she was possessed by a demon. She was literally “possessed by marijuana,” in the words of another short interview and documentary about the case. On Fox News, one of their many left-wing hacks, Jessica Tarlov, was giddy over the possibility that having pot and abortion on the ballot this November in Florida would help the Democrats win the state for Biden. This is their appeal to young people – get high and murder your babies, and Tarlov thinks that is a winning strategy. Perhaps it is. Republicans will back off and, more importantly, the churches will offer no resistance, which raises the question – what are churches good for anyway? Funerals and memorial services? I’ve come to the conclusion they’re mostly for people who want to feel good about their own sinful nature. They don’t believe in Christian teachings any more. They just want to think of themselves as good Christians by virtue of going to or watching a church service. I watched one service where the pastor taught that the Easter message was one of forgiveness, and that if you confess your sin, the sin never happened. But that’s not true. Sin hurts other people and the damage is not erased away. Christianity means nothing if there is no justice for the sins that are committed and the sinners who commit them. I believe the evil-doers will have to pay the price. They will have to suffer. No justice, no peace. So Biden and all of his “Catholic” followers are not off the hook for being cafeteria Catholics, just because they go to church and get blessings from corrupt church officials. Biden’s Catholicism is a complete fraud, and everyone knows it, especially Washington, D.C., Cardinal Wilton Gregory. But all he can muster in response is that Biden is a cafeteria Catholic, picking and choosing what doctrines he should follow. It’s much worse than that, and he above others should know that these are the “Powers of Darkness” in the church that are also infecting the people through corrupt clergy. As I wrote in a column years ago quoting anti-communist Professor Renato Cristin, Pope Francis is the leader of the global left and the only serious question is whether Francis is a Marxist masquerading as a Catholic, or whether he has somehow in his own mind synthesized Christianity and Communism into a bizarre philosophy of “Christian communism.” Whatever the case, the Catholic Church has lost its way. No wonder that only one-third of Catholics go to church anymore. It’s probably a good thing. The money they would put in the collection plates will go to pay off suits from victims of sexual abuse by priests. Whatever Trump’s personal faults, and there are many that will be advertised at the upcoming trial featuring Stormy Daniels, at least he has had a change of heart, perhaps even a conversion, and he now realizes that the root of America’s crisis lies in the declining morality of the nation and the willingness of its leaders to lie, cheat, and steal. As president, though he is a flawed vessel, he can help stem the tide of the powers of darkness that are rampaging through our country and taking down every institution that once stood in the way of the evil that was even celebrated on Easter with Biden’s proclamation of transgender visibility day. Biden, of course, claimed he didn’t know anything about it, which is par for the course for a puppet trying to complete Obama’s fundamental transformation of America. We have learned that the next step in this deterioration of morality and virtue is a bill that is close to passing the Maryland state legislature that will legalize human composting. It is being sold as an “eco-friendly alternative” to traditional burials and cremation. In addition to the marijuana business, a modern-day version of “Soma” from Huxley’s Brave New World, a new industry is emerging that is dedicated to “ecological death care,” complete with green funeral homes. Solve climate change by making Mom and Dad into mulch. It reminds you of the science fiction film, “Soylent Geen,” in which humans are killed through assisted suicide and the bodies are made into food for the living. “Soylent Green is people!” shouts the main character, played by Charlton Heston, as he discovers the terrible truth. The film “Soylent Green” was made in 1973 but was supposed to represent America in the year 2022. Looks like the producers were off by two years. Science fiction is today’s reality. When communion with Christ through the body and blood is replaced by eating food grown from the bodies of Mom and Dad, without a serious objection from the church, you know there is a sinister aspect in Obama’s unfolding “Permanent Revolution” in America that requires a response from true Christians. Like Camille Brown, the killer pothead, there is something demonic in the land.
ACTIVE ALERT
2024-002-Worldwide-Foreign Adversarial Technological, Physical, and Cyber Influence Threat Type: Foreign Adversarial Technological, Physical, and Cyber Influence Effective Date: 02/21/2024 - 08/19/2024 Official release This revised advisory cancels U.S. Maritime Advisory 2023-009 1. Issue: This Advisory seeks to alert maritime stakeholders of potential vulnerabilities to maritime port equipment, networks, operating systems, software, and infrastructure. Foreign companies manufacture, install, and maintain port equipment that creates vulnerabilities to global maritime infrastructure information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems. In the past few years, the U.S. Government has published several documents (see paragraph 4 below) illuminating the risks associated with integrating and utilizing the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) state-supported National Public Information Platform for Transportation and Logistics (LOGINK), Nuctech scanners, and automated ship-to-shore cranes worldwide. LOGINK is a single-window logistics management platform that aggregates logistics data from various sources, including domestic and foreign ports, foreign logistics networks, shippers, shipping companies, other public databases, and hundreds of thousands of users in the PRC. The LOGINK logistics platform, which was first marketed outside of the PRC in 2010, was developed by the PRC Ministry of Transport. At least 24 global ports have cooperation agreements with LOGINK, which can collect massive amounts of sensitive business and foreign government data, such as corporate registries and vessel/cargo data. The PRC government is promoting logistics data standards that support LOGINK’s widespread use, and LOGINK’s installation and utilization in critical port infrastructure very likely provides the PRC access to and/or collection of sensitive logistics data. Nuctech Company, Ltd. (Nuctech) is a PRC State-controlled entity that manufactures and fields data-centric partially state-owned security inspection equipment at key logistic nodes worldwide. Nuctech equipment capabilities include x-ray, backscatter, and thermal platforms; explosives detection; non-intrusive products (such as baggage and parcel inspection (NIIE); Artificial Intelligence (AI); and facial cognition/recognition capabilities). Nuctech equipment access includes biometric information, personally identifiable information (PII), patterns of life cargo information, proprietary data, and geo-locational metadata. Several countries have raised concerns about the security risks posed by Nuctech equipment deployed in critical infrastructure given the company’s control by the PRC government. The United States added Nuctech to the Department of Commerce’s Entity List for its involvement in activities contrary to the national security interests of the United States. Specifically, the U.S. government determined Nuctech's lower performing equipment impairs U.S. efforts to counter illicit international trafficking in nuclear and other radioactive materials. Lower performing equipment means less stringent cargo screening, raising the risk of proliferation. ZPMC (Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited) maintains the largest share, by sales revenue, of the ship-to-shore crane market worldwide. These cranes may, depending on their individual configurations, be controlled, serviced, and programmed from remote locations. These features potentially leave them vulnerable to exploitation. 2. Guidance: Maritime industry stakeholders, including vessel owners/operators, shippers, and port operators exposed to these risks should apply cybersecurity best practices for Access Control (identity and access management), vulnerability mitigation, and configuration management, and should: • Position themselves to increase their cybersecurity and cyber resiliency to respond to and report any incidents that could inhibit their ability to continue operations. • Maintain a comprehensive understanding of data sharing and network access permissions within contractual agreements. • Stress to their personnel the importance of understanding and knowing who maintains access to maritime technology throughout any port or facility they utilize. • Be wary of untrusted network traffic and treat all traffic transiting their networks – especially third-party traffic – as untrusted until it is validated as legitimate. • Ensure infrastructure operational resiliency, regarding system security, as well as the ability to maintain equipment and sourcing for critical parts and upgrades. • Maintain fully recoverable backups and practice recovery from backups. • Partner with academia and government to develop and maintain optimal cybersecurity hygiene by participating in information sharing exchanges and cyber drills and exercises. The below mitigation measures can be utilized to reduce the risks associated with automated port cranes: • Improve segmentation between the crane and other port systems/networks to reduce an adversary’s initial cyber access. Reduce unnecessary communications and network services between business and management networks and the crane network and disallow multi-homed systems across these networks. • Utilize secure file transfer tools/maintain a secure file transfer to reduce the risk of malware when transferring files into the crane network, such as firmware updates, reducing dependency on removable media (e.g., USBs). • Provide dedicated remote access systems and processes for crane devices which utilize and enforce Multifactor Authentication (MFA). Define formal policies and procedures for firewall rule changes needed to control access. • Separate and segment crane management functions from crane operational systems to reduce cyber access by adversaries. Keep crane management functions (e.g., diagnostics, patching, programmable logic controller (PLC) program modification/updating) on separate segments and restrict modifications from crane operational systems, including the on-board and remote crane management systems (RCMS). • Monitor all communications on the crane network (all ingress and egress traffic), especially those between the crane and broader port operational and management systems. Monitor all communications paths used to connect to the crane, including from the RCMS remotely. Monitor host activities for operational management systems. • Require vendor update completion through physical visits at crane operating sites whenever possible and discourage vendors from completing remote updates. Verify the integrity and security of on-board crane devices and networks: • Perform periodic integrity checks and validation of PLC application programs to ensure their correct/secure operation. • Ensure on-board crane virtual local area network VLANs enforce segmentation of critical control devices. The VLANs should segment devices and communications supporting core control functions (e.g., PLCs, drives, I/O, etc.) from those used for non-critical functions (e.g., cameras, surveillance, etc.). Any devices from untrusted suppliers should also be segmented on a separate VLAN. Maintain robust response and recovery programs to ensure key on-board crane systems and devices can be efficiently restored: • Perform periodic backups of key software images and programs, including operating system images (crane management, cabin view, and ground view system), application programs for PLCs, and settings for other key devices (e.g., variable frequency drive (VFD) network switches). Make sure backups are stored offline. Periodically test backups and restoration procedures. • Maintain spare hardware of key components, including PLCs, embedded/small form factor computers, and network devices. Ensure the organization has procedures for performing and testing hardware rebuilds. Ensure strong physical security and access control of devices and infrastructure used to operate and manage the crane: • Ensure ground facilities used to support crane operations, including data closets, server rooms, and operator workstations, have appropriate physical security controls. • Keep on-board devices such as PLCs, networking devices, and computers within locked data cabinets. 3. Contact Information: Maritime stakeholders who discover compromised equipment or suspicious activity within the Marine Transportation System (MTS), or OT/IT assets should contact: • U.S. Coast Guard National Response Center: 1-800-424-8802 • U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER), Maritime Cyber Readiness Branch (MCRB): maritimecyber@uscg.mil • Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Central: 888-282-0870 or central@cisa.gov • FBI’s Cyber Division: 855-292-3937 or CyWatch@fbi.gov 4. References: • U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Industry Cybersecurity Resource Center: https://www.uscg.mil/MaritimeCyber/https://www.uscg.mil/MaritimeCyber/ • Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) - Port Facility Cybersecurity Risks: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/port-facility-cybersecurity-risks-infographic_508.pdf • National Security Agency (NSA), ODNI, and DHS/CISA - Developers Recommended Practices Guide for Securing the Software Supply Chain: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Sep/01/2003068942/-1/-1/0/ESF_SECURING_THE_SOFTWARE_SUPPLY_CHAIN_DEVELOPERS.PDF • Federal Register - Entry on the Entity List (Nuctech): https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/22/2020-28031/addition-of-entities-to-the-entity-list-revision-of-entry-on-the-entity-list-and-removal-of-entities • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Worldwide Threats to the Homeland: https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/worldwide-threats-to-the-homeland-111522 • H.R.7776 - James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Section: 3529): https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7776/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22National+Defense+Authorization+Act%22%2C%22National%22%2C%22Defense%22%2C%22Authorization%22%2C%22Act%22%5D%7D&r=22&s=3 • ODNI - 2023 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2023-Unclassified-Report.pdf 5. Cancellation: This message cancels U.S. Maritime Advisory 2023-009 and will automatically expire on August 19, 2024. For more information about U.S. Maritime Alerts and Advisories, including subscription details, please visit https://www.maritime.dot.gov/msci/. Status: Active |