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By Oleg Atbashian
First published in Front Page Magazine
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CrowdStrike: a Conspiracy Wrapped in a Conspiracy Inside a Conspiracy


In the last few days, media talking heads have been saying the word "CrowdStrike" a lot, defining it as a wild conspiracy theory originating in Moscow. They were joined by Chris Wallace at Fox News, who informed us that president Trump and his ill-informed fans believe in a crazy idea that the DNC wasn't hacked by the Russians but by some Ukrainian group named CrowdStrike that stole the DNC server and brought it to Ukraine , and that it was Ukraine that meddled in our 2016 election and not Russia.

A crazy idea indeed. Except that neither Trump nor his fans had ever heard of it until the Democrat-media complex condescendingly informed them that these are their beliefs.

Let's look at the facts:

Fact 1. In 2016 the DNC hired the Ukrainian-linked firm CrowdStrike to analyze their server and investigate a data breach.

Fact 2. CrowdStrike experts determined that the culprit was Russia.

Fact 3. The FBI never received access to the DNC server, so the Russian connection was never officially confirmed and continues to be an allegation coming from the DNC and its Ukrainian-linked contractor.

Fact 4. Absent the official verdict, other theories continue to circulate, including the possibility that the theft was an inside job by a DNC employee, who simply copied the files to a USB drive and sent it to WikiLeaks.

None of these facts was ever disputed by anyone. The media largely ignored them except for the part about the Russian hackers, which boosted their own, now debunked, wild conspiracy theory that Trump was a Russian agent.

Now that Trump had asked the newly elected Ukrainian president Zelensky to look into CrowdStrike during that fateful July phone call, the media all at once started telling us that "CrowdStrike" is a code word for a conspiracy theory so insane that only Trump could believe in it, which is just more proof of how insane he is.

But if Trump had really said what Mr. Wallace and the media claim, Ukrainians would be the first to call him on it and the impeachment would've been over by now. Instead, Ukrainians back Trump every step of the way.

So where did this pretzel-shaped fake news come from, and why is it being peddled now?

Note this is a classic case study of propaganda and media manipulation:

1. Take an idea or a story that you wish to go away and make up an obviously bogus story with the same names and details as the real one.
   
2. Start planting it simultaneously on media channels until the fake story supplants the real one, while claiming this is what your opponents really believe.
   
3. Have various fact-checking outlets debunk your fake story as an absurd conspiracy theory. Ridicule those who allegedly believe in it. Better yet, have late night comedians do it for you.
   
4. Once your opponent is brought down, mercilessly plant your boot on his face and never let up.

This mass manipulation technology had been tested and perfected by the Soviet propaganda machine, both domestically and overseas, where it was successfully deployed by the KGB. The Kremlin still uses it, although it can no longer afford it on the same grandiose scale. In this sense, the Democratic think tanks are the true successors of the KGB in deviousness, scope, and worldwide reach of fake narratives. How they inherited these methods from the KGB is a story for another day.

For a long time this technology was allowing the Democrats to delegitimize opposition by convincing large numbers of Americans that Republicans are…

• Haters
  
• Racists
  
• Fascists
  
• Deniers of science
  
• Destroyers of the environment
  
• Heartless sellouts to corporate interests
  
• And so on - the list is endless.

The Soviet communists had aptly named it "disinformation," which is a cut above the English word "misinformation." It includes a variety of methods for a variety of needs, from bringing down an opponent to revising history to creating a new historical reality altogether. In this sense, most Hollywood movies on historical subjects today disinform us about history, supplanting it with a bogus "progressive" narrative. The Soviet term for such art was "socialist realism."

Long story short, the Democrat-media complex has successfully convinced one half of the world that Trump is a Russian agent. Now they're acting as if they'd spent the last three years in a coma, unaware of any bombshell stories about collusion. And bombshell stories without any continuation are a telltale sign of fake narratives. The only consequence of these bombshells is mass amnesia among the foot soldiers.

The Trump-Russian outrage is dead, long live the Trump-Ukraine outrage. And when that outrage is dead, the next outrage that will be just outrageous.

The current impeachment narrative alleges that Trump used military aid as leverage in asking Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden (which implies the Democrats know Biden is dirty, otherwise why bother?). What's not in this picture is CrowdStrike. Even though Trump mentioned it in the phone call, it has nothing to do with the Bidens nor the Javelin missiles. CrowdStrike has nothing to do with impeachment. We're told it's just a silly conspiracy theory in Trump's head, that it's a nonissue.

But then why fabricate fake news about it and plant blatant lies simultaneously in all media outlets from Mother Jones to Fox News? Why risk being exposed over such a nonissue? Perhaps because it's more important than the story suggests.

Only a computer illiterate would think that CrowdStrike needed to take the physical DNC server to Ukraine in order to analyze it. Any computer can be cloned and its digital image can be sent anywhere on the planet in the form of ones and zeroes. It can also exist in multiple digital copies, carrying not just confidential archives, but also history logs and other content that can reveal to an expert whether the hacking occurred, and if so, by whom.

The copies of the DNC server on CrowdStrike computers are likely to hold the key to understanding what really happened during the 2016 election, the origin of the anti-Trump witch hunt, and the toxic cloud of lies that had been hanging over the world and poisoning minds during the last three years.

And now the new Ukrainian government might subpoena these copies from CrowdStrike and finally pass them to FBI experts, which should've been done three years ago. The danger of this happening is a much greater incentive for the Democrats to preemptively destroy Trump than all the dirt Joe Biden had been rolling in as Obama's vice president.

This gives the supposedly innocuous reference to CrowdStrike during Trump's call a lot more gravity and the previously incoherent part of the transcript begins to make sense.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike... I guess you have one of your wealthy people... The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation.

If you read the transcript on the day it was released, you probably didn't understand what Trump was even talking about, let alone what had caused such a disproportionate outrage, complete with whistle blowing and calls for impeachment. What in that mild conversation could possibly terrify the Democrats so much? They were terrified because, unlike most Americans, the Democrats knew exactly what Trump was talking about. And now you know, too.

The fraudulent "CrowdStrike conspiracy" deflection is not a show of the Democrats' strength. Instead, It betrays their desperation and panic, which tells us that Trump is squarely over the target.

It also helps us to see who at Fox News can be trusted to tell us the truth. And it ain't Chris Wallace.

Our friend Doug Ross of Doug Ross @ Journal, who used to be involved in cyber for USG customers, sent us this correction:

Hard drive firmware and potential physical implants must be reviewed for any compromise. What is insane is that the USG has the best digital forensic capabilities in the world, far beyond what Crowdstrike could muster. The fact that the servers were hidden from the FBI is the real scandal.

Thanks, Doug. Even so, the main premise remains. The hardware could be inspected by Crowdstrike experts on location, but that doesn't mean the backup didn't exist in the company's Ukrainian office.

There you go again with those messy subjective 'facts'.

Why not just trust your *feelings*?

Nothing to see here. Please move along.

On an unrelated note, a crazy Mennonite went berserk yesterday in Londonstan.

Fortunately he had been released after his previous terrorist act, since his distant cousin deemed him not a threat.

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I'm just going to reply to specific segments of this. This is definitely a larger-than-usual article. I hope that Komrade Premier decides to break into longer-form work after this one, I quite enjoyed it.

Red Square wrote: By Oleg Atbashian
First published in Front Page Magazine
PROG OFF

CrowdStrike: a Conspiracy Wrapped in a Conspiracy Inside a Conspiracy


In the last few days, media talking heads have been saying the word "CrowdStrike" a lot, defining it as a wild conspiracy theory originating in Moscow. They were joined by Chris Wallace at Fox News, who informed us that president Trump and his ill-informed fans believe in a crazy idea that the DNC wasn't hacked by the Russians but by some Ukrainian group named CrowdStrike that stole the DNC server and brought it to Ukraine , and that it was Ukraine that meddled in our 2016 election and not Russia.

I'm gonna shamelessly promote here.

I listen to Fault Lines, a morning talk show made by Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan under the auspices of Sputnik International. They've been talking about CrowdStrike for at least a half a year or so, while our oh-so-wonderful America media has been fiddling while Rome burned with impeachment and the Capitol soap opera. I've heard about stuff from Fault Lines before even people like Alex Jones had their hands on it. I highly recommend it.

Red Square wrote:
So where did this pretzel-shaped fake news come from, and why is it being peddled now?

Note this is a classic case study of propaganda and media manipulation:

1. Take an idea or a story that you wish to go away and make up an obviously bogus story with the same names and details as the real one.
   
2. Start planting it simultaneously on media channels until the fake story supplants the real one, while claiming this is what your opponents really believe.
   
3. Have various fact-checking outlets debunk your fake story as an absurd conspiracy theory. Ridicule those who allegedly believe in it. Better yet, have late night comedians do it for you.
   
4. Once your opponent is brought down, mercilessly plant your boot on his face and never let up.

This mass manipulation technology had been tested and perfected by the Soviet propaganda machine, both domestically and overseas, where it was successfully deployed by the KGB. The Kremlin still uses it, although it can no longer afford it on the same grandiose scale. In this sense, the Democratic think tanks are the true successors of the KGB in deviousness, scope, and worldwide reach of fake narratives. How they inherited these methods from the KGB is a story for another day.

The reason why it's being peddled now is because the UniParty is becoming desperate. They have held the reins of the national conversation for at least a century. That total control has been interrupted and broken by alternative media and the internet.

I also suspect that this is why internet censorship and control proposals have been en vogue in our and many other governments in the past few years. This true freedom of speech, where everybody has their own printing press and doesn't have to go through an easily-bribed editor under the control of an easily-bribed executive, is the ultimate threat to tyranny and anti-liberty influences. Look at how radical both wings of the UniParty, the Democrats and Republicans, have gotten. They're both getting louder because nobody's listening to them anymore. And I wouldn't have a problem with this if it weren't for their even more dastardly plan - to force you to listen to their rhetoric by shutting up everybody they disagree with.

Red Square wrote:
But then why fabricate fake news about it and plant blatant lies simultaneously in all media outlets from Mother Jones to Fox News? Why risk being exposed over such a nonissue? Perhaps because it's more important than the story suggests.

See my previous reply.

Red Square wrote:
Only a computer illiterate would think that CrowdStrike needed to take the physical DNC server to Ukraine in order to analyze it. Any computer can be cloned and its digital image can be sent anywhere on the planet in the form of ones and zeroes. It can also exist in multiple digital copies, carrying not just confidential archives, but also history logs and other content that can reveal to an expert whether the hacking occurred, and if so, by whom.

I've done some website work for an organization I'm a part of. Oleg, you might know this, running a website yourself, but for those who don't: every server on the internet has a log of which IP addresses connected to it and when.

An IP address is like a mailing address. Every computer has one, and it's how the internet telecom infrastructure knows which computer or server to send or receive data to or from once it's been requested. Even a hacker would show up in these logs, because it would log that he connected and did things with the data on the server. These logs are nothing more than simple .txt files like you can read and write yourself on your own computer.

A .txt file can be read off of any device that has one, transferred onto storage media, like a flash drive, SD card, external hard drive, or etc, and given to whomever you want, or sent through the mail in a parcel. You can make one card or drive with this log file on it, or you can make ten thousand, or you can make ten million, it doesn't matter. If the file is small enough (log files usually aren't, they contain so much data), you can even send it in an email.

You're right in saying that only idiots would think that they'd need the physical hardware. Sure, I can see them pulling a hard drive or two out of the servers, the one with the logs on them, and sending that, but there is no way in hell they'd need the rest of the server. For those who don't know, a server is basically a bunch of computers put together and installed into racks, oftentimes with emergency power supplies installed in the lower levels of the rack. There are many pictures of servers in their various stages of construction available on the internet if you'd like to see one for yourself.

I, honestly, think it's part of this coverup they're having a hard time covering up. What better way to get away with a crime than to destroy the evidence? From the bleachbit scandal, to this, it all leads to my conclusion, that those servers had some blockbuster evidence on them that would've sent the UniParty to the cleaners. Therefore, they sent them to Eastern Europe for Sasha and Dimitri to break them up and liquidate them, and to keep them out of reach of the FBI or DC police. Just like they sent Jeff Epstein to the stoney lonesome to be liquidated.

The only other thing that would require physcial hardware to be shipped is the verification and checking of the firmware that's on the hardware and the checking for any physical exploits, like taps or bugs or things of that nature. The FBI and NSA have capabilities to do this that far outshine all the private companies on the planet combined, and they could've driven some guys over in a van to do the investigations onsite, which would've saved considerable amounts of time and money. There was virtually no reason, other than a coverup, to remove that hardware and ship it, full stop.

Red Square wrote:
It also helps us to see who at Fox News can be trusted to tell us the truth. And it ain't Chris Wallace.

I haven't trusted Faux News for at least half a decade. I had a suspicion back then that it was nothing but a front. Instead of having thoughtful, reasoned people on there, you had establishment hacks and fembots with big tits who would've read the directions for Rice-A-Roni on air if it was put on the teleprompter. With their slow concession to leftist and otherwise anti-liberty viewpoints, the dwindling of right-wing viewpoints down to Tucker Carlson (who I have heard is gonna be ousted in a couple months or so), and their outright omission (and lately, rejection) of libertarian views, it seems my suspicions were correct.

Oleg, it ain't just Wallace that can't be trusted to tell you the truth. Damn near the whole network can't be trusted. Personally, I only trust Greg Gutfeld. I still don't know what to think of Tucker Carlson.

Red Square said

Now that Trump had asked the newly elected Ukrainian president Zelensky to look into CrowdStrike during that fateful July phone call, the media all at once started telling us that "CrowdStrike" is a code word for a conspiracy theory so insane that only Trump could believe in it, which is just more proof of how insane he is.

'pelipsky confesses to being just as insane as Trump and here's the date/time stamped Karaoke Proof.

Red Square, is 'pelipsky suffering from disanity or misanity? Whatever it is...'pelipsky is fully involved and according to precedent must receive whistleblower protection of anonymity.

Jackalopelipsky
Russian Agent and honor guard to Ambassador to Texazistan
#BR 549

Comrade Red Square, you left out the most impeachable offense of all, tRump had two scoops of ice cream at a dinner while everyone else there only had one!

For the sake of honesty, I must add this clarification.

It doesn't change the general idea of the article or its conclusions, but there's an ommission that can be used to cast a shadow on the validity of this story.

I had heard about the Ukraine-Crowdstrike connection from various sources and was under the impression that it's a solid fact. I vaguely remember seeing references to its co-founder Dmitri Alperovich's Ukrainian origin.

However, after several people asked me about it, I did an online search - and could find nothing except that Dmitri Alperovich had emigrated from Russia and that Crowdstrike is a fully American company.

I'd be admitting my mistake by now if I hadn't seen in the past how inconvenient pieces of information were scrubbed from the internet for political expedience. Considering the powerful players involved and the existential importancve of this information to their power, I wouldn't discount such a possibility.

For example, try googling photos of Jeff Epstein with the Clintons - you won't find any, despite them being on several junkets together, and the media was present. Instead of the more recent photos of Epstein with the Clintons, Google offers us much older photos of Epstein with Trump and Melania, taken before Trump had kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago for flirting with underage girls.

It would be logical to assume that Trump has access to certain data that isn't yet unavailable to the public and that he operates based on the findings by the separate teams run by Bill Barr and Rudy Giuliani. Some of those findings may be spilled very soon, and some of them may never become public.

So I suggest we crowdsource the info on CrowdStrike. If anyone has any information about this company and its co-founder Dmitri Alperovich that can add to this story, please post it here in the comments.

Most Excellent article Comrade.

Papa Kalashnikook wrote:Most Excellent article Comrade.

Mega Dittos, Dear Papa!

Perhaps what we really need to look at in all of this is the actual game of leverage and finance not CrowdStrike, Russian hacking, the Ukranian Quid pro Quo, Democrats and Republicans.

We already know that Alperovitch, is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, which is a think tank that is openly anti-Russian and is funded by Ukranian billionaire Victor Pinchuk….who magically donated more $10 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation........and were we not recently treated to evidence that the U.S. chargé d'affaires to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, was shown to be a sterling participants in the Anti-Trump effort? Understand that Bill Taylor was formerly U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine ('06-'09) and later helped the Obama administration to design the laundry operation providing taxpayer financing to Ukraine in exchange for back-channel payments to U.S. politicians and their families.


Was it not Taylor who engaged in carefully planned text messages with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland to set-up a narrative helpful to Adam Schiff's political coup effort, and it was it not Mr. Taylor who also blocked VISA's for Ukrainian ‘whistle-blowers' who are willing to testify to the corrupt financial scheme.

What seems to be more relevant in all of this rests in fact that dozens and dozens of U.S. Senators some of which are currently serving have been a recipient of money through the aforementioned laundry process. We know that many U.S. senators write foreign aid policies, rules, and regulations thereby creating untold financing mechanisms to transmit U.S. funds. Those same distinguished senators then received a portion of the laundered funds back through their various “institutes” and business connections to the foreign government offices....does the name Burisma ring a bell?

However, overlooked in all of this has been that the U.S. State Dept. serves as a distribution network for the authorization of the money laundering by granting conflict waivers, approvals for financing (think Clinton Global Initiative), and permission slips for the payment of all of that wonderful foreign money. The officials within the State Dept. take acut of the overall payments through a system of “indulgence fees”, junkets, gifts and expense payments to those with political oversight.

Remember, a congressional delegation may take trips to work out the payment terms/conditions of any changes in graft financing. This is why Senators spend $20 million on a campaign to earn a job paying $350k/year. The “institutes” is where the real foreign money comes in; billions paid by governments like China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Ukraine…. and boys and girls there are untold trillions at stake, real US and foreign dollars! Once you see the past the Kabuki theater of CrowdStrike, Russian, Ukrainians, Impeachment to how much money is at stake, would you want Donald Trump to interfere or muddle the delicious process?

'pelipsky has tended some beet collective laundry in service to the local collective...and all 'pelipsky ever recovered from the laundry cycle was some loose change and once, the key to a tractor waiting to be fixed at Tractor Barn #2.

What's the deal?? 'pelipsky misses the Big Time Laundry Payola every time. It's like this equality business don't even work anymore.

Jackalopelipsky
#BR 549

The reason is Orange Man Bad.
That's it. That's all they need. The rest is preposterous persiflage.

Pamalinsky wrote:The reason is Orange Man Bad.
That's it. That's all they need. The rest is preposterous persiflage.

Komrade Pammy, this takes place in Ukraine. And we all know that Putin interrupted our attempt to bring Democracy and Freedom™ to Ukraine. Therefore, instead of "Orange Man Bad", wouldn't it be "Vlad Lad Bad"?

Red Square Said

However, after several people asked me about it, I did an online search - and could find nothing except that Dmitri Alperovich had emigrated from Russia and that Crowdstrike is a fully American company.

This information is much the same as Florida Man, Matthias Ajple, a brave citizen who willingly signed up for a Get Into Gulag Free Card by exposing a MAGA hat wearing man as a KKKommunist.

Matthias Ajple guru engineered a fully American company, too.

'pelipsky is seeing a pattern in spa treated acid jiggle bathed mind.

Jackalopelipsky
Russian Agent
#BR 549 over and out

Comrade Stierlitz wrote:

Pamalinsky wrote:The reason is Orange Man Bad.
That's it. That's all they need. The rest is preposterous persiflage.

Komrade Pammy, this takes place in Ukraine. And we all know that Putin interrupted our attempt to bring Democracy and Freedom™ to Ukraine. [highlight=#ffff00]Therefore, instead of "Orange Man Bad", wouldn't it be "Vlad Lad Bad"?[/highlight]

Same sh*t, different dude.

Welcome to the People's Cube, comrade abramsart. The Party looks kindly on your propaganda efforts. We'll be keeping an eye on you. Until we determine where your true loyalties lie, make no attempt to leave.

The commissar on duty will be with you shortly, to take you to the toolshed where you will be fitted to the size of the available shovel.