The CrowdStrike Connection

From the 2016 Allegations of Russian Hacking to the 2024 Global Disaster

News on Sunday, July 21, 2024 that President Joe Biden would drop out of the presidential race and hand over the reins to Vice President Kamala Harris (or whoever the Democratic Party’s delegates undemocratically choose at the convention) has sort of made the global technology outage that also happened over the same weekend disappear from the headlines. On Friday, it was announced that an unsuccessful update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused the cancellation of thousands of flights across the world (almost all flights were either grounded or delayed in the United States that day) and services to go offline for banks, hospitals, 911 emergency and police dispatch centers, supermarkets, television stations, Microsoft’s Windows operating system, and credit card systems. I know from firsthand experience that faulty updates can cause service disruptions and the elimination of vital information, as the company that I work for recently had something similar happen, though on a much smaller scale, when the information technology (IT) contractor was unable to back up information during a failed update; but the fact that the global outage crippled a chunk of the world’s economy and was caused by the same corporation that was involved in investigating the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) seems a bit suspicious. The DNC attempted to push the Russian interference story and falsely say that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the election in 2016, so what is CrowdStrike up to in this 2024 election season?

The security firm allegedly revealed that Russian intelligence groups (particularly those linked to the Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU), which included Fancy Bear (APT 28) and Cozy Bear (APT 29), were responsible for hacking the White House, the Department of State (DoS), and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS); and it (among other firms) supposedly uncovered the Russian conspiracy plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and steal emails from the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign (including those of campaign chairman John Podesta). These emails were allegedly gifted to Wikileaks to destroy Clinton’s reputation and lead to her loss to Donald Trump. CrowdStrike became an asset for the DNC and the intelligence community.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also allegedly determined that Russian leadership was aware of the hacks and were joyous about the Trump victory, thus indicating that Kremlin intelligence groups were responsible for hacking the DNC. It then found out that Guccifer 2.0, which was the entity or individual that claimed responsibility, edited some documents on a computer that had Russian as the default language (not Romanian, as the hacker suggested) and used the Internet Protocol (IP) address of Russian cyber groups to send out messages to journalists. The CIA then linked Guccifer 2.0 to Russian intelligence.

The CIA, like CrowdStrike, may have been able to find evidence of Russian malware being used in other countries, however, as has been revealed by Vault 7, this report is meaningless because the CIA can mimic countries’ digital “fingerprints” in order to make it look like a foreign government was responsible when it was really the CIA or other government or corporate entities creating a false flag cyberattack. It is difficult to know what happened with the supposed Russian hacking in 2016, but we should be skeptical of the American intelligence community’s and CrowdStrike’s analysis, especially since it benefits both the government and DNC to blame Russia for swaying the results of the 2016 presidential election. Plus, when is the CIA up to any good?

Because Donald Trump did not believe the official intelligence reports on what transpired in 2016 (if they were targeting you, would you believe them?) or the fake Steele dossier that was created by the Hillary Clinton campaign and used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a basis to spy on and investigate him for Russian collusion, there was the famed July 25, 2019 phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky and the subsequent threat to withhold funds from Ukraine if that government did not investigate Joe and Hunter Biden (and Burisma Holdings) and the DNC’s corruption surrounding these incidents. In fact, Trump asked Zelensky to locate and reveal CrowdStrike servers within Ukraine and implied that it was Ukrainian hackers that interfered in the 2016 presidential election and not Russians (perhaps because Clinton would be more sympathetic to the money laundering and military-industrial complex profits from the Ukrainian conflict). Basically, Trump believed that the American intelligence community, bolstered by CrowdStrike’s findings, was conspiring to delegitimize his presidency and that Ukraine was the key to the whole plot. Of course, we know that Trump was later impeached for making that phone call and temporarily blocking congressionally-mandated funding to Ukraine (did Joe Biden not just do the same thing with aid to Israel?), but if the CIA, FBI, CrowdStrike, and the DNC were all scheming to bring down Trump and escalate false narratives that he was collaborating with Russia, such a phone call and action may have, in fact, been justified.

Not surprisingly, some of the top shareholders in CrowdStrike are our usual suspects of Vanguard and BlackRock, which are the two corporations that have much control over almost every product and service that Americans consume and utilize, have partnerships with the government, and are part of almost every new agenda that gets rolled out. In fact, CrowdStrike has contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other agencies within the government to provide security and technological services; and cofounder Dmitri Alperovitch has served on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), CISA’s Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), and as a special advisor to the DoD, as well as helped form the geopolitical thinktank Silverado Policy Accelerator (he is and was deeply intertwined in the neoconservative and war hawk mentality of Washington, D.C.). Yes, CrowdStrike is part of the same fascist establishment that many other Big Tech companies find themselves involved with, and the merging of government agencies and corporations has become the norm. It would not be surprising if the company were taking orders or worked very closely with the CIA and other deep state components of the federal government to carry out domestic and international objectives (we know it did for the DNC).

Moreover, when CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC to mitigate and determine the role of Russian hacking (but perhaps more along the lines of covering up dirty deeds), the FBI had requested access to the DNC servers, only to be denied and told that they would have to refer to whatever information CrowdStrike wanted to hand over. Wait a minute! You are telling me that the same FBI that spies on Americans without warrants, targets Trump and his supporters (and Black Lives Matter and Martin Luther King, Jr.), and censors information through social media companies had put its tail between its legs and obeyed the commands of the DNC? Is this not the DNC impeding an official investigation, and is the committee an untouchable force in American politics? Plus, you would think that we would want an independent investigation into Russian interference in the election to know that the threats were genuine and not manufactured (and also that Hillary Clinton’s emails were not wiped away or covered up), but welcome to the corrupt political machine.

If CrowdStrike participated in assisting the DNC during the 2016 election season and there was another coincidental incident involving that same company during the 2024 election season, we can probably assume that there is something else going on behind the scenes this time around. Was the company testing the grounds with its supposed failed update in order to be able to more easily rig the election for the DNC candidate? Is the government preparing a false flag cyberattack in order to blame it on a foreign adversary and bring us into World War III, thus allowing for justification to suspend the election? Do the powers that be want to usher in a new economic system, including a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and use the update as a test for what is to come? Or, was this really just an honest mistake that happens to coincide with the 2024 presidential election and the fact that the government agencies that the company works with just happen to have an interest in eliminating Trump from the political scene (we would not want to upset the military-industrial complex and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or shut off funding to Ukraine)?

Either way, CrowdStrike’s “mistake” has had global implications, and many companies, especially airlines, are still struggling to repair the damage done. We may not know for some time if our favorite security firm is in the middle of some new conspiracy to manipulate the events in the United States, but this incident can provide an opportunity or a wakeup call for us to prepare financially and mentally for future cyberattacks, regardless of whether the culprit is a foreign government or our own.

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