Submitted by: Donald Hank
Has America gone stark, raving bonkers?
Posted: July 12, 2011
8:43 pm Eastern
© 2011
8:43 pm Eastern
© 2011
Some days I watch the news and conclude America has gone stark, raving bonkers.
This is one of those days.
For years, WND has chronicled the way Chinese goods imported into the U.S. are almost universally poisonous, unsafe, flawed, dangerous, malfunctioning junk. In fact, we shouldn't even use the term "goods" in talking about Chinese products - everything from contaminated food totoys that kill and maim to fake emergency lights that only look like lights.
Not to boast, but the exposés WND has done on Chinese imports have been so thorough, so comprehensive and so effective that the Chinese government actually issued a formal denouncement of WND - much to my heart's content.
Shortly after the official Xinhua News Agency attacked WND for its work in this area, an agent of the company actually offered to buy a controlling interest in WND - presumably in a bid to silence the only media voice in the U.S. willing to point out the obvious.
Yet, after this litany of outright sabotage, criminal rip-offs and commercial warfare, we get confirmation that the U.S. government purchased microchips from China for critical weapons systems - microchips in which "backdoors" that would permit China to shut them down, effectively disabling missiles, warships and communications transponders.
Hello?
Am I surprised that the Chinese would do such a thing?
Of course not. It is as predictable as clockwork. What is astonishing is that the U.S. government, including the Defense Department, would be so gullible as to believe our national security could be preserved by buying critical systems microchips from China.
Think about this.
Is it multiculturalism gone wild?
Is it misguided trust in a totalitarian country slowly but surely building its own military with a plan to be second to none in the world?
Is it the religion of globalism at work?
Is it capitulation to international extortion from a country that could call its debt to the tune of trillions, crippling the American economy overnight?
What is going on here?
As today's startling story details, this microchip revelation is only the latest in a series of incidents that have sent off alarm bells among national-security experts in the U.S.
"China previously has been found to have been actively pursuing placing backdoors in computer equipment," the report says. "Several cases have been uncovered where Internet-capable devices have had Chinese chips in them which also provided a backdoor into the networks the devices were supposed to protect. These devices were attached not only to industrial and commercial networks, but also to networks that were defined as part of the nation's 'critical infrastructure.'"
It's not just the U.S. that has been targeted by this brand of international terrorism disguised as commerce and "free trade."
Previously, WND reported how Britain's MI5 accused cyber intelligence agents in China of attacking U.K. businesses with the goal of gaining commercial intelligence. A leaked MI5 document said undercover intelligence officers from the People's Liberation Army and the Ministry of Public Security approached U.K. businessmen at trade fairs and exhibitions with the offers of cameras and memory sticks.
But the "gifts" were found to contain backdoors that provide the Chinese with remote access to the business computers.
As far back as February 2005, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a report titled, "High Performance Microchip Supply." There, the Defense Science Board Task Force stated:
It is clear from recent trends in the microelectronics industry that a significant migration of critical microelectronics manufacturing from the United States to other foreign countries has and will continue to occur. The rate of this technology migration is alarming because of the strategic significance this technology has on the U.S. economy and the ability of the United States to maintain a technological advantage in the Department of Defense (DoD), government, commercial and industrial sectors. Our greatest concern lies in microelectronics supplies for defense, national infrastructure and intelligence applications.
The report went on to state that there is increasing pressure on microchip or "integrated circuit" (IC) suppliers to outsource their manufacturing operations offshore to lower cost. The report concludes that this move is "contrary to the best interests of the Department of Defense." The report stated that these foreign chips open the possibility for backdoors or "Trojan horses" to be embedded into the microchips used for military applications.
Yet, what did the Navy do?
It bought tens of thousands of microchips from China.
That's why today is one of those days when I'm wondering if America has gone stark, raving bonkers.
Debbie Warren Comments: Proof positive we have idiots, nutjobs and subversives working in our government and national in-security departments. Knowing full well the probabilties; they use our money to buy these microchips that severly put us and our military at risk. With all the incompetence, I'm almost surprised that they discovered the problem before installing them in the critical equipment I don't suppose they were able to return them and get our money back? Why isn't this considered an act of war or some sort of incursion that would prevent the sharing of technology, etc? Of course, with a foreign enemy agent in the White House all our most critical secrets have been handed over to our enemies anyway.
ReplyDeleteAnd here we are subjugating our nation to their whim and will because our fiduciaries continue to borrow money from them, hand over information that should be heavily guarded and make deals that further jeopardize our economy and our safety.
Stating the obvious: We have a ridiculous rate of unemployment, factories built to manfacture this sort of thing sitting idle (right here in the Dallas area, for one) and the ability to build the best quality microchips; yet we are buying them from a country we know is untrustworthy and has a history of this sort of sabotage. But, then the reality is that even if these items were manufactured here; the employees would be foreigners and illegal aliens anyway. Just as in our food processing plants; we would be subject to their poisonous hatred of us and careless actions anyway.
This stupidity is more striking when you consider that while they do this sort of thing, like buying cribs and children's toys that are deadly and importing food that is filthy and poisonous and allowing technology to enter our country which is designed to spy and compromise our lives; they are conducting 'safety' methods at our airports which include groping and terrorizing our helpless children and old people. From toaster ovens to memory sticks and light bulbs; we are buying what we can ill afford with no presumption of trust and safety.
It isn't enough for our citizens and the parents and children of the abused to look on and shake our heads...tsk tsk, isn't this just terrible??? Under any other circumstances; we would pummel a pervert for reaching into the underwear of our loved ones who depend upon us to protect them.
Sadly, I'm not only not surprised China continues these practices; I'm not surprised that our government and military is making these deals and also depriving us of a means to put our own people back to work.
They have the GPS coordinates of our front doors...why not just hand them the keys voluntarily? Why not just strip our children and old folks naked and march them through the airports and other public areas? Hand out free groping passes? Open our hungry mouths and let these filthy criminals drop whatever they want in? Sit our children down to the table and hand them a glass of aresnic laced milk? Install a video camera in their bedrooms and provide free access to the scumbags? How can anyone think there is a difference? Hell, they hand over a happy meal several times a week and let them eat the swill served in our schools every day; because they are lazy and detached from reality. They line their kids up every morning and drop a mind altering pill down their little throats with no thought to the damage as long as they are malleable and cooperative and easy to manage, so mom and dad can focus on their own interests. Who cares that it is now easier for teachers and other strangers to control how they think and absorb the crap taught in our schools as long as mom's facebook time and dad's date with a beer and tonight's game is not interrupted by those pesky kids.
I guess my quick answer to the question is: Yes, stark raving babbling bonkers. We have choices, but cheaper products means more stuff and people gotta have that 'stuff'.
Debbie Warren