A massive hack with nationwide impact... in CHINA? | Hour 1

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So a hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data, including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics, from a state run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China. The data set allegedly contains more than ten pedabytes. No relation, is it pedabyte or petabyte? Do we know? Maybe a petabyte. Petabytes sounds something like illegal. You know, one petabyte equals one thousand terabytes, so it's a lot like if you have one of those external storage bricks, you know, like usually those things are a terabyte or three terabytes something like that. I mean, you can go higher, obviously, you can get a lot more, but that's kind of the standard. One to three terabytes, I think. So think of a thousand of those things, of those terabyte storages, one thousand of them, that's one petabyte, and this is ten petabytes. It is believed by experts to have been obtained from the National Supercomputing Center in chan Jin. That is a centralized hub that provides infrastructure services for more than six thousand clients across China, including advanced science and defense agencies. Oh By Goods. Cyber experts who have spoken to the alleged hacker and reviewed samples of the stolen data that they posted online say they appeared to gain entry to the massive computer with relative ease and were able to siphon out huge amounts of data over the course of months they were in there without being detected. Months, according to CNN's Isaac Yee, an account calling itself. Flaming China posted a sample of the alleged data set on an anonymous telegram channel on February sixth, claiming that it contained research across various fields including aerospace engineering, military research, bioinformation or informatics, fusion simulation, and more. The group alleges the information is linked to top organizations top organizations. Cybersecurity experts who have reviewed the data say the group is offering a limited preview of the alleged data set, So if you want to check it out, you're going to have to pay thousands of dollars just to get a limited preview of the data set. And if you want full access, that's going to run you into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and payment is requested in cryptocurrency. According to Mark Hofer, a cybersecurity researcher and author of the blog net Ascari never heard of it, the size of the data set would make it attractive to adversarial state intelligence services. You don't say, if we haven't already purchased all of this stuff, like what are we even doing? You know? Because Mark Hoefer, cybersecurity researcher, says only state intelligence services probably have the capacity to work through all of that data and come back with something useful. Yeah, it's a lot of stuff. See, this is part of the problem. When you centralize all control into the communist model, it opens up vulnerabilities. You know, it's a shame China, M And I mean, usually you guys are the ones doing all the hacking of our stuff. But the alleged breach, if genuine, points to a potentially deeper vulnerability in China's technology infrastructure as it vies with the United States to be a world class technology innovator and AI leader cybersecurity. Hang on a second, do we. Really want the chy comms to be a leader in AI? Like I already have a lot of concerns about AI breaking containment and becoming you know, self aware and realizing it doesn't need us anymore except maybe as some slaves to it, and that kind of that way of thinking I feel like would probably be more in line with the communist way of thinking. And so. And you know AI, I think if you have biases as programmers, like if you feed in all of this stuff and you have a certain bias like in America and our AI platforms we're seeing like chat GPT and such where it has a left wing progressive bias. What's the bias over in China? Probably not great. Cybersecurity has long been known to be a weakness across both the government and private sector. In twenty twenty one, a massive online database apparently containing the personal information up to one billion Chinese citizens was left unsecured and publicly accessible. For more than a year. Well, I'm old enough to remember when you can just like not even lock up your data in China. I mean, those were the good old days. It was just so safe, you know. So they apparently left this thing unsecured for more than or all this data unsecured for more than a year until some anonymous user in a hacker forum offered to sell the data, which then brought it to wider attention in twenty twenty two. So yeah, I would love for like American hackers to spend a lot more time on China and Russia too, Oh and Iran, Like you could just that would be super helpful, you know. And then there's this story. From Just the News that's John Solomon's outfit. The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard has learned that US intelligence intercepted Ukrainian government plans to route hundreds of millions of American tax dollars. Two, what do you think? Remember all the money that got sent over to Ukraine. There's apparently some communications going around the Ukrainian government about, Hey, we got all these billions of dollars, what do you think we should do it with it all? And apparently some of the ideas floated, or one of the ideas floated, was to send a bunch of the money to Joe Biden's twenty twenty four campaign against Donald Trump, as well as the Democrat National Committee. Isn't that ironic? Well, they intercepted the communication, so obviously you would do a big investigation, right. Wrong. Gabbart is now asking the US Agency for International Development, that is, USAID, to determine if the plot was ever actually carried out. The US tax dollars were earmarked for Ukraine to use for clean energy, so we're we're doing green energy programs in Ukrain. We sent the money for clean energy. Gabbard's team found that the communications were intercepted under Joe Biden's administration and they were not thoroughly investigated. Well, I mean, that does seem wise on the part of Biden right like, because if you start investigating and if you find out that this did occur, like that would be very embarrassing. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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Gabbert's team has not found substantive evidence the intercepted allegations were thoroughly investigated either during the Biden administration, and the communications are not believed to be tied to Russian disinformation efforts. The declassified report is a summary of raw intercepts from US spy agencies in late twenty twenty two concerning the alleged plot. Officials who have reviewed the files said there seem to be a lack of curiosity to investigate such an explosive allegation of foreign interference in a US election. Well, I mean not really any other administration. Yes, like that may make you wonder about a lack of curiosity, But under the Biden administration, if I recall correctly, it's been a long time ago. But wasn't there something about I don't know, Joe Biden's kid who was doing deals and selling access and got an appointment to an energy companies board in Ukraine? Right, wasn't Wasn't that part of the storyline? I feel like that was part of that storyline. The Ukrainian government and unspecified US government personnel through USAID in Kiev, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine, and they would use that as cover to send about ninety percent of the funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden's re election campaign. Not a good look, Joe. The intercepts mentioned two American subcontractors as possible recipients of the money that would eventually be moved to the Democratic coffers. The names are included in still classified raw spy data, but they were redacted from the declassified report, so we don't know who the subcontractors named in this plot are. The plan includes details of how subcontractors would be funded through US companies, so that how the funds were spent and allocated would be difficult to track. Oh, I say, so when you take a bunch of money and you run it through a bunch of different organizations, it makes it more difficult to track. I seem to recall. This being wasn't this also part of that whole laptop thing too, right? Weren't there a bunch of banks and accounts and LLCs and money that was just constantly moving between all the accounts and like had all the hallmarks of a money laundering operation. I feel like that was part of the story too, right. Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the US funding would be diverted to Joe Biden's election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from. So David Strom at hotair dot com he writes about this, He says, I actually recall the controversy over the aid to Ukraine for green energy. The idea was transparently insane, but I stupidly assumed that it was just more Biden green insanity, and the Ukrainians just wanted to skim their cut off the project, And in a way, that was part of the plan, right, with ten percent going to Ukraine's corrupt officials. Except this time the ninety percent went to the big guy. Right, the ten percent for the big guy. That was the normal terms. But I guess once you are a president you get to invert that. Ratio. Speaking of craziness, a new study at Pediatrics Journal by Semi Meti Ruska. The aim of the study quote to examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender referred adolescents focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical gender reassignment. Right, So what are they talking about here? Mental health among u transgender adolescence that undergo some form of gender reassignment surgery. Because what have we been told for all the you know, the years of this, you know, you of the transgender issue is that you know, do you want a live daughter or a dead son? Right? That was how this was framed to parents to get them to go along with this transgender insanity that you have to affirm otherwise, you know, your child's mental health will never recover and they'll be depressed and anxious for the rest of their lives and they'll probably you know, take their own life at some point because of all of this. So you have to do it, and when presented with that choice, parents agree. So what this study did was it was out of Finland and apparently they have a thing there called the Register which has like everybody in it, and so they took a cohort nationwide of people under the age of twenty three who were gender referred. In other words, they were referred to psychiatric evaluation. They were referred to therapists, right or doctors. So they're taking everybody under the age of twenty three that was gender referred, and they looked at a span of from nineteen ninety six through twenty nineteen, and that gave them the data set of two thousand and eighty three gender referred individuals. Two thousand eighty three. Okay, and you'll never guess what they found. Now, you probably can guess, but I'll tell you anyway in a minute. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums. 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It's like a looks like an eagle with its wings, you know, spread out to either side. They call themselves the Homeland Defenders Organization. They shot and killed two regime officers at a checkpoint near Kom which is a that's one of the areas beside Tehran that's got like the highest concentration of IRGC and regime support. So they had a checkpoint set up. The Homeland Defenders Organization hit it killed two of the checkpoint troops that were there and in their message. They dedicated the operation to two young protesters who were murdered by the regime, Nika Shakarami and Pjman Gollipur. They claimed to be a pro Iran anti regime outfit. They did not indicate whether more operations will be coming, but reports are that they appear organized. That is good to hear, and hopefully there will be more of this kind of thing. So, but I laid out the other day about the ceasefire with all of the conflicting information going around, and why are we doing this? They said, we have to open the straight of horror moves and or they have to open it and it's not open, So why are we even talking? Why do we cease fire? Right? All of that? And I said, well, is it possible that they've achieved, you know, virtually everything on their objective list militarily tactic wise, and they've always said the boots on the ground are going to have to be the Iranians. And then you had the message from the. The Prince the form or the late Shaw's sun res a pa la vi pavla vi whatever, and he put out several statements calling for the National Army to rise up and defend the Iranians against the IRGC. So after that message and then you have the suspension of the air campaign, so the skies are clear, we're not doing bombs runs. That gives the Iranian. People who wished to rise up, that would give them a safe or safer place to maneuver because you're not getting bombed, all right. So I thought I would bring that to you. Positive development there, all right. So back to this study Pediatrics Journal, Yeah, Pediatrics Journal by Sammy matty Ruska. Gender referred adolescents showed significantly higher higher psychiatric morbidity than the control groups, both before referral for psychiatric care and referral for gender dysphoria. Right, so they had higher psychiatric morbidity than non gender dysphoric people of the same age group during the same time the control group was like sixteen thousand people, so they had a higher psychiatric morbidity before referral as well as after. And in fact, those referred had greater psychiatric needs than the earlier cohorts prior to twenty ten, basically because the study went back to nineteen ninety six. A new Finnish study reports that youth gender transitions under the age of twenty three did not improve mental health symptoms. For some youth, medical gender reassignment may have actually had a negative impact. Finland's data, according to the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine says, Finland's data are critical in the current debates on pediatric gender medicine. To our knowledge, Finland is the only country reporting full registry data, which means outcomes are captured for all patients. By contrast, you hear a lot about the Dutch model. Their follow up studies rely on volunteers, and they have a dropout rate in their studies and their research of about half, and that creates a large risk of bias. But Finland doesn't have the dropout rates because it's everybody. A key question is when does the absence of evidence of benefit translate into the evidence of absence of benefit. Back to the study here. Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, so the surgeries, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow up, rising from nine point eight percent to sixty point seven percent after the surgeries. After that's among boys becoming girls, it goes from twenty one or i'll just round up twenty two percent to fifty five percent psychiatric morbidity in the female to male transitioners. So again the whole narrative that we have to agree to do this, this is the way that you protect the mental health of the transgender individuals. That does not seem to be the case at all. In fact, it's the opposite. In their summary, they say gender referred adolescents show high psychiatric morbidity, yet gender differences and mental health trajectories after medical gender reassignment remained poorly understood. These adolescents had markedly higher psychiatric morbidity than the control group before and after referral, with treatment needs often persisting and even intensifying medical interventions, and on some they might even have had a negative impact. Findings emphasize the need for thoroughpsychiatric assessment and ongoing treatment throughout medical gender reassignment. Gender referred adolescents. They say in their rite of that these kids exhibit elevated levels of psychopathology, particularly depression and anxiety. A systematic review of papers published by the end of twenty twenty concluded that among gender referred adolescents, the prevalence of mental health problems, most commonly depression and anxiety, ranged from twenty two percent all the way to seventy eight percent. Subsequent studies confirm similar prevalences, Which is what I have been saying for years, is that this cohort of people, they are already dealing with mental health issues, and they have been sold this lie that oh, it's it's your body, and so change your body and that will fix what's going on in your head. I mean, you're talking almost eight out of ten gender referred adolescents already have depression and anxiety. Well, that's because they're gender confused and whatnot, because they're in the wrong body and all that. Yeah, but what if it's not that. 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Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. So do you send your kids to government schools still? If so, you might want to have a backup plan for COMI Day otherwise known as May first May Day. This is the big communist holiday. Well, I mean, honestly, I mean, if you think about it as an everyday, a holiday for a commie, they don't do any work. I mean, as anyway. The North Carolina Association of Educators totally not a union, but it's a union, is encouraging teachers to call out of work on May first for a mass march in Raleigh to protest for more funding for public schools. Funny side note here, strikes are illegal here in North Carolina. You cannot go on strike as a teachers' union. No, no, it's not not a strike. They say. This is totally not a strike. Not a strike. It is simply a national union organized collective walkout of workers in order to extract concessions from the employer. See it's completely different. NCAE is telling teachers that they need to come to Raleigh during school hours on May first to quote, take back control of public dollars, hold politicians accountable to families instead of donors, and finally put our kids first. So you're so you're gonna march to Raleigh and take back control? Is that sounds kind of insurrectiony? Like what are you planning on doing? A're you gonna do another one of your your mass arrests stunt? You're gonna do that? You're going to like storm the legislative chambers and and like beat up or drag out the lawmakers and install yourselves into power and then pass big budgets for yourselves. Is that the idea, which is very on brand for comedies. Don't get me wrong, but is that the plan? How are you going to be taking back control by playing hooky? By going on strike, sorry, by doing a national unionized union organized collective walkout to extract concessions from the boss. This would be the first mass mobilization organized by NCAE since the he May sixteenth, twenty eighteen and May first, twenty nineteen marches in Raleigh that caused many school districts to close due to not having enough staff to supervise students. Yes. See, when you allow this stuff to occur, you get more of it. NCAE says. The May first march in Raleigh is part of a nationally coordinated effort of no school, no work, and no shopping to coincide with International Workers Day, or as I call it, COMMI Day, first reported by The Carolina Journal. Terry Stoops said, ordinary North Carolinians are going to be the ones that bear the burden if the schools have to close again. He said, quote When unanticipated cancelations occur, working parents must scramble to make arrangements for childcare, students are deprived of a day of learning, and districts hourly workers are robbed of a day's wages. But the president of the NCAAE, Tamika Walker Kelly, said North Carolina parents are already burdened by problems such as having substitute teachers cover their children's classes. But you think that's a burden for the parent. Why would that be a burden for the parent. It's just a sub Like when I would get a sub in school and I would go home and mom would ask, you know, oh I was school today, and I'd say, oh, we had a substitute today, and oh, okay, there was a burden there. My parents were not burdened anytime any of us kids had a substitute teacher. May first is a teacher work day for traditional calendar schools in Wake County, so they already know what's happening, so they're already giving them a teacher work day. So this way parents won't be livid when you know the school has to close. So this way, you got plenty of advance notice that May first, on Comedy Day, your teachers are going to be marching in Raleigh. The NCAAE memo includes a section answering the question won't we be hurting our students by not being in the classroom, and the NCAAE response is the way we hurt our kids the most is by doing nothing and failing to stand up for what is right. Yeah, I don't know. Not teaching the kid how to read seems pretty bad too, right, like losing instructional time for at risk kids. The rally is part of NCAA's Kids Over Corporations campaign. That's what they are calling it the KOC or the I'm just going to call it the KOC. Under state law, public employees are not allowed to go on strike. And they say, no, we're not going on strike. It's just a mass mobilization and we're not refusing to work until all our demands are met. We're just refusing to work on this one day, Okay. They say the May. One march is one way to build their skill and readiness for a more potentially powerful action in the future. So it's a training for them. It's like a teacher training day for them on how to be a commy activist. I guess. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.