A massive co-ordinated series of cyber attacks has forced hundreds of major websites from Amazon to Twitter offline across the globe - and WikiLeaks believes its supporters were responsible.
It urged its backers to 'stop taking down the US internet', saying 'Mr Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing'.
It then tweeted: 'The Obama administration should not have attempted to misuse its instruments of state to stop criticism of its ruling party candidate.'
The Ecuadorian government switched off Assange's internet service in its UK embassy Sunday after he released another tranche of emails showing the contents of a speech given by Hillary Clinton to Goldman Sachs.
WikiLeaks accused John Kerry and the US Government of asking Ecuador to shut down Assange's internet connection, but the South American country denied it came under any pressure from the US or any other government.
The Department of Homeland Security has already launched an urgent investigation into the Friday's crash, amid claims it could be a precursor to an attempt to disrupt the US Presidential election further.
The White House called the disruption malicious and a hacker group claimed responsibility, though its assertion couldn't be verified.
Internet service company Dyn, which controls the 'address book' of the internet for dozens of major companies, said that it had suffered its first denial of service (DDoS) attack shortly after 6AM ET (11AM BST), in an attack that mostly affected the east coast of the US.
It told CNBC the attack is 'well planned and executed, coming from tens of millions of IP addresses at same time.'
Despite WikiLeaks' claims its supporters were behind the attacks, members of a shadowy collective that calls itself New World Hackers claimed responsibility for the attack via Twitter.
They said they organized networks of connected 'zombie' computers called botnets that threw a staggering 1.2 terabits per second of data at the Dyn-managed servers.
'We didn't do this to attract federal agents, only test power,' two collective members who identified themselves as 'Prophet' and 'Zain' told an AP reporter via Twitter direct message exchange.
Dyn first became aware of an attack Friday morning, focused on data centers on the East Coast of the U.S. Services were restored about two hours later. But then attackers shifted to offshore data centers, and problems continue.
The second attack broadened its net, affecting the U.S. West Coast. 'Prophet' of New World Hackers said hacktivists of the broad, more amorphous Anonymous collective piled on in the third wave on Friday afternoon.
In a little over two weeks, we're going to find out whether we have a country anymore. If Hillary Clinton seizes the White House, she will preside over an illegitimate, illegal dictatorship that was seized through massive fraud, collusion and corruption at every level.
Without all the fraud, collusion and corruption, Hillary Clinton would have been indicted for criminal violations of national security. She would be down 20 points in the polls, and the media wouldn't be covering up all her crimes and failures. Without the collusion, Hillary Clinton wouldn't have known all the TV debate questions ahead of time. The voter "panels" wouldn't have been coached by Clinton operatives to regurgitate rehearsed comments, and the official media polls wouldn't have been rigged to construct the appearance of widespread Clinton support.
Every element of this election is so rigged, so illegal and so fraudulent that if Hillary Clinton "wins" this vote, the Presidency of the United States will be null and void.
As Wikileaks accurately states in this tweet, "There is no US election. There is power consolidation. Rigged primary, rigged media and rigged 'pied piper' candidate drive consolidation."
As Wikileaks accurately states in this tweet, "There is no US election. There is power consolidation. Rigged primary, rigged media and rigged 'pied piper' candidate drive consolidation."
"Sadly, it is difficult to disagree with the assessment," adds Zero Hedge. "That an establishment democratic candidate could endure an extended FBI investigation, in which multiple federal laws were clearly and intentionally broken, and clear evidence of corruption and collusion between the FBI and State Department is mind boggling. Throw in evidence from WikiLeaks clearly linking the DNC to criminal efforts to incite violence at rallies, numerous examples of pay-to-play activities at the Clinton Foundation, blatant media collusion, etc, etc, and it actually becomes quite frightening."
All this explains why Donald Trump should openly and firmly reject the results of a fraudulent election. It is not anti-democratic to do so, by the way, when your opponent despises democracy and has rigged the entire election from the start to obliterate democratic principles.
What's clear right now is that democrats hate democracy. They despise a free and fair election because they don't trust the voters to elect democrats unless massive fraud is involved. This demonstrates, by the way, just how much the democrats know their own leaders are hated by the voters. (It's also why democrats can never run for office by telling the truth of what they plan to do. Case in point: Hillary's ridiculous claim that she "will not add a penny" to the national debt.)
As Selwyn Duke writes in The New American, "No, Trump Should Not Accept the Results of a Possibly Stolen Election."
Reality No. 1: There is vote fraud.
Reality No. 2: Since there's vote fraud, it's possible an election -- especially a close one -- could be stolen.
Reality No. 1: There is vote fraud.
Reality No. 2: Since there's vote fraud, it's possible an election -- especially a close one -- could be stolen.
Are we there yet, Abba?
ReplyDeleteYou do notice that only "alternative" sites were taken down. Lol. I will know it's a real cyber attack from Russia when they take down all the msn and leave the alts up and running. :)
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