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Raw Story is reporting today that the shadowy hacktivist group "Anonymous" has proudly announced that it has full control over Iran's servers while releasing thousands of internal government emails. After their manifesto declaring war on the international banking cartel, this turn against one of the only holdouts to joining that cartel raises speculation of their true intent. Raw Story reports the motives as follows:
In a chat with Raw Story, members of Anonymous on the #OpIran server said they were leading the charge because they want Iranians to know they're not alone in their struggle against the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
...Apart from the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the hackers said they were targeting servers containing information about the Kahrizak detention center in Iran, a notorious site human rights campaigners have raised alarms about for years.Anonymous released a video extolling their fight for the human rights work they're doing for the Iranian people:
The extreme level of work and expertise that would have had to go into such a massive cyber takeover would surely be driven by a motive much greater than protecting human rights. Especially given that regimes in Saudi Arabia and Israel have been far more brutal to their local civilian populations than Iran.
This claim reeks of a Western-backed scheme, as it's obvious they have been desperate to figure out a way to get public support for regime change in Iran for decades. And their intentions have nothing to do with democracy or human rights violations and everything to do with banking and oil control, and domination -- both of which "Anonymous" has supposedly declared war on.
Anonymous has tipped their hand with this play and it will cost them huge credibility within the growing movement of fully aware protesters who truly know the score. Iran is not the enemy of the global freedom movement, nor are they remotely an enemy of WikiLeaks, nor are they a threat to cyber infrastructure anywhere. It's obvious that sophisticated hackers have infiltrated Anonymous to incite more conflict with another non-aggressive oil-rich country. In a strange coincidence, the Guardian reported today that 1 in 4 hackers is an FBI informant.
Or, perhaps, the Anonymous group has always been "controlled opposition." Either way, it's clear they'll have a role to play in the unfolding cyberwar -- but it's beginning to appear that they will work for the establishment.
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Good interpretation of the unfolding news story. It looks to me like 'Anonymous' has been the work of the New World Order...
applies to us attitude to china and iran both
Is it China that incarcerates the highest percentage of its population in overcrowded, gang infested prisons or the high and mighty United States? Another no-prize quiz question; Which of the two nations manufactures and sells more weapons to the rest of the world so that wanton destruction, oppression and death is sown for profit in the most desperately poor parts of the globe? Which of the two has the most megacorporations polluting rivers, seas and lakes around the world, or whose big agro-conglomerates are impoverishing native farmers with their monopolies on genetically engineered hybrid seeds?
It wasn't China whose financial gurus threw millions of its fellow citizens out of work permanently with their greed and political bribery. It isn't China that actively supports tyrannical regimes in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain that persecutes, tortures and executes its dissident citizens.
Yes, if you use the arbitrary and cherry-picked standards of the US State Department to judge who violates human rights, China makes the biggest and most convenient target because they're just godless commies, they own our derrieres and they're yellow-skinned to boot. But if one expands the definition of what constitutes true abuse to incorporate the entire gamut of socioeconomic malevolence, the winner, by a Texas mile, stands alone and unchallenged.
So if Americans want to see the real face of human rights abusers, look in the mirror and take a long hard look at a country that denies, ignores and marginalizes its gross and egregious human rights
These various operations are done by different people, all deciding to work under the banner of Anonymous. Contradictions in the actions of Anonymous imply heterogeneity, not duplicity.
"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
Ok - So what is happening here? Anon is a core group of activists with a specific policy and some diverse objective, some in common within the core group members and some relatively individualistic. Surrounding them are a wider group of Activists, some anonymous some not.
Within this wider group there are those that follow the core policy of Anon and others who may deviate widely, but go with the general flow of challenge and change. Some will be in direct communication with Anon, some will be loners and some will belong to other Activist Groups.
Anon have captured the attention of the media and all news is good news, even criticism. They have video productions skills and some measure of structure for distribution of information and for coordinating its actions. They have hacking skills and good knowledge of the workings of the technology and the internet.
They are not alone there are other groups also, perhaps less well known. That does not matter, some do not particularly want to be known about; just the impact and consequences of their actions. Some actions are anarchistic and the general effect of the aligned and non-aligned cooperations have the desired effects and benefit all activists, aligned and unaligned.
At the end of the day, Activism is about showing up the flaws, dishonesties and all out corruptions of the existing systems and body politic. There does not have to be an 'alternative' political philosophy, just the knowledge that things will eventually be ‘naturally’ better, with the extinction of the existing system, even given the reactionaries).
This has always been true, but modern systems / institutions have been particularly good (or bad) at maintaining stagnant systems in which the natural process of change is severely inhibited, resulting in a dangerous level of political and social pressure. The same modern influences have provided even better tools for the activists and these are only just being brought into effective play. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Activists draw upon that constrained energy and seek to burst these bubbles with some embarrassing or disruptive effect; shining a spotlight on the sick, complacent and often abusive social systems. This provides those in particular 'locality', or field of human endeavour, the opportunity to use the disruption & media attention generated.
The fact is that we do not need to 'conspire' in order to coordinate the actions and the effects. Most cooperations are spontaneous and with the internet & texting, it can be quite loose and fluid, one thread of activist activity weaving into & reinforcing othera, each hiding or spotlighting the mechanism of influence, whichever is of advantage t do so at a particular time.
The Activist activities also need to have a element of fun and empowerment for young people also, a good source of renewable energy. The also usefully feed and draw off of existing pubic dissatisfaction and disorganised social action. In addition, other less legitimate activities can come to reinforce the Activists purpose. Criminal elements can attach themselves to social action, even without formally joining them.
The general mechanism of precipitated 'change' (for change sake if you like) and wider impact upon 'social systems' & 'Institutions' is simple enough:
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1) Identify a potential cause and a focus for effecting change of some (any) kind;
2) Initial protest and disruptive action to get attention and hopefully media response.
3) Using immediate public reaction (whatever) to 'feed' the campaign energy.
4) Generate new interest & membership, expanding the activity locally (the focus).
5) Generating copy-cat groups elsewhere (expanding Nationally & Internationally)
6) Broaden and reinforce the 'movement' of activists and the followers of activists (responder).
7) The actions take on a life of their own; in addition to the focused activities & effects.
8) Activities become increasingly legitimised within the ‘normal’ system (as one thread)
9) The chaotic activities & focus of disruption deviate into the more aggressive action (another thread).
10) Multiple threads of relatively independent social action of different character, with widely varying effects and various intended and unintended outcomes, all leading to the eventual destructive collapse of the old system.
This final stage is not the necessary intention of the Activist, except those with a strong Nihilist &/or Anarchist objective (which do exist and will seek those outcomes if there is no change effected; to bring about a satisfactory rebalance of power.
The purpose of most Activists it to arrive at a satisfactory ‘balanced’ result at some stage before stages 9 or 10. Of course we could define the degrees of action more finely, but this model show the general pattern well enough.
The intelligent Activist also knows (and constantly reminds the adversaries - if they are intelligent enough to understand) of the potential of the more Nihilist & Anarchist outcomes, if a satisfactory agreed outcome is not achieved.
Just as in the ‘real world’ social systems failure to effect a ‘change’ (at the earlier phases of generated public unrest) can lead to Violent Revolution &/or increasing levels of Aggressive Criminal Activity, so it is with the ‘virtual systems’ we now have :- )
Well we not have real world and virtual world Activist, Anarchist and criminal activity, in many ways picking up, in turn, on the social dissatisfactions and unrest. Systems, Institutions and Nation have to make calculated decision at which point to climb down & comply with the reasonable demands, before ‘others’ take the stage.
Simples :- )
I find their claim to be very hard to believe since I see no evidence provided by this so-called "Anonymous" group that they have such control. This sounds like typical Israeli-USA propaganda, and nothing more - just like they exaggerate their successes on other things which they in reality failed at.
And so, it begins.
"A group claiming to be part of anonymous" claims to have taken over Irans servers.
Activist post presents this information with no sources.
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I think the vast majority of us Anons would have issues with this. Remember, Anonymous are not a traditional group with a hierarchy - we're an AnarcoCollective. Then you have LulzSec and others doing their own thing apart from us but loosely connected to the same AnarcoCollective ideals within their own groups.
It also means that a government agency could do a cybernetic warfare attack on Iran and then blame it on us. Maybe you should be looking closer to the CIA for these attacks?
Don't be so fast to knock us off as "Controlled Opposition" when we cannot even control what our own associates do, let alone become controlled by a government agency. This is the very ethos of Anonymous - no central control whatsoever - no leaders (although occasionally someone might speak up for us) - and certainly very hard to infiltrate and be steered by a bunch of incompetent spooks who are still stuck in the 19th century...
It also goes to show just how little you understand us. Hang around on our IRA channels, get to know us, stop believing the disinformation.
IRC not IRA... Sheesh
And this comes at a time when Iran announced that they want to disconnect from the Internet. Framed as a means for control, now it looks like they might have known what was coming and might be on the right track: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/29/new-form-censorship-iran-moves-disconnect-internet-world/
Your tinfoil hat may need some adjusting. First of all Anonymous, to the extent it has consistently stood for anything the last 3-4 years, stands for free speech and a free internet. Not a war on global banking, although many of its members hate that system and have carried out various actions.
I think you fail to understand the structure, or rather lack thereof, of Anonymous. What is it? Anonops? Twitter accounts and Facebook pages with the anonymous logo? What about random "anonymous" hackers like Idahc or prof_srs who go after their own governments or hack things for fun? How about Lulz Security? There are thousands of voices in the movement, each seeking to find like minded fellow travelers.
#OpIran, by the way, has been well profiled and consists of ~2 dozen Iranian expatriates who occasionally can motivate several dozen additional anons to help out. And they took over a foreign ministry server and pulled about 10k emails, mostly related to an oil deal.
To all these silly people saying anon is this, anon is that. You just don't get it do you? Therefore, I propose that you
LURK MOAR (It's never enough)
Also go buy a book on Zen. Dissecting Anonymous is just like describing Zen. Not possible.
-"In here, they are everyone, and they are no one"
I have to agree w/Anonymous's comment above. This is a great analysis. And we can add Anonymous to the list of useful idiots like Wikileaks, Facebook and Google.
Useful releasing some documents that reveal our corrupt, psychopath government. Or a great social tool or search engine to find the closest coffee shop. But they also have their share of disinfo.
They throw out some legit bones and when people think they're here to Serve Man, these useful idiots will spring their real intentions to SERVE MAN. Hell of a psyop but very transparent.
Anonymous is just umbrella for heterogenous networks of hackers (and sometimes I have doubts that some operations are done with true hackers because tools for ddos attack can use everybody). OpIran is just one of the many operations. Search for example for OpPalestina...
You know. If you have oportunity to hack something like during OpIran you do it. It is simple.
Of course that some secret service can use Anonymous umbrella. Because all we are Anonymous :))
May be author of this article, Eric Blair, is fake id used by CIA do interrupt AnonOps with rumors :))
So it seems, this Anonymous was more like Bill Ayers, Google, Facebook, and Wikileaks. They ALL are/were working with the CIA, which is the killing arm of the New World Order
Just looking at all the commenters here - oh look, most of us share the same name...do we share the same aspirations?
Put it this way, there could be 3.5billion anonymous groups on the planet... ;-)
Well this one is working for the Neocons
Can anyone list the accomplishments of Anonymous...specifically, what damage have they done to the Banksters?
the west is a full on neocon mind control job but to be honest your idea of iran is very twisted, a deeply sadistic version of relgious control, see the iran/iraq war for the full horror of this cult, million brainwashed fools walk over mindfields thinking they will go to heaven, this is worse in many ways, backwards people (1/3 of the world), the author is rather biased and foolish ;0)
There is an easy way to find out who is running the Anonymous organization. Simply look up who owns the Anonymous(tm) trademark and domain registry. Chances are it all traces back to a PO box in East Palm Beach.
I find the whole 'Anonymous' idea to be very shady...I think it's always been either a government PsyOp, or, more likely, a Jewish one to protect the top Banksters, all of whom are Jewish.
I posed the question above: Can anyone list the accomplishments of Anonymous...specifically, what damage have they done to the Banksters?
Noone knows because no such cyber attacks against the Banksters have ever taken place.
Anonymous = pure PsyOp
Is this really Anonymous? Substantiation? Credible Evidence? Or just hearsay and conjecture?
Back to the writing board to spew out some more misinformation for the 'sheeple'. We love the internet people are so willing to believe anything. Must suck to be you.
I'm off. Too much moral-faggotry here for me. See you around. You can bet on it.
Sounds like Jewish 'Israelis', for destruction of the fairly united Iran is a goal of the Jewish Supremacists. Not 'Western interests' so-called.
Did anyone see the video in which Bill Gates is talking of ways to reduce world population?
If the hacktivist group Anonymous is "disinfo" or "controlled opposition," and they're being used to justify passing Draconian anti-net-freedom legislation, by golly, there's not a thing we can do about it. They will get their Draconian laws whether we push back or not.
Push back, and push back hard. We've got nothing to lose.
Paranoia,
we are not controlled by anyone.
Those who act with others are acting as a group alone.
Your actions do not represent us unless we choose to engage in common ground
I rather doubt that Anonymous is 'controlled opposition', and I'll tell you WHY. When I explain it to you, you'll also understand why the militia movement in the USA has - as a movement - gained zero traction.
Anonymous, like some militias, operates on the principle that anyone/everyone can join and units (or groups) can operate jointly and/or independently of any others. For many years now, the militia movement have said 'come one, come all; and leave your ID at the door'. Nearly every story of a major government takedown of some militia group involved groups with no security, or a group of agents creating a militia out of whole cloth to see who joins, and can be entrapped. The movement's love affair with cellular design (leaderless resistance) and lack of accountability means that some groups calling themselves “militia” are just one step better than the clowns in the 'Occupy' movement.
However, the Occupy Wall Street movement - along with some 'Tea Party' groups - are genuine examples of controlled opposition, either by design or through being co-opted.
If you were interested in joining a militia group, would you join one where there's no roster because no one was vetted before joining? (Think about this a bit, because there will be a test later on.)
So, since Anonymous is "anyone, anywhere" and "all of us, but no one", it stands to reason that all the government needs to discredit the movement is to assign its 'staff hackers' to whatever needs to be done. While I certainly think the 1 in 4 figure is solid, it could become 1 in 3 if enough hackers are lured into hacking for a steady government paycheck.
Another angle to consider is the fact that many young hackers join the military, because everyone knows today's military has a HUGE 'need for nerds'. In 2009, the military created a whole new combatant command called USCYBERCOM, actually ripping a page from Tom Clancy's future-fiction thrillers. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Command )
SINCE THE U.S. MILITARY HAS AN ENTIRE COMMAND DEDICATED TO CYBER-WARFARE, WHO'S TO SAY THAT FALSE-FLAG ACTS OF CYBER WARFARE AREN'T ALREADY BEING DONE BY OUR MILITARY, AND BLAMING IT ALL ON AN AMORPHOUS COLLECTIVE THAT HAS NO MEMBERSHIP ROSTER?
And since Anonymous predates USCYBERCOM by six years and was spawned from 4chan (thank you, /b/!) I seriously doubt that it could be 'controlled opposition'. Controlled opposition, by definition, has to be created by the entity that is controlling it. Therefore, controlled opposition cannot predate that which created it.
But we all know that governments prefer to use (or blame) third-party proxies for the things they can't be caught doing in the open. I don't think that it's a coincidence that the Stuxnet worm first appeared just when USCYBERCOM was established. Read infoworld.com/print/137598 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Speculations_about_the_target_and_origin
This latest example of hacking against Iran has 'U.S. Military' stenciled all over it.
Let's face it, as long as there's Anonymous, CYBERCOM is going to camouflage its digital warfare as acts perpetrated by Anons everywhere. New World Order elites will use this as a pretext to censor and limit our digital freedoms in ways you can't yet imagine! So, as far as I'm concerned, Anonymous needs to step up its game. They are the digital militia that needs to stand up to the CYBERCOM redcoats before it screws up the interwebs for all of us.
Well there was Operation Israel, but I don't know of Anonymous is against Zionist, that is, the extremism view that all Jews are the rightful rulers of the world.
Anonymous also helped Palestine by giving first-aid translations in both english and arabic, internet tools etc and an effort to keep the internet up like they did in Egypt.
This is an extremly biased article.
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