THE STRANGE SUSPENSION OF TRADE OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE: PART ...

I received so many articles from so many people tracking the strange events of the New York Stock Exchange shutdown on July 8, that I simply have to talk about it. I propose an unusual methodology, namely, that it must be viewed in a wider context, not only of other computer glitches that happened in the same exact time frame, but that it also be viewed in the context of a potential relationship to all the bankers' mysterious deaths, deaths which, for me, are murders. Needless to say, the speculation abounds not only as to what happened, but also why, and who might be behind it. And, as always, I have my own high octane speculations about all of it.

First, a review of some of the stories. First, there  was the simple notice that the NYSE had suspended trading due to a "technical glitch". Here is USA Today's version:

NYSE Mysteriously Halts all Trading

In this version, it was merely a "technical glitch" and, as the article points out, trading continued via other venues, including NASDAQ and, one can only assume, the various "dark pools" that have emerged as competition to the NYSE:

Technical issues are being blamed for NYSE trading to shut down at 11:32 a.m. ET. Such outages are extremely rare in U.S. markets – but the halt brings up memories of the August 2013 "Flash Freeze" when trading on the Nasdaq was halted for hours.

Traders on the NYSE floor were standing around looking at blank trading terminals where no bid or offers were being exchanged.

In a statement, the NYSE says: "We're currently experiencing a technical issue that we're working to resolve as quickly as possible. We will be providing further updates as soon as we can, and are doing our utmost to produce a swift resolution, communicate thoroughly and transparently, and ensure a timely and orderly market re-open."

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not have an official statement about the computer outages. However, the agency said there was no immediate indication of a coordinated cyberattack.

It's important to note trading in stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange can continue even when the NYSE is down. Many stocks trade on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq not to mention other dedicated electronic networks.

The article goes on to note that there was a strange "coincidence: in that a "technical glitch" also "halted United Airlines flights around the country for roughly two hours" and that even the Wall Street Journal's website also ceased to function when the NYSE suspended trading.

Those "technical glitches" are truly wondrous things, for they can "explain" by not explaining almost anything, and hence, could be a wonderful non-release of information covering what might really be going on. But we will have to suspend our own trading in high octane speculation for the moment to concentrate on various versions of the story.

As mentioned, the suspension occurred at almost the same time that United Airlines also experienced a "technical glitch":

Travel chaos after 'computer glitch' crashed United's entire reservation system and forced all its flights to be grounded for two hours

As noted in the second article, this was the second incident of United flights being grounded in five weeks, but the grouding coincident with a "similar technical glitch" in the NYSE, plus the statements of a United Airlines spokesman that the airline was experiencing "network connectivity problems" raises big red flags.

Needless to say, various theories also began to be circulated, one of the most convincing appearing on Alex Jones' website Infowars, in a short article by Paul Joseph Watson:

CEO: NYSE Shutdown “Probably” a Cyberattack Suspicions abound about official explanation of 'technical glitch'

In this version of the theory, you'll note that the explanation of a "technical glitch" is because the exchange was shutdown either because (1) trading was suspending to halt any backlash from the meltdown on the Chinese stock market, or (2) was the result of Chinese hacking in "retaliation" for the meltdown, a theory that implies that the USA, or someone within it, might have had something to do with it. On one view, this might make sense, given yesterday's blog about the banker deaths and the role of intelligence agencies within the western system of finance, and their implied ability to hack, and hence manipulate, high frequency trading.

But on closer examination, this too, seems unlikely, since as the first article points out, even though the NYSE had to suspend trading, this neither halted trading through other venues, which in turn, if it was retaliation from China, would seem to have warranted a market-wide attack, and not simply the NYSE.

Which brings us to the final tidbit of information:

Anonymous issued cryptic tweet on eve of NYSE suspension

Now, note that in addition to Anonymous releasing a statement the day before the "technical glitch", that during the suspension of NYSE trading, President Obama was briefed on the incident. I don't know about you, but I find it difficult, if not incredible, that the president would need to be briefed on incidents merely of "technical glitches." If it reaches the president's eyes and ears, then there is something else going on behind the scenes.

As if to sweeten that speculative pot, a day after the "technical glitches", a German patriot missile battery in Turkey experienced a similar phenomenon:

German missile battery receives orders from… unknown ‘hackers’ – report

This last report is worth citing at some length:

The German Patriot air and missile defense systems, stationed at the Turkish border with Syria, have carried out “unexplained” commands allegedly issued by unknown hackers, according to a German media report since rebutted by the government.

The US-produced missile systems, belonging to the German Bundeswehr armed forces and based on the territory of NATO ally Turkey since 2013, have been compromised, according to a report in the German Behörden Spiegel.

As a result, the systems, consisting of six launchers and two radars, reportedly carried out “unexplained” orders, the publication claimed, providing no further information on the kind of commands.

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Compromising military systems is not something that an amateur hacking group would have the skills to do, or would want to admit doing, believes computer security consultant and former UK-based computer hacker Robert Jonathan Schifreen. He told RT that the “unexplained” commands from the hackers mentioned in the report, while “certainly worrying,” could not possibly be anything of much significance.

“These systems are not linked to public networks, they require special codes to fire the missile, which only a certain number of people have, and you generally need the code from two or three people to fire it, or to do anything that is of significance,” Schifreen said. “I don’t think it’s actually happened, which is not to say that some of these systems are not hackable in some way. It is possible in some way perhaps to detect the presence of it, but anything more than that is going to take some serious skills.”

“It is certainly the case that foreign governments, intelligence agencies do try to hack into these systems, and it may well be that the software built into the missile has been compromised in some way by some foreign government,” he added.  (All emphases in the original)

The implications here are clear: (1) US-purchased defense systems might be completely and in the final analysis in the hands of the USA, since they appear to be compromised, and (2) they might also be in the hands of someone else, who is capable of hacking them.

This leaves us, in the space of two short days, with three systems that were radically compromised: (1) the NYSE itself, (2) the United Airlines reservation system, and (3) a German missile defense battery using American-bought equipment.(time for the Bundeswehr, perhaps, to rethink purchases of American military hardware).

And, on top of this, there was (4) a prior statement from the hacking group Anonymous one day before the NYSE "computer glitch",(5) President Obama was briefed on the situation, and finally (6) this all occurs in a wider context of banker deaths and of recent internet cable attacks in California, which one reader here reminded me that, in the guise of attacks and their subsequent repairs, could be the pretext for splicing the cables or introducing other electronic monitoring devices.

So what might all this add up to? That has to wait until tomorrow.

See you on the flip side...

 

 

 

Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

13 Comments

  1. Frankie Calcutta on July 16, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    Discover who buried Gobekli Tepe in rubble over 9000 years ago and you will learn who tampered with the German patriot missile battery stationed to protect the ruins. As it came a day after the technical glitches in the NYSE, I suspect it is retaliation. A message from the destroyers of Gobekli Tepe to the descendants of the Gobekli Tepe priest class: don’t mess with our enslaving finance schemes or we will have ISIS or a Syrian army patsy launch a missile strike and bury Gobekli Tepe once again.

    It looks like the corn god worshippers and the blood god worshippers may be going at it again. The corn god worshippers now feeling emboldened as the Kali Yuga finally ends.



    • goshawks on July 17, 2015 at 12:07 pm

      I have often wondered about the immense effort that was expended to bury the Gobekli Tepe site. For me, it brought up the “Stargate” movie and TV series. In that franchise, natives buried a stargate to keep the baddies from using it.

      I have no idea what Gobekli Tepe was used for, but obviously the natives did not want it ‘live’. Could the continuing exposure of the many ‘rings’ have finally reached some critical ‘minimum’? Just because we do not see it as ‘technology’ does not mean it is not someone else’s technology…



  2. DownunderET on July 16, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    Well something is going on that’s for sure, but the signs are murky and hard to fathom. Cyber war has been around for quite a while and it can happen “at any time”, BUT, it can “be timed” to coincide with “something else”. So it’s my opinion that the “hackers” hit when it hurts most, and as for the US missile hick up well……now where’s that twig of speculation?



  3. goshawks on July 16, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    I am interested in this ‘escapade’ because of where it occurred. Big targets. Important targets.

    ‘Hacks’ of this nature are like one-time-use playing cards. Security teams will inevitably backtrack into the errant code (which permitted entry) and close off that ‘loophole’. Card played. An important card, now lost for future use.

    So, whatever ‘intent’ was behind these hacks, it had to have been important…



  4. basta on July 16, 2015 at 12:18 pm

    To flesh out the big picture, the Wall Street Journal and ZeroHedge websites were also simultaneously hit, and apparently ZH’s servers are in Switzerland, as they reported later that day.

    I think when you factor these concurrent, collateral attacks on finance-related websites into the picture, it seems pretty clear this was a SinoCyber payback for the — perceived or real — Western market sharks using leveraged and naked shorts to put into play the insanely bubblicious Chinese stock market, which had suffered its largest collapse over that prior week, suffering increasingly volatile market drops. The subsequent “regulatory” moves by the Chinese authorities to shore up the market de facto confirm this, as a variety of draconian measures, among them outlawing of short sales, were taken by China (as it should be everywhere, but that of course will never happen in Western casinos).

    As for United AA, that was yet another cyber attack on an airline, very much like we saw last year at LAX, and doubtless UA was put into play to underscore the seriousness of China’s displeasure.

    Regarding the Patriot battery in Germany, I’d not heard of that before and that is very interesting, as even though these systems are obviously not connected to the internet, nonetheless their electronic hardware is mostly manufactured in China and over and again it has been pointed out that China has doubltess built hardwired backdoors into these systems.

    So, in my book this was big cyber play by China in retaliation for what it perceived as the City and Wall Street having popped its stock market bubble.



    • Joseph P. Farrell on July 16, 2015 at 5:20 pm

      Interesting take Basta… you may be right!



  5. DanaThomas on July 16, 2015 at 10:55 am

    Disinfo too has been following a pattern. We have been told for some years that the cyber war (against the “West”) is under way but that “steps are being taken”. I probably missed something, but no SPECIFIC attack is ever mentioned. And when hacking does occur it is put down to a “glitch” – a cute little word that suggests just a minor mishap. But never fear, hacking has, they say, been prevented but exactly WHEN cannot be specified for “security reasons” – like those law enforcement agencies that spend billions for “security” with massive violations of rights, while ensuring the public that they have prevented so much untold harm. But exactly WHAT harm they have allegedly prevented cannot be revealed to the unwashed masses.
    There is something truly Kafka-esque about this mind conditioning.



  6. Robert Barricklow on July 16, 2015 at 9:43 am

    There is a war going on and it’s between the private sector & the public sector; between tyranny & freedom. There are many players within the space vying for control playing off one against another.
    Max Keiser today focuses on the NY Stock exchange in the first half. In the second half he focuses on the threat to the private sector: decentralization. Where the currency of information/money is rendered transparent – giving the public more “muscle” in this information warfare on the globalized battlefield world stage.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRSsH1yqRM

    Episode 784



  7. marcos toledo on July 16, 2015 at 9:06 am

    Or are these false flags for when the USA intends to launch a full scale nuclear war. Against the world and nobody will be able to stop them.



  8. Aridzonan_13 on July 16, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Interesting supposition that the fiber cuts in CA and AZ were covers stories for installing monitoring devices. There is apparently a war going on. However, the Sheeple cannot be made aware of it, for it might hurt some bottom lines. The Break-Away contingent is Spectre’s Moon Raker project on steroids. Ian Fleming was trying to warn us.



    • basta on July 16, 2015 at 12:34 pm

      If during those incidents they were planting monitoring devices, they wren’t very subtle, were they? 😉



      • Aridzonan_13 on July 16, 2015 at 2:25 pm

        Maybe they wanted the insurance to pay for it.



  9. Guygrr on July 16, 2015 at 8:57 am

    Guys, I think Ultron/Legion is “waking up”. Anonymous might be our only hope of stopping him.



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