Feds Admit Water Pump Failure Was Not Cyber Attack

November 24th, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

DHS advisor hastily told Washington Post incident was foreign cyber attack

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wedneday, November 23, 2011

Despite a Department of Homeland Security advisor hastily telling the Washington Post that foreign hackers were responsible for the failure of a pump at an Illinois water plant earlier this month in a bid to drum up support for more government control over the Internet, federal authorities have been forced to admit that there is no evidence to support the claim.

“Curran-Gardner water district officials are happy that federal officials have ruled out a cyber attack as the cause of a water pump failure at the district,” reports The State-Journal Register.

“The whole thing was a general pain,” Don Craven, a trustee of the Curran-Gardner Township Public Water District, said Tuesday.

“First, they tell us that it’s the first instance of cyber hacking in the entire world, and everyone goes nuts. Now, all of a sudden, they tell us it’s not.”

DHS and FBI officials have confirmed that they have discovered no evidence of cyber intrusion or any other malicious activity by foreign or domestic hackers.

This marks a stark contrast to reports last week, which focused around the alarmist rhetoric of Homeland Security advisor Joe Weiss, who told the Washington Post, “This is a big deal….It was tracked to Russia. It has been in the system for at least two to three months. It has caused damage. We don’t know how many other utilities are currently compromised.”

The Post ran the story under the headline, Foreign hackers targeted U.S. water plant in apparent malicious cyber attack, expert says. Although the newspaper cited a report obtained by Weiss that was “unknown and impossible to immediately verify,” they still ran with the story, setting off an onslaught of subsequent fearmongering about how more cybersecurity powers were essential to prevent further attacks.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Indeed, on Monday Weiss was back in the news, telling the Toronto Star that the “attack” was “scary” and had “enormous implications” for infrastructure security.

As the Activist Post pointed out last week, the incident was hastily used to drum up support for increasing cybersecurity powers and government control over the Internet, before the true cause of the pump failure had actually been confirmed.

As we have previously reported, the threat to public infrastructure from cyber terrorism has been greatly exaggerated by authorities as part of en effort to justify increased state control over the world wide web and mandate a figurative kill switch for the Internet.

However, the most damaging cyber attack launched to date, the Stuxnet worm, was the work of the United States and Israel, the two countries most urgently pushing for cybersecurity powers to curb cyber attacks.

After months of so-called “experts” blaming Stuxnet on foreign powers or cyberterrorists, the New York Times reported in January that the attack was “A joint project between the Americans and the Israelis, with some help, knowing or unknowing, from the Germans and the British.”

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.

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39 Responses to “Feds Admit Water Pump Failure Was Not Cyber Attack”

First snow fall of the season, I go take a walk take some fresher air.When I come back, i open the computer and what time shows up in the bottom right corner? 11:11

Coincidence right? well the past 3 years has been nothing but 11:11 coincidences.

I pray every day that all the good souls serving in the now corrupt military forces all over this planet wake up and understand that the only way of ending the war lords regime is by deserting the military massivelly? or at the least arresting those giving orders to wage war on others.

Until that day arrives, humanity sinks more and more towards hell with Satin and Lucifers disciples.

That ain’t where I want to go.

Vic Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 9:19 am

Meanwhile Dr Ron Pauls has the message of truth, liberty and peace.Mainstream will do anything to limit him to deliver his message.That includes ignoring his views, ridiculing him like the chills on that stage try to do every now and then when he speeks the truth about bring the troops home, protect our borders and lets mind our own business.

It is plain to see those in power do not want to mind there business.They want to invade our lives and those of the rest of this planet.

will the people listen and join Ron Paul? I guess we shall all see this together.

Vic Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 9:20 am

May the foces of the creator Goodness GOD protect DR Ron Paul and those who will deciide to join Ron Paul for the quest for peace in a free world.

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:11 am

YOU ARE A NUT, 11.11 MEANS YOU ARE A DUMBASS.

Matrix5 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:27 pm

Ron Paul is all alone
No God here

peaceonearth Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:21 am

juat set your clock on you pc 8 or 12 hours ahead, it keeps the spy jew bastards guessing , it set itself back to the right time once well see if it happens again

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:20 pm

WHAT DO THEY CALL THE WORLD YOU 2 LIVE IN ?
Why is the gov’t giving up so easily on such an excellent escapade?
Are there no “men in black” that possess mad internet haxxoring skills and some
SCADA chops? Apparently no. A Pity. If only some of the MIB could multitask a bit, this
gambit could have yielded excellent results. Ok, so the first claim of “internet enabled
sabotage” was a bit loosey goosey…”they” could have followed up with a “real” attack;
if only “they” had a little more..enthusiasm for their oh so secret job.

Oh, no matter. “They” will find some excuse to tighten up “internet security”.
Then pass a new law or three to ensure that “such sabotage does not happen again!”.
No one enters the Infobahn without some biometric enabled “passkey”.
Can’t have an information system where people are running around semi-anonymously
now can we? Very messy, that sort of thing. We shall have Order on this Network…
or WE shall shut it down.

Billo Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:14 am

Maybe they can have cyber TSA units that grope you from your computer?

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:20 pm

A PROBE YOU SHOVE UP YOUR ASS.
Paul Craig Roberts is on today. That is the best news I have had today.

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:11 am

I THOUGHT HE QUIT ?

SEE, NO-ONE MEANS WHAT THEY SAY ANYMORE.
I am beginning to think it is too late, Ron Paul or not. I think we are just going to have to go through what we are going to have to go through.

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:12 am

REALITY SINKS IN, BETTER PREPARE.
“First, they tell us that it’s the first instance of cyber hacking in the entire world, and everyone goes nuts. Now, all of a sudden, they tell us it’s not.”

Well let’s just see about how well the MSM tells us it wasn’t.

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:13 am

I GOT A FLAT YESTERDAY AND I AM CONVINCED IT WAS SADDAM BIN LIADEN MCVEIGH OSWALD WHO DONE IT.

DAMN LIZARD PEOPLE !

Noktirnal Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 2:02 pm

Don’t bring uncle Timothy into it….
OMG my coffee pot was hacked by Rooskies this morning. It came on all by itself. What’s that, my wife set the timer?
Just goes to show they wanted to see how far the lie would go , and people did not go for it .
you know i hate to inform homeland security but if a Russian hacker was going to attack us they are safe because all the American ones have a pride thing and wouldn’t allow it to happen…duh we live here why would we allow them to harm our home…idiots..

billp Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:32 am

I know, but a water pump??? Don’t you think we should worry about things that are actually on line? And fuck you and your name calling.
Is DHS trying to paint Russia as an enemy?? One may think after seeing the RT anchor flip the bird at Odumba that relations may not be that good. But why? Maybe Dr. H at NASA knows.
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TWC HEATHER THE STAR OF THE NATION SOMES SHINING THORUGH

Smile Miss America. The free world loves you. I don’t know about NBC.

reconscoutsniper Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 5:04 pm

Beast, hope you got the message about meeting with us at the oldhippie site before posting any coordinates.

Let us know. Hope to see you at the OH site. Use the PM system if you decide to go there.

Bravo2….out
Homeland Security advisor Joe Weiss

you need to be jailed for perjury and trying to create an international incident.
this is far worse than yelling “FIRE” in a theater to cause a panic.

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:14 am

THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO CREDIBILITY, THE FIRST THING THE WORLD SAYS IS.
BULLSHIT.
Joe Weiss, Holder and Napalitano need to go. They are all inciting fear, arming drug lords and are liars. They should be tried for treason, not given a pass. If Washington cannot take care of treasonous people and remove them then from office the people should have the right to do so. They work for us, not the other way around. This entire federal government is going to collapse regardless because of their own actions and I will savor that moment for the rest of my life. Because only then can America rebuild itself minus all of this federal government’s corruption, greed and lack of leadership and their goal for a dictatorship. They can all go to hell and when the federal government does collapse they better hide because there wont be any agency to protect them any longer and they’d be hard pressed to buy their own security when everyone will be scrambling to protect their own.
When some people lie every day on purpose to either feed their egos or to gain power over others, they begin to lie automatically without forethought of consequence. I think that these officials want us to be confused and question their words to the point of not believing them at all. And also, we will not believe other foreign leader’s statements either. They want us uninformed and in a state of complacency. Another attack on our thinking processes and common sense.

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:51 am

I FORGET THE MOVIE.

BUT A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THESE DANGEROUS POWER FREAK NUTS.

WAS THAT GUY STANDING ON TOP OF BURNING GAS STORAGE TANKS YELLING, I’M ON TOP OF THE WORLD.

AND THEN THEY EXPLODED.
Those telling their lies are children of Satan and should be removed from power immediately.
I TOLD YOU SO last Saturday – November 19, 2011! ☺

[[h**p://www.prisonplanet.com/cyberattack-traced-to-russia-damages-illinois-public-water-facility.html
AFP: “burned out pump..at a public water system in..Illinois..traced to a computer in Russia..[by]Applied Control Solutions”

Between_the_lines: LOL! Consulting firms are now making a good living blaming NWO-holdout nations every time a water pump burns out in a public water system! ☺

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captian obvious: who’s to know whether it wasnt just attacked through a Russian proxy?

Between_the_lines:
Who’s to know whether it was attacked at all?
Who’s to know the water pump didn’t just burn out like they regularly do, and the NWOers used it as an opportunity to call in a consulting outfit to blame a nation they don’t like? ]]

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:03 pm

OH WOW, YOU THE MAN, YOU KNEW IT WAS ALL BULLSHIT

WELL……..

SO DID EVERYONE ELSE DUDE.

between_the_lines Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:23 pm

Ad-hominem response.

For those of you who came in late – reconscoutsniper is the resident cyberstalker and abusive ad-hominem artist. He use uses many IDs including “Before the Fall”, “Super Duper Man”, “Mr Green”, “Tom”.

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:24 pm

NOT ANOTHER NAME IDIOT.

NO, SNIPER IS A PERSON ALL HIMSELF.

AS I AM ONE SINGLE PERSON. THIS ISNT A CONSPIRACY. IT’S REALITY.

YOU ARE IMAGINING THINGS DUDE. , GET A GRIP.

NO-ONE CAUSES MORE A FUSS THEM ME, I ALONE GET ALL THE CREDIT GOING BACK TO ALEX JONES.COM IN 93.

I AM THE KING…….. ORIGINALLY PATRIOT 93

Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:25 pm

I HAVE BEEN BANNED MORE TIMES THEN YOU HAVE TIED YOUR SHOES IN THE LAST 18 YEARS !

between_the_lines Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 3:20 pm

yet another Ad-hominem response.

For those of you who came in late – reconscoutsniper is the resident cyberstalker and abusive ad-hominem artist. He use uses many IDs including “Before the Fall”, “Super Duper Man”, “Mr Green”, “Tom”.

reconscoutsniper Reply:
November 23rd, 2011 at 4:39 pm

@ Between_his_ass_crack with a cucumber wedged in it.

You are one ignorant mother fucker. Up till about two weeks ago, SDM1776 and I were at odds. You would have known that except for the fact that you “think” you know something, but, in reality, you know nothing at all.

That makes you the fool for “ASSuming”. Hey professor! Still got that “pop gun” of yours, shit for brains?

Well! What are you waiting for? You said you knew where I lived at and just who I was.

So, what the fuck is stopping you? Bring your sorry cowardly ass on down here and pay me a call. Go ahead, shoot me if you think you can or shut your god damned cowardly communistic mouth. You just a yellow fucking big mouth commie coward, same as all the rest.

Fuck you very much professor. Your “ad-hominem” bullshit doesn’t cut it at the “reality level”.

Sell your commie bullshit at the “U.”. It doesn’t work here at PP.

We are adults here. Not 18-22 year old “goof balls” that are influenced by your brand of horse shit. IE Get fucked.

Bravo2…..out
Yay caps!
As long as the government thinks people are stupid, they’ll pull this crap off to no end. I knew from the get-go the pump was short cycling possibly on over-load protection. Usually, there’s a reset switch that locks it out until service is rendered, but obviously everyone at the helm was asleep, and probably could care less. Keep in mind, municipal water plumbing is a Union job, they love over-time ! If it falls on Thanksgiving, that’ll be double-time and a half !
My fridge freezer failed (electric start motor capacitor burnt out) during the recent snow storm black out when I hooked it up to a generator. Obviously, it was hacked by a cyber warrior based in North Korea. What I cannot figure out was how it was done as the Internet wasn’t working at the time. Did anyone else experience this and failed to inform the local DHS threat fusion center?

Even more disturbing was the reaction of the DHS official when I told him of the advances the North Koreans have made having moved on from remote viewing to the point that these North Koreans can kill my Fridge freezer from the other side of the planet. It sure beats the DoD capability of being able to kill a goat by staring it out.