Spear Phishing and Drone War amid The Election

“War is the continuation of politics by other means.” AUGUST 12, 2024 THE WIGGIN SESSIONS A GREY SWAN PUBLICATION Spear Phishing, Drone War and The Election “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” – Carl von Clausewitz --------------------------------------------------------------- [Exciting News: You’re now seeing Grey Swan Investment Fraternity branding for this email, representing our new mission. There's nothing you need to do on your end to continue receiving your emails. Our "new look" simply better represents our goal of delivering you deeper access to the Grey Swan intelligence community — and warn you of potential low-probability, but high-impact events. Watch for the Grey Swan website soon!] [Turn Your Images On] Addison Wiggin Founder, Grey Swan Reader, August 12, 2024 – We were preparing to release our latest interview with Grey Swan contributor John Robb, when a few news items crossed the transom. Over the weekend, the Trump campaign announced that “foreign sources hostile to the United States” had accessed some private communications and documents from its network using AI modules. A Microsoft report corroborated, announcing hacker groups connected with the Iranian government “sent a ‘spear phishing’ email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” The report continues: "They've laid the groundwork for influence campaigns on trending election-related topics and begun to activate these campaigns in an apparent effort to stir up controversy or sway voters—especially in swing states. [And] launched operations that Microsoft assesses are designed to gain intelligence on political campaigns and help enable them to influence the elections in the future." Microsoft added that an Iranian group has been launching covert news sites targeting US voter groups on opposing ends of the political spectrum: One of the sites, called Nio Thinker, caters to left-leaning audiences and insults former president Donald Trump, calling him an "opioid-pilled elephant in the MAGA china shop" and a "raving mad litigiosaur." Another, called Savannah Time, claims to be a "trusted source for conservative news in the vibrant city of Savannah" and focuses on topics including LGBTQ+ issues and gender reassignment. The evidence we found suggests the sites are using AI-enabled services to plagiarize at least some of their content from US publications. The cynic presumes the worst. In our “wag the dog” scenario, we immediately suspected the “news” had been pounced on by the Trump campaign because the “honeymoon” period of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz trying to rally the Democratic base was stealing headlines from their own post-assassination-attempt, Republican National Convention, and JD Vance announcement buzz. Either way, another news report from the Associated Press indicates, “U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and is telling the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to sail more quickly to the area, the Defense Department said Sunday.” As we track government spending, the national debt cresting $35 trillion, and the real motives for conflict in Ukraine, Israel and all across the Middle East, the motives for various details get murky. “We’re in a networked world,” we’ve only recently noted to Mr. Robb. “Can the U.S. even win a forever war? Or is it just perpetually expensive.” His response was not very encouraging. John Robb: The US has been trying to manage the global situation for quite a while and has been doing a relatively bad job of it. Top-line governments and nation-building stuff tend to backfire and haven’t yielded the results that we wanted. But now we see something relatively more dangerous. We’re already on an almost inevitable course towards conflict with China and Russia and most of Asia. During the buildup, China has been producing a lot of drones. They have the capacity to produce millions per month. And right out of the starting gates and they could use those drones to supply groups like the Houthis that are hard to attack because they are relatively remote. Yet, the Houthis can use those drones or any group like that could use those drones to erect aerial denial blockades of sea air and land upwards of 500 to a thousand miles distant from their location. Seems like a minor detail, but moving a submarine into the Mediterranean capable of launching long-range cruise missiles is an escalation – during a critical election already besieged with AI-induced “misinformation”... well, it’s caught our attention. We’ll reveal more of our wide-ranging discussion with John tomorrow. His insights into “netwar” are alarming, at best. --------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By Grey Swan [2478 everyday investors shared $1,123,615 net profit on a Monet]( [Turn On Your Images.]( Now you might be thinking: “what the heck are you talking about?” But keep reading, because this investment platform's users are already smiling all the way to the bank. Thanks to Masterworks, the award winning platform for investing in blue-chip art. Every single one of Masterworks’ 16 sales has returned a profit to investors, for a 100% positive net return track record. 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