Malfunction or Missile?
July 18,
2013 AFP
• High-level insiders say your car can become a
death trap with the push of a computer button
By Ralph Forbes
“Reporter
Assassinated?” was AMERICAN FREE PRESS’s Issue 27, page 1 story
describing the mysterious “accident,” just before investigative journalist
Michael Hastings was going to go underground to avoid government agents trying
to silence him. There is new information uncovered by AFP’s investigators,
however, that tells the chilling rest of the story about the latest weapons in
the Obama administration’s war on journalists and whistleblowers, who have the
courage to tell the truth.
Now,
another brave whistleblower has come forth. He is Richard
Alan Clarke, the former National Coordinator for Security,
Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism for the United States, serving
under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W.
Bush.
Clarke
confirmed AFP’s suspicions about Hastings’s “accident.”
According to Clarke, the car crash, which occurred on June
18, was “consistent with a car cyber attack.” There is reason to believe that
intelligence agencies for major powers—including the U.S.—know how to remotely
seize control of a car.
“What has
been revealed as a result of some research at universities is that it’s relatively
easy to hack your way into the control system of a car, and to do such things
as cause acceleration when the driver doesn’t want acceleration, to throw on
the brakes when the driver doesn’t want the brakes on, to launch an air bag. .
. . You can do some really highly destructive things now, through hacking a
car, and it’s not that hard. . . . So . . . I think whoever did it would
probably get away with it,” Clarke said.
Some of
the spooky ways the government can “get you” have been uncovered by AFP, but
were first revealed by Dr. Kathleen Fisher, a program manager at the
military’s Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency, who wrote recently:
Modern
vehicles consist of between 30 and 100 embedded control units [ECUs],
essentially small computers . . . designed to allow microcontrollers and
devices to communicate with each other within a vehicle without a host
computer. Researchers from [the University California, San Diego] and the
University of Washington showed they could take over all of the functionality
of the car that’s controlled by software. And in a modern automobile, that’s
pretty much everything . . . breaks . . . acceleration . . . even the steering.
[There
are] a variety of ways of [remotely controlling a target vehicle] without
physically touching the car. These attacks involved infecting the computers and
repair shops . . . or hacking into the blue tooth system, or using the cell
phone network [or GPS, OnStar, etc.].
The most
ingenious attack . . . used the stereo system in the car. The researchers were
able to craft an electronic version of a song that played just fine in your
household stereo system or on your personal computer. But when you put that on
a CD and played it in the car CD player, it took over total control of your
automobile. Yeah right—pretty scary, huh?
ECUs are the
ubiquitous targets of Stuxnet, Flame and other computer malware designed by
Israel and the U.S. to control and destroy vehicles, electric power plants,
water and sewage systems, airplanes, drones—everything. Your only defense
against Big Brother’s plots is courageous whistleblowers, journalists—and, in
the words of Washington—Divine Providence.
Ralph Forbes is a freelance writer based in
Arkansas. He is also a member of AFP’s Southern Bureau. Contact him at
rforbes@centurytel.net.
Experts Disagree With Feds Over What Killed
Reporter
• “Official” details of death of Michael
Hastings hotly disputed
By Victor Thorn
Akin to
the highly suspicious “suicide” of freelance journalist Danny Casolaro on
August 10, 1991, the June 18 late-night death of Rolling Stone investigative reporter Michael Hastings is arousing
similar doubts.
Only
hours after sending a panicked email warning that the feds were interviewing
his close friends and associates, Hastings died in a fiery auto accident on a
Los Angeles residential street. Most curious about this incident were reports
that the engine block of Hastings’ Mercedes C250 had been located approximately
150-180 feet from his car.
On July
1, AMERICAN FREE PRESS interviewed automotive engineer Dr. Alexander
Zhukov, Ph.D., who has testified many times as an expert witness.
When presented with the possibility of an engine flying such a great distance
from the hood of a car after supposedly striking a tree at 100 mph, Zhukov
provided this analysis:
“I would
be very surprised. I wouldn’t believe it until I saw it myself. It doesn’t
sound very likely.”
That same
day AFP also spoke with accident reconstructionist Shawn Gyorke of a company
named Crash
Data Services. After describing how the Mercedes C250 ranks as a top
pick by the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety, Gyorke broached the topic of an engine
being ejected such a fabulous distance.
“The odds
are incredibly low,” Gyorke stated. “In fact, it’s beyond the scope of what’s
physically possible. I find it incredibly unlikely.”
Unless—as
various researchers have speculated—some type of missile struck Hastings’
vehicle.
Equally
incredulous were circumstances surrounding the demise of Mr. Casolaro. As
revealed in HILLARY (AND BILL) THE MURDER VOLUME, Casolaro’s
body was discovered in a West Virginia hotel room. His arms and wrists had been
sliced at least a dozen times, with one of the slashes severing a tendon.
Trying to
unravel what he referred to as “The Octopus,” Casolaro pried into the shadowy
realm of JFK’s assassination, Golden Triangle heroin trafficking, George Bush
Sr.’s October Surprise and its relation to Iran-Contra, Mossad spy networks,
and the BCCI bank scandal, among many other related
subjects.
Needless
to say, many powerful international figures came under Casolaro’s scrutiny. On
August 9, 1991, one day prior to his death, Casolaro’s housekeeper received a
phone call where a male voice threatened, “I will cut his body up and throw it
to the sharks.”
Similarly
on June 27, Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs, a friend and confidant of Hastings, revealed during a radio interview:
“He
[Hastings] had been told, if we don’t like what you write, we will hunt you
down and kill you.”
Also, to
counter claims that Hastings drove erratically, Biggs told Megyn Kelly of Fox News on June 25:
“His
friends and family who know him, everyone says he drives like a grandma.”
As a way
of shifting blame away from murder, authorities have posited that Hastings’
Mercedes may have experienced technical difficulties or that he suffered from a
medical condition. Other reports cited Hastings’ alleged history of drunken
driving. However, in a 2012 book Hastings confessed that he hadn’t consumed
alcohol in 10 years. Moreover, mechanics that have weighed in on this case
insist that automobiles today almost never explode into fireballs.
Was
Hastings’ Mercedes tampered with or struck by some type of drone or
projectile in order to create a sensationalized Hollywood movie effect?
Possibly so, especially since Hastings, reminiscent of Casolaro, was working on
articles whose tentacles stretched in dangerous directions, such as lawsuits
against the Department of Defense and FBI, Gen. David Petraeus’ affair, a
whistleblower associated with the group Anonymous, and Obama’s current CIA
Director John Brennan
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