Desperate for a reason to invade Iran, the US military establishment is using its latest bugbear of cyber warfare as its latest pretext.
Last week the US military warned that it could act to stop a cyber war and Defence Secretary Leon E. Panetta said that the United States was at risk of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor." This followed early mutterings that cyber war could be could be countered with conventional weaponry a year ago.
Now according to the New York Times, US spooks have claimed that Iran was the place of origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States.
Instead of weapons of mass destruction, US spooks have focused on a "cybercorps" that Iran's military created in 2011. This was partly in response to American and Israeli cyberattacks on the Iranian nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz.
The attacks emanating from Iran have been modest and the country is a lot weaker than China and Russia. But the US does not want desperately to go to war with China or Russia.
However the US does feel the need to get involved anytime that oil is mentioned.. The biggest hack was on Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company. The War on Iraq was against the Saudi's enemies and an oil rival and now it seems that that the Saudis are not big fans of Iran either.
Aramco, the Saudi state oil company, has been bolstering supplies to customers who can no longer obtain oil from Iran because of Western sanctions.
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It seems the accusers are the perpetrator.
So now USA can use tools like Stuxnet etc to hit Iran, but if Iran hits back in kind that is somehow terrible.
"Don't do as we do, do as we say".
When there is a dimension which is not only infinite but is the only reality, being blind or blinded to it means being blind to Truth. As such, when Truth is lacking, whatever one may do in the name of this, that or the other is merely of-for Frivolity & Nonsense. One reason why death is not only inevitable, it is merely another opportunity for being singularly-natured when the present opportunity for truth is coming to its sell-by-date. The sad thing is that once Reality is revealed after one had reverted to The Spiritual, the opportunity for rebirth is neither open to debate nor for bargaining although should one makes the grade, one has the option of choosing one's future parents within a strict and narrow band commensurating with one's Spiritual Bank deposit [which does not accept the counterfeit money of Religion & Religiosity]. Hence the need for instituting-sanctifying marriage, regardless of the edifice of "love" & "care" working behind the expectations-demands of the blind-blinded Fathering Mothers and their Mothering Father lackeys. Should the above be true and is not some mumbo-jumbo fairytale, what then is the meaning of existence? Much like those scanning for gender type during gestation, it is all about illusion-delusion, illusion being the attempt at fixing the future with delusion being fixed by the past.
As such, when the idiotic is tusseling with the lunatic, you'll not only get the reversal of roles, which is dependent on the moment, but also the attempt at substituting Truth with partial truths, the latter being the truth which has neither a beginning nor an ending. Just like partial humans, those who have yet to realised where they came from or where they'll be going to which is why they are always spinning round-and-round as they tenaciously hold onto their medals for this, that and the other up to the moment when Reality/Spirituality is realised. When it comes to the moment of the snipping of The Mortal Coil, those who see White Light are travelling along The [Sanctioned] Centre whereas those who see Darkness/Fear are travelling on The Left and with those on The Right seeing only Colours/Greed [of the psychedelic, those who had lived life "to the full", those who are the white, tall, dark, handsome, blue-eyed, ambitious supermen who are chosen to lie, cheat, posture, preach, re-present, etc. Those who are leaders at being duplicitously wicked. Those who find The Collective Supraconscious exciting enough not to return to have another stab at being truthful, the gateway to being Of Truth. Those who find animalism most appealing. And may they live even more interesting lives before it all fizzles out to only God knows what].