China behind massive nationwide SIM farm network that directly threatens American critical infrastructure

Bad news! However, how serious is this threat? But the scale of this Chinese clandestine operation is breathtaking!

I am not sure the KGB of the former Soviet Union ever pulled off something quite like this! Or during the Cold War the KGB showed more restraint than the Chinese counterpart post Cold War?

Maybe reading the The Art of War by Sun Tzu is recommended!

The Open Society and Its Enemies!

"The discovery of SIM farms that threatened cellular networks in New York City is only the tip of a massive nationwide network run by the Chinese Communist government that poses an immediate threat to critical American infrastructure and has led to terrorist acts including hoax SWAT raids at the homes of national leaders, Blaze News has learned.

Sources in the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. intelligence community said these SIM card networks were operating in the United States as early as 2004. They have proliferated exponentially since President Donald J. Trump was re-elected to the presidency in November 2024. ...

“The only reason we found this network is because a senior Secret Service official was targeted for a SWAT raid,” the source said. “Otherwise, this investigation would have never been initiated.”

No U.S. intelligence or law enforcement agency detected the secret network, nor did the three major wireless carriers in the U.S., AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

Homeland Security Investigations led raids that disrupted five SIM farm sites in the Tri-State area of New York City just before the United Nations General Assembly, where President Trump spoke Sept. 23. The raids led to seizure of more than 300 co-located servers and more than 100,000 SIM cards. ...

A nationwide network using millions of SIM cards operated by China has the capability to wipe out communications across entire regions with a cyberattack; target large lists of victims for hoax SWAT calls; act as chatbots to interact with teens and young adults in online forums such as Reddit; and operate identity-theft rackets, among other applications. ...

The SIM farms can cost $10-$15 million annually per location to operate, but they actually make money because criminal organizations including drug cartels and scammers are allowed to use the networks, the source said. A site with 100 SIM gateway boxes can generate $240,000 per month in profit. ..."

Exclusive: China behind massive nationwide SIM farm network that directly threatens American critical infrastructure | Blaze Media "Millions of linked SIM cards carry out surveillance, target leaders for harm, and should be considered ‘acts of war.’"

Washington DC radio station took $4.4 million from Chinese Communist Party to broadcast propaganda

This is most likely only the tip of the iceberg on how the Communist Party of China is subversively attempting to influence public opinion in Western countries.

I suspect that many of the very divisive and controversial subjects permeating the daily discourse in Western countries are also promoted by the CPC (and other authoritarian enemies) to fuel the flames of division in free, open societies. Or how do you explain e.g. the many fellow travelers and useful idiots in Western societies. Are they just naive or are they being handsomely paid for by our authoritarian enemies. 

DC radio station took $4.4 million from Chinese Communist Party to broadcast propaganda - TheBlaze

MIT professor charged with grant fraud, allegedly accepted $29 million from China

This is quite an eye catching headline! An MIT mechanical engineering and nanotechnology professor? Even the president of MIT L. Rafael Reif saw it necessary to come out with a statement in response to that!

One has to suspect that the infiltration/subversion of Western countries by the Communist Party of China goes much further/deeper and is much more pervasive! Unfortunately, many honest Chinese researchers probably will now be more scrutinized.

"An MIT professor who allegedly hid his relationship with the Chinese government while securing millions of dollars in grants from the U.S. and abroad was arrested and charged with fraud on Thursday, according to U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling.

Gang Chen, 56, of Cambridge was charged by criminal complaint with wire fraud, failing to file a foreign bank account report and making a false statement in a tax return.

Over the past eight years, Chen has allegedly received $19 million in U.S. federal grants and $29 million in foreign funding, and did not disclose his work with China to MIT or the U.S. government. ...
but [the professor] actively worked to further the goals of the Chinese government while employed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... Chen, an expert in nanotechnology "

MIT professor charged with grant fraud, allegedly accepted $29 million from China

Distressing news about Professor Gang Chen President Reif updates the community about Chen, a widely respected scholar and faculty member, regarding his arrest on allegations of federal grant fraud.

Chinese infiltration of US labs caught science agencies off guard

Why are western societies so open, trusting, and naive when it comes to authoritarian regimes like Russia, Iran, or China!

Chinese infiltration of US labs caught science agencies off guard: China has diverted US government funds to bolster its military and economic aims, a US Senate panel says.

How Russia Subverts The West

Posted: 8/28/2017

From The CIA To The KGB

Always keep in mind Vladimir Putin is a former KGB officer and former director of the successor organisation of the KGB, i.e. the FSB.

A systematic imbalance: Thanks to freedom of speech and democracy, we have learnt much more about the activities and operations of Western foreign intelligence services like the CIA or the British MI6 (now SIS), then we have learnt about the foreign intelligence services of closed dictatorships like former USSR or today’s Russia, China, or Iran.

Or has the West learnt more about its own foreign intelligence services because of deliberate operations of the intelligence services of those dictatorships to undermine the West?

Anyway, whatever covert operations or activities the CIA or other Western intelligence services were able to undertake, we can safely assume that the KGB or other intelligence services run by dictatorships are very comparable if not worse, because they do not have to fear much scrutiny by political parties or opponents.

The Extent Of Subversion In The West

Perpetrated By Dictatorial Foreign Intelligence Services

Is Probably Largely Underestimated

There are a number of reasons for this systematic underestimation:

1. Open societies allow foreign intelligence services to operate much easier and in many different ways
2. For instance, financial support by foreign intelligence services to groups or individuals to to foment public discord is often very difficult to uncover
3. Foreign intelligence services are much more ruthless when it comes to cover up (including murder, harm to family members) etc.
4. Defectors of these foreign intelligence services are fairly rare, or are eliminated, or they need so much protection that the public in the West will not learn about their disclosures for long times (decades)
5. The hands of Western counterintelligence services are for good reasons severely tied behind their backs when it comes to investigate, prevent, or uncover operations or activities by foreign intelligence services directed at political activists or activist groups. Not to mention that Western counterintelligence services are already quite busy to prevent espionage and potential sabotage operations

Two Recent Articles About Russia’s Involvement With U.S. Environmentalist Groups

For sake of brevity, I will not discuss these two articles here.

Lawmakers Cite Evidence Russia ‘Colludes’ With US Green Groups to Block Fracking

CIA Veteran Sees Russian Connection to 2 Groups Opposing Fracking, Pipelines

A New Analysis On Western Movies

A New Book From The Ludwig Von Mises Institute

The book is titled “Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre” and authored by McMaken, Ryan W.

In this book, I admit I have not read it, the author claims that well known cowboy movies from the post World War II period by such renown directors as John Ford, Howard Hawks, or Anthony Mann contain significant anti Capitalist messages.

Here is a salient quote from the book’s advertisement:

“Ryan McMaken shows that the Western is in fact often anti-capitalist, and in many ways, the genre attacks the dominant ideology of nineteenth-century America: classical liberalism. … In addition to attacks on capitalism, the Western attacks other prized values of the bourgeois middle classes including Christianity, education and urbanization.”

Subversion Made In Hollywood

It is kind of established that a majority of academia in the US is left leaning, progressive minded and for big government.

I would not be surprised if something similar has not occurred in the US film industry. From the perspective of Socialist minded people with influence what would have more a subtle or not so subtle impact on millions of unsuspecting viewers of every age year after year than movies with subversive messages. To distribute political messages via popular movies is a temptation do gooders or progressives cannot resist.

Mary Poppins

I plan to write a blog on this movie, because, in my opinion, it is full of subversive messages against Capitalism and moral values.