Let the 2024 Cynical Games Begin!

The MSM was enraptured by the creativity Democrats displayed during the 2022 midterms. CNN called it the "Cynical Strategy"
Where a Cynical Strategy can consist in believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity and or concerned only with one's own interests and typically disregarding accepted or appropriate standards in order to achieve them.


All consistent with a 2009 study by Jonathan Haidt where he
concluded that Liberals were willing to betray group loyalty, disrespect authority or do something disgusting, like #votetfraud, while conservatives said they were less willing to compromise on any of the moral categories shown.


Clearly Cynical Strategies go against social media's Professional Community Policies, or should.

Earlier I noted that my days using  LinkedIn were numbered due to its inconsistent enforcement of community standards. Big Tech
promised to democratize the world by offering free #Internet. But it quickly carved out silos. The bigger the Silo, the more advertising money.

While 230 reform is a possible solution to online censorship, you may recall that the GOP overrode Trump's Defense Bill veto giving Big Tech power to do as they please - now GOP whine because they are being canceled one at a time. Unless one  enjoys the Silo living, an euphemism for  intellectual in Breeding, the best option for a social media that promotes freedom of expression is for Elon Musk to transform Twitter.  Otherwise the Big Tech-enabled online cynical strategies will continue to thrive.

Ironically, while LinkedIn calls itself the Connector, the same content published I the mainstream social media platforms, is regularly censored, leading an impartial Observer to conclude that LinkedIn is really the AntiAmerica ( like Joan-Francois Le Drian), ProChina, AntiSemitic, AntiBlack, AntiAmerica First. Progressive (AntiChristian, ProBLM, ProAbortion. ProBig Pharma, ProTeachers Union, ProGreen New Deal) Connector.

It seems the LinkedIn  censors rely on user-complaints and not necessarily algorithmic, lending itself quite nicely to manufacturing opportunities for the exploitation of cynical strategies, analogous to the Maricopa County election process.

I have challenged the over a dozen of posts censored by LinkedIn, all fact-based. About half of the challenged posts have been reversed. All of them have taken hours or days to respond.

Today I reported an obviously cynical strategy used by an obvious fake Doug Newell account. Within minutes, LinkedIn determine Newell was not fake!

Use of cynical strategies

Cynical Strategies are not illigal. And that is the point. Promoting the Russian Hoax was not illigal. Now
Democrats sue for Saturday voting in Georgia Senate runoff.  "Senator Warnock and his Democratic Party allies are seeking to change Georgia law right before an election based on their political preferences. Instead of muddying the water and pressuring counties to ignore Georgia law, Senator Warnock should be allowing county election officials to continue preparations for the upcoming runoff," said Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger

You may recall that the GOP refused to challenge the 2016 election results  despite evidence of voter fraud.  To date, the GOP refuses to  challenge Biden's Executive Orders.  But as soon as DeSantis signed the  election reform bill, Democrats sued.

While Democrats love to draw outside the lines with an assist from MSM and Big Tech, the GOP continues to draw inside the lines. Let the 2024 Cynical Games Begin!

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Former Massachusetts State Police union (SPAM) President & Lobbyist Convicted of RICO Charges

 Another illustration Of How Insiders can Commit Any Crime, Including Voter Fraud.

These defendants cared more about enriching themselves through a series of bribes and kickbacks- Joleen D. Simpson. And taint the good name of law enforcement agent

BOSTON – Yesterday, the former President of the State Police Association of Massachusetts (SPAM) and the union’s former Massachusetts lobbyist, Dana A. Pullman, 60, of Worcester, and Anne M. Lynch, 71, of Hull, were convicted of racketeering, fraud, obstruction of justice and tax crimes.

 SPAM is an association consisting of more than 1,500 Troopers and Sergeants from the Massachusetts State Police (MSP). SPAM acts as the exclusive bargaining agent between its members and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts regarding the terms and conditions of SPAM members’ employment.

Pullman, who was an MSP trooper from 1987 to 2018, was the President of SPAM from 2012 until his resignation on Sept. 28, 2018. Lynch’s lobbying firm represented SPAM during the same time period, in exchange for monthly retainer payments.

From at least 2012 until Pullman resigned as the President in September 2018, Pullman and Lynch turned SPAM into a racketeering enterprise, using Pullman’s position and power to defraud SPAM. Pullman and Lynch defrauded SPAM members and the Commonwealth of their right to honest services when Lynch paid Pullman a $20,000 kickback in connection with a settlement agreement between SPAM and the Commonwealth.

Insider Scheme, The Entombment Method

insiders with a motive can commit any crime. Including voter fraud. This is done in a number of ways: Hacktivism, overcoming the Account Payable, Accounts Receivable Obstacle (AP/AR) obstacle, Plausible Deniability, Algorithms, Brute force, Lie & Deny, entombment & so on Just today, Milwaukee Election Commission official Kimberly Zapata charged with felony and misdemeanor counts over fraudulent military ballots.  I have dozens of examples of insiders abusing the system, yet DOJ/FBI/MSM seem to disregard it

In this case, Pullman and Lynch defrauded two different companies that sought to do business with the MSP by hiding from the vendors the fact that Lynch was paying Pullman to direct vendors to use Lynch’s services. The defendants hid the payments from Lynch and her lobbying firm to Pullman in a manner designed to avoid reporting and paying taxes on that income to the IRS

 

Insider Scheme, The Lie & Deny Method

 Pullman and Lynch also attempted to obstruct the grand jury’s investigation of this matter by manipulating subpoenaed records, and Lynch attempted to obstruct the grand jury’s investigation by lying to investigators.

 

Insider Scheme, The Brute Force Method

Additionally, Pullman embezzled and misused SPAM funds for personal use by using a debit card tied to a SPAM bank account to pay for thousands of dollars of meals and travel for an individual with whom Pullman was having a romantic relationship. “Instead of honestly representing the interests of the more than 1,500 Massachusetts law enforcement professionals, these defendants cared more about enriching themselves through a series of bribes and kickbacks. Today’s guilty verdict affirms that their actions violated the trust given to them and this conduct will not go unpunished,” said Joleen D. Simpson, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, Boston Field Office.

Guilty Plea to Theft of West Haven City Funds & Covid Relief, by State Representative & Employee, DiMassa, illustrates the Insider Threat

Tuesday, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut New Haven Division announced that Michael DiMassa, 31, of West Haven, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges stemming from his involvement in schemes that resulted in the theft of more than $1.2 million dollars in COVID relief funds and other funds from the City of West Haven. We often say that a security professional's worse nightmare is insiders like DiMassa, who have motive, where motive can be money, power, jealousy, revenge, and so on. 

Insiders like DiMassa have #MOM - Motive, Opportunity and Means to commit any crime, including voter fraud. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA)  defines Insider Threats as " the potential for an insider to use their authorized access or understanding of an organization to harm that organization. This harm can include malicious, complacent, or unintentional acts that negatively affect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the organization, its data, personnel, or facilities."  Depending on the experts, 70-90% of organizations have been victim of an Inside Threat.  DiMassa's case is an excellent illustration: For example, fraud prevention 101 in accounting involves accounts payable and accounts receivable. Accounts receivable (AR)  is considered an asset because the company is counting on receiving that money within the timeline defined when the sale was initiated, whereas accounts payable (AP) is considered a liability because the company needs to pay out that amount within a certain timeline.  These two functions need to remain strictly separate, in the hands of different departments or personnel. In fact, the American Institute of CPAs considers the separation of duties a fundamental accounting principle and essential internal control for every business, primarily to reduce the risk of fraud. 

Insiders like DeMassa use schemes to get around the AP/AR obstacle, often use plausible deniability and the most sophisticated is the use of new or modified algorithms.  Why it is said that a design, such as vote counting systems, says more about the designers (or Insiders) than the users.  Plausible deniability  is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command, to deny knowledge of or responsibility for any damnable actions committed by members of their organizational hierarchy. They may do so because of a lack or absence of evidence that can confirm their participation, even if they were personally involved in or at least willfully ignorant of the actions. If illegal or otherwise disreputable and unpopular activities become public, high-ranking officials may deny any awareness of such acts to insulate themselves and shift the blame onto the agents who carried out the acts, as they are confident that their doubters will be unable to prove otherwise. The lack of evidence to the contrary ostensibly makes the denial plausible (credible), but sometimes, it makes any accusations only unactionable. Worse: 

The Insider at West Haven

DiMassa did not rely on plausible deniability, such as Uber’s former Chief Security Officer, or the more sophisticated use of algorithm, but simply get around the Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable obstacle

The Elegance of Simplicity - 

According to court records DiMassa was a Connecticut State Representative who was also employed by the City of West Haven, serving as the Administrative Assistant to the City Council. In April 2020, the State of Connecticut was allocated money by the U.S. Department of the Treasury through the Coronavirus Relief Fund (“CRF”), which was established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) for the purpose of helping local governments pay costs incurred in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. From July 2020 through September 2021, the City of West Haven received approximately $1,150,257 in financial assistance from this fund. DiMassa, who was authorized to approve the designated relief funds for the reimbursement of COVID-related expenditures incurred by West Haven, conspired with others to steal these funds and other West Haven funds through the submission of fraudulent invoices, and subsequent payment, for COVID relief goods and services that were never provided.

Scheme One: Bypassing the AP/AR Obstacle

In one scheme, DiMassa conspired with John Bernardo, who was employed by the City of West Haven as a Housing Specialist in the office of Community Development Administration. In January 2021, DiMassa and Bernardo formed Compass Investment Group, LLC. Beginning in February 2021, Compass Investment Group LLC fraudulently billed the City of West Haven and its “COVID-19 Grant Department” for consulting services purportedly provided to the West Haven Health Department that were not performed. From February 2021 through September 2021, the City of West Haven paid Compass Investment Group a total of $636,783.70 DiMassa made several large cash withdrawals from the Compass Investment Group LLC bank account.

Scheme Two:  Use Family to do the Laundry

DiMassa also conspired with his wife, Lauren DiMassa, through the submission of numerous fraudulent invoices to West Haven for services related to a Youth Violence Prevention Program and for Youth Violence COVID-19 Associated Expenses. These invoices listed charges for in-home counseling, cleaning supplies, special needs hourly service, wi-fi assistance for low/moderate income families, counseling services, license fees, a fall youth clinic, meals, support group supplies, equipment rental, and youth clinic support group. West Haven made at least 16 payments totaling approximately $147,776.10 to Lauren DiMassa, who never provided any services to the City of West Haven.

Scheme Three: Use Friends to do the Laundry

In a third scheme, DiMassa conspired with another individual through the submission of fraudulent invoices from companies, which were controlled by DiMassa’s co-conspirator, to West Haven for goods and services, including thousands of units of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), HVAC maintenance at multiple municipal locations, COVID supplies for the Board of Education, and cleaning services for various municipal and school buildings, including one school building that had been vacant and abandoned for several years. The co-conspirator’s companies received approximately $431,982 through this scheme. DiMassa has agreed to pay restitution of $1,216,541.80.

So, you still think that voter fraud by Insiders is not possible?

FBI Releases Tone Deaf "Trust in Me" PSA, as it Partners with Moderna

In a seemingly tone deaf public service announcement  (PSA) released yesterday the FBI Boston highlighted the need for a strong, bilateral relationship in guarding against multi-faceted cyber criminal syndicates and nation state actors, as it announced a team-up with Moderna

“The first step towards protecting yourself from cyber incidents is to develop a relationship with the FBI. Doing so enables you to identify who to call in the event you do suffer a cyber incident, granting quick and efficient access to our rich network of resources. Cybersecurity is national security, and by working together and reporting these incidents to us, you are working to help prevent these bad actors from victimizing others, and potentially from re-victimizing you.”  said Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division.

The Trust Issue

The PSA comes hours the FBI released its 2021 Statistics from the National Crime Data Collection,  with only 63% of the nation’s more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies submitting data for 2021, the lowest level of participation the FBI has reported since 1979, that CNN Priya Krishnakumar says: The FBI released its crime report for 2021 - but it tells us less about the overall state of crime in the US than ever" The FBI attributes the low participation rate on a  change to NIBRS (National Incident Based Reporting System), the data collection system used by the agency.  While the low participation rate is a major concern, the agency has decided to compensate the participation rate with estimates.  Since participation is voluntary  the biggest police departments in the country, including the LAPD and NYPD, did not submit any data at all to the FBI last year, which means the FBI estimates will normalize high crime rates. But trust is a major issue. 

According to Marjorie Green trust is a major issue: “The lack of transparency and political bias at the top echelon of the FBI, that is unfolding in the public eye, is deepening the public’s mistrust of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. With the recent news that the FBI somehow “lost” five months’ worth of text messages between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the public is in an uproar and severely in unbelief as to how these messages were supposedly lost. Sadly, it is stories such as these that deepen negative public perception of those in law enforcement who strive to serve the public and do a good job

FBI Dallas Celebrated Oct 3rd as Hate Crime Awareness Day.  In the fall of 2021, the FBI launched a national media campaign with billboards, ads, and radio spots that built public awareness of hate crimes and encouraged crime reporting to law enforcement. According to FBI Dallas Public Affairs Officers Melinda Urbina and Katie Chaumont, Hate crimes are the highest priority of the FBI’s civil rights program because of the devastating impact they have on families and communities. As part of its responsibility to uphold the civil rights of the American people, the FBI takes a number of steps to combat hate crimes including investigative activity, law enforcement support, training, and public outreach. Yet he DOJ's civil rights division, headed by Kristine Clarke is the same one that days after President Joe Biden’s divisive speech to the nation and the FBI designating patriotic symbology as indicative of domestic terrorism,  dispatched more than 20 FBI agents in full SWAT gear to arrest pro-life Catholic husband and father Mark Houck.

 

You may recall Senator Cotton opposed Ms Clarke's nomination  because "She is extremely partisan. She called Senator Murkowski ``shameful.'' She accused Senator Manchin of being disingenuous. And she casually slandered 200-- 200--sitting, Senate-confirmed judges as ``white male extremists.'..

On August 4, 2022, the FBI's Director Wray submitted a 42,000+ word statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee holding up the exemplary work the Bureau is doing addressing its top priorities, which the Federalist's Jordan Boyd  characterizes as  FBI Director Sets New Record For Lies, Dodges, And Obfuscations To Avoid Slight Attempts At Congressional Oversight: Wray told the committee in part:  "It is important to note that we have also recently seen an increase in fatal domestic violent attacks perpetrated by anti-government or anti-authority violent extremists, specifically militia violent extremists and anarchist violent extremists" and apparent reference to the January 6, 2020 Capitol breach.  Wray dismisses the riots, looting and violence across America, Mainstream Media characterizes as mostly peaceful protests by ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter. Would you trust this agency?  

Not convinced yet? “The FBI has long been a political tool of Presidents and the Deep-State. My esteemed readers, I will review for you the corruption, the acts of cowardice and failures of the Federal Bureau of Matters, cough, Investigation.” Writes Mark Pullen, Published by Chief Editor, Sammy Campbell.  Not to mention the Department of Justice sending the FBI to raid former President Trump’s private home in Florida or dispatching the FBI to school board meetings to reign in parents the president of the National School Boards Association characterized as domestic terrorism and hate crimes

 According to Senator Chuck Grassley:  “Simply put, these two [DOJ Internal Report] documents show a systemic failure within the Justice Department and FBI to protect female employees from sexual harassment and sexual misconduct in the workplace and a failure to sufficiently punish employees for that same misconduct. FBI employees should not have to suffer under daily abuse and misconduct by their colleagues and supervisors.” Holding confidence and trust in the DOJ & FBI has never been more difficult given their egregious abuse of power inside and outside of these government agencies.

FBI Director Christopher Wray was spot on when he held a listening session and told the nation’s Police Chiefs : “While the FBI works to address a variety of threats, our bread-and-butter is fighting violent crime and being effective partners to state and local law enforcement.” Being an effective partner requires trust and the FBI has a mountain to climb before Americans can see the bureau as trustworthy.

The Big Pharma Issue

The Moderna partnership does not add trust, quite the opposite: it detracts from it. From the outset of the pandemic, the mainstream medical establishment, government bureaucracy, MSM & Big Tech were aligned behind a lockdown-at-all-costs strategy going as far as censoring contrarian views. Even today, the same players continue to promote the COVID vaccine not only for adults, but also children:  Tuesday, November 2, 2020 CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation that children 5 to 11 years old be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric vaccine. “CDC now expands vaccine recommendations to about 28 million children in the United States in this age group and allows providers to begin vaccinating them as soon as possible.”  As the Biden administration makes a major push to get Americans to take the updated COVID-19 vaccine, NPR reports that Disease experts hope that the new shot, which targets the latest COVID variants, will prevent a surge in fall and winter cases as seen in previous years." The New York Times reports that the Biden push aligns him with the vaccinated silent majority.  The NIH has even launched a misinformation campaign supported by MSM and Big Tech – LinkedIn has censored my posts critical of the NIH:  Vaccine skepticism " - has existed since the advent of the technology itself. However, the mass uptake of social media is blamed for the significant traction recently gained by the ‘anti-vax’ movement. A recent report found that 400 anti-vax social media accounts contain 58 million followers based primarily in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.1 Misinformation campaigns such as these have contributed to the decline in routine childhood vaccination uptake,2 infection outbreaks stripping numerous European countries of their ‘measles-free’ status3 and the World Health Organization naming vaccine hesitancy as a top ten threat to global public health.4 Vaccinated”

 

As to misinformation, you may know that on Twitter, Lijian Zhao,  @zlj517, a Chinese Spokesperson  on Twitter, blamed the CIA for planting the Wuhan Virus, at the time, China shut down all domestic travel, but it allowed international travel to continue. As mentioned before, from the outset of the pandemic, the mainstream medical establishment, government bureaucracy, MSM & Big Tech were aligned behind a lockdown-at-all-costs strategy.  Twitter banned all those expressing a contrarian view, including  myself, President Trump and others. But allowed Lijian Zhao, Dr Faucci and Dr Tedros to stay on Twitter. 

Pfizer has taken it to a different level using a piece in IFLScience titled Working At The Speed Of Science And Why You Should Be Excited, by Dr. Beccy Corkill to apparently put Pfizer’s customers’ minds at ease.  Dr. Corkill uses the Doubling of Knowledge Curve to explain why medical breakthroughs are possible – and apparently we should not be afraid of side effects.  I have been accusing of being anti-vaxx.  Im not.  I have a biodmedical engineering degree and believe in the scientific process.  Whi I argue to not follow the science.  Instead, follow the money, there you will find the science:  There is a pantheon of thousands, perhaps millions of products once deemed safe to use., like asbestos and DDT – years later, they were found to be hazardous to our health.  Just earlier this year, scientists found that Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and aspirin are widely used to treat pain and inflammation. But even at similar doses, different NSAIDs can have unexpected and unexplained effects on many diseases, including heart disease and cancer. If 50 years after DDT was banned, it's legacy is alive, imagine what we are going to find out about COVID Vaccine side effects 10 years from now! Can you imagine how much Big Pharma & the government would have to pay out if the Covid Vaccine was released with the same standards as Roundup or DDT?

 

Then there is Cybersecurity

With all due respect to Special Agent Joseph R. Bonavolonta, the first step towards protecting yourself from cyber incidents is not to develop a relationship with the FBI.  While a relationship with the FBI is important, given the trust and competency issues: . For example, The FBI’s Cyber Guardian system

“rather than a beacon of trust, as the moniker implies, an audit report from the Justice Department’s internal watchdog paints a picture of a guardian that is not dependable, given to simple errors and late with needed information.”    The FBI’s email servers was previously  hacked, resulting in spam emails being sent to the public that appeared to be from the agency and the Department of Homeland Security.  Instead, we first recommend a review of the $1.00 fence for the $1,000 horse.  There are two types of businesses;  Those who know they have been victims of security breaches and those that don’t.  Why it is important to identify and prioritize the stored information aka as intellectual property.  We also suggest a paradigm change:  The higher the trust level in your computer, the least trust.  The people you trust the most, are the most dangerous.  This is known as the Inside Threat, which we have been preaching for years, but the FBI often leaves out. As number three, develop a  relationship with the FBI.