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The handbook, drawn up at the invitation of Nato's Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn, Estonia, includes a provision for states to respond with conventional force if a cyber attack results in death or significant damage to property.
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For example, the Deputy Governor of China’s Central Bank Yi Gang has declared, “China is fully prepared” for this economic war. "
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.....item 1).... Economic Pearl Harbor Will Strike; America Not Prepared ...
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Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013 12:47 PM
By Christian Hill
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Unfortunately, according to James Rickards, a top financial-threat adviser to the Pentagon, CIA, and Director of National Intelligence, an “economic Pearl Harbor” is quickly approaching.
In fact, the first shots already have been fired.
What Rickards has uncovered is being taken so seriously by our National Intelligence Community and military, that they’ve already brought him to their Warfare Analysis Laboratory to assess America’s readiness.
However, what they found shocked those in attendance: America is not prepared.
Rickards believes our vulnerability is due to our enemies now being able to attack our financial system without the use of military force.
Instead, they currently have the capabilities to use covert, instantaneous, and oftentimes, untraceable “economic weapons of mass destruction.”
Rickards’ work with the National Intelligence Community now focuses on assessing how China, Iran, North Korea, and other nations can overcome their military disadvantages against the United States by harnessing and weaponizing complex investments such as derivatives and currencies, as well as commodities like oil and gold.
These can now be turned into dangerous vehicles for striking America’s financial security. And their effectiveness can be so severe, that Rickards has admitted the Wall Street could be taken down.
Rickards warns that we may see the collapse of our financial markets, the end of the dollar’s status as a reserve currency, and investments such as gold quickly surge to ,000 an ounce as the hostilities escalate.
Rickards has even presented evidence that suggests China is currently using their military to secretly stockpile gold for this eventual showdown (click here to see photos)
Rickards assessment is not to be taken lightly.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he helped end the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Rickards was also brought in to stop a Wall Street meltdown in 1998 when it came to light that a small firm called Long Term Capital Management had become so entangled in dangerous and overleveraged investments, that their exposure could’ve singlehandedly pushed America into a recession.
And after 9/11, the CIA assigned Rickards to an investigation to track down potential insider trading that was tied to terrorist activity prior to the attack.
However, Rickards’ newest warnings about this coming, economic Pearl Harbor are causing serious uproar on Capitol Hill, because he is pointing the finger at the U.S. government for what’s about to unfold.
In fact, at one Treasury meeting, he declared that “Ben Bernanke has become more dangerous to American national security than al-Qaida.”
Editor’s Note: See Shocking Interview with James Rickards, Click Here
And he believes the proof can be found for this from the recent statements being issued from world leaders.
For example, the Deputy Governor of China’s Central Bank Yi Gang has declared, “China is fully prepared” for this economic war. "
The former President of Hong Kong’s Executive Council, Donald Tsang, has voiced his concerns, stating he’s" never been as scared as now about the world.”
Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, has warned that “Latin American nations have the right to defend themselves” from this economic warfare.
And the former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, has revealed this financial World War III is now "The primary near-term security concern of the United States.
But these statements are not limited to world leaders.
Rickards’ fears of a coming international conflict are starting to make headlines in the press as well.
Forbes Magazine has cautioned that this financial war “will destroy the dollar.”
Bloomberg believes “Ben Bernanke has won the first offensive by flooding China with inflation.”
Reuters has reported “a counteroffensive of sorts may be 'in play' however unthinkable it is believed to be at present."
Rickards believes there is still time for Americans to take quick and easy measures to defend their wealth.
But that has to be done now, before it’s too late.
Newsmax Media recently followed James Rickards on an investigation where he presented his findings from the White House, Chinese Embassy, Treasury, and even the Warfare Analysis Laboratory (Click below to play video)
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A Nato handbook laying down the rules of cyber warfare has said governments should refrain from attacking hospitals and nuclear plants.
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An Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility near Isfahan. Stuxnet attacked Iran's nuclear programme in 2010 Photo: AP
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By Hayley Dixon8:52AM GMT 19 Mar 2013
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/9939401/Rules-of-cyberwar-...
The manual is the first attempt to set out how international law applies to online attacks by the state, and warns that online attacks could lead to full-blown military conflicts.
The handbook, the result of three years collaboration between international experts for Nato's Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, defines a cyber attack as one that is “reasonably expected to cause injury or death to persons or damage or destruction to objects.”
An online attack on an electricity grid resulting in fire is one example of the way that cyberwar could bring about real physical harm.
The advisory handbook, written by 20 legal experts including a retired UK air commodore and several British lawyers, says Governments must avoid attacks on civilians, hospitals, nuclear power stations, dams and dykes.
Attacks on the latter three are particularly sensitive as they threaten to cause widespread loss of life, and should be avoided “even when they are military objectives”.
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Hospitals and medical units are already protected under the rules governing traditional warfare.
The guidelines also forbid using cyber “booby traps” and attacks to spread terror through the people.
The handbook, drawn up at the invitation of Nato's Co-operative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn, Estonia, includes a provision for states to respond with conventional force if a cyber attack results in death or significant damage to property.
Full-scale wars could be triggered through online attacks, as the report comments “cyber operations alone might have the potential to cross the threshold of international armed conflict”
“Hacktivists” who take part in online attacks can become legitimate targets in cyberwar, the new guidelines say, even though they are technically civilians.
The CCDCOE was established in 2008 following a wave of cyber-attacks on Estonia from inside Russia.
The denial-of-service attacks crashed websites and damaged the country’s infrastructure, raising awareness about the damage that online operations can inflict in a world increasingly dependant on modern technology.
Britain will be joining the centre later this year.
The Tallinn manual, which contains 95 "black letter rules", was formally launched at Chatham House last week, according to the Guardian.
Colonel Kirby Abbott, an assistant legal adviser at Nato, described it as "the most important document in the law of cyber-warfare."
Professor Michael Schmitt, director of the project, pointed out that there is currently little agreement about how international law applies to online attacks.
The Stuxnet virus attack on Iran's nuclear programme, which physically damaged sensitive centrifuges, divided those setting out the rules.
The attack is believed to have been carried out by the US or Israel, but the handbook states: “To date, no international armed conflict has been publicly characterised as having been solely precipitated in cyberspace.”
The manual authorises country's to take "proportionate counter-measures" to an online attack, but these can only involve real force where it has resulted in death or serious damage.
Professor Schmitt said that the manual shows that cyberspace in not the “wild west”, as a large amount of international law already applies.
The handbook is not official Nato document or policy but an advisory manual, which is published by Cambridge University Press.
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