Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
White Noise: People Affected by a Toxic Train Derailment Disaster in Ohio Were Extras in Movie About a Toxic Train Derailment Disaster in Ohio
February 12th, 2023Actual CNN headline, “After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make.” Via: CNN: When Ben Ratner’s family signed up in 2021 to be extras in the movie “White Noise,” they thought it would be a fun distraction from their day-to-day life in blue-collar East Palestine, Ohio. Ratner, […]
SpaceX Limits Ukraine’s Ability To Use Starlink for Military Operations
February 9th, 2023I’m not clear on what SpaceX did. She said SpaceX was able to take measures to curb Ukraine’s use of the technology to pilot drones, although it was not immediately clear what those were and whether Kyiv’s military could work around them. Did they geofence the ground stations? Via: Guardian: A senior Ukrainian presidential aide […]
Hersh Claims U.S. Blew Up Nordstream Pipelines
February 8th, 2023Via: Seymour Hersh: Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning. Two of the pipelines, […]
The Substation Attack in Moore County, North Carolina
February 3rd, 2023Via: Practical Engineering:
The “Price Shock” is Just Starting: German Industry To Pay 40% More For Energy Than Pre-Crisis
January 31st, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Back in August 2022, repo plumbing guru Zoltan Pozsar published a fascinating chart showing how “$2 Trillion Of German Value Depends On $20 Billion Of Russian Gas” or specifically, how Germany had applied some 100x leverage – much more than Lehman – on cheap commodities, and mostly Russian gas, to cheaply run its […]
Undocumented Claim: CIA Running Covert Sabotage Campaign Inside Russia
December 28th, 2022This could be complete fiction. It could be PSYOP directed at Russia. It could be real. I have no idea. This might be worth keeping in mind if the ongoing attacks on electric grid infrastructure in the U.S. become non-trivial. Via: Jack Murphy: The campaign involves long standing sleeper cells that the allied spy service […]
Elon Musk Says Around 100 Starlinks Now Active in Iran
December 26th, 2022Flashback: “We could bring secure, trusted data to every human being on planet Earth, underpinned by American values and the American Constitution.” If it wasn’t clear after Ukraine, it should be now: Elon Musk is a CIA contractor, whether he knows it or not. China will be the big one. The thing about China is […]
Once-in-a-Generation ‘Snowpocalypse’, Thousands of Flights Cancelled, Power Outages
December 23rd, 2022The Warming… Via: Daily Mail: At least five people have been killed as a treacherous ‘once-in-a-generation’ winter system pummels central and eastern parts of the United States – with at least six governors calling for a state of emergency.
Communications System Achieves Fastest Laser Link from Space Yet
December 7th, 2022Via: MIT News: In May 2022, the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload onboard a small CubeSat satellite was launched into orbit 300 miles above Earth’s surface. Since then, TBIRD has delivered terabytes of data at record-breaking rates of up to 100 gigabits per second — 100 times faster than the fastest internet speeds in most cities […]
How Blackrock’s Larry Fink Created the Global Energy Crisis
November 21st, 2022Via: F. William Engdahl: With that fateful January 2020 CEO letter, Larry Fink set in motion a colossal disinvestment in the trillion-dollar global oil and gas sector. Notably, that same year BlackRock’s Fink was named to the Board of Trustees of Klaus Schwab’s dystopian World Economic Forum, the corporate and political nexus of the Zero […]
