Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Germany Steps Up Emergency Cash Plans to Cope in Blackout
November 15th, 2022Cash deliveries during blackouts? haha I mean, sure, why not? This sounds fine. Via: Reuters: German authorities are stepping up preparations for emergency cash deliveries in case of a blackout to keep the economy running, four people involved said, as the nation braces for possible power cuts arising from the war in Ukraine. The plans […]
Russia Claims UK Navy Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline
October 29th, 2022Via: Reuters: Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday that British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, a claim that London said was false and designed to distract from Russian military failures in Ukraine. Russia did not give evidence for its claim that a leading NATO member had sabotaged critical Russian […]
Russia Strikes Ukrainian Infrastructure, Says It May Destroy Western Satellites
October 27th, 2022Starlink. Via: Reuters: A senior Russian government official raised the possibility that Moscow could shoot down commercial Western satellites being used to help Ukraine’s war effort, as Russia pressed ahead with its bombing campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure. If acted on, the threat would inevitably raise fears about spiralling escalation of the eight-month-old conflict and the […]
Starlink Signals Can Be Reverse-Engineered To Work Like GPS
October 21st, 2022Via: MIT Technology Review: Todd Humphreys’s offer to SpaceX was simple. With a few software tweaks, its rapidly growing Starlink constellation could also offer ultra-precise position, navigation, and timing. The US Army, which funds Humphreys’s work at the University of Texas at Austin, wanted a backup to its venerable, and vulnerable, GPS system. Could Starlink […]
BBC Prepares Secret Scripts for Possible Use in Winter Blackouts
October 19th, 2022Via: Guardian: The BBC has prepared secret scripts that could be read on air if energy shortages cause blackouts or the loss of gas supplies this winter. The scripts, seen by the Guardian, set out how the corporation would reassure the public in the event that a “major loss of power” causes mobile phone networks, […]
Musk Demands Pentagon Pay for Starlink Usage in Ukraine
October 14th, 2022Update: Made You Look, Musk Will Keep Starlink Active in Ukraine — Via: PC Magazine: SpaceX may have to stop providing Starlink terminals in Ukraine unless the US government steps in to cover the costs, the company writes in a letter to the Pentagon. According to CNN(Opens in a new window), SpaceX wrote to the […]
Sweden Refuses to Share Results of Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion Investigation With Russia
October 12th, 2022haha Shocker. Via: Summit News: Sweden is refusing to share the preliminary results of its official investigation into the Nord Stream pipeline explosions with Russia, asserting that the information is “confidential.” Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said that the outcome of the inquiry into what severely damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in […]
Blast Damages Crimea Bridge, Key Supply Route in Russia’s War in Ukraine
October 8th, 2022Via: CBS: An explosion caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia on Saturday, damaging a key supply artery for the Kremlin’s faltering war effort in southern Ukraine. Russian authorities said a truck bomb caused the blast and that three people were killed. Images on social media Saturday showed the […]
Blinken Calls Sabotage Attacks On Nord Stream Pipelines A “Tremendous Opportunity”
October 3rd, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Ever since the recent unprecedented sabotage attacks on the Russia to Europe Nord Stream pipelines, the central question has continued to remain who did it and correspondingly cui bono? … Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a Friday joint press briefing with Canada’s top diplomat that the damage and disruption to the […]
Hurricane Ian: Hundreds Feared Dead, 2.7 Million Floridians Without Power
September 29th, 2022Via: Daily Mail: Ron DeSantis has described the tsunami-like flooding across Florida as a ‘once in a 500-year’ event, leaving 2.7million without power as Hurricane Ian continues to barrel its way northwards through Orlando. Hundreds of people are feared dead, as 50 National Guard helicopters are starting the search and rescue for thousands who are […]
