Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Ukraine Strikes Power Stations Inside Russia
April 17th, 2023Via: Daily Mail: Two key electricity supply stations in Russia have been destroyed amid a suspected Ukrainian drone attack behind enemy lines. Stunning footage taken overnight showed how the bombing of the power stations had created a huge inferno which spiraled high into the night sky. The destruction of the sites in Igumenka and Dragunskoe […]
Ohio, White Noise, and the Power of Words Over Things
March 16th, 2023Via: Truthstream Media:
Taiwan Suspects Chinese Ships Cut Undersea Internet Cables
March 8th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: According to Taiwanese authorities, on Feb. 2, a Chinese fishing boat damaged an undersea communications cable that connects Taiwan’s main island to Matsu Islands. About one week later, a Chinese cargo ship severed another cable. Located approximately 30 miles off the coast of China, the tiny island of Dongyin has quickly established a […]
Yes, The U.S. Averages More Than 1,700 Train Derailments A Year
March 5th, 2023Since the East Palestine train derailment disaster, I started noticing lots of other train derailment incidents. How common are train derailments in the U.S.? Very common. Via: KHOU: Yes, on average, there are more than 1,700 train derailments each year in the U.S. From 1990 to 2021, there were 54,570 train derailments in the U.S. […]
Drone Attacks Inside Russia
February 28th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Russia has come under attack by multiple drones on Tuesday, with one of those drones reportedly causing a fire at an oil depot in the southern part of the country, and another hitting outside Moscow. The attack on the oil facility happened in Tuapse, which lies about 150 miles southeast of the Crimean […]
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 […]
