[FoxNews] A memo circulating among Senate Republicans this week details how the fentanyl crisis continues to worsen across U.S. communities as southern border drug seizures and encounters reach record highs.
Those who have witnessed activity at the border believe the crisis at the border and the fentanyl crisis are correlated.
"Yeah, I've never seen anything like this. The numbers, the organization, the movement. And the federal government is doing a masterful job of keeping it on the down-low as much as possible — sanitizing it as much as possible," retired Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent and Texas congressional candidate Frank Lopez Jr. told Fox News Digital.
CBP agents seized an unprecedented 10,500 lbs. of the deadly drug in 2021, and seizures have already surpassed 12,000 lbs. so far this year — the most fentanyl ever seized in a single year in the United States. That much fentanyl could kill the entire U.S. population eight times over, the memo circulating among senators notes.
Last month, border encounters surpassed 200,000 for the first time. Meanwhile, agents seized a record 2,300 pounds of fentanyl at the southwest and coastal/interior U.S. borders last month, meaning the issue continues to worsen.
The number of migrants who have successfully crossed into the United States this fiscal year has surpassed 2 million, with about 8,000 crossings per day.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told Fox News' Peter Doocey Aug. 31 the Biden administration has seen a "200% increase of fentanyl seizures, which means that we are … doing the job of catching drug traffickers."
But with the increase in fentanyl seizures comes an increase in fentanyl coming into the country. In 2021, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reported seizing more than 15,000 pounds of substances containing fentanyl and more than 20.4 million fentanyl-laced prescription pills. This year, DEA agents have recovered 20,000 pounds of fentanyl in the interior.
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One problem, irish rage boy, is that irresponsible and criminal adults will then give it to kids. Another problem, when addicts can no longer function well enough to hold a job, or when the job is not enough to keep them in their habit, they will resort to theft. You want to see kids dropping dead on the playground? You want your car jacked? You want to stop over bodies and feces when you walk down the street? You want to watch your city die as decent people move away from these nightmares? These things are happening in San Francisco where fentanyl and heroin are defacto legal.
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It depends on what you consider to be a viable tank. They are dipping into T62 T64. When they start shipping out T55 you'll know it's bottom of the barrel.
I doubt even Joe Biden or his puppet master could be that geopolitically stupid.
[YouTube - The Drive] "Interestingly, this incident took place just one day after thousands of German protesters took to the streets and demanded the opening of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline."
While Trump was right about the reliance these pipelines would create on Russia for the EU, this was not our real concern. Our issue with Nordstream 2 was purely about Germany and Russia growing closer by economic cooperation.
To fix this issue, we used Ukraine when we supported the coup government back in 2014 (although we'd been involved in the country to some degree for well over a decade before this). We knew we were putting Ukraine on a crash course with Russia - we didn't care. It could only end in a win-win for us. Through sanctions after Crimea returned to Russia, we attempted to force the Russians out of the arms market, reducing competition for our own arms sales.
Through the crisis we helped steer the aftermath of this into, laid the groundwork for the current war. The moment Zelensky spoke of potentially having Ukraine go nuclear, I knew the war was inevitable no matter what. That single statement just put forward the possibility of nuclear weapons right next to the Russian heartlands - exactly what Russia fears most. And so, the war began not long after.
Now, the war preyed upon EU idealism thats incredibly detached from reality. We used the Euro's own inflated ego and sense of self importance and moral superiority against them. We knew once this conflict began, EU ideals could not co-exist with Russian energy if it meant funding a war effort in Ukraine. We knew Nordstream 2 would sit there unused the moment this conflict broke out, and its almost comical that as it was approaching certification, that Ukraine suddenly decided 'turn the heat up' in Donbas by vastly increasing their military pressure in the area (which is when Russia evacuated civilians and not long after began their own military op in Ukraine). Such convenient timing.
Now, the EU failed to take into consideration, that the sanctions from back in 2014, gave Russia the foresight to know what the future would hold if it ever came down to a military solution in Ukraine. They'd been preparing for 8 years to weather such a storm, and diversified their economy and partnerships just enough to recover from the shock that sanctions of this magnitude would have. The ruble crashed, and then it recovered back to where it was prior and has remained stable.
Now the EU is trapped in a trap of its own making. They shot themselves critically when they attempted to destroy the economy that keeps their own economy alive. The war didn't end, and only continues to escalate. Europe's industries will crash and burn. Social unrest, unemployment, homelessness, exposure and hunger related strife, will become rampant, and now with Nordstream 1 and 2 gone, they have no escape hatch to avoid this crisis.
Seeking to survive this, Europe's industries will relocate conveniently to the US and save the dollar, while the euro collapses. Masterful plays, but disgusting. Even initially going along with the idea of price caps, muscling in on OPEC's interests, placed the EU on the shit list of the House of Saud, and moved them closer to Russia. Alienating them from other sources of energy, as we sever Nordstream 1 and 2 not long after.
Jackson Hinkle is one of the youngest Progressives on the political media landscape.A former candidate for San Clemente City Council – he was 19 at the time – Jackson has spent the majority of his young life working as a community organizer in California.
Progressive Background …
The bulk of his community outreach & organizing has focused on Progressive causes like Medicare For All, climate and sustainability, nuclear waste storage and American anti-imperialism.
In 2018, Jackson was the co-founder of Orange County Students For City Council, which helped mobilize young, progressive, and corporate-free students to run for city council seats across Orange County, California.
Progressive Media Launch …
In 2020, Jackson launched his own progressive Youtube media channel: The Dive w/ Jackson Hinkle.
The show’s tagline is ‘propaganda made by and for the proletariat‘.
The Future ..
Inspired by Progressives like Jimmy Dore, Jackson’s philosophical arrows take on both sides of the American duopoly.
The show’s episodes tend to focus on the happenings of the Progressives within Congress and the constant fumblings of media progressives in the Youtube & Twitter ecosystem.
Imagine if in response to Governor DeSantis sending migrant invaders to Martha’s Vineyard, the Biden administration blew up the Overseas Highway that connects the Florida Keys to the mainland. In response to Texas doing similar things, they knocked out part of the power grid in Texas. For good measure, they started a car bombing campaign against leading opponents of immigration. It may sound insane, but it is not too far from where we find ourselves.
Now, take it a step further and imagine that the major media outlets simply ignored these things entirely. You see clips on-line of the collapsed bridges in Florida, but you can find little about it in the news. They simply report that something happened and no one knows who did it. Maybe a few crackpots on these media platforms claim that DeSantis blew up the bridges as a false flag operation. Texas governor Greg Abbot is blowing up his power grid for the same reason.
This scenario is so ridiculous it would not pass muster with Hollywood studios as the basis for a political satire. Somehow, we have reached this moment. Last week, someone planted bombs near the Baltic Sea gas pipelines that bring natural gas from Russia to Europe. This caper required a great deal of coordination and technical skill, so it was not a group of kids. Everyone knows it was ordered by Washington and probably carried about by the American military.
Related: Oddly enough, Russia agrees, too, which may or may not be meaningful
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Poppycock! Now if they said that Trump and a cabal of Western Oil Tycoons used this as a way to get the European Mob to burn the European Greens at stakes erected at every intersection ...maybe. People that are starving and freezing in the dark tend to get a little irritable you might say.
I posted separate posts, which have been smeared together, had stuff added, and unwanted editorial comments inserted designed to discredit the speaker. This is very dishonest to say that I posted it. Shame to whomever did this.
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#3 - One of the Mods collected several related posts in line with yours. Snarky or Editorial comments added (if light green, they're mine). Common practice here since the start. Don't like it? Go somewhere else, or start your own blog.
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I posted separate posts, which have been smeared together,
A number of posts from the same poster on the same subject, coming at it from the same perspective? Round these parts we regularly turn that into a roundup to make life easier for our readers, the alternative being that we pick one and delete the rest for the sake of efficient presentation of information.
The thing from Crazy Progressives about Mr. Hinkle was one of several sources, including from Mr. Hinkle himself, that thusly laid out his career thus far. The young gentleman is proud of being so active a Progressive activist and politician, and among his admirers is much admired for it.
The in-line comment in Post-It note yellow is by Fred Pruitt, our esteemed site owner, who started his career in military intelligence analysis during the Cold War and has leant a thing or million about how Russians think. Mine, in periwinkle, are merely procedural, as I’d already spent enough moderating time looking up Mr. Hinkle.
#11
Z-man is correct - the bizarre suppression by US media of this huge story inky serves to give away the game. The Biden people have gone from incompetence to total incoherence — mirroring Biden’s own downward cognitive arc.
This is the most important part of what Goob linked to:
The Europeans are a broken and defeated people, but even they have to be wondering what they have gotten themselves into with this Ukraine debacle. They eagerly signed up to be a “partner” with Washington in this great adventure to save Ukraine from the icy clutches of the Russian bear. Now, their economies are in collapse, their people are facing a winter without heat, governments are collapsing and their partner in all of this is now bombing their infrastructure. Some partnership.
The fact that the American media has been told to ignore this suggests Washington realizes they have a problem. It is hard to portray yourself as the good guy when you are bombing critical assets of your partners.
This is one of those unforced errors that confirms the suspicions people have been voicing in private. In this case, it is that the real threat to peace in Europe is Washington, not Russia. The self-proclaimed defender of freedom is, in fact, its greatest threat.
This may be why the Biden White House signed off on this caper. It is an act of desperation aimed at keeping the Europeans in line. Germany now must hope Washington supplies enough LNG to make it through winter.
That means the rest of Europe has to play ball with Washington, or face an economic collapse, as Germany is the economic engine of Europe. This act of terrorism was a warning to Europe that they better toe the line or else.
#12
Biden & Co. are literally at war with not just Russia but also Germany. They are attacking everyone now, like psychopathic children who’ve taken a bomber on a joy ride across Europe.
#14
#13 Biden promised, and few others in his admin made the same statement: “If Russia invades UKR, we will shut down Nord Stream.”
Their words. Biden is on video promising.
Posted by: mossomo
Yes. So fucking obvious.
And now the New York Times buries the story altogether.
And that congressional journal “The Hill” is pretending that forner Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski’s congratulatory victory lap (“Thank you, USA!”) was — are you sitting down? — sarcastic.
Yeah, sure, bitch. He wasn’t serious — uh-huh. Suuure.
So the Polish former Foreign Minister did NOT know that the USA & CIA orchestrated the destruction of Russia’s hood over Germany. Yup.
And they’re telling us Russia destroyed Russia’s influence. Riiiiight. What complete shitheads they are, to think they can get away with such ludicrous fairy tales as this.
This is like the delusions of those lunatics who still, to this day, believe that the Pentagon attacked the Pentagon on 9/11.
What utter shitheads we have leading the US now. A true kakocracy.
[American Thinker] A month ago American Thinker published my article on whistleblower William Teele, the ten-year U.S. Navy vet who shared his own perspective on the TWA Flight 800, the 747 that blew up off the coast of Long Island in July 1996. In that Teele was not on the ship that fired the missile, I asked for those with more information to share what they knew by contacting me through my website.
The quantity and quality of the response stunned me. As a spoiler alert, no respondent admitted to being a witness, and some did not believe the Navy fired the missile. That said, all were respectful and informative. Several added corrective or confirming details. Some sample intros:
While working as a commercial airline (NWA) Captain...
I spent 3-and-a-half years aboard the USS Nimitz...
I'm a retired USN Commander...
I was a GMM or gunners mate missiles while in the US Navy...
I'm retired mil. I have studied weapons for decades...
I am a retired Navy Surface Warfare Officer Captain...
I was a first officer flying the Airbus A320 for Northwest Airlines...
I was in the Navy for 20 years, four ships (3 of them "shooters")...
I was qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer
As much as I would love to hear from a firsthand witness, I believe the courts hold more immediate potential. On June 28, 2022, attorney John Roddy with the Boston firm of Bailey and Glasser filed a lawsuit on behalf of numerous family members of those killed in the 1996 crash. Based on the research of physicist Tom Stalcup, the suit is stunning in its sophistication and detail.
I first met Stalcup when I interviewed him for a documentary on TWA 800 called "Silenced" that James Sanders and I produced in 2001. I was a latecomer to this extraordinary story, but Stalcup had been deeply involved in the case from very nearly the beginning and remains committed to this day.
As a quick refresher, TWA Flight 800 left JFK airport in New York en route to Paris on July 17, 1996. Twelve minutes after its 8:19 departure the ill-fated 747 blew up off the south coast of Long Island, killing all 230 souls aboard.
The suit wastes no time in establishing its central argument: "After the incident, the federal government released a false report contending that the explosion was the result of an electrical fire in the airplane’s center." The real cause, the suit argues, was "an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby."
Based on the "overwhelming evidence" uncovered by Stalcup through his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation in Massachusetts federal court, the suit names as the government defendants in this tragic mishap the Missile Defense Agency, the United States Department of Defense, and the United States Navy.
The contractor defendants cited are Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Working "side-by-side," these defendants were reportedly testing the Aegis Weapons System and firing SM-2 missiles with live warheads at aerial missile targets off the coast of New York "in close proximity to commercial airline flight paths." The suit leaves open the possibility that more than one "warship" was involved in the launch.
The suit walks through the well-established facts surrounding the investigation. The FBI froze out the National Transportation Board despite the NTSB’s legal responsibility to manage domestic air crashes. According to the suit, "The FBI also enlisted the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA")." Yes, the CIA was involved from day one, but I suspect that "enlisting" the agency was not the FBI’s idea.
The suit adds new information, namely that "the FBI removed all copies (original and duplicates) of Navy radar tapes from the Navy, placing them out of the NTSB’s reach."
The suit addresses the CIA animation used to discredit the scores of excellent eyewitness, but adds this detail, "Despite outwardly proclaiming that the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was, in the CIA’s words, ’NOT A MISSILE,’ several internal government communications (that have only come to light in the recent FOIA litigation) indicated that a missile was involved."
The suit reviews the history of Navy’s Aegis Missile system responsible for the misfire. The Department of Defense (DOD) pushed the system quickly through production and deployment thinking the missile threat from hostile countries "here and now." Although the suit does not mention this detail, there was a real fear at the time of terrorists using planes as missiles, a fear that proved tragically well-grounded five years later.
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The Raytheon SM-2 required additional testing ?
Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired by the USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. Wikipedia
#2
Aw jeeze, not this disinformation again. The reassembled airframe showed a center fuel tank explosion from the inside. The tank and airframe were bowed outwards, not inwards as if it were from an external explosion.
If the cause really were an SM-2 missile, where is the missile debris? Where are the holes and fragments from the 240lb (AFAICR) blast frag warhead that would be embedded in the airframe and passengers. Malaysia Airlines MH17 airframe and passengers were littered with warhead fragments and shrapnel holes when the Russians shot it down over Ukraine with a missile half the size of a SM-2.
#5
Couple of items: This presumes the Navy is dumb enough to be shooting the Big Ones in such a busy area. As if the Army were doing artillery near an elementary school playground. First time? Whose idea was this?
The feds needed three contradictory explanations for the explosive residue. In the procedures manual--you could look it up--civilian airliners do not show explosive residue. So credibility is looking kind of lame, here.
If you want an intro, although by nature and nurture a grunt, I had the misfortune to spend a year in Air Defense. Once I discovered the Nike Hercules lacked bayonet fittings, I lost interest in the proje itself.
What follows has nothing to do with anything I learned while in that post. However, I do recall what the thing looked like. It looked like any other SAM, like a pencil with little bitty fins. Some maneuver, according to stuff shown in the last couple of decades, by gimbaling the motors. But, even so, they don't turn sharp and may have a problem with violently-maneuvering aircraft. So they have proximity fuses and huge warheads. You don't need a bomb the size of a 155mm round--or larger--to bring down an aircraft with a direct hit. But you need a goodly chunk of destruct if the best you're going to get is sort of pretty close.
Which is to say if one of these marvels is looking at a straight, not fast as lightning, modest by military standards climb, putting the missile into the first-class liquor cabinet would be no problem and with that huge warhead, we should be picking up tinfoil from all over.
We have only the feds' promise none of the vics have frags in them.
The feds dragged out a guy to say it's usual for people who see an aircraft blowing up to have an optical delusion that something went up from the surface. And not only anti-aircraft gunners. Riiight. But they needed this dude to discredit the witnesses.
A full-size SAM launch lights up the sky. That wasn't reported.
IMO, it was a MANPAD, now having all-aspect seekers. Hit the centerline tank and set it off. MANPADs have warheads in the 6-7 pound range. That's less than an 81, for heaven's sake. Everybody knows this. MANPADs do not blow up aircraft. They make the aircraft incapable of flying and, if lucky, hit something the aircraft is carrying which blows up the aircraft.
800 was at the top end of known MANPAD envelopes.
One third-hand suggestion was to find how many 747 were out of service while having their fuel sensors replaced.
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The link is to the incident where Saratoga whacked a Turkish frigate during a failed drill. I was in Turkey at the time. It is possible. Personally, I don't think you can keep a lid on that type of mistake for this long.
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A commander signing for a ship with twenty missiles owns twenty missiles. He'll not be signing if he counts nineteen.It would have been replaced, which means the paper trail.Every step up the resupply chain will be down one of those expensive birds and wants paper to explain it.
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The MANPAD comments above fit my overall sense that this could be the true story. What needs to be added is the question of WHO fired it, and from what platform. Iranians in a pleasure craft, fishing boat never seems to get mentioned or discussed a lot, which I find curious. Seems to me they had motive, certainly easily enough acquired means, and would have been able to exit the country in short order. If such an op took place, perhaps the political considerations (Clinton era, not the apogee of American political courage) of the moment argued against letting it be known?
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NoMoreBS
Good point. Clinton would have had to do SOMETHING about this act of war. But what and to whom? Unless they got the goods on the actual perp, that would be a hell of an obstacle while the clamor for retribution got louder.
Then what if turned out to be a donor to the Clinton Foundation? Or the State Department retirement fund?
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Key paragraphs — considerably more detail at the link.
[Federalist via 90 Miles From Tyranny] There is no denying anymore that our federal agencies have weaponized their power against the political adversaries of the left. But if you think the feds’ abandonment of all standards only affects outspoken critics of the regime, think again. More allegations of FBI corruption and hubris are coming to light after a lawsuit last week revealed FBI agents misled a judge so they could illegally seize and withhold property from innocent American citizens.
Agents took more than $86 million in cash, jewelry, and gold from 1,400 safe deposit boxes during the raid of a Beverly Hills vault company in March 2021. Lawyers representing a group of deposit box owners claim their items were illegally taken and not returned to them more than a year after the raid of the Beverly Hills, California, branch of U.S. Private Vaults.
SEIZING INNOCENT AMERICANS’ ASSETS
This past March, a year after the raid, the owners of U.S. Private Vaults pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder drug money. However, the hundreds of citizens whose assets were seized by the FBI are not suspected of any crimes, according to court documents.
Deposit box holders whose property was taken sued the bureau for violating their rights. Robert Frommer, a lawyer with the Institute for Justice, the libertarian, nonprofit law firm that filed the suit, said in the court papers: “We brought suit on behalf of seven clients, but we were representing a class of at least 400 people. What we’ve been trying to show for the past several months is that the government’s actions violated the search-and-seizure protections of the US Constitution in the Fourth Amendment.”
After the raid, the feds demanded that box holders submit to an investigation before having their possessions returned. “It was scary to learn that we had to submit our personal information,” said Jennifer with tears in her eyes. “We didn’t do anything wrong.”
Minutes after Jennifer and Paul announced a lawsuit with the Institute for Justice, an FBI agent reached out, saying their belongings would be returned. However, other box holders have still not received their property back. And as the Institute for Justice points out, the government had no right to seize their property and force them to prove their innocence in the first place.
FBI MISLEADS JUDGE KIM TO OBTAIN A WARRANT
Agents appeared to have gotten their warrant to raid the vault by neglecting to tell U.S. Magistrate Judge Steve Kim, who signed the warrant, that they intended to keep all the assets found in every safe deposit box containing $5,000 or more in cash and valuables.
The failure on the part of the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles to reveal the plan to confiscate private citizens’ belongings in the warrant application was revealed in FBI documents and depositions of agents in the aforementioned lawsuit. Agents further defied restrictions set in the warrant by Kim when they searched through box holders’ belongings for evidence of crimes. The warrant explicitly noted that it “does not authorize a criminal search or seizure of the contents of the safety deposit boxes,” but only allowed the FBI to look inside in order to identify the owners and return their property to them, Institute for Justice reported.
As Los Angeles Magazine’s Ian Spiegelman reported, the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office have denied they “misled the judge or ignored conditions of the warrant, saying agents had no obligation to tell Judge Kim they planned to ransack the privately-rented boxes under the umbrella theory that every customer was a black market mastermind.” According to FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller, the warrants were executed legally “based on allegations of widespread criminal wrongdoing.”
U.S. Private Vaults closed down, and only the owners have been charged and fined for laundering drug money. Not one person involved has been sent to prison.
It has yet to be seen whether the FBI will return all the savings of the innocent Americans caught up in the U.S. Private Vaults raid, or whether taking money from people with baseless allegations is a new funding tactic for the feds.
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FBI is corrupt and lazy. It certainly sounds like the lockbox business is an attractive business to possible criminals. So do the leg work and investigate patrons.
But then again the notion that the FBI treats everyone associated with a ‘shaky’ business as criminals merely justifies my belief that ‘all’ FBI personnel are corrupt based on the corrupt behavior of a few.
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Doesn't that place as the biggest bank robbery in US history? In more normative times a pause might be suggested the better to grab a knee, check those grid coordinates, and a quick glance at that mission statement.
I call them “incidents” for a reason. I grew up in overseas oilfields. I try to, by training, observe everything from as objectively neutral a viewpoint as possible.
In my experience when anything involving energy-industry hydrocarbons explodes … well, sabotage isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. And honestly, when it comes to a pipeline running natural gas under Russian (non)maintenance, an explosion means that it’s Tuesday. Or Friday. Or another day of the week ending in “y”.
“But, LawDog,” I hear you say, “It was multiple explosions!”
Yes, 17 hours apart. No military is going to arrange for two pipes in the same general area to be destroyed 17 hours apart. Not without some Spec Ops guy having a fit of apoplexy. One pipe goes up in a busy shipping lane, in a busy sea, and everyone takes notice. Then you wait 17 hours to do the second — with 17 hours for people to show up and catch you running dirty? Nah, not buying it.
The Nord pipelines weren’t in use. To me, that means it’s time for maintenance! Hard to maintain pipes when product is flowing.
Pipelines running methane, under saltwater, require PMCS* quicker than you’d think, and more often than you’d believe.
I would bet a cup of coffee that any of the required weekly and monthly checks and services since the Russians took over have been pencil-whipped. (See Andreev Bay 1982.)
They officially shut it down in July of 2020 for maintenance, and had cornbread hell getting it back on-line, and “issues” with maintaining flow throughout the next year; shut it down again in July of 2021, with bigger “issues” — we say “issues” because the Russians won’t explain what these issues were — and even more problems, including unexplained, major disruptions in gas flow in Dec21/Jan22; Feb 22; and April 22.
Yeah, there’s problems with those lines. And these are the same folks that PMCS’d Chernobyl.
So. They’ve got pipelines with issues that are currently pressurised (with highly flammable, if not outright explosive, natural gas/methane), but not moving product. It’s time to find out what those issues are.
And they blew up. My shocked face, let me show you it. Next time, tell Sergei to put out the cigarette before pulling a pressure test.
Is there a possibility of sabotage? Yeah. Especially in the current world situation — but folks thought the Kursk went down because of hostile actions, too.
So, yes, hostile actions are a possibility, but mass amounts of explosive hydrocarbon gas + 300 feet down under salt water + shoddy Russian maintenance = “Nobody could have possibly seen this coming”, and yet another entry into the extensive Wikipedia page on “Soviet/Russian disasters”.
“But what issues could happen in an undersea pipeline that could cause ruptures?”
Oh, my sweet summer child. Many, many, many. You might go far as to ask, “What issues won’t cause a rupture in an undersea pipeline?” — It’d be easier to list.
However, in this case involving a natural gas pipeline under the pressure of 300 to 360 feet (8 atmospheres to 10 atm.) of water, I’d like you to turn your eyes towards a fun little quirk of nature called “methane hydrates”.
Well, actually, I’d like you to meditate upon “hydrate plug”, but give me a moment.
Under certain circumstances of pressure, temperature, and water presence natural gas/methane will form solid hydrates, with concomitant amounts of fun.
#5
A plausible theory to a non-expert like me. Russian industry has never been a model of efficiency. But Biden and Nuland implicated themselves by threatening to "end" the pipelines back in January if Putin invaded Ukraine. Putin invaded Ukraine and now the pipelines have ended. Cause and effect? Dunno but I don't hear the White House denying it. We have theories and we have theories. Another theory is that it's gonna be a cold winter in Europe.
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Hopefully Europeans can keep warm by burning the furniture of anyone involved in an energy policy decision the last 20 years.
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I am under the impression that the undersea leg(s) are a European Project - Russian pipeline on land connecting to said project - if that is so, wouldn't they be responsible for the maintenance of said structure?
Out of my understanding; just trying to make sure the pieces on the board are set up right, and please correct or expand.
With this theory, it was a massive depressurization event. Several hundred pounds of hydro plug ripping through the pipe wall at a bend and the several hundred bars of pressure in the pipe coming out very quickly. Can trip seismographs and sound like an explosion. Experts can tell the difference but most of those will be in SCIFs and have classified information around that area.
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[FoxNews] A memo circulating among Senate Republicans this week details how the fentanyl crisis continues to worsen across U.S. communities as southern border drug seizures and encounters reach record highs.
[American Thinker] A month ago American Thinker published my article on whistleblower William Teele, the ten-year U.S. Navy vet who shared his own perspective on the 
[Federalist via 90 Miles From Tyranny] There is no denying anymore that our federal agencies have weaponized their power against the political adversaries of the left. But if you think the feds’ abandonment of all standards only affects outspoken critics of the regime, think again. More allegations of FBI corruption and hubris are coming to light after a lawsuit last week revealed FBI agents misled a judge so they could illegally seize and withhold property from innocent American citizens.
