The Federal Bureau of Intentional Lying (FBI-L) has claimed the Colonial Pipeline Network was compromised by a hack from Darkside Ransomware:
“The FBI confirms that the Darkside ransomware is responsible for the compromise of the Colonial Pipeline networks. We continue to work with the company and our government partners on the investigation.” (LINK)
When the state police tell us something prudence dictates we evaluate their motive against previous state police statements and make an independent decision. That’s the basis of not being a victim to professional lying. That said, which is more likely:
A) A random cyber-hack from a dubious eastern-European source, has compromised the refined fuel capacity in the United States?
~ OR…
B) The FBI, a political division -and state police- acting on behalf the U.S. intelligence community, are making this claim in order to provide cover for the Biden administration’s purposeful policies that are skyrocketing the price of fuel?
Alex I will take B, Commies gonna Commie for $50000, please
Higher and higher price of fuel for trucks and trains translates to higher prices for consumers for the goods we need.
Be prepared, folks.
Good thing we have the reliable Dominion watchdogging over our elections.
Lol, right?!
It gets crazier and crazier.
“Mom, Russia ate my homework!”
The Gipper Lives: “Son, you’ve got a great future in government.”
A Radiant Future!
This goes back a long way. Does everyone remember after the Soviet Union fell and KGB files were made public, it was shown as we suspected that Democrat “senator” Teddy Chappaquiddick Kennedy was working with the Soviet commies against President Reagan and against Americans?
There were likely some GOPevil uniparty scum also in on that even that early. They just did not get caught.
“Only an Airhead Can Save Us from Air” > NO gas molecule can capture, store, redirect or amplify radiant energy photons moving at the speed of light > AOC, Greta & Gore are scientifically illiterate
“Green Prince of Darkness Exposed” > sustainable energy is net energy lower
“From Muscle Power to Carbon Empowerment” > abiogenic oil, use it or it becomes an environmental hazard
What border?
After the Russia collusion hoax with top FBI star players Comey and Mueller, even the village idiot knows that the FBI is a State tool with an agenda. Now with Wray at the helm things have gotten worse with BLM, Antifa and election fraud crime running rampant and zero charges. Option B is obvious.
Yep, and today we learned President Trump was planning to fire Wray and Barr raised the devil and said he would resign in that happened. Barr was also one of the bad guys. Are there any in these agencies who are honest people who believe in and respect or Constitutional freedoms?
Barr blew the bagpipes, while America burned.
A new age Nero, foisted on us by a new age Brutus, called the RNC.
Trump could have killed two birds with one stone and missed the opportunity.
Mitch McConnell threatened Trump on all hiring and firing.
From day one.
That was a mistake Trump made…allowing this worm to dictate anything. Should have squashed him on the first day and let him know that he would be his B
With election f_a_d outcome, doesn’t matter Wray or someone just as big a liar would have been put in charge! I don’t believe there’s any honest person running any of the agencies!
Then he would have been impeached with Mueller’s paper.
Zero
Bill Hollinger: Thanks for that info. Barr was not just rotten, he was rotten to the core. One of the great traitors in world history. He belongs with Judas and Brutas. We need an edit in Dante’s Inferno.
I remember that Barr threat was exposed in Real Time back when he said it. Yep. Or, it was leaked (true or not) to put pressure on PT.
I’d hazard a guess and say probably 1.25 person/s, but the ice is getting thinnerrer and sliperryerrer by the pico second so they may soon vanish.
Will anyone question the 10s of millions in the bank account of Wray that came from his representation of Russian mobsters ?
What sick minds hatch out plans like this? What twisted, and sick individuals are running the US right now.
DD
Demons.
Army of Satan.
Or
C) China can wreck the US economy with impunity because they have kompromat on the Bidens. And, after all, that’s why they hired the guy.
The fear of the midterms and the likely strong Pro-MAGA turnout and victories
is a powerful catalyst for the I.C. community and its operatives to take radical action manifesting itself on multiple fronts.
Option B more likely than A! Suspicious Cat concurs!??
Remember: it’s about the midterms! Can’t have MAGA-success THEN … never mind 2024.
Too much at stake.
They need a bogey-man to attach MAGA too to pre-empt midterm victories.
They need a new fear- favor front to freak-out the national gerstalt and psyche.
Fear factor front
What’s the purpose for mid-terms other than optics unless rigged vote counting machines are eliminated?
Sundance, what if this is only the first test to see our reaction? If a major electrical grid and whatever else shuts down, that would mean we are under attack and the enemy breached the heart of the key infrastructures. Xilected Biden has to be removed. Things are happening fast with the CCP inside the WH.
“ Xilected Biden has to be removed”. ???
In fairness, she won Customer of the Year from Chappaqua Wine and Liquors. Four times in a row.
To be honest I would wonder if this was a case of one customer single-handedly saving the company from going bankrupt.
This is what happens when the entire Nat/Sec Apparatus is focused on framing Capitol trespassers for the Narrative(tm) instead of protecting America.
And if you think this is unlikely just dial back to a year or so ago and listen to the good Dr. Fauci tell us that mask wearing didn’t accomplish much. But, then, when the state decided that mask wearing provided useful cover for increasing state control\, hey presto!, wearing a face diaper suddenly got transformed into a world-saving act that by itself would surely guarantee an early admission to Heaven. Governments lie. All governments lie all the time.
Terrible truth. Governments LIE. We teach our children to be honest, but those adults at the highest level of our govt are not to be trusted. Every institution designed to be truthful and just has become corrupt to the core. You can not reno this house. It is a tear down.
DD
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. But mostly it invites the election-thieving Obamas to install Kamala and Corey in the White House when America’s Creepy Uncle can’t hide the Parkinson’s any longer.”–Justice Louis D. Brandeis
I quote from memory. Joe Biden’s.
Olmstead v. U.S., I believe? I love that dissent. I copied it out into a copybook I used to carry around when I was in law school.
Government Lie = Legal Fiction
Anyone beyond an idiot knows masks preventing Covid are as useless as tits on a boar.
But what if the boar identifies as a sow?
Just more Intel Community extremism against the American People who vote #MAGA
What ever they say, believe the opposite is true.
Or, follow SD away from the Eastern Bloc boogieman whenever possible.
Ultimately, the bottom line: The traders are lovin’ them some oil right now.
We’re screwed and our own people are doing it to us.
H&HC…: They sure are not my people.
The folks who hacked the Climate Research Unit emails prior to the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Would you mind hacking into the emails of all the FIB, CIA, DOD, State DEPT, CDC, DOJ, DNC, RNC, 44 and 46 every RINO and Democrat Federal and State, those in and out of office, all Never Trumpers, Dominion, all Leftie Media, Faux execs and Lawfare. Let’s see what’s really going on…thanks a ton.
See Julian Assange and Edward Snowden–they did what you asked. Both are now in acute legal jeopardy–one in jail awaiting trial, the other in exile.
No, not really…Don’t think Assange hacked anything…he published. Snowden, did he hack or did he share the inside baseball of spying by our Gov. on US citizens.
Yes, if you allow them and do nothing but whine how screwed you are.
Sundance’s assertion B has the ring of truth. Intel hacked to shut down to cover for Biden’s policies escalating the cost of fuel.
Edit: Intel hacked to shut down the pipeline …
Force us into swallowing their green agenda.
Cars, trucking, lawn mowers and snow blowers…the USA runs on gasoline. It is and has been part of the fabric of our lives.
God gave the entire earth an abundance of oil. The USA has enough to run on beneath its own land and water.
all of which have tires .. no?
wonder how they then will make tires with out crude….. ooops! the wheels on the bus just fell off the green bus
Tires without crude?
Might be possible by using a coal gasification process as a step in order to make synthetic rubber.
Coal though… watermelons would be against it on principle.
Too be or not to be, that is the question….I pick B.
We are at the mercy of these pieces of ….
What is the solution to our predicament? I don’t think I can say it out loud without getting a visit from you know who, but I don’t see any other solution.
My first go to with anything Fed these days is, Show Me.
I would not trust these SOB’s to tell me the color of the sky anymore.
They earned that.
I already have guessed what the extortionists want in order to cease the cyberattacks:
Everybody must be vaccinated!
And stop the Audits!
Wasn’t being circumscized enough?
Actually there is talk that the WEF is planing a false flag cyber attack to bring down the financial system and then bring the “solution” of a new economic system.
https://www.corbettreport.com/internet-ban-financial-cyber-punk-jabs-new-world-next-week/
Financial system to be brought down “Next week”??
published on 4/17
If you pick A, the CIA is hiring up and coming stars like yourself. If you pick B, congrats…you’re now on the domestic terrorist list.
Chris Wray: We’ll get Crowdstrike right on it….
Why any of this crucial infrastructure is allowed to be connected to the internet at all speaks volumes.
Thinking and thinkers…you are precisely correct. IF online, there has to be a parallel system, offsite system, back-up….WE ARE NOT AS STUPID as FBI thinks we are.
Was it?
There aren’t any systems that are totally air gapped.. or very very few
Is it to cover for Biden’s policies driving up gas prices?
Or is it to further drive up gas prices to make Biden’s impending Green New Deal policies seem more a attractive alternative?
Both
In my best Jan Brady voice…Russia, Russia, Russia
I just read that Barr threatened to resign when President Trump wanted to fire Wray. President Trump should have let the door hit them both in the backside.
How can we prove the FBI is lying? And, what can be done about it?
If their lips are moving, then they are lying. What to do about it? That’s what Duct Tape was made for.
Duct tape and Guantanamo prison.
POS Barr probably had a second on command who was even worse than him.
Is it possible there’s an option C … a legitimate hack – organized and financed by the see eye ay?
Well, I’d go with illegitimate, but I’m thinking you’re looking up the right tree.
Comrade Citizen Bracken: All your pipelines is now also belong to us.
What is this “FBI” you speak of? Is that like our KGB?
I may be older than dirt, but how exactly did we control the flow of natural gas in a pipeline before computers, and is it possible just to go back to that?
NO back=ups? NO offsite systems, processes????????????????????? Does this make any sense something THIS important wouldn’t run/manage a parallel system???????????? WE ARE NOT FOOLS, FBI. We KNOW how you operate and we know how this govt operates……..
Exactly!!!!
Unplug the computer and operate the valve like a man!
Their thinking:
If we AUTOMATE EVERYTHING then we don’t need PEOPLE!
First this is a liquids line. Natural gas is a vapor. Two completely different systems. It is OK, most don’t know.
Second, you are correct. In the past we did not need any computer control. Originally oil and gas automation was for information only. Used to monitor pressures, rates, total volumes and leak detection.
As companies really wanted to maximize profits they eliminate people. Automation was seen as the replacement. After the initial capital costs the savings were tremendous. Especially when management was star struck by the new wonder-boys of the computer age.
Problem is computers don’t reason, they don’t actually think the way an old pipeline switcher and pumper would. They analyze predict and react. Real oil and gas critical thinking has been eliminated by the false promise of automation and the dumbing down of the worker. Compounding the problem, Corporate lawyers do everything in their power to remove the thinking, reasoning, human component for liability reasons.
But no matter the trend continued, and now the automation controls everything and anyone with any practical pipeline knowledge is retired or getting ready to. I deal with this almost daily as I deliver my Natural gas to a “Transmission” line vs a smaller less regulated gathering line. Pipeline workers in my area are some of the most clueless people I have ever met about their own infrastructure. It is not their fault.
Don’t believe me. Texas this winter was a SMALL example. Do that across most all the US, overnight.
Answer to your question and long story short, I doubt there is anyone in their organization that could get that line to manually flow without throwing the automation away. Every valve, pump, and component is controlled by the automation. Yes there is a person watching but quite honestly they only see what that screen tells them. Crap in, crap out.
Now to put the fear of God in you. The entire American natural gas and liquids pipeline systems are the most exposed infrastructure in our country. With the destruction of only 4 (and no I will not name them) Natural gas Hubs in the US, I could paralyze this country overnight. No natural gas, no gasoline, no diesel, no electricity and eventually no food. I can do this with 4 simple car bombs and no one could stop it from happening.
The fact that their automation systems are even connected to the web is unbelievable to me. Convenience trumps security, again. I am not against automation. Used properly it is a GREAT tool to have.
I am not exaggerating in the slightest. There is a lot I have not included for…….reasons.
I have been tryin to get people to listen to me for years, but I get crickets.
Will – thanks very much for posting this information. I believe every word of your comment and fear that it is even worse than you let on.
Yes.
Look to see how much of our electricity is now made from natural gas. Then look at everything in your area running on natural gas. Homes, restaurants, stores, mfg. facilities, etc.
Liquids lines are the lifeblood of transportation and homes/businesses that still use heating oil.
Pipelines are a grid, just like the electrical grid but now everything is co-dependent on each other.
Example:
Texas this winter. So they lost electricity. OK a problem, but years past you could survive ok. The chances of you losing both electricity and gas gave us a buffer.
This will make your head hurt. Large natural gas compression, processing, and pipeline systems now depend on lots more electricity than they used to. But the educated, management dipshits didn’t want to lay out money for simple back up generators they would only used once a year. So the electric grid goes down due to the solar/wind stupidity in the middle of winter.
Uh, oh. We just lost electricity to the gas plant that provides gas to the electrical generating station that provides electricity to the gas plant. So now the gas fired electrical plant is offline and everybody runs around like a chicken with their head cut off.
Let me tell you, bringing these large plants on line, in the winter, after an ESD or something is a M*&%#@*&). BTDT, got the tee shirt more than I care. In that situation the worst sound you can hear is quiet. Nothing is running. And this is when everyone else is hiding inside while the plant and electrical line worker are working out in that crap to get it back online. (Of course the guy who made the initial decision not to buy the generator is now on the cell phone in Florida chewing your ass, while you are saving his)
Meanwhile some old grizzled worn out oilfield hand is sittin’ in his house burning firewood and running a generator with a 500 gallon tank going – told ya dumasses.
I think the movie Die Hard 4 or 5 had these scenarios.
Some thief wants access to some secure gov computer systems and fries the entire grid to get it.
Takes out the Eastern and Western gas hubs manually by blowing them up.
Of course Bruce Willis saves the day.
Bruce was based on my sexy self, ya know. ?
Convenience trumps security, again.
Feature, or bug?
Stupidity.
A Terror attack on our homeland that doesn’t even seem to make front page news.
FBI spent over a year ‘investigating’ the Las Vegas shooting, only to come up with nothing, no motive.
But they got this in the bag after 1 day. Yeah right.
FBI still tracking down Jan 6th grandmas and grandpas and anyone else whose PERSONAL DATA has been compromised and freely give out from companies that wouldn’t help FBI stop/connect the San Bernadino shooter…recall, Apple WOULD NOT DIVULGE the pin/code to the iPhone YET on Jan 6th, GAVE ANY INFO FBI desired.
Disgracefull. Do they have anything better to do?
What, exactly, are the taxpayers paying for in the highly politicized and loaded-for-money wokester FBI these days?
The FBI knew in advance of the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and were tipped off by the local sheriff
The FBI knew in advance of the plans of San Bernardino Terrorists.
The FBI knew in advance of the Boston Marathon Bombers (Tsarnaevs), they were tipped off by the Russians.
The FBI knew in advance of the Garland, Texas, shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi)
The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz).
The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hassan); and
while they (FBI) were out there busy looking for the “white supremacists,” a very real refugee from Syria Ahmad al-Aliwi Al-Issa was making plans to kill innocent people in Colorado.
You’re working with the premise that the FBI wasn’t actively involved in or at the very least supportive of all those attacks. In Garland, they new the place, person, time and were parked up the street. They didn’t count on a local LEO being there and taking out the FBI supported terrorists.
HOW does an entity THIS LARGE, important, dependent GET HACKED?
I BELIEVE NONE of this.
What I know is gas prices will rise AGAIN, $0.30-$0.40 /gallon NEVER to decrease or decline. IT’S WHAT Dems DO. SCREW the nation.
The day Biden took office, I was buying gas for $2.12. TODAY, $2.72, that a $0.60/gallon increase , a whopping 22% INCREASE in 4 mos. MY wages gone up 22%. MY taxes ARE though….
I don’t believe for one second this an outsider; totally insider job/hack…planned and coordinated for yet another don’t let a crisis go to waste moment….
Agreed. Add the bonus of blaming hated cryptocurrencies for enabling a “dark side” funds transfer, and Joebama has two – two!! motives in one for this ecapade.
The FSBFBI is the biggest lying manufacturer in the world.
Probably the C.!.A., not Darkside Ransomware, punishing southern states. Or maybe they’re one in the same.
KGB: “White supremacist terror is the biggest threat to our country”
Me: [rolls eyes]
KGB: “Hacking done by …yada yada…”
Me: [doesn’t listen] [ready to accept unfounded theories instead]
I tried to post a jpeg / photo of the states affected but could not figure how, but suffice to say, most–if not all–of them would be considered RED STATES.
Hmmmm…….
or…
A radical environmental group is responsible for it.
This pipeline would have been designated “critical Infrastructure” many years ago and would be protected by an extensive cyber program, including incorporation of US classified Indicators of Concern (IOC’s). Furthermore, any threat actor would (or should) be certain of harsh retaliation for an attack on such infrastructure. Russia would never be stupid enough to launch this attack short of an invitation to do so. It should also be noted that any sensible cyber security team would have isolated this pipeline from the internet entirely. Even secure interconnect devices supplied by the US govt would be considered inadequate to protect such a critical system. If the system was isolated from the internet, then a malicious insider launched the attack. No sensible adversary would “burn” their access, whether virtual or physical to execute this money extortion “prank.” And no sensible attacker would attempt to extort the operator of US critical infrastructure.
In short, SD is right that this stinks. I don’t believe russians did this anymore than that russians carried out the SolarWinds hack. SolarWinds had all the hallmarks of China, none of Russia.
Nobody can believe the US govt on anything anymore, and most especially on attribution of a cyber attack. I agree with SD this looks like a US special. And why the US would blithely point fingers at a rival bristling with nuclear weapons is just beyond me. It looks careless and amateurish, if not stupid and reckless.
I also agree with SD that is does appear the motive may be to trigger inflation. Over on zerohedge you can find video of enormous stores of lumber housed in enormous warehouses. Lumber prices have exploded over the last year. Same for corn.
In combo with FED and Congress dumping free money into the economy, it looks like yet another part of the effort to create inflation, when in any sane world, the idiotic covid response should have provoked the Greatest Depression.
One of the following outcomes is likely:
1/ They succeed in creating inflation, which eventually drives up interest rates, which crashes the asset markets;
2/ They succeed in creating inflation, but lose control and create hyperinflation, which crashes the dollar, which crashes everything;
3/ When the stimmie runs out in about 6 months, everyone finds no inflation and instead ongoing deflation, which causes all the overheated asset markets to collapse.
Possibility of muddling through while printing and dumping trillions and simultaneously taking stupid actions to trigger inflation… near
zero.
My advice: Buy seeds and a fishing pole.
A couple of weeks ago local news in Atlanta was reporting that there would be a gas shortage due to not enough truck drivers. I thought it was strange at that time. Now we have a cyber attack that has shut down Colonial Pipeline.
My theory is, is that the local news was prepping the field of battle. They (TPTB) knew the hack was coming but they needed something to keep the pain prolonged so they led this charade off with the trucker shortage. They are hoping to cause panic buying and then prolong the high prices because they just can’t seem to get enough gas back to the stations. Kind of like the TP issue at the start of the plandemic.
Big oil lost huge amounts of money during the shutdowns. I guess this is the payoff to big oil. or worse
When is recent times has the FBI ever told the truth?
Depends on the meaning of recent, times and truth.
I do not believe at face value a damn thing that FBI/DOJ professional liars say anymore. The thugs clearly want this incident associated with the Russians so that they can continue to paint the Russians as bad guys. I would guess it is another hacker who got in, unrelated to the Russians but perhaps not a false flag.
Still, would I be surprised if it were a false flag? Not in the least.
What an amazing place to be, given that I would have laughed the possibility to death 20 years ago.
The pipeline is definitely down. My son-in-law works for Exxon and Colonial is one of their clients. That pipeline is in his purview and he had to address it over the weekend with his employee who handles that account. Apparently the entire process has to be rewritten and he said no less than six weeks to do it.
Great.
Down for close to 2 months.
And now we got the Palestinians on the war path being egged on by our great leader O’Biden.
Boy are THEY ever stirring the pot.
We will know a little more when we see if gas prices collapse in Texas and Oklahoma. If the gas can’t be pumped but is being produced then it will quickly fill all storage in the originating SW region and drive prices down there while they soar in the NE.
I think it may be A as part of the intimidation campaign leading up to Russia annexing Ukraine at the same time that China grabs Taiwan.
The knowledge that Trump might do ANYTHING imaginable or unimaginable in response to aggression but didn’t have any desire to start new wars deterred such behaviors. That deterrent is gone.
Now the same bad actors see a fleeting opportunity while an incompetent Joe Biden fronts for in internationalist politburo running America by committee from behind.
I won’t deny that our own IC could run a fake or real attack against us. But that doesn’t mean that our external enemies couldn’t have done this.
Our own IC and our external enemies are effectively one and the same.
B.
Also, if it’s harder to gas up that means less freedom of movement now that the weather is warming up and it’s BBQ and party time the covidians have another reason to tell people to stay home – “don’t be gas-greedy someone else more needy than them might need to get that gallon of gas” or somethin –
looks like gas rationing will be the new social distancing mechanism.
Deep Sate creating another crisis. Creating shortages that piss off the people, so they will have to step into the state and create a Federal Energy Protection Agency, (they’ll call it FEPA) cause you know, these private corporations need to show more concern for hard working Americans, who just cant take these spikes in fuel. They’ll appoint their commie stooges and begin to regulate who how much gasoline can be made, and who will get it.
Here it comes………..
Former WH cybersecurity adviser: Colonial Pipeline ‘should not have been this vulnerable’ (msn.com)
I guess this explains why there were no bicycles at Walmart yesterday. None, zero racks were completely empty. I’ve never seen that before. I mentioned it to my sister at the time.
They no longer make a bike tire capable of supporting a Walmart shopper.
lol
Fat Tire. Available in the Beer Section, right next to the Form-Fitting Clothes Section.
There weren’t any last year either. Racks completely empty.
Why would the pesky Eyerainians do it? And even more to the point, they don’t have the brains to do it.
They put a 4-term sleeper agent in the White House…