Don't let the latest international media circus distract us from the fact that it is still an election year. We have little to no impact on Ukraine v Russia unfortunately, but we do have impact on our state and local battlegrounds. Do your research before you walk in there and end up checking some obvious deep state fuck's name just because it sounded familiar to you.

We got to keep our game faces on and our heads on a swivel. The war has many fronts, and we can't let one battle distract us from another. Sometimes anons can get caught up in the media cycle too.

Old feller was full of interesting insights into the middle east and our activities there, going so far as to begrudgingly admit that our intentions there were less than noble.

So anyways, at one point he says he got a call just a few weeks ago asking if he can go "back to work in the middle east, this time in Afghanistan" and he told them no, he'd done his duty and he was way past his prime.

So my wife, curious, asked "What branch of the military did you serve under?"

"None."

"Oh, but did you work for the Federal Government? Or were you a contractor or something?"

Old guy sighs and says, "You know, I don't even know if it matters anymore, but 40 years ago I was told to never say where I worked, and I might as well keep that promise."

At this point, my wife (this is a woman who wears 'sheep no more' shirts out on the town, btw) is extremely curious because now she knows she is talking to some sort of retired spook...

The conversation continues, and at one point the fellow says that he knows "what is really going on in Afghanistan."

So she asks: "Ok, then... I just wanna know: is it a white hat operation or a black hat operation?"

At this question, my wife literally said the old guy's face cracked open to a big smile and his eyes twinkled. "I know it doesn't look like it, but it's white hats... That is definitely white hats."

...and that's all she got out of him.

Just a dose of hopium story time for the boards, Patriots. Hold the Line!

I work for a factory rep company, we sell industrial parts to multiple different markets. Being based in TX, obviously the Oil & Gas sector is a big part of our customer base. So I have a little bit of experience with the industry but I'm definitely no technical expert (I'm an office guy - IT, accounting, reporting, etc). I'd love to have someone with a bit more mechanical knowledge chime in.

I'm well aware much of the O&G industry is integrated with computer systems like any other, but the idea that there are no fail-safes for opening valves or starting pumps in an emergency situation seems completely ridiculous to me.

But it might be similar to what happened during the Texas freeze...

As I understand it, back in the day Natural Gas processing plants used old school gas-powered manual ('hand crank') ignition switches on their machinery/pumps. But after 2008, under the reign of Renegade Hussein, one of the 'green policies' he imposed was to replace them all with electronic ignition switches.

For us it was a minor boom I'm told (I wasn't working here at the time), because we happened to sell those products the industry needed to meet the regulation, but it ultimately set Texas up for disaster years later. When the Big Freeze came through, and power went out, the mid-stream natural gas companies were unable to get pumping again without the presence of electricity. In the past, they might have been able to start with gas and hand-cranking and keep working under emergency conditions, which would ultimately have restored power to the state sooner.

In other words, Obama's little 'electronic ignition switch requirements' were a minor chink in the power chain with major repercussions. Sure, it minorly boosted sales for a few companies including my own - and in general electrical switches are easier to use than manual cranks - but it removed an important fail-safe during a power outage.

Now that I'm looking back on it, it appears that there was more to Obama's Green Initiative than payouts, money-laundering, and ineffective regulations, at least in this particular case. It seems his environmental regulations were intentionally implemented to take away some protections for our power grid. Efforts to make us weaker.

This is just one example of how the Deep State has "industrially sabotaged" us for future failures. We happened to be talking about it at work yesterday, so I thought I would share with anons...

But certainly, a Pipeline being completely incapacitated by a computer hack?

...that seems like a similar situation to me. In my mind, such a thing shouldn't even be mechanically possible. Or at the very least there should be fail-safes to manually get the system running again.

It makes me wonder what other ways have we been set up for failure. These type of pre-imbedded weaknesses in the supply chain that lead to power outages, fuel shortages, and food shortages, etc... need to be identified and fixed.

I can't get Qalerts to load this morning and my gut is saying" save offline" anyways. Heading to work, will check back.