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Lara Logan Reports: Experts in Behavioral Analytics, Counter-Terrorism, and National Security Analyze Recent Incident

BALTIMORE UPDATE: Analysis from specialists in predictive behavioral analytics, counter-terrorism, hazardous materials, maritime attacks, cyber, national security & intel – this is their view:

Based on their training & experience, they believe this was two types of operation:

1) “Penetration testing” where they are probing/testing to identify vulnerabilities in our responses and defences,

AND

2) a shaping operation to set the conditions and prepare the battlefield for a potential future event.

The concern is that other critical infrastructure disruptions/hits recently that appeared to be independent, isolated events, MAY not be. For example, the Ohio chemical disaster, train derailments, fires at food processing plants etc when taken in isolation do not appear to be that significant but when taken together, could indicate shaping or stacking operations that are paving the way for a bigger event where they do any number of these types of operations together. That could potentially paralyze the U.S..

New York Times: The 5 Minutes That Brought Down the Key Bridge

BALTIMORE — “Hold all traffic on the Key Bridge.”

The terse command from an officer in Baltimore’s busy commercial shipping port was one of the first warnings of a disaster that experts now predict will transform shipping on the Eastern Seaboard and change how ships and bridges function around the world. But after the cargo ship Dali lost power early Tuesday, there were precious few minutes to act.

In those minutes, many people — from the ship’s crew, who sent out a mayday signal, to the transportation authority police officers, who stopped traffic heading onto the Francis Scott Key Bridge — did what they could to avert catastrophe, most likely saving many lives.

And yet — no matter what anyone did — several factors made catastrophe all but inevitable. When a ship of this size loses engine power, there is little to be done to correct its course, even dropping an anchor down. 

And the Key Bridge was particularly vulnerable. As long ago as 1980, engineers had warned that the bridge, because of its design, would never be able to survive a direct hit from a container ship.

The collision and subsequent collapse of the bridge swallowed up seven road workers and an inspector who could not be alerted and pulled off the bridge in time; two were pulled alive out of the water, but four others are still missing and presumed dead. Two bodies were retrieved on Wednesday, authorities said.

Also caught up in the disaster were the ship’s 21 crew members, all from India, who had prepared for a long journey to Sri Lanka on the Dali. While none of them were hurt, they would be held on board for more than a day as the ship sat in the harbor, the ruins of the bridge tangled around it, as authorities began their investigation.

The accident, the deadliest bridge collapse in the United States in more than a decade, will have a lasting impact on the Port of Baltimore, with its 8,000 workers, and industries that rely on the port, which is the leading American hub for auto and other wheeled equipment, said Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. transportation secretary, on Wednesday.

“It’s difficult to overstate the impact of this collision,” Buttigieg said.

He compared the Dali, roughly as long as a city block, to the size of a U.S. aircraft carrier.

“A hundred thousand tons, all going into this pier all at once,” he said of the impact on the bridge support structure.

Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the accident, boarded the Dali on Tuesday night to gather documentation. They obtained data from the voyage data recorder, the equivalent of an aircraft’s black box, hoping that it could help investigators determine what led to the accident.

Buttigieg said that any private party found liable in the accident “will be held responsible.”

It was about half an hour past midnight Tuesday when the Dali, loaded with cargo containers, departed its dock, guided by two tugboats, as is customary. On board was a local harbor pilot with more than 10 years of experience and deep familiarity with Baltimore’s port, as well as an apprentice pilot in training.

The sky above the Patapsco River was clear and still, lit by a full moon.

At 1:25 a.m., after the two tugboats detached and turned back, the Dali had accelerated to about 10 mph as it approached the Key Bridge. But just then, according to a timeline released by the National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday, “numerous audible alarms” started sounding on the ship.

For reasons still being investigated, the ship’s powerful propulsion system stopped. The lights flickered out.

The ship had a “complete blackout,” according to Clay Diamond, head of the American Pilots’ Association, who was briefed on the account of the pilot of the Dali. (The chair of the NTSB, Jennifer Homendy, said officials were still trying to determine whether the power failure was complete.)

The harbor pilot noticed the ship starting to swing right, in the direction of one of the piers holding up the Key Bridge. At 1:26, he called for the tugs to return; he urged the captain to try to get the engine back up and directed the crew to steer hard left. As a last ditch measure, at 1:27, he ordered the crew to throw down the port anchor.

One of the tugboats, the Eric McAllister, turned around and raced back toward the ship.

But the failures onboard were cascading. The emergency generator had kicked on, sending a puff of thick smoke belching from the ship’s exhaust stack and briefly restoring the lights, radar and steering. It did not help. With no effective propulsion, the 95,000-ton ship had become an unstoppable object, drifting toward one of the most heavily traveled bridges in Baltimore.

On land, officers with the Maryland Transportation Authority moved swiftly into action. “I need one of you guys on the South side, one of you guys on the North side, hold all traffic on the Key Bridge,” someone is heard saying on the audio recording of emergency radio traffic that night. “There’s a ship approaching that just lost their steering. So until they get that under control, we’ve got to stop all traffic.”

Vehicles were held on either side of the bridge as the ship continued its inexorable drift toward the 1.6-mile-long span.

A minute later, the officers turned their attention to several workers, some of them immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico, who were still laboring on the bridge in the chilly darkness, taking advantage of the light traffic at night to fix potholes.

“There’s a crew up there,” one officer is heard saying on the audio recording of the radio exchange between officers. “You might want to notify whoever the foreman is, see if we could get them off the bridge temporarily.”

But even then, the ship was striking the bridge. Almost at once, the pier buckled and collapsed, twisting over the ship, with its cargo containers stacked high on the deck. Then the rest of the bridge went, breaking into sections as it plummeted and splashed into the dark river waters below.

“The size and weight of these ships make them really difficult, even with propulsion, to stop them,” said Stash Pelkowski, a professor at State University of New York Maritime College and a retired Coast Guard rear admiral. With no power, he said, “There was very little the pilot or the crew on the Dali could do.”

The collapse had happened in seconds. Except for the stumps of the piers, the central span of the bridge had plunged into the frigid river — where divers would spend the whole day searching amid twisted metal for survivors — by 1:29 a.m.

“Dispatch, the whole bridge just fell down!” an officer called out. “Whoever, everybody, the whole bridge just collapsed.”

Stray ships had long been seen as a risk to the Key Bridge. Just a few years after the Baltimore structure was constructed in 1977, a vessel crash knocked down the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, Florida, killing 35 people.

Officials acknowledged that the Key Bridge would not be able to withstand that kind of direct hit from a heavy cargo vessel. “I would have to say if that ship hit the Bay Bridge or the Key Bridge — I’m talking about the main supports, a direct hit — it would knock it down,” John Snyder, the director of engineering for the state Toll Facilities Administration told the Baltimore Sun at the time.

But building a bridge that could withstand such an impact was simply not economically feasible, he said. When the bridge was built, cargo ships were not the size they are today. A much smaller freighter did hit the bridge in 1980, but the bridge stood strong.

Minutes after the bridge collapsed Tuesday, both tugboats that had accompanied the Dali arrived on scene, followed soon by the Coast Guard and the Baltimore City Fire Department.

Two of the workers who had been on the bridge were rescued from the water. The others could not be found.

Jack Murphy, who owns Brawner Builders, the company whose workers had been on the bridge, got a phone call about the collapse and raced to the area, about a 30-minute drive away. He stayed by the bridge all night, and eventually began making calls to the men’s families.

Two workers’ bodies were discovered in a red pickup truck found near the bridge debris, police said Wednesday. They were identified as Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35, an immigrant from Mexico, and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26, a native of Guatemala.

About 2 miles from the bridge, Andrew Middleton had been lying awake when he heard the crash. He first thought it was thunder, maybe a low-flying jet.

It was only when he awoke a few hours later that he saw the news of the collapsed bridge. “I thought to myself, I was just with those guys yesterday,” he said.

Middleton, who runs Apostleship of the Sea, a program that ministers to sailors coming through the port, had driven the ship’s captain and a few crew members to Walmart on Monday to stock up on goods for the 28-day voyage ahead — toothpaste, snacks, clothes, Bluetooth speakers.

He recalled the captain telling him their next port was Sri Lanka, but that they were taking a longer route, down around South Africa, in order to avoid recent Houthi attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea.

Middleton immediately messaged the crew on WhatsApp after hearing the news Tuesday, he said, and “they responded within a few minutes saying that everyone was OK,” he said.

Around the site of the bridge collapse, firefighters and rescuers in diving gear were swarming around the shore, followed by news crews. John McAvoy, who owns a nearby restaurant, had driven over with hot meals — chicken, crab balls and pretzel bites — to hand out to the crews.

But by nightfall Tuesday, officials had called off the rescue efforts and said they would switch to searching for bodies.

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Photo of the Year: AP Wins for Their Photo of the Slaughtered, Mangled Body of a Jewish German-Israeli Girl Taken by Reporter Embedded with Hamas

 

Photo of the Year: AP Wins for Their Photo of the Slaughtered, Mangled Body of a Jewish German-Israeli Girl Taken by Reporter Embedded with Hamas

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison: We’re Investigating Automakers for Making Cars That Are ‘Too Easy’ for Young People to Steal

During a recent appearance on MSNBC, far left Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said that he is investigating two major automakers for making cars that are too easy for young people to steal.

This is the sort of backwards thinking that the left is forcing on the rest of the country.

They don’t want to charge criminals for stealing cars, they want to attack the car makers for making the cars too easy to steal. It’s really amazing that Ellison can go on national TV and say this with a straight face.

Jim Jordan Interrogates FTC Chair Canned Khan: "You Want To Know the Name of Every Journalist a Private Company Has Talked To?"

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boering Defends Daily Wire In Debate With Nick Fuentes

I was not aware Nick Fuentes was someone to take seriously at this point. This is the asshole who set up Donald Trump, in a dinner with Kanye West, in a clear attempt to destroy Trump's reputation.

Nick Fuentes is scum, in my opinion.

He walks and talks like an anti-Semite. But I would not be surprised if he is a leftist-plant, programmed to pull foolish right-wingers to the dark side (Jew-hatred).

For this reason, it may have been a good idea for Boering to debate him, because his lunacy is now being taken seriously by a sizable portion of the Right, unfortunately. 

Fuentes attempts to argue that the Daily Wire is a Jewish company pushing a pro-Israel agenda. Jeremy Boering corrects Fuentes, declaring the Daily Wire to be majority-owned by Christians. 

In fact, Jeremy Boering himself is a Christian.




MORE ON NICK FUENTES: Of all the people arrested, brought up on charges for their J6 behavior, it is interesting that Nick Fuentes, like Ray Eoos, was never charged.

Here is the original podcast from Lauren Chen:


Baltimore Bridge Collapse NOT TERROR Says White House, Crew Argues If It Was CYBER ATTACK

The country of origin of the Dali Cargo Ship is South Korea.

Watch the lights aboard the ship go out, and then the ship slams straight into the pylon holding the bridge up.


 

 

CRIME PAYS: New York City Begins Distributing Pre-Paid Debit Cards to Illegal Immigrants

 

CRIME PAYS: New York City Begins Distributing Pre-Paid Debit Cards to Illegal Immigrants

British MP Andrew Bridgen has called for the death penalty regarding 'crimes against humanity' regarding the lies surrounding the 'Covid vaccine'

Biden Regime Doesn’t Veto UN Ramadan Resolution Calling For Israeli Surrender (Ceasefire) Without Call For Release of Hostages

The US has gone over to the dark side.  Despicable.

Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed to withdraw the delegation to Washington to discuss the upcoming operation in Rafah is the USA does not veto a UN resolution that does not call for the release of the hostages.

The UN aided and abetted the jihad savages on October 7th. America has made a grave error.

US doesn’t veto UN Ramadan ceasefire resolution

UN Security Council adopts resolution demanding Israel completely end operations in Gaza during Ramadan, calls for release of hostages. US does use veto against resolution calling for permanent ceasefire.

By: Israel national News, Mar 25, 2024:The US did not use its veto against a UN Security Council Resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the month of Ramadan and calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas, allowing the resolution to pass. The US did veto a second Russian-sponsored resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire.

The first resolution passed with 14 votes in favor and one abstention, from the US.

US Ambassador to the UN Thomas-Greenfield said that the decision not to use America’s veto was made after multiple changes were made to the resolution that America had sought. However, multiple changes the US had sought were not included, such as a section condemning the Hamas terrorist organization.

GRTWT

EcoHealth Alliance -- the Frankenscience Gain-of-Function Virus-Creating Company Who Spawned Covid-19 -- Is Building a Brand-New Bat Virus Lab... Right Here in the Center of the Country

WCW Exposes Animal Lab Accidents at Home of New NIH-Funded EcoHealth Bat Lab Posted by Amanda Nieves

25 March 2024 | Blog

WCW has uncovered an alarming pattern of recent animal lab accidents at Colorado State University, which is working with the notorious EcoHealth Alliance and the NIH to build a new bat lab and breeding colony.

Never-before-seen records obtained by WCW show that from 2020 to 2023, dozens of animal lab accidents with bats, cats, hamsters, and mice exposed CSU staff to coronaviruses, Zika, rabies, Tuberculosis, and other dangerous pathogens that can cause deadly outbreaks.

Last year, WCW exposed how $12 million of taxpayers' money is being wasted by CSU and EcoHealth to build a new lab and import hundreds of bats from Asia to establish a new breeding colony and infect them with deadly viruses, including Ebola and Nipah

Last year, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) exposed how $12 million of taxpayers' money is being wasted by Colorado State University (CSU) and Wuhan lab partner EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) to build a new lab at CSU and import hundreds of bats from Asia to establish a new breeding colony and infect them with deadly viruses, including COVID, Ebola and Nipah.


Now, through a Colorado Open Records Act request, WCW has obtained never-before-seen documents detailing an alarming pattern of recent animal lab accidents at CSU.

Construction on Colorado State University and EcoHealth's new $12 million NIH-funded bat lab is underway and expected to be completed by December 2024. The photo above was obtained by concerned citizens with the group Covid Bat Research Moratorium of Colorado.

According to internal university records obtained by WCW, from 2020 to 2023, CSU experienced lab accidents with bats, cats, hamsters, and mice that exposed staff to coronaviruses, Zika, rabies, Tuberculosis, and other dangerous pathogens that can cause deadly outbreaks. The internal reports detail a total of 64 CSU lab accidents during this period.

Documents also show that in some cases, CSU animal experimenters ignored biosafety rules, including not wearing gloves or lab coats when handling infected animals.

CSU's current bat experiments are receiving millions in taxpayer funding through NIH as well as the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, and the Department of Defense's "Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction" account.

Right there, there you go, now you know why the entire government was so animated to tell one unbelievable-horseshit propagandistic lie after another about this, and why the Deep State Dickriders of the media all supported lies: This is all cover for the Pentagon breeding bioweapons. They say it's to "cure" them but as we've seen with covid-19 -- to find the cure for the new virus, first they have to invent the new virus.

"We had to infect the village to cure the village." -- the Pentagon, 2021

And of course the Pentagon decided to do this research in the labs controlled by the Chinese Army. Of course. 

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