Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Not A Single American Has Received Biden’s High-Speed Internet Despite $42.5 Billion Funding In 2021: FCC Commissioner
June 19th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr slammed the Biden administration on Friday – writing on X that President Joe Biden has yet to connect a single American with high-speed internet. “In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans. Years later, it has not connected even […]
U.S. Spending More Money On Chip Manufacturing Construction This Year Than In Previous 28 Years Combined
June 12th, 2024Via: Tom’s Hardware: The Biden administration’s CHIPS Act is pumping money into chip manufacturing construction at an historic rate. According to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the growth of computer and electrical manufacturing construction funding is so great that the U.S. government will add as much funding to the sector in 2024 […]
South Carolina: Another Container Ship Disaster Narrowly Averted, Engines “Were Stuck Nearly Full-Ahead”
June 6th, 2024Via: The Hill: An investigation is underway after a large container ship lost the ability to control its engines in Charleston Harbor, prompting a temporary closure of the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. U.S. Coast Guard Sector Command Center in Charleston, South Carolina, received a report from the harbor’s pilot dispatch around 12:17 p.m. of an […]
Canada: “Digital Safety Commission”
May 19th, 2024Via: Russell Brand:
U.S. Fears Undersea Cables Are Vulnerable to Espionage From Chinese Repair Ships
May 19th, 2024Also the U.S.: The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping: In 2005, the Associated Press reported that a submarine called the USS Jimmy Carter had been repurposed to carry crews of technicians to the bottom of the sea so they could tap fiber optic lines. The easiest place to get into the cables is […]
First ‘Extreme’ Solar Storm in 20 Years Brings Spectacular Auroras
May 11th, 2024I saw it. Pretty wild. It was a dim orange glow from the southeast to southwest for me. Others in New Zealand saw very spectacular displays. Via: AFP: The most powerful solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday, triggering spectacular celestial light shows from Tasmania to Britain — and threatening possible […]
Ukrainian Drones Hit Major Rosneft Refinery in Russia
May 1st, 2024Via: OilPrice: Just as Russia had started to bring back some refinery capacity damaged by Ukrainian drone attacks earlier this year, a new wave of drone attacks hit a major refinery owned by Rosneft, for a second time. Rosneft’s Ryazan refinery southeast of Moscow caught fire after the overnight drone attack, an anonymous Ukrainian military […]
U.S. Military’s Pier in Gaza to Cost $320 Million [???]
April 30th, 2024Update: BREAKING: Secretary Lloyd Austin ADMITS likelihood of shooting warfare between U.S. service members and Gaza forces soon ? GAETZ: “This is a very telling moment, Mr. Secretary, because you've said something that's quite possible that could happen. Shots from Gaza on our service… pic.twitter.com/HmS1bfqeWB — Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 30, 2024 — Via: […]
Ukraine Destroys Russian Oil Depots in Smolensk
April 24th, 2024This is 500km inside Russia. Does anyone know what sort of long range unmanned system Ukraine is using for these attacks? I found this from 2023: Zelenskyy says Ukraine has developed a long-range weapon, a day after a strike deep inside Russia: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has developed a weapon that […]
National Security Implications of Baltimore Bridge Catastrophe
April 19th, 2024In short, coal. Via: Real Clear Defense: Domestically, the impacts of these hiccups in the energy supply chain are already being felt. CSX’s Curtis Bay Piers in particular – heavily impacted by the bridge collapse – supplies coal to power the Maryland electric grid and provides metallurgical coal critical for the steel industry. The inability […]
