BACKDOORS TO ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS, AND A THOUGHT…
We're hearing a lot in the news lately about tariffs, supply lines, and the big dastard in the whole mess, the Chinese fly in the soup, as it were. One of the interesting things about having a website such as this is that many of its regular readers and article-contributors reside in that part of the world which is close to China; over the years, we've had readers and articles submitted from Japan, from China itself, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, the Philippines (hmmm... there's another country with the definite article in its name... hmm... perhaps we should start calling it simply "Philippines". Better yet, let's just turn the English into a Slavic language, and get rid of all definite articles altogether...but I digress). Most of those people have conveyed one sentiment to me when it comes to China: the Chinese people? Smart, intelligent, nice. The Chinese Communist Government? Not to be trusted, and, as the Russians say of the United States, "not agreement capable."
I emphasize all of this because of an unusual story that was spotted and sent by V.T., with our gratitude. In this case, the story is not an article, but a short video that appeared on X/Twitter, but it's so significant and has such massive repercussions, that I simply have to blog about it. it's a very short video, but well worth your attention, because if true the implications are enormous, and enormously unsettling:
Chinese back doors in electrical transformers
There you have it: back doors in over 400 Chinese-made electrical transformers in the American grid, with, presumably, the ability to turn them off at any time.
In other words, play nice, and by our "rules" or we'll turn off your power (and, since this is the Communist Chinese we're talking about, your bank account, your money, and anything else we've successfully co-opted. It's part and parcel of a regime intent upon implementing a "social credit" scheme of total control over a population.
So what's the message here?
I suspect that for anyone paying close attention, it's this: we don't want the Chinese in control of the back doors to our electrical transformers. Such back doors should be firmly and entirely in the hands of the always-to-be-trusted-homegrown-American-government-which-never-lies-to-its-people-and-has-only-its-best-interests-at-heart-and-here's-your-share-of-the-sovereign-wealth-fund-and-crypto-currencies. Boo Beijing and Xi; yea Swampington and Trump.
In other words, I don't for a minute suspect that the shock and horror at discovering Chinese back doors in electrical transformers is genuine. The shock and horror is more along the lines of "dang it, the Chinese beat us to the punch again!" It's not the presence of the backdoor that is disturbing. It's only the fact that it's Chinese. If the Chinese were clever about this, they'd take a cue from some of Tesla's remarks, and sell shares in their electrical transformers' backdoors on the world market, and allow all sorts of people to turn off power in the American electrical grid. But seriously, this is what happens when you export heavy industry and manufacturing of crucial national security components to foreign competitors: it's probably not a good idea, and best to leave all such skullduggery in the hands of your own home-grown corrupt oligarchs and deep state, rather than export it all and have to rely on someone else's corrupt oligarchs and deep state.
Ok, but where's the high octane speculation here?
This is where it gets interesting, and I stress, my speculation here is pure speculation. I have absolutely not one shred of a minim of an iota of a sub-atomic speck of proof or supporting evidence here. Any such "evidence" is probably smaller than the Planck length, and hence, non-observable anyway and therefore not even worth mentioning. But it's intriguing and interesting to entertain nonetheless. The alleged backdoor discovery, as outlined on this "x" video, took place in 2019. You might recall that in 2013, a California electrical sub-station in the southern tip of the Silicon Valley was hit by a professional team, who entered the substation, executed an attack, and were gone before local law enforcement had time to react. To this day, the crime remains unsolved.
(q.v., Metcalf Sniper Substation attack).
You'll note that according to the Wikipedia summary, the attack appears to have been very professional and well-planned, and thus some suspect it to have been an inside job, an assessment echoed by many articles of the time. As the Wikipedia entry notes, the various communications and internet cables servicing the area were cut prior to the attack, and then the attack, which damaged several electrical transformers, was carried out. The telltale line in the Wikipedia article is this: "Seventeen transformers were seriously damaged, requiring over $15 million worth of repairs." The FBI concluded it was not "domestic terrorism", apparently because the incident did not fit its ever-shifting definitions of what terrorism is (q.v. FBI: Attack on PG&E substation was not terrorism). Apparently someone was just having "a bad day". But the point remains that the transformers had to be "repaired", which would be a convenient cover for inserting back doors into them. Indeed, as both the Wikipedia and other articles on the incident make clear, PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) used the opportunity to "upgrade" the security on its grid, which could easily provide cover for other modifications to it, like back doors and smart meters and all sorts of mischief all over the place.
And then came the fires with their strange anomalies which we know all too well.
So what is the result of this high octane speculation? Well, firstly, the electrical transformer story may be related to the various attacks on substations and internet cabling. More remotely, it may be related to the strange anomalies associated with the fires that occurred in the region after the incident. Perhaps it is even a bit of "narrative preparation": "Strange lights appearing in the sky? Did your skin tingle with lots of static electricity? electrical power go down? Experiencing strange brush fires that melt your car, road guardrails, the steel in bridges, while leaving the nearby trees and shrubs unburned? Inconvenient internet outages? Fires starting in your smart meters? use our complaint line and call 1-800-Its-China to complain." The bottom line, as I averred over a decade ago when these attacks first surfaced, is that we were - and apparently still are - in a gigantic covert war going on between various players on the world stage, and part of that covert war is being fought over and by means of the internet, and the power grid. In the meantime, sorry Mr. Xi, but I'll root for the home-grown corruption, and American-made backdoors in American-made electrical transformers. Or here's a thought boys: why not simply stop all this expensive non-freedom nonsense, and let transformers be transformers, without secret back doors.
See you on the flip side...
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