Exploding Pagers

Not much new in the news this morning. Oh wait, what's this? Exploding pagers:

• AlJazeera: Hezbollah members among hundreds wounded as pagers explode in Lebanon
• ZeroHedge: Hezbollah's '9/11': Iranian Ambassador Among 1,000+ Wounded After Israel Remotely Detonates Pagers

No real information on how it was done. Did someone insert an explosive into all these pagers? Or did some whiz kid figure out how to put a pager in melt down mode that somehow caused the lithium battery to explode? I'm not sure you can make a battery explode simply by messing with the controlling program, but they do pack a lot of energy in a small package, and lithium batteries can be dangerous. So, maybe.

The news reports imply that someone (Israel) managed to infiltrate the pager distribution channel, and went in and loaded explosives in a bunch of pagers. The bad guys switched to pagers only recently, and this was only done when they figured out that someone (Israel) was listening to their phone calls. I wouldn't wonder if Israel had all those pagers prepped and were just waiting for the bad guy's leader to order the switch to pagers. The trigger? Israel leaked the idea that they were listening to Hamas' and Hezbollah's phone calls.

Nord Stream Sabotage

Germany seeks arrest of Ukrainian diver for Nord Stream sabotage

Al Jazeera has the story. How dare Germany suggest that maybe it wasn't the Russians behind this attack? Could it be the USA is losing their grip on Europe's throat? Color me amused.

Conspiracies Я Us

Sarah Beth Clendaniel was arrested by federal authorities on charges that she plotted to destroy energy facilities in the Baltimore area.

Remember when electrical substations were getting shot up?

Over the last three months, at least nine substations have been attacked in North Carolina, Washington State and Oregon, cutting power to tens of thousands of people. After those attacks, federal regulators ordered a review of security standards for the electrical system. - New York Times, February 4, 2023

Well, RT (formerly Russia Today and undoubtedly Putin's mouthpiece) has a story that links these attacks to neo-Nazis in Ukraine, and we are getting these attacks now because of all the money we have been pouring into Ukraine. Talk about unintended consequences. Just goes to show that the mafia that is running this country, and it is most definitely a mafia, doesn't give a fig about what's happening here as long as they can stomp all over the rest of the world.

Neo-Nazi brotherhood: How American friends of Ukrainian fascists plotted a terror attack in the US and the media ignored the story

I don't know that the media ignored the story because I pretty much ignore the mainstream media.