I would never describe myself as a conspiracy theorist, but with all the fake news and the authentic lying done by the FBI, the DOJ, the White House and the mainstream media, I can’t help but wonder about the more controversial explanations for high-profile events. We all know that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself, George Floyd was not suffocated by a cop’s knee, and Donald Trump did not incite an insurrection.
Early Tuesday morning, a fully loaded container ship hit a support pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, causing it to collapse into the Patapsco River, triggering a mass casualty event. The bridge opened in 1977, is 1.6 miles long, and is named after the author of the American National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Dispatch audio from emergency responders captured the tense atmosphere after a cargo ship rammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday, causing it to be completely destroyed.
Operators of the Dali cargo ship had issued a mayday call that the vessel had lost power moments before the crash, but the ship still headed toward the span at “a very, very rapid speed,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said.
The 985-foot-long vessel struck one of the 1.6-mile long bridge’s supports, causing the span to break and fall into the water within seconds.
An emergency responder could be heard on the dispatch audio mentioning that construction workers had been operating on the bridge during the collapse, and an “unknown amount of those workers [were] in the water.” That prompted a call for a dive team.
At first glance, it looks like a horrific accident. The ship lost power (it looks like twice), the crew issued a mayday call, and the crew had been out shopping earlier in the day, hardly what you’d think a terrorist would do if he were planning an attack like this.
But when you speed up the film of the crash, it’s very peculiar. The ship seems aimed at the support that it rammed.
Full live-streamed video here.
Mind you, I’m NOT declaring that the pilot deliberately aimed the ship at the pillar. I’m just saying if you watch the video without benefit of the doubt, it sure LQQKS like the cargo behemoth could’ve been aimed at the pillar.
On top of that, an enormous economic threat seems to have been unleashed in the wake of the disaster.
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is a “major disaster” for the economy — threatening to disrupt $80 billion in cargo that travels to an from one of America’s busiest ports, and more than 140,000 jobs tied to the shipping traffic, experts said.
The immediate upshot for Americans — if you’re waiting for a new car to come in from overseas, prepare to wait longer. The Port of Baltimore stands as the nation’s leading import and export site for cars, light trucks.
It’s also the leading nexus for sugar and gypsum — which is used in fertilizer, drywall and plaster. A record 52.3 million tons of foreign cargo was transported through Baltimore in 2023.
The bustling port is cut off after the 1.6-mile bridge crumbled and fell into the Patapsco River early Tuesday, blocking the only shipping lane into the port.
Bloomberg agrees with the analysis.
The Port of Baltimore — the biggest handler of US imports and exports of cars and light trucks — looks to be out of commission indefinitely. The resulting bottleneck could accelerate a shift of goods through West Coast ports. Another crucial question: Which other ports have spare capacity to handle the Ro-Ro vessels that carry automobiles if Baltimore is closed for an extended period.
The growing instability inside the U.S. with the mass invasion of our southern border, rampant inflation, and the presidential election featuring lawfare against one of the candidates, what more do we need to collapse our trust in society? Lara Logan seems to think this was a deliberate attack.
Multiple intel sources: Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure – most likely cyber – & our intel agencies know it. In information warfare terms, they just divided the US along the Mason Dixon line exactly like the Civil War.
Second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material now down for 4-5 years – which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material – fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels – that supply chain now crippled.
Make no mistake: this was an extraordinary attack in terms of planning, timing & execution.
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The footage shows the cargo ship never got in the approach lane in the channel. You have to be in the channel before you get into that turn. Location was precise/deliberate: chose a bend in the river where you have to slow down and commit yourself – once you are committed in that area there is not enough room to maneuver.
Should have had a harbor pilot to pilot the boat. You are not supposed to traverse any obstacles without the harbor pilot.
They chose a full moon so they would have maximum tidal shift – rise and fall. Brisk flow in that river on a normal day & have had a lot of rain recently so water was already moving along at a good pace.
Hit it with enough kinetic energy to knock the load-bearing pylon out from under the highway – which fatally weakens the span and then 50 percent of the bridge fell into the water. All these factors when you look at it – this is how you teach people how to do this type of attack and there are so few people left in the system who know this. We have a Junior varsity team on the field.
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When you choke off Baltimore you have cut the main north-south hazardous corridor (I95) in half. Now has to go around the city – or go somewhere else.
Finally, similar to the terrorists on 9/11, who aimed their hijacked planes at symbols of American strength—the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and the U.S. Capitol (which was averted due to the heroism of Flight 93’s passengers)—here we have a bridge named in honor of the author of our national anthem.
The bridge does carry some symbolic weight.
It may sound like I’m a conspiracy theorist, but I’m not. All reports suggest it’s a tragic accident. I’m just looking at this with the cynical eye I’ve developed because of how often we’ve been lied to by those who control information.
But if it turns out to indeed have been a terrorist attack, I won’t be at all surprised.
Hey Dave, Lara Logan was on the Charlie Kirk show this afternoon. She went over the “disasters” that have hit the US over the last couple of years and a terror attack is not out of the realm of possibility. Actually, with this mindless fool in the White House, nothing is surprising or out of the realm of possibility.
Unfortunately, we’ve come to the point in our society where we can’t trust the people we put in charge to tell us the truth. Therefore, we cannot be sure whether we’re dealing with reality or not.