{"id":64775,"date":"2021-05-12T06:34:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=64775"},"modified":"2021-05-12T06:36:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:36:13","slug":"you-know-this-unprecedented-gas-pipeline-shutdown-was-staged-when-theres-talk-of-rationing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=64775","title":{"rendered":"You know this unprecedented gas pipeline shutdown was staged when there&#8217;s talk of <b>RATIONING<\/b>!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>URGENT: TALK OF &#8220;RATIONING&#8221; &#8212; GAS STATIONS REPORTING OUT-OF-GAS ALREADY! Next Comes RATIONING, and that brings . . . SLAVERY<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-64778\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/midgradepremiumgasoutage_large-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/midgradepremiumgasoutage_large-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/midgradepremiumgasoutage_large-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/midgradepremiumgasoutage_large-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/midgradepremiumgasoutage_large.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hal Turner Radio Show<\/p>\n<p>Reports have started coming in that gas stations are already running out of gasoline, just three days into the cyber-attack shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline.\u00a0 Those stations that still have gasoline are reportedly raising prices &#8220;significantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hal Turner Radio Show received reports from a gas station owner in Shallotte, NC, which is on the east coast, between Wilmington and the South Carolina state line, they had run out of regular unleaded and only have premium and diesel.\u00a0 \u00a0This same station owner told us &#8220;prices will begin climbing and reach $5\/gallon quickly.&#8221;\u00a0 The source also says that &#8220;all of the stations in town are out of gas except the giants like BP and Shell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly along the east coast, reports are coming in from Georgia, with one source saying he could not get gasoline in Perry, GA, the central part of the state, and another source saying he could not get gasoline in Douglas, in the southern part of that state.\u00a0 Other sources are saying they cannot get fuel in northeast Georgia in Clarksville, Cleveland or Cornelia, GA which are all northeast of Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, reports are now also coming in from a town about 50 miles south of Nashville, TN saying the local gas stations are out of mid-grade and out of premium, and only have regular.<\/p>\n<p>Late this afternoon, more reports from Pike, PA.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RATIONING: First Fuel, then food.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Houston, TX to Linden, NJ,\u00a0<em><strong>allegedly from a cyber-attack<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0with Ransomware, is wearing thin very fast.\u00a0 People &#8220;in the know&#8221; are now openly wondering if this is legitimate, or if the shutdown is being used as a tool; either to raise prices, or help usher-in more government control through RATIONING, with the end goal being full-blown Communism?<\/p>\n<p>My son in in Information Technology (IT) and he told me:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>IF THIS CYBER ATTACK IS TRUE, any hardware that has been damaged by the ransomware, like pipeline valves, can be replaced AND most computer servers are Virtual Machines (VM) these days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A VM several Terabytes in size can be completely restored in\u00a0hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>EVEN IF a critical system is &#8220;ransomed&#8221; the software can easily be reloaded and relicensed in a few hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The configs for the Software are, 9 times out of 10\u00a0 are kept in a database, and App Servers have their configs stored internally which can be EASILY copied onto a new one or the entire app server restored in\u00a0minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All large companies have a disaster recovery (DR) site and one this size (Colonial Pipeline) may have 4 to 5 DR sites that they bring online if an event like this happens. So I call 100% total BULLSHIT on this entire thing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Based on my son&#8217;s experience in IT, it appears that critical infrastructure of this size simply cannot be taken offline for days, never mind longer than that.\u00a0 In fact, just this afternoon, Colonial Pipeline issued an update saying &#8220;we hope to have our system substantially restored by the end of this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A whole week?\u00a0\u00a0Something\u00a0<em>else<\/em>\u00a0seems to be in-play here.<\/p>\n<p>With gas stations already beginning to report actual outages of fuel, it won&#8217;t be long until this becomes a major, genuine, crisis.\u00a0 Remember, everything in this entire country &#8211; except electricity and natural gas &#8211; MUST, at some point, move by truck.\u00a0 \u00a0If there&#8217;s no fuel for the trucks, NOTHING moves . . . including food to supermarkets!<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, the American Trucking Association created an infographic about what would happen to our nation if trucks shut down.\u00a0 \u00a0It is a bone chilling look at what it would mean . . .\u00a0 and fast:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uscargocontrol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/importanceoftruckinginfographic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"996\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of today, Monday, May 10, we are now THREE full days into the pipeline shutdown, but truck fuel is still available.\u00a0 \u00a0That will not last long.<\/p>\n<p>If this pipeline is not restored within another day or two, then the things shown on the Trucking chart above, will actually begin to materialize and then we&#8217;re in BIG trouble.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers are encouraged to fill up some five gallon gasoline cans to have emergency fuel available before it runs out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the event this goes longer term, which we all hope is not likely, they could have to ration and prioritize who gets gasoline first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rationing, is the final straw which breaks freedom.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0If they ration fuel, we can&#8217;t travel.\u00a0 \u00a0If they ration food because trucks have no fuel and supermarkets are empty,\u00a0<strong>we turn directly into a slave state.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Do what THEY say or starve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The general public has to watch this situation very carefully because RATIONING in the red flag.\u00a0First gas is cut off, food supply is next folks.<\/p>\n<p>If they start announcing rationing, you&#8217;d better spend every last cent you have on food to stock up.\u00a0 It will mean they are aggressively intending to bring-in government control over everything and that, ladies and gentlemen, is Communism.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully they are smart enough to keep the food supply chain going,\u00a0but get ready for empty store shelves for non essential goods!<\/p>\n<p>While Colonial Pipeline &#8220;&#8221;claims&#8221;&#8221; they are working hard to undo the damage caused by a cyber attack with computer ransomware, it may take awhile to get their pipeline\u00a0and it&#8217;s complex pumping systems, back online.<\/p>\n<p>All these function USED TO BE performed by people.\u00a0 But computers could get the job done just as well, and maybe even better in some cases, so people were taken out of the loop.\u00a0 Many either retired or died, and the knowledge of how to do those tasks manually . . .\u00a0 died with them.\u00a0 The knowledge was not passed down.<\/p>\n<p>The computer brainiacs of today, have no idea at all how to operate the valves and diverter units at pumping stations, how to purge one product in advance of another being pumped, how to regulate pipe pressure, purge air pockets; which valves to turn which way, at what time, to handle what fuel, how much fuel to put in what tank to allow for temperature expansion so the storage tanks don&#8217;t burst . . . and now we&#8217;re all stuck because of it.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, Tuesday, is a big day.\u00a0 After Tuesday if the pipeline issue hasn\u2019t been fixed, THEN expect the pump prices to go insane. There\u2019s no way to know right now.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned . . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0UPDATE 10:38 PM EDT &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Roy Cooper on Monday signed an Executive Order declaring a\u00a0<strong>state of emergency in North Carolina.<\/strong><br \/>\nNorth Carolina declares state of emergency as gas stations run out of fuel in Virginia, Atlanta, GA, and Florida after cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/halturnerradioshow.com\/index.php\/en\/news-page\/news-nation\/urgent-talk-of-rationing-gas-stations-reporting-out-of-gas-already-next-comes-rationing-and-that-brings-slavery\">https:\/\/halturnerradioshow.com\/index.php\/en\/news-page\/news-nation\/urgent-talk-of-rationing-gas-stations-reporting-out-of-gas-already-next-comes-rationing-and-that-brings-slavery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URGENT: TALK OF &#8220;RATIONING&#8221; &#8212; GAS STATIONS REPORTING OUT-OF-GAS ALREADY! Next Comes RATIONING, and that brings . . . SLAVERY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}