The year is 2016 and the Keystone Pipeline has just been completed, America is still embattled in the Middle East and caught between several civil wars and a mess between Muslim sects. Although the US tried not to take sides, man-made redlines were drawn, redrawn and those lines are now drawn with blood. Not only has the US now taken sides, with what is expected to be the winning side, but Russia, China, and others have taken the other side, and the EU is trying to disengage anywhere that isn't in its direct strategic economic and energy interests.
Since, most of these battles and conflicts do involve energy, the US cannot remain neutral, and it appears George Bush Jr. was right when he told the American People that this addiction to foreign oil is bad news. He was right then and today, in the digital news, even more so. It's hard to say exactly how it happened, and if it is known, no one is saying, but there are some wild accusations and conspiracy theories from;
1. The Russians did it
2. The Eco-Terrorists did it
3. Chinese Hackers did it
4. Middle Eastern Terrorist groups did it
2. The Eco-Terrorists did it
3. Chinese Hackers did it
4. Middle Eastern Terrorist groups did it
No matter who did it, one of the United States' in-country pipeline and energy security drones under contract to the Department of Homeland Security and working on a DOE (Department of Energy) mandate was hijacked by hackers and flown into the Keystone pipeline. It was crashed at a juncture above a underground flowing water reservoir. Now the water is contaminated, which will affect crops, livestock and drinking water for 4 states.
Apparently, whoever "did it" they seem to know a thing or two about geology, water resources, oil, pipelines, drones, and software. Worse, they must have known operational intelligence, such as UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) flight schedules, drone types, and weak areas of the system. Scary thought indeed. The pipeline was shut off quickly, due to special pressure sensors, so the amount oil escaping minimized, but still significant. The US has enemies globally, and there those who stand to gain from such an attack could fill a pocket sized thesaurus.
They used our surveillance craft against us, they took control of our robotic aircraft, but how? It turns out that this is not the first time, in fact, there have been several other incidents, and now all that information has been leaked to the public by a former DHS specialist who just signed a book deal, and it's all over CNN tonight. Too bad, this isn't back before everything changed in October of 2013.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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