#Venezuela #Guri #Dam #Sabotage #USA (2)

Jim Stone

Freelance Journalist

#Venezuela #Guri #Dam #Sabotage #USA (1)

1. Here is the line the U.S. is trying to push, straight from NPR:

"The blackout appears to have stemmed from a failure at the main hydroelectric plant in Venezuela, which has suffered from years of underinvestment."

Problem: I don't call upgrading it's capacity from about 6.5 gigawatts to over 12 gigawatts, while replacing the old generators on top of it in 2010 "years of underinvestment". The real "infrastructure problem" venezuela had was that all of the larger equipment was replaced with the new stuff, totally susceptible to Stuxnet attack.

Obviously there are going to be lies from the U.S. with regard to this, the U.S. sure as heck is not going to admit what was done. It is beginning to come to light more fully now, here's a brief update based on the latest info, a guess, based on how bad the damage really ended up being:

Two scenarios:

Scenario 1: All of Venezuela's electrical grid was analyzed and put in a simulator. All the major transformers, circuit breakers, generators, were put in the simulation, which then ran precise scenarios for what would happen if Guri was pushed out of phase, and all other generating facilities were put out of phase with it, while all of the computer controlled circuit breakers were told by a virus to never trip. They modeled max destruction and had everything pre-routed to the worst possible outcome, where transformer A was at such close power output rating to generator B via the output from generator D (and it's spec plate) that all 3 would kill each other, one of them would not win. Ditto for generators between different power stations, that were connected to the same circuit. Once they had it all figured out, they then ran that program, which basically annihilated Venezuela's grid. It could not have happened if that grid was not state of the art, which it was.

Then blame Maduro for not maintaining it correctly, spew like the worst troll in the worst comment section telling the worst lies, and hope to flip the people of Venezuela against Maduro.

Scenario 2: Once again, all of Venezuela's power grid was put in the same simulator, which, rather than destroy things, was programmed to instead front the illusion of the generators going out of phase at Guri, to explain why everything went dark. But really, in this scenario nothing happened that would take out the power to the entire country, other than a virus sitting in all the switch gear and controls, preventing anything from working. Maduro gets ousted, Guiado gets put in, and then poof, like magic, all the lights come on.

Take your pick, with how bad it is, it is one or the other.

The only constant in all scenarios is the U.S. gets the oil.

2. IMPORTANT UPDATE TO 1.:

Maduro has now stated that the problem is a cyber attack is underway that keeps interfering with efforts to turn everything back on. This would indicate that scenario 2 below is what really happened. In that case, all they have to do is find a way to stop the attack and they will get power restored. Obviously the problem with all of this is that for as much as things are networked, the virus or hackers are just going to go wherever they want, re-infecting cleared gear and/or simply switching it off. The fact a cyber attack could take it all out proves, without question, that it is not the outdated crap that the MSM is continuously spewing like the dripping infection they are.

With all the lies in the MSM there's no way to know exactly what the people in Venezuela think of it all.

As far as the three huge substation explosions that have happened over the last couple years, these are most likely caused by either direct sabotage (someone throwing the right piece of metal on the wires) or a raccoon in the wrong place, getting an arc path started. As bright as they may be, the damage from those is not as bad as it looks in a Youtube video. The U.S. has the ability to kick off such explosions with a small drone that would never be noticed (something as small as a DJI phantom) dropping conductive strands into a substation. All one of those strands has to do is land right, and POOF. Arc welding does the rest.

3. Venezuela rumors:

It has been speculated that the public has concluded Guiado and supporters in the U.S. tripped the power outage, and Guiado is not expected to be alive for more than the next few hours.

GOOD FOR THEM.

General consensus is that Pompeo and others in the U.S. are responsible and are to be blamed 100 percent for all the problems the power outage caused, including deaths.

The American media can lie all it wants to the outside world about the "poor state of Venezuelas electrical infrastructure but that won't cut it when Venezuelans themselves are right there, in the country, and clearly know they have up-to-date stuff. If Venezuela has any problems at all with energy infrastructure, it would be at the local neighborhood level, not main distribution, which they had totally up to date. Perhaps trees in neighborhoods were not trimmed back from lines correctly (maybe they are, who knows) or perhaps some of the neighborhood transformers are 50 years old (this happens everywhere, including the U.S.) but those types of issues won't trip a nationwide blackout. The bottom line is that whatever this problem is, it was not an infrastructure problem that caused it. Venezuelans are hard working people that would never let main distribution go to hell, no matter who was in power, even if it was old crap.

I don't like socialist systems because they are too ripe for abuse. However, in this particular situation the MSM is "Trumping" Maduro, accusing Maduro of that which socialists (and they themselves do) when in reality, there's no Russian collusion and no crappy power system in Venezuela.

Obviously it is the popular thing to rip socialists because by and large they are crap, but in this case people need to consider other possibilities for this power outage, clearly, without question, with as many MAJOR and I mean major2010 and newer upgrades that have been done to Venezuela's grid, neglect of the system did not do this. The American MSM plus NPR are lying through a venom dripping tongue.

FACT: Maduro has not been around long enough to cause anything to go wrong with any electrical system. There are lines and transformers in the U.S. that have never had anything done with them at all since the PCB scare of the 70's and things are not going kablooey. Large electrical systems simply work, work and keep on working for decades. They are infrastructure. You don't rip out bridges every two years, and you don't do the same with transformers, generators, switch gear, and power lines either. The entire electrical story as presented by America's MSM in Venezuela is a total war mongering hoax.

Look, OH LOOK: Babies in INCUBATORS are DYING because Maduro neglected the electrical system. Let's all go down there with smart bombs and kick his @ss. Venezuelans will gladly give us ALL THEIR OIL in thanks after we "rescue" them from that horrible horrible man!

4. It is possible that space based laser attacks are being used in Venezuela

Possible but not confirmed. No matter what, the official story is hokum.

The last electrical explosion happened to a major transformer that Venezuela needed for much of it's grid. The timing is stupid. So stupid I don't believe it. There are a million ways to blow up a transformer,

One is to shoot it. You'd never find the bullet hole because the entire thing would be vaporized, burying all evidence.

Another one is to remove the plugs. All large transformers have oil in them, and if there are any issues it has to be drained and replaced. This oil used to be PCB's (what I mentioned below) which got banned, at least in the U.S. The oil is an insulator. If it gets drained while the transformer is on, Kablooey.

It would not be likely for such a transformer to explode from an overload, unless a computer virus made it happen.

A space based laser could also cause mayhem.

It is not plausible for anything other than sabotage to destroy such a transformer. They all have warning gauges that tell if there is a breach in the casing that could have allowed water in. Even small 500, 000 kw transformers have them. The time delay between the gauges showing a potential problem and Kablooey is months to years. There's no way such a large transformer could have possibly been that neglected.

The only rational answer, given the timing, is intentional sabotage or an attack of one form or another. It was either shot, or had the oil drained (that would be a multiple thousand gallon spill on that huge a transformer, so that's probably not it because it would be too obvious.

The bottom line is that there's numerous ways to cause mayhem with high voltage. And Pompeo is no doubt cracking open the champagne.

5. BOOM: MADURO CAPTURED TWO (suspected) AMERICAN ASSETS AT GURI WHILE THEY WERE HACKING THE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND PLANTING VIRUS CODE. HE GOT THE VIRUS CODE. BOOOOOOM!!!!!

As it turns out, at one point Guri was 70 percent back online and saboteurs nailed it again. I wonder how far they'll get with restoring it all now that they have two people in custody, plus the code they were carrying.

6. AFTER MADURO BUSTED TWO PEOPLE AT GURI WITH THE VIRUS CODE BEING USED TO TAKE OUT VENEZUELA'S GRID, THE U.S. ANNOUNCED IT IS EVACUATING THE EMBASSY TO "MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO PUT MORE OPTIONS ON THE TABLE." THAT MEANS WAR.

Yep. After Maduro busted two spooks while they were attempting to re-plant viruses at Guri, and even got their code and took them into custody, America put out a blanket statement that was basically a declaration that the U.S. military will begin strikes against Venezuela in the near future. Here is that statement:

"The U.S. will withdraw all remaining personnel from @usembassyVE this week. This decision reflects the deteriorating situation in #Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy." Translation: We need to get the Americans out of there before we blow the place up with smart bombs, rather than electrical viruses because we know the "failing grid charade" is about to end now that Maduro has our spooks and our code. Game on while they are still having seizures over the virus.

So now that the U.S. knows it is busted, and Maduro has the American spooks in detainment along with their virus code, suddenly having embassy staff in Venezuela amounts to a "constraint on U.S. policy"

YEP. 

Just watch: Guri dam will soon fail like Oroville, because you really can cause concrete dams to fail in tropical locations by neglecting them even without there being salt water or freeze thaw cycles, and even when by common norms the dams are relatively new. They just flush themselves when "REGIMES" take control, dams cry "for the people" too I guess, and there are LOTS of tears when they do!

Folks, I'll repeat: The fact viruses can take out Venezuela's grid proves without question it was modern and well updated, CASE CLOSED.

7. HA HA, PROPAGANDA QUOTE OF THE YEAR:

"Food is growing scarce in oil-rich, cash-poor Venezuela, especially when the average monthly salary can barely pay for two chickens."
PROBLEM: According to official stats released by the UN, the average Venezuelan makes $7977 USD per year. According to IMF the average Venezuelan makes $6, 890 USD per year, which will go a LONG WAY in a socialist country, EVEN AFTER TSHTF. "two chickens??!!??" HA!!! The World Bank refused to rate Venezuela so there may be some clues there as to who is really behind the power outage.
The real problem is the power outage, which is becoming increasingly proven to be caused by the United States