BACKDOORS TO ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMERS, AND A THOUGHT…
We're hearing a lot in the news lately about tariffs, supply lines, and the big dastard in the whole mess, the Chinese fly in the soup, as it were. One of the interesting things about having a website such as this is that many of its regular readers and article-contributors reside in that part of the world which is close to China; over the years, we've had readers and articles submitted from Japan, from China itself, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, the Philippines (hmmm... there's another country with the definite article in its name... hmm... perhaps we should start calling it simply "Philippines". Better yet, let's just turn the English into a Slavic language, and get rid of all definite articles altogether...but I digress). Most of those people have conveyed one sentiment to me when it comes to China: the Chinese people? Smart, intelligent, nice. The Chinese Communist Government? Not to be trusted, and, as the Russians say of the United States, "not agreement capable."
I emphasize all of this because of an unusual story that was spotted and sent by V.T., with our gratitude. In this case, the story is not an article, but a short video that appeared on X/Twitter, but it's so significant and has such massive repercussions, that I simply have to blog about it. it's a very short video, but well worth your attention, because if true the implications are enormous, and enormously unsettling:
Chinese back doors in electrical transformers
There you have it: back doors in over 400 Chinese-made electrical transformers in the American grid, with, presumably, the ability to turn them off at any time.
In other words, play nice, and by our "rules" or we'll turn off your power (and, since this is the Communist Chinese we're talking about, your bank account, your money, and anything else we've successfully co-opted. It's part and parcel of a regime intent upon implementing a "social credit" scheme of total control over a population.
So what's the message here?
I suspect that for anyone paying close attention, it's this: we don't want the Chinese in control of the back doors to our electrical transformers. Such back doors should be firmly and entirely in the hands of the always-to-be-trusted-homegrown-American-government-which-never-lies-to-its-people-and-has-only-its-best-interests-at-heart-and-here's-your-share-of-the-sovereign-wealth-fund-and-crypto-currencies. Boo Beijing and Xi; yea Swampington and Trump.
In other words, I don't for a minute suspect that the shock and horror at discovering Chinese back doors in electrical transformers is genuine. The shock and horror is more along the lines of "dang it, the Chinese beat us to the punch again!" It's not the presence of the backdoor that is disturbing. It's only the fact that it's Chinese. If the Chinese were clever about this, they'd take a cue from some of Tesla's remarks, and sell shares in their electrical transformers' backdoors on the world market, and allow all sorts of people to turn off power in the American electrical grid. But seriously, this is what happens when you export heavy industry and manufacturing of crucial national security components to foreign competitors: it's probably not a good idea, and best to leave all such skullduggery in the hands of your own home-grown corrupt oligarchs and deep state, rather than export it all and have to rely on someone else's corrupt oligarchs and deep state.
Ok, but where's the high octane speculation here?
This is where it gets interesting, and I stress, my speculation here is pure speculation. I have absolutely not one shred of a minim of an iota of a sub-atomic speck of proof or supporting evidence here. Any such "evidence" is probably smaller than the Planck length, and hence, non-observable anyway and therefore not even worth mentioning. But it's intriguing and interesting to entertain nonetheless. The alleged backdoor discovery, as outlined on this "x" video, took place in 2019. You might recall that in 2013, a California electrical sub-station in the southern tip of the Silicon Valley was hit by a professional team, who entered the substation, executed an attack, and were gone before local law enforcement had time to react. To this day, the crime remains unsolved.
(q.v., Metcalf Sniper Substation attack).
You'll note that according to the Wikipedia summary, the attack appears to have been very professional and well-planned, and thus some suspect it to have been an inside job, an assessment echoed by many articles of the time. As the Wikipedia entry notes, the various communications and internet cables servicing the area were cut prior to the attack, and then the attack, which damaged several electrical transformers, was carried out. The telltale line in the Wikipedia article is this: "Seventeen transformers were seriously damaged, requiring over $15 million worth of repairs." The FBI concluded it was not "domestic terrorism", apparently because the incident did not fit its ever-shifting definitions of what terrorism is (q.v. FBI: Attack on PG&E substation was not terrorism). Apparently someone was just having "a bad day". But the point remains that the transformers had to be "repaired", which would be a convenient cover for inserting back doors into them. Indeed, as both the Wikipedia and other articles on the incident make clear, PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) used the opportunity to "upgrade" the security on its grid, which could easily provide cover for other modifications to it, like back doors and smart meters and all sorts of mischief all over the place.
And then came the fires with their strange anomalies which we know all too well.
So what is the result of this high octane speculation? Well, firstly, the electrical transformer story may be related to the various attacks on substations and internet cabling. More remotely, it may be related to the strange anomalies associated with the fires that occurred in the region after the incident. Perhaps it is even a bit of "narrative preparation": "Strange lights appearing in the sky? Did your skin tingle with lots of static electricity? electrical power go down? Experiencing strange brush fires that melt your car, road guardrails, the steel in bridges, while leaving the nearby trees and shrubs unburned? Inconvenient internet outages? Fires starting in your smart meters? use our complaint line and call 1-800-Its-China to complain." The bottom line, as I averred over a decade ago when these attacks first surfaced, is that we were - and apparently still are - in a gigantic covert war going on between various players on the world stage, and part of that covert war is being fought over and by means of the internet, and the power grid. In the meantime, sorry Mr. Xi, but I'll root for the home-grown corruption, and American-made backdoors in American-made electrical transformers. Or here's a thought boys: why not simply stop all this expensive non-freedom nonsense, and let transformers be transformers, without secret back doors.
See you on the flip side...
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There is quite a lot of detailed information about the back doors threat from China.
https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/houston-has-a-problem-chinese-backdoor-threatens-next-texas-blackout/
https://www.controlglobal.com/blogs/unfettered/blog/33038009/the-us-electric-industry-is-not-responding-to-cyber-vulnerable-chinese-equipment
Here in the UK, we know electrical substations are vulnerable to fire and explosion with the recent loss of a large substation serving London’s Heathrow Airport caused likely, we are told, by transformer the cooling fluid.
Overheating of transformer cooling fluids presents a serious hazard. The risk of fires and explosions due to vaporisation of the hydrocarbon components of mineral oil which is used as a transformer cooling fluid in electrical substations.
Disturbing video. My first thought on the XFMR backdoors was that might actually be the SCADA equipment.
I remember the San Jose Metcalf event well – kind of studied it. I was responsible for three substations at the time and we were developing NERC procedures.
The recent incident in Red Bluff is doubly disturbing with anecdotal reports of blue flashes in the sky. Seriously, I need a white board on the wall tracking Grid events. If were diving into a GSM, as I believe we are, then we will also have accelerating natural instability.
Just from the headline: 5th generational warfare.
The question now is: How many of those backdooors are being upgraded?
Are some being engineered to: 6th; 7th; &, ?th; generation warfare kingdoms?
Where language, communication, and mind control are constantly morphing?
Is there now an unknown countermeasure; that is much like an armor,
that also morphs in-syn-countermeasures?
In other words, the trickle down worthless eaters are virtually invisible;
when it comes to: the changing of the the power curves?
On to reading today’s post…
AH!
Yes, in an information warfare landscape of betrayal after betrayal; is it a MUST to have some form of an information grid, upon which to map out the changing fields of operations. Fortunately, Gizars around the globe benefit from your “readings”
[which, ironically are being read between-the-lines; as more meanings you can percieve, the better one’s own grid.
Of corse, the temptation is to sterotype.
It is better to realize the ever-changing nature of the information warfare landscape.
Lame example: A Blue State, turns Red State, and then turns into a Purple State.
[Unfortunately, the three letter Cupids; are operating with a “Rainbow” quiver, of social engineering tools – that are also ever-changing, in technology, and/or objectives.]
Again, in this landscape of betrayal; one favorite tool is the proverbial “scapegoat”: China. Pr, for that matter, AI. Or, both ate once. While the real villianous Cupid, is the CIA. Or, for that matter, the Nazi Internationsl. Or, both at once.
And, don’t forget; both the CIA intelligence and/or Chinese intelligence – can work together on certain goals and enjoying the fruits of inherent betrayals. [or, more than 2,3,4, of them -at once]
And, of course – the making of your weapons.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot with…
a Chinese back door!
The problem is that love of country and culture is also targeted.
The result can be, betrayal on a massive scale.
Trust is being erooded.
Could be, those nations – that have maintained a strong foundation of trust,
will still be standing; when the winds of war – die down.
Tradition is strength. War is betrayal, and Free Will is freedom.
The return of thorium, interview by Glen Diesen (lasts 35 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7TV4qpimA
Outstandin video!
The USA started it in 1959; China took the reigns of this power in a big way in 2011; the doubled down in 2021. Information rich, and right up-to-date, with the AI being the driver behind these globaized power curves. Even ends, with the next big thing – China’s One Health system.
Thanks for the link!
Although he does subscribe to the CO2 myth.
But, thank God; doesn’t lay it on too thick.
In fact, just mentions it a few times in passing.
Thanks, Dana, for the link. Great video. This does bring up the question of why the US is always dropping the ball. We have had several island-wide blackouts here in Puerto Rico. What are ur elites’ p to drag out the old trope of the Yellow Peril? Do they think we are that gullible
I pay the pirates @ Atlantic City Electric $ 15/ mo. blackmail money to retain my trusty , reliable and safe ANALOG Watt hour meter.
Weak little Varistors do not give the same protection as a spark gap to ground and have had disastrous results to the home after lightning strikes. If anyone tells you a VDR is as good an over voltage protection as spark gap to ground protection in an extreme high over voltage situation like a nearby lightning strike, walk away as they are lying.
Smart meters have a bad history of giving customers ridiculously high monthly “pay up or else ” bills !
I also want to know what my monthly AC Electric ” Societal Benefits Charge” is used for in reality but just can’t seem to find an answer to that one ?
A ‘spark plug’ is a ‘spark gap’, that creates a tiny electric arc, that ignites gasoline, when Thor’s hammer crosses the void.
According to Loki, the trickster: “Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon”, because the god of thunder is too dangerous, holding a hammer.
In the end, Thor caught Loki, by the fish tail, when latter had turned himself, into a salmon, to escape punishment, for Baldr’s death.
A ‘spark gap’ is a negative space, that boosts fertility ritual, as the empty silence, between musical notes – which is the empty void of the skull cup, that calls for a Scythian toast, to hell.
Trumpy & Pompy & Soleimani:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/qyl2mnrgm3jmx4zvsrglo/trumpy-and-pompy-and-soleimani.mp4?rlkey=7jrvanc2bjbixk2f4ye3wj604
I just so happen to have sent this article to Dr. Farrell on Monday 4/21/25.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/massive-fire-erupts-at-pg-e-substation-in-rural-northern-california/ar-AA1DhyRm?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=7a84970087884deebfa0a92d731688df&ei=4
Massive fire erupts at PG&E substation in rural Northern California.
A Pacific Gas and Electric substation in rural Tehama County erupted in flames late Saturday night, sending a massive fireball and blue flashes into the sky and leaving nearby residents temporarily without power.
The fire broke out around 9:17 p.m. at a substation on the 1200 block of Highway 99 West in South Red Bluff, Kevin Colburn, public information officer for Cal Fire’s Tehama-Glenn Unit, told SFGATE on Sunday. Red Bluff is a small city in Northern California’s Sacramento Valley, about 130 miles north of Sacramento and 200 miles northeast of the Bay Area.
Firefighters from Cal Fire, the Tehama County Fire Department and the Red Bluff City Fire Department responded to the blaze.
“They did have fire when they arrived on scene,” Colburn said in a phone interview. “The resulting fire in the substation caused a power outage, and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.”
SFGATE obtained bystander photos showing blue flashes lighting up the sky seconds before the substation erupted in flames. Although Colburn said the location was not the primary station for Red Bluff, the substation’s malfunction was significant enough to knock out power to parts of the surrounding area.
Lalo Diaz, a nearby resident, described the terrifying scene as he and his family watched TV. “Since we live pretty close to the power grid, it’s visible to us,” Diaz told SFGATE in a direct message. “We saw a purple/blue light in the sky. The power went out for a minute and then came back. That was when we heard a ‘boom.’ My dad and I went outside and saw a big fireball in the sky, like in the picture. It was scary.”
Thanks for posting that link.
I know a few things about large High Voltage Transformers from years of working for the Department of Defense as a High Voltage Electrician.
Before I retired ten years ago it would take at least six months to get a replacement for a
failing or damaged XFMR as a rule .
I started seeing more Chinese made parts like the massive underground primary distribution cables and ancillary equipment being used and found the trend disturbing as we started to rely on non USA made replacement parts.
If a massive solar flare K.O.’s our power grid , it might take decades to repair even if we had a massive supply ( and we don’t) of back up transformers pre- engineered for the task, it takes years to properly train repair personnel to do the repairs needed to restore a downed power grid system.
The Amish Mafia will need their guns to keep their food when the REAL hunger games begin in the post electrical power grid world that thousands of fried XFMR’s will bring about.
Those who can “live off the land” may survive a global event in rural areas but the cities will be hell on earth.
– Nikola Tesla, New York Times (19 October 1931)
I read that Tomas A. Edison once said: ” Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration ”
echoing the sentiment that Tesla had about him !
Edison was unwilling, to pay tribute, to Tesla’s overseas talents, because Yankee knows best.
An angel walk lightly, with a golden touch, in a perfect ballet, that walks through walls.