“Pemex Safety Under Scrutiny After Three Separate Fires in One Day.”

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Now remember: industrial fires happen ALL THE TIME so don’t be a deranged, tinfoil-hat lunatic who spots a new conspiracy under every third shrubbery. All right? In the most stunning coincidental infrastructure fire to date — and OF COURSE it was merely a coincidence — there were three separate oil fires at three separate oil refineries all owned by the SAME COMPANY, Mexican oil refiner Pemex:

1. A Veracruz oil storage facility

2. A Minatitlan, Veracruz oil refinery

3. A Deer Park, Texas, oil refinery

Between the three fires, five people are still missing and eight were treated for injuries, according to Reuters.

Many folks have speculated recently that the United States is currently experiencing a widespread, covert, domestic infrastructure attack. If correct, the tactic appears to be the use of attacks against private food and energy suppliers and manufacturers — so-called “soft targets.” The attacks are camouflaged as accidents and the perpetrators are careful to get in and out quickly without leaving a trace.

This strategy is nothing new. It’s a common feature of “asymmetric warfare,” a “death by a thousand cuts” strategy where a smaller opponent weakens and undermines a larger, better-armed one — inside its homeland, far from the frontlines. The technique probably dates all the way back to the Roman Empire, or maybe to Babel itself.

The best evidence supporting the attacks is the lack of any public explanation following the fires. We’ve all seen it a hundred times. Normally, it’s rare for the cause of a fire to be unknown. It happens, but it’s rare. Usually the very first report of the fire goes something like this: “A fire broke out in the Kip’s Bay trailer park last night after popular resident Martha Horstead, 73, fell asleep watching ‘Jeopardy’ leaving an unattended broccoli casserole in the oven.”



 
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