General Flynn – This Was A Black Swan Event!
Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
We do not know for absolute certain that the collision at 1:30 AM EDT this morning between a Singapore container ship (the Dali), and the Francis Scott Key bridge (the key bridge) in Baltimore, MD was a Black Swan attack. We don’t know this for a fact yet, but the circumstances surrounding this event are ripe with a multitude of questions and implications. None of these are good for the U.S.
Often Black Swan events trigger other events like dominos falling in line. I really hope that this is not going to be the case, but I fear that we are fixing to see the dominos start falling now. And honestly in my opinion I think they may have started falling with the attack in Moscow Friday night.
Having served aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) in the U.S. Navy for two years, I knew instantly the first time that I watched the video of the collision this morning, that there was something terribly wrong with this picture. Failing ship lights (twice), broiling stack smoke, and a sudden turn towards the bridge, and away from the channel all were indicators that bad things were happening.
Yet all day long and first thing this morning the mainstream media couldn’t wait to tell us that this was not a terrorist attack. Without a formal investigation even getting started. This tells volumes and implies a cover-up.
Link to the full interview below:
EXCLUSIVE: General Flynn Calls Baltimore Barge Disaster A Black Swan Event
The Alex Jones Show Mar 26, 2024
General Michael Flynn joins Alex Jones live to give his expert analysis of the Baltimore barge-bridge disaster.
Selected comments from the transcript of the interview.
General Flynn:
So first of all, Black Swan events are usually from the financial world, right?
Well, this actually will impact the financial world for sure. But these are events that happen that you just can't imagine that something like this is going to happen.
There are ships that transit every port, harbor, bay, particularly the large ports like the Baltimore Harbor, every single day, multiple times a day. And for something like this to happen, this complete violation of all standards and norms, they have what's called a SOP, standard operating procedures, that every single ship's captain has to go through prior to taking off from the dock itself, actually prior to getting on the ship.
So everything that I see here, and I mean, the jury is gonna be out for a while. I was asked earlier today, Alex, can we take the idea that this was a terrorist attack off the table? And absolutely, we cannot do that.
Alex Jones:
Large container ship. Boom.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, former top national security advisor to President Trump. He's very busy, but we appreciate him on emergency notice popping in. We've got an article on Infowars.com dealing with it. You can also go to his website and to his ex-account and get the latest.
General, you've been warning of a black swan event. We're seeing record levels of food processing facilities and energy switching stations and refinery fires and explosions, not just here, but around the Western world. I've read the reports that statistically we're seeing about triple the number of these that we normally see. So obviously that means some of this is just normal accidents, but a lot of it is some type of sabotage. You're saying this appears to be a black swan event. What do you mean by that? And can you lay it out for us?
General Flynn:
But these are events that happen that, you know, you just can't imagine that something like this is going to happen. There are ships that transit every Port Harbor Bay particularly the large ports like the Baltimore Harbor, every single day, multiple times a day.
And for something like this to happen, this complete violation of all standards and norms, they have what's called a SOP, standard operating procedures, that every single ship's captain has to go through prior to taking off from the dock itself, actually prior to getting on the ship. So everything that I see here,
And, you know, I mean, the jury is going to be out for a while. This is not, you know, I was asked earlier today, Alex, can we take the idea that this was a terrorist attack off the table? And absolutely, we cannot do that.
OK, the other thing that I'll bring into this, I'll bring into this because these are events that are happening. Too often now, this attack in Russia, the Russians are now saying, Russians are now coming out and saying that the UK and the US were behind the attack in Moscow. And then all of a sudden we have this event here.
Now, I think one of the things that we do have to remember is that, because I heard coming in this morning early that there were at least six bridge workers that were on that bridge, working on that bridge.
And there are obviously some cars that are unaccounted for now. So there are gonna be people that probably tragically lost their lives because of this incident. And I'm gonna call it an incident. I'm not gonna call it an accident just yet.
We've all seen the videos where the lights went out on the ship. We've all seen the black smoke coming out of the top of it. And I said in my post this morning that people ought to look, start with the harbor master, because the harbor master has to answer a lot of questions about, were standard operating procedures followed to the letter?
And this is not only a massive commercial disaster. But this is a military and a national security disaster because the Baltimore Harbor is a place where there was an awful lot of military activities. And it's a transit point for many, many different types of functions and capabilities that the United States government uses, right? So this is bad.
We cannot take off the table anything right now. I understand it's a Singapore flag vessel. Uh, we'll have to see what that means what does that you know what does that mean, and uh and I mean everything is going to have to be checked.
And one of the first things obviously is to try to find out if there was anybody that was killed because of this and obviously there's six bridge workers lives who were lost that appear to be lost in this thing. And I guarantee they're probably scouring around the waters right now trying to find any of that. That's the tragedy when something like this happens.
They're gonna try to blame this on the construction of the bridge and they're gonna distract. People should not be distracted by those kinds of elements.
There's a lot worse things that we're going to find out from this particular incident. And nothing can be taken off the table. We definitely have people who can investigate these. We have really good, talented people who can investigate these types of things.
Somebody said to me this morning, well, the FBI ought to immediately get involved here. And I was like, no, they shouldn't. I mean, the FBI is not the best to investigate this right now. There are other maritime agencies and activities that we have that are very professional and very capable of doing the work. And like I said, I would start with the harbor master because the harbor master has a lot to answer for in terms of what procedures were followed or not followed.
And then there has to be a complete sort of reversal or backward examination about everything that has occurred with that crew of that vessel, the vessel itself, what was in those container ships, everything.
And then the other breaking news that I just heard this morning that I said right up front, Alex, is the Russians are now appear to be blaming the United Kingdom and the United States for the attack in Moscow. I mean, Jesus, whenever we have these horrific leaders in charge of our country, which we do right now, these are the kinds of things that begin to happen.
And we just can't have these kinds of, and I don't want to say foolishness, because these are dangerous. These are really, really dangerous times. And so anyway, I talked about a black swan event the other day because I just felt like if there's so much activity and so much noise and we're being distracted by over the things that truly matter. And I just felt that. I felt that in my gut. And boy, to me, this is one of those things that you can't imagine.
I didn't wake up this morning thinking that this was what I is what we were going to have. I thought maybe another terrorist attack or something like that because we've had invading forces coming into our country just like we just saw over that happened in Russia.
So look at this video that you're showing and really, really dangerous. There's still cars crossing the bridge. So all these things that happen. For this to happen with so many ships that transit our harbors, ports, bays.
And I grew up on an island myself. So people are going to say, what the hell does Flynn know about ships? I know a lot about this stuff. I know an awful lot about this stuff. These are exactly the kind of activities that I pay attention to. Because these are national security issues, and the implications of this particular disaster is huge for the United States of America.
Direct quotes from Lara Logan on X:
Multiple intel sources: Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure - most likely cyber - & our intel agencies know it. In information warfare terms, they just divided the US along the Mason Dixon line exactly like the Civil War.
Second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material now down for 4-5 years - which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material - fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels - that supply chain now crippled.
Make no mistake: this was an extraordinary attack in terms of planning, timing & execution.
The two critical components on that bridge are the two load-bearing pylons on each end, closest to the shore. They are bigger, thicker and deeper than anything else. These are the anchor points and they knew that hitting either one one of them would be a fatal wound to the integrity of the bridge.
Half a mile of bridge went in the river - likely you will have to build a new one. Also caused so much damage to the structural integrity of the bottom concrete part that you cannot see & won’t know until they take the wreckage apart. Structural destruction likely absolute.
Attack perfectly targeted.
“They have figured out how to bring us down. As long as you stay away from the teeth of the US military, you can pick the US apart. We are arrogant and ignorant - lethal combination. Obama said they would fundamentally change America and they did. We are in a free-fall ride on a roller coaster right now - no brakes - just picking up speed.”
The footage shows the cargo ship never got in the approach lane in the channel. You have to be in the channel before you get into that turn. Location was precise/deliberate: chose a bend in the river where you have to slow down and commit yourself - once you are committed in that area there is not enough room to maneuver.
Should have had a harbor pilot to pilot the boat. You are not supposed to traverse any obstacles without the harbor pilot.
They chose a full moon so they would have maximum tidal shift - rise and fall. Brisk flow in that river on a normal day & have had a lot of rain recently so water was already moving along at a good pace.
Hit it with enough kinetic energy to knock the load-bearing pylon out from under the highway - which fatally weakens the span and then 50 percent of the bridge fell into the water.
All these factors when you look at it - this is how you teach people how to do this type of attack and there are so few people left in the system who know this. We have a Junior varsity team on the field.
Tremendous navigational obstruction. Huge logistical nightmare to clean this up. Number of dead is tragic but not the whole measure of the attack.
That kind-of bridge constantly under repair - always at night because there is so much traffic and they cannot obstruct that during the day. So concern is for repair guys who were on foot (out of their vehicles) working who may now be in the water - 48 degrees at most at this time of year.
When you choke off Baltimore you have cut the main north-south hazardous corridor (I95) in half. Now has to go around the city - or go somewhere else.
To move some of that cargo through the tunnel you may be able to get a permit but those are slow to get and require an escort system that is expensive and has to be done at night.
For every $100 dollars that goes into the city, $12 comes from shipping. Believe this will cripple the city of Baltimore at a time when they do not