Colonial Pipeline Hit by Network Outage Just Days After Hack Shutdown
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline is having network issues preventing shippers from planning upcoming shipments of fuel, the company said on Tuesday, just after the nation's biggest fuel pipeline reopened after a week-long ransomware attack.
The disruption was caused by efforts by the company to harden its system as it restores service following the cyberattack, Colonial said, and not the result of a reinfection of its network. It did not say when the issue would be fixed, but said it was still delivering products scheduled by shippers.
Last week's closure of the 5,500-mile (8,900-km) system was the most disruptive cyberattack on record, preventing millions of barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from flowing to the East Coast from the Gulf Coast.
Colonial has been using its shipper nomination system to schedule batches of fuel deliveries to bring flows back to normal. A prolonged network outage could prevent shippers from adding to or making changes to deliveries - which would hamper delivery across the U.S. southeast and east coasts just after the line reopened.
After the ransomware attack forced Colonial to shut its entire network, thousands of gas stations across the U.S. southeast ran out of fuel. Motorists fearing prolonged shortages raced to fill up their cars.
Colonial's shipping nomination system is operated by a third party, privately-held Transport4, or T4, which handles similar logistics for other pipeline companies. T4 could not say when the issue would be fixed, and did not comment on whether its systems for other pipelines were affected.
https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2021-05-18/colonial-pipeline-nomination-system-shut-tuesday-market-sources
https://twitter.com/IntelPointAlert/status/1394672389464670212
#colonial #pipeline #network #issues
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline is having network issues preventing shippers from planning upcoming shipments of fuel, the company said on Tuesday, just after the nation's biggest fuel pipeline reopened after a week-long ransomware attack.
The disruption was caused by efforts by the company to harden its system as it restores service following the cyberattack, Colonial said, and not the result of a reinfection of its network. It did not say when the issue would be fixed, but said it was still delivering products scheduled by shippers.
Last week's closure of the 5,500-mile (8,900-km) system was the most disruptive cyberattack on record, preventing millions of barrels of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from flowing to the East Coast from the Gulf Coast.
Colonial has been using its shipper nomination system to schedule batches of fuel deliveries to bring flows back to normal. A prolonged network outage could prevent shippers from adding to or making changes to deliveries - which would hamper delivery across the U.S. southeast and east coasts just after the line reopened.
After the ransomware attack forced Colonial to shut its entire network, thousands of gas stations across the U.S. southeast ran out of fuel. Motorists fearing prolonged shortages raced to fill up their cars.
Colonial's shipping nomination system is operated by a third party, privately-held Transport4, or T4, which handles similar logistics for other pipeline companies. T4 could not say when the issue would be fixed, and did not comment on whether its systems for other pipelines were affected.
https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2021-05-18/colonial-pipeline-nomination-system-shut-tuesday-market-sources
https://twitter.com/IntelPointAlert/status/1394672389464670212
#colonial #pipeline #network #issues
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Jonathan Cook
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It shocks me that I keep coming across in my threads variations of the following tweet:
"The Palestinians have it within them to rise up against Hamas to free themselves. Or #Hamas can willingly surrender. Two real choices there."
This view isn’t just being promoted in bad faith by Israeli apologists. It seems to resonate with ordinary people who presumably know very little about the histories either of #Palestine or of settler #colonial movements such as the #Zionist movement that founded Israel.
So let’s delve briefly into both.
First, settler colonial movements are distinguished from standard colonialism – like British rule in India – by the fact that the settler population wishes not just to steal the native population’s resources but to replace the native population itself.
There are lots of examples of this: European settlers dispossessed native peoples in what we today call the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, for example.
The definition of #genocide in international law exactly describes what those #Europeans did to the local population: mass killings; inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of all or part of the native community; preventing births within the local population; and forcibly transferring native children to the settler population.
European settlers who today call themselves Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders never had to account for their crimes against those native peoples. Which possibly explains how commonplace the tweet above is – and why European countries and their settler colonial outgrowths are today lining up againt the rest of the world to support Israel as it intensifies industrial genocide in Gaza.
The truth is the “western” world order was built on genocide. Israel is just following in a long tradition.
Settler colonial movements do not always end up committing genocide. In South Africa, a heavily outnumbered settler colonial population came to an “accommodation” with the native population: #apartheid. The white group took all the resources and privileges. The black group was allowed to live but only in ghettoes and squalor.
In such circumstances, peace is possible only when the settler colonial project is abandoned, power is shared and resources distributed more equitably. This happened, imperfectly, with the fall of apartheid.
The final model for a settler colonial population is to drive the native population over the border, in an act of ethnic cleansing. This was Israel’s preferred option in 1948 and again in 1967, when it decided to expand its borders by occupying remaining Palestinian lands in the #WestBank, #EastJerusalem and #Gaza.
The Palestinians in Gaza are an object lesson in the various ways a native population can be abused by a settler colonial movement.
Most are refugees or descended from refugees from Israel’s #EthnicCleansing operations of 1948. In other words, their family homes are in what we today call Israel. They were driven off their lands into a tiny enclave, to be ruled for the next 19 years by Egypt.
When Israel seized Gaza during the 1967 war, it had to fall back on the second settler colonising option: apartheid. So it turned the enclave into an open-air prison, or – if we’re going to be more honest – a long-term concentration camp.
Gaza was a larger – and, with Israel’s 16-year siege, increasingly much harsher – version of the townships that held the native black populations in apartheid South Africa.
What we are seeing now is Israel finally recognising that the apartheid model has failed to subdue the Palestinians’ desire for freedom and dignity.
Unlike white South Africa, Israel is not looking for peace and reconciliation. It is revisiting other settler colonial options.
In the current attack on Gaza, it is implementing a mixed model: genocide for those who remain in Gaza, ethnic cleansing for those who can get out (assuming Egypt finally relents and opens its borders).
Jonathan Cook
1/2
It shocks me that I keep coming across in my threads variations of the following tweet:
"The Palestinians have it within them to rise up against Hamas to free themselves. Or #Hamas can willingly surrender. Two real choices there."
This view isn’t just being promoted in bad faith by Israeli apologists. It seems to resonate with ordinary people who presumably know very little about the histories either of #Palestine or of settler #colonial movements such as the #Zionist movement that founded Israel.
So let’s delve briefly into both.
First, settler colonial movements are distinguished from standard colonialism – like British rule in India – by the fact that the settler population wishes not just to steal the native population’s resources but to replace the native population itself.
There are lots of examples of this: European settlers dispossessed native peoples in what we today call the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, for example.
The definition of #genocide in international law exactly describes what those #Europeans did to the local population: mass killings; inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of all or part of the native community; preventing births within the local population; and forcibly transferring native children to the settler population.
European settlers who today call themselves Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders never had to account for their crimes against those native peoples. Which possibly explains how commonplace the tweet above is – and why European countries and their settler colonial outgrowths are today lining up againt the rest of the world to support Israel as it intensifies industrial genocide in Gaza.
The truth is the “western” world order was built on genocide. Israel is just following in a long tradition.
Settler colonial movements do not always end up committing genocide. In South Africa, a heavily outnumbered settler colonial population came to an “accommodation” with the native population: #apartheid. The white group took all the resources and privileges. The black group was allowed to live but only in ghettoes and squalor.
In such circumstances, peace is possible only when the settler colonial project is abandoned, power is shared and resources distributed more equitably. This happened, imperfectly, with the fall of apartheid.
The final model for a settler colonial population is to drive the native population over the border, in an act of ethnic cleansing. This was Israel’s preferred option in 1948 and again in 1967, when it decided to expand its borders by occupying remaining Palestinian lands in the #WestBank, #EastJerusalem and #Gaza.
The Palestinians in Gaza are an object lesson in the various ways a native population can be abused by a settler colonial movement.
Most are refugees or descended from refugees from Israel’s #EthnicCleansing operations of 1948. In other words, their family homes are in what we today call Israel. They were driven off their lands into a tiny enclave, to be ruled for the next 19 years by Egypt.
When Israel seized Gaza during the 1967 war, it had to fall back on the second settler colonising option: apartheid. So it turned the enclave into an open-air prison, or – if we’re going to be more honest – a long-term concentration camp.
Gaza was a larger – and, with Israel’s 16-year siege, increasingly much harsher – version of the townships that held the native black populations in apartheid South Africa.
What we are seeing now is Israel finally recognising that the apartheid model has failed to subdue the Palestinians’ desire for freedom and dignity.
Unlike white South Africa, Israel is not looking for peace and reconciliation. It is revisiting other settler colonial options.
In the current attack on Gaza, it is implementing a mixed model: genocide for those who remain in Gaza, ethnic cleansing for those who can get out (assuming Egypt finally relents and opens its borders).
2/2
None of that has anything to do with Hamas. The most one can say is that Hamas’ resistance has forced Israel’s hand. It has had to abandon its siege-#apartheid model – the long term imprisonment of a population with no resources, no freedom of movement, no clean water, no jobs.
Instead, it has returned to the tried-and-tested formulas of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Hamas is a symptom of the decades of trauma Palestinians in Gaza have been through, not the cause of that trauma.
Palestinians overthrowing Hamas, or Hamas surrendering, would not turn Gaza into a Dubai-on-the-Mediterranean. Palestinians there would still be prisoners, though possibly allowed slightly better conditions.
If you doubt that, look to the West Bank, which is ruled not by Hamas but by the supine Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas. He calls security cooperation with Israel – suppressing on Israel’s behalf the Palestinians' craving for freedom – a “sacred” duty. His biggest aspiration is a diplomatic solution that creates a severely circumscribed Palestinian mini-state.
If Israel can’t allow freedom to the #WestBank under Abbas, how is it ever going to give freedom to tiny Gaza, even without #Hamas, after the United Nations declared the enclave as fundamentally “uninhabitable” in 2020?
Israel could never allow the Palestinians out of their #Gaza prison because their rapid growth in numbers is seen as a threat to #Israel’s Jewish majority.
Remember: #settler #colonial populations are there to replace the native population, not to make peace with them, not to shares resources, not to give them their freedom.
Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. And as long as the West is cheerleading, that includes #genocide.
Oct 28, 2023 · 12:07 PM UTC
None of that has anything to do with Hamas. The most one can say is that Hamas’ resistance has forced Israel’s hand. It has had to abandon its siege-#apartheid model – the long term imprisonment of a population with no resources, no freedom of movement, no clean water, no jobs.
Instead, it has returned to the tried-and-tested formulas of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Hamas is a symptom of the decades of trauma Palestinians in Gaza have been through, not the cause of that trauma.
Palestinians overthrowing Hamas, or Hamas surrendering, would not turn Gaza into a Dubai-on-the-Mediterranean. Palestinians there would still be prisoners, though possibly allowed slightly better conditions.
If you doubt that, look to the West Bank, which is ruled not by Hamas but by the supine Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas. He calls security cooperation with Israel – suppressing on Israel’s behalf the Palestinians' craving for freedom – a “sacred” duty. His biggest aspiration is a diplomatic solution that creates a severely circumscribed Palestinian mini-state.
If Israel can’t allow freedom to the #WestBank under Abbas, how is it ever going to give freedom to tiny Gaza, even without #Hamas, after the United Nations declared the enclave as fundamentally “uninhabitable” in 2020?
Israel could never allow the Palestinians out of their #Gaza prison because their rapid growth in numbers is seen as a threat to #Israel’s Jewish majority.
Remember: #settler #colonial populations are there to replace the native population, not to make peace with them, not to shares resources, not to give them their freedom.
Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. And as long as the West is cheerleading, that includes #genocide.
Oct 28, 2023 · 12:07 PM UTC
Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
🇵🇸 Israel's 2018 Nation-State Law: The Zionist Apartheid Manifesto (Part Two) | Institute for Palestine Studies –
The author examine's the Nation-State Law vis-à-vis the international legal definitions of #Apartheid and in relation to other apartheid contexts, namely #SouthAfrica, in order to explicate how it targets non-Jewish inhabitants of #HistoricPalestine.this report investigates Israeli policies since 1948, and especially since its occupation of the #WestBank and #Gaza in 1967, to show how the #NationStateLaw effectively codifies apartheid in the Jewish state.
The #report concludes that the law functions as the logical conclusion of the #racist,#settler-#colonial #Zionist project which has consistently denied the national, territorial, and human rights of the Indigenous Palestinians. This critical #study offers much-needed #legal grounding, analysis, and direction in the defense of Palestinian rights across historic #Palestine and throughout their expansive #diaspora.
Part 1 - PDF
The author examine's the Nation-State Law vis-à-vis the international legal definitions of #Apartheid and in relation to other apartheid contexts, namely #SouthAfrica, in order to explicate how it targets non-Jewish inhabitants of #HistoricPalestine.this report investigates Israeli policies since 1948, and especially since its occupation of the #WestBank and #Gaza in 1967, to show how the #NationStateLaw effectively codifies apartheid in the Jewish state.
The #report concludes that the law functions as the logical conclusion of the #racist,#settler-#colonial #Zionist project which has consistently denied the national, territorial, and human rights of the Indigenous Palestinians. This critical #study offers much-needed #legal grounding, analysis, and direction in the defense of Palestinian rights across historic #Palestine and throughout their expansive #diaspora.
Part 1 - PDF
Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
🇵🇸 Instrumentalized activism: When Palestine becomes a showcase for foreign agendas
Amid the Israeli assault on the new #FreedomFlotilla—whose unarmed activists were arrested and ridiculed by the IOF—it is necessary to discuss who is spearheading solidarity with Palestine and from what ideological frameworks they do so.
One of the most emblematic cases is that of #GretaThunberg, whose image has been linked in recent years to multiple causes, including the Palestinian cause. However, her record shows a worrying trend: she has conflated support for Palestine with other causes such as the LGBT agenda or Western environmentalism, and has supported mobilizations in #Syria and #Iran that have clearly been promoted and financed by foreign agencies, such as the #Mossad and the #CIA, to destabilize the #resistance movement.
Thunberg has consistently condemned armed resistance and promotes a liberal, secular vision of human rights based on institutions like the #UN, disregarding the strategies that oppressed peoples have legitimately chosen to defend themselves. This isn't just political naiveté: it's a way of imposing alien ideological conditions on causes that have their own history, identity, and framework of struggle.
Their activism to impose restrictions on developing countries under the pretext of climate change has been applied to #Palestine: should they rebuild #Gaza with green energy while Israel destroys it with drones? Should the industrialization of occupied countries be halted in the name of the "ecological transition"? This demand is a modern form of domination that prevents colonized peoples from recovering and resisting.
The seizure of the flotilla is yet another example of #Zionist contempt for any act of solidarity, even symbolic. The IOF distributed food and water to the #activists as a mockery, even though those same products cannot enter Gaza due to the #blockade. Still, not everyone on board consistently represents the Palestinian cause. Along with Thunberg, there were MEPs who have supported the unrest in Iran, and none of them recognize the legitimacy of armed resistance.
Not every alliance or support is welcome if it weakens the ideological clarity of the struggle. We cannot support the Palestinian cause while condemning those who defend it with weapons.
The Palestinian cause doesn't need Western icons to "correct" it from a liberal perspective or to be used as a platform for foreign agendas. Confusing symbols, such as mixing the Palestinian flag with LGBT flags or decontextualized slogans, dilutes the anti-#colonial, spiritual, and revolutionary character of the struggle.
True solidarity is not posturing or spectacle. It does not replace organized resistance nor does it present itself as a moral alternative to combat. Only those who respect the nature of the struggle—including its armed dimension, its religious identity, and its rejection of imperialism—can truly say they are on the side of Palestine.
Liberating Palestine will not be an act of cosmopolitan morality, but of organized struggle.
@anaqtella
Amid the Israeli assault on the new #FreedomFlotilla—whose unarmed activists were arrested and ridiculed by the IOF—it is necessary to discuss who is spearheading solidarity with Palestine and from what ideological frameworks they do so.
One of the most emblematic cases is that of #GretaThunberg, whose image has been linked in recent years to multiple causes, including the Palestinian cause. However, her record shows a worrying trend: she has conflated support for Palestine with other causes such as the LGBT agenda or Western environmentalism, and has supported mobilizations in #Syria and #Iran that have clearly been promoted and financed by foreign agencies, such as the #Mossad and the #CIA, to destabilize the #resistance movement.
Thunberg has consistently condemned armed resistance and promotes a liberal, secular vision of human rights based on institutions like the #UN, disregarding the strategies that oppressed peoples have legitimately chosen to defend themselves. This isn't just political naiveté: it's a way of imposing alien ideological conditions on causes that have their own history, identity, and framework of struggle.
Their activism to impose restrictions on developing countries under the pretext of climate change has been applied to #Palestine: should they rebuild #Gaza with green energy while Israel destroys it with drones? Should the industrialization of occupied countries be halted in the name of the "ecological transition"? This demand is a modern form of domination that prevents colonized peoples from recovering and resisting.
The seizure of the flotilla is yet another example of #Zionist contempt for any act of solidarity, even symbolic. The IOF distributed food and water to the #activists as a mockery, even though those same products cannot enter Gaza due to the #blockade. Still, not everyone on board consistently represents the Palestinian cause. Along with Thunberg, there were MEPs who have supported the unrest in Iran, and none of them recognize the legitimacy of armed resistance.
Not every alliance or support is welcome if it weakens the ideological clarity of the struggle. We cannot support the Palestinian cause while condemning those who defend it with weapons.
The Palestinian cause doesn't need Western icons to "correct" it from a liberal perspective or to be used as a platform for foreign agendas. Confusing symbols, such as mixing the Palestinian flag with LGBT flags or decontextualized slogans, dilutes the anti-#colonial, spiritual, and revolutionary character of the struggle.
True solidarity is not posturing or spectacle. It does not replace organized resistance nor does it present itself as a moral alternative to combat. Only those who respect the nature of the struggle—including its armed dimension, its religious identity, and its rejection of imperialism—can truly say they are on the side of Palestine.
Liberating Palestine will not be an act of cosmopolitan morality, but of organized struggle.
@anaqtella