Knowledge Fight #913 dissects Alex Jones’ wild claims about the March 26, 2024, Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse—blaming "cover-ups" and foreign sabotage despite experts (including Baltimore port workers) citing backup generator failure and procedural delays. Jones pivots to trillionaires allegedly channeling Greek gods via DMT rituals, referencing Frank Church Committee leaks and Charlotte Iserby’s fringe theories, while Dan Friesen debunks inaccuracies like vaccine censorship parallels. Ultimately, the episode reveals Jones’ conspiracy framework crumbling under rational scrutiny, exposing his reliance on sensationalism over evidence. [Automatically generated summary]
There's a part of me that just doesn't want to see it like I was there.
There's a part of me, and then there's also the part of me that's like, I don't know, after having met some people, I don't know if I can watch interviews.
The part that I think is difficult for you or I to have much of a review or anything of it is a lot of the information is stuff that we've already known and we've covered.
And I think outside of some of the stories and stuff from the family members and stuff, it's...
Mostly stuff that isn't totally new information to us.
So from that angle, it is kind of like, maybe you don't need to see it.
We're going to be talking about the 26th of March, 2024.
And that is because it's the day after, or the day of, I guess, because it was early in the morning, of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed.
And so I wanted to see Alex's take on it and see where he was going with things.
And I'm Annie Fanny, Fox's human brother, who is taking the lack of a DC show as a personal insult, included that last bit as a timestamp when you get to this in 2025.
For those who don't know, there was a cargo ship, lost power, veered off course, and hit one of the supports of the Francis Scott Key Bridge at like 1:30 in the morning or so.
Bridge collapsed and Alex believes they're telling people, "Don't show the footage." Ladies and gentlemen, the governor of Maryland...
It wasn't the Maryland governor who made this request.
It was Baltimore's mayor, Brandon Scott.
His comments were directed towards media outlets like CNN, not social media, and the reason he gave was, quote, no one needs to see the possibility of their family member being severely injured or otherwise over and over again.
It's just traumatizing our community.
And so I think there's a fair point that he makes, but, you know, I don't think there was any...
I think especially before you realize that they were able to stop traffic on both sides.
Now, granted, I'm not trying to take away from or minimize the fact that there were construction people who were on there who were missing and unaccounted for and presumed dead.
But you see a bridge collapse and your mind goes to there must be a ton of cars on there.
It is just like a reminder of the fragility of things that is like, hey, and then at the same time, it's like, hey, if you throw 15,000 tons at something, it's going to break.
The governor, oh, hey, we got the clip of play in a moment.
Don't show the footage.
There's nothing graphic.
You don't see people being crushed or dying, though they are, though they're in the water.
That's been reported.
You have this huge bridge collapse.
You have the power go out on a ship.
And I've done some research.
Those ships have battery power for at least lights around and in the ship that kick on.
And so I made some calls and did some research, and I noticed that General Flynn's saying the same thing.
But those ships of that size, by law, to be able to come into a port like that, it's a hazardous waste port, one of the biggest in the U.S., have to have all these emergency battery systems and generator systems.
Where you would not have the main steering cut out for that long, maybe a second, if a primary system went down, then would the generators that automatically kick on fail?
We, because of the power outages now caused by the feds not letting Texas produce enough electricity during the winter and summer peak times, had to put in a $70,000 generator to run both buildings here, and then it was another...
$70,000, $80,000 to run the wires and all the expensive systems you've got to have to be in code.
And this is not that big a building.
Those ships have generally one of that size, have up to 10 large generators on them.
And normally two levels, by law it's two levels of backup generators.
We can open the phones up and have maritime professionals, and boy are they professionals, call into the show and explain it to you.
And they'll probably explain where I get some things wrong a little bit, but in general I know I'm right.
The Dolly, the ship that crashed into the Francisca Key Bridge, had a backup generator, and sources are saying that it did kick in, but the ship never regained the ability to steer.
The ship's local captain had them drop anchor and rudder to try and slow it down, but that wasn't enough.
Thankfully, they were able to send out a Mayday call, which allowed traffic to be stopped Yeah.
Regulations governing things like boats needing to have backup generators help make accidents less likely to happen, but that doesn't mean that it always will.
Sometimes people cut corners, and even when people don't, catastrophic failures can still happen, and it's just an unfortunate reality.
Also, Alex is entirely wrong about the reason for ERCOT's failure to provide power during the Texas winter storm.
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 X 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?
Yeah, I mean, 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 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...
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?
There's a part of me, honestly, like, how do we not have more of these kinds of accidents?
If that makes sense, like, when you think about how many car accidents and shit we have, the number of people behaving irresponsibly, like, I'm surprised we aren't hearing about more boating accidents.
Well, there is a caller who calls in later who talks about being in a similar situation, and there are...
Similar situations that have happened and probably do happen, and they're unfortunately not the perfect set of circumstances where the boat ends up crashing into a bridge.
This probably does happen a lot.
It's just on open water or something where the consequence doesn't happen.
The other thing that 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, you know, 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 going to be people that probably tragically lost their lives because of this incident.
And I'm going to call it an incident.
I'm not going to 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 harbormaster, because the harbormaster has to answer a lot of questions about, you know, were standard operating procedures followed to the letter?
I wonder, what are the American, are there like specific American ones that they should be more like, hey, I know the United Nations demand this, but because American standards are different, this is actually good.
Well, there is also later, there is a demand that there should have been, like, there needs to be tugboats everywhere.
It's like, well, you would probably say that if companies were being forced to have tugboats tug out or guide out ships longer than was necessary, that was an imposition upon business.
But in this case, it's like...
You know, people only use the tugboats as much as they need to.
They're going to try to blame this on the construction of the bridge and they're going to 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 harbormaster because the harbormaster 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.
I mean, there is going to have to be an incredible level of detail.
And then the other breaking news that I just heard this morning that I said right up front, Alex, is that 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...
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 cannot, you know, 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 there's so much activity and so much noise, and we're being distracted 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 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 that happened in Russia.
And I think the implication is very obvious that he keeps bringing up the idea that the UK and the US are behind the attack in Moscow to connect to this.
It was the guy that wrote the national anthem during the War of 1812 in the United States of America.
There's symbolism in a lot of things here.
You know, what I'm telling you, Alec, and what I'm telling your audience is that we have to pay attention to every single aspect of what just happened, and it's got to go back even months back.
So this clip pretty well sums up the idiotic thinking that people like Alex and Flynn engage in.
There's two major points being made here, and they both lead you to pointless spaces.
The first is that the ship hitting the bridge is somehow a symbolic attack on the bridge because it's named after Francis Scott Key.
This is a mentality that encourages people to imagine connections between things and then ascribe meaning to those connections.
There's literally zero information that Flynn has that backs up the idea that this crash happened on purpose, let alone that the name of the bridge made it a symbolic target.
But that's the kind of thinking he wants to normalize in the audience.
The second is this insistence that every little minute detail needs to be examined.
Obviously, I believe there should be appropriate investigation of the crash and that we need to get to the bottom of what happened, but that's not what Flynn is calling for.
He wants to go on a perpetual fishing expedition where every detail is poured over in a search for things that confirm his predetermined conclusion.
He's decided this wasn't an accident, and the goal is to find anomalies that can be passed off as furthering that conclusion while ignoring everything else.
These are two fantastic tricks that people like Flynn can use in the aftermath of an event to cast wild suspicion on things without having any actual information to go off of.
Yeah, it's just, it's a little bit like, oh, let's go on a witch hunt.
Let's do a snapshot on what happened last Friday in Moscow, the aftermath of supposedly ISIS.
But they say right when they're picked up, no, we were just paid and given weapons and told to do this.
Now they've confirmed they did come out of Ukraine.
They were trying to get back to Ukraine.
Some say it could be Putin doing a false flag.
But I see Newland and others saying nasty surprises, them saying, and Jack Posobiec and others predicting months ago that the West would now shift into more asymmetrical warfare because Russia has won this war.
Yeah, my hypothesis on this, Alex, is that this is not an ISIS-related attack, okay?
There's too many things, there's too many anomalies that, you know, ISIS, you know, if it was a real strong, radical Islamist-type attack, these guys would have been prepared to die.
And so there's just two, that's number one.
But there's other things that I have examined, and this is just examining from afar, that just do not come across to me much.
An ISIS attack.
That there's something else behind this.
Now, what I just learned and what the world is learning over the last 24 hours is that the Russians' FSB has come out and said that the UK and the US are behind this.
Now, you know, if we look at things like the Nord Stream pipeline attack, we look at this.
The fact that these guys got caught alive and where they got caught and so many of them got caught, I mean, the Russians are going to learn an awful lot.
From that.
And so I just, again, my hypothesis is that this is not an ISIS attack.
And even though our government came out like in 30 minutes and said it's ISIS, right?
They've had the illegal aliens there for six months to a year.
In these hotels and government facilities that they've tried to keep secret by the millions, and now they're kicking them out to make way for the new group, and they're loading them on planes with money and sending them to Texas and Tennessee and Georgia and Michigan and Pennsylvania and Arizona and Florida.
And when you go down the list of where they're sending them, I've got AP articles right here saying it.
They are sending them mainly to battleground states and to purple states and to red states.
They're not sending any of them to blue states.
So the Texas governor and the Florida governor have wisely deported some of these illegal aliens.
They don't have power to deport them over the border, but they have power to ship them to another state or to a leftist area like Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
But they're immediately taken out of there.
So they are literally sending them.
To the blue, out of the blue cities, into the red areas, to flip those Democrat, not just for the illegals voting, as we know they're doing, but also, again, for the apportionment of the members of Congress to get more congressional seats.
So, leaving aside that Alex is making all of that up in all the numbers, I want to point out that he's fucked up the conspiracy.
If the goal of sending undocumented immigrants places was to create more Democrat House seats through apportionment, then the storyline needs to be that they're sending everyone to blue areas.
It would be so glaringly obvious what was going on.
If your conspiracy is that 100% true, you and I would be like, well, obviously, if you're only sending them to these places, there's a reason behind it, right?
Yeah, it's fucked up to think about it now, but I mean, you know, you think 10 years from now, climate change situations start to arise, and now people like Alex are mad about...
Immigrants from Indiana coming to, you know, at what point are we talking about interstate?
There's his father, I believe he's saying, works at this port.
Then we'll go to Cody.
Corey and Mitchell, thank you, Tim, for calling, and thank you for holding.
You're on the air.
Please give us your take and what your dad's telling you.
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Yeah, so my dad works at the port, and my brother's a truck driver.
He goes to D.C. from Baltimore, and everyone's talking about, like, you know, this is, obviously it's never happened here, and just a few days later after the rush in it.
Excuse me, incident.
It just seems to be, you know, I don't think it's a coincidence.
But where my brother works at, people are taking off.
They're like, yeah, something bad's going to happen.
I was thinking, and I'm purely speculating, I'm not saying the Russians did it, but a lot of these ships, because I've been led into the cruise ship by the captains, other people's, I mean, it's all decades ago, super computerized and GPS and all the rest of it.
Most of it's done by, you know, autopilot.
And we know going back to the Exxon Valdez, it was on autopilot when it did that.
So, but just to see that catastrophic power failure and to not even see emergency lights go on, It's very, very, very, very strange, and so it needs to be investigated.
Unfortunately, we don't have any confidence, at least I don't, in federal investigators because they're so corrupted at the top.
God knows who we'll ever know, but I saw the cursed bridge being blown up repeatedly going out of Russia into southern Ukraine, into Crimea, and I wonder if it could be payback by the Russians.
I mean, this is the type of sabotage industrial crap.
We've already seen the globalists blow up the Nord Stream pipeline and Biden say we'll get rid of the pipeline if you invade Ukraine.
This is just like, why don't we throw all kinds of weird ideas at the wall?
I'll have Flynn come in and talk about the attack in Moscow and talk about how suspicious this is with giving no reason for this being suspicious necessarily.
You take these callers and it's like, my dad thinks it's weird he works at the port.
Great!
We get another guy, the second guy who was a fisherman and we get nothing.
Yeah, as you're saying, it is just about what variables are present at what point in time.
Like, you'd think so many cruise ships, when you've seen horrible disasters happen there, you'd be like, okay, well, terrorists are attacking thousands of people.
I've only cursory studied this, but that's what I knew.
And I read by law any ship that's doing commercial work above a certain size has to have all the things he just mentioned.
So, and again, they had it back during the Exxon Valdez, but the captain was completely drunk and basically plotted, if I remember correctly, put the computer plotting wrong.
So, think about it.
The pilots will tell you that On any big commercial plane, they're not flying the plane anymore.
They pre-program it.
The computer takes off.
The computer lands.
They're just there like custodians.
That's why pilots now come back.
The co-pilot will be asleep.
The captain will be asleep if you're in first class right next to you.
And I've just been seeing this the last few years, and I've talked to them, and they said, we don't fly the planes anymore.
And the older captains will tell you, this is dangerous because when there's a problem, they're not very good.
Because normally, you're taking off your landing.
You've got to stay on top of it.
And in many ways, the computers do fly planes better than humans until there's a problem.
And they've had all these computer systems malfunction, and it makes the planes dive bomb, and they're kind of sweeping under the rug.
But as everything gets put into one system and one AI system, it makes it totally easy to be taken over by hackers, by governments, by aliens.
And I mean that hypothetically, but that's like a remake of...
Battlestar Galactica, I'm not a big TV guy, but I did watch the first series, and that was pretty good.
And that's how the aliens take over Earth is, they take over the AI.
And then everybody's defenseless except one ship that was a museum piece that wasn't in the grid.
And he has a good answer for the backup generator narrative, which does seem to be the biggest piece of real-world information that Alex is wrestling with.
And on a ship like that, on a Solus class, it's going to have probably three.
I've never worked on those size ships.
I've only worked like the 350-foot supply boats offshore.
Now, I've had to deal with this going into the port of New Orleans a lot.
It's a miracle on a day-to-day basis of how many catastrophes this probably avoided.
And not long ago, we had one that come under the bridge, and he lost steering.
And the first thing a pilot does, a Harbor Pass pilot would say, is drop your anchors.
As soon as he knows that he can't have control, he's going to drop anchor.
That's your last resort.
And when the one in New Orleans caught, it kind of swung it out a little bit back into the river, and it hit the wharf and actually saved a lot of lives.
That guy done everything right.
And in this situation, when you see that ship turn, it's a possibility he had already dropped his anchors.
If he's underway, he's only going to have tugs that's going to guide him.
So this guy kind of gets rid of a lot of the stuff that's, like, this is, like, really suspicious.
Like, if there is this backup generator, it takes a little while, there isn't an immediate kick-on of it, then in that down time, when you've steered off course, that could explain everything, quite honestly.
So, I think that this guy maybe is the wrong call for Alex to take, because it ruins a lot of the fun.
I mean, for me, this has probably been one of the most exciting Infowars actual moments in real life for me, because I love learning about stuff like that.
There's not a lot of momentum you can take after this, after someone who seems to know quite a bit, is a ship captain, isn't incoherent in his communication, I'm aware of this.
you kind of have a tough time then being like But what about the Moscow tech?
It's one of your own people who's on the ground and it's doing a job that's like, in Alex's mind, an actual job as opposed to somebody who works anywhere else, you know?
So another caller, I'm not sure if it was this guy or another person, I don't remember exactly, but someone is like, you know who you should get on to talk about this?
It's an expert that you have not talked to in a long time, and maybe it's time for you guys to settle up.
Well, first of all, he's obsessed with the coming race war and has written multiple books about it.
But also, he would host the fourth hour on Alex's show, and he famously, on, I believe it was December 31st, 2020 said, we need to storm the Capitol on January 6th.
Yeah, no, I wanted, because when you were talking about DMT and stuff before, and I never got to talk to you about it.
Not right this second, but I was like, I've been meaning to ask you about that because you're talking about the alien entities they're trying to contact.
There's a chance that he probably was, and he definitely does talk in this interview about how on 9-11 he was, like, gung-ho for the Iraq War and stuff.
So I think that it is fun to encourage snitching on employers, primarily because people like Kurt, Or Alex, when they are the subject of things, there's denial and it's cancel culture.
So Alan Dulles did not create the term conspiracy theorist or conspiracy theory in 1963 to discredit people who had ideas about the JFK assassination.
The term long predates that point, and Alex is just trying to sound interesting and smart for his impressionable celebrity guest.
This all traces back to a 1976 document titled Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report, which was meant to help CIA folk understand various arguments that conspiracy theorists made against the Warren Report and provided rebuttals for them.
Right, well, not the guy I like, or my favorite is every dumb shit liberal I know.
And I'm non-binary politically, but every liberal I know, they all know the story of the Sackler family and how they, Oxycontin, they saw the documentary.
No, he's saying that you have these people who had a profit-driven motive in order to give people medicine that they didn't need or was maybe dangerous.
See, I'm not sure if this was what Charlotte Izzerbeet's information had.
I think she just had, like, a roster of people who were members of Skull and Bones from her.
I think this might be a little bit of a, hey, we've got a magical trove of information here that we can just point to, and it proves everything that we want to...
Yeah, I mean, a boat and a bridge guests seem like they would make the most sense, and, you know, both of them would have their own respective expertise, and then we could kind of come to an idea of how things are built.
I was kind of, you know, I was interested in hearing what Alex's coverage of the bridge was, because I thought there would be a much harder swing towards a conspiracy in the immediate of this happening, because it's a tragic event, and there's a lot of attention that's affixed to it.
And instead, it's a little bit lukewarm, with the exception of the time that he spends with Mike Flynn, which is pretty, they know a lot during that period of time.
Yeah.
But yeah, we'll see how things develop and we'll see what comes next.