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Who’s Attacking Our Power Grid?
National Review ^ | 27 Dec, 2022 | JIM GERAGHTY

Posted on 12/28/2022 5:12:11 AM PST by MtnClimber

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To: Pontiac

I agree, and they probably know that.

I also wouldn’t state details on an open source website...


41 posted on 12/28/2022 6:07:17 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

Antifa or one of our agencies.


42 posted on 12/28/2022 6:08:10 AM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas explains everything )
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To: MtnClimber

I see the “Shooting Up” script in several of these “articles”. Though I think most have been break ins and such.

Looking for “Electric Boogaloo” to be showing up in more.

Got to push the “Far Right Domestic Terrorist®” angle.


43 posted on 12/28/2022 6:10:58 AM PST by Do_Tar (All my comments are creative or artistic expression.)
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To: srmanuel
I agree except I believe most of these “sleeper agents” probably came here on student visas. Take a visit to any college/university in the USA and you will see a large percentage of foreign students in the math and science programs. Especially in the PHD programs. My son applied to MIT, HARVARD, GA Tech, BU, Carnegie Mellon and a couple others for a PHD in Biotechnology. At Harvard the labs were almost 100% Chinese nationals. The professors were also Chinese. He would have had to learn Mandarin just to potentially work in these labs. He ended up accepting a position at Ga Tech. He even had a roomate lined up (from India). Then he reconsidered and took a Associate Scientist position at a Pharma corp.
44 posted on 12/28/2022 6:11:45 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: mewzilla; MtnClimber; All

> “It’s Deep State.”

This term is nebulous as in “cloudy”, and it needs data.

Yes, I agree it’s something inside and tied to government and organizations feeding off government such as colleges.

I know firsthand of young college professors who were Antifa paramilitaries, as well as some postal workers.

But saying “”Deep State” or “Antifa” tells us what we already know and gets us nowhere.

What we need is an internet scrapbook (IBOOK) of names and faces, and last known whereabouts without accusation. A section of confirmed Antifa can be appended.

Facial recognition can be considered.

Individuals in the IBOOK can come forward, question, challenge their inclusion. However, people who witness fires, substation damage, agricultural destruction, and so on, those witnesses can find the IBOOK and independently match/identify people they witnessed doing the crime.

The IBOOK itself will make no comments or accusations.

The IBOOK can serve as a public repository for researchers on Antifa. If woke lawyers bring lawfare in defamation form, the lawyers can be put in the IBOOK as well, as their appearance de facto exposes their association. The IBOOK model will frustrate them from making a case against it.

At this point, we shouldn’t be intimidated if the IBOOK seems like the Joseph McCarthy Red Scare. Law abiding Americans are allowed to organize and defend themselves and their communities. The IBOOK is a tool of defense.

Law enforcement should have already a form of IBOOK but their records will likely be under seal as their investigations require.

The public IBOOK discussed above would be an asset to eye-witness bystanders of Antifa-like hit and runs. It’s existence could make the new Obama-inspired Weather Underground think twice before acting.


45 posted on 12/28/2022 6:12:45 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: MtnClimber

FBI Agents. They will pin it on Trump supporters.


46 posted on 12/28/2022 6:13:32 AM PST by sport
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To: MtnClimber

If these “attacks” nock out power for only a short time, it was probably a protest or demonstration/trial run.

A serious attack by knowledgeable or professional people would be worse.


47 posted on 12/28/2022 6:14:08 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: MtnClimber

The gratuitous references to white nationalists or “...recent disruptions of LGBTQ+ events across the nation by domestic extremists” should gag a maggot! But, even more moronic are the references to Russia and China seeking to right wrongs. I mean, how stupid is that? When the level of intellect is that low among the journalism community and so-called law enforcement; folks, you really know you’re on your own!


48 posted on 12/28/2022 6:16:41 AM PST by old school
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To: dforest
"...I know, it is so obvious. No one in our lying foul government even mentions it..."

I have always thought I would be one of those who clung to our government as an agent of good long after everyone else had come to the logical conclusions.

This particular situation (the silence of elected officials on this particular matter) was simply another brick broken out of the wall for me.

And I hate that I feel this way. Just hate it.

49 posted on 12/28/2022 6:26:20 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: woodbutcher1963

I think the student visa types are the smart ones, capable of organization and planning. The ones coming up thru the border are the muscle types who are probably not that smart but are true believers who would no problem blowing themselves up and killing anyone in their path.

Think about 9/11 Muhammed Atta was an engineering student, most of the others were goons meant to hurt anyone who challenged them.


50 posted on 12/28/2022 6:26:27 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: MtnClimber

Much Ado About Nothing

The pierce county stuff is most likely meth heads looking to steal copper.

The previous incident could have been anything, but there is certainly no evidence of any connection to pierce county.

The news coverage seems like it is designed to encourage copycats


51 posted on 12/28/2022 6:27:37 AM PST by algore
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To: old school

Read “a thousand balls of flame”, written by dmitry orlov back around 2015. Describes scenarios short of “going nuclear”. They may be trying to make the attacks proportional to attacks against the rodina.


52 posted on 12/28/2022 6:28:54 AM PST by ozarker
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To: MtnClimber

Rather than try to figure out who is doing this I am prepping for when “they” shoot up one near me and I end up in the dark for a week or so. Or more importantly what happens if this is a coordinated effort and the whole eastern side of the US is made dark?

I have food stocks, ammo and a generator with plenty of gasoline.

Some call me a conspiracy nut but I’m seeing these as more exploratory for something bigger.


53 posted on 12/28/2022 6:30:08 AM PST by msrngtp2002 (Just my opinion.)
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To: rlmorel

Having to believe your own eyes and ears and awakening to the fact that nothing was as you thought or wanted to be is ugly.

It is also enlightening.


54 posted on 12/28/2022 6:30:24 AM PST by dforest
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To: MtnClimber

Who? Could be CCP, TVA, Democrats, or a combo of all of them.


55 posted on 12/28/2022 6:32:25 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: msrngtp2002

I think you have a wise plan.


56 posted on 12/28/2022 6:33:05 AM PST by nascarnation
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To: MtnClimber

I’ve not seen anything about what damage was caused to the West coast substations except a fire at one substation. The East Coast ones were shot up.


57 posted on 12/28/2022 6:35:34 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: EEGator

It’s an open secret.

Articles have been published in major media that the grid is vulnerable

Government officials have spoken about it. They formed a government agency that is supposedly doing something about it.

I haven’t seen any movement to do anything about it other than the software vulnerabilities.

No I would never give out details on the web about how to go about it.

And I certainly not silly enough to go looking for the info myself on the web.

I would hope that government spooks watching websites with that info for people researching it.


58 posted on 12/28/2022 6:37:16 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spiritIq)
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To: MtnClimber

This is far more problematic than first glance. If the transformers are being targeted, there is literally a two year backlog and wait for new transformers to be built by virtually every supplier. And since they are sized for the substation, there’s no spares sitting on the shelf.


59 posted on 12/28/2022 6:38:58 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: dforest

True. I would rather have my eyes open and be distressed, than to have them closed and be content, that is for sure.


60 posted on 12/28/2022 6:42:46 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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