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Posted on 07/18/2004 6:57:48 PM PDT by JustPiper
Picture credit: TheCabal
"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
CIA: 9/11 Plotters Transited Iran, Govt Tie Unseen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About eight of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers passed through Iran before attacking the United States, but there is no sign of official Iranian complicity, the CIA (news - web sites)'s acting director said on Sunday.
We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm
Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!
I think so. I'm going to print it and study it on the way home.
Very Interesting. You say you have more?
LOL -- and I'm the brunette checking under the fruit cart.
Thanks Cindy, we know about this.
Another underground explosion and blackout:
Massachusetts
PT: Another underground explosion in NE USA with accompanying power blackout, this time in Natick, Mass., about three hours before Hartford, Conn. blackout.
Holliston teen critically injured by manhole cover
By Kristen Bradley / News Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
NATICK -- A 18-year-old Holliston man was critically injured last night when a manhole exploded on Rte. 135, propelling the cover through the windshield of his father's SUV.
Eric Brack was taken by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, according to a hospital spokesman.
Natick Police are calling it a freak accident, with the car Brack was riding in simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
According to Natick Sgt. Brian Grassey, Brack was a passenger in the Chevrolet Tahoe when the cover on the manhole suddenly blew off and hurtled through the windshield. Brack's jaw and arm were shattered, Grassey said.
Firefighters later found the cover in the back seat of the vehicle.
At the time of the explosion, Grassey said he started receiving calls from residents complaining about power losses.
The MetroWest Medical Center's Natick campus reported power was out there, and people were stuck in an elevator until power returned.
Last night, an NStar spokeswoman said the accident is under investigation but had no immediate answer to what caused the incident.
"There was an explosion of a manhole and it struck a passing car," said Christina McKenna, NStar spokeswoman.
"We don't know why this happened, and we're certainly going to investigate fully. We want to know what happened out there, and we want to know the answers to those critical questions," McKenna said.
Bobby Nickerson was visiting a relative blocks away when he heard what he thought was rapid gunfire.
"It was so loud." It sounded like a bomb had gone off, he said.
McKenna said some sort of power surge or malfunction in the system most likely caused the explosion, but pinpointing the problem won't be an easy task. NStar workers will be at the site of the accident today, McKenna said, continuing their investigation.
No underground work was taking place in the area of Rte. 135, according to Grassey. McKenna said to her knowledge NStar was not conducting any work in the area of Rte. 135 or nearby.
Natick Police and Fire departments closed down the roadway near the manhole until NStar could neutralize the electricity and declare the area safe. The road was reopened for regular traffic about an hour after the 7:20 accident.
McKenna said about 3,000 people were without power for about three hours, with everything restored by 11 last night.
Whether the medical center's power loss and the manhole explosion are related will be part of the investigation, McKenna said.
www.metrowestdailynews.co...leid=73671
(from poster at Final Phase forum)
Where did this picture come from?
I'm the tall brown haired guy that hides out at Tir Na Nog (the Irish Pub across from Penn Station on the corner of 8th and 33rd), while killing time waiting for the train, because hanging out in crowded train stations for more than the few minutes it takes t board the train is against my better judgment. In all series, we need an identifying pin, not just for the TM, but for FR in general. Another homework assignment for JP and Cab.
Not for money. But I know more than a few who have risked life and limb, not to mention liberty, to go and do the missions nobody ever talks about and for which there is no paper trail. These folks are the true patriots and they are also the ones who keep an eye on the officials and bureaucrats and pols. I have no doubt that one of these would leak it for free if they thought somebody needed to know to keep the Constitution in force; their own orders be damned. When you hire and train free thinkers who live outside the box and train them in Special Ops, that's what you get.
I know this is going to make everyone feel SO much better....
PS It is NOT from The Onion
http://www.aztrib.com/index.php?sty=25078
Bird droppings likely shut down nuclear complex
By Ed Taylor, Tribune
Investigators think they have the straight poop on what caused the nation's largest nuclear power complex to shut down last month.
Bird droppings.
Another substation fire causes Valley blackouts
“There were eyewitnesses,” said Kwin Peterson, a spokesman for the Western Electricity Coordinating Council, which is looking into the Palo Verde nuclear plant incident that caused outages all the way to Canada.
“There was a bird on a 230 kilovolt power line west of Phoenix, and as the bird took off, it let loose as birds often do. The excrement contaminated an insulator, and electricity flashed to the tower, creating a short.”
At the time, utility officials said all three units at the station, plus the natural gas-fired Red Hawk power plant, turned themselves off because of a disturbance in the transmission system. But they did not know the cause.
There was no radioactivity leakage or danger to plant workers or nearby residents, but the loss of the 5,000 megawatts caused short power outages across Arizona to New Mexico, central California and as far as the Canadian province of Alberta.
A final report has not been completed on the cause, but evidence is strong that a bird initiated the incident, Peterson said.
Such incidents happen all the time, he said, but in this case a relay failed that normally would cause a circuit breaker to trip and contain the problem. A backup relay also failed, he said.
A circuit breaker further along the line did trip, but it was so close to the Palo Verde and Red Hawk plants that they had no way to transmit the electricity they were producing, Peterson said. In such a circumstance, the units were designed to automatically shut down.
“A power plant has to get rid of the energy as it is generated, and in this case there were not enough lines available to take the energy being produced,” he said.
The Red Hawk plant was returned to service the same day, and the Palo Verde units were running again within a few days.
Peterson said the electricity council doesn't consider it to be a major incident because most of the 50,000 customers who lost power had it back on within two hours. But a final report due in about two months will make recommendations on how to prevent a reoccurrence, he said.
A spokesman for Arizona Public Service, which operates the Palo Verde plant, declined to comment.
One silver lining in the incident was it proved the Palo Verde plant is capable of doing what it was designed to do, said Mike Gleason, a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission, which regulates Arizona utilities.
“It was the best test we've had to show it does work,” he said.
Hi Drymans wife.
I'm in the middle of a project, with no coffee yet, and dropped that in w/o reading the thread.
That's a no-no, but I had to do it just to be timely.
Thanks for the feedback.
Cindy
More birds!!! OMG!!! So now if we don't know the cause
we just blame it on the birds.
Amen to that brother.
Excuse me while I clean off my keyboard.
No problem sweety just playing.
So lets see:
Droppings and apparently flattulence from a bird taking off mixed with indigenous atmospheric gases to corrode the insulation of a live high voltage line and cause the shutdown of a huge nuclear plant?
Ok..I buy it....LOL
itshappening.com, you have to subscribe but its there.
also the translation that goes with the pic.
That is a new one. The text that goes with the picture:
Quote:
A new form to the sheikh Osama Ben Ladin
That's why I changed my sig. I'm getting tired of that "move along, nothing to see, go back to sleep" mentality.
If they handle this like they did in NY, it'll turn out to be the dead guy's fault, just like it's the transit cop's fault that a pipebomb exploded in the subway station.
I wonder if they're going to blame Richard Jewell again.
i have more but there from the beginning of the year. i can post the entire link from my msn site if y'all would like.
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