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Iran Flexes Its Power by Transporting Turkey to the Stone Age
Observer ^
| April 22, 2015
| Micah Halpern
Posted on 04/23/2015 6:27:47 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
Half of Turkey44 of 81 provinces, 40 million people including those living in Istanbul and Ankara, suffered a massive power outage that lasted a solid twelve hours. It happened on Tuesday, March 31st.
It happened because Iran wanted it to happen. The blackout in Turkey was caused by a cyber hack that originated in Iran.
This cyber attack was payback, a taste of what Iran has to offer. Everything went down. Computers, airports, air traffic, traffic lights, hospitals, lights, elevators, refrigeration, water and sewage, everything simply stopped. In an instant, Turkey was transported back to the stone ages.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 200403; 20050331; 201503; 20150331; armenia; armeniangenocide; blackmail; blackout; california; cyberwar; cyberwarfare; hack; hacking; iran; nancypelosi; popefrancis; romancatholicism; turkey; waronterror
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To: Former Proud Canadian; Kartographer
One of the most interesting parts of this story is, where is the MSM? Is this story being suppressed because it would mean NATO is at war with Iran?
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posted on
04/23/2015 8:28:56 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
To: Psalm 73
Which is why I want Turkey out of NATO, I don’t want us to get dragged into a war just to bail the Turks out.
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posted on
04/23/2015 8:35:56 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Pollster1
Finding it hard to believe if Turkey knows for certain who did it since they haven’t retaliated. Also, 12 hours is a very quick turnaround. Smells more like smoke and mirrors.
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posted on
04/23/2015 8:41:46 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Psalm 73
Turkey is also drifting Islamicist, under Endrogan. AKA, rolling back the rules prohibiting head scarves on campus and making religious school degrees good enough for civil service jobs and going to college.
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posted on
04/23/2015 8:44:55 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: Former Proud Canadian
They try to hack our grid every day. One day they will figure it out. Forget EMP. It will be a cyberhack.
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posted on
04/23/2015 8:47:11 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
A software hack scares me a lot less than a physical attack that would destroy the infrastructure. However, neither is desirable.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:00:24 AM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Save Western Civilization. Embrace the new Crusades.)
To: Georgia Girl 2; Former Proud Canadian; Old Sarge
"Forget EMP. It will be a cyberhack."
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:02:26 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Former Proud Canadian
A cyber attack, if done a certain way, will destroy a lot of ‘infrastructure’ which will take months to replace and get the system up again. Learn from the Northeast black outs. Overloads are disastrous.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:04:00 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Personally I think that when Iran gets too close to having a bomb we should EMP them. Then we hand them a list of criteria that need to be fulfilled to get the lights back on.
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posted on
04/23/2015 9:12:02 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
How do you send someone back to the stone-age when better than half the country lives there daily?
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posted on
04/23/2015 10:54:55 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
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posted on
04/23/2015 11:31:39 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
What if I told you
This is all BS.
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posted on
04/23/2015 11:40:42 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(It's not the crime, it's the cover-up they said.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
A chilling reminder to the middle east as to why it is in their best interest to combine their forces into defeating a crazy neighbor that would eventually attack them with overwhelming numbers if allowed to fester longer.
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posted on
04/23/2015 11:42:53 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Missing in all of this is the pondering of the question “if they are willing to do this to their alleged friends, what might they be willing to do to their sworn enemies?”
Never mind.
To: McGruff
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posted on
04/23/2015 5:10:11 PM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Save Western Civilization. Embrace the new Crusades.)
To: bgill
Perhaps smoke and mirrors but...
I don't think Turkey is ready to take on a regional superpower. Especially one with a burgeoning nuclear ability and a growing alliance with the USA.
When the rest of the world sees the USA kowtowing to a bellicose Iran, it changes everything.
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posted on
04/25/2015 4:44:05 AM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Save Western Civilization. Embrace the new Crusades.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder; servantboy777
As I understand it, Turkey and Iran are NOT friends. They belong to the rival factions of Islam.
Iran is Shia, Turkey is Sunni.
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posted on
04/26/2015 12:18:22 PM PDT
by
TEXOKIE
(We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
bumping this because of newest hacking revelations.
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posted on
06/11/2015 7:31:37 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: piasa
Bring me up to date, please.
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posted on
06/12/2015 3:16:46 AM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Save Western Civilization. Embrace the new Crusades.)
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