Posted on 08/14/2003 1:14:13 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
Hannity station went dead for about 20 seconds. Said he had never seen anything like it.
I just don't have the patience to go through this massive thread. Of course I think it was sabotage. Here's my list of suspects, in order:
1. A Green (probably Canadian)
2. Disgruntled laid-off outsourced utilities employee
3. A Raghead
4. The Y2K bandaid fell off.
Whatever happens before election day, minor or major, it's a given that it will be President Bush's fault.
I just had a teenage palmetto bug walk across my desk. No bug spray so I sprayed him with pine cleaner. At least he'll be clean. Why do bugs hang around my pc station and nowhere else at my home? Maybe they're DU. LOL
We never lost power completely up here where I live (about 20 miles north of Hartford, CT), but lights all across CT flickered at the same time NYC, Detroit, Cleveland, Toronto, Ottawa, etc. lost all power. Actually, the western part of CT lost power.
I didn't give it a passing thought until I got in my car and heard Sean Hannity going nuts on the radio, saying that "WABC, ABC TV... I think all of NYC has had a massive power failure". Once I learned about the other cities - and power was lost at the same time our lights flickered - my first thought was terrorism.
We watched the NYC power outage coverage on Fox News Thursday night... incredible images! People sleeping in the streets... Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, etc. completely dark...
From: Virtual Master (vmastermmd.ath.cx) Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 13:49:06 CDT
The german publishing house "heise", producing the magazines c't and ix, got a news on their page mentioning a probable link between the worm and the power outage.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ju-15.08.03-001/
The article is in german, but I'm trying to translate the important pieces to english:
The failing niagara power-plant belongs to National Grid USA. That power-supplier is listed as a reference customer of Northern Dynamics. Norhtern Dynamics labeled themselves as "Home of the OPC Experts" and offer a range of products that use OPC for control and operation systems.
OPC stands for "Ole for process control" and is based on microsofts COM/DCOM model. In a network affected by the W32.Blaster worm the DCOM-communcation fails, and therefor OPC fails on unpatched systems.
OPC is employed among other things for the linking of so called SCADA systems (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), as used by power-plants.
The OPC experts from northern dynamics also list General Electrics, Siemens AG, european power-plant constructor ABB and the european organization for nuclear research as reference customers.
So, have they stopped hectoring us to use the a/c and "large appliances" sparingly, or do I still have to feel guilty every time I turn on the a/c?
No way, that would infect the water supply! They have to be disposed of in a level 4 toxic waste dump.
Kinda like the Dad in My Big Fat Greek Weddind, Windex solved it all ;)
For some reason, that visual reminds me of the infamous guitar-smashing scene at the toga party in Animal House. :)
____________________________________________________________ Al Qaeda Claims Responsibility For Power Blackout In U.S.! Al-Hayat
A communiqué attributed to Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the power blackout that happened in the U.S. last Thursday, saying that the brigades of Abu Fahes Al Masri had hit two main power plants supplying the East of the U.S., as well as major industrial cities in the U.S. and Canada, "its ally in the war against Islam (New York and Toronto) and their neighbors."
The communiqué assured that the operation "was carried out on the orders of Osama bin Laden to hit the pillars of the U.S. economy," as "a realization of bin Laden's promise to offer the Iraqi people a present."
The statement, which Al-Hayat obtained from the website of the International Islamic Media Center, didn't specify the way the alleged sabotage was carried out. The communiqué read: "let the criminal Bush and his gang know that the punishment is the result of the action, the soldiers of God cut the power on these cities, they darkened the lives of the Americans as these criminals blackened the lives of the Muslim people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. The Americans lived a black day they will never forget. They lived a day of terror and fear… a state of chaos and confusion where looting and pillaging rampaged the cities, just like the capital of the caliphate Baghdad, and Afghanistan and Palestine were. Let the American people take a sip from the same glass."
It added: "we heard amazing statements made by the American and Canadian enemies which have nuclear physics universities and space agencies, that lightning hit and destroyed the two plants. And we are supposed to believe this nonsense. If the blackout occurred in one or two cities, their lie would have been credible. But the fact is that the blackout hit the entire East and part of Canada."
The communiqué continued: "one of the benefits of this strike is that the U.S. will not live in peace until our conditions are met, such as releasing all the detainees including Sheikh Omar Abdulrahman, and getting out of the land of the Muslims, including Jerusalem and Kashmir."
The authors of the communiqué said that the strikes aimed at "hitting the major pillar of the U.S. economy (the Stock Exchange)," considering that the operation was "a message to the UN, which is opposed to Islam, and is based in New York. It is a message to all the investors that the U.S. is no longer a safe country for their money, knowing that the U.S. economy greatly relies on the trust of the investor." They added: "seven major airports stopped working, which is a strike to airlines companies; nine nuclear reactors broke down, something that never happened before, and this is considered as a major economic hit for the nine reactors in the states of New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Michigan. Means of transportation broke down: trains, cars and trucks, which resulted in great losses. The Internet stopped, leading to a freeze in trade transactions. The international banks headquartered in New York closed, not to mention the great losses incurred by the insurance companies, and the massive deployment of the police and security forces."
The communiqué mentioned that some economists said the blackout in the U.S. and Canada would cost the U.S. Treasury no less than ten billion U.S. dollars and in order to "break the hearts of U.S. officials, just know that the cost paid by the Moujahideen to sabotage the power plants was a mere seven thousand dollars. Die of sorrow!"
The communiqué ended with: "we tell the Muslims that this is not the awaited strike, but it is called the war of skirmishes (to drain the enemy), and that the American snakes are enormous and need to be consumed and weakened to be destroyed. We tell the people of Afghanistan and Kashmir that the gift of Sheikh Osama bin Laden is on its way to the White House; then the gift of Al Aqsa, and do we know what is the giftof Al Aqsa, where and when? The answer is what you are seeing!"
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