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It's probably not in this case but i wonder if this ATT was a special surveillance nexus... I think it's most likely the bomb wasn't meant to target anything, but was just some person's outlet Edit: i wasn't saying, "nuclear protection probably wasn't the case", i was saying, "the comment I'm about to make probably isn't the case but"... I know it's unclear
It’s a collection point of domestic VOIP for the FAIRVIEW program.
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Sending a warning before a bombing isn't that uncommon. It's less common (although not entirely unheard of) if the bombing is a terrorist attack. But if, as you suggest, that target is infrastructure, the only real reason to not give a warning is tactical. WIthout knowing who is responsible for it, it is possible they wanted to inflict whatever damage they had in mind, without causing any loss of life or human injuri…
Warnings tend to come with political bombings. But in this case we have a bombing with no manifesto - yet. A lot of effort for unclear purpose.
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Sending a warning before a bombing isn't that uncommon. It's less common (although not entirely unheard of) if the bombing is a terrorist attack. But if, as you suggest, that target is infrastructure, the only real reason to not give a warning is tactical. WIthout knowing who is responsible for it, it is possible they wanted to inflict whatever damage they had in mind, without causing any loss of life or human injuri…
Warnings tend to come with political bombings. But in this case we have a bombing with no manifesto - yet. A lot of effort for unclear purpose.
If you don't understand the purpose of this attack, look at the effects:
* Keeping the populace fearful and terrified and "clamorous to be led to safety"
* Increasing police state power
* Legislation will be passed making it easy for RV owners to be searched and harassed, when previously they enjoyed some level of legal immunity
* etc
The purpose is only unclear if you assume it was just some "lone nutcase" who did it, according to the official story, rather than what it actually is: yet another a false flag attack, to push a political agenda.
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yeah - as I commented elsewhere - mcveigh did a whole lot more damage with presumably less explosive (van vs. rv) This really sounds like people playing with stuff they have no understanding of.
OKC bomb was in a Ryder box truck. Not a van.
Reportedly, there was a visible countdown timer on the vehicle that exploded, and an audible warning played for 15-20 minutes prior to the blast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU
> officers and witnesses heard a broadcast coming from the RV giving a dire warning: “Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode." Then, the voice started a 15-minute countdown. Metro Police Chief John Drake said the six officers at the scene quickly began to evacuate the area, going door-to-door. They redirected a man walking his dog along the street. This is surreal. Almost a scene fr…
Well it's the Hollywood writers who write all of these scripts, so what do you expect? Same guy who writes all the Michael Bay movies, writes these scripts also.
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Maybe she was right, and there were two voices? The female announcement sounds like it was edited. Badly. This might explain the strange verbiage as well ("All buildings" stands out. That particularly phrase, with its inflection, sounds like it originally came from the end of a sentence too). I've heard other people say it sounds like the same voice used by the city during the summer protests or something along those…
Looks like it may be Microsoft Anna text-to-speech. The poster added reverb and echo and it was very, very close to the youtube security video that captured the warnings. The device that recorded that may have also skipped on its own recording and may not be perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B--BNdnuvA The original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nygTJeu9fU
It's still possible that since the engine didn't reproduce a 1:1 copy and there's no discernable (at least to me) artifacts in the one copy of sound footage we have, that was the real person, and she just announced it slightly differently.
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I think it’s premature to speculate about motive, aside from the obvious part about targeting telecoms infra rather than people. For instance, this might also potentially disable security/alarm systems for a heist, or perhaps it was motivated by some 5G conspiracy theory.
The Venn diagram on anti-government militias and 5G conspiracy theorists is pretty close to a circle
Considering the FBI recently foiled a plot by a group who was planning to "take out" parts of the energy grid, it seems likely from my experience that this is another set of people executing a similar plan targeting telecoms. I imagine there is a high probability of more incidents like this happening between now and the inauguration, meant to target various infrastructure and "big government" components throughout th…
> This attack screams anti-government militia with it's technique The target and the means (RV stuffed with explosives) would sort of fit the pattern. Broadcasting an advance warning would be rather atypical for US right wing (or islamic, for that matter) terrorists, though, and rigging up a speaker that actually works would stretch the technical abilities of a typical US militia group. The groups who did operate tha…
That's the entire point of them doing this. What else would they be doing it for?
Expect to see, among other things, new laws passed making it easy for RV owners to be searched and harassed, with every RV potentially being seen as a terrorist bomber.
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I can't speak for the telco side of the business, but I do know that AT&T leadership has been telling their enterprise IT side of the business to throw out many prior requirements to built HA into things, and to reduce the portion of systems set aside to handle unplanned events. One of the justifications has been that such planning and built-in headroom is virtually never used. They are rapidly shutting down most of…
ATT has more debt than the Phillipines, it's no surprise that they're trying to cut costs.