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Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by candiddevmike »

makeworld wrote: post #5
Shank wrote: post #2

This is a dead-ringer for the Metcalf sniper attack: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/05/272015606... Edit: dead-wringer => dead-ringer

Seems like some group is making another test of their abilities. Perhaps gathering data on government response and repair times. Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future. Scary stuff.

Is is scary, especially after reading about how perilous black starts might be and the scarce sourcing of power equipment.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by defrost »

makeworld wrote: post #5
Shank wrote: post #2

This is a dead-ringer for the Metcalf sniper attack: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/05/272015606... Edit: dead-wringer => dead-ringer

Seems like some group is making another test of their abilities. Perhaps gathering data on government response and repair times. Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future. Scary stuff.

No need to invoke a large group when one or two individuals are quite capable of driving around several unattended stations and firing multiple rounds into transmission equipment.

It's not that difficult to know which bits to target for the greatest fallover effect.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by anigbrowl »

Shank wrote: post #2

This is a dead-ringer for the Metcalf sniper attack: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/05/272015606... Edit: dead-wringer => dead-ringer

Yeah and no. Metcalf was similar in terms of targeting the transformer with rifle fire. But it was more professionally done (in terms of minimizing forensic footprint) and more hands-off, compared to the gate being pulled down by a truck as in this case.

There are a number of potential suspects, but my feeling is that if there are no arrests in 72 hours you can expect a bunch of copycat attacks. Substations are very poorly secured, and targeting them to cause power outages and provoke crises and riots in cities is a central plank of accelerationist guerrilla war fantasies. 'How it would go down' scenarios that hand-wave the details are widespread, and how-to instructions with varying degrees of specificity are eagerly circulated smaller extremist forums. These range from 'fun and profit' type onesheets that would would get a careless individual caught to quite professional ones suitable for (and probably derived from) military educational materials.

BTW it's 'ringer'.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by WJW »

dontbenebby wrote: post #7

I didn’t think the invisible committee operated south of the Mason Dixon line. (Fragen Sie mich noch einmal, ob ich Französisch spreche, und ich werde Sie auf weniger unterhaltsame Weise an die Wand stellen.)

So do you speak French?

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by WaxProlix »

bigbillheck wrote: post #9
makeworld wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like some group is making another test of their abilities. Perhaps gathering data on government response and repair times. Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future. Scary stuff.

What do you mean 'some group', those anti-trans people pretty much admitted to it.

What group is that? Do you have a link to any further info here?

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by sokoloff »

themitigating wrote: post #12
sokoloff wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s so outrageous that it makes me wonder if it’s real or a possible cover/false flag/test for something else.

Quoted post unavailable.

> No suspects have been named in the shootings, and investigators have yet to announce a potential motive

How does it make the right (or any group specifically) look bad? There’s online innuendo that this was done for stupid reason X. I’m sure there’s another online unsubstantiated theory that it was actually stupid reason Y, while it might end up being stupid reason Z.

Edit to add: it says “right” above because that was responsive to parent comment text, which has since been stealth-edited.

Re: Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack

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Post by anigbrowl »

makeworld wrote: post #5
Shank wrote: post #2

This is a dead-ringer for the Metcalf sniper attack: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/05/272015606... Edit: dead-wringer => dead-ringer

Seems like some group is making another test of their abilities. Perhaps gathering data on government response and repair times. Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future. Scary stuff.

Not coordinated, think open source insurgency not unlike those in Iraq or Syria.
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