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Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Three people, none seriously. All in hospital in a stable condition - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion/in...

They’ve also found human remains. edit: now they aren’t sure whether it’s human remains or not. Just that it’s biological matter.

...I guess they just found little red bits. Gruesome to consider.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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To be fair, if it was true, no investigation would publically uncover that either. It would come out as some sort of lone wolf, x or y supremacists, anti-vaxx, anti-5g, nutjob. If you allow for conspiracies to exist, it becomes harder to judge truth since all facts become subjective.

> If you allow for conspiracies to exist, it becomes harder to judge truth since all facts become subjective. What are you talking about? Conspiracy theories? This bombing is a conspiracy by definition (Edit: Unless he acted alone). This missuse of the term conspiracy as something only a crackpot would use need to end. BTW my favourite conspiracy theory is that lunatic conspiracy theories are a conspiracy to limit fr…

So the gp post was discussing a government operation to establish a wiretap capability.

Parent provided a hypothetical of the bombing being used to cover up said operation and a discussed what an investigation might find.

My point is, that if you allow for the possibility of the NSA or other agency staging a bombing to cover up a wiretap operation, then a public investigation of the same that would likely also be affected by the cover up.

I doubt the NSA would call the local news for an on the record correction.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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post #153

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…

What we're seeing is a "stochastic insurgency" where loosely affiliated groups and individuals conceive, plan and execute infrastructure attacks and targeted assassinations. Relatively little operational coordination; but lots of online showing support and post-crime support. I hope all congressional representatives and local government officials are reviewing their safety plans.

Haven’t mass shootings been a form of this despite the lack of unified motive or ideology? They’ve certainly spread terror.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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Interesting things to consider. 1) I heard something about "fake reports" about gunshots. But maybe the perp shot off some guns just to get the cops to show up? 2) This woman stuck around for 15 minutes or a half hour while this thing was saying "you need to evacuate, this has a bomb"??? 3) This woman recalls a male voice but the news played a female voice. This goes to show how bad our memories are!

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…

The audio equivalent of writing a ransom note with magazine clippings!

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

#206

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

That voice announcing evacuation sounds very professional, not like a computer synthesized voice... I wonder if they will try to trace that.

My theory, and the most untraceable way to do it today, would be to use recordings out of movies or video games, there must be dozen of them available.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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post #44

This article doesn't make this so explicit, but ATT infrastructure appears to be the intentional target of the bombing. You can see the building in the helicopter shot at the top of the NYTimes article on the story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion.ht... Obviously a telecommunications/switch hub, with it being a large windowless building in a downtown core. The other thing that's particularly…

AT&T says that their services went down along with the gas & power in the area, as a side effect: the gas shutoff cut off their backup generators. That doesn't sound all that targeted.

The services went down about 6 hours after the attack. I suspect the gas was cut very soon after the blast and their internal generators lasted 6 hours.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

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post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That voice announcing evacuation sounds very professional, not like a computer synthesized voice... I wonder if they will try to trace that.

My theory, and the most untraceable way to do it today, would be to use recordings out of movies or video games, there must be dozen of them available.

Simply using the "say" command on a mac would work.

Re: ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

#210

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…

Note there was also an interesting event in WA on Dec 22 - local outlets covered:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/train-carrying-cru...

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