North Carolina sheriff says 'intentional vandalism' at substations caused power outages for 40K cu

Zerohedge says this is becoming a national trend

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Nobody is trying to claim that the string of attacks that we have been witnessing is “accidental”, and ABC News is reporting that “federal authorities are investigating” this very disturbing trend…

Federal authorities are investigating a number of recent reported acts of sabotage on utility companies, a senior law enforcement source told ABC News.
But what we do know is that the number of attacks on our electrical grid has been rising. The following comes from NBC News…

Nearly 600 electric emergency incidents and disturbances were caused by suspected and confirmed physical attacks and vandalism on the electric grid in those nine years, the reports show. There have been 106 attack or vandalism incidents from January through August 2022, which is the latest the Energy Department data tracks. Among the years reviewed by NBC News, 2022 is the first that reached triple digits and it only contains eight months of data.

I don't know if sabotaging power facilities is a new thing or not. We've always had wannabe sharpshooters (check out Stop signs in the rural areas).

is this a growing trend? or is Zerohedge being alarmist?

I, for one, want to keep monitoring this

originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: matafuchs

This is the woman in question.

She had organized a protest of the drag event and when the power went out she tweeted "The power is out in Moore County and I know why."

When she was questioned by LEOs she told them, "God works in mysterious ways."

Neo nazi groups have been dropping a lot of innuendos about this lately, but nothing concrete. No one is taking credit, but apparently, many support the act, regardless.

Only the beginning

I have a feeling we are going to see more of this crap as the cults of MAGA and Q Anon become further divorced from reality, and online rhetoric of crazy gets crazier.

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GLENN: Now, the FBI, State Bureau of Investigation and Moore County Sheriff's Office are all investigating. Do they have any suspects?

BORAKS: As far as we can tell, they don't. The FBI put out a wanted poster last week saying only that it was looking for an unknown suspect or suspects. And in press conferences last week, Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields repeatedly appealed for tips. We do know that the authorities have applied for federal and local search warrants, though it's not exactly clear where or what would be searched.

hopefully just some local nuts performing some one-time stupid.

worst case, terrorists do this again this week on a bigger scale.

Please God grant us protection from those who would do us evil

Stumbled upon this. This is from July of 2022.

An accelerationist handbook being shared among extremist Telegram channels calls for shooters to bypass softer targets in favor of causing chaotic blackouts by emulating on a broader scale an unsolved sniper attack on a California transmission substation.

The cover of the 14-page PDF features a depiction of a masked and hooded gunman wielding a semiautomatic handgun with a suppressor affixed and wearing panoramic night-vision goggles. In the branches of a swastika behind the gunman are depictions of acts of violence including three people being hanged, a group of buildings ablaze, and a police car on fire next to a figure holding an incendiary weapon.The document begins by asserting it is not a text aimed at radicalizing new adherents, as the author(s) assume that readers are already committed to “doing what you can to strike a blow to this system.

”The document refers to the power grid as “the main thing that keeps the anti-White system going” and calls power distribution substations “sitting ducks, worthy prey” that are “largely unprotected and often in remote locations,” setting the stage for a spree of attacks.The new accelerationist guide theorizes that the power grid could be “crippled” over a large area if three similar substations were struck simultaneously or within days of each other with “armor piercing rounds,” arguing that with an extended blackout “all hell will break lose [sic]” and white supremacists would be poised to take control. Referencing the practice of extremists bestowing “sainthood” upon mass shooters who meet certain criteria, the document declares that an extremist who successfully attacks the power grid would be revered “above Sainthood when the lights don’t turn back on and we are plunged into urban warfare.”

GTSC Homeland Security Today

Quite interesting.

a reply to: Fairtrade141

he FBI just got a bunch more funding to watch “White Nationalist and White Supremacist Groups”

You mean to watch the current biggest domestic terror threat to the US?

Good. # white nationalists and supremacists.

# around, find out.

originally posted by: frogs453
Stumbled upon this. This is from July of 2022.

An accelerationist handbook being shared among extremist Telegram channels calls for shooters to bypass softer targets in favor of causing chaotic blackouts by emulating on a broader scale an unsolved sniper attack on a California transmission substation.

The cover of the 14-page PDF features a depiction of a masked and hooded gunman wielding a semiautomatic handgun with a suppressor affixed and wearing panoramic night-vision goggles. In the branches of a swastika behind the gunman are depictions of acts of violence including three people being hanged, a group of buildings ablaze, and a police car on fire next to a figure holding an incendiary weapon.The document begins by asserting it is not a text aimed at radicalizing new adherents, as the author(s) assume that readers are already committed to “doing what you can to strike a blow to this system.

”The document refers to the power grid as “the main thing that keeps the anti-White system going” and calls power distribution substations “sitting ducks, worthy prey” that are “largely unprotected and often in remote locations,” setting the stage for a spree of attacks.The new accelerationist guide theorizes that the power grid could be “crippled” over a large area if three similar substations were struck simultaneously or within days of each other with “armor piercing rounds,” arguing that with an extended blackout “all hell will break lose [sic]” and white supremacists would be poised to take control. Referencing the practice of extremists bestowing “sainthood” upon mass shooters who meet certain criteria, the document declares that an extremist who successfully attacks the power grid would be revered “above Sainthood when the lights don’t turn back on and we are plunged into urban warfare.”

GTSC Homeland Security Today

Quite interesting.

Thanks. Interesting indeed.

Another interesting tidbit along with the playbook passed around this summer. In February 3 white supremacists were arrested for a plot to attack the grid and start a race war. Attacks on power stations seemed to be a theme this year.

“The defendants in this case wanted to attack regional power substations and expected the damage would lead to economic distress and civil unrest,” said Assistant Director Timothy Langan of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. “These individuals wanted to carry out such a plot because of their adherence to racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist views. When individuals move from espousing particular views to planning or committing acts of violence the FBI will investigate and take action to stop their plans. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to protect our communities.”

DOJ Case

a reply to: SirHardHarry

Oh no, not the biggest national security threat to our country although most people have never seen a white supremacist. Never mind those mostly non violent groups that burn cities, attack police, and get bailed out by politicians (kamala) before their charges are dropped anyway. Sickening to keep hearing the same rhetoric over and over. It's all MAGA, just ask jussie in Chicago.

a reply to: DeadlyStaringFrog

Power stations have been targeted this year. I don't care which group is doing it. I'm not sure what BLM or politicians have to do with this situation. But hope you feel better getting that off your chest. Have a Merry Christmas!

originally posted by: ElGoobero

worst case, terrorists do this again this week on a bigger scale.

forget the terrorists. Mother Nature sabotaged half the country.

New attack on the power grid, this time in Tacoma Washington, suspicious as hell...

www.foxnews.com...

OK, so if power starts going off all over the country as part of the NWO assault on our economy, I'm supposed to think that the KKK is doing it?

Sadly, most of the idiots out there will believe it.

a reply to: ATSAlex

This one sounds like copper thieves, no mention of gunshots into transformers. This is actually pretty frequent and sometimes results in some crispy corpses.

'burglars' and 'vandalize'

but nothing stolen?

attaching the infrastructure without guns? or just stupid kids tearing up stuff for something to do?


prayers for all the people up North still digging out. killer storm.

a reply to: ElGoobero


I remember that the first time this has ever happened before was in Northern California at a PG&E substation a few years back. Huge transformers were shot at a distance with a rifle of some sorts. This then made all of the cooling oil inside of the transformer to leak out causing them to fail. They never found out who did the deed because the gunman stayed outside the view of the surveillance cameras at the fence perimeters.

a reply to: frogs453

Sounds like FBI generated fan-fiction to me.

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: frogs453

Sounds like FBI generated fan-fiction to me.

FBI generated something.
For years we have heard about the far right boogeyman.
Yet all those releases about the far right by the FBI failed to move the public opinion needle at all.
Now we have all these acts of sabotage by supposed far right actors.
Interrupting the lives of the average self-absorbed American is sure to move the needle against the right.
But ask yourselves, who gains in this situation?
Why, those pushing the " the far right is the worst villain we have ever faced" narrative, of course.
So why would these far right groups work so fervently to undermine their own existence ?
What did PT Barnum say?

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: frogs453

Sounds like FBI generated fan-fiction to me.

Hmm maybe, but were you aware of this prior to this incident? I sure wasn't. For some fiction to push, it never made mainstream news. So the people who were charged back at the beginning of the year were just done so for "fan fiction?" It's out of the realm of possibility that extremists did pass around a "playbook"? Heck, even ATS members have alluded to violence as the only way to "take our country back".

But um, ok sure.

Gummint says they wanted to knock out power so they could rob a store in the Washington state sabotage

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington announced Tuesday that two men – Matthew Greenwood, 32, and Jeremy Crahan, 40, both of Puyallup – were to appear in Tacoma federal court on the charge of conspiracy to damage energy facilities. Greenwood is also charged with possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle and a short-barreled shotgun.

The criminal complaint revealed the alleged motive for the attacks on four substations dozens of miles apart within a 12-hour time frame on Dec. 25, 2022, was to commit a burglary at a business while power was down for some 15,000 customers in the area.

still no word on the Carolina incidents.

originally posted by: panoz77
a reply to: ATSAlex

This one sounds like copper thieves, no mention of gunshots into transformers. This is actually pretty frequent and sometimes results in some crispy corpses.

A few years ago when scrap prices were up we had an entire bridge stolen a few miles from where I live.