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In 19 Minutes, A Team Of Snipers Destroyed 17 Transformers At A Power Station In California

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When a real terrorist attack happens, sometimes we don’t hear about it until months afterward (if we ever hear about it at all).  For example, did you know that a team of snipers shot up a power station in California?  The terrorists destroyed 17 transformers and did so much damage that the power station was shut down for a month.  And it only took them 19 minutes of shooting to do it.  Of course most Americans have absolutely no idea that this ever happened, because they get their news from the mainstream media.  The chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at that time says that this was “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred”, and yet you won’t hear about it on the big news networks.  They are too busy covering the latest breaking news on the Justin Bieber scandal.

And maybe it is good thing that most people don’t know about this.  The truth is that we are a nation that is absolutely teeming with “soft targets”, and if people realized how vulnerable we truly are they might start freaking out.

If you have not heard about the attack on the Silicon Valley substation yet, you should look into it.  The following is an excerpt from a Business Insider article about the sniper assault…

The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith reports that a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman is acknowledging for the first time that a group of snipers shot up a Silicon Valley substation for 19 minutes last year, knocking out 17 transformers before slipping away into the night.

The attack was “the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred” in the U.S., Jon Wellinghoff, who was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time, told Smith.

Evidence found at the scene included “more than 100 fingerprint-free shell casings“, and little piles of rocks “that appeared to have been left by an advance scout to tell the attackers where to get the best shots.”

So much damage was done to the substation that it was closed down for a month.

And what happens if they decide to attack a nuclear power facility next time and use even bigger weapons?

Could we have another Fukushima on our hands?

In a previous article, I discussed a very disturbing report that showed that our nuclear facilities are indeed extremely vulnerable

Commercial and research nuclear facilities across the U.S. are inadequately protected against the threat of terrorism, according to the results of new study released this week by the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project (NPPP) at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs. The two biggest terror threats facing these facilities, according to the report, are the theft of bomb grade nuclear materials and sabotage attacks aimed at causing a nuclear reactor meltdown.

The study, entitled “Protecting U.S. Nuclear Facilities from Terrorist Attack: Re-assessing the Current ‘Design Basis Threat’ Approach,” found not one of the 104 commercial nuclear reactors in the U.S. is protected against a “maximum credible terrorist attack,” such as 9/11. In fact, nuclear facilities are not required to protect themselves against airplane attacks, assaults by large teams of terrorists or even high-power sniper rifles.

The truth is that we are far, far more vulnerable to terror attacks than most Americans would dare to imagine.

So why isn’t the federal government doing more to protect us?

Well, the reality is that their resources are already stretched pretty thin and they can’t even protect their own computers.  According to another report that was recently released, breaches of government computer networks go undetected 40 percent of the time

A new report by Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) details widespread cybersecurity breaches in the federal government, despite billions in spending to secure the nation’s most sensitive information.

The report, released on Tuesday, found that approximately 40 percent of breaches go undetected, and highlighted “serious vulnerabilities in the government’s efforts to protect its own civilian computers and networks.”

“In the past few years, we have seen significant breaches in cybersecurity which could affect critical U.S. infrastructure,” the report said. “Data on the nation’s weakest dams, including those which could kill Americans if they failed, were stolen by a malicious intruder. Nuclear plants’ confidential cybersecurity plans have been left unprotected. Blueprints for the technology undergirding the New York Stock Exchange were exposed to hackers.”

Are you starting to get the picture?

We are not nearly as “secure” as we like to think that we are.

In recent months, we have seen that our private financial information is not even secure at the largest retailers in the entire country.  By now you have probably already heard about the horrifying security breach that happened at Target during the holiday season

The holiday shopping season breach affected up to 110 million customers, including 40 million credit and debit cards and up to 70 million customers’ personal information.

The discount retailer discovered the breach in mid-December, notified customers several days later, and launched an investigation with the help of a private security firm and law enforcement.

And experts tell us that because credit card companies are cutting corners by using outdated technology that is less expensive that these kinds of credit card hacks will continue to happen all over the country.

So what are you going to do when you wake up some day and none of your credit cards or debit cards will work because the entire system has been compromised by hackers?

What are you going to do when you wake up some day and you have no power for an extended period of time because a team of terrorists has destroyed the entire power grid in your area?

What are you going to do when you wake up some day and a wave of nuclear radiation is heading your way because terrorists have attacked a nuclear power facility close to where you live?

We are an extremely vulnerable nation that literally has thousands of big, fat juicy “soft targets” that could be attacked at any moment.

We have been very fortunate to live during an era when we have generally been safe from such attacks, but the world is rapidly changing before our very eyes.

So let us hope for the best, but let us also prepare for the worst.

About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled “The Beginning Of The End” is now available on Amazon.com.


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    • Armed Resistance

      I fear my government a heck of a lot more than I fear “rouge” terrorist operations. This is like reverse fear-porn pushing for us to run to big government for help.

      The bigger threat for ALL Americans is economic collapse because of the Federal Reserve, the White House, and the players on Wall Street that do their dirty work.

      We are vulnerable- but it’s largely due to big government that MUST be stopped.

      • morris adams

        ABSOLUTELY! i think it’s possible, since no perps have been paraded in front of the camera, these guys just might be on our side. no fat juicy mall shoppers shot, no facebook diatribe about how effed up everything is, no real msm reporting. yeah, these are the good guys, dipping their toes in the water. any and all cyber attacks by me and you will be rooted out the instant it happens but they just can’t seem to put their fingers on the SYRIAN ELECTRONIC ARMY, because they don’t exist, as advertised. DOJ finds no Rong doing within its own investigation of itself, how convenient! you can believe when they roll into my town, i will blow my own bridges. that doesn’t trap me, I’m already home! the fact that no one was killed is all the proof i need. ’cause when ”we” get rolling, we won’t be raping and gassing our own people. THAT’S WHO WE’RE FIGHTING FOR!! if it doesn’t make sense, it’s probably not right. that applies in every aspect of everything. i can’t believe they claimed a ”team of snipers”, wonder what part of their agenda that fits?

        • TR st

          That is what I have always said is the diffrence between a terrorist (our government) and a rebel (those fighting for the constitution). Terrorists go after anyone and everyone including the rebels family, rebels go after the terrorists military and infrastructure.

      • Arcflash

        I think you are right about who the real enemies are. As well as government are the corporations that control the government. I don’t have any warm fuzzy feelings for Nestle or its ceo who claims that access to water is not a human right while his corporation is literally stealing water rights out from under the populace, bottling iand selling it to us Muppets for obscene profits. An abundant resource that is being controlled by nefarious activity by corporations like Nestle Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. I think some White Hat Terrorists could start terrorizing these corporations by taking out the transformers that power their operations.

      • Vladilyich

        Try using the word “rogue”. It is a much better descriptor than the facial coloring “rouge”.

        • Armed Resistance

          How is “a$$clown” as a descriptor? I was never a good typist. Thanks for helping me out “douche bag”!

      • WCS

        We have this government telling us that a bunch of rednecks with guns pulled off a coordinated sniper attack with inside information, cutting gust the right lines and making their escape seconds before the cops got there. Keep in mind that this is the same government that was caught selling over 2000 guns to drug dealers in Mexico in order blame us and use it to attack the second amendment and our civil liberties. So, are you really going to take their word for this, really? Or is it more likely that this is just another one of their botched falls flag events. Remember that this happened over a year ago and there only now calling it a terrorist attack. Do you really trust this government?

    • Kelly

      I live in an all electric house and it’s 22 degrees outside. Stories like this drive it home to me how very vulnerable America’s electrical grid really is. I’m sure those responsible believed they were harming the government, but really, it’s the little guy who gets hurt the most.

      • Freeamerican

        It’s not ‘vulnerable’, that’s psy ops to set up jew/israeli false flag on the grid to force the ‘smart grid’ on americans. Don’t be a ‘little guy’, otherwise communist thug jew world order.

      • Neo

        Those responsible probably work for the government! You’ve got some catching up to do

        • Freeamerican

          ‘probably work for the government’, the government is run by jews.

    • James Edwards

      Interesting. If you want to knock out the power grids nationwide, first you have to determine if it’s possible. That would explain last year’s terrorist attack on ONE grid. Result? YES. It is possible. And, it would only take ONE MAN a few minutes of patient pot-shotting from the weeds somewhere with a scoped rifle. COST? Almost nothing.

      Now – who do we have in the USA that would do such a thing? If you guessed Muslims, you are correct. And, who invited them in in the first place? If you guessed the government of the USA, you would be correct.

      WAKE UP AMERICA! 10 MILLION HERE NOW, 100 MILLION IN 50 YEARS! WAKE UP AMERICA, BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!

    • Anonymous

      This is nothing compared to what would happen if terrorists attacked the wreck of Liberty ship SS Richard Montgomery with a small bag of explosives or rammed with large ship off Kent uk England. The UK security services have blocked all UK mainstream media from publishing anything about it. And GOOGLE have blocked at their request ( not bing or yahoo ) searches for ss richard montgomery leading directly to site http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com The Richard Montgomery matter. It gets worse There is a Natural gas refinery nearby which if it exploded could wipe out south of England and part of France!

    • Anonymous

      They were shooting for 19 MINUTES and NO ONE could figure out where the shooter WAS AT!!?!?!?!?! Were they using silencers? “Snipers” don’t shoot for 19 minutes in any scenario. They would be detected and neutralized in 5 minutes. One shot, maybe two to ensure a kill then move. Whoever was doing the shooting was probably an amateur vandal.

      The pile of rocks could have been put there by the same person doing the shooting as a landmark for the evening’s festivities. What evidence is there that this was a “team”. A single .308 or .223 with a couple of 30 round clips would do what they are describing. Especially for 19 MINUTES!

      As for our infrastructure vulnerability, this country would be a total police state if they were to try to protect every poorly protected asset. But maybe that’s the point of this fear porn. By the way, how do they know it is a domestic terrorist? Hmmmmm?

      Maybe a better approach is to secure our borders and NOT allow any terrorists to just walk into this country.

      • Decode the World

        Correct. When you live in a civil society, it doesn’t take much to slip back into the darkness. There are so many vulnerabilities, this sniper could have just as easily shot at the insulators of the high tension lines, taken the line down and started a fire. Fortunately, people are alert, but let’s hope people don’t get any ideas like this.

      • Anonymous

        I read that a 7.62 X 39 weapon was used in this incident. This analysis came from the post-event investigation, in which they found spent brass in the area that ballistic evaluation indicated was the probable origin of the shots. I would think that a .50 BMG or, even, .338 Lapua or .30-06 would have been a better choice. Even a .223/5.56 would have done the job done with tungsten-cored bullets.

        Anyone who is knowledgeable and intent upon “taking out” a substation would not use an AK-47 unless he was shooting at insulators or personnel. That the command/control lines were destroyed in a vault tells me that this was an “inside job” or a “false flag” event. That it was so ineptly done (AK-47? REALLY? And you “forgot” to police up your brass?) leads me to believe that the feds are behind this. Only a gun dummy like Dianne Feinstein, ATF, or Barry, all of whom think that an AK-47 is peculiarly powerful, would have so thoroughly screwed the pooch on something this elementary.

        I’m thinking that this is just another “scare of the week” scenario, paid for by you and me.

        • morris adams

          they shoulda used a hollywood shotgun. infinite range infinite destruction and it woulda blowed the transformer back 12 feet! yeah, no sniping going on with an AK. no range.

      • greenghost

        The phone lines were cut so nobody was able to call 911 until it was over. They could have taken their sweet time and stayed there for hours if they had wanted to while the employees at the substation were pinned down inside the building.

    • FightforFreedom

      al-cia-da :grin:

    • Room With a View

      I really only have one thing to say……BITCOIN, you never know when they will turn the power off, all that hard earned money and no access to it. What a pity!

      • Intelharvest

        Good point. Cash out now while it’s still high.

    • robobbob

      “So why isn’t the federal government doing more to protect us”
      R U Kidding?
      I’m more worried about who’s going to protect us from them.

    • Болеслава

      The real terrorism is society itself. One that has lost faith in itself and respect for others. In such a society anything can and does happen. But one person can change all that because we are all united. “Be the change you want to see in others.” Clean your soul. Invite Christ to come and dwell in you.

    • Jimstonefreelance

      NOT MENTIONED IN THIS REPORT BY ALEX JONES:

      911 phone services were not working during the shooting, I WONDER WHY. How did Alex miss that? This happened a year ago.

      This is nothing but a completely mis represented sequence of events. The big question in the original coverage was from the pólice – their 911 call center went dead during this event, for the first time ever in history, and started working again as soon as the shooter left. This means that whoever provided the phone service knew the shooter and refused to connect all 911 calls until the shooter was safely away from the scene.

      FYI, the Jews own ALL phone systems in the entire country now. The shooter was a Jew.

      • Freeamerican

        Now people are waking up to the jew here come the jew fake truthers try build cred for half truth comments later or put people to their psy ops sites with half truth crap. jimstone is a jew and fake truther, just because someone yells ‘jew’ after some of us posted comments to educate people doesn’t mean everyone who says ‘jew’ is not a psyops. jimstonefrelance is psy ops. There will be a lot more psy ops showing up to sideline people. We have to educate people in daily life not just be online. Get basics on jew bolshevik holmodor where the jew took over russia, genocide millions of whites, the holohoax, search ihr.org leuchter for report proving no holocaust gas chambers, keep lists from thezog.wordpress.com 99% of truther sites are fakes including jew truther sites. another without psy ops is subvertednation.net here’s short summary of jew history murder, keep on page disk not just on computer http://servv89pn0aj.sn.sourcedns.com/~gbpprorg/judicial-inc/94mass_murders.htm Just Just use a few basic sites links, educate people, no time for psy ops. The jews control everything not just ‘phone lines’. banks, media, schools, global companies, tons of fake truthers/sites. The comments trying to point at ‘muslims’ are trolls, the muslim theme is from 911, jews did 911, http://jewishcrimenetworkdid911.blogspot.com/ jew world order. JWO. The jews will try false flagging the grid to force their scum ‘smart grid’ spying on people. Refuse smart meters, if you’ve got one get it removed takebackyourpower.net Quit buying things, quit voting.

    • Rufus Juice

      the reality is these were probably eco-terrorists – the birkenstock wearing anti nuclear crowd – just like most obama supporters they use “the ends justify the means” to rationalize even the most ugly and evil action in support of their theoretical “greater goods”

      • Freeamerican

        birkenstocks. troll. try false flag.

      • Intelharvest

        That’s very possible Rufus, but they don’t typically use firearms. Not to say that they won’t, but they use HME (home made explosives) preferably made from common items to reduce the trace to them. Not to mention the extreme left terrorist factions aren’t too well versed in firearm usage and precision fire (with the exception of Bill Ayer’s and the Weather Underground). So unless they’ve modernized, this can be reduced to the Open Source Jihad (random acts of terrorism designed to disrupt, disorganize and drain finances), or a government manufactured terror event with the intent to blame gun owners, Conservatives, Tea Party, Libertarians, homeschoolers, etc.

        • Freeamerican

          trying to back up rufus psy ops crap. ‘intel harvest’ obvious troll. so is your ‘jihad’ crap trying to keep the muslim theme going to cover up for the jew. troll.

        • Freeamerican

          intelharvest trying to keep rufus psy ops crap going. People can search uss liberty isreal false flag and the link for jews 911 further up and see who’s the false flag ‘terrorists’. Just like the boston hoax for martial law the two young men were set up to take the fall when your jew tribe and israelis are behind the false flag crap. You’re also want the fear psy ops going so conservatives are just fearful and don’t do anything like protest and do what has to be done themselves. by naming all the groups you also push the ‘libertarian’ meme so dopes keep following the jew fake ‘libertarian’ groups and masons like ron paul who’s a fake. trolls are scum. People shouldn’t be concerned about being blamed if anything happens to the grid it will be false flag by your jew tribe that control america including the grid.
          Quit buying things, quit looking for leaders, protest, quit voting.

    • whiskey1

      it`s later then you think.

    • greenghost

      Giving up your freedom for security didn’t make you any safer it only made you a sitting duck with a false sense of security.

    • Pat

      Exactly, Armed Resistance ! Reverse fear porn. “Who” are the suspects in this operation? Which country or group has that many excellent snipers? We do !! Of course! It’s our own black ops or maybe Blackwater that most likely did this!

      • Freeamerican

        blackwater/monsanto, prince and gates are jew.

    • Call It Like It Is...

      I could have shot up 17 Transformers in a hell of a lot less time than 19 minutes… I seriously doubt that they were “Terrorists” as this article suggests… They were more likely a couple of drunk guys that were pissed at the Electrical Company for charging them too much on their monthly Bills…

    • amy2x

      IMHO was a slick government false flag event to get California to bend to their Nazi plans.

    • TR st

      We are a nation of “soft targets” While our government wastes money protecting things like airplanes, presidents, and corrupted politicians.

    • abnegative

      IT WOULD NOT SUPRISE ME IF THE GOVERNMENT THEMSELVES DID IT , THEY HAVE MOTIVE AND CAPABILITY.

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