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10 Days if Darkness Power Outages, Cyber Attack and Internet shutdown

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GLOBALISTS PLANNING TO LAUNCH FALSE FLAG CYBER ATTACK ON POWER GRID

Emergency Alert: Globalists Planning to Launch False Flag Cyber Attack on Power Grid!!

Just as Alex Jones predicted, the mainstream media is now claiming that right wing extremists are going to take down the power grid. Now when these false flags unfold, the blame will be placed on people and organizations such as Infowar

The Senate Was Just Issued Satellite Phones and Not Good At All May 2023

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) posted a video about stopping the spread of misinformation.

 

Strangely, the FDA used “the internet is going down later this week” as an example.

“Are you prepared? The internet is going down later this week. It’s going to be crazy. Find out more below,” the video said.

Amid the alarming revelation of a Chinese cyber-attack on critical US infrastructure, the US Senate has been equipped with satellite phones for emergency communication in potential disruptive events. Concurrently, the FDA issues a cryptic warning about internet shutdown later this week. 

While we may scoff at the FDA’s caution, the timing is intriguing. Over 50 senators now possess these devices, part of a fresh wave of security measures from the Senate Sergeant at Arms. These phones act as a safety net in case of an emergency that disrupts communication within America. Are we on the cusp of a massive disruption we should be gearing up for?

America’s Vulnerable Energy Grid

Rising demand stands to increase the strain on the already taxed U.S. power grid. Without intervention, the system could become even more susceptible to terrorist attacks and acts of nature.

Issued Satellite Phones and Not Good At All May 2023 The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) posted a video about stopping the spread of misinformation. Strangely, the FDA used “the internet is going down later this week” as an example. “Are you prepared? The internet is going down later this week. It’s going to be crazy. Find out more below,” the video said. Amid the alarming revelation of a Chinese cyber-attack on critical US infrastructure, the US Senate has been equipped with satellite phones for emergency communication in potential disruptive events. Concurrently, the FDA issues a cryptic warning about internet shutdown later this week. While we may scoff at the FDA’s caution, the timing is intriguing. Over 50 senators now possess these devices, part of a fresh wave of security measures from the Senate Sergeant at Arms. These phones act as a safety net in case of an emergency that disrupts communication within America. Are we on the cusp of a massive disruption we should be gearing up for?

Japan, South Korea issue missile alerts as North Korea launches rocket

 

SEOUL, May 31 (UPI) – Phone alerts and emergency sirens warning citizens to prepare for evacuation blared in Seoul early Wednesday morning as North Korea fired what it said was a “space launch vehicle” for a satellite.

An emergency message with the heading “Wartime alert” was sent to mobile phones in Seoul at 6:41 a.m., telling citizens to “please prepare to evacuate and allow children and the elderly to evacuate first.” Air raid sirens and loudspeakers throughout the city also issued alerts.

About 20 minutes later, another message

was sent out, saying the evacuation alert was issued

Taiwan Ambassador Says Ukraine’s Success Against Russia Will Help Deter China

Suspected Chinese spies posing as tourists discovered in Alaska

 

Drones Strike Moscow as War Between Ukraine and Russia Heats Up

On August 14, 2003, fifty million people in the Northeastern United States and Canada suddenly found themselves without electricity, some for more than twenty-four hours. In addition to eight lives, the largest blackout in U.S. history cost an estimated $6 billion to $10 billion. Contrary to initial fears, the outage was not the result of a terrorist attack or some other form of sabotage. Rather, untrimmed trees in Ohio set off a chain reaction that cast 9,300 square miles into darkness.

Sadly, this was no isolated incident. In July 2006, a nine-day power outage in Queens, New York affected one hundred thousand people. The apparent cause of that disruption was deterioration of the thirty- to sixty-year-old cables servicing the area. The same month, a violent thunderstorm in St. Louis, Missouri knocked out power leaving some seven hundred thousand people to brave a weeklong heat wave without electricity.

Current stresses on the U.S. energy grid presents cause for concern. With an aging infrastructure and growing energy consumption, major outages may become an increasing phenomenon. The specter of terrorism also looms large: Experts say jihadis in Iraq have proven adept at disrupting the electrical grid in that country and could easily apply that same skill set in the United States.

Pushed to the Limit

The U.S. electrical grid—the system that carries electricity from producers to consumers—is in dire straits. Electricity generation and consumption have steadily risen, placing an increased burden on a transmission system that was not designed to carry such a large load. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, paltry investment in the aging infrastructure caused transmission capacity to drop 19 percent annually for the decade between 1992 and 2002. Since then, utility companies have begun sinking more money into transmission capacity, currently spending $3 billion to $4 billion a year. As a result of recent deregulation, some utilities own transmission lines and others do not, but the law requires transmission capacity to be shared, leaving companies unsure about major investment in transmission assets.

Unfortunately, these new investments will not alleviate the stress on the transmission grid: While transmission capacity is projected to increase 7 percent in the next decade, demand will rise some 19 percent. As a result, consumers will incur higher costs and blackouts could become more frequent

Prospects of Terrorism

Attacks on infrastructure are an almost daily fact of life in Iraq. Experts caution the war in that country will produce a whole generation of terrorists who have honed their skills sabotaging infrastructure. In his recent book, The Edge of Disaster, CFR security expert Stephen E. Flynn cautions, “The terrorist skills acquired are being catalogued and shared in Internet chat rooms.” But when it comes to Iraq’s electrical grid, RAND economist Keith W. Crane says terrorists are not the main cause of disruptions: “Most of the destruction of the control equipment was looting,” he says.

Either way, Clark W. Gellings, vice president of the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry research organization, thinks the U.S. grid is an unlikely target. “It’s not terribly sensational,” he explains, “The system could overcome an attack in hours, or at worst, days.” That said, attacks on electricity infrastructure could become common in future warfare: The U.S. military has designed and entire class of weapons designed to disable power grids.

Managing Risk

Overgrown trees alone did not precipitate the massive 2003 blackout. The greater cause was a grid so overloaded it had become unstable. The trees merely provided the catalyst for a chain reaction that, had the system been operating stably, never would have been possible. The North American Electrical Reliability Corporation (NERC) is responsible for ensuring such conditions are not repeated. NERC’s president and CEO, Richard P. Sergel, explains that three of his agency’s standards were not being met when the lights went out across the Northeast that summer: Trees went untrimmed, operators lacked the proper training, and monitoring systems showing the grid’s condition in real-time were not in place.

 

Since its inception in 1968, NERC’s regulations for operating power grids have been voluntary. But in 2005, Congress asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to designate an organization to establish and enforce rules of operation for the nation’s electrical grid; it settled on NERC, which assumes the responsibility on June 4, 2007.

When this happens, NERC guidelines for safe operation of the electrical grid, which are currently voluntary, will become mandatory. Under NERC’s oversight, Sergel says, consumers can rest assured the conditions that made the 2003 blackout possible will not be replicated. “No matter how stressed the system is,” he says, “We still insist it operate stably.” At times this could mean less reliable service; brief, managed outages could occur in order to avoid overburdening the system and risking massive failure. Such was the case in Texas in April 2006, when hundred-degree temperatures pushed energy demands beyond the capability of the transmission infrastructure. Though not everyone had power all the time, the relatively brief service interruptions helped allay a massive system failure.

Inherently Vulnerable

With some 160,000 miles of high voltage lines and 250,000 substations, the U.S. power grid remains open to a host of threats. “It’s extremely difficult to harden,” says Gellings.



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    • pocomotion

      Long summer coming. Stay cool and keep your head on right. Pray, prep and plant…

    • tonyw

      10 days of darkness 10 days of darkness 10 days of darkness 10 days of darkness 10 days of darkness 10 days of darkness .. I don’t think we have seen the sun for six months.. it’s been gonna happen every day

      • feral pa paw

        I’m afraid the only darkness we will find is in the black souls of the Morons who spew this bull shit? Fear Porn and Hopium is all they have to use to control the minds of the weak and apathetic. Which there is no shortage of here on BIN.

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