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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Extremist communities see damaging power substations as a way to fuel unrest and ultimately overthrow the US.

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... People in a quiet neighborhood in Carthage, a town in Moore County, North Carolina, heard a series of six loud pops a few minutes before 8:00 p.m. on Dec. 3, 2022. A resident named Michael Campbell said he ducked at the sound. Another witness told police they thought they were hearing fireworks.

The noise turned out to be someone shooting a rifle at a power substation next door to Campbell's home. The substation, operated by the utility Duke Energy Corp., consists of equipment that converts electricity into different voltages as it's transported to the area and then steered into individual houses.

The shots hit the radiator of an electrical transformer, a sensitive piece of technology whose importance would likely be understood only by utility company employees. It began dumping a "vast amount" of oil, according to police reports. A subsequent investigation has pointed to a local right-wing group, one of a wave of attacks or planned attacks on power infrastructure.

By 8:10 the lights in Carthage went out. Minutes later, a security alarm went off at a Duke Energy substation 10 miles away, this one protected from view by large pine trees. When company personnel responded, they found that someone had shot its transformer radiator, too. Police found shell casings on the ground at the site and noticed someone had slashed the tires on nearby service trucks. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-27 12:07 AM | Reply

This is the America fmr Pres Trump seems to want.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-27 12:09 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

These people are Trump fascists. They have no religion other than that.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2024-08-27 08:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 9

Interesting... the grids in my area are owned by Israeli companies... not kidding

#4 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-08-27 10:46 AM | Reply

Isn't there some law that forbids owning a building where drugs are sold that could be applied to this website?

#5 | Posted by Tor at 2024-08-27 11:20 AM | Reply

Meh. I have solar + battery.
Bring it on, dumbfuqs.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-27 12:09 PM | Reply

Vanilla ISIS.

Same brain, different religion.

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-08-27 12:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Among other things.

#8 | Posted by fresno500 at 2024-08-27 02:18 PM | Reply

This is the America fmr Pres Trump seems to want.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-08-27 12:09 AM | Reply | Flag

It most certainly is the America that Gout Bannon wants.

He's all for a civil war and found a dupe in sh*tler to foment the movement or sh*tler is in on it.

These ---- need jail time. Long jail time.

#9 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-08-27 03:30 PM | Reply

FBI will do anything, say anything to keep us divided.

#10 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-08-27 07:20 PM | Reply

Remember this episode of Turner Diaries Theatre the next time the mewling Whatabout Brigade beats their quite dead horse with old Antifa and BLM bogeymen yarns.

#11 | Posted by dutch46 at 2024-08-27 07:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

FBI will do anything, say anything to keep us divided.

#10 | Posted by visitor_

And you will blame anyone, say anything to dismiss the crimes committed by your cult.

#12 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-08-27 07:47 PM | Reply

These groups are America's Taliban...
They need constant surveillance.

It is one thing to argue for free speech in
a democracy, and quite another to take up
arms against her or seek to do her harm.

You don't like the country, get out...
try your luck in some 3rd world sweaty paradise.

#13 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-08-28 09:04 AM | Reply

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