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As Gas Prices Reshape Midterms, U.S. Extremists Plot to Attack Energy Sites
NewsWeek ^ | 10/24/22 | TOM O'CONNOR AND NAVEED JAMALI

Posted on 10/27/2022 5:11:52 AM PDT by EBH

As rising fuel costs threaten the political hopes of Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections, an ominous chorus of online chatter among domestic extremists in the dark corners of the Internet advocating attacks on critical infrastructure across the nation may pose an even greater threat to U.S. consumers.

Newsweek has obtained two documents that offer an insight into the scope of the threat, including reports of several actual attacks that have happened in past few months.

The first is a corporate intelligence security memo detailing at least 15 instances over the course of just over a year showing suspected extremists openly threatening and calling for acts of sabotage against energy sites, especially electricity substations, but also including other targets such as cell towers and pipelines.

The material included documents that could serve to help groups and individuals in carrying out such attacks, including maps, manuals and instructions on the vulnerabilities of electricity infrastructure and readily accessible methods to disrupt their operation. Those behind the posts, which were shared across various online platforms and chat rooms, expressed ties to a number of anti-government ideologies, mostly far-right and neo-Nazi beliefs, but also including eco-militancy and at least one user who shared messaging supportive of the Islamic State militant group(ISIS).

This report went beyond simply exposing the desires of those seeking to do harm to also include recent notable incidents of groups or individuals acting out on such fantasies. This included an act of vandalism causing "fairly significant" damage at a transformer servicing the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota and a shooting that caused a chemical spill at a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) site in California, both of which occurred this past July. In March, thousands of customers in southern Oklahoma were reportedly left without power after bullets riddled a transformer site,

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: dve; ecoterrorists; energy; foreignagents; terrorism; wariii
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To: Navy Patriot

They most likely would do this before the elections. They do not want to lose the House in particular.


21 posted on 10/27/2022 5:44:57 AM PDT by EBH ( 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: EBH

Under the Biden DOJ, these aren’t extremist, they’re democrats.


22 posted on 10/27/2022 5:47:32 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: 2banana

Just shoot them on sight. No arrests, no putting them through the system. They are terrorists.


23 posted on 10/27/2022 5:52:10 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (At this point I would rather have the illegals here than the liberals.)
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To: EBH

Newsweek has obtained two documents that offer an insight into the scope of the threat...

Supplied by the corrupt FBI, which concocted the threats.


24 posted on 10/27/2022 5:52:51 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: Fido969

Sounds like drunks shooting up remote sites, to me.


25 posted on 10/27/2022 6:02:07 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: EBH
They most likely would do this before the elections.

Logical point.

The Newsweak disinformation article is to direct the Narrative to falsely blame the "Far Right Extremists", at least until after the election.

26 posted on 10/27/2022 6:10:11 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Fido969

Surely the FBI will perform raids on these “extremists.”


27 posted on 10/27/2022 6:10:45 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: EBH

Where is the evidence of the political motives? How do they link this to “Right Wing Extremists”?

I expect this is their fantasy and assumptions based on their fear mongering, gas lighting, division of the nation campaign. Everything bad is because of the boogey man.


28 posted on 10/27/2022 6:17:43 AM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: EBH

All terrorists are whyte and live in the Rocky Mountains.


29 posted on 10/27/2022 6:40:18 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: realcleanguy

It would not surprise if an agency or two, every now and then, did some real world s-—t right here in CONUS. Training and simulated cities, and computer simulations can only teach so much. Nothing perfects a technique quite like actually doing it a time or two.


30 posted on 10/27/2022 6:42:28 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Navy Patriot; EBH

May I offer another scenario?

Not before the election, but on the night of. Allow me to explain...

The see the results coming in. it doesn’t look good. Evil Solution: hit transmission line switching stations in swing states, and a few other places to boot. Result: we don’t hear final results.

Upon power restoration (which could take months), we get their desired results.

Now, back to the other points made in this thread:

1. I have stated many times that it would be stupid for our enemies to NOT send operatives across a wide open southern border while the U.S. government has been waging and threating wars across the planet. There could be entire networks waiting to strike if/when the time comes.

2. Notice there hasn’t even been a federal statement about the food processing centers and refineries that have had mysterious ‘accidents’ over the past few months.

3. I hope the reports of less that a month supply of diesel fuel is available in the U.S. Talk about cancelling Christmas! That alone could plunge cities in to chaos.

4. About those jabs: in case anyone hasn’t noticed, the rest of the planet is a) rejecting the latest from the biolabs here and b) starting to note the adverse affects among their own populations? Who do you think they are going to hold responsible for this.

5. And about that pipeline...

6. And about that shelling of a nuclear power plant...

7. About that growing BRICS alliance...

8. state-sponsored gender affirming care (a.k.a child genital mutilations) ? really?

I have feared for a long time that somewhere there are private conversations going on among other nations (some of whom we may consider allies) about the common ‘problem’ or ‘nemesis’ on this planet. When we stop looking at the world through red white and blue colored glasses, we may soon find out why the most powerful country in world history isn’t referenced in the Book of Revelation. Then again, there is that whore, but I digress.


31 posted on 10/27/2022 8:08:44 AM PDT by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: jimjohn

Worth careful consideration and investigation.


32 posted on 10/27/2022 8:30:37 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

They have been setting the narrative. From Biden’s red speech to now mega maga talk. They’re setting it all up. Now this gaslighting article today?


33 posted on 10/27/2022 8:44:18 AM PDT by EBH ( 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: EBH

A lot of dots in post # 31 too


34 posted on 10/27/2022 8:56:44 AM PDT by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: EBH
Gaslighting does apply here.

Don't believe your own eyes and the History of who has attacked US energy infrastructure in the past, you are crazy, instead, believe what we tell you to believe.

35 posted on 10/27/2022 8:58:20 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot; All

https://youtu.be/KfL9Nv0ZStg
MASSIVE WARNING TO THE USA. DON’T SEND NUKES TO UKRAINE. “PUTIN AND CHINA ARE AN AMERICAN THREAT”

Get ready to take cover if war is declared. Russia has claimed that the opposition is in the final stages of a world wide event. Nuclear material is being misplaced, mis-used, or abused. This is going to get out of hand very quickly.


Funny, we were just talking about bad actors doing ‘something,’ involving infrastructure. Brad can be a little extreme at times, but it is a good roundup of daily events.


36 posted on 10/27/2022 3:05:16 PM PDT by EBH ( 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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