Caroline Orr BuenoDec 9, 2022

So in the past 12 weeks, there have been…
-multiple attacks via firearms on power substations in NC and SC (just this week).
-6 attacks via firearms, hand tools, arson, & metal chains at power substations in WA and OR.
-6 attacks via firearms on substations in FL in a single 12-day stretch in September.

This style of attack on power substations has been laid out in detail in multiple accelerationist documents, including an “accelerationist handbook” that circulated on Telegram this summer.

Show threadCaroline Orr BuenoDec 9, 2022
In July, DHS warned about an “accelerationist handbook” circulating on extremist Telegram channels that explicitly called for potential attackers to bypass mass shootings in favor of causing chaotic blackouts by attacking the power grid, which the handbook referred to as a “sitting duck”. Neo-Nazi accelerationists want to use this to start a race war; they claim that with an extended blackout "all hell will break lose [sic]" and white supremacists would be poised to take control.
Show threadCaroline Orr BuenoDec 9, 2022
In February, several white supremacist accelerationists pleaded guilty to conspiring to attack regional power substations in an effort to cause widespread power outages and civil unrest, which they hoped to exploit to start a race war.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-men-plead-guilty-conspiring-provide-material-support-plot-attack-power-grids-united
Three Men Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States

Three men pleaded guilty today to crimes related to a scheme to attack power grids in the United States in furtherance of white supremacist ideology.

Show threadCaroline Orr BuenoDec 9, 2022
It’s not clear yet who is behind all of these attacks, but an internal federal memo said the aim of the attacks on power substations in WA & OR is “violent anti-government criminal activity.”
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/memo-oregon-washington-substations-intentionally-attacked/
In NC, investigators are looking into “online conspiracy theories” as a possible motive. They described the unknown attacker(s) as someone who “knew what they were doing.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna60834
Memo: Oregon, Washington substations intentionally attacked

“Power companies in Oregon and Washington have reported physical attacks on substations using handtools, arson, firearms and metal chains possibly in response to an online call for attacks on…

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@rvawonk Intriguing. I had never heard of this movement before. There seems to have been a whole wave of negativity sweeping the world starting in 2001 with Bin Laden. If anything, the power station attacks should begin to make people more self-sufficient.
Dec 10, 2022 at 4:03pmWeb
Show threadNerdiCorgiDec 12, 2022
@britishtechguru @rvawonk Bin Laden was the result of nearly 20 years of previous negative and meddling in the middle east. Bin Laden's group of rebels had been both armed and empowered by the US Government to destabilize the region. Not trying to justify any of the horrors that man did, I'm just saying this song goes back a lot further than just 2001 and isn't likely to end until there's no one left to sing.
Show threadBritish Tech GuruDec 12, 2022
@NerdiCorgi @rvawonk agreed. Arming the Taliban was something that was done when the Soviets were in Afghanistan. It was a way of fighting the Soviets. It was not expected that the Soviets would just pull out and then unemployed terrorists would turn their acts on the United States. Foreign policy does not think that far ahead.
Show threadNerdiCorgiDec 12, 2022
@britishtechguru @rvawonk Agreed. If it did, we wouldn't have bowed to Israel in 2014 about the Iran deal and could have used the modernization of their power grid as our in-road for improving their view of The West and very likely have avoided the nightmare it's in now.
Show threadBritish Tech GuruDec 12, 2022
@NerdiCorgi @rvawonk If the West instead of exploiting the poorer nations, traded evenly then the prosperity of the poorer nations would tend to make people thinking about terrorism think more about how lucrative their jobs were.
Show threadNerdiCorgiDec 12, 2022
@britishtechguru @rvawonk Agreed. And all of that goes a long way towards destigmatizing the "Western Influence" so many human rights issues are hiding behind. Extremely conservative leadership in places like Iran keep killing women while claiming that "real" women don't want education, freedom, or personal choice. "It's all Western Propaganda meant to destabilize us!"
Show threadBritish Tech GuruDec 13, 2022
@NerdiCorgi @rvawonk About the only thing the west buys at a fair market price from Afhanistan is opium which is then transformed into heroin. Oil comes from the rest of the middle east but the regimes maintain tight control over the income so it doesn't benefit the whole nation. If there were competing products then the wealth would be more equal and would reduce the opportunities for extremist recruitment.
Show threadNerdiCorgiDec 13, 2022

@britishtechguru @rvawonk So here's the mystery to solve and therein lies a lot of answers to even bigger questions:

It's safe to say the military industrial complex isn't *consuming* a nation's GDP worth of heroine... So where is being weaponized?