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Giza Death Star – by Joseph P. Farrell
Do you remember all those strange acts of vandalism over the past couple of years? First, there was the bizarre, and very professional, assault on an electrical power substation at the very southern end of Silicon Valley in California, an assault that left part of the region without electrical power for a few hours. The papers and media tended to report this as an act of vandalism. The trouble was, you’ll recall, that the “vandals” knew exactly what to to, and what to target, inside the sub-station, and were in, out, and gone before local law enforcement even had a chance to respond. In short, the team that hit the sub-station were not vandals at all; they were professionals.
Then we had the case of the primary internet cable between Flagstaff and Phoenix, Arizona that was cut last year. Again, the act was attributed to vandals, but even if so, these were vandals that had enough professional acumen to know where to cut the cable. Again, this wa an “in and out” job.
Now there’s this, and you may not have heard this on the mainstream/lamestream media(and this story was shared by many of you!):
Vandals sever another Internet backbone cable in California
Again, we’re being told this is an act of vandalism, and again, in the San Francisco Bay-Silicon Valley area. This time, note the area:
“The latest attack occurred at around 4.30 am Pacific Time near the town of Livermore, about 50 miles east of San Francisco. Someone climbed down a manhole cover there and cut through several fiber optic cables, according to severalreports. The FBI is investigating.
“The cables are operated by backbone providers such as Level 3 Communications, which sell capacity to other cable and Internet providers. The cables carry huge amounts of data, so cutting them can slow services over a wide area.”(Emphasis added)
Now, I don’t know about you, but reading about internet cable cutting and “Livermore” in the same context raises my eyebrows a bit. Not much, but definitely a bit.
There’s another version of this story here:
Calif. attacks send warning that Internet lines are ‘basically unsecured’
This second article makes it clear the FBI is not thinking in terms of vandalism:
:Experts and the FBI say whoever cut the lines needed tools and expertise, and that it’s unlikely the repeated acts are simple vandalism. The attacks generally happened in underground vaults where the cables were protected by sheathing called conduit.
Those underground vaults are rarely monitored, and often sit in remote areas. In many parts of the West, the cables are buried a few feet underground but their routes are marked by waist-high orange poles, and above-ground junction boxes are housed in easily accessible storage sheds. While the Internet was designed to be redundant, there aren’t that many backbone cables. Cutting a few could cause widespread disruption.”
However, at the end of the first article there’s this:
“The FBI has now reported 11 incidents in the Bay Area over the past year in which people intentionally cut through fiber optic cables. It’s not clear if the attacks are related. Five of the incidents were in Fremont, with others in Berkeley, San Jose and Walnut Creek. The FBI wants people to report any suspicious activity around the time the cables were cut. A list of the previous 10 incidents is here”
And, just for good measure, here’s the actual FBI website and statement:
“The FBI, in a close-working relationship with local law enforcement agencies in the Bay Area, is requesting assistance to identify the individuals responsible for vandalizing fiber optic cables in Fremont, Walnut Creek, Alamo, Berkeley, and San Jose, California. Within the past year, cables were intentionally severed at the following locations:
- July 6, 2014, 9:44 p.m. near 7th St. and Grayson St. in Berkeley
- July 6, 2014, 11:39 p.m. near Niles Canyon Blvd. and Mission Blvd. in Fremont
- July 7, 2014, 12:24 a.m. near Jones Road and Iron Horse Trail in Walnut Creek
- July 7, 2014, 12:51 a.m. near Niles Canyon Blvd. and Alameda Creek in Fremont
- July 7, 2014, 2:13 a.m. near Stockton Ave. and University Ave. in San Jose
- February 24, 2015, 11:30 p.m. near Niles Canyon Blvd. and Mission Blvd. in Fremont
- February 24, 2015 11:30 p.m. near Niles Canyon Blvd. and Alameda Creek in Fremont
- June 8, 2015, 11:00 p.m. near Danville Blvd. and Rudgear Road in Alamo
- June 8, 2015, 11:40 p.m. near Overacker Ave and Mowry Ave in Fremont
- June 9, 2015, 1:38 p.m. near Jones Road and Parkside Dr. in Walnut Creek
Interestingly there do appear to be patterns here: first, as the article points out, the attacks are concentrated in Fremont, and secondly, most of the attacks appear to be conducted in the span of a month from June 6 to July 7, with only two attacks not conducted in that time frame. And even then, the two February attacks occured on the same day and at the same time, in two locations, in the same city: Fremont.
Now, I don’t know about you, but everything here screams “pattern” and “coordination” to me(and it probably does to the FBI and local California law enforcement). This is, in my view, something more than mere vandalism, particularly when one factors into the context the sub-station attack, which may or may not be related (but my bet is, that it is related).
The real question here is “what is the motivation? Who benefits?” Here the high octane speculation is anybody’s guess, and your high octane is as good as mine; this whole series of incidents falls into the “you tell us” category. Are these some sort of psyop or false flag operation, designed to test tactics for a much more generalized series of such incidents, to call for more “security” and internet regulation? Perhaps.
But the bay area with its Silicon Valley is an area of secrets and technologies, and hence, a beehive of foreign espionage activity. The Russians have long had a heavy intelligence presence in the area, and one can only assume that China and just about every other major power does as well. Could these incidents be their operations? Well, again, perhaps, but one would think they would be quite hesitant to engage in such activities and run the danger of exposure and compromising their more valuable and direct espionage activities. Either way one slices it, something is going on; there are patterns, and if a hack from South Dakota can spot them then it stands to reason that the FBI has as well, and probably knows more than it can, at present, say.
This is not only one to watch, but, it’s in that category of “you tell us.” Perhaps in your own high octane speculations, some valuable insight may occur that may help to flush up and capture the culprits.
See you on the flip side.
“Experts and the FBI say whoever cut the lines needed tools and expertise, and that it’s unlikely the repeated acts are simple vandalism.”
They would know.
Intimately.
It’s taking a huge amount of time to bring up articles. No problems with any other sites.
Same here #1. FTTWR has been slow too for me in the San Fagcisco Gay Area for a few days.
Just started yesterday for me. Taking 3 – 4 mins. to bring up articles, and as long to post comments & confirm.
If we are being attacked, it’s pretty stupid to do it on a weekend, when hardly any articles are posted, and not nearly as many people are commenting.
Yup, same shit here Brother. Up / down times are stupid slow. Could be the hosting server, or the ISP connecting said server to the ” backbone “.
I’m not having that problem. FTTWR works fine in Wisconsin.
Thanks Millard, must be a ” west coast ” issue. #1 is in Oregon if I’m not mistaken, and I’m in Crapifornia, so I guess, there you have it.
Just got off the phone with Millard. He said he spoke too soon because he wasn’t able to post a subsequent comment after that one.
Something’s up.
Same slow response here in western Pa. As for the cable cutting, I smell a government rat.
I’m also having problems with articles being slow to load, sometimes to timing out. Earlier today I could not get the FTT site to load at all.
Sounds like it’s across the board, Enbe.
Same here. Started yesterday morning. This Is the first time today I could get the page to load.
same for me only not all the time but intervals like tonight for about ten minutes. Lake Mary, FL Brighthouse server. One night late last week it was not available at all.
I worked at Asyst Technologies, Inc ( Silicon Wafer Robotics ) in Fremont, CA as an IT Tech Support professional in 1999-2000. Wore bunny suits in clean rooms, etc. Silicon Valley is a fiber optic hub area. The question I have is: How do common low I.Q. ” vandals ” get the fiber optic cable mapping ?
Now, the flippin’ NSA knows where all those buried fiber optic cables are, so, psy-op ? or training CIA / UN operatives how to and where to ? Practice runs on a forthcoming ” false flag ” ? To me, something stinks. I can see a PG&E backhoe digging too deep, or a city corp. crew screwing up, but this stuff is too precise to be ” random ” in my view . . .
This sounds like Jade Helm 15 already begun and this sabotage is being done by the special forces participating in it.
Gotta start somewhere, right?
Could be Jade Helm, except the motto: ” Mastering the Human Domain “, which implies data collection. Thus, if the net goes stupid, their collection is inhibited. Which leaves me to ponder, but you may well be correct. Jade 2 is an AI ( self-aware ) command & control program, like Skynet in the Terminator movie series. Without disclosure, we’re left to guess . . .
By the way, the July 15, 2015 start date for Jade Helm 15 was moved up to June 15, 2015, so it’s already flying, just hasn’t officially gone ” fully live ” yet, but I suspect it will by September / October . . .
” if the net goes stupid, their collection is inhibited”
There is the possibility they’re looking at national routing capabilities and backups.
Good observation Enbe !
It,s stupid slow in the Chicago area.
Suburban Philly area is slow as well. Had to restart several times throughout the day. No problems with other sites, just FTTWR. They’re at it again. On and off with ability to load page. Took a chance to edit spelling error. Hope it goes through.
Aye Brother, sites like Blacklisted News / The Daily Sheeple pop right up, but FTTWR is dog-ass slow. Could be a specific semi-DOS ( Denial Of Service ) exercise . . .
6:26 PDT, my FTTWR speed has now picked back up, both up and down ??? San Freakcisco area as most of you know where I reside. AT&T DSL.
Same here – all of a sudden. Back to normal speed.
9:32 EST Just eased up around Philly too. Yes, I tested other sites you mentioned as well as infowhores and no issues there before.
And what exactly would “vandals” gain from cutting these internet cables?
My guess, purely a guess, is that vandals did not cut the cables, but that certain cables were disabled to specifically look at predetermined routes, and then were enabled again.
This “backbone” cable cutting supposedly occurred July 1, yet I did not experience problems loading this site until today, July 5, while others only began experiencing problems yesterday, July 4.
Are we to believe there was a delay of 3 to 4 days to disruption of internet traffic? Then to have the problem suddenly resolved the evening of July 5? Uh huh, tell me another story.
VANDALS & HACKERS & TERRORISTS = the government
Wherever you see VANDALS or HACKERS or TERRORISTS, replace “the government” with it.
THE GOVERNMENT might attack on the 4th of July.
THE GOVERNMENT has been hacking internet cables.
THE GOVERNMENT hacked your date from TARGET & BANK OF AMERICA.
Possibly the time is now, they’re done gathering information on people and preparing for the next phase of the battle plan. Cutting our communication from one another, we won’t know what’s really happening with Jade Helm. If this is about starting slow and gradually increasing the disruptions- while blaming….anyone else but them, we’d eventually be chasing our tails trying to find out what’s going on out there.
Just throwing another possibility out there, if they wanted to stop internet communications, could there be an advantage to starting out like this? Maybe to gradually taper themselves off of the information they gain?
I havent had any issues other than the network going down 2 Saturdays in a row.
The power substation in South San Jose is almost directly across the freeway from the SC county sheriff training facility. The facility has a common entrance with the county run shooting range. The facility has full time people living on site. Im am quite familiar with area and there are only a few areas with line of site to the substation most of which are near the sheriff facility.
Hey all,
I don’t if it’s just on my end this morning, but there are usually pictures that accompany the articles. Today nothing. Even the pictures that were there last night are gone.
Same here Deb, no pics.
We were getting complaints that the site was running slow. Taking the pics off the front page was the only means at our disposal to speed up the website. This is the case unless we download each and every picture and re-upload them to the site. We do not have the time to do this.
If you want the pictures we will put them back up but the site is going to load slower. What is causing this I do not know, but we are working the problem as best we can.
I’m sorry, Henry, it was not my intent to complain. Thank you for all your efforts, we know they’re monumental.
Sorry Henry. I wasn’t complaining. I would rather have the site load than have pictures. I just thought I would throw it out there in case you weren’t aware. Thank you for all you do for us. <3
Don’t be sorry, Deb. We want to know about any abnormalities anyone sees occur on the site.
I wouldn’t put it past them taking our pictures down. Further I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened just in certain areas or just on certain computers.
Bottom line, I don’t think these communists like us.
You are appreciated, Henry & Laura, for all you do.
More than you’ll ever know.
Aww, c’mon now Henry. They love us!
To death… 😉
1 is an instance, 2 is a coincidence, 3 is a pattern and 4 is a conspiracy.