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(PatriotHQ) We have little faith the American people's best interests are being taken into account. Stabilize the electrical grid or suffer the consequences

Stabilize the electrical grid or pay!

On Sunday night, the power went out for almost 50,000 Duke Power customers in Moore County, North Carolina. This has been called domestic terrorism. As schools close and crime goes up, there is a curfew from 9pm to 5am. Most customers still don't have heat, cold food, or water.

Jeff Brooks, a spokesman for Duke Energy, said, "We're looking at a pretty complicated repair will require some pretty big equipment, so we do want the town's residents to be aware  this will take several days to fix for most customers, and it could take as long as Thursday."

Direct gunfire was aimed at two power plants.

Moore County, North Carolina, Sheriff Ronnie Fields said the attackers knew "exactly what they were doing." "It was a gate, and they went through it and shot the substation as well... "It wasn't by accident."

Even though there was a nearby gay pride march that afternoon, the liberal media quickly blamed "right-wing militants" for the attack. However, the larger implications of the attack have been mostly ignored. Our power grid is completely vulnerable to anyone with a gun and the knowledge of where to shoot.

Grid News says there are more than 55,000 of these power plants across the country. "There were 70 reports of emergency electric incidents and disturbances caused by suspected physical attacks, sabotage, or vandalism from January to August 2022," Grid's analysis of the most recent data from the Department of Energy found. This is a 75 % increase from the 40 reports of this kind in 2015.

Former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Jon Wellinghoff said these gun attacks are "a issue  should take a relatively small amount of funds and time to fix, and one  can be taken care of with a few measures  would block these pieces of infrastructure, mostly transformers, from view and from harm from projectiles... Wellinghoff told Grid  even something as simple as sandbags would work. "Protecting these things isn't rocket science, and 's what we're talking about. And protecting these things doesn't mean going broke!

Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are able to launch cyberattacks could cause problems with critical infrastructure.

"For 20 minutes, gunmen at the Metcalf Power substation shot at high voltage transformers in a planned way. Bullets hitting the chain link fence were caught on camera.... About a minute before a police car arrived, the gunmen vanished without a trace. The substation was out of service for weeks, but PG&E was able to reroute the power in time to avert a disaster.” It "could have brought down Silicon Valley as a whole." They can't catch the people who did it, but Wellinghoff said, "It was someone who did have competent people who could actually plan this kind of very sophisticated attack... It was a big surprise to us you need to shut down a small number of substations in the whole United States to knock out the whole grid... Not more than 20."

But being vulnerable to gunfire isn't the most important thing to worry about. In June 2021, DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm told CNN enemies of the U.S. have the power to shut down the power grid and  "very bad actors are trying to do it right."

In a report, the Senate Republican Policy Committee said, "The U.S. electric grid is vulnerable to cyberattacks could cause catastrophic, widespread, long-lasting blackouts and other loss of electrical services... Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China are able to launch cyberattacks  could damage critical infrastructure at the moment.

The report said, "In 2015, Lloyd's, an Assurance company, came up with a plan for an attack on part of the Eastern Interconnection, which gives power to about half of the U.S. Under the scenario, an attack on power generators would cause a blackout in 15 states and the District of Columbia, leaving 93 millin people without power.

If we were able to shut down our power grid for a long time, we would be back in the "Dark Ages."

"Cyberattacks have happened before and caused blackouts. In 2015, a cyberattack on a utility substation in Ukraine left 225,000 people without power for a few hours. It was the first time the public knew for sure  a cyberattack had caused a power outage. The director of national intelligence later said “a state actor with a lot of technological resources" was behind the attack. The Council on Foreign Relations wrote in a memo the facts and forensic evidence point to Russian involvement. In 2016, Kiev's power generators were attacked, which led to blackouts and put a lot of stress on the system. Russia has a history of using Ukraine as a sort of test bed, running small-scale cyber operations it may later use on a larger scale against the U.S. or other enemies.

In 2017, Russian hackers went after a Saudi Arabian petrochemical company and halted the safety systems were meant to keep an explosion from happening. In 2018, the DHS and the FBI sent out an alert in which they publicly accused "Russian government cyber actors" for the first time of targeting and breaking into a number of critical infrastructure facilities and sectors in the U.S. The alert said Russian hackers had gotten remote control to "energy sector networks," which they used to do network reconnaissance, move through the systems, and receive information about ICS.

The United States would go back to the "Dark Ages" if our power grid was shut down for a long time. Our society as we know it would end. People would die from violence and starvation by the tens of millins. Foreign forces would be able to attack the survivors at any time.

This issue has been talked about a lot for decades, but our leaders in Washington, DC, haven't done anything about it, even though it would be less than $ 10 billin to "stabilize the grid."

When the government spends billions on dozens of useless projects, it makes you wonder, "Why isn't something being done?     

......... is it because those in power find it easier to manage cold frightened sheep by providing warmth and safety, and of course in exchange for their souls!