Odd story surfaces about an attack on a transformer station in CA
I've done dozens of pieces on why you can't trust the Lying Mainstream Media--not just because they routinely lie but also because of they keep you in the dark by choosing what NOT to publish.
To put it another way: If a terrorist killed a dozen people in, say, Washington D.C. but no media outlet reported the event, most Americans would deny it ever happened. Because it wasn't reported.
Consider the latest example: Last Wednesday the Wall Street Journal ran a story about an attack on an electric transformer installation near San Jose, Calif. In 19 minutes the attacker or attackers fired 100 rounds from a rifle at the thin-walled oil-cooling tubes on the outside of the huge transformers, disabling 17. Without cooling oil the transformers quickly overheated and shut down--which shut down power to a big chunk of Silicon Valley.
One small thing: the attack occurred last April.
But I'll bet you never heard about it, because the national media decided it wasn't important.
The WSJ story posed the question of whether the attack was the work of vandals or something more dangerous — a trial run by an individual or organization bent on damaging the nation's electric grid.
This last possibility was quickly re-labeled "domestic terrorism" by NPR and other liberal media outlets--both to reinforce the ludicrous belief that the only type of terror threat in the U.S. is from conservatives and military veterans, and to prevent the sheep from thinking there might be a threat from Muslim fanatics already in the U.S. Heaven forbid we should profile or something.
Now, I would bet the attack was done by a PG&E employee who'd been fired for drinking or drugs or similar. But the point is that the story hasn't suddenly gotten more important since last April. In fact not one thing has been discovered since the attack that would make it more or less likely to be a trial run. So if it's newsworthy now--and I think it is--it had exactly the same news value last April.
Yet the networks sat on the story. You might ask yourself why.
And then ask whether they'd tell you there was a known, proven threat by a foreign terrorist group in your city or county. Can't go stirring up panic among the sheep, eh?
To put it another way: If a terrorist killed a dozen people in, say, Washington D.C. but no media outlet reported the event, most Americans would deny it ever happened. Because it wasn't reported.
Consider the latest example: Last Wednesday the Wall Street Journal ran a story about an attack on an electric transformer installation near San Jose, Calif. In 19 minutes the attacker or attackers fired 100 rounds from a rifle at the thin-walled oil-cooling tubes on the outside of the huge transformers, disabling 17. Without cooling oil the transformers quickly overheated and shut down--which shut down power to a big chunk of Silicon Valley.
One small thing: the attack occurred last April.
But I'll bet you never heard about it, because the national media decided it wasn't important.
The WSJ story posed the question of whether the attack was the work of vandals or something more dangerous — a trial run by an individual or organization bent on damaging the nation's electric grid.
This last possibility was quickly re-labeled "domestic terrorism" by NPR and other liberal media outlets--both to reinforce the ludicrous belief that the only type of terror threat in the U.S. is from conservatives and military veterans, and to prevent the sheep from thinking there might be a threat from Muslim fanatics already in the U.S. Heaven forbid we should profile or something.
Now, I would bet the attack was done by a PG&E employee who'd been fired for drinking or drugs or similar. But the point is that the story hasn't suddenly gotten more important since last April. In fact not one thing has been discovered since the attack that would make it more or less likely to be a trial run. So if it's newsworthy now--and I think it is--it had exactly the same news value last April.
Yet the networks sat on the story. You might ask yourself why.
And then ask whether they'd tell you there was a known, proven threat by a foreign terrorist group in your city or county. Can't go stirring up panic among the sheep, eh?
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7:26 PM
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