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Massive Blackout Hits Turkey, Grounding Planes, Stopping Subways; Terror Not Ruled Out
Ankara, we have a problem.
At around 10:36 a.m. local time, Turkey suffered a massive power outage that left half of the country’s 81 provinces without electricity in what was the biggest blackout in a decade and a half. The blackout shut down subways in Instanbul and knocked out 11 of 16 air traffic control receivers, grounding flights to and from the capital. Although the cause is not yet known, officials haven’t yet ruled out the possibility that the blackout may be terror-related. Here’s more via Reuters:
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said all possible causes of the outage were being investigated and did not rule out sabotage, but said that trouble with transmission lines was the most likely reason for the problem.
"Our main target right now is to restore the network. This is not an incident that we see frequently," Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said during a trip to Bratislava, in comments broadcast on Turkish television.
"Whether or not terrorism is a high possibility or a low one I can’t say at this stage. I can’t say either whether it is a cyber attack," he said in response to questions from reporters.
...and a bit more via RT:
The worst power outage in 15 years struck most of Turkey, grounding flights and crippling rail networks. The government scrambled efforts to investigate the power cut, before energy was partially restored in the afternoon.
The outage was confirmed in some 23 provinces, including Ankara and Istanbul, by news agency Anadolu. Later information from Broadcaster NTV put the number at 40.
Energy officials did admit that there was no electricity in most of the country for several hours, before electricity was restored by 15 percent.
A widespread power outage in Turkey is affecting flights. 11 of 16 FR24 receivers are down. http://t.co/F84acygyGx pic.twitter.com/O1TgT1qjI5
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) March 31, 2015
...and here's a BofAML:
“If the problem cannot be fixed shortly, the wide scale suggests that the cost will be loss of a working day for the GDP.”
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We would note that Energy Minister Taner Yildiz is known for getting to the bottom of mass power outages. You’ll recall that last year, when blackouts caused officials to count votes in local elections by candlelight, the minister quickly discovered precisely what went wrong:
"I am not joking, friends...A cat walked into a transformer unit. That’s why there was a power cut. It’s not the first time this has happened."
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At the very same time the Marxist Leninist group DHKP/C has taken a prosecutor as hostage http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-leftist-gunmen-hold-gun-prosecutors-head...
Cat drones!!!
Sneaky bastards...
Moral of the story. A little Pussy will get you in more trouble than you ever thought possible.
Short on Turkish SPCA
Olduvai darkness, or the ME blackhole dragging in everything...
practice run for the 2015 US blackout...
Turkey Denies Passage of LNG Tankers to Ukraine
http://russia-insider.com/en/turkey_denies_passage_natural_gas_tankers_u...
;-)
A roach shorted out the power supply on my desktop a few years back, so anything can happen, but it looks like they hit all the good spots and not just one half or the other.
And they want to build a nuclear power plant lol....
It would explode like fuku did in a few days if they had it. lucky for all of us that they don't.
open your eyes...
Hope it wasn't a GE reactor or back up generators like in Japan, that could be somebodys big problem if it was.
HELLADS
How did bitcoin do during the blackout?
Turkey is falling to ISIS.
AWACS with directed energy weapons can do this easily
This is a good time for someone to do some secret air missions for supplies under the cloak of darkness...
Amen brother.
Dry run
Yo Tyler! Where's the story on the NSA shooting??
the nsas does all the killing.
It will be top page sticky in a couple days
2 guys on an all night bender with a stolen suv went up the wrong road without relizing where they were, and were shot up in the process, kids stuff, nothing to see here, you can move about your day.
Were they protesting Indiana's religious freedom act? (Which 19 other states have, and which was signed into law at the federal level by none other than Bill Clinton).
#FuckTehGheys
What's the name of the israeli grid virus again?
Cat-walking-into-transformer virus?
Stuxnet?
This happens every 15 years in Turkey? Lol.
Great diversion for a civil war. The entire middle east is up in flames. Suni/shia, shia/sunni -- I wonder who will win the 1000 year war.
Goynet .
Luciferians
We be illuminated....
They should have just kept it simple and called it AIPAC.
stuxnet
Erode gun .
Cat terrorists? A new threat.
NSA needs a new department to track down all cats
High Country News: "Annual bird kill in the US: wind turbines, 28,500; buildings, 550 million; power lines, 130 million; cats, 100 million; cars, 80 million; pesticides, 67 million."
Save the birds!
Let's ban buildings.
NSA #1: Hmm. Better chip those cats.
NSA #2: All of them?
NSA #1: Yup. All of them.
The Damned - Wait For The Black Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K59IBGNrR4
Birds. Migratory birds.
What happens to the Bitcoins keys if your PC's hard drive gets fried from bad power, like an evil squirrel surging into a transformer?
"Oh great and powerful nutcase, soon your treasures will be mine!" Squirrels last thought.
Faulty insulation on a pole mounted xformer behind my house resulted in numerous power outages. Squirrels and birds would make a short circuit and pop the big ciruit breaker. Power crews qwould come out and reset the breaker but ignore the circle of dead birds and squirrels around the bottom of the power pole of death. Eventually I got tired of the power interruptions and pointed out the problem to a crew there to reset the breaker again. They installed a replacement for a little bit of insulation missing on the transformer and voila! No more power outages and much longer life spans for local birds and squirrels.
I would reccomend a small discrete off grid battery backed solar power system for critical household loads. Prices on solar panels are sub one dollar per watt.
Grimaldus
Solar prices moving progressively downwards? Save the birds?
Ok, what did you do with the real Grimaldus? ; )
Wake me when solar panels are sub 10 cents/watt. Terrible investment unless you live in the perfect place - sunny, dry, southern lattitude.
And who support Lenin to support overthrow of a nation..... what religion were those bankers?
Muslims?
Turkey has fairly quietly been supplying NATO arms, including chemical weapons to the US backed mercenary armies in the region. My guess is that somebody finally decided that Turkey should finally be more directly involved.
Interesting timing, only 2 days ago there was a major black out in the netherlands...
http://rt.com/news/244537-power-outage-north-holland/
2 times in one week?
Blackout pussy
Banks closed??
Time to bomb Turkey,to stop this plague of radicalized terror cats,before they invade the Homeland
Faster Pussy Cat, Kill, Kill !
Bonus points for that movie reference!
Love the pictures of Turkians out and about. Hey, they look like us!
Speaking on Turkish television to people without electricity, the Energy Minister said...
Billions upon billions spent on "security" and our whole way of modern life can be undone by a wandering kittycat?
Maybe we should call them Black Cats instead of swans.
They havn't admitted it was a cat this time, so don't get ur hopes up, this could end badly.
Germany loses plane and Turkey goes dark. Hmnn.... In other news: Germany & Turkey sign agreement forms to join the new Asian AIIB economic program.
Just saying.
The fragility of modern society is becoming increasingly clear. Just keep shitting on people, TPTB, and...
Squirrel, look!
Me yow!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged:_Part_I
Interesting. . The US usually comes out straight away and lets us know an 'event' ISNT terror related.
It will be hard to take Indian gold for Russian oil when their phones don't work.
Everytime something like this happens its always a terr-a-wrist act...or global cooling/acid rain/global warming/climate change, etc. /s (for the short bus window tasters)
We don't know what caused it but we are certain It isn't terrorism.. god i love that line it's just so full of Logic.
CATastrophic....
I wish they would stop using the word "terror" as a way to describe an activity of politically motivated violence. The word is "terrorism" not "terror". This bullshit started with 9/11. I was a reporter at that time and the editor specifically told us that we were to use the word terror and terror attacks to describe the events. I always assumed that he got the idea from what he was seeing on AP and Reuters.
I can only guess that using the word terror has a stronger psychological impact and generates more fear than terrorism. Because we sure need to keep everyone in a constant state of fear.
Perhaps an psychologically troubled, medicated, shrink hopping electrical worker in fear of losing his job and wanted to make a statement
so he fell into key transmission line?
CIA finally refined ACOUSTIC KITTY! (serious, read it, hilarious)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/document-friday-acoustic-kitty/
We darkened some folks?
(...ooopppsss, hope that is not racists) LOL
The marxist cunts are flipping dumb down information. All new fears contained in the plantation mitigation. I am in Hilton Head Island. Shall we throw out the republican or Democratic monkeys? We don't live in a parliament. We fought England in the past, 2015 is no different. Good luck on printing money within derivatives. You will lose as people remove bank account money.
It looks like CIA has declared war against all AIIB members.
One doesn't say "declared war"
One says "delared self-help"
Make no mistake about it, if there is foul play and this was a cyber-attack from an outside nation, it is an act of war. This raises an interesting question about the NATO charter: Can one NATO member invoke an article 5 action against another member?
In my personal opinion, Turkey has the most convoluted and complex relations of all NATO members. Consider that:
Turkey has been living dangerously as a reluctant, very independent-minded member of NATO who does not snap her heels and execute US orders promptly. Although Turkey has the second-largest military force by personnel numbers in the NATO alliance and can actually project force regionally (ranked in the top ten in the world by some estimates), they have not rattled their sabre hard enough or made the expected "Strangelovian" statements about Ukraine, Russia, ISIS, Iran, etc.
Turkey has been repeatedly denied entrance into the EU cool-guy club, and is openly flirting with the SCO and Eurasian Union.
Erdogan ordered the arrest and incarceration of two thirds of the generals accused of involvement in Gladio, the secret network under U.S. influence.
Conversely, Turkey is balls-deep into the Muslim Brotherhood which, although it supposedly rejects the American way of life, thrives under the protective wing of the Anglo-Americans (UK, USA, Israel) who have always been able to use its violence against those who resisted them. It was a facade which allowed the "Arab Spring" overthrow of Mubarak, Gaddafi, Zinedine el Abidine Ben Ali, et.al., so these nations could embrace the Washington consensus and neo-liberal capitalism of the United States.
Turkey recently got very cozy with Putin in Pipelanistan (Turk Stream), royally pissing off the EU. Turkey is playing nice though, giving the EU a reach-around, and entertaining some of the EU's moribund, pet pipeline projects.
As a NATO member equipped with the US' Patriot defense systems, Turkey was "urged" by its "Western allies" to remove China and Russia from its bidding list for air-defense projects. Well, they turned around and practically called Raytheon's Patriot Missile a piece of shit. They rejected it and purchased over 4 Billion dollar's worth of Chinese systems and missiles that are completely incompatible with NATO air defenses and its plans for a destabilizing "missile shield" for Europe.
Turkey is twirling in the Daesh double-dance with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the US and all the usual suspects, sticking it to Syria, but at the same time is repressing the PKK and keeping US-backed Kurds in hard check.
Erdogan frequently and consistently does things that make the Israeli Zionists turn purple with rage. For example, he is scheduled to visit Tehran in the next few days, has sent aid flotillas to Palestine, etc.
Turkey rebuffed and defeated a foreign-sponsored (wonder who???) "color operation" on their territory a little over two years ago.
Turkey has denied passage to LNG ships heading to Ukraine through the Bosporus strait, and the US is hopping mad. They are very displeased that Turkey acts like the strategic straight does not belong to the United States, and that Turkey does not allow unlimited access for NATO/US/EU commercial and military traffic.
In any case, blow-back is a mo-fo, and the list of possible suspects in this is a mile long.
"Turkey has been repeatedly denied entrance into the EU cool-guy club"
Just what we'd need. 80 million more illiterate Muslims. As if Europe doesn't have enough problems....
The European nations seem to agree with your view, although they, like you, have their statistics confused. Turkey is just about par with Germany, France, and England in literacy.
96.05% Turkish literacy rate in 2013 according to the Turkish statistics institute and 98% according to other studies I've looked at. This is equal or greater (depending on the source studies) than Greece, Bulgaria, Spain, Romania, and other EU members. The CIA World Factbook has a 2011 "estimate" of them at 94.1% and Wikipedia pegs their their literacy rate at 98.76%.
But yeah, silly me, I forgot...
they are Muslims.
NSA has now a product called "CAT" in their ANT Catalog? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
CNN just broadcast an unconfirmed report that Putin was seen running from the main transformer shortly before the outage.
say hello to CIA.
transmission line was hit 8 times with a nail gun, it died