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White House In The Dark, On Lockdown Following D.C.-Wide Power Outage
Update 2:
BREAKING NEWS: White House on lockdown. Unknown if related to the massive power outage.
— Breaking News Feed (@PzFeed) April 7, 2015
Update: NO INITIAL INDICATIONS OF TERRORISM IN WASHINGTON, D.C., POWER OUTAGES - U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
Spokesman says WH on backup generators that kicked in after power outage.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 7, 2015
D.C. Homeland security officials believe an explosion at a SMECO power facility in southern Maryland caused the surge into D.C.
— Aaron C. Davis (@byaaroncdavis) April 7, 2015
Some more from The Hill:
Government buildings throughout Washington, including the White House and State Department, briefly lost power on Tuesday.
Electricity provider Pepco said the cause of the outages "is under evaluation."
The Department of Homeland Security does not suspect the outages to have anything to do with criminal activity or terrorism, according to CNBC.
At the White House, the lights in the lower press area went off for a few seconds before turning on again. Power also went out in other parts of the building, according to White House staff.
"Power outage affecting many parts of the city, and it affected the [White House] complex. We were on a backup generator and now we are back on normal power," a White House spokesman said.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf continued speaking with reporters when the power went out during her midday briefing.
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The utility firm Pepco is currently investigating a Washington-wide black-out that has plunged The White House, State Department, The US Capitol, D.C. Metro, and even Oprah's TV Stage into darkness...Ironically, the outage occurred minutes after Rand Paul commented that "the time has come to take away the power from Washington D.C..."
A spokesperson for Pepco, the Washington, D.C.-area provider electricity utility, told Reuters that it experienced scattered outages Tuesday but that they had happened for “unknown reasons.”
Real-time Pepco Outage Map here...
Has anyone seen Kim Jong-Un today?
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The blackout as it happened during the State briefing:
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Breaking: Scatter power outage also affected the White House, US Capitol, and Justice Department in addition to State Department. #Power
— Edward Lawrence (@NewsEdward) April 7, 2015
As Bloomberg reports,
The U.S. State Department lost electrical power Tuesday during its daily press briefing, and power also was briefly lost in areas of the White House and the Capitol.
Pepco Holdings Co. has started work to restore electricity to the State Department and other buildings in the area. It will take one to two hours until power is fully restored, according to an announcement over the State Department emergency broadcast system.
Hallways were dark in the State Department, lit only by light filtering in from the windows. Spokeswoman Marie Harf completed her briefing in the dark, reading from her briefing binder by the light of her iPhone as reporters took notes with lighting from their mobile phones.
Power briefly flickered off at the White House Tuesday afternoon, affecting the media workspace and at least some staff areas. Aides would not say if the White House was being powered by backup generators, though they planned to issue a statement later. Guests entering the White House were also temporarily delayed because Secret Service screening equipment was briefly knocked offline by the outage.
Multiple buildings in the U.S. Capitol complex were experiencing intermittent power outages, Capitol Police spokesman Shennell Antrobus said in an e-mail. The Capitol Police and architect of the Capitol were investigating the cause of the outages, he said.
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The State Department currently...
Offices being evacuated...
Power Outages Reported Across Washington D.C. Area http://t.co/5WuFHqd741 pic.twitter.com/LDQ5U2O22y
— Hotpage News (@HotpageNews) April 7, 2015
The State Department press briefing continues in darkness. Power outage pic.twitter.com/Ph9Zytt7Hp
— Gayane Chichakyan (@Gayane_RT) April 7, 2015
- *PEPCO SPOKESMAN SAYS NO FURTHER COMMENT ON POWER OUTAGES
- *PEPCO SAYS IT'S GATHERING INFORMATION ON D.C. POWER OUTAGES
- *STATE DEPT SAYS PEPCO EXPECTS TO RESTORE POWER IN 1-2 HOURS
- *SMITHSONIAN SAYS SOME OF ITS MUSEUMS SEEING POWER OUTAGES
- *SMITHSONIAN SAYS ON TWITTER THAT FOUR MUSEUMS NOW EVACUATED
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I see eyes big as dinner plates.
Too bad it wasn't TEPCO.
Teleprompters requrie 3 AAA batteries. No problem.
One time I was driving my Toyota Celica down the street at night... feeling a bit of braggadocio I exclaimed out-loud: "Everything I touch is turning to gold".
Instantly the instrument panel went black, the engine died, and the car came to a dead halt.
How much did you get when you sold it, Midas? ;-)
Lucky bastard.
Been meaning to ask you, what does pakled mean?
How is it pronounced? Is it more like pickled, or pack led, or something else altogether?
Look, I know I can be a real dickhead- but this ain't one of those times. It's just an honest question.
People are now just noticing the lights are off in DC? I've thought they've been off for decades.
BTW, i love how the first thing the govt thinks of on why this happened is "terrorism" and not "shitty infastructure"
Blackout?
Is that racist or something?
Glad to see terrorism ruled out, because that was totally my first assumption. Stub my toe? TERRORISM. Card reader at the gas station takes three tries? TERRORISM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFZzVOuKQPc
IRS management and all other .gov agency managers just lost all of their emails....again.
they used this occasion to hide german gold bars, thiefs
Leave the power out forever to stop these corrupt clowns
Saw a report that it was caused by an explosion in the suburbs, which obviously means that there is no chance of terrorism.
Critical agencies have switched to backup power. Justice Department not among those listed.
Because why would you have long term emergency generators at the White House? What a silly idea. I mean, how could there ever be a long term power emergency that would essentially cripple federal governance?
Their backup generators are powered by hot air , too many people stopped speaking at once.
Government will go on, as long as Obama's pen doesn't run out of ink.
The longer the power is out, the less 'crippling' effects the fedgov has.
This fucking White House has been in the dark ever since the darkie took up residence!
Rand knocked over the bong.
Power's back up at my office.
Tempest in a teacup, the golf course is still plenty light.
I think this:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-19/government-agency-warns-if-9-su...
and Hedgeless Horseman's preparation pack (bookmark missing)
FWIW, there was an earth-directed CME hitting today/tomorrow, though with little impact: Suspicious0bservers:
https://youtu.be/FEyy_uStgLU?list=PLHSoxioQtwZeQaRnO5_9AJB2RmevUpuPT
Just keep it down for good.
Only fair that people who keep a Nation in the dark go in the dark themselves.
They are so in the dark they won't even notice it.
Unfortunately the lights went off in America a long time ago.
Targeted emp attack
We can't find the first family!
They never smile so we must track them down by their odor.
Sniff for buffalo, follow your nose to the west wing.
I can't be the first comment with the words false flag in it?
Anyone saw Putin today?
Rand Paul & Ted Cruz 2016! Power to little people!
The treasury check bounced.....
Pendejos! They never heard of oil lamps? Candles?
Terrorism? Nah, more likely worn out infrastructure. We need to spend less on war, and more on rebuilding this country, or we are ALL going to be living in the dark.
It was the Boogyman.
Keep Washington DC in darkness until Obama's term ends.
More bullshit on a electrical grid that he shutdown.
Freak power outage in Turkey last week followed by assasinations of special prosecutors. Hmmm....who is behind that?
And wouldn't it be great if the USA had a Space Weapon that could cause fires on Ships in Russian Boat Yards. Seals used to be the Go-To-Guys for destroying a ship, but maybe we have lots of choices these days.
A spokesperson from the WH told reporters that the Batman Cloud Projector is on an alternative power source, so no worries.
Have the Obama's Smile near an emergency black lite. Brilliant
Couldn't resist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBXcCsfytA
dark age could happen just like that...
slow decline of our civilization
Well, once they figure out how to correctly propagandize this, I'm sure they'll tell us in six months what freedoms - that we need to give up - caused this.
Strategically isn't it time for Neocon Announcement that this was a Terrorist Attack.
Tonight would be a good time for the Whitehouse to make the Announcement of the Attack & Investigation. (False Flag)
- This would allow DoD to Require Additional Funding for Global War on Terror
- This justifies DHS Agency & Huge MIC Infrastructure
- This would put the Iraqi War back on the Map
- Energizes the Campaign to Stabilize Libya, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Africa
- This also justifies a "Martial Law-Light" to ask for citizens to Refrain from Protesting
And it is not too early to set the Tone for the 2016 Presidential Election and the Fund Raising there of.
And it is not too early to set the Tone for the 2016 Presidential Election and the Fund Raising there of
You're kidding, right? Any 'tone' is that elections will be suspended, O'Bama will continue as Prez. Can't have voting in the dark, you know.
If Washingto dont have the power it is certainly not going to be you that has it.
It will be business. I would rather stik with those we elect even if sometimes we choose wrong like in the case of this nut job.
Too bad it wasn't Wall Street that blacked out...
coup
If it was a coup, they didn't have to blackout the white house. It would be easier to just wait on the golf course for barry to come along.
Has anyone seen Kim Jong-Un today?
Has anyone transacted in Bitcoin today?
Yeah, made a nice little profit, too
The metaphorical irony of the situation is exquisite.
Learning experience for the III
Is Blackout considered raaaaycist?...
Yes, it IS terrorism! Terrorism for the taxpayers! How DARE the power go out for the elitists!? They will immediately demand a 2 billion dollar electrical backup system just for Washington DC lawmakers and their favorite restaurants.
Get Obama to fart in the direction of the nearest wind farm.
That'll sort it.
But OMG! What happens when all the iWatch batteries go flat?
10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 . . . . . .
Rand Paul > Divine endorsement
Call in TEPCO, they completed that Fuku-shima issue.
It was an old squirrel who was nostalgic for Y2K.
Are Jen Psaki's tits okay??????
her cock is fine
Naturally it would start with PEPCO.
Though before I knew of the electrical issue, I read "White House In The Dark" and thought "How is that a headline observation?"
There will be costs..... to the failed policy of prioritising bankers incomes to builkding reliable fucking infrastructure in the land of the terminally thick.
Obama has already blamed Bush for the power failure -
He said the electrical wiring was there when Bush was in charge - so he inherited the problem - after all he has only been POTUS for a little more than 6 years.
Obama did however take credit for the water still being on - proof his environmental policies are working.
Worthy of the finest banana republics.
The SIGN is obvious, time to get the black out
It is no longer referred to as a blackout. It is an afro-american out.
Reminds me of the book called "The Director" David Ignatius...Reality or fiction?
Well Anonymous said they were going to shut down sites in Israel and what better place to start then the capital of Israel.
That's really New York city but close enough.
Quick!
Grab the can of Raid!!
The cocka-roaches are scrambling in the dark!!!
They've been keeping Americans in the dark for a long, long time. How's it feel?
Zio false flag, tesla warfare, and geoengineering to blame. For reals guise!
It appears that there's no time lag between Russian tits and Washington tats.
Submarine fire yesterday afternoon; Washington black out this morning.
I worry that there won't be enough popcorn when things heat up.
The utility company wanted AU instead of funny money.
The Wookies vibrator threw out an EMP pulse..
re Washington DC In The Dark
We're fortunate to have a Backup Government in Tel Aviv...
Someone spotted Obama in the cloister a Yellen and Clappering while Holdering his Bernanke.
Expect to see the DOD lose a few trillion while the lights were out.
Geez people, hasn't your electricity ever went out?
I fixed this stuff for decades, it is no mystery. Old, antiquated, non maintained power grid's will continue to fail at their weakest links. That is not terrorism per se, it is however, an absolute failure of leadership.
I have been hearing for at least 20 years that the grid needs around a trillion dollars in maintenance.
The same thing with bridges and sewers. Ignore them at your own future inconvenience, but that will not make it go away. I have met many new managers in the last few decades and every new one thinks that they, are the first to think of "deferred manitenance" as a means to improve the bottom line. Each new manager, fresh from school is certain that they are the "smartest guy in the room", without fail. Peak hubris.
They pulled the plug when they couldn't stop their computers uploading files and downloading viruses.