Smells like Psyops, preparing us for the 'necessity' of having the government shut down or control the internet in the interest of 'national security.' Mmm hmm. Check out the excessive drama of the victims here, who had to actually make decisions for themselves and solve some problems. Are we so fragile in this country? Lame. Is this what passes for tragedy -- oh sorry, it was only "NEARLY TRAGIC." My mistake. A kidney infection? An elderly woman feeling ill? Hospital staff being forced to resort to walkie-talkies and satellite phones? People being forced to drive themselves to hospitals? Oh yes, it's like the STONE AGE. I'm sure the people we've actually bombed into the stone age in Afghanistan and Iraq would agree. Mm hmm. And notice also how the suspicion is cast on the union workers. Naturally. We'll see. We'll see if they find the culprits. My hunch is they never will because it's an intel operation designed to create a Hegelian problem, soften up the public, and nourish the idea that Something Must Be Done, or in other words, get them clamoring for a Hegelian solution. These intel ops tend to stand out for the overwraught emotional content, as if written by someone suffering from histrionic personality disorder. - Ed.via Cryptogon
Vandals cut fiber-optic cable lines belonging to AT&T at two locations early today, knocking out phones and access to 911 emergency services to thousands of residential customers and businesses in southern Santa Clara County, in Santa Cruz and San Benito counties and along the Peninsula, authorities said.
Four AT&T fiber-optic cables in an underground vault were severed shortly before 1:30 a.m. along Monterey Highway north of Blossom Hill Road in south San Jose, police Sgt. Ronnie Lopez said. Four more underground cables, at least two of which belong to AT&T, were cut about two hours later along Old County Road near Bing Street in San Carlos, authorities said.
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The outage was nearly tragic in at least a couple of instances.
Destiny Evans of Gilroy began blacking out this morning at her job as an office manager at Ortho Sports in Gilroy. Her boss, Joseph Abmont, called 911 on a landline and cell phone, but couldn’t get through.
So he put Evans in his car and drove her to St. Louise Hospital in Gilroy, where she was diagnosed with a kidney infection.
“He was my savior,” Evans said as she left the hospital later in the day with her boyfriend.
Florance Lijon of Gilroy was at home when her 84-year-old mother began to feel ill. She tried to call 911 to summon an ambulance. “I couldn’t call nowhere,” Lijon said. “I couldn’t use my home phone, I couldn’t use my cell phone, I couldn’t use my computer. I was miserable.”
Finally she drove her mom to the hospital.
“I worry about people that don’t have a car,” Lijon said. “It’s a good thing I could take her. I was going to call the ambulance, but I couldn’t.”
St. Louise spokeswoman Jasmine Nguyen said the hospital was rescheduling elective surgeries out of concern that if something went wrong, would be no way to contact doctors.
Hospital personnel were driving to doctors’ houses to get word to them if they were needed. They were also using a satellite phone and walkie-talkies to communicate.
“We literally feel like were on an island right now,” Nguyen said. “It’s bringing us back to the Stone Age.”
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