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Title: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: gumshoe009 on April 25, 2013, 12:02:10 AM
Are the people in this forum aware that this past Sunday morning at 2 a.m. there was a shootout between a security guard and an unknown suspect at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in East Tennessee between Knoxville and Chattanooga (near Athens, TN).  I have numerous friends in Tennessee where I used to live and teach and although they are all politically astute, they were unaware of this shooting until I notified them by email.  The federal government has been very hush about this incident and I provide a link below that discusses the incident.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/apr/25/tva-mum-on-shooting-details/ (http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/apr/25/tva-mum-on-shooting-details/)
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Pandora on April 25, 2013, 12:04:25 AM
Yes, I'd read a preliminary account and another noting the security guard's car sustained bullet damage.

Amazing what we're not being told these days, hmmm?

Welcome, by the way.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: trapeze on April 25, 2013, 12:06:00 AM
Seems I heard it mentioned and then nothing. Drowned out in the static of 24/7 Boston bomber coverage. Like a lot of things have been likewise drowned out. Gosnell, the Saudi national, the West explosion and others all silenced by the Boston bomber coverage.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Pandora on April 25, 2013, 12:11:58 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/22/feds-investigate-shootout-at-tenn-nuclear-plant-between-officer-intruder-who/ (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/22/feds-investigate-shootout-at-tenn-nuclear-plant-between-officer-intruder-who/)
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: gumshoe009 on April 25, 2013, 01:26:27 AM
I'm making the prediction that this incident will be similar to the previous two incidents of a security officer reporting being shot at.  I suspect the security officer accidentally discharged his sidearm and had to come up with some cock & bull story to cover for his truck damage.  I suspect the FBI feels similarly and that is why they are not talking much right now.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: warpmine on April 25, 2013, 05:56:47 AM
Something along the lines "Raccoon city was destroyed by a nuclear explosion from the local nuclear reactor going super critical."
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Libertas on April 25, 2013, 06:58:58 AM
Something along the lines "Raccoon city was destroyed by a nuclear explosion from the local nuclear reactor going super critical."

Crap, the T-virus is loose!   ::exitstageleft::

Anyway...

Where do they get these names?  Watts Bar, Raccoon Mountain...Dry Crotch...OK I made that last one up...or did I!   ::speechless::   ;D

My father was an AF MP during the Korean War (War, not "conflict"!  ::) ) and they used to get goofy and do cowboy quick-draws with their M1911s out on the edge of runways etc...all is fun and games till someone gets shot, which they did, and then they spend the rest of their hitch and then some in the stockade.  We don't have enough info to know if there was a real incident here or if this poor bastard got stupid and panicked and came up with some BS that blew up in his face.  If the former we could be getting zip because they don't want word getting out that panics the sheeple in the area and if the latter then it is a real nothing-to-see-here-move-along instance.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 25, 2013, 07:27:34 AM
If the media can memory-hole Benghazi, they can memory-hole anything.

Time will tell if this is a nothing-burger or an act of terrorism. If it harms the regime, it'll be up to people like us to chronicle.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: RickZ on April 25, 2013, 08:35:20 AM
I'm sure the officials are examining the security guard's car for any recoverable bullets.  It would be highly suspect if the alleged perp and the security guard had the same caliber weapon.

From the article, the false alarm shootings happened in the last century.  A lot has changed since then.  Filing a false report on such an 'incident' now would likely lead to arrest, where before making a false report might only have been terminaton of employment.

That this came so quickly on the heels of the Marathon bombing creates many questions which I will probably never have answered, not with this criminal crew in D.C.

And you can be damn sure that no one in D.C. wants these seemingly unrelated dots (Boston and TN) connected in any way.  That would put the Administration on the hot seat, and the Fellatio Media would never be so cruel as to do that to one of their own (a fellow progressive putz).

Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: benb61 on April 25, 2013, 10:16:16 AM
I'm sure the officials are examining the security guard's car for any recoverable bullets.  It would be highly suspect if the alleged perp and the security guard had the same caliber weapon.


^^^
That
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: gumshoe009 on April 25, 2013, 04:18:32 PM
Being a retired cop myself, my money is on this incident being nothing more than a Nimrod wannabe cop making one bad decision and then trying to cover it up by making a far more serious bad decision.  If you are familiar with that area of east Tennessee downstream of Watts Bar Dam, it is pretty isolated and about the last place you would expect Islamic terrorists.  After all, if you are going to blow up a nuclear facility for the attention and mass killing it will produce, you aren't going to do it at Watts Bar where urban centers are many miles away.  A more likely target would be on the eastern seaboard or the Fermi plant between Toledo and Detroit or the Zion or Cook nuclear plants near Chicago.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Libertas on April 25, 2013, 05:10:25 PM
It smells like a self-inflicted incident to me, but if it wasn't we'd never know...if a jihadi incursion (no matter how incompetent or isolated) happened we would not know, it is not news the PTBs would let out.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Pandora on April 25, 2013, 05:38:39 PM
As you can see, gumshoe, we 'round here pretty much don't trust what they say and what they don't say.

Wonder how that happened ......  ::saywhat::
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 25, 2013, 07:06:40 PM

FBI used to say, there are no coincidences, that's what they used to say.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Libertas on April 26, 2013, 06:51:40 AM
Yeah, now they say "stop looking there, that ain't right, that angle is not vetted by Eric or Barry!"...

 ::unknowncomic::
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 28, 2013, 02:10:34 AM
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/apr/26/fbi-still-investigating-weekend-shooting-at-bar/ (http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/apr/26/fbi-still-investigating-weekend-shooting-at-bar/)

Investigators are running down leads in an early Sunday shootout between a security officer at Watt Bar Nuclear Plant and an individual who fired multiple shots from a boat on Chickamauga Lake near Spring City, Tenn., property.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: robins111 on April 28, 2013, 08:08:30 AM
Maybe it is just a stupid security guard and some self induced damage, but I've been wondering about the rash of explosions, that statistically do not make sense, two (2) barges/ ships exploding in inland waters within a week.. that's bizarre..  I've always concluded that much of what we hear about in the news,is so tightly controlled, that there could be a political assassination, and we'd not know for weeks..
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 28, 2013, 08:31:56 AM
Some refinery exploded in the last day or two as well.

ETA: Here (http://rt.com/usa/explosion-refinery-detroit-tanker-520/) it is - Detroit.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Pandora on April 28, 2013, 09:00:49 AM
Maybe it is just a stupid security guard and some self induced damage, but I've been wondering about the rash of explosions, that statistically do not make sense, two (2) barges/ ships exploding in inland waters within a week.. that's bizarre..  I've always concluded that much of what we hear about in the news,is so tightly controlled, that there could be a political assassination, and we'd not know for weeks..

I missed those.  Big surprise, right?  Where did they happen?
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 28, 2013, 09:10:44 AM
Maybe it is just a stupid security guard and some self induced damage, but I've been wondering about the rash of explosions, that statistically do not make sense, two (2) barges/ ships exploding in inland waters within a week.. that's bizarre..  I've always concluded that much of what we hear about in the news,is so tightly controlled, that there could be a political assassination, and we'd not know for weeks..

I missed those.  Big surprise, right?  Where did they happen?

Alabama. (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/25/fuel-barges-explode-catch-fire-on-mobile-river-in-alabama/)
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Pandora on April 28, 2013, 09:29:41 AM
Maybe it is just a stupid security guard and some self induced damage, but I've been wondering about the rash of explosions, that statistically do not make sense, two (2) barges/ ships exploding in inland waters within a week.. that's bizarre..  I've always concluded that much of what we hear about in the news,is so tightly controlled, that there could be a political assassination, and we'd not know for weeks..

I missed those.  Big surprise, right?  Where did they happen?

Alabama. (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/25/fuel-barges-explode-catch-fire-on-mobile-river-in-alabama/)

Thanks, IDP; now I vaguely remember hearing something on the radio "news".  Possibly "a spark from cleaning", hunh?
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: gumshoe009 on April 28, 2013, 06:19:31 PM
Incorrect IDP.  The alleged shooting at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is in Tennessee.  Near Athens, Tennessee and about half way between Chattanooga and Knoxville.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Pandora on April 28, 2013, 06:46:23 PM
Incorrect IDP.  The alleged shooting at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is in Tennessee.  Near Athens, Tennessee and about half way between Chattanooga and Knoxville.

IDP was referring to the two barge fires.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: John Florida on April 28, 2013, 07:19:46 PM
  Nothing to see here MOVE ALONG!
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: charlesoakwood on April 28, 2013, 07:39:14 PM

Boston Marathon Bombings
Monday, April 15, 2013
   http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,8116.0.html
West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
  Wednesday, April 17  
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/fertilizer-plant-explosion-texas_n_3106023.html
Exxon Mobil   an early-day fire - injured 12 contract employees
 Wednesday, April 17, 2013
   http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/04/17/refinery-status-fire-at-exxon-beaumont-refinery-2/#ixzz2RnnfnRVZ
Nuclear Plant Attacked
 Sunday April 21, 2013
   http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/apr/22/watts-bar-intruder-shooting-under-federal/?print
   http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/apr/26/fbi-still-investigating-weekend-shooting-at-bar/
Mobile River Barge Explosion
 Wednesday, April 24, 2013  
    http://photos.al.com/mobile-press-register/2013/04/mobile_river_barge_explosion_a_2.html
   http://media.al.com/mobile-press-register/photo/2013/04/12628373-standard.jpg
Detroit.Refinery Explosion
Saturday, April 27, 2013
   http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348967
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 28, 2013, 07:57:31 PM
Incorrect IDP.  The alleged shooting at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is in Tennessee.  Near Athens, Tennessee and about half way between Chattanooga and Knoxville.

IDP was referring to the two barge fires.

Yup, that. ^^^
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Glock32 on April 28, 2013, 08:26:45 PM
Some refinery exploded in the last day or two as well.

ETA: Here (http://rt.com/usa/explosion-refinery-detroit-tanker-520/) it is - Detroit.


Now granted, that one could go unnoticed for a long time. I mean if a bomb went off in Detroit would it look much different than it did before?
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: AlanS on April 29, 2013, 06:23:44 AM
Some refinery exploded in the last day or two as well.

ETA: Here (http://rt.com/usa/explosion-refinery-detroit-tanker-520/) it is - Detroit.


Now granted, that one could go unnoticed for a long time. I mean if a bomb went off in Detroit would it look much different than it did before?

MAYBE to the trained eye, but I doubt it.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 29, 2013, 06:55:56 AM
Some refinery exploded in the last day or two as well.

ETA: Here (http://rt.com/usa/explosion-refinery-detroit-tanker-520/) it is - Detroit.


Now granted, that one could go unnoticed for a long time. I mean if a bomb went off in Detroit would it look much different than it did before?

MAYBE to the trained eye, but I doubt it.

Nope. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit)

Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Libertas on April 29, 2013, 07:48:16 AM
Detoilet.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Pandora on April 29, 2013, 12:31:24 PM
Some refinery exploded in the last day or two as well.

ETA: Here (http://rt.com/usa/explosion-refinery-detroit-tanker-520/) it is - Detroit.


Now granted, that one could go unnoticed for a long time. I mean if a bomb went off in Detroit would it look much different than it did before?

MAYBE to the trained eye, but I doubt it.

Nope. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit)

Every time I see those photos I think, "my God, what a waste!"  All that beautiful architecture just left to rot.  And everything just .... left, abandoned; books, furniture, records (police station), pianos!  It kills me.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: John Florida on April 30, 2013, 03:37:14 PM
Some refinery exploded in the last day or two as well.

ETA: Here (http://rt.com/usa/explosion-refinery-detroit-tanker-520/) it is - Detroit.


Now granted, that one could go unnoticed for a long time. I mean if a bomb went off in Detroit would it look much different than it did before?

MAYBE to the trained eye, but I doubt it.

Nope. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/jan/02/photography-detroit)

Every time I see those photos I think, "my God, what a waste!"  All that beautiful architecture just left to rot.  And everything just .... left, abandoned; books, furniture, records (police station), pianos!  It kills me.

  they want those symbols of capitalism gone it's no accident
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: gumshoe009 on April 30, 2013, 11:00:26 PM
Now there you all go trashing my hometown of Detroit once again.  We get no respect.  Just in cast you all were unaware, we Detroiters kicked Chicago's ass once again.  When it comes to blood, guts and gore we are king of the hill gang...  Now stop picking on the hometown that has a warm place in my heart... from a Mumford HS Mustang...

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/neighborhoods/crime-rates/25-most-dangerous-neighborhoods/ (http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/neighborhoods/crime-rates/25-most-dangerous-neighborhoods/)
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Libertas on May 01, 2013, 06:55:31 AM
Your hometown is number one, and two...and three...

Glad to see you escaped with your skin still intact. 
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: gumshoe009 on May 02, 2013, 03:03:00 PM
Libertas, I almost didn't.  I returned to Motown for one day of photography and while on the east side photographing the Packard plant I was accosted by three thugs who nearly carjacked me.  it was a very tense situation, but my cop training kicked in and I became very aggressive (something I suspect they didn't expect from a 61 year old honkie.  There were no witnesses around, so I could have been easily killed and nobody would have seen a thing, but I was able to extricate myself from the situation and get away.  I haven't been back since.  I loved growing up in Detroit, but the Detroit I knew does not exist today.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: John Florida on May 02, 2013, 04:07:43 PM
Libertas, I almost didn't.  I returned to Motown for one day of photography and while on the east side photographing the Packard plant I was accosted by three thugs who nearly carjacked me.  it was a very tense situation, but my cop training kicked in and I became very aggressive (something I suspect they didn't expect from a 61 year old honkie.  There were no witnesses around, so I could have been easily killed and nobody would have seen a thing, but I was able to extricate myself from the situation and get away.  I haven't been back since.  I loved growing up in Detroit, but the Detroit I knew does not exist today.


  Sad isn't it.
Title: Re: Nuclear Plant Attacked - Apparent News Blackout
Post by: Libertas on May 02, 2013, 07:43:19 PM
Reminds me of my trip to Boston, without the violence...I wanted to see the gravestone of my earliest American ancestor at the old church in Roxbury...cab driver advised me to not get out of the cab, come back with more people and an appointment...Roxbury is the worst of the feral zones there, and that was back in the late 80's, probably way worse now...it was his town and I took his advice.  Still haven't made it back there, may not ever either.  Sucks, would have liked to have found the marker.