“Total Chaos” – Cyber Attack Feared As Multiple Cities Hit With Simultaneous Power Grid Failures

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

The U.S. power grid appears to have been hit with multiple power outages affecting San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.

Officials report that business, traffic and day-to-day life has come to a standstill in San Francisco, reportedly the worst hit of the three major cities currently experiencing outages.

Power companies in all three regions have yet to elaborate on the cause, though a fire at a substation was the original reason given by San Francisco officials.

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YOU ARE HERE

“The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress that could involve questions of class, race, nation and empire. The very survival of the nation will feel at stake. Sometime before the year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history, commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II.” – Strauss & Howe The Fourth Turning 

The chart below was posted by Jesse a few weeks ago. It accompanied a post titled Gathering Storm. He doesn’t specifically refer to the chart, but his words reflect the ominous view of the future depicted in the chart.

“When gold and silver finally are able, through price action, to have their say about the state of Western fiscal and monetary policy actions, it may break a few ear drums and shatter a more than a few illusions about the wisdom and honesty of the money masters. Slowly, but surely, a reckoning is coming. And what has been hidden will be revealed.”

The title of the post and the chart both grabbed my attention and provide a glimpse into the reality of our present situation. The Gathering Storm was the title of Winston Churchill’s volume one history of World War II. Churchill documents the tumultuous twenty years leading up to World War II in The Gathering Storm. The years following World War I, through the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler were abysmal, but only a prelude to the approaching horror of 65 million deaths over the next six years. What appeared to be dark days in the 1930’s were only storm clouds gathering before a once in a lifetime tempest. In my view we stand at an equally perilous point in history today.

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THE REAL MINIMUM WAGE IS $0

Liberal run cities across America can pass ordinances and laws mandating a $15 minimum wage. And businesses can then choose to close up shop and move somewhere else. Every action has consequences. The poor people of Chinatown in LA just found out the hard way.

Via Breitbart

Walmart Closes LA Store Over $15 Minimum Wage

Walmart L.A. (Nick Ut / Associated Press)

Los Angeles residents of impoverished Chinatown were shocked to learn on January 17 that the Walmart they pleaded for years to get would be shut down at 7 p.m. Sunday evening due to the city’s new $15 minimum wage ordinance, and union harassment.

(Update: The closure was described by the company as one of 154 closures “that took into account a number of factors, including financial performance as well as strategic alignment with long-term plans.”)

Immigrant Hispanic and Asian residents of central Los Angeles campaigned for years for a “big box” retailer to locate in their economically depressed neighborhood to compete against liquor stores that sold a limited number of food items at very high prices. In September 2013, Walmart finally opened a 33,000-square-foot grocery and drug store in the Chinatown area.

Crowds flocked to the store for lower food costs, substantially cheaper pharmaceuticals, and even ethnic offerings. But labor leaders immediately started protesting against the store for refusing to unionize, even though 100 Walmart employees refused to sign union cards.

During the November 2014 Black Friday protests in downtown Los Angeles led by the union-funded Movement Generation’s Justice and Ecology Project, thousands of protestors were bused in to protest against Walmart destroying downtown, even though the company only had the one store in Chinatown.

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DAY OFF IN LA

Credible terror threat my fat ass.  Terrorists don’t warn their victims before blowing them up or gunning them down. You dismiss 640,000 kids because of a phone call to a superintendent? What a fucking joke. Now every dumbass kid in the district realizes they can get off from school by just faking a bomb threat. Are they going to close school ten more times in the next month as the “threats” roll in?

When I was a kid my grade school got a bunch of bomb threats. We evacuated the building for 15 minutes and went back in. It was one of the bad kids in the school having his friend call in the threat. We’ve become a nation of pussies.

There are a couple positives. One less day of government indoctrination for the kids and no decrease in education, as they learn nothing. The LA public school system is nothing more than a glorified bilingual daycare center. How will the cherubs survive without their free lunches?

All Los Angeles Schools Closed Due To “Credible Terror Threat”

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Los Angeles police confirmed that all Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools are closed Tuesday as police investigate what The LA Times reports as a bomb threat was called into a LAUSD board member. LAUSD is the nation’s 2nd largest district. The LAUSD superintendent said  “I am not going to take a chance when it comes to the lives of students,” stating that the threat was made to many schools, involved packages and backpacks, and says he wants every school in system searched. L.A. police chief says threat still being analyzed, FBI has been notified.

As NBC Los Angeles reports,

$1 MILLION DOESN’T BUY WHAT IT USED TO

You too can live in a tiny dump for the low low price of $1 million courtesy of Janet Yellen and her bubblicious levels of zero interest rate debt dropped from helicopters on Wall Street. You can pretend to live like the .1%, except in a 1,300 square foot hovel. This will surely end well.

San Francisco


Skybox Realty

Headed to the city of cable cars, fog and killer home prices? Move to this $929,000 apartment that is within walking distance of the Financial District and Union Square. Listed as a “Spacious 1 Bedroom + Den, 1 Bath,” it’s a cozy 837 square feet. Bonus points: It comes with a parking spot.

Los Angeles

Redfin

In Los Angeles you can get a little bit more square footage for your money than in San Francisco. How about this $930,000 home that’s 3 bedrooms and 1.75 baths for a total of 1,332 square feet. The West Los Angeles home is even big enough for a second refrigerator and a finished two car garage.

Arlington, Virginia


Virginia Seekford Smith

This two bedroom, one bathroom home in Arlington, Virginia, will cost you $1 million, but you get two adjoining lots for a total of 5,000 square feet of space. The average sale price of a luxury home in Washington, D.C. is $2,402,000.

Miami Beach, Florida


Redfin

This two-bedroom, two-bath home comes in just under $1 million, listed at $995,000. It’s located one block from a park and comes with a private pool. It also happens to be located in the city with the highest average luxury-sale price in the U.S., at $8,337,000.

Buena Park, California


OC Homes Realty

This $1.1 million home is 1,050 square feet of a three-bedroom, 1.5-bathroom house. The listing describes this house as “Excellent Exposure of Busy Beach Blvd & Artesia Blvd in Buena Park.”

Here are the 10 cities with the priciest luxury housing in the fourth quarter:

Rank City Average Luxury Sale Price
1 Miami Beach, FL $8,337,000
2 Los Angeles, CA $4,808,000
3 San Francisco, CA $4,668,000
4 Boston, MA $3,380,000
5 Irvine, CA $3,180,000
6 Kirkland, WA $2,506,000
7 Bellevue, WA $2,435,000
8 Huntington Beach, CA $2,426,000
9 Washington, DC $2,402,000
10 Fort Lauderdale, FL $2,353,000
Source: Redfin

Via Marketwatch