Terrorism – Domestic

Financial intelligence agency tracking signs of homegrown terrorism financing

Transactions related to the financing of international terrorist groups consisted mainly of funds transfers to countries of concern for such activity including Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

… Within the analyzed disclosures, the most frequently identified international terrorist group was Daesh, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, followed by Hezbollah, the alert says.

“A large portion of the funds suspected of supporting Daesh were sent to Turkey, often to regions or towns close to the Turkey-Syria border, a particular high-risk region for terrorist activity financing.”

Funds suspected of bankrolling Hezbollah were frequently sent or received by people or organizations referring to the sale of cars or listed in the automotive industry.

In typical lets not offend the offensive style the agency does not breakdown its disclosures by terrorist type: “Using the information gleaned from Canadian businesses, the centre made 355 disclosures in 2021-22 to Canada’s law enforcement and national security agencies in support of investigations related to terrorist activity financing.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Fintrac, Terrorism - Domestic, Terrorism - financing

RCMP offers $100,000 reward after 10 months with no leads on violent Coastal GasLink attack

After 10 months without any leads as to who led a violent, coordinated attack on a pipeline work camp last February, the RCMP is hoping that the promise of a $100,000 reward will loosen some local tongues.

“I do believe there are people out there who know something, and I do believe this reward will entice those people,” B.C. RCMP superintendent Jim Elliott said at a Monday press conference.

If this was the work of white supremacist truckers the RCMP would have arrested everyone and have commenced sorting out their undercover agents and informants from the guilty guy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Terrorism - Domestic, WTF?

Investigation Into Attacks on Power Stations Across the U.S. Continues

The attack one week ago on two substations in Moore County, N.C., resulted in the loss of power to 45,000 people and raised questions about the security of America’s power grid.

And when further attacks in North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, and Oregon were revealed, those questions have now become urgent. Are the attacks — all involving gunfire targeting substations — unrelated pranks, or are they connected to a plot of some kind?

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White Supremacist Plots to Blow Up Texas High School! No, Wait…

The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs said it again in a report it published in November, “The Rising Threat of Domestic Terrorism”: “National security agencies now identify domestic terrorism as the most persistent and lethal terrorist threat to the homeland. This increase in domestic terror attacks has been predominantly perpetrated by white supremacist and anti-government extremist individuals and groups.” Conspicuously lacking from this oft-repeated claim are actual white supremacist terrorists…

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Attacks on Pacific north-west power stations raise fears for US electric grid

A string of attacks on power facilities in Oregon and Washington has caused alarm and highlighted the vulnerabilities of the US electric grid.

The attacks in the Pacific north-west come just days after a similar assault on North Carolina power stations that cut electricity to 40,000 people.

As first reported by Oregon Public Broadcasting and KUOW Public Radio, there have been at least six attacks, some of which involved firearms and caused residents to lose power. Two of the attacks shared similarities with the incident in Moore county, North Carolina, where two stations were hit by gunfire. Authorities have not yet revealed a motive for the North Carolina attack.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTerrorism - Domestic, USA

So now people are shooting up power stations?

Lots of people talk about domestic terrorism (frequently in a hyperbolic fashion), but North Carolina experienced something this weekend that certainly seems like it would qualify for the label. In

Moore County, someone shot up two electrical substations on Saturday night. The attack took out the local power grid, plunging tens of thousands of homes into darkness and shutting down government services and schools.

The incident below occurred in 2014

Assault on California Power Station Raises Alarm on Potential for Terrorism

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The attack began just before 1 a.m. on April 16 last year, when someone slipped into an underground vault not far from a busy freeway and cut telephone cables.

Within half an hour, snipers opened fire on a nearby electrical substation. Shooting for 19 minutes, they surgically knocked out 17 giant transformers that funnel power to Silicon Valley. A minute before a police car arrived, the shooters disappeared into the night.

To avoid a blackout, electric-grid officials rerouted power around the site and asked power plants in Silicon Valley to produce more electricity. But it took utility workers 27 days to make repairs and bring the substation back to life.

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Waukesha parade killer Darrell Brooks sentenced to life in prison

A Wisconsin man convicted of killing six people and injuring dozens more when he drove through a Christmas parade near Milwaukee last year was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday at the conclusion of a two-day hearing.

Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Dorow handed down six mandatory life in a prison terms to Darrell Brooks, 40, who was found guilty on Oct. 26 of 76 criminal charges, including six counts of intentional homicide.

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Don’t call us terrorists demand terrorists

Activists, advocates criticize CSIS for weighing if rail blockades could be classed as terrorism

Activists and advocates who’ve been targeted for government snooping in the past are denouncing what they see as the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s “vilification” of First Nations activism.

They say they know the state is watching, but it still came as a surprise to learn CSIS secretly weighed whether rail blockades could qualify as “acts of terrorism” in reports beginning in November 2020.

“It is an absolutely ridiculous sentiment to me that in 2022 when Indigenous people make a stand for their lands and their water, we get called terrorists,” said Skyler Williams, a prominent Mohawk activist from Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario.

Coastal GasLink attack, church burnings, rail line blockades are terrorist acts. Own it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, Terrorism - Domestic

Attacks ignite concerns that enviro-violence is returning to B.C.’s pipeline country

Arsonists have allegedly struck a parking lot full of RCMP vehicles in the same region of interior B.C. that has previously seen coordinated attacks on targets related to the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Before dawn on Wednesday, multiple cars were set alight in the parking lot of the Sunshine Inn in Smithers, B.C. After firefighters extinguished the blaze, it was found to have destroyed eight vehicles, including four marked RCMP cruisers and a B.C. ambulance.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Eco-Luddites, Batshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Terrorism - Domestic

CSIS weighed whether rail blockades supporting Wet’suwet’en could be classed as terrorism

Canada’s civilian spy service assessed whether First Nations land rights activists who disrupt trains should be classed as a “terrorist threat” to national security alongside the likes of Al-Qaeda and ISIS, according to declassified documents.

But the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) eventually decided the label wouldn’t stick after probing the issue in secret, internal studies whose findings were shared with government officials in an unclassified March 2021 counterterror briefing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAboriginal Issues, CSIS, Terrorism - Domestic

RCMP, government vehicles set on fire in ‘targeted attack’ in Smithers, B.C., police say

Four RCMP cruisers and several government vehicles, including an ambulance, were burned in a hotel parking lot in Smithers, B.C., early Wednesday in what police are describing as a “targeted attack on emergency service vehicles.”

RCMP Cpl. Madonna Saunderson said eight vehicles were damaged or destroyed by fire outside the Sunshine Inn in the central B.C. town, which lies around 300 kilometres west of Prince George.

Photographs of the scene show a charred cruiser and pickup with RCMP markings.

No doubt right wing extremists. I bet this disappears into the memory hole like the Coastal GasLink attack.

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Waukesha parade killer is kicked out of court again after interrupting judge and then builds a fort with document boxes

A Wisconsin man who is standing trial for allegedly plowing his SUV through a crowd at a Christmas parade in Waukesha killing six people was kicked out of court yet again for his erratic behavior.

Darrell Brooks, 40, is representing himself and has worked to disrupt his trial, was banned again on Monday to a separate courtroom where he was he proceeded to build a fort with boxes, shielding himself from the camera.

Over the course of his trial, Brooks has stripped his shirt off in court. He has complained that the prosecutors are ‘slick.’ He won’t let the judge get a word in. And he won’t even answer to his own name.

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Waukesha Mass Murderer Treated With Kid Gloves

The influence of Critical Race Theory is apparent in the trial of Darrell Brooks for the automobile massacre of six innocent people and injury to 60-plus individuals at a parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin in November 2021. Additionally, we can see the influence of such disparate movements as feminism, deconstructionist philosophy, and nihilism. These varied influences have enveloped the trial with an Alice in Wonderland aura, where there is virtuous posturing but not sufficient rationality, dignity, professionalism, and seriousness in play.

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