Large Explosion, Buildings Damaged in Downtown Nashville
December 25th, 2020Update: Improvised Thermobaric Device [???]
The expert referenced below, “Conducted the FBI’s on-scene investigations of the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Pan Am 103 and Unabomber bombings.”
Hmm.
Via: SpyTalk:
Find his test sites, top bomb experts say.
Anthony Quinn Warner’s device, although probably made of common over-the-counter components, is unique in the annals of mayhem, according to seasoned FBI bomb experts consulted by SpyTalk.
“We’ve never seen an improvised thermobaric device before in this country or any country,” says Dave Williams, who conducted the FBI’s on-scene investigations of the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Pan Am 103 and Unabomber bombings, among other notorious incidents. Thermobaric refers to a gaseous fuel-air explosion.
“The reason is, it’s very difficult to get the timing down to get an optimum mixture of air and a liquified carbonaceous fuel such as propane, methane, acetylene or natural gas,” Williams told SpyTalk. “He couldn’t have done it the first time and made it work. There had to be a test area.”
Accidental thermobaric explosions are not uncommon—for example, when a house explodes because of a natural gas leak. But IED-makers haven’t tried to stage them deliberately, up to now, Williams says, because too many things have to go right.
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Update: Nashville Blast Suspect Died in Explosion, Police Say
Via: Reuters:
The 63-year-old suspect in the bombing that rocked Nashville on Christmas morning was killed in the blast that destroyed his motor home and damaged more than 40 businesses, authorities said on Sunday.
FBI forensic experts matched DNA samples recovered from the scene to that of Anthony Q. Warner, whose home in nearby Antioch was searched on Saturday by federal agents.
Late on Sunday, the FBI tweeted bit.ly/3hkh7dg a photo of Warner.
“We’ve come to the conclusion that an individual named Anthony Warner is the bomber and he was present when the bomb went off and that he perished in the bombing,” Donald Cochran, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, told a news conference.
Officials said it was too early in the investigation to discuss the suspect’s motives.
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Update: Nashville Explosion ‘Probably Suicide Bombing’
Via: BBC:
The camper van blast in Nashville on Christmas Day was probably a suicide bombing, law enforcement officials are quoted as saying by US media.
Investigators are conducting DNA tests after human remains were found near the site of the powerful blast.
The home of a possible person of interest was searched on Saturday in Nashville’s suburb of Antioch.
The blast injured three people and disrupted communications systems in Tennessee and four other states.
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Update: Audio Warning and Countdown Played from RV
This is an extremely weird one.
Via: Nashville Tennessean:
At least three people were injured in the explosion, according to authorities. A police officer in the area, who was responding to reports of suspicious activity in the area, was knocked to the ground by the blast.
Police said the explosion came from an RV that was parked on Second Avenue, in the midst of a business and entertainment district. Police spokesman Don Aaron confirmed the warning came from the RV.
Williams said she awoke at about 4:30 a.m. Christmas morning after hearing what sounded like multiple rounds of loud, rapid-fire gunshots. Later, after more gunshots, Williams said she called 911.
Then, she said, she heard a repeated warning from the RV.
“Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode,” she remembers the recorded warning saying.
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Update: Damaged AT&T Network Infrastructure; Internet, 911 Disrupted, Planes Grounded
Via: Nashville Tennessean:
Widespread 911 issues in the Nashville area were reported after AT&T wireless and internet service were disrupted on Friday hours following a massive explosion downtown.
AT&T internet and phone service were disrupted in the area about 12 p.m. Friday. The outages continued into the evening.
Users around the country reported disruptions in service, but there was a concentration in the Nashville area and Middle Tennessee, growing in reach from Kentucky to Alabama as more reports came in.
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Via: WKRN:
A large explosion was reported in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning.
The explosion happened in the area of Second Avenue and Broadway near Commerce Street occurred around 6:30 am Friday. Heavy black smoke could be seen rising above the affected area.
Someone who use to live in Nashville told me it was an AT&T building.
It’s true:
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/12/25/att-outage-internet-down-hours-after-nashville-explosion/4045278001/
Widespread 911 issues in the Nashville area were reported after AT&T wireless and internet service were disrupted on Friday hours following a massive explosion downtown.
AT&T internet and phone service were disrupted in the area about 12 p.m. Friday. The outages continued into the evening.
Users around the country reported disruptions in service, but there was a concentration in the Nashville area and Middle Tennessee, growing in reach from Kentucky to Alabama as more reports came in.
If human history is any indication, especially over the last couple centuries or so, this is only the leading edge of a trend sure to continue — and expand — in the weeks and months ahead.
Whether it’s individual and/or collective action, or state-sponsored terror (coming soon to a screen near you, “GLADIO Goes Home”) by way of creating a little Hegelian action, it’s coming.
The fact that there was an audible “warning” emanating from the vehicle says that the perpetrators value human life and actively sought to move people away from the epicenter.
This was aimed squarely at infrastructure damage. A trend I suspect we’ll see increasing in the near term.
Miraculix, I don’t necessarily disagree with this (and always appreciate your comments),
“The fact that there was an audible “warning” emanating from the vehicle says that the perpetrators value human life and actively sought to move people away from the epicenter.”
but population conditioning is a potential aspect. Pavlov must be in that Hegelian bag of tricks.
And if AT&T was the target, why not bolt cutters? “Leading edge” seems all too accurate. This is extremely weird.
You’re quite right, Dale. For what it’s worth, the GLADIO reference was referring to the “social conditioning” aspect, in relation to state-sponsored black ops against civilian targets.
State terror traditionally pursues heavy collateral damage, as the most effective/efficient means and method of inculcating group fear and maximizing social “traction” for a little Hegelian “action”, if you get my drift. (nudge nudge wink wink)
The presence of the audible warning infers the actors were seeking to minimize collateral damage, implying the lack of *direct* deep state action. Indirect deep state influence is, of course, only quantifiable in hindsight and when one chooses to do their homework.
Sadly, the distinct lack of independent thinkers and thought processes in mainstream society isn’t really any surprise to those who’ve wasted years studying the centuries (and centuries) of conspiratorial activity already on the books.
When the general public swallowed the blinkered semantic construction that is “conspiracy theory” whole twenty-plus years ago, it was the last shadow on the cave wall for this history nerd. Run to the hills.
At least we’ll be near the bottom of the list when it comes to the state-sponsored forced vaccinations (sterilizations?) fast approaching us in the west.
All hail Emperor Gates and our magnificent monopolist Overlords. They’ve been working toward this endgame for well over a century now.
I’d been secretly hoping for the last 20 years or so now that we wouldn’t reach this point in contemporary history until my turn on the third rock was completed, but it doesn’t like we’re going to be so lucky.
I wondered if it was someone’s attempt to give their suicide a little
colour (& political significance?)
An article on Makow suggests this is part of an ongoing conflict between the CIA + NSA, but use your own discernment to work out if that’s disinfo: https://www.henrymakow.com/2020/12/brabantian-nsa-cia-war.html?_ga=2.19340664.1138034270.1608983784-1543065744.1590740843
Personally, the node-takedown theory might be more plausible, given the apparent effort to prevent casualties, in which case this might be the first asymmetrical action by the patriots.
Spot on, Freeman. While Makow’s assertion of ongoing internecine “deep state” conflict is always on the table when it comes to possible sources or influences for any such event, what struck me as (most) unusual was the looped warning audible on the fixed camera playback linked here.
If it IS interagency, the rabbit hole of possibility is basically bottomless. Games within games within games. Why limit it to N$A/C1A? There’s currently open conflict between the D1A/C1A rising all the way to Wurlitzer level, getting play in the mainstream.
Which is the best reason of all to interpret the situation as something other than what they’re telling us it is. Cover for another brother.
The warning message is a fresh development. It’s akin to what you’d hear played over PA at a blasting site in the time leading up to detonation. Don’t recall hearing anything like it under these circumstances previously.
While deep state actors are certainly capable of adding such a clever ruse to cover their proverbial tracks, it just doesn’t feel like something any but the most clever sociopaths would be thinking about while planning a large GLADIO-type event.
Which is why I find myself leaning toward asymmetric conflict, striking at infrastructure — even if only symbolically — by way of sending a message. Taking the time to design and produce the system to produce the warning makes more sense here, character-wise.
As for the “colorful suicide”, I hadn’t considered that until I read it here. Certainly plausible, but it doesn’t account well for the choice of target and/or location. Or the warning message.
If the press trots out a “perfect” scapegoat in the near future, I’ll be more inclined to accept the deep state argument. Not that I know any more than anyone else. Just thinkin’ out loud, which will probably be my downfall one of these dystopian days…
If the press trots out a “perfect” scapegoat in the near future, I’ll be more inclined to accept the deep state argument.
It’s about at that point already.
“5G paranoia”
https://www.wsmv.com/news/fbi-agents-investigating-if-5g-paranoia-was-behind-nashville-bombing/article_952f937e-47f9-11eb-b1c3-bfda1689fb18.html
Sitting around a campfire up in the Netherlands late one night a couple summers ago, while playing a little music festival at the guitar player’s brothers rural retreat on an old hippie commune turned arts center, I was more “relaxed” than usual and started laying out my larger world view without any of the usual “social filtering” applied.
It was the old hippies who actually resonated with the “unorthodox” ideas spewing into the fire — all eerily close to where we’ve already come in only 2.5 years, in reflection. The thing is, these folks were actually young, idealistic types in the summer of ’68 here in Europe, witnessing (and suffering) the knock-on fascist “counter-revolution”.
There’s a key analogy here that I often share with more historically astute tour clients here in the WW2 zone: Germany lost the war, the fascists did not. It doesn’t take much analysis to discover that fascists, the globalists and the monopolists have all run in the same cliques for quite awhile now.
Based on a few years of personal experience in and around the media and PR/marketing space, I also like to compare the narrative process in the mainstream media space as something akin to accretion, similar to a precipitate in chemistry terms.
It’s the easiest way to get to the nature of the “limited hangout” technique, also usefully viewed as a “moving target” used to maintain the axis of a collection of disparate ideas (talking points) used to frame the “conversation”. Which is, of course, more like a one-way dictation process, when viewed realistically.
A “suicide bomber” steers the discussion away from potential organized, collective action, framing the problem in a standard “disgruntled loner” meme, the go-to technique used to inject a false image of stability in the “mass mind”…
“Don’t worry, there’s no revolutionary activity in your backyard, it’s just another crazy person who believes _________ and _________, who therefore has zero credibility and therefore deserves none of your attention.”
Thanks for all your effort over the years to offer quality external data points, Kev.
Perfect scapegoat; check.
We have some serious factors accumulating.
COG, NSAM-57, Insurrection Act, Collapse, Lockdowns – augmenting collapse or Marshal Law conditioning? And of course mass vaccinations.
Does NSAM-57 facilitate execution of the Insurrection Act while disarming a notorious three letter agency? And both of those feel very different than the COG preparations in our face earlier this year. But are they? Pull any lever for a bad result. This prequel to Mad Max, I’d prefer that movie never made or lived.
“I’m just saying a Merry Christmas.”
https://youtu.be/UrDynB0ITcs?t=63
One begins to wonder when the “mysterious” FEMA camps will re-enter the narrative.
Will it be as “emergency housing” for the millions of homeless?
“Internment camps” for the unvaccinated?
Guantanamo for the “domestic terrorists” gathering stones and sharpening sticks as we speak?