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Spain & Portugal Blackout

- a little bird who often has good information is making it known that they believe the point of origin for the blackout is a high voltage substation 'Elorrio' which is operated by Spains national grid operator. It was a cyber attack targeting the SCADA system injecting malaware that  exploited a known vulnerability in Siemens S7-1200PLCs. More info to follow.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 16d51 Comments

Foratunately Michael has a wonderful sense of humour.

Janice Evans ● 12d

To Anna.

Janice Evans ● 12d

Think you should read C.Bs post he also mentions Michael, get your facts right first I think.

Janice Evans ● 12d

Chris mentioned Anna and Michael's posts, the posts are not all about you Anna.

Janice Evans ● 12d

When I open the Forum Page (1)I look forward to reading some headlines of interest Anna.It seems you have initiated some 6 of 20 topics on this current front page (nearly a third) ... and via the "Forum Search" facility it appears that you've posted over 1000 times within the past two years.Of course you're free to do so ...until the Moderators step in ...but for me your subjects are a turn-off.Bring back Bobby Osbourne and Stuart Kerr as a swop I'd say!

Jim Lawes ● 12d

No I didn't but I did phrase it badly.What I meant is that Anna (or anyone else for that matter) shouldn't be allowed to boost up a series of their own posts that nobody else was engaging with. I should point out (to avoid the risk of being branded a 'libellist') that Anna doesn't post in the wee small hours as I suggested. I tend not to look at the forum less in the evening so when I see loads of her posts appearing at the top in the morning I presume she has been up to nocturnal mischief.

Francis Rowe ● 12d

I think you all need a lecture from our non existent police about what constitutes libel.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 12d

There is room for extremism on this forum, it lightens it up. Anna needs to take heed and tone down her offerings before being shown the door.After all I admire Alan Hope, leader of The Official Monster Raving Loony party, and admit to casting a watchful eye on the surface of Loch Ness every time I'm up there.

Denis I. Fox ● 12d

It's only a matter of time though Anna ...

Chris Blackwell ● 12d

I have NEVER -1. posted on lizards2. posted on aliens3. said the earth was flat 4. posted in the early hourswhy are you lot such a bunch of libelists ????? And Jim - why do you read my posts if they offend you so much ?!

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 12d

There are orange Lizards, he won't get away with it if he has the flyaway hair though.

Janice Evans ● 13d

"She does tend to spam the forum by boosting her own posts in the wee small hours which, speaks to a desperate loneliness but nevertheless shouldn't be allowed."Did you mean disallowed ?

Richard Greenhough ● 13d

"Lizard people, think we have aliens amongst us"Nowadays they come with orange skin, small hands and flyaway hair.

Richard Greenhough ● 13d

Anna never did get back to me regarding my shill payments which apparently I am receiving for responding to her posts by the automatic gainsaying of anything she said.Might pay for some tin foil to make hats.

Chris Blackwell ● 13d

Tins of what Philippa, we always have supply of water, cereals, tinned fish,what else ?

Janice Evans ● 13d

Don't think anyone has suggested a total ban on Anna, however I have not read every post.

Janice Evans ● 13d

Thanks to Anna's tips I'm making good extra income as a crisis actor.I agree she definitely shouldn't be banned as she provides an interesting insight into a sub-culture which we probably should be keeping an eye on as it gives an insight into which ways Russia believes it can undermine our society. She does tend to spam the forum by boosting her own posts in the wee small hours which, speaks to a desperate loneliness but nevertheless shouldn't be allowed.

Francis Rowe ● 13d

The French have been told to have a survival pack and we had to have something put together for Covid in case we were ill or couldn't go out, and the same for winter.We should have all learnt by now that it is risky trying to live in the Just-In-Time scenario.  Wind up and solar radios and torches are now available - whereas once upon a time it was just my Trevor Baylis wind up radio and we always had some supplies eg some tins and a few bottles of water and cartons of milk and medication.  Not a lot - just some.  Please be aware that lithium and water are not a good mix - so keep them apart.Remember Trevor Baylis who lived on Eel Pie Island?  What a wonderful inventor he was!

Philippa Bond ● 13d

I have my survival pack, supply of Beechams powders.

Janice Evans ● 13d

Ah she has one follower 😉 Lizard people, think we have aliens amongst us, might as well join in.

Janice Evans ● 13d

Personally speaking I quite like Anna and Michael's posts. I find them often hilarious, always bonkers and have good fun responding to them to see how far I can push things.By the way ... the Earth is flat, lizard people, chem trails, big pharma and the sheeple etc.

Chris Blackwell ● 13d

Some people truly believe everything they read, personally I don't see the benefit of Anna's posts on a local Forum on those subjects most of which we have already heard, people can visit those conspiracy sites if they choose to and don't think she will recruit many followers on here.

Janice Evans ● 13d

The fact that it's not local issues could, perhaps, be overlooked if there were some engagement in the follow up. Alas, it's just copy and paste from from a sauce bottle closely followed by a deferral to another conspiracy.So yes, partial ban.

Mark Frost ● 13d

Obviously I'm sympathetic to her mental health issues, but it is becomimg slightly tiresome. Maybe she could be limited (say) to two posts a week?

Davey Harris ● 13d

When we click on the Forum each day to read topics of interest ...I think that we are getting fed upwith certain posters dominating our discussion and information space.I've been a reader of the Forum (and an occasional contributor) for some 20 years. The advertisers can't be too happy to perhaps notice a declining readership.Are the Moderators happy with the,in my view, ludicrous postings of you know who?

Jim Lawes ● 13d

you re confusing me with Andrew J.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 14d

You do seem to have a bit of an obsession with Justin Trudeau, Anna.

Richard Greenhough ● 14d

Andrew takes an unhealthy interest in Justin T. Should we warn Justin he has a stalker ?  ;)Justin is NOT my friend; handsome but evil doesnt work for me.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 14d

Says someone who obviously spends a large part of their life on social media.

Anne England ● 15d

Philippa, accepting that we need fossilised fuels up to and beyond 2050, we are paying overseas countries for the same whilst sitting on a superior product which this government refuses to utilise.In Lincolnshire alone there is an area of 480b cubic meters of unused recoverable gas. Madness.Even Starmer's chief advisor, Tony Blair no less, has seen the light and advised his puppet PM to retract from his drive to net zero, and revert to carbon capture.Incidentally, as you asked, I spent time in Cubs, Scouts, and a Hampstead church youth club. I believe those pubescent years of activity did me no harm at all.

Denis I. Fox ● 15d

Trudeau announced he was going to step down on Jan 6th and finally left office on Mar 14th.During this time there was a steady increase in support for the liberals, and a smaller drop in support for the conservatives.Anna's friend stepping down to have more free time dangling his feet off the side of a yacht floating in the black sea might have been a factor, but Trump banging on about Canada becoming the 51st state sealed the win for the liberals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2025_Canadian_federal_election#/media/File:Opinion_polling_during_the_pre-campaign_period_of_the_45th_Canadian_federal_election.svg

Andrew Jones ● 15d

I think Anna's friend Justin Trudeau standing down also had something to do with the swing back to the Liberals.

Richard Greenhough ● 15d

So the liberals in Canada went from polling 20 percent in the opinion polls in January 2025, to over 40 percent in the election that just took place.Nothing to do with fraud, but everything to do with Donald Trump."It's Trump wot won it!" to paraphrase a famous Sun headline from 1992.

Andrew Jones ● 15d

You often see beach huts with small solar panels, rucksacks with them, vans with on the back, ambulances with them on top etc.  I think they're here to stay.https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/how-community-energy-schemes-can-help-the-uk-reach-net-zero/

Philippa Bond ● 15d

Well that's true.

Janice Evans ● 16d

On the bright side - the Spanish, Portuguese and French got a valuable reminder about the importance of keeping cash and also learnt to talk to one another for a few hrs instead of scrolling on phones :)

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 16d

"They used encrypted comms, spoke Russian & French, used night vision goggles and used signal jammers."And all that as a way of impacting on an election on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean where few people speak Russian ? Anna, have you considered a career writing fiction books ?

Richard Greenhough ● 16d

The Canadian election result is announced and the power comes back on..North America know that Europe have form when it comes to election interference; the Italian satellite 'Eduardo' was used to instigate election fraud in America.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 16d

Or even a wind-up or solar powered one?Weren't you ever in the Scouts or the forces?I don't think you'll ever find it is just a case of one or the other.  However, there is this craze of trying to run things with as little cost as possible and that often means centrally reducing the management and workforce which often leads to a lack of coordination and working knowledge starting at the top.BTW solar panels no longer need sunshine to work - they just need daylight.  Have you noticed how many churches now have them?https://www.jojusolar.co.uk/portfolio_page/salisbury-cathedral-solar-roof/

Philippa Bond ● 16d

Reverting to the subject heading "Spain & Portugal blackout":Apparently these countries and large swathes of France are reliant on a net zero system based in one country, Spain I believe.A spook upset the system and as a consequence two major European countries and parts of southern France were completely blacked out for almost a day.Surely this reliance on one energy system, without any resilient backup should put paid to Ed Miliband's ridiculous aim to net zero.When the wind doesn't blow, and the sun don't shine- we're stuck!

Denis I. Fox ● 16d

No, 'we' won't (a little bird told me).

Anne England ● 16d

"We will have to see how this develops.."It develops in your head and it would be preferable if it stayed there.

Mark Frost ● 16d

Outages were commonplace across Spain all the time that my sister-in-law lived there.Sadly this simple fact does not meet the narrative of conspiracy theorist nutjobs who, without their 'authorative sources, would be mecifully silent.

N V Brooks ● 16d

"Ras" Putin - see Anna's post at 19:02.

Richard Greenhough ● 16d

Who makes up this bollocks?

Brian Green ● 16d

another source Im not familiar with - is suggesting this is an attempt to stop a steal of the election in Canada by voting machine where voting starts today. If so its not clear how SCYTL  would be able to determine where fraudulent ballots would be injected in Canada.We will have to see how this develops..

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 16d

Brookers above would have you believe this is commonplace. Even the owner of the power grid Red Electrica is calling this incident extraordinary and exceptional !

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 16d

more - 5 operatives executed the attack. 3 were on site dressed as maintenance workers, 2 were operating remotely from a safe house in Marseille. They used encrypted comms, spoke Russian & French, used night vision goggles and used signal jammers.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 16d

I will try to post this againa small explosive device equivalent to 2kg of C4 was detonated at the station at the same time to prevent rerouting. The substation was disabled, no casualties reported.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 16d

I just tried to post about a small explosion but is not letting me post. Says it all..

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 16d

Or..........it was one of the thermal trigger issues that have happened time and time again in Portugal and Spain.  These were happening when my sister-in-law lived in Madrid in the 1980s and 1990s when blackouts and brownouts were routine. Still, it provides fodder for the local nutjobs.

N V Brooks ● 16d