Yeah, I was just reading about this Minerva stuff. WTF?
Also, I woke up 3 hours ago and my DirecTV receiver showed that FOX News had been offline for 6 hours as I was sleeping. That's around the same time as this spirit cooking stuff seems to have started gaining traction on social media. It's still offline. I've had DirecTV for about 6 years and I've only ever seen that message during storms or severe weather.
AT&T owns DirecTV and Clinton is their top recipient:
I looked into it and it's been happening for days for some people:
http://malled.blog.palmbeachpost.com...x-news-outage/
Just a bit weird and pretty convenient timing for that to happen.