Have you heard of Grid Ex II? It starts Wednesday.

You have probably not heard of Grid Ex II — the Grid Security Exercise, set for 9:30 am Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. It’s a coordinated blackout simulation exercise being conducted throughout the United States to test readiness for such an event — not a garden variety grid outage but rather one initiated by some kind of naughty behavior, ostensibly by guys in caves or black-hat hackers.

Logo for Grid Ex II, which starts Wednesday morning.
Logo for Grid Ex II, which starts Wednesday morning.

Here is a New York Times article about the exercise that is probably getting a lot of hits today. That’s because it’s just about the only article you’ll find on the topic [I have posted a piece from a small newspaper to the comments.]

The first Grid Ex drill was run in November 2011, and from what I have been reading, this is now a biennial event, meaning it will happen every two years. The power in your area is not supposed to go out; various private and civil authorities will be pretending that it has, however.

What is the big deal? The issue that has some people concerned is not that it’s a bad idea to run drills; that is probably a great idea, assuming they’re real.

The problem is that several times there has been a drill or exercise connected to a false-flag event. ‘False-flag’ means terrorism blamed on someone else, or exploited by someone else, for some purpose other than the originally stated intent of the terrorists.

The two biggest terrorist events of the century — the 9/11 incident in the U.S. and the 7/7 incident in England — we both run the day of drills that were pretty much exact replicas of what actually happened. Part of the confusion on 9/11 was that air traffic controllers and people at NORAD were confused by the simultaneous “drill” (called Operation Northern Vigilance) and “terrorist event.”

It is amazing that this has not been a focus of much more wide-scale discussion. I know that lots of people have read The Celestine Prophesy and all, but when is a coincidence a little too much to be a synchronicity? We’re not talking about randomly hearing five Beatles songs the same day.

Similarly in London on 7/7/05, the four train stations involved in a bomb plot, allegedly conducted by homespun terrorists from up in Leeds, were exactly those that were being used as part of a government drill — that same day, same place and at the same time.

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