{"id":71760,"date":"2013-11-11T05:59:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T10:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=71760"},"modified":"2013-11-11T17:13:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:13:32","slug":"have-you-heard-of-grid-ex-ii-it-starts-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/technology\/have-you-heard-of-grid-ex-ii-it-starts-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you heard of Grid Ex II? It starts Wednesday."},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Logo for Grid Ex II, which starts Wednesday morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is a New York Times<\/em> article<\/a> 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.]<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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<\/a>) and “terrorist event.” <\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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There was similar discussion about the Boston Marathon bombing on 4\/15. I could not chase this down as well as 9\/11 or 7\/7, but a simultaneous drill and actual incident were part of the scenario that emerged. It makes sense, in a way: if lots of your first responders know there is a “drill” they will be prepared for something, and it accounts for the presence of a lot of other, unusual people on scene, such as lots guys from Blackwater. Oh, they’re just here for the “drill.” <\/p>\n

Drills make a great cover story because you can attribute any pre-discussion that turns up on the Internet to the drill and not the real event. And if anyone picks up the signal in advance, oh, well, it’s just another one of those boring government training exercises.<\/p>\n

Whether or not there will be an actual blackout incident coincidental with a drill (which runs all day Wednesday and half the day Thursday), the idea that the power grid is vulnerable to hacking is a profound concern, especially given that if nuclear power plants don’t have electricity, they tend to melt down. Our entire society is dependent on electricity. Looking around my apartment, the list of things that I can use without electricity includes my acoustic guitar, my pocket knife, a few candles, my bed and my Rubik’s cube.<\/p>\n

My gas heat runs on electricity. Electricity pumps water up to my apartment. Without electricity I would have no way to watch propaganda movies that try to lie to me about electricity.<\/p>\n

Besides terrorists, there is one little problem that ‘the authorities’ are not talking about. There is a lot of sunspot activity these days. We are having constant coronal mass ejections from the Sun — that is, energy bursts — and if the Earth is positioned in such a way that the burst aligns with a sensitive part of the grid, a lot of places could lose power. (This creates an issue for nuclear power plants, which I will be covering in Friday’s subscriber edition.)<\/p>\n

The Very, Very Realistic Chart for Grid Ex II<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since this is a government event with many participants, there is a published schedule.<\/p>\n

Per the official schedule, the start of Grid Ex II is at 9:30 am on Wednesday. For a location, I am using Atlanta, since that’s the headquarters of this thing called NERC — the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which is the sponsor of the event. In case you see a future for yourself writing comic books or thriller movies, here is the Wikipedia page for NERC<\/a>. I had not heard of this thing (which has a history back to 1968), despite having grown up doing things like reading transcripts of power grid communications.<\/p>\n

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The chart for the commencement of Grid Ex II on Wednesday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The starting time for Grid Ex II is a hot chart. It’s not the horoscope of nothing; it is definitely something. This week, two points pass through the Uranus-Pluto square: first the Moon, conjunct Uranus and square Pluto, which you can see in this chart, and then Venus, conjunct Pluto and square Uranus, which is also clear. So this is a week when the Ur-Plu square will be highlighted by inner planets coming through its region of space.<\/p>\n

Now, to give the other side of the interpretation, I could see where anyone who tunes in to this event (even as just an “exercise”) could be made nervous by it, since this chart certainly looks like a “disruption” (Moon-Uranus) to the “homeland” (4th house), with a militant feel (Aries).<\/p>\n

Note as well<\/strong> — late add — Uranus is the very image of electricity. It is an electrical object, the cosmic fire, complete with all these electrical inventions that surround us.<\/p>\n

The chart also has Pholus rising. That’s the planet for the genie out of the bottle; the ‘small cause with the big effect’. They have picked a date and time for their rehearsal project that yields a rather realistic chart for what their “exercise” is enacting.<\/p>\n

What’s going to happen this week? I don’t know. Can we prevent it? I think that by talking about it, we signal that there is awareness of the potential for a false flag event. The NSA, after all, is intercepting all of our communications, and not for nothing. I am sure they follow what is trending in email, blogs, Facebook and Twitter, but which is not splashed on the networks.<\/p>\n

Let’s consider the spiritual angle for a moment, though.<\/p>\n

Just the fact that we have to live in a world where this kind of thing is even a consideration, even possible — and that it’s possible some species of the shadow government would be doing it — is an atrocity and a form of psychological torture.<\/p>\n

Time and again, I come to the reluctant observation that there is a war against the people<\/strong><\/a> — one that takes many forms, from various forms of criminalizing trivia to outright attacks to psychological ploys like 4\/15 and turning metro Boston into a war zone overnight, which of course sent a shockwave through the entire nation and indeed the world.<\/p>\n

Another dimension of the torture of prolonged war, be it civil or international, is a kind of ‘sleep deprivation’ — in the form of depriving society of peace of mind for any extended period of time. We’re always braced for another presumably inevitable shock. It is nearly impossible to run a civil society, or to properly organize one’s own thoughts and one’s own life, when people are always waiting for the next thing to happen, braced to be in reaction\/response mode.<\/p>\n

I think we are better off in proactive mode, as it does seem to be true that vigilance is the price of liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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