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The blackout has taught us all a lesson. We are not secure. We may have shiny new locks on the front doors but the foundations of the nation are cracked and rotted.
Well, the nation is NOT secure. This blackout may not have been an act of terrorism, but it proves that such an act was not only possible but capable of producing a wide area result. and yet the department of Homeland Security has never once taken steps to make the power system more able to survive single-point failures. Nor for that matter have we seen the Homeland security people give more than a passing glance at the MSBlast worm ripping through the internet as I type this. Homeland Security hasn't made the homeland more secure. It just spies on the citizens. Which proves the Department of Homeland Security is really not about protecting the people, but merely keeping an eye on them.
It may be a common expression, but why would someone whisper IN THE DARK exactly?
And how important was Detroit in the murmurings, and why has it been observed to be particularly quiet there still?
(Just rambling about coincidences.)
Show the public everything will be better with draconian security.
Shares of alternative energy companies posted some of the biggest gains on the Nasdaq Friday, after the largest blackout in North American history sparked interest in businesses aiming to remake electric grids.
The massive outage, and a vow by U.S. President Bush to modernize the system, boosted shares of nearly every sector related to power.
cbs.marketwatch.com...[CF414330-8726-4031-B8F1-8E68BEF60418]
Regardless of how the blackout happened, who is profiting from it? Look at the NEW money.
This is all threshold testing,to see how much garbage people are willing to digest before they puke,there are a lot of parts to the story,so many in fact,that most people can't see enough of it to see any of it.