US Power Grid Down Exercise, Nov. 13-14, 2013

[Positive Vibe Merchant]

Hi All,

If this has been posted elsewhere, please merge or remove.

I just came across this article regarding a drill in November to bring down the US Power Grid.

http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/08/28/power-grid-down-drill-to-be-conducted-by-us-government/

Unsure of whether this is even a possibility, as it would pretty much disable the whole country for the length of time it would take, but it is interesting nonetheless.

Thoughts/Comments?
PVM

[ghostrider]

that drill will be trumped by real events that will happen way before november, remember remember the eleventh of september ...

[PHARAOH]

9/11/2001 9+11+2+0+0+1= (23) 2x3= (6).------- 9/11/13 = 9+11+13 = (33), 33 -11= 22 - 9 = ((13)). 9/11/2+0+1+3= (6), (9/11/6), 9+11+2+0+1+3= (26), 9+11+6= (26) 2x6= (12) 6+12= (18) 18/3= (6) or 666

Hmmm.... just thinking, out loud. :wacko: :rapture: :flypig:

[Positive Vibe Merchant]

Bit of a stretch Pharoah lol

[mrchunkytown]

that drill will be trumped by real events that will happen way before november, remember remember the eleventh of september ...

im pretty sure its; remember, remember the fifth of November, gun powder, treason in plot...

[Mandala]

Are they up to something once again, or is this just a drill? Is it ever just a drill, or is it an opportunity for a false flag?

http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/09/07/when-the-lights-go-out-on-november-13-2013/

http://etheric.com/electric-grid-blackout-planned-november-13th-14th-2013/

http://projectcamelotportal.com/


Published on Saturday, 14 September 2013 00:45
Written by Kerry Cassidy

"...Electric Grid Blackout Planned for November 13th and 14th, 2013

Compounding my concerns expressed in the previous posting about the FEMA emergency preparedness for Region 3, the recent announcement of a two-day electric grid shut down in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico on November 13th and 14th, 2013 has me even more concerned."-- Paul LaViolette

http://etheric.com/electric-grid-blackout-planned-november-13th-14th-2013/

He cites 2 Camelot witness testimonies in his article...

Jake Simpson http://projectcamelot.org/jake_simpson.html

Electrical Engineer testimony http://projectcamelot.org/electrical_engineer.html

Category: Kerry's Blog

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November may prove to be an extremely interesting month!

[Operator]

I heard McCanney speak about this. Then I went on the internet to look for more info about it.
What I noticed is that the number one links by Google are more or less the ones you listed.

All alternative news websites ... no official announcement. Such an impacting drill should be
thoroughly planned ... long time before etc. How come we can't find official
decisions/announcements ?

McCanney thinks the timing of Nov. 14 is suspicious because then ISON is passing Mercury ...
He thinks they might orchestrate a false flag event and blame ISON for it.

Another thing crossed my mind: perhaps they cut off all power to prevent damage to the grid?

Who knows but an interesting time if this is all true.

[avid]

There are many many references to something coming from space which will take down our power. Some people will go underground until it quietens, however - we don't know when the 'panic button' will be pressed - nor will it be stated in MSM? We've been fed information surreptitiously via TV shows (lately in the UK http://www.channel4.com/programmes/blackout/4od) and via movies. Therefore - get prepared, and help your neighbours in any circumstance. Thanks to you all giving warnings - we have had a chance at least. From outer space a great magnetic wave - no amount of chemtrails will suffice. We will survive it - just dig and plant for our own survival - and love our neighbours.

[Mandala]

I am like you operator, looked for mainstream posting, but didn't find any. I will continue to look.

[ruthy]

Wow this is alarming. Do you know that Comet Ison, (which is also thought to be Nibiru, since nibiru is a "comet-like planet" has a tail and a comet trajectory, but is still a planet), anyways, that a close passage of it is also coincidentally supposed to occur around those dates! Could these be a preventative measure for an EMP blast?? they don't want the systems to fry so they shut them down??

Not sure, but for me this seems like more than just a coincidence. Thoughts??

[ruthy]

Also, they are saying a drill for region 3 of FEMA and I am remembering these videos that I posted a few days ago about FEMA making preparations for this region. Apologies to those who already saw these, but those who haven't it's interesting how all this activity is being planned for this SAME REGION. Also, though I saw on other websites that the grid will be turned off not only in just this region but in Canada, Mexico and the rest of the US. IS this localized ? Or everywhere? Anyone know?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJiQkKoIeFw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK7nO7eRaQo

Here is an article on Comet Ison, stating that November of this year is when it will pass the closest to us the first time.

http://www.space.com/19973-comet-ison.html

[ruthy]

oh, and as a further note OCTOBER 1st is another close date of passage and in the video I posted it says that FEMA ordered all emergency supplies must MUST be delivered to Region 3 and another base I believe in Texas by October 1st, no later. Next, we have nuclear weapons being shipped with no paper trail to a base in region 3. We also have military being ORDERED to take a emergency preparedness and disaster training course before Oct. 1st. This can't be all just a coincidence. That FEMA is up to something, that they are preparing and not telling the general public is very very alarming.

[ruthy]

sorry to keep posting , but i did some internet dumpster diving and found this article by the NYTimes written last month. When you see how involved this "drill" is it's very shocking. If it's a test for our national security, why is Mexico and Canada also part of the drill? Is this also a sign of the North American Union? Sounds very fishy. Recommend reading this article, it's 2 pages long.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/us/as-worries-over-the-power-grid-rise-a-drill-will-simulate-a-knockout-blow.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3

[doodah]

Let's not forget everything we've been practicing in Bill's "How to Heal the World Thread." Take a deep breath!

[ghostrider]

what concerns me is when the ptb run disaster drills, they usually create one while pretending to simulate an event ...

[Mandala]

Ruthy, you just posted what I was looking for. A NY Times Post, ( mainstream media), about this drill. Thanks.

[JohnJ]

Talked with my FEMA budie and he claims not to know about the Nov. 13-14 drill.
He said he would ask about it and let me know. He is a low level guy but he is all about FEMA and he knows when and where all the crap happens. So him not knowing is making me think BS.

[Operator]

Do you know that Comet Ison, (which is also thought to be Nibiru, since nibiru is a "comet-like planet" has a tail and a comet trajectory, but is still a planet), anyways, that a close passage of it is also coincidentally supposed to occur around those dates!

McCanney explicitly said that this is a normal comet and has nothing to do with Nibiru or planet X etc.
At that date it will be interacting with/passing Mercury.

Also what he did say was that comets are NOT dirty snowballs and DO electrically interact with planetary bodies and the sun.


Could these be a preventative measure for an EMP blast?? they don't want the systems to fry so they shut them down??
Yes, perhaps. It also crossed my mind. See my post #2



Also, though I saw on other websites that the grid will be turned off not only in just this region but in Canada, Mexico and the rest of the US. IS this localized ? Or everywhere? Anyone know?

I think there is so much vagueness because they really don't know what's gonna happen and what they are really going to do.
They can just package it as a drill when push comes to shove and I think they might want to mask preemptive power shutdowns.
(To prevent panic ?)


Talked with my FEMA budie and he claims not to know about the Nov. 13-14 drill.

Thanks, that's the kind of info I was expecting ...


He said he would ask about it and let me know.
Ok, let us know (either positive or negative) what the answer is.


So him not knowing is making me think BS.
I wouldn't qualify it as BS.

It may have to do with part of my post #2


Another thing crossed my mind: perhaps they cut off all power to prevent damage to the grid?

McCanney confirmed that he expects electrical interaction between the comet and other solar system bodies.
But probably not strong enough to interfere with (large parts of) our electrical grid.

Although they might sell it as such and switch of the grid to bring in all kind of nasty stuff like martial
law and all the yadi yadi yada that has been talked about extensively before.

There were also 'impacting' drills in the past where they shut down the internet etc. etc. but in practice no one really noticed anything.

So I am not convinced that this is IT. Doesn't harm of course to be on heightened alert ... one day something might happen.
Heightened awareness has prevented events from happening before I guess.

[marlowe]

Yes..But McCanny also says people should not watch youtube videos...as if everything on youtube
is fake or a hoax.....I think McCanny is operating on too little information...But

we will find out soon enough...

[Mandala]

s4KOmEE0Zm0

[Mandala]

I believe we have been looking for FEMA drills, but the coordinator is NERC. It's code name is Friday Ex II.

WASHINGTON — The electric grid, as government and private experts describe it, is the glass jaw of American industry. If an adversary lands a knockout blow, they fear, it could black out vast areas of the continent for weeks; interrupt supplies of water, gasoline, diesel fuel and fresh food; shut down communications; and create disruptions of a scale that was only hinted at by Hurricane Sandy and the attacks of Sept. 11.

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This is why thousands of utility workers, business executives, National Guard officers, F.B.I. antiterrorism experts and officials from government agencies in the United States, Canada and Mexico are preparing for an emergency drill in November that will simulate physical attacks and cyberattacks that could take down large sections of the power grid.

They will practice for a crisis unlike anything the real grid has ever seen, and more than 150 companies and organizations have signed up to participate.

“This is different from a hurricane that hits X, Y and Z counties in the Southeast and they have a loss of power for three or four days,” said the official in charge of the drill, Brian M. Harrell of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, known as NERC. “We really want to go beyond that.”

One goal of the drill, called GridEx II, is to explore how governments would react as the loss of the grid crippled the supply chain for everyday necessities.

“If we fail at electricity, we’re going to fail miserably,” Curt Hébert, a former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a recent conference held by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Mr. Harrell said that previous exercises were based on the expectation that electricity “would be up and running relatively quick” after an attack.

Now, he said, the goal is to “educate the federal government on what their expectations should or shouldn’t be.” The industry held a smaller exercise two years ago in which 75 utilities, companies and agencies participated, but this one will be vastly expanded and will be carried out in a more anxious mood.

Most of the participants will join the exercise from their workplaces, with NERC, in Washington, announcing successive failures. One example, organizers say, is a substation break-in that officials initially think is an attempt to steal copper. But instead, the intruder uses a USB drive to upload a virus into a computer network.

The drill is part of a give-and-take in the past few years between the government and utilities that has exposed the difficulties of securing the electric system.

The grid is essential for almost everything, but it is mostly controlled by investor-owned companies or municipal or regional agencies. Ninety-nine percent of military facilities rely on commercial power, according to the White House.

The utilities play down their abilities, in comparison with the government’s. “They have the intelligence operation, the standing army, the three-letter agencies,” said Scott Aaronson, senior director of national security policy at the Edison Electric Institute, the trade association of investor-owned utilities. “We have the grid operations expertise.”

That expertise involves running 5,800 major power plants and 450,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines, monitored and controlled by a staggering mix of devices installed over decades. Some utilities use their own antique computer protocols and are probably safe from hacking — what the industry calls “security through obscurity.”

But others rely on Windows-based control systems that are common to many industries. Some of them run on in-house networks, but computer security experts say they are not confident that all the connections to the public Internet have been discovered and secured. Many may be vulnerable to software — known as malware — that can disable the systems or destroy their ability to communicate, leaving their human operators blind about the positions of switches, the flows of current and other critical parameters. Experts say a sophisticated hacker could also damage hard-to-replace equipment.

In an effort to draw utilities and the government closer, the industry recently established the Electricity Sub-Sector Coordinating Council, made up of high-level executives, to meet with federal officials. The first session is next month.

Preparation for the November drill comes as Congress is debating laws that could impose new standards to protect the grid from cyberattacks, but many in the industry, some of whom would like such rules, doubt that they can pass.

The drill is also being planned as conferences, studies and even works of fiction are raising near-apocalyptic visions of catastrophes involving the grid.

A National Academy of Sciences report last year said that terrorists could cause broad hardship for months with physical attacks on hard-to-replace components. An emerging effort led in part by R. James Woolsey, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is gearing up to pressure state legislatures to force utilities to protect equipment against an electromagnetic pulse, which could come from solar activity or be caused by small nuclear weapons exploded at low altitude, frying crucial components.

An attack using an electromagnetic pulse is laid out in extensive detail in the novel “One Second After,” published in 2009 and endorsed by Newt Gingrich. In another novel, “Gridlock,” published this summer and co-written by Byron L. Dorgan, the former senator from North Dakota, a rogue Russian agent working for Venezuela and Iran helps hackers threaten the grid. In the preface, Mr. Dorgan says such an attack could cause 10,000 times as much devastation as the terrorists’ strikes on Sept. 11, 2001.

Despite the growing anxiety, the government and the private sector have had trouble coordinating their grid protection efforts. The utility industry argues that the government has extensive information on threats but keeps it classified. Government officials concede the problem, and they have suggested that some utility executives get security clearances. But with hundreds of utilities and thousands of executives, it cannot issue such clearances fast enough. And the industry would like to be instantly warned when the government identifies Internet servers that are known to be sources of malware.

Another problem is that the electric system is so tightly integrated that a collapse in one spot, whether by error or intent, can set off a cascade, as happened in August 2003, when a power failure took a few moments to spread from Detroit to New York.

Sometimes utility engineers and law enforcement officials also seem to speak different languages. In his book “Protecting Industrial Control Systems From Electronic Threats,” Joseph Weiss, an engineer and cybersecurity expert, recounted a meeting between electrical engineers and the F.B.I. in 2008. When an F.B.I. official spoke at length about I.E.D.’s, he was referring to improvised explosive devices, but to the engineers the abbreviation meant intelligent electronic devices.

And experts fear government-sponsored hacking. Michael V. Hayden, another former C.I.A. director, speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center conference, said that the Stuxnet virus, which disabled some of Iran’s centrifuges for enriching uranium, might invite retaliation.

“In a time of peace, someone just used a cyberweapon to destroy another nation’s critical infrastructure,” he said. “Ouch.”

[Mandala]

http://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/CIPOutreach/Pages/GridEX.aspx

The announcement sounds like a typical training exercise.

[Operator]

http://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/CIPOutreach/Pages/GridEX.aspx

The announcement sounds like a typical training exercise.

Yes, and the main word here seems cyber security ...
I don't see any mention of 'From Canada to Mexico' either.

[ruthy]

I know how you feel Mandala, I mean as I sort of internally cringe at the words "mainstream" I too felt I needed some news other than supposed leaks by FEMA employees. I wanted to see if they were actually letting people know about this grid shutdown. What I found funny was, in the article they don't mention the dates..at least I don't remember them mentioning those dates.

Well, it's going to be an interesting month between october and november, I guess we will have to just wait and see what happens.

I'm going to at least get some extra candles, make sure I have enough water and some groceries,..not get too crazy with preparedness, but at least have some stuff that anyone should have if they are dealing with a power outage.

Thanks again!


Ruthy, you just posted what I was looking for. A NY Times Post, ( mainstream media), about this drill. Thanks.

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It was in the article, you have to read the whole thing...no cheating! don't skim!! It was there, because I was searching for those words and was actually shocked they said it in this article...I will see if I can find it and post it here in a quote or try to direct you to it.



http://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/CIPOutreach/Pages/GridEX.aspx

The announcement sounds like a typical training exercise.

Yes, and the main word here seems cyber security ...
I don't see any mention of 'From Canada to Mexico' either.

[ruthy]

Operator....IT's a two page article on the NYTimes..so I think the link I gave sent you to page 2, if you scroll to the bottom of that page it will show you the link to go back to the first page of the article. On PAGE 1 paragraph 2 it says and I quote...."This is why thousands of utility workers, business executives, National Guard officers, F.B.I. antiterrorism experts and officials from government agencies in the United States, Canada and Mexico are preparing for an emergency drill in November that will simulate physical attacks and cyberattacks that could take down large sections of the power grid".

NOW on page 2 is where it talks about EMP threats caused by the Sun or by a detonated device by a terrorist. here is the quote for that so there is no confusion again. "The drill is also being planned as conferences, studies and even works of fiction are raising near-apocalyptic visions of catastrophes involving the grid.

A National Academy of Sciences report last year said that terrorists could cause broad hardship for months with physical attacks on hard-to-replace components. An emerging effort led in part by R. James Woolsey, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is gearing up to pressure state legislatures to force utilities to protect equipment against an electromagnetic pulse, which could come from solar activity or be caused by small nuclear weapons exploded at low altitude, frying crucial components.

So there you have it...it clearly stated the US MEXICO and CANADA and it also stated the threat not only by a cyber threat but also some natural occuring EMP from the SUN or by a device.

Adios



http://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/CIPOutreach/Pages/GridEX.aspx

The announcement sounds like a typical training exercise.

Yes, and the main word here seems cyber security ...
I don't see any mention of 'From Canada to Mexico' either.

[Positive Vibe Merchant]

I posted a thread on this around 2 weeks ago. Could this be merged?

[ThePythonicCow]

I posted a thread on this around 2 weeks ago. Could this be merged?

I merged the threads, and also "merged" the thread titles to a more informative "US Power Grid Down Exercise, Nov. 13-14, 2013"

[Operator]

Operator....IT's a two page article on the NYTimes..so I think the link I gave sent you to page 2, if you scroll to the bottom of that page it will show you the link to go back to the first page of the article. On PAGE 1 paragraph 2 it says and I quote...."This is why thousands of utility workers, business executives, National Guard officers, F.B.I. antiterrorism experts and officials from government agencies in the United States, Canada and Mexico are preparing for an emergency drill in November that will simulate physical attacks and cyberattacks that could take down large sections of the power grid".

NOW on page 2 is where it talks about EMP threats caused by the Sun or by a detonated device by a terrorist. here is the quote for that so there is no confusion again. "The drill is also being planned as conferences, studies and even works of fiction are raising near-apocalyptic visions of catastrophes involving the grid.

A National Academy of Sciences report last year said that terrorists could cause broad hardship for months with physical attacks on hard-to-replace components. An emerging effort led in part by R. James Woolsey, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is gearing up to pressure state legislatures to force utilities to protect equipment against an electromagnetic pulse, which could come from solar activity or be caused by small nuclear weapons exploded at low altitude, frying crucial components.

So there you have it...it clearly stated the US MEXICO and CANADA and it also stated the threat not only by a cyber threat but also some natural occuring EMP from the SUN or by a device.

Adios



http://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/CIPOutreach/Pages/GridEX.aspx

The announcement sounds like a typical training exercise.

Yes, and the main word here seems cyber security ...
I don't see any mention of 'From Canada to Mexico' either.

Yes, no problem ruthy. I've read the article, thanks for the link, but I was not referring to that. In this case I was looking for
the original root source of the story. Which in this case seems to be NERC.

NERC is focusing on cyber security, not so much a solar event, and I couldn't find Canada and Mexico in their article.
Perhaps there are participants in Mexico and Canada ... but that's totally different from the North American continent
which gives a totally different perspective.

[ruthy]

I just wonder what the real involvement is..i mean is Canada and Mexico going to be performing similar exercises...or are they just watching over the US's shoulder to see what they do so they can impose it in their systems securities down the line?

I agree, the article is a tad vague, I'm sure that was of course purely accidental. Especially since they just said November and mentioned no specific dates or what grids in particular would be shut down, for how long, etc.

It's just very odd, you would think they would test these matters out in a more private way instead of admitting publicly on the nytimes that our country has these weaknesses.

I think they started the article to kind of deflect the fear of a solar event being a possibility. Cyber security are the words they use to get funding from DOD. Solar event was kind of mentioned in a very rushed manner..to me it was kind of like when you say something really fast and brush it off because you don't want your listener to ask questions about it or focus on that detail that you'd rather really really not talk about. But that's just my "gut feeling".

Well I guess the only way is to just wait and see.

[outerheaven]

I'm bumping this thread because I think this topic needs more attention!

As a resident of NYC, I am more than concerned about this "drill." I've actually booked a trip back to the Midwest, where I grew up, to be with family -- just in case things go awry (or rather, according to plans, eh?). I'm planning on permanently moving back in April anyhow -- I'm sick of the city and all of its illness and negative energy.

Here's my case for concern regarding this drill:

As I've said in the "American Blackout" thread, the illuminati/PTB clearly get some kind of sick satisfaction out of flaunting their plans in front of the unaware masses. And I'm seeing what I think are some foreboding signs.

Consider the sudden media-driven topics concerning widespread power outage:

1) Let's start with the past Superbowl. Remember the power outage, lasting 33 minutes? Yeahhh! The one that was seemingly predicted by this Mercedes ad:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A4dUgHfqrL4/URKZ41GiA9I/AAAAAAAAFBs/HhCwAlNnlcs/s1600/Mercedes+Benz+Thrilling+Fourth+Quarter.jpg

Huh, it's almost as if they knew!

2) Then there's the NBC drama, Revolution (wikipedia link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(TV_series))). I haven't watched it so I can't comment on what's in the show, but I'm still a little concerned.

3) And then there's "American Blackout," apparently a show airing in October by National Geographic. No -- not the movie by the same name about voter disenfranchisement. This is a National Geographic show about Americans losing their power. Here, take a look, view the show's trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHG4nhOhNHI).

You'll notice that there's a URL at the end of the video: survivetheblackout.com. OK, sure enough, it takes you to the National Geographic website. But where the hell is any information about this show? I can't find any. I had to google to find this page: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episodes/american-blackout/ but it doesn't seem to have any information about this show. Pretty strange considering it's supposed to come out in October! Where's the marketing and media hype that would surely accompany this show?

Folks, I hope I'm wrong. Frankly, I'm scared! I hope someone can do some better sleuth-work than I've put forth here and put my mind to rest. I just can't shake the feeling that this is another case of the PTB flaunting their plans right underneath our noses. And as a resident city dweller, I really, really hope that is not the case.

[outerheaven]

Oh, wow. I just realized the obvious thing about that Mercedes ad. "A thrilling fourth quarter." Fourth quarter, as in ... ending September 30th, 2013?

edit: I just want to add that I suspect I'm getting too in over my head. Trying to divine future events like this is ultimately a fruitless exercise. I have to remember to stay calm and accept things as they come!

That being said ... here's a Divine Cosmos article alleging that the Superbowl power outage was a strike against the Cabal by the Alliance: http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1110-super-bowl-blackout-an-alliance-strike-against-the-cabal

Who knows what's really going on, but something is definitely up in our world.

[Operator]

Oh, wow. I just realized the obvious thing about that Mercedes ad. "A thrilling fourth quarter." Fourth quarter, as in ... ending September 30th, 2013?

ehh, third quarter ends on September 30th ... fourth quarter starts after that date ... :suspicious:

[outerheaven]

Oh, wow. I just realized the obvious thing about that Mercedes ad. "A thrilling fourth quarter." Fourth quarter, as in ... ending September 30th, 2013?

ehh, third quarter ends on September 30th ... fourth quarter starts after that date ... :suspicious:

Oops ... duh! Well, great, that's even more foreboding and creepy. It will be interesting to see if the budget talks play into this. With the FEMA Region 3 Alert on October 1st, I just have an awful feeling that something is up.

I hope that the actual "power outage" is the Cabal being removed from power, anyway. A man can dream, eh?