NASA May Investigate Blackout

Did Mysterious Foam Tile Cause Power Outage?

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(Conspiracy Nation, 8/16/03) -- Almost immediately off-limits as an area of investigation, following the August 14, 2003 "Great Blackout," was the possibility that the catastrophe was caused by terrorists. Although the cause of the event was not known, authorities proclaimed it not due to terrorists.

This rapid sealing off of an area of investigation follows a pattern, seen, for example, in the aftermath of the John F. Kennedy assassination and following the mid-air explosion of TWA Flight 800.

Who will be involved in the Great Blackout investigation? Since the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is currently investigating itself, following the February 1, 2003 disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia, it is thought that effort can be conserved by retaining these experts for a probe into the Great Blackout.

Might not a misplaced foam tile have caused the power outage? We already know that such a wandering foam tile could not have been used maliciously, since the Great Blackout was officially not caused by terrorists. This would ease NASA's task, since that part of an investigation has already been hurriedly solved. NASA, experts on the insidious nature of foam tiles, need only find an errant foam tile and point the finger.

Lightning Strikes Twice

Regarding the cause of Thursday's massive power outage, "Jim Munson, a spokesman for Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretian said: 'We have been informed that lightning struck a power plant in the Niagara region on the U.S. side.'" [1]

"Bright electrical phenomena" around the space shuttle Columbia were photographed during its February 1st demise. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that it may have been a "bolt of electricity in the upper atmosphere." [2] Early on in Thursday's blackout, Canada had blamed the power outage on a lightning strike at Niagara. Reports show there were no storms in the area at the time, and thus Canada's preliminary lightning-strike claim was dismissed. But the fact that there were no storms in the area of the reported lightning strike is more tell-tale than realized.

Scientist Tom Bearden says that "extensive weather engineering and control has been very active all over the  U.S.  for  some  time." This weather engineering is not isolated into a neat compartment but intersects with top-secret advanced weapons systems, such as "scalar EM (Electro-Magnetic) interferometry weapons." A faction of the former Soviet KGB reportedly has had such a weapon since at least 1989, if not earlier. [3] Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, elements of the KGB gained new employment with the Russian Mafiya. The Russian Mafiya, in turn, used these former KGB agents to sell advanced weaponry on the black market. Among those now possessing exotic, highly secret weapons, such as scalar EM weapons, are reportedly Japan's mafia, known as the Yakuza. The absence of storms in the area of the reported Niagara lightning strike does not mean witnesses were mistaken. It means that, to the average person, a terrorist attack using an electro-magnetic weapon will be interpreted as a lightning strike.

Widespread Terror Warnings 

In the weeks leading up to the August 14th blackout, there had been ominous rumblings from various intelligence agencies about an imminent terrorist attack:

Computer Hackers

There was "speculation about whether computer hackers might be responsible (for the blackout)." [8]  Warnings of a looming Internet "worm" attack had been in the news during previous days. Consistent security loopholes keep appearing in Microsoft software, there to be exploited by resentful techies whose jobs are disappearing due to the latest thing: "outsourcing" (hiring of third-world programmers at bargain-basement wages.) Not exactly terrorists, the outsourced techies-turned-hackers are "a flaw in the grid."

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[1] "Canada and U.S. Blame Each Other" cnn.com. 8/15/03
[2] "Cosmic bolt probed in shuttle disaster", by Sabin Russell. San Francisco Chronicle, 2/7/03
[3] "Bearden Responds To Scalar Attack Possibility". Rumor Mill News, 2/2/03
[4] "Terror Warning Upgraded For Indonesia." Sydney Morning Herald, 8/13/03
[5] "Ankara Security Directorate Issues a Terror Warning." Zaman Daily Newspaper, 8/13/03
[6] "Police in New Terror Warning." itv.com, 8/10/03
[7] "U.S. Expats in Fresh Terror Warning." expatica.com, 7/30/03
[8] "Cause of Blackout is Not Yet Known." AP, 8/15/03, via RockyMountTelegram.com

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