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Martin Armstrong Asks: "Is There Something Behind The Power Outage In Washington DC?"
Submitted by Martin Armstrong via Armstrong Economics,
The April 7th, 2015 power outage in Washington DC is curious to say the least. Virtually instantaneously, the government declare it was not a terrorist attack. After all, how could that possibly be when the NSA guards the country. If there was an attack on the power-grid, then the NSA would have to answer for their failure. So clearly, if it was an attack, they would never admit it.
Instead, this has been attributed to a piece of metal breaking loose from a power line 43 miles southeast of the District of Columbia, which knocked out electricity to the White House, State Department and wide area including parts of Maryland. Can a simple piece of metal break and shut down that much power of a strategic area as DC? That seems to be an excuse like some drunk driver knocked over a power pole.
Only six days before Obama had to switch to emergency power was on April 1st in Rome where the power supply was out for hours effecting the Lazio region. That included the major Roman airport of Fiumicino. The cause of that event somehow remains unknown.
Just the day before in Turkey there was another power failure. That was the worst blackout since the devastating Marmara earthquake of 1999. Chaos in the capital and much of the country drew more than 70 million Turks into chaos. Public transport was paralyzed, traffic lights were dark, conveyor belts continued. Elevators halted and mobile phones were silent. Even hospitals switched to emergency mode and the NSA style surveillance cameras in the capital Ankara went black.
There, left-wing extremists broke into the Palace of Justice and kidnapped a prosecutor during the massive power outage. The prosecutor had worked on the case of a protester who had been shot in Gezi Park. Even Prime Minister Davutoglu suspected spontaneous “sabotage”.
Are we dealing with a series of unfortunate events, enriched with a touch of typical government mismanagement? According to the Turkish newspaper Hürryiet , the national energy grid in Turkey was quite sophisticated and mismanagement was not enough to explain the massive power failure. Many in Turkey suspect a cyber attack. The Turkish Internet is full of speculations and theories, including the allegation to the Government, the blackout was staged to make propaganda for the development of nuclear energy.
Then there was Amsterdam. In the Netherlands, on March 27th a series of questionable blackouts took place is a very dubious chain of events. Large parts of the Northern Netherlands with nearly three million people experienced a devastating power failure. Thousands were stuck on trains, trams and elevators. The official statement was that a high-voltage switch-gear in the Amsterdam suburb Diemen failed due to the power overloading. Was Europe’s fourth largest airport and the entire rail network in the north of the country simply a victim of an accident or perhaps the target of a cyber-attack?
The technology age is highly vulnerable and the movement to electronic money is interesting for if the power-grid goes down for any prolonged period, what new risk factors will the economy absorb? During war, it is common for the other side to counterfeit their opponent’s currency. The way to accomplish this today is to take out the power-grid.
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Martin Armstrong needs a power outage. He wrote less BULLSHIT on the manual typewriter.
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Never attribute to a conspiracy for that which can be explained by incompetence.( or something close to that) Napoleon?
Current joke in Russia is when Washington DC lost power and went dark, so did Al Quaida and ISIS websites.
Iraqi Parliament members have publicly complained that US and British Aircraft have been making supply and arms drops to ISIS Battle Formations inside Iraq just before Iraqi troops tried to engage them. Reportedly on British Aircraft was shot down trying to deliver weapons to ISIS. Note also, ISIS is appearing in growing numbers in the Southern Former Soviet Republics of Central Asia. As the ISIS threat grows, Russian friendly governments are coming under increasing threat of all out war against ISIS and other Al-Qaeda forces.
One might ask. Where in hell does ISIS obtain all the money, men and arms they need to spread all over the Middle East and Central Asia when they have No Base Country. They have no homeland to supprt them. So how can their power explode like it has. Billions of dollars must be pouring into ISIS and many hard to find weapons and a steady flow of ammunition.
So, where does ISIS gather it's strength? Iraq claims the Uk and USA are behind much of ISIS' arms and money.
We are trading EMP shots IMO.
Moar provoking.
Long Coleman generators.
I reread this piece and I'm sure Martin Armstrong is implying that aliens are causing the power outages.
Someone in Russia or China installed some new software on the White House computers. They needed to reboot, so they blinked the power grid. Easy as pie.
+1000
Stupidity is power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6AmyRTBdXI
I dont condone his methods but Theodore Kazynski wrote a heck of a paper on technology.
So the Smart Grid took the day off?
Hacking, just like MH370 and Germanwings. The faster they come up with 'cover' stories w/o proof, the harder they're working to hide the truth.
Yup. They declare it's not terrorism, you know it is, but with a wrinkle: it's OUR terrorism.
I'd guess this as some type of drill. Drills, as we know, are frequently accompanied by non-drills in the USSA. 9-11, Sandy Hook, Boston.... So can we expect a non-drill type event in the near future, something to do with the grid? I don't fucking know. But I wouldn't want to be living downwind from a nuclear power plant. Now or ever.
Armstrong seems to have a valid point, why the vitriol?
"Armstrong seems to have a valid point, why the vitriol?"
I'm guessing it's his gold calls. Kind of like attacking the pope if you're catholic.
Iraq afraid to point the finger at Israel?
They'd accomplish more if the used less Talk and used a bigger Stick.
Iraq and Syria should set off a Tactical EMP (while shielding your own HW/SW) during an arms drop, and get out the popcorn.
You can't tell me they don't have Tactical EMPs.
E.g. http://www.ausairpower.net/ASPC-E-Bomb-Mirror.html
Anybody else remember the CHAMP missile?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-electronics_High_Power_Microwave_Ad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mjua2e8Y7k
Good one, Jack.
UN Report Reveals How Israel is Coordinating with ISIS Militants Inside Syriahttp://21stcenturywire.com/2015/02/19/un-report-reveals-how-israel-is-co...
halarious russian joke, fits in with the great comedic minds here.
Martin didnt mention that the power outage happened 2 hours after that senator said "we have to take the power away from dc. " at his presidential candidate announcement.
dc is not actually american. first deed called it "rome". wash monument, including base, is 666 ft .
Washington, no DC or AC
That's not much of a joke, to be honest. When the US Government did its last shutdown stunt and took Federal websites offline, a couple of the top conspiracy sites went offline to the minute with them, and then reappeared shortly thereafter. I actually went and pulled uptime logs when I heard about this a few hours later, and it really did happen that way.
name names, please.
GLP and ATS.
I can't remember which one, but one blamed it on a DDoS attack that just happened to coincide to the minute with the shutdown.
Occam's razor
Indeed! The odds of these power outages in these places and these times is very high up on the odds list.
Armstrong's explanation is terribly weak considering the nature of modern society.
"...During war, it is common for the other side to counterfeit their opponent’s currency. The way to accomplish this today is to take out the power-grid..."
I'll admit that it's a risk in an increasingly electronic transaction society, but we're hardly in Bitcoin prison quite yet.
Armstrong misses the obvious, most immediate benefit for a modern nation not at war: Municipal electricity is a wonderful civil control tool for news and information. Shutting down the internet is a direct and obvious act of censorship - governments would rather avoid that measure because it brings out the wood-chippers. Shutting down the grid in a region effectively shuts down the internet there while the government just shrugs and can always blame terrorists. This isn't going to take out the entire internet, but whatever parts you will be able to get to will be slow or unusable. The alternative sites and their contributors will all but disappear, but you'll still be able to occasionally get to the NYT, WaPo, CNN and Fox News. And you'll be getting to those sites will your cell phone or cable - both of which can be controlled. If there's no cell phone, cable or satellite, you'll have to rely on local broadcast radio which is designed to be a mouthpiece for the government in any kind of disaster.
Think about the Japanese government leading Futuba evacuees directly INTO clouds of radioactivity to evacuate during Fukushima. Why? Because the Japanese government was aggressively covering up any evidence of a release. Cell phones, cable news and radio were useless for the people near Fukushima and tricked people into trusting the authorities and believing that they were being protected from harm.
If the SHTF in any form in the U.S., you will not have access to any 'real' news for weeks or months. Taking out the power in a wide area is the fastest/easiest way for .gov to hide whatever it is that they want to hide. There is no clever way to get around a news blackout if the government is behind it. And you'll never know the degree of censorship happening if the intenet is degraded to any significant degree. You'll only find out with 20-20 hindsight months later. That is, if you have internet access at your FEMA internment camp. I'm just guessing NOT.
[edit: I'm not suggesting Japanese government gook out the power in Futuba or anywhere around Fukushima in order to black out the real news. They simply exploited that fact since the typhoon already took out the power.
It's quite disturbing to also note the apparent testing over the last year or so of brief and selective internet alternative news site blackouts confined to certain regions of the country or world.]
And they need to test it.
Simple explanation. Gummint workers wiring the Interwebz keel swytch
"Never attribute to Incompetence that which can be adequately explained by Profit*." -Kirk (c) 2015
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* External Profit (Wealth, Power)
* Internal Profit (Fame, Vanity, Envy, Pride)
Martin, Yes one down line can shut down a wide area.
Frankly it amazes me they make the whole power grid work at all. Phasing all the different generators together, matching load fluctuations, over thousands of miles of exposed cable .....
They have network systems now where switching is near instantaneous and invisible to the customer. One would expect that it should be in place where critical infrastructure (set aside for a moment that anything the Fed is doing is "critical") is running.
I've worked in the engineering dept. of a utility, and it's scary just how vulnerable these systems are. Redundancy, switching and other outage mitigating technology costs quickly goes parabolic as these systems scale atop century old infrastructure.
Then there's the issue of continuing centralization of control which increasingly creates larger potential outages as a single weak point affects ever growing areas of the grid.
I do like though how Armstrong asks the question wondering if a single piece of metal could cause such damage, yet he makes no effort to understand/answer the question, then uses his own negative implication to create this narrative.
Yes, particularly in the northeast where you can have a substation with technology from the 1940s operating in parallel with modern technology. Some of the really old electromechnical relays look like grandfather clocks with elaborate gearworks. I've tested hundreds of those old electromechanical relays, and the one thing I have to say for them is the are unhackable :)
Centralization vs decentralization is a tough issue. Right now, things are extremely decentralized. Relays operate with very little information from outside their terminal. They have to guess at what is happening in other parts of the system, and that has to be done with static settings programmed potentially years ago under false assumptions. A more elegant solution would involve looking at the system holistically and deriving ideal operating parameters in real time. It's feasible on paper, but in practice it would take a huge overhaul of the electrical infrastructure and it would undoubtedly become some perverted government boondoggle. So, it appears that we're stuck with this shit for quite some time.
+61580
I'm a retired electrician from Seattle and as I was leaving, network systems were going in place where landlords downtown had to accomodate significant space for utility transformers which will be networked to load dump and switch as necessary. I would think that DC would be on top of this technology, but who knows.
The U.S. government thinks China could take down the power grid
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/20/politics/nsa-china-power-grid/index.html
China and "probably one or two other" countries have the capacity to shut down the nation's power grid and other critical infrastructure through a cyber attack, the head of the National Security Agency told a Congressional panel Thursday.
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'Trojan Horse' Bug Lurking in Vital US Computers Since 2011
http://abcnews.go.com/US/trojan-horse-bug-lurking-vital-us-computers-201...
A destructive “Trojan Horse” malware program has penetrated the software that runs much of the nation’s critical infrastructure and is poised to cause an economic catastrophe, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
National Security sources told ABC News there is evidence that the malware was inserted by hackers believed to be sponsored by the Russian government, and is a very serious threat.
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U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack
Federal Analysis Says Sabotage of Nine Key Substations Is Sufficient for Broad Outage
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304020104579433670284061220
The U.S. could suffer a coast-to-coast blackout if saboteurs knocked out just nine of the country's 55,000 electric-transmission substations on a scorching summer day, according to a previously unreported federal analysis.
The study by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission concluded that coordinated attacks in each of the nation's three separate electric systems could cause the entire power network to collapse, people familiar with the research said.
Well there was the recent case of a well-coordinated attack on a substation in California, where the service was severely degraded via just small arms fire . . . .
(http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304851104579359141941621778
Consider that the US no longer has the capacity to build the largest "Supergrid" infrastructure (Transformers, VAR control hardware, etc), and the lead times on this sort of hardware run in to years. The US does have the capacity for repair / refurbishment, but really major damage (e.g. via an RPG-7 or similar) would be pushing the limits of "refurbishment", especially if the core laminations / windings were severely damaged (as they would be).
The nature of the grid (with thousands of kms of remote HV distribution cabling), the need for reliable status information, yet the desire to have HV infrastructure "out of sight", plays into the hands of the mischievious. It is of relevance that not one of the perpetrators of the "California Incident" has been apprehended, and there are enough rumours to suggest that this "may" have been a "trial run" for something more substantial, not necessarily initiated by a hostile power, but rather a group who have seen the possible utility of "holding the grid to ransom".
Any attack need not target "all" the system weak points simultaneously to gain a result. Disruption of supply to major areas would be sufficient, since reconnection / load rebalancing is a very non-trivial exercise; the widespread social and downstream infrastructure disruption from a "regional" attack could also be used as cover to distract authorities, so permitting a sequence of pre-planned attacks, with minimal risk of detection for the perpetrators.
Armstrong constantly gets a forum here on ZH...
My feeling is that ZH is more a PCR crowd, or maybe it's just me.
Armstrong gets a forum because he actually does know what is going on, he just chooses not to share it with us. He bought his way out of prison by agreeing to become co-opted by TPTB/Gov't. We (former supporters) hope that he'll inadvertently say more than he intends, which is why we tune in from time to time.
exactly chubbs.......he's a shill just like Rickards but that doesn't mean some useable info doesn't dribble out
"...he's a shill just like Rickards..."
Yep. Rickards is smart and often useful, but NOT always trustworthy. He totally published dissembing and dishonest work on 9/11 insider trading, for example.
check a recent post by Armstrong stating the Rothschilds are basically historical has beens.
go to his blog, look it up if you're adamant he's a truth teller.
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adding a comment sir
going through his blog is not the highlight of my day but here it is
The conspiracy promoters are just not satisfied with the fact that we are screwed and perhaps nobody is in charge to stop or push anything. The days of the Rothschilds owning banks and financing wars is old history, Yet to this day, they paint this family as behind everything. This to me is PROPAGANDA for they are not even on center stage.
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2015/03/11/rothschilds-fact-or-disinformat...
my comment was general, not intended to be directed at anyone in particular...I lack thread manners!
There is a small but significant difference between a willing paid shill, lackey toad and/or enforcer, and someone reading a prepared script with a gun pointed at their belly off camera.
brilliant comment, but I can't up-arrow you because your font subverts the ZH software. The font is the falling piece of metal that brings down the grid!
I get that, but I appreciate the advertant nature of PCR's straight talk.
Martin does know what is going on. However, he is very good at pulling his punches. Careful not to bite the hand that feeds.
he is pretty frank about things lately, and lately is when I first heard him.
he's pretty frank about truths and mis-thruths
dig into his blogs, this guy is on a payroll
Thought it was a cat
How would NSA announce a take down of the power grid if it was shut down by an attack ?
Carrier pigeons ?
A: Emergency Broadcast System.
The residents of about a dozen US states received a scare when an ominous message rolled across their TV screens announcing an ‘emergency alert’ with the names of their states – without any explanation or further information.
http://rt.com/usa/245493-fema-alert-television-emergency/
Operation Jade Helms will this July
Fear not, Sheepletons. They're just practising more liberatin'. After all, look how well it it went in Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/03/31/why-the-new-...
Fear not, Sheepletons. They're just practising more liberatin'. After all, look how well it it went in Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/03/31/why-the-new-...
Did you ever notice how those typewritten letters looked fake? Pages/Lines would be tilted to look like it had been scanned into a digital document, but the line tilt didn't match the "original" paper tilt.
It's been a while since I've looked at any of them, but I recall seeing several where things like this just didn't make sense.
Or one could go to Wiki and realize this shit happens all the time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages
There are a million technical reasons that a seemingly small outage can cascade and require parts of the system trip offline to protect equipment and the grid in general. Then guys come in, fix it, and it comes back online.
Regards,
Cooter
Yes, and a mllion reasons for the "coincidence" that the balckout targeted the Whitehouse...right?
Funny how that worked out didint it? geez how ironic
You have any info to back up your "targeting" claim? Or is this merely another plausible fabrication based on ignorance?
Since when does the WhiteHouse not have a generator? How dense are you.
Several times a year in my neck of the woods, despondent squirrels throw themselves into electrical equipment and take out the power for large sections of the town for several hours. Why blame such things on conspiracy when acts of God or simple human error/carelessness are sufficient.
"Why blame such things on conspiracy when acts of God or simple human error/carelessness are sufficient."
Plausible deniability. Anything that can be attributed to acts of god or human error is by definition a conspiracy, no?
As a guy who has derived system protection settings and written algorithms to protect the grid, I can tell you that it is one gigantic clusterfuck. Picture a transmission network connecting generators, substations and end consumers. Each generating facility and substation has devices called relays that monitor current, voltage and myriad digital inputs to determine whether there is a fault somewhere in the system. If a fault is detected, it is, in theory, isolated by circuit breakers. Those relays ensure that the system remains intact and stable. The relays can have hundreds of settings, and then several groups of those settings that you can switch between in order to account for different power grid configurations. Programming those devices is extremely tedious, and the truth is that it really isn't an exact science. Given a complex grid, there is no collection of settings that will cover all possible scenarios. The devices simply aren't that smart, and the reason for that is limited information. You're at a terminal monitoring your voltage and current. That's basically it. The communication between interconnected relays is extremely limited, so they're all essentially operating with blinders. There are protection schemes like differential which eliminate 99% of the guesswork, but it's more costly than other methods and can fail due to CT saturation (unless you use something exotic like optical CTs). There's no affordable silver bullet given the level of technology available today. Just a bunch of relays with questionable settings and limited capabilities programmed by engineers under considerable time pressure. Oh, not to mention that relays are designed by companies who generally don't hire top notch talent, in particular on the hardware/software end. This means they're riddled with backdoors. They are relatively easy to hack.
The bottom line is that sussing out whether a power outage was linked to sabotage or plain old negligence is extremely difficult. It is only through sheer dedication of talented field personnel that the grid still operates.
Entropy wins every time. The higher the complexity of any system, the higher the guarantee of it's eventual failure.
There's a case to be made here for localized power generation, perhaps based on small thorium type reactors, or natural gas where available.
On special at K-Mart today, 32 bucks for three of them.
They also power the K-Fart blue lights. And if you buy 6 reactors, the K-Fart deli will throw in 6 delicious ham & cheese sandwiches for only $1. And once again, thank you for shopping your neighborhood K-Fart.
Derision is no substitute for an informed opinion.
But don't worry. Eventually you'll get over it.
If you can show me your mini thorium reactors in operation I promise to be rather impressed and apologize and sit in the corner with a 'dunce' cap on. Cough-up a functioning economically viable mini thorium reactor and all alleged "informed opinion" is rendered defunct by observed fact. So I don't rate informed opinions too highly, given the lack of meat within the proposed illusory sandwich.
Nice that you aspire though.
There is also the problem of ageing infrastructure. OK, because of the system voltages, increasing "low-level" resistances (bushings / bus connections / switching system contacts) won't "directly" affect power throughput, yet over time I2R thermal effects will give rise to problems (mechanical or chemical), especially where the resistive heating is within the "invisible" interior components of bushings, or within oil-filled or similar hardware, where unexpected heating may be relatively shielded from casual inspection as a result of the normal thermal characteristics of the system (e.g. transformers, varactors), or by external insulators (glass / ceramic / polymer insulants are good thermal insulants too!).
Thermal imaging certainly helps in nipping such problems "in the bud" for isolated components, but may be not so much benefit for oil-cooled devices, where the "added" thermal input may be masked by normal operating I2R losses.
Just count the visible bushings in any medium-sized switching / substation. Consider that these are not exactly "off-the-shelf" items in bulk, and also consider the requirements / time for individual replacement, of what are large, very fragile, and quite heavy items (especially at Bulk Transmission voltages - 400kV to ground and higher).
Not exactly a "Get Out of Jail Free" card it was more like a deal with the devil -- he had to agree to serve as a shill for the government's pro-fiat disinformation campaign and talk down gold every chance he could. Funny how bullish on gold the papers and hand charts he released were when he was in Fort Dix... then... Presto, he was out and gold wasn't gonna do so well after all.... didn't know a supercycle chart took into account jail transfers...
You're sure of this are you? It's been my experience that people generally dislike uncertainty and will search out or construct narratives that "explain" things in a way that sits comfortably with their existing beliefs.
For example, try convincing a religious person that god does not exist. That it's simply a human construct that fills a need for explanations, and that in terms of logical and evidentiary rules of the sort that would send you to prison (or win you a nobel prize) the idea simply fails. The fallback is always "faith" which in the mind of the believer is stronger than reason, thus demonstrating my assertion.
Managing uncertainty is the toughest of all intellectual endeavors as it forces us to confront not just our own beliefs, but the methods we used to arrive at them.
Armstrong is someone worth monitoring, but to draw conclusions as to his motives is at this point, premature.
you have obviously read books that are disagreeable with your point of view (its how we learn).
IMO Armstrong catches those who want a short cut while kissing a higher butt.
His writings fit many books that creepily discuss cycles. His cycles are not that new or exotic. His dates are not exclusive, even in 87 we have interviews of people with forewarning of the crash.
Its worth being very cautious about his conclusions. I am yet to read one that actually promotes and independent republic of any sort for any nation. His writings do support the thought we must all belong to something bigger and better...if only government was not in control. FFS cronyism took control a long time ago.
I'm wary of Armstrong and don't agree with much of what he says, but I think he's spot on where international capital flows are concerned. Still, if all we ever read is people we agreed with, we'd end up like one of Denninger's sycophants, constantly nodding their approval, ever mindful of his terrible girly wrath....LOL.
One thing. In Armstrong's position, knowing they were out to get me, and specifically my software, I would have gone the other route and released it into the public domain. Destroying it (if that indeed happened) was wrong. If his work represented a serious advance in AI or economic analysis, as he claims, then under the circumstances, he should have shared it with the world. This makes me wonder if there was any real substance to it, since today there's no way to prove it. All we have is his word.
You don't actually "manage uncertainty", you deceive yourself that it's what you're doing. That you've 'arisen' and progressed via intellect to become a proactive controller of events. But all you are doing is hazard and risk mitigation, while calling it management and control of an endless series of wholly imaginary future states. Which imagination is what makes you fear the possible states, and this powers your need to deceive yourself that you're a 'management controller' of uncertain states.
A fairly transparent feedback of self-deception in action.
You wear your heart of deep conviction on your sleeve ebear, and seem to like to continually express the imagery of a high-minded honest to goodness idealist. Which is fine, but that's not actually an excuse for fooling yourself that you're the master manager of uncertainty mate. It is however an indication of (perhaps even unintended) dishonesty and shallowness in your thinking.
Thinking is an integrally false-reality making process. It inevitably creates illusion after illusion as a matter of course. Clear one away, another immediately takes root, and blooms until it's cut down, to be replaced right away by another. That's the nature of the beast.
Being aware that you're made subject to am endless stream of illusory artifacts from an integrally illusion-making process, even as you think, is what breaks the hold of self-deception feedbacks, like the one where you imagine becoming the controller of uncertainty.
When I hear people say things like this it still amazes me that people can be so unaware, self-gullible and oblivious to the machination and cosmic-scale hubris of their own thought process.
Excellent comment, Element.
It bears repeating on a regular basis.
If commenters really meditated on your post, there would be a lot less comments overall, but the quality of the remaining ones would go up substantially.
Large power outages n:
- DC
- The whole of Turkey
- Rome (Nato realated?)
- Big area around amsterdam
Is somebody trying to make a point?
Yeah ~ It's Nikola Tesla talking to us from the grave that instead of:
- having the government coming in & killing him
- stealing all his homework
- burying the notes in a vault
- printing joobux to vault GE into a leadership position [& make certain people rich]
- letting GE run wild
- INSTEAD, build shoddy nuclear plants
- & end up with Fukushima
They could have gone the way of FREE ENERGY Tesla Towers...
From what I read on this topic, JP Morgan originally funded Tesla on the tower but then pulled funding while asking, to paraphrase, 'where do you put the meter?'
pretty much tells u everything u need 2 kno...
Tesla's research and discoveries regarding (what he called) "radiant energy" are probably THE most suppressed area of science in the last 120 years or so. The Deep State stole this information from him prior to his death and then made the public believe he was mentally unstable (i.e. crazy) to discredit his discoveries. When he died the FBI went into his apartment in New York and confiscated all of his research papers, notes and other stuff he had there and it is still classified above Top Secret to this day. That technology is the basis of a lot of black project stuff within the M.I.C., such as anti-gravity, scalar weapons, weather control (HAARP), zero-point energy and many others.
Well ~ Nice to know it's in 'COMPETENT' hands [rolls eyes]
Top Men.
very rare, from me... [+1]
Yup, saw that in the research as well.
It's a travesty on a humankind level that humanity has been so deliberately impoverished and made to suffer, all for the obsessions of a few to control everything.
Let that sink in for a minute to realize the level of pure evil that really exists.
To paraphrase:
"The greatest con the devil ever pulled was to convince people that he doesn't exist."
"Let that sink in for a minute to realize the level of pure evil that really exists."
Let it sink in that my original TESLA comment [so far] has 4 downvotes...
Let it further sink in that my CHRONIC downvoters are:
- CH1
- SMG
- subeito
- RU GAY2
Let it sink in that my original TESLA comment [so far] has 4 downvotes...
Don't let 'em get you down dude! I firmly believe there are regular "down-arrow" trolls out there that get off on hitting the red arrow button, usually for no good reason at all. Typically those jerks don't have the balls to leave any comment justifying their negative view of a post either . . . . .
I have no problems at all with it...
ACTUALLY ~ It's the other way...
I take pride in the ability to be a MAGNET to FALSE PROPAGANDISTS & PAID TROLLS...
CH1 is the one who amazes/humors me the most... The motherfucker can't even help himself in the realm of when & where he's being TROLL BAITED...
Zero Hedge... COMEDY AT IT'S FINEST!
I just can't stay away... THANK YOU TYLERS!
If they can suppress Tesla and use his ideas for a century, I think they can target outages. Both attest to power that will go to great lengths to perpetuate itself.
Part of the problem is the speed of events. Something crazy happens and before it can be thoroughly investigated, some other madness is upon us before the largely captured press can even afford to dig into it - they have to report on what is 'in the news' or lose their audience.
This DC story made me remember another DC related event, the quake they had in 2011. Lots of unanswered questions there.
http://www.blippitt.com/were-the-colorado-and-virginia-earthquakes-relat...
A sane society would say, 'hold on, something seems a bit odd here, let's get to the bottom of it.' But we just plod on to the next distraction.
If anyone wealthy reads this, consider leaving some money to establish a research organization which will dig into things like this. There is zero oversight right now.
It is interesting that Nikola Tesla died pretty-much impoverished. It is also of interest that the Government / "Public Opinion" was encouraged to regard his later work as the ramblings of a madman, but when he died, the same Government was extremely quick to sequester ALL his notes / work, "for reasons of National Security".
So what was it. If Tesla "was a rambling nut-case" then why the need for such a draconian measure?
As always, actions speak far louder than words, and the actions taken were pretty extreme (considering the era), were they not?? One cannot fail to "read between the lines" and come up with one's own conclusions, conclusions that seem to differ markedly from "The Official Narrative".
"Tesla's research and discoveries regarding (what he called) "radiant energy" are probably THE most suppressed area of science in the last 120 years or so."
I have a problem with that statement. For Tesla's ideas to work, they'd have to be based on scientific principles, which by definition are accessible to any advanced scientific nation.
For example: the USSR developed nuclear weapons shortly after the USA, followed by half a dozen other nations. Recent attempts to limit Iran's development of same (whether real or imagined) support this observation.
Therefore, I pose the question:
If Teslas's ideas were viable, why were they not developed by the USSR, and why did we not see them as highly visible aspects of the Cold War arms race?
Was the USSR complicit in suppressing this knowledge, or like the USA, did they experiment with it and find it impractical, not just as a weapon of war, but as a means of generating free energy, bearing in mind that the USSR had none of the obstacles and all of the motives for developing such a source?
Here's an alternate hypothesis:
Tesla's work was a dead-end and the US knew that, but they made a big deal out of it in the hopes of sending Soviet science down a blind alley. Makes just as much sense as the opposing theory, does it not? After all, we know the US put out disinformation about captured UFO's, as did the USSR about experiments in telekinesis and remote viewing. So, why not lead them astray by placing undue emphasis on the work of a reputable scientist with a proven record?
Fact is, at present there's no way to prove either hypothesis any more than you could prove I was an agent of the Illuminati, a rogue Discordian, or just some guy (like many others here) with too much time on his hands.
I think your "nuclear weapons" analogy is flawed.
The jet engine was developed by Nazi engineers (and rocket propulsion, and embryonic nuclear technology as well) and yet no other nation was even close to any of that - the technology was comandeered (stolen) via Project Paperclip by the Americans, and no doubt a similar Russian project, but with a better sounding name.
Simply knowing the principles involved doesn't equate to having the intelligence, ability or backing to convert those principles into working technology.
Giant leaps forward in technology can usually be traced back to one brain, sometimes a couple of brains simultaneously yet seperately such as radio.
The crossbow was developed by China millennia before it appeared in the West. Also gunpowder. Why weren't those technologies rapidly developed by various other powers? Because the knowledge involved was sucessfully withheld.
I'm sure you're aware that Einstein, Szilárd and others wrote to President Roosevelt warning of the potential of Germany building a nuclear weapon. They were able to do so because the theoretical basis for such was already established, and any scientist in that field could see the implications. I'll agree that the distance between theory and execution can be large, but it's much less so in the modern world than in bygone times. That is the nature of science - it puts us on an ever accelerating path where each new discovery leads to a dozen more in very short order.
Good point though, for which you receive my sincere up-vote.
For Tesla's ideas to work, they'd have to be based on scientific principles, which by definition are accessible to any advanced scientific nation.
Your statement above kind of indicates you are missing the point here. The fact of the matter is that Tesla's research and notes were taken and deep sixed after he died so by definition that information was not "accessible to any advanced scientific nation" out there.
Another piece of the puzzle that often goes unnoticed, and kind of indicates there is something more to this than many would believe regarding research in areas related to what Tesla was working on, is the issue of the (literally) hundreds of independent researchers and scientists that have had their labs and work destroyed (or confiscated), and in many cases even have lost their lives, when they have made breakthroughs in areas related to things that Tesla was originally exploring - like zero-point energy generation. Of course when guys doing research in these areas die it is from things like heart attack, stroke, falls, etc. Much too convenient IMHO . . . . .
The alleged "Free Energy Tesla Towers" remain unproven in mainstream science, but keep their appeal among contrarians and conspiracy theorists. As someone with a "real" degree and who understands EM theory, I remain open-minded but unconvinced for now.
What we DO know that is PROVEN, is Solar Power. As I posted yesterday*, we could all be driving for 'free', if we could use electric cars that we re-charged at home, on our solar panels on the roof of the house. Ditto for Hydrogen fuel cells: we could use Solar Power to charge the H-cells.
* http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-09/another-electric-car-bites-dust...
Thu, 04/09/2015 – 17:05 | 5976418 Kirk2NCC1701
Yeah, god forbid that you'd have an electric car that you can recharge at home, using your solar panels on the roof, and your gas bill goes to... Zero.. God forbid!
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p.s. Keep chasing those red herring arguments, little fishes. LOL.
Being trained in EM theory, then you'll also be aware that Maxwells Equations, as taught in universities, are so watered down with approximations in the area of EM that Tesla's technologies cover that his solutions today are impossible to arrive at.
In essence, the math was lost...one needs to go back to the original Maxwell Equations and build from there.
Heavyside (sp?) bastardized Maxwell's equations and they were accepted as correct and still are to this day. This is one of the primary ways the gate keepers withhold the truth about the "radiant energy" issue that Tesla was exploring - and it goes on to this day in main stream electrical engineering and energy research.
I remember reading a math intensive paper a long time ago that stepped through why the equations as used today (then) were inadequate to describe this area of EM. Fascinating stuff for those who can work through the math. I have no been able to find since. If you know what I'm talking about or similar papers, please post links. It'd be great to revisit.
What made that paper special in my mind is it made no mention of the conspiratorial nature of this area about which I only learned years later and then connected the dots; the paper was more about pointing at the deficiencies in universities to teach fundamental EM that could then be broadly applied. It was almost innocent/naive/academic in its approach.
HBS - Try this page on Tom Bearden's web site for a summary of the Heaviside/Maxwell equation issue - great stuff!!
http://www.cheniere.org/references/maxwell.htm
Thanks! Didn't realize the implications in the bio space.
THE LAST PLACE anyone would learn about some of the more esoteric aspects of Tesla's research would be in the main stream educational establishment. Much of what is deemed "settled science" is nothing more than obfuscation to make sure that the proles don't learn the secrets that TPTB hold very dear . . . .
BTW - The term "conspiracy theorist" was coined by the CIA after the Warren Commission report was issued to disparage anyone that did not go along with it being the "gospel truth" on the JFK assassination. It is being used to this day to discourage people from voicing alternative views on controversial topics (such as Tesla's research).
Bingo DW, see my post just above yours.
"It is being used to this day to discourage people from voicing alternative views on controversial topics (such as Tesla's research)."
A corollary to that is the intentional generation of conspiracy theories in order to send people down blind alleys, thus further derailing their efforts.
I'd go so far as to say that most contemporary conspiracy theories belong in that category. They were intentionally fostered to keep pesky investigators spinning their wheels.
No doubt the truth is out there, but you'll never get to it unless you're willing to question your own premises.
It is useful (and enlightening) to remember that what was "Settled Science" (i.e. mainstream science) in the past has a history of unsettlement as new ideas / discoveries have unseated very firmly held beliefs, just one good example of which is the Phlogiston theory.
Assuming Political ambition does not result in obliteration of our species, ( http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-2016-election-launch-sunday-116843.html ) will our descendants look back on our "Sacred Cow" theories, ("Big Bang", Gravitation, Limitations on the speed of information transfer), and wonder just what we were thinking??
20/20 hindsight is such a wonderful thing . . . . . .
I lack the words but have read as much as I could even if it was a tough read. You are spot on DW.
Guys (holdbuysell, Dickweed Wang), as implied, I do not want to go down the Tesla rabbit hole that gets us nowhere concrete in this discussion.
As stated, I'd prefer we focus on that which HAS been proven: Solar Cells. Solar Cells and the home-generated electricity that can be used to charge Batteries (car, house) or charge a Hydrogen Fuel-Cell station.
It seems to me that THIS is the best Talking Point to have, and the very point that scares the shit out of Big Oil and the PetroDollar Fed. Please comment on this. Thanks.
Solar Cells. Solar Cells and the home-generated electricity that can be used to charge Batteries (car, house) or charge a Hydrogen Fuel-Cell station. . . .
I agree 100%. In fact, I have some outlines I've been working on for hybrid green energy systems using a combination of solar, wind and thermal (i.e. Stirling engines using the temperature delta between ground water and outside air temp is one example of a thermal generation system I envision). Using solar by itself is too limiting as far as continuous power generation goes. The intent of the hybrid system I refer to is to utilize various energy generation methods in a combined system to try to approach a continuous power generation scenario as much of the time as is possible. Energy storage with the green energy systems is also a critical part of an overall system and some out of the box thinking is required for an alternative to overcome the expense issue that comes with using something like LI-Ion storage batteries. Could spend all day talking about this stuff . . . .
Because of the inherent limitations (theoretical and actual) in solar cell efficiency, there has been a lot of work on local alternatives.
What is your opinion on a purely thermal "harvesting" process - e.g. http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_potential_breakthrough_in_harnessing_the_suns_energy/2144/
Philips (Eindhoven) developed a thermal salt based harvesting system years ago, and there was a limited programme run by one of the Queensland research establishments (QCAT) which demonstrated that such a system was about 4 x as efficient as conventional solar PV, using a Stirling motor to drive a conventional alternator, with residual heat being used to run an absorption - type refrigeration airconditioning system.
The big stumbling block was always the need for regular maintenance / servicing, whereas solar PV is very much a "fit and forget" option.
I'd be very interested in your opinions on these technologies . . . . .
No worries, Kirk.
My understanding is that the EROEI for solar is so low (<10) that it really isn't a viable competitor over the long run and thus is 'allowed' to run its doomed course, especially when superior and hidden technologies appear to exist.
I like ebears contrarian view, but when one looks back on certain individuals that changed mankind's thinking, I do think Tesla may have been one of those individuals whose life work was too important and too hard to replicate that it became a state trade secret. This happens all the time in companies today who retain amazing trade secrets due to outstanding individuals whose work just can't be reproduced easily by even the brightest of minds in the same field.
Definitely would like to hear your views.
OK, back from dinner. All great feedback.
Funny that you'd mention a hybrid system, as it's something I've been working on for a whole, and for similar reasons: non-constant supply of sunlight and wind.
W/o going into too much detail, my fundamental philosophy is the maximum use of low tech (with high tech where it's necessary), use of local energy inputs (whatever combo of sun, wind, water), low tech energy storage, and size/scalability limited to the community level (for local adaption and independence), acceptable cost, maintenance and reliability.
As I live in the Pacific NW, and am passionate about this, I would love to meet up with capable and like minded techno-preneurs, to bring it to reality (Concept, Biz Model, Funding...).
Terrorism? Why has no one suggested that it could be the Sun? Solar activity has been really high lately with CME activity. Oh, but no one will address that in govt as it would indicate that we have no control over natural events...
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Why has no one suggested that it could be the Sun? Solar activity has been really high lately with CME activity.
I would tend to agree with you as far as the large outage in Turkey potentially being solar related. The other ones discussed in the article were too localized (and targeted) for me to believe they were solar related.
There's a really good channel on YouTube that covers solar activity in detail on a daily basis - go to the "Morning News" at Suspicious0bservers - https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers
Try http://www.spaceweather.com/
Is a nice site. I stop by once a month or so. More if there is major activity.
More likely aging infrastructure, as M.B.A.'s take over management and lay off experienced line workers and cut spending on maintenance and improvements.
The electrical grid is a 100% physical entity that requires tangible materials and people doing the work (unlike the fantasy world of the new generations where things happen by themselves through the air).
Dr Evil and his LaaaaZZZZooooRRRR are behind this -
Exactly. Screw this guy.
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2015/04/09/how-absurd-banks-should-not-len...
I live about 3 miles from the SMECO substation that "blew". Real event. Not made up. Funniest thing about it was that the DC metro news vans raced to Southern Maryland to "report" on the event, and who did one of the reporters pick for a man-in-the-street interview about the impact of the outage??? An Amish guy. An f'in Amish guy who's religion rejects modern conveniences like "electricity". What a hoot! (Truth be told, it was a man-in-the-field interview vice a man-in-the-street interview). Ha!
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they would never admit it? really? you mean they would lie? NO WAY! my govt, lie? c'mon never - they never never lie
Wait till this summer. Coal plants and Vermont Yankee are going offline and the grid is already stressed. Air conditioning season will be fun up in the northeast this year and we don't need to be EMP'ed cause we can do it to ourselves just fine.....
Any time my power goes off and I call the local utility company the lady says, “a raccoon crawled into the electric box.” Sometimes it’s a “squirrel” or a “snake” but usually a raccoon.
As Eddie Murphy said, in bad parts of town you're simply told "someone stole yo' battry."
I say we got get da muddafucka!
Might have been a normal failure. Might have been a terrorist attack. No one took credit, but that doesn't prove anything either.
We don't know, so we will individually believe whatever we want.
I believe I have no idea what happened.
I know, boring.
I'm going with the huge guy theory, myself.
Well, either that, or the serial crusher theory.
Dropping the grid isn’t normal?
I’m near Detroit. The power grid in the downtown Detroit area always goes down. A couple of times a year for sure.
Relax.
Tesla warfare, geoengineering effect, GMO zio crisis actor false flag IMHO.
I always found this one interesting.
Having snipers attack the grid in Silicon Valley and it just fades down the memory hole.
http://sfist.com/2014/02/05/pge_metcalf_station_terrorist_attac.php
The "Official View" was that this story was sidelined, in order to reduce the risk of "copycat" incidents, which would be a reasonable action, seeing as so far, no-one responsible for the incident has been identified, let alone apprehended . . . .
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-grid-attack-20140211-story.html#page=1
Martin Armonstrong = moron.
He was told before posting this blog that there would be no math.
*spelling
Martin Baldstrong
Escalators for the metro in DC don't work. There are potholes everywhere. Do you really expect the electricity to work?
You're asking us to doubt to honesty and integrity of the same apparatus which knew that it was al-Qaeda err um Saddam no wait uh yeah al-Qaeda *phew* behind 9/11 within how many hours? Sir, that is simply preposterous.
[But really, this article is thoroughly unconvincing.]
sounds like
somebody didn't pay their electric bill
Chev Chelios strikes again!
Guess who is coming to dinner? Dunno, cause we have no electricity and its black AS PITCH in the house so I caint see
Yes folks, the "kickoff" to the party has officially begun. It would be A WISE MOVE to prepare for the further "unexpected" and "unexplained" events that are about to unfold
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As Armstrong pointed out the fact that the Powers That Be instantly came out and said the power outage in DC was not related to terrorism is really suspicious. There are many credible sources on the Net that are saying this was a retaliation for something Washington has recently done to another country. I'll leave naming of the potential adversary(ies) up to everyone else . . . .
Power poles, transformers, and substations everywhere are terrified beyond belief, therefore it is indeed terrorism.