WALL ST. & THE BLACKOUT - DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE....
In a bizarre twist, a company named Emerson received critical acclaim in the business world for their backup UPS (emergency energy) systems that allowed the New York Stock Exchange to continue seamless service during the blackout. NYSE President Robert G. Britz said the successful backup systems were able to "fulfill our obligation to America's 85 million investors".43
It's interesting that the blackout happened at 4:11pm on a Thursday. This was just after the NYSE had closed for normal auction trading at 4 pm. When the blackout occurred, there weren't 85 million investors using the New York Stock Exchange, as Robert G. Britz indicated. This writer spoke with a retired Merrill Lynch VP who said there is an after hours session of trading from 4 to 5pm, where very few transactions take place. At most, a few hundred transactions happen after hours.
This is a much lighter load to handle than the 85 million investors who were up and running just 11 minutes earlier. All stock prices were fixed at this point, so the blackout didn't cause the market to fluctuate in any way. The 411 Blackout was the perfect real world test run for Emerson, especially since it didn't happen at peak capacity. The success was a public relations dream.
"VACCINES" IN THE AIR?
Do we want vaccines in the air? One need only reference Clouds of Secrecy , written by Leonard A. Cole, which documents clandestine American military aerosol operations unleashed in the subways of New York and sprayed in San Francisco in 1950. The operations were conducted to assess the ability of pathogens to spread through urban centers.
Cole details the case of Edward J. Nevin who died of a mysterious infection in a Stanford hospital that year. Nevin's grandson filed suit in 1981 against the government, claiming the aerosol operation in San Francisco was responsible for his grandfather's death. The judge in the case barred a scientist from testifying on the plaintiff's behalf.41
Then there is Project Shad, which Judith Miller leaves out of her book Germs . Project Shad is not listed in the book's extensive index. This is the same Judith Miller who used Ahmed Chalabi as an unidentified source for her spectacular (and now completely discredited) weapons of mass destruction claims before Gulf War II in Iraq.
Project Shad (1963-1970) was a series of despicable U.S.G. clandestine experiments - spraying aerosol clouds over tugboats filled with Americans. VX Nerve agent and Sarin gas were used, but the military never said exactly when this was done. To admit the exact date of such an illegal experiment would expose those responsible to possible prosecution.42