PD-16 and power outages (Wayne Madsen)

[scottxyz]

Interesting (creepy) article by Wayne Madsen:

Since PD-16 was signed {Presidential Directive 16 signed July 2002, authorizing secret cyber-warfare against other countries}, blackouts affecting hundreds of millions of people are occurring around the world on an unprecedented scale. And in some cases, the timing of the blackouts - the height of rush hours and during major sporting and other events - is somewhat curious.

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There is a reason why massive power failures are striking cities around the world and PD-16 may be a part of that reason. It is also noteworthy that the US energy firm, AES Corporation of Arlington, Virginia, has a financial stake in the power companies involved in the blackouts in Chile, Italy, and Georgia. AES's board of directors is jam packed with individuals with links to past Pentagon highjinks. They include Richard Darman of the Carlyle Group and Office of Management and Budget Director under the first Bush and Philip Odeen, former Pentagon 21st century transformation task force chairman, assistant to Henry Kissinger, and a former president of the top Pentagon contractor, BDM. AES, too, should be investigated.

The neo-cons running the Pentagon may know the reasons behind the recurring blackouts and it's beyond time for our elected members of Congress to start cracking heads together to get at the truth of who and what lies behind the multiple blackouts of 2003.

http://www.newsinsider.org/madsta/suspicious_blackouts.html

Sounds very fishy to me.

[NecessaryOnslaught]

1. Wonder if AES has any stake

in the 4 power plants that went out in Greece recently?

[shraby]

2. Wouldn't a power outage

in the U.S. during elections disrupt the voting as many precincts have electronic voting machines now.

[Kool Kitty]

3. Yes, it would.

What a mess that would be. :think: Uh oh....

[scottxyz]

4. I hear Canada manages to vote with paper and pencil

...and they get the votes counted within a day or too.

Why can't we do that here? Just put an "X" next to the candidate's name, and have the ballots counted in public on TV (like the way they do Lotto drawings).

This would be so much easier than the millions of dollars we're spending on these hackable electronic voting systems.

[nolabels]

5. He is a prolific writer if nothing else

Terror Threats To Be Used for 2004 Election Tampering

How a "terror threat" might be used to throw the 2004 elections.

TERRORISM AND THE ELECTION:

NO POSTPONEMENT, JUST BEDLAM AT THE POLLS AND A LOW TURNOUT ON THE WEST COAST IS BUSH’S PLAN FOR "VICTORY"

By Wayne Madsen

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist. He served in the National Security Agency (NSA) during the Reagan administration and wrote the introduction to "Forbidden Truth". He is the co-author, with John Stanton, of "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II." His forthcoming book is titled: "Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops, and Brass Plates." Madsen can be reached at: [e-mail]

You have to give the right-wingers credit. The fear tactics they learned from arch-Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels remain at the front of their political playbook. First, they put out the notion that in the event of a terrorist attack around the time of the November 2 election, a postponement of the vote may be necessary. Second, they start talking about the Federal government’s response to such a scenario. It’s the second item we must all be focused upon.

The idea of terrorism affecting the election was first proffered by Reverend DeForest B. Soaries Jr, the Bush-appointed chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Soaries is a right-wing New Jersey Republican Secretary of State who has been living under the small “fanatics only” revival tent of the Christian fundamentalist crowd for some time. Soaries’s job is to ensure that there is no repeat of the 2000 Florida fiasco. However, he and his friends in the Bush administration (read that as Karl Rove and Tom DeLay primarily) may have their eyes set on causing a major West coast electoral disruption in 2004 that will make Florida 2000 look like a minor glitch by comparison.
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http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/114188.php