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<\/center>When Russia holds a massive civil defense drill for nuclear war, the government informs its people and even includes them.<\/p>\nWhen the US government does it however, they do it in secret, even using natural disasters as cover, meanwhile keeping the civilian population in the dark and telling them as little as possible.<\/p>\n
The fact that there are massive power outages today of all days in San Francisco, LA and<\/em> specifically New York City \u2014 causes reportedly still unknown at this time \u2014 seems like anything but a coincidence with everything else going on right now including a massive NYC-area 10 kiloton nuclear blast and<\/em> EMP drill called Operation Gotham Shield.<\/p>\n Power Outages<\/strong><\/p>\n NYC<\/em><\/strong> LA<\/em><\/strong> San Francisco<\/em><\/strong> Operation Gotham Shield<\/strong><\/p>\n All of this is coinciding with the Operation Gotham Shield drill being held in the NYC area; depending on who you ask, it\u2019s even going on right now, but again, we civilians (read: peons) are being mostly kept in the dark about the huge drill. One set of dates says the drill started on April 18th and will run through May 5th. Another set of dates say the actual nuke\/EMP simulation part of the drill won\u2019t happen until April 24th\u201326th.<\/p>\n As Mac Slavo of SHTFPlan.com reported<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n [Gotham Shield] is a tabletop, joint agency exercise involving FEMA, Homeland Security and a myriad of law enforcement and military agencies. WMD, chemical and biological units will all be on hand as a response is tested for a \u201csimulated\u201d nuclear detonation over the United States\u2019 foremost urban center<\/strong>, in the iconic and densely populated island of Manhattan and nearby shores of New Jersey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe first massive power outage today occurred in New York City just before 6 am after the power inexplicably went down at the 7th avenue and 53rd street subway station, causing a chain reaction through the rest of NYC\u2019s subway system. MTA did not get the generators back up and running until around 11:30. Delays are still rampant.<\/p>\n
\nA few hours later, outages began being reported around Los Angeles, including at the LA airport.<\/p>\n
\nThis one is reportedly the worst. Some 90,000 people are still without power all around downtown San Francisco as of 1 pm this afternoon. Businesses are shuttered, transportation systems are shut down, whole skyscrapers are dark. People are calling the whole scene \u201csurreal\u201d. Again, the cause of the outage still has not been explained.<\/p>\n