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Non-toxic gas will be dispersed in NYC subways this month
The MTA and the Department of Homeland Security are conducting a somewhat ghoulish experiment this month.
On five days between October 18 and 29, they'll be releasing non-toxic gas at about 120 subway stations to test NYC's response plans for a chemical or biological attack, according to the New York Daily News.
The "airflow and dispersion study" will simulate the aerosol release of a biological agent in a densely populated urban environment, according to 311. Researchers will take air samples and materials that settle on the ground and other surfaces afterward.
According to the DHS, it'll take place at Times Square, World Trade Center Complex, Union Square Park, the Union Square subway stations, as well as the Oculus transit hub.
As mentioned earlier, the particle gas tracers are non-toxic and pose no health risks, according to the Daily News. The DHS says the non-toxic substances include salt, glycerol, maltodextrin (sweetener), a fluorescent brightener, non-coding DNA oligos, amorphous silica among others.
The gas tracers include sulfur hexafluoride as well as perfluorocarbon tracer. Sulfur hexafluoride is a safe gas commonly used in leak testing and is already present in urban backgrounds due to its use in the electric power industry. Perfluorocarbon tracer gases are safe, inert, odorless, colorless gases that have been used in many similar airflow studies in the past.
Between these dates, it's likely you'll see researchers and police officers outside of and inside subway stations.
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Except, of course, for the pesky little fact that the US government did do precisely that. In the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, to be precise. The covert US Navy experiment was codenamed "Sea-Spray," and for once you don't need to be a mind-reader to figure out what the program actually did. They sprayed people. From the sea. Pretty straightforward, hey?
But wait, what were they spraying people with exactly? Oh, just Serratia marcescens. You know, the "rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae" that just happens to be a human pathogen?
And what exactly did the Navy hope to accomplish with this experiment? Why, to "determine the susceptibility of a big city like San Francisco to a bioweapon attack by terrorists," of course.
And what did they actually accomplish? The death of at least one person and the hospitalization of many others.
Which, I suppose, answers the experimenters' question, doesn't it? Are San Franciscans susceptible to a bioweapon attack by terrorists? Well, yes, evidently . . . assuming by the word "terrorist" you mean the US Navy.
So surely this type of thing was just a one-off. They never tried something like this before or since, right? . . . Right?
So surely this type of thing was just a one-off. They never tried something like this before or since, right? . . . Right?
. . . Oh, of course they did.
But don't worry, guys. I'm sure the government wouldn't be doing anything like this to the unwitting masses today.
That's just crazy talk.
link
It wasn’t the only time the U.S. government did this.
Federal researchers secretly fogged Minneapolis and St. Louis during the Korean War. In 1966, they would run a similar experiment on New York City, dropping light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis variant niger into subway stations during rush hour to see how far the bacilli would spread—more than a million New Yorkers were exposed. In all, the Army acknowledged having conducted bacteriological tests on 239 populated areas between 1949 and 1969.
The tests were part of a large-scale, secret program of germ warfare research and development. The CIA researched possible targets, such as the Moscow subway, and military researchers designed a biological balloon bomb that could carry infectious spores far into enemy territory.
The Pentagon tested and stockpiled means of inducing illness. By 1971, its arsenal of weaponized disease contained, among other articles, 220 pounds of anthrax, 804 pounds of tularemia, 334 pounds of Venezuelan equine encephalitis, 5,098 gallons of Q fever, and tens of thousands of bombs.
The Great Germ War Cover-Up
Lawsuit Says St. Louis Citizens Sprayed With Radioactive Chemicals In Secret Military Experiment
According to a recent report by a professor at St. Louis Community College, the United States military conducted top-secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri for years, going so far as exposing them to radioactive compounds.
The researcher, Professor Lisa Martino-Taylor, said that while it has long been known that the government sprayed supposedly harmless zinc cadmium sulfide particles over St. Louis, she claims that a radioactive additive was also mixed with the compound.
Martino-Taylor says she has found detailed descriptions as well as photographs of the spraying which exposed the unwitting public, predominantly in low-income and minority communities, to radioactive particles. In her research, she found that the greatest concentration of spraying in St. Louis took place at the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex, which was home to 10,000 low-income residents. She said that 70% of those residents were children under the age of 12..
Now that details have emerged of the chemical testing, a recent lawsuit filed in City Court says that the agriculture giant Monsanto and others conspired with the military to secretly poison residents of St. Louis with toxic chemicals.
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Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas
In the 1970s Americans learned for the first time that they had been used for decades as unsuspecting guinea pigs in a series of astonishing experiments conducted by the US Army. Military researchers had been secretly spraying clouds of bacteria over populated areas in order to study America's vulnerability to biological weapons. Many civilians have suffered illness, even death, as a consequence.
Clouds Of Secrecy
Military researchers had been secretly spraying clouds of bacteria over populated areas in order to study America's vulnerability to biological weapons. Many civilians have suffered illness, even death, as a consequence.
originally posted by: bobs_uruncle
It's just a test, just a simulation, just a drill...
Oklahoma City Bombing with the FBI's help
WTC Bombing 1993 with the FBI's help
WTC 911
London Subway Bombing
Boston Marathon
Event 201
How many more????
When they say test, simulation, drill, it's a live vent with an agenda or nefarious purpose.
Cheers - Dave
originally posted by: DBCowboy
Tinfoil hat time!
originally posted by: chris_stibrany
Just like there were drills before and on 911, I wonder if there will be a real (false flag blamed on others) attack later this month.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: karl 12
Tinfoil hat time!
They’re actually testing a way to introduce an aresolized version of the vaccine.
originally posted by: karl 12
Just a heads up if you're planning to use the New York subway system later this month.
Apparently Homeland Security are conducting a 'somewhat ghoulish' experiment releasing non-toxic gas at about 120 subway stations to test response plans for a biological attack.
Non-toxic gas will be dispersed in NYC subways this month
The MTA and the Department of Homeland Security are conducting a somewhat ghoulish experiment this month.
On five days between October 18 and 29, they'll be releasing non-toxic gas at about 120 subway stations to test NYC's response plans for a chemical or biological attack, according to the New York Daily News.
The "airflow and dispersion study" will simulate the aerosol release of a biological agent in a densely populated urban environment, according to 311. Researchers will take air samples and materials that settle on the ground and other surfaces afterward.
According to the DHS, it'll take place at Times Square, World Trade Center Complex, Union Square Park, the Union Square subway stations, as well as the Oculus transit hub.
As mentioned earlier, the particle gas tracers are non-toxic and pose no health risks, according to the Daily News. The DHS says the non-toxic substances include salt, glycerol, maltodextrin (sweetener), a fluorescent brightener, non-coding DNA oligos, amorphous silica among others.
The gas tracers include sulfur hexafluoride as well as perfluorocarbon tracer. Sulfur hexafluoride is a safe gas commonly used in leak testing and is already present in urban backgrounds due to its use in the electric power industry. Perfluorocarbon tracer gases are safe, inert, odorless, colorless gases that have been used in many similar airflow studies in the past.
Between these dates, it's likely you'll see researchers and police officers outside of and inside subway stations.
link
The Department of Honeland Security has assured everyone the gas only contains things like glycerol, maltodextrin, non-coding DNA oligos, amorphous silica, sulfur hexafluoride and perfluorocarbons so I'm sure there's no need for conspiracy theorizing.
Thay said, it's difficult not to be reminded of all the other times the U.S. Gov have conducted similar 'simulation' experiments on the general public with some rather disturbing results and there's some relevant reading below (taken from this thread).
• Article and links about Sea-spray and other 'actions' on the U.S. public:
Except, of course, for the pesky little fact that the US government did do precisely that. In the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, to be precise. The covert US Navy experiment was codenamed "Sea-Spray," and for once you don't need to be a mind-reader to figure out what the program actually did. They sprayed people. From the sea. Pretty straightforward, hey?
But wait, what were they spraying people with exactly? Oh, just Serratia marcescens. You know, the "rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae" that just happens to be a human pathogen?
And what exactly did the Navy hope to accomplish with this experiment? Why, to "determine the susceptibility of a big city like San Francisco to a bioweapon attack by terrorists," of course.
And what did they actually accomplish? The death of at least one person and the hospitalization of many others.
Which, I suppose, answers the experimenters' question, doesn't it? Are San Franciscans susceptible to a bioweapon attack by terrorists? Well, yes, evidently . . . assuming by the word "terrorist" you mean the US Navy.
So surely this type of thing was just a one-off. They never tried something like this before or since, right? . . . Right?
So surely this type of thing was just a one-off. They never tried something like this before or since, right? . . . Right?
. . . Oh, of course they did.
But don't worry, guys. I'm sure the government wouldn't be doing anything like this to the unwitting masses today.
That's just crazy talk.
link
• New York Subway Stations:
It wasn’t the only time the U.S. government did this.
Federal researchers secretly fogged Minneapolis and St. Louis during the Korean War. In 1966, they would run a similar experiment on New York City, dropping light bulbs filled with Bacillus subtilis variant niger into subway stations during rush hour to see how far the bacilli would spread—more than a million New Yorkers were exposed. In all, the Army acknowledged having conducted bacteriological tests on 239 populated areas between 1949 and 1969.
The tests were part of a large-scale, secret program of germ warfare research and development. The CIA researched possible targets, such as the Moscow subway, and military researchers designed a biological balloon bomb that could carry infectious spores far into enemy territory.
The Pentagon tested and stockpiled means of inducing illness. By 1971, its arsenal of weaponized disease contained, among other articles, 220 pounds of anthrax, 804 pounds of tularemia, 334 pounds of Venezuelan equine encephalitis, 5,098 gallons of Q fever, and tens of thousands of bombs.
The Great Germ War Cover-Up