Listen, as far as the defense network goes, the drills really went on, they DID create a level of confusion that MAY or MAY NOT have prevented the attacks from occurring (leaning towards it wouldn't have changed anything)... There are some air traffic controllers that have spoken out and said that even as things stood back in the 80's that it shouldn't have played out as it did...
Except now you are maybe finally realising it is just coincidence that these exercises happened the same day as a disasterous event (it
does happen) and that exercises or not there would STILL have been confusion and very little time to do anyhting, so were you being truly honest (with yourself mostly) you would REMOVE this from your list of "co-incidences" and beliefs now ...
It should be one "layer" peeled off and discarded ... will you do that, or, as I suspect still keep it in place, as the less "layers", the less likely any real conspiracy !!!
And as for people believing it shouldn't have played out that way ... means nothing really, people say that all the time about lots of things ... just because something
shouldn't have happened does not mean it
can't happen !!!
Ya, most people have been hit hard by the fluoride / aspartame / mercury that they have been exposed to for the better part of their lives...
Well considering that the vast majority of people have regular use and/or interaction of additives, chemicals, etc, etc, etc how come is it that not everybody is as equally stupid, dense or controlled ???
Your obviously not, so what makes
you somehow "immune" to all these effects ... have you never, ever, ever, taken any foods or drinks with additives or used chemicals throughout your entire life ... and yet DESPITE all these controls and stuff, here you are openly discussing these things ???
Why do we
still have fighting, dissent and distrust if we are all being "controlled" or drugged ???
Why do we still have excellence in the fields of science, engineering, technology, medicine, art, sport, etc, etc, etc IF we are all being dumbed-down and poisoned from every direction ???
Why is technology advancing ???
Why is the population growing ???
Why are people living longer ???
Millions were in germ war tests | Politics | The Observer
Just to show at least 1 mainstream article discussing stuff being sprayed overhead.
But here is the rub B'man ... it was NOT actual harmful pathogens that were being sprayed ... but naturally occuring more harmless ones.
The trials used NOT actual biological agents ... but SUBSTITUTE harmless agents which would mimic the way the "real" pathogens would if
ever actually released (in a German or Russian attack).
Records which were released of UK Government files showed the results of Biological Weapons trials between 1940 and 1979 carried out MOSTLY at Dstl, Porton Down in Wiltshire.
Were there any serious legitimate concern or need for secrecy those records would simply NEVER have been cleared for open public release !!!
It is that simple B'man ... gubmints can keep records sealed forever if need be ... so the mere fact that these
are available publically shows them to be of no real concern ... that CT'ers jump on them is not unexpected, but hey! they are CT'ers, people whom have a deeply suspicious mindset regarding things they do not fully understand and have an almost pathological mistrust in anything "official".
(I am making generalized claims here B'man, so
please do not take them personally)
In my experience most CT'ers are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories if they feel powerless in the face of large social authorities or institutions and almost NEED to believe that we live in a stable and predictable world, so prefer to seek out simple accounts of a complex world.
Even a world where there is great planning for harm is MORE secure than one full of random violence ... a world in which tiny causes can have huge consequences feels scary and unreliable.
Therefore a grand disaster like 9/11
needs a "grand" conspiracy behind it.
Or that someone as special as a Princess could die in something as mundane,ordinary and boring as a drink-driving accident ... no some complex secret "conspiracy" is more believable, as well as exciting !!!
But
real reality is shown to be more a series of
****-up theories, the absolute antithesis of conspiracy theories !!!
But in simplifying their stance it also means that some deeply fundamental information never surfaces ... given the choice between a vast global conspiracy and plain ordinary everyday human stupidity, arrogance and incompetence ... put your money
on human error.
NEVER underestimate the power of human stupidity !!!
Yet I think they like the feeling of control that this gives them "...
everyone else is fooled, but "I" know the real truth."
But many people are just mindlessly gullible and fall for anything if presented in a manner as to have obvious and defined baddies and bogeymen ...
Ergo the classic ...
Us against Them mindset !!!
Thinking themselves skeptical for "just asking questions" or being open-minded, but here is the thing ... that is NOT true skepticism ... the more outrageous the claim the higher the standard of evidence is
required to prove it ... and the vast majority of conspiracy believers do no more than the most superficial checking of the favoured claim.
They almost religiously buy into it ... automatically believing it, for no better reason than it is putting whatever current or previous bogeyman in a bad light ... conspiracism sees secret plots by tiny cabals of evildoers as the major motor powering virtually every single important historical event.
But the major problem with that, is that they tend to impute cartoonish motives to "them" ... "them" being the evil elites who operate in the shadows ... yet the end result often feels like a heavily plotted B-movie whose characters do quite not ring true !!!
Then there are other cognitive "Do Not Enter" signs ... in that when history ceases to resemble a train of conflicts and ambiguities and becomes instead a series of "disinformation" campaigns ... you sense that a basic self-correcting mechanism of thought has been disabled.
A bridge is out ... and paranoia yawns below !!!
One of the, I find, remarkable features of these kind of "theories" is that they are by definition unverifiable ... lack of evidence (seemingly) only proves how great the conspiracy actually is ...
This is the very opposite of true scientific theory !!!
Off topic, but quite succinctly shows just how gullible people whom consider themselves reasonably aware can be ... it is Penn and Teller showing the absolute crud surrounding the bottled water industry ...
YouTube - The Truth About Bottled Water
Here in Scotland, we genuinely do have exceptionally pure and clean cold tap water, yet people STILL think bottled is better ... nothing can dissuade them from this idea EVEN when shown it's not ... but people can be exceptionally defensive of a long-held belief and resist change, for no-body likes to be proven wrong !!!
It is an admittance of weakness or fallability ... and no-one likes feeling such.
Crank Dot Net | psychology
(Sorry I digress ... see what happens when posting after a few wee glasses of some of my very fav plonk ...

)
Anyhows, back to the topic in hand ...
Regarding the spray tests ... the pathogens used were Escherichia coli and BACILLUS GLOBIGII ...
E.COLLI is a NATURALLY forming bacterium found in the gut of most animals and is ONLY dangerous to humans when they ingest (eat) something such as raw and undercooked meat, some dairy products and unpasteurised fruit juices.
E.Coli infection affects the young and elderly the most, and when it leads to hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), it can be fatal and is the leading cause of renal failure in young children.
Yet it was ONLY used to trace how far the live bacteria spread and would cause ZERO harm to humans in the air.
Escherichia coli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
E. coli Infection -- familydoctor.org
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BACILLUS GLOBIGII is again a NATURALLY occuring bacterium found in HAY and decomposing SOIL and is known to survive extreme enviromental changes ... so was used in an airborne spray to test survivability in differing conditions.
Bacillus subtilis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Identification and Quantitation of Bacillus globigii Using Metal Enhanced Electrochemical Detection and Capillary Biosensor - Analytical Chemistry (ACS Publications)
It is NOT a human pathogen ... so has very little or no effect on humans !!!
But it is added to the Korean delicacy paste "Cheonggukjang" (daughter loves it, she and her father shared a bottle of Champagne and jar of it outside bar in Noo Yoik last time she out there ... yuuuck :2sick1: )
The tests were designed to help predict the spread of an airborne pathogen such as ANTHRAX.
But these two bacillus' ONLY connection to ANTHRAX is that it is has the SAME physical characteristics ... SIZE, DENSITY, WEIGHT etc.
There was simply no
direct danger to the public by these tests ... period !!!
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ZINC SULPHIDE (yet another occuring naturally as SPHALERITE mineral) was added as an ELECTROMINISCENCE material ... meaning the electrons emit their energy as PHOTONS (LIGHT)... in other words they GLOWED (like a Glowstick) ... and were used to physically SEE how the test materials moved in the air.
Zinc sulfide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
People with compromised immune systems
may indeed have been affected by inhilation of large amounts ... but it would be a VERY VERY small group and require such large amounts as to be unfeasable.
And as these tests were carried out between 46 and 54 YEARS ago ... then gaps in knowledge of potential dangers and the morality of such testing
are understandable,
They simply didn't KNOW THEN that we know today!!!
Or even
think the same way about things like this ... don't forget this was the era when smoking and cigarettes were seen as of being no danger ... pregnant women were actually prescribed cigarettes as a calming substance !!!
We know MORE than we did THEN... so any harm "potentially" caused was done in ignorance rather than deliberate harm !!!
Again B'man this is another case of conspiracist taking a little information and presenting it in such a way as it "seem" suspicious and hazardous.
And when looked at more fully and thouroughly you see it is, yet again, conspiracists making mountains out of molehills.
That old adage is so true ... a little knowledge
is a dangerous thing !!!