Posted on 10/29/2009 9:34:35 PM PDT by mlizzy
(NaturalNews) The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations. The concern is that a pandemic would cause too many people to stay at home and download YouTube videos and porn, hogging all the internet bandwidth and blocking throughput for investment activities, thereby causing a stock market meltdown.
This isn't an April Fool's joke. It's all based on a public report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), available from their website at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d108.pdf
In this article, I'm going to explain how a pandemic outbreak could theoretically bring down Wall Street. But to get to that, you'll first need to find out what the GAO said in its curious report (see below). Parts of this article are presented as satire, but the underlying facts quoted here are all true and verifiable (links are provided to all sources).
This report in question is entitled, "GAO Report to Congressional Requesters, INFLUENZA PANDEMIC" and includes this subtitle: Key Securities Market Participants Are Making Progress, but Agencies Could Do More to Address Potential Internet Congestion and Encourage Readiness.
(Excerpt) Read more at naturalnews.com ...
Thank You for the Information concerning the Net.
I had thought that the Net was deliberately designed to be Decentralized and self healing in that if there was a disruption in service in one location It would automatically reroute.
There may be temporary overloads going through Hubs and switches but it would eventually dissipate.
We sometimes have overloads on the Intranet at work But it does not last very long.
Substitute "conservative" for "popular" and you'll get their real goal. Just declare a "pandemic" and then use that to shut down dissent. It's so simple, even a caveman could do it.
This whole thing has been a deception,.....It’s win-win for Obama. If there is NO large outbreak, we will hear “WE kept it from happening.” If there is a large, uncontrollable outbreak we will hear “It would have been worse if 0Bama hadn’t prepared us.”
What liars! How many *sheeple* out there really believe this? Don't answer...I know there are too many lemmings that are happy to have the govt. LEAD them off the cliff.
Probably 62% of the American people who didn't use their computers BEFORE the election 2008???
The only concern you should have is to tell guvernment the stay the hell out of our business and life in general!!!
Thanks for the “I need to buy a ham radio” ping!
What? You're kidding?
Others are telling me that this year an extra 60,000 people gonna die from swine flu.
Who has their fingers in that pie?
A different branch of the administration. Hmmmm.
If bandwidth is reserved for banks, what is the chance of getting to your online trading account?
Even cooking the books by including any patient who presents with flu-like symptoms as "swine" flu, they have not been able to come up with justification for the emergency.
But all they have to do is declare one, and shut down any site where anyone says anything to the contrary.
Once the state controlls information, they control what happens, and we will be reduced to seeing if the trains are running on time...(which did NOT work...)
I've got more concern about the solution suggested.
Also, Keep up with other H1N1 update stories on this thread: H1N1 flu victim collapsed on way to hospital [Latest H1N1 updates downthread] thanks to DvdMom and others.
If we post more financial articles, will that exempt FR from charges that this is a porn site, and qualify it as an economic advice site?
Which do we have more of? Economic disaster stories, or “I’d hit it” pin-ups? I think, on the whole, that the economic disaster stories probably outnumber the pinups, since we no longer see as many MoDowd columns around here as we used to. She has gotten too dumb and predictable even to be mocked or satirized.
Sanjay Gupta had the H1N1 flu a few months ago. I recall seeing an interview where he said it was the sickest he has ever been.
Naturalnews.com is one of millions of scurrilous websites, and I’ve seen nothing but lies and garbage on this website.
The GAO concern was that too many people would be working from home, and not that too many people would be downloading “YouTube videos and porn”. Naturalnews just made that part up, just like they make up everything they publish.
Here’s the conclusion of the GAO report:
Recommendations for Executive Action
To better ensure that securities market participants as well as organizations in other critical sectors of the economy will continue to have access to the Internet during a pandemic, we recommend that the Secretary of Homeland Security take the following four actions:
• develop a strategy outlining actions that could be taken to address potential Internet congestion,
• coordinate with other relevant federal and private sector entities about actions that could potentially reduce Internet congestion,
• work with other federal partners to determine if sufficient authority exists for one or more relevant agencies to take any contemplated actions to address Internet congestion, and
• assess the effectiveness and feasibility, and undertake if warranted, a public education campaign to reduce such congestion.
To better ensure that important securities market participants are making adequate preparations for pandemic, we recommend that the Chairman, SEC, ensure that SEC staff take steps to ensure that critical financial market organizations are fully documenting the adequacy of their staffing levels to withstand high absenteeism and have formally developed alternative strategies in the event that congestion limits teleworking effectiveness.
You might want to watch this, from a Finnish Consulate...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgyakGAddM*
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