[Paleo Conservative]

"The lesson that was reinforced on 9/11 was the importance of getting clear and accurate information to the public during a crisis," said Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, where the scheme will be deployed first next year. It will then move to Washington and most other large cities.

WTF? When the WTC towers collapsed, the cell towers located on top of the WTC went down too. Survivors were trying to find old fashioned pay phones to call their families and leave messages.

[Wage Slave]

That’s true. In DC the cell networks and the land lines all crashed on 9/11, predictably. So there is a another reason for this plan, because everyone knows there will be no phone service in a true disaster.