Now, there are people out there who believe that all of the scandals and atrocities happening throughout the world are actually a sign of the End Times, and that the only way things will ever get better is if an outside force, like God, intervenes on our behalf.

According to the Baltimore Sun, it would appear that nature has stepped up to the plate.

NSA risking electrical overload

The demand for electricity to operate its expanding intelligence systems has left the high-tech eavesdropping agency on the verge of exceeding its power supply, the lifeblood of its sprawling 350-acre Fort Meade headquarters, according to current and former intelligence officials.

Agency officials anticipated the problem nearly a decade ago as they looked ahead at the technology needs of the agency, sources said, but it was never made a priority, and now the agency's ability to keep its operations going is threatened. The NSA is already unable to install some costly and sophisticated new equipment, including two new supercomputers, for fear of blowing out the electrical infrastructure, they said.

At minimum, the problem could produce disruptions leading to outages and power surges at the Fort Meade headquarters, hampering the work of intelligence analysts and damaging equipment, they said. At worst, it could force a virtual shutdown of the agency, paralyzing the intelligence operation, erasing crucial intelligence data and causing irreparable damage to computer systems -- all detrimental to the fight against terrorism.

Privacy: 1
Government corruption: 0


I hope that made your day. It certainly made mine.

(Also, I would like to apologize for not keeping up with this blog for the past couple of weeks -- real life caught up to me. To make up for it, I actually remodeled the whole Hold The Phone site and updated the information on it to reflect more current information, like the "Lawmakers Say NSA Database Incomplete" article. It was something I've been meaning to do for a while, actually. You can see it here, or click the banner on the menu to the right. I still have more updating to do there, but it's good enough for now.)