Posted on 10/20/2015 10:59:39 AM PDT by Perseverando
The Department of Homeland Security acknowledges ISIS has been attempting to hack U.S. electrical grids.
Fortunately, to date, we’ve all been very fortunate the attacks have been unsuccessful.
But one day our luck will run out.
That will be a very dark day for America.
What keeps America alive is the electrical grid. If it goes down, for a week or longer, the devastation will be incalculable. Many will die. Some won’t be able to heat their homes. No one will be able to buy gasoline. Offices and businesses close down. Supermarket shelves will be barren. Some, who rely on electric water pumps, won’t even have water in their homes. No lights. No food. No heat. No money. No gasoline.
In other words, for however long such an attack lasts, America reverts back to 19th century existence. And with most Americans totally dependent on electricity as their lifeblood, it’s not a pretty picture.
ISIS is hardly the only threat.
F. Michael Maloof wrote a chilling book a few years ago, “A Nation Forsaken,” about the impact of a grid attack that could come by several means:
solar flares
hacking
electronic magnetic pulse generated by a mid-air detonation of a nuclear weapon
The latter may be the scariest because it could cripple much of the country for a very, very long time. A congressional commission years ago warned it would result in most Americans dying as a result – most from starvation.
Yet the U.S. grid is just as open to attack today as it was when that report came out.
Why?
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
It is very important be be 25+ miles away from large metropolitan areas / democrat strongholds for your family safety in a time of crisis. In such a scenario, there will be thousands of new flat screens in the homes of starving city residents.
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a squirrel !
Congress is more concerned about the safety of every country except America. What a travesty.
I don’t know what the fuss is about. I’ll just call for pizza on an iphone or order online.
I’m 45 miles from the edge of one of these rat-holes. Hopefully, that will be good enough. There are plenty of close-in suburbs near the edge of the rat-hole before rural land opens up and I’m deep into the rural hinterland.
And it will be delivered by a Muzzie who scraped all the sausage off your pizza......
Cool! It’s our strength in diversity that will get us through it. I think a grid collapse would be great. We would all come together, Christian, Jew, Muslim alike, and support transgender marriage in our time of crisis because the planet has a fever and we can look back and realize that it was the day the seas fell.
And stuff.
Read “One Second After” by William R Forstchen for an idea of what will happen if the electrical grid goes down. Not a pretty sight.
Or play Fallout 3/New Vegas
Plus threesomes + one Armadillo can marry.
I really wish people would stop with the “hacking” non-sense. The critical controls are NOT on the Internet; they just aren’t; they aren’t even close to the Internet.
If people knew how even in the loosest of shops how tight those controls are they would stop the hyperbole (and the controls are getting even tighter).
Without doubt an energy companies mail server or external facing web server might get nailed but the networks those services sit on have no way of talking to the backend critical infra.
I am more concerned about high power rifles and transformers than I am about “hax0rs”.
Well said. Thank you. It's what the money Congress gets that tells them what to do from the military-industrial complex to publishing election media propaganda.
More EMP porn. Stimulating.
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a squirrel !
Who is to say that the love between man and his roadkill isn’t just?
Who? No one here can say with a straight face that they have ever sat and thought about the answer to that question. And thats why gay men dress fabulously.
I spose roadkill could be sexy.
Doom porn is always in style. Most people, even liberals, secretly suspect doom is what we deserve.
Dude, Your a zonie too. Surely you’ve seen dead tarantulas in garters and platform stripper heels on the side of the highway. EIGHT of them!
I mean we’re talking beaucoup fetish here. But then you’re a little older than me so perhaps you didn’t have the benefit of the more liberal head start education I had that helped define my sexuality even though I was born that way.
Male lesbian ?
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