Posted on 04/04/2016 5:37:17 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
Episode 15 is a video interview by Mark Levin of NHS Task Force Executive Director Dr. Peter Pry about the growing EMP threat. Dr. Pry makes a powerful argument about how vulnerable the US and specifically the American people are to an EMP attack on our electrical infrastructure by North Korea or Iran. It would only take one bomb exploded thirty miles over the continental United States to potentially kill ninety million Americans. The bomb itself would not kill anybody.
At any given moment half a million people are flying over the United States. With their electronics destroyed, most of those planes would crash. Those planes that did survive would find themselves without satellite and ground guidance, or landing lights if the attack happened at night. So, within half an hour half a million people would die. Longer term, imagine the aftermath of Katrina but lasting a year or more. People dependent on technology, those in hospitals or needing dialysis would die at their own rates.
Unable to pump gas, travel in a car, make a cell phone call or obtain food, life would crash from the twenty-first century back to the nineteenth. But, people in the nineteenth century had all the infrastructure they needed to survive. We wouldn't. This is a particularly powerful scenario in that we don't know if the North Korean satellite orbiting above the US is a bomb simply waiting for an insane ruler to press the button.
So far our government has done nothing. Dr. Pry says that although Obama is informed of the danger he has done nothing because it would draw attention to the massive failures of his administration to protect Americans.
FYI, Gen.Blather
EMP is a waste of everyone’s time. I know the Internet nerds just love the subject, but the amount of false information being circulated is at the level of ignorant 12 year olds.
Within 3 days many would die from lack of water alone
Most of them would be demonrats so where is the problem?
Completely false.
“I know the Internet nerds just love the subject, but the amount of false information being circulated is at the level of ignorant 12 year olds.”
Less than a minute to respond. Impressive. Didn’t watch it, did you.
Someone said tin foil is good for defending against an EMP attack. I’ve got three rolls of heavy duty in the basement so we’ll be ok here.
“Didn’t watch it, did you.”
I don’t need to. You nerds have been posting this nonsense for years. Seen it before. You act like this is something new. Heck, it’s been posted to FR many times.
Niney million in one fell swoop?
The Agenda 21 crowd will be smiling for sure.
Thanks for posting, a subject that most are ignorant about, some here are proving the point.
Why? I remember reading the same stuff in the run up to Y2K. A loss of electronics will not stop the rain or dry up lakes and streams. If the taps turn off, most people will figure out how to suck up some liquids. Even Las Vegas has swimming pools.
EMP is just one threat among many to our grid.
The power grid is the ultimate target, the weapon (or natural event, or accident) that takes it down is irrelevant. The outcome is what will matter.
How long can a city live on swimming pool water, if a grid attack is sustained with follow up attacks, and the power is out for weeks or months?
What happens to the population of that city in the meantime? Consider that the power will also be out in the suburbs and rural areas.
Physical threats to the grid I agree with and letting in the muslims is the primary source of the threat. This EMP Internet nerd nonsense is for comic book reading teenagers.
“Thanks for posting, a subject that most are ignorant about, some here are proving the point.”
All of us suffer from normalcy bias to some degree. Something that has never happened will never happen.
Yeah BS. The Russians already tested it. Big dud.
Within 3 days many would die from lack of water alone.
I’d have to agree with that. They would be slumped beside the only place they think drinkable water is to be found, the tap.
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Just for instance: How many “Iranian students” attending our universities are actually military officers with grid attack contingency plans? We don’t know? Neither does the FBI.
I have a windmill !!!
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