Posted on 09/04/2014 6:21:37 PM PDT by Kartographer
Pry provided details of recent attacks on electricity systems and said that ISIS could easily team with Mexican drug cartels to ravage America.
He told Secrets, for example, that the Knights Templar drug gang blacked out the electric grid of the Mexican state of Michoacan in 2013 to provide cover for killing those fighting the drug trade.
“The Knights Templars and other criminal gangs in Mexico will do anything for money, and ISIS, the richest terrorist organization in history, has hundreds of millions of dollars at its disposal,” said Pry.
“ISIS could hire one of the Mexican cartels, or one of their criminal gangs already in the U.S., or activate jihadist terror cells already in the U.S., and inflict a multi-state blackout immediately, within days or weeks. Perhaps even a nationwide blackout,” Pry explained to Secrets.
“I am not saying it is likely they will do so. But given the capabilities and objectives of ISIS and our obvious vulnerabilities, it would be foolish to ignore the threat to the grid, to regard the threat as unlikely. Our planning should be based on imminent asymmetrical threats, and not assume that another 9/11 large-scale attack is years away,” he added.
The Texas Department of Public Safety recently said they believe there is evidence that ISIS plans an attack. (source)
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It's the little things that get folks killed.
Just my humble opinion: ISIS could drop the grid anytime they want; combine that with a few well timed and placed IED attacks and some sniping...panic will kill thousands.
>> I reject the mad-max scenario because human civilizations have failed so catastrophically in the past. -<<
In the past, there weren’t millions of self-entitled lazy ignorant slobs who were dependent on others for their day to day existence.
The mad-max scenario is very likely.
>> I don’t buy your 90% die off. That’s assumption on your part. <<
This info comes from a little known gov’t study. Wish I still had the source.
If you are able to use the pitcher pump, don’t use your last gallon of water - sometimes you need water to prime the pump. But they work so easily that you do not need a lot of strength to bring the water up.
Good luck
Turns out there were. Ancient Rome had well over a million that were utterly dependent on handouts of bread from the Empire. That and free entertainment, the circuses.
/johnny
“Cities won’t be pretty, but there’s always a jerk there to organize them.”
Organized or not organized, there won’t be any food coming into cities if the grid goes down. And marching in an organized fashion out of the cities won’t solve the food problem when the food used to come from 1,000 miles away via trucks that are no longer running.
Putting death by violence aside, where will the other 65% obtain their food, once the factories go silent and the trucks are all stopped? How much food can be grown in the cities in the first few weeks and months? That's all the time it takes for starvation.
I'd probably go out and purchase a Lamborghini....and a trunk load of potato chips and Tanqueray gin
Amen. Plenty will survive, but not many of them will survive in the big cities that need to import thousands of truckloads of food every single day to sustain life.
We’ll have to agree to disagree here.
I’ve been studying, planning, and prepping for many years.
While I’m praying for the best, I’m prepard for the worst of the worst.
Well, a crisis could happen at any time. I just hope it’s not Ebola. Nasty way to go.
There are multiple ways to generate power that don't involve giant coal plants and mega transformers.
Sure, they suck, but they work... well enough to get the job done.
Now, I'm off to impart practical knowledge of how to run and maintain a civilization to my grandkids.
/johnny
I had a shallow hand pump well (35’) put in my back yard last year for just that reason. I use it every day to fill buckets for the garden, just to keep it tested and ready. I drink from it every day, also to test it. If we need to use it for all of our drinking water, I’ll filter it further. But it’s potable as-is, with an iron taste.
/johnny
I see at least a dozen lit fuses leading into the dynamite factory we call the USA. It won't matter which fuse hits the gunpowder first, she's gonna blow sky-high if and when the grid goes down.
We think we have mastered nature, but electricity has become our artificial oxygen. It's the greatest case of pride and hubris in human history.
Alas, Brave New Babylon.
Do y ou have a link to some sort of description to this?
Never studied Rome; have studied plausible modern collapse scenarios.
Once folks get hungry they’ll turn into animals. The worst of the worst will be LEOs becuase they are armed and trained.
Doom porn.
I sincerely hope that you are right and I am wrong.
It’s a long skinny bucket about 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Designed to use with today’s wells to manually draw up water.
Some cheap models will get you through an emergency, but are not designed for long term use. Some are more sturdy and can be used longer.
Rocket bucket is what some of the websites called them when I was searching for manual ways to access well water.
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