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Travis...do really think we’re going to be nailed with an EMP/terrorist event right before election day? I ask not in criticism or derision, but for clarification.
I don’t assign probabilities to the modalities. I look at our national grid like a gunpowder factory with a dozen fuses burning toward it. Which one reaches it first? We may never know.
WW3 won’t be missiles or bombers, it will be attacks on national grids. Unlike MAD, (missiles have knowable origins), cyber attacks against grids can be disguised, so such attacks are much more likely to happen. And I think WW3 will break out in 2016, igniting in either Europe (Tet, Take Two) or between Iran and Saudi Arabia. I think Obama wants it to start on his watch, so that as POTUS and CIC, he can inflict the maximum damage upon the USA.
Yes, the trigger for grid down could be a missile launching an EMP device, or the sun could just belch out a massive ejecta, but far more likely it will be a cyber attack and/or a direct kinetic attack against substations by the hundreds of the Iranian sleeper-cell commandos already inside the USA (aka “foreign exchange students”).
The Santa Barbara substation attack was, IMHO, a “proof of concept” test by some nation’s (most likely Iran) head of their embedded sleeper commando program, proving to his bosses that they can take down our grid with no more than rifles. If they can do one Santa Barbara attack, they can do 50, and take down our grid.
Once our grid is down, our cities will explode on their own. And if the grid goes down, we will probably never learn what really caused it. We’ll just be dealing in rumors, since there will be no national news coming out, other than some FEMA propaganda on battery-powered radios.
How bad can it get? This bad.
“Alas, Brave New Babylon”
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/bracken-alas-brave-new-babylon/
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