Posted on 04/06/2013 9:06:45 PM PDT by Perseverando
Exclusive: Joseph Farah warns of 'Red Dawn' scenario becoming real-life catastrophe
Have you seen “Red Dawn”?
I don’t mean the old movie starring the late Patrick Swayze.
It was good. But I’m talking about the more recent version.
I hesitated watching it for a long time, mainly because I thought the producers of the movie sold out when they opted to substitute a North Korean invasion of the U.S. for what was originally planned as a more likely Chinese invasion.
Supposedly they did so because the Chinese movie market was too lucrative to pass up.
But, having seen it recently, and having followed the news of recent weeks, I think the producers made the right choice.
Watch trailer here:
The new “Red Dawn” is worth seeing as it comes to pay-per-view and video rental release.
It’s not a bad action movie.
But, more than that, the tactic that facilitates a joint North Korean and Russian invasion of the U.S. is the one I would use if I were trying to take down the U.S. quickly and efficiently and inexpensively.
I won’t ruin the movie for you by telling you the invaders use what is described in the script as a “new weapon.”
It’s actually not new at all. It’s relatively old technology called an “electro-magnetic pulse.” The power of an EMP attack was first recognized during the Cold War era. It’s a power that has the potential to defeat overnight America’s strength – technology.
And that’s exactly what happens in the new “Red Dawn.”
If I were the lunatic Kim Jong-un, it’s how I would use at least one of my nine nuclear weapons in taking down the U.S. – something he threatens to do on nearly a daily basis now.
As F. Michael Maloof explains so adeptly
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I hope you held back enough money for a solar system. :-)
There is a great deal of uncertainty concerning EMP. Just how strong would the effect be and what impact would it have on modern-day micro-electronics?
The effect was “discovered” mainly through the Starfish Prime high-altitude test in the Pacific in 1962, but open-air nuclear testing was banned within a year and that put a halt to further research. The Soviets had their own EMP nuke tests, with interesting results.
An EMP shot is expected, even assumed, to take out the commercial power grid, since a surge of electrical current would be induced in those miles of transmission lines. Relays, switches and transformers would be destroyed and they are very difficult to replace. (Few if any spares are on hand, so expect long outages. As in years.)
The worst-case scenario would see micro-electronics fried instantly. Every vehicle today has an on-board computer, so fuel and food deliveries would stop if the trucks were all disabled. Would the EMP pulse knock out the circuitry in your generator? We don’t know. Would every cell phone and laptop go dark forever? We don’t know. What about aircraft and satellites? Again, we don’t know.
And we don’t wanna find out, either. Incinerating North Korea (or Iran, which is also very interested in EMP) might be satisfying but it wouldn’t get the trucks to your supermarket any faster.
Plus, it keeps the Muzzies away.
You would be better off to have propane refrigerators such as are in motor homes and trailers. They do not depend on electricity except 12 volt batteries for ignition, and a solar panel can continuously recharge the batteries.
I saw the original in the theater. I almost threw up when they drank the deer’s blood. Tell me they don’t do that in the remake and I’ll watch it.
That’s what I’m talking about - anybody EMPS us, we EMP EVERYONE else threatening us and we ALL become mega-green farmers until we can recover with power with steam and solar to electric again (10 years) while the other guys simply die. Namely sand-dwelling people.
Whoever survives and their descendants will need 300 years
to even think about retaliation.
The worst case scenario includes 200 or so nuke plants melting down when they can no longer maintain cooling. That alone should justify spending a little money to harden the grid. Everyone seem more concerned with an unlikely EMP attack which might or might not "break" the grid. I am more concerned about the certain to occur solar flare with will "break" the grid. Hopefully the flare will break someone elses grid and then maybe we will take the threat seriously.
At the flare's peak, the LAT detected gamma rays with two billion times the energy of visible light, or about four billion electron volts (GeV), easily setting a record for the highest-energy light ever detected during or immediately after a solar flare. The flux of high-energy gamma rays, defined as those with energies beyond 100 million electron volts (MeV), was 1,000 times greater than the sun's steady output.
The March flare also is notable for the persistence of its gamma-ray emission. Fermi's LAT detected high-energy gamma rays for about 20 hours, two and a half times longer than any event on record.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/highest-energy.html
Source?
Agree 110%. We see this in the knee-jerk reactions by our gubmint to a few small incidents nationwide. Overreact, over-regulate, etc. They make small victories just on this.
Yup, and would likely deal with the fallout. Now, I don’t care if your city was tapped by the EMP or not. What would be the state of the local population if a nuke popped off within earshot or sight (how could one miss that)? Total chaos, I would think.
1. Never said no electronics would be damaged outside of 500 miles.
2. Still maintain that an EMP blast would not fry all cars within 500 miles. And also stated that there is no way that a single blast centered on the U.S. would destroy all the U.S. Power Grid.
3. You can think whatever you like about this and about me but it changes nothing. I have no interest in arguing with you or anyone else about it.
#1. You don’t know a thing about the subject and your claims to the contrary and unexplained, unsourced opinion is not helpful to anyone
#2. Nobody knowledgeable would say this. The problem is that you cannot predict what will or will not fry with a particular blast. Most of the power grid has not been assessed, some of it has, and some power companies are taking steps to harden their systems.
#3. It’s not about what I think, it’s about you shooting off your opinion when you obviously have no idea what you are talking about. You say it as if you do, but you don’t. Many people cannot tell the difference. I can. people like you are dangerous. You are pretenders, and some unfortunate souls will listen to you. They won’t know you are completely FOS until they are impacted by something they might have prepared for. So DO NOT COMMENT on the topic further - YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. Nobody should listen to you.
Skepticism is one thing, but pulling numbers out of your posterior orifice and then getting all snippy when you are called out is nuts.
Disagreement is one thing, but deliberate and willful ignorance and the spreading of idiotic misinformation that can hurt people is unforgivable. Stop it.
Waht about my lava lamp will it help if liquified?
See it’s already having effect!
That was What!
Oh and By the way being encased in Aluminium do I need a ground wire?
“Stop it”
I have nothing to stop except arguing with you sir.
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