Posted on 07/31/2013 6:47:06 PM PDT by RightSideNews
Former Director of Central Intelligence, R. James Woolsey led a panel discussion on the growing and imminent threat a nuclear or natural electromagnetic pulse, EMP, to America's power grid and devastating loss of life that would follow such an attack. President Bill Clinton’s former Director of Central Intelligence, R. James Woolsey, led a panel discussion on Natural EMPthe growing – and perhaps imminent – threat of a natural or nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to the U.S. electric grid and other critical infrastructures that sustain modern civilization and the lives of millions of Americans. The event was sponsored by the newly established EMP Coalition, of which Mr. Woolsey is the Honorary Co-Chair along with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
Other participants were Ambassador Henry Cooper and Dr. Peter Vincent Pry. Ambassador Cooper led strategic arms control negotiations with the USSR under President Reagan and served as the Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization under President George H.W. Bush. His is currently the Chairman of High Frontier, an organization dedicated to protecting the United States from nuclear attack. Dr. Pry served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission, as a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee and as an analyst in the CIA. He is now the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board dedicated to national resiliency in the face of EMP and other threats.
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Our family is prepared for such an attack. I made and executed a contingency plan after meeting with Frank Gaffney in 2005 and having him explain the threat. Google “Faraday cage” to get started.
I forgot the Mormons; they will do fine for the most part. There is a Congressman who is a prepper, has a nice cabin w/basement in the woods, all stocked, a Seventy-Day Adventist I believe.
I'm too old for this kind of stuff. But I have to do what I can.
You forgot Talk Radio...
Not sure if that should be Number 1, or down the list somewhere...;-)
The biggest existential threat to America was reelected last November. We still have another four more years of fundamental transformation ahead of us. May God have mercy....
BTTT!
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The Amish and those off the grid will survive if not overrun by flash snobs.
Tea Party people living near amish should form millitias to protect them in case SHTF....
You jest lol. The Amish ought to be prepared to protect themselves from desperate marauders of other demographic groups.
You jest lol. The Amish ought to be prepared to protect themselves from desperate marauders of other demographic groups.
The Amish aren’t known for defnding themselves as they are pacifists.
We would need to form a “Protectors of the Amish” group to defending them against hungry angry city dwellers.
I agree that an EMP is a risk, along with other risks like an influenza pandemic, the eruption of a supervolcano, and the start of another Ice Age.
I just lived through a flood that destroyed much of my home town. Everyone was affected somehow, but some had little damage, and some had catastrophic damage. Everyone lost something. The water level was the highest ever recorded here. My point is that an EMP will affect things in the same way - hit and miss damage, with some extreme devastation, and some folks just cleaning up. There would be death and chaos, but not on the level of “One Second After.” Furthermore, the rest of the world would remain intact, and they’d respond somehow - again, probably some friendly intervention, and probably some aggressive actions against us. In any case, we would get assistance, or intervention.
My gut feeling is that an EMP attack on the United States would initially be destructive, but then the country would rebuild and respond. Everyone would have a story of pain and hardship, and that would translate politically into revenge. It might take 10 or 20 years, but the rebuilt country would retaliate against whoever launched the attack, and then continue against those who supported the attackers. The American Empire would emerge, with the motto “We’ll Kick Your Ass” and the slogan “You F*ck With Us, We Will Kill You.” In other words, a militarized state, probably with traditional authoritarian elements, wrapped in an ideology of a republic. Then, like Rome, we would continue in one form or another for another millennium and a half.
Hey, it’s just as probable as the “we’re all going to die” scenario. All I really know is that I don’t want to be here if it happens.
Purple Drank (a.k.a. "fire-ass lean").
It's what Trayvon was carrying the ingredients for (and his liver showed evidence of) when he was shot while returning for his innocent little trip to the corner store for "a few Skittles" (an ingredient of lean).
Rome was built by its army and social system. The social system produced marginalization and impoverishment, and the army provided a way to work off personal resentments against people who lived far away. The more Italian rural society decayed, driving people off the land and into the towns, the bigger the recruitment pool grew.
Already, by the time of the Scipios and Hannibal, Rome was regularly fielding as many as 20+ legions at one time. Each legion numbering (in those days) about 3600-4200 men, you can imagine what the size of that army was. Hannibal was a hurting puppy from the git-go.
The driver and beneficiary of the depopulation of rural Italy by the accumulation of broad estates (latifundia, which operated like our own agribusinesses) was the Roman senatorial class -- which made all policy. Funny coincidence.
Concentration of wealth to the breaking point finally vassalized what was left of Roman, Italian, and provincial freehold farmers. It also impoverished the imperial government as well, which was never able to break the senatorial class to the indignity of paying taxes. Their tax-avoidance legerity made them the masters of those who lacked such skills (the middle class and farmers), creating the social system of feudalism and the Dark Age.
If such a scenario becomes a reality, most people will be left to defending themselves and theirs like we can't depend on the police.
SHTF ping
Re: Faraday cage. I’m a little confused about which type of EMP to prep for. The charged particle EMP of a solar flare, the gamma burst of nuclear weapons and deep space or the magnetic pulse of a high-atmosphere EMP weapon? I don’t think a Faraday cage is effective against a magnetic pulse. After some research my solution is to bury essential spare parts under 4-6’ of earth. I haven’t done that as the water table where I live is 2’ down.
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