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Congress Learns EMP Could Kill 90% of Americans
Activist Post
Yesterday Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee held a hearing about the potential impact of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bomb over America.
An EMP is caused by the detonation of a high-altitude nuclear bomb which sends a massive surge that fries anything electrical. It destroys anything with a microchip, the entire electric grid, and all vehicles built after the mid-1980s.
McCaul opened the hearing entitled, “Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP): Threat to Critical Infrastructure,” saying an EMP would be far more catastrophic than even ground-level nuclear bombs. (watch video below)
“Some would say it’s low probability, but the damage that could be caused in the event of an EMP attack, both by the sun, a solar event, or a man-made attack, would be catastrophic,” said McCaul. “We talk a lot about a nuclear bomb in Manhattan, and cybersecurity threat to the power grid in the Northeast, and all of these things would actually probably pale in comparison to the devastation that an EMP attack could perpetrate on Americans.”
Dr. Peter Pry, a member of the Congressional EMP Commission, testified that an EMP event whether from a rogue state or the sun could wipe out 90% of America’s population.
“Natural EMP from a geomagnetic super-storm, like the 1859 Carrington Event or 1921 Railroad Storm, and nuclear EMP attack from terrorists or rogue states, as practiced by North Korea during the nuclear crisis of 2013, are both existential threats that could kill 9 of 10 Americans through starvation, disease, and societal collapse,” Pry told the committee.
The purpose of the hearing was to advance H.R. 3410 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to secure critical infrastructure against electromagnetic pulses, and for other purposes.
The general aim of the resolution is to appropriate funding to research “a comprehensive plan to protect and prepare the critical infrastructure of the American homeland against EMP events.”
Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2014/05/congress-learns-emp-could-kill-90-of.html
If there is anything to fear is that Big Government needs computers, it is perfectly possible to use boxfile databases and snail mail to replace the entire infrastructure as long as trains are diesel or steam, and Gov has the good sense to harden timers and fuel injectors on engines, which already have some degree of electronic interference hardening to operate near spinning engine cams and dynamos. Sears and Roebuck connected the entirety of America with a paper catalogue and the nations mail and train delivery system.
The problem is that Gov uses the infrastructure for control not the delivery of goods and services which is what it is actually for. The loss of the electronic world is not the end of the world unless you let big Government which has become dependent upon it run your life, if Government has no plan B to go back to paper, mail, horse & cart it will be replaced by one that does post EMP and it will not be the same Government, which will become localised to state/county level. Deaths are certain, this will not be due to the EMP but bad Government planning.
then they’ll make sure one happens ASAP..
This is not new information. They have known this for years. This is ACTING for our benefit. TPTB are letting us know to prepare ourselves……
E-X-A-C-T-L-Y!!! R U PREPARED? You were told to Prepare during the Super Bowl halftime show. Re-watch it. Then re-watch the Maserati Ghibli Ad during the game. “We have prepared. Now we strike!”
I have the knowledge and the way and means to live off the land. Always have.
It will be hard…..but I can still do it.
Another B4 It’s news story that’s got to be at least several years old. We all know that eventually someone, somehow, somewhere will set one off. This is nothing new. We’ve all known this for years. I have read a bunch of books on the subject and have since gotten bored with it. It will either happen or it won’t, but it’s certainly not news.