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The EMP Threat: “The Carrington Event” Our Luck May Run Out. (Video)
The EMP Threat: “The Carrington Event” Our Luck May Run Out. (Video)
Think about it…Your complete way of life can be changed in an instant. And it wouldn’t even take a nuclear war to do it. All it would take is for a criminal nation or terror group to lite it up is the explosion of a couple well-placed nuclear devices high up in our atmosphere. The ensuing electromagnetic pulses would toast electronics across the grid. Obviously this could also be achieved without any attack. Scientists ascertain that huge solar storms have impacted our planet in the past, and that it is bound to happen in the future. As you will learn about below, the most recent case in point was “the Carrington Event” in 1859. If a comparable blast from the sun impacted us today, analysts tell us that life in America could abruptly mimic life of the 1800s, but with a twist, and the economic destruction caused could most likely be in the trillions of dollars. This is one of the greatest futuristic dangers that we are dealing with as a species, and yet the President has fundamentally done not a thing to get us ready. Our Electrical infrastructure has gone unchanged for the past 100 years and is more vulnerable than ever before.
The technology required to conduct such an electromagnetic pulse attack against the United States has become much more obtainable in recent years. Relating to a post in the Wall Street Journal, even criminal nations such as North Korea and Iran either currently have or will soon get the capabilities to effect us in this way… Enjoy!!!
Rogue nations such as North Korea (and possibly Iran) will soon match Russia and China and have the primary ingredients for an EMP attack: simple ballistic missiles such as Scuds that could be launched from a freighter near our shores; space-launch vehicles able to loft low-earth-orbit satellites; and simple low-yield nuclear weapons that can generate gamma rays and fireballs.
If a effective, large scale EMP strike ever did take place, it would be a disaster beyond anything that the United States has ever witnessed before. The EMP Commission, which was set up by Congress?, states that it is in all likelihood that most of us would end up dead… Hummm… Really?
What would a successful EMP attack look like? The EMP Commission, in 2008, estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90% of the U.S. population could possibly perish from starvation, disease and societal breakdown.
In 2009 the congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, whose co-chairmen were former Secretaries of Defense William Perry and James Schlesinger, concurred with the findings of the EMP Commission and urged immediate action to protect the electric grid. Studies by the National Academy of Sciences, the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the National Intelligence Council reached similar conclusions.
If you are a terrorist, a dictator or a fanatic that is seeking a “killshot” for the United States, those sorts of numbers would undoubtedly get your interest.
And it was lately noted by WND that the Iranian military has actually been experimenting with such a scenario…
Peter Vincent Pry, who is executive director of a congressional advisory group called the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, raised the alarm as the agreement is about to be finalized.
He said U.S. military officials have confirmed such an Iranian plan.
“Iranian military documents describe such a scenario – including a recently translated Iranian military textbook that endorses nuclear EMP attack against the United States,” Pry wrote in a recent column in Israel’s main online media network, Aruz Sheva.
“Iran with a small number of nuclear missiles can by EMP attack threaten the existence of modernity and be the death knell of Western principles of international law, humanism and freedom,” he said.
Very disturbing stuff.
And needless to say there are many, many others out there that would absolutely love to see the U.S. disassembled other than just the Iranians.
In the meantime, our power grid is far more susceptible than most Americans would care to to think about.
In past posts, it has been mentioned that a recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission statement which expressed the following…
“Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer.”
I hope that you are beginning to get the picture?
Our entire way of life is dependent upon electricity. If you eliminate that electricity, our society is transformed virtually overnight.
A effective EMP would be an complete nightmare for this nation. Just take into account what U.S. Representative Scott Perry had to say about a possible strike last year…
“The consequences of such an attack could be catastrophic; all electronics, power systems, and information systems could be shut down,” Rep. Scott Perry said in prepared remarks during anEMP hearing in May held by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. “This could then cascade into interdependent infrastructures such as water, gas, and telecommunications. While we understand this is an extreme case, we must always be prepared in case a rogue state decides to utilize this technology.”
Basically, abruptly anything dependant on eletricity wouldn’t work and just about everything that we take for granted would quickly be gone.
In a past post, it was described that many of the ramifications of such an event…
-There would be no heat for your home.
-Water would no longer be pumped into most homes.
-Your computer would not work.
-There would be no Internet.
-Your phones would not work.
-There would be no television.
-There would be no radio.
-ATM machines would be shut down.
-There would be no banking.
-Your debit cards and credit cards would not work.
-Without electricity, most gas stations would not be functioning.
-Most people would be unable to do their jobs without electricity and employment would collapse.
-Commerce would be brought to a standstill.
-Hospitals would not be able to function normally.
-You would quickly start running out of medicine.
-All refrigeration would shut down and frozen foods in our homes and supermarkets would start to go bad.
And as pointed out above, all of this can occur even without an attack.
A direct hit from a significant solar storm can trigger the exact same thing.
The fact is, NASA states that there is a 12 % chance that such a storm will hit us during the next 10 years…
NASA is warning that there’s a 12 percent chance an extreme solar storm will hit Earth in the next decade, sending out massive shock waves that would knock out grids across the world.
The economic impact of this doomsday scenario could exceed $2 trillion — or 20 times the cost of Hurricane Katrina, according to the National Academy of Sciences.
In recent years, we have been truly lucky.
There was a close call in 2012 and another one in 2013.
The following is an analysis from an upcoming book that has been co-authored with Barbara Fix that will soon be released titled “Get Prepared Now”…
Most people have absolutely no idea that the Earth barely missed being fried by a massive EMP burst from the sun in 2012 and in 2013. And earlier in 2014 there was another huge solar storm which would have caused tremendous damage if it had been directed at our planet. If any of those storms would have directly hit us, the result would have been catastrophic. Electrical transformers would have burst into flames, power grids would have gone down and much of our technology would have been fried. In essence, life as we know it would have ceased to exist – at least for a time. These kinds of solar storms have hit the Earth many times before, and experts tell us that it is inevitable that it will happen again. The most famous one happened in 1859, and was known as the Carrington Event. But other than the telegraph, humanity had very little dependence on technology at the time. If another Carrington Event happened today, it would be a complete and utter nightmare. A study by Lloyd’s of London has concluded that it would have taken a $2,600,000,000,000 chunk out of the global economy, and it would take up to a decade to repair the damage. Unfortunately, scientists insist that it is going to happen at some point. The only question is when.
So watch out for the sun.
The enormous ball of fire that we rotate around has began to behave very erratically, and it has the power to end our way of life at any time.
The truth is, scientists tell us that we are about to get struck with a “glancing blow” today.
A filament of magnetism stretching halfway across the sun erupted during the late hours of April 4th (22:00-23:00 UT). The eruption split the sun’s atmosphere, hurling a CME into space and creating a “canyon of fire,” shown in a movie recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory: The glowing walls of the canyon trace the original channel where the filament was suspended by magnetic forces above the sun’s surface. From end to end, the structure stretches more than 300,000 km–a real Grand Canyon.
Fragments of the exploding filament formed the core of a CME that raced away from the sun at approximately 900 km/s (2 million mph): image. Most of the CME will miss Earth, but not all. The cloud is expected to deliver a a glancing blow to our planet’s magnetic field could on April 7th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.
The event today is not going to cause us significant problems. But at some point there will be a solar storm that will. It’s not a matter of if, it’s when.
You can’t even imagine what life would be like without electricity.
Because we have become so dependent on technology, most of us would have no idea how to live without it.
An EMP attack would be one of the most effective ways to handicap America and end the dominance of the United States in world matters. And in this day and age, there are hundreds of millions of people around the globe that would love to see that happen.
So to not take actions to protect our power grid from such harm is so very foolish. But that is precisely what the President (and presidents before him) have chosen to do. We have technology which would minimize the damage from an electromagnetic pulse, but rather than spend the funds Obama has decided to just hope that it will never happen.
Nevertheless, we have been lucky.
But at some point, our luck may run out. Be AWARE and be PREPARED, FEAR is not an option. Be safe everyone…
The Rabbit Hole Goes Real Deep, Find Out How Deep… HERE
https://jwilliams7497.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/2039/
let’s get ready to crumble……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L61TR6nyTRU
EMPS from weapons and nature will eventually wipe out our modern technology.
Then the knowledge of our civilization will be lost as are the accomplishments of many ancient civilizations.
Best book on the topic IMO is http://www.LostAncientCivilizations.com
It explains how easy any technology can be wiped out by nature or war.
Electric ~ ET Circle
The Postman….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC8FxxvXYTY
Theif economic collapse blog posted this article yesterday. Such a nub didn’t even give credit…
Nub=nonuseful body
It’s even worse than this! Think about what would happen to our nuclear power plants if the electrical systems stopped working: We’d have hundreds of Fukushimas, here in the U.S.
The possibility of a Carrington event makes the continued use of nuclear power suicidal.