Ramblings of an Angry Conservative: November 2015

Friday, November 20, 2015

EMP Attack Could Send America into a Dark Age

EMP attack 2

(Second of two posts on EMP.)

In a matter of seconds, an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack or a geomagnetic storm could set America back to the 14th century.

The electromagnetic pulse generated by the EMP attack could fry all electronics in line of sight. Unfortunately, our life is controlled by electricity.

What would be affected.

Some cars and trucks made after 1970 would stop running. Most of the cabling is shielded and if the car is metal, you almost have a perfect Faraday Box.
Roads would be blocked by all the late model cars not running and more than likely, accidents blocking the roads.
Some sources say that airplanes would fall out of the sky, but an airplane is made out of mostly metal and has very few non metal areas. Hence, another Faraday Box.
The entire electrical grid would be fried, although some states are taking some precautions. (1)
Even natural gas is delivered by electrical pumps
All communications gone unless the facility is protected.
No Television
No radio, a battery operated radio may work, but will the radio station will be transmitting?
No internet
No Cell phones or land lines
No computers
Any electronic device with at least a 30” cord.
Fuel manufacturing and distribution
Hospitals would be inoperable
911 Call Centers
Police and most emergency vehicles would be operational, but no fuel.
Water treatment facilities
Sewer systems for waste management
Food manufacturing and distribution
Grocery stores would run out of food in 2-3 days
Heating and air conditioning
No banking or ATM’s
It is possible that micro chips would be fried as well.
People would starve to death.
People rioting
Total anarchy is the worst case scenario.
Best case scenario is the federal government gets off their dead butt and moves forward protecting the electrical grid.

What to do

You can do nothing and hope that some group or country won’t decide to paralyze us. But quite frankly, the threat from a superstorm on the sun is real and unavoidable.

So, what to do?

1. Have a lot of battery operated devices on hand and the batteries to use them. These appliances should have cords and antennas 30 inches or less in length. The reason for this is simple; cable acts as an antenna pulling in the EMP.

2. A surge protector Buy quality surge protectors for your key electronics. This is the most affordable first step, costing between $10 - $125. You'll want a surge protector that is UL listed to comply with UL1449 3rd edition, has a clamping voltage of 330 volts or below, and has a very fast response time (< 1ms or instant is best). Also, for computers, buy a device with an Ethernet slot, or buy a dedicated Ethernet surge protector. (Note: I have a 50 foot Ethernet cable hooked to my computer.)

3. To increase protection, add a quality uninterruptible power supply (UPS) behind the surge protector. This level of protection is great, but more expensive. Basic models cost about $120 - $200. Better models can cost between $250 to over $1,000. If you have the money, buy a double-conversion UPS tested to UL standard UL1778. It should also have built in surge protector meeting the standards listed above. Use the shortest power cable possible between the surge protector/UPS and the equipment.

4. Use a Faraday Box to store equipment in. Makeshift Faraday boxes can be made from metal filing cabinets, ammunition containers, microwave ovens and cake boxes. That said, the device you are protecting must not touch the metal container (use insulation: paper, cardboard, whatever). Further, there can be no holes. Last, if the box seems less than adequate, you may wrap it in aluminum foil for more protection. You could take a cardboard box and wrap it with aluminum foil. Tape the ends together and you have a very effective Faraday Box.

5. Some states and individual companies see the seriousness of this subject and are working on solutions. (1) It would help if we wrote our congress people and demanded they take action. The House of Representatives unanimously passed several pieces of legislation to protect the nation's power grid -- the GRID Act, the Shield Act and the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act -- but they died in the Senate. (2)

Note: The internet has a lot of information on this subject, but be discerning with the information. Some sites will tell you that aircraft will fall out of the sky, others say the all metal airplane should survive with few problems. Sometimes lightening strikes an aircraft, but because of the metal shell, no problems occur.

The last confirmed commercial plane crash in the U.S. directly attributed to lightning occurred in 1967, when lightning caused a catastrophic fuel tank explosion. Since then, much has been learned about how lightning can affect airplanes. As a result, protection techniques have improved. Today, airplanes receive a rigorous set of lightning certification tests to verify the safety of their designs. (3)

Some sites will tell you that every car manufactured after 1970 will stop working. Others say that a car is well insulated and is made of metal so it resembles a Faraday box.

Like I said, be careful what you believe.

(1) http://watchdog.org/136759/states-protect-grid/http://watchdog.org/164626/prevent-emp-damage/
(2) http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/05/military-eyeing-former-cold-war-mountain-bunker-as-shield-against-emp-attack/
(3) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-happens-when-lightni/

We have become a society that abhors Christianity, loves Islam, has no moral fiber, and where anything goes, except logic and morality.

Our only hope is that the military gets tired of seeing our country destroyed from within and takes control. The 3 branches of our government are ineffective and running amok. Neither major political party has demonstrated that they can or will solve our problems.

Our problems can be summed up as CLAPS.

Corruption
Liberals
Apathy
Political Correctness
Stupidity

And I bet you thought Clap was just a common human sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Ray R Barmore
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

EMP Attack Could Kill Millions

EMP attack could kill millions

(First of two posts on EMP.)

New concerns are being raised that the nation's electrical grid and critical infrastructure are increasingly vulnerable to a catastrophic foreign attack caused by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP).

An EMP attack could black out the U.S. electric grid for a protracted period of months or years," warned Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the EMP Task Force, a bipartisan congressional commission. An EMP event could wipe out 90% of America’s population in only ONE YEAR! This is a very real threat, not conspiracy theory or science fiction. Our food and water supplies, communications, banking, hospitals, law enforcement, etc., all depend on the electric grid. Without electricity, people would probably kill each other or they would die from starvation or disease.

Naturally occurring geomagnetic storms like the solar superstorm that narrowly missed the Earth in 2012, or like the 1859 Carrington Event or 1921 Railroad Storm could wreck havoc on our country.

Also, a nuclear EMP attack from terrorists or rogue states, as practiced by North Korea during the nuclear crisis of 2013, are both existential threats.

Yet until recently little attention has been paid to the ease of generating EMPs by detonating a nuclear weapon in orbit above the U.S., and thus bringing our civilization to a cold, dark halt.

Recent declassification of EMP studies by the U.S. government have begun to draw attention to this dire threat. 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.

In December 2012, the North Koreans successfully orbited a satellite, the KSM-3, compatible with the size and weight of a small nuclear warhead. The trajectory of the KSM-3 has the characteristics for delivery of a surprise nuclear EMP attack against the U.S. For real time tracking of KSM-3

"The grid is utterly unprotected from an EMP attack. Also, it's not adequately protected from cyber or physical sabotage," Pry said in an interview with Fox News. "It's why North Korea and Iran want the bomb, have the bomb. North Korea has actually practiced this against the United States."

Pry, whose congressional EMP commission issued its last unclassified report in 2008, says that the Obama administration has not followed basic recommendations from the bipartisan task force which outlined how the nation's electrical grid could be hardened and protected from this kind of attack -- for $2 billion.

The House of Representatives unanimously passed several pieces of legislation to protect the nation's power grid -- the GRID Act, the Shield Act and the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act (CIPA) -- but they died in the Senate. Congress should pass and the president should sign into law the Shield Act and CIPA as soon as possible. Literally millions of American lives could depend on it.

Souces:
Fox News
WSJ.com

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Fixing Blue Cities

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Did Drugs or Politicians Destroy the Cities?

Liberals share a theory about drug addiction. They say that crime would fall if drugs were de-criminalized and made cheaper. In theory, crime is caused by addicts supporting their high-priced drug habit. A recent experiment shows there is more to the story.

27 pharmacies (1) were looted as the police retreated from the Baltimore riots in April. Thieves stole at least 175 thousand doses of opiates. That is enough to keep Baltimore intoxicated for a year. Stolen drugs are nearly free, yet crime and violence soared after the riots. There is clearly more to the story of inner city violence than addiction.

Our deep blue cities slid down a spiral starting with regulation and taxes. That led to business failure, unemployment, depression, addiction, crime, family breakdown, gangs, and educational failure. Free drugs won’t fix won’t fix these cities because drugs don’t fix despair. More welfare payments won’t fix them because welfare doesn’t repair a broken family. These cities are the end result of a cultural failure.

We could fix these cities. Eliminate high business taxes and regulations and the city would slowly grow again. Provide financial incentives for companies to move there. We would also have to eliminate welfare payments to able bodied men and women. Welfare should be a helping hand, not a standard of living for the healthy. We would have to eliminate the requirements of President Lyndon B. Johnsons “War on Poverty”. Government would not support more than three children. Government would not support any child that didn’t have a father listed on the birth certificate. The War on Poverty destroyed the family unit. It used to be that 89% of black families had a mother and father, now the numbers are reversed. Today, 72% of black children are born to single mothers. (2) (3)

Children in single-parent households are raised not only with economic, but also social and psychological, disadvantages. For instance, they are four times as likely as children from intact families to be abused or neglected; much likelier to have trouble academically; twice as prone to drop out of school; three times more likely to have behavioral problems; much more apt to experience emotional disorders; far likelier to have a weak sense right and wrong; significantly less able to delay gratification and to control their violent or sexual impulses; two-and-a-half times likelier to be sexually active as teens; approximately twice as likely to conceive children out-of-wedlock when they are teens or young adults; and three times likelier to be on welfare when they reach adulthood. (3)

In addition, growing up without a father is a far better forecaster of a boy’s future criminality than either race or poverty. Regardless of race, 70 percent of all young people in state reform institutions were raised in fatherless homes, as were 60 percent of rapists, 72 percent of adolescent murderers, and 70 percent of long-term prison inmates. As Heritage Foundation scholar Robert Rector has noted, “Illegitimacy is a major factor in America's crime problem. Lack of married parents, rather than race or poverty is the principal factor in the crime rate.” (3)

It would take time to recover, but the inner cities would slowly grow again. Investment would slowly lead to more jobs. Employment would lead to lower rates of addiction, lower crime, and more intact families. Private schools would slowly improve the level of education … if politicians would let them. We know how to cure the illnesses in our deeply Democratic cities.

This will probably never happen. Democratic politicians are addicted to welfare voters. Republican politicians are addicted to cheap labor. Both parties are addicted to disposable marriage and political kickbacks. Those are the addictions that cripple our deep blue cities today.

Sources:
(1) NY Times.com
(2) Politifact.com
(3) Discover The Networks.org

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