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NEWT GINGRICH - STILL TRYING TO WAKE UP CONGRESS ABOUT EMP DANGER

 

 This could be the kind of catastrophe that ends civilization, and that's not an exaggeration - said Gingrich

Former Congressman and Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich has spent decades trying to alert Congress about the consequences of an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) event - whether natural or deliberate - to no avail. 

 

Newt Gingrich returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to raise the issue of the United States unpreparedness regarding the possibility of an EMP event.

 

Addressing members of the Electromagnetic Pulse Caucus, the former he said the fallout from a high-altitude nuclear blast known as an EMP — which could damage or destroy American power grids and electronics — could deal society a deathblow.

“The reason I began focusing on this a decade ago is there are very few events you can’t recover from. You can recover from 9/11, you can recover from Pearl Harbor. This is really different,” Gingrich said. “This creates such a collapse of our fundamental productive capacity that you could literally see a civilization crash and tear itself apart fighting … internally.”

Read more:  http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/electromagnetic-pulse-newt-gingrich-emp-attack-93002.html
 

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THEY HAVE WARNED US

Some years ago a group of nine distinguished scientists co-authored a report for the US Congress entitled Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack. This was a laudable project, but unfortunately Congress decided to publish this report on the same day they released their 9/11 Commission Report. Public attention to the EMP report was minimal. 

 

The novel A Second After by William R. Forstchen tells in all its grim details what would happen to a small college community after an EMP event. 

 

The suffering, starvation and war that develops over a period of a year is nothing compared to the complete disaster and human degradation that befalls bigger cities.

The author estimates that the population of big cities would be reduced to a small fraction, and that up to 250 million Americans would lose their lives to starvation, sickness and violence. Bear in mind that if Europe is spared a simultaneous EMP attack, organizing, delivering and distributing their aid would take months, at best. Hungry people can't wait that long. 

Read more: http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/04/emp-issues-we-are-not-prepared-for.html