The EMP threat (as well as Iran for that matter) is way overblown IMO and is deliberately used in the arsenal of fear tactics to sway the public will for unlimited military spending, as if that will save us. It is not hard to eliminate this threat with a minimal investment of money and time on anyone's part. Something as simple as a metal garbage can will do it for small devices like phones and small radios. Most cars can withstand a pretty significant EMP as they sit because their electronics are isolated and the car body acts as a Faraday cage itself. Studies have been done that show that back around 2000 90% of the vehicles on the road would successfully withstand an EMP with no ill effects. Another example of this is that almost all cars will withstand a direct lightning strike with no ill effects. As far as chaos goes all one has to do is look at the hurricanes and tornado's that regularly hit the US to know that the American public come together in incredible fashion to help one another after these devastating events. It was the government who posed a threat after Katrina with their disarming regular citizens. Not the public.
I try not to make any assumption on anyone's political leanings and honestly I could care less regardless of which way they lean. You are a Catholic and that is what counts in my book. Catholics are my brothers and sisters. End of story. I just don't buy the utter devastation narrative we keep being fed when it comes to the EMP thing. My personal opinion is that it is deliberate fear mongering. Not by you of course but by the media who has a vested interest in keeping the vast majority of us as divided and afraid as possible. God told us many many times to fear not. So that is what I try my best to do. Not easy in this day though but I suspect it has been this way a long time.
Every so often the EMP issue comes up and I dig out my notes from 10 years ago when I was on an emergency preparedness forum, which had some real engineers with real experience. Here's the takeaway: All nuclear explosions generate some electrical pulse. Ground burst and low-level bursts rarely have those electrical effects go beyond the initial blast area. For an EMP the way people here seem to be thinking, the burst must be AT LEAST 20 miles (40 km) above the surface. Below that and the ionization of the atmosphere will cancel out the majority of any EMP. The affected area will be the flat part (bottom part) of a cone with the blast at the point and the cone's circumference drawn by the direct line-of-sight from the edge of the earth's curve to the point of the cone. In practical terms, that blast 40 km in the air will have a cone with a diameter of about 80 km. Outside of that area, chances are the EMP will have dissipated. The wild card here are all the electrical transmission wires and railroad tracks leading out of the area. These could extend the affected area an unknown distance away from the blast area. The kicker is that it is possible to "tune" the nuclear explosion to produce stronger electronic pulses. You can extend the effects area by detonating the device higher up, but then you'll need a much bigger device to achieve the same effect. It's called the inverse square rule: if you double the distance and keep the size of the explosion the same, the amount of energy that reaches the surface is cut down to 1/4 of the original signal strength. So if North Korea or Iran wanted to knock all of the USA back to the stone age, they would have to have a rocket that can deliver a multi-ton payload at least 80 km (minimum) over the desired target and deliver the nuclear device successfully. Oh, and "tuning" the explosion to deliver specific frequencies for an EMP is what engineers call "a non-trivial task". More to follow.
Boy, do we need the illumination of conscience to come soon, lest nearly all will fall into the snares of the devil. We have been dumbed down for many decades now. Look how long it too for the free love hippie generation of the 60's and their free love power to set into the norm today with co-habitation and fornication to become the new norm. The sodomy group is the latest and most horrible abomination today and it came about much faster then the co-habitation sin in this generation and....... sad to say....... we have our rainbow colored pope seemingly endorsing this with his close clerical friends and the rainbow decorating of colors on the Vatican walls etc............. Come Lord Jesus Come.
The following article may be helpful to learn about EMPs, https://commonsensehome.com/electromagnetic-pulse-emp/ . I think it is wise to consider what can happen if an EMP occurs but I also think that we should try to not be fearful of these things occurring. This is from the link above and it explains that automobiles would be damaged by EMPs higher than .25kV/m but it also explains that with lower level EMPs we may not be able to use the gas pumps to fuel our automobiles anyway. Therefore, considering alternative methods of transportation makes sense when we think about a possible EMP occurring in the future. Nuclear EMP Details The amount of energy created in a nuclear EMP is difficult to calculate. We can estimate EMP energy based on historical nuclear tests. A nuclear test using a 1.47 megaton bomb was detonated in 1962, about 400 kilometers (250 mi) in the mid-pacific ocean. The test was called “Starfish Prime” . The nuclear detonation caused electrical damage 800 to 900 miles away in Hawaii. If the same 1.4 megaton nuke was detonated off the US, it is estimated it would have created a 22 to 30 kV/m pulse at the core of its blast. A modern hydrogen bomb is 3 kilotons all the way up to 1.2 megatons, so the amount of EMP from one of these would vary greatly. You can use the kiloton ratio to estimate the range of the EMP and impact in kV/m. Aircraft may be impacted, but the metal fuselage would function partially as a Faraday cage, so aircraft would not necessarily susceptible, again depending on proximity and many other variables. The electronics in a car or truck would likely survive .25 kV/m EMP blast (especially if it’s not running), but higher than .25kV/m would damage or destroy the electronics. The distance from the detonation, the altitude and the magnetosphere will determine the amount of damage to electronics. Ultimately the area in the blast would very likely see a regional electrical grid failure. A functional vehicle would not necessarily do you any good if the gas stations can't pump. [Emphasis added] *** Donald Trump Threatens 'Official End of Iran' after Report of Rocket Landing Near U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Shortly after news outlets reported Sunday that a rocket had landed in Baghdad, Iraq, near the U.S. embassy ... Newsweek14h
I saw a story about these new missiles on One America News today. https://coercioncode.com/2019/05/18...ed-20-missiles-that-zap-military-electronics/ U.S. Air Force Has Deployed 20 missiles That Zap Military Electronics Date: May 18, 2019 Author: lance goodall0 Comments Known as the Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), the missiles were built by Boeing’s Phantom Works for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory The microwave weapons can be launched into enemy airspace at low altitude and emit sharp pulses of high power microwave energy that disable any electronic devices targeted Mary Lou Robinson, the chief of the High Power Microwave Division of the Air Force Research Lab has confirmed to DailyMail.com that the missiles are now operational and ready to take out any target While North Korea or Iran may attempt to shield their equipment, U.S. officials doubt that would be effective against CHAMP. The project has been advancing secretly ever since the Air Force successfully tested a missile equipped with high-powered microwave energy in 2012 RONALD KESSLER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 02:42 AEST, 17 May 2019 | UPDATED: 06:06 AEST, 17 May 2019 Ronald Kessler, a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, is the New York Times Bestselling Author of ‘The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game,’ The Secrets of the FBI,’ ‘The First Family Detail,’ and the ‘CIA at War.’ The U.S. Air Force has deployed at least 20 missiles that could zap the military electronics of North Korea or Iran with high-power microwaves, rendering their military capabilities virtually useless without causing any fatalities, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively. Known as the Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), the missiles were built by Boeing’s Phantom Works for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and tested successfully in 2012. They have not been operation until now. The microwave weapons are fitted into an air-launched cruise missile and delivered from B-52 bombers. With a range of 700 miles, they can fly into enemy airspace at low altitude and emit sharp pulses of high power microwave (HPM) energy that fry computer chips, disabling any electronic devices targeted by the missiles with causing any collateral damage. Mary Lou Robinson, the chief of the High Power Microwave Division of the Air Force Research Lab at Kirtland Air Force Base, has confirmed to DailyMail.com that the missiles are now operational and ready to take out any target. Graphic shows the Counter-electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) missle taking out a target. In a test in the Utah desert, the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage The missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon. This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy. The energy causes voltage surges in electronic equipment, rendering them useless before surge protectors have the chance to react The project has been advancing secretly ever since the Air Force successfully tested a missile equipped with HPM in 2012. In the test, the CHAMP missile flew over a two-story building on the Utah Test and Firing Range. The building in the west Utah desert was crammed with computers and security and surveillance systems. The microwaves took down the compound’s entire spectrum of electronic systems, including video cameras set up to film the test, without damaging anything else. ‘We hit every target we wanted to,’ Boeing’s CHAMP Program Manager Keith Colman said in a company press release. ‘Today we made science fiction into science fact.’ Until the announcement of the successful test, the project had been top secret. When it was announced, only a few trade publications ran the story. Since then, beyond several dozen stories in December 2017 when the missiles were still non-operational, the media have ignored the story. Because of sequestration budget cuts, the CHAMP missiles did not become operational under the Obama administration. But after I emailed then Trump National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster in August 2017 information about CHAMP that I was about to include in my book, The Trump White House, he thanked me for letting him know about the capability, agreed to an interview, and ordered a briefing from the Pentagon. As a result, the Pentagon funded the program and ordered Air Force training worldwide to deploy and operate the missile systems. The beauty of the HPM missile is that its microwave beam can penetrate bunkers where facilities are hidden without harming humans inside. Read More The CHAMP missiles are entirely different from cyber-warfare designed to confuse computers. Unlike a cyberattack, CHAMP permanently fries electronic equipment. CHAMP missiles emitting HPM also differ from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that is created by detonating a nuclear weapon in the atmosphere. Because it is targeted, HPM leaves intact civilian facilities needed to sustain life. An EMP attack, on the other hand, would leave millions dead because trucks, planes, cars, refrigerators, furnaces, municipal water treatment systems, phones, lights, computers, credit card and banking systems, stock exchanges, ships, and trains would all become inoperable. December 17, 2017
I always thought the description of the locusts with their long hair and sounds was more like rock stars. The Beatles changed the culture in the 60’s.
DUMBING Down Of America: SAT Exam Will Now Include ‘ADVERSITY SCORE’ (VIDEO) by The Scoop May 21, 2019 111 CStudents who take the SAT exam will now be given a secret ‘adversity score.’ SAT exam takers will be given an adversity score between 1 to 100, with a higher score signaling a higher level of adversity. The adversity score will be determined by 15 different factors, including: The crime rate and poverty rate of the area where the student is from, the household income of the student, and the quality of the student’s high school. Students will also earn a higher adversity score if English isn’t their first language. The College Board said the adversity score will not consider the race of the student. However, many critics of the adversity score have pointed out that the score seems to use many factors that are heavily correlated with race. This fall, 150 colleges plan to use the adversity score in their admissions processes. This new policy has received major backlash from Americans who believe that college admissions should be solely based on academic performance. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-exam-will-now-include-adversity-score-video/
But Don, do you hold out any hope that this would be the step too far, the step that would wake people up - somewhat like the New York bill allowing abortion up till (and indeed, past) the actual birth sickened many into rethinking their pro choice position and possibly helped Alabama's abortion ban? Although some are so far through nothing would move them. there was a thread on Twitter yesterday more evil than any I have seen on abortion. Someone had tweeted an image of a tiny fetus, intact so probably miscarried. The comments were evil beyond belief. Some tried to stop them, pointing out they were upsetting people who had had miscarriages but it was no good, these disgusting people were determined to show their true colours.
There is a real demonic element to this. Has to be. Nobody acts this way or talks this way without having surrendered something of themselves to darkness.
Is anyone still waiting for the persecution of Christians to begin....because it is definitely within the biggest global speech controllers already: Google Offers Open Conservative Christian a Severance Package — His Values Don’t Match Company’s Vision In November 2018 The Guardian reported on group of Google employees who published an open letter calling on their employer to cancel its plans to build a censored search engine for China. This was the latest expression of worker unrest at a company that earlier in 2018 saw thousands stage walkouts over its handling of sexual misconduct cases. The Google employees were very upset that Google’s Project Dragonfly would allow the Chinese government to blacklist certain search terms. The employees said, “Many of us accepted employment at Google with the company’s values in mind… After a year of disappointments … we no longer believe this is the case.” Just months later it is now obvious that Google, Facebook and Twitter are using their own blacklists of prominent conservatives and their supporters. If you search Google for prominent conservative voices including: Mike Cernovich, Joe diGenova, Jack Posobiec or Gateway Pundit you will see numerous hit pieces and biased attacks. On Tuesday Mike Wacker, a conservative Christian software engineer at Google, posted an open letter about the company’s far left “outrage mobs” and “witch hunts.” The article describes the harassment and abuse open conservatives suffer through at the intolerant tech giant. In March Human Resources at Google called him in and offered him a severance package. The intolerant environment will not allow open conservatives and Christians. The Daily Caller reported: "A Republican Google software engineer has written an open letter describing a culture of left-wing “outrage mobs” that make use of the company’s anonymous bias reporting channels to shut down dissent. The open letter, published Tuesday morning on Medium, was written by software engineer Mike Wacker, who was reported himself multiple times via the company’s anonymous reporting tools. “If left unchecked,” Wacker wrote, “these outrage mobs will hunt down any conservative, any Christian, and any independent free thinker at Google who does not bow down to their agenda.” In one case, Wacker describes a fellow Republican employee who was reported for saying nice things about the University of Toronto academic Jordan Peterson. He was given a note in writing that said, “One Googler raised a concern that you that you appeared to be promoting and defending Jordan Peterson’s comments about transgender pronouns, and this made them feel unsafe at work.”… … Wacker describes a meeting in March with HR and his manager, in which he claims to have been offered a severance package from the company. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ackage-his-values-dont-match-companys-vision/
Prayers for Father Cecilio Perez Cruz and El Salvador. Catholic priest slain by criminal gang in El Salvador Father Cecilio Perez Cruz had reportedly refused to pay ‘protection fees’ to a well-known criminal gang. The Government has announced new measures to fight criminality. By Linda Bordoni | May 19, 2019 | https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2019-05/priest-murder-el-salvador-criminal-gang.html 38-year-old father Cecilio Perez was reportedly shot dead by a presumed gang member while he slept on Saturday night in his parish in El Salvador. Father Perez was the parish priest of San José la Majada, in Sosonate Diocese near the Guatemala border. His body, with three bullet wounds, was found in his room by a group of faithful who had agreed to meet him at 5am for morning prayers. Besides his body was a hand-written note signed by the Mara Salavatrucha gang saying “he did not pay the rent.” The Bishop of Sonsonate, Constantino Barrera, who has asked for prayers for Father Perez, expressed his grief and praised the work the priest was doing with his parishioners saying he was close to the people. Government response The Government of El Salvador condemned the murder and expressed its condolences to the priest’s family and to the Catholic community. In a statement it also said new orders have been issued to security forces to make sure the priest’s killers are brought to justice. El Salvador is one of the most violent countries in the world. The murder rate last year in the Central American country was 50.3 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, or 9.2 murders a day.
Truly Satanic from a place that has given itself over to such acceptance and ways of thinking.....carrying "organic" to insanity.....instead of serving man they agree to use him. Very weird. Washington becomes first state ever to allow human composting Gov. Jay Inslee, the Democrat from Washington, signed a bill into law on Tuesday that allows the composting of human bodies as an alternative to burials and cremations. The Evergreen state is the first state to approve the measure after an earlier trial study that involved six backers who agreed to the organic reduction. The results were positive and the "soil smelled like soil and nothing else." Troy Hottle, a fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told The Seattle Times earlier this year that the method is as "close to the natural process of decomposition [as] you’d assume a body would undergo before we had an industrialized society." Licensed facilities in the state will offer a "natural organic reduction." The body is mixed with substances like wood chips into about two wheelbarrows’ worth of soil in a span of several weeks. Loved ones are allowed to keep the soil to spread, just as they might spread the ashes of someone who has been cremated — or even use it to plant vegetables or a tree. "It gives meaning and use to what happens to our bodies after death," said Nora Menkin, executive director of the Seattle-based People’s Memorial Association, which helps people plan for funerals. The bill, SB 5001, takes effect on May 1, 2020. The bill reportedly passed easily in Aprile and had bipartisan support in the state Senate and House of Representatives. An NBC News report last year said the procedure could cost $5,500.
.. Feeelings, whoa, whoa, whoa, feeeeeelings! I'm going to have to say that if someone is offered a severance package to leave their employer over some off handed comments they make then they were not a very valuable asset to their company. I am not saying that lots of these corporate fascists don't intentionally foster friendly environments for SJW's because anyone who has worked in them knows that they do. In my years in the corporate world I have witnessed some pretty incredible things ignored that even had the potential to have a person arrested because they just so happened to also be a reasonably valuable employee. Also, I always wondered in spite of the modern day idea of ones life revolving around work, where did the days of keeping your personal views private and not airing them freely at work go? It's really very unprofessional and short sighted to do this. Especially if one has a family that depends on them. Anyway, SJW complaints always take a back seat to corporate greed.
Absurd isn't it? Cremation is a fraction of that cost and someone who is not a Catholic can do the exact same thing with their loved ones remains if they wish. I have lived in WA most of my adult life and it has become just absurd the lengths our government will go to in supporting this kind of thing. I am looking forward to hearing Gov Inslees response to whomever brings up this law when he runs for the Dem ticket in 2020. lol
Obviously such types aren't an asset to this company....you got that right.....since it is wholly progressive.... the severance deal was probably an attempt to keep such employees quiet, etc., and use against if such employees accept it. This is only a small example though....they've been in the news for whole scale walk outs by employees who see the work setting as a kind of brave new world w/ thought and time control. Suppose being on the cutting edge of "thinking" and good salaries is what keeps the crowd under some control. The sexual misconduct environment caused worldwide walk outs. A company too big for its britches and wants total control, providing less than one would expect for an open search engine.....obviously. More of same kind of news back in 2018. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/29/goo...ons-on-project-dragonfly-censored-search.html
I agree with you about google but they are simply a company providing a product that consumers deem superior and want in the marketplace. Google like many tech companies offers a workplace like a daycare facility for adult sized toddlers with large salaries and excellent benefits. This software engineer was under no obligation to remain in the employment of google if he was assigned to a project he had moral or philosophical objections to or saw business practices he objected to being a part of. Instead of discreetly seeking employment somewhere else like most adults do he instead launched a twitter crusade against their practices while employed by them. The company clearly does not have any obligation to remain faithful to their employment contract with someone who is openly and publicly hostile to their business practices regardless of how anyone feels about them. Employees have the freedom to search for employment with a company that more closely matches their values. That is of course assuming that our values are not for sale to the highest bidder. Why didn't he pursue this and then lunch his crusade? As far as severance deals go sure, there are always strings attached to them. So what? It is wholly in the rights of any employer to offer or not offer severance with or without strings attached and it is the receivers right to refuse them or renegotiate terms if they violate our beliefs. It is simply the way of things in the world of business. They also have a non disclosure agreement as a part of their hiring practices that everyone agrees to and signs before working a single day there. Everyone does this. We all make choices. Google and its subsidiaries constantly look for ways to censure free thought and speech on their platforms that do not tow the globalist, hedonist, humanist line. We are all free not to use them and provide them with revenue in ads. Last time I checked, every company has the freedom to pursue consumers in whatever way is profitable. At some point, (long ago for me) google will step over the line of reason and will lose market share or will be seriously reigned in by the government for it's practices.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/world/middleeast/us-ambassador-israel-god.html U.S. Ambassador Says Israel Is ‘on the Side of God’ Image Ambassador David M. Friedman, standing next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, spoke at an event commemorating the anniversary of the United States Embassy move to Jerusalem.CreditCreditGil Cohen-Magen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By David M. Halbfinger May 14, 2019 JERUSALEM — The United States ambassador to Israel, a driving force in crafting the Trump administration’s long-awaited proposal to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, declared Tuesday that Israel was “on the side of God.” Speaking at a celebration sponsored by an American evangelical group to mark the anniversary of the move of the United States embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, Ambassador David M. Friedman said that Israel was gaining strength for two reasons. First, he said, the relationship between the two countries was growing “stronger and stronger and stronger.” “And the second is that Israel has one secret weapon that not too many countries have,” Mr. Friedman added. “Israel is on the side of God, and we don’t underestimate that.” The remark reflected a common belief among evangelical Christians, but was also the latest sign of an anything but evenhanded approach to the conflict by the Trump administration. In addition to moving the embassy to Jerusalem, a move seen as partial to Israel in the dispute over the city’s sovereignty, the administration has made deep cuts in aid to the Palestinians and stopped referring to the West Bank as “occupied.” Mr. Friedman seemed to acknowledge as much moments later, rattling off a litany of other moves the administration has made that broke with precedent in Israel’s favor, including punishing the Palestinians by closing their diplomatic mission in Washington and merging the formerly independent Jerusalem consulate, which had exclusively dealt with the Palestinians, with the embassy. Still, the remark set off new howls of criticism, with Palestinians complaining that Mr. Friedman was representing the interests of Israel’s right-wing government more than those of the United States. Even one of Mr. Friedman’s predecessors called the statement out of bounds. “As the ambassador of the far-right Orthodox Jewish community in the United States, Friedman’s comment makes sense,” said Daniel C. Kurtzer, who was Washington’s ambassador in Israel under both Republican and Democratic presidents. “As the supposed ambassador of the United States government and all its people, it is an extremely inappropriate comment.” Palestinians were slack-jawed. “Where does that place the rest of the world?” said Hanan Ashrawi, a veteran Palestinian negotiator and member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee. “I can’t believe it. I can’t believe this extreme fundamentalist ideologue is an ambassador.” Ms. Ashrawi — who said that on Monday she had been denied a visa to the United States for the first time — noted that the event at which Mr. Friedman had made the remark, with its echoes of religious warfare, was held in a hotel a stone’s throw from the walls of the Old City, where Crusaders and Muslims had slaughtered one another for centuries. “The last time we had people thinking that way in Palestine was in the Middle Ages, and look at what happened,” Ms. Ashrawi said. Saeb Erekat, the P.L.O.’s longtime chief negotiator, questioned the propriety of referring to God as a weapon at all. “What ambassador Friedman is telling Palestinians, Christians and Muslims,” he wrote on Twitter, was “that God is against them (or that they’re enemies of God). This was never an American position.” No one has accused Mr. Friedman, who was Mr. Trump’s longtime bankruptcy lawyer, of impartiality in his post, or even of the studied neutrality of career diplomats. Before being appointed he was a prominent supporter of and major donor to the Israeli settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank, which most of the world considers illegal under international law. He can also seem to invite charges that he is overly close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel: Opening his remarks Tuesday night, he acknowledged Mr. Netanyahu’s presence and joked that it had been mere days since they had seen each other, adding, “It’s been difficult to be apart from you for so long.” In his speech, Mr. Friedman made light of predictions of violence over the move of the embassy to Jerusalem a year ago. “In the entire city of Jerusalem that day, I don’t think more than 20 people got up to protest,” he said. “I think more people were unhappy about the food they were eating in various restaurants than they were about the move of the embassy to Jerusalem.” He acknowledged that “there was violence that day in Gaza” — where Israeli soldiers killed about 60 Palestinians demonstrating along the border fence — but said it had “nothing to do with the opening of the embassy.” In fact, the protests in Gaza had been mounted that day specifically with the intent of overshadowing the embassy ceremony. Mr. Friedman also said that if he had his way, the United States would continue to push the envelope in its support for Israel. “I don’t believe in enough,” he said. In a riff about the ancient Jewish Temple, which many right-wing Jews want to rebuild atop the Temple Mount, Mr. Friedman, an Orthodox Jew, noted that inside it was an altar built on a ramp. To achieve a certain level of holiness, he said, “you have to keep pushing forward; there are consequences to stopping.” He added: “We need to keep moving forward, keep moving up the ramp.”
