{"id":13110,"date":"2015-10-07T06:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13110"},"modified":"2015-10-07T06:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:45:04","slug":"electromagnetic-pulse-one-day-we-will-wake-up-in-an-america-without-electricity-and-society-will-totally-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13110","title":{"rendered":"Electromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake Up In An America Without Electricity And Society Will Totally Break Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/electromagnetic-pulse-one-day-we-will-wake-up-in-an-america-without-electricity-and-society-will-totally-break-down\" target=\"_blank\">Electromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake Up In An America Without Electricity And Society Will Totally Break Down<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/electromagnetic-pulse-one-day-we-will-wake-up-in-an-america-without-electricity-and-society-will-totally-break-down\/electromagnetic-pulse-public-domain\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9307\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Electromagnetic-Pulse-Public-Domain-460x284.jpg\" alt=\"Electromagnetic Pulse - Public Domain\" width=\"460\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>What would you do if the power grid went down and never came back up?\u00a0 One of these days, and it could be a lot sooner than most people think, we will all wake up in a country without electricity.\u00a0 And considering how utterly dependent we have become on technology, that is a very frightening scenario to consider.\u00a0 How would Americans react if nothing worked?\u00a0 Just imagine a world where everything electronic is dead.\u00a0 I am talking about lights, cell phones, computers, televisions, ATMs, heating and cooling systems, credit card readers, gas pumps, cash registers, refrigerators, hospital equipment etc.\u00a0 When the power goes out for a few hours, that can be a major inconvenience, but what if it went out all over the nation and it didn\u2019t come back on for months or even years?\u00a0 This is one of the greatest potential threats that the United States is facing, and yet very few people are even talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>An electromagnetic pulse attack could potentially send our nation back to the 1800s in a single moment, but very few of us are equipped to handle life without technology.\u00a0 Tech guru John McAfee recently wrote an article in which he expressed his belief that 90 percent of the population would be dead\u00a0<a title=\"within 2 years of such an attack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/john-mcafee-forget-gun-control-emp-attack-would-wipe-out-90-us-population-within-2-years-1522445\" target=\"_blank\">within 2 years of such an attack<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Experts agree that an\u00a0<a title=\"all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/james-woolsey-and-peter-vincent-pry-the-growing-threat-from-an-emp-attack-1407885281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>would wipe out 90% of the human population of this country within two years of the attack<\/strong>. That means the death of 270 million people within 24 months after the attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may think that is an unreasonably high estimate, but it turns out that it is the exact same number that the\u00a0<a title=\"EMP Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/www.empcommission.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMP Commission<\/a>\u00a0used in their report to Congress\u00a0<a title=\"it is likely that most of us would end up dead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/james-woolsey-and-peter-vincent-pry-the-growing-threat-from-an-emp-attack-1407885281\" target=\"_blank\">back in 2008<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake Up In An America Without Electricity And Society Will Totally Break Down What would you do if the power grid went down and never came back up?\u00a0 One of these days, and it could be a lot sooner than most people think, we will all wake up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[7244,5983,1103,4022,9671,1914,4901],"class_list":["post-13110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-cyber-attack","tag-economiccollapseblog","tag-electricity","tag-electro-magnetic-pulse","tag-electronic-infrastructure","tag-emp","tag-michael-snyder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13111,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions\/13111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}