Zero Hour: The Day The Grid
Stood Still
By Nora Maccoby-Hathaway
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T-minus 7
Days:
Army MAJ Tom
Calhoun is testing the effects of an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
generator. The expected EMP level
required to disable vehicles based on previous studies is 30-80 kV/m. His team elects to begin the testing at only 5 kV/m.
Driving a
2010 Toyota Prius through the path of the EMP
generator pulse, the car dashboard immediately goes blank and the Prius creeps to a stop.
“That’s what
happens when you use smaller microchips and circuits,” he reports. “Consider
that our entire nation is dependent on computers for power and everything else,
and we don’t have any backup.”
T-minus 3
Days:
Having
workers go without pay for over six months, uprisings throughout Iran become
widespread. Hundreds of thousands of workers
take to the streets of Tehran alongside defecting Iranian Revolutionary Guard
forces. The Iranian leadership holds an
emergency meeting to determine what course of action remains at their disposal.
T-minus 2
Days:
An explosion
rocks Haifa in the morning. Members of
the Israeli leadership denounce the incident as a terrorist bomb. Police investigate the scene and interview
eyewitnesses. Initial assessments have
the body count at well over 100. By
midday, several members of Israeli leadership officially announce that the
explosion resulted from a missile strike originating from across the northern
border of Israel. Israeli officials said the
missile was a Syrian-produced model of a Iranian Fajr-3 with a 50 km range and can
carry a 100 pound payload of high explosive and shrapnel, an enhanced
capability compared to the smaller Katyusha rockets that Hezbollah had used during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War. Israeli reserve and active duty forces are
mobilized. In the evening, an unmanned
Hezbollah aircraft attacks an Israeli warship off the coast of Beirut.
T-minus 1
Day:
Israel
launches a counter-strike against Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. Hezbollah counters with a Scud missile strike
against Israel’s Dimona Reactor facility, forcing a reactor shutdown and
evacuation. Israel recognizes the source
of the Hezbollah-launched Scud missile as originating from the Syrian military
and launches a limited nuclear strike against both Damascus and Beirut.
T-plus 0
Hours:
Families walking
along the boardwalk at Rockaway
Beach, in New York City, notice a disturbance in the sky. A little boy stops to point, “Look at the big
flash in the sky, Mommy!”
“That’s strange, the city usually holds its fireworks display
tomorrow night. It seems so far away
though,” his mother observes.
His father
makes a call on his cell phone to find out when the rest of the family will
arrive. “Great…my phone just went dead. I charged it last night…go figure.”
Slowly, people
start to look around, perplexed, wondering where the silence is coming from. No noisy radios or televisions can be heard along
the boardwalk from the outdoor cafes.
“Must be a
power outage again…happened last month too,” comments a passer-by as he licks his
ice cream. “Should be
back on in a few minutes.”
T-plus 15
Minutes:
Wise
EMP-protected HAM radio
operators throughout the United States and Canada are reporting total power
outages in their respective neighborhoods.
The general consensus among them is quickly solidifying: a high-altitude nuclear weapon detonation
knocked out the entire North American power grid, based on reported
observations from dozens of HAM radio operators throughout North America.
T-plus 20
Minutes:
High-altitude
nuclear strikes are launched by the “military-industrial
complex” from satellites orbiting on the other side of the planet, in order
to level the playing field by disabling all remaining power grids on the planet,
as well as low Earth orbiting satellites.
In military terminology, an EMP bomb, detonated hundreds of
kilometers above the earth's surface, is known as a high-altitude
electromagnetic pulse (HEMP) device. Effects of a HEMP device
depend on the altitude of the detonation, energy yield, interactions with the
earth's magnetic field, and shielding of targets.
An electromagnetic pulse
is a burst of electromagnetic radiation resulting from either a nuclear
explosion or a solar coronal mass ejection
(CME). A CME is an ejection of material
from the solar corona. Either event
would create a sudden, massive fluctuation in the Earth’s electromagnetic field. The
resulting electric and magnetic fields then couple with electrical grid
systems to produce damaging current and voltage surges.
If world peace broke out tomorrow, we would still have CMEs to
contend with over the next several years as Solar Cycle #24
approaches a solar maximum in the 2012-2013 timeframe. In March 1989, during the solar maximum of Solar Cycle #22, the Northeast
U.S. and Eastern Canada experienced a minor geomagnetic storm which compromised
the electrical grid throughout for hours.
The March 1989 event pales in comparison to the ‘Carrington Event of
1859’. At 11:18 a.m. on September 1,
1859, 33-year old Richard
Carrington was observing an 11-inch image of the sun on a screen and was
drawing the sunspots he saw in the image.
Suddenly, two beads of intense white light appeared over the
sunspots. Within 60 seconds the light
had significantly diminished, and within five minutes completely disappeared
from the screen.
Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in
red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as
easily as in daylight. Aurora borealis
pulsated as far south as tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El
Salvador, and Hawaii. The only equipment
in place resembling today’s electrical grid, telegraph systems
worldwide went haywire. Spark discharges
shocked telegraph operators and set the telegraph paper on fire. Even when telegraphers disconnected the
batteries powering the lines, aurora-induced electric currents in the wires
still allowed messages to be transmitted.
If such an event were to occur
today, the impact on modern society would be absolutely catastrophic.
* Recent solar activity highest in 8000 years
* Sun's magnetic field has decreased in size by 25%
* 300% increase in galactic dust entering our solar system
* Mercury’s magnetosphere experiencing significant increases
* Venus exhibiting a 2500% increase in
its “green glow”
* Mars showing a rapid appearance of clouds and ozone
* Mars observations reveal up to 50% erosion of its ice features within
a 12-month period
* Jupiter plasma torus increasing; its moon Io exhibiting the same
changes
* A 200% increase in the density of Io's plasma torus
* Jupiter's Disappearance of White Ovals since 1997 - recent
increase in storms
* Io's ionosphere is ~1000% higher
* Jupiter’s moon Europa much brighter than scientists expected
* Jupiter’s moon Gannymede is 200%
brighter
* Saturn's plasma torus is ~1000% denser
* Aurorae first seen in Saturn's polar regions in recent years
* Uranus was featureless in 1996 - exhibiting huge storms since
1999
* Uranus in 2004 was also markedly brighter than in 1999
* Neptune is 40% brighter in the near-infrared range based on
observations from 1996 - 2002
* Pluto observations reveal a 300% increase in atmospheric
pressure
These changes are not a
result of Americans driving around SUVs, though gluttonous oil consumption
remains a significant liability on numerous fronts (see: 80% fatality rate in
theater of war + Fully
Burdened Cost of Fuel: DSB Report 2009). Disruptions throughout the solar system
suggest that Solar Cycle 24 will likely produce CMEs rivaling that of the 1859
Carrington Event.
While details remain classified, an incoming brown dwarf star several times the mass of Jupiter has been identified as the culprit disrupting
the solar system’s heliosphere, as well
as celestial bodies throughout our solar system. The Large Binocular Telescope
Near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic
Research (LUCIFER– see http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/lucifer/index.php)
is a near-infrared camera and spectrograph that was installed
in April 2010 on the world’s largest optical Large
Binocular Telescope
(LBT) located on Mount
Graham in southeastern Arizona.
Technicians install the
LUCIFER instruments on the Large Binocular Telescope
LUCIFER has the capability to track the inbound brown dwarf star
that can only be observed in the near-infrared range. LUCIFER will provide
real-time tracking data that will allow scientists to determine the exact
location and trajectory of the brown dwarf star.
A 3-D Model of the LBT
Daniel
Stolte, Science Writer at the University of
Arizona, has recently published several relevant articles on brown dwarfs and
related topics. He stated that from
talking to researchers, he was not aware of a brown dwarf coming within the
vicinity of our solar system any time soon.
Contrast that conclusion with Andrew Lloyd’s web site (http://www.darkstar1.co.uk), outlining his theory on the
dark star. When information of this
magnitude remains classified, “proof” is normally hard to pin down, by design. http://projectcamelotportal.com has
a video interview between Andrew Lloyd and Kerry Cassidy posted that provides additional
information on brown dwarf stars. Other related whistleblower testimony is
available through the Project Camelot Portal web site.
Depiction of a Brown Dwarf Star in our Solar System
So what exactly is causing all the
commotion in the solar system – SUVs, an incoming brown dwarf, or something
else? How much time is left until
geopolitics in the Middle East deteriorates into a full-blown regional war that
catastrophically impacts the industrialized nations? We must implement measures to protect the
electrical power grid from a catastrophic EMP event. The electrical power grid affords us the
luxury of an elevated standard of living within our modern civilization. Without it, we would collectively revert back
to indigenous living within a matter of weeks.
Millions of dollars in protective
measures prior to an EMP event would result in trillions of dollars in savings
following an EMP event if such measures were properly implemented. If there were ever a time to initiate
preemptive action, it would be now by protecting the grid through EMP hardening
of critical electronic devices and equipment such as transformers. Without electricity, clean water, fresh food,
liquid fuels for transportation, and the everyday comforts of modern living
that people take for granted would no longer be available and/or
accessible. Without intervention on a
large scale to protect the electrical power grids, our modern civilization
remains needlessly and utterly defenseless.