isaiah
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| Posted: 02:14am 21 Aug 2010 |
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Dear Charlie,
In all the years we've been working to develop solutions for self-reliant, independent people such as yourself, I've never been as worried as I am right now, and that's because of the interview in today's edition of Off The Grid Radio.
Our guest today is John Kappenman, the owner and Chief Analyst of Storm Analysis Consultants. John has a resume and list of professional accomplishments the length of my arm and is one of the world's leading experts on the dangers from geomagnetic storms, or what is commonly known as an ElectroMagneticPulse (EMP).
His testimony before the US House of Representatives was so compelling that the House voted unanimously to accept John's new recommendations to protect the grid, and yet the legislation appears dead in the US Senate. Think about that-unanimity in the US House of Representatives. Even Ron Paul supports this.
If our leaders fail to act, John and others experts have predicted that:
* A solar storm of extreme strength will hit within the next few years
* The entire global electric grid could go down
* The most at-risk components are hugely expensive and take years to replace
* We may live without electricity for 4-10 years
And tens of millions of people will die as their medications expire and are not replaced, as food rots on the farm and hospitals turn into morgues.
Just imagine waking up tomorrow to discover that the electricity is off and isn't coming back on. City water will run out within a day or two. Grocery stores will be out of food within 72 hours... if it lasts that long. No banks are open. Gas stations can't pump the gas they have, and nothing more will be delivered. There are no telephones, TV and Radio stations are off the air, there's no internet. And your local hospital is overwhelmed with the sick, injured and elderly...imagine the ER without electricity, medicine or a reliable way to sanitize equipment. It's horrifying.
In short, we're talking about an apocalyptic time machine that will take us back 100 years, and while your grandparents may have been accustomed to life before modern technology, polling here at OffTheGridNews.com suggests that even those of us who are aware of and working towards total independence have a long way to go. (One poll showed that half of all readers estimated they would starve within a month!)
What about the hundreds of millions in our own country who are blindly stumbling forward through life, oblivious to the coming darkness.
I want to urge you to take an hour out of your time, right now, to listen to this life-changing interview with John Kappenman, and after you've heard it, forward this email to everyone you know. There is no charge to listen, but the price of ignorance could be beyond imagination. This crisis is right around the corner, and history has shown us it's not a matter of 'if', but when, so please, click through and listen.
http://offthegridnews.com/2010/08/13/interview-with-john-kap penman/
Regards,
The Team at Off The Grid Radio
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windlight
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| Posted: 05:41am 22 Aug 2010 |
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Perhaps food for thought, I'm old enough to remember the sandwich board carrying fanatics announcing "the end is nigh", then there was the reds (communists)are under your bed then the world is going to be destroyed by a nuclear holocaust.
Ones best protection from radiation is distance, sun spot activity has in the past and I am sure will again affect the "world" I doubt to the extent suggested.
Whenever I read/hear such predictions I ask myself what has this person to gain, here I am reminded of the very polarized debate on climate change mostly by people too young to remember climate past.
I very much remember the 2000 debacle, we had every generator running in West Australia's south west interconnected grid, and a whole swag of back up communication even tin cans with a string between to communicate with central control, sorry to say I slept through it so I guess my unit did not suffer any problems, so who benefited from that?
Anyway I will put a couple more rolls of tin foil on my shopping list oh and some earthing cable without which the tin foil would probably be non effective.
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