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 | 6/24/2016 - As part of its national Space Weather Strategy [PDF] released last fall, the White House has finally acknowledged what one expert has called a dramatic shift in emergency preparedness – namely, that three days' worth of food and supplies is far from enough for your family's survival.
As reported...
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 | 4/21/2016 - In recent days, the FBI, along with the Department of Homeland Security, made a startling admission.
The U.S. power grid is extremely vulnerable to cyber-attack.
Why is that so earth-shattering? Because, as reported by Cyber War April 12, both of those agencies said just three months ago that...
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 | 1/27/2016 - The U.S. is vulnerable to cyber attacks from China and other countries capable of shutting down the power grid and disabling vital infrastructure, according to Admiral Michael Rogers, head of both the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command.
Rogers recently warned the House Intelligence...
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 | 1/17/2016 - A silent war is escalating in the U.S., a war of hackers and cyber attackers. Enemies of the U.S. aren't preparing to invade militarily; they have all the intelligence they need to tear down the U.S. from within, using technology to take down America's power grid.
A massive AP investigation concluded...
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 | 1/11/2016 - National and homeland security experts, as well as some financial analysts, are becoming increasingly concerned that U.S. power grids are at risk of being targeted by electromagnetic pulse attacks that would essentially return the country to a time before electricity was prevalent.
In a piece he...
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 | 10/13/2015 11:51:25 AM - A special unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is dedicated to waging cyber warfare against the United States should the two nations become embroiled in a conventional conflict, with the goal of knocking out American infrastructure that is vital to the nation's survival.
Director of National...
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 | 12/21/2014 - Tens of millions of Americans face years of loss of electrical power if major solar storms ramp up in the future, sending electromagnetic pulses that will destroy grids and infrastructure, according to an internal two-year-old Department of Homeland Security document.
As reported by the Washington...
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 | 12/8/2014 - During the 1950s and 1960s, the city of Detroit became the automobile manufacturing capital of the world. Growing to become America's fourth-largest city, it was a model of modernity and American production capacity.
Between 1910 and 1950, the PBS program "The Rundown" reports, "few cities grew faster,...
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| 5/19/2014 - Experts on electromagnetic pulse (EMP) phenomena, concerned about the devastation they could wreak on the U.S. economy and infrastructure, are increasingly sounding the alarm bell about the need to beef up cyber-security and protect vulnerable systems.
Some of them testified again recently in the...
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 | 4/25/2014 - In a March 2014 report, The Wall Street Journal issued a dire warning about the nation's electric power grid.
"The U.S. could suffer a coast-to-coast blackout if saboteurs knocked out just nine of the country's 55,000 electric-transmission substations on a scorching summer day," Rebecca Smith wrote.
Indeed,...
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 | 4/21/2014 8:34:38 PM - Civilians around the world are not ready for the catastrophic effects of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) type of event that would cause widespread electrical blackouts, though such blackouts could be preventable, say experts.
One such expert, Peter Vincent Pry, the executive director of the Task Force...
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 | 2/14/2013 - Solar activity has dramatically increased in recent years, causing consternation and concern among state and federal emergency planners who are worried about the occurrence of a solar "superstorm" that would cause untold damage to power and communication grids.
Adding to that concern is a new report...
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 | 8/16/2012 - India's recent massive power grid failure - the largest in history which left some 670 million people without power - has renewed calls for so-called smart grids in the United States, as some analysts have questioned whether a similar event could occur in North America.
Initial thoughts of a similar...
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 | 8/15/2012 - Could the U.S. really suffer the kinds of widespread power outages that struck two-thirds of India's billion-plus population recently? Absolutely, say experts, and fixing the problem won't be cheap.
While the nation's power infrastructure is referred to as a "grid," suggesting seamless interconnectivity,...
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 | 8/14/2012 - A persistent heat wave that continues to blanket much of Southern California in temperatures as high as 10 degrees or more above average for this time of year is threatening to potentially take down the state's electricity grid, suggests a recent warning issued by the state's electricity grid operator....
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| 8/2/2012 - India, unique in many ways, is now known for something else: the world's largest power outage.
About 670 million of the country's one billion people were left without power this week when three of the country's power grids failed in rapid succession. The outage, which lasted hours, forced businesses,...
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 | 7/1/2012 - In the wake of violent storms, the power remains out today for millions of Americans across several U.S. states. Governors of Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio have declared a state of emergency. Over a dozen people are now confirmed dead, and millions are sweltering in blistering temperatures while...
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| 6/30/2012 - Mother Nature has a way of interrupting our lives with not-so-subtle reminders to pay attention to reality. Over the last 48 hours, a blistering heat wave has swept across nine U.S. states, causing the power grid to fail for millions of residents. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has declared a state...
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 | 6/16/2012 - A lot of people believe they are becoming "power independent" by installing grid-tie solar systems, but what many don't realize is that virtually all such systems are designed to actively go offline when the power grid goes offline.
A "grid-tie" solar system is one that ties into the power grid,...
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 | 9/13/2011 - Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it's right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it's that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially...
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