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This is a matter of the nation's survival. Our modern world exists on electricity. Lack of action to this clear threat will very likely affect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
U.S. Preparation Lagging to Battle Potentially Devastating EMP
A report has found that up to nine out of 10 Americans could die from a long-term blackout as a result of starvation and societal collapse.
Neither President Obama nor Congress have moved to implement policies regarding EMP. The House in 2008 passed the Grid Act and the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act but neither made it through the Senate.
Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board working to protect the U.S. from EMP and other threats, said that in addition to destroying the grid, an event could “collapse all the other critical infrastructures — communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water — necessary to sustain modern society and the lives of 310 million Americans.”
Read more: http://pjmedia.com/blog/u-s-preparation-lagging-to-battle-potentially-devastating-emp/#ixzz3asXvh6M3