US DOD plans BlackOut drill during November ANTIFA Protests

[DocTim420]

According to The National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL), elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will simulate a “communications interoperability” training exercise across the United States on November 04-06. The announcement released on October 24 has not been widely distributed to the media, because the drill is simulating a total grid collapse and could spark public fear.

Source: ww.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-26/dod-plans-solar-storm-based-national-blackout-drill-during-antifa-protests-november

(add 3rd "w" to make link read "www.")

Hmmm, interesting this exercise will coincide during the time of the Anti-fah protests.

Hmmm, interesting this exercise will coincide during the time Trumpy is visiting Asia (November 3-14)...including Korea.

Hmmm, interesting this exercise will coincide during the time 3 aircraft carriers will be patrolling Korean waters...and after NOK threatened to use an EMP bomb against the US.

Communications Interoperability Training with Amateur Radio Community Set
10/24/2017

Elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will conduct a “communications interoperability” training exercise November 4-6, once again simulating a “very bad day” scenario. Amateur Radio and MARS organizations will take part.

“This exercise will begin with a national massive coronal mass ejection event which will impact the national power grid as well as all forms of traditional communication, including landline telephone, cellphone, satellite, and Internet connectivity,” Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY, explained in an announcement.

During the exercise, a designated DOD Headquarters entity will request county-by-county status reports for the 3,143 US counties and county equivalents, in order to gain situational awareness and to determine the extent of impact of the scenario. Army and Air Force MARS organizations will work in conjunction with the Amateur Radio community, primarily on the 60-meter interoperability channels as well as on HF NVIS frequencies and local VHF and UHF, non-Internet linked Amateur Radio repeaters.

Again this year, a military station on the east coast and the Fort Huachuca, Arizona, HF station will conduct a high-power broadcast on 60-meter channel 1 (5330.5 kHz) on Saturday from 0300 to 0315 UTC. New this year will be an informational broadcast on Sunday, on 13,483.5 kHz USB from 1600 to 1615 UTC. Amateur Radio operators should monitor these broadcasts for more information about the exercise and how they can participate in this communications exercise, English said.

“We want to continue building on the outstanding cooperative working relationship with the ARRL and the Amateur Radio community,” English said. “We want to expand the use of the 60-meter interop channels between the military and amateur community for emergency communications, and we hope the Amateur Radio community will give us some good feedback on the use of both the 5-MHz interop and the new 13-MHz broadcast channels as a means of information dissemination during a very bad day scenario.

Guess it is time to be friends with someone that is an Amateur Radio Operator, their resources and abilities will be very valuable when the shit hits the fan.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

Still time to learn the basics

 

[dragongrower]

So what do you think will happen..?

 

[DocTim420]

Ahh, you know the normal stuff. Certain neighborhoods will be buzzed with low flying aircraft including copters and drones, a few highways will be blocked with traffic control points manned by Military Police--detouring drivers to go a hundred or so miles out of their way, of course there will be a bunch of civilians who will be ordered away from home so they can play "army" for the weekend, and...preppers will think shit is going down with some "bugging out"...you know the normal stuff.

Moral of the story will always be the same: The heroes will be a world wide network of CIVILIAN amateur radio operators that know each other "over the wire"...but never met face to face. They are "old school" and "low tech".

BTW, the ones I know are mostly 4th Amendment fundamentalists and very proud of their radio gear...but, are easily pissed off when cannabis growers use cheap ballasts that emit RFI. That radio interference fucks up their clear reception and with a cheap portable AM radio--it is real easy to locate the offending grower in their neighborhood by just walking around. Having a ballast that emits RFI is like having a big neon sign with an arrow pointing to your door that says "I GROW POT"....lol.

 

[hyposomniac]

So what do you think will happen..?

Wipe out electronics then violent beatdown of protesters without anyone tweeting or streaming it..?

 

[BurnOne]

Wipe out electronics then violent beatdown of protesters without anyone tweeting or streaming it..?

We can only hope.

 

[hyposomniac]

We can only hope.

Why do you hope that?

 

[shithawk420]

Because they are irrational crybabies that don't know a thing about anything and they need a good wake-up call.

 

[bestothebest]

The kind of protesting they do is not what a protest should be like. From what I have seen from an antifa protest, it is mainly them trying to piss everyone else off.

 

[DocTim420]

Anti-fah vs US Military....wonder what the Vegas spread is?

 

[trichrider]

the antifa are not anti fascist or they would be protesting the corporate involvement in gooberment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVZnBLamNMk

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but i believe the whole antifa crap is a ploy to coerce martial law so they can confiscate firearms.

be safe and be sober...

 

[Easy7]

Does this mean no internet porn or bud porn? Lol!

Also some of us require cell phones for daily function. If this blackout was true, cannot imagine the finacial loss. Also people need 911 and to talk to family.

 

[DocTim420]

...Also some of us require cell phones for daily function. If this blackout was true, cannot imagine the finacial loss. Also people need 911 and to talk to family.

That is the point man.

From a report issued October 12, 2017 https://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20171012/106467/HHRG-115-HM09-Wstate-PryP-20171012.pdf

Vulnerabilities to EMP

When assessing the potential vulnerability of U.S. military forces and civilian critical
infrastructures to EMP, it is necessary to be mindful of the complex interdependencies of these
highly-networked systems, because EMP upset and damage of a very small fraction of the total
system can cause total system failure.26
Real world failures of electric grids from various causes indicate that a nuclear EMP attack
would have catastrophic consequences. Significant and highly disruptive blackouts have been
caused by single-point failures cascading into system-wide failures, originating from damage
comprising far less than 1 percent of the total system. For example:
--The Great Northeast Blackout of 2003--that put 50 million people in the dark for a day,
contributed to at least 11 deaths, and cost an estimated $6 billion—originated from a single
failure point when a powerline contacted a tree branch, damaging less than 0.0000001
(0.00001%) of the system.
--The New York City Blackout of 1977, that resulted in the arrest of 4,500 looters and injury of
550 police officers, was caused by a lightning strike on a substation that tripped two circuit
breakers.
--The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965, that effected 30 million people, happened because a
protective relay on a transmission line was improperly set.
--India’s nationwide blackout of July 30-31, 2012—the largest blackout in history, effecting 670
million people, 9% of the world population—was caused by overload of a single high-voltage
powerline.
--India’s blackout of January 2, 2001—effecting 226 million people—was caused by equipment
failure at the Uttar Pradesh substation.
--Indonesia’s blackout of August 18, 2005—effecting 100 million people—was caused by
overload of a high-voltage powerline.
--Brazil’s blackout of March 11, 1999—effecting 97 million people—was caused by a lightning
strike on an EHV transformer substation.
--Italy’s blackout of September 28, 2003—effecting 55 million people—was caused by overload
of two high-voltage powerlines.
--Germany, France, Italy, and Spain experienced partial blackouts on November 4, 2006—
effecting 10-15 million people—from accidental shutdown of a high-voltage powerline.
--The San Francisco blackout in April 2017 was caused by the failure of a single high voltage
breaker.

In contrast to the above blackouts caused by single-point or small-scale failures, a nuclear EMP
attack would inflict massive widespread damage to the electric grid causing millions of failure
points. With few exceptions, the U.S. national electric grid is unhardened and untested against
nuclear EMP attack.
In the event of a nuclear EMP attack on the United States, a widespread protracted blackout is
inevitable. This commonsense assessment is also supported by the nation’s best computer
modeling:
--Modeling by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reportedly assesses that
a terrorist attack that destroys just 9 of 2,000 EHV transformers--merely 0.0045 (0.45%) of all
EHV transformers in the U.S. national electric grid--would be catastrophic damage, causing a
protracted nationwide blackout.
--Modeling by the Congressional EMP Commission assesses that a terrorist nuclear EMP attack,
using a primitive 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, could destroy dozens of EHV transformers,
thousands of SCADAS and electronic systems, causing catastrophic collapse and protracted
blackout of the U.S. Eastern Grid, putting at risk the lives of millions.27
Thus, even if North Korea has only primitive, low-yield nuclear weapons, and likewise if other
states or terrorists acquire one or a few such weapons, and the capability to detonate them at 30
kilometers or higher-altitude over the United States, as the EMP Commission warned over a
decade ago in its 2004 Report: “The damage level could be sufficient to be catastrophic to the
Nation, and our current vulnerability invites attack.”28

Figure 1. EMP area by bursts at 30, 120 and 300 miles. Source: Gary Smith, "Electromagnetic Pulse Threats," testimony to House National Security Committee on July 16, 1997.

Imagine living a few weeks/months without access to the internet, electricity, or ATM. All NK needs to do is explode an EMP about 300 miles above USA...and poof, no mas America's "lower 48"--and bye bye Mexico & most of Canada.

 

[Green Squall]

That is the point man.

From a report issued October 12, 2017 https://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM09/20171012/106467/HHRG-115-HM09-Wstate-PryP-20171012.pdf




Figure 1. EMP area by bursts at 30, 120 and 300 miles. Source: Gary Smith, "Electromagnetic Pulse Threats," testimony to House National Security Committee on July 16, 1997.
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Imagine living a few weeks/months without access to the internet, electricity, or ATM. All NK needs to do is explode an EMP about 300 miles above USA...and poof, no mas America's "lower 48"--and bye bye Mexico & most of Canada.

Here's an interesting read.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/mil...-korea-cant-kill-ninety-percent-of-americans/

 

[Easy7]

All the more reason to have cash, gold, silver.

If things got real bad there are squirrels and deer around here. Also I work a goat farm. Would LOVE to work a placer mine, but those are a ways away.

 

[weedaholic721]

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[DocTim420]

I second the vote for cash, but not too sure about the gold and silver thing.

Since the world's monetary system is based on "faith"...faith that the piece of paper we call "currency" will always be worth greater than the value of the "paper value" it is printed on. Not the old school way--when coins had intrinsic value (usually more than the coin's denomination). Example, the 50 Dollar American Eagle has a weight of 1 ounce (Spot Gold closed Friday at $1,273 USD/per ounce)...hmmm, $20 face value--but melted down it is worth almost $1300....hmmm. I think the penny is the only "non precious metal coin" minted in the US where the value of the metal is worth more than $0.01.

If the shit hits the fan and all monetary systems fail, I doubt silver and gold will be sought after as the currency for exchanging goods and services. Rather the currency of "exchange" probably will be the actual "goods" and "services" that are being bartered...sorta like this: I want some of your pot and you want some of my bottled vodka (which can be used for medical and inebriation purposes)...and neither one of us want gold or silver, what do we do? We agree that this much pot is equal to that much vodka and we exchange your pot for my vodka.

Smart preppers have cases and cases of vodka stored for their "rainy day" scenario...at least majority of the ones I know, very few actually stashed away any significant amounts of gold/silver (lots of food and seeds though). Funny how it is the opposite for the "I don't prep preppers"...they think having a goodly amount of guns, bullets, gold/silver coins, and having sealed airtight bags of $20 bills will suffice (but they have no food, no water or even a "bug out plan"). They assume their "prepper friends" will invite them to join up, when the time coes....lol. That ain't happening...this is not a movie called "Three Musketeers".

 

[stoned-trout]

I want both the pot and vodka..I will be armed...lol yeehaw. Stickem up biotches

 

[Dropped Cat]

It's a simulation, no actual loss of typical services, lol.




lol

 

[armedoldhippy]

All the more reason to have cash, gold, silver.

if things go bad, copper-jacketed lead chunks will be FAR more valuable...