Cosmic propaganda alert! 'Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP catastrophe barely avoided', says Washington lobby group

Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner
Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:26 UTC

Comet-clusters, the real threat to civilization

The earth barely missed taking a massive solar punch in the teeth two weeks ago, an "electromagnetic pulse" so big that it could have knocked out power, cars and iPhones throughout the United States.

Comment: Wow, that was close! How come we haven't heard about this until now?

Two EMP experts told Secrets that the EMP flashed through earth's typical orbit around the sun about two weeks before the planet got there.

Comment: 2 "EMP experts", really?

Uhm, what's an "EMP expert"?!

"The world escaped an EMP catastrophe," said Henry Cooper, who led strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union under President Reagan, and who now heads High Frontier, a group pushing for missile defense.

Comment: Missile defense, interesting. No conflict of interest there then, right?

But pray tell us, how does a politician-cum-arms industry lobbyist get to be an 'EMP expert'?

We can hear Cooper, in this YouTube video of the Washington, D.C. lobbying event that he, Woolsey and Pry attended on July 29th, describe 24 minutes in a "near-miss of a solar emission in the last several months"...

It's pretty clear that Cooper is not an 'expert' on solar activity. He next says, "We missed that, but we're still in the window of solar maximum and will be for the rest of this year." If Cooper knew what he was talking about, he would surely be aware that NASA has said we are going through the quietest solar maximum in 100 years.

However, from his recounting of U.S. military experiments detonating high-altitude and underground nuclear weapons and testing their electromagnetic pulse capabilities as strategic offensive weapons, we can see that Cooper is indeed 'expert' in this kind of man-made EMP.

But that is a whole other ball-game to solar flares and solar activity in general.

So what gives here? What are these technocrats really trying to tell us?

"There had been a near miss about two weeks ago, a Carrington-class coronal mass ejection crossed the orbit of the Earth and basically just missed us," said Peter Vincent Pry, who served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission from 2001-2008. He was referring to the 1859 EMP named after astronomer Richard Carrington that melted telegraph lines in Europe and North America.

Comment: There was?! That claim has been flatly refuted on SpaceWeather.com, run by NASA spokesman Dr. Tony Philips:

Many readers are asking about a report in the Washington Examiner, which states that a Carrington-class solar storm narrowly missed Earth two weeks ago. There was no Carrington-class solar storm two weeks ago. On the contrary, solar activity was low throughout the month of July. The report is erroneous.

So are these High Frontier lobbyists just making stuff up? Or is someone feeding them false information?

"Basically this is a Russian roulette thing," added Pry. "We narrowly escape from a Carrington-class disaster."

Comment: Russian roulette is an appropriate analogy... but for the asteroid/comet hazard, not the relatively tame 'cosmic threat' posed by solar activity! When the comet fragment or asteroid exploded above Southern Russia earlier this year, THAT was "basically a Russian roulette thing"!

Pry, Cooper, and former CIA Director James Woolsey have been recently demanding that Washington prepare the nation's electric grid for an EMP, either from the sun or an enemy's nuclear bomb. They want the 2,000-3,000 transformers in the grid protected with a high-tech metal box and spares ready to rebuild the system. Woolsey said knocking out just 20 would shut down electricity to parts of the nation "for a long time."

Comment: The "enemy's nuclear bomb" angle is being led by another lobby group, discussed in last week's SOTT Talk Radio show, called 'The United West'.

But Washington is giving them the cold shoulder, especially the administration. Woolsey told Secrets that some in Congress are interested in the issue, but the administration is just in the "beginnings" of paying attention.

Woolsey said that Air Force One and aircraft used by the Strategic Air Command to control nuclear-tipped missiles are hardened against an EMP.

The EMP effect is not rare. One occurred in Canada in 1989, knocking out Quebec's electric transmission system. And North Korea is reportedly testing a device to attack the U.S. with an EMP attack.

The trio appeared at an event in Washington this week, but Pry said getting the nation's leaders interested in the issue is difficult and educating the public about EMP hard too. "The education curve isn't going up fast enough," he said.

At the event, Cooper suggested that North Korea might already have the capability to launch an EMP against the United States. He said in December, North Korea tested its so-called Space Launch Vehicle which could deliver a stealthy nuclear attack on the United States by orbiting a nuclear weapon over the South Pole where the U.S. has no radar or missile interceptors facing south. North Korea, he said, apparently orbited a satellite over the south polar region on a trajectory and altitude consistent with making a surprise nuclear EMP attack against the United States.

Woolsey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are the honorary co-chairs of a new EMP Coalition pushing for protections to the electric grid, national security, and civilian infrastructures.

Comment: Here's the YouTube 'About' blurb of the High Frontier conference:

Washington, D.C.: On July 29th, President Bill Clinton's former Director of Central Intelligence, R. James Woolsey, led a panel discussion on the growing -- and perhaps imminent -- threat of a natural or nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to the U.S. electric grid and other critical infrastructures that sustain modern civilization and the lives of millions of Americans. The event was sponsored by the newly established EMP Coalition, of which Mr. Woolsey is the Honorary Co-Chair along with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Other participants were Ambassador Henry Cooper and Dr. Peter Vincent Pry. Ambassador Cooper led strategic arms control negotiations with the USSR under President Reagan and served as the Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization under President George H.W. Bush. His is currently the Chairman of High Frontier, an organization dedicated to protecting the United States from nuclear attack. Dr. Pry served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission, as a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee and as an analyst in the CIA. He is now the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board dedicated to national resiliency in the face of EMP and other threats.

This two-pronged effort by servants of the Military-Industrial Complex and intelligence community to 'warn the American people' about the (hyped) threats to its critical infrastructure from potential 'catastrophic' damage due to electromagnetic pulse blasts caused by the Sun and Iran/North Korea are a timely distraction from the real threat posed by 'civilization-destroying' Near-Earth Objects; specifically cometary debris exploding in our atmosphere, evidence for which is all around us as fireballs are now seen and heard on a daily basis.

Conflating EMP-generating solar flares with non-existent Iranian/Korean plans to detonate nukes high in the atmosphere above the U.S. smacks of desperation. Such implausible scenarios suggest that their only option, once overhead airbursts such as we saw in Russia happen more frequently, is to try to pull the wool over people's eyes by misinforming them about the real source of the threat, and to pretend that they are in a position to do anything about it.

This all brings to mind a prescient quote from British astronomer Victor Clube:

"We do not need the celestial threat to disguise Cold War intentions; rather we need the Cold War to disguise celestial intentions!"