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The Secure The Grid Minute is a routine public service announcement from the Secure the Grid Coalition, focusing on the need to safeguard our nation's most critical infrastructure - The Electric Grid!
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This is Tommy Waller with the Secure the Grid Minute.
Last month, U.S. Senator John Kennedy and U.S. Representative Clay Higgins - introduced a bill that would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to clarify that utility line technicians qualify as emergency response providers. The legislation illustrates a true reality – that electric utility workers are real heroes, and not just in the wake of the hurricanes that recently plagued the Gulf South.
I have personally served in the Marines for nearly two decades and when thanked for my own service, I consistently remind people that nothing I ever did in uniform, or will ever do, can really make a difference in the daily survival of Americans and their families. In contrast, those who keep the lights on hold our nation’s welfare, and our very survival, in their hands every day.
Learn more about this reality at www.SecureTheGrid.com
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure the Grid Minute.
On October 26th, 2020, President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for succeeding in addressing two massive national security threats which have plagued the United States, and the free world, for more than six decades: North Korea and the catastrophically dangerous threat to modern civilization posed by both man-made and natural electromagnetic pulse (EMP).
The nomination commended President Trump for “deterring nuclear war with North Korea, through summitry de-escalating North Korea’s nuclear threats, and for his Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses that pioneers protecting electronic civilization from the existential threat posed by solar superstorms, nuclear and non-nuclear EMP weapons.”
Read the nomination and learn more at: www.SecureTheGrid.com
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure the Grid Minute. On May 1st, 2020, President Trump issued an unprecedented executive order, taking significant and long overdue steps to remedy what the order described as “a national emergency with respect to the threat to the United States bulk-power system.” It identifies the grave threat to our electrical grid from supply chain vulnerabilities and cyber threats which emanate from countries like Russia and China.
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which represents nearly all investor-owned U.S. electric utilities and is among the most effective lobbying organizations for the entire utility industry, publicly commended President Trump on his executive order. However, their own membership includes at least two state-owned Chinese electric utilities which have an obligation under Chinese law to “support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work.”
Will EEI side with the President or utilities beholden to Communist China? Learn more at www.SecureTheGrid.com
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure the Grid Minute. This week, Iran reportedly launched a military satellite using the same advanced technologies that guide intercontinental ballistic missiles, which could deliver nuclear, chemical, or even biological weapons to “wipe Israel off the map,” attack U.S. bases and allies in the region, and even US and NATO installations as far away as Western Europe.
Most worrisome, though, is that the Iranian’s appear to have just rehearsed a decades-old technique developed by the Soviets which would use what appears to be a peaceful satellite launch as a method of conducting an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack against the US homeland, taking down our electric grid, its communications, and every other critical life sustaining infrastructure with it. Thankfully, this week we also learned of a new report by the Foundation for Resilient Societies, who found that it is technically feasible and affordable for us to protect this communications and grid infrastructure from EMP.
Learn more at www.SecureTheGrid.com
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure the Grid Minute.
In the wake of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani liquidation, there was much media concern about the prospect of Iranian cyberattacks on American targets, particularly critical infrastructure such as our electric grid.
As the media concerns about this threat have diminished, our electric grid’s cyber vulnerabilities persist – and to threats from far more capable adversaries than just Iran. Russia and China have made cyber intrusions into our grid for more than a decade, embedding malware that – to this day – the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), refuses to compel the electric utilities to remove.
FERC is also complicit in covering up the identities of utilities that violate critical infrastructure protection standards for cyber and physical security. Since these threats aren’t going away, we think it’s time FERC get tough on security. Learn more at www.SecureTheGrid.com
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
Today marks the 18th anniversary of 9/11, an event precipitated by Islamic jihadis who exploited America’s “Failure to Imagine.” During that attack, US Army Command Sergeant Major Michael Mabee was working in the 6th World Trade Center building and performed heroic actions to save the life of a handicapped co-worker who he evacuated. Since 9/11, threats from the global jihad and other totalitarian adversaries – including Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China – have only grown. And, while all of these adversaries see our electric grid as the prime target, America is failing to imagine it being attacked.
Not Michael Mabee.
He’s leading a heroic effort to expose corruption in government and industry that keeps the grid vulnerable. Join Mike in this Fight by watching the video at www.SecureTheGrid.com/action
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
This week President Trump issued an Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to EMP. Until now, many in government and private industry have been rewarded for downplaying the threat from EMP and ridiculing those who warned about EMP as “unreasonable” or “apocalyptic.”
This Executive Order builds upon the research of the Free World’s most credible experts – the Congressional EMP Commission – and directs the U.S. Government to take the threat seriously.
Naysayers should be put on notice. The paradigm has shifted.
Not only does America’s survival depend on those in Government addressing EMP, but now so does their career progression. Let’s pray our civil servants will embrace this sea change and waste no time executing the orders of the Commander in Chief!
Learn more at www.SecureTheGrid.com
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
In 2017, Energy Secretary Rick Perry proposed incentives for electricity companies to keep 90 days of back up fuel, to both bolster national security and help prevent blackouts during severe weather events, including polar vortexes.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) was quick to dismiss this effort and maintain its “business as usual” approach to allowing the energy industry to set the rules. Since 2010, immediately after the appointment of Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur, FERC has also helped cover up the names of energy companies who have violated many different types of safety and security protocols.
Yesterday, midst the rising death toll from a polar vortex that has left thousands without power, Commissioner LaFleur announced her resignation. We pray that her replacement will embrace the Trump administration’s energy security policies, rather than obstruct them.
Learn more at www.SecureTheGrid.com
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
Two of the world’s rogue nations that have actively prepared to attack America’s most critical infrastructure – our electric grid – are the Islamic Republic of Iran and North Korea. Such an attack could put at risk the very survival of our civilization.
Thankfully, one of our nation’s foremost experts on these threats has been appointed as Chief of Staff for the National Security Council in the White House. Fred Fleitz – A career CIA officer and incredible patriot – is just the man we need in that position.
Predictably, he is under assault by supporters of the flawed Iran deal, apologists for the Global Jihad Movement, HAMAS-linked Muslim Brotherhood front groups here in America, and organizations funded by George Soros.
If you value expertise on the real threats to our nation, including those to the grid, visit www.SecureFreedom.org and Secure Freedom social media channels and do your part to support Fred Fleitz.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
News outlets this week are filled with commentary about the prospect for a “deal” between North Korean dictator Kim Jon Un and his democratically elected southern counterpart. Our nation’s leaders must remember that a deal is only as good as the people making it, a fact made clear today by Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he unveiled an "atomic archive" of evidence that Iran continued to develop its nuclear program despite the “Iran Deal.”
Since it only takes a single nuclear weapon detonated at high altitude to produce and EMP and take down our electric grid, we must – no matter what deals are made – proceed full speed ahead with our own nuclear force modernization, spaced-based missile defense, and EMP protection of our electric grid.
Learn more at www.securethegrid.com.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
Just days before Christmas President Trump announced his new National Security Strategy. This strategy is a significant and positive departure from those published by his predecessors. Important elements of this strategy give hope to those of us who care deeply about protecting America’s most critical infrastructure – the Electric Grid.
First, the strategy admits vulnerability to this infrastructure by cyber, physical, and electromagnetic attack. Admitting that you have a problem is the first step to fixing it.
Second, the strategy calls for defending our infrastructure against these types of attacks and, specifically, for strengthening our nation’s missile defense – a call to action that is long overdue.
Finally, the strategy calls for America to “build a culture of preparedness.” Look no further than Puerto Rico to prove that resilience and preparedness is an absolutely must for all Americans today.
Learn more at www.securethegrid.com.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
Yesterday the busiest airport in the world suffered an electrical blackout lasting about 10 hours. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s announcement that “authorities immediately started distributing water” to travelers after the power went down, illustrates just how unprepared most Americans are to go anywhere or do anything without the support of a constant flow of electricity. How ready are YOU to live without power?
Our nation’s enemies – such as North Korea and Iran – know very well just how devastating it would be for America to lose its grid, which is why they are planning and rehearsing ways to attack it – the most catastrophic being through a nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse – or EMP – attack which would devastate the grid and all infrastructure upon which it depends. Have our elected officials taken the EMP threat seriously? Absolutely not. Will you?
Learn more at www.securethegrid.com.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
Stonewalling is “The act of refusing communication, stalling, or evading, especially to avoid revealing embarrassing information and escape accountability.” This is an apt description of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in their treatment of a recent initiative of Energy Secretary Rick Perry to financially incentivize electric generators to build resilience in their operations, in this case rewarding coal and nuclear plants for keeping 90 days of fuel on site.
Secured on-site fuel storage is just one way to provide for grid resilience and ensure power production after a catastrophe, yet in the midst of the serious EMP threat to our grid from North Korea, FERC’s Commissioners – it seems – want to delay and discredit Secretary Perry’s directive. Stonewalling = business as usual for the regulators of our electric grid.
Stay tuned for more updates at www.securethegrid.com.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
Yesterday the North Korean’s proved that they can strike anywhere on earth with an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, which – if nuclear armed and detonated at an altitude of 30Km or higher – would produce an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that would devastate most modern technology within line of sight.
The Hermit Kingdom may soon conduct an EMP test over the Pacific Ocean which could catastrophically damage submarine communication cables that transmit 90% of international data for the world’s internet and precipitate a global economic recession. Detonated over any populated area – including the U.S. – it would take out the electric grid, causing catastrophic losses of life over time.
The Foundation for Resilient Societies has done a detailed analysis of the consequences of a North Korean atmospheric nuclear test. This timely report will be made public tomorrow, 30 November.
Stay tuned at www.securethegrid.com
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
Thankfully, many Americans are grateful for the service of military and law enforcement but very rarely ever think about the incredible work that is done around the world to provide for their defense. Another aspect of daily life that most Americans take for granted is electricity, how we depend upon it for every aspect of our civilization, and how without it – not even our military or law enforcement could do their jobs.
American citizens count on those of us in the business of National Security to be concerned with these challenges, most especially those in the Armed Services Committees of Congress, whom they elected. Read this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, or just the summary, and you’ll note that it was written with one BIG ASSUMPTION – that electric power will be available.
Our enemies know this critical vulnerability and are working hard to exploit it. Let’s pray that the Executive Branch recognizes the shortcomings of this NDAA and appoints a Task Force to rapidly secure our nation’s most critical infrastructure – its electric grid. Learn more at www.securethegrid.com.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
President Trump declared November to be Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month – a great step in raising awareness about an issue that can be as “life and death important” as many other topics for which calendar months are dedicated.
Indeed, we ought to greatly applaud the unsung heroes in our society that keep that infrastructure running. From electricians and linemen working in the weather to repair and maintain transmission and distribution lines to cyber defense professionals spending hours doing thankless tedious work behind the computer screen, to the men and women who treat and transport our sewage and provide for us fresh drinkable water – they all deserve our utmost appreciation this month.
The Secure The Grid Coalition encourages you to take some time during the last half of this month to learn more about the nation’s 16 different critical infrastructures, and what threatens them, by visiting us at www.securethegrid.com.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
Let’s for a minute imagine that our nation’s most critical infrastructure – the electric grid – were our own human body being attacked by a disease that could spell death in short order. Would we want our health care provider to schedule check-up after check-up to study the sickness when they possessed a team of physicians with the ability to treat it? What if the provider decided to fire that very team with the expertise needed to keep us alive?
Well, that’s exactly what the U.S. Government has done when it comes to the deadly threat to our nation’s electric grid from Electromagnetic Pulse. Congress’s current National Defense Authorization Act scuttles the free world’s best experts on EMP, replaces them with parties unknown, and calls for yet another study due on April 1st, 2019.
While our government “studies this topic to death” you can get smart on EMP and other threats to the grid at www.securethegrid.com.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
As a Marine, today is a special day. 242 years ago, our Corps was born in a small tavern in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Since that time Marines have led the way in wars to defend Americans and our interests around the world.
For Marines, “First to Fight” is not just a slogan. It’s a way of life that I embraced in Iraq and Afghanistan and still do, to this day, here at home.
Today, though, our Marines – and 99% of all U.S. Military bases – are completely dependent upon our nation’s civilian electric grid. If that grid were to suffer a prolonged blackout – which is a very real prospect – these hardened warfighters would be in the same boat as the rest of our society: without running water, with backed up sewer, and eventually without food or medical care. Should we make sure military bases have secure and protected sources of electricity? Sure. Should we make sure our entire nation has a secure grid? ABSOLUTELY.
Learn more at www.securethegrid.com.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
With more than 60% of the island’s residents still without electricity 6 weeks after Hurricane Maria, more than 100,000 Puerto Rican residents have now permanently moved off of the island. That’s right, about 1,800 residents per day have left in hope of finding what they lost when their island lost power. This reality should highlight for American policymakers – and the public – just how important our electricity is to our civilization.
If the power went off in your neighborhood for six weeks, where would you go? If the rest of your region or nation were also in the dark, do you have what you need in your home to sustain human life and defend it from everything from disease to crime?
These are very real possibilities for our nation and they ought to be considered by our policymakers. If you agree, go to www.securethegrid.com and visit the embedded social media sites, making sure you like and follow them so that you, too, can help sound the alarm.
This is Tommy Waller with the Secure The Grid Minute.
As President Trump conducts his lengthy and vitally important visit to Asia, he will undoubtedly be briefed by U.S. Military leaders on the threat from North Korea to our Asian allies. Hopefully these briefings include a detailed look at the physical and human terrain in that area of operations.
We would like to remind the President, though, that the most important terrain we must consider when defending against North Korea is in the exo-atmosphere – at an altitude of 30KM or higher – above our own United States.
It is in THAT battle space that the backwards hermit kingdom, North Korea, can defeat the most advanced and sophisticated civilization on earth, and with just one nuclear weapon. Detonating an atomic bomb in the exo-atmosphere produces Electromagnetic Pulse, or EMP, which can wipe out our modern technology, and most importantly, our electric grid – upon which we depend for every facet of our lives.
Learn more atwww.securethegrid.com.
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