How secure is America’s electric grid?

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Bill Whitaker reports that a coordinated attack on a relatively small number of critical substations could plunge the U.S. into darkness.

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  1. Talk about vulnerable, wow! Spooky reality. I don’t understand why that Homeland Lady would rationalize that the govt should not Impose on the grid companies? I would think the Grid would be super high priority. I speculate that the Grid companies must donate big bucks to campaigns and do a lot of Lobbying to avoid strict oversight.

  2. My guess is this was done by US special forces or we asked Israeli special forces to do this so that we could harden our grid and we would have public support and awareness that it needs to be hardened. I’m guessing Congress didn’t approve funds for it before.

  3. Nine substations, critical to the grid, would cause a nationwide blackout. Imagine a bad actor with small EMPs carried by drones over these substations. The question is, how easy would it be for a bad actor to figure out which nine substations to hit?

  4. >>——————-> …and yet our own intelligence services spend their time and resources monitoring Americans, instead of sealing our borders to prevent hostile actors from entering our country.

  5. WHENEVER you hear that the FBI is involved, you can be ALMOST SURE that they first fed the idea to said group… and then they provide the funds and plans! So, who is the real threat (with everything else we see in the corrupt three letter agencies)

  6. I am grateful to say that I am a born again Christian and have been since I was 19…….folks just like in this video about this mysterious blackout and power outage well I just gotta tell you that these days are getting darker and there’s an even far worse blackout on the way!!!!! God’s judgement is coming and Christ is coming soon and if you don’t know Christ as your savior then it burdens my soul to think that you are headed for a terrible place called Hell where the Bible says the fire is never quenched and the worm dies not! Folks you are not promised tomorrow! If you want to know how to be saved from this horrible reality then please by all means don’t hesitate to comment right back so I can lead you to the savior! 2 Corinthians 6:2 clearly states “now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation!” And Hebrews 3:15 clearly states, “Today if you hear his voice don’t harden your hearts! it is not me but the Holy Spirit that I pray reveals to you the truth of his precious gospel……John 3:16 says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes on him will not perish but have everlasting life! V 17 says then V 18 says whoever believes on the son is not condemned but whoever does not believe on the son is condemned already because he has not believed on the son whom God has sent! Also Acts 16:30-31 what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house I am not threatening anyone but just warning them what will happen if they reject this precious gift of eternal life! Christ died a horrible criminals death! He was beaten brutally mocked spit upon and endured countless hours of torture pain for all of our sins! Ppl go to hell because they reject that pardon for their sins! And Jesus is saying to them in Matthew 25:41 depart from me you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels! Hell was only prepared for Satan and his angels! It is not God who threatens anyone it is the craziness of rejecting the free pardon of salvation! It’s like if you’re in court you’ve committed a crime say you murdered someone! Now if you say to that Judge hey I know I’ve done a terrible thing of murdering that person but I hear you’re a good judge and so I know you’ll be fair to me…… the judge is going to reply well yes you’re right about one thing I am a good judge and because I’m a good judge I’m going to see to it that you’re punished and that justice is served! Well then all of a sudden someone you don’t even know comes forward and says you know what I know he’s committed the crime he’s committed and he deserves to go to jail but I really don’t want to see him go to prison so I’ll just go to prison for him so he can go free! So if you accepted that offer you’d be free to leave the courtroom but if you didn’t well you’d be crazy and go to prison yourself! Well that’s exactly how it was 2,000 years ago! He is God in human flesh and he came to this earth lived a perfect sinless life and even though he knew that we had sinned and because of our sins deserved to die miserably but he said no I don’t want to see them suffer so I will go and take their punishment for them! Even though he did absolutely nothing wrong still he chose to take the punishment for our sins so we can be set free from the power bondages and consequences of our disobedience to God! Romans 5:8 says For God commends his love toward us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us! 1 John 2:2 says he was made to be the propitiation for our sins! And not just for our sins but the sins of the whole world! 2 Corinthians 5:21 He who knew no sin became Sin for us that we would be made his righteousness! The truth is if you had to get to Heaven by your own effort then you cannot do it! Because Romans 3:10 says there is not one that does good! No Not One! Romans 3:23 says For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God! Romans 6:23 says For the wages of sin is death! But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord! But the good news is Romans 10:9 If we confess with our mouth and believes in our hearts that Christ died for our sins then was raised from the dead we will be saved! V 10 For it’s with the heart we believe and it’s with the mouth confession is made unto salvation! God gave us 10 commandments to follow and we’ve broken every one of them! And because God is a good God he cannot allow our disobedience to him to go unpunished! Well then like I just mentioned above his son Jesus stepped forward and said no I don’t want to see them punished so I will take their punishment for them! And also like I said he died a terrible substitute criminal’s death for us on a cross so now all we have to do is accept that payment for our sins and we can escape the terrible wrath of God that is to fall on them who do not accept this atonement that was sacrificed for our sins! Praise the lord Romans 10:13 says Whoever calls on the name of the lord shall be saved! And 1 Peter 1:4 you’re an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you! Christ clearly said in John 14:6 I am the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the father but through me! Acts 4:12 clearly states that there is no other name given unto Heaven or earth by which we must be saved as there is salvation in no other! Jesus clearly states that there is clearly only one way to Salvation and it’s him that’s it! There is no other way! God Bless everyone who reads!

  7. I'm all for people being moire self sufficient, I certainly am. But "hardening" the grid is a fool's errand. Any soldier will tell you defense is folly, it never survives an opponents resources and will.

  8. Judging by the numerous times the grid has been easily attacked over the last twenty years, sometimes without finding the attackers like in the case of the Metcalf Sub-Station attack back in 2013, I'd say it's not very secure. We could very easily be destroyed by our enemies with just a few coordinated attacks followed by a full scale invasion. After six months without power there would be very few people capable of resisting. This is very likely to happen in the near future with the current administration selling us out to our debt holders.

  9. You know, there are always signs that lead up to a major attack. The months prior to 9/11 was rife with signs, covid 19 ditto… i say signs but today i should say softening up the public for what's to come.

  10. Its not important ..wat important is democracy ! Solve first problem of other nation….super power nation doest not worry at all…wat important is democarcy 😅😅😅😅

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