EMP's been in the news lately. Here is an interesting article from 2013 Future proves past?
Threat of Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Is Real for Florida International University Professor
The notion of a weapon exploding and crippling everything electronic for miles around doesn't just live in old black and white military film for Faisel Kaleem.
For the Florida International University engineering professor, the threat is real.
“Somebody comes over to your country and destroys your infrastructure without even bombing,” he said.
Kaleem is referring to an event called an “electromagnetic pulse attack,” which he and others warn could wreak havoc on entire regions for long periods of time. It’s called EMP for short, and it’s a release of energy, an explosion in the sky, that’s so strong everything electronic in its path would burn up.
The giant globes in downtown Miami that help run the Internet for South America would be out of commission. So would phones, computers, and all of the electric components in your car.
Information stored electronically, like bank and retirement accounts, would vanish.
EMP may not be widely known by the masses.
But Hollywood is familiar with it. One was featured in “The Matrix,” and in “Ocean’s Eleven” an EMP paralyzed Sin City, knocking out power to the famous Las Vegas Strip.
Chris Petrovich, an urban survivalist who is prepared for anything, compares the aftermath of an EMP attack to that of South Florida’s infamous hurricane.
“Ask the people who were in Homestead after Hurricane Andrew when everything was off, except that this time there wouldn’t be any generators, there wouldn’t be any radios,” Petrovich said.
The Northeast blackout of 2003 brought entire cities to a standstill, leaving some 50 million people in the U.S. and Canada without power.
And in 1962 the U.S. government’s “Star Prime” experiment detonated a powerful bomb 240 miles above the Pacific Ocean. Electronics in Hawaii, 800 miles away, went haywire.
A government report on EMP covers everything from telecommunications and finance failures to the effects on the nation’s food and water supply.
The report spells out a worst-case scenario with results likely to be catastrophic, and it also says that many people might ultimately die in such a disaster for lack of the basic elements necessary to sustain life.
Petrovich, the survivalist, envisions chaos.
“By the time the sun started to go down and people had no information, had no idea what was going on, people would start to get pretty scared,” he said.
If an EMP were to happen, Kaleem said, the damage would be widespread.
“Now we are talking about destruction of infrastructure, our financial institutions, our food supply chain, communication systems, in other words we are talking about the destruction of (the) modern U.S.,” he said.
An item called the Shield Act has been introduced in Washington. The legislation would better protect the national electric grid as well as other critical infrastructure, but it never made it out of committee.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/threat-of-electromagnetic-pulse-attack-is-real-for-florida-international-university-professor/1915416/
Until the Rapper Hypocrites remove ALL offensive "Slurs" to their own people, everything else is Moot. Slicks and Stones…
Debate Erupts at N.J. Law School After White Student Quotes Racial Slur
The tension comes at a time of heightened sensitivity to offensive words on college and law school campuses, where recent uses of slurs by professors during lessons have resulted in discipline and dismissal.
In early April, in response to the incident, a group of Black first-year students at Rutgers Law began circulating a petition calling for the creation of a policy on racial slurs and formal, public apologies from the student and the professor, Vera Bergelson.
“At the height of a ‘racial reckoning,’ a responsible adult should know not to use a racial slur regardless of its use in a 1993 opinion,” states the petition, which has been signed by law school students and campus organizations across the country.
“We vehemently condemn the use of the N-word by the student and the acquiescence of its usage,” the petition says.
Bergelson, 59, has said that she did not hear the word spoken during the videoconference session, which three students attended after a criminal law class, and would have corrected the student if she had.
Soon after the professor’s office hours in late October, a white classmate contacted the student who quoted the epithet to say that she should have avoided using it.
The student, a middle-aged woman studying law as a second career, offered her phone number to continue the discussion and also arranged for a lengthy conversation with the third student, her lawyer said.
One of the students later told a Black classmate; a recording of the meeting, which is no longer accessible, was discovered online and shared.
Black students from the class who were offended by the slur expressed their concerns to another professor, who alerted a dean, David Lopez, soon after the incident, several officials said.
Bergelson said she was never told about her students’ objections, learning of them only after the petition surfaced April 6, five months later. Within days, she said, she convened a meeting with the criminal law class and other first-year students to discuss the incident and to offer an apology. The student, who has not been publicly identified, also apologized during the meeting.
“I wish I could go back in time to that office hour and confront it directly,” Bergelson said in an interview.
Lopez has apologized for failing to address the students’ concerns promptly, a delay that contributed to their frustration and was cited in the petition. But that has done little to quell the tension.
Recent faculty meetings — including one held the day after a police officer was convicted of killing George Floyd — have been marked by heated exchanges, participants said. A racial healing session that was organized by students was filled with raw emotion. The student who uttered the slur is distraught, professors said, and has enlisted the help of a lawyer known for her expertise in free speech and due process.
On Friday, a faculty meeting included a discussion about whether to voluntarily bar racial epithets from being spoken in class, even if citing legal documents verbatim, as Lopez has requested be done.
“I share the views of several of our faculty members who understand and express to their students that this language is hateful and can be triggering, even in the context of a case, and ask that it not be used,” he wrote in an email to the school community soon after the petition began circulating.
Among the professors who have signed a statement in support of Bergelson and the student are some of the school’s most prominent faculty members, including John Farmer Jr., a former New Jersey attorney general, and Ronald K. Chen, the state’s onetime public advocate. Both are former deans of Rutgers Law School.
“Although we all deplore the use of racist epithets,” said Gary L. Francione, a law professor who also signed the statement, “the idea that a faculty member or law student cannot quote a published court decision that itself quotes a racial or other otherwise objectionable word as part of the record of the case is problematic and implicates matters of academic freedom and free speech.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/debate-erupts-n-j-law-122122064.html
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