Posted on 05/26/2020 4:04:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
We the United States are at war with China. And Chinas next play following COVID-19 - is to be first in the multi-trillion-dollar market of space. President Trump is taking concrete steps to beat China in space: last week, he launched the Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces and, this week, he attends the launch of a public-private partnership at the Kennedy Space Center meant to ensure America is no longer reliant on Russia for shuttles to the International Space Station.
"Our destiny, beyond the Earth, is not only a matter of national identity, but a matter of national security," President Trump said in a statement. Now, Congress and military bureaucrats must also support American dominance in space.
By 2029, China is on-pace to deploy solar power stations and nuclear propulsion technology capable of disabling the U.S. military and power grid.
Americas greatest competitor for the high ground of space is Communist China, which is already fully engaged in building effective space capabilities. We are capable of forestalling Chinas plan, but only if we begin to build a Space Force soon and on the right plan. Chinas goal is to have the capability to shut down Americas computer systems and electrical grids at any time or place of its choosing, using directed energy and 5G technologies from space, retired Air Force general Steven L. Kwast warned a few months ago.
China succeeded in grinding Americas historically prosperous economy to a halt in mere months by evidently releasing the COVID-19 virus from its Wuhan lab. Americans were blindsided (particularly since China lied about the nature of the virus and deleted evidence of its origins)and nearly 39 million Americans lost their jobs in a few short months.
Had we, as a nation, recognized China as our enemy, we may have been more prepared. But because most politicians (aside from President Trump) have long-failed to acknowledge Chinas warfare strategy, Democrats have succeeded in using the COVID-19 crisis to scare Americans into thinking that the enemy is a virusand the solution is to shatter our economy.
An Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack will be far more deadly and catastrophic than COVID-19 (98 percent of those who contract COVID-19 recover). Fewer than 10 percent of the American population would survive an EMP attack. In other words, whereas COVID-19 has a 98 percent survival rate, an EMP attack has a 90 percent mortality rate.
If you think COVID-19 isolation is bad, imagine living without food, clean water, internet, heat, air conditioning, cars, or cell phones. Space is the next generation in warfare, and the U.S. is still preparing for wars fought with boots on the ground.
Weve spent $2 trillion on the coronavirus thus far. For less than half that price tag, we could become first-in-space and defend our entire country against EMP. Space is a multi-trillion dollar market and wed quickly see a massive return on our investment.
Space is the future of both war and peace. Space technology, properly developed, can deliver fresh water, clean and affordable energy and low-cost internet to Americans. Space is a frontier for harvesting seeds, medicines and human shelter. Natural disasters including hurricanes, tornados and small asteroids can also be mitigated from space. Whichever country is first in space will create the rules of space. Today, the country closest to becoming first in space is Communist China.
What causes an EMP attack?
EMP attacks can occur naturally (by geomagnetic storm) or by human construction (via a cyberattack or massive thermonuclear detonation). Approximately every 60 years, the earth sustains a geomagnetic storm. The last space storm occurred in 1989 and left six million people in northeastern Canada without electricity. Earth is due for another such storm around 2049. So, even if China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan or a terrorist group dont level an EMP attack on Eartha solar superstorm is expected to do so and it makes sense to prepare.
Cars and cell phones are built with microprocessors (and are essentially computers)and could stop running in the event of an EMP attack. For years, we should have been proactively hardening electronics and protecting our grid. Unfortunately, despite some 20 years of warnings from the EMP Commission that a natural or manmade attack is an absolute threat to the United States, we are woefully unprepared.
Nuclear Power: A Neglected Weapon of Peace
Americas strategy to ward off an EMP attack should lean heavily on nuclear power. Nuclear plantswhether new or existingare more easily designed or upgraded to be EMP-resistant than most other forms of energy. After an EMP attack, nuclear power generators are more reliable and resilient in terms of a quick restart and as a supplier of baseload energy than alternatives.
NuScale, an Oregon-based small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) company, is a fantastic example of how straightforward and practical it is to make a nuclear power plant EMP-resistant. In 2019, NuScale made headlines for designing its SMR to become the strongest and most dependable source of energy in the world.
Earthquakes, F5 tornadoes, floods, plane crashes, Category 5 hurricanes, geomagnetic disturbances, cyberattacks and EMP attacks are all incapable of disabling NuScales SMR. If that sounds pretty cool, it is. Nuclear power gets a bad rap and it is actually very amazing. America should build more nuclear power plants like NuScales in its effort to withstand natural and manmade EMP and crush Chinas nefarious plans in space.
Nuclear power is also the next generation of rocket propulsion. NASA engineers and experts believe that nuclear thermal and nuclear electric propulsion may be more efficient and powerful than chemical propulsion. Regulations and lack of funding have crippled the development of nuclear-powered rockets by the United States since the 1970s. President Trump is the first president to decisively reverse 60 years of stagnation, reports Iain Boyd, Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Of the 50 nuclear reactors under construction in the world today, only two are in the United States. It is unacceptable that the U.S. is the former world leader in nuclear energy development. Public and private sectors must collaborate to reinstate the United States in the coveted position of energy independence.
How America should prepare for an EMP attack:
We should ease nuclear plant regulations in a safe manner to encourage the production of new nuclear facilities; upgrade existing nuclear plants in order to keep them open; and restart the South Carolina nuclear projects stalled by government regulation and Westinghouse bankruptcy.
President Trump established the Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. Unfortunately, Congress has shackled the new force with bureaucratic red tape and there is concern that the resulting force is effectively an extension of the existing Satellite Command under the purview of the Air Force.
Experts like Kwast say the Space Force must be independent of the Air Force because the Air Force is mired in outdated thinking and will only siphon funds from the Space Force for Air Force projects. The Space Force must be nimblecapable of outpacing China in the quest of deploying solar power stations and nuclear propulsion technology in space.
In developing and funding the Space Force, Congress should heed the advice of experts like retired General Kwast, who highlights a five-point plan for the President and Congress to win the war in space and the nine recommendations of Dr. Peter Pry, executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security.
Lets make America first in space.
Communist CHINA has destroyed the cleanliness of near space
and the cleanliness of human DNA.
This is truly war, as the Congress hides and blames
the ELECTED PRESIDENT, the PEOPLE are fuming!
The author is clueless about EMP. It doesnt matter how electricity is generated that suffers from EMP, its the distribution by the grid. Generating systems are worthless without substations and transformers.
She is also clueless about war planning and our integrated system of conducting strategic war.
I agree. We don’t have to go to war with China, but President Trump’s campaign needs to emphasis the Chinese threat, and how he opposes it and will counter it.
Then he needs to wrap China appeasement and bribery from around the democrats neck. Biden has a lot of graft concerning China.
The whole article is gobbled-gook. She throws in everything but the kitchen sink and I don’t think she understands any of it.
Many small reactors would be more resilient than fewer larger reactors. Knock down a large plant, or a single major transmission corridor, and you take out a whole region. Many small ones are much safer.
And I thought it was just me...
Youtube: 4m20s: 26 May: Sky News Australia: Andrew Bolt Report: Only President Trump can ‘save Hong Kong from communist China’s scourge’
The founder of Hong Kongs pro-democracy newspaper The Apple Daily Jimmy Lai says the support of US President Donald Trump “is the only way” Hong Kong can “escape this scourge” that is the Communist Party of China and its plans to destroy freedoms.
Mr Lai said Donald Trump “is the most effective president to deal with China” as the communist state continues to “intimidate the ordinary people” and “destroy our rule of law and destroy our freedom” within Hong Kong.
“I think only Donald Trump knows how to deal with China by playing hard ball,” Mr Lai said.
“This is important for the world to know that this is a China that does not respect law and is not to be trusted”.
It comes as demonstrations are set to take place on Wednesday as thousands of Hong Kong citizens protest Beijings plan to enforce national security laws on the city...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMMM2nzFsCg
VIDEO: 3m32s: 26 May: CNN: Media mogul: Only Trump can save Hong Kong
Jimmy Lai, founder of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper The Apple Daily, has been a thorn in the side of China’s Communist Party for decades. As Beijing moves to enforce the controversial Hong Kong national security law, Lai is pleading with the US President Trump for help . CNN’s Anna Coren reports.
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/05/26/hong-kong-security-law-jimmy-lai-trump-coren-pkg-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn
We should call the members of the New Space force “Space Cowboys”.
25 May: Washington Free Beacon: Chinese Embassy In France Tweets and Deletes Anti-Semitic Imagery
by Adam Kredo
The Chinese embassy in France on Sunday tweeted, and then quickly deleted, an anti-Semitic image portraying the United States and Israel as the grim reaper knocking on Hong Kong’s door.
The image, which has been circulating online among anti-Semites for some time, depicts the United States as the grim reaper holding a scythe with Israel’s flag. Countries such as Syria, Venezuela, Libya, and Iraq are portrayed as places where America and Israel have caused death and destruction. The picture reads, “Who’s next?” in French, with the grim reaper approaching a door with Hong Kong written on it...
China’s embassy in France released a statement on its website claiming its Twitter feed was hacked. The country said it is a victim of “fake news.” The statement did not identify anyone or group the country suspects of posting the tweet...
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-embassy-in-france-tweets-quickly-deletes-anti-semitic-imagery/
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Fewer than 10 percent of the American population would survive an EMP attack. In other words, whereas COVID-19 has a 98 percent survival rate, an EMP attack has a 90 percent mortality rate.
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Where did that some from? It would take decades to achieve that rate if no one did anything. It would take a while to replace transformers and turbines and meanwhile the effected areas would be without central power. Portable generators could be made relatively quickly (as long as they are not made in China). Lots of people would die from all sorts of reasons until cental power was restored but over years, and not 90%.
Military hardware is hardened and would not be effected, including nuclear powered ships which could supply power ashore. China of course would suffer the brunt of air burst nukes.
Maybe Katie Kiefer’s 10% figure comes from, not EMP, but neutron bombs which China has and if used would make more sense to obtain the 10% number. EMP, neutron bursts are easily confused evidently, else makes for interesting copy for writers in a hurry.
In 2016, this forum was full of posters attacking Trump for his “stop China” agenda and tariffs. And he was accused of being NOT a conservative.
Thankfully those posters are now too busy eating crow and not posting as much.
When the arguing about EMP dies down, then someone will post a long overdue Fluoride panic thread.
Maybe the current CCP Virus panic will be added to the rotation.
WHY in the HELL doesnt anybody shout out the TRUTH about this? The real Russia Collusion is Obama destroying NASA! He destroyed our ability to put people in Space! We are totally dependent on Russia!! Obama was caught on a live mike saying, Tell Vlad Ill have more flexibility after the election. (After I have deceived the American People). So thats what happened: he shut down the US launch systems, made NASA engage in Muslim apologetics, and made us totally dependent on Putin. There are now former NASA scientists working for the Russian Space Program! If thats not collusion, nothing is. Thanks to Obama they had us by the throat; then these Democrat imbeciles screamed that Trump was colluding with Evil Putin!! And that he should strike out at Russia and curse them to their face! Putin could have said, Ok, youre right Russia and me, we suck! So now go get your people off the space station, and back up without me! Where is the collusion and the treason? Its on the Left, where it always is.
REDUNANCY ALERT!
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