Posted on 01/08/2013 10:37:30 AM PST by Perseverando
WASHINGTON – The United States now is facing two serious national security challenges, but they aren’t expected to be addressed effectively because of the serious budgetary headaches Congress has created, and a virtually deadlocked legislature on just about every issue pending, according to report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
And the White House apparently isn’t paying attention.
The first is the growing concern of the impact that an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, event – either natural or manmade – could have on the national grid system, on which the Department of Defense has a 99 percent dependency.
The other concern emanates from a new warning by U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta that the U.S. could face a mass disruption of “catastrophic proportions” from a “cyber Pearl Harbor” on the nation’s telecommunications, financial institutions and even the national grid.
The concern about cyber warfare on critical infrastructures, which depend on the national grid, is similar to the oft-repeated but mostly unheeded warnings to date from experts and even a congressional commission about the cascading effect of an EMP attack which could fry unprotected electronics and shut down systems that use them.
These include not only the electric power of a vulnerable national grid system but also telecommunications, transportation, banking and finance, petroleum and natural gas, transportation, food and water delivery, emergency services and space programs.
In addition, such a threat includes a shutdown of automated control systems called Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, or SCADA, systems that control virtually every large section of American industry and commerce.
SCADA monitor operations of such critical systems nationwide as utilities, telecommunications, water management and oil and gas pipelines, for example, operate automatically without human intervention.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, charged with responding to national catastrophes, still hasn’t included an EMP
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Like a kid you pose questions to the grownups to answer, rather than look it up yourself, you want other people to do it for you.
Well yeah. Some threads just ask for that kind of response.
You havin a bad day?
Well yeah. Some threads just ask for that kind of response.
You havin a bad day?
No, I’m having a good day, but read post 21, no threads call for that question.
Seriously, look into it and post the information yourself.
How can you have a budgetary headache when there is no budget?
Sounds to me like they are prepping the battlefield for the false flag event.
Yeah, a lot of threads ask for that kind of question. I did look it up and didn’t find any real info on what it would cost.
Bump!
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