Posted on 04/05/2013 7:10:05 AM PDT by raptor22
National Security: The administration moves an advanced missile defense system to Guam because it knows a single low-yield nuke detonated at high altitude could send America back in time a hundred years.
The announcement Wednesday by the Defense Department that it would soon deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD), a missile defense system inherited from the Bush administration, to Guam underscores the seriousness of the threat from North Korea, whose actions, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel rightly said, "present a real and clear danger."
This move comes after the Obama administration reversed its previous scuttling of Bush administration plans to increase our ground-based interceptor force in Alaska and the deployment of two destroyers equipped with Aegis missile defense systems, the Decatur and the John McCain, to the region.
Some observers dismissed it as familiar bluster when North Korea's 28-year-old raging runt, Kim Jong-un, signed an order for North Korea's strategic rocket forces to be on standby to fire at U.S. targets in front of a map that included Austin, Texas, as a target.
But other observers are concerned that a specific target may not be what the possibly imploding North Korean regime may have in mind.
The three-stage missile North Korea launched last December that also orbited a "package," which experts say could be a test to orbit a nuclear weapon that then would be de-orbited on command anywhere over the U.S. and exploded at a high altitude, releasing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). That would fry electronic circuitry and the nation's power grid.
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After the phony president Barack I is named gauleiter of Amerika and the concentration camps and crematoriums are built under the auspices of the New Korea and Red China, he can complete his mission.
When Klinton was our phony president I posed the situation where China would nuke L.A. and what would the administration do? I answered my own question: nothing!
That is exactly what would happen if the rogue North Korean imbecilic child would unleash his tinkertoy missiles and they would happen to hit L.A., for example. There would be jawboning palaver.
“We’ll give you tons of wheat and millions of gallons of oil if you won’t do that again. But, you have to promise.”
They’ll get no sympathy from me.
I just pity the little children.
What do yopu think you’re going to run with a little piece of junk like that?
An automobile alternator will put out about a thousand times as much with the same cranking effort.
I am of the opinion “something is up”. I do believe NK wants to mess with us and that NK leadership has painted itself into a corner. I think there is a bigger plan afoot and NK is a pawn. So who is the real target here? If the U.S. goes down, so does the world economy. Is this “it”? The great leap forward and one world government comes into play?
What I can’t figure is “why now?” Why not wait eight months for winter to return and guarantee A LOT of death, why not do it four months ago? Why now? We are headed into prime growing season, we won’t be using as much fuel to keep warm, weather will be more ideal to “recover” from disasters. So why now all of the sudden?
IF NK could put the lights out in a portion of America, what does it serve and why would they announce it when good weather is right around the corner? Just doesn’t add up.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m prepping as much as I can, though I can’t figure this out beyond NK being nutz, I do think something is right around the corner.
“Their opinion was that the threat of EMP is greatly exaggerated and it would take a massive attack to completely blackout the US.”
People are letting their fear get the better of them.
Are you prepared for when the EBT holders descend on your neighborhood? Are your neighbors?
It would be a shame if you just, essentially, prepped for the EBT holders...
HUH?
North Korea — proud producer of the “Nodong” missile — is going to destroy America?
So, then, I guess this article is a premature ejaculation?
It’s just a way for non-technical people to charge up stuff like LED flashlights and small radios...of course it’s wimpy compared to a serious generator. This puts out way more power than the dc motor/generator in those little emergency crank radios. This lets Joe Sixpack keep a pocket radio and flashlight working. I tried this out to see how well it worked and two minutes cranking powered a small radio (two AA Nicads) for well over an hour.
Now?
Because our food stores are almost depleted from last growing season.
Because even though we’re headed into prime growing season right now, most of the country has yet to plant their fields.
How would that happen if the tractors weren’t functioning? Without step down generators the refineries are out of comission. So are the pumping stations and therefore the pipelines. So are the gas stations. Assuming the farm equipment didn’t succumb to the attack.
How much yield would the fields produce without fertilizer and pesticides? Those depend on fossil fuels and refineries. See above.
How would those get delivered?
How would the crops be harvested?
How would the harvested crops be distributed?
This, strategically, is the perfect time for a strike.
People could grow stuff in their yards in suburbia. IF they had seeds. Most do not. And even if they planted those seeds TODAY, you’re looking at nearly 2 months for anything of significant caloric value to mature. Most of the suburbanites don’t HAVE two months of preps.
Forget the urbanites. There are far more of them and there’s zero arable farmland on paved streets and parking lots. Even if they had seeds. Which they do not. They wouldn’t know what to do with them.
So, long before any crops mature, the social order will have assumed the state of complete anarchy.
Rural people, who have sufficient preps to live long enough to get in a garden will fare much better. Assuming they can defend those food stocks from the millions of urbanites and suburbanites.
And the food question overlooks the more pressing issue of availability of clean water and sanitation. If the power shut off right now. Clean water becomes an issue for most of the country immediately. Soon thereafter sanitation becomes a big issue as well. Even though we’re quite rural, we have a water association that delivers our water. Most people, even out here, no longer have their own wells. Especially any homes built after the water association came into being.
Shame on every president since Reagan, and the House and Congress!
“People are letting their fear get the better of them.”
Yup. People are focusing on what COULD happen rather than the likelihood of it happening. It makes no more sense for NK to attack the US than it would for Kim to kick a wild lion in the butt. He might get some satisfaction by slightly injuring the lion, but he will quickly get obliterated.
That’s not the type of batteries the poster was referring to nor was there any mention of a solar system with the batteries.
It was just batteries. The kind of batteries you would pick up at Wally World while you are waiting to check out.
Believe it or not, very few people actually have a “solar system” or any other “alternate energy source” to run all their electrical gadgets on so their life would be just as normal after the electricity went off as it was before.
Even a stand-by gen. has it’s limitations, even a whole house system, because sooner or later you run out of fuel.
Now before some idiot wants to tell me “their” system is connected to the city gas line so they wont run out of fuel, surprise, that gas service would shut down.
Austin TX? Why, does the "raging runt" hate Gov. Perry? Or maybe he wants to kill some democRAT/liberal/socialists?
Weird targeting selection. Was San Francisco on the list?
5.56mm
If one chooses the correct type batteries and a medium high (like 20 watt) solar panel with charger for A, AA, AAA, D rechargeable batteries, one can live quite well, which I do when a hurricane comes through. I could live well for as long as it took to return to normal. Planning and carrying out that plan is key.
That is not the only prep one would need but planning can also give one a renewable way to have pure water, a way to cook forever, stay cool, stay warm, and stay safe.
Maybe it's a team effort. Obama's close to China... If we're taken out China leads the world... Not that anyone in power has ever made a move to 'take over' or anything...
OK, it's not terribly likely, but what's to trust about elite democrats? They lie about everything... they're easy to see through...
I have never believed the notion of EMP being a huge game changer. For starters, if it is really a weapon that could literally wreck entire nations and essentially cripple any nation on earth, and one that nations with Iran and North Korea could afford with their military budgets, then US, Russia and the vast majority of European and Asian nations, and possible numerous South American and African nations, would also have them in their arsenal.
While I am skeptical of the EMP hysteria, I do believe that with America in as much disarray as it is the North Koreans could be planning a nuclear strike on one major city - with the US in the delicate state it’s in, one city attacked by suitcase nuke could be all it takes to obliterate us economically and politically.
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