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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I’ve moved since I registered.
I envy your confidence in the continued operation of important stuff after an EMP attack.
May the force be with you.
/johnny
When it comes to politics.. follow the money. When it comes to America’s military blindside, follow the Russian submarines.
People that have never experienced anything like a hurricane and it’s aftermath apparently can’t grasp it.
To most of them their electricity goes off for more than a few hours and it becomes panic city.
During, not after, but during both Rita and Ike, there were people bitching because their electricity was off.
Wind was over 100mph and they wondered why the crews weren’t working to restore their power.
Now the world has inverted itself, and the brokest, poorest, nothingest joke states on Earth, like North Korea, are going nuclear, while the wealthiest societies in human history, whether you’re talking about Norway or Switzerland or Australia, have no means to resist these nuclear provocations. And so North Korea, I think, is in the equivalent of neighborhood thug who understands that you can do an awful lot, and all the nice people who just want a quiet life, will in the end appease you and bribe you, and give you what you want to just go and be quiet for a couple more years.
From your link... Thanks for sharing.
Ping to my post 216.
It is a great present to folks you care about.
It depends, but yes on most counts. I don’t need a village to raise my kids and won’t be a village to someone else.
Austin is in Travis county.
I've built one. They work.
/johnny
I have access to several.
And I'd love to see my friends who raise work horses move to the top of the pile for a change.
But seriously - those who equate living as we did 100 years ago with "destroying the United States" are absurd. In some ways, we'd be worse off, in some ways we'd be better off.
Foe every missed episode of Glee, people would have to substitute a conversation. For every missed Pop-Tart, people would have to go out and get some food. For every EBT card that didn't work - well, how could that be bad?
Didn’t say you couldn’t live, just said you couldn’t live the normal life you are used to.
How many “D” batteries does it take to run your refrigerator for a week so your food doesn’t spoil?
I think North Korea and Iran are linked.
North Korea is acting up, because they think we are going to attack Iran soon.
“After 36-48 hours, depending on where you live and time of year, the smell from rotting food from peoples freezers starts to become overwhelming, and that doesn’t even take into consideration the flies.”
In hurricane country, we first eat what’s in the fridge, then eat food from the freezer. Some of us pare down the frozen food before hurricane season gets here so there won’t be a huge amount of frozen food in there.
Planning for an emergency works.
Yep. Domino. The dependency chain is fragile.
In the world I live in history as well as the daily news gives us plenty of examples of people who do murder and mayhem even at the cost of their own lives (Sometimes that too is part of their plan)just because they can.
“To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee”. Herman Melville
Many have ignored such men, much to their sorrow and the sorrow of others.
ping for later
That is all good.. until we’re invaded. Won’t be living like we did 100 years ago.
We’ll be back 100 years ago while everyone else.. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea is living in 2013.
Do your neighbors have weapons? Are you prepared to defend your preps by killing them? People will do almost anything to feed their hungry kids.
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