Posted on 12/21/2017 8:37:37 PM PST by PA Engineer
President Trump became the first national leader to call for protecting the U.S electric and communications grid against an electromagnetic attack like one practiced in North Korea.
Deep in his new national security strategy released this week, he made good on a campaign promise to move quickly to make the fixes that proponents have long called for.
Two of the chief advocates, William R. Graham and Peter Vincent Pry, executives of the nation’s first Congressional EMP Commission, said in a statement, “President Trump understands, even if everyone in his administration does not, that ‘strategic stability’ and ‘longstanding strategic relationships with Russia or China’ are best maintained — not by a policy of mutual vulnerability — but by a policy of ‘Peace Through Strength.’ Protecting the nation from all missile threats and EMP should be the cornerstone of a ‘Peace Through Strength’ policy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Yet another prayer answered.
EMP is a very real threat and would be catastrophic beyond imagination. We are so blessed to have President Trump at the helm right now.
I can’t imagin some worthless little twit like Murkowsky is going to be able to derail this President at this time in our history.
I agree. It is important.
Trump gets one thing done, and instead of resting on his laurels, he’s already got numerous other irons in the fire.
He’s a human dynamo, and he’s all ours. LOL
I agree. It is important.
Trump gets one thing done, and instead of resting on his laurels, he’s already got numerous other irons in the fire.
He’s a human dynamo, and he’s all ours. LOL
Trump is also Making the Presidency Great Again.
Not only that...but notice that the rate of WINNING is increasing
as is the scope and complexity of the WIN.
Good! The Trump Administration is...should I say it? Amazing!
Haha! Amazing.
I feel like a parrot now.
Trump’s had a few other things on his plate - defeating ISIS, passing the large tax reform/cut in history... and many other things... I’ll see if I can find you a list.
We can be thankful he’s put EMP protection on his list - because now it will get done.
Year One List: 81 major Trump achievements, 11 Obama legacy items repealed
Jobs and the economy
Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate.
Increase of the GDP above 3 percent.
Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent.
Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs.
A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high.
A new executive order to boost apprenticeships.
A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs.
Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.
Killing job-stifling regulations
Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion.
Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts.
Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations.
Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals.
Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry.
Fair trade
Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S.
Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants.
Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad.
Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority.
Ended Obama’s deal with Cuba.
Boosting U.S. energy dominance
The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy.
Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama.
Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions.
Protecting the U.S. homeland
Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and put hardliners in charge of his program.
Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico.
Ended the Obama-era “catch and release” of illegal immigrants.
Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S.
Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals.
Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016.
Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.
Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans.
Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars.
Added some 100 new immigration judges.
Protecting communities
Justice announced grants of $98 million to fund 802 new cops.
Justice worked with Central American nations to arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members.
Homeland rounded up nearly 800 MS-13 members, an 83 percent one-year increase.
Signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions created new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crimes.
Accountability
Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Ordered ethical standards including a lobbying ban.
Called for a comprehensive plan to reorganize the executive branch.
Ordered an overhaul to modernize the digital government.
Called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending.
Combatting opioids
First, the president declared a Nationwide Public Health Emergency on opioids.
His Council of Economic Advisors played a role in determining that overdoses are underreported by as much as 24 percent.
The Department of Health and Human Services laid out a new five-point strategy to fight the crisis.
Justice announced it was scheduling fentanyl substances as a drug class under the Controlled Substances Act.
Justice started a fraud crackdown, arresting more than 400.
The administration added $500 million to fight the crisis.
On National Drug Take Back Day, the Drug Enforcement Agency collected 456 tons.
Protecting life
In his first week, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy that blocks some $9 billion in foreign aid being used for abortions.
Worked with Congress on a bill overturning an Obama regulation that blocked states from defunding abortion providers.
Published guidance to block Obamacare money from supporting abortion.
Helping veterans
Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers.
Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act.
Signed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, to provide support.
Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
Created a VA hotline.
Had the VA launch an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with a way to access wait time and quality of care data.
With VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin, announced three initiatives to expand access to healthcare for veterans using telehealth technology.
Promoting peace through strength
Directed the rebuilding of the military and ordered a new national strategy and nuclear posture review.
Worked to increase defense spending.
Empowered military leaders to “seize the initiative and win,” reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission.
Directed the revival of the National Space Council to develop space war strategies.
Elevated U.S. Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
Withdrew from the U.N. Global Compact on Migration, which Trump saw as a threat to borders.
Imposed a travel ban on nations that lack border and anti-terrorism security.
Saw ISIS lose virtually all of its territory.
Pushed for strong action against global outlaw North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons.
Announced a new Afghanistan strategy that strengthens support for U.S. forces at war with terrorism.
NATO increased support for the war in Afghanistan.
Approved a new Iran strategy plan focused on neutralizing the country’s influence in the region.
Ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airbase used in a chemical weapons attack.
Prevented subsequent chemical attacks by announcing a plan to detect them better and warned of future strikes if they were used.
Ordered new sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela.
Restoring confidence in and respect for America
Trump won the release of Americans held abroad, often using his personal relationships with world leaders.
Made good on a campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Conducted a historic 12-day trip through Asia, winning new cooperative deals. On the trip, he attended three regional summits to promote American interests.
He traveled to the Middle East and Europe to build new relationships with leaders.
Traveled to Poland for the annual. G-20 meeting where he pushed again for funding of women entrepreneurs.
Good.
Another promise made and kept.
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DJT called for it, he did NOT do it. Still waiting.
“but I suspect that we can harden against them without much trouble -”
My understanding is that power companies have lobbied hard against regulations designed to force them into hardening against EMP. The reason is, any dollar spent that does not bring in a dollar-plus is wasted. The fact that no such EMP event has ever happened is taken to mean that no such event could happen. (This is called normalcy bias.) Therefore the money is wasted.
Since there has been no national leadership on EMP, meaning a significant political force, like a senate committee or the President, the lobby groups have been successful in stopping any significant legislation.
If EMP has the President’s ear then I am very happy. Even mother nature could send us back to the stone age with a burp from the sun.
“This is called normalcy bias.”
Tell me about it. It’s like the FBI intercepting a plan to train terrorists to fly airplanes, so they can take over jets and fly them into buildings.
The FBI reaction: “You’ve got to be joking, they would all get killed doing a stunt like that. Will never happen.”
...and so 9-11, brought to you by ‘normalcy bias’.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again...
Thank God Trump is the president, and not Hillary Clinton.
I suppose if blocking it causes more women to have abortions after SHTF, then she will block it.
Dumb. Eventually, our entire lives will be controlled by robots, then when SHTF, who will change our diapers?
So, all you need is all these giant grounding wires dangling down from the 100kV electrical line pylons, eh?
Yea, pretty much. When the voltage hits a level higher than intended by some margin, maybe 20% higher, then you conduct to ground. The 20% voltage surge for a very short time will not electronics. Basically a giant surge suppressor.
But as noted above, it won’t generate revenue, so the approach of typical business managers is to deal with the issue AFTER it happens. We have an entire NRC simply because nuke operators and designers would do the same if left alone to make safety decisions.
“Agreed. Maybe Puerto Rico and the Atlanta Airport will stimulate peoples imaginations.”
We basically need a “Pearl Harbor” type of event - where the Norks zap an island that isn’t too populated and people, ONCE AND FOR ALL, learn that this crap is real. Unfortunately that probably won’t happen, and instead the Norks will simply go all out to take down this country, now that everything is in place for them.
“Fed regulations say all mfg after Dec 31 must be electronic controls.”
That is such BS (on their part). I’ve told my wife, over and over, that “yes, you can get a nice, shiny, machine”...you just won’t get clothes as clean as our ‘junky’ 20 year unit. And as long as she’s ok with it, and I can still get parts, I’ll simply keep fixing it.
This was one repair: Replacing the ‘dogs’ on our unit.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Whirlpool-Washer-Agitator-Dog-4-Pack-White/39127237
(p.s., I only linked to Walmart because it came up first - I, obviously, would never shop there)
“Actually Art Bell has left the show...Quite a while ago now. His successor George Noory, however, is completely on bass about this topic.”
No argument there. I just use “Art Bell” as a metaphor to make a point as to why the people who are supposed to keep us safe are hell-bent on keeping us exposed to annihilation from a tin-pot dictator.
40 minutes after I posted last night we lost power for 3 hours. Mid 30’s. About 10 sq mi area blackout. I’m suspecting a drunk driver slid on ice and missed the 100+ ft gap to hit the 20” pole.
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