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How Prepared Are We?
By: Bruce R. Porter
Last night I stumbled upon a late-night interview on the Coast to Coast AM Radio Program. Art Bell was interviewing Dr. William Forstchen, author of the new book, One Second After. Dr. Forthchen’s book deals with the almost unknown, yet incredibly important subject of Electro-Magnetic Pulse, or EMP.
I have followed this subject for several years now, and I must say that it is incredible to me that more isn’t known about this threat to the very survival of our nation. Most people look at me like I just stepped out of an alien spacecraft when I bring the subject up, and even more alarming, our government is virtually oblivious to the danger.Yes, I am being alarmist because I love people.
Do I have your attention yet?
You owe it to yourself and your family to listen to the following interview. It may save your life. I have edited all the commercials out of the audio so you can get right into the ‘meat’ of it. As a believer, I think that God wants His people to be aware of the times, and of a ready and fearless mind to allow Him to use them in times of crisis. He also wants us active in our world, warning, encouraging, and being of service wherever He has placed us.
Just click on the audio link below. (Give it a few seconds to buffer before the audio starts) Those wishing to research this subject further may visit Dr. Forstchen’s website, http://www.onesecondafter.com
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When you finish the audio interview, you might wish to hear this special message from former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. He is one of a few leaders who understands the threat of a nuclear Iran or N. Korea.
A Final Word:
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
(2 Timothy 1:7 KJV)
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By Bruce Porter
Have you noticed lately how much more basic necessities cost than they did even a few years ago? Does it seem like your dollars just aren’t worth as much? Have you ever wondered why?
Back in the late 70s and 80s (for those of you old enough to remember) grocery and department stores displayed big banners depicting some guy smashing down a dollar sign with a sledge-hammer with the bold words “Inflation Buster Prices” printed on it. Every store boasted that all we needed to do to beat inflation was shop in their store where their prices were “inflation busting.” This was nonsense of course because the dirty little secret that few of us knew then is that inflation is caused by printing money! Under the Carter administration, the Federal Reserve was printing hundreds of billions of dollars in worthless paper! As manufacturers caught on to the inflated money supply, they would raise their prices to make up the difference in the perceived value of the money.
Lately, I’ve formed another very different image of the little man with the sledge-hammer. He’s still smashing the dollar sign, but this time he’s from the Federal Reserve and he’s actually destroying the dollar!
The chart and video series below is something I suspect the Federal Reserve would rather you wouldn’t see. The reason is, if you see it and actually understand it, (assuming you have educated yourself beyond pabulum they gave you in public school) YOUR HEAD WILL EXPLODE AND BLOOD WILL SQUIRT OUT OF YOUR EYES!!
All I can say is, we the people of the United States have been systematically and deliberately ROBBED! I can’t tell you what to do about it. Perhaps you should consider investing your shrinking dollars into something tangible that you can hold in your hands. I can’t advise you further because I’m not a financial advisor. What I DO know is, before we try to do anything, we must become better informed about what is going on in our nation’s capitol. It appears that we are being governed by a mixture of incompetents and malicious “players” who are using our banking system to enslave us!
I will even go farther… I am convinced that a relatively small “power elite” are deliberately trying to destroy the economy of the United States in order to fully implement their plan for a global government and economy controlled by themselves. If they aren’t stopped, we will experience a global social/economic disaster beyond anything seen in history. Obama is only a puppet in the larger agenda. Far more powerful and sinister forces are pulling his strings, and orchestrating his decisions. The fact that he may be a willing “useful idiot” in the establishment of this “New World Order,” is unimportant.
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A prudent person foresees the danger ahead and takes precautions;
the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. (Proverbs 22:3 NLT)
From Bruce Porter, D.D.
For several years I have been telling whoever would listen to me that the greatest threat to our country and our nationial survival is not really politics or moral corruption. These are certainly important, but these pale in comparison to the subject of an EMP attack.
It is a nearly unthinkable scenario, but an entirely possible one. Most folks find it easier to just ignore the issue, retreating into denial, and marginalize anyone as a “wingnut” who dares to bring it up. I won’t go into how incredibly foolish such attitudes are, but I remain convinced that in the Lord’s Providence, it might be an avoidable tragedy. That is, if enough people take the threat seriously, put pressure on political leaders to allocate enough funds to harden our critical infrastructures and particularly the power grid, and make personal preparations for the sake of themselves, their families, and their neighbors. Ignorance and denial is the last retreat of fools, but I still believe that there are enough wise men and women among us to prevent a national tragedy. We need only awaken them.
The other consideration is that this event might be some prophetic fulfillment that cannot be avoided by human effort. If so, then we can be sure God has a plan. In that case, we are being forwarned to prepare us to endure whatever may come. We can be sure that nothing comes as a surprise to Him, and we can trust Him to work all things out toward a greater good we can scarcely fathom.
The videos and article below will give you a pretty comprehensive overview. Share with people you care about.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:26 AM
By: Ronald Kessler
The federal government is doing “nothing” to protect against an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack that could wipe out American civilization, Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, a leading expert on the subject, tells Newsmax.
For only $200 million to $400 million, the government could protect a key element of the power grid to keep electrical power from being wiped out for years, according to Dr. Pry, a former staff member of the congressional Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack.
Yet neither Republicans nor Democrats have been willing to spend that small sum, says Pry, who is president EMPACT America, which is meeting in Niagara Falls, N.Y. this week to spotlight the scandal.
A single nuclear bomb exploded over the Midwest would generate an electromagnetic pulse that would destroy the chips that are at the heart of every electronic device. While military and intelligence networks may be shielded against EMP, most of the rest of the country’s technological infrastructure is not.
An EMP attack would wipe out personal computers and the internet. Cars would not start, gasoline pumps would not work, and airplanes could not take off.
Heat and air conditioning would shut down, supermarkets would have to close, telephones would go dead, water would go out, and radio and television sets would not turn on.
Banks and ATMs would shut down, credit cards would become useless, and emergency services and hospital operating rooms would close.
In the ensuing chaos, most Americans would die from starvation.
“We have a 60-day food supply in big regional warehouses,” Pry says. “Typically when hurricanes take out the electric power grid locally, that food spoils, because it needs temperature control systems and refrigerators to keep it preserved. And if you lose the electric grid across the whole country, you’re going to lose all that food that is the best hope for feeding the American people.”
The 2008 report of the congressional commission found that the country is shockingly unprepared for an EMP attack. Terrorists or countries like Iran or North Korea could launch an EMP attack and “possibly end us as a civilization, and take us out as an actor on the world stage,” Pry says.
At the least, Pry says, 100 to 200 large transformers used in electrical transmission should be protected against EMP attack.
“The key for our electric power grid are these big transformers,” Pry says. “All together, there are about 300 of them. They are absolutely indispensable to the operation of the power grid. If you fry those things, there are only a couple of countries in the world that sell them for export, and it takes a year, at least, to make one of them,” Pry says.
Equally important are small computers that regulate the power grid.
“This country can’t survive for six months without electricity, let alone a year,” Pry says. “Everything else would go down after losing electric power.”
To harden those transformers against an attack would cost a mere $200 million to $400 million, Pry says. For perhaps $20 billion, the entire power grid could be protected, Pry says. By comparison, the stimulus bill costs nearly $800 billion. Yet without electricity, no one would have a job.
Pry notes that the Iranians have written extensively about the possibility of wiping out America with an EMP attack. North Korea would also likely be in a position to do that, he says.
To be most effective, an EMP device would be detonated by a missile 200 miles above earth. A strong missile defense would knock missiles out of the sky before they reach the U.S. But going back to President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative — dubbed Star Wars — Democrats have consistently ridiculed the idea of an anti-missile defense.
President Obama’s administration already has cut the Pentagon’s missile defense budget by $1.4 billion, or 15 percent.
However, Pry says a missile with a nuclear device launched from a ship would be just as effective at taking out the U.S., and no missile defense would work quickly enough to defend against it. Moreover, he notes, a great geomagnetic storm could unleash destruction almost as devastating as an EMP attack. Therefore, Pry says, the only sure defense is the hardening of targets.
Pry says the Department of Homeland Security has plans for 15 kinds of disasters, but none of the scenarios deals with an EMP attack. Nor, he says, are there any plans to harden the power grid.
“The Department of Defense has contingency plans, and they put a lot of effort into planning to come to the rescue in places like Africa and Indonesia in the event that there are natural catastrophes,” Pry says. “But they don’t plan for such contingencies for the American people.”
Like the government, the press has been asleep on the threat, Pry says. Liberals perceive efforts to prevent an EMP attack as a way to push for funds for anti-missile defense, which the left abhors.
“If they’d trouble themselves to read the EMP commission report, they would find the EMP commission is not saying strengthen missile defense is the answer,” Pry says. “While missile defense can be useful against EMP, it’s not the first solution, or the best solution.”
Instead, Pry says, “The best solution is smart planning to protect and recover the critical infrastructures, especially the electric power grid.”
Ronald Kessler is Chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com.
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The following article is shocking beyond words. When I first read it, I could hardly believe my eyes. Here, the former HEAD of the CIA is declaring that our nation is at grave risk because the Obama administration has crossed a “red line” and compromised our national security!! This is unheard-of!
I recommend you read it carefully, ponder it, and pass on the link to everyone you know. We are witnessing something unprecidented in our nation’s history.
By Porter J. Goss
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Since leaving my post as CIA director almost three years ago, I have remained largely silent on the public stage. I am speaking out now because I feel our government has crossed the red line between properly protecting our national security and trying to gain partisan political advantage. We can’t have a secret intelligence service if we keep giving away all the secrets. Americans have to decide now.
A disturbing epidemic of amnesia seems to be plaguing my former colleagues on Capitol Hill. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, members of the committees charged with overseeing our nation’s intelligence services had no higher priority than stopping al-Qaida.
In the fall of 2002, while I was chairman of the House intelligence committee, senior members of Congress were briefed on the CIA’s “High Value Terrorist Program,” including the development of “enhanced interrogation techniques” and what those techniques were. This was not a onetime briefing but an ongoing subject with lots of back and forth between those members and the briefers.
Today, I am slack jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as “waterboarding” were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.
Let me be clear. It is my recollection that:
The chairs and the ranking minority members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, known as the Gang of Four, were briefed that the CIA was holding and interrogating high value terrorists.
We understood what the CIA was doing.
We gave the CIA our bipartisan support.
We gave the CIA funding to carry out its activities.
On a bipartisan basis, we asked if the CIA needed more support from Congress to carry out its mission against al-Qaida.
I do not recall a single objection from my colleagues. They did not vote to stop authorizing CIA funding. And for those who now reveal filed “memorandums for the record” suggesting concern, real concern should have been expressed immediately to the committee chairs, the briefers, the House speaker or minority leader, the CIA director or the president’s national security adviser and not quietly filed away in case the day came when the political winds shifted. And shifted they have.
Circuses are not new in Washington, and I can see preparations being made for tents from the Capitol straight down Pennsylvania Avenue. The CIA has been pulled into the center ring before. The result this time will be the same: a hollowed out service of diminished capabilities. After Sept. 11, the general outcry was, “Why don’t we have better overseas capabilities?” I fear that in the years to come this refrain will be heard again: once a threat or God forbid, another successful attack captures our attention and sends the pendulum swinging back. There is only one person who can shut down this dangerous show: President Obama.
Unfortunately, much of the damage to our capabilities has already been done. It is certainly not trust that is fostered when intelligence officers are told one day “I have your back” only to learn a day later that a knife is being held to it. After the events of this week, morale at the CIA has been shaken to its foundation.
We must not forget: Our intelligence allies overseas view our inability to maintain secrecy as a reason to question our worthiness as a partner. These allies have been vital in almost every capture of a terrorist. The suggestion that we are safer now because information about interrogation techniques is in the public domain conjures up images of unicorns and fairy dust. We have given our enemy invaluable information about the rules by which we operate. The terrorists captured by the CIA perfected the act of beheading innocents using dull knives. Khalid Sheik Mohammed boasted of the tactic of placing explosives high enough in a building to ensure that innocents trapped above would die if they tried to escape through windows. There is simply no comparison between our professionalism and their brutality.
Our enemies do not subscribe to the rules of the Marquis of Queensbury. “Name, rank and serial number” does not apply to nonstate actors but is, regrettably, the only question this administration wants us to ask. Instead of taking risks, our intelligence officers will soon resort to wordsmithingcables to headquarters while opportunities to neutralize brutal radicals are lost. The days of fortress America are gone. We are the world’s superpower. We can sit on our hands or we can become engaged to improve global human conditions. The bottom line is that we cannot succeed unless we have good intelligence. Trading security for partisan political popularity will ensure that our secrets are not secret and that our intelligence is destined to fail us.
The writer, a Republican, was director of the CIA from September 2004 to May 2006 and was chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 1997 to 2004.
