The first step in solving any problem is identifying it! Read Full Story
April 14, 2015 – NORTHCOM Moving to Counter the EMP Threat!
The Pentagon recently announced that Raytheon will receive a $700 million contract to prep the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado for the return of US Aerospace Command, built in the 1960s to respond to a Soviet nuclear strike; this new plan is to help counter a possible EMP attack by a rogue nation. This explicit acknowledgement of the EMP threat is a most welcome development. Hopefully, the U.S. “powers that be” will also take complementary steps to assure the survival of the American people in case of such an attack—and here are some hopeful signs this may be possible. Read Full Story
April 7, 2015 – Less than Meets the Eye…
“The Framework Agreement announced on 2 April 2015 is concerning on a number of counts, but in fact merely kicks the can down the road to additional negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran, gifting Iran with more time to complete its drive to deliverable nuclear weapons. . . . The entire world took a step closer to Armageddon this week, which as Bernard Lewis has said, is no deterrent to the apocalyptic Shi’ite regime in Tehran but rather an inducement.” ~ Clare M. Lopez, Former CIA Operations Officer Read Full Story
March 31, 2015 – So… What’s the Big Deal?
“Iran has talented engineers and the necessary financial resources, and its nuclear infrastructure is much larger than what it actually needs. Therefore, a monitoring scheme that is merely ‘good enough’ will not guarantee success in preventing Iran from breaking out and achieving a nuclear weapons capability.” … Olli Heinonen, Former IAEA Deputy Director-General for Safeguards, March 28, 2015 Read Full Story
March 24, 2015—One More Time: Put the Stars Back Into Star Wars!
To counter increasingly recognized threats, we should return to President Ronald Reagan’s vision in his March 23, 1983 speech that launched the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The “powers that be” should revive technology programs aimed at developing space-based defenses, the most cost-effective way to defend against a full gamut of ballistic missile threats, including those that pose an existential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threat. Read Full Story
March 17, 2015—SC Citizens Want to Fix the Vulnerable Grid, ASAP!
“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.” … Thomas Jefferson Read Full Story
Urgent Action Item for South Carolina
American Laws for American Courts (H 3521) will be heard and discussed in the South Carolina House Judiciary Committee tomorrow, Tuesday March 17, 2015 at 2:30 PM, or 1.5 hours after the House adjourns. Within the post is the list of South Carolina Representatives who need to be called, knowing you support American Laws for American Courts. Read Full Story
Tribute To Frank Gaffney & Link to Action Summit
Due to time constraints I outline in this post, I was not able to give the full introduction of Frank Gaffney on Saturday – so I wanted to share it here. Also included in this post is the full video of Saturday’s South Carolina National Security Action Summit. Read Full Story
Today – Watch The South Carolina National Security Action Summit Live!
Click the Image above or click here to watch the South Carolina National Security Action Summit today. Here is the schedule: Read Full Story
Rep. Jeff Duncan Stands With Us!
Duncan, as a Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Caucus, Rep. Duncan hopes to bring more attention to this very serious issue and to improve grid security, including co-sponsoring legislation to provide hardware solutions to protect the grid against EMP. As he observed, “It is vital to our national security that the United States homeland does not remain vulnerable to an EMP attack.” Read Full Story
Key Policy Briefs
We will be adding key policy briefs as we progress.