Solar Storm Activity

http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea now has an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to the United States, as demonstrated by their successful launch and orbiting of a satellite on Dec. 12. Certain poorly informed pundits among the chattering classes reassure us that http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea is still years away from being able to miniaturize warheads for missile delivery, and from developing sufficiently accurate missiles to pose a serious nuclear threat to the United States. http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/philip-yun/ - Philip Yun, director of San Francisco’s http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/ploughshares-fund/ - Ploughshares Fund, a nuclear disarmament group, reportedly said, “The real threat from the launch was an overreaction that would lead to more defense spending on unnecessary systems. The sky is not falling. We shouldn’t be panicked.”

In fact, http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea is a mortal nuclear threat to the United States— right now.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea has already successfully tested and developed nuclear weapons. It has also already miniaturized nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery and has armed missiles with nuclear warheads. In 2011, the director of the http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/defense-intelligence-agency/ - Defense Intelligence Agency, http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lt/ - Lt. General http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/ronald-l-burgess-jr/ - Ronald Burgess, testified to the http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/united-states-senate-committee-on-armed-services/ - Senate Armed Services Committee that http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea has weaponized its nuclear devices into warheads for ballistic missiles.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea has labored for years and starved its people so it could develop an intercontinental missile capable of reaching the United States. Why? Because they have a special kind of nuclear weapon that could destroy the United States with a single blow.

In summer 2004, a delegation of Russian generals warned the Congressional Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Commission that secrets had leaked to http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea for a decisive new nuclear weapon — a Super-EMP warhead.

Any nuclear weapon detonated above an altitude of 30 kilometers will generate an electromagnetic pulse that will destroy electronics and could collapse the electric power grid and other critical infrastructures — communications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water — that sustain modern civilization and the lives of 300 million Americans. All could be destroyed by a single nuclear weapon making an EMP attack.

A Super-EMP attack on the United States would cause much more and much deeper damage than a primitive nuclear weapon, and so would increase confidence that the catastrophic consequences will be irreversible. Such an attack would inflict maximum damage and be optimum for realizing a world without America.

Both North Korean nuclear tests look suspiciously like a Super-EMP weapon. A Super-EMP warhead would have a low yield, like the North Korean device, because it is not designed to create a big explosion, but to convert its energy into gamma rays, that generate the EMP effect. Reportedly South Korean military intelligence concluded, independent of the EMP Commission, that Russian scientists are in http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea helping develop a Super-EMP warhead. In 2012, a military commentator for the People’s Republic of China stated that http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea has Super-EMP nuclear warheads.

A Super-EMP warhead would not weigh much, and could probably be delivered by http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea’s ICBM. The missile does not have to be accurate, as the EMP field is so large that detonating anywhere over the United States would have catastrophic consequences. The warhead does not even need a re-entry vehicle, as an EMP attack entails detonating the warhead at high-altitude, above the atmosphere.

So, as of Dec. 12, http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea’s successful orbit of a satellite demonstrates its ability to make an EMP attack against the United States — right now.

The http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congressional-emp-commission/ - Congressional EMP Commission estimates that, given the nation’s current unpreparedness, within one year of an EMP attack, two-thirds of the U.S. population — 200 million Americans — would probably perish from starvation, disease and societal collapse.

Thus, http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea now has an Assured Destruction capability against the United States. The consequences of this development are so extremely grave that U.S. and global security have, in effect, gone over the “strategic cliff” into free-fall. Where we will land, into what kind of future, is as yet unknown.

Nevertheless, some very bad developments are foreseeable. http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/ - Iran will certainly be inspired by http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea’s example to persist in the development of its own nuclear weapon and ICBM programs to pose a mortal threat to the United States. Indeed, http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea and http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/ - Iran have been collaborating all along.

If http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea and http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/ - Iran both acquire the capability to threaten America with EMP genocide, this will destroy the foundations of the existing world order, which has since 1945 halted the cycle of world wars and sustained the global advancement of freedom. http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea and http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/ - Iran being armed with Assured Destruction capability changes the whole strategic calculus of risk for the United States in upholding its superpower role, and will erode the confidence of U.S. allies — perhaps to the point where they will need to develop their own nuclear weapons.

Most alarming, we are fast moving to a place where, for the first time in history, failed little states like http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea and http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/ - Iran, that cannot even feed their own people, will have power in their hands to blackmail or destroy the largest and most successful societies on Earth. http://www.washingtontimes.com/topicsorth-korea/ - North Korea and http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/iran/ - Iran perceive themselves to be at war with the United States, and are desperate, highly unpredictable characters. When the mob is at the gates of their dictators, will they want to take America with them down into darkness?

What is to be done?

The president should immediately issue an Executive Order, drafted for the White House earlier by the http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congressional-emp-commission/ - Congressional EMP Commission, to protect the national electric grid and other critical infrastructures from an EMP attack. The http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/ - Congress should pass the SHIELD Act (HR 668) now to provide the legal authorities and financial mechanisms for protecting the electric grid from EMP. The http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/ - Congress should enhance Defense Department programs for National Missile Defense and Department of Homeland Security programs for protecting critical infrastructures.     

The administration and the http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congress/ - Congress owe the American people security from an EMP Apocalypse.

Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, and served on the http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/congressional-emp-commission/ - Congressional EMP Commission, the House Armed Services Committee, and the CIA.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.comews/2012/dec/19orth-korea-emp-attack-could-destroy-us-now/?page=2#ixzz2bFd9jkHR - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/19/north-korea-emp-attack-could-destroy-us-now/?page=2#ixzz2bFd9jkHR 
                                                                                                                  

The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History

http://www.space.com/12584-worst-solar-storms-sun-flares-history.html

the 2003 storm was an X45

a direct hit would have put some lights out for sure

current threat

Sunspots Still Growing In Size

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/sunspots-still-growing-in-size_082013

"Sunspots AR1817 and AR1818 are continuing to grow rapidly. AR1817 is now directly facing the Earth and would score a direct hit should it throw off a flare. AR1818 is the larger of the two and has at least another 24 hours growing time left before it has rotated far enough across the Sun to be fully geo-effective here on Earth.

NOAA estimate the chances of an M-Class flare at 30% over the next 24 hours and say there’s a 5% chance of an X class during the same period."

Congresswoman: “100% Chance of a Severe Geo-Magnetic Event Capable of Crippling Our Electric Grid”

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/congresswoman-the-likelihood-of-a-severe-geo-magnetic-event-capable-of-crippling-our-electric-grid-is-100_09032013#comments

We are only one act of madness away from a social cataclysm unlike anything our country has ever known.
-Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ), Senior Member House Armed Service Committee

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EMP is one of the small number of threats that could hold at risk the continued existence of U.S. civil society.
-Dr. Robert Hermann, Commissioner US Congress EMP Commission

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Just one violent active region on the sun can cause continent-wide, perhaps even planetary-scale impacts to our critical infrastructure.
-John Kappenman, Principal Investigator US Congress EMP Commission

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The Likelihood of a severe geo-magnetic event capable of crippling our electric grid is 100%.
-Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Senior Member House Homeland Security Committee"

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ummmm

NO

I have been aware of EMP and solar storms for quite some time now

28 solar flares in the last seven days, and more may be coming

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-solar-flare-20131031,0,7996603.story#axzz2jQKJef9k

1 in 8 Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/massive-solar-flare/

not a threat to be taken lightly 

we would have less than 24 hours notice to prepare

and that is assuming the government immediately revealed the threat

can you imagine the government announcing that you had 24 hours before a major X flare would hit ???

absolutely PANIC will ensue

YOU don't want to be one of those people fighting over the last can of creamed corn at Walmart

CU-Boulder Scientist: Society Should Prepare for Devastating Solar Flare (CME)

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/12/cu-boulder-scientist-society-should.html#more

The coronal mass ejection, or CME, event was likely more powerful than the famous Carrington storm of 1859, when the sun blasted Earth’s atmosphere hard enough twice to light up the sky from the North Pole to Central America and allowed New Englanders to read their newspapers at night by aurora light, said CU-Boulder Professor Daniel Baker. Had it hit Earth, the July 2012 event likely would have created a technological disaster by short-circuiting satellites, power grids, ground communication equipment and even threatening the health of astronauts and aircraft crews, he said."

just a matter of time

just a matter of time.......

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How Long Can You Tread Water? by Tom S.

http://www.survivalblog.com/2010/07/how_long_can_you_tread_water_b.html

keep an eye on solar activity

NASA Announces Incoming CME Likely to Cause a Geomagnetic Storm

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/01/nasa-announces-incoming-cme-likely-to.html#more

"January 9th
50-90% chance of major-severe geomagnetic storm depending on where you live. The further north you are the higher the percentage of risk
January 10th
50-85% chance of major-severe geomagnetic storm depending on where you live. The further north you are the higher the percentage of risk.
January 11th
1-50% chance of major-severe geomagnetic storm depending on where you live. The further north you are the higher the percentage of risk.
The risk from flares today stands at 80% for an M-class and 50% for an X-class

Monster Sunspot Larger Than Jupiter Stars in Amazing Sun Photos

http://news.yahoo.com/monster-sunspot-larger-jupiter-stars-amazing-sun-photos-115446118.html

""The massive sunspot AR 1967 is now wider than the planet Jupiter and is very active," Chumack told Space.com in an email on Feb. 4. "Yesterday no less than seven M-class solar flares have erupted from this region."

Newt Gingrich's Plan to Stave Off the Apocalypse

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/newt-gingrich-s-plan-to-stave-off-the-apocalypse-20140328

the threat is real

and it is just a  matter of time

unfortunately

our so called leaders do nothing

the blood will very much be on their hands

Solar Storm Risk to the North American Electrical Grid

http://www.lloyds.com/~/media/Lloyds/Reports/Emerging%20Risk%20Reports/Solar%20Storm%20Risk%20to%20the%20North%20American%20Electric%20Grid.pdf