Imagine you're a terrorist with a single nuclear weapon. You could wipe out the U.S. city of your choice, or you could decide to destroy the infrastructure of the entire U.S. economy and leave millions of Americans to die of starvation or want of medical care.
The latter scenario is the one envisioned by a long-running commission to assess the threat from electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. The subject of its latest, and little discussed, report to Congress is the effect an EMP attack could have on civilian infrastructure. If you're prone to nightmares, don't read it before bedtime.
An EMP attack occurs when a nuclear bomb explodes high in the Earth's atmosphere. The electromagnetic pulse generated by the blast destroys all the electronics in its line of sight. For a bomb detonated over the Midwest, that includes most of the continental U.S. Few, if any, people die in the blast. It's what comes next that has the potential to be catastrophic. Since an EMP surge wipes out electronics, virtually every aspect of modern American life would come to a standstill.
"The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign."
St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce and St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch have been threatening citizens not to post negative character 'attacks' about Barack Hussein Obama. That includes negative information about 'soft money operations.'
Looks like Barack HUSSEIN Obama wants to "Change" your right to free speech.
The Biometrics Task Force leads Department of Defense activities to program, integrate, and synchronize biometric technologies and capabilities and to operate and maintain DoD's authoritative biometric database to support the National Security Strategy.
N.A.S.A's project blue beam was revealed to the public in the early 90's by a man named Serge Monast. He and the other reporter working on this subject were both killed. Serge's daughter was also kidnapped and has never been seen since.
Don't take my word for it. Look this up for yourself.
Elsie Wright e Frances Griffiths contam como criaram as fotografias, e a repercussão do episódio em que enganaram um mundo de crentes com suas fotos de fadas.
De "Arthur C Clarke's World Of Strange Powers – Fairies, Phantoms and Fantastic Photographs" www.ceticismoaberto.com
In the second part of this series, investigative historian Gareth Porter tells Pepe Escobar about the efforts by both the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the CIA clandestine operations not to depend on "special approvals" to launch Special Forces ops inside Pakistani territory in the hunt for Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders. Gen. David Petraeus, about to take over as head of Central Command, is firmly in favor. Although the National Intelligence Council is firmly against it, arguing these ops will dangerously destabilize the Pakistani Army and even the Pakistani government, the Bush administration has authorized US Special Forces to operate inside Pakistan even without the approval of the Pakistani government – in a dangerous escalation of the "war on terror."
Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.
Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The Trap is a series of three films by Bafta-winning producer Adam Curtis that explains the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
It shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.
Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously — always intent on their own advantage.
This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.
However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, says Curtis, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
What you're about to hear is a portion of a jaw-dropping speech delivered by an Oklahoma State Representative at a gathering in her district. This is what they say when they think we're not listening. Learn more atwww.victoryfund.org/listening
Former reporter for the "Houston Chronicle," Pete Brewton tells of one of the
most momentous stories of the past 50 years and how it has been suppressed by
the establishment media and the Congress. Pete's book "The Mafia, CIA and
George Bush," shows the incredible complexity of the relationships in the
operation of the destruction of hundreds of Savings and Loans at the hands of
the CIA and the Mafia, stealing many billions of dollars in the process, and
leaving the taxpayers to bailout the banks. Big names at the state and
national levels of power are involved, including Lloyd Bentsen, the Bush
family, and power brokers in Houston. People such as Kenneth Keating and Don
Dixon, who are mentioned prominently in the press in connection with the S &
L debacle, were merely front men or "cutouts" for the main movers. Keating
and his ilk only took millions; the CIA and the Mafia looted billions.4
Recorded November 21, 1992
Copyright December, 1992
484. THE MAFIA, THE CIA AND GEORGE BUSH (PART II)
Pete continues his story, emphasizing how he unraveled it and how the press
and the Congress have conspired to cover it up.
Recorded November 21, 1992
News: December 10, 1992
Copyright December, 1992
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