U.S. - Nuclear Power Plants Leaking Everywhere

Nuclear Power Plants Leaking Everywhere Part of "The Agenda". Collapse of Society Speeding up.

 

Tom  Lupshu   -  Published  on  Mar  13,  2016

Nuclear Leaks in the United States, One May be Worse Than Fukushima

75% of US Nuclear Power Plants LEAK

 Radioactive  leaks  found  at  75%  of  US  nuke  sites

By JEFF DONN

 

 

Nuclear Power Plants Leaking Everywhere "The Agenda"

BRACEVILLE, ILL.  -----  Radio active tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows. The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation.

Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen, has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants.

Leaks from at least 37 of those facilities contained concentrations exceeding the federal drinking water standard — sometimes at hundreds of times the limit.

While most leaks have been found within plant boundaries, some have migrated offsite. But none is known to have reached public water supplies.

Leaks are prolific 

Like rust under a car, corrosion has propagated for decades along the hard-to-reach, wet underbellies of the reactors — generally built in a burst of construction during the 1960s and 1970s. As part of an investigation of aging problems at the country's nuclear reactors, the AP uncovered evidence that despite government and industry programs to bring the causes of such leaks under control, breaches have become more frequent and widespread.

There were 38 leaks from underground piping between 2000 and 2009, according to an industry document presented at a tritium conference. Nearly two-thirds of the leaks were reported over the latest five years.

Here are some examples:
At the three-unit Browns Ferry complex in Alabama, a valve was mistakenly left open in a storage tank during modifications over the years. When the tank was filled in April 2010 about 1,000 gallons of tritium-laden water poured onto the ground at a concentration of 2 million picocuries per liter. In drinking water, that would be 100 times higher than the EPA health standard.
At the LaSalle site west of Chicago, tritium-laden water was accidentally released from a storage tank in July 2010 at a concentration of 715,000 picocuries per liter — 36 times the EPA standard.
The year before, 123,000 picocuries per liter were detected in a well near the turbine building at Peach Bottom west of Philadelphia — six times the drinking water standard.
And in 2008, 7.5 million picocuries per liter leaked from underground piping at Quad Cities in western Illinois — 375 times the EPA limit.

Subsurface water not only rusts underground pipes, it attacks other buried components, including electrical cables that carry signals to control operations. They too have been failing at high rates.

A 2008 NRC staff memo reported industry data showing 83 failed cables between 21 and 30 years of service — but only 40 within their first 10 years of service. Underground cabling set in concrete can be extraordinarily difficult to replace.

A decoy sits on Bob Scamen's pond in Braidwood, Ill., within view of the Braidwood Nuclear Power Station in Braceville, Ill. Braidwood has leaked more than six million gallons of tritium-laden water in repeated leaks dating back to the 1990s — but not publicly reported until 2005.

When a radiation leak happens in Japan the whole world hears about it, but when not one but two radiation leaks happen in the United States no one does. There are radiation leak reports in Miami and New York, why is no one talking about it?

Miami Florida Nuclear Plant Is Pumping Polluted Water Into Biscayne Bay

 

 

The University of Miami has found that the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant, located just south of Miami, has caused levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope, in Biscayne Bay to spike to 200-times higher than normal levels.

Turkey Point is not the sole leaky plant in America.

Meanwhile, The Vermont Department of Health has noted ongoing investigations into leaks at Vermont Yankee since 2010, while New York’s FitzPatrick Plant has been “plagued by water leaks” in 2014, Gizmodo notes.

Last month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo acknowledged that the

state’s Indian Point Nuclear facility was leaking tritium into ground water.

New York governor Andrew Cuomo recently called for an investigation after Indian Point, a nuclear power plant on the Hudson River reported a leak of radioactive material flowing into the ground water. Samples taken from the local groundwater show that contamination levels are 80% higher than previous samples, prompting experts to claim this leak is spreading in “a disaster waiting to happen” and calling for the plant to be shut down completely.

"Unusual Event" Declared at 

South Carolina Nuclear Facility 

OCONEE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA — (Scroll down for video) — 

Fires and explosions were reported at the Oconee Nuclear Station on Sunday. The blaze is now under control.

According to WYFF, the facility has declared an “unusual event.” Emergency crews were responding. The fire chief tells local media a transformer caught fire.

Officials also said there is no public threat due to this incident. Officials say the fire broke out due to an equipment issue. They also found a down power line.

MORE: The Oconee Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant located on Lake Keowee near Seneca, South Carolina, and has an energy output capacity of over 2,500 megawatts. It is the second nuclear power plant in the United States to have its operating license extended for an additional twenty years by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) (the application for the Calvert Cliffs plant in Maryland preceded it).

 

Fire at Oconee Nuclear Station

           

Contributing sources:

http://breaking911.com/oconee-county-fire-explosion-at-nuclear-plant-station/

http://beforeitsnews.com/terrorism/2016/04/two-nuclear-leaks-in-the-united-states-one-is-likely-worse-than-fukushima-2458466.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43475479/ns/us_news-environment/t/radioactive-tritium-leaks-found-us-nuke-sites/

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-riskiest-nuclear-power-plants-in-america.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43475479/ns/us_news-environment/t/radioactive-tritium-leaks-found-us-nuke-sites/

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Town Tells Clinton’s They’re “Not Welcome”

WHOA!  WEST VIRGINIA TOWN TELLS CLINTON'S THEY'RE "NOT WELCOME"

“Bill and Hillary Clinton are simply not welcome in our town.“ – City of Logan, W.VA


Onan Coca
May 1 2016



There are few people as polarizing as Hillary Clinton. She is one of the most disliked politicians in American history, and while she may be loved by a majority of liberals, she is loathed by almost everyone else (even a large number of Democrats). 

After losing the Democrat presidential nomination to Senator Barack Obama in 2008, many thought she might actually be able to build her image and become a stronger candidate for 2016. However, the opposite has been true. Instead of becoming more popular and less polarizing, she has careened headlong into a cesspool of negative media coverage based largely on her own criminal behavior, bad decisions, and imprudent political ideas.

For example, while Clinton would love to win West Virginia (and other parts of “Coal Country”), her all-out war on coal makes that unlikely. In fact, the Clinton’s had hoped to travel Logan County, West Virginia ahead of the states primary… but the good people of Logan had a different idea. Namely, that the Clinton’s stay out of Logan County and the city of Logan.

Officials from the city of Logan sent an email to Senator Joe Manchin’s office asking him to make sure the Clinton’s steer clear of their town in the coming days.

Mike,

While we appreciate all that you and Senator Manchin’s office have done for the
City Of Logan over the years we must make the following statement:

Bill and Hillary Clinton are simply not welcome in our town.  Mrs. Clinton’s anti-coal messages are the last thing our suffering town needs at this point.  The policies that have been championed by people like Mrs. Clinton have all but devastated our fair town, and honestly, enough is enough.

We wish them the best in their campaign, however we again state they are not welcome on our city properties. 

We hope that you will respectfully consider NOT visiting our community. 

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, 304-xxx-xxxx.  I am writing this on behalf of the City Of Logan. 

Logan officials feel that the Clintons will not adequately support the well-being of its voters.

On March 13, 2014 during a Democratic Town Hall event in Ohio, Hillary Clinton stated ““We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

Good for the fine folks in Logan! 

Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democrats have been waging war against the hard working miners in Coal Country throughout the Obama era, and it is literally killing several Midwestern economies (Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania). 

These liberal politicians don’t deserve the time or the respect of the people who their policies are hurting, and more of them need to speak out against a possible Clinton presidency. 

I’ll just go ahead and add my voice to the city of Logan – I don’t want the Clinton’s in my back yard either!

Anywho, the Clintons ignored the good people of Logan and showed up anyway, only to get booed and heckled. 
 
http://eaglerising.com/33008/whoa-west-virginia-town-tells-clintons-theyre-not-welcome/

1st Newspaper to say Cruz Ineligible!

How Trump will Destroy Clinton!

Cruz delegates starting to freak?

Are Ted Cruz delegates starting to freak?

 

Many cite fears of chaos at Republican convention, may vote for Trump

 

May 1 2016

 

After walking away with the majority of delegates in Wyoming and Colorado, Sen. Ted Cruz was on a roll. His knowledge of the “obscure, internecine” delegate fights gave him a tactical advantage over front-runner Donald Trump, which could end up deciding the Republican nomination for president. 

 

“This is how elections are won in America,” said Cruz. The Texas senator saw a silver lining to his declining polls as he heads into Tuesday’s critical Indiana primary.

According to the National Review, “The political world was captivated – and Trump supporters were infuriated – by the Cruz campaign’s successful effort to elect large blocs of friendly delegates at a series of state-party conventions.” But then something unexpected happened. It seems delegates, like regular voters, are susceptible to public opinion … and public opinion was swaying toward Trump. 

The billionaire real-estate mogul trounced Cruz in Florida, Arizona, New Hampshire, and five northeastern states, which abruptly shifted the fickle political winds. "Mr. Cruz’s support among the party’s 2,472 convention delegates is softening,” noted the New York Times, “threatening his hopes of preventing Mr. Trump’s nomination by overtaking him in a floor fight.”

Cruz led a smooth, well-groomed campaign during North Dakota’s state convention. He flew in to make personal appeals, and his staffers “ran rings” around the less-organized Trump campaign by compiling and distributing lists of their preferred delegates to convention votes. Cruz’s campaign declared victory when his preferred candidates won 18 out of 25 unbound convention delegates.

But even at the time, pundits were wondering how loyal those candidates would be if the Republican nomination heads toward a contested convention in Cleveland. The delegates are vital in Cruz’s goal to deny Trump the 1,237 delegates he’ll need on the first ballot in Cleveland. Some candidates told Politico they were only leaning toward Cruz, or simply opposed to Trump.

Now, as delegates watch Cruz’s increasing struggle against Trump’s overwhelming popularity, many are rethinking their commitment, possibly concerned about a bitter convention battle that could tear the GOP apart. "I think [last Tuesday’s vote] spooked a lot of people,” says Jim Poolman, a North Dakota delegate who had previously committed to a first-ballot convention vote for Cruz. “But I want to be clear, I think the will of the people does mean something, as well. Donald Trump has gotten a lot of support across the country, and just [last Tuesday], winning five [states] is one heckuva showing.” Poolman hedged his support for Cruz by stating he will see how the remaining primaries play out.

Other North Dakota delegates also are wavering. David Hogue, a state senator and Cruz-approved delegate, told the National Review he’s been “vacillating.”

Dick Dever said, “What I have said is I’m leaning towards Cruz, but I’m not committed to anybody. And after [Tuesday’s vote], I think Trump has the momentum going forward.”

Rick Becker, a former North Dakota gubernatorial candidate who is still loyal to Cruz, is concerned about party chaos if delegates ignore the wishes of their congressional districts. “Yes, you’re unbound, you can vote for whoever you want,” he said. “But if Trump gets really close, should you even ignore your wishes, ignore your congressional district’s wishes, and just vote for Trump to try to salvage the Republican party from being torn apart?”

Jessica Unruh, a state senator on the Cruz slate, admits she is reconsidering her options. She states, “That’s why I’ve been supportive of Cruz and not fully committed to him, because I would not want to see that happen to the Republican party.”

Prior to Trump’s landslide victory in last week’s Pennsylvania primary, Cruz boasted it had dozens of staffers devoted to acquiring as many of the state’s 54 unbound delegates as possible. Despite those efforts, Cruz won only three.

This weakening of support for Cruz raises the stakes in Indiana. “With unbound delegates warily eyeing recent primary results,” noted the National Review, “there’s little chance Cruz will be able to stanch the bleeding without decisively halting Trump’s surge. Even if he does win in Indiana, Cruz will need to prove he can keep on winning, in California and elsewhere, to satisfy delegates who may personally prefer him to Trump, but are worried about throwing the party into chaos before the general election.”

Southern states, which were initially seen as firmly in Cruz’s camp, now have some delegates echoing a growing sentiment: a “sense of resignation” that Trump will win the nomination. “Honestly, we didn’t think [Trump] could get this far. And he did,” said Jonathan Barnett, the Republican national committeeman for Arkansas.

The largest concern among unbound delegates is presenting a unified front against the Democrats in November. To them, this is a bigger issue than Cruz vs. Trump.  “No matter what happens in Cleveland, I am in the ‘anybody-but-Hillary’ camp,” says Poolman. “The most important objective is to get a nominee and unite the party.”

http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/are-ted-cruz-delegates-starting-to-freak/ 

Guess who's exempt????

 

 

The SATANIC TRUTH about Washington, DC

THE TRUTH ABOUT WASHINGTON, DC 

or

WHY WE DO NOT WANT THE RESTORED REPUBLIC IN WASHINGTON, DC

FREEMASONS ARE 

PHALLIC WORSHIPPERS!!!

Obelisks are phallic (penis) symbols related to the Egyptian Sun god, Ra. The 4 sides of the Washington Monument are aligned with the cardinal directions (i.e., east, west, north, and south). At the ground level each side of the monument measures 55.5 feet long, which is equal to 666 inches. The height of the obelisk is 555.5 feet, which is equal to 6,666 inches. THIS IS THE EXACT RATIO OF KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S GOLDEN IMAGE! (which was 90 x 9 feet, a 10-to-1 ratio). 

The new grand PHALLUS (obelisk) symbol representing the sinister power of the global Illuminati 'elite' is the ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER replacing the old World Trade Center in New York. The new architectural wonder is exactly 1,776 feet tall, featuring The Great Pyramid in it's design. This evidences that the satanic plot for world government has existed for millenniums and is perpetrating from generation-to-generation by occult organizations.

With this truth in mind, it should not be too difficult to understand that the United States was founded by Freemasons with the primary intent of one day achieving world government (aka, a New World Order). President George Washington was a high-level Freemason as were many signers of The Declaration Of Independence. The following evidence shows the Masonic control over Washington D.C. (the headquarters of our U.S. federal government)...

The mall in Washington DC is laid out so the gardens and streets form the image of an owl. The owl is representative of the mythical goddess, Lilith. Please read, Bohemian Grove Exposed for much more information on the owl.  

The street design in Washington, D.C., has been laid out in such a manner that certain Luciferic symbols are depicted by the streets, cul-de-sacs and rotaries. This design was created in 1791, a few years after Freemasonry assumed the leadership of the New World Order, in 1782.

In Europe, occult leaders were told by their familiar spirits as early as the 1740's that the new American continent was to be established as the new “Atlantis,” and its destiny was to assume the global leadership of the drive to the New World Order.

The United States of America was chosen to lead the world into this kingdom of Antichrist from the very beginning. The capital is Washington, D.C., which is evidenced by the preponderance of occult symbols.

George Washington (a 33° Freemason) selected French Freemason Pierre Charles L’Enfant to design the city’s layout in Washington D.C.

The boundaries of the city, established by George Washington in 1791, form a square 10 miles long on each side, centered on the originally proposed location for the Washington Monument. The east-west diagonal of the square crosses over the Capitol building and the north-south diagonal crosses over the White House.

The length of the north-south and east-west diagonals is 10 miles times the square root of 2, or 14.142 miles. This distance converts to 43,455 ancient Egyptian royal cubits, the same figure as the ratio between the Great Pyramid and the dimensions of the earth.

• The height of the Great Pyramid is 481.13 feet, divided by 5,280 = .0911231 miles.
• The mean radius of the earth is 3,960 miles, divided by .0911231 = 43,457.
• The perimeter of the Great Pyramid is 3,023 feet, divided by 5,280 = .5725 miles.
• The mean circumference of the earth is 24,880 miles, divided by .5725 = 43,458.
• 3,960 miles (radius of the earth) / 14.142 miles = 280 (number of cubits in the height of the Great Pyramid)
• 24,880 miles (circumference of the earth) / 14.142 miles = 1,760 (cubits in the perimeter of the Great Pyramid)

Converting the radius and circumference of the earth to cubits yields the same results.

  

The first series of symbols I will point out deal with the seat of the executive branch of government, the White House, indicated by the red arrow above. If you are a Google Earth user, you can see these satellite images for yourself at Google Maps.

As you can see by my outline, the White House sits at the apex of an inverted pentagram. This symbol is incomplete by only 2 small pieces, indicated by the yellow lines.

 The hexagram is nearly complete, except for 1 small piece on the north-west side, outlined in yellow.

If you draw the pentagram and hexagram symbols together, you can see three sides of a cross. Finishing the symbol on the land sitting in front of the White House reveals a perfectly symmetrical Knights Templar cross.

It has been said the Washington Monument obelisk (bottom arrow) sits due south from the White House. This is not exactly true, as you can see in the photo above. In reality, the obelisk is directly south from the Masonic Temple (top arrow) which sits 13 blocks north of the White House.

  

The temple is the headquarters of the Supreme Council of Scottish Rites of Freemasonry, modeled after descriptions of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world.

As mentioned earlier, the 4 sides of the Washington Monument are aligned with the cardinal directions (i.e., east, west, north, and south). At the ground level each side of the monument measures 55.5 feet long, which is equal to 666 inches. The height of the obelisk is 555.5 feet, which is equal to 6,666 inches. The obelisk is representative of the male sex organ, worship in nearly all pagan cultures. It is a symbol of man's carnal power and might.  

satanism and the occult are saturated with sexual perversion, child-molesting, and human sacrifices. Most worshippers in these groups deny such claims, but some have openly professed it, such as the godless bisexual Aleister Crowley. Such immoral occult influences are prevalent in rock music, feminism, and even in Walt Disney movies, such as The CHRONICLES of NARNIA. 

 http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Illuminati/dc.htm 

The Case Against Education - Bryan Caplan

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BossHoss

Trump-Related FalseFlag Attack Coming

This is a very important email to prove once and for all that WE THE
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ONCE AGAIN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT.
And for those of you who haven't had a clue of this, needs to wake
up BIG TIME. False Flags are nothing new. This method of getting
the people on the side of a tyrannical government has been going
on for centuries. And many of the people still fall for it time and time
again. So in order to educate everyone, I am sending you this email
in order for you to finally open up your eyes and mind to the truth.
As an example to a False Flag. There have been those so-called mass
shootings that have taken place, and almost immediately after the
shootings, the government will come out demanding more gun control.
This has happened time and time again. And 99% of the gun control
laws that have come to be did absolutely nothing to stop the real gun
violence. And they are done mostly by GANG BANGERS killing each
other or a drive by. And not one of those guns used where bought
legally. They were either stolen or sold through black market. And
yet there are people who believe in this crap. False Flags have also
been used to get people to stand behind a tyrannical government in
order to start a war somewhere. Example: 9/11 was staged by our
government in order to go to war in the mid-East. But unfortunately
this one didn't use actors or paid false witnesses and victims. They
killed over 3000 people to get their agenda through. There have
been many throughout history, and you can bet there are more
coming. And I am expecting one or two to happen this year most
likely before the November election, or soon after. Hold on people.
IT'S COMING.IT IS TIME TO EXCEPT THE TRUTH, EVEN THOUGH
IT HURTS.   Dee Nicholson

  [JD: RebekahRoth.com, SGTReport.com, and I have been warning of
  yet another false-flag attack on America coming from Netanyahu,
  whom the following 48-minute video shows is Trump's undercover boss.
  You must view the entire 48 minutes in order to be convinced that my
   assertion is correct. I did not include in this documentary Trump's
   televised statement that, since, in his view, Netanyahu is being so
   badly treated by the Obama Administration, then Trump believes that
   there will be another attack on America. Translating Trump's dire
   warning into plain truth, Trump knew about the 911 attacks plotted
   by Netanyahu's Mossad and our C.I.A. TWO years before it happened.
   Just google Trump's 1999 book, "The America We Deserve" AND bin Laden.
   So . . . . now Trump knows of a coming attack on America. This means
   that we can expect such a horrific attack to occur again, and I agree,
   it will probably come before the election, sweeping Trump into the
   White House. WE JUST MAY BE HIT UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH YET
   ANOTHER "OCTOBER SURPRISE" -- NUCLEAR STYLE!        John ]
https://vimeo.com/158359258

From: "Dee xxxxxxxxx" <shxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients
Sent: Sunday, May 1, 2016 6:53:52 PM
Subject: Fw: [New post] NEW FALSE FLAG COMING SOON ~ HERE’S WHAT TO LOOK FOR

This is called "How to Wave a False Flag .... and Get Away With It"....


-------Original Message-------

From: INI World Report
Date: 5/1/2016 11:49:43 AM
To: shrunkshrink@gmail.com
Subject: [New post] NEW FALSE FLAG COMING SOON ~ HERE’S WHAT TO LOOK FOR

http://www.ini-world-report.org/2016/05/01/new-false-flag-coming-soon-heres-what-to-look-for/

EMP threat 'highest priority,'

CONGRESS SHOULD GIVE EMP THREAT 'HIGHEST PRIORITY' SAYS EXPERT  

Attack would be a 'nightmare you'll never wake up from' 

Paul Bremmer

April 1 2016

 

Imagine life without electronics. No computer, no TV, no smartphone, no Web. Your credit card is useless because the entire banking system needs computers to operate. Don’t try to hop in your car and drive to safe location – modern cars rely on electricity to function, and in any case you won’t be able to refill your tank at a gas station because gas pumps rely on electricity, too. 

 

Think this couldn’t happen in today’s America? Think again, says former Defense Department security policy analyst and WND national security writer Michael Maloof. All it would take is an EMP attack to knock out all “life-sustaining critical infrastructure.” “When I say life sustaining critical infrastructures, I’m talking about any of those that have a dependency on the electrical grid system,” Maloof explained during a recent appearance on Stand for Truth Radio with Susan Knowles.

 

“And if the electrical grid system is knocked out, it affects everything that depends upon that electrical grid. It could include our telecommunications, our banking and finance systems, our petroleum and natural gas transportation systems, our food and water delivery systems, our emergency services. It also affects all of the automated control devices that we take for granted every day, like the automatic control of lights, our surge system.”  He added, “It would be a nightmare you’ll never wake up from."

 

An EMP, or electromagnetic pulse, can result from a naturally occurring solar flare, but it can also follow from a man-caused nuclear explosion at high altitude. A powerful EMP can fry all electronic devices in a region or even an entire country, depending on how large the explosion is.

 

WND has done plenty of in-depth reporting over the years on the dangers of EMP.  Such an event would also render hospitals unable to help their patients, as they rely on electronics. People with pacemakers or other electrical-based medical devices would suddenly lose their source of life. “One thing people don’t really talk about is the impact it would have on nuclear reactors,” added Maloof, who wrote about the EMP threat in his book “A Nation Forsaken.” “When you look at what happened in Fukushima in Japan a few years ago with just one reactor, the impact on something like 147 nuclear reactors we have in the United States could be not only catastrophic, but cataclysmic."

 

The EMP threat is not merely hypothetical.  Maloof reported in WND recently that North Korea now has two satellites in orbit over the United States capable of launching a surprise EMP attack that could evade U.S. National Missile Defenses. He also warned Knowles’ radio audience about North Korea’s underground testing of nuclear devices.  “[Experts I’ve spoken to] believe that they are hydrogen weapons purposely designed for low kinetic yield but high-intensity gamma rays so that they can have a maximum EMP effect,” Maloof revealed. 

 

But an EMP attack need not come from North Korea; any hostile country could theoretically fire a missile designed to explode at a high altitude over the United States, according to Maloof. He pointed out Cuba still has nuclear-capable SA-2s left over from the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

 

What’s more, it doesn’t even take a nation to carry out an attack. Maloof said any “technically inclined” person can make a flux gun, which can create the effect of an EMP on a local area. Certain websites show ordinary people how to make these flux guns, leading to concerns about lone wolf EMP attacks.

 

It’s not as if the U.S. government doesn’t know about the EMP threat. Maloof said the Air Force recently tested a drone with EMP equipment on it and knocked out all the computers in a high-rise apartment building.  He also said Congress has been briefed on a simple radar that can be mounted on the back of a truck or hidden in a van and aimed outward to fry other cars’ electronic equipment.

 

“I’ve been concerned that such a device could be aimed at an aircraft that might be either landing or taking off from [Reagan] National Airport,” Maloof warned. And yet, Congress has so far failed to act with urgency to guard the nation against a potential EMP attack. This inaction frustrates Maloof.  “The warnings are there!” he exclaimed. “We’re doing it to ourselves. We’re not shooting ourselves in the foot; we’re shooting ourselves in the head… Congress is so constipated, they’re not giving the attention that this thing needs. It should be given the highest priority, and it’s not."

Maloof noted other countries are taking steps to guard against an EMP attack – Russia, China, Israel and Iran among them.  “The Chinese actually do military maneuvers assuming an EMP assault from the United States, so some of their military doctrine now is incorporating, what if they’re attacked initially with an EMP? How would they cope with that?” he revealed. “So we’re just acting dumb and happy over here.” 

 

Maloof lamented that none of the current presidential candidates is prioritizing the EMP issue, either. He said of the five candidates left in the race, Ted Cruz is the only one he has heard refer to EMPs. But he also said Donald Trump’s advisers have approached him seeking background information on the EMP threat. If the U.S. would give EMP the highest priority, and if it had cooperation from private industries, Maloof estimates it would cost $20 billion to guard the country against an EMP attack.

 

“That’s chump change when you consider the amounts that we spend elsewhere, like the Iraq War, foreign aid and assistance to Pakistan every year,” he noted. “I mean, we could be paying for doing this and making sure we can mitigate this problem significantly if we make a concerted effort."

 

However, Maloof said even if we were to start today, it would probably take at least five years to implement a solid plan to protect the nation from an EMP strike. And he cautioned the U.S. never would be able to completely eliminate the threat – only mitigate it.

 

One step he wants to see the Department of Homeland Security take is to make an EMP event one of their 15 national planning scenarios. Such a move would direct state and local officials in charge of emergency preparedness to “kick into high gear,” as Maloof put it.

 

“If all communications are knocked out, how do people communicate?” he asked rhetorically. “How do first responders know what to do? And that’s why some of us have actually started working with state and local governments to make them aware of EMP and to take the necessary action at the local levels."

Maloof thinks local authorities should recreate the old “defense shelters” of a bygone era so locals know where to go in an emergency to receive stored food, water and medicine. This would reduce the sense of panic and chaos if an EMP attack knocked out all communications.
However, it’s not just the government’s job to prepare. Maloof advises everyone to pack a “go bag” with essential items they would need in an emergency: food, water, a first-aid kit, a firearm, certain types of knives and a book on survival.

But the go bag is only to be used by those who have to flee their homes in an emergency. Maloof recommends people store up an ample supply of food, water and medicine in their houses. A firearm is essential, he said, because in the chaotic aftermath of an EMP attack, many people will be desperate enough to try and steal what they need to survive. Those who have the most will be at the greatest risk.

More and more people are becoming more self sustaining, living off the grid,” Maloof observed. “They’ll have fewer problems, but they’re going to be the first targets."

Most importantly, Maloof called for a groundswell of local action, given that the federal government has done nothing to guard against the EMP threat. He said it’s up to citizens to convince their governors and state and local legislatures to implement the necessary precautions.  “If we don’t take the action, then when it happens, it’s too late,” Maloof stated bluntly. “We’ve known about this for… about 50 years and we have done very, very little about it. Other countries are doing something about it, and it’s just unbelievable given the dependency that the United States has on electronics and technology — which has made us the greatest country in the world, [but] it also turns out to be our Achilles’ heel, because unless we deal with the EMP issue, what’s helped make us strong could actually kill us.”

http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/congress-should-give-emp-threat-highest-priority-says-expert/