Obama Does NOT Want To Protect Americans From Invaders!

REPORT: 8 SYRIANS CAUGHT AT TEXAS BORDER
Security hole exposed as Obama threatens to veto GOP refugee bill


 DOUGLAS ERNST



U.S. Customs and Border Protection appears to have validated Republicans’ biggest security concerns over Syrian migrants.

Two federal agents working under the authority of CBP told Breitbart News that eight Syrian illegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico. The agents, speaking on condition of anonymity on Monday, said the Syrians were apprehended by the Laredo Border Patrol.

The Syrians were taken into custody Monday, sources told the news organization.

“Border Patrol agents who we represent have been contacting our organization to voice concerns about reports from other agents that Syrians crossed the U.S. border from Mexico in the Laredo Sector. Our agents have heard about Syrians being apprehended in the area from other federal agents,” Border Patrol agent and NBPC Local 2455 President Hector Garza told Breitbart Wednesday. “At this time, I cannot confirm or deny that Syrians have crossed, for security reasons.”

Reports of the Laredo, Texas, apprehensions coincide with the detention of five Syrian nationals in Honduras who were traveling to the U.S. The individuals were found with stolen Greek passports in their possession, WND reported.



“The group of Syrian men was held late on Tuesday in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on arrival from Costa Rica and they were planning to head to the border with neighboring Guatemala,” Fox reported. “The passports had been doctored to replace the photographs with those of the Syrians, police said.”

The five are still in police custody.

At least 66 men and women linked with ISIS-related terror plots on American soil have been arrested and charged with crimes, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

Republicans in the House and Senate, along with 15 state governors, have voiced strong opposition to President Obama’s plan to accept 10,000 Syrian migrants in 2016 and 100,000 from all countries in 2017. The American SAFE act was drafted by 15 House Republicans to cut off funding for Obama’s Syrian resettlement program, and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul plans to introduce a similar bill in the Senate.

Obama has threatened to veto any Republican-backed bill that stymies efforts to process migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.

“This legislation would introduce unnecessary and impractical requirements that would unacceptably hamper our efforts to assist some of the most vulnerable people in the world, many of whom are victims of terrorism, and would undermine our partners in the Middle East and Europe in addressing the Syrian refugee crisis. The administration therefore strongly opposes H.R. 4038,” the White House said in a statement released Wednesday.

The White House has also used social media to try and sway public opinion in favor of Obama’s refugee plan while simultaneously lashing out at Republican critics.

“In the days since the attack on Paris some have taken the narrow view that protecting Americans from ISIL mandates that we turn our back on those most at risk to the terrorist group – the men, women and children forced to flee their homes and families, their schools and communities,” Amy Pope, deputy assistant to the president for homeland security, said on the White House website Tuesday. “The administration rejects the flawed view that we can’t ensure our own safety while also welcoming refugees desperately seeking their own safety. The truth is: America can and must do both.”



Obama amplified criticism of Republicans by promoting the hastag #RefugeesWelcome on social media.

“We don’t have religious tests for our compassion. #RefugeesWelcome,” the White House Twitter account wrote on behalf Obama Wednesday.



President Obama makes a social media push to convince Americans of the need to take in Syrian refugees (Photo: Twitter, White House)
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Solar Flares And EMP, Two Serious Risks To The US

'GIANT MAGNETIC EXPLOSION ON SUN' RACING TO EARTH

Scientists warn of 'extreme' solar flare on its way now

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Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say an “extreme” solar flare has been detected and while Earth appears to be in the bull’s-eye, exactly which part of the planet will see the biggest impact isn’t yet known.

Such phenomenon can disrupt power grids, radio transmissions and other electronics, and in a worst-case scenario could actually take such systems down, perhaps for extended periods.

Officials with the federal agency said the flare is near the center of the sun and happened at 1:45 EDT Wednesday.

“Impacts to [high frequency] radio communications on the daylight side of Earth lasted for a little more than an hour. … Initial information suggests that [coronal mass ejection] is likely associated with this event, however, further analysis is underway at this time.”

Tom Berger, of the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado, told the Associated Press, “There’s been a giant magnetic explosion on the sun.”

He continued, “Because it’s pointed right at us, we’ll at least catch some of the cloud.”

He was referring to the plasma that spews out from the sun, sending waves of energized and magnetized particles through space.

He told AP it’s been several years since a solar storm this big has targeted Earth, and while the energy doesn’t harm people directly, it can create major complications with power infrastructure, from satellites and radio waves to energized power lines.

Berger indicated the flare is considered “extreme” on forecasters’ scale, but just barely

The report said the part of Earth that is facing the sun when the waves arrive will feel the impact.

WND reported only weeks ago that NASA described how the Earth had dodged a superstorm flare that “could have knocked out all unprotected technology and electrical grid systems around the world.”

F. Michael Maloof, a WND senior reporter and the author of “A Nation Forsaken – EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe,” candidly spelled out the threat that the Earth had faced: Damages of $2 trillion for the first year, and up to 160 million people left starving because of the collapse of food and fuel delivery systems, both dependent on various electrical and programmable systems.

There is a way to protect your electronics in an EMP event, the Faraday bags from the WND Superstore. Also featured there is “A Nation Forsaken,” an emergency radio, a personal water straw to clean water, a how-to guidebook for fleeing danger and a long list of supplies helpful for being self-reliant.

At the time, Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado had released findings about the July 2012 superstorm. Baker explained that if there had been a direct hit at that time, “We would still be picking up the pieces.”

The storms begin with solar flares that emit X-rays and other extreme ultraviolet radiation. If Earth is in the path, the flare would strike at the speed of light. A side effect would be a solar electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, that would affect everything from communications to vulnerable electrical grids.

NASA said the July 2012 solar flare was at least as powerful as the 1859 Carrington Event, named after English astronomer Richard Carrington. In the days that followed Carrington’s observation, there were intense geometric storms viewed from the Arctic to Cuba that caused global telegraph lines to spark, setting fire to some telegraph offices.

See the big list of EMP reports from WND.

Talk-radio icon George Noory, whose “Coast to Coast AM” show is the biggest overnight draw in North America, is so concerned about the issue of EMP attacks that he’s launched a campaign to work on persuading Congress to take action.

“I implore all individual states, the president and members of Congress to immediately develop a plan to protect our power grid,” said Noory. “The preservation of our great nation and the lives of its people are critical.”

Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, answered questions about the EMP threat that were prepared for his July 21 interview with George Noory on “Coast to Coast AM.”

He said scientists generally are in agreement that a natural or manmade electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, event “can be devastating to our unprotected electrical grid, electronics and automated control systems. Depending on its intensity, an EMP can have a catastrophic, cascading impact on all of the electricity-dependent critical infrastructures on which we rely for survival.”

He noted, “The importance of this problem became apparent after some members of Congress had been told by Soviet Duma, or parliament, members that the then-Soviet Union could ‘bring America to its knees’ with one EMP nuclear device exploded at a high altitude, destroying the U.S. grid. As a consequence, Congress in 2000 mandated the creation of an EMP Commission of prominent scientists to look at the effects of an EMP on our national grid and all of the critical infrastructures that depend on it.”

He explained, “In a 2004 preliminary finding and again in a 2008 final, more in-depth report, the EMP Commission showed in considerable detail the catastrophic impact an EMP would have on such critical infrastructures as telecommunications, banking and finance, petroleum and natural gas delivery, transportation, food and water delivery, emergency services and space systems.”

Those impacts could include “unprecedented cascading failures of major infrastructures.”

“Given the prospect of an EMP event over a wide geographical area of the country, it could push the nation back virtually to the 19th century, with our urban environment being the most severely affected. Some EMP experts suggest the urban centers of the United States could become extinct, given the high potential for disease as a result of a buildup of garbage and sewage due to the breakdown of sanitation, as well as other secondary effects, leading to the prospect of death and starvation to some 90 percent of the U.S. population,” he reported.

He also noted that an EMP can be manufactured – by a nuclear explosion at altitude over a country. That means an enemy with the capability to launch a nuclear bomb on even a traditional rocket potentially could cause a collapse of a nation’s infrastructure.

WND reported just a year ago that Earth was brushed by a coronal mass ejection that left behind bright auroras around the Arctic Circle.

NASA reports the potential for a solar storm maximum as the sun approaches the height of its 11-year cycle runs through 2014.

Flares are expected to continue into 2020.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/a-giant-magnetic-explosion-on-the-sun/#sJlRW3qAKcsDOX0J.99

When China Explicitly Calls For Use Of EMP Against Taiwan And US Ships, Is It A False Or Real Threat? We Believe It Will Be The Latter.

CHINA REVEALS 'ACE' AGAINST U.S. MILITARY

Report confirms weapon usable for 'surprise attack or an intimidation factor'

Published: 10 hours ago

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WASHINGTON – Members of the Chinese military are looking to use an electromagnetic pulse as part of a “one-two punch” to knock out – literally within seconds – all defensive electronics not only on Taiwan but also on U.S. warships that could defend the island.

This revelation comes in an article by Lou Xiaoqing who says the People’s Liberation Army sees an EMP weapon as the primary means of incapacitating Taiwan and disabling American defenders nearby.

Given that such a strategy was made public in an article entitled “Electromagnetic pulse bombs are Chinese ace,” it is seen as reflecting the official Chinese government position.

Xaoqing said that if the Chinese were to use a high-altitude nuclear device which would create the destructive EMP impact on Taiwan’s electronics, it would be exploded at an attitude of 18 miles to avoid damaging civilian and military equipment on the Chinese mainland, which might happen if the bomb exploded at a higher altitude.

“China is attracted to the fight against the U.S. military after the effective range, using them as a means of surprise attack or an intimidation factor,” Xaoqing said. “The United States will abandon the use of aircraft carrier battle groups to defend Taiwan.”

Xaoqing said that the Chinese military has calculated that the U.S. military is too fragmented and, coupled with the downturn in the economy, would be less likely to come to Taiwan’s assistance, forcing Taiwan to defend itself.

Contrary to popular belief, the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act does not require the United States to intervene militarily if the Chinese mainland attacks Taiwan. Instead, it has adopted what is called a policy of “strategic ambiguity” in which the U.S. neither will confirm nor deny that it would intervene on Taiwan’s behalf.

The legislation, however, does require the U.S. to “provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character” and “to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people of Taiwan.”

Read the documentation that’s sparking the worry about the EMP threat, in “A Nation Forsaken.”

As WND previously has reported, China is giving a priority to developing EMP weapons that could be used against U.S. aircraft carriers, which increasingly are arriving in the South and East China Seas as part of the new U.S. “pivot” policy toward Asia.

That policy is to challenge China’s claims over all of the East and South China Seas and the increasing assertiveness by Beijing, which is trying to gain exclusive control over vital minerals and energy in the region.

There already have been instances of military confrontations between China and neighbors such as Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan.

With a history of animosity, China and Japan now have conflicting claims of ownership over two South China Sea islands.

China calls the islands Diaoyu while Japan refers to them as Senkaku. The Japanese have evidence of their claim – in having purchased them from private citizens years ago – and the U.S. supports Japan’s claim.

A 2005 U.S. National Ground Intelligence Center study that was classified secret but released two years ago said China’s development of high-powered microwave weapons is part of its “assassin’s mace” arsenal – weapons that allow a technologically inferior country such as China and even North Korea to defeat U.S. military forces.

Microwaves and the gamma rays from a nuclear blast are forms of electromagnetic energy. The bombs are designed to be exploded at a high altitude to knock out all unprotected electronics, including electrical grids, computers and automobiles over a wide geographical area.

Even the declassified NGIC report pointed out that the use of an EMP against Taiwan at an altitude of 30 to 40 kilometers would “confine the EMP effects to Taiwan and its immediate vicinity and minimize damage to electronics on the mainland.”

The report particularly said that China’s DF-21 medium-range ballistic missile could be the platform to be used to launch an EMP attack on Taiwan.

In outlining China’s one-two punch, Xaoqing said that in the first punch the Chinese military would disable non-hardened electronics and command and control centers.

He said that an EMP would be especially attractive because it acts with the speed of light in any kind of weather, would hit multiple targets over a wide area and minimize damage in politically sensitive environments.

Given the relatively low altitude of 18 miles at which a Chinese EMP would be detonated over Taiwan, Xaoqing said the second punch would create certain health effects from exposure to an EMP.

He said that based on Chinese research in 2005 that assessed the effects of an EMP on heart cells, it would make peoples’ hearts unable to function as well as they should, with possible death or serious damage of the heart and, by extension, death to those exposed to an EMP.

If exposed to explosions at higher altitudes, the effects of an EMP would be less damaging to peoples’ health, he said.

While there wouldn’t be a 100 percent kill rate, Xaoqing said, he said it could lead to long term disability to those most susceptible to an EMP, such as the elderly, young and unborn.

Get “A Nation Forsaken” by Michael Maloof and become part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/chinas-reveals-ace-against-u-s-military/#ZBWYVMhr1FSod84B.99