EMP could wipe on 2/3 of our population in a year!

EMP could wipe on 2/3 of our population in a year! Anyone remember the Biblical plague of Darkness in Egypt where 80% of the Jews (and many Egyptians) perished?

Without the Rule Of Law, again

By Bob Beauprez and Christopher Jaarda

The New York Times is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will begin conducting a review of all deportation cases in the immigration courts with the goal of “halting” the deportation “of many illegal immigrants with no criminal record.“ In other words, this is a back door amnesty by a President desperate to score political points with a constituency critical to his reelection.

“Many immigration offenses, including being present in the United States without legal status, are civil violations; they are not crimes,” wrote the NY Times citing communications from John Morton, Director of Immigration and Enforcement Services (ICE) at the Department of Homeland Security. That is simply not true. At a minimum, someone in the U.S. illegally has committed a criminal misdemeanor; in a great many cases, felony statutes of federal law have been violated.

Regrettably, the announcement by DHS is the latest in a long list of government inaction when it comes to enforcing America’s immigration and criminal laws. This form of selective enforcement also ignores the harm illegal immigration poses on citizens and legal immigrants alike.

First, it should be pointed out that under federal law, by virtue of being unlawfully present in the U.S., an illegal alien is committing (at a minimum) a misdemeanor crime. DHS is choosing to ignore the fact that all illegal aliens are actively committing a crime under federal law.

Second, consider that each year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) compiles a “no match” list for paycheck withholdings remitted to the government by employers in cases where the employee’s name and social security number reported by the employer do not match. Now admittedly, some of these “no match” discrepancies are a result of typographical errors but the majority of those are the result of withholdings from wages of illegal aliens.

Any individual who uses a social security number that was not issued to them is committing a felony. In cases involving the use of a number that has never been issued by SSA, the felony is identity fraud. In cases where the number has been issued to someone else, the felony is one of identity theft. Both instances are 5-year felonies under federal law.

An illegal alien who enters the U.S. illegally is not work authorized and, therefore, is ineligible to receive a social security number. The same is true for aliens who have entered the U.S. on a non-work visa and overstayed that visa. It is a felony under federal law for either classification of illegal aliens to provide their employers with a social security number in order to obtain work.

This form of identity theft or identity fraud is not a victimless crime. Citizens and legal immigrants are hurt every day by this crime. If you talk to one of the victims of these crimes and hear directly how their lives have been turned upside down, you would never, ever view illegal immigration the same again.

It should be troubling that the federal government knows exactly where most of these, as of yet un-convicted, felons are working but that SSA is doing nothing to share this information with law enforcement.

Third, it should also be troubling that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is not demanding this information from SSA as part of an effort to prosecute identity thieves.

When DHS says they are halting the deportation of non-criminal illegal aliens, this inaction by the federal government comes after:

(1) SSA has turned its back on victims of identity theft in order to protect the perpetrators of the crime;

(2) DOJ has failed to bring charges against illegal aliens who commit identity theft even though American citizens and legal immigrants are daily harmed by these crimes; and

(3) DHS has ignored the fact that the illegal alien’s presence in the U.S. currently constitutes the commission of a crime under federal law.

It is no wonder the American people are so frustrated by illegal immigration. Their government is daily ignoring the law and the harm illegal immigration is posing on the country.

### And this Administration's cronyism, Fast and Furious, support for OWS (along with David Duke), Sharia-compliance, Arab Spring, and ..... ad nauseum.

Double Standards, or Living Without the Rule of Law

From http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2011/11/where_is_janet.php#more

Where Is Janet Napolitano When It Comes To The "Domestic Terrorist Threat" Posed By The Occupy Wall Street Protestors?

Topics: Moonbats, Political News and commentaries

When back at the beginning of the "Tea Party" movement, regular folk, many of whom had never been involved in the political process before, became involved in the protests against Obama's disastrous policies ruining this nation: His socialist inspired "Big Government" profligate spending bankrupting the country; his intrusive asinine "Regulations Gone Wild" killing small businesses and choking our economy in this worst of recessions; and his Administration's increasing encroachment and "Big Brother" intrusion into every facet of our personal daily lives - even the micromanaging by Federal fiat of how much salt and or sugar Michelle Obama deems appropriate we should all ingest, and or what and how much we all should, or should not, eat, drink, and or smoke; a hand-wringing, alarmed, Janet Napolitano issued memos warning law enforcement agencies all across the nation, about the"possible domestic terrorist threat" posed by those stay at home moms carrying toddlers to the Tea Party protests, the blue collar fathers carrying their kids on their shoulders in attendance, WWII veterans proudly parading with their medals, people dressed up as Continental soldiers playing the iconic 1776 "Fife and Drums" of our Independence, members of our Armed forces returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq, and by those aging retirees sitting in lawn chairs and waving American flags at the events! All of whom Napolitano and her Department of Homeland Security categorized as potential "Timothy McVeigh types" and potential domestic terrorist threats! Oh my God! You know, let's raise the Homeland Security Advisory System threat level to "YELLOW" since grandma is such a "danger" to Obama, and his 60's radicals now in power in Washington, with that knitting needle!

Yet for all that the Obama-lapdogs at the Mainstream Media, the Democrats, and the left, vilified and ridiculed the Tea Party, falsely portrayed the movement as "racist", called them "domestic and economic terrorists" and characterized Tea Partiers as "violent","unhinged", "unsophisticated Rednecks", and "ignorant Clod-hoppers"; to the chagrin of their detractors, the Tea Partiers have generally proven to be peaceful, civil, have been exceptionally well behaved and respectful of local laws and city ordinances where they have rallied, and picked up after themselves after the events - not leaving a mess behind to be cleaned up by cities and municipalities at taxpayer's expense.

They did not incite anyone to violence, did not call for the violent overthrow of Obama, and or the government; for the most part have just voiced peacefully their desire for smaller government, less taxes, and less government intrusion into our daily lives, and voiced their love and pride in America (Oh my God, the humanity!) - which is probably one of the salient points that most irritates the "multiculturalist", Marxist inspired ideologues, leftist, hate-America crowd, about the Tea Party!

Now however, when unruly and often violent "Occupy Wall Street" protestors, comprised of Obama supporters, leftists, 60's radicals, anarchists, communists, social malcontents, criminals, and other Democrats - many of them recruited, sponsored, and paid to protest, by the SEIU and other Labor Unions, and by many openly communist and anarchist organizations funded by MoveOn.org and Soros money; riot: slashing at police with knives, throwing Molotov Cocktails, setting things on fire, and wantonly defacing and destroying property; raping women with impunity - even a 14 year-old in Zuccotti Park, indulging in violence; and publicly binging on booze, drugs, and other illegal substances - to the point three protesters have already been found dead in their tents of drug overdoses in various cities; you don't hear a "peep" from our otherwise overly concerned (when it comes to Tea Partiers) Janet Napolitano or her department!

Where is Napolitano's overwhelming concern when it comes to the Occupy wall Street protestors, such as the one she had about grandmothers, knitting, sitting in lawn chairs at Tea Parties, and veterans parading with American flags?

How come "Big Sis" Napolitano (as Richard calls her) seems not to be as distraught about these rowdy revolutionaries and anarchists in our streets, who attack our police with knives, throw bottles, rocks, and Molotov Cocktails at them; set tires, dumpsters, and buildings on fire; and openly call for "Revolution" and the violent overthrow of America?

May it be perhaps be, even though the Occupy Wall Street crowd are violent, rioting, raping, destroying and burning things, and are a very real threat to public safety, as well as a health hazard and a public nuisance to our communities, that the reason why Miss Napolitano does not consider them a "threat to our national security" in the same breadth as she perceived the Tea Party to have been one, is because these leftists miscreants and malcontents grudgingly vote "Democrat" for lack of a Stalin, Mao, or Fidel, on the ballot, and thus politically, as a liberal, she shares in their ideology and objectives?

I mean, after all, the Occupy Wall Street protestors certainly have been praised by president Obama - who has made of inciting "class warfare" and "racial divisiveness" the hallmark of his presidency. And by the Democrats who promptly sided with these radicals and anarchists as some sort of leftist "Tea Party" they hoped to capitalize on politically.

Or by the Obama-lapping media, that has praised the protests by these doped-up leftist loons as an exemplary "civil exercise in democracy", while calling those who participated in the Tea Parties - even children who went along with their parents and grandparents to indeed learn to participate in our democratic process: "tea-baggers" - derogatorily ascribing to them an obscene homosexual practice as a mocking insult with which to belittle them and demean their conservative views on homosexuality and on the gay activism gone wild in our nation!

Can you imagine the outcry in the Obama-servile media had one NRA Second-Amendment-supporting Tea Partier, just one, have had the audacity to throw but a single "water balloon" at someone at a Tea party rally? I am sure that Janet Napolitano would have deemed that a "credible act of aggression" and "domestic terrorism", and as a result would've started rounding up all those "terrorist" Tea Partiers! But hell, if it's the "lefty" Occupy Wall Street radicals who are burning up Oakland? Then, that's ok!

These commie radicals who have taken over our parks and public spaces for over a month now; posing a public safety threat to our communities which have been forced to divert police and emergency resources away from other vital areas to babysat these social malcontents and Marxist "useful idiots"; which have disrupted commerce - bankrupting local businesses, and whose interminable protests are stretching many local city and municipal budgets already in the red, even further; which poses a significant health hazard and the spread of diseases because of the prevalent unsanitary, crowded, conditions, and has become but a breeding ground for all sorts of STDs and other communicable diseases, such as hepatitis, spreading - especially given the wanton promiscuity and drug use in these tent camps; pose more of a threat to our immediate public safety and to our Republic, than did any Tea Partier , whom Janet Napolitano perceived as so great a threat!

Hell, as far as I know not even one of those knitting grandmothers waving American flags from their lawn chairs suffered a heart attack while at a Tea Party rally; while, as I pointed out above, three of these doped-up losers at the Occupy Wall Street protests unfortunately have already died of drug overdoses...and counting!

Is there any comparison between the civil and orderly "Tea Party" rallies and these violent, chaotic, riots taking place in our cities under the "Occupy Wall Street" banner, except in asinine, sick, liberal, minds, such as that of Janet Napolitano?

As the colloquial saying goes, her thinking "is gay"...no pun intended.

Laughing as I post this -- just heard that Ubama is hard at work in Hawaii ... on his golf game again.

FBI Spying on Prepppers?

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/08/10/7769/

Oath Keepers Exclusive: An FBI Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force handout being distributed to Colorado military surplus store owners lists the purchase of popular preparedness items and firearms accessories as “suspicious” and “potential indicators of terrorist activities,” instructing store owners to keep records on and report people who:

“Make bulk purchase of items to include:

Weatherproofed ammunition or match containers

Meals Ready to Eat

Night Vision Devices; night flashlights; gas masks

High capacity magazines

Bi-pods or tri-pods for rifles”

The FBI handout, entitled “Communities Against Terrorism: Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Military Surplus Stores” also instructs surplus store owners to:

“Require valid ID from all new customers.

Keep records of purchases.

Talk to customers, ask questions, and

listen to and observe their responses.

Watch for people and actions that are out of place.

Make note of suspicious statements, people, and /or vehicles.

If something seems wrong, notify law enforcement authorities.”

The handout also instructs surplus store owners to consider as “suspicious” anyone who “demands identity ‘privacy’” or anyone who expresses “extreme religious statements” and those who “make suspicious comments regarding anti-US, [or] radical theology.”

The “Communities Against Terrorism” flyer closes by stating:

Preventing terrorism is a community effort. By learning what to look for, you can make a positive contribution in the fight against terrorism. The partnership between the community and law enforcement is essential to the success of anti -terrorism efforts.

Some of the activities, taken individually, could be innocent and must be examined by law enforcement professionals in a larger context to determine whether there is a basis to investigate. The activities outlined on this handout are by no means all-inclusive but have been compiled from a review of terrorist events over several years.

The handout encourages surplus store owners and employees to provide information on “suspicious” customers by calling the Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force or the Colorado Information Analysis Center. This handout is very nearly identical to one issued by the FBI to gun stores from Connecticut to Utah: PDF

This new handout expands the absurdity by now also targeting customers of military surplus stores, and by specifically targeting the purchasing of very common, and very popular, preparedness items such as Meals Ready to Eat (MRE’s) as “potential indicators of terrorist activities.”

While this particular handout is being given to military surplus store owners in Colorado, it is nearly certain that similar versions are being handed out by Joint Terrorism Task Forces in other states. Anyone who has seen such a handout, or who has a copy of one, please contact us at tips@oathkeepers.org. You know, “if you see something, say something!” It may be a potential indicator of government terrorist (tyranny and chilling of speech) activities. Remember, combating tyranny is a community effort and you can make a difference! – Oath Keepers

FULL PDF OF HANDOUT

Word Version

NOTE FROM STEWART RHODES, FOUNDER OF OATH KEEPERS:

Islamist terrorists are not known to hang out in local Army-Navy surplus stores, stocking up on MRE’s, high capacity magazines and bi-pods for their long range rifles. As Brandon Smith, over at Alt-market.com notes, “These are very common purchases, not for terrorists, but for Preppers and Survivalists, who are obviously the targets of the FBI profile, not secret Al-Qaeda agents.” Spot on. Obviously the current crop of FBI “leadership” considers anyone who wants to be self-sufficient and prepared to be a “threat” that should be relentlessly tracked and reported.

So if you take preparedness seriously enough to buy a few cases of MREs, or if you see the wisdom in having spare “high capacity” (i.e. full capacity*) magazines for your rifles or pistols, if you don’t want your matches to get wet, if you want to be able to see in the dark, or if you want to be able to shoot more accurately by using a bipod, “you might be a terrorist” (like a bizarre Jeff Foxworthy joke), and the FBI wants your neighborhood Army Surplus Store to play the role of government informant and snitch, like something out of East Germany. As Brandon Smith put it, the FBI handout “even instructs store owners to subtly interrogate their customers in order to draw a fuller profile. THIS IS CALLED CITIZEN SPYING. Period.” Spot on again. That’s exactly what it is – a preparedness focused “see something, say something” snitch program to help track and locate Americans who exhibit such dangerous “prepper” tendencies.

How far we have come from the Founder’s ideal of a “well regulated” (well equipped and well trained) citizen militia where ALL able bodied citizens were expected to keep and bear their own weapons, ammunition, field gear, and other supplies essential to personal military capability and competence. And the Founders expected us to keep that military gear at home and to actually train together in its use so we would “be prepared” for anything, you know, like the Boy Scouts motto. That motto is a sad remnant of the Founders’ ideal of a prepared citizenry. As the Boy Scouts website still notes:

“Be Prepared.”

That’s the motto of the Boy Scouts.

“Be prepared for what?” someone once asked Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting,

“Why, for any old thing.” said Baden-Powell.

Under the logic of this most recent handout, the Boy Scouts should be reported as “suspicious.” I can just hear the people at Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), who likely helped write this handout, screeching “Someone report Baden-Powell to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force! He’s advocating an extremist, paranoid “prepper” ideology! Oh, wait …he’s dead? Well then, report anyone who quotes him! Such as that subversive remnant of American reactionary radicalization of the youth, the Boy Scouts! That’s a hotbed for extremist radicalization. Why haven’t they been shut down yet?! Someone get Cass Sunstein and Holder on the phone!”

The Founders would have wanted all of us, every one, to “be prepared” for “any old thing.” They would have wanted us to have night vision, gas masks (which come in handy in many situations), “high-capacity” magazines – and the powerful military pattern rifles that use them – bi-pods so we can shoot accurately at long distance, and plenty of ammunition in “weatherproofed” containers (also known as surplus ammo cans). They would have wanted us to have plenty of MRE’s for handy field use, and even “night flashlights.” I suppose “day flashlights” are OK with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, but those dangerous “night flashlights” are verboten, and anyone who buys one must be reported! I certainly hope it wasn’t actually someone at the FBI who wrote that.**

This absurd list sounds like it was compiled by someone at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) or by someone at the Brady Center. I’m shocked it doesn’t also list purchase of “those shoulder things that go up” as a potential indicator of terrorist activity. And it may well have been written by the SPLC. As Oath Keepers exposed in October of 2010, the CEO of Southern Poverty Law Center now sits on the DHS “Working Group on Countering Violent Extremism,” which is tasked with designing training initiatives that reach right down to the local community level (as in “communities against terrorism”), to include training local police, social workers, teachers, “child protective services” personnel, and mental health professionals on how to use their power and influence to “counter violent extremism.”

I don’t have to tell you who SPLC likes to label “extremist.” You already know. Just look in the mirror. If you dare to quote the Founding Fathers, if you still believe in the self evident truths and principles of liberty espoused in the Declaration of Independence, if you advocate strict obedience of the Constitution, if you dare to take your oath seriously, and encourage others to do likewise, you are a radical “extremist” according to the SPLC and their “Hate Watch” website, and they will lump you in with neo-Nazis, skinheads, cop-killers and terrorists. And likewise if you support Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, or Michelle Bachmann, or if you watch Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch show or like Glenn Beck, since all of them are considered “enablers” of extremism by the SPLC. And of course, Oath Keepers has been a target of their smear campaigns from the day of its founding. I consider it a badge of honor. You know you’re over the target when Mark Potok starts screeching about you on national TV.

And now, as part of the DHS “team,” SPLC is doing their very best to turn the full power of government on you at every level, right down to your local “Mayberry” Police Department. And that’s where handouts like this one come in, encouraging the whole community to be out there monitoring, tracking, compiling dossiers, and investigating anyone who advocates or holds the views and ideals of the Founders or who is actually trying to fulfill their civic duties by practicing those ideals – such as the ideals of preparedness, competence at arms, and being well equipped and well trained.

Funny thing is, who exactly do the authors of these handouts think they are talking to when they ask gun store and military surplus store owners and staff to spy on their customers and serve as a network of government snitches? These stores are usually owned and staffed by veterans, who are also very preparedness minded – in other words, just like the customers the government wants them to inform on. That’s like handing the MIAC report to Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin supporters and asking them to keep an eye on those pesky, subversive, and potentially dangerous Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin supporters. It’s absurd.

in fact, asking military surplus store owners and staff to keep an eye out for people who like to stock up on MREs, high capacity magazines, flashlights, and weatherproofed ammo and match containers is like asking a shoe store to keep an eye out for people who take footwear seriously.

And when a store owner gets this list of “potential indicators of terrorist activities” and sees the items he stocks listed there, what is that saying about him? If he is intentionally stocking MRE,s, “night flashlights,” weatherproof ammunition or match containers, or any of the other common-sense, useful items on this list, that makes him an “enabler” and supplier of potential terrorists – at least in the eyes of the authors of this handout.

If the powers that be, and the authors of this silly handout are worried about customers of military surplus stores, I can only imagine what they think of readers of www.survivalblog.com or of the listeners and readers of Preparedness Podcast (http://thepreparednesspodcast.com/).

And they are probably on the verge of having strokes over Oath Keepers recently announced Operation Sleeping Giant (www.operationsleepinggiant.com) where we openly urge all veterans to be prepared and to take a leadership role in getting their communities prepared for anything by focusing on four key areas:

1. Food storage, fuel storage, emergency medical, and communications security and independence (and general preparedness). Since food is the hardest thing to improvise, it comes first, so we advocate doing as the Mormons do, by taking food storage seriously [including some MREs!]

2. Physical security and Independence – to include neighborhood watches; mutual aid associations; a volunteer sheriff’s posse (under direct command of the sheriff); and county militias established by county ordinances but staffed by self-supplied and self-funded volunteers (as is done in volunteer fire departments all over this nation); state defense forces under command of the governor; and ultimately, a true state militia, established by state statute, and capable of “repelling invasions” [just imagine Mark Potok reading that!].

3. Economic security and independence – as individuals and communities, including barter networks, use of silver and gold as real money, and sound money bills at the county and state levels (as Utah just passed). See www.alt-market.com for details.

4. State sovereignty and nullification of unconstitutional federal laws and actions. The focus here is on restoring the Republic from the bottom up, by voting out oath breakers and voting in constitutionalists, till we have sheriffs, local and state legislators, and governors who have the knowledge, courage, and integrity to keep their oaths, up to and including being willing to defend the Constitution and the powers reserved to the states and to the people (see the Tenth Amendment) by supporting state sovereignty resolutions and nullification of unconstitutional laws.

[Go to www.operationsleepinggiant.com for more details on that program, and please get involved!]

When the government distributes handouts encouraging gun stores and military surplus stores to track, monitor, and snitch on their customers, you know we are in trouble. But the answer is not to hide, afraid to train and practice preparedness. The answer is for everyone to become a “prepper”, as in all the rebellious gladiators yelling out “I am Spartacus!” when the Roman General demanded to know where Spartacus was. The proper spirit of response it be like Founding Father John Hancock saying “here, let me write my name nice and big, so King George can easily read it.”

That attitude is also expressed in Isaiah 6:8: “Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!

The answer to the government’s silly lists is to make the lists so damn long they end up including every able bodied American (who is supposed to be the militia anyway), and thus the damnable lists become useless. Each of us should, rather than being afraid of buying preparedness gear, step up and go shopping, and encourage others to do the same, online, in person, wherever. Give preparedness items as birthday presents and Christmas gifts. Make them a badge of honor, like the Founding generation proudly wearing home-spun. Make the lists so big they become useless.

When the beast is in your face, trying to crush and stamp out the last remnants of your heritage, trying to chill your speech and make you afraid to fulfill your civic duties, afraid to keep your oath by stepping up and getting your community ready for hard times ahead – when the beast is trying to “nudge” you into sitting down, shutting up, and being a dependent, unprepared, scared, and cowardly serf, the answer is to step right up and answer the call. “Here I am. Send me!” should be the battle cry of every one of you.

I recently responded to the Police Chief of Quartzsite Arizona, who likes to make references to “domestic terrorism” when discussing upstart Tea Party people, Oath Keepers and Sons of Liberty Riders, by saying hey, “we’re your huckleberries, Chief.” (and we’ll be marching in Quartzsite on August 27th in support of the Quartzsite Ten!).

Same goes for this nonsense. If the FBI and DHS wants to openly target preparedness minded folks as “suspicious” and worthy of being reported to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, for simply doing what the Founders expected us to do, and what we veterans are duty bound by our oaths to do, and what every American, if they wish to be worthy of being called “citizen” is duty bound to do, well then, Robert and Janet, we’re your huckleberries too! Get in line.

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito (Latin: Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it)

Stewart Rhodes,

Founder of Oath Keepers

* Hat tip to James Wesley, Rawles of Survival Blog who encourages the use of the term “full capacity” magazines rather than the anti-gunner term “high capacity” since the magazines in question were designed to carry that many rounds.

** We have heard, through the gape-vine, that many current serving FBI field agents are in agreement with us and support what we are doing here at Oath Keepers. They are not happy at all with the politicization of the FBI, but the “leaders” in Washington DC are another matter entirely, and have expressed an intent to use the FBI, along with DHS, BATF, etc., as a weapon against conservatives and constitutionalists. Will be interesting to see how that tension is resolved.

This would be bad

NOAA Warns of Monster Solar Storm Region Facing Earth for Next Two Weeks; Fully Capable of Producing X-Class Flares

Mac Slavo November 8th, 2011 SHTFplan.com Comments (134)

Last Thursday the sun produced an X1.9 rated solar flare that narrowly missed Earth. Although it wasn’t aimed directly at us, about 45 minutes after leaving the sun it was still powerful enough to disrupt radio communications.

Now, that same area responsible for producing the X-class flare may pose a direct threat to Earth.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center says that the region on the sun known as AR11339 and affectionately called the “Benevolent Monster” will set its sights on Earth. It will move into a position that poses the largest risk to our planet around November 9th, 2011 and remain on a direct line of sight with earth for the following two (2) weeks as it rotates:

Scientists at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center say that area is the most active part of the sun since 2005. It has dozens of sunspots, including one that is the size of 17 Earths.

…

“It’s still growing. The size is what blows me away.”

Thursday’s flare wasn’t aimed at Earth. However, this active region is now slowly turning toward Earth, and scientists say it will be directly facing Earth in about five days.

That storm region will only affect Earth if it shoots off flares and they hit our planet, which doesn’t always happen with stormy areas, said prediction center space scientist Joe Kunches.

The region will be facing Earth for about two weeks as it rotates, he said.

Solar flares send out bursts of electromagnetic energy that can occasionally disrupt communications and electrical systems.

Sourced Via The Intel Hub

We’ll be facing the monster starting sometime this evening into tomorrow. Considering that it has just recently ejected an X-class flare towards Earth and another towards Venus, we should consider the region to be active and fully capable of affecting our planet.

While NOAA’s warnings fall short of any imminent ‘end of the world as we know it’ event, the risk over the next two weeks of a Carrington-like event are higher now than at anytime in the last decade. The 1859 Carrington Event, caused by a solar flare, reportedly knocked out telegraph operations around the world. It is believed that such an event, were it to occur today, could potentially take down the U.S. power grid for months or years and paralyze the entire globe:

Physicist Michio Kaku:

It could paralyze the economy of the planet earth. In 1859 we had a gigantic solar storm which knocked out telegraph wires back then, 150 years ago. If that had happened today it would knock out almost all our satellites, knock out power stations, there would be food riots around the country because refrigeration would stop, airplanes would probably crash without radar.

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And again, this is a once in a century, once in two centuries storm…

We do have them and we have to worry about them.

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We’d be thrown back 100 years.

Source: Top Physicist Says Solar Flare Would Set Us Back 100 Years

Patrick Geryl of How to Survive 2012 contacted us recently and contributed a short video describing the potential fall out of such an event. The consequences would be devastating and would include everything from power grid failure and food shortages, to savage riots and, eventually, a meltdown of nuclear reactors across the globe.

There would be very little warning, if any, with estimates suggesting that once a solar event is detected it could take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of days to impact earth.

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Author: Mac Slavo
Date: November 8th, 2011
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