{"id":31787,"date":"2015-06-18T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=31787"},"modified":"2015-06-18T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:09:16","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-june-17th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=31787","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, June 17th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Wednesday, June 17th, 2015…but before we begin, are we the only more than a little concerned with the MSM ignoring the greatest cyber attack on the U.S. to date?!? \u00a0As one of Jim Geraghty’s readers recently noted:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“…You dealt with China\u2019s hack last week, but it\u2019s not clear to me many are putting all of this together. This administration, supposedly the tech-savviest of any<\/em><\/span>, but granted truly the first to have to deal with the innovation of our generation, has been an unmitigated disaster on tech<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> They hire Google executives and think that will do it. Think about it. How many China hacks? Is anyone talking about how deeply compromised our networks are to the Russians? Nope. Then there is Obamacare\u2019s web disaster (anyone checked in on that lately?). And we haven\u2019t gotten to Snowden or the other hacks, leaks, etc. Granted this is part of a decade with unanticipated innovative leaps.<\/span> But that\u2019s why we elect smart people, who hire and appoint smarter, strategic and tactical people, right<\/span><\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We have an administration that wants to regulate the Internet, but can\u2019t in any way keep its own secure networks secure<\/span><\/em>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>I would argue the Obama administration\u2019s network security failures in the long term should be viewed as potentially its second greatest failure among a string of failures<\/span>.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

And if you think we’ve suffered the last<\/em> such attack, let alone the most damaging<\/em>, consider this: this is just one<\/em> in a series<\/em><\/span> of cyber-assaults the ChiComs have launched against us. \u00a0What’s been done about them…other than harsh words, more<\/em><\/span> harsh words and really<\/em><\/span> harsh words?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nada, zip, zero!<\/strong><\/p>\n

More importantly, not only is our national electric grid vulnerable to cyber-terrorism, but our\u00a0entire country<\/em><\/span>\u00a0could, along with its power grid, be brought to its knees by a single nuclear device detonated at high altitude over the Heartland; Yes, EMP.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with the mechanics and impact of an EMP event, James Woolsey and Peter Pry provided this\u00a0primer<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0last year in the Journal<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And as The Obamao seems bound and determined to to embolden America’s most implacable foes, not to mention providing every opportunity to produce a functional nuclear weapons capability, obtaining an EMP-capable device grows easier every day he’s in office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But as the technology to deliver such a weapon can’t be found at your local\u00a0<\/b>\ud648 \ub514\ud3ec or\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u062e\u0627\u0646\u0647 \u0627\u0646\u0628\u0627\u0631 (Home Depot for those not fluent in Korean or Farsi!), the trick is delivering the package at altitude somewhere over the center of the U.S.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Which makes this passage from Jeff Meeks EMP blog<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span> all the more alarming:<\/b><\/p>\n

“…But when a country like Iran or North Korea test-fire a new rocket\/missile, and then they blow it up halfway into it\u2019s projected flight\u2026 and then the West calls the test a failure\u2026 maybe we\u2019re missing the big picture. \u00a0Maybe the goal wasn\u2019t<\/span> to deliver something onto an earthly target \u2013 maybe the goal was purely to get some altitude<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> \u00a0Hmm<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span>“<\/p>\n

“Hmm” is right. \u00a0As always, we suggest a strong investment position, not in gold, but in lead<\/em><\/span>…in a variety of calibers!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, just when you thought the Progressives’ PC scam couldn’t get any weirder, MSLSD<\/em>‘s Melissa Harris-Perry takes us one step beyond:<\/strong><\/p>\n