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February 23rd, 2008 | 
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I had my first live radio interview tonight, and was on the American Voice Radio network for 2 hours this evening. I was interviewed by Michael Lehman, and the topic of the day was family preparedness.
I’ve got the show right here. Just click the player button below and listen to the entire show…
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Hi friends,
Here is an update to the hack attack on SurvivalRing yesterday, as mentioned in the email below.
This hack attack seems to have darker overtones than I originally suspected.
While I believe the hack was as I stated yesterday ( a web bot spamming program, which gained access to the site via php script vulnerabilities), I’ve done a bit more research on the destination website that all the spam links were pointing to.
Every one of the nearly fifty hidden links point to a hacked website hosted in the middle east…
hxxp://qasweb.org/library/universe/online/?page=49 (link disabled on purpose)
A quick search found an arabic language based website is the home of
This is the Qatif Astronomical Society forum website…in Arabic.
You can view a mostly translated into english version here (google cache file)
Following the path of the hacked files, we see this…
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Shane Connor of Ki4u.com, Nukalert fame, and other great prep sites asked me to convert this video into an online presentation.
In this video, Steve Jones of Physicians for Civil Defense, interviews Kirk Paradise, of Huntsville, Alabama Emergency Management and Madison County EMA. A very good discussion of what the recent history of the national fallout shelter program looked like, what was accomplished, and who was mostly responsible for the fallout shelter program in the United States falling apart because of decisions at the highest levels of government to not shelter our population.
This video goes into detail of what a city or county can do with data left over from the federal studies, and create a workable shelter plan for most of it’s population, before fallout shelter is needed. In the case of Huntsville, they are downwind from a nuclear power plant, and if the plant were to be attacked by terrorists, a fallout situation would be a very real issue.
Unfortunately, this 24 minute video had to be cut into three pieces, due to YouTube’s 10 minute video time limit. No problem. Below are all three videos in the proper order…Enjoy!
Rich
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
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This news story shouldn’t come as any surprise to Americans. After all, for years now (since 9/11) how many times has some talking head for the Bush administration used the phrase, “It’s now if…but when…”, with regards to future attacks on US soil and/or US interests abroad.
This speech was given this morning by Robert S. Mueller, Director of the FBI, who spoke this morning at the Global Initiative Nuclear Terrorism Conference in Miami. His comments confirm claims made in a new book “The Day of Islam” detailing al-Qaida’s nuclear plans.
I fear that Mueller’s words are right. It is just a matter of time before the US sees a nuclear detonation, or use of a dirty bomb, on our soil…and that the death toll could make the carnage of 9/11 look like child’s play. What better reason to at least try to understand what a fallout shelter is, how to build an expedient shelter, and how long to stay in one…should you be downwind…
Here’s a portion of the speech. Follow the link below to read the entire story.
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Good morning. It is an honor to be here with all of you today.
My thanks to Governor Crist and Mayor Diaz for joining us this morning, and to all those who organized this conference.
I also want to welcome Assistant Secretary John Rood and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak from the Kazakhstan conference. We appreciate your joining us, especially given the time difference.
We are here to discuss one of the most dangerous and deadly threats we face: nuclear terrorism. Few threats fall into the same class in terms of sheer devastation, damage, and loss. Few strike such fear in the hearts of the public. And few threats are so appealing to terrorists around the world, for the same reasons.
It has been said that the September 11th attacks were a “failure of imagination.” We cannot fail to imagine the consequences of a nuclear terrorist attack. Nor can we fail to imagine that there are those for whom such an event is the end game.
Prevention must be our end game. Should there be a nuclear attack anywhere in the world, it would mean in some sense that we have failed in our mission. That is why we are here this week.
This morning, I want to talk about the threat of nuclear terrorism. I want to touch on our collective efforts in the United States to keep our citizens safe. And I want to discuss what we in the international community must do to contain this threat.
Read the full article at Newsmax.com
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Some days I think it can. Other days…well, that is the reason I have spent years collecting thousands and thousands of pages of real, authentic nuclear survival documentation…as published and printed by the printing offices of the United States of America…and several other nations as well.
Then…articles like this one in the New Yorker get me to thinking again.
Are WE doing enough? Us? You? Me? The average citizen?
PLEASE comment…
Rich
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Watch this video by Penn and Teller. It’s an irreverent, satirical, yet biting commentary on the whole issue of gun control, 2nd ammendment rights, and firearms in general.
CAUTION: The name of the show is “Bullsh*t”, and there is blue language…however, I think this show is worth watching for the broad overview these two bring to the subject.
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This story was front page news for many of the nation’s largest newspapers this Sunday morning. I’m afraid I have to agree. The US has NEVER been prepared for ANY nuclear attack…terror, all out assault, or anything in between…except for our leaders. They have PLENTY of shelters for themselves.
Just none for we taxpayers…
THAT sucks…
U.S. unprepared for nuclear terror attack, experts say
12:44 AM CST on Friday, March 2, 2007
McClatchy NewspapersWASHINGTON – Although the Bush administration has warned repeatedly about the threat of a terrorist nuclear attack and spent more than $300 billion to protect the homeland, the government remains ill-prepared to respond to a nuclear catastrophe.
Experts and government documents suggest that, absent a major preparedness push, the U.S. response to a mushroom cloud could be worse than the debacle after Hurricane Katrina, possibly contributing to civil disorder and costing thousands of lives.
“The United States is unprepared to mitigate the consequences of a nuclear attack,” Pentagon analyst John Brinkerhoff concluded in a July 31, 2005, draft of a confidential memo to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “We were unable to find any group or office with a coherent approach to this very important aspect of homeland security. …
“This is a bad situation. The threat of a nuclear attack is real, and action is needed now to learn how to deal with one.”
