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Posted: Mar 16, 2013

Now that North Korea has threatened nuclear attack on the US, how odd that Hagel is seeking EPA approval before installing nuclear shields on the west coast! Hmmmm, EPA needs to approve protection against nuclear attack!!! What morons! I'm sure China is delighted!;

This is what you get out of this? That our military should - be able to override civil law?

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Like the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea itself? Not that it would have an EPA in the first place, of course, or any civil law that could control the behavior of its leader. Surely not?

Making that a complete, absolute NO, NO, NEVER, was among the first priorities of our very non-moronic founding fathers.

woeful and complete misinformation - doe

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I hope you understand that nuclear shields are not actual shields that are installed, and that North Korea is not China.

The fact is, we already have a robust system of Ground Based Interceptors in place on the west coast. In fact, we are about to INCREASE these by almost 50%.

As for your misunderstanding about the EPA: There is a potential additional site they have not decided to proceed with, but they are going ahead with environmental impact studies so that if they decide to proceed, it will shorten the timeline.

From Missile Defense Announcement:

"...as directed by Congress, we are conducting Environmental Impact Studies for a potential additional GBI site in the United States. While the Administration has not made any decision on whether to proceed with an additional site, conducting Environmental Impact Studies will SHORTEN THE TIMELINE for construction should that decision be made."

How About this little bit of news? - Truthhurts

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Isn't this wonderful news? I wonder who is telling the truth.


America Threatens China, Russia and North Korea: US to Boost Anti-ballistic Missile Systems in Asia Pacific


 


US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced yesterday that the Pentagon would expand the number of ground-based, anti-ballistic missile interceptors deployed in the Asia Pacific region by nearly 50 percent by 2017. An additional 14 interceptors would be based at Fort Greely in Alaska on top of 26 already in place. Another three are already stationed in California.


Hagel seized on North Korea’s nuclear test last month and its satellite launch in December as the pretext for the expansion of US anti-ballistic missile systems. “North Korea, in particular, has recently made advances in its capabilities and has engaged in a series of irresponsible and reckless provocations,” he said.


These comments are completely cynical. The Obama administration is exploiting North Korea’s limited nuclear and missile capability to justify the build-up of sophisticated anti-missile systems throughout the Asia Pacific region that are aimed primarily at countering China’s nuclear arsenal.


In response to additional UN Security Council sanctions earlier this month, the North Korean regime declared that it had the right to defend itself, including through “a pre-emptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor.” The Obama administration, however, simply dismissed the threat. Neither Hagel nor any Pentagon official has suggested that Pyongyang actually has the ability to carry out such an attack on Washington.


Moreover, Pentagon plans to expand the number of interceptors predate both the North Korean missile launch and nuclear test. A senior American defence official told the Washington Post that the expansion “had been in the works for about six months.” In other words, North Korea had simply supplied a convenient excuse for the announcement.


Hagel also announced that the US would deploy an additional early warning system to Japan—a sophisticated X-band radar capable of tracking ballistic missiles. The US already has one such installation in northern Japan and is planning the second in the south of the country.


The Pentagon leaked details of its anti-ballistic missile plans to the Wall Street Journal last August (see: “US to expand anti-missile systems in Asia”). According to that report, the US is also seeking to build a third X-band radar installation in South East Asia, possibly in the Philippines. Each additional early warning system greatly enhances the US military’s ability to track the trajectory of ballistic missiles and thus to destroy them with interceptors.


The US is developing and building these anti-ballistic missile systems in close collaboration with its major allies in Asia, especially Japan. In addition to long-range, land-based interceptors in North America, the US and Japan have ship-based anti-missile systems and are seeking to enhance their capacities.


The US navy recently boosted the number of its Arleigh Burke -class guided missile destroyers in waters off the Korean Peninsula, as part of joint exercises with South Korea. The US military also has Patriot missile batteries in South Korea.


To suggest that the US is spending tens of billions of dollars on anti-ballistic missile defences to counter the threat from North Korea—and, in the case of the missile defences it is building in Europe, to counter the threat from Iran—is absurd. These systems are primarily aimed at China and Russia, which do have the capability to strike the US with nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.


Speaking to the Wall Street Journal last August, an unnamed senior American official acknowledged that any anti-ballistic missile system aimed at North Korea is also aimed at China, by virtue of geography. “Physics is physics,” he said. “You’re either blocking North Korea and China, or you’re not blocking either of them.”


 


More here:http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-threatens-china-russia-and-north-korea-us-to-boost-anti-ballistic-missile-systems-in-asia-pacific/5327071

HaHa! A conspiracy theorist. Michel Chossudovsky - Truthhurts

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He's who's behind these articles and Global Research in Canada. It's a shame that he's a professor at the University of Ottawa. He'll be filling the minds of his students with garbage.

I looked him up on Wikipedia...didn't read the whole biography. Couldn't get past some of his 'theories.'

Chossudovsky did not write the article - doe

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The article was written by Peter Symonds, World Socialist Website. (Ads for books by Chossudovsky appeared on the page, though.)

and somebody posted it! - oh. nevermind.

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