It is Time to Prepare for our Next Round of Terrorist Incidents

BY STEVE BALESTRIERI | SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 ADMIN, HISTORY, OPINION, SOF, SPECOPS, TERRORISM, US SOCOM

With the summer of 2017 over and the fall arriving today, our National Preparedness Month is nearly over. And in that vein, let’s forget about the idiot White Supremacists and the equally vile Antifa dolts for a minute and talk about some issues that are bound to crop up and soon here in the United States.

Terrorism and not the big attacks like 9-11 are on the horizon. One doesn’t have to read the tea leaves very hard to see what is happening and what we have to expect. The news that Islamic State is getting their fourth point of contact handed to them in Iraq and Syria is good news…to an extent. But with their dreams of a “caliphate” dashed by the coalition forces smashing them out both countries, they and Al-Qaeda are going back to do what terrorists have always done. Take shots at soft targets that are easy to pick out and nearly impossible to defend against. Expect many more car/truck type of attacks on crowded pedestrians and attempts to derail our train systems.

In the latest Al-Qaeda propaganda magazine, “Inspire”, the author goes on at length about the “lone jihadi” and how effective he is at “targeting aggression.” By targeting aggression he means targeting women and children in the west, specifically in Europe and the United States.

Manhunt on after homemade bomb wounds 22 on London subway

By JILL LAWLESS | Associated Press | Published: September 15, 2017

LONDON — Hundreds of London police embarked on a massive manhunt Friday, racing to find out who placed a homemade bomb on a packed London subway train during the morning rush hour. The explosion wounded 22 people and ignited a panicked stampede to safety.

Witnesses described seeing a "wall of fire" as the bomb — hidden in a plastic bucket inside a supermarket freezer bag — went off about 8:20 a.m. while the train was at the Parsons Green station in southwest London.

It was not a large explosion, and British police and health officials said none of the injured was thought to be seriously hurt. Yet police said it was a terrorist attack, the fifth in Britain this year.

How do we survive?': fearful Californians prepare for nuclear attack

Hal Kempfer, a noted international security expert, is getting a roomful of California public health officials and emergency responders to think about the unthinkable – a nuclear bomb exploding at the port of Long Beach, about four miles away.

His message – coming on the same day North Korea threatened to reduce the mainland United States to “ashes and darkness” and then launched a ballistic missile over Japan – is unvarnished and uncompromising: get ready, because we all need to prepare for what comes after.

“A lot of people will be killed,” he said, “but a large percentage of the population will survive. They will be at risk and they will need help.”

Andrew Gumbel in Long Beach, California

Friday 15 September 2017 09.17 EDT

Weaponizing Ridicule

The fifth rule: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

—Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

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