Its interesting that the last 2 stops that freighter made was China and Russia. As the discussion points out, our Gov is doing nothing to protect our civilian grid from a major knock out. Obama would Love to be King of a marshal law empowerment. On a somewhat similar note, My grandmother was born way back in 1896 and she had a close friend that worked in the Kremlin as a personal house maid to the Romanov's. One of the stories she would tell is that Czars, Kings and Emperors of those old days would conspire to fabricate wars to lower the population on occasion. An over population back in those days was not so readily absorbed by a non global food production. China is buying US crops today and you can bet they don't like it one bit. Sooner or latter, the population numbers will have to be tweaked. By what method exactly