Tag: homeland stupidity
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police state usa: pandemic drills, cog, corruption & surveillance
‘vigilant guard’ managers put the kaboom in terrorism exercisesfrom national guard bureau: KaBOOM! Exercise managers for the Vigilant Guard homeland security exercise here added realism Sept. 16 by blowing up balloons filled with explosive gas. KaPOW! They tested the balloons today. Tomorrow the noisemakers will prompt police swat teams to move in on a suspected…
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video: horrifying cia recruitment commercials
from youtube: As the economy shifts to a focus on national security, where else could you find gainful employment… but to spy on your neighbor – just join the CIA, or become a Homeland Security goon, or at worst a TSA screening goon. The future is you! and here’s another one for cia’s clandestine service…
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police state usa: terror drills, curfews, gps & ip snooping
terror drill finds culprit with dirty bombfrom ny daily news: It was only a drill, but the scenario was still terrifying. A boat loaded with radioactive materials sailed through New York Harbor Friday. A multiagency task force – led by state-of-the-art NYPD boats – was assigned to stop the interloper. “We’re trying to further…protect the…
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citizens’ US border crossings tracked; data kept for 15yrs
from washington post: The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and may be used in criminal and intelligence investigations. Officials say the…
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san francisco holds chemical terror drill
from kgo: Police and firefighters are testing the city’s response time in a theoretical weapons attack. Several blocks in San Francisco’s financial district were closed down for the day. The fire department was calling this a real public-private partnership as they got the owners of the downtown building at 555 California Street to allow them…
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author critical of bush on terror watch list
from raw replay: CNN’s Drew Griffin reports that an author who was critical of Bush is on the TSA’s terror watch list. Jim Moore is the author of several books including “Bush’s war for re-election,” “Bush’s Brain,” and “The Architect.” This video is from CNN’s American Morning, broadcast August 14, 2008.
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playing politics with biolabs
from ap: The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi – home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency – as a top location for a new $451 million, national laboratory to study some of the world’s most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by The…
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an ugly mess of news part2
9/11families of 9/11 victims urge reconsideration of settlement rejection*9/11 victim can’t speak at sentencing hearing*introducing the uss new york: made from steel from the two towers of 9/11*utah congressmen mailed ‘9/11 conspiracies’, hand them over to capitol police*man charged with placing 9/11 stickers on a plane*boston globe sends alex jones to the memory hole*arianna confirms…
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police informants, infiltrators, protests & peace groups
police spied on activists in marylandfrom washington post: Undercover Maryland State Police officers conducted surveillance on war protesters and death penalty opponents, including some in Takoma Park, for more than a year while Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. was governor, documents released yesterday show. Detailed intelligence reports logged by at least two agents in the police…
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israeli police talk with michigan homeland security
from click on detroit: Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox hosted a conference Thursday that brought more than 200 law enforcement leaders together to meet with members of the Israeli National Police to discuss security issues. Homeland security issues regarding the Detroit-Windsor tunnel were expected to be discussed. The meeting was one in a series of…
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american airlines testing anti-missile technology
from wbz-tv: You can almost touch the planes as they roar over Point Shirley in Winthrop on their way to Logan Airport. The passengers were checked for explosives before they got on, however, a growing concern is what could happen away from the airport: Terrorist firing a shoulder launched-missile just outside the airport’s property. The…
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aclu launches terror watch list complaint website
from raw replay: Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office spoke at the National Press Club about the need to reform the government’s terrorist watch list. The watch list now contains one million names based on the government’s own reported numbers. The ACLU says that the watch list could effect up to 5-10%…
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bush aide caught offering access for donations
from raw replay: The Times of London reports: “A lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.” Stephen Payne is a Bush pioneer and a political appointee to…
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military satellites to spy on domestic disasters
from raw replay: MSNBC’s Alex Witt talked to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff about a new proposal by the Bush administration to use satellites for domestic surveillance. Isikoff told MSNBC, “The Homeland Security Department is talking about expanding the program to use military satellites really, for domestic purposes. They say the primary driver is natural disasters -…
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natl guard troops to leave border patrol on july 15
from ap: The thousands of National Guardsmen sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. When the Guard was posted along the southern frontier in 2006 to help the strapped Border Patrol, critics…