Tag: homeland stupidity
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cell phone(y terror) alerts coming soon
from ap: Federal regulators have approved a plan to create a nationwide emergency alert system using text messages delivered to cell phones… The wireless industry’s trade association, CTIA, estimates more than 48 billion text messages are sent each month. The plan stems from the Warning Alert & Response Network Act, a 2006 federal law that…
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zombie computers, pocket lie detectors & stolen laptops
zombie computers decried as imminent nat’l threatfrom threat level: Gangs of thousands of zombie home computers grinding out spam, committing fraud and overpowering websites are the most vexing net threat today, according to law enforcement and security professionals… at the RSA 2008 security conference entitled “Protecting the Homeland: Winning the Botnet Battle,” which was marked…
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pandemic, monsanto, bono & ssri school shooters
bethel, ct runs pandemic flu drillfrom news times: Sooner or later a virus spreading quickly around the world will make millions of people very sick in a short period of time. It might be the bird flu percolating in Asia right now. It might be something unknown. But given the adaptability of flu bugs, and…
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student directories, cheney, yoo & the border fence
pentagon wants student directoriesfrom thinkprogress: The Army Times reports that the Pentagon “has announced a new get-tough policy with colleges and universities that interfere with the work of military recruiters and Reserve Officer Training Corps programs… Under rules that will take effect April 28, defense officials said they want the exact same access to student…
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drones, chips, secret spies & street-sweeper cameras
feds to fly more drones along US bordersfrom ap: Four Predator B drones have become fixtures over Arizona since October 2006, and two more will join them soon, Juan Munoz-Torres, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman, said Wednesday. Once those six are in place, the agency wants Congress to fund six drones along the Canadian…
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nga eyeing power grid
from upi/daily dose of terror: The agency that manages data from U.S. spy satellites is exploring ways to map the nation’s entire electric grid as part of efforts to protect infrastructure. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants to create an “electric energy infrastructure dataset,” including the geographical locations of all transmission lines, power plants, substations, and…
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truant tracking, shock bracelets, miami drones & rfid radio
omnilink gets students back in schoolfrom gps daily: Truancy not only keeps students from getting an education, it also acts as a gateway to the commission of illegal activities, such as vandalism, theft or more serious crimes. That’s why getting students back in school is so important to the Midland County Justice Court in Texas,…
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Pilot’s Gun Goes Off On Flight From ‘New World Airport’
from danger room: For those who always thought that arming pilots on commercial flights was a bad idea, today’s incident will hardly come as a surprise: a gun accidentally went off in the cockpit of a U.S. Airways flight. ABC News reports: “The pilot, who both the TSA and US Airways declined to identify, was…
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cyber storm II gets started
from fcw: The private sector owns more than three-quarters of the country’s critical infrastructure. A large-scale, successful, coordinated attack could cripple the country’s economy. A cyberattack can originate in one country and pass through several others before reaching its target. That dark side of cyberspace is the backdrop for this week’s Cyber Storm II exercise,…
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nat’l dragnet, borderwars, russian bombers & aipac
national dragnet is a click awayfrom washington post: Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information to fight crime and root out terror plots… Those network efforts will begin expanding further this month, as some local and state agencies…
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fire fallon, dhs crimes, pandemic drills & hagee
bush may fire fallon for someone more ‘pliable’from thinkprogress: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has called CENTCOM commander Adm. William Fallon “one of the best strategic thinkers in uniform today.” Fallon opposed the “surge” in Iraq and has consistently battled the Bush administration to avoid a confrontation with Iran, calling officials’ war-mongering “not helpful.” Privately, he…
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cyber storm II, silver dragon
‘cyber storm II’ stirringfrom fcw: During the second week of March, nine states, four foreign governments, 18 federal agencies and 40 private companies will participate in Cyber Storm II (110kb PDF) – a weeklong simulation designed to better prepare the players for cyberattacks. DHS, FBI and the Defense Department are among the federal agencies that…
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bird flu, nazi loot, wilkes fraud, rule by law & nyfd spies
indonesia’s health minister: bird flu a US bioweaponfrom paul joseph watson: Indonesia’s Health Minister has implicated the U.S. government in an international conspiracy to develop the bird flu virus into a deadly bio-weapon in a new book which is also endorsed by Indonesia’s President. Indonesia has been worst hit by the bird flu virus, with…
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amtrak says ‘papers please’
amtrak to randomly screen bags & step up patrolsfrom reuters: Amtrak, the only long-haul passenger rail service in the United States, will for the first time randomly screen passengers’ bags and deploy armed security officers on trains and platforms, the railroad said on Monday night. Details of the shift in security strategy at Amtrak will…
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Shooter, Spy Sat Cover, DHS Death, Buffet, Blackwater, Beijing
shooter did time in mental health facilityfrom washington times: A former employee at a Chicago psychiatric treatment center said Kazmierczak had been placed there after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications, she said. Kazmierczak spent more than a year at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House in…