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 No More Orange AlertsPosted on Jan 27, 2011
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is expected to announce the retirement of George W. Bush’s color-coded terror alert system that always seemed like an easy way to terrify the public. In its day, the color-coded threat indicator only hit red (severe) once, and never dropped below yellow (elevated).
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By Inherit The Wind, January 27, 2011 at 4:43 pm Link to this comment
Rico:
Those who tell us “you need to give up your rights and your freedoms so we can protect you” ARE the bad guys!
Report thisBy fearnotruth, January 27, 2011 at 12:05 pm Link to this comment
There will be when bad guys promise to stop trying to blow us up.
hear, hear!
e.g.
Did the real story behind the Minot-Barksdale nuke missile flight come out or was it a cover-up?
by Robert C. Sage
“It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck”,
said a Pentagon official, after the unauthorized transport of six nuclear-armed cruise missiles. A B-52 flew the nukes from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB on August 30, 2007. This should be treated as a watershed event. It is the first reported case of unauthorized movement of American nuclear weapons in history. As a result, the U.S. Air Force disciplined 60 persons and conducted a “stand down”, however given the many subverted safeguards and the number of people involved, the American public deserves full disclosure. All of America’s nuclear arsenal is protected by multiple levels of approvals for any location or status changes, have alarms and detection systems for radiation, explosives, metal and motion. Lack of clear answers on what happened spells a government cover-up.
full article: http://www.helium.com/items/680943-minot-barksdale-nuclear-missile-cover-up
lesson: to find the author of any so-called ‘terrorist’ WMD event (heaven forbid), don’t waste time searching the caves of the Hindu Kush; the ‘near miss’ cited in the article should have lead investigators immediately to the cave beneath the Naval Observatory!
Report thisBy rico, suave, January 27, 2011 at 11:32 am Link to this comment
ITW:
There will be when bad guys promise to stop trying to blow us up.
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, January 27, 2011 at 10:01 am Link to this comment
I wish there was an announcement to end the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act and the current version of the FISA.
Report thisBy M L, January 27, 2011 at 9:15 am Link to this comment
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Cheny was the architect of the war on terror and his legacy remains a massive post tramatic stress disorder for millions of people around the world. He and Rove were the masters of marketing fear and terror. We will spend years rebuilding lives and infrastructures he destroyed for profit and agreed.
Report thisBy HC, January 27, 2011 at 9:14 am Link to this comment
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What color is the sky in your world, Dumbya…?
Report thisBy rico, suave, January 27, 2011 at 8:46 am Link to this comment
“Bush’s color-coded terror alert system that always seemed like an easy way to terrify the public.”
This is what the government is good at, no matter who’s in charge folks. Are you sure you want MORE power in their hands?
Report thisBy surfnow, January 27, 2011 at 8:08 am Link to this comment
99 percent of the ” War on Terror” is a lie and a fake. But the Amerikan public has no one to blame but itself. Just the name ” Homeland Security” is enough to make me sick. How close to the Nazi ” Fatherland” do we have to come to before people say enough is enough.
Report thisBy fearnotruth, January 27, 2011 at 3:47 am Link to this comment
from the article: The threat level was raised to red/severe once—on August 10, 2006, and only for commercial flights from the United Kingdom to the United States—when British authorities announced they had disrupted a major plot to blow up aircraft.
reference: The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives carried on board at least 10 airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada.
perspective: [...] Amidst the madness a word of sense was spoken by former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray:
Many [of those arrested] did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn’t be a plane bomber for quite some time … In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases passports, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat rooms…. Then an interrogation in Pakistan revealed the details of this amazing plot to blow up multiple planes … Of course, the interrogators of the Pakistani dictator have their ways of making people sing like canaries. As I witnessed in Uzbekistan, you can get the most extraordinary information this way. The trouble is it always tends to give the interrogators all they might want, and more, in a desperate effort to stop or avert torture. What it doesn’t give is the truth. [...]
According to Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer with decades of anti-terror and explosives experience, the whole plot was a ‘fiction’ (6) and the explosives in question could not possibly have been produced on the plane. “So who came up with the idea that a bomb could be made on board? Not Al Qaeda for sure. It would not work. Bin Laden is interested in success not deterrence by failure,” Wylde stated. He suggested that the plot was an invention of the UK security services in order to justify wide-ranging new security measures that threaten to permanently curtail civil liberties and to suspend sections of the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act of 1998. Wyle added that, if there was a conspiracy, “it did not involve manufacturing the explosives in the loo,” as this simply “could not have worked.” The process would be quickly and easily detected. The fumes of the chemicals in the toilet “would be smelt by anybody in the area.” They would also inevitably “cause the alarms in the toilet and in the air change system in the aircraft to be triggered.”
Key information was supposed to have been obtained from Pakistan but what did Pakistan have to do with it? There’s no need to go to Pakistan to learn that mixing acetone, sulphuric acid and peroxide won’t make a bomb, especially not in an aircraft toilet – that’s only in the Hollywood movies. Those three chemicals would form a nasty mixture which would stink very badly, but they would require a freezing cabinet and a fume cupboard for the reaction to work, ie produce TATP – adding a drop of sulphuric acid at a time, taking several hours, then a day of the TATP to separate out). Also, what about the detonators? Without a detonator, its not a bomb*. [...]
complete aticle: http://terroronthetube.co.uk/related-articles/the-heathrow-liquid-bomb-hoax/
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