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Title: NAPOLITANO CHANGING THINGS - New terrorism alert system will offer specific warnings 'Elevated threat' or 'imminent threat'...
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URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/2 ... /index.html?section=cnn_latest
Published: Apr 20, 2011
Author: Jeanne Meserve
Post Date: 2011-04-20 19:12:40 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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New York (CNN) -- A new terrorism warning system will provide the public with information on specific threats, replacing the color-coded alerts put in place after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday. In announcing the new system at New York City's Grand Central Terminal, commonly known as Grand Central Station, Napolitano said a main goal was to provide better understanding of the nature of the specific threat, what people should do in reaction to it and how they could help security officials in responding. "It will provide alerts based on specific, credible information about potential terrorist activity," Napolitano said, adding that the alerts would contain "as many details as we can provide." Right now, she said, there is no threat that would reach the level to warrant one of the new alerts, which will take effect on April 26. Napolitano made the announcement in the city where more than 2,700 people were killed when two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers. She was joined by New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Republican Rep. Peter King of New York, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who both praised the new National Terrorism Advisory System as an upgrade that enhances current security efforts. However, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, cautioned that the new system must "effectively disseminate threat information in a timely manner and provide sound guidance to the public and affected homeland security partners on the actions they should take to protect themselves and the nation." Collins urged Napolitano's department "to keep communication lines open with our state and local homeland security officials and with the private sector so that implementation of the system meets the vision" set by the secretary. The new system has two levels of alerts, compared to the previous system's five levels, Napolitano said. The two alert levels of the new system are "elevated threat," which "warns of a credible terrorist threat" to the United States; and "imminent threat," which "warns of a credible, specific and impending terrorist threat," according to a Department of Homeland Security statement. Any alert will automatically expire after a two-week period, although they could be extended if new information shows a threat persists, DHS said. Napolitano told reporters in a morning briefing that the alerts posted on a department website -- www.dhs.gov/alerts -- will provide details to show the nature, location and other information about terrorism threats. Therefore, she said, a specific warning may apply to a particular address, community, city or region, rather than the non-specific general warnings of the color-coded system. Alerts also will be announced by her office and made public via traditional media such as television announcements and radio broadcasts, as well as social media, Napolitano said. She conceded that the color-coded system "has faded in utility except for late-night comics," noting that the warning level at airports had been at orange since 2006. "That's one of the reasons why people (stopped) paying attention to them," Napolitano said. Instead of a constant state of undefined warning, she said, the new system will react to actual threats. "We don't want people to live in fear," she said. "We want people to live in a state of alert and awareness." Her department is asking the public to be on alert for any suspicious activity, incorporating the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's trademark slogan "If You See Something, Say Something" into its alerts. Evaluating the current threat for Wednesday under the old system, the Department of Homeland Security put it at yellow, or elevated. Under the new system, it does not warrant an alert.
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United States Secretary of Homeland Security - Born: 1957 USA New York - Single U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Seen here with Arizona State Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who wants the Minutemen charged as terrorists. Her Sexuality Is Questioned She is thought to be a Lesbian, who has appeared on the cover of every Gay magazine in Arizona. 4 U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
If someone could invent such a device and we could require people like Obama and Napolitano to get "hooked up" before they opened their mouths they would quit being "public servants" right then. They would suddenly remember important bidness they had to take care of.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
Off topic, but did china, russia, brazil and india recently have a big 'new intl currency' pow-WOW recently ? gold might hit 5K/oz in '12 !
I believe they did. Seems that the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) believe that the "US dollar" is pretty much worthless--and if they think the US dollar is a scrap of paper they're right. Of course an actual US dollar as it is properly defined, would be worth a pretty good load of their currency. Right now scrap silver is more than 40 "dollars" an ounce. In the early days of the United States, the term “Dollar” was commonly known as a coin minted by Spain called the Spanish Milled Dollar. These coins were the standard money then in use in the country. On April 2, 1792 Alexander Hamilton, then the Secretary of the Treasury, made a report to Congress that were the result of his task to scientifically determine the amount of silver in the Spanish Milled Dollar coins that were then in current use by the people. As a result of this report, the Dollar was defined as a unit of measure of 371 4/16th grains of pure silver or 416 grains of standard silver (standard silver being defined as 1,485 parts fine silver to 179 parts alloy). Therefore paper is not the dollar, instead, it is ‘worth’, not ‘is’, 1 dollar (U.S Silver certificate.) In section 20 of the Act, it is specified that the “money of account” of the United States shall be expressed in those same “dollars” or parts thereof. All of the minor coins were also defined in terms of percentages of the primary coin the dollar such that a half dollar contained 1/2 as much silver as a dollar, quarter dollars, 1/4th etc. In an act passed on January 18, 1837 the alloy was changed to 10% thus having the effect of containing the same amount of silver but being reduced in weight to 412 1/4 grains of standard silver which was changed to 90% pure and 10% alloy... Taken over by the Congress of the Confederation of the United States on July 6,1785, the U.S. dollar is the currency most used in international transactions. No longer backed by gold, the U.S. Dollar is a fiat currency. The terms fiat currency and fiat money relate to types of currency or money whose usefulness results not from any intrinsic value or guarantee that it can be converted into gold or another currency, but instead from a government’s order (fiat) that it must be accepted as a means of payment. It is a money that has value because the government has ordered that it is an acceptable means to pay debt. A fiat currency is essentially created out of thin air and is backed by the belief that the currency has value. Although the U.S. dollar is a fiat currency, several countries use it as their official currency, and in many others it is the de facto currency. Fiat currency was an anathema to Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Jackson went so far as to pass the Specie Circular in 1836, which required all payment for government lands to be in the form of gold and silver coin. The Austrian School of Economics has long held that no sound economy can long endure under fiat money, with prominent Austrian Economist Ludwig von Mises arguing in his book Human Action that: Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
(Brazil, Russia, India and China) believe that the "US dollar" is pretty much worthless--and if they think the US dollar is a scrap of paper they're right. Of course an actual US dollar as it is properly defined, would be worth a pretty good load of their currency. Right now scrap silver is more than 40 "dollars" an ounce. U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Hell, it might do that next week. When the dollar goes, it's gonna go fast and without warning.
I agree.
A great improvement. The old color code was a total waste .... because, besides announcing the color the govt would also tell us what the color signified, which kind of made the color itself unnecessary. And the simple fact is that they never dipped below yellow alert, and most of the time it was orange. Can anyone tell me what we were allowed to do during Yellow that we weren't supposed to do during orange? Or what we were supposed to do during orange that didn't apply during yellow?? At one point, I suggested a batch of new colors: Seafoam, Aquamarine, Turquoise, Blue-Green. I figured with that, we'd need a gay man to tell us
Sure, just as soon as she gets the low down from a Wal Mart informant. Be on alert for any suspicious activity all!! Nappytano is counting on the lot of you to report every nose picker you see in the ammo isle, especially if they happen to be wearing a 'Don't Tread on Me' t-shirt or sport a Ron Paul bumper sticker.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Oh please, citizen Shoonra......her entire plan is to rely on dupes like you to be on alert at Wal Mart. Why don't you tell me what your are to do under the newly minted alerts besides report all suspicious activity citizen Shoonra. Hide under your bed for two weeks?
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
Janet Napolitano
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She Is A Raging Feminist
#4. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
#5. To: Eric Stratton (#4)
If they could just rig the system to get the pigs to self-combust when they lie, our problem would be solved almost instantaneously.
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein
#6. To: James Deffenbach (#5)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#7. To: Rotara (#6)
Off topic, but did china, russia, brazil and india recently have a big 'new intl currency' pow-WOW recently ?
“What is needed for a sound expansion of production is additional capital goods, not money or fiduciary media. The credit boom is built on the sands of banknotes and deposits. It must collapse.”
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein
#8. To: James Deffenbach, rotara, Eric Stratton, (#7)
#9. To: Rotara (#6)
gold might hit 5K/oz in '12 !
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#10. To: Esso (#9)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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#12. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, all (#0)
Napolitano told reporters in a morning briefing that the alerts posted on a department website -- www.dhs.gov/alerts -- will provide details to show the nature, location and other information about terrorism threats.
#13. To: Shoonra (#11)
A great improvement.
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