WTF NEWS # School TERROR DRILLS All Over America # (VIDEO !!!)

New Counterorrism Guidelines Gives Authorities Vast Access to Private Info of Innocent Americans
Trevor Timm
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
EFF

On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signed expansive new guidelines for terrorism analysts, allowing the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) to mirror entire federal databases containing personal information and hold onto the information for an extended period of time — even if the person is not suspected of any involvement in terrorism. (Read the guidelines here).

Despite the “terrorism” justification, the new rules affect every single American. The agency now has free rein to, as the New York Times’ Charlie Savage put it, “retrieve, store and search information about Americans gathered by government agencies for purposes other than national security threats ” and expands the amount of time the government can keep private information on innocent individuals by a factor of ten.

From the New York Times: The guidelines will lengthen to five years — from 180 days — the amount of time the center can retain private information about Americans when there is no suspicion that they are tied to terrorism, intelligence officials said. The guidelines are also expected to result in the center making more copies of entire databases and “data mining them” using complex algorithms to search for patterns that could indicate a threat. (emphasis ours)

Journalist Marcy Wheeler summed up the new guidelines nicely saying, “So…the data the government keeps to track our travel, our taxes, our benefits, our identity? It just got transformed from bureaucratic data into national security intelligence.”

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Dick and jane

duck and cover

duck and cover

You know, I got a letter from my kids school advising us that they were having some sort of drill this week as well. Now where is that darn letter?

This is unimaginable to me.

HOMESCHOOL

Hank asks NSA director tough questions about wiretaps, e-mail intercepts





NSA Chief Denies, Denies, Denies Wired’s Domestic Spying Story
By Ryan Singel
March 20, 2012

NSA chief General Keith Alexander faced tough — and funny — questions from Congress Tuesday stemming from Wired’s story on the NSA’s capabalities and warrantless wiretapping program.

Congressman Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, asked Alexander whether the NSA could, at the direction of Dick Cheney, identify people who sent e-mails making fun of his inability to hunt in order to waterboard them.

Alexander said “No,” adding that the “NSA does not have the ability to do that in the United States.” Elaborating, Alexander added: “We don’t have the technical insights in the United States. In other words, you have to have [...] some way of doing that either by going to a service provider with a warrant or you have to be collecting in that area. We’re not authorized to do that, nor do we have the equipment in the United States to collect that kind of information.”

That statement seemingly contradicts James Bamford’s story, The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say), as well as stories from The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and Wired, which collectively drew a picture of the NSA’s post-9/11 foray into wiretapping the nation’s telecommunication’s infrastructure to spy on Americans without getting warrants.

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My little sister is a jr in highschool and she said her school had some kind of drill on site yesterday but it was not a fire drill or tornado drill. She is kind of an air head but I assume they would have told them if it was a terror drill.

It's so that they can then tell the parents to come pick up their kids at xyz location and when they do, they grab the parents who are on the "lists" for detention.

5* and pinned for ya.

:high5:

National Counterterrorism Center gets insane new power over private data on Americans
Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Friday, March 23, 2012
Activist Post

Just when you thought the ludicrously paranoid federal government of the United States of America couldn’t get any worse; Attorney General Eric Holder has signed new guidelines for the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).

The American Big Brother surveillance state has grown exponentially over recent years and it does not look like it is going to be slowing down any time soon with the new guidelines which allows private data on Americans to be held when there is no suspicion of them being tied to terrorism for a whopping five years.

Keep in mind, Internet service providers just announced that they will soon be engaging in the largest digital spying operation in history, along with the National Security Agency (NSA) building a behemoth data center to process information, which could include just about anything.

Now the NCTC is getting even more power from the Obama administration, something akin to the George W. Bush-era “Total Information Awareness” program which was supposedly partially shut down by Congress.

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I don't hate you for your freedoms anymore, pinheads!

listen to this program

beeb,beep,beep

in the event of an emergency you will notified to...

your children will be returned if you cooperate to the program given

you will now be returned to your regular scheduled programming

thank you programmmeeeee!

POLICE STATE USA: New Obama Executive Order Seizes U.S. Infrastructure and Citizens for Military Preparedness
by Brandon Turbeville
March 18, 2012
Activist Post - 2012-03-17

In a stunning move, on March 16, 2012, Barack Obama signed an Executive Order stating that the President and his specifically designated Secretaries now have the authority to commandeer all domestic U.S. resources including food and water. The EO also states that the President and his Secretaries have the authority to seize all transportation, energy, and infrastructure inside the United States as well as forcibly induct/draft American citizens into the military. The EO also contains a vague reference in regards to harnessing American citizens to fulfill “labor requirements” for the purposes of national defense.

Not only that, but the authority claimed inside the EO does not only apply to National Emergencies and times of war. It also applies in peacetime.

The National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order exploits the “authority” granted to the President in the Defense Production Act of 1950 in order to assert that virtually every means of human survival is now available for confiscation and control by the President via his and his Secretaries’ whim.

The unconstitutionality of the overwhelming majority of Executive Orders is well established, as well as the illegality of denying citizens their basic Constitutional and human rights, even in the event of a legitimate national emergency. Likewise, it should also be pointed out that, like Obama’s recent Libyan adventure and the foregone conclusion of a Syrian intervention, there is no mention of Congress beyond a minor role of keeping the allegedly co-equal branch of government informed on contextually meaningless developments.

As was mentioned above, the scope of the EO is virtually all-encompassing. For instance, in “Section 201 – Priorities and Allocations Authorities,” the EO explains that the authority for the actions described in the opening paragraph rests with the President but is now delegated to the various Secretaries of the U.S. Federal Government. The list of delegations and the responsibility of the Secretaries as provided in this section are as follows:

(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer;

(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;

(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;

(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;

(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and

(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.

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Exactly. gotta keep the citizens terrified and thinking they need the government.

BUMP!


This needs to be taken seriously. I have 3 boys - ages 8, 5 and 1, and am SERIOUSLY considering homeschooling more and more lately.....going to decide for sure soon, so that I can start in the fall.

probably. :-(

Hey, I'm old enough to remember the duck and cover drills in the schools. As if hiding under your desk was going to protect you from a bomb going off!!

Those drills were sort of funny, and took a minute or two off of the class schedule, so no big thing. But I think if they had loaded us up on buses, or had played at having someone come in with a gun to point it at us... then I think it would have been extremely disturbing.

I was usually a quiet little kid... that's changed. Nowadays I'd most likely confront a gun-toting idiot. I can only die once, and would rather do it on my feet, not on my knees under a desk.

Keep the people afraid.

Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle Civil Defense Film

test...test...test...is there anyboboy out there

Homeschooling is terrorism.

Just like paying cash for your coffee and donut.

What an exciting and educational experience! I never had that as a child. These drills are a wonderful way to impress young Americans with a deep awe and amazement at the power of Government. Lucky kiddos!

Land of the free, my ass!!

keep the info coming, RoXY! good stuff here.

The Collapse of American Democracy
by Barry Grey
March 12, 2012
World Socialist Web Site

One week ago, US Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a speech asserting the right of the president to secretly order the assassination of American citizens. Citing the so-called “war on terror,” he claimed that this never-before-asserted authority was lawful under the president’s war-making powers and was not subject to judicial review.

Holder stressed that the president’s power to order extra-judicial killings was part of a range of powers including the abduction of suspected terrorists and their indefinite internment, without trial, either in civilian or military prisons. Having noted that terrorists “reside within our own borders,” he insisted that the government’s authority to use lethal force was “not limited to the battlefields of Afghanistan.”

In an attempt to give a constitutional gloss to this assertion of police-state powers, Holder made the astonishing assertion that “due process and judicial process are not one and the same… The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.”

The speech was in response to pressure on the administration to provide a legal rationale for the targeted killing of three US citizens in Yemen last fall. Anwar al-Alawki, an alleged Al Qaeda leader, was killed in a drone attack along with another US citizen, Samir Khan. Two weeks later, Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman Alawki, was killed in a separate drone attack.

One would think that such a sweeping and extraordinary speech, asserting the right of the US government to summarily kill its own citizens, would become the focus of political discussion and the topic of heated debate. In fact, the media and the political establishment virtually ignored it. None of the three network news programs mentioned it. Articles in the major newspapers reporting the speech were relegated to the inside pages.

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If these schools are soooo concerned for our childrens health and well being then how come they allow every Tom, Dick and Harry freedom to roam the halls on Election Day?? Thats right the schools still have the voting there. So any one can enter the school on that day and possibly do harm. Many schools don't cancel that day either.

And try calling the school with your concern about it and they treat you like your crazy and paranoid. NOW they have the nerve to pull this crap!!

What has happened to this country?