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Mayor of Country Club Hills doesn’t like the new threat level system
by Sam Hudzik Apr. 26, 2011
A south suburb of Chicago plans to take down signs that alert residents to the current terrorism threat level. That’s after the feds announced they were scrapping the color-coded system.
It may seem a bit out of place driving through Country Club Hills to see big signs reading “Homeland Security Advisory System.”
“I think there’s five ratings, and you fly a flag above it corresponding with the rating,” said Dwight Welch, mayor of County Club Hills, which is about 25 miles south of Chicago’s downtown.
via South suburb doing away with terrorism warning signs | WBEZ.
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The accusation was explosive and unambiguous: A top general in Afghanistan used illegal “information operations” to influence visiting U.S. Senators. But military documents obtained by Danger Room show that at least one Army lawyer deemed the work legal. What’s more, the alleged information operator’s bosses repeatedly told him that he was just another communications staffer, not some bender of minds.
At the very least, this new information complicates the charges, first leveled by Lt. Col. Michael Holmes in Rolling Stone magazine. At most, it could neuter Holmes’ allegations, just as an investigation by the office of Afghan war commander Gen. David Petraeus gets underway.
(Full disclosure: Both Michael Hastings, the author of the Rolling Stone piece, and Caldwell are longtime friends of this blog.)
According to Holmes, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell — the general in charge of training Afghanistan security forces — had him “playing with people’s heads.” And not just any people; Holmes was allegedly ordered to use his information operations, or IO, skills on senators and congressmen visiting Afghanistan. So in March, Holmes contacted a military lawyer in the United States who told him “IO doesn’t do that.” American law forbids the government from targeting propaganda at American citizens.
via ‘Illegal Psyop’ Neither Illegal Nor Psyop, General’s Lawyer Ruled | Danger Room | Wired.com.
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Be afraid, be scared, be controlled by big government propaganda!
Abandoned briefcase scare halts CTA Blue Line trains, Kennedy
Jessica D’Onofrio and John Garcia
November 9, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — A briefcase sitting at a Northwest Side CTA stop brought the Kennedy Expressway and the Blue Line to a standstill Monday evening.
The Blue Line was back to normal Tuesday morning, and the Kennedy was reopened after a bomb squad had to shut the area down as a precaution.
“The bomb squad arrived and were able to examine this briefcase. They were able to determine that it was not bonafide. It was not anything that contained explosives,” said John Escalante, Chicago Police Department.
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Geithner Visited Jon Stewart in April, Though Not for Laughs – Bloomberg
By Ian Katz – Nov 3, 2010 11:00 PM CT
In the midst of debates on financial regulation and China’s currency in April, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner sat down to discuss the U.S. economy — with comedian Jon Stewart.
Geithner and Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” held an off-the-record meeting at Stewart’s office in New York on April 2, according to Geithner’s appointments calendar, updated through August on Treasury’s website.
Geithner didn’t stay for a television interview with Stewart although other administration officials — most notably President Barack Obama last week — have turned up for on-camera chats.
“Jon Stewart is influential in America, so we took the opportunity for the two to meet and to discuss the economy,” Treasury spokesman Steve Adamske said in an e-mail yesterday. Stewart’s program has poked fun at Geithner, including a segment last year about the Treasury secretary’s trouble selling his New York home.
On the same day he met with Stewart, Geithner spoke on the phone with Democratic lawmakers including Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, according to the appointments calendar.
via Geithner Visited Jon Stewart in April, Though Not for Laughs – Bloomberg.
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More Terror Threats Before Elections
Propaganda Warning
Aviation officials say Chicago airport security personnel have been alerted to an investigation of suspicious packages on cargo planes in Philadelphia, Newark, N.J., and England.
Chicago Department of Aviation spokeswoman Karen Pride says she can't talk specifically about any stepped-up security efforts or what security teams have been told. She will only say the airports are aware of the situation.
She says the FBI is taking the lead on the investigation.
Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Kristin Lee says the planes landed safely and are being searched by law enforcement.
via Chicago airport on alert about suspicious packages – chicagotribune.com.
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This is how the U.S. government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda: in the immediate wake of some newsworthy War on Terror event, U.S. Government officials (usually anonymous) make wild and reckless — though unverifiable — claims. The U.S. media mindlessly trumpets them around the world without question or challenge. Those claims become consecrated as widely accepted fact. And then weeks, months or years later, those claims get quietly exposed as being utter falsehoods, by which point it does not matter, because the goal is already well-achieved: the falsehoods are ingrained as accepted truth.
via How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com.
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