KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
PUTIN MAY BE AGAINST THEM NOW.BUT IF THESE SAME REBELS TURNED ON AMERICA OR ISRAEL-YOU CAN SURE BET PUTIN WOULD SUPPORT THESE ARAB/MUSLIM FLESH EATERS.PUTIN ONLY HATES THEM IF THEIR ON THE WRONG SIDE.
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Alexei Anishchuk | Reuters – JUNE 16,13
"Are these the people you want to support? Are they the ones you want to supply with weapons? Then this probably has little relation to the humanitarian values preached in Europe for hundreds of years."The incident Putin referred to was most likely that of a rebel commander filmed last month cutting into the torso of a dead soldier and biting into a piece of one of his organs.Both sides have been accused of atrocities in the conflict. The United States and other countries that aid the rebels say one of the reasons for doing so is to support mainstream opposition groups and reduce the influence of extremists.
DOUBTS OVER CONFERENCE
The U.S. plan to arm the rebels also places new doubt over plans for an international peace conference called by Washington and Moscow, their first joint attempt in a year to try to seek a settlement.After meeting Putin, Britain's Cameron said the divide between Russia and the West over Syria could be bridged, although they disagreed about who was at fault."What I take from our conversation today is that we can overcome these differences if we recognize that we share some fundamental aims: to end the conflict, to stop Syria breaking apart, to let the Syrian people decide who governs them and to take the fight to the extremists and defeat them."Britain has not said whether it too will arm the rebels, but the issue is contentious even within Cameron's Conservative-led government. Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister from his Liberal Democrat coalition partners, said: "We clearly don't think it's the right thing to do now, or else we would have done it."
Under its new posture, Washington has also said it will keep warplanes and Patriot surface-to-air missiles in Jordan, an ally whose territory it can use to help arm and train rebel fighters. Washington has 4,500 troops in Jordan carrying out exercises.Washington has not ruled out imposing a no-fly zone over parts of Syria, perhaps near the Jordanian border, although it has taken no decision yet to do so.Jordan's King Abdullah rallied his own armed forces on Sunday, telling military cadets: "If the world does not help as it should, and if the matter becomes a danger to our country, we are able at any moment to take the measures to protect the country and the interests of our people."Washington hopes its backing will restore rebel momentum after Assad's forces seized the initiative by gaining the open support of Hezbollah, Lebanon's Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, which sent thousands of seasoned fighters to aid Assad.Just a few months ago, Western countries believed Assad's days were numbered. But with Hezbollah's support he was able to achieve a major victory this month in Qusair, a strategically located rebel-held town on a main route from Lebanon.
FIGHT FOR ALEPPO
Since then, the government has announced major plans to seize the north, including Aleppo, Syria's biggest city and commercial centre, largely rebel-held for nearly a year. The United Nations says it fears for a bloodbath in the north.Rebels say they are fighting back against government offensives in the north. An opposition operations room in northern Aleppo said fighters had destroyed an army tank and killed 20 troops at Marat al-Arteek, a town where opposition sources say rebels are holding back an armored column sent to reinforce loyalists from isolated Shi'ite villages."Assad's forces and Hezbollah are trying to control northern rural Aleppo but they are being repelled and dealt heavy losses," Colonel Abdeljabbar al-Okeidi, a Free Syrian Army commander in Aleppo, told al-Arabiya Television.He said Hezbollah had sent up to 2,000 fighters to Aleppo and the surrounding areas, but expressed confidence the opposition would prevail."Aleppo and Qusair are different. In Qusair we were surrounded by villages that had been occupied by Hezbollah and by loyalist areas. We did not even have a place to take our wounded. In Aleppo, we have a strategic depth and logistical support and we are better organized," he said. "Aleppo will turn into the grave of these Hezbollah devils."Battles were also fought inside Aleppo itself, where thousands of loyalist troops and militiamen reinforced by Hezbollah have been massing and attacking opposition-held parts of the city, driving rebel fighters back.Opposition activists said the army was also airlifting troops behind rebel lines to Ifrin, in a Kurdish area, which would give access for a bigger sweep inside the city."For a week, the rebel forces have been generally on the retreat in Aleppo, but the tide has started turning in the last two days," said Abu Abdallah, an activist in the area.Hezbollah's support for Assad, a follower of the minority Alawite offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, against mainly Sunni Muslim rebels has increased fears of sectarian violence spreading into neighboring countries.In Lebanon, security sources said gunmen had shot dead four Shi'ite Muslim men in an ambush in the Bekaa Valley close to the Syrian frontier. It was not clear who was behind the shooting.Lebanon is still rebuilding from its own sectarian civil war, fought from 1975-1990. Fighting between Sunnis and Shi'ites was also behind most of the violence in Iraq in the decade after the U.S. invasion of 2003.(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam in Beirut, Suleiman Al-Khalidi in Amman and Guy Faulconbridge, Costas Pitas and Andrew Osborn in London; Writing by Peter Graff)
Reuters – 2 hrs 2 mins ago JUNE 16,13
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel approved new measures on Sunday against Jewish ultranationalists who vandalise Palestinian property in a drive to mire security forces in sectarian violence in the occupied West Bank.Saying they sought to avenge attacks on Jewish settlers,
the vandals have torched and spray-painted Palestinian mosques and cars
and chopped olive trees in so-called "Price Tag" raids. Churches and
Arab property inside Israel have also been hit.With their potential for
upending the West Bank's relative quiet should Palestinians strike back,
and for discouraging any future Israeli evacuation of unapproved
settlements, the incidents worry Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightist government. But arrests and prosecutions have been rare.Netanyahu's security cabinet said in a statement it had empowered
the Defence Ministry to designate "Price Tag" vandals as members of
"illicit organisations", which would in turn "significantly expand the
investigative and prosecutorial tools available to the security forces
and law-enforcement".The statement did not elaborate.
An official told Reuters the decision would could effectively bring
Israel's handling of Price Tag suspects into line with its crackdowns on
Palestinian militants, entailing longer detentions and jail sentences as well as more intrusive surveillance and interrogations.The Justice Ministry was separately seeking parliamentary
ratification defining Price Tag attacks as "terrorism", alongside
Palestinian and other politically motivated attacks on Israelis, the
official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Alison Williams)
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 16, 2013 (republished from February 8, 2011)
RELATED: AT&T to Load iPhones With Emergency Alerts From Obama – That You Can’t Switch Off
Even the Washington Post describes it like something out of Orwell’s 1984. The FCC has approved a presidential alert system. Obama may soon appear on your television or call your cell phone to warn you about the next specious al-Qaeda underwear bombing event.
Commissioners
voted last week to require television and radio stations, cable systems
and satellite TV providers to participate in a test that would have
them receive and transmit a live code that includes an alert message
issued by the president. No date has been set for the test, according to
the Post.Once again, the government has imposed an unreasonable and absurd mandate on business and the American people.“The Federal Communications Commission today took action to help pave
the way for the first-ever Presidential alert to be aired across the
United States on the Nation’s Emergency Alert System (EAS),” the FCC
announced on February 3 in a press release.
“The national test will help determine the reliability of the EAS
system and its effectiveness in notifying the public of emergencies and
potential danger nationwide and regionally.”
audio:http://static.infowars.com/2011/02/i/general/208573.mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ZdbiSLnv4&feature=player_embedded
FecderalNewsRadio interviews the FCC about the system.
As Next Generation EAS systems become operational over the next few years, they will complement other public alert and warning systems now being developed, including FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) and the Commercial Mobile Alert System that will enable consumers to receive alerts through a variety of multi-media platforms on their smart-phones, blackberries and other mobile broadband devices.If implemented, the president will be able to commandeer your smart phone any time he wants and for any reason the government deems necessary.In November, communications company Alcatel-Lucent announced that it’s creating a Broadcast Message Center that will allow government agencies to send cell phone users specific information in the event of a local, state or national emergency, including those now ubiquitous government warnings about fantastic terror plots that invariably fizzle out or are run by FBI informants and agents provocateurs. It seems not a week or two passes that some gullible Muslim is duped by the agency into a fantastic terror plot (for instance, blowing up Christmas trees).The Broadcast Message Center is designed to force mobile phone manufacturers to adopt the Federal Communication Commission’s Commercial Mobile Alert System. Under the new system, all phones would receive emergency alerts directly from government bureaucrats.Former DHS boss Tom Ridge has admitted that the government exploits terror alerts for political gain. Ridge said he “was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.” A specific al-Qaeda terror alert hyped up prior to the election was downgraded by the DHS after Bush beat fellow bonesman Kerry in the election.Obama’s warnings about a supposed al-Qaeda attack on targets in Europe was exaggerated for political purposes, Pakistani diplomat Shamsul Hasan said in October. “I will not deny the fact that there may be internal political dynamics, including the forthcoming midterm American elections. If the Americans have definite information about terrorists and al-Qaida people, we should be provided [with] that and we could go after them ourselves,” Hasan said.No terror event occurred. “It was nothing specific, nothing very new,” said Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask after the official warning. “We agree that there is no indication of concrete targets, concrete dates and concrete terror groups,” added German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.In addition to your cell phone, the government wants to take control of your internet broadband in the event another phony terror attack threatens the homeland.Lisa Fowlkes, deputy chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC, told FederalNewsRadio on Monday that the FCC is looking at how wireless broadband could also enhance the EAS as part of a recommendation that was in the FCC’s National Broadband Plan from last year. The idea is to hijack broadband and the internet for emergency alerting propaganda with the “Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) being developed by FEMA and the wireless industry,” according to Fowlkes.The system would break into your computer or wireless device and broadcast presidential propaganda announcements, FEMA reports, so-called “Imminent Threat Alerts,” and AMBER Alerts.Government has devised other creative ways to disseminate propaganda. For instance, California introduced a bill last year to commission a study on emerging electronic license plate technology and examine ways that it could introduce new ad revenue streams. In addition to ads, the technology would flash Amber Alerts and other information. Earlier this month, DHS unveiled a new terror alert system that will hijack social networking sites as one way of informing people of terrorist threat updates. “The new, two-tiered system will provide alerts that are more specific to the threat and even recommend certain actions or suggest that people look for specific suspicious behavior, she said. They also may be limited to a particular audience — such as law enforcement — rather than broadcast to the general public, and also will have a specified end date,” reported Information Week Government.In December, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the expansion of the Department’s national “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign to hundreds of Walmart stores across the country — launching a new partnership between DHS and Walmart to help the American public play an active role in informing on each other. Thousands of Wamart stores will have telescreens pumping out government propaganda.
FEMA is also working on a new system that would send emergency alerts as text messages to wireless phone users. The system is still about two years away from full implementation, according to the agency.
CMAS is slated to begin deployment in April 2012.
PUTIN MAY BE AGAINST THEM NOW.BUT IF THESE SAME REBELS TURNED ON AMERICA OR ISRAEL-YOU CAN SURE BET PUTIN WOULD SUPPORT THESE ARAB/MUSLIM FLESH EATERS.PUTIN ONLY HATES THEM IF THEIR ON THE WRONG SIDE.
Putin says West arming Syrian rebels who eat human flesh
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Alexei Anishchuk | Reuters – JUNE 16,13
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Alexei Anishchuk
AMMAN/LONDON (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin,
arriving in Britain ahead of an international summit set to be
dominated by disagreement over the U.S. decision to send weapons to Syria's rebels, said the West must not arm fighters who eat human flesh.In Syria, rebels fought back on Sunday against forces of President Bashar al-Assad and his Lebanese Hezbollah allies near Aleppo, where Assad has announced a campaign to recapture the rebel-held north after seizing a strategic town this month.
After months of deliberations, Washington decided last week to send weapons to the rebels, declaring that Assad's forces had crossed a "red line" by using nerve gas.The move throws the superpower's weight behind the revolt and
signals a potential turning point in global involvement in a
two-year-old war that has already killed at least 93,000 people.It has also infuriated Russia, Cold War-era ally of Syria, which has
sold arms to Assad and used its veto at the U.N. Security Council to
block resolutions against him.Russia has dismissed the U.S.
evidence that Assad's forces used nerve gas. The White House says
President Barack Obama will try to lobby Putin to drop his support for
Assad during this week's G8 summit hosted by British Prime Minister David Cameron.After meeting Cameron in London, Putin said Russia wanted to create the conditions for a resolution of the conflict."One does not really need to support the people who not only kill
their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front
of the public and cameras," Putin said."Are these the people you want to support? Are they the ones you want to supply with weapons? Then this probably has little relation to the humanitarian values preached in Europe for hundreds of years."The incident Putin referred to was most likely that of a rebel commander filmed last month cutting into the torso of a dead soldier and biting into a piece of one of his organs.Both sides have been accused of atrocities in the conflict. The United States and other countries that aid the rebels say one of the reasons for doing so is to support mainstream opposition groups and reduce the influence of extremists.
DOUBTS OVER CONFERENCE
The U.S. plan to arm the rebels also places new doubt over plans for an international peace conference called by Washington and Moscow, their first joint attempt in a year to try to seek a settlement.After meeting Putin, Britain's Cameron said the divide between Russia and the West over Syria could be bridged, although they disagreed about who was at fault."What I take from our conversation today is that we can overcome these differences if we recognize that we share some fundamental aims: to end the conflict, to stop Syria breaking apart, to let the Syrian people decide who governs them and to take the fight to the extremists and defeat them."Britain has not said whether it too will arm the rebels, but the issue is contentious even within Cameron's Conservative-led government. Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister from his Liberal Democrat coalition partners, said: "We clearly don't think it's the right thing to do now, or else we would have done it."
Under its new posture, Washington has also said it will keep warplanes and Patriot surface-to-air missiles in Jordan, an ally whose territory it can use to help arm and train rebel fighters. Washington has 4,500 troops in Jordan carrying out exercises.Washington has not ruled out imposing a no-fly zone over parts of Syria, perhaps near the Jordanian border, although it has taken no decision yet to do so.Jordan's King Abdullah rallied his own armed forces on Sunday, telling military cadets: "If the world does not help as it should, and if the matter becomes a danger to our country, we are able at any moment to take the measures to protect the country and the interests of our people."Washington hopes its backing will restore rebel momentum after Assad's forces seized the initiative by gaining the open support of Hezbollah, Lebanon's Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia, which sent thousands of seasoned fighters to aid Assad.Just a few months ago, Western countries believed Assad's days were numbered. But with Hezbollah's support he was able to achieve a major victory this month in Qusair, a strategically located rebel-held town on a main route from Lebanon.
FIGHT FOR ALEPPO
Since then, the government has announced major plans to seize the north, including Aleppo, Syria's biggest city and commercial centre, largely rebel-held for nearly a year. The United Nations says it fears for a bloodbath in the north.Rebels say they are fighting back against government offensives in the north. An opposition operations room in northern Aleppo said fighters had destroyed an army tank and killed 20 troops at Marat al-Arteek, a town where opposition sources say rebels are holding back an armored column sent to reinforce loyalists from isolated Shi'ite villages."Assad's forces and Hezbollah are trying to control northern rural Aleppo but they are being repelled and dealt heavy losses," Colonel Abdeljabbar al-Okeidi, a Free Syrian Army commander in Aleppo, told al-Arabiya Television.He said Hezbollah had sent up to 2,000 fighters to Aleppo and the surrounding areas, but expressed confidence the opposition would prevail."Aleppo and Qusair are different. In Qusair we were surrounded by villages that had been occupied by Hezbollah and by loyalist areas. We did not even have a place to take our wounded. In Aleppo, we have a strategic depth and logistical support and we are better organized," he said. "Aleppo will turn into the grave of these Hezbollah devils."Battles were also fought inside Aleppo itself, where thousands of loyalist troops and militiamen reinforced by Hezbollah have been massing and attacking opposition-held parts of the city, driving rebel fighters back.Opposition activists said the army was also airlifting troops behind rebel lines to Ifrin, in a Kurdish area, which would give access for a bigger sweep inside the city."For a week, the rebel forces have been generally on the retreat in Aleppo, but the tide has started turning in the last two days," said Abu Abdallah, an activist in the area.Hezbollah's support for Assad, a follower of the minority Alawite offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, against mainly Sunni Muslim rebels has increased fears of sectarian violence spreading into neighboring countries.In Lebanon, security sources said gunmen had shot dead four Shi'ite Muslim men in an ambush in the Bekaa Valley close to the Syrian frontier. It was not clear who was behind the shooting.Lebanon is still rebuilding from its own sectarian civil war, fought from 1975-1990. Fighting between Sunnis and Shi'ites was also behind most of the violence in Iraq in the decade after the U.S. invasion of 2003.(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam in Beirut, Suleiman Al-Khalidi in Amman and Guy Faulconbridge, Costas Pitas and Andrew Osborn in London; Writing by Peter Graff)
Israel toughens law against anti-Palestinian vandals
Reuters – 2 hrs 2 mins ago JUNE 16,13
06/16/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Pope calls for “a courageous change of attitude” at G8 summit
David Cameron
Writing to UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, on the eve of the G8 summit which he will chair, Pope Francis calls for ‘a courageous change of attitude” in the economic and political field, and an ‘immediate, lasting cease-fire in Syria”
gerard o'connell rome “A courageous change of attitude” is required in the economic and political field so as to resolve the grave problems of today’s world, and to bring about an immediate and lasting cease-fire in Syria, Pope Francis stated in a letter to UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, who will chair the G8 summit at Lough Erne (Northern Ireland), June 17-18.“It is necessary to ensure that all political and economic activity, whether national or international, makes reference to man”, the Pope said in the letter, whose contents were clearly directed, through the British PM, to the G8 leaders.The Pope wrote the letter on June 15, in response to one sent to him ten days earlier by Mr. Cameron, which informed him of the upcoming summit. In his letter, the Pope said that while all such economic and political activity should “enable the maximum expression of freedom and creativity, both individual and collective”; it must also “promote and guarantee their responsible exercise in solidarity, with particular attention to the poorest”.He emphasized “the primary importance of putting humanity, every single man and woman, at the centre of all political and economic activity, both nationally and internationally”, and insisted on the fundamental need for ethics in all this.“Money and other political and economic means must serve, not rule”, Pope Francis stated. He reminded the G8 leaders that, paradoxical as it may seem, “free and disinterested solidarity is the key to the smooth functioning of the global economy.”He noted that the priorities for the G8 summit, set by the British Presidency, were mainly concerned with “the free international market, taxation, and transparency on the part of governments and economic actors”.Nevertheless, he said, “the fundamental reference to man is not lacking” among the summit’s priorities. He mentioned two specific cases: first, the proposal for “concerted action” by the G8 “to eliminate definitively the scourge of hunger and to ensure food security” and, secondly, “the protection of women and children from sexual violence in conflict situations”. But he reminded the summit that to achieve these two goals, “it is necessary to have international peace”.In this context, Pope Francis called on the G8 “to address the situation in the Middle East, especially in Syria” and to work for “an immediate and lasting cease-fire” here, “and to bring all parties in the conflict to the negotiating table.”Noting that the G8 agenda and measures proposed, under the British presidency, emphasize law as “the golden thread of development” - also in relation to such issues as tax avoidance and the responsibility of governments, Pope Francis said that all these problems are in their roots concerned with ethics. “The present global crisis shows that ethics is not something external to the economy, but is an integral and unavoidable element of economic thought and action”, he stated. He insisted that the various measures – both the urgent and the long term ones – that seek to resolve the global economic crisis “must be guided by the ethics of truth”. And this means they must recognize that man “is not simply an additional economic factor or a disposable good” but has “a dignity that cannot be reduced to simple economic calculus.”It is essential therefore, the Pope said, that “concern for the fundamental material and spiritual welfare of every human person” must be “the starting-point for every political and economic solution and the ultimate measure of its effectiveness and its ethical validity.”Pope Francis reminded the G8 leaders that “the goal of economics and politics is to serve humanity, beginning with the poorest and most vulnerable wherever they may be, even in their mothers' wombs.”He insisted that “every economic and political theory or action must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.”“In the absence of such a vision, all economic activity is meaningless”, the Pope told Mr. Cameron and, through him, the G8 leaders. He concluded by invoking God’s blessings on the G8 summit, and the British Presidency.Flashback: Obama Launches Total Takeover of Media System
Infowars.com
June 16, 2013 (republished from February 8, 2011)
RELATED: AT&T to Load iPhones With Emergency Alerts From Obama – That You Can’t Switch Off
Even the Washington Post describes it like something out of Orwell’s 1984. The FCC has approved a presidential alert system. Obama may soon appear on your television or call your cell phone to warn you about the next specious al-Qaeda underwear bombing event.
Commissioners
voted last week to require television and radio stations, cable systems
and satellite TV providers to participate in a test that would have
them receive and transmit a live code that includes an alert message
issued by the president. No date has been set for the test, according to
the Post.Once again, the government has imposed an unreasonable and absurd mandate on business and the American people.“The Federal Communications Commission today took action to help pave
the way for the first-ever Presidential alert to be aired across the
United States on the Nation’s Emergency Alert System (EAS),” the FCC
announced on February 3 in a press release.
“The national test will help determine the reliability of the EAS
system and its effectiveness in notifying the public of emergencies and
potential danger nationwide and regionally.”audio:http://static.infowars.com/2011/02/i/general/208573.mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ZdbiSLnv4&feature=player_embedded
FecderalNewsRadio interviews the FCC about the system.
As Next Generation EAS systems become operational over the next few years, they will complement other public alert and warning systems now being developed, including FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) and the Commercial Mobile Alert System that will enable consumers to receive alerts through a variety of multi-media platforms on their smart-phones, blackberries and other mobile broadband devices.If implemented, the president will be able to commandeer your smart phone any time he wants and for any reason the government deems necessary.In November, communications company Alcatel-Lucent announced that it’s creating a Broadcast Message Center that will allow government agencies to send cell phone users specific information in the event of a local, state or national emergency, including those now ubiquitous government warnings about fantastic terror plots that invariably fizzle out or are run by FBI informants and agents provocateurs. It seems not a week or two passes that some gullible Muslim is duped by the agency into a fantastic terror plot (for instance, blowing up Christmas trees).The Broadcast Message Center is designed to force mobile phone manufacturers to adopt the Federal Communication Commission’s Commercial Mobile Alert System. Under the new system, all phones would receive emergency alerts directly from government bureaucrats.Former DHS boss Tom Ridge has admitted that the government exploits terror alerts for political gain. Ridge said he “was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.” A specific al-Qaeda terror alert hyped up prior to the election was downgraded by the DHS after Bush beat fellow bonesman Kerry in the election.Obama’s warnings about a supposed al-Qaeda attack on targets in Europe was exaggerated for political purposes, Pakistani diplomat Shamsul Hasan said in October. “I will not deny the fact that there may be internal political dynamics, including the forthcoming midterm American elections. If the Americans have definite information about terrorists and al-Qaida people, we should be provided [with] that and we could go after them ourselves,” Hasan said.No terror event occurred. “It was nothing specific, nothing very new,” said Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask after the official warning. “We agree that there is no indication of concrete targets, concrete dates and concrete terror groups,” added German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.In addition to your cell phone, the government wants to take control of your internet broadband in the event another phony terror attack threatens the homeland.Lisa Fowlkes, deputy chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC, told FederalNewsRadio on Monday that the FCC is looking at how wireless broadband could also enhance the EAS as part of a recommendation that was in the FCC’s National Broadband Plan from last year. The idea is to hijack broadband and the internet for emergency alerting propaganda with the “Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) being developed by FEMA and the wireless industry,” according to Fowlkes.The system would break into your computer or wireless device and broadcast presidential propaganda announcements, FEMA reports, so-called “Imminent Threat Alerts,” and AMBER Alerts.Government has devised other creative ways to disseminate propaganda. For instance, California introduced a bill last year to commission a study on emerging electronic license plate technology and examine ways that it could introduce new ad revenue streams. In addition to ads, the technology would flash Amber Alerts and other information. Earlier this month, DHS unveiled a new terror alert system that will hijack social networking sites as one way of informing people of terrorist threat updates. “The new, two-tiered system will provide alerts that are more specific to the threat and even recommend certain actions or suggest that people look for specific suspicious behavior, she said. They also may be limited to a particular audience — such as law enforcement — rather than broadcast to the general public, and also will have a specified end date,” reported Information Week Government.In December, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the expansion of the Department’s national “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign to hundreds of Walmart stores across the country — launching a new partnership between DHS and Walmart to help the American public play an active role in informing on each other. Thousands of Wamart stores will have telescreens pumping out government propaganda.
FEMA is also working on a new system that would send emergency alerts as text messages to wireless phone users. The system is still about two years away from full implementation, according to the agency.
CMAS is slated to begin deployment in April 2012.
