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Rent-a-cops terrorize campus kids

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More tomfoolery as so-called security experts practice gunplay.
(Let’s play pretend: Campus drills are on the rise, as campus administers fall for security sales pitches. Images: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and ECSU)
The campus drill last week was meant to prepare students for their school shooting. (Homeland security consultants would have you believe such horrific events are inevitable, everywhere.)
Chancellor Dr. Willie J. Gilchrist Image: ECSU)
But not everyone got the email and text messages warning of the drill, at a North Carolina university (link, excerpt, below).
“Unfortunately we learned lessons from frightened students that result when live scenarios are carried out,” said Elizabeth City State University Chancellor Willie Gilchrist (right). “However, we want our campus to be ready in case of such an event.”
Note: This bit via Thought Criminal
clipped from www.charlotte.com

ELIZABETH CITY STATE

Armed-intruder drill terrifies university class

Professor was `prepared to die’; students sent text messages to parents
Brown said students, staff and faculty were notified five days in advance that a drill would take place. The word, he said, went out via e-mail and text messages.Not everyone got the word.At 1:31 p.m. on Friday, e-mail and text messages kicked off the drill with an announcement: “This is a test. ECSU is holding a test drill where an armed intruder will enter a room in Moore Hall and be detained by campus police.”The mock intruder, a campus police officer, carried a red plastic model gun, according to a university news release.

Schools flash-mob PTA moms

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istock_000001754636xsmall.jpg The dark side of flash-mobbing. War of the Worlds may be next.

Tech and telecommunications firms ghoulishly flog automated phone calling systems to the press after every school shooting.

Here (link and excerpt, below), we see the damage those systems can cause, by generating widespread public panic. Moms were told by a computer today that their grammar school kids had gone missing.

Excerpt:

2,100 automated calls wrongly tell Medford parents their children skipped school – Local News Updates – The Boston Globe
The blast of automated phone calls was accidentally sent at about 11 a.m. to parents of students of all ages. The system, which the school district has used for two years, alerts parents of their children’s attendance, emergencies, and other situations.

“It’s an excellent system, this was just a sequencing error,” said Roy Belson, the superintendent of schools. “We’re working on correcting any possibilities of that happening again.”

This emergency system gone wrong might remind you of another broadcast panic…

Update: The Globe reports one Medford, Mass. school went into lockdown after hearing from parents who received the emergency calls.

“The letter just said that ‘we found that many parents were getting these calls, so we followed our emergency lockdown plan,’ ” Jain said. “I think it was a way to keep a record of the students and the parents that were coming” to pick up children.

– Mark Baard

Chips are for kids: Failing tech rag reaches for RFID dollars

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Hate arphids? Then you must hate babies, according to PC magazine columnist Lance Ulanoff.

Ulanoff made it clear this week to potential RFID advertisers that he is in their camp. In a short piece, he decries arfid opponents as “moaning about privacy and First Amendment implications” associated with the VeriChip subcutaneous arfid implant for humans.

Ulanoff says that America’s 4 million newborns each year should be chipped, so they can be tracked by Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. And he parrots VeriChip’s bogus argument that the chip will prevent tragic child abductions.

The truth is that hospitals are doing an excellent job preventing abductions without the use of permanent, implantable chips that have not undergone longterm testing in humans.

The American Academy of Pediatrics calls the risk of any newborn being abducted virtually nonexistent.

As a parent myself, I find it difficult to imagine another parent being a sucker for VeriChip’s “someone might steal your baby” pitch.

Ziff-Davis has a long history shilling for technology advertisers. For a time, the company was owned by the Japanese computer catalogue publisher Softbank.

And many years before that, in 1938, Ziff-Davis purchased the early science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, which is credited with “inventing” flying saucers in its pages. William B. Ziff, Jr. inherited the company from his father in 1953. Many Ziff-Davis executives joked that Ziff, Jr., who abandoned his philosophical studies in Germany to run the company, “could see the future.”

I quite writing product reviews for several Ziff Davis publications a decade ago, after telling editors there that I refused to delete my criticisms of products from potential advertisers.

clipped from www.pcmag.com
RFID has been a boon to corporations with large retail outlets, inventory rooms, warehouses, and more.
Yet it seems all I hear is moaning about the privacy and First Amendment implications. This is growing tiresome, and it’s time to set people straight.
RFID chips are a good idea. RFID chips that can help locate people and objects are a better idea. RFID chips implanted in pets and people are the best idea of all. Let me illustrate how committed I am to this idea.

Urban wireless to serve intel and PSYOP forces

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The government needs more nodes: Various agencies want to seed cities with wireless networking devices (image from a DOD document).

Despite the high costs and unproven social benefits for municipal broadband, dozens of U.S. cities are ignoring laws banning anti-competitive practices and getting into the internet business.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Defense is planning to build robots that configure themselves into ad hoc wireless networks within urban areas.

City mayors claim they want to provide free and low-cost Wi-Fi access to the poor and attract business travelers. Defense planners say they need to have broadband capabilities in urban war zones.

But rather than closing the “digital divide” (which many academics admit is being exaggerated), or providing a redundant service to traveling salesmen, it appears that officials aim to seize control of internet communications and track individuals in urban areas.

Military and law enforcement agencies will also use the wireless networks to stage “hard PSYOP” attacks against a brain-chipped populace, according to historian and commentator Alan Watt, who specializes in secret societies and government intelligence operations.

Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, and Providence, R.I. are among the cities partnering with private companies and the federal government to set up public broadband internet access. Providence used Homeland Security funds to construct a network for police, which may be made available to the public at a later date.

None of the cities are expected to turn a profit anytime soon. Nor are the poor likely to benefit from the projects.

Subscribers to Philly’s “Wireless Philadelphia” service, for example, will pay up to 73 percent more than the rate promised to them two years ago.

“(Philadelphia) presented dangerously inaccurate estimates and figures for the costs and revenue” for its wireless network, according to a recent analysis by students at Harvard Law School. Continue reading →

Think tank: depopulation, brain-chipping on the horizon

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One of the lucky ones, according to futurists.

An organization headed by a former World Bank president the author of “Future Shock” predicts a dismal future for Americans.

24 million disabled Americans, most suffering from diseases caused by excess consumption, will require special public transportation to go to treatment centers, according to the World Future Society.

The WFS, whose directors include former World Bank president and U.S Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, and the futurist author Alvin Toffler, also predicts that the able-bodied will flee to other parts of the world, such as China and India, for work.

And healthy or not, young or old, most can look forward to being brain-chipped, and connected permanently to a global computer network, according to the WFS.

The WFS portrays the brain-chipping scenario as one of the few pluses on its list.

More of the WFS’s grim forecasts for the next 25 years: China’s drinking water supply will be virtually depleted, and global warming-generated super storms will cost hundreds of billions of dollars in damages annually.

Link and excerpt, to some of the predictions, are below.

clipped from www.wfs.org
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Forecast #1: Generation Y will migrate heavily overseas.
#2: Dwindling supplies of water in China will impact the global economy.
#3: Workers will increasingly choose more time over more money.
#4: We’ll incorporate wireless technology into our thought processing by 2030.
#5: Children’s “nature deficit disorder” will grow as a health threat.

VTech shooting aftermath: Government-controlled flashmobs

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Message received: Emergency text messages can herd people into target areas

The U.S. government, through its sponsored media outlets (see link and excerpt, below), is pushing for a requirement that students carry mobile devices to receive text messages from central authorities.

But as a I report in an upcoming issue of Glenn Beck’s Fusion Magazine, rogue authorities and terrorists themselves may be able to use SMS (for short messaging service) to herd people into traps, where gunmen or explosives may be awaiting them.

Also, as Alan Watt listeners and parallelnormal community members already know, British military authorities have already suggested that so-called flashmobs (which use SMS) are in the process of  being weaponized.

clipped from www.pbs.org

 Virginia Tech: Yet Another Wake-Up Call for Better Emergency Preparedness

[Almost] every cell phone available today is able to send and receive SMS text messages. SMS infrastructure generally holds up better in times of crisis than email, and it automatically appears on your phone’s screen when you receive one.
[I] have no doubt that universities that don’t have mandatory cell phone requirements or SMS alert systems are going to take the idea a lot more seriously now.