Your safety tip: during natural disasters and other emergency situations it is best to text your loved ones. Placing calls uses more power and jams the cell tower. Allowing no calls to get through. If you can, text your way through a mass causality emergency event . Only call if injured and in need of immediate assistance.
In the LBC
Be careful Long Beach. If you have been paying attention there has been many murders in the last couple weeks. Word is we have us a race war brewing. If you are from this city or you grew up in its hood you know what that means. So everyone be careful, aware of your surrounding, and stay out of areas you don’t need to be in. You don’t have to be a gang member or part of any other group to be a victim. Bullets have no names and are no respecter of persons. So all of you be careful, black people especially.
If you’re heading to any state fairs this season — the Maine one is going on now — you may want to steer clear of pigs that look under the weather, with a runny nose, sneezing, and watery eyes. A new form of swine flu is circulating, and so far 29 people have become infected with it since last August, often from handling pigs at state fairs, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Court records do not reveal how much contact the teen had with his mother before they began their affair.” huhhhh wtf?"
Beating the drug-war addiction Editor’s Note: Juan Gabriel Tokatlian is Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Di Tella, Argentina. For more, visit Project Syndicate’s great new website, or check it out on Facebook and Twitter. By Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, Project Syndicate In January, US President Barack Obama nominated Marine Corps Lieutenant General John F. Kelly to head the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM). Based in Miami, Florida, USSOUTHCOM runs military operations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, and is the key US “drug warrior” in the region. Across the region, the key question, among civilian and military leaders alike, is whether the change in commanders will bring with it a change in focus. The top priority for USSOUTHCOM is to fight narcotics trafficking from the Andes to the Rio Grande. With the Cold War’s end, fighting communism was no longer the US armed forces main objective; USSOUTHCOM increasingly concentrated on pursuing coercive anti-drug initiatives, and funds to fight the drug war were plentiful. But the change in commanders is an opportunity for the US to revise, at long last, its regional doctrine in order to address other pressing security needs. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 paradoxically reinforced the US military’s focus on countering illicit drug traffickers. While other US forces became heavily involved in the “war on terrorism,” USSOUTHCOM scaled up its “war on drugs,” with its commanders targeting the industry’s bosses in the Andes, Mexico, and Central America.
Do you think they will do it?
ANONYMOUS Intend to Shut Down The Internet! March 31: Operation Global Blackout
The hacking group known as Anonymous intends to attack the core servers that control the routing of all internet traffic. DNS, or Domain Name Servers, are a critical backbone of the web and make it possible for internet surfers to reach web site destinations by typing in a domain name in their browsers.
Once a particular web site is requested, a query is sent to a domain name server, which then redirects that web address to a specific IP address on the web. Without these servers, access to web sites through traditional means (typing in a ‘dot com’) becomes impossible, because there is no way to direct the traffic to the appropriate web site destination.
According to a statement released by Anonymous, it is these servers that will come under fire on Saturday, March 31.
Anonymous says they do not intend to ‘kill’ the internet completely, but rather, the end game of Operation Blackout 2012 is a temporary take down of the internet where “it hurts most.” According to the group, the operation is being carried out to: …protest SOPA, Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, on March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down.
If this latest threat is carried out, it will highlight the significant security risks inherent in the internet as it exists today. According to numerous reports, including those of the head of US Cyber Security General Keith Alexander, infrastructure, commerce and transportation are susceptible to attacks that could damage physical equipment like thousand-ton machines, cause widespread power outages, and affect just-in-time delivery systems that keep food, gas and commerce flowing.
If Anonymous is capable of attacking core DNS servers that take down the web, even for a day, it would be a show of just how fragile our entire way of life really is. Though Anonymous hackers undoubtedly include some of the best and brightest techies out there, they would likely pale in comparison to the cumulative power of hackers operating under the sponsorship of a large Asian government (we won’t name any names), or a coordinated rogue terror network that acts not for the purpose of protest, but devastation.
If such an attack were to be unleashed on the Untied States terrorism experts suggest a coordinated take-down of the entire United States could be executed in as little as 15 minutes.
