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The Federal Alliance for Safe Homes is launching the Great Hurricane Blowout, an outreach campaign created to encourage and inspire residents in hurricane-prone states to be proactive about their personal hurricane preparedness during storm season. According to the website:
Join the Blowout now and stay with us throughout April and May as surprise celebrities and experts will guide [...]

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In a recent joint op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) “Now Is the Time to Prepare for Cyberwar,” argue:
The information networks that nearly every American relies on are under constant attack by sophisticated cyber adversaries. These adversaries target our identities, our money, our businesses, our intellectual property, [...]

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Just before the start of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, President Obama underscored the stakes: “the  single biggest threat to U.S. security — both short term, medium term and long term — would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon…And we know that organizations like al-Qaeda are in the [...]

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I wanted to bring your attention to a recent panel held by George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute. The title of the event was “Improvised Explosive Devices: Perceptions and the Domestic Threat” After watching the webcast, I was struck by how each of the panelists, including the Washington D.C. police chief, highlighted the centrality [...]

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Thanks to Keith Robertory I just saw a fun and I think effective new blood donation PSA from the Australian Red Cross that I wanted to post. And, as someone who has benefited greatly from donated blood, I’m always looking for a reason to promote the subject on the blog.

Red Cross (Australia) Blood Donation PSA
Those [...]

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In the wake of this week’s Baja California earthquake, San Diego’s KPBS had an interesting piece discussing why so few state residents have earthquake insurance.
[There] may be good reasons to get earthquake insurance, but there are reasons why most people decide to just take their chances. Those reasons boil down to the rarity of severe [...]

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The Department of Homeland Security’s most significant policy outreach to the public in its six-year history has been the National Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review. The Dialogue was an innovative web-based outreach tool created by DHS and the National Academy of Public Administration(NAPA) last year to help solicit stakeholder input on the “Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR). (The QHSR [...]

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The White House last week released a “Surface Transportation Security Priority Assessment”. Phil Leggiere summarized the findings in Homeland Security Today:
Although progress has been made in improving surface transportation security, US ground transportation remains poorly organized and unacceptably vulnerable, according to a report issued late last week by the Obama administration.
The report, titled, Surface Transportation Security Priority [...]

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A day after Colorado State University released their forecast that the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be “above average”, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate has recorded a video urging the public to begin preparations.
The preliminary report, according to CNN.com, predicts 15 named storms and eight of those becoming hurricanes:
Forecasters William Gray and Phil Klotzbach said that [...]

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday announced the formation of “the local, state, tribal, and federal Preparedness Task Force—a council of experts charged with assessing the state of the nation’s disaster preparedness and making recommendations to Secretary Napolitano about ways to build resiliency in communities across America.”
This blog has recommended that the [...]

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