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Theatlantic.com’s Marc Ambinder had a post this week about “Inspire,” the first English-language propaganda magazine from Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
According to Ambinder:
The table of contents teases an interview with the leader of AQAP who promises to “answer various questions pertaining to the jihad in the Arabian Peninsula.” It includes a feature about [...]

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There was a segment this week on ABC’s Nightline, titled “In The Lap of Luxury On Doomsday,” about the deluxe accommodations/shelters being offered for sale as an escape in the event of a major national catastrophe. The reporter, David Wright, visits an underground development in California’s Mojave Desert offering space for $50,000 per adult (and [...]

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Through Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson’s Twitter feed, I learned that the federal government’s Serve.Gov website for volunteer opportunities has set up a search page for citizens interested in helping on the Gulf oil spill recovery.
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Get the Oil Spill Cleanup: Volunteer widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a [...]

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced yesterday that the Department would be launching a nationwide “See Something, Say Something” campaign.
Napolitano made the announcement in New York City’s Penn Station at the beginning of a daylong train tour down the northeastern corridor highlighting rail security.
The “See Something” campaign was initially created by New York’s Metropolitan Transit [...]

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As the arrival of Alex signals the start of the hurricane season, I wanted to highlight a recent U.S. Census Bureau study that found in the last 50 years the population in coastline counties has almost doubled, with growth along the Gulf of Mexico soaring by 150 percent.
“Coastline counties along the Atlantic and Gulf, as [...]

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