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So at 5:00 Eastern we just got our cell phones buzzing loudly. We figure it's an Amber Alert. Annoying as those are....

More on Obama’s malfeasance. #EvilClown In the wake of the Boston bombing, the Oklahoma beheading, the Times Square bombing, the Portland, Oregon Christmas tree lighting bombing, hundreds of American Muslims returning from waging jihad in Syria, the thwarted Federal Reserve building bombing, or any of these jihad attacks — “Obama’s Terrorism Alert System Has Never Issued a Public Warning — Ever,” Foreign Policy, September 2014 The National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS), a function of the massive Department of Homeland Security, didn’t issue any public advisories this summer as Western passport holders took up jihad in Syria by the thousands and...

Today was the first test of the new Emergency Alert System, which is a centrally controlled version of the Emergency Broadcast System whose tests have been annoying the hell out of people for the better part of fifty years. The idea is to give the President a way to alert the entire populace to a national emergency instantly, by seizing control of all TV and radio communications. In the event of a nuclear war, large-scale civil unrest, a massive cyber-attack, or a zombie apocalypse, you’ll hear a headache-inducing tone, followed by emergency instructions. Unless we get attacked by an electromagnetic...

A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear on cell phones equipped with special chips and software.

Brussels, 19 April (AKI) - Immediately alert all member states of the expulsion of a non EU citizen suspected of terrorist activity, incitement to discrimination, hate and violence. This is the objective of a new alert and information system approved on Thursday by the Interior and Justice ministers of the 27 EU nations, meeting in Luxembourg. "The alert system we have agreed gives the competent authorities of the member states the chance to inform each other rapidly on citizens, who are relevant from a security perspective, who have been expelled" said German interior minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. He said this was...

<p>SACRAMENTO - California is launching a statewide notification system to alert parents and communities when a child is abducted, state officials said today.</p> <p>The alert system, called the California Child Safety AMBER Network, will help local law enforcement access state and federal alert systems that are already in place, said Governor's Office of Emergency Services Director Dallas Jones.</p>