Comments(0) Know Your Stuff Home Inventory Software
This software makes creating a home inventory fun and easy. Once you have completed your inventory, it is easy to keep your information up to date.
Comments(0) Know Your Stuff Home Inventory Software
This software makes creating a home inventory fun and easy. Once you have completed your inventory, it is easy to keep your information up to date.
Comments(0) Here’s a great piece from yesterday’s NYT. There’s some mildly radical thinking in here about how to deal with the possibility of swarm-style attacks, where a set of terrorists wreak havoc in an urban environment.
Op-Ed Contributor – The Coming Swarm – NYTimes.com
For the defense of American cities against terrorist swarms, the key would be to use local police officers as the first line of defense instead of relying on the military. The first step would be to create lots of small counterterrorism posts throughout urban areas instead of keeping police officers in large, centralized precinct houses. This is consistent with existing notions of community-based policing, and could even include an element of outreach to residents similar to that undertaken in the Sunni areas of Iraq — even if it were to mean taking the paradoxical turn of negotiating with gangs about security.
At the federal level, we should stop thinking in terms of moving thousands of troops across the country and instead distribute small response units far more widely. Cities, states and Washington should work out clear rules in advance for using military forces in a counterterrorist role, to avoid any bickering or delay during a crisis. Reserve and National Guard units should train and field many more units able to take on small teams of terrorist gunmen and bombers. Think of them as latter-day Minutemen.
Comments(0) Misplaced priorities at the DHS. Hopefully, we’ll soon turn our collective attention to more pressing matters.
Jim Hightower: Why ‘homeland security’ is so often despised – poconorecord.com – The Pocono Record
The Department’s charm was on glaring display just before Christmas, when it sued the Nature Conservancy to condemn land near Brownsville, Texas, for the project. The conservancy owns and runs a unique 1,000-acre preserve along the Rio Grande, and the federal wall builders wanted to take a 60-foot-wide strip from the preserve, amounting to about eight acres.
Why fuss over eight acres? Well, you’d assume that the wall would be going up on the actual border, but no. They want to build this section a mile and a half from the border, thus putting three-fourths of the preserve in a no-man’s land between the wall and Mexico. The most critical part of the wildlife habitat, and even the home of the preserve’s manager, would be cut off by the wall, effectively destroying the park, which is home to two kinds of endangered wildcats and a rare palm forest.
Comments(0) DC Community Preparedness
The District of Columbia Homeland Security Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA) is sponsoring a series of community trainings and exercises to help District neighborhoods be prepared in the event of a disaster.
More here from Alert DC:
DC HSEMA community exercise tomorrow, February 7, 10 a.m. at Marshall Heights Community Development Organization 3939 Benning Road, NE. Residents and business owners in Benning, Benning Heights, Burrville, Capitol View, Deanwood, Fort Dupont, Grant Park, Eastland Gardens, Fairmont Heights, Greenway, Kenilworth, Lincoln Heights, Marshall Heights, Mayfair and River Terrace should attend. Register now at www.dccommunitypreparedness.
org or call (202) 338-7153, ext. 212.
