{"id":134,"date":"2005-11-02T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T05:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-11-02T19:52:15","modified_gmt":"2005-11-02T09:52:15","slug":"specific-terror-threat-with-no-change-to-alert-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"“Specific” terror threat- with no change to alert level?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SMH sez<\/a>:
\"Be<\/p>\n

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Australian intelligence authorities have received specific information about a terrorist threat in Australia, Prime Minister John Howard says.<\/p>\n

"The Government has received specific intelligence and police information this week, which gives cause for serious concern about a potential terrorist threat," he told reporters in Canberra<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, HoWARd says there is a credible and specific terrorism threat to Australia… but the alert level has not been raised? Crap. Why isn’t he on the scene with firehose and bomb disposal suit at the ready? <\/p>\n

You are being sold a bill of goods<\/a>– and it has been done before<\/a>. Is this just a smokescreen<\/a> to cover TerrorChoices<\/a>? <\/p>\n

If ever there was a time to be alarmed- it’s right spanking now<\/strong><\/a>.  Oh, and thanks for nothing<\/a>, Beaz.  <\/p>\n

Hat tip to Margo Kingston<\/a>. <\/p>\n

-weez <\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/font> HoWARd says it’s mere coincidence that the ‘specific threat’ of terrorist activity in Australia was announced today and that it is not a smokescreen<\/a>. Labor to back eleventh hour changes<\/a> to terrorism laws. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be alarmed. You’re being lied to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}