As the result of a Freedom of Information Act request, the US Government has released the list of words that will trigger the Department of Homeland Security to start monitoring your online contributions and conversations. The list is divided into sections by subject matter.
Figure 1. You can call it a thunderstorm, but under no circumstances should you call it “extreme weather”
I was greatly amused to find a section for words about “Weather” on the list, which contains the following terms.
Weather/Disaster/Emergency Emergency Hurricane Tornado Twister Tsunami Earthquake Tremor Flood Storm Crest Temblor Extreme weather Forest fire Brush fire Ice Stranded/Stuck Help Hail Wildfire Tsunami Warning Center Magnitude Avalanche Typhoon Shelter-in-place Disaster Snow Blizzard Sleet Mud slide or Mudslide Erosion Power outage Brown out Warning Watch Lightening Aid Relief Closure Interstate Burst Emergency Broadcast System
Looks like WUWT is going to be front and center 24/7/365 at the Department of Homeland Security, no matter what we do …
Lest you think I’m making this up, the list of words is on page 23 of the “Analyst’s Binder“, which describes the situation for those doing the analysis …
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Addendum by Anthony: I would add that Climate Progress, GRIST, Yale Environment Forum, DeSmog Blog, 350.org, and other “extreme weather = climate” alarmist websites also use these words, as does NOAA itself daily. Hopefully, they have DHS analysts capable of actually analyzing intent rather than relying on “tribal profiling”. – Anthony
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@ur momisugly Bill Tuttle says:
May 29, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Curiousgeorge says:
May 29, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Anybody besides me also a retired Marine, Nam vet, and a gun nut who also hangs out with bikers, and lives out in the MS woods?
Retired Army. I’ll see your Vietnam and raise you Bosnia, Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The TSA in Philly (hiya, fellas!) have “accidentally” razored my hold baggage a couple of times, playing “Find the Kabar”…
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Semper Fi, soldier. 🙂
This list is to detect and respond to weather emergencies. Thereis no mention of sceptic, denier, crutem, hockey stick, verfication statistics… . That would be the list to be worried about.
Ya know, when I retired from the biz, we had to get a search warrant from the special court to look at US comms. We were too busy watching foreign bad actors to mess with Americans anyway. We’d get pissed if something we were following accidentally caught up some US or allied comms because that meant we’d just wasted our time. I guess time are achangin’, glad I retired when I did. I’d probably get in trouble for trying to enforce the 4th amendment or something.
“Stuck”, that should deter communications between epoxologists. I long ago coined the term Ph—ologist for blowhards that actually know Ph— all
Ooooh, I’m gonna have fun with this. There are some big fora out there attached to big companies handling a lot of Internet traffic. Whatever forum you visit, see how many of these words you can slip into regular conversation. No one will noitce except the Department of Homeland Security. And, yes, I visit and contribute heavilly to one such USA based business forum that has nothing whatsoever to do with climate or politics and draws thousands of viewers. Hmmm… and these words will trigger every time someone even views them? I like that! 🙂
(Am I in trouble yet?) 🙂 🙂 🙂
Big Brother may have something more in mind.
http://junkscience.com/2012/05/29/editorial-giving-the-internet-to-the-u-n/
Are these the same folks that decided retired vets were at the top of the list a few years ago?
I suppose it would be paranoid to imagine that they might have released a fake list in response to FOIA, while the real “dictionary” remains secret? Yeah, the gubmint wouldn’t do that.
Okay, okay, so it’s just to keep check on weather emergencies??? Not keep an eye on the people? Dang…
Just take words from the list and make “No global warming for 12 years” and “9/11 was an inside job”….by the time we have all posted this they will have to employ the rest of the country to check it out!
Geoffrey Withnell:
At May 29, 2012 at 1:44 pm you say:
Yes.
I lived in Cheltenham for many years. Cheltenham is the base for GCHQ; i.e. the UK equivalent of the US NSA with whom it works in close agreement.
Please note that I have NOT worked with or for GCHQ at any time. However, GCHQ is the major employer in Cheltenham. And this makes the town culturally unique.
In the UK a common way to start a conversation is to ask, “What do you do?” (i.e. for a living). But that question is never asked in Cheltenham because the commonest answer is, “I am a civil servant” and conversation stops.
Richard
I would be very amazed if they could actually do what they are letting us believe they can do; I figure it’s like the old Sholin Temple legends, the Monks never said they could jump 30 feet in the air, but they didn’t mind that the bandits thought they could. They can probably keep track of who is talking to who, and can analyze what said down to a threat assessment score and store it if the machine thinks it’s relevant, the world list maybe a key to a compression scheme as well. There are machines that can do that kind of analysis in real time on an internet backbone feed.
Also amusing, and a symptom of the complete technical ignorance of the creators of this document, is the term “mysql injection”. In the art it’s called sql injection, or “‘”.
situational awareness requires recording and preservation of all communications in real time with very few gaps in coverage.
a friend of mine has the case for an old hard.drive from such a farm-
it’s about 8 feet high and wide. the walls of the case are about a foot thick. the hole for the axle is about a foot diameter. the case is solid black granite. the platters were, of course, missing.
it’s about 15 years old. they have more compact storage devices now to make the job a lot easier.
Jason Calley says:
May 29, 2012 at 11:12 am
For anyone in doubt, just Google for “Carnivore”. It has been going on for many years. It’s not even ‘secret’, it’s just the FBI forcing you to comply and allow them to monitor all the traffic through your Internet server.
Oddly, there are fewer links than there ever used to be (cue ominous music)
Just who are they protecting?
Funny. There are so many words in that list that could be used to describe some “climate scientists”…
Before everyone gets too excited here, I’d like to point out that there are very strong regulations regarding domestic intelligence gathering, and the real IC agencies (CIA, NSA, etc.) are expressly forbidden from domestic work. That has to be done by the FBI. In my 29 years of work in and around the community, I’ve received countless briefings stating and restating the same.
Also, that document is a fake.
[SNIP: No. Absolutely not. Sorry. -REP]
The biggest key to security is to never mention a three letter government agency by name.
Emergency Hurricane Tornado Twister Tsunami Earthquake Tremor Flood Storm Crest Temblor Extreme weather Forest fire Brush fire Ice Stranded/Stuck Help Hail Wildfire Tsunami Warning Center Magnitude Avalanche Typhoon Shelter-in-place Disaster Snow Blizzard Sleet Mud slide or Mudslide Erosion Power outage Brown out Warning Watch Lightening Aid Relief Closure Interstate Burst Emergency Broadcast System
All dictionaries will be confiscated.
Mike Smith says:
May 29, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Of course, as _Jim says, the real terrorists will be using encryption.
So, clearly this silliness is not about real terrorism. It’s about monitoring social dissidence while maintaining an appearance of “doing something about terrorism”.
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It has NEVER been about “Terrorism” it has always been about control.
The United Nations has made it very clear that they want a universal gun ban among civilians. It is called the United Nations small arms treaty. An amendment to restrict the use of federal funds for advocating or lobbying for a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty has just passed the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations…
This is probably in response to “Fast and Furious” (A political CYA)
Documents show ATF used “Fast and Furious” to make the case for gun regulations
Janet Napolitano however has made it darn clear from her actions that she thinks “Terrorism” is a bunch of bull poop. In February of 2011Napolitano said terror threat may be highest since 9/11 but that is not what she really thinks.
Here is what is actually happening. I am using news clippings to tell the story to keep _Jim happy but he will probably snark anyway
Radical Islam makes inroads among Latin America’s Native peoples – February 21, 2010[
The locals state Napaolitano is lying.
Tim Gaffney said that Director of Homeland Security Janet Napaolitano’s statements that crimes related to immigration and drug smuggling issues are down is just not true.The numbers county officials provided in the release seem to back up Gaffney’s stance. The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said it has seen a “dramatic” increase in vehicle pursuits, drug seizures and calls to U.S. Border Patrol agents to help deal with illegal immigrants – 1/06/2011
The Department of Justice and the Government Accountability Office agree with Tim Gaffney.
Even though the Border Patrol now reports that almost 1,300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is not under effective control, and the Department of Justice says that vast stretches of the border are “easily breached,” and the Government Accountability Office has revealed that three persons “linked to terrorism” and 530 aliens from “special interest countries” were intercepted at Border Patrol checkpoints last year, the administration is nonetheless now planning to decrease the number of Border Patrol agents deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border ….the Obama administration on May 7 said the Border Patrol “plans to move several hundred Agents from the Southwest Border…- September 24, 2009
First Napolitano kills the build a fence project mandated by LAW ( Secure Fence Act of 2006 ) and substitutes a virtual fence.
Janet Napolitano on Tuesday said she will spend $50 million of stimulus funds originally intended to build a “virtual fence” along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border on other more proven and cost-effective security technology….Ms. Napolitano attempts to justify to lawmakers a 30 percent budget reduction for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the midst of a raging drug war along the Southwest border. – March 17, 2010
And then she cancels the virtual fence.
Napolitano Cancels Virtual Border Fence Project..1/14/2011
Private citizens are the only ones left building the border fence. Remember all the discussion about government funding projects with Stimulus funds???
While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen — and telling the Mexican government where they are. The Mexican government then announces their location on a website.
Legalized Civilian Militia Groups the Answer to Arizona’s Border Security Problems? JACK HARPER: three of the four border states are losing their National Guard troops now. And Arizona is supposed to lose the federally funded National Guard troops in June or July.
Unfortunately Harper’s idea was defeated. (I would much rather have government trained millitia groups than winging it)
Many of the Millitia groups use tiny unmanned airplanes and spy cameras to patrol the border. They avoid any contact and report sightings. Some drug runners use four wheel drive vehicles with mounted machine guns so contact is to be avoided. But you still get some nut cases even though they try to screen members. Arizona Militias Gain Momentum After Citizen Border Group Bill is Defeated
Just as well us Aussies don’t have a Bill of Rights or Freedom of Speach so they can’t trample all over it or stop us from using it. Having said that any Australian politician that tried to forbid us to speak or write would be told exactly what to do his/her orders, with graphic instructions of a colourful nature and in to what bodily orifice said instructions should be inserted in to.One of the reasons I use my real name is so those who track these posts won’t confuse me for anyone else. If you speak the truth you have nothing to fear.
Iran may be producing honest-to-God-copper.
Cool, looks like I am safe saying “Anvil Cloud” 🙂