The Department of Homeland Security is dumping its often-maligned and complicated color-coded terror alert system in favor of a simpler model that enlists the social media: People sometimes will be able to get alerts on Facebook and Twitter.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will unveil the new National Terrorism Advisory System, featuring warning levels of just "imminent" and "elevated," in New York City today.
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she complained that the usual fear-mongering on TV wasn't hyping their agenda enough, so they've decided to use facebook, skype, and twitter to send out alerts. In this way, she explained, they can interrupt people's lives at the right time and get their conversations changed to that of reactive fear, a controlling frequency that shrinks the heart, causes adrenalin to pump faster, and causes people to make poor judgment choices.
