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• Fed sees EMP as a threat to power infrastructure, but can’t figure out how to prevent it.
• Fungal Meningitis Outbreak – Toll
• Al Qaeda leader urges holy war over Prophet film

Fed sees EMP as a threat to power infrastructure, but can’t figure out how to prevent it. Posted: 13 Oct 2012 01:20 PM PDT While we often worry about maintaining power to our datacenters and plan for the potential impact of power outages and how we will deal with them almost all the plans made by datacenter operators deal with short term power failures. Long-term outages usually fall under the aegis of our disaster recovery / business continuity planning, [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Fed sees EMP as a threat to power infrastructure, but can’t figure out how to prevent it.

Fungal Meningitis Outbreak – Toll Posted: 13 Oct 2012 01:18 PM PDT An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled. Latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Illnesses: 197 Deaths: 15 Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Fungal Meningitis Outbreak – Toll

Al Qaeda leader urges holy war over Prophet film Posted: 13 Oct 2012 08:19 AM PDT The leader of Al Qaeda is encouraging Muslims to wage holy war against the United States and Israel in response to a film that insulted Islams Prophet Muhammad. Ayman al-Zawahri, in an audio message released by Al Qaeda’s media arm As-Sahab early Saturday, claimed Washington allowed the film’s production under the pretext of freedom of [...] This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America's trusted source for homeland security news and information. Al Qaeda leader urges holy war over Prophet film