Interesting story broke over the weekend. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, removed its NLE 2010 draft from their website and requested that all media circuits refrain from reporting on the document. Hmm…why? Well one, you should know what the NLE is. According to the FEMA website the NLE ’10, short for National Level Exercise, is designated as a Tier [...]

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea’s state-run (and only) news agency, sporadically releases photos of reclusive 69-year-old leader Kim Jong-il as he makes “on-the-spot” guidance visits. Kim Jong-il, continuing a practice begun by his father, Kim Il-sung, makes these visits to factories and facilities throughout the country, purportedly to offer his personal guidance. Followed by army officers, security [...]

Now no one/country would be insolent enough to actually push for a WWIII but I figured more people would read this if that was in the title (#fail). Anyway, you should still pay very close attention to two new developments in national/global security. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s inflammatory remarks as well as a brief summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing [...]