<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>***** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *****</div><div><br></div><div>KMEC Radio is pleased to bring you a special edition show that we're calling, "Crying Wolf: Are 'Terror Warnings' Like Fake 911 Calls?" Adam Johnson is our guest. Our show airs on Monday, July 6, at 1 p.m., Pacific Time. John and Sid are your hosts.</div><div><br></div><div>KMEC Radio airs at 105.1 FM in Ukiah, CA. We also stream from the web at <a href="http://www.kmecradio.org" target="_blank">www.kmecradio.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our shows are archived, and we also post many shows to Youtube. 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PR firm Beacon Global Strategies -- Michael Morell went on CBS 'This Morning' (6/29/15) and scared the ever-living bejesus out of everyone by saying he 'wouldn’t be surprised if we were sitting [in the studio] next week discussing an attack on the U.S.' The first piece of evidence Morell used to justify his apocalyptic posture, the '50 ISIS arrests,' was accompanied by a scary map on the CBS jumbotron showing 'ISIS arrests' all throughout the U.S.</span></div><div><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> "But one key detail is missing from this graphic: None of these 'ISIS arrests' involved any actual members of ISIS, only members of the FBI -- and their network of informants -- posing as such ... the viewer is left thinking the FBI arrested 50 actual ISIS sleeper cells....</span><br><div><br></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> "Nevertheless, the ominous FBI (or Department of Homeland Security) 'terror warning' has become such a staple of the on-going, seemingly endless 'war on terror' (d/b/a war on ISIS), we hardly even notice it anymore. Marked by a feedback loop of extremist propaganda, unverifiable claims about 'online chatter' and fuzzy pronouncements issued by a never ending string of faceless Muslim bad guys, and given PR cover by FBI-contrived 'terror plots,' the specter of the impending 'attack' is part of a broader white noise of fear that never went away after 9/11. Indeed, the verbiage employed by the FBI in this latest warning -- 'we’re asking people to <em>remain</em> vigilant' -- implies no actual change of the status quo, just an hysterical nudge to not let down our collective guard.</span><br><div><br></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> "There’s only one problem: These warnings never actually come to fruition. Not rarely, or almost never, but -- by all accounts -- never. No attacks, no arrests, no suspects at large." Johnson lists forty previous FBI and DHS 'terror warnings' over the past 14 years, none of which actually predicted or foiled an attack.</span><br><div><br></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> One aspect of this, Johnson writes, is the "FBI, like all agencies of the government, does not operate in a political vacuum. Emphasizing the 'ISIS threat' at home necessarily helps prop up the broader war effort the FBI’s boss, the president of the United States, must sell to a war-weary public. The incentive is to therefore highlight the smallest threats. This was a feature that did </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/tom-ridge-i-was-pressured_n_264127.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">not go unnoticed</span></a> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;">during the Bush years, but has since fallen out of fashion."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;"> </span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>