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Title: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Brazen on March 23, 2016, 07:14:57 AM
QuoteCurrent threat from international terrorism
The current threat level for international terrorism in the UK is SEVERE.

Current threat from Northern Ireland-related terrorism
The threat level for Northern Ireland-related terrorism is set separately for Northern Ireland and Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland).

- The current threat level for Northern Ireland-related terrorism in Northern Ireland is SEVERE.
- The current threat level for Northern Ireland-related terrorism in Britain is MODERATE.

Those threat levels in full:
LOW means an attack is unlikely.
MODERATE means an attack is possible, but not likely
SUBSTANTIAL means an attack is a strong possibility
SEVERE means an attack is highly likely
CRITICAL means an attack is expected imminently

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/threat-levels (https://www.mi5.gov.uk/threat-levels)
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Grey Fox on March 23, 2016, 07:31:03 AM
It wasn't raised but I can't find the actual level. I am going to call it "Very Low".
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Martinus on March 23, 2016, 07:33:26 AM
Wtf, severe threat of IRA terrorism?  :huh:
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Martinus on March 23, 2016, 07:34:40 AM
Also in Poland the level is "basic" (no information about possibility of a terrorist threat).
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: LaCroix on March 23, 2016, 07:36:08 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 23, 2016, 07:33:26 AM
Wtf, severe threat of IRA terrorism?  :huh:

look at their history. since 2006, it's been a series of SEVERE, CRITICAL across the board. threat warning inflation :(
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Duque de Bragança on March 23, 2016, 07:38:30 AM
Vigipirate Alerte Attentat. Maximum level.
State of emergency but no state of siege, yet.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Brazen on March 23, 2016, 07:38:45 AM
Quote from: Martinus on March 23, 2016, 07:33:26 AM
Wtf, severe threat of IRA terrorism?  :huh:
In Northern Ireland. It may not have made the international press but a prison officer died in a car bomb blast earlier this month.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Brazen on March 23, 2016, 07:39:10 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 23, 2016, 07:31:03 AM
It wasn't raised but I can't find the actual level. I am going to call it "Very Low".
"Medium" apparently.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Brazen on March 23, 2016, 07:40:20 AM
I know how you all love a map. Here are the current global threat levels: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/Mapped-Terror-threat-around-the-world/ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/Mapped-Terror-threat-around-the-world/)
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Archy on March 23, 2016, 07:50:00 AM
at the moment threat level 4: a serious and imminent threat for the whole country

We were on 3 before the attack

level 3 serious
level 2 avarage
level 1 low
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: celedhring on March 23, 2016, 08:28:19 AM
Threat level in Spain: High (4 out of 5). It's been that way since last June.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: derspiess on March 23, 2016, 08:36:01 AM
In Cincinnati we use a Goetta meter.  I believe we're on "mild" but all it takes is an officer involved shooting for us to get to "hot".

(https://cdn.nexternal.com/cincyfav3/images/gliers_hot_goetta1.jpg)
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: CountDeMoney on March 23, 2016, 12:53:00 PM
I am at a constant state of alert and readiness, steeling myself with resolve at Threat Level Going To Die from A Vietnamese Nail Technician Texting in a Minivan.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Zanza on March 23, 2016, 12:57:45 PM
I am not aware that Germany has any officially publish terror threat level.

As I don't live in Berlin or Frankfurt, my personal terror threat perception is low.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: barkdreg on March 23, 2016, 01:27:25 PM
Don't know, don't care. Probably high.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Barrister on March 23, 2016, 01:30:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 23, 2016, 07:31:03 AM
It wasn't raised but I can't find the actual level. I am going to call it "Very Low".

Have you forgotten already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu_ramming_attack

Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: lustindarkness on March 23, 2016, 01:31:32 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 23, 2016, 12:53:00 PM
I am at a constant state of alert and readiness, steeling myself with resolve at Threat Level Going To Die from A Vietnamese Nail Technician Texting in a Minivan.

What chu talking about? They are expert drivers.


My personal paranoid level is pretty high ever since my last alien abduction.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Eddie Teach on March 23, 2016, 02:03:29 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on March 23, 2016, 01:31:32 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 23, 2016, 12:53:00 PM
I am at a constant state of alert and readiness, steeling myself with resolve at Threat Level Going To Die from A Vietnamese Nail Technician Texting in a Minivan.

What chu talking about? They are expert drivers.

So they hit him on purpose.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: PRC on March 23, 2016, 02:08:44 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 23, 2016, 01:30:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 23, 2016, 07:31:03 AM
It wasn't raised but I can't find the actual level. I am going to call it "Very Low".

Have you forgotten already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu_ramming_attack



Weren't those mental illness related incidents?
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Barrister on March 23, 2016, 02:15:03 PM
Quote from: PRC on March 23, 2016, 02:08:44 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 23, 2016, 01:30:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 23, 2016, 07:31:03 AM
It wasn't raised but I can't find the actual level. I am going to call it "Very Low".

Have you forgotten already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu_ramming_attack



Weren't those mental illness related incidents?

Perhaps, but both were Muslim converts and were inspired by Daesh.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: CountDeMoney on March 23, 2016, 02:18:54 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on March 23, 2016, 01:31:32 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 23, 2016, 12:53:00 PM
I am at a constant state of alert and readiness, steeling myself with resolve at Threat Level Going To Die from A Vietnamese Nail Technician Texting in a Minivan.

What chu talking about? They are expert drivers.

Considering all the stuff I could have died doing in my younger days, I would be very disappointed if I went out like that.  Very disappointed.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Malthus on March 23, 2016, 03:23:03 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on March 23, 2016, 01:31:32 PM
My personal paranoid level is pretty high ever since my last alien abduction.

Have they reached the limit of what can be learned through anal probing yet?  :hmm:
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: viper37 on March 23, 2016, 03:24:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 23, 2016, 01:30:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 23, 2016, 07:31:03 AM
It wasn't raised but I can't find the actual level. I am going to call it "Very Low".

Have you forgotten already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu_ramming_attack


Depends if you consider all of Canada of just where we specifically live&work.
In my case, the risk is non existent.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Barrister on March 23, 2016, 03:30:17 PM
Quote from: viper37 on March 23, 2016, 03:24:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 23, 2016, 01:30:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 23, 2016, 07:31:03 AM
It wasn't raised but I can't find the actual level. I am going to call it "Very Low".

Have you forgotten already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu_ramming_attack


Depends if you consider all of Canada of just where we specifically live&work.
In my case, the risk is non existent.

I would have thought the risk in Saint Jean sur Richelieu would be non existent as well.  But I would have been wrong.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: lustindarkness on March 23, 2016, 03:50:04 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 23, 2016, 03:23:03 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on March 23, 2016, 01:31:32 PM
My personal paranoid level is pretty high ever since my last alien abduction.

Have they reached the limit of what can be learned through anal probing yet?  :hmm:

I guess I will find out next time.  :area52:  :boff: :tinfoil:
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Caliga on March 23, 2016, 06:35:32 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 23, 2016, 08:36:01 AM
In Cincinnati we use a Goetta meter.  I believe we're on "mild" but all it takes is an officer involved shooting for us to get to "hot".

(https://cdn.nexternal.com/cincyfav3/images/gliers_hot_goetta1.jpg)
I didn't know they made hot goetta!?  :o
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: CountDeMoney on March 23, 2016, 06:36:47 PM
Goetta, please.  Of course they do.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: DontSayBanana on March 23, 2016, 06:37:03 PM
It's been lowered somewhat since the local guy that goes around offering to mow lawns has turned in for the evening. ;)
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Razgovory on March 23, 2016, 06:46:56 PM
Pretty low.  We don't have an abortion clinic in town.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Scipio on March 23, 2016, 07:28:00 PM
Zero fucks given in Mississippi. We're currently being terrorized by our legislature.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: mongers on March 23, 2016, 07:35:55 PM
Zero, though deer crashing into me at dusk/night in the forest do pose an elevated risk.  :bowler:
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: PDH on March 23, 2016, 08:19:41 PM
Terrorism thread - mauve.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: CountDeMoney on March 23, 2016, 08:29:58 PM
Quote from: PDH on March 23, 2016, 08:19:41 PM
Terrorism thread - mauve.

Is that better or worse than taupe?
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: 11B4V on March 23, 2016, 08:53:13 PM
FPCON ALPHA: What we should be in.

FPCON BRAVO: What the base CO has us in to piss people off

FPCON CHARLIE: When Never Cant Investigate Shit says something is going to happen but they don't know who, where, when, or how. The base CO flips out.

FPCON DELTA: When the Federal Bureau of Incompetence or the Department of Homeland Bullshit says something is going to happen but they don't know who, where, when, or how. When the Navy flips out.


After 10 years with the Navy now, I can say it is a strange service. Bizarre more times than not.

Their enlisted leaders are very weak overall. Their officers are corporate types.

and don't get me started on the nucs and submariners.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: PDH on March 23, 2016, 10:04:34 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 23, 2016, 08:29:58 PM
Quote from: PDH on March 23, 2016, 08:19:41 PM
Terrorism thread - mauve.

Is that better or worse than taupe?

Depends on the season.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: viper37 on March 24, 2016, 10:36:21 AM
Quote from: Barrister on March 23, 2016, 03:30:17 PM
Quote from: viper37 on March 23, 2016, 03:24:17 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 23, 2016, 01:30:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 23, 2016, 07:31:03 AM
It wasn't raised but I can't find the actual level. I am going to call it "Very Low".

Have you forgotten already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu_ramming_attack


Depends if you consider all of Canada of just where we specifically live&work.
In my case, the risk is non existent.

I would have thought the risk in Saint Jean sur Richelieu would be non existent as well.  But I would have been wrong.
Touché.  But there's a military academy: http://www.cmrsj-rmcsj.forces.gc.ca/index-eng.asp
So, more at risk than me.

Honestly, if someone wanted to detonate a bomb at work today, there'd be 1 dead (him) and one lightly injured (me), so, risk, not much.  I'm pretty confident I would have time to duck under my desk and the small wall would absord most of the blast/shrapnell before he could detonate.

Given I work from home, don't use public transit system, only go seldomly in town to shop, yeah, the risk is still pretty much non existent.  There is nothing of symbolic value here, except schools.
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Malthus on March 24, 2016, 01:13:36 PM
I work in First Canadian Place, so in one of the most prominent downtown towers, in one of the most busy areas of downtown Toronto. A perfect place for a terrorist strike.  :hmm:
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: Barrister on March 24, 2016, 01:22:28 PM
Worse than me Malthus, but I do work in a provincial government office building, right across the street from the courthouse.  I'm not so worried about islamic terrorism (they're more likely to hit the federal government building down the street), but home-grown anti-government types?  YOu never know, we have had some (non-lethal) instances in the past...

Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: CountDeMoney on March 24, 2016, 06:25:47 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on March 23, 2016, 08:53:13 PM
and don't get me started on the nucs and submariners.

Guess why the nuclear power industry is as screwed up as it is...
Title: Re: What's the current terrorism threat level where you are?
Post by: CountDeMoney on March 24, 2016, 06:29:43 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 24, 2016, 01:22:28 PM
Worse than me Malthus, but I do work in a provincial government office building, right across the street from the courthouse.  I'm not so worried about islamic terrorism (they're more likely to hit the federal government building down the street), but home-grown anti-government types?  YOu never know, we have had some (non-lethal) instances in the past...

All of our federal government facilities down here, it's still Workplace Violence/Active Shooter as the #1 concern.