Feds Issue Security Warning; Ominous Tweet Connects ISIS Threat In Chicago
Source: CBS News -4 hours ago
The US government on Friday issued a security bulletin to law enforcement in light of the threat posed by an Islamic radical group, which has been making veiled threats in Chicago. An ominous post on Twitter, purportedly from somebody connected with Islamic State, shows a photo of the Old Republic Building, 307 N. Michigan Ave. and the White House.
The text reads:
#AmessagefromISIStoUS
We are in your state
We are in your cities
We are in your streets
You are our goals anywhere.
The bulletin issued Friday cautioned that there is no known threat to any U.S. cities
The message seems to imply that Islamic State operatives are in Chicago and other U.S. cities.
Islamic State is responsible for executing kidnapped journalist James Foley. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said ISIS an “imminent threat to every interest we have.”
U.S. security experts have long believed that Chicago would be a prime target for a terror attack because it is the home town of President Obama. That threat concern intensified in the wake of successful U.S. drone attacks over the years on terror targets.
Read more: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/08/22/ominous-tweet-connects-isis-threat-in-chicago/
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mwrguy
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Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)comfort.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)Old Republic Building
307 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60601
Formerly: the Bell Building
Virtual Address: 130 E. South Water Street
Building type: high-rise building, 24 floors,
Height (estimated): 326.55 ft
Building status: existing [completed] in 1925
Facade material: terra-cotta
Facade system: applied masonry
Facade color: white
Architectural style: neo-classicism
The Old Republic Building is a 23-story commercial structure designed by K.M. Vitzthum & Company (J.J. Burns, Associate) in the Classical Revival style. The building is clad with light buff glazed terra cotta with Classical Revival terra-cotta ornamentation. It was commissioned by businessman Herbert Bell as the headquarters for the Bell and Zoller Coal Company and originally named the Bell Building. In 1956 it was sold to the Old Republic Life Insurance Company and has since been known as the Old Republic Building.
Located on the northeast corner of North Michigan Avenue and East South Water Street, the Old Republic Building was one of the first tall buildings, along with the London Guarantee Building, to be constructed south of the Chicago River on North Michigan Avenue after its widening in the early 1920s. The building exemplifies the city’s efforts to encourage commercial development on the avenue as a result of major improvements brought about by Burnham and Bennett’s 1909 Plan of Chicago. The construction of the Michigan Avenue Bridge, the widening of the avenue and the construction of the bi-level roadway at South Water Street and Wacker Drive in the 20th century changed the face of Michigan Avenue in particular, and the downtown in general.
The Old Republic Building is notable for its Classical Revival-style design and finely detailed terra-cotta ornamentation manufactured by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company, the largest of Chicago’s terra-cotta manufacturers in the early 20th Century. The building’s prominent location and high level of design and craftsmanship helped establish a high-quality standard for commercial structures in the area.
October 08, 2010 A city panel has recommended landmark status for the Old Republic Building, a 23-story office tower on N. Michigan Avenue completed in 1924.
The Classic Revival structure at 307 N. Michigan Ave. was one of the first tall buildings constructed south of the Chicago River on Michigan Avenue after the street was widened in the early 1920s. That project, along with the construction of a new Michigan Avenue bridge, transformed downtown south of the river.
“The building exemplifies this important stage in the 1920s in the development of Michigan Avenue, conceived as part of (Daniel Burnham’s) 1909 Plan of Chicago,” says a report on the property prepared for the Commission on Chicago Landmarks.
The commission voted Thursday to approve landmark status for the 151,000-square-foot building, the headquarters of insurer Old Republic International Corp., which owns the property.
Old Republic sought the designation as part of a planned $12.4-million renovation to the tower’s exterior, mechanical systems and common areas, according to a news release from the Department of Zoning and Land Use Planning. As a landmark, the property would be eligible for reduced property taxes through Cook County’s Class L tax program.
An Old Republic executive did not return phone calls.
Separately, the landmarks commission approved preliminary landmark status for eight former Schlitz taverns, relics of a pre-Prohibition era when brewers ran their own saloons.
Related story: Landmark status on tap for former Schlitz taverns
Bell & Zoller Coal Co. built 307 N. Michigan, selling it 1956 to Old Republic. Designed by K. M. Vitzthum & Co., the building is “an excellent example of the ‘classicized skyscraper’ of the 1920s,” according to the report.
“Classical Revival was an important style in the early 20th century as a manifestation of the ‘City Beautiful’ movement, which combined traditional cultural associations of classicism with contemporary commercial buildings,” the report says.
The City Council must approve the landmark and Class L designation for the property.
http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/article/20101008/cred03/101009902/panel-approves-landmark-status-for-old-republic-building#ixzz1r5VeG3B7
Iamthetruth
(487 posts)It's not a matter of when, only where. I was at the 9/11 memorial yesterday, I'm sure they did not believe it could happen to them either.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Mission accomplished. Congratulations Osama, you did it.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)We need domestic drone attacks, too!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)If I lived in an urban/city area, esp. Illinois/Chicago, I would be looking out for where the next big Homeland Security drill will be held.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Pearl Harbor was the excuse farm corporations needed to get rid of Japanese farmers (whose wages were reaching Caucasian levels.)
With the Japanese gone, farm corporations petitioned the government to subsidize dummy corporations to pick the crops, which would then be sold to the farm corporations for low cost. Any costs incurred to the dummy corporations would be billed to the Japanese, even if it was to use the same equipment that the farm corporations had on loan to the Japanese.
It was all profit.
The cost of Japanese losses in 1983 dollars: between $800,000 and $2 billion.
Ever wonder why the Japanese on Hawaii were not interned, even though that was the site of the attack? There would be no one to pick the crops otherwise.
The "new Pearl Harbor" is driven by economic factors. My hypothesis for an attack in Illinois/Chicago is to gain control of the Great Lakes and use the water for fracking purposes.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Thanks for that info.
mahina
(17,646 posts)um, nope.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Now, granted, this was an era were anti-Japanese prejudice was definitely a problem, but I highly doubt we starting fighting against the Japanese just to get rid of a bunch of farmers. C'mon man, let's be realistic here.
Ever wonder why the Japanese on Hawaii were not interned, even though that was the site of the attack? There would be no one to pick the crops otherwise.
Or, that almost half of Hawa'iians were Japanese and people there might actually have raised a real fuss if there had been?
Your thesis, honestly, makes about as much sense as thermite being used to destroy the Twin Towers; it may sound plausible on the surface, but it gets torn apart upon deeper analysis. And, furthermore, your "Pearl Harbor fracking" scenario doesn't make any real sense, either.
mahina
(17,646 posts)Portugese, Chinese, Puerto Ricans and Koreans brought here for ag labor.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)include the area that was attacked?
mahina
(17,646 posts)Thanks.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 23, 2014, 07:04 PM - Edit history (1)
were the areas where the Japanese were rounded up for internment. They covered the entire west coast of the US.
The Japanese were concentrated in small areas within these zones. This was due to a legal structure that was in place from the moment they arrived in 1860 (unlike Hawaii, where the Japanese had arrived 100 years before it was under US control.) For decades, this legal structure allowed farm corporations to increasingly exploit the Japanese at every opportunity.
Despite this obstacle, the Japanese were able to control more and more farms, due to a religious based work ethic.
Removal of the Japanese from the military zones left their farms unattended, providing an easy opportunity for white farmers to take over.
So, the military exclusion zones were a "military necessity" (and every claim the government made for why it was a "military necessity" was easily debunked), yet the area that was actually attacked (and included Japanese) was not included.
That's irrational.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)I don't see any white people on your list.
The objective was to support Caucasian labor.
Austin Anson, managing secretary of the Grower-Shipper Vegetable Association:
We’re charged with wanting to get rid of the Japs for selfish reasons. We might as well be honest. We do. It’s a question of whether the white man lives on the Pacific Coast or the brown men.... If all the Japs were removed tomorrow, we’d never miss them in two weeks, because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows. And we don’t want them back when the war ends either (pp. 27, 28).
mahina
(17,646 posts)here for ag labor.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)RWers trying to make Obama look bad.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)don't forget to stock up on Duct Tape and plastic sheeting.
I'm sorry, but we've seen this movie before. We have few rights left to offer up...so now what?
(sarcasm)
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Nothing like ginning-up the "They're coming to kill us in our beds!" kind of fear to get people (and their representatives in Congress) to approve endless billions more for "Homeland Defense!"
Taking a different tact: Has anyone else noticed this threat to our cities from IS wasn't even on the radar before we started our latest spate of air strikes against IS targets in Iraq? Surely there's no connection, right?
WhoWoodaKnew
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CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Bombing Raids and Actions in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Same old stuff. I saw Chuck Hagel's Presser with Gen. Martin Dempsey and I could swear I was back listening to Rumsfeld Hagel practically repeated word for word Rummy's "There are the Known Knowns and Unknown Knows..etc. And Dempsy said we will be in this battle with ISIL for the long term because they are a threat to the whole Middle East, Europe and the USA....He wants NATO to expand in Europe because of the threat to them from returning terrorists who have citizenship to secure the borders.
So LOOK OUT PUTIN....Ukraine is next.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Written by a former US military intelligence/counter-terrorism ops guy who has worked as a military contractor in Iraq pretty since the invasion:
Why is ISIL so successful? Simply put they attack using simple combined arms but they hold two force multipliers – suicide bombers and a psychological force multiplier called TSV – Terror Shock Value. TSV is the projected belief (or reality) that the terror force that you are opposing will do anything to defeat you and once defeated will do the same to your family, friends and countrymen. TSV for ISIL is the belief that they will blow themselves up, they will capture and decapitate you and desecrate your body because they are invincible with what the Pakistanis call Jusbah E Jihad “Blood Lust for Jihad”. I have worked the Iraq mission since 1987 and lived in and out of Iraq since 2003. TSV was Saddam’s most effective tool and there is some innate characteristic of the Iraqis that immobilizes them when faced with a vicious, assuredly deadly foe who will do exactly as they have done to others – and they will unsuccessfully try to bargain their way out of death by capitulating. The Kurds are not immune to ISIL’s TSV - 90% of which is propaganda seen on Facebook, Twitter and al-Arabiya.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/shock-and-awe
...so, yeah, take this threat with a gargantuan grain of thought. Big talk is 90% of their game.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Last edited Fri Aug 22, 2014, 06:40 PM - Edit history (1)
Been there and Done that and the Poorer for it.....and My Taxpayer Dollars go to this "Endless War/Fiasco." ENOUGH!
Edited for when I had more time for reply...
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Yeah, I personally doubt ISIS is a significant threat to the States, and if they ever did try something, we'd stomp down on them hard, and end up having most of the world behind our backs, just as with 9/11.
But I don't think Obama will invade Iraq just yet.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Response to big_dog (Original post)
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CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)and they just ignored.
It's the big one that kicked off this whole upside-down world that we live in today.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)ISIS is pre-occupied with waging a war to create their "caliphate". They aren't going to spare $ and man-power to undertake an attack within the US at this time, or near future. Further, if they do attack the US, it will target an iconic structure or event. World Trade Center. Pentagon. Boston Marathon. Sorry Chicago, the Old Republic building doesn't rate. Probably no mid-west building rates... maybe, maybe, the Sears Tower.
I suspect this threat is merely an amateur hoax, by a single individual with zero connection to ISIS other than they read about them. Or it could be a false alarm by NSA/FBI/CIA to increase their security state powers. But very unlikely its a real ISIS threat.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)The Corruption is SO STRONG ....Globally...it wouldn't take anything but a Drugged Person to be approached by our "Intelligence Forces" to convince a person to TRY to do Something that would start an International War...and USA is Back in it again on Our TAX PAYER DOLLARS.....telling us we are SAFE if WE BOMB....
While our Roads and Bridges get little attention and the AUSTERITY by the REPUBS just seems to "Carry On" in our State/Local Legislatures ....and America is NOT the COUNTRY I KNEW....or was "TAUGHT" to know by Idealist Teachers...who hoped for better....
Bragi
(7,650 posts)All your base belong to us?
elias49
(4,259 posts)back to war. All night, flipping TV stations, I've heard nothing but war propaganda. Nothing changes. Nothing ever changes
The Presidency has become a sham. Just sickening.
candelista
(1,986 posts)There was overwhelming public opposition--from the right, left and center. Maybe people are waking up. Maybe they won't drink the Kool-Aid this time.
I'm trying to cheer you up.
Hope this helps. 
yurbud
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