{"id":696,"date":"2006-08-12T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/raised-security-levels\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:20:23","slug":"raised-security-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/696","title":{"rendered":"Raised Security Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends forwarded this to me&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><i>The British are following the pinch in relation to recent bombings and have raised their security level from &#8220;Miffed&#8221; to &#8220;Peeved.&#8221;<br \/>Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to &#8220;Irritated&#8221;<br \/>or even &#8220;A Bit Cross.&#8221; Londoners have not been &#8220;A Bit Cross&#8221; since the blitz in 1940, when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been recategorized from &#8220;Tiresome&#8221; to a &#8220;Bloody Nuisance.&#8221; The last time the British issued a &#8220;Bloody Nuisance&#8221; warning level was during the great fire of 1666.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the French Government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from &#8220;Run&#8221; to &#8220;Hide.&#8221; The only two higher levels in France are &#8220;Surrender&#8221; and &#8220;Collaborate.&#8221;<br \/>The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France&#8217;s white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country&#8217;s military capability.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not only the English and French that are on a heightened level of alert. Italy has increased the alert level from &#8220;Shout Loudly and Excitedly&#8221; to &#8220;Elaborate Military Posturing.&#8221;<br \/>Two more levels remain: &#8220;Ineffective Combat Operations&#8221; and &#8220;Change Sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Germans also increased their alert state from &#8220;Disdainful Arrogance&#8221; to &#8220;Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs.&#8221; They also have two higher levels: &#8220;Invade a Neighbor&#8221; and &#8220;Lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday, as usual, and the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends forwarded this to me&#8230;. The British are following the pinch in relation to recent bombings and have raised their security level from &#8220;Miffed&#8221; to &#8220;Peeved.&#8221;Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to &#8220;Irritated&#8221;or even &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/696\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raised Security Levels<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5cfmK-be","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}