Tag: airport security
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TSA To Install 200 More Body Scanners
from aviation news: TSA Administrator Kip Hawley, during congressional testimony on May 13, announced plans to deploy hundreds of next generation, multi-view x-ray machines and whole body imagers. During the next two weeks, the agency will install more than 200 of the faster, clearer x-ray machines to airports, including Philadelphia, Washington Dulles and Reagan National,…
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chertoff unveils ‘checkpoint evolution’
from wjz: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is scheduled to visit BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport Monday to announce changes at airport security checkpoints. Chertoff will demonstrate what is called “Checkpoint Evolution.” … According to the Web site, the checkpoints will feature soothing music to calm passengers, easy-to-read signs and Plexiglas conveyor belts allowing passengers…
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mig shoots drone, t5 meets rfid & pak attack
russian mig shoots georgian dronefrom danger room: A Russian MiG 29 shot down what Georgians say was an unarmed drone used by the ministry of interior. And guess what? They’ve got video (the beauty of drone warfare). The Georgians, needless to say, are really mad. The shoot-down is part of a larger dispute over Abkhazia,…
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new security camera can ‘see’ through clothes
from cnn: New technology that can “see” through clothing and detect what’s underneath can now be used to scan crowds, making it a potentially effective tool to prevent terrorist attacks in public places. The ThruVision T5000 camera picks up Terahertz rays, or T-rays, which are naturally emitted by all objects and can pass through fabric…
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news on the march
US says it will increase efforts against ‘tax defiers’from new york times: If you think paying taxes is unfair, illegal or unconstitutional, then watch out – the Justice Department is after you. Just as the Internal Revenue Service is getting into its perennial tax-season tough talk, Justice Department officials weighed in Tuesday with a vow…
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March Clearinghouse
russian general predicts april 6 attack on iran*middle school kids threatened with terrorist watch list*airport screening makeover promises soothing music, see-through x-rays*urine tester guilty of using drugs*paul campaign goes on*why ron paul scares the gop*obama: i don’t carry a cfr card or know any ‘special handshake’*hope, change, & pissing in the wind, ‘of obama, democrats,…
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Pilot’s Gun Goes Off On Flight From ‘New World Airport’
from danger room: For those who always thought that arming pilots on commercial flights was a bad idea, today’s incident will hardly come as a surprise: a gun accidentally went off in the cockpit of a U.S. Airways flight. ABC News reports: “The pilot, who both the TSA and US Airways declined to identify, was…
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hillary, hollowed-out book, nau, fraudsters & al-CIAda
dallas cop killed while escorting hillary from cbs2: A Dallas police motorcycle officer who crashed and died Friday while escorting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton’s motorcade to a campaign rally has been identified, CBS station KTVT-TV, in Dallas reported. Senior Cpl. Victor Lozada, a 20-year veteran of the department, was killed in the accident.…
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amtrak says ‘papers please’
amtrak to randomly screen bags & step up patrolsfrom reuters: Amtrak, the only long-haul passenger rail service in the United States, will for the first time randomly screen passengers’ bags and deploy armed security officers on trains and platforms, the railroad said on Monday night. Details of the shift in security strategy at Amtrak will…
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biometric borders, lockheed, background checks & id
eu plans biometric border checksfrom time: It is a very 21st century conundrum: how can modern, open democracies provide basic homeland security in a world with nearly limitless mobility? On Wednesday, the European Commission tried to answer that by unveiling a border management plan calling for fingerprinting all foreign visitors to the European Union. lockheed…
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fight the net, biometric heathrow, nyc geiger & 9/11 dreams
pentagon: internet needs to be dealt with as if an enemy ‘weapons system’from knowledge-driven revolution: The Pentagon’s Information Operations Roadmap (2.26mb PDF) is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in direct opposition to their goals. The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an…
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‘cyber storm’ targeted bloggers & journalists
from ap: It’s the government’s idea of a really bad day: Washington’s Metro trains shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations of railcars with hazardous materials. Airport control towers are disrupted in Philadelphia and Chicago. Overseas, a mysterious liquid is found on London’s subway. And that’s just for starters. Those…
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spacewar, fcs, fake experts, fingerprints & kevlar
US & russian citizens want weapons-free outer spacefrom afp: Most Americans and Russians want their governments to ensure a weapons-free outer space and would back a treaty underpinning the move, a poll showed Thursday. Seventy-eight percent of Americans and 67 percent of Russians said their leaderships should refrain from deploying any weapons in space as…
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9/11 suit reveals security missteps
from washington times: Attorneys for the families of five persons killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks said yesterday that their negligence lawsuit yielded new information about what they think were security lapses that allowed terrorists to board and hijack planes. The families filed the suit in 2003 against the airline industry and airport security…
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new passport regulations start for US travelers
passport needed to fly from US to canada & mexicofrom kgo-tv: Remember to pack your passport today even if your travels keep you in North America. The temporary reprieve for travelers to Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean expires today… Travelers had been warned since the policy took affect back in January. This summer the government…