Tag: homeland stupidity
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news on the march
will iran war start on friday?from steve watson: Last weekend saw widespread reports in the mainstream media that the United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps “from 4 am until 4 pm on April 6.” … Andrei Uglanov, in the Moscow…
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March Clearinghouse
terror database has quadrupled in four years feds select new nuclear warhead design new autopilot will make another 9/11 impossible uk children to be mass fingerprinted fbi: extremists seek school bus work why the towers fell: two theories 10 false flags that changed the world reuters counts 9/11 hijackers as 9/11 victims how 9/11 skeptic…
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news on the march
hearing begins for suspected 9/11 mastermindfrom 9/11 blogger/telegraph: Hearings begin today at Guantanamo Bay for a group of 14 terrorist suspects including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged September 11 mastermind. No lawyers or reporters will be present at the hearings so the only account of the outcome will come from the US military… A Pentagon…
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homeland security revives supersnoop
from washington times: Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations. The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned…
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‘aqua teen’ bomber scare
from boston herald: A guerilla marketing campaign for a popular adult cartoon thrust Boston into pandemonium today as at least 10 bombs scares turned out to be battery-operated ads strategically place around the city, the Herald has learned. Federal, state and local police swarmed around the city as reports poured in of suspicious devices, closing…
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maine revolts against digital US ID card
from reuters: Maine lawmakers on Thursday became the first in the nation to demand repeal of a federal law tightening identification requirements for drivers’ licenses, a post-September 11 security measure that states say will cost them billions of dollars to administer. Maine lawmakers passed a resolution urging repeal of the Real ID Act, which would…
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texas prison camp future american gulag?
from prison planet: A detention camp in Taylor Texas that currently holds hundreds of rebuffed asylum seekers who legally entered the country, half of which are children swept up in midnight raids, is a potential prime location for the enforced transfer of American citizens during a time of national emergency. The privatized Hutto jail, which…
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nuclear agency head dismissed for lapses
from ap/my way: Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman on Thursday dismissed the chief of the country’s nuclear weapons program because of security breakdowns at the Los Alamos, N.M., laboratory and other facilities. Linton Brooks said he would leave in two weeks to three weeks as head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, a post he held…
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US ‘licence to snoop’ on British air travellers
from telegraph: Britons flying to America could have their credit card and email accounts inspected by the United States authorities following a deal struck by Brussels and Washington. By using a credit card to book a flight, passengers face having other transactions on the card inspected by the American authorities. Providing an email address to…
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baby sent through x-ray machine at LAX
from black listed news: Though explained away as an “accident,” the guilty-until-proven-innocent, 100%-suspicion-at-all-times, authoritarian-absurdness environment that has been created in airports most likely led this Spanish woman simply to assume that she had to x-ray her baby in the interests of security. from la times: A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport…
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news on the march
Cuban mob attacks human rights protestersfrom washington post: More than 200 Cuban government supporters attacked 15 human rights activists on International Human Rights Day on Sunday, manhandling the demonstrators as they drove them from a Havana park. Ten Canadians die after taking bird flu vaccinefrom world poultry: Following reports that patients taking Tamiflu can exhibit…
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US gov’t terror ratings draw outrage
from ap/yahoo: A leader of the new Democratic Congress, business travelers and privacy advocates expressed outrage Friday over the unannounced assignment of terrorism risk assessments to American international travelers by a computerized system managed from an unmarked, two-story brick building in Northern Virginia. Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont pledged greater scrutiny…
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the ‘nuzzling’ terror cell
from infowars: The Insanity of Homeland Security enforced airline security measures reached a new high today as two American citizens were charged with violating the Patriot Act for “sexual play” on a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles. Just when you thought it was safe to get back on a plane, just when you thought…
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the TSA follies
from homeland stupidity: The Transportation Security Administration . . . Vigilant, Effective, Efficient. Yes, and pigs can fly, too. Here are three examples of how the TSA is keeping you less secure, and giving a good laugh to those of us with enough sense to stay away from airports as long as the government is…
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portland to host massive DHS drills in may ’07
from government computer news: Portland, Ore., and Phoenix have been identified as sites for the nation’s next disaster response drill. The two cities are expected to host Topoff 4 in May 2007. The multimillion-dollar drill, whose name is short for Top Officials, is the third to be run by the Department of Homeland Security to…