Tag: homeland stupidity
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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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chertoff worries about ‘earth-shattering’ events
from wtop: Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff’s eyes narrow and his voice develops a stern, urgent tone as he reveals America’s biggest vulnerability to terrorism. “The great weapon they have is persistence and patience, and the one weakness that we have is the tendency to lose patience and become complacent,” Chertoff tells WTOP.chertoff talks about…
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welcome to new world order college
from truthnews: In addition to degrees in “homeland security” – primarily consisting of an education consisting of snooping on neighbors, sort of like the Youth League spies in Orwell’s dystopian novel – now we have the New World Order college. The Associated Press reports: Oklahoma City Community College is 1 of 20 junior colleges across…
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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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made in usa: blue haze, cointelpro, anthrax & tuberculosis
wv’s ‘blue haze’ came from pollution plantsfrom charleston gazette: A chemical odor and hazy cloud that moved across the Kanawha Valley Friday afternoon appears to have come from a combination of coal-fired power plant emissions, state Department of Environmental Protection investigators believe. court to review cointelpro vs black panthers casefrom oped news: The Nebraska Supreme…
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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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dix tricks, urban panic, nuke breach & homeschool security
playing tricks with the fort dix six?from time: “Now you see why we were going to sacrifice all for the sake of allah in jihad,” says the neatly handwritten note on prison-issue paper. “We weren’t able to finish.” Those seemingly incriminating words are part of a letter the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey says…
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pandemic plans for ‘mandatory vaccination’
from reuters: U.S. policy in preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic is veering dangerously toward a heavy-handed law-enforcement approach, the American Civil Liberties Union said on… it was worried that the plan called for military and police involvement in enforcing a quarantine. The ACLU experts said they were especially disturbed by an October executive…
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homeland stupidity won’t pay its phone bills
fbi wiretaps dropped due to unpaid billsfrom washington post: The FBI, which has had trouble keeping track of its guns and laptops, also has a chronic problem paying its phone bills on time, according to audit results released today. Telephone companies have repeatedly cut off FBI wiretaps of alleged terrorists and criminal suspects because of…
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parents protest kiddie biometrics
from danger room: Biometrics is one of the fastest-growing areas of homeland security, but the expanding use of fingerprints and retinal scans to school-age children is prompting some parents to complain. According to one news report, a lawmaker in Arizona wants to limit the use of biometrics in schools: “I certainly wouldn’t want my children…
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biosensors, whistleblowers & plunge protection team
nyc wants more bioweapons sensorsfrom washinton post: City officials last month quietly activated some of the nation’s newest generation of early warning sensors to detect a biological attack, turning on a limited number of filing-cabinet-size air filters in sensitive, high-volume areas of Manhattan. But city officials say their effort to expand the program has run…
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pilot complains about worthless tsa procedures
from boing boing: Patrick Smith, the airline pilot who co-writes the NY Times’s Jetlagged Blog has written a corker of an editorial railing against the bullshit “security” procedures that the TSA has put into place. Smith is hopping mad and stops just short of calling for a revolution. Man, I’d be with him at the…
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operation falcon, profiling, fingerprinting & vandalism
operation falcon: police state america in real timefrom pan-african news: Mike Whitney won a 2008 Project Censored Award for his February, 2007 article titled “Operation FALCON and the Looming Police State.” In it, he reported that the Bush administration “carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor…
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argenbright, pentapower, indoctrination & uk ufo’s
9/11 airport security pariah tries a comebackfrom atlanta journal-constitution: Six years ago, Argenbright was a pariah. Two of the four hijacking teams passed through screening stations manned by Argenbright Security. U.S. Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft later called a press conference to condemn the company for “an astonishing pattern of crimes that could have directly jeopardized…
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northcom, 9/11, biometrics & secession
northcom: constitution not importantfrom rogue government: The United States government is now actively directing the attention of the U.S. military towards the American people. Using the phony war on terror, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) are creating a militarized control grid specifically to enslave the American people. cia withheld…