Tag: tsa
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3/20 newspurge
obamessiah & the apostles of warmichael ‘savage’ weiner predicts a ‘reichstag fire-like event’*cheney: obama responsible for next 9/11*kucinich requests investigation into ‘executive assassination ring’*kucinich calls for congressional investigation into cheney ‘assassination unit’*’cheney assassination unit’ claim boost truth commission prospects*hersh puts pro-war spin on what we would normally call acts of terrorism*obama caves to israel lobby*another…
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miltech: crashes, viruses, future combat & body language
global warming rocket with nasa satellite crashesfrom ap: A rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after a failed launch early Tuesday, ending a $280 million mission to track global warming from space. The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off just before 2 a.m. from California’s Vandenberg…
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police state int’l: borders, biometrics & stupor bowl security
US/mexico border fence almost completefrom ap: The fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is mostly finished. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling says that 601 miles of the project had been completed as of a week ago. Easterling says 69 miles of the fence still must be built to meet the goal set during the…
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new year’s clearinghouse
end of the year or end of the world (as we know it)?from global research: [A]n end-of-year essay of sorts is in order, especially so given the bumpy ride capitalism has bestowed on us this past twelve months. And the portents for 2009 look to be even worse as capitalism, desperate to shed over-valued assets,…
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pilots: guns likely to discharge in airplane cockpits
from raw replay: A group of pilots and the Homeland Security Inspector General have warned that a gun holster required by the TSA makes it likely that firearm could discharge in airplane cockpits. CNN’s Jeanne Meserve reported that some pilots have refused to participate in the program until the TSA changes the holster design. This…
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homeland stupidity to take over airline watchlist in ’09
govt to take over airline passenger vettingfrom washington post: The Department of Homeland Security will take over responsibility for checking airline passenger names against government watch lists beginning in January, and will require travelers for the first time to provide their full name, birth date and gender as a condition for boarding commercial flights, U.S.…
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video: horrifying cia recruitment commercials
from youtube: As the economy shifts to a focus on national security, where else could you find gainful employment… but to spy on your neighbor – just join the CIA, or become a Homeland Security goon, or at worst a TSA screening goon. The future is you! and here’s another one for cia’s clandestine service…
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author critical of bush on terror watch list
from raw replay: CNN’s Drew Griffin reports that an author who was critical of Bush is on the TSA’s terror watch list. Jim Moore is the author of several books including “Bush’s war for re-election,” “Bush’s Brain,” and “The Architect.” This video is from CNN’s American Morning, broadcast August 14, 2008.
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tsa performing emotional screening of passengers
from raw reply: “Transportation Security Administration officials aren’t just concerned with what is in your luggage anymore. Some are being trained to assess what’s going through your mind. Behavior Detection Officers who work for the TSA go through a week long training in order to look for travelers displaying involuntary physical and physiological reactions that…
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aclu launches terror watch list complaint website
from raw replay: Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office spoke at the National Press Club about the need to reform the government’s terrorist watch list. The watch list now contains one million names based on the government’s own reported numbers. The ACLU says that the watch list could effect up to 5-10%…
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‘tsa gangstaz’
delta & tsa employees admit smuggling drugsfrom wsb-tv: Two former TSA employees and a former Delta worker admitted Wednesday to smuggling drugs at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Leslie Adgar, 42, of Decatur, Andre Mays, 24, of Atlanta, and Jon Patton, 44, of Lawrenceville, pleaded guilty to smuggling cocaine and heroin. Patton and Mays were Transportation…
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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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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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9/11: contradiction, confrontation & documentation
alleged hijacker booked post-9/11 flightsfrom paul joseph watson: Astounding newly released FBI documents (3.98mb PDF) obtained via the Freedom Of Information Act show that alleged 9/11 hijacker Hamza Al-Ghamdi had booked future flights to San Francisco and Riyadh, suggesting that he was unaware of his eventual fate aboard United Airlines Flight 175, the plane that…
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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…