Napolitano: Pat-downs are here to stayAirline passengers should get used to invasive full body scans and enhanced pat-downs, the Homeland Security secretary suggested Sunday.
CNN's Candy Crowley asked Janet Napolitano if she expected changes to the controversial Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening procedures in the near future.
"Not for the foreseeable future," Napolitano replied.
"You know we're always looking to improve systems and so forth, but the new technology, th... (more)
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Homeland Security Trolling We Won't Fly BlogThis is not the first time we have been trolled by individuals connected to the TSA.
I was about to delete an offensive comment on this blog -- one of the very few we get -- and thought, hmm, I wonder where this guy is posting from? Because, really, it is quite unusual for us to get nasty comments. Lo and behold, the troll posted to our website from an IP address controlled by the federal government's Department of Homeland Security! Here is the taxpayer-funded troll's g... (more)
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Austin Woman Thrown to Floor, Arrested for Refusing Pat Down at AirportEarly Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The line snaked out the door as many travelers waited for more than an hour and some missed their flights. One of the first people in line after that shutdown never made it through. She was arrested and banned from the airport.
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Passengers in Revolt Over Metro Random Baggage ChecksWASHINGTON (WUSA) -- There's more fallout from Metro's plan to randomly screen passenger's bags for explosives. [...]
But the plan is already close to provoking a passenger revolt. "I think it's ridiculous, all this stuff," said one rider.
Another said, "It doesn't stop the terrorists. It's not an effective way to head off terror."
Still another said, "Seems like it's too much. It's an overreaction."
According to one rider, "They could ... (more) Skepticism is taking hold, the GOV pushed it too far with the TSA molestation, now people are waking up to the whole charade! - Chris |
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Sacramento-area pilot punished for YouTube videoSACRAMENTO, CA - An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security. [...]
Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff's deputies arrived at his house to confiscate his federally-issued firearm. The pilot recorded that eve... (more)
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Airline Pilot Punished for AssangismA California commercial airline pilot who posted six videos on YouTube showing what a farce federal airport “security” is, has been punished by the TSA and other KGB-ite security organs for the crime of embarrassing them, otherwise known as treason or Assangism. The pilot noted, among other things, that ground crews get access to planes by swiping a card, while airline crews had to go through security th... (more)
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Now Random Webhosts Are Demanding Wikileaks Mirrors Be Taken Down Over Possibility Of DDoS?With all the attempts by corporations to distance themselves from Wikileaks -- often claiming dubious legal issues or terms of use violations that don't seem to really exist -- the EFF is pointing out that one of the (many, many) Wikileaks mirror sites was told by his hosting company he had to remove it or he'd lose his account. The reasoning was quite bizarre. The host claimed... (more)
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AG Holder Dusts Off Bush-Era ScaremongeringDespite articles touting a significant decrease in crime rates across the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder insists he is being kept up at night by the “growing threat” of Americans killing one another.
Of course evidence to the contrary is never a good reason to avoid a good scare story, and Holder’s is the familiar sort, the same claim that anyone, anywhere, at any time might be a terrori... (more)
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Police fine men for rescuing deer, say they should be thankful they didn't arrest themTwo men who rescued a deer trapped in Patapsco River ice were each fined $90 by a state Natural Resources Police officer because they did not have life vests aboard the inflatable boat they used to reach the animal. [...]
Hart said the Natural Resources Police officer issued him and Abusakran $90 citations for not having personal flotation devices on board. State law requires that all boaters have a personal flotation device with them at all times on any navigable body of water, t... (more)
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US Government Building (Another) Vast Domestic Spying NetworkAnother day, another massive assault at the very core of personal privacy.
At least that is what the Washington Post is reporting today, as the latest in a seemingly endless collection of massive domestic spying networks is being hatched by US officials and is said to be the most sophisticated and the most ambitious yet.
According to the Post, the scheme is hatched... (more)
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AG Eric Holder: New Terrorist Threat is 'Radical' American CitizensAttorney General Eric Holder has an urgent message for Americans: While he is confident that the United States will continue to thwart attacks, "the terrorists only have to be successful once."
And while it is not certain we will be hit, the American people, he told ABC News, "have to be prepared for potentially bad news."
"What I am trying to do in this interview is to make people aware of the fact that the threat is real, the threat is different, the threat is co... (more) Flashback: Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11 |
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Your Local Cops Now Use Iraq's Iris ScannersIn Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. troops use handheld devices to take iris scans and thumb prints off of detainees and put them in vast databases to distinguish insurgents from civilians. Now your local cops are getting in on the action.
L-1 Identity Solutions, a four-year-old company, makes the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection System (HIIDE), a mobile device that digitally records someone’s iris, fingerprint and ... (more)
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The Spy Who Taxed MeEveryone is a spy now. The state has always spied on its citizens, but the lens is turning the other way. For that, we are indebted to Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and the sources passing along military and diplomatic documents. This turnabout redresses the balance between government and public to a small extent, but the state’s resources still outweigh ours. After all, the state uses our money to spy on us, and it has longer experience in keeping tabs on us. This vicious habit dates at leas... (more)
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Feel Like Being A Neighborhood Snitch? There's An App For That!Remember how Homeland Security was working with Walmart to post creepy video messages urging you to spy on your neighbors? Well, the folks at Homeland Security ought to be thrilled with the new "Patriot App" -- which is a special (not free) iPhone app to help you spy on your neighbors. It's not put out by the government, however. Instead, it's just ... (more)
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Latest Terror Threat in US Aimed to Poison FoodHow convenient this came out right before they voted for the SB 510 food takeover bill. Coincidence, I'm sure. - Chris |
TSA Too Busy Groping, Perving, Playing God To Notice Guns And BombsTSA agents at a Houston airport failed to stop an Iranian-American with a loaded handgun passing through security and boarding a plane, yet they did stop a woman directly behind him who was carrying liquids in her hand luggage.
Businessman Farid Seif relates his story to ABC News, noting that he only realised he had forgotten to remove a loaded snu... (more)
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TSA Admits Lying About Naked Boy ControversyThe TSA has been caught in yet another act of public deception after the agency was forced to admit that it lied when it initially claimed a 5-year-old boy was strip-searched at Salt Lake City International Airport last month because he had set off a metal detector.
The video of a disgruntled father removing his young son’s shirt so TSA agents could pat down the boy arrived at the height of the outrage against Big Sis last month and prompted widespread condemnation of ... (more)
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Government uring broadband firms censor the internet, "for the children"Internet service providers are to be asked by the government to tighten up on website pornography to try to combat the early sexualisation of children.
Ministers believe broadband providers should consider automatically blocking sex sites, with individuals being required to opt in to receive them, rather than opt out and use the available computer parental controls.
Ed Vaizey, the communications minister, is to meet internet providers, including BT, Virgin Media and... (more)
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Metro to start random bag searchesMetro plans to begin random searches of its riders' bags in the coming days, the transit agency said Thursday, revisiting a plan first announced two years ago.
Metro Police Chief Michael Taborn said the coordinated effort with the Transportation Security Administration was not in response to a specific threat but was part of a continuing effort to keep the system safe from explosives. Boston, New York and New Jersey t... (more)
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California greenlights cap-and-trade emission rulesCalifornia's regulators Thursday voted in favor of the first cap-and-trade rules in the United States to tame greenhouse gas emissions.
The rules, adopted by the Air Resources Board (ARB), are expected to put a cap on emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide by allowing businesses to trade permits to pollute.
The move was meant to "fill the vacuum created by the failure of Congress to pass any kind of climate or energy legislation for many years now," s... (more)
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Homeland Security Presents "Evidence" For Domain Seizures; Proves It Knows Little About The Internet - Or The LawEarlier this week, we noted how the owners of the various hiphop blogs and Torrent-Finder, the torrent search engine, that were seized by Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (... (more)
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US Government Made Painful Mistakes In Torrent-Finder Seizure Three weeks ago the US Government seized 82 domains as part of Operation in Our Sites 2. The authorities claimed that the actions were targeted at websites that were involved in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit and copyrighted goods. However, the seizure application that was made public today suggests that the seizure of the BitTorrent meta-search engine Torrent-Finder rested on painful mistakes.
The seizure of 82 domain names by The Department... (more)
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US IP Czar Gets Companies To Cut Off Unlicensed Online PharmaciesEarlier this year, we noted that the US IP Czar, Victoria Espinel, had been making the rounds to ISPs, registrars, payment processors and others to get them to agree to voluntarily start shutting off certain "infringing" sites. Now we see the results of those talks. Espinel has announced that a variety of companies -- including Google... (more)
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MasterCard willing to cut off pirate sitesMasterCard, is willing to stop processing transactions from sites trafficking in pirated music, movies, games, and other digital copyrighted content.
Lobbyists working for MasterCard have told trade groups from the entertainment sector that the credit card company is supportive of The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, an antipiracy bill introduced into the Senate last September, sources with knowledge of the talks tell CNET.
Backed by Sen. Pat... (more)
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