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Hotline To Report TSA Horror Stories
Post Date: 2010-11-16 23:05:48 by Murron
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Hotline To Report TSA Horror Stories WND to compile first-hand abuse complaints, videos WASHINGTON – WND has established an e-mail hotline address for the reporting of first-hand abuse complaints at the hands of airport security personnel. Those who experience or witness invasive groping by TSA employees or face intimidation and humiliation at checkpoints are encouraged to report the details via tsatips@wnd.com Videos, audio recordings, as well as written accounts are all welcome. "What is happening around the country is a national embarrassment," said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND. "I personally canceled family travel plans this week as a ...
L.A. Food Stylist Pulled From Flight for 'Atom Bomb' Tattoo
Post Date: 2010-11-16 22:22:00 by Murron
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L.A. Food Stylist Pulled From Flight for 'Atom Bomb' Tattoo It was the Tweet heard 'round the L.A. food world. Noted Los Angeles food stylist Adam C. Pearson was settling into his seat aboard a Delta flight Saturday morning when the flight attendant tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to come to the front of the plane. His first thought? "I'm getting an upgrade!" Not exactly. Pearson was temporarily asked to step off the plane and learned that another passenger had reported him for suspicious behavior, and noted that he had the words "Atom Bomb" tattooed across his fingers. Questioned by the captain and the flight attendant, Pearson explained ...
TSA Now Putting Hands Down Fliers’ Pants (video)
Post Date: 2010-11-16 18:20:36 by Murron
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TSA Now Putting Hands Down Fliers’ Pants Big Sis turns up the heat: New super-enhanced pat-down more invasive Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Prison Planet.com Tuesday, November 16, 2010 The TSA’s invasive new screening measures include officers literally putting their hands down people’s pants if they are wearing baggy clothing in a shocking new elevation of groping procedures that have stoked a nationwide revolt against privacy-busting airport security measures. Forget John Tyner’s “don’t touch my junk” experience at the hands of TSA goons in San Diego recently, another victim of Big Sis was told by TSA officials that it was now policy to go ...
Napolitano: ‘Adjustments,’ ‘More to Come’ on Women in Hijabs Undergoing..Pat-Downs
Post Date: 2010-11-15 21:41:31 by Murron
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Napolitano: ‘Adjustments,’ ‘More to Come’ on Women in Hijabs Undergoing..Pat-Downs CNSNews.com) - When asked today if she will insist that Muslim women wearing hijabs must go through full body pat downs before boarding planes, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano did not say yes or no, but told CNSNews.com there will be “adjustments” and “more to come” on the issue. “On the pat downs, CAIR [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] has recommended that Muslim women wearing hijabs refuse to go through the full body pat downs before boarding planes,” CNSNews.com asked Napolitano at a Monday press conference. “Will you insist ...
Refusal Of California Airport Screening Is Internet Hit
Post Date: 2010-11-15 15:17:17 by Murron
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Refusal Of California Airport Screening Is Internet Hit SAN DIEGO – A man who refused a body scan and pat-down search at a San Diego airport has become an Internet sensation in the debate weighing fliers' security versus their privacy. John Tyner posted a cell phone audio recording of his half-hour encounter Saturday at Lindbergh Field. The software engineer couldn't board a flight after refusing a full-body scan that reveals an image of what's under his clothes. He also wouldn't allow a Transportation Security Administration worker to conduct a groin check. Tyner tells the worker, "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested." Tyner's blog ...
TSA Sued Over Naked Body Scanner Privacy Violation
Post Date: 2010-11-15 13:18:43 by Murron
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TSA Sued Over Naked Body Scanner Privacy Violation by MIKE ADAMS (November 12, 2010) The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is proceeding with a lawsuit against the TSA over its use of naked body scanners. Filed in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, EPIC's lawsuit asks for the courts to halt the US government's use of naked body scanners altogether. EPIC has brought claims under the Administrative Procedure Act, the Privacy Act, the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Fourth Amendment. (The TSA's naked body scanners and aggressive pat-down techniques violate all these federal laws and Constitutional protections.) ...
Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped Up (radio interview)
Post Date: 2010-11-15 11:10:05 by Murron
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Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped Up The TSA chose Meg McLain for special screening. They wanted her to go through the new porno-scanners. When she opted out, TSA agents raised an enormous ruckus. When she asked some question about what they planned to do to her, they flipped out. TSA agents yelled at her, handcuffed her to a chair, ripped up her ticket, called in 12 local Miami cops and finally escorted her out of the airport. Listen to her story as she told it on radio show Free Talk Live last night. Things are truly getting scary. Question the TSA at Your Own Risk
Awful… 3 Year-Old Girl Accosted By TSA Airport Screeners (Video)
Post Date: 2010-11-14 20:56:12 by Murron
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Awful… 3 Year-Old Girl Accosted By TSA Airport Screeners (Video) OMG– This was horrific. And, this actually occurred in the United States. TSA screeners accosted a little 3 year-old coming through the airport. The poor little girl kept screaming, “Quit touching me!” Did they really think this little girl was packing a bomb? Really?
Airport security: Government in our pants [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-11-14 10:04:36 by jwpegler
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When it comes to protecting against terrorism, this is how things usually go: A danger presents itself; the federal government responds with new rules that erode privacy, treat innocent people as suspicious and blur the distinction between life in a free society and life in a correctional facility; and we all tamely accept the new intrusions, like sheep being shorn. Maybe not this time. The war on terrorism is going to get personal. Very personal. Americans have long resented the hassles that go with air travel ever since 9/11 — long security lines, limits on liquids, forced removal of footwear and so on. But if the Transportation Security Administration has its way, we will look ...
What’s More Dangerous Than A Marxist?
Post Date: 2010-11-10 12:35:50 by Skip MacLure
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Answer: A Marxist with money. Lots of money. Only a few days ago, I spoke of Obama’s fixation with his Blackberry (‘Man Or Machine’, November 7). By sheer coincidence, Glenn Beck mentioned the same thing in his program of November 9. Glenn, however, mentioned a possibility that I had not considered…. something far more sinister than the options I listed. The program last night was dedicated to the ‘Spooky Dude’ (I love that name, Glenn!), George Soros. Most of us are aware of his activities with the likes of Media Matters, the Huffington Post, the Tides Foundation, etc., but I must admit that I didn’t realize the extent to which his socialist tentacles ...
Obama isn’t getting the message (wants more government "investment")
Post Date: 2010-11-06 15:24:26 by Hondo68
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Barack Obama was right in 2008 when he said “elections have consequences, and I won.” He took that sentiment to heart and consequentially used his majorities and super-majorities to cram a boatload of legislation down our throats. On Tuesday, Obama and the Democrats endured what the president described as a “shellacking.” Pretty accurate. But what are the consequences of this shellacking? Gridlock is likely because Obama is resolute in his belief that more government is the answer to everything, and the new majority will oppose anything that even smells like more government or more spending. Obama’s strategy in the next two years, if nothing gets done, will be to ...
House GOP leader forsakes tea parties, takes earmark ban off the table
Post Date: 2010-11-05 20:43:02 by Skip Intro
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If you ask Republicans around the country, they'll probably tell you that Tuesday's election results were all about pushing back against excessive government spending. Problem is, they may have forgotten to elect anyone who's actually planning on real budget cuts. Rep. John Boehner, presumptively the next Speaker of the House and a longtime rhetorical foe of earmark spending in its present form, told a Fox News host on Thursday that the proposed ban on congressional earmarks he'd been talking up was officially off the table. Boehner, who has personally upheld the no-earmark principle, had before the elections advocated a year-long ban on financial appropriations for ...
Soros UN Panel Draft Report Foresees Bank Tax, CO2 Auctions to Aid Climate
Post Date: 2010-11-05 13:22:09 by jwpegler
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At least $65 billion might be raised by taxing foreign-exchange transactions and auctioning pollution permits, a United Nations panel said today in a report recommending ways to finance aid for fighting global warming. The panel, which includes billionaire investor George Soros and Larry Summers, director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, said selling carbon-emissions permits would generate $38 billion and a financial transactions tax an additional $27 billion, according to the report released today. The findings are intended to guide envoys at UN climate talks that start this month in Mexico as they seek ways to pay for $100 billion in climate aid that was ...
Google slashes overseas tax rate through 'Double Irish' and 'Dutch Sandwich' strategy
Post Date: 2010-11-01 15:56:01 by WhiteSands
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NEW YORK - By employing strategies known to lawyers as the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich," Google cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the past three years - moving most of its foreign profit through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google's income shifting helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries. "It's remarkable that Google's effective rate is that low," said Martin Sullivan, a tax economist with Tax Analysts. "We know this company operates throughout the world mostly in high-tax countries ...
Police block sex abuse survivors near Vatican
Post Date: 2010-11-01 15:45:10 by WhiteSands
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ROME – Italian paramilitary police blocked a boulevard leading to the Vatican to prevent a march Sunday by some 100 survivors of clergy sex abuse from reaching St. Peter's Square, but later allowed two protesters to leave letters from the abused at the Holy See's doorstep. The two also left a dozen stones near the obelisk in St. Peter's square to mark a symbolic path so other survivors might know they have company in their suffering. The candlelit protest was the first significant demonstration in the shadow of the Vatican by people who had been raped and molested by priests as children, and organizers said it would be repeated until the Holy See takes decisive action to ...
Broder: War With Iran! Why? It Will Help Obama’s Campaign!
Post Date: 2010-10-31 21:34:46 by jwpegler
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In his most despicable and sickening column ever, David Broder, the “dean” of Washington’s press corps (that should tell you something), nostalgically recalls how World War II “resolved” the economic crisis of the Great Depression. Broder then placidly recommends that Obama consider an American attack on Iran as a winning tactic for his 2012 reelection campaign. Why? Because not only will it “resolve” our economic crisis, but even Republicans will “urge him on”! No Iran war, no 2012 win! Plain as day, isn’t it? Why didn’t Rahm think of that already, I wonder? Unnecessary, immoral, illegal, and unconstitutional war is the last refuge ...
A Look at Tea Party Sugar Daddies the Koch Brothers
Post Date: 2010-10-16 15:56:51 by Skip Intro
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A Look at Tea Party Sugar Daddies the Koch Brothers In a recent “New Yorker” article, Jane Mayer looked into the corporate dealings of the Koch Brothers, the sugar daddies of the Tea Party movement. The Kochs have contributed $100 million to a so-called movement of people that have no clue how well they’re being played by men whose only end is corporate profit. This article will look at the Koch Brothers and their company, Koch Industries, oil barons who are manipulating a rabble of confused individuals in the bid to rid the country of Obama’s supposed socialist vision and lower taxes. If the Tea Partiers knew that Koch Industries does not pay corporate income tax, ...
Drilling Ban Gone But De Facto One Still In Place
Post Date: 2010-10-13 01:54:58 by Hondo68
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Hu Jintao could teach us something about energy policy. Today, the White House announced it is lifting its ban on offshore drilling in the Gulf. While this announcement has received much attention in the media, energy experts know that this “news” is much more about “political energy” than actual energy policy. Coming just weeks before the November congressional elections, this politically motivated ploy does nothing to substantively remove the challenges faced by the U.S. energy sector. From new energy tax proposals, to activist opposition to hydraulic fracturing and climate change negotiations, to the continued de facto ban on offshore drilling that results from this ...
Neocons Talk Deficit but Won’t Budge on Defense Cuts
Post Date: 2010-10-09 11:54:37 by Skip Intro
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Establishment conservatives love to talk about the need to cut government spending, but they always seem to find an excuse whenever there is a serious effort to actually do it. Last year, for example, they opposed cutting Medicare as part of health care reform. Now they are banding together to stop cuts in defense spending, which is a fifth of the federal budget, even as they also insist that the deficit is our most critical problem. This hypocrisy was on full display on Oct. 4, as American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks, Heritage Foundation president Ed Feulner, and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol penned a joint op-ed for the right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial ...
Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read
Post Date: 2010-10-04 13:06:58 by Skip Intro
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Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don’t even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest. Most Americans don’t really seem to care about who owns the ...
Punishing Lynne -- From Death Row, This Is Mumia Abu-Jamal
Post Date: 2010-09-28 19:08:26 by Ferret Mike
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Lynne Stewart, the activist lawyer, was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison. This outstanding lawyer, a 70 year old grandmother, who is facing the serious threat of breast cancer, was originally sentenced to 2 years and 4 months, but the federal appeals court apparently felt that wasn’t enough. The same appeals courts that traditionally reverse the convictions of cops who torture or kill Black citizens, and who traditionally rely on the judgments of the trial courts, reversed Stewart’s sentence as not tough enough. So much for judicial tradition. For Lynne’s tradition wasn’t that of the tony, tie and tails law firms of downtown Manhattan. She didn’t ...
S. Calif. heat wave leaves thousands without power (O'Bush "guest workers" crank up AC)
Post Date: 2010-09-28 13:33:59 by Hondo68
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LOS ANGELES — Southern California's heat wave has left tens of thousands of people without electricity. Southern California Edison says more than 27,000 of its customers were without power Tuesday morning, mainly in Orange and Los Angeles counties. Most have been blacked out for eight to 16 hours as temps hit 113 degrees in some parts. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reports another 15,000 customers are without power in Los Angeles. Edison spokeswoman Vanessa McGrady says the heat has driven folks to use their air conditioners around the clock. She says transformers that usually cool down overnight are getting a workout and are blowing or burning out. DWP spokeswoman ...
Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer's memoir
Post Date: 2010-09-26 20:37:44 by Skip Intro
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Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer's memoir Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday. "DoD decided to purchase copies of the first printing because they contained information which could cause damage to national security," Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. April Cunningham said. In a statement to CNN, Cunningham said defense officials observed the September 20 destruction of about 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's new memoir "Operation Dark Heart." Shaffer ...
GOP fat cats are back and ready to spend on Republican candidates ahead of midterm elections (Koch, Univision)
Post Date: 2010-09-25 18:30:44 by Hondo68
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House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio. Ten of the wealthiest conservative donors gave $19 million to GOP candidates since Obama came into office. Gearing up for the November midterm elections, some of the wealthiest GOP powerhouses have their wallets out and are ready to spend. Big time. In fact, since President Obama came into office, 10 of the most active conservative contributors have donated a whopping $19 million to Republican candidates and their political action committees, according to Politico. The fourth-highest spender on that list was the Koch family. David Koch, a leading Manhattan philanthropist(and reputed Tea Party bankroller) made headlines this past week when he ...
National 'Take Back Day' urges surrender of unneeded prescription drugs (to the Drug Enforcement Administration)
Post Date: 2010-09-23 15:19:18 by Hondo68
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With the abuse of prescription drugs continuing to rise, the Drug Enforcement Administration is for the first time asking people nationwide to turn in their expired, unused and unwanted prescription medicines at more than 4,000 locations on Saturday. The first national "Take Back Day" aims to collect powerful drugs that are beneficial to patients, but that could easily fall into the wrong hands if left to languish in homes. People will be able to turn in pills, powders and other solid medicines anonymously and without fear of prosecution; authorities will then safely destroy the medications by incinerating them. A focus of the effort is to get commonly abused drugs out of ...
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