Random Pat-Downs Turn PATCO Into Police State
Commuters’ clothing, pockets, bags and vehicles to be randomly searched Teresa Masterson NBC Philadelphia Commuters who ride PATCO trains between southern New Jersey and Philadelphia…
Air Travel
Airport `Naked Image’ Scanners in U.S. May Get Privacy Upgrades
John Hughes Bloomberg An Avatar will replace the naked body image Holli Powell, a Phoenix medical software consultant who flies every week, says she avoids…
New Stealth Nano-Paint Turns Any Aircraft Into a Radar-Evading Stealth Plane
Clay Dillow PopSci Some innovations in flight are huge; for instance, this week we’ve already seen concepts for a flying car and caught wind of…
Orwellian DoubleThink: Rights are Privileges
Orwellian DoubleThink Series 2 Activist Post Rights are Privileges (Freedom is Slavery): The primary duty of all public officials is to protect the rights of…
The All-Seeing Eye of the State: Scanners Leave No Place to Hide
John W. Whitehead Lew Rockwell “The only person who is still a private individual in Germany is somebody who is asleep.” ~ Robert Ley, a…
Alleged Terror Plotters(Ninjas?) get Past O’ Hare Security, Anti Muslim Fever to Hit New Levels
The Intel Hub Dutch authorities have arrested two men for what they dubbed, “Preparation of a Terror Attack.” Apparently the suspects made it through O’Hare Security and…
New Logan searches blasted
Logan airport security just got more up close and personal as federal screeners launched a more aggressive palms-first, slide-down body search technique that has renewed…
Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images
Decan McCullagh CNET For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as…
Lawsuit challenges airport full-body scanners
Katie Johnston Chase Boston Globe A privacy advocacy group is suing the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of the controversial full-body scanners…
TOP SECRET AMERICA: A hidden world, growing beyond control
Dana Priest and William H. Arkin The Washington Post The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,…
Goldman Sachs Mafia Pays Hush Money to the S.E.C. Police
Activist Post The New York Times reported yesterday that the criminal gang at Goldman Sachs is paying a $550 million “fine” to the Securities and…
Backlash grows vs. full-body scanners
Gary Stoller USA Today Opposition to new full-body imaging machines to screen passengers and the government’s deployment of them at most major airports is growing….
Senate bill would make airport body scanners mandatory
Daniel Tencer Raw Story A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate requiring all airports to use full-body scanners lacks sufficient privacy safeguards, says a prominent…
TSA Reverses “Controversial Opinion” Web Policy
CBS NEWS The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reversed itself today, announcing that it will no longer block TSA employees, using work computers, from accessing websites…