TSA to put Hub fliers on the spot
4f007d_080111loganar09 Boston’s TSA screeners — part of a security force whose competency has come under fire nationwide — soon will be carrying out sophisticated behavioral inspections under a first-in-the-nation program that’s already raising concerns of racial profiling, harassment of innocent travelers and longer lines. The training for the Israeli-style screening — a projected $1 billion [...]
House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill
cyber-security Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers’ activities for one year–in case police want to review them in the future–under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today. The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology initiative [...]
Apple Now Has More Cash Than The U.S. Government
A8Gqgz Here’s something to keep in mind as you follow this evening’s congressional debate over the debt ceiling. According to the latest daily statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance of $73.8 billion at the end of the day yesterday. Apple’s last earnings report (PDF here) showed that the [...]
TSA worker stole watches, debit card from LAX bags, officials say
TSA A Transportation Security Administration officer has been indicted on five charges in the theft of four watches and a pre-paid debit card from luggage at Los Angeles International Airport, officials announced Friday. A federal grand jury indicted Paul Yashou, 38, of Torrance, on two felony and three misdemeanor theft counts Friday afternoon. Yashou is [...]
TSA Agents Execute Grope Downs At Texas Capitol & Thank State Senators For Their Subservience
Texans for Accountable Government once again utilize political theater to make an important point to Texas senators.
Child victims of the chemical cosh: Boy who killed himself after taking Ritalin
Harry Hucknell was, says his father, a ‘normal kid’ whose problems were overstated Captured in a family video, Harry Hucknall gives a cheeky grin before whizzing off down the street on his new bike. His father, Darren, will never forget the moment — when Harry was seven — and often watches the scene again and [...]
Stealth Vaccine Laws Allow Children to Consent to Vaccines
151107vaccine-1 A current California bill, AB 499, would “allow a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.”[1] That is, children as young as 12 will be able to get a Gardasil or other STD vaccine without their parents’ knowledge [...]
The War On Raw Milk
raw-milk-789693 Last Friday in Louisville, Kentucky, the city’s Department of Health and Wellness issued a cease-and-desist order to the Whole Life Buying Club, and then placed the organization’s milk cache under quarantine. Since the contraband milk has not been pasteurized – it comes directly from a small farm located outside the city – officials deemed [...]
Argentine lab clones cow to produce human-like milk
52cow An Argentine laboratory announced that it had created the world’s first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers’ milk. “The cloned cow, named Rosita ISA, is the first bovine born in the world that incorporates human genes that contain the proteins present in human milk,” [...]
FDA sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deems it ‘unapproved drug’
elderberrysm Wyldewood Cellars, a Kansas-based producer and distributor of elderberry juice, is the latest raid target of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which recently sent US marshals to the company’s winery in Mulvane to confiscate the “unapproved drug.” According to the rogue agency, Wyldewood had violated provisions in the US Federal Food, Drug, [...]
