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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

TSA Gets "Money For Nothing"; CNSNews: TSA Sealed $50-Million Sequester-Eve Deal to Buy New Uniforms

This will make the third uniform change since this so called department was invented. 
Wonder if it will make it easier for the passengers to tell the crooks from the honest workers?

The impending sequester did not prevent the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)  from acting in late February to seal a $50-million deal to purchase new uniforms for its agents--uniforms that will be partly manufactured in Mexico. 
Soon after this new investment in TSA uniforms, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned Americans that the lines are already lengthening at airports due to the sequester.
"We are already seeing the effect on the ports of entry, the big airports for example," Napolitano told Politico on Monday. "Some of them had very long lines this weekend."
"Look people, I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform," Napolitiano said."If you're traveling, get to the airport earlier than you otherwise would. There's only so much we can do with personnel and please don't yell at the customs officers, the TSA officers. They aren't responsible for sequester."
On Feb. 27, the agency announced that on Feb. 22 it had awarded a one-year contract to VF Imagewear, Inc., which owns the Lee brand and Wrangler Hero, to provide the uniforms. “This contract will address the requirements of the TSA, Office of Security Operations, TSA Uniform Program,” the award states.
The TSA employs 50,000 security officers, inspectors, air marshals and managers. That means that the uniform contract will pay the equivalent of $1,000 per TSA employee over the course of the year.

 Read More:  http://cnsnews.com/

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Remember The Pan American Clippers?; The Long Way Home ~ The Pacific Clipper Historic Airlines

A civilian airliner, cut off from home by the outbreak of World War II, makes a dash for freedom...

December 7, 1941. The Pacific Clipper, Queen of Pan American Airways fleet of flying boats is 6 days out of San Francisco, bound for Auckland, New Zealand. Captain Robert Ford receives a coded message: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor...Implement War Plan A...Proceed to Auckland, NZ...Maintain radio silence...Wait for instructions...Your aircraft is a strategic resource-it must not fall into enemy hands under any circumstances

Pan American Airways bases all across the Pacific were captured. Returning to the US west coast by the Pacific Clipper did not seem possible. A week of waiting, then another coded message:

DEC 14, 1941: Do not return to Hawaii. Do not return to US west coast...Strip aircraft of all markings and identification...proceed west...maintain radio silence...deliver aircraft to Marine Terminal, LaGuardia, NY. Good luck,

Submitted by: 'Friends of Flight'

Friday, July 20, 2012

We Erred, Obama Is Right, The Government Helped Illegal Aliens Get Pilots Licenses: BrassCheckTV: TSA approved flight lessons for illegal aliens ( 9/11, flight school, flight training, illegal aliens, Transportation Security Administration, TSA)‏

 Does anyone understand the magnitude of destruction that OUR Government is doing to US?  

Most likely not cause you don't even comprehend the destruction in your own local Lisbon Government.

And now we have another misdirected youth (24 year old James Holmes)  going wild with firearms and killing at least a dozen in Colorado.

We pray for the victims and their families.



God Bless US All


Lisbon,
 
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) 
approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a 
flight school OWNED by yet another illegal alien.
 
YOU, however, need to be groped and humiliated 
just to get on a plane as a passenger.
 
Video:
 
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/11497.html
 
Goodman Green
- Brasscheck


 Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation Security delivers an opening statement at a Subcommittee Hearing entitled: "A Decade After 9/11 Could American Flight Schools Still Unknowingly Be Training Terrorists?"

 TSA approved flight training
for 25 illegal aliens











TSA Let 25 Illegal Aliens Attend Flight School Owned by Illegal Alien

By Edwin Mora
CNSNews.com


The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a Boston-area flight school that was owned by yet another illegal alien, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The illegal-alien flight-school attendees included eight who had entered the country illegally and 17 who had overstayed their allowed period of admission into the United States, according to an audit by the GAO.


Six of the illegal aliens were actually able to get pilot's licenses.


Discovery of the trouble at the flight school began when local police--not federal authorities--pulled over the owner of the school on a traffic violation and were able to determine that he was an illegal alien.


Continue reading here:


http://cnsnews.com/news/article/tsa-let-25-illegal-aliens-attend-flight-school-owned-illegal-alien


For more TSA nonsense and abuse: videos, click here

Thursday, May 24, 2012

SMART FLIGHT ATTENDANT‏




The Smart Flight Attendant
 
A 50-something year old Muslim man arrived at his seat on a crowded flight and immediately didn't want the seat. The seat was next to an elderly white woman reading her Bible.
 
Disgusted, the Muslim man immediately summoned the flight attendant and demanded a new seat. The man said "I cannot sit here next to this infidel." The flight attendant said "Let me see if I can find another seat."
 
After checking, the flight attendant returned and stated "There are no more seats in economy, but I will check with the captain and see if there is something in first class."
 
About 10 minutes went by and the flight attendant returned and stated "The captain has confirmed that there are no more seats in economy, but there is one
in first class. It is our company policy to never move a person from economy to first class, but being that it would be some sort of scandal to force a person to sit next to an UNPLEASANT person, the captain agreed to make the switch to first class."
 
Before the irate Muslim man could say anything, the attendant gestured to the elderly woman and said, "Therefore, madam, if you would so kindly retrieve your personal items, we would like to move you to the comfort of first class as the captain doesn't want you to sit next to an unpleasant person."
 
Passengers in the seats nearby began to applaud while some gave a standing ovation.


I say, can I get an Amen to that


 Submitted by: 'Gordie'

Saturday, May 12, 2012

The Governmental American Way - Waste, Fraud, & Abuse; BrasscheckTV: Busted: TSA tries to hide its wasteful spending‏ (government waste, spending, TSA, waste)

Lisbon,
 
Not only is the TSA good at groping children, sexually assaulting
women, humiliating the elderly and disabled, among the numerous
other offenses they commit upon the American public, but they can
also spend taxpayer money like nobody's business.
 
Good thing for us they aren't as good at hiding it.
 
Congressional report blasts TSA waste...
 
Video:
 
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/10555.html
 
Goodman Green
- Brasscheck


TSA tried to cover up
$184 million in wasteful spending 

 



 Congressional report blasts TSA waste

By John Bacon
USA TODAY via Federal Times

A report to be released Wednesday by House Republicans claims the Transportation Security Administration mothballed $184 million in equipment that could be improving security at airports — and then tried to hide the mismanagement, The Washington Post says.

The report claims that when investigators sought information about the stored material, TSA tried to conceal its mistakes by providing "inaccurate, incomplete and potentially misleading information," the Post says.

The delay was a deliberate effort to get rid of 1,300 pieces of unused screening equipment at a Texas warehouse before investigators arrived in February, the report says. The Post says the report claims that despite efforts to move the equipment, the warehouse contained 5,700 pieces of equipment, at least 100 more than the number included in the inventory TSA provided to the committee.

Continue reading here

Friday, February 10, 2012

The Power Of Fear: TSA Help Wanted - hilarious satire animation about TSA perverts, Janet Napolitano and the Bill of Rights - See The Video Banned by Others - (health ranger mike adams natural news freedom government air travel tsa airport security dhs janet napolitano fourth amendment )

The latest activism video from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, hilariously depicts "TSA perverts" watching naked body scanner porn, stealing expensive electronics from the luggage of air travelers, digging for crotch gold during "enhanced pat downs" and turning into total psychopathic criminals.

See more activism videos by Mike Adams at:
www.NaturalNews.com/activism

"Total genius Mike Adams. Unbelievable genius. What won't he come up with next?"
- Alex Jones, InfoWars.com, February 7, 2012, national radio broadcast, 3rd hour



Friday, December 9, 2011

"Organic" infant formula loaded with GMO source of DHA? Details revealed‏

Infant formula products love to advertise how they're "organic" and deliver high levels of brain-enhancing DHA.
But did you know that the DHA used in most of the top infant formula products comes from genetically engineered algae?
Get the facts in today's eye-opening report:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034364_infant_formula_DHA_genetically_modified.html


Does "Fair Trade" really mean fair trade? Not anymore! The definition has been watered down in a change that some are calling a sellout of the Fair Trade concept:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034363_Fair_Trade_standards_food.html


Radioactive cesium has been found contaminating infant powdered milk products in Japan:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034357_Fukushima_powdered_milk_radioactive_cesium.html


Think your tweets are private? Every single tweet ever tweeted has now been turned over to the U.S. government for "data mining" operations:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034356_tweets_surveillance_government.html


Finally, on the good news side of things, powerful electromedicine can help repair damaged nerves:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034362_nerve_damage_repair_electromedicine.html


Today's Feature Stories:

DHA used in infant formula products comes from genetically modified algae
(NaturalNews) One of the most vulnerable segments of the population -- infants -- are being affected as chemical giant Martek Biosciences uses cronyism to have its patented GMO products classified as organic. The National Organic Program is trying to...
Fair Trade USA certifier severely dilutes standards to include non-fair trade products
(NaturalNews) Concerned about the horrific working conditions and measly wages that many of the world's poorest must deal with every single day, many consumers are now opting for "fair trade" products that, while slightly more expensive at times, come...
Advanced electrical stimulation technology can repair damaged nerves, restore neuron function with virtually no side effects
(NaturalNews) Patients suffering from nerve damage or paralysis may soon be able to better regain function, thanks to a new electrical stimulation technique developed by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Mass., and...
Portugal raiding pension funds could be sign of things to come in U.S
(NaturalNews) There is a saying that epitomizes the dangers of surrendering too much of your independence: "Those who giveth can also taketh away." With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that in Portugal - and, most likely, a number of other...
Sticking it to the man
(NaturalNews) Glen W. Bowersock hit the nail on the head when he observed that: "From the eighteenth century onward, we have been obsessed with the fall (of the Roman Empire): it has been valued as an archetype for every perceived decline, and,...
Low body weight in later life associated with increased Alzheimer's disease risk
(NaturalNews) Many lifestyle factors are associated with the development of the memory-robbing form of dementia known as Alzheimer's disease. Smoking, diet, lack of exercise and poor B-vitamin status all contribute to the sixth most prevalent cause of...
Natural remedies help counter phobias
A phobia is an irrational fear; the symptoms of which may be manageable or be so debilitating that everyday life may be disrupted. An estimated ten percent of people in the UK and slightly more in the USA suffer from phobias of some kind...
Fukushima fallout: Japanese company recalls powdered baby milk after detecting high levels of radioactive cesium
(NaturalNews) The disastrous effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe are still emerging nearly a year after the fact, as a popular Japanese baby formula company has now announced a massive recall of baby food tainted with radiation. Meiji...
Every single tweet being turned over to U.S. government
(NaturalNews) They say there are billions of them, with more than 50 million added per day. But whatever the actual number, every single tweet ever sent since the beginning of Twitter-time is set to be turned over to Uncle Sam. According to Federal...
Texas agency allows town to run pipeline through state park to avoid completely running out of water
(NaturalNews) A historic drought that has stricken much of Central Texas over the past several months has caused some rivers and water reservoirs in the Lone Star State to run dangerously low. But one Central Texas town, Groesbeck, located about two hours...
FBI's new definition of rape ensnares TSA agents as serial rapists
(NaturalNews) The definition of "rape" was expanded this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Criminal Justice Advisory Policy Board, following a barrage of emails from feminist activists who demanded change. The old definition was...

Thursday, December 8, 2011

FBI updates definition of "rape" and accidentally reveals TSA agents to be serial rapists‏

Something bizarre and unexpected has just happened in America: In response to protests by feminist groups, the FBI has updated its definition of "rape." But what it probably never expected is that the new definition of "rape" ensares nearly all TSA agents as criminal, serial rapists!
Yep: If you believe the feminists' definition of rape, then the TSA is engaged in widespread serial raping all across the nation, every single day.
Why is this being tolerated? Isn't it time we took TSA rapings seriously and said NO to these criminals?
Read my full article on this, which is full of uncensored outrage and is probably not suitable for children:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034354_FBI_rape_definition.html

Today's Feature Stories:

FBI's new definition of rape ensnares TSA agents as serial rapists
(NaturalNews) The definition of "rape" was expanded this week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Criminal Justice Advisory Policy Board, following a barrage of emails from feminist activists who demanded change. The old definition was...
Raw Milk Freedom Riders ride again! Join them at Chicago's Independence Park on December 8, 2011
(NaturalNews) After successfully rallying hundreds of parents and food freedom advocates for its inaugural raw milk rally at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just a few weeks ago, the Raw Milk Freedom...
Android smartphone software tracks every user action and keystroke, analysis finds
(NaturalNews) Smartphone devices are convenient, handy tools for staying in touch with friends and family, getting directions on the go, and accessing a variety of helpful user applications from virtually anywhere. But a recent analysis of smartphones...
Removing unaffected breast in women with cancer results in little benefit, many problems
(NaturalNews) Several celebrities have been in the news lately, because after being diagnosed with cancer in one breast, they decided to have both breasts removed. The procedure, known as contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), is offered to women...
Put the fat cats on a diet: Stop buying tainted food from billion dollar corporations
(NaturalNews) "I have not spoken to one farmer who doesn't understand the message of Occupy Wall Street, the message that so many people keep saying is nebulous. It's very clear. Because of business and corporate participation in agriculture, farmers...
Autism and vaccines - Study to debunk association rather strengthens association
(NaturalNews) When science is biased and works to comply with a certain agenda, the research can be confusing at best. Such is the case with the most recent attempt to divert attention from early childhood vaccinations as a causal factor for autism. The...
Research scientist confesses to falsifying numerous studies published in peer-reviewed journals
(NaturalNews) The peer review process is alleged to be the "gold standard" of the scientific process, as it is supposed to ensure that only legitimate scientific studies get published. But a recent admission by psychologist and researcher Diederik Stapel...
Natural hormone rejuvenation on the next NaturalNews Talk Hour
(NaturalNews) Discover the only way to naturally rejuvenate your hormones - safely and effectively. Learn how to rebuild and balance hormones - without negative side effects. The NaturalNews Talk Hour presents Feeling Great - Natural Hormone Rejuvenation...
Natural medicine for cancer - Do not let the revolution be stopped
(NaturalNews) For those who can look beyond the much hyped "war on cancer," a very different kind of war is actually being fought behind the scenes, on a scale few people realize. Cancer drug sales are forecast to reach $80 billion during 2012. But its...
Blurred vision? Eye doctor myths exposed - learn how to exercise your eye muscles for restoring healthy vision and eliminating prescription glasses
(NaturalNews) You're probably familiar with all sorts of mythologies promoted as "truisms" in modern medicine: Flu vaccines prevent the flu (they actually don't), CT scans are harmless (they aren't), chemotherapy works to save lives from cancer (it actually...
North Korea may soon be able to strike USA with ultimate doomsday weapon that deactivates (nearly) all electronics
(NaturalNews) Obama administration officials have released new intelligence indicating North Korea is building mobile ICBMs that will soon be able to reach the United States. This was reported in the Washington Times, which states, "New intelligence indicates...

Friday, November 18, 2011

Time To Wake Up America: Airports are Constitution-free zones


Lisbon,

Jesse Ventura's lawsuit against the TSA addressed a direct and
profound violation of the Fourth Amendment which protects us
against unlawful searches and seizures.

A federal judge has dismissed Ventura's case, denying him his day
in court and leaving him, and the rest of us I might add, no means
of contesting the illegal actions of the government goons in our
airports.

Quite simply, the Constitution does not apply...


Airports are Constitution-free zones
Jesse Ventura on Freedom Watch

 



Ventura Decries “Fascist” America
After Judge Tosses TSA Case


Vowing to “never fly commercial” again, Ventura gave a passionate press conference today, expressing his anger at TSA grope down procedures that force people like himself with metal implants to go through humiliating pat downs every time they pass through airport security.

His lawyer was told the case could not go to jury trial due to “secrecy reasons” over “national security”

“I want a trial by jury. They tell me I can have a jury decide my fate!” Ventura said, refering to the judge who dismissed the case as a “coward”. “If given a jury, I will win,” he added.

“I will not, in a free country, be treated like a criminal,” said Ventura, adding that he and his wife intended to apply for Mexican citizenship.

Referring to 9/11, Ventura questioned the reasoning behind the whole war on terror. “George Bush said we were attacked because they were jealous of our freedoms. So we take away our freedoms so they won’t be jealous anymore?” he said. “I think they’re winning.”


Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Check This Out, "Operation Blue Coast." Government Employees Caught In Drug Smuggling Ring!

TSA officers arrested on drug charges in Conn.

JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN , 09.13.11, 03:52 PM EDT  
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Three federal Transportation Security Administration officers and two other law enforcement officers were arrested on charges of accepting cash or gift cards in exchange for permitting prescription drug dealers to move tens of thousands of highly addictive painkiller pills and cash proceeds from the illegal sales through airports and highways.
The TSA officers, based at airports in Florida and New York, and a Westchester County, N.Y., police officer allowed the oxycodone through airport security, authorities said Tuesday. A Florida state trooper accepted cash and checks for ensuring dealers could freely transport the pills and cash proceeds by car through that state, prosecutors said.
 Prescription pain medication abuse is rampant in New England and this trafficking group allegedly preyed upon the addictions of individuals to line their pockets, while the law enforcement officers are alleged to have sold their badges and abused their authority to further the illegal activities of the organization," said Steven W. Derr, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England.
The TSA officers, Christopher Allen, 45, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.; John Best, 30, of Port St. Lucie, Fla.; and Brigitte Jones, 48, of the Bronx, N.Y., were charged with conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute oxycodone. The New York police officer, Michael Brady, 36, and the Florida trooper, Justin Kolves, 28, face the same charges; their hometowns were not released.

Follow the rest of the story here.


This is just another story that we broke about he uselessness of    the TSA in the past.

When will people wake up and band together to stop these outrageous infringements of our Constitutional Rights?


Sunday, September 11, 2011

Flight 93 Memorial song


Song by Kevin Quinn about Flight 93 on 9-11-2001. Speaks for itself dedicated to Deora Bodley, Joe Driscoll and their 38 friends who are together in paradise



 

9-11, 10 year anniversary tribute song, A Decade Ago

Tribute song for the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001 off the album Nine-Eleven, A Decade Of Tribute. Music and lyrics by DannyB Songs.com DannyB donates proceeds from the sale of this album to appropriate not for profit organizations that assist those who help us so much; veterans, firefighters, police, first responders, EMS and more. Visit DannyB Songs on facebook or his website: www.dannybsongs.com for more information. Music available on CD or download through iTunes, Amazon MP3, CD Baby and more. Video generously created by justsayno2hate. Thanks much Eric. Thanks for watching and listening.

Stonepictures presents 911 tribute video 10 year.

This is a tribute to all 2,998 people who died that day, as well as those who responded to the scene to help (who are still suffering from health complications to this day).

Music: City of the Fallen - Gates of Pearl (Ryan Amon)

Just The Facts: Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus‏

Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus
What the US government doesn't want you to know about the "terror pilots" and their friends
We are being lied to about the nature of the events of 9/11. 
We are being lied to by the FBI. 
We are being lied to by the media.

Who were the pilots of 9/11?




From Mad Cows News
Who were the 9/11 pilots?

The FBI doesn't seem to want to know.

And the US news media has been very cooperative in not seeking or reporting the facts.

Far from being a devout Muslim or diligent military intelligence operative, "Mohamed Atta" was a scotch-drinking, coke-snorting, strip-club-attending loud mouth who was widely known in Venice, FL for his anti-social behavior.

Daniel Hopsicker's well researched book "Mohamed Atta and the Venice Flying Circus" indicates that Atta looks a whole lot more like a government protected drug pilot than anything else.

But don't tell the FBI or any other US law enforcement agency. They clearly don't want to know - and they don't want you to know either.

The source of this remarkable video is: Daniel Hopsicker's investigative journalism web site

Saturday, September 10, 2011

911 In Plane Site

This is one of the more shocking documentaries made about the
attacks of 9/11. Shocking because it's NOT full of 'conspiracy
theories'. There is no guess work here as to how or why,
911 IN PLANE SITE simply revisits the news broadcasts of that day
and points out how much of the story simply disappeared as the 
'Official Story' took shape. It reviews 'forgotten' video evidence
of that day and points out how much of it contradicts the present
view of events.
 
If you've seen this one before it's a perfect time to watch it
again and refresh your memory. It's also a good time to watch it
with someone who hasn't. If you haven't seen this one before... 
you're in for a helluva surprise.
 
Video:
 
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/4960.html
 
- Brasscheck




911 In Plane Site


What “In Plane Site” accomplishes that no other video expose’ on September 11th has to date, is it exposes the viewer to a barrage of news clips from a majority of the mainstream news outlets.  The official story of that day was told on live TV by reporters, policemen, firefighters, and other on-the-scene eyewitnesses, however, that footage was shown only once on live television broadcasts in the first hours of the attacks and then… it was never repeated.  The stories changed, information was enigmatically omitted, and what can only be described as officially prescribed propaganda took the place of indisputable reality.

 If you still believe that terrorists with box cutters carried out 9/11, then you may have nothing to worry about, but the next time you hear on your local news station that the terrorist threat level has just been elevated, remember the words of Dave von Kleist as he closes this video presentation.  “Where is your line in the sand?






Let us never forget the lives of  the innocent victims that were lost in this American Tragedy.
God Bless The Victims, Their Families, Friends, Fire Fighters, First Responders, Police and ALL Others. 
And to the victims suffering today from all the fallout.
We Will Remember ALL WAYS !


Tuesday, June 28, 2011

TSA has no concept of human dignity, America is Brainwashed

Huge public outcry over TSA forcing 95-year-old cancer patient to remove adult diaper

Monday, June 27, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) The TSA has once again shown itself to be an agency utterly lacking in respect for human dignity by forcing a 95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper during the screening procedure. Jean Weber, a leukemia patient, underwent the humiliating procedure at the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport where TSA agents, as usual, claim to be "protecting the public from terrorism." (You have to question the intelligence, obviously, of any federal employee who believes that terrorists are hiding weapons inside the diaper of a 95-year-old cancer patient. More on that below...)

Outrage over the "adult diaper pat-down" has rapidly spread across the internet as more and more people are waking up and realizing the TSA has no concept of human dignity and can justify anything -- yes, anything -- as part of the "war on terror." The TSA even justified this adult diaper pat-down, claiming what they did was conducted in a "respectful and sensitive manner."

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Safety of America, TSA, Much more on backscatter radiation safety test


TSA backscatter radiation safety tests were rigged

Tuesday, May 17, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com(NaturalNews)

It can now be revealed by NaturalNews that the TSA faked its safety data on its X-ray airport scanners in order to deceive the public about the safety of such devices.

As evidenced by recent events in Washington, we now live in an age where the federal government simply fakes whatever documents, news or evidence it wants people to believe, then releases that information as if it were fact. This is the modus operandi of the Department of Homeland Security, which must fabricate false terror alerts to keep itself in business -- and now the TSA division has taken the fabrication of false evidence to a whole new level with its naked body scanners (see below).

Even physics professors question the TSA's obvious cover-up

The evidence of the TSA's fakery is now obvious thanks to the revelations of a letter signed by five professors from the University of California, San Francisco and Arizona State University. You can view the full text of the letter at: http://www.propublica.org/documents...


The letter reveals:


• To this day, there has been no credible scientific testing of the TSA's naked body scanners. The claimed "safety" of the technology by the TSA is based on rigged tests.


• The testing that did take place was done on a custom combination of spare parts rigged by the manufacturer of the machines (Rapidscan) and didn't even use the actual machines installed in airports. In other words, the testing was rigged.


• The names of the researchers who conducted the radiation tests at Rapidscan have been kept secret! This means the researchers are not available for scientific questioning of any kind, and there has been no opportunity to even ask whether they are qualified to conduct such tests. (Are they even scientists?)


TSA operates in complete secrecy

None of the Rapidscan tests have been available to be subjected to peer review. They are quite literally secret tests using secret techniques engineered by secret researchers. We the People apparently have no right to see the data, nor the methodology, nor even the names of the researchers who supposedly carried out these safety tests.


• The final testing report produced from this fabricated testing scenario has been so heavily redacted that "there is no way to repeat any of these measurements," say the professors. In other words, the testing violates the very first tenant of scientific experimentation which is that all experiments must be repeatable in order to be verified as accurate.


As the professors state in their letter:


The document is heavily redacted with red stamps over the words and figures. In every case the electric current used which correlates one to one with X-ray dose has been specifically redacted. Thus there is no way to repeat any of these measurements. While the report purports to present the results of objective testing, in fact the JHU APL personnel, who are unnamed anywhere in the document either as experimenters or as authors, were not provided with a machine by Rapiscan. Instead they were invited to the manufacturing site to observe a mock-up of components (spare parts) that were said to be similar to those that are parts of the Rapiscan system. The tests were performed by the manufacturer using the manufacturer's questionable test procedures.


You got that? Where is the outrage from the "scientific" community on all this? This quack science TSA testing is so atrociously and inexcusably bad that if this fabricated evidence were presented at any sort of scientific meeting, they would be laughed off the stage and publicly vilified in the media. And yet, somehow, when the TSA engaged in this sort of quack science, virtually the entire scientific community says nothing. Only a small group of especially courageous scientists has stood up to this obvious quackery, and even these professors are of course being blasted in the press and called un-American for merely questioning the obviously flimsy evidence being laughably fronted by the TSA.


I mean, seriously: Can you imagine the total outcry if an herbal product company claimed that its products cured cancer, and it did all the testing itself, and all the names of the researchers were kept secret, and the methodology was a secret, and the whole document was 50% redacted to protect "proprietary information?" They would actually be arrested by the federal government for running a criminal scam! So why can the TSA get away with the exact same scandalous junk science distortions and virtually no one in the mainstream media asks a single question?


The complete fabrication of safety in the name of false science

It's amazing what America has come to these days, folks. The federal government isn't merely counterfeiting money every day (or stealing from your retirement accounts to keep itself afloat, which just started happening yesterday), but the feds are also fabricating scientific evidence to keep pushing their utterly fabricated "war on terror." The feds in Washington aren't really fighting a war on terror... they ARE the terror! When the feds reach down your pants and feel your junk; when they force you to be fried with high-powered X-rays at the airport; and when they threaten anyone who stands up to their Nazi-like marching orders, they have become the very terrorist organization they claim to be fighting.


• The dose rates of X-rays being emitted by the Rapidscan machines are actually quite high -- comparable to that of CT scans, say the professors. Yes, the dose duration is significantly lower than a CT scan, but the dose intensity is much higher than what you might think. And as anyone who knows a bit about physics and biology will tell you, the real danger from radiation is a high-intensity, short-duration exposure. That's exactly what the TSA's backscatter machines produce.


• The radiation detection device used by Rapidscan to measure the output of the machines -- an ion chamber -- is incapable of accurately measuring the high-intensity burst of radiation produced by the TSA's naked body scanners, say the professors.


• At the same time, the radiation field measurement device used by the TSA -- a Fluke 451 instrument -- is incapable of measuring the high dose rates emitted by backscatter machines. The measurement devices, in effect, "max out" and cannot measure the full intensity of the exposure. Thus, the TSA's claims of "low radiation" are actually fraudulent. By the way, the device mentioned by the TSA really is an F 451. Does that ring a bell in terms of fiction novels? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahren...)


• The amount of electrical current applied to the X-ray tubes has been redacted by the TSA (working with John Hopkins). This makes it impossible for third-party scientists to accurately calculate the actual radiation exposure, and it hints at yet more evidence of a total TSA cover-up. As explained by the professors:


...the X-ray dose is proportional to the current through the X-ray tube. Not having access to the current used in the JHU test, or in the field application of the scanner means that the measurements at JHU are irrelevant to the dose at the airport. There is also no data on the pixel size and overscanning ratio, which also bear directly on the dose delivered to subjects. The statement in the HHS letter that the fluence is not a relevant quantity ignores fundamental physics.


There shall be no independent testing whatsoever

The TSA adamantly refuses to allow independent testing of the radiation levels being emitted by the machines. The agency is using the cover story that "terrorists might be able to circumvent the technology" if anyone is allowed to actually test the machine.


Hilarious! This is the very definition of quack science. You have to trust our in-house fabricated experiments, and we won't tell you how we even arrived at our test results, and we won't release the names of the scientists who even ran the tests, but we can't tell you more because of the terrorists.


Notably, this is after Osama Bin Laden has already been killed, and he was the whole reason the TSA started up in the first place. The terror mastermind is dead, in other words, and still the TSA can't trust university physics professors to conduct credible science on its naked body scanners.


Actual radiation emitted by the machines is far higher than what the TSA claims

John Sedat, a professor emeritus in biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and the primary author of the letter says, "..the best guess of the dose is much, much higher than certainly what the public thinks." This indicates the public has been deeply misled by the actual amount of radiation emitted by the machines.


• Peter Rez, the physics professor from Arizona State, says that the high-quality images described by the TSA could not be produced with the low levels of radiation being claimed by the TSA. The images, in other words, don't match up with the TSA's cover story. Rez estimates the actual radiation exposure is 45 times higher than what we've previously been told.


• The TSA machines are capable of firing even higher levels of radiation into a "region of interest" (such as your anus or scrotum, in which the TSA seems to be taking great interest these days), thereby exposing that region to even higher levels of radiation than the rest of your body.


Mechanical failure and software bugs

The backscatter scanning devices uses a high-powered X-ray beam that is quickly moved back and forth across your body by reflecting the beam off a moving wheel. If that wheel fails for any reason and stops moving, the traveler could be pierced with a deadly X-ray beam that focuses extremely high levels of radiation on a small group of cells, mutating their DNA.


This means the backscatter devices are mechanical systems, and all mechanical systems eventually fail (just like airplanes). The TSA has done absolutely nothing to address the reliability of these mechanical wheels nor to allow independent testing of the reliability of these wheels.


• The TSA refuses to allow independent scientists to review its software code that controls the radiation beam. Thus, the software and its capabilities also remain a complete secret. What if there's a software bug that causes 10,000 times the usual radiation exposure for some unlucky traveler? Suppose the pervert TSA agent zooms in on some 9-year-old child's junk to capture a picture for his own private collection... does that result in yet more radiation? (Fact: One TSA agent has already been arrested for distributing child pornography.) (http://www.tsagoons.com/2011/04/23/...)


See more at www.TSAgoons.com (warning: graphic language and imagery on that site.)


What science? We don't need no stinkin' science!

As we're all now learning, the TSA completely bypassed the normal procedure for independent testing of equipment to be used on the public. As explained by the professors:


The independent testing of the safety of these specific scanners has not been rigorous nor has it been held to the standards usually associated with new devices before approval for utilization in the public sector. Usually the exact technology, as installed, is sent to a university, national laboratory or other outside facility that has the expertise to test, for an extended period of time to enable an in-depth study -- usually by several independent groups.


The U.S. government, however, no longer feels it needs to engage in any "scientific" testing whatsoever. Why bother? The government can simply fabricate whatever results it wants and then release those to the mainstream media which will dutifully reprint the government's lies as if they were facts. The truth is no longer relevant to the government's tyrannical agenda. As long as no one questions the lies, it hardly matters how unreasonable or bizarre those lies become. Government can always play the terrorism card and force people to shut up and stop asking questions, you see. "How dare you question our integrity. We're the government! We're protecting YOU from terrorism!"


Sure they are. By feeling up my anus? Seriously? If it wasn't actually true, it would be hilarious.


What is the TSA hiding?

NaturalNews asks the obvious question: Why won't the TSA subject its backscatter scanning machines to independent testing? Why won't it allow five different university physics departments to conduct five independent tests -- using documented equipment and methodologies -- and thereby assure the public, with credibility, that its machines are perfectly safe?


I can tell you why: Because the TSA is lying. The agency has fabricated its test results. It has conspired to deceive and mislead the American public over the safety of these machines, and it has done so through an agenda of government secrecy and scientific fraud. The TSA, lacking any credibility whatsoever, has resorted to routine lying about its machines, its procedures and its intentions. When 6-month-old babies have their rear-ends searched by TSA agents wearing evil grins (http://scottystarnes.files.wordpres...), you know it's all gone too far.


The TSA refuses to allow independent testing of its machines because it knows what NaturalNews readers already know: That if the machines were honestly and accurately tested, they would show far higher levels of radiation exposure than what we've been told. It would show that the TSA's body scanners significantly increase the risk of cancer to a population that is already over-irradiated with medical imaging tests such as CT scans and chest X-rays.


The TSA, like virtually every other department of the federal government, is now actively engaged in the routine falsification of the scientific data concerning a device that is exposing millions of Americans to an increased risk of cancer. And as long as the federal government claims to have "supreme power" while refusing to answer to the People, we're only going to get more of this tyranny in the months ahead.


The TSA has become the terrorist organization

This is not merely unacceptable; this is a CRIME against the American people. These TSA body scanners are, effectively, Weapons of Mass Destruction that are unleashing ionizing radiation upon an unsuspecting public.


And they are doing it right in your face; telling you it's all perfectly safe while, behind the scenes, they had to engineer a specially-rigged unit just to run their rigged tests using measurement devices that can't even record the high levels of radiation actually being emitted.


The public backlash against these devices is so strong and so loud that news crews have to interview dozens of people on camera just to find one person to actually say something positive about the TSA's pat-down and ionizing scanners. That's the report from Alex Jones, who has also been covering TSA tyranny in great detail. The popularity of his www.Infowars.com website is exploding in the wake of the government's increasingly bold lies and disinfo campaigns that frankly are backfiring on them. A lot of people are easily fooled, but just as many aren't. Probably 95% of all travelers are absolutely opposed to everything the TSA forces them to go through at the airport.


That's why Texas is about to pass a law that would criminalize TSA agents who reach down your pants and molest you or your children. But the TSA has put out a preemptive statement on its blog that claims none of this matters. "States cannot regulate the federal government," the TSA claims. And it actually quotes the U.S. Constitution as the source of its power! (What about the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution? How convenient that they forgot all about that part, eh?)


The passage of this law could lead to a fascinating showdown in Texas. What we need is a group of Texas Rangers to march into the airport in Dallas and arrest the TSA agents, handcuff them, and march them off to jail. Then let's see the feds try to invade Texas to free their criminal TSA agents. That should be amusing. I've spent some time in Texas, talking with the locals, and I can guarantee you that a bunch of tyrant feds trying to invade Texas are going to be absolutely shocked at the intensity of the public resistance they will meet.


The growing TSA resistance movement

By the way, with the TSA's molestation of children and outright lying about the safety of its machines, the federal government is vastly overestimating the stupidity of the general public. People are taking notes of the encroaching tyranny, and while they may pretend to voluntarily walk through the TSA's security checkpoints right now, there will come a day when the American people simply refuse to be herded like cattle anymore. I predict a widespread backlash against the TSA, reflected through state legislative efforts and public protests that will demand an end to the TSA which has now come to mean "Touch Some Ass!"


The hilarious ending to all this, by the way, is that the backscatter machines are also dosing all the TSA workers with regular bursts of ionizing radiation, meaning that the very people working for the tyrannical TSA are, themselves, victims of its deception.


Somehow, that seems incredibly fitting.


Sources for this story include:
http://www.propublica.org/article/s...
http://www.propublica.org/documents...
http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.document...

The dogs of war

I got the number wrong

Chertoff & Company have raised the price of their mandatory full body irradiation devices from $160,000 to $250,000 since the winter.

Why the big price increase?

They've got a lot of Congressmen to pay off.

The good news is that the GOP (god bless their pointy little heads) have said "NO" to funding additional purchases of these things.

Personally, I made the decision back in November to stop flying into or out of any airport that uses these things which means I'm not flying in the US.

I'm lucky that I no longer have to fly for work and most of my family is within a reasonable drive.

The fact is my quality of life has improved noticeably since I stopped flying. No more stress of getting to the airport on time and dealing with all the crap that takes place there and on the planes.

I'm discovering all the great things I can do within 250 miles of my home and have learned that I'd never run out of interesting, pleasurable things to do within that radius in ten lifetimes.

Disney World? Las Vegas? Is it really worth getting on a plane to go to places like that and in doing so support outrageous conduct on the part of the government?

I don't think so, but that's just me.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Air Travelers Awareness

Air traffic control errors double

Joan Lowy, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a time of unparalleled aviation safety in the United States, reports of mistakes by air traffic controllers have nearly doubled – a seeming contradiction that puzzles safety experts.
The near collision last month of an American Airlines jet with 259 people aboard and two Air Force transport planes southeast of New York City, coupled with the rise in known errors, has raised concerns in Congress that safety may be eroding.
A US Airways plane carrying 95 people crossed paths with a small cargo plane in September, coming within 50 to 100 feet of each other while taking off from Minneapolis. A few months earlier a US Airways Airbus 319 intersected the path of another cargo plane during an aborted landing in Anchorage, Alaska.
In fact, an air traffic controller at the Ronkonkoma, N.Y., radar facility that handled the American plane says he complained about a lax atmosphere at the facility – the second busiest of its kind in the nation.
Controller Evan Seeley, 26, said he ran afoul of the local union when he tried to prevent sick leave and scheduling abuses aimed at increasing overtime pay. Even more disturbing were Seeley's charges that controllers sometimes watch movies and play with electronic devices during nighttime shifts when traffic is slower. He said he has sent his complaints to the Transportation Department's inspector general and to the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower charges. He claims his recent demotion from his position as a front-line manager was related to his attempts to correct problems.

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Friday, December 17, 2010

One Hundred Seven Years Ago Today Aviation History Was Made

Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.

Orville and Wilbur Wright grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and developed an interest in aviation after learning of the glider flights of the German engineer Otto Lilienthal in the 1890s. Unlike their older brothers, Orville and Wilbur did not attend college, but they possessed extraordinary technical ability and a sophisticated approach to solving problems in mechanical design. They built printing presses and in 1892 opened a bicycle sales and repair shop. Soon, they were building their own bicycles, and this experience, combined with profits from their various businesses, allowed them to pursue actively their dream of building the world's first airplane.

After exhaustively researching other engineers' efforts to build a heavier-than-air, controlled aircraft, the Wright brothers wrote the U.S. Weather Bureau inquiring about a suitable place to conduct glider tests. They settled on Kitty Hawk, an isolated village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, which offered steady winds and sand dunes from which to glide and land softly. Their first glider, tested in 1900, performed poorly, but a new design, tested in 1901, was more successful. Later that year, they built a wind tunnel where they tested nearly 200 wings and airframes of different shapes and designs. The brothers' systematic experimentations paid off--they flew hundreds of successful flights in their 1902 glider at Kill Devils Hills near Kitty Hawk. Their biplane glider featured a steering system, based on a movable rudder, that solved the problem of controlled flight. They were now ready for powered flight.

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Now with the groping by TSA agents, we have even more thrills to the flying experienceYup, might say we are flying high with progress now.