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Transportation: Air Travel

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I was about to delete an offensive comment on this blog and thought, hmm, I wonder where this guy is posting from? Lo and behold, the troll posted to our website from an IP address controlled by the federal government’s Department of Homeland Securit

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www.breitbart.com

Delta Air Lines is eyeing a bid for bankrupt rival American Airlines, a source close to the matter said on Thursday, despite doubts that the proposed mega-carrier would win regulatory approval.

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The US Travel Association discovered in a survey that two-out-of-five travelers are saying they will skip the plane and invasive checkpoints in favor of more dignified methods of transportation.

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www.ft.com

Airbus is on course to surpass Boeing and report its highest number of commercial aircraft orders yet in 2011, but the US manufacturer is preparing to mount a strong fightback against its European rival in 2012 and beyond.

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Lew Rockwell blog

"Security Theater" TSA Confiscates Woman's Frosted Cupcake," seems hilarious, it is indicative of the much larger problem of the government's $20 billion industry of terror that has spawned the TSA, Homeland Security, and the militarized police state

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Vanity Fair

As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America

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CBS News

In the wake of most countries in Europe vowing to stop using full-body scanners at airports; the Broward County Commission is looking into banning the scanners from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The ban would be in place until t

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popsci.com

With a range of 9,000 miles, roughly the distance from New York to Hong Kong, the Bombardier Global 8,000 flies farther than any other private jet—1,000 miles more than its closest competitor.

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Lew Rockwell blog

Tells the tale of a local and wealthy entrepreneur who became one of the many thousands to “lose” his property at the TSA’s checkpoint — in this case, a Montblanc pen costing $450. A brown-sorry, blue-shirted thug “casually grabbed a stray pen that w

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Russia Today

The next time you board a flight in the US, be prepared to hand over your luggage to government-hired rapists. Under the FBI’s updated definition of rape, agents with the TSA are as good as guilty of the crime. A recent meeting of the Federal Bure

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