Toxic Tin Shacks: Banned Katrina Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster
• NYtimes.com/The trailers were discovered to have such high levels of formaldehyde that the government banned them from ever being used for long-term housing again.
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Airport Body Scanners: Radiation 20 times higher than first thought
• Dailymail.co.uk/'If there are increases in cancers as a result of irradiation of children, they would most likely appear some decades in the future. It would be prudent not to scan the head and neck,' he added.
David Icke: 'And The Sea Shall Turn To Blood'...
• Rense.comThe potential magnitude of what is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico simply cannot be overstated. It is far, far worse than is being admitted and what we are allowed to see is catastrophic enough.
DHS IG wants US CERT enforcement power, doesn't say how
• Fierce Government ITThe Homeland Security Department should have the power to force civilian agencies to comply with cybersecurity guidance from DHS's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, asserted DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner before a House panel June 16.
Section 706 worse than Lieberman bill, says Senate Committee
• Fierce Government ITExisting presidential authority over telecommunications infrastructure is greater than what the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 would permit the executive branch to do in case of a cyber emergency, say proponents of the bill.
Homeland Security to deploy more drones on Mexico border
• RawStory.comThe United States plans to deploy two drone aircraft along the Texas-Mexico border as part of a new effort to stem organized crime and illegal immigration, Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.
Illegal crossers are being attacked by gunfire in southern Arizona.
• Natl. Assn. of Former Border Patrol OfficersThe Santa Cruz Sheriff's Dept., along the border with Mexico, has reported more than 50 attacks since April, 2008, to date. In these events, some 12 immigrants have received bullet wounds and at least three have died.
Janet Napolitano: US must balance liberties, security
• Guardian.co.uk/world"The First Amendment protects radical opinions, but we need the legal tools to do things like monitor the recruitment of terrorists via the Internet," Napolitano told a gathering of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
At least $800M spent for 53-mile 'virtual' border fence
• AZcentral.comThe fence, developed as part of a border security plan under President George W. Bush, was supposed to monitor most of the southern border with Mexico by 2011. Now, the 53 miles in Arizona is expected to be done by the end of the year.
Military-Industrial Complex Set To Make A Killing From Body Scanners
• Steve WatsonThe rabid calls for co-ordinated implementation of naked body scanners in airports across the planet, in the wake of the failed underwear bombing, will result in huge profits for the military industrial complex.
"HOMELAND SECURITY" -- FOR WHAT AND FOR WHOM?
• www.newswithviews.comWhy do so many Americans think that "homeland security" means what they think it means? Americans have learned the painful lesson that what "is" going on in politics and government these days all too often depends upon the secret,...
Lieberman Bill Gives Feds ‘Emergency’ Powers to Secure Civilian Nets
• WiredJoe Lieberman wants to give the federal government the power to take over civilian networks’ security, if there's an "imminent cyber threat." Provides the Department of Homeland Security broad authority to ensure that “critical infrastructure” stays
British Airways red-faced over faux image of Bin Laden boarding pass
• Yahoo! News blogBritish Airways has drawn much unwelcome attention to itself with a photo touting its new mobile-boarding pass system as it appears to expedite the air travel of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted man.
Detecting a crime before it happens: We Are All Suspects Now
• LAtimes.com"This is like eugenics 100 years ago when scientists said you could tell criminals by the shape of their eyes or the slope of their head," said Lillie Coney, associate director of the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center. "It was bogus...
Cop pretended to be terrorist gunman in hospital’s unannounced 'safety' drill
• RawstoryAt a hospital in Henderson, Nevada this past Monday, a very unusual and terrifying scene took place that left nearly all its participants in shock -- both out of fear and genuine bewilderment as to how safety planners could be so stupid.
Ex-Customs officer convicted in skimming case
• Arizona Daily StarProsecutors say 58-year-old Jose Lopez, of Sierra Vista, was found guilty Friday by a federal jury in Tucson of one count of theft of government money and 26 counts of making false statements to the Department of Homeland Security. He's scheduled to
Homegrown terrorist threat to be part of National Security Strategy
• CNN.comWhen the Obama administration unveils its National Security Strategy on Thursday, it will be the first time any president "explicitly recognizes the threat to the United States posed by individuals radicalized here at home," National Security Adviser
Audio: Canadian Shoppers Harassed at U.S. - Canadian Border
• Infowars.com/This is a really ugly audio recording of America's Border Patrol.
Homeland Security Pressures Vt. Farmer While Letting Southern Border Remain Open
• Mondo FrazierThe U.S.-Mexican border is rife with drug smugglers, violence and a gateway for illegals; Obama and AG Holder criticize Arizona’s attempt to get a handle on the situation. In the meantime, what does the Dept. of Homeland Security do? Threaten a famil
Fed Marshals violently arrest FIJA activist, violate DHS policy
• www.examiner.comLlibertarian activists, George Donnelly and Jim Babb, had barely joined relentless freedom campaigner Julian Heicklen at the federal courthouse in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to help distribute Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) literature when...
NY Times Missed the Mark on Native American Border Story
• mediafreedominternational.orgThe NY Times reported on the T.O. reservation and how bad the situation is/was this story was reported originally on January 24 of this year. But it is still true today. What the article does not cover however is just as important. That is the abuses
Size Matters: TSA Employee Beats Up Boss Over the Scan of His Package
• Infowars.com/44-year-old Rolando Negrin beat his supervisor with a police baton after he had cracked jokes about Negrin’s small manhood when he walked through a naked scanner as part of a training exercise at Miami International Airport.
Faisal Shahzad on Homeland Security List Since 1999
• CBS NewsWould-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appeared on a Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list - Traveler Enforcement Compliance System between 1999 and 2008 because he brought approximately $80,000 cash or cash instruments into the U
TSA Worker Jailed After Scanner Reveals His Small Package
• NBC NewsPerhaps the new airport body scanners are a bit too revealing. A TSA worker in Miami was arrested for assault after he attacked a colleague who'd made fun of his small genitalia after he walked through one of the new high-tech security scanners
Seriously, Democrats, Can You Get Any Creepier Than the BELIEVE Program?
• FireDogLake.comUnder this plan, the government would create a national biometric database cataloging every person in the country. On top of that, Democrats chose possibly the creepiest, Orwellian name they could think of for this national ID card...
Your National ID Card: Liberty, Limits, and Illegal Immigration
• amconmag.com/tactv/Could it be that Washington officials would like to use the excuse of unchecked, unregulated immigration-a problem not-so-curiously of their own making-to allow the federal government to further intrude into the lives of citizens?
Janet Napolitano: Admiral Who Screwed Up Katrina to Fix Oil Spill in Gulf
• Washingtonsblog.com/Adm. Thad W. Allen, the commandant of the Coast Guard, is now directly overseeing the work of Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, who had been in charge of the response. Admiral Allen was in charge of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
Maine resident shot & killed in his home by a Border Patrol agent & Maine state trooper
• Bangor Daily NewsA spokeswoman said Monday's autopsy failed to determine conclusively the cause of death of 55-year-old Neil Begin, who was shot Friday afternoon during an encounter with a Maine State Police trooper and a U.S. Border Patrol agent at Begin’s mobile ho
Obama: We'll use 'every single available resource' to contain oil slick
• by David Jackson, USA TodayPresident Obama said his team would use "every single available resource" to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil slick, including dispatching teams from the Pentagon if necessary. Officials from Homeland Security, the Interior Department and the Envi
Imprisoned in the USA for "Obstruction of Justice"
Terry BressiViolent authoritarian thugs with guns and badges make up an excuse to assault a Canadian couple at the U.S. Border who had the nerve to come here to spend their money.
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