"TSA to offer prescreening program to select fliers; Effort aims to ease process at airport checkpoints" July 15, 2011|By Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration said yesterday that it will test a program to prescreen a small group of select air travelers who volunteer more personal information about themselves so they can be vetted to get faster screening at airport checkpoints.
Look who gets to go right around it.
The new program represents the Obama administration’s first attempt at a more risk-based, intelligence-driven passenger screening program that could respond to travelers’ complaints that the government is not using common sense when it screens all passengers at airports in the same manner. The change comes amid a typically busy summer travel season and on the heels of a public outcry about TSA screeners giving enhanced pat-downs to children and the elderly, people who ostensibly pose no security threat....
What a bunch of perverted sickies.
The voluntary pilot program covers selected travelers enrolled in Delta Air Lines’ frequent-flier program or three other government-trusted traveler programs - known as Global Entry, NEXUS, and SENTRI....
The concern with any of these expedited programs is that someone could pose as someone else, for instance by using false identification or an ID belonging to another person....
And there are your frame-ups in the false flag operations.
J. Bennet Waters, a former senior TSA and homeland security official and president of Clear, a secure identity verification company operating in some airports....
Related:
"J. Bennet Waters, a security consultant with the Washington, D.C.-based Chertoff Group and a former Transportation Security Administration official in the Bush administration"
The one and only or are there two of them?
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Also see: $canned Through the Revolving Door
"Government wants more details on airline fees" July 16, 2011|Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Five dollars for a pillow, $10 to jump ahead in the boarding line - all those airline fees can add up.
See: Front Page Fare F***
Airline Profits Flying Under the Radar
Flying With Your Head in the Clouds
Hey, they are just bagging profits!
Now the Department of Transportation is proposing that airlines tell it - and the public - exactly how much they’re making on those fees. A rule proposed yesterday by the department would require airlines to break down those fees by item or service purchased....
Airlines have opposed the tax and fee disclosure requirements, arguing that car dealers and other businesses don’t have to make similar disclosures.
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Related: Airlines’ profits climb on higher fares despite rising fuel costs
Wow, physical and financial f***ing down at the airport!
"US told to get comments on airport scanners" July 16, 2011|Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The public should have had the chance to raise concerns about full body scanners before the government put them in airports around the country, a federal Appeals Court said yesterday. But now that the machines are there, the government doesn’t have to stop using them....
Wow, a FASCIST COURT SYSTEM that DOESN'T CARE about you getting CANCER!
And WHY WOULD THEY? They are in the EXPRESS LINE reserved for ELITES!
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a civil liberties group, tried to force the TSA to stop using the machines, arguing that they violated privacy and religious freedom laws and the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches.
The court did not find that the machines violated the Fourth Amendment and said the scanners have become an essential part of airport security....
Yeah, who cares if laws may have been broken; just dismiss the illegalities and declare it legal because its there. It's the same with the Patriot Act and all other tyranny, and then it expands.
The message here is you can't look to the courts to save America.
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And despite all the money spent on securing our freedom(?):
"Congressman says airports susceptible to attack; House panel reviews decade of breaches" July 14, 2011|By Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - US airports are still vulnerable to terror attacks, despite billions of dollars invested in security enhancements since 9/11, a Republican congressman said yesterday....
Yeah, but at least SOME PEOPLE GOT RICH!
The congressional interest comes amid the busy summer travel season and growing criticism of some of the TSA’s screening policies, such as security pat-downs for children and for travelers in their 90s. The TSA has defended its policies, citing terrorists’ persistent interest in attacking commercial aviation.
Once you realize 9/11 was a big, fat, inside job and the official story a lie all these "security" measures in "defense" dissolve. This is about setting up a movement control grid.
For instance, earlier this month, counterterrorism officials saw intelligence about renewed interest among terrorists in surgically implanting bombs in humans to evade airport security like full-body imaging machines.
Related: War on Terror Turns Towards Home
The TSA and FBI are even testing this theory on pigs’ carcasses to see how viable the threat is, said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters.
Why wouldn't they? They are the ones that came up with all the other stupid ideas.
Your tax money at work as politicians argue about cutting Social Security and health spending.
Since the 2001 attacks, the airport screening workforce has been entirely revamped and billions of dollars have been spent on technology deployed across the country.
And WELL-CONNECTED CORPORATIONS got RICH!
But despite all the enhancements, there have been lapses. Most recently, a cellphone-size stun gun was found aboard a JetBlue plane in Newark, N.J., after it arrived from Boston.
Officials do not believe the stun gun was intended for use in some type of attack, but the FBI is investigating how and why it was on the airplane.
Planted so it could be cited for this story?
Earlier this month, a Nigerian American was accused of breaching three layers of airport security while getting on a cross-country flight with an expired boarding pass. And last year, a teenager was found dead in Milton, Mass., after he sneaked onto airport property in Charlotte and stowed away in the wheel well of a jet....
Sixteen-year old Delvonte Tisdale fell to his death when a Boeing 737 jet lowered its landing gear as it approached Logan International Airport, authorities determined....
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Do you still get a snack with the flight?
"Man accused of throwing snacks at flight attendant" by Jennifer Dobner July 15, 2011
SALT LAKE CITY—A Utah man has temporarily lost his flying privileges and passport after authorities say he pelted a flight attendant with peanuts and pretzels on a Southwest Airlines plane from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City....
Court papers filed in U.S. District Court say Sefilian was on a flight Monday evening when he took out an electronic cigarette and began to smoke it while the plane was in flight. He argued with a flight attendant when told it was against airline policy to use the device. Electronic cigarettes simulate the act of tobacco smoking by producing an inhaled mist....
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After all that hassle time to settle into my seat with a good book:
"For bookseller, it could be the end; Future of Borders concerns landlords" July 16, 2011|By Kaivan Mangouri, Globe Correspondent
A looming liquidation of retail chain Borders Group Inc. could shut down its 15 remaining stores in Massachusetts and leave only one chain bookstore in Boston: the Barnes & Noble in the Prudential Center.
The lack of competition would reduce pressure on the remaining chain bookseller, according to Mary Gotaas, a Los Angeles-based analyst for IBISWorld Inc. “Before Borders [went] bankrupt, bookstores were trying to adapt themselves like coffee shops with specialized items,’’ she said. “If Borders is liquidating, I don’t know if Barnes & Noble will have to try as hard.’’
Earlier this week, creditors thwarted a promising bid from a subsidiary of Phoenix-based private equity firm Najafi Cos. to take over Borders, which filed for bankruptcy protection in February. A US bankruptcy court in New York has given Borders a deadline of tomorrow to find another bid or its assets will be sold at auction on Tuesday. The lead bid would come from a group of liquidators that includes Boston-based Gordon Brothers Group. Gordon Brothers did not return calls for comment.
The potential shutdown of Borders stores concerns the chain’s landlords. Clarendon Group USA Inc. bought the Downtown Crossing building that housed a 40,000-square-foot Borders in 2006. The store had already been there for 11 years, said executive director Michael Murphy.
The Borders lease was to run until the end of next January, but Murphy is seeking a new tenant for the massive space. “It’s frustrating, because you don’t have a good feeling for where you’re going right now - it changes weekly, if not daily,’’ he said....
Borders struggled financially for years after overextending itself in the United States and overseas, and failing to successfully cope with such changes in the industry as the advent of the e-book, retail analysts said....
Oh, like newspapers?
Bookmark:
Borders without order
Boston is home to long-established but often ill-defined neighborhoods. The city sits on land that has been drained, dammed, filled, flattened, and annexed. Neighborhoods have morphed, moved, and been renamed. The result is what Mayor Thomas Menino calls “a hogmosh of undefined lines.”
Hey, who put that in there?
Michael Tesler, a retail analyst with Retail Concepts Inc., said Borders took the wrong steps when business started getting tight. “They needed to take risks and try new things … and they didn’t, so they lost,’’ Tesler said.
In the newspaper's case, they NEED ONLY HAVE TOLD US the TRUTH!!
Of course, it is TOO LATE NOW!
“I’m not going to feel sorry for them, because they became a dinosaur and were blind to that fact.’’ The chain, which eight years ago had 1,200 stores nationwide, paid for oversized spaces in the wrong locations, he said. “Borders customers are the suburban, upwardly mobile family,’’ Tesler said, and they prefer to purchase books online.
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Related:
Out of options, Borders Group could start liquidation by Friday
Borders in Downtown Crossing drawing the wrong crowds
Bankruptcy judge approves Borders liquidation
Maybe I'll just watch the in-flight movie:
Not only have I had it with hearing about Nazis, I'm living in the 21st-century version.
Maybe I'll just put on the headphones.
Actually, I think I'll just get some sleep.
"Kin mark 15 years since jet explosion
NEW YORK - Families and friends of some of the 230 people killed when a Paris-bound jumbo jet exploded in the sky off the Long Island coast are planning to mark the early evening moment with a quiet beach gathering today. The destruction 15 years ago of TWA Flight 800 off East Moriches just 12 minutes after takeoff from Kennedy International Airport set off a mammoth FBI investigation amid fears that a bomb or a missile had downed the plane. The National Transportation Safety Board eventually concluded that the plane was not a terrorist target, but was destroyed by a center fuel tank explosion, which was probably caused by a spark from a wiring short-circuit that ignited vapors in the tank (AP)."
Related: TWA 800 was shot down by a US Navy missile during a botched test of the Aegis-CEC system
Lesson learned: governments lie about plane crashes -- for whatever reason.
Also see:
Massport seeks to avoid 9/11 liability lawsuit
Massport seeks release from 9/11 suit
I'm sorry, readers, I've stopped reading cover story crap lies.
Next Day Updates:
Airport construction halted across country
As taxes lapse, airlines hike prices, add profit
Southwest cutting flights between Philadelphia and New England airports
