2010-11-21

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2010-11-21 11:41
mindstalk: (angry sky)
More TSA horror

TSA scanners aproved and pushed by Chertoff, DHS head and Bush appointee who owns stock in the companies making them. Your potential cancer and nudity, his conflict of interest
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/02/group_slams_chertoff_on_scanner_promotion/

TSA bans airmail packages weighing more than one pound. Fortress America!
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20101117a5.html

TSA, National Guard guns, and nail clippers
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/11/18/another-tsa-outrage/
actual sexual harassment
http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2010-10-11/lawsuit-airport-search-indecent
Cancer surviving flight attendant forced to remove prosthetic breast
during pat-down
http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13534628

there's less intrusive searching to visit a prison than get on a plane
http://ncguns.blogspot.com/2010/11/more-tsa-hate.html

TSA body scanner photos
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/brainiac/2007/10/through_a_scann.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mmw_large.jpg

http://heron61.livejournal.com/704292.html?thread=4308772#t4308772
"I would not be surprised if some kinksters are playing The TSA Screener
and the Bad Airline Passenger..."


US Customs searching laptops, cell phones, no warrant; you have no
rights at the border. white hat hackers targeted
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/hacker-border-search/

Non-TSA horror

UN vote says it's ok to kill gays
http://www.iglhrc.org/cgi-bin/iowa/article/pressroom/pressrelease/1257.html

mother to be hanged for blasphemy in Pakistan
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/18/pakistan.blasphemy/index.html?hpt=T2

Mexico's massive crime wave might have something to do with minimal spending on law enforcement
http://noelmaurer.typepad.com/aab/2010/11/the-unbearable-lightness-of-mexican-law-and-order-spending.html
I'd noticed myself that Mexican police salaries are said to be about $4000 a year, when the mean national income is $10,000.

Republican strategist Grover Norquist calls for government shutdown
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/19/grover-norquist-government-shutdown_n_785973.html

Non-horror

why Staples and other big box had free wifi
http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/2572166.html
for fake deals?
http://boingboing.net/2007/03/03/best-buy-admits-to-k.html

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