No World System Thursday, December 31, 2009 A path has been cleared for the government to publicly roll out dangerous full-body scanners after the failed terrorist attempt on flight 253. Neocons are quaking for the government to implement the human x-ray machines on a nationwide scale, radiating travelers with unhealthy amounts of ionic radiation all [...]

Aaron Foley
MLive.com
Thursday, Dec 31st, 2009
Following up on a visit from FBI officials about an eyewitness account first described to MLive.com, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell described the visit in comment sections across MLive on Wednesday.
Haskell and his wife, Lori, were aboard Flight 253 when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to destroy the [...]

Ahmed Al-Haj Canadian Press Thursday, Dec 31st, 2009 Comment: The fact that Abdulmutallab’s visa had expired completely contradicts claims by Dutch officials, reported by CBS News, that the bomber “was carrying a valid Nigerian passport and U.S. visa”. SAN’A, Yemen — The Nigerian suspected in the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner had stayed on [...]

John Pilger www.johnpilger.com Thursday, Dec 31st, 2009 In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’.” Barack Obama is the leader of a [...]

YOUR NEW REALITY Thursday, Dec 31st, 2009 In Louisiana, a mother and son went to jail for growing this: More at The Boston Daily Enterprise. That’s all. That pathetic little plant. How could the arresting police officers feel anything but humiliation that they are ordered to arrest people for such a ‘crime’? Perhaps they enjoy [...]

Critics have described them as a ‘virtual strip search’. Daily Mail | Dec 29, 2009 By Vanessa Allen Fears over airport security could leave millions of passengers facing the indignity of a ‘naked’ body scan and paying higher fares to fund it. Hi-tech body scanners can see through clothes to detect hidden weapons or explosives [...]

The memo states that airline personnel should perform a “thorough pat-down of all passengers at boarding gate prior to boarding, concentrating on upper legs and torso.” myfoxspokane.com | Dec 28, 2009 By FRANK CARNEVALE (MYFOX NATIONAL) – Following the failed terrorist attack on Christmas Day, authorities have added more security measures for air travel, including [...]

KATU | Dec 28, 2009 by Dan Tilkin KATU PORTLAND, Ore. – Following the bomb scare in Detroit Christmas Day, travelers at Portland International Airport will be screened with new technology and the Transportation Security Administration said Monday the airport will get body scan machines sometime next year. The body-scan machines are designed to detect [...]

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com December 30, 2009 TSA Special Agent John Enright, left, speaks to Steven Frischling outside the blogger’s home in Niantic, Connecticut, after returning Frischling’s laptop Wednesday. Photo: Thomas Cain/Wired.com Wired reports today that two bloggers who posted new airport search procedures in the wake of the exaggerated underwear bomber fiasco received home visits [...]