DCBureau.org has released a special investigation into what happened at Dulles Airport the night before the September 11, 2001 hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77 which was crashed into the Pentagon. Details of how the hijackers may have placed weapons aboard the airplane the night before the hijacking are revealed along with a moment by moment account of what happened inside Dulles International Airport.
In addition to the four-part investigation, we have released this documentary. Appearing in the documentary is Eric Gill, the security supervisor at Dulles who actually stopped the hijackers from using an airport worker’s pass to get to the aircraft the night before. The documentary reports a top Saudi Arabian funder of Islamic causes had moved to the same hotel as the Dulles hijackers. When the FBI tried to interview the funder, he faked a heart attack. He was allowed to leave the United States before being questioned about why he had moved to the hotel.DCBureau.org has released a special investigation into what happened at Dulles Airport... more
Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
In today's show :
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It's on the other side of the kitchen.
Pub food.
The wires too short.
Product placement.
Things are getting desperate.
Jobs that are not done properly.
Read the instructions.
Still not bought the ticket.
What sort of product should I allow ?
Ding dong.
Recycle the plug.
Why is the video so long ?
Do I need bolts inserted ?
A stupid question.
Susan's roof.
I can't part with the money.
The washing machine story.
Five stars.
Tell me your DIY disasters.
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Continental Airlines and the Port Authority of NJ held a Special Olympics Plane Pull last month. A good day was had by all with fun for the entire family with all proceeds going to the New Jersey Special Olympics. Teams of 20 competed to pull a Boeing 737 weighing over 93,000 lbs. on the Continental Airlines tarmac at Newark Airport!Continental Airlines and the Port Authority of NJ held a Special Olympics Plane Pull... more
President Obama’s nominee to head the TSA and boss the naked body scanners now being installed at airports across the country says that white Christian “anti-government” types will be the primary target of suspicion for authorities.
Former FBI agent Erroll Southers has been under scrutiny following Erroll Southers efforts to block his confirmation after it emerged Southers had abused his power to run a database check on his ex-wife’s new boyfriend.President Obama’s nominee to head the TSA and boss the naked body scanners now... more
Travelers Advised to Allow Extra Time for Airport Security
Heightened Screening Measures Ensure Passenger Safety
Governor David A. Paterson today advised passengers traveling into or out of New York airports to allow extra time to check in and continue through security screenings prior to their flights. As these measures will add time to standard pre-flight procedures, travelers should arrive an additional hour earlier to mitigate delays.
The Governor also announced that the Task Force Empire Shield has provided a supplementary force of approximately 80 National Guard soldiers who will provide support during peak travel periods, focusing on John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport. The Governor first directed the Task Force to assemble the supplementary force following the December 25 incident aboard a Detroit-bound flight. They will be a consistent presence during busy travel hours and also patrol ground transportation hubs on New Year’s Eve.
CNN is reporting on findings from a Freedom of Information request initiated by the Electronic Privacy Information Center that has revealed that, contrary to public statements by the Transportation Security Agency, full-body scanners can store and transmit images.
"In the [FOIA] documents, obtained by the privacy group and provided to CNN, the TSA specifies that the body scanners it purchases must have the ability to store and send images when in 'test mode.' ... 'There is no way for someone in the airport environment to put the machine into the test mode,' [an anonymous] official said, adding that test mode can be enabled only in TSA test facilities. But the official declined to say whether activating test mode requires additional hardware, software or simply additional knowledge of how the machines operate.
*Storing your naked image in Homeland Security datababses.
*Becoming mandatory in court houses, federal buildings, etc.
*Emitting high-levels of cancer causing radiation-more than MRIs, destroying RDNA
*Making Fmr. Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff stinking rich!
(research: Chertoff Group-private security firm whose clients are body scanner corps.)
Want some fat, greasy pervert staring at the naked image of your wife/girlfriend/daughter?
Didn't think so...not to mention that its cancer causing, totally unnecessary, and a violation of our civil liberties and Constitution.
What about the "underwear bomber?" Amsterdam already has body scanners and let him bypass them.
(Testimony of eye-witnesses in Copenhagen airport confirm that he was escorted through security by a man in a suit, claiming he was a Sudanese refugee. Where's the video?)Body Scanners are:
*Storing your naked image in Homeland Security datababses.... more
Future passenger security checks at airports may no longer include ‘pat-downs’ with a new full-body imaging technology undergoing trials at Manchester Airport.
Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2 is trialling the Secure 1000 Single Pose, which uses backscatter technology and proprietary image processing software to produce a ghost-like outline of an individual’s body. A concealed threat such as a knife or gun would be clearly detectable on the image.
The US-based developer of the technology, Rapiscan Systems, believes that the technology could, one day, replace metal detectors in airports.Future passenger security checks at airports may no longer include... more
Extra pat-downs before boarding. No getting up for the last hour of the flight. More bomb-sniffing dogs. Airports worldwide tightened security a day after a passenger tried to light some kind of explosive on a flight into Detroit.
The Transportation Security Administration wouldn't say exactly what it was doing differently on Saturday. It didn't need to.
Passengers getting off both U.S. domestic flights and those arriving from overseas reported being told that they couldn't get out of their seat for the last hour of their flight. Air Canada also said that during the last hour passengers won't be allowed access to carry-on baggage or to have any items on their laps.
The extra vigilance came after a man flying from Nigeria to Amsterdam to the U.S. tried to ignite a device just before the plane landed in Detroit on Friday.
Extra scrutiny was put into place for flights headed into the U.S. At Amsterdam's airport, U.S.-bound travelers were undergoing body searches.
"The extra measures apply worldwide on all flights to the U.S. as of now and for an indefinite period," said Judith Sluiter, spokeswoman for the Dutch National Coordinator for Counterterrorism.
More @ linkExtra pat-downs before boarding. No getting up for the last hour of the flight. More... more
What do you do when you love someone but you don’t know if your IN love with them any longer? In this piece out blogger comes to the realization that when her partner has been gone for 3 weeks to the UK she has welcomed the freedom. When she goes to pick him up at the airport, their eyes meet and those windows to the soul express a vacancy that wasn’t their before he left. She knows she loves him as her best friend, but is she IN love with him?
A really interesting piece about love, life, humanity, relationships and the end of the road in terms of breaking up.
Blogger has an amazingly eclectic site with everything from beauty, fashion, diary style entries, poetry, life in the magazine world----this girl has everything. Already winner of the prestigious “Blog Of The Day Award” (some people take years to earn this—she’s only had her blog up 3 weeks!) and on top level blog rolls of awesome bloggers, this girl is amazing. A+++++What do you do when you love someone but you don’t know if your IN love with... more
A activist from the anti Heathrow airport expansion group Plane Stupid threw a load of green soup over Lord Peter Mandelson today live on TV.
Mandelson was none too happy as he stormed into the building after the soaking and the woman, Leila Deen picked up her cup and calmly walked away.
Lord Mandelson said the stunt was an 'adolescent protest'.
The attack, outside the Government's low carbon industrial strategy at the Royal Society in London, will raise questions about the security of the country's top politicians and also what flavour soup it was!A activist from the anti Heathrow airport expansion group Plane Stupid threw a load of... more
A man has been camping out in Terminal 1 of Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport since September. He is surviving off of fast food and donations from airport vendors. Authorities can't kick him out until his visa expires in March. When asked why he is staying at the airport he responded: "I don't understand why I'm here. I don't have a reason."A man has been camping out in Terminal 1 of Mexico City's Benito Juarez airport... more
A Moscow-based company has just released its concept “Sleep Box”—a capsule mini-hotel that you can rent for 15 minutes or longer. Perfect for sneaking in a rejuvenating nap. And get this: it’s fully equipped with:
* Wi-Fi
* LCD display
* electrical outlets
* a space to store luggage
* a ventilation system…and a means to “zap” the interior with a quartz light to kill germs.
Now that’s pretty cool. But will we ever see these sleep boxes for real in the real world? And how will the real world treat these things?
The days of being able to walk through airport security checkpoints while wearing shoes and a jacket could return if an experimental program proves successful, some Department of Homeland Security officials say.
The Homeland Security-funded project is Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST. Instead of focusing on whether you have hidden explosives or whether you're carrying a weapon, sensors and cameras located at security checkpoints would measure the natural signals coming from your body -- your heart rate, breathing, eye movement, body temperature and fidgeting.
Those physiological signs, measured together, will indicate whether you might have the desire or intent to do harm, project manager Robert Burns said.
"There's been a large field of research that ties your physical reactions to your mental state, your emotional state. We're looking for those signals that your body gives off naturally," Burns said.
Burns said the technology will pick up cues that may not be observed by a human and help security personnel decide more quickly whether to send someone to secondary screening for questioning.
This is cool, but kind of terriflying at the same time. This level of technology presents plenty of times for abuse.The days of being able to walk through airport security checkpoints while wearing... more
The chaotic opening of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 showed "serious failings" by British Airways and airport operator BAA, MPs have said. The chaotic opening of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 showed "serious... more
Gary Terry collapsed just 18 feet from an automated external defibrillator AED that he and his group -- the American Heart Association -- helped to install just eight months earlier.
Full article at link.Gary Terry collapsed just 18 feet from an automated external defibrillator AED that he... more
Ron Rosenbaum writes, "I love airport best-sellers because I see them as our Nostradamuses, the literary canaries in the dark coal mines of our paranoia. They sniff out and serve up fictionalized but "realistic" prophecies of coming doom of one sort or another. Perhaps it's that in their visions of total world immolation they diminish in the mind of said traveler the possibility of something so trivial as a 757 engine malfunction.
The nature of the doom these books threaten us with has recently undergone a subtle shift, especially in the realm of what I've called in the past "nuke porn." I coined the term (in a Harper's article) at the height of the Cold War to characterize the way nuclear war novels and films from Fail-Safe to Strangelove and the like adapted or imitated the techniques one could find in conventional porn: the excitement of arousal and buildup, the finger on the trigger as the world was brought to the trembling brink of a consciousness-obliterating climax. And the post-coital tristesse of "survivor novels" like On the Beach, where the onrushing end of the species licensed a doom-inflected licentiousness.
The new nuke porn is hard-core, more graphic and full-frontal than the Cold War version of the genre. Instead of the anticipatory excitement (Fail-Safe, Strangelove) or the post-coital tristesse (On the Beach) of First Era nuke porn, we get real-time blast-burns and melting flesh. There was always an erotic component to apocalyptic literature—those end-of-the-world sects were notorious for their doom-fueled orgiastic behavior—but I always wondered why most nuke porn was about looking forward to the approaching act or looking back on its consummation but rarely about looking directly at it. Yes, Strangelove ended with a suite of stock footage of mushroom clouds exploding (to the strains of "We'll Meet Again"), but while we saw the explosions there, we never confronted face to face—in the way film and fiction can—the actual experience of being inside a nuclear blast. (The most notable exception being, of course, the few seconds of—did it happen or was it averted?—nuking footage in Terminator 2. Remember the playground scene where the nuke turns the frolicking moms and kids into scary X-rays?* It's a key transition between the old nuke porn and the new.)
But now the genre has entered a new era—an era of looking "directly at it"—a fact that didn't really register with me until I read Whitley Strieber's airport novel, Critical Mass, in which we get the nuke porn equivalent of the "money shot." You know Strieber, right? Mr. Airport Extreme. He's the auteur of what some might see as another strange form of porn, those alien-abduction fantasies that feature anal probes. He was among the first to bring UFO abductions complete with probes into the airport "bookstore.""Ron Rosenbaum writes, "I love airport best-sellers because I see them as our... more
ROME: Italian aviation officials say a Ryanair jet carrying 166 passengers on a flight from Frankfurt has made an emergency landing at a Rome airport. No injuries have been reported.
Italy's civil aviation agency ENAC says the Boeing 737 landed safely just before 8 a.m. (0700 GMT) Monday at Ciampino airport.
Airport fire official Marco Ghimenti says the jet had reported an engine problem.
Ghimenti told Sky TG-24 TV that passengers left the plane through a door and an emergency chute. He said that the landing gear appeared to give way when the jet landed at the far end of a runway.
The airport has been temporarily closed.ROME: Italian aviation officials say a Ryanair jet carrying 166 passengers on a flight... more
