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Thanksgiving Wishes: TSA-Proof Underwear for Travelers
2010-11-29 17:11:00
[From: CBS News ]   New underwear features metallic panels designed to block airport scans. (Rocky Flats Gear)   (CBS) As travelers head home for Thanksgiving , many are feeling indignant about having to submit to those invasive, full-body scanners at the nation’s airports. But Colorado-based inventor Jeff Buske is offering his best wishes to beleagured flyers ...
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TSA Breast Milk Screening Harassment Updated
2010-11-27 04:18:00
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Indie Bound
2010-11-24 16:15:00
http://www.indiebound.org/ Why shop Indie ? When you shop at an independently owned business, your entire community benefits: The Economy Spend $100 at a local and $68 of that stays in your community. Spend the same $100 at a national chain, and your community only sees $43. Local businesses create higher-paying jobs for our neighbors. More of ...
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Is Wi-Fi killing trees? Dutch study shows leaves dying after exposure
2010-11-23 18:05:00
  By NIALL FIRTH Radiation from Wi-Fi networks may be damaging trees, according to a new study. Research in Holland showed that trees that were planted in close proximity to a wireless router suffered from damaged bark and dying leaves. The alarming study will raise fears that Wi-Fi radiation may also be having an effect on ...
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The Case Against COICA
2010-11-22 15:49:00
Legislative Analysis by Peter Eckersley UPDATE: EFF is deeply disappointed to report that the Senate Judiciary Committee approvedthe COICA Internet censorship bill this morning, despite bipartisan opposition, and countless experts pointing out how it would be ineffective, unconstitutional,  bad for innovation and the tech economy, and would break the Internet. Notably, Senator Feinstein and Senator Coburn commented on the need for more work on ...
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Stephen Colbert addresses the TSA ?don?t touch my junk? controversy
2010-11-20 19:54:00
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c TSA Full-Body Scanners – Jeffrey Goldberg www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive
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?Stop touching me!? Fury as airport security staff are caught on camera sea
2010-11-19 19:58:00
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Last updated at 10:22 PM on 18th November 2010 TSA chief defends intrusive security measures Security accused of putting their hands down passengers’ pants Hero pilot Sully Sullenberger joins chorus demanding lesser checks The national outcry over intrusive body searches at American airports intensified today after it emerged security staff were caught ...
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TSA chief admits new airport pat-downs more intrusive
2010-11-19 19:51:00
Travellers who refuse to be screened by full body scanners must undergo extensive hand searches Continue reading the main story Related stories How annoyed do people get over air security? The head of the US agency that oversees airport screening has admitted that new pat-down inspections are more invasive than previous techniques. Transportation Security Administration ...
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TSA Now Putting Hands Down Fliers? Pants
2010-11-19 17:59:00
Big Sis turns up the heat: New super-enhanced pat-down more invasive. Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Prison Planet.com Tuesday, November 16, 2010 The TSA?s invasive new screening measures include officers literally putting their hands down people?s pants if they are wearing baggy clothing in a shocking new elevation of groping procedures that have stoked ...
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Flashback: Feds saved over 35,000 nude scans from just one Florida courthou
2010-11-18 20:14:00
By Stephen C. Webster In light of flaring controversy over the Transportation Security Administration‘s enhanced pat-downs and nude body scan imaging systems, officials have continued to stress that detailed photographs of passengers’ anatomy are not saved and do not get passed around. But, that’s not true in all cases. An attorney for the US Marshals admitted ...
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Freshman GOPer: Hey, Where?s My Health Care?
2010-11-17 18:14:00
Josh Marshall  Maryland physician Andy Harris (R) just soundly defeated Frank Kratovil, one of the most endangered Democrats on Capitol Hill going into the November election. And he did it in large part by railing against ‘Obamacare’ and pledging to repeal Health Care Reform. But when he showed on Capitol Hill today for an orientation for incoming ...
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Kandahar: The Latest Casualty of an Invisible War
2010-11-17 16:17:00
Posted on Nov 16, 2010 AP / Rodrigo Abd An American soldier on patrol outside Kandahar City earlier this year. By Juan Cole Not only is it unclear that the U.S. and NATO are winning their war in Afghanistan, the lack of support for their effort by the Afghanistan president himself has driven the American commander to the ...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010 is NATIONAL OPT-OUT DAY!
2010-11-16 17:50:00
It’s the day ordinary citizens stand up for their rights, stand up for liberty, and protest the federal government’s desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an “enhanced pat down” that touches people’s breasts and genitals in an aggressive manner. You should never have to explain to your children, “Remember that no stranger ...
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EPIC v. DHS (Suspension of Body Scanner Program)
2010-11-16 02:20:00
Introduction EPIC has filed a lawsuit to suspend the deployment of body scanners at US airports, pending an independent review. On July 2, 2010, EPIC filed a petition for review and motion for an emergency stay, urging the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to suspend the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) full body scanner program. EPIC ...
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Targeted criticism ? Obama
2010-11-10 17:24:00
Targeted criticism obama, same-sex, gay
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Obama?s Cheerleaders Fall on their Faces
2010-11-09 15:31:00
by John Stauber (Common Dreams) The electoral debacle suffered by the Obama Administration and its Democratic Party will be blamed on many things, especially the secret wealth behind the myriad of coordinated campaign front groups dominating TV advertising in the wake of the Supreme Court’s horrific decision in the Citizen United case, a Right Wing ...
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Obama?s Pathetic Post-Mortem Response
2010-11-06 17:40:00
[While is it good to see Rothschild's anger, and his calling out Obama , Obama did what he said he would, expand the war, support nuclear power, kill heath care reform, be a tool of big business, and progressives followed him blindly because he is a Democrat. Why should we be surprised? The Democratic Party is where ...
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Justice Dept. Renews Enforcement of Subpoenas for Antiwar Activists Targete
2010-11-06 16:00:00
From Democracy Now: We get an update on the fallout from the FBI raids in late September that targeted antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Subpoenas to appear before a grand jury were served on thirteen people but later withdrawn when the activists asserted their right to remain silent. But this week, the US Department ...
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Bush Admits What Everyone Already Knows
2010-11-05 04:51:00
From:  The J-Walk Blog. Ancient history: Bush says in memoir he approved waterboarding. Human rights experts have long pressed the administration of former president George W. Bush for details of who bore ultimate responsibility for approving the simulated drownings of CIA detainees, a practice that many international legal experts say was illicit torture. In a memoir ...
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America?s Most Successful Stop Snitchin? Campaign
2010-10-19 21:48:00
The failure to protect whistle-blowing cops is inexcusable. Radley Balko | October 18, 2010 | reason.com Last month, when she awarded Barron Bowling $830,000 for the beating he suffered at the hands of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent in 2003, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson went out of her way to acknowledge another victim in the sordid affair: Kansas ...
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Deportations Up 70% Since Obama Took Office
2010-10-15 17:11:00
by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last week that it had broken its own record for deportations, affirming the Obama administration’s zeal for heavy-handed immigration enforcement. According to the announcement, deportations have increased by 70 percent since the Bush administration, totaling 392,000 in fiscal year 2010. While ...
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One Nation, Under A Grip, Not A Groove
2010-10-09 19:28:00
By Jared Ball,  Wed, 10/06/2010 by BAR editor and columnist Jared A. Ball The political exercise at the Washington Mall on October 2 “held out no real challenge to power” and was, therefore, of no use to the powerless. “What is being heralded as a largely successful mobilization of a young, energetic, diverse movement led by ...
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March to Nowhere
2010-10-05 20:30:00
By Chris Hedges Any effective resistance must begin with a condemnation of our political elite and liberal institutions, including the press, the universities, labor, the arts, religious institutions and the Democratic Party, for selling us out.  AP / J. Scott Applewhite We can hold One Nation marches every week. It will not make any difference ...
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Progressive ?One Nation? Event a Bit Disappointing, We Didn?t March
2010-10-03 17:12:00
From:OpEd News By Kevin Gosztola  And, in effect, these institutions and other organizations involved were doing a service to political leaders, who have failed Americans miserably since President Obama was elected. By managing the anger and frustration of people and ensuring it did not produce any kind of an independent movement that would result in ...
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Activist berates White House, Clinton for honoring ?war criminal? Kissinger
2010-10-03 05:38:00
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/activi st-berates-white-house-kissinger/ Activist berates White House , Clinton for honoring “war criminal” Kissinger By Muriel Kane ——– “By December 2009, when Kissinger and Clinton were jointly interviewed by Newsweek, they came across as a kind of mutual admiration society, addressing each other as “Hillary” and “Henry” and enthusiastically agreeing with one another’s statements.” ——– It’s been more ...
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Hempcrete House: World?s First Hemp & Paper-Walled Home
2010-09-30 14:01:00
Hidden between the walls of this one-of-a-kind residence are piles of hemp, long touted as a sustainable material with many eco-friendly uses but rarely thought of as a building material. For this home, however, something special was required: the designer created it for his daughter, who has extreme chemical sensitivities that limited what could be ...
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Patriot ACT Nightmare Sees the Light of Day as FBI Raids Activists
2010-09-28 21:42:00
Image by RIUM+ via Flickr In short, the government is attempting to criminalize the organizing of antiwar protests.  Furthermore, it wants to make opposition to the the government’s assistance in repressing struggles for self-determination illegal. http://lizliz.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/ 28/5194562-patriot-act-nightmare-sees-the -light-of-day-as-fbi-raids-activists/from /toolbar Related articles by Zemanta Patriot ACT Nightmare Sees the Light of Day as FBI Raids Activists (alternet.org)
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The Need for Clean Water
2010-09-27 16:01:00
Millions of people rely on unsafe and unhygienic sanitation facilities like these hanging latrines in Bangladesh. Credit: Water Aid / Adam Hart-Davis Water Aid Water Clean water is essential for life, but one in eight of the world’s population does not have access to it. This, and lack of safe sanitation, result in over two million ...
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Latino Youth Defines DREAM Act as a DeFacto Military Draft
2010-09-25 04:33:00
[From: War Resisters League Blog ] By VAMOS Unidos Youth We write this statement to raise our voices as Latino youth working and living in the Bronx, New York in opposition to the DREAM ACT as it stands. We demand that we return to our original DREAM ACT that had a community service option instead of ...
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Hawkins stumps in Saratoga
2010-09-16 14:15:00
WNYT NBC Albany, NY Sep. 04, 2010. “Green Party candidate for Governor, Howie Hawkins, makes a stop in the Capital Region to get his name out over the Labor Day weekend. He says that the voters are mad and he has the right ideas and is supporting his party.”