A friend posted this on FB:
In a show of solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, Obama has decided that he will occupy Uganda & Iran (in addition to Afghanistan & Iraq).
Daily Archives: 14 October 2011
TSA fail their own stupid tests
More than 25,000 security breaches — an average of about seven per day — have occurred at U.S. airports since November 2001, according to newly released Department of Homeland Security documents.
More than 14,000 were people entering “limited-access” areas by going through airport doors or passageways without permission, or unauthorized people going from airport buildings to planes, according to the documents.
The documents, obtained in advance by USA TODAY, were submitted to a House subcommittee on homeland security Wednesday. The documents don’t provide details about the security breaches or whether any could have led to potential attacks on planes or passengers.
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In 2006, tests by the TSA showed that security screeners at Los Angeles International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport failed to find fake bombs hidden on undercover agents posing as passengers in more than 60% of tests, according to a classified report obtained by USA TODAY.
In 2003, five undercover Department of Homeland Security agents posing as passengers carried weapons undetected through several security checkpoints at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
Documents being introduced at Wednesday’s subcommittee hearing also show:
•6,000 security breaches in which Transportation Security Administration screeners failed to screen, or improperly screened, a passenger or a passenger’s carry-on items.
•2,616 security breaches involving an individual gaining unauthorized access to the “sterile area” at screening checkpoints or an exit lane without submitting to all screening procedures and inspections.
•1,026 incidents when someone gained unauthorized access to a sterile area but was “contained” or “constantly monitored” by airport or security personnel until apprehended.
•1,318 incidents in which someone gained unauthorized access from airport perimeters to aircraft operations or security identification display areas and was under constant surveillance until apprehended.
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Imagine Armed Chinese Troops in Texas!
Spanish cooperation builds a solar plant in Palestine, provides electricity to 40 families of Emnaizel, a school and a medical center. Israel decides to demolish it in two weeks.
The photovoltaic central Emnaizel, a West Bank village south of Hebron, is brand new. It was built in 2009 at a cost of 292,000 euros, provided by the Spanish International Cooperation Agency, and provides electricity to 40 families of Emnaizel, a school and a medical center. The Israeli army has announced that the plant will be demolished within a week, with two houses, for lack of building permit.
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The Israeli NGO Rabbis for Human Rights has taken legal defense Emnaizel families in the case of the power plant and has called for the suspension of burofax demolition process. The Israeli Civil Authority, however, is on holiday until 19 for parties of “Sukkot”, which drastically reduces the leeway for lawyers. Yesterday was impossible to contact a spokesman for the Civil Authority. (Read more)