Washington (CNN) -- To the list of instructions you hear at airport checkpoints, add this: "Put your palms forward, please."
The Transportation Security Administration soon will begin randomly swabbing passengers' hands at checkpoints and airport gates to test them for traces of explosives.
Previously, screeners swabbed some carry-on luggage and other objects as they searched for the needle in the security haystack -- components of terrorist bombs in an endless stream of… Continue
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Here is the description of this picture from the AP website: “TSA officer Robert Howard signals an airline passenger forward at a security check-point at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, in SeaTac, Wash.”
I think that it rather pictures the future of the TSA. Will anal exams soon be required before boarding airline flights? We are certainly headed in that direction.…
Bob Chapman believes that what is happening in the Eurozone is not happening by chance, the bureaucrats in Brussels very well knew that Italy and Greece were faking their numbers in order to get in the Euro Zone Area. It is difficult that all this is not meticulously and planned.
The goal is trying to bankrupt the European nations one after the other although Bob Chapman believes that it will be a harder task to bring down countries whose finances were always sound… Continue
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The European single currency is facing an 'inevitable break-up' a leading French bank claimed yesterday.
'The euro's a success': Peter Mandelson at Downing Street on Thursday
Strategists at Paris-based Société Générale said that any bailout of the stricken Greek economy would only provide 'sticking plasters' to cover the deep- seated flaws in the eurozone bloc.
The German government has now reclassified its military mission in Afghanistan as intervening in a civil war or, as they say in legal jargon, a “non-international armed conflict.” This was announced by Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (Free Democratic Party—FDP) on Wednesday in a government statement to the Bundestag (parliament). Previously, the government had described the Afghan intervention as a stabilization operation to assist with peacekeeping.
Dick Cheney is a sadist.
On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush White House ordered Justice Department attorneys to fix the law around the administration's policy… Continue
It has been tough to keep up with all the bad news for global warming alarmists. We’re on the edge of our chair, waiting for the next shoe to drop. This has been an Imelda Marcos kind of season for shoe-dropping about global warming.
At your next dinner party, here are some of the latest talking points to bring up when someone reminds you that Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won Nobel prizes for their work on global… Continue
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“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.” — Michael Lind, To Have and to Have Not
Yes, of course, we all have very strong differences of…Continue
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Grumbling over the Supreme Court's recent decision in Citizens United continue to rumble like distant thunder. Will the decision go down in history as one more in the Court's long line of egregious opinions? Likely! Will it have much effect on the American political landscape? Likely not! Simply ask yourself, how much worse can it get?
Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts, The New York Times’s Louise Story, Landon Thomas Jr. and Nelson D. Schwartz reported on Sunday.
As worries over Greece rattle world markets,… Continue
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In the aftermath of the Enron crisis, we learned that Wall Street firms had been helping Enron deceive investors by lending money to it through convoluted structures that were intended to let Enron claim they were not really loans, and that the company was therefore less indebted than it was. In return, Enron paid interest rates that were higher than it would have faced on a… Continue
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Professor Phil Jones admitted his record keeping is 'not as good as it should be'.
The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. "No global warming since 1995?"
* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing.
* There has been no global warming since 1995.
* Warming periods… Continue
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Could the endgame of this Greek tragedy be a eurozone breakup? The single currency's supporters maintain that such an outcome is mere mythology.
Greece accounts for only 3 percent of the 16 member states' combined GDP, they say, and has lower debts than some of the banks bailed-out during sub-prime. A loan of E20 billion (£17.5 billion) would do the trick, we're told. That's less than the British government injected into either Lloyds or the Royal Bank of Scotland.
A VILLAGE primary school has saved Valentine's Day by giving its ugliest pupils the day off.
Stephen's parents didn't get the letter
St Brian's Church of England School, near Grantham, was faced with having to ban children from exchanging cards in case the mutant offspring of local poor people took offence and set fire to the… Continue
The U.N. panel of climate experts overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level, according to a preliminary report on Saturday, admitting yet another flaw after a row last month over Himalayan glacier melt.
Reuters Feb 13 2010
A background note by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said a 2007 report wrongly stated that 55 percent of the country was below sea level since the figure… Continue
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EVERY member of the eurozone has weaknesses that limit its potential. Spain seems to contain a continent’s-worth of frailties in just one country. Like Ireland, its consumers are weighed down by huge mortgage debts. Spain has a rigid system for setting wages, also a source of inefficiency in Greece and Portugal. The attempt to free up Spain’s jobs market by allowing temporary work contracts has reduced incentives to train workers, holding back productivity. That is true also of Italy. And, like… Continue
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The Dow is below 10000 , gold is rising up again , The PIIGs are dring the Euro zone and the Euro down the tube , The US Dollar is not in a better shape , The German surplus is diluted in the wider Eurozone area , The European union is in danger Mr. Chapmanalso known as …Continue
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President Joe Biden and his predecessor, former President Donald Trump meet in the key battleground state of Georgia for their first debate of the 2024 elect...