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January 12, 2012
The TSA Has $400,000 of America's Hard-Earned Spare Change in Its Clutches
Have a bunch of spare change that you've left in your drawer or in a bag under your bed, waiting for that rainy day (or a clear, sunny day, because that would be better for transportation purposes) in which you are so bored that you decide to lug it to a CoinStar machine and get real, spendable doll ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Air Safety on the Cheap
They're responsible for airport security but contractors still make poverty wages
Blogs
August 18, 2011
Live: J. Cole Outlines His Game Plan For Cole World
J. Cole (album preview) Roc The Mic Studios Wednesday, August 17 Better than: Waiting until September 27. Despite the stringent security measures implemented at the splashy preview of Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne earlier this month, a middling blogger managed to leak snippets of ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Complaining About the TSA Will Get You Targeted by the TSA
Well, what do you know about this: If you bitch and moan and kick and scream about getting screened (or groped) by the TSA, you are that much more likely to get screened that much more thoroughly (or aggressively). Especially if you do it in the airport security line, where the TSA screeners ... More >>
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November 23, 2010
Is National Opt-Out Day Going to Wreak Havoc With Your Wednesday?
In recent weeks, we've seen the TSA dispute catalyze and erupt from what started as a few accounts of bad behavior into a national uproar deemed worthy of a boycott, plus T-shirts and even body-scanner proof underwear. But here's the problem with an ethical issue that surfaces by way of mains ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2010
Dear Rest-of-America: Stop Freaking Out At The TSA, You Divas. (or "Shut Up, I Have a Flight to Catch.")
Yes, we're all for excited for the government subsidized handjobs many of us are about to receive courtesy the TSA during our holiday travels. And by excited, we mean: "preemptively traumatized, and preemptively pissed." But do you ever imagine how the TSA screeners themselves feel?
Blogs
November 19, 2010
The TSA Battlefront: Privacy Vs. Security
"The good ol' days.."What with the looming holiday season and the busiest travel days of the year, along with the TSA's most recent security measures, there's a significant debate brewing over who's right, who's wrong, and what, exactly, is going too far. Many have reported being patted down "ina ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2010
How to Get Through Airport Security: A Step-By-Step Guide
Let's just say it's been a rough couple of weeks for the TSA. With complaints coming in daily regarding inappropriate pat-downs and remarks by TSA advisers, and a growing criticism for the full-body scanners now in place in airports throughout the country, antagonism continues to spark among ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
TSA vs. Everyone Else: Full-Body Scanners, Radiation, and Heated Pat Downs
"Hello, my name is so-and-so, and I will be seeing you naked today." While the TSA gives a slightly different diatribe prior to performing a full-body scan in airports that now span New York City, their aesthetic is the same: they will be managing a powerful X-ray machine and yes, the ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2010
Full Body Scanners Can Store Unidentifiable Images Of You
SUH-kurityWe're back with the privacy debate on full body scanners. They're coming to New York soon, and yesterday, CNET reported that a privacy advocate group in D.C. is taking the Transportation Security Administration to task (again) because full body scanners used by feds in other departments ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2010
April Fool's Prank Still on Subway Wall
Reader Rick Shur notes that an April 1st prank poster about extreme subway security measures, put up on the 110th Street downtown #1 subway wall, is still there! And the satirical poster involves all kinds of intrusive, invasive body searches that Homeland Security is allowed to do on passe ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2010
White House Crotch-Bomber Report: "The Dots Were Never Connected"
The White House report on the attempted underwear-bomb attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (pictured) on a Delta airliner during Christmas contains a lot of praise for America's "counter-terrorism community" -- in the summary, their "excellent analytic work" is lauded, and it is asserted that this w ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2009
Booze News: Good Beer for Tough Times; Dry Vermouth for a Globalized Palate
Emily Wines talks about her life as a master sommelier. It involves lots of flights, sometimes getting caught with a corkscrew in her purse, and occasionally having to recite transportation security laws to customs agents to get through airport security with all her beloved bottles. [NY Times ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2009
'Maersk Alabama' Update: Why Giving Merchant Seamen Weapons Won't Help
While a crewman aboard the M/V/ Maersk Alabama seems to imply in a note to friends that merchant vessels need weapons to battle future Somali pirate attacks, a leading maritime security expert says that's not such a good idea. "I assume the company will be forced into taking some k ... More >>
NYC Life
August 22, 2006
The Pat-Down Shakedown
Why the new bouncer-targeting nightlife proposals are little more than security theatre
News
March 14, 2006
Moussaoui's Guilt: Less Profound Than Airline's Own Incompetence?
Why the new bouncer-targeting nightlife proposals are little more than security theatre
News
February 7, 2006
Al Qaeda's L.A. Plot? Yawn. . .
The really scary news? Airport security is still so bad
News
November 8, 2005
Feeling Insecure
There's no defense for some of the government's defense plans, even for D.C.
News
June 7, 2005
FAA's Security Measures Won't Fly
There's no defense for some of the government's defense plans, even for D.C.
News
June 7, 2005
Hijacking the Facts
FBI worked hard to cover up a 9-11 cover-up—and then hide it some more
News
February 8, 2005
Fear of Flying
Whistle-blowers say the FAA ignored a decade of pre–9-11 warnings
News
February 8, 2005
The Rushdie Connection
Whistle-blowers say the FAA ignored a decade of pre–9-11 warnings
News
August 31, 2004
Ex-Feds Blast 9-11 Panel and Bush
Government agencies roasted for screw-ups in war on "terror"
News
December 30, 2003
Flying Blind
Among the Terminal Ills: Bodies in Wheel Wells
News
October 23, 2001
Chicken Run
Scared Congress Seeks Shelter in Nuclear Henhouse
News
September 25, 2001
Travels With Harry
Coping With Terrorism Is Part of Ordinary Life in Israel
News
September 11, 2001
Team Bush Swamped by Crisis
Nation Looks for Leadership After Attacks
News
June 19, 2001
Nation
Nation Looks for Leadership After Attacks

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