At Philadelphia International, travelers walk through electronic scanning devices between Terminals D and E. The TSA wants to expand such applications.Philly.com – by Linda Loyd, Inquirer Staff Writer

Airports across the country have sued to block a new Transportation Security Administration directive that requires them, starting Jan. 1, to begin guarding exit security doors as passengers leave flights and head for baggage claims.

The agency, created in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, said the change will save $88.1 million a year. The TSA wants its workers to focus on screening passengers and baggage, and said exit-lane monitoring is an airport function.   Continue reading “Airports sue TSA over who guards the exits”

In Death, as in Life, Truth About Mandela OverlookedThe New American – by Alex Newman

With the widely anticipated passing of South African revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela late Thursday, December 5, presidents and dictators from around the world — as well as everyday people, and especially the press — are in mourning. Lost amid the tsunami of praise and adoration, almost canonization even according to some of his supporters, however, is the truth about the man himself, who was, after all, still just a man.   Continue reading “In Death, as in Life, Truth About Mandela Overlooked”

AlterNet – by Paul Armentano

The mainstream media is in a frenzy over claims that marijuana smoking is causing an epidemic of ‘man boobs’ (a relatively common condition known scientifically as gynecomastia).

The incredulous claim first got legs in late November when Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Melissa Dribben posed the question, “Do doobies make boobies?” Responding to her inquiry, area plastic surgeon Adrian Lo admitted that data on the subject is scarce. But he nonetheless argued, “[I]n my experience, it’s very simple. If you’re a guy and you’re worried about gynecomastia, you shouldn’t smoke pot because there’s a link.” To which Robert X. Murphy Jr., president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, added, “That is the prevailing opinion.”   Continue reading ““Do Doobies Make Boobies?” The Mainstream Media Wants You To Think So”

pelosiCNS News – by Susan Jones

Almost 11 million people couldn’t find a job in November, and for those who don’t earn a paycheck, unemployment benefits work for the economy, too, a leading Democrat says.

“Economists agree that unemployment benefits remain one of the best ways to grow the economy in a very immediate way,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (R-Calif.) said at a news conference on Thursday.   Continue reading “Pelosi: Extending Unemployment ‘One of Best Ways to Grow the Economy’”

The UN security council meets in New York. Photograph: Eskinder Debebe/APGolden Age of Gaia – by Sage

sage:  Do I see some shenanigans going on here?  Saudi Arabia rejects their seat on the UN Security Council and Jordan is elected to step into it (Story 1).  Meanwhile in Story 2, the US is sending missiles to Saudi Arabia in an effort to bring resolution to the Middle East because “…This region is dangerous, it’s combustible, it’s unstable…”  So, is this telling me that bringing in more weapons and having the US big brother influence is going to help bring peace?  Sorry, I don’t buy it.  It’s that kind of thinking that got us into our predicament in the first place.   Continue reading “Jordan Took UN Seat that Saudi Arabia Rejected, Then Saudi Arabia Got Missiles”

AlterNet- by S.E. Smith

In 2011, a 13-year-old student in Albuquerque, New Mexico burped audibly in class (perhaps the school lunch didn’t agree with him). His instructor summoned the school resource officer, one of a new generation ofpolice officers and specially trained go-betweens stationed in school environments, and the student found himself booked into a juvenile detention facility. He had fallen victim to his school’s zero-tolerance policy, a framework used across the nation to crack down fast and hard on unwanted behaviors, but one that has resulted in what critics are calling a school-to-prison pipeline, as students are fast-tracked to juvenile courts for offenses like writing their names on desks.   Continue reading “Zero-Tolerance Policies in Schools are Often Destructive, Fueling a School to Prison Pipeline”

NESARA

I of all people am for independent thinking and action on the part of people, but we have been sooo brainwashed by the government and U.S. press most people don’t have a clue as to what is happening.

You should certainly do what you want, but I HIGHLY suggest you DO NOT sign up for Obamacare until you read this CAREFULLY.  Chief Justice Roberts carefully worded his ruling and left out any requirement to participate for 95% of Americans.   Continue reading “How Chief Justice Roberts Saved America in His Obamacare Ruling”

Washington’s Blog – by David Swanson

Google may have been, until now, the Obama of hip internet monopolies.  No matter how many nations the President bombs, people still put Obama peace-sign stickers on their cars.  No matter how many radical rightwing initiatives Google funds, people still think it’s a “progressive corporation” — How could it not be? It’s making progress!

Google is funding Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union, and the political arm of the Heritage Foundation.   Continue reading “I Googled “Evil” and it Took Me to Google”

staples fightHuffington Post

One evening this past August, an employee at a Staples office supply store in a Wake Forest, N.C., strip mall heard a bang, and then a woman’s cry for help.

The worker and another shopper rounded a corner to discover Danielle Hayes, 29, bleeding from her hand. The pistol she kept in her purse had accidentally discharged as she was trying to keep it away from her 2-year-old son, Hayes said.   Continue reading “The New Front In The Gun Control War Is Your Local Shopping Mall”

Huffington Post – by Foster Klug

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday deported an elderly U.S. tourist, apparently ending the saga of Merrill Newman’s return to the North six decades after he advised South Korean guerrillas still loathed by Pyongyang.

North Korea made the decision because the 85-year-old Newman, who was detained since late October, apologized for his alleged crimes during the Korean War and because of his age and medical condition, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.   Continue reading “Merrill E. Newman, American Vet Detained In North Korea, Reportedly Deported”

RBS said there had been a "deliberate" surge in internet traffic aimed at its NatWest websiteBT.com

Royal Bank of Scotland said its websites were the victim of a cyber attack that left some customers unable to access their accounts in the group’s second computer crash in less than a week.

The group’s sites went down for about an hour today and yesterday evening after a “deliberate” surge in internet traffic aimed at its NatWest website, according to the lender.

It said sites were now back up and running and there was no risk to customers.   Continue reading “Cyber attack on RBS websites”

NC Renegade – by David

David,

I read your article and the Esquire piece on Batemen and got furious. I wrote him and the banter is below.

I am waiting to reply to his arrogant response. I am thinking that waging war on law abiding US citizens is not treason? Did we not fight the Revolutionary war on the basic principles we are being subjected to today? Does he really think this Congress would declare a war given the track record of their reluctance to do so ever since Korea?   Continue reading “Lt. Col. Robert Bateman’s Response to A Patriot”

American Free Press – by Pete Papaherakles

As South Africa’s 95-year-old Nelson Mandela lies in the hospital, the worldwide media portrays him as a larger-than-life heroic figure and the liberator of his people. But is that truth or fiction? And how will honest historians judge him?

The official story goes something like this: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in 1918 into the Thembu tribe’s royal family. He studied law at two prestigious universities and became involved in “anti-colonial politics,” joining the African National Congress (ANC). He was committed to non-violent protest in gaining sovereignty for blacks. In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government and was sentenced to life in prison.   Continue reading “The Real Mandela”

Washington’s Blog

CIA Central In Mandela’s Arrest … Kept Him On Terrorist List Until 2008

Everyone from President Obama to the mainstream news is lionizing Nelson Mandela.

But the New York Times reported in 1990:   Continue reading “U.S. Lionizes Mandela In Death … But Labeled Him a Terrorist While He Was Alive”

Main Street USA –Lt. Col. Robert Bateman-styleExaminer – by David Codrea

A firestorm has been started on Esquire’s The Politics Blog with a Tuesday opinion piece by Lt. Col. Robert Bateman titled “It’s time to talk about guns and the Supreme Court.” He not only takes SCOTUS and Justice Antonin Scalia to task for their Heller decision interpretation of the Second Amendment, but goes on to propose citizen disarmament edicts that dispense with false assurances given by some in the gun ban camp that nobody wants to take our guns away.

Bateman does, big time, and makes no bones about it. In a way, he’s done us a service by giving a glimpse of the end game less candid incrementalists are inching toward.   Continue reading “Military officer calls for nationwide gun-grab”

Storm: This NOAA satellite image taken early Friday shows clouds streaming from the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, associated with a strong Arctic frontDaily Mail

A biting Winter storm has blasted the South and Midwest with ice and snow – leaving more than a quarter of a million people without power, grounding hundreds of flights and causing treacherous conditions for travelers.

Two people have died in traffic accidents on roads in Texas, where temperatures plunged below freezing on what residents dubbed ‘Ice Friday’.   Continue reading “South and Midwest blasted by bitter Winter storm as snow and ice grounds hundreds of flights and leaves nearly 300,000 without power”