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homeland security

  1. D

    Company claims that it can detect terrorists and pedophiles through facial analysis.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/05/24/terrorist-or-pedophile-this-start-up-says-it-can-out-secrets-by-analyzing-faces/ So HLS is spending money on a modern day version of phrenology. It's a waste of money, and even worse, a potential civil rights disaster. Check out...
  2. Tony Stark

    Republicans have choice between caving to Obama and shutting down Homeland Security

    The Republican plan to overturn President Obama's executive actions on immigration was to attach legislation overturning those actions on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security. To the surprise of no one with a brain, this plan failed. After passing in the House, the bill was...
  3. njslim

    Rick Rescorla awarded Homeland Security Medal

    Rick Rescorla, security director of Morgan Stanley, was posthumously awarded the Homeland Security Distinguished Public Service Medal by Secretary Janet Napolitano Rescorla, who died in the South Tower on September 11, 2001, had evacuated his 2700 employees from Morgan Stanley offices in...
  4. ravdin

    six year old girl on "no-fly" list

    Six year old Alyssa Thomas of Cleveland, who enjoys playing with Barbie dolls, recently found out that she is on the federal government's terror watch list. http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-news-westlake-ohio-six-year-old-no-fly-list,0,1122601.story I feel safer already.
  5. ChthonicTonic

    NY Times and UFOs

    On today's op-ed page of the New Yorks Times, there was an article from ufologist Nick Pope making a claim that government investigations into UFOs would be a positive move for national security. However, rather than sighting actual UFO (by the technical definition) threats like Japan's fusen...
  6. Chupacabras

    "Every breath you take" - not about that song

    Again, the terrorists have won: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_9725077 This is gold: Denver police Lt. Tony Lopez, commander of Denver's intelligence unit says "We don't snoop into private citizens' lives. We aren't living in a communist state." ROTFL!!! What in the world makes you think...
  7. BenBurch

    Border Security (USA) gone terribly wrong!

    http://www.democraticwarrior.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63976 This needs to change.
  8. OldTigerCub

    High School for "FEMA Nazis" Opens in Delaware

    ...at least that's what it is in the minds of the perpetually paranoid at 911blogger. (from the actual source article in the Delaware Business Ledger) For all practical purposes, the school appears to be an innovative response to the need for public safety curriculums in the 21st...
  9. R

    Could Hackers Disrupt Our Power Grid?

    The CIA says they can. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jSw3W7MyNAF7rq8RTxcvoz76WIiwD8U8GUP02 Wasn't this the plot to "Live Free or Die Hard"?
  10. A

    Homeland Security calls on science fiction writers

    http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/0338210 Discussion thread has the usual CT drek being posted.
  11. Mephisto

    FBI snooping underreported

    Hmmm, is it national security, political intrigue or they just like listening in on phone sex? ;) I'm sure we all feel safer now that Alberto "Tio Taco" Gonzales is aware of the problem. Just joking, Al ;)
  12. Mephisto

    Federal ID on its way?

    Any word on whether this is still being pursued, and couldn't we just have it tattoo'd on our right hand or on our forehead? I wonder what the fundie X-tians will make of this, provided that they see the parallels. FAQ: How Real ID will affect you By Declan McCullagh What's all the fuss...
  13. Overman

    Thank you Homeland Security! LossofPrivacy

    http://www.license.shorturl.com/ Check your drivers license... Now you can see anyone's Driver's License on the Internet, including your own! I just searched for mine and there it was...picture and all! Thanks Homeland Security! I definitely removed mine, I suggest you all do the same...
  14. Z

    Reuben Bolling nails it...

    For fans of Tom The dancing Bug, this is another one that nails the Homeland Security situation nicely... So I think, anyway! ;) http://images.ucomics.com/comics/td/2006/td060527.gif

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