Body scanners are headed to 11 major airports
Thomas Frank USA TODAY Friday, March 5, 2010 WASHINGTON — Eleven major airports will begin using body scanners to screen passengers as the Transportation Security Administration launches a plan to buy 1,000 of the machines over the next two years. The scanners can look under passengers’ clothing in order to detect weapons and explosives. Boston Logan International Airport received one new scanner this week and will get two more next week

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Supreme Court, gun control, and the Second Amendment: a reckoning
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Cops & Judges Caught Using Secret Codes On Tickets
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The U.S. Military’s German Fetish
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Head Of Greek Debt Office Replaced By Former Goldman Investment Banker
Zero Hedge Friday, February 19, 2010 And so the tragicomic becomes surreal. Yesterday’s news about the departure of the head of the debt management agency, Spyros Papanicolaou, was somewhat of a yawner, until we realized that his replacement would be none other than Petros Christodoulou, who until today was head of Private Banking and Group Treasury at the National Bank of Greece (reporting directly to the CEO of the NBG Tamvakakis), as can be seen on the org chart below. Yet what is oddest, is that Mr

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Bill O’Reilly Supports Gun Confiscation During Weather Emergencies
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Obama waging economic warfare on several fronts, including Japan
Wayne Madsen Online Journal Sunday, February 14th, 2010 The Obama administration has expanded its economic warfare against other countries, first reported on January 18 by WMR in the case of an authorized financial campaign against Venezuela . The Obama administration, according to WMR’s Asian sources, is waging an economic warfare campaign, coupled with industrial sabotage, against Japan through a pre-planned operation directed against the Japanese automobile manufacturer, Toyota. WMR has learned that the Obama administration authorized the anti-Toyota campaign as a warning shot to Japan over its reformist government’s insistence that the U.S.

Traders splash £5 billion betting against the euro as the single currency falters amid debt crisis
Sam Fleming Daily Mail Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Traders and hedge funds are making record bets against the euro, underlining the mounting alarm over the region’s debt crisis. Market players have bet almost £5billion that the value of the currency will fall against the U.S

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