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Travelers’ angst is being taken up a notch now that TSA agents are adding yet another seemingly arbitrary security check at airports. The federal agency is now deploying its staff to test beverages purchased by travelers after they were screened at the security checkpoint. Video from the Columbus, Ohio Airport, uploaded to YouTube on Monday, show security personnel canvassing a departure gate, asking people at random if they could check their drinks [...] Federal agency tests drinks purchased inside airport Paul Joseph Watson A video clip shot yesterday at Columbus Ohio Airport illustrates how the Transportation Security Administration has dreamed up a bizarre new way to waste time and taxpayer dollars – by testing drinks purchased by travelers for explosives inside the airport long after they have already passed security. The footage shows TSA agents walking around a departure lounge asking to [...] Daily Mail The former head of the Transportation Security Administration has once again lambasted the country’s airport security system. Kip Hawley, who was head of the TSA from 2005-2009, says he understands why the public is ‘fed-up’ with the agency, because lengthy security checks and a laundry list of banned items do little to stop terrorists and need to be streamlined. He argues passengers should be allowed to carry blades, small [...] The former head of the Transportation Security Administration has once again lambasted the country’s airport security system. Kip Hawley, who was head of the TSA from 2005-2009, says he understands why the public is ‘fed-up’ with the agency, because lengthy security checks and a laundry list of banned items do little to stop terrorists and need to be streamlined. He argues passengers should be allowed to carry blades, small weapons and liquids [...] Steve Watson Anyone who follows the TSA blog, run by “Bob”, will know that from time to time the agency attempts to offset the ballooning negative public opinion directed towards it, and the openly criminal behaviour of its employees, by bragging about “dangerous” items that it has discovered and confiscated from the luggage and persons of those traveling through the nation’s airports. Another of these pathetic bragging blogs appeared this [...] by Gail E. Tverberg The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently released full-year 2011 world oil production data. In this post, I would like show some graphs of recent data, and provide some views as to where this leads with respect to future production. World oil supply is not growing very much The fitted line in Figure 1 suggests a “normal” growth in oil supplies (including substitutes) of 1.6% a year, based on the 1983 [...] Liquid restrictions have been in place since 2006 Newly approved airport scanners will allow passengers to carry toiletries and bottles of liquid in their hand luggage within the next 12 months, transport bosses confirmed today. A complete ban on carrying liquids over 100ml onto aircraft is still in place at airports, but the ruling could be changed by the end of next April after new devices [...] by Tyler Durden For the last month or so, despite ongoing fund inflows, high-yield credit’s performance has been generally muted. Compared to the exuberance of the equity market it has been downright flaccid and given how ‘empirically’ cheap it is on a normalized spread basis through the cycle (and the fortress-like balance sheets we hear so much about) some would expect it to be the high-beta long of choice in the new-new normal rally-to-infinity. [...] Passengers at airports can now avoid TSA pat downs, long lines and can carry liquids on board by paying $100. However, the TSA’s new fast track ‘Precheck’ screening is likely to rile the family of a wheel-chair bound toddler who was recently subjected to invasive security checks. Unlike the background check passengers in the scheme, who will be able to skip screening, the three-year-old was stopped at O’Hare Airport in Chicago. On his [...] Bill Anderson Not surprisingly, the NY Timestook a nuanced approach to Sen. Rand Paul’s detention by TSA officials in Nashville today. The paper was quick to claim that Sen. Paul was lying about being detained and that he only was “escorted” out of the area. What is more telling, however, are the comments, with the vast majority of them being attacks on Sen. Paul, not only for his standing up against [...] The TSA stands by its suspicion of jarred cupcakes. (CNN) – A cupcake isn’t always just a cupcake. Sometimes it’s so noteworthy, it creates Cupcakegate. Just ask the nation’s airport security officials. Travelers carrying a “normal” cupcake will probably clear airport security, although additional screening may be required, according to a Transportation Security Administration blog post defending the agency’s recent confiscation of a cupcake. The post, titled“Cupcakegate” was published Monday and promised to be [...] Audrey Hudson They’ve been accused of rampant thievery, spending billions of dollars like drunken sailors, groping children and little old ladies, and making everyone take off their shoes. A d v e r t i s e m e n t But the real job of the tens of thousands of screeners at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is to protect Americans from a terrorist attack. Yet [...] Egypt’s ex-president Hosni Mubarak, due to go on trial next week for murder, is refusing food in his hospital detention and has become extremely weak, state media reported on Wednesday. Mubarak, 83, has been detained since April on charges of ordering the killings of anti-regime protesters and corruption. He is under arrest in a Red Sea resort hospital, where he receives treatment for a heart condition. His [...] SINGAPORE (AP) — Eye scanners and futuristic security tunnels may be standard in airports soon as the airline industry seeks to maintain safety while reducing the hassles of boarding a plane that deter some people from flying. The International Air Transport Association unveiled a mock-up Tuesday in Singapore of what it dubbed the “Checkpoint of the Future,” where passengers separated by security risk would walk [...] New airport screening machines are capable of detecting liquid explosives An MEP has accused British airports of dragging their feet over lifting the ban on liquids on board planes. Transport committee chairman Brian Simpson said despite new scanners being ready to be rolled out, they would not install them on cost grounds. He claims UK airports have pressured the European Commission to delay the lifting of restrictions until 2013. The [...] |
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