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Travelers Forego 38 Million Trips to Avoid Hassles

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“Long lines. Packed planes. Lousy food. Intrusive security. It’s enough to make you just stay home, right?  Indeed, common sense would suggest that significant numbers of people have been discouraged altogether from traveling. But how many people? And what’s the economic impact of those trip cancellations?  The U.S. Travel Association has just released results of a study designed to answer those questions.  The survey’s main findings, extrapolated from interviews with 1,031 business and leisure travelers: 38 million trips deferred in 2013; $9.5 billion lost on airfare; $5.8 billion lost on hotels; $5.7 billion lost on recreation; $3.4 billion lost on food services; $2.8 billion lost on car rentals.”

http://www.frequentflier.com/blog/travelers-forego-38-million-trips-to-avoid-hassles/

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Senate Panel OKs $47 Billion Homeland Security Budget

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“The measure also includes a provision to increase the fee paid by travelers who enter the U.S. by commercial sea and air carriers by $2 to $9, using the revenue to pay for 1,000 new customs agents.  The measure funds the government’s newest Cabinet department and is free of contentious issues that dot many of the other 11 spending bills. It increases the budget for Customs and Border Protection by 4 percent and increases funding for detention of people entering the country illegally.  The bill’s chief author, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., who faces a difficult re-election campaign this fall, included $318 million to build six fast response Coast Guard cutters at Bollinger Shipyards in her home state.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/senate-panel-oks-47b-homeland-security-budget-24318416

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Eric Clapton Cites Security Hassles as Reason He’ll Stop Touring

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“There’s just 25 months left to see Eric Clapton on tour. The legendary guitarist says that he’s going to quit the road life when he turns 70 years old because getting from show to show is too much of a pain. ‘The bit on stage, that’s easy,’ he says before insisting he’ll stay active playing around his hometown.  Clapton, who turns 70 on March 30, 2015, says security and immigration officials are two groups of people he’ll be glad to be rid of. ‘I never get it right. I forget to take off my belt, or I have change in my pocket,’ he tells Rolling Stone. ‘Next thing I know, ‘Can you come over here please?’ I just don’t want to do that anymore.'”

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/eric-clapton-cites-hassles-of-travel-as-reason-hell-stop-touring-at-70/

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Airport security scrutinized after boy flies to Maui in plane’s wheel well

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“Airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes said the SJC’s security program ‘meets and exceeds all federal requirements’ and works closely with the Transportation Security Administration and the San Jose Police Department. But the perimeter fence where the boy trespassed is monitored by the airport.  ‘No security program is 100 percent,’ Barnes said. ‘We’re continuing to review video to determine where in fact he was able to scale the section of fence line, how he as able to proceed onto a ramp and get himself into the wheel well of that aircraft.’  Barnes said the boy, under ‘cover of darkness,’ climbed a perimeter fence sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning.”

 

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25607171/santa-clara-teen-ok-after-riding-jets-wheel

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CBS Broadcasts Wi-Fi Password For Secret Super Bowl Security Center

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“Super Bowl Security: Inside secret, first-of-its-kind command center.”

http://deadspin.com/cbs-broadcasts-wi-fi-password-for-secret-super-bowl-sec-1514436573/@lukeplunkett

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Super Bowl Mic Hijack Proves Government Cannot Protect You

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“Bomb sniffing dogs, 700 extra troopers, a 24-hour FBI command center, a vast network of surveillance cameras, the ‘See Something, Say Something’ snitch program in full force, TSA agents, snipers, no fly zones, helicopter patrols.  The bill for all this – which ran into tens of millions of dollars – was paid for by taxpayers despite the income-tax exempt NFL already getting a sales tax break at a further cost of $8 million to NJ residents.   30-year-old Matthew Mills made a mockery of all this when he crashed a press conference to tell the viewing millions that the 9/11 attacks were, ‘perpetrated by people in our own government,’ urging them to ‘investigate 9/11,’ before being dragged away.”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/super-bowl-hijack-proves-government-cannot-protect-you.html

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Hacked X-Rays Could Slip Guns Past Airport Security

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“The supervisor’s password screen could be subverted through a simple SQL injection attack — a common hacker tactic that involves entering a special string of characters to trigger a system into doing something it shouldn’t do. In this case, the string would allow an attacker to bypass the login to gain access to a console screen that controls the TIP feature.  Using the console, an attacker could then direct the system to superimpose weapons or other contraband onto the x-ray images of clean bags to disrupt passenger screening. Or the attacker could superimpose images of clean bags onto the operator’s monitor to cover the true x-ray image of a bag containing contraband.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/tsa-airport-scanners/

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How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error

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“FBI agent Kevin Kelley was investigating Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004 when he checked the wrong box on a terrorism form, erroneously placing Rahinah Ibrahim on the no-fly list.  What happened next was the real shame. Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up.  After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii: FBI human error.”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/02/no-fly-coverup/

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The Most Important Takeaways From the Ex-TSA Screener’s Exposé

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“In an article for Politico Magazine, former TSA screener Jason Harrington exposed the endemic corruption which infests the federal agency, including how TSA workers laughed at naked images of passengers, targeted attractive women and harassed travelers who didn’t display the proper attitude.  Although most of his revelations were already known (we were labeled ‘conspiracy theorists’ for saying the same thing), for guy who saw it with his own eyes every day from the inside to go public with this kind of information is huge. Given that Harrington’s article is lengthy, we’ve summarized the key points with relevant quotes from the piece below.”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-most-important-takeaways-from-the-ex-tsa-screeners-expose.html

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Is Crazed Super Bowl Security a Taste of America To Come?

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“In the run-up to Super Bowl XLVIII (just be happy they don’t use Egyptian numerals), the New York City Police Department is deploying an ‘amazing arsenal of security initiatives,’ including 200 ‘temporary’ surveillance cameras to ensure that dirty deeds remain undone at the big game. That’s remarkable, since City Hall in the rotten apple is actually about 11 miles from the site of the kickoff at MetLife Stadium, which is in East Rutherford, New Jersey. But never fear, security at the the Super Bowl itself promises to make attendance at football’s championship game an awful lot like spending several hours at a very cold TSA checkpoint—with some watery beer.  Get used to it America.”

http://reason.com/archives/2014/01/30/super-bowl-security-just-a-taste-of-amer/print

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