More Airports Set to Install TSA ‘Detention Pods’

Devices that critics liken to cattle grids have biometric capabilities

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
December 6, 2013

A new Transportation Security Administration directive that mandates airports provide security for terminal exits is likely to lead to the installation of more ‘detention pods’ which have the capability of subjecting travelers to biometric scans.

“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,” reports the Associated Press.

The article notes that in order to comply with the regulation and save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in staffing, airports may follow the example set by Atlantic City International, which has “installed five cylinder-shaped glass exit portals since 2009.”

These ‘detention pods’, which temporarily hold a traveler inside the portal until a green light and a voice command signals that the person can leave, have been compared to cattle grids by critics who see them as another way in which travelers are treated as prisoners inside the airport. According to Karen De Coster, the pods are a way “to remind you that you are a captive” and are “meant to make you feel like a prisoner who cannot leave.”

The detention pods, which are also in place at Syracuse International Airport, “were designed and approved by TSA,” according to Syracuse Airport Commissioner Christina Callahan.

Travelers have expressed confusion at the necessity of the pods. “I don’t understand those doors,” Cindy Katz, of Jupiter, Fla. told the Boston Globe. “What are they supposed to do? It slows everyone down.” The article also notes how some are concerned about “being scanned somehow while closed inside.”

Mindy Carpenter, who was waiting for friends to arrive at the airport complained, “It just took so long for the four of them to come through.”

The report adds that the detention pods “could be the wave of things to come,” and that their manufacturer, Eagle Security Group, is currently in talks with other airports.

As we previously highlighted, although the devices currently in use do not (at least publicly) utilize any kind of scanning technology, the pods do have biometric and object-detecting capabilities, meaning in the future Americans could face yet another stifling level of security simply to leave the airport.

A video demonstration of the devices shows a user biometrically scanning his fingerprint before he is allowed to leave the containment area.

“The identity of the user is guaranteed via fingerprint, iris or facial recognition scans before they are allowed to complete their passage from non-secure to secure areas. The Eagle ACP (Access Control Portal) with integrated biometrics of your choice is a complete solution,” states the company’s website.

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This article was posted: Friday, December 6, 2013 at 6:53 am

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Black Friday....Actual footage of zombie plague sweeping America right now!

Videos confirm zombie plague sweeping America

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
November 29, 2013

Walmart was less concerned about the screaming mobs fighting over TVs during yesterday’s “Black Thursday” horror show and more worried about ejecting people for filming the carnage.

“I went to the Walmart in my parent’s town on Thanksgiving around 8pm,” writes the YouTube user who recorded the video above. “I was driving back to the hotel and I saw it PACKED! Therefore I went in, and expected to interview people about why they are there. Instead I saw this, videoed it, and was promptly kicked out of the store.”

The video shows dozens of people squabbling over televisions, with one man throwing another to the ground as a woman screams, “Oh my God!” Police stand nearby but do nothing to stop the melee.

Apparently, Walmart’s policy is not to train their staff to try to prevent mini-riots from breaking out, but to train them to target the people who film such scenes. Whether this is a deliberate effort to censor bad PR is unknown, but the video above already has hundreds of thousands of views and is likely to have millions by the end of the day.

But it wasn’t just Walmart that had apparently told their staff to censor people filming “Black Thursday” carnage, the video below, shot in an unknown location, shows an employee frantically yelling “stop now!” to someone who was filming a police arrest of a women who got into a fight with another customer over a TV.

The video is chilling because the woman appears to behave like an actual zombie even as the cops aggressively restrain her on the floor, desperately clinging onto the television she has just seized from another woman.

Reports from across the country confirmed that a zombie epidemic had once again gripped America, as Twitter was ablaze with stories of crazy lunatics going on violent rampages simply to secure electronic goods made by slaves in China which they cannot afford and don’t really need.

Social critic Mark Dice bravely ventured near crowds of consumer zombies in a desperate attempt to make them understand that they were ruining Thanksgiving.

Watch more videos of the zombie plague below.

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This article was posted: Friday, November 29, 2013 at 6:15 am

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The Kennedy Assassination (November 22, 1963) 50 Years Later

Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
November 22, 2013

November 22, 2013, is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The true story of JFK’s murder has never been officially admitted, although the conclusion that JFK was murdered by a plot involving the Secret Service, the CIA, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been well established by years of research, such as that provided by James W. Douglass in his book, JFK And The Unspeakable, published by Simon & Schuster in 2008. Ignore Douglass’ interest in the Trappist monk Thomas Merton and Merton’s prediction and focus on the heavily documented research that Douglass provides.

Image: JFK Funeral (Wikimedia Commons.

Or just turn to the contemporary films, taken by tourists watching JFK’s motorcade that are available on YouTube, which show clearly the Secret Service pulled from President Kennedy’s limo just prior to his assassination, and the Zapruder film that shows the killing shot to have come from President Kennedy’s right front, blowing off the back of his head, not from the rear as postulated in the Warren Commission Report, which would have pushed his head forward, not rearward.

I am not going to write about the assassination to the extent that the massive information permits. Those who want to know already know. Those who cannot face the music will never be able to confront the facts regardless of what I or anyone else writes or reveals.

To briefly review, the facts are conclusive that JFK was on terrible terms with the CIA and the Joint Chiefs. He had refused to support the CIA organized Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. He had rejected the Joint Chiefs’ “Operation Northwoods,” a plan to commit real and faked acts of violence against Americans, blame Castro and use the false flag events to bring regime change to Cuba. He had rejected the Joint Chiefs case that the Soviet Union should be attacked while the US held the advantage and before the Soviets could develop delivery systems for nuclear weapons. He had indicated that after his reelection he was going to pull US troops out of Vietnam and that he was going to break the CIA into a thousand pieces. He had aroused suspicion by working behind the scenes with Khrushchev to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis, leading to claims that he was “soft on communism.” The CIA and Joint Chiefs’ belief that JFK was an unreliable ally in the war against communism spread into the Secret Service.

It has been established that the original autopsy of JFK’s fatal head wound was discarded and a faked one substituted in order to support the official story that Oswald shot JFK from behind. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and President Johnson knew that Oswald was the CIA’s patsy, but they also understood, as did members of the Warren Commission, that to let the true story out would cause Americans to lose confidence in their own government at the height of the Cold War.

Robert Kennedy knew what had happened. He was on his way to being elected president and to holding the plotters accountable for the murder of his brother when the CIA assassinated him. A distinguished journalist, who was standing behind Robert Kennedy at the time of his assassination, told me that the killing shots came from behind past his ear. He submitted his report to the FBI and was never contacted.

Acoustic experts have conclusively demonstrated that more shots were fired than can be accounted for by Sirhan Sirhan’s pistol and that the sounds indicate two different calibers of firearms.

I never cease to be amazed by the gullibility of Americans, who know nothing about either event, but who confidently dismiss the factual evidence provided by experts and historians on the basis of their naive belief that “the government wouldn’t lie about such important events” or “someone would have talked.” What good would it do if someone talked when the gullible won’t believe hard evidence?

Secret Service pulled from JFK’s limo
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/james-huang/must-watch-video/

Zapruder film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufvmHYqfdbU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q91RZko5Gw

James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable, Simon & Schuster, 2008

Operation Northwoods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available.

This article was posted: Friday, November 22, 2013 at 5:24 am

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NSA Goons Threaten Reporters With Attack Dogs

Security officers confiscate cameras

Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
October 3, 2013

Anthony Gucciardi, with Infowars.com and Storyleak.com, along with Weldon Henson and film editor Josh, both with Infowars.com, traveled today to the National Security Agency’s Utah Data Center to take exterior footage of the spy grid facility.

Armed security guards confronted our crew in the parking lot of the data center, threatening them with attack dogs and confiscating their cameras, which the guards seemingly did not know how to erase.

The crew passed numerous warning signs and surveillance cameras on the access road to the center.

“This is complete surveillance state on us,” Gucciardi said, pointing at the gauntlet of surveillance on both sides of the road. “All these cameras yet we are not even allowed to film with an iPhone.”

He also commented on the natural beauty surrounding the facility.

“The NSA is just destroying it,” Gucciardi commented. “Corrupting it as a cancerous tumor on the beauty that is Utah, the United States and the world.”

After exiting their vehicle parked in a spot reserved for “low emission vehicles,” the crew walked towards an unmarked building in a search for public relations.

“We are going to ask them why they can spy on us and learn everything that we do during the government shutdown, where they are full-fledged and in full-force, but we can’t ask them a simple question,” Gucciardi said.

Before they could get to an unmarked guardhouse, however, a NSA security guard intercepted our reporters while caressing his sidearm.

Our crew explained that they didn’t want trouble, just a public affairs officer to answer some questions.

“He’ll [the PAO] probably talk to you on the phone,” the guard responded. “But you need to turn your cameras off.”

The guard’s back-up soon arrived and an officer shoved his hand into the camera lens and stated that the crew could not leave unless they surrendered their film.

“What about Google satellite photos?” Gucciardi asked the officer. “They have photos of everything.”

“Do they have to delete it?”

The officer referred to a U.S. Code to rationalize his unconstitutional demand as he confiscated the cameras and attempted to delete the film.

At one point the guards said they had attack dogs and there’s no telling what the dogs may do.

“They might eat you,” the guard stated.

A keen viewer sent us a U.S. Department of Homeland Security bulletin entitled “Photographing the Exterior of Federal Facilities,” which was given to nationwide “Protective Security Officers” such as the ones our reporters encountered today.

Released on Aug. 2, 2010, the bulletin’s intent is to “raise awareness of the public’s right to photograph the exterior of federally owned and leased facilities.”

“Remember that the public has a right to photograph the exterior of federal facilities from publicly accessible spaces such as streets, sidewalks, parks and plazas,” the bulletin reads.

This is exactly what our crew was doing and this DHS bulletin states here in print that their rights were violated.

“Officers should not seize the camera or its contents, and must cautious not to give such ‘orders’ to a photographer to erase the contents of a camera, as this constitutes a seizure or detention,” the bulletin continues.

Protective Security Officers wouldn’t need this bulletin, however, if they read one particular document: the Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This article was posted: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 5:37 pm

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WWII Vets Expose Obama’s Contempt Towards the American People

A list of quotes and presidential actions which showcase Obama’s snobbery and elitism

Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
October 2, 2013

The World War II veteran showdown is the pinnacle of Obama’s disdain towards the American people during the government shutdown and perhaps even his entire term in office.

Obama laughs at the loss of our rights. (Photo credit: Edalisse Hirst via Flickr)

Here’s a short rundown of Obama’s superiority complex, elitism and total disregard of Americans:

- The White House rejected a request to allow WWII veterans, our greatest generation, to visit their memorial in Washington D.C. during the government shutdown. With over 800 WWII veterans dying every day, some of these vets may never have another opportunity to visit the memorial to honor their fellow Americans who never made it back home

- National Park Service workers are erecting a barricade around the World War II memorial to keep veterans out of the memorial predominantly funded by private donations

- At the beginning on the current government shutdown, Obama closed the White House to the public, denying tours to school children and families

- The White House is however still open for elitists to attend state dinners and special events

- The federal government actually put in effort to shut down electronic access to educational material already paid for by taxpayers

- In the wake of the D.C. Naval Yard shooting, Obama demanded more gun control on the same day that he authorized gun shipments to Syrian rebels dominated by al-Qaeda

- “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

- “The president’s decision to take military action in Syria still stands, and will indeed be carried out, regardless of whether Congress votes next week to approve the use of such force.” – Senior State Dept. official last month.

- Obama in 2008 discussing small town Pennsylvanians: “You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

If you have any great examples of Obama’s extreme elitism and total disregard of the American people, please post them in the comments section. We will update this list.

This article was posted: Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 1:44 pm

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