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British tourists arrested in America on terror charges over Twitter jokes

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Richard Hartley-Parkinson - Jan. 30 (News Report) - Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan wrote the message weeks before he was due to go to Los Angeles with friend Emily Banting and it was picked up by American special agents. 'They asked why we wanted to destroy America and we tried to explain it meant to get trashed and party. 'I almost burst out laughing when they asked me if I was going to be Leigh's lookout while he dug up Marilyn Monroe. 'I couldn't believe it because it was a quote from the comedy Family Guy which is an American show.

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Are America’s subways and roads overpriced?

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Brad Plumer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - Why do transportation projects cost so much in the United States?

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20,000 Surface-to-Air Missiles Missing from Libya

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - Sep. 27 (News) - Politisite brought you a story six months ago, that Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) from Libya had fallen into the hands of al Qaeda. Those reports were ignored by the Obama Administration. The Report said that the U.S. Backed rebels were former al Qaeda members who had fought United States Soldiers in the Battlefield. So not only can the NYPD bring down an Aircraft, seems now, so can a terrorist in North Africa or the Middle East

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TSA Airport Scanners Wouldn’t Catch an Implant Bomber

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Michael Grabell - Jul. 06 (Special Report) - A number of news outlets are reporting today on the bizarre-sounding story of terrorist groups considering how to implant explosive devices into humans to blow up a passenger jet. A U.S. security official confirmed the story for ProPublica, and the Transportation Security Administration released a statement that it had recently briefed domestic and foreign airlines. The agency said that passengers flying to the United States may notice additional security measures, such as more interaction from TSA officers, pat-downs and the use of “enhanced tools and technologies.”

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The space shuttle: Into the sunset

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jul. 03 (Special Report) - If the weather holds and there are no unforeseen complications, then early in the morning on July 8th a woman and three men will ascend the launch tower at Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre, strap themselves into Atlantis, the last operational space shuttle, and, as the engines ignite, wait for the countdown to reach zero. Burning thousands of litres of rocket fuel every second and blasting superheated gas into the water-filled trench beneath the pad, the engines will kick up the vast gouts of steam and smoke that characterise a rocket launch.

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Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By by Michael Grabell - May. 16 (News Report) - "There's no real data on these machines, and in fact, the best guess of the dose is much, much higher than certainly what the public thinks," said John Sedat, a professor emeritus in biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and the primary author of the letter.

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Obama's Silence on Boeing Is Unacceptable

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - The actions by the NLRB are nothing less than a direct assault on the 22 right-to-work states across America. They are also an unprecedented attack on an iconic American company that is being told by the federal government—which seems to regard its authority as endless—where and how to build airplanes.

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FAA ends single-controller overnight shifts after alleged sleeping incident at Nevada airport

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:41:16 -0700

Washington Post - By Ashley Halsey III - Apr. 13 (News) - A Nevada air traffic controller allegedly fell asleep early Wednesday as a medical flight carrying a sick patient tried to land, leading federal authorities to order an immediate end to the practice of leaving one controller on duty during overnight shifts.

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Photos capture TSA repelling toddler terrorist threat with intrusive grope-downs of 6-year olds

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Doug Ross @ Journal - By Doug Ross - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - This administration -- and Janet Napolitano in particular -- is simply out of control, that's all there is to it.

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Southwest Airlines Incident Highlights Cracks In Federal Oversight

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

minyanville.com - Apr. 05 (News Report) - In a report that received limited attention when it was released in December, the Transportation Department's inspector general raised questions about the Federal Aviation Administration's safety checks of airliners. According to the report, the agency had failed to perform on-time inspections of the major airlines in more than 300 instances [PDF] between fiscal years 2005 and 2009.

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Southwest says small cracks found in 3 more planes

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Bob Christie - Apr. 04 (News) - Inspectors found small, subsurface cracks in three more Southwest Airlines planes that are similar to the cracks that caused a jetliner to lose pressure and make a harrowing emergency landing in Arizona, investigators said Sunday.

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Southwest Airlines grounds jets over mid-air hole scare

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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National to add second controller overnight after tower goes silent

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ashley Halsey III - Mar. 24 (News) - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has ordered a second air traffic controller to be on duty overnight at Reagan National Airport, after the lone controller was unavailable early Wednesday as two passenger planes were trying to land.

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TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Kravets - Mar. 16 (News) - The Transportation Security Administration is re-analyzing the radiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airports nationwide, after testing produced dramatically higher-than-expected results.

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Oil prices retreat after spike on Mideast turmoil

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Ben Rooney - Feb. 28 (Investigative Report) - Oil prices eased Monday, retreating from recent highs, as investors continue to monitor the political movement in North African and the Middle East. The benchmark U.S. oil contract, West Texas Intermediate, for April delivery was down 2 cents to $97.86 a barrel. Brent crude, the main European contract, was up 28 cents to $112.42 a barrel. The oil market remains focused on the Middle East and North Africa, where popular uprisings have pushed out longstanding leaders in Egypt and Tunisia. In Libya, where protests against the rule of Moammar Gadhafi have entered a second week, the death toll has reached 1,000, based on an estimate from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. U.S. oil prices surged above $100 a barrel last week, while prices in Europe hit a high of $120 a barrel -- levels not seen since 2008. The spike occurred as the unrest in Libya curbed production in the North African country, and investors worried that other oil-exporting nations could follow suit.

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Opinionator: Getting Touchy at the Airport

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:33:27 -0800

New York Times - By By TOBIN HARSHAW - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - Travelers are furious with the T.S.A. But are we safer in the air?

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Peak Oil and the Return of the Jet Set | Miller-McCune Online

Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Sam Kornell - May. 06 (Opinion) - The difficulty and increasing cost of providing aviation fuel may ground many flights while winging us away from aerial democracy.

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New Ash Cloud Jeopardizes Europe's Plan to Open Skies

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Alan Cowell, Nicola Clark - Apr. 20 (News Report) - European authorities began easing six days of severe flight restrictions on Tuesday, but a new ash cloud, reported to be spreading south from the erupting volcano in Iceland, threatened to thwart part of the effort to end the Continent’s worst aviation crisis.

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Air travel may have to be rationed in the future says Government climate change advisers

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Louise Gray - Sep. 10 (News Report) - Air travel is expected to at least double by the middle of the century as new airlines spring up in developing countries like China and rich countries like Britain expand airports such as Heathrow. However the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) fears unlimited growth of air travel will cause greenhouse gas emissions to increase and therefore cause global warming. In a letter to the Secretaries of State for Climate Change and Transport, the committee calls for global aviation emissions to be capped at 2005 levels by 2050.

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A380 reaches new heights in airspace

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:57:07 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Peter Pae - Mar. 20 (News Report) - The Airbus A380, more than 239 feet long, nearly 80 feet tall and tanked up with enough fuel to top off 5,000 compact cars, had come up short. "The plane is big, but the bar is too crowded," concluded Joe Brancatelli, a travel blogger who scored one of the 64 business-class seats on the super-jumbo jet's first test flight to the U.S. Auter glumly agreed, predicting that airlines probably would decide against equipping their super-jumbos with bars. "This type of thing," he said, "will disappear."

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