A Problem With Discipline: The Guys In Charge Of Our Nuclear Arsenal Are Napping, Gambling and Otherwise Screwing Up.

The Theater of Security Agency is checking airline passengers' background extensively before they get to the airport.

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If there is a serious reason to suspect someone might be of planning terrorism aimed at airplanes, it is more just to search him carefully than to arbitrarily stop him from flying. But such searches presume there is a real reason for concern. The TSA privately admits there isn't any, that the airport security operation is mere security theater, but they are prepared to spread distrust through society to carry it out.

The Canadian government sent thugs to attack nonviolent Native American anti-fracking protesters; the mainstream media are spinning it in favor of fracking.

Facebook graph search is the harbinger of many dangers if lots of people can analyze "big data" about other people.

Politicians like privatization of services because it enables them to duck responsibility for subsequent bad service.