ACLU Backgrounder on Body Scanners and “Virtual Strip Searches”
The Transportation Security Administration is installing new “whole body imaging” machines at some airports around the country – essentially taking a naked picture of air passengers as they pass through security checkpoints. In short, this technology is a “virtual strip search.” As of June 2008, the machines are reportedly being deployed at BWI airport, Dallas/Fort Worth, LAX, JFK, Reagan National, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Detroit, Phoenix, and Miami. read more
THEY CAME TO TROY BEFORE HOMER’s Trojan War
By Andre Austin
This title was stolen from Ivan Van Sertima who wrote “They Came Before Columbus”. The ancient Egyptians travel to America and Turkey before the legends of Columbus and others took off on their adventures. Egypt sacked Troy before Greece did.read more
Smallish Negro men can be found dotting all the coasts of East Africa and Arabia through India, the Isolated Mincopies of Andaman Islands, to Sakai of Malaysia, Thailand, Paupans of New Guinea, and Solomon Islands, and the Etaes of Philipines. read more
The Ottoman Turks were one of the tribes of the Turanian race; their main homeland was central Asia, from the Ural mountains to the plain of Turkistan of China. read more
Historically, the Egba people were agriculturists and traders under a federation of three groups-Ake, Okeona and Gbagura scattered over 150 towns and including the modern city of Ibadan, Oyo and Ijaye. Perhaps for the divisions, they were susceptible to attacks, thus for some time they were province of old Oyo empire. read more
In a study published Monday, researchers at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto found that about one per cent of Jewish women in Ontario carry mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes,… a genetic mutation that dramatically raises their risk of developing both breast and ovarian cancer.read more
Scientific Fraudulence and Gullible Masses: Climategate – News Report
On the eve of the Copenhagen Summit, the scandal broke out that honest scientists have warned that the results were manipulated. Someone from the IPCC decided to tamper with data so that the curve of the graph of temperatures over a thousand years in 2000 reflected a sudden and unexpected heat they called “hockeystick” due to the shape of a “stick” used in ice hockey . read more
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