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Huawei's "big ambitions" were not without controversy. The director in the interview conveniently neglected to mention that they are under investigation for wire fraud, money laundering, and evading international sanctions against Iran, have been caught red-handed engaging in industrial espionage, and has a bonus system for employees who engage in theft of US trade secrets.

Should have blamed military planes flying overhead.

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/air-force-frequency-jams-denver-garage-door-openers

I've seen that video before. The woman ain't the sharpest tool in the shed - fifty years ago or more, I was busily creating my own rainbows with a garden hose, with a spray bottle, with a wet piece of glass - I was learning all about water prisms. Hell, you can do it UNDERGROUND!

But, to address your remarks, the Department of Homeland Security has indeed identified Christians as potential extremists, along with honorably discharged military veterans. Maybe you should check DHS' list to see if you're on it.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/dh...

http://www.homelandsecuritynew...

Among other things, I find it curious that DHS was searching so hard for "non-Islamist" extremists - almost like Islamist extremists had DHS tacit approval.

I take it you haven't been through Amsterdam recently ... http://www.homelandsecuritynew...

The true solution for congestion is to ELIMINATE THE SOURCE OF CONGESTION by going back to 9/10 security screening at the airport. Everything else is just a money grab

FIFY.

The Rape-eye-scan cancer booths, 3 oz bottle limit, forced shoe removal (for some), invasive-but-not-thorough patdowns, and "behavior screening" techniques are security theater ONLY.

Keeping the flight deck doors secured (with felony criminal charges to await any crew that opens them under duress) and having a flight full of passengers ready to beat the carp out of any would-be hijackers are enough to keep the flight reasonably safe.

I suspect a lot of those extra costs are really due to China not having so many parasitic "horse judges" doing a "heck of a job" in the businesses involved with construction. I'm not suggesting that China is not corrupt, simply that the US nuclear lobby is vastly more so.

What the Hell are you on about? Nuclear power plants in America are expensive due to "regulatory racheting" and "regulatory turbulence". Ever-more-expensive requirements, moving goal posts, and frequent lawsuits and other interference makes large expensive projects into impossible and hugely expensive projects.

http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter9.html

Did you seriously just suggest that USA nukes are over twice as expensive as Chinese due to corruption from the US nuclear lobby? *facepalm*

Since the Chinese government wants the power, those plants will be built, and the goalposts won't be moving during construction.

You mentioned corruption. In China there is a real problem with sub-standard materials and construction, with people being bribed to look the other way. If any nuclear plants ever get finished again in America, they will be expensive but safe. In China, who knows.

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20121003-china-s-infrastructure-is-failing-owing-to-substandard-materials-corruption-and-lax-regulation

Did you seriously suggest that America has worse corruption problems than China? *facepalm*

At least if it's China that causes a meltdown then we'll be free to discuss it without having terrorist laws used against us.

No, they'll just send you to prison when you see an infrastructure project collapse due to faulty materials.

Oh, I don't think you're being unfair. You just say that like the U.S. isn't also making compromises when it comes to construction and maintenance and endangering peoples lives, which they are.

Hardened Cisco switches.

Just make sure they aren't the counterfeit Cisco switches circa 2008...which were from...China.

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/china-may-have-back-door-us-military-computer-networks

FTW: global warming is a hoax!!!

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/02/computer_securi_2.html

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/us-government-recommends-weighing-laptop-and-after-visit-china

Or does DHS just think it has enough scanners once TSA installs the 250 new scanners in this year's budget?

Probably that one. It's not like they're going to --GASP-- spend less money by not buying full body scanners. They're just going to spend that money on other stupid stuff.

Oh, how easy it is to spy on people, how hard it is to keep secrets nowadays. No KGB agent had such wealth of information upon their targets as the potential targets of today are providing themselves with all these social media sites and systems. One wonders what McCarthyism in USA (or Soviet repressions) would have looked like, given all these tools, all these ways to spy on people and all these ways to aggregate data with easy tools and powerful mechanisms to do it that exist today. Are we even starting to understand this just now, as more and more liberties erode and more and more authorities go above the law and put their hands all over the data?

Precrime is being developed by DHS, it will have more data than necessary to come and pre-prison you because they figure that in the future you just may do something they don't like.

Maybe it doesn't matter that you apartment layout can be viewed online, maybe it does.

does it really matter? we are talking about the military using this to find people behind walls to they can kill them more effectively.

Really? You really think that's all this is going to be used for? How naive.

The natives are becoming restless, they need stuff like this to quell a rebellion, flush out the leaders, and protect the establishment. They've already started rolling out unmanned drones for use by the police. They could start deploying the armed versions whenever they want.

Whether or not it's illegal, it turned out to be an expensive mistake to the school district that did the same thing: School settles lawsuits over secret photos for $610,000

I'm pretty sure the GP was talking about the gate security, not the air marshals, which existed under the FAA long before the TSA was ever even thought of. The TSA guys at the gate don't carry guns, they call the local police if there is a problem and, on average, have the intellect of fly larvae, no insult intended towards fly larvae. So something tells me the casting director for the gate TSA guys didn't hire the plainclothes marshals on the planes.

And nobody has any problem with the air marshals, they don't grope you as you pass by them. Furthermore, air marshals can prevent many types of terrorist threats, and this is true a priori, on the other hand, the TSA's gate screens have only managed to catch a few staff members they accidentally hired that had a criminal history for molesting children. That's right, we hired people who like to molest children to ... molest children! ! It's the fucking pedophile cream dream! And don't think for a second there wasn't a line a mile long of yet-to-be-identified pedophiles lining up for the "Molest the children" job. No, no terrorist plots uncovered. Nobody wishing harm to the people on the aircraft stopped. Oh, they were there! They just let those guys go by. And as they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. They have a 100% failure rate, they piss everyone off, El Al thinks they are a fucking joke and they make 1984 look a lot more like it could really happen. Can someone explain why are we blowing our money on this bullshit!?

Charter flights. Look them up. I am so tired of telling people here that yes, if you ride a common carrier, you do have to do what the government requires of a common carrier to use the airspace, but charter flights that are not open to the general public have no TSA inspection requirement.

The TSA searches are not required of you, they are required of the airline and the airline makes your consent to such a condition of getting on their plane. You may be too young to remember, but there was a time when these searches were conducted by private security firms or airport security independent of the federal government. It was the failure of such on 9/11 that led to the TSA. Do you remember the big stink that was raised when it was proposed to turn the screening back over to private contractors and get the TSA out of doing the pat downs?

Here are some airports considering doing so now:

TSA to Private Contractors

Of course, the TSA doesn't want that to happen:

TSA Opposes Private Screening

Even if the locals want to:

Orlando Airport

Also realize that there was ALWAYS a provision in the act that established the TSA to allow airports to opt out and use their own screeners.

So, why exactly do you have to allow the TSA to do this if there is a way for airports and airlines to opt out and hire their own private contractors?

Stana, who serves as one of Congress’s watchdogs, recently published a Secure Border Initiative (SBI) Report detailing a series of problems with the SBI program, including: issues of camera clarity in bad weather, mechanical problems with the radar, and the radar not being sensitive enough to pick things up.

A brief search with your search engine of choice will lead you to chapter and verse. It looks like the old problem of 'it should work so we will build it'. No clear plan for piloting the program, poor oversight. The usual stuff.

If they're doing this to host pirated content, then this is a really stupid idea, becuae it's easier for authorties to get to them. A land-side agency like the FBI needs a warrant to search a premises and seize stuff. The Coast Guard has much more leeway to board and search ships than the FBI could ever dream of having over some server farm.

Also US Customs officials can search on whim without even suspicion, and convict you for whatever they find regardless of what they may have been searching for (if anything). See here.

I'm curious to learn what numbers they're using for their analysis, since BP has been cagey and lying about the actual amount of oil flowing from the leak. For their model to predict accurately, they'll have to use better numbers than BP is fudging us with.

http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bp-oil-leak-much-bigger-official-estimates

They don't bother with social engineering. China's industrial espionage program is extensive and very well organized.