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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (81951)	4/1/2010 7:46:52 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

Good videos----whether ir is tea party or not, this woman (lady) is fairly representative of many people who have decided to stop being silent and let their voices be heard . She is a former business woman, obviously an intelligent woman, who immigrated here with her mother from England. Much as an English woman would do she handled herself well by being natural and responsive in a measured way. What I particularly liked was her way of handling Letterman's statements in which he was likely hoping for some controversial replies-----she gave none. Letterman did broach the untouchable subject of Obama's birth----her response was perfect for a Letterman show. She even was able to gently raise the question of why Obama has spent money to not address the question of his birth. Interesting video mj

To: lorne who wrote (81951)	4/2/2010 8:53:03 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 224724

Official says new checks set for travelers to US By EILEEN SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Travelers from 14 countries that have been home to terrorists will no longer automatically face extra screening before they fly to the U.S. Beginning this month, anyone traveling to the U.S. will instead be screened based on specific information about potential terrorist threats, a senior Obama administration official said. A person would be stopped if he or she matches a description, even if officials do not have a suspect's name, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues. For example, if the U.S. has intelligence about a Nigerian man between the ages of 22 and 32 whom officials believe is a threat or a known terrorist, under the new policy all Nigerian men within that age range will receive extra screening before they are allowed to fly to the U.S. If intelligence later shows that the suspect is not a terrorist, travelers will not be screened against that description. The new procedures replace those that went into effect after the attempted bombing of a jetliner en route to Detroit on Christmas Day. Those rules required extra screening, such as full-body pat-downs, for everyone from, or traveling through, any of these 14 countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The new terror-screening strategy, to be announced Friday, is a result of a review ordered by President Barack Obama. The intelligence-based targeting will be in addition to screening names on terror watch lists. The government's "no fly" list of suspected terrorists, who are banned from flights to, or within, U.S. territory, has about 6,000 names. A Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has been charged with boarding a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day with a bomb hidden in his underwear. One of the reasons the alleged bomber was able to board the flight in Amsterdam was that his name was not on a U.S. terror watch list. However, officials failed to even share a description of the suspected terrorist. The new policy should significantly decrease the number of innocent travelers from the 14 countries who have been inconvenienced by the extra screening, the official said. In the past three months, senior U.S. security officials have been meeting with foreign countries to discuss how to improve aviation security, and many countries have adopted enhanced screening methods, including the use of body-scanning machines. The U.S. does not have the authority to screen passengers in foreign airports. But if air carriers do not agree to follow the U.S. guidelines for international aviation security, they could be fined and potentially banned from operating flights to the U.S.