Police community support officers (PCSOs) stopped Italian student Simona Bonomo under anti-terrorism legislation for filming buildings in London. Moments later, she was arrested by other officers, held in a police cell and fined. She talks Paul Lewis through the footage she recorded of her conversation with the PSCOs.
You really shouldn’t be surprised that Florida TSA supervisors have been caught using whiteboard to keep score and ridicule women, minorities, and gays.
The board, resembling the TV game show “Jeopardy,” includes categories such as “pickle smokers,” “our gang” and “creatures,” which sources said were names used by managers for gay men, African-Americans and lesbians.
A photograph of the board was sent to CNN. The Transportation Security Administration confirmed the investigation in a written statement but did not elaborate on when the board was in use, where it was displayed or how it was used.
As a government agency, the TSA should not be conducting this investigation. It should be an independent agency. These supervisors, who passengers rarely see at the airports, are degrading what little respect is left for the TSA and the officers who are out front with the public on a day to day basis.
Any job with the TSA should be taken seriously and one should always act in a professional manner while at work. The blatant disrespect for their positions should have these supervisors removed from their positions immediately. Instead, the TSA is one of the biggest embarrassments the United States displays to the world.
On this week’s episode of Tonight, they will be discussing the use of CCTV as a cash cow.
As the number of CCTV cameras in the UK rises unchallenged and unregulated, Morland Sanders investigates the new ways they are being used to pay for themselves.
He reveals that more councils than ever are training their cameras on motorists, generating thousands in fines from traffic offences. While on victim of a violent mugging asks why her attacker was not caught despite the presence of several cameras.
A Polish priest has installed a fingerprint reader in order to track the attendance of children at mass.
The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses they will be freed from the obligation of having to pass an exam prior to their confirmation, the paper said.
The pupils in the southern town of Gryfow Slaski told the daily they liked the idea and also the priest, Grzegorz Sowa, who invented it.
“This is comfortable. We don’t have to stand in a line to get the priest’s signature (confirming our presence at the mass) in our confirmation notebooks,” said one pupil, who gave her name as Karolina.
Poland is perhaps the most devoutly Roman Catholic country in Europe today and churches are regularly packed on Sundays.
Get them while they’re young. Entice children with the ability to not take an exam for giving up their private, biometric data and they’ll never know what hit them. Just make it easily and they’ll line up like sheep to do whatever you want.
From Boing Boing:
Baboomska mcGeesk sez, “In 1956, Buddy Holly traveled to Nashville to record several songs. One of the songs he recorded was “That’ll Be The Day”, but the producer assigned to his sessions (Owen Bradley) hated rock n’ roll, and did a terrible job on the song. After that, Buddy traveled to New Mexico and re-recorded “That’ll Be The Day” (the version that became the monster hit) at a different studio with his own (superior) arrangement, but according to his contract with Decca, he couldn’t release it, because Decca owned all rights to his music. He decided to call Decca, to try reason with them, and he secretly taped his conversation. They refused to give him the rights to his own song, but he went ahead and violated his contract. Here is the conversation he secretly taped.”
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