The TSA is one of the stars in the US Government\’s security theater that keeps the public always fearing attack. In this week’s episode we’ll demonstrate how the media is used to manipulate public support for sweeping security changes.

Plus – We’ll unfilter some headlines, and cover your feedback from our first episode.

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ACT ONE: NEWS

• Army Readies Its Mammoth Spgy Blimp for First Flight
• U.S. Outgunned in Hacker War
• More Americans Worried About Cybarmegeddon Than Terrorism, Study Finds
  • Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software
• FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit
• Congress Proposes Giving Another $10 Million To ICE To Censor More Websites For Hollywood

ACT TWO: TSA Security Theater

• How much is being spend on the TSA’s?
  • According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Budget-in-Brief for Fiscal Year 2013 The 2013 President’s Budget for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is $7,644,585,000
  • The TSA accounts for 13% of the Department of Homeland Security\’s annual budget.
  • Down from The TSA\’s Fiscal Year 2012 President\’s Budget was $8,115,259,000 and the TSA accounted for 14% of the DHS annual budget
• TSA screeners are only being paid between $9.88 – $16.38 an hour according to payscale.com
• TSA Behavioral Detection Statistics: officers sidetracked 50,000 passengers in 2010 and arrested 300 passengers – none turned out to be terrorists
• TSA Scanners Might Not Catch Underwear Bombs & ID Thief Becomes a TSA \”Officer\”
• TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency\”
• EDITORIAL: TSA’s \”power grope\”
• TSA Trials Expanding to Busses
• TSA Bus Trial Backfires
• Famed Hacker Arrested for Pot Possession En Route To SXSW by TSA Stop
• TSA’s “VIPER” program stumbles again\”

ACT THREE: Feedback

• Ubiquity Writes…

  Was hoping for a video show, LAS and SNAP are great because of that.

• Jim Writes…

  If you are going to be doing shows on political issues, you at least have to make some kind of attempt at balance. You are going to have to present arguments from all sides of the issue and you need guests on the show to argue the opposing sides.

• Ubiquity Writes.. (again)

  I think it\’s about time more people did discuss issues that do really matter. While not everyone may agree with topics that are political or religious, its discussion that needs to happen. I would suggest sticking to the facts as much as possible, and unfortunately there are many facts that challenge popular beliefs. One advantage of the IT industry is that most \”wise\” decisions are based on facts and statistics. I think of this content as educational, better for the greater good of people.

Unfilter on Reddit

Link List:

• It\’s Like An Advertisement For Airport Security Bomb Detecting Technology
• Al Qaeda Working To Surgically Implant Bombs In People & Even Pets!
• US politicians condemn leak of CIA\’s al-Qa\’ida sting operation

Song pick of the week: SONG: Mr. TSA: a Response to Having My Pants Pulled Down by the TSA Which was released under a Creative Commons License