So, the next question is why small airports? Aaah, the Khazars never go to rural areas and they have low or no traffic going to or coming from Tel Aviv, while those other airports do, AND those goyim in the rural areas are the SPLC and ADL identified domestic terrorists who love their country and Constitution and exercise free speech, wow, damn terrorists. Snap my fingers, should have guessed.
I don't know why the real reason they all of a sudden made the change, its certainly not why they say. They certainly never make changes because "we" ask for it, or because something harms us, in fact, that is a bonus for them to harm a goyim. So I am speculating right now and I could be wrong, but that is their fault for saying and treating us like "Cattle" or "assets".
This article says THE UNITED STATES IS THE ONLY COUNTRY USING THESE KILLER, ISRAELI MADE AND CHERTOFF PROFITING SCANNERS. Even Britain removed the last of them last month or last week. HOW DARE THEY. I want this stopped and we should not pay taxes until they are.
Frankly, THIS IS MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE SINCE THEY KNOW THIS STUFF CAUSES CANCER and people die from cancer, so its murder, they need to be prosecuted, arrested and if convicted get the maximum sentence given.
TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports
http://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-removes-x-ray-body-scanners-from-major-airports
by Michael Grabell
The Transportation Security Administration has been removing its X-ray body scanners from LAX, O'Hare and JFK, and putting them in less-busy airports. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images)
The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer.
The TSA says it made the decision not because of safety concerns but to speed up checkpoints at busier airports. It means, though, that far fewer passengers will be exposed to radiation because the X-ray scanners are being moved to smaller airports.
The TSA says it made the decision not because of safety concerns but to speed up checkpoints at busier airports. It means, though, that far fewer passengers will be exposed to radiation because the X-ray scanners are being moved to smaller airports.
The backscatters, as the X-ray scanners are known, were swapped out at Boston Logan International Airport in early October. Similar replacements have occurred at Los Angeles International Airport, Chicago O’Hare, Orlando and John F. Kennedy in New York, the TSA confirmed Thursday. (VN: Hmmm, as I said above, is that because its mostly khazar airport travelers that are being irradiated? Now that would make sense. Its ok if we get irradiated by not the khazars.)
The X-ray scanners have faced a barrage of criticism since the TSA began rolling them out nationwide after the failed underwear bombing on Christmas Day 2009. (VN: you know, the panty bomber that was released from Gitmo after being tortured and probably mind controlled, by Cheney, and then NOT LISTED ON THE ISRAELI AIRPORT SECURITY COMPANIES TERRORIST LIST AND THEN AIDED IN BORDERING THE PLANE BY HIS CIA HANDLER. But I bet Americans are on the list for protesting drone murders and doing so non violently). One reason is that they (Scanners) emit a small dose of ionizing radiation, which at higher levels has been linked to cancer.
In addition, privacy advocates decried that the machines produce images, albeit heavily blurred, of passengers’ naked bodies. Each image must be reviewed by a TSA officer, slowing security lines.
The replacement machines, known as millimeter-wave scanners, rely on low-energy radio waves similar to those used in cell phones. (VN: you know, the cells that cause brain cancer and restructure your pineal gland. You can tell when I get mad, my VN's increase). The machines detect potential threats automatically and quickly using a computer program. They display a generic cartoon image of a person’s body, mitigating privacy concerns.
“They’re not all being replaced,” TSA spokesman David Castelveter said. “It’s being done strategically. We are replacing some of the older equipment and taking them to smaller airports. That will be done over a period of time.”
He said the TSA decided to move the X-ray machines to less-busy airports after conducting an analysis of processing time and staffing requirements at the airports where the scanners are installed. (VN: Yeah right! Like they really
give a damn about costs. Not. Its sounding more and more like what we think its really about. They don't want to hurt their own people.)
The radiation risk and privacy concerns had no bearing on the decision, Castelveter said. Asked about the changes, John Terrill, a spokesman for Rapiscan — which makes the X-ray scanners — wrote in an email, “No comment on this.”
The TSA is not phasing out X-ray body scanners altogether. The backscatter machines are still used for screening at a few of America's largest 25 airports, but the TSA has not confirmed which ones. Last week, Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz., installed two of the machines [3].
Moreover, in late September, the TSA awarded three companies [4] potential contracts worth up to $245 million for the next generation of body scanners — and one of the systems, made by American Science & Engineering, uses backscatter X-ray technology [5]. (VN: See, its not because they give one rats butt about us, its because of the Khazars and the major airports they use most often. Betcha!)
The United States remains one of the only countries in the world to X-ray passengers for airport screening. The European Union prohibited the backscatters [6] last year "in order not to risk jeopardizing citizens' health and safety," according to a statement at the time. The last scanners were removed [7] from Manchester Airport in the United Kingdom last month.
Here's a side-by-side comparison of the two types of body scanners the TSA uses. [8]
The X-ray scanner looks like two blue refrigerator-sized boxes. Unseen to the passenger, a thin beam scans left and right and up and down. The rays reflect back to the scanner, creating an image of the passenger's body and any objects hidden under his or her clothes.
The millimeter-wave scanner looks like a round glass booth. Two rotating antennas circle the passenger, emitting radio frequency waves. Instead of creating a picture of the passenger's body, a computer algorithm looks for anomalies and depicts them as yellow boxes on a cartoon image of the body.
According to many studies, including a new one conducted by the European Union [9], the radiation dose from the X-ray scanner is extremely small. It has been repeatedly measured to be less than the dose received from cosmic radiation during two minutes of the airplane flight.
Using those measurements, radiation experts have studied the cancer risk, with estimates ranging from six to 100 additional cancer cases [1] among the 100 million people who fly every year. Many scientists say that is trivial, considering that those same 100 million people would develop 40 million cancers over the course of their lifetimes. And others, including the researchers who did the EU study, have said that so much is unknown about low levels of radiation that such estimates shouldn't be made.
Still, the potential risks have led some prominent scientists to argue that the TSA is unnecessarily endangering the public because it has an alternative — the millimeter-wave machine — which it also deems highly effective at finding explosives.
"Why would we want to put ourselves in this uncertain situation where potentially we're going to have some cancer cases?" David Brenner, director of Columbia University's Center for Radiological Research, told ProPublica last year. "It makes me think, really, why don't we use millimeter waves when we don't have so much uncertainty?"
Although there has been some doubt [10] about the long-term safety of the type of radio frequency waves used in the millimeter-wave machines, scientists say that, in contrast to X-rays, such waves have no known mechanism to damage DNA and cause cancer.
The TSA has said that having both technologies encourages competition, leading to better detection capabilities at a lower cost.
But tests in Europe and Australia suggest the millimeter-wave machines have some drawbacks. They were found to have a high false-alarm rate [11], ranging from 23 percent to 54 percent when figures have been released. Even common things such as folds in clothing and sweat have triggered the alarm.
In contrast, Manchester Airport officials told ProPublica that the false-alarm rate for the backscatter was less than 5 percent.
No study comparing the two machines' effectiveness has been released. The TSA says its own results are classified.
Each week, the agency reports on various knives, powdered drugs and even an explosives detonator [12] used for training that have been found by the body scanners.
But Department of Homeland Security investigators reported last year that they had "identified vulnerabilities [13]" with both types of machines. And House transportation committee chairman John Mica, R-Fla., who has seen the results, has called the scanners "badly flawed."
In addition, privacy advocates decried that the machines produce images, albeit heavily blurred, of passengers’ naked bodies. Each image must be reviewed by a TSA officer, slowing security lines.
The replacement machines, known as millimeter-wave scanners, rely on low-energy radio waves similar to those used in cell phones. (VN: you know, the cells that cause brain cancer and restructure your pineal gland. You can tell when I get mad, my VN's increase). The machines detect potential threats automatically and quickly using a computer program. They display a generic cartoon image of a person’s body, mitigating privacy concerns.
“They’re not all being replaced,” TSA spokesman David Castelveter said. “It’s being done strategically. We are replacing some of the older equipment and taking them to smaller airports. That will be done over a period of time.”
He said the TSA decided to move the X-ray machines to less-busy airports after conducting an analysis of processing time and staffing requirements at the airports where the scanners are installed. (VN: Yeah right! Like they really
give a damn about costs. Not. Its sounding more and more like what we think its really about. They don't want to hurt their own people.)
The radiation risk and privacy concerns had no bearing on the decision, Castelveter said. Asked about the changes, John Terrill, a spokesman for Rapiscan — which makes the X-ray scanners — wrote in an email, “No comment on this.”
The TSA is not phasing out X-ray body scanners altogether. The backscatter machines are still used for screening at a few of America's largest 25 airports, but the TSA has not confirmed which ones. Last week, Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz., installed two of the machines [3].
Moreover, in late September, the TSA awarded three companies [4] potential contracts worth up to $245 million for the next generation of body scanners — and one of the systems, made by American Science & Engineering, uses backscatter X-ray technology [5]. (VN: See, its not because they give one rats butt about us, its because of the Khazars and the major airports they use most often. Betcha!)
The United States remains one of the only countries in the world to X-ray passengers for airport screening. The European Union prohibited the backscatters [6] last year "in order not to risk jeopardizing citizens' health and safety," according to a statement at the time. The last scanners were removed [7] from Manchester Airport in the United Kingdom last month.
Here's a side-by-side comparison of the two types of body scanners the TSA uses. [8]
The X-ray scanner looks like two blue refrigerator-sized boxes. Unseen to the passenger, a thin beam scans left and right and up and down. The rays reflect back to the scanner, creating an image of the passenger's body and any objects hidden under his or her clothes.
The millimeter-wave scanner looks like a round glass booth. Two rotating antennas circle the passenger, emitting radio frequency waves. Instead of creating a picture of the passenger's body, a computer algorithm looks for anomalies and depicts them as yellow boxes on a cartoon image of the body.
According to many studies, including a new one conducted by the European Union [9], the radiation dose from the X-ray scanner is extremely small. It has been repeatedly measured to be less than the dose received from cosmic radiation during two minutes of the airplane flight.
Using those measurements, radiation experts have studied the cancer risk, with estimates ranging from six to 100 additional cancer cases [1] among the 100 million people who fly every year. Many scientists say that is trivial, considering that those same 100 million people would develop 40 million cancers over the course of their lifetimes. And others, including the researchers who did the EU study, have said that so much is unknown about low levels of radiation that such estimates shouldn't be made.
Still, the potential risks have led some prominent scientists to argue that the TSA is unnecessarily endangering the public because it has an alternative — the millimeter-wave machine — which it also deems highly effective at finding explosives.
"Why would we want to put ourselves in this uncertain situation where potentially we're going to have some cancer cases?" David Brenner, director of Columbia University's Center for Radiological Research, told ProPublica last year. "It makes me think, really, why don't we use millimeter waves when we don't have so much uncertainty?"
Although there has been some doubt [10] about the long-term safety of the type of radio frequency waves used in the millimeter-wave machines, scientists say that, in contrast to X-rays, such waves have no known mechanism to damage DNA and cause cancer.
The TSA has said that having both technologies encourages competition, leading to better detection capabilities at a lower cost.
But tests in Europe and Australia suggest the millimeter-wave machines have some drawbacks. They were found to have a high false-alarm rate [11], ranging from 23 percent to 54 percent when figures have been released. Even common things such as folds in clothing and sweat have triggered the alarm.
In contrast, Manchester Airport officials told ProPublica that the false-alarm rate for the backscatter was less than 5 percent.
No study comparing the two machines' effectiveness has been released. The TSA says its own results are classified.
Each week, the agency reports on various knives, powdered drugs and even an explosives detonator [12] used for training that have been found by the body scanners.
But Department of Homeland Security investigators reported last year that they had "identified vulnerabilities [13]" with both types of machines. And House transportation committee chairman John Mica, R-Fla., who has seen the results, has called the scanners "badly flawed."
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