strong>11/15: Over 1000 people who are considered "threats to aviation" by the CIA, FBI or INS are on a list and are not permitted on flights under any circumstances. Even some on the center-left liberal groups, not exactly your typical threat to air passengers, have been placed on the list. "[A loose-leaf binder] open, and while they were questioning me, I discreetly looked at it," a Ralph Nader campaign manager who was stopped and questioned said. "It had a long list of organizations, and I was able to recognize the Green Party, Greenpeace, EarthFirst and Amnesty International." Full story

ToTaL iNfOrMaTiOn AwArEnEsS ::: And in what makes the PATRIOT Act look like a duck without wings, the Homeland (In)Security Agency Bill is poised to pass a Senate vote next week. The bill would, among other things, allow for the creation of the Total Information Awareness System, a massive electronic surveillance program that would search for patterns of “terrorist activity” in reams of public and private computer data and records. Read more