<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>A funny take on homeland security : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/humor/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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Each level is labeled with embroidery to distinguish a DHS Blanket from a gay-pride flag.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>142</score><crdate>9/26/2007 6:43:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-26T18:43:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67979</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/67979/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The next step in airline security may be an &quot;ID bracelet&quot; - with a built-in TASER!]]></title><description><![CDATA[A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has expressed <i>great interest</i> in the bracelets, which would be worn by all airline passengers and could be remotely operated by airline personnel.]]></description><comments>16</comments><score>249</score><crdate>7/7/2008 10:09:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-07T22:09:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60302</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60302/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Air Marshals grounded in the name of Homeland Security]]></title><description><![CDATA[They have names close to those on the no-fly list and airlines won't let them board planes.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>193</score><crdate>5/1/2008 1:29:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-01T13:29:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>77336</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/77336/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind]]></title><description><![CDATA[Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening &#8212; a body scanner that can read your mind.<br/><br/><i>I hope they don't decide to use this at the DMV...we'll all end up in Guantanamo</i>]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>164</score><crdate>9/23/2008 4:17:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-23T16:17:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4661</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/4661/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Amish couple sue over Homeland Security photo rule]]></title><description><![CDATA[The photos are required so the husband--a Canadian citizen--can become a permanent U.S. resident, but the couple believes it would violate the Biblical injunction against making graven images.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>14</score><crdate>10/28/2006 9:31:36 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-28T21:31:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>2829</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/2829/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Geologist's specimen taken by Homeland Security]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rock sample deemed a &quot;dual-use&quot; item, confiscated by guard.<br/><br/>Image is not of the actual sample, which is now rotting in a bin in Connecticut.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/12/2006 1:29:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-12T01:29:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>42433</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42433/1/</url><title><![CDATA[National I.D. Card Rules Unveiled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Critics, such as American Civil Liberties Union attorney Tim Sparapani, charge that the bill increases government access to data on Americans and amplifies the risk of identity theft, without providing significant security benefits.<br/><br/>Maine has already declared it will not follow the rules, and other states are close to joining that rebellion. In Congress, a bipartisan coalition is forming around bills that would repeal portions of the Real ID Act, but it is unclear if today's rules will slow or accelerate these efforts.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>132</score><crdate>11/24/2007 11:46:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-24T23:46:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>769</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/769/1/</url><title><![CDATA[US to watch Cdn. border with high-tech devices. Won't stop sneaky north-Mexicans who say &quot;Eh?&quot; a lot]]></title><description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Department announced Thursday that it will be installing high-tech devices along the border with Canada as part of a multibillion-dollar plan to reduce illegal entry into the United States.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>9/22/2006 3:17:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-22T03:17:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44578</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44578/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Detained]]></title><description><![CDATA[On arriving at JFK airport from Iceland to do some Christmas shopping last weekend, Erla Lillendahl was detained by the Department of Homeland Securty, jailed, deprived of food, sleep and contact with the outside world and thoroughly humiliated.<br/><br/>Her crime was overstaying her visa in 1995.]]></description><comments>27</comments><score>352</score><crdate>12/18/2007 8:07:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-18T08:07:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40529</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40529/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Asleep At The Power Plant]]></title><description><![CDATA[Federal agents are investigating security concerns at the nation's nuclear power plants after video footage surfaced showing guards asleep on the job.<br/><br/>*There just aren't words.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>158</score><crdate>11/3/2007 5:12:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-03T17:12:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12245</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/12245/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Airline Employee to Be Retrained Following Gore Security Breach]]></title><description><![CDATA[An American Airlines employee  who led former Vice President Al Gore and two staffers around an airport security line Wednesday will be required to re-take an airport security training course.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>19</score><crdate>3/5/2007 12:10:53 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-05T00:10:53+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>