I'm presently recovering from a mild case of shock.
Well, actually, it's a significant case of shock.
The  cause:  A Bombshell of a News Story that I only stumbled across  tonight. And, I do mean "stumbled". Stumbling is the only way anyone in  the U.S. is going to find it. I'd have never found it in any of the  usual places one depends for news. I only found  it after following  leads left when it was cited by third-parties.
*The Original Article: Israeli firm blasted for letting would-be plane bomber slip through is at Haaretz.com.
Hello? America's News Outlets? "Stop The Presses!"
For some reason - albeit, an inconceivable one - virtually all of   America's Network TV and Print News Media Outlets have been blatantly  ignoring what might be the Biggest News Story in Years.
Exemplary  journalists do still exist - somewhere. Several actually did some  serious digging into some recently-foiled  airline bomber incidents.   And, what these individuals uncovered is shocking, to say the least.
They confirmed that there are several definitive, strange and repeated  connections between:
A.) Each of the aforementioned failed bombers (ie - The "X-mas"/"Underwear" bomber; Richard "Shoe-Bomber" Reid, etc.).
B.)  ICTS  International (an airport security firm and the developer of APS  ("Advanced  Passenger Screening"), which is the logarithm-based process  used in airports across the U.S.A. (APS was rejected by the Israeli  authorities)
ICTS International is also the airport security firm  that - on multiple occasions and despite multiple red-flags -  inexplicably allowed the would-be-bombers (incompetent as they were,  too... thankfully.)  pass through their own multi-layered security  measures - unhindered - and onward to board airplanes.
And, C.) Israel.
Breaking  nearly a year ago, this  bombshell news story has actually been  widely-reported across the globe - including Israel & Europe.  But,  there was just one incredibly Glaring Exception/Geographical News  Blackout: The U.S.A.
Which happens to be exactly where those very  same airport security/screening firms (the ones who've repeatedly  displayed an inexcusable level of incompetence) are raking in  enormous  profits.
Huge profits being made - one could say - as a  direct result of not only the evil intentions of the incompetent  bombers - but, also as a result of the repeated failures of those very  same airport security firms to provide adequate and effective airport  security and prevent the men from ever setting foot on the planes.
Oh,  and we must'nt forget the TSA's early gift to airline travelers.  Those  new TSA regulations requiring that all airline passengers either submit  to being intimately-groped by latex-gloved strangers OR to being  publicly-humiliated whilst being irradiated.
At least you have a Choice, right?
Door Number 1: Enduring a pervy pat-down. ~ Or ~ Door Number 2: A Fancy full-frontal/rear body x-ray/scan.
Psst ~ Did I mention that those same airport security firms also build and sell us their expensive x-ray scanners?
Hmmm... I smell a rat.  And, this rat doesn't have anything explosive anywhere on his person.
*Please see The Haaretz.com Story & Share It. (It's a genuine news outlet. Not a tabloid.)
This  story is important on its own merit. And also because - despite  dropping a bomb and despite being beyond news-worthy -  it's  un-reported... not by the whole World... just by all of the  national/local/TV/internet/cable News sources and journalists that  Americans rely upon for important information.
Personally, I think that - basically - they can't All be this incompetent - at least not simultaneously.
So, what the heck is going on?
Thanks.
L.
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