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By Justin Wood at 4:03PM

Jul 9, 2009

Good News: H1N1 Vaccination Program is Coming!

I subscribed to the White House email list back in January when President Obama presented his Change.gov website to field "tough" questions from the public. Today, whitehouse.gov has released an important email concerning the H1N1 Swine Flu sent by John O. Brennon, Homeland Security advisor. Here it is:

As the President's advisor on Homeland Security, I am passing along the following message from Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, who are leading the efforts to prepare our Nation for the coming flu season.

Fellow Americans,

This spring we were confronted with an outbreak of a troubling flu virus called 2009-H1N1. As the fall flu season approaches, it is critical that we reinvigorate our preparedness efforts across the country in order to mitigate the effects of this virus on our communities.

Homeland Security to Make Artificial Noses

The Department of Homeland Security, keeping our best interest at heart as per usual, is working on new technology which will act as an artificial nose, smelling airport passengers as they go through security. If all goes as planned, the noses will be able to report to security workers not only the passengers' emotions - fear, anger, and other emotions all produce their own unique scents - but also, in some cases, their identities:

The technology builds on recent breakthroughs in finding human scent-prints

Homeland Security: Turning citizens into suspects since 2003

The Bureaucrash blog cites a Washington Post article about "one of the largest construction projects in the Washington area since the Pentagon was built in the 1940s," namely the Department of Homeland Security's plan for new headquarters in D.C. Priced at $3.4 billion, the facilities would house 14,000 of the goliath agency's 200,000 employees. Construction would begin next year, and last until 2016, a long term proj
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