Airport ditches controversial bodyscanners

A total of 13 backscatter X-ray machines are being ditched because they have not been given EU approval, even though they are in common use in the United States.

The devices, which use low dose X-rays to produce an image of the body, have come under fire on both privacy and health grounds, amid suggestions they could pose a potential cancer risk.

However despite an expert committee concluding in March that the devices did not pose a health risk, Brussels has refused to sanction their use.

As a result they will be replaced by millimetre-wave devices, such as those used at Heathrow, which have been given EU approval.

These machines enable security staff to detect hidden objects without also requiring them to inspect a ghostly X-ray image of the body.

Spain strike impact limited to transport and plants

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100929/tpl-uk-spain-strike-d1a0d5d.html

That's alot of non-production, and if continued long enough will ensure that the "People's" voice will be heard.
Get off your ass America, your brothers and sisters need your help.
The Central Banks have made this a world wide problem, and Europe is actually willing to do something about it.

Trade unions said 10 million people, or more than half the workforce, were on strike. Government officials gave no numbers but played down disruption.


However, in a sign of low industrial activity, electricity demand was about 20 percent less than expected, according to data from grid operator REE.

Anti-austerity protests sweep across Europe

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100929/D9IHHDTO3.html

Europe is ablaze with anger, as should Americans be to, but conveniently another suspect terror plot has place the country on high alert to divert the attention from what is so obvious that American should also do.

BRUSSELS (AP) - Anti-austerity protests erupted across Europe on Wednesday - Greek doctors and railway employees walked out, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man even blocked the Irish parliament with a cement truck to decry the country's enormous bank bailouts.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into Brussels, hoping to swell into a 100,000-strong march on European Union institutions later in the day and reinforce the impact of Spain's first nationwide strike in eight years.

All the actions sought to protest the budget-slashing, tax-hiking, pension-cutting austerity plans of European governments seeking to control their debt.

In an ironic twist, the march in Brussels comes just as the EU Commission is proposing to punish member states that have run up deficits to fund social programs in a time of high unemployment across the continent

Austerity whips up anger, protests mount in Europe

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100928/tts-eu-economy-strike-labour-social-c1b2fc3.html

America needs to make a coordinated effort along with the residents of the EU and make their voice heard regarding the same problems.
Austerity measures being taken or proposed is a world wide problem, and what's being proposed has become painfully unacceptable for the common man due to no fault of there own, but rather forced upon them by their governments having dealt with the Central Banks.

Painful cuts by overspending EU countries come head to a head with mounting social anger on Wednesday when labour leaders call angry workers onto streets right across the continent.

Set for its largest Europe-wide protest for a decade is Brussels where labour leaders are planning to bring 100,000 people from 30 countries to say "No to austerity!"

The protest, the biggest such march since 2001 when 80,000 people spilled into the EU capital, is being held to coincide with a plan to fine governments running up deficits.

Detailed proposals are due to be released that day by the 27-nation bloc's executive arm, the European Commission, with the continent's finance ministers also gathering in Brussels this week.