NBC's Fake War Hero

Talking head journalists are being exposed as posers.  NBC's Brian Williams has repeatedly, over more than a decade, claimed he was on an aircraft which was hit by enemy rockets and small arms fire.

Army soldiers finally set the record straight that Brian Williams is a liar because he was nowhere near that activity.

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years.

TSA Has Their Own Kangaroo Court

The TSA (Thousands Standing Around), Transportation Security Administration, has their own tribunal to determine if those who pay the TSA tax on airline tickets are guilty of violating TSA's own rules.  This is a bizarre system.

Why are the rulings from the kangaroo court anything more than simply suggestions?  Of course the TSA's own court found a person guilty, even after a federal court didn't find the person guilty!

A couple years ago, we wrote about a guy named John Brennan ... who decided to strip naked at a TSA screening area in an airport to protest the screening process. As we noted, a federal judge acquitted Brennan on First Amendment grounds, noting that he was engaged in a public protest, and that the nudity was a form of protected expression, not subject to indecent exposure laws.

No matter, apparently, for the TSA, who just went ahead and fined Brennan anyway ...

Read the article here:

TSA Kangaroo Court Rubber Stamps TSA Fining Guy Who Stripped Naked, Completely Dismissing Court Ruling Finding It Legal

Record Sea Ice

The perception seems to be that global temperatures are rising.  If that is true, why is there record sea ice in Antartica?  Maybe we don't understand the cycles of temperature on the Earth as well as we believe we understand it.


Extent of Antarctic sea ice reaches record levels, scientists say

Scientists say the extent of Antarctic sea ice cover is at its highest level since records began.

Secret Courts and Secret Fines

In a free society operating within the rule of law, individuals and companies are not subject to secret coercion.  Illegal challenges and coercion can be brought to law enforcement and adjudicated in the courts.  In the United States of 2014, companies are threatened with secret fines of $250,000 per day and economic extinction unless they allow the government to secretly spy on all citizens.  The illegal spying began with President Bush and accelerated with President Obama.


U.S. threatened Yahoo with huge fine over surveillance

U.S. authorities threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to comply with a secret surveillance program requiring it to hand over user data in the name of national security, court documents showed Thursday.

The documents, made public in a rare unsealing by a secretive court panel, "underscore how we had to fight every step of the way to challenge the US government's surveillance efforts," Yahoo general counsel Ron Bell said in a blog post that will again raise privacy concerns.