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.

TSA Tries To Cover Up Security Lapse

TSA planned to keep their recent security lapse at San Jose airport quiet.  Only after it was reported by news media did TSA release a statement about the unticketed person who bypassed parts of pre-flight passenger screening including the no-fly list.

Said Rep. Eric Swalwell, 

"We wouldn't have a no-fly list if that wasn't a concern," said Swalwell, who was also critical of a stowaway incident at the airport in April. "The reason a no-fly list exists is that we believe a layer of the security process is knowing who is on the plane. The woman was harmless, but there are people who I don't want on an airplane even if they go through security screening, who the public doesn't want on an airplane."

Saudi Coverup

The 9/11 deaths were a tragedy.  Other tragedies were the resulting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the destruction of American civil liberties, and the cover-up of Saudi national's overwhelming involvement in the 9/11 plots.

Why does Obama continue to allow Saudi involvement in 9/11 to be covered up?

After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors.
But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress’ investigative report on 9/11 dealing with “specific sources of foreign support” for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals.  It was kept secret and remains so today.