Author Archives: Ken McMurtrie

About Ken McMurtrie

Retired Electronics Engineer, most recently installing and maintaining medical X-Ray equipment. A mature age "student" of Life and Nature, an advocate of Truth, Justice and Humanity, promoting awareness of the injustices in the world.

Statistics: US Census Data Worst In 50 Years – Nearly 100 Million Poor In America


A useful post given the financial crisis continues, even though we don’t get a lot of truthful information except from the internet.  Love the term “well massaged statistics” which we have come to accept world-wide, unfortunately.  Grim stuff, nothing massaged … Continue reading

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It’s About Energy


Originally posted on patriciawalls:
Everywhere that we are looking for the “answers”.  Everywhere that we are looking for a “change in our environment”.  Everywhere that we are looking for someone to “fix” us. What if we are the answer?  What if…

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Selective Outrage and Empathy In The USA


This ‘Sott.net‘ post might just sink in, to the public consciousness of American and other complicit countries’ residents, and help sort out their bias and short-sightedness. Of course most of the human damage, and its extent, being caused overseas is … Continue reading

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5 Reasons to Embrace Home Canning


Once again, thanks to ‘Care2’ for this useful post by Shelley Stonebrook Home canning might seem more like an activity your grandparents did than something busy people in our day would embrace. But canning homegrown and local foodsis undergoing a … Continue reading

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Think About Replacing Lawns with Gardens


Regular readers will be aware of the diversity of topics of interest to the author. There is some commonality, however, and that amounts to personal well-being. What I read relates to my own well-being, what I “write” relates to  others … Continue reading

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Welcome to the New Syria


I still believe that the Syria is still arguably the most important global situation of concern to people everywhere. At the least it a clear picture of the world domination movement in action, at worst, a trigger for a major … Continue reading

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Future of Food – The Australian Government sets the Direction


Originally posted on JustMEinT's General Blog:
You know, even Blind Freddie could figure out that allowing the Government to set the direction for the future food policy – without at least having the ordinary members of the food industry…

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Are Forests “Lungs of the Planet?”


Originally posted on JustMEinT's General Blog:
Since posting about the rain forests yesterday, I have had my attention drawn in another direction by two independent sources. As I already wrote in that article, everyone has a bias, now it…

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U.S. Military Purchasing Combat Equipment for Domestic Use


This blog is Australian based, but I notice that our readers are predominantly from the US. It is therefore appropriate to reblog my TIP post here where it will hopefully reach even more US readers.

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Rainforests the “Lungs of the the Planet”


Originally posted on JustMEinT's General Blog:
As a child growing up and learning about life – partly through the wonderful instructions of my parents and partly through the education system, I learned that trees took in the carbon dioxide…

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