Seeing People as Trees.


I love trees!

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US finances and warmongering – an overview of sorts.


A great account of the US finances and warmongering activities.

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Humour – A Joke, just for a change of mood. A Scottish setting but universal advice.


An email from a friend, a reliable source of entertainment.

A woman goes to the Doctor in Glasgow, worried about her husband’s temper and threatening manner.

The Doc asks: “What’s the problem, Janet?”

The woman says: “Weeell, Doctor Cameron, I dinae know what to do. Evrae time ma hubbie comes home drunk, he threatens to slap me aroon’.”

The Doctor says: “Aye, well… I have a real good cure for that. When your husband arrives home intoxicated, just take a wee glass of water and start swishing it in your mouth. Just swish and swish but don’t swallow it until he goes to bed and is sound asleep.”

Two weeks later she comes back to the doctor looking fresh and reborn.

She says: “Doctor that was brilliant! Evrae time ma hubbie came home drunk, I swished with water. I swished an’ swished, and he dinae touch me even once! Tell me Doc…wha’s the secret? How’s the water do that?”

The Doctor says: “Janet, it’s really nae big secret. The water does bugger all – it’s keeping your mouth shut that does the trick…”

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Go Fly a Kite – Seeing is still not believing?


I am in a state of shock, and awe!

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Australian government departments attack basic freedoms


From ‘Natural News‘, an article by REALAustralianSceptics.

Oh Yes! We follow the UN/USA assiduously. “Global Warming”, Gun control, “War of Terror”, overseas regime change, (perhaps here too, remember how Julia Gillard magically took over?), UN control support, globalization, Big Business, Big Pharma influence, Big Agri influence. All things lessening the people’s freedoms.

Note the author’s comments on the definition of sceptics.

(NaturalNews) Unlike almost every other democracy, Australia’s constitution does not include a Bill of Rights, meaning that basic rights which citizens of other nations take for granted such as freedom of speech or communication, may not necessarily be protected under the law. (1)

This has allowed certain government departments free reign to act against community groups (and others) almost at will and in opposition to what most reasonable people would consider to be fair or in the public’s best interests.

Persecution of the AVN by government departments

A recent example is the demand by the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Fair Trading that the Australian Vaccination Network (AVN), an organization which has been registered under that name with the Department for over 16 years, change its name due to complaints and concerns from “within the community”. The AVN is a community-based information and support organisation that supports the right of all people to make free and informed health choices – especially when it comes to the issue of vaccination. Whilst their Constitution and Code of Ethics specifically restrict them from taking an anti-vaccination position, they are opposed to any form of compulsory vaccination or medication.

These complaints, for which a GIPA (Freedom of Information claim) has now been filed, appear to have originated from two sources:

1. Members of the group, Stop the AVN (SAVN) – a hate group whose sole reason for existence is to force the AVN to close in any way they can. Their tactics have included harassment, death threats, posting of violent pornography, hacking the AVN’s website and a flood of vexatious complaints to various state and federal government departments, leading to investigations which may have cost the Australian taxpayers millions of dollars. (2)

2. The Australian Medical Association (AMA) – an industry lobby group which represents approximately half of all Australian doctors. The collective prestige of the medical profession obviously suffers each time vaccination is called into question.

So the “community” does not appear to have been concerned about the name of this venerable organization. Only a very small but vocal sector who, for whatever reason, have managed to get the ear of the Minister – a Minister who is already under a cloud for having too close a relationship with property developers whose activities his portfolio is meant to regulate.

Protecting corporate interests

As a result of complaints by this small group with strong vested interests – the Minister has not only ordered an organization to change its name (the first time this has been done for these reasons according to preliminary legislation searches), but he has introduced and passed (in record time) legislation to make it easier to do so into the future. (3)

This echoes the AVN’s experience with the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC), another NSW government body.

In 2009, a member of SAVN filed complaints against both the AVN and its President, Meryl Dorey, claiming that their information was not supportive of vaccination and therefore, it should not be allowed to continue. The complainant asked that a gag-order be issued against both Ms. Dorey and the organization, preventing them from speaking about any health-related issue.

A three-year battle ensued during which time the AVN was cited by the HCCC as being “dangerous, deceptive and misleading” – a ruling that cost the organization its ability to fund raise and its charity authority. A decision by the NSW Supreme Court in April 2012 overturned the HCCC’s warning, reinstated the AVN as a charity and informed the HCCC that the complaints which it had spent a year investigating were not valid complaints in the first place.

The government is now, at the request of the head of the HCCC, in the process of changing the law so that ANYONE can complain about ANYONE who talks about health – PROVIDED they are not doctors for whom the old laws will still apply! Bear in mind that the HCCC was formed to act as a ‘policeman’ for rogue doctors but has, over recent years, been effectively co-opted into a police force for the doctors and government-approved medicine. These law changes that have been drafted to specifically target the AVN will now formalize the persecution of alternative medical practitioners or dissenters.

Perversion of due process

In the eight months since the AVN won its case against the HCCC, they have been targeted by more than a dozen complaints handled by seven different government departments in NSW and other states nationally.

When government departments pervert or instigate legislation for the benefit of corporate interests, to pander to hate groups or to silence community groups who are critical of government policy, and are operating within the law, it seems that all pretense of justice or democracy becomes nothing more than a sham.

Sources for the article include:

(1) NSW Council for Civil Liberties – Stand Up For Our Rights – http://www.nswccl.org.au/issues/bill_of_rights/australia.php

(2) Dossier of Attacks on the AVN – http://avn.org.au/dossier-of-attacks-on-the-avn/

(3) Unacceptable Names Legislation (Amendment) – http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au

Further reading on this issue:

The Australian Vaccination Network Must Go, Sayeth the Government – http://gaia-health.com

Government Puts Boot into the AVN, Democracy and Truth – http://avn.org.au

About the author:

Sceptics are generally considered to be people who take nothing at face value. They want to see the proof for themselves and don?t accept what they are told unless they can see the evidence with their own eyes.

In today?s society, conflicting opinions, vested interests and the rule of law seem more likely to be governed by an unquestioned, all-powerful scientific elite than by evidence and transparent access to information. There are many who feel that democracies have become scientocracies ? where ?scientists? enact and determine legislation for their own reasons ? rather than the benefit of citizens.

In a climate such as this, it is so important to be a sceptic and to be able to recognise the difference between REAL scepticism and, what is far more common, pseudo (or false) scepticism.

REAL sceptics take responsibility for themselves and their families by doing their own research and making their own choices. These choices are unaffected by popular beliefs and unswayed by the mob mentality evident in so many government and medical community decisions today.

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Gun Control in Australia


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Health – Cardiovascular Disease- Statins, Friend or Foe? (Corrected 13 Jan 2013)


So much has been published about the use of statins for reducing cardiovascular mortality.

So much evidence against statins because of known side-effects but perhaps statistically unknown incidences of these side-effects. Certainly there seems to be sufficient evidence to suggest caution and lack of certainty, so to speak.

This post, “Statins – Friend or Foe?” is by Axel F. Sigurdsson, an Icelandic cardiologist who writes articles on his website “docsopinion.com”.

Again quoting from the same post, regarding a book by Doctor Barbara H. Roberts, who is a cardiologist,  associate clinical professor at the Alpert Medical  School of Brown University as well as director of the Women´s Cardiac Center at the Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island.,  but also applying to this post – “Dr. Roberts discusses the benefits and health risks of statin therapy in a very professional way. She discusses the role of cholesterol in the body and explains the role of cardiovascular risk factors. She explains the “cholesterol hypothesis” and the evidence supporting it. She cites clinical trials and explains in laymen terms how they are interpreted, underlining for example the difference between absolute and relative risk reduction.”

To me, this is convincing, well-balanced information, worth publishing here. (With thanks to Clare “JustMeIn T”, for the tip). Thanks to ‘Docsopinion’ for pointing out the need to correct the authorship acknowledgements.

Last year I wrote a couple of articles about statin therapy, so maybe you would like to tell me to give it a rest. However, I think it is such a hugely important issue, and I have this strong feeling that the truth really has not emerged yet. There are two reasons for the issue resurfacing on my blog now. Firstly, two recent scientific papers touching on the effects of statins on cognitive function, glucose tolerance, skeletal muscle function and coenzyme Q10 really had me thinking a lot about how much we still don´t know about the long-term use of statins. Secondly, last month I happened to read a fantastic book about “the other side” of statin therapy written by an American cardiologist. A well written, thought-provoking, easy to read book that everyone interested in modern-day health care should read, not least doctors. I´ll get back to the book later.

Statins are used by about 25 percent of Americans 45 years and older. Between six and seven million people in the UK take statin drugs every day. But what are they used for? What disease or disorder in our society motivates drug therapy for such a large proportion of the population? In short, statins are prescribed by doctors to help protect healthy but high-risk people from heart disease and to prevent heart attacks and strokes in people who have already been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease..

One has to wonder what gives medical professionals the right to prescribe therapy to such a huge number of people? Firstly, prove of efficacy must be substantial and there is really no room for any doubt. You would expect such therapy to significantly lessen the burden of disease and to prolong life. Secondly, it has to be absolutely proven that such treatment does not cause harm. If we trust regulatory authorities, we will have to assume this is true for statin drugs.

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Medical Industry Corruption


Thanks Clare, (JustMe in T) as you say, Australia is not immune to the $ agenda corruption.

____________________Child Health Safety_________________

Consider the following and then ask – “How can you know how dangerous the vaccines given to your child are?  Should you trust government health officials’ assurances?  What can you do to protect your child from your own government?”

Can Medical Research be Trusted? – Washington Post

Republished from AHRP Infomail 4/Jan/2013

From NY USA charity – Alliance for Human Research Protection – www.ahrp.org [AHRP ]
Advancing Honest and Ethical Medical Research

Commercially corrupted medicine is the leading cause of death in the US—and it is bankrupting the US budget.  The Washington Post is addressing both issues in a powerful hard hitting investigative series by Peter Whoriskey titled: Can Medical Research be Trusted?

The focus of the series is on Pharma’s – orchestrated corruption in collaboration with academic scientists and prestigious journals—e.g., The New England Journal of Medicine–provided the authority and veneer of legitimacy to fraudulent, often ghostwritten research reports…

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AGW – Ocean “Acidity” – Ocean Health (updated rev#1)


English: Annual mean sea surface salinity from...

English: Annual mean sea surface salinity from the World Ocean Atlas 2005. Salinity here is in practical salinity units (PSU). It is plotted here using a Mollweide projection (using MATLAB and the M_Map package). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am moved to publish this commentary on the criticality of ocean parameters and effects on sea life, particularly oysters in this case.

THE MOTIVATIONOysters Killed by Climate Change’s Evil Twin

The oyster industry is in trouble. A few years ago, oyster hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest began losing their “seed,” as oyster larvae are known, by the millions. They scrambled to figure out what was behind the massive die-off and discovered that it had to do with “ocean acidification,” also known as climate change’s evil twin.

As with climate change, ocean acidification happens when there’s too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The earth’s waters absorb some of that CO2 — more than a quarter of the amount that we produce — as a way of achieving chemical equilibrium between water and air. “When CO2 mixes with seawater,” Jim Meyer explains, “it creates carbonic acid, and, spoiler alert, increasing acid in the oceans makes the oceans more acidic.”

As in nearly all issues of man-made CO2 influences on our lives, this particular area is not without counter-claims of bias and exaggeration.

I offer the following notes and publish them without editing or extra, deserved research just to get the ball rolling. I suggest the ‘jury is out’ the claim is devoid of credibility, to say the least! (Minor editing now employed).

Note that CO2 is required for ocean plants which in turn photosynthesize O2 which is necessary for the underwater animals/fish for respiration.

Also note that a liquid that is alkaline only becomes acidic when the pH is < 7.0, and the ocean is > 8.0. Technically, the ocean becomes more neutral, not more acidic! That is the start of the brainwashing.

Given the update information, it would have to be concluded that if a reduction in salinity is a problem it surely will not be due to the minor possible CO2 effect. It can only be a real acidic influence from a real pollutant.

GENERAL INFO:

Update information (Rev#1) – Very Relevant. Reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_farming

Cultivation

Oyster farming boats in Morbihan (Brittany, France)

Oysters naturally grow in estuarine bodies of brackish water. When farmed, the temperature and salinity of the water are controlled (or at least monitored), so as to induce spawning and fertilization, as well as to speed the rate of maturation – which can take several years.

From wiki on “brackish water” – “Brackish water or briny water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.” And we are being asked to believe that minor variations in normal seawater are seriously detrimental!!!

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AGW – What will the New Year bring us regarding this Pseudo-Science Scam?


Relationship of Earth's orbit to periods of gl...

Relationship of Earth’s orbit to periods of glaciation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Realizing two things this morning – that I haven’t offered  a personal post this year, only reblogs, and I haven’t recently checked up on the musings of an “old” blogging friend E.M Smith at “Musings from the Chiefio“, the ideal topic to start 2013 off has been born!

While the “warmists” continue their political, financial and global-control agendas, via senseless carbon control machinations, in turn based on unsubstantiated science and even lies, there are others who can be proud of their knowledge and application of genuine science and their impartial agendas, who are contributing to the wealth of information telling the “other side” of the story.

I refer to two of Chiefio’s recent posts:

Interesting Cosmic Rays Paper

The content is based on a scientific paper by others, and I, in turn, extract a little to highlight the topic and sense of this article.

“POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS

Our approach, based on entirely independent studies from astrophysics and geosciences, yields a surprisingly consistent picture of climate evolution on geological time scales. At a minimum, the results demonstrate that the approach is potentially viable, as is the proposition that celestial phenomena may be important for understanding the vagaries of the planetary climate. Pending further confirmation, one interpretation of the above result could be that the global climate possesses a stabilizing negative feedback. A likely candidate for such a feedback is cloud cover (Lindzen, 1997; Ou, 2001). If so, it would imply that the water cycle is the thermostat of climate dynamics, acting both as a positive (water vapor) and negative (clouds) feedback, with the carbon cycle “piggybacking” on, and being modified by, the water cycle (Nemani et al., 2002; Lovett, 2002; Lee and Veizer, 2003).”

Chiefio’s own conclusion:

Once again we have folks coming to the same conclusion, that this is a Water World, and global climate is driven by our place in the solar system and the galaxy, with natural modifications of the water cycle. Different approaches, from different scales and with different data, all showing the same thing.

Here Nir Shaviv looks at things from a galactic point of view and on a global scale with a hundreds of million years time scale. On the micro end, tropical thunderstorms are shown to be activated by daily heating, and quiet as the sun sets, their daily and very local cooling job done for the day. In between we saw that variations in lunar tidal effects on the oceans match a medium time scale of oscillations and that changes in ocean currents can explain the hysteresis seen during D.O. Events and Heinrich Events. At every scale we come to the same conclusion. It’s the water, Jim

(For those not saturated with 1980s American cultural influence, the last line is a tortured play on the stock line from Star Trek where “Bones” would turn to Capt. Jim Kirk and say “He’s dead, Jim.” Done so often it became a cliché. So in this case it implies looking at the CO2 thesis and saying “He’s dead, Jim. (It’s the water)…” as often just after pronouncing ‘dead Jim’ we’d have an explanation of what / why…)

And, ” Lunar Cycles, more than one…

Here, Chiefio, in saying that he is just taking a few notes, actually reveals much.

There are many different Lunar Cycles. I think they are involved in how the weather cycles over various time frames. So I’m just going to be ‘taking some notes’ here, so that I don’t have to keep running all over the place when I want to see if some other thing matches one of these lunar cycles.

There follows an enormous compilation of scientific data, perhaps laborious to wade through, but very telling in its material and very scientifically oriented. His conclusion is:

It looks to me like, going forward in time past zero, we have about a 1500 year plunge into cold staring us in the face. Worse than the Little Ice Age (higher peak and greater ink density in the middle). The really good bit, though, is that it looks like we’re somewhat warm for a couple of hundred years until it gets really rolling. So “not my problem”…

That’s all just based on lunar tidal effects, though, so we will find out if a Sleepy Sun has a big enough impact to gives us a cold 30 years even if that doesn’t show up on this long duration time scale… It’s hard to read, but that first chart looks like it has a spike that goes up to touch the line ‘c’ at about ‘now’. So perhaps a cold decade then some relief.

We also have to keep in mind that this is in the context of a constantly changing insolation pattern and that we’re ‘on the edge’ of the flip into the next glacial, so at some point that shift in the ocean currents will happen. It is possible that the next “dip” into cold in 1500 years or so will be unrecoverable to our present level of warmth and that we’ll be on our way to glaciation about then.

At this point I think I’ve reached the end of the lunar cycles on various time scales. If I run into any more, I’ll add them. I would only note that the 23,000 year cycle they mention in the paper is remarkably similar to the precession period of the Earth (or the potential orbital period of our Sun about a companion star) and thus is also the Maya calendar cycle. I suspect that what the Maya calendar cycle was saying was not that this is ‘the end’, but rather that this is as good as it gets and the next many thousands start a long slow slide into cold. My read on the 23,000 year cycle chart looks like we’re about at the turn to the other direction. Add that to a 5000 year cycle turn and an 1800 year peak warmth spot, well, lets just say I’d not be moving to Alaska any time soon. Florida and Texas would be better choices.

As those cold spikes also were times of droughts in the north (Minnesota lake sediments) or Egypt / Mesopotamia (Akkadian empire fell, and Egyptians had a great famine then too in the 4.2 ky event IIRC) while in the L.I.A. Europe was soaked in cold rains; expect some ‘re-arranging’ of where the water goes in the next centuries. (At least, I hope it is centuries away… and the Sleepy Sun doesn’t give us a ‘taster’ sooner…)

All in all, it looks like the world of about 3500 AD “has issues”. Then again, I’m hoping we make it that far, and if we do, are already living on other planets and in orbital colonies. We really do need to start getting off this rock. It’s just not all that safe and stable a place…

Until that time, though, it looks to me like the Moon matters as much as the Sun, and that watching both the Moon and Sun can explain pretty much all of the weather cycles that “climate scientists” like to pretend is climate.

My conclusion is that the material offered in these articles can be deemed meaningful and relevant to the world’s climate variabilities and is in stark contrast to the pseudo-science proffered by the IPCC and its minions and the media, and that is meekly accepted as truth by the public.

[Perhaps I still haven’t created an original post but at least have offered a strong opinion piece and contributed to the promotion of the truth in the important so-called “climate change” debate].

Happy New Climate Year!

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