Is the War on Terror a Hoax?

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

This Info Wars post by Paul Craig Roberts is nearly 12 months old, but is appropriate because it includes the 9/11 terror incident which now reaches its 11th anniversary.

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united states currency eye- IMG_7364_web (Photo credit: kevindean)

It is also appropriate because of my recent ‘Milestones” post which includes my attempt to sway 9/11 conspiracy non-believers to open their minds to the truth. A long, scathing story which reads, in essence, true to me. As the aftermath of the 9/11 WTC/Pentagon destruction is still with us “with knobs on!”, here is his article:

In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans millions of Muslims in six countries, all in the name of the “war on terror.” Washington’s attacks on the countries constitute naked aggression and impact primarily civilian populations and infrastructure and, thereby, constitute war crimes under law. Nazis were executed precisely for what Washington is doing today.

Moreover the wars and military attacks have cost American taxpayers in out-of-pocket and already-incurred future costs at least $4,000 billion dollars – one third of the accumulated public debt – resulting in a US deficit crisis that threatens the social safety net, the value of the US dollar and its reserve currency role, while enriching beyond all previous history the military/security complex and its apologists.

Perhaps the highest cost of Washington’s “war on terror” has been paid by the US Constitution and civil liberties. Any US citizen that Washington accuses is deprived of all legal and constitutional rights. The Bush-Cheney-Obama regimes have overturned humanity’s greatest achievement – the accountability of government to law.

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Milestones – Thanks to ‘Followers’, ‘Commentors’, ‘Likers’ and Readers.

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

Spring has “sprung” (in the SH), birds are tweeting, flowers are blooming.

gratitude. =)

gratitude. =) (Photo credit: camerakarrie)

Trees are blossoming, and the Sun is again making its presence felt, issuing UV, and more, to provide essential global warming (as distinct from leaving us a cold, dead, useless planet).

Ergo, my vitamin D level is being replenished, my depression is being lifted and my blog is attaining satisfying milestones. All is well with my world. more or less! (Well, sort of!).

So I am moved to be vociferous just for the sake of self-satisfaction and also to offer my gratitude to those who are contributing, via the internet, to the well-being of this blog and therefore also to mine.

The milestones mentioned include 20,000 ‘hits’, 100+ followers, 1000+ comments, 750+ published posts and almost 100 pages, in the period of 16 months. Maybe a miniscule effort in the whole picture but a meaningful accomplishment for this individual.

It is therefore appropriate to say a hearty THANK YOU to all who have made this outcome possible. A select few, (who will know who they are), have been especially helpful in several different ways but as mentioned, all  responders to this blog are essential and much appreciated.

I am also moved to say, write a few words about the blog and my choosing of particular topics and themes. Because there are several main topics covered, or at least touched on, there would be readers who have maybe only one common topic of interest. To them, other topics might be of little or no interest, or even, in the extreme cases, objectionable.

This could occur, for the reason that I support a number of what are often termed as “conspiracy theories”. They are included because I judge them to be actual conspiracies and not theories. Of course, many readers follow this blog because they are like-minded and welcome or contribute to the publication of such topics.

To others, who tend to shy away or disbelieve these topics, I would like to explain myself in a brief(?) summation. Not in the expectation of sudden enlightenment, but to gain the respect hopefully due to the motivation and thought processes that drive my enthusiasm for righting what I perceive as being the wrongs in this, (what is partly, but should be extensively), our beautiful world. In other words, hopefully a reader who doesn’t go along with any particular topic or theme, won’t automatically conclude that all TGR blog material is suspect. Each post should rightfully be adjudged on its own merits.

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Australia moves to buy $3b spy drone fleet

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

An interesting scenario.
Even if used for coastal surveillance, it seems less cost-effective than piloted aircraft.
The real problem exists in their anti-social and military capabilities, not to mention that our (Australian), education and health systems are underfunded and below reasonable standards. Also, our economy is deteriorating and the poor and homeless, depending on welfare, and the welfare organizations are substantially underfunded.
Do we want to go the way of the US?

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Turning off Energy, Not Climate Change, Is Biggest Threat, Doctors Say

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

I enjoyed reading this post by ‘Globalist Report‘.

Sensible, clear, precise, to the point. Information and comment from competent people. A reminder to us that there is nothing new in authorities going down the wrong path because of misconception. A reminder that we are just as capable of believing in an uncertain science as we were of believing witches were evil and needed to be water tested or burnt at the stake.

Written by Andrew Puhanic

Climate change has occurred constantly throughout the earth's history, driven by powerful natural forcesThousands of accused witches were burned at the stake in medieval times in an effort to protect their communities from bad weather, stated Jane Orient, M.D., president of Physicians for Civil Defence.

It didn’t work then, of course, as Europe continued to suffer greatly during the Little Ice Age. And human beings still do not have the power to control the climate, she said.

Orient spoke at the 30th annual meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, which advocates protection against all perils, based on accurate scientific information.

Since astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas spoke about “Witches, Whiskey, and Bad Weather” in 2005, http://www.ddponline.org/ddp-audio-2005.php “global warming” has continued its 15-year hiatus, but in the name of global “climate change,” politicians are still trying to shut down energy production from hydrocarbon fuels.

For example, the 2012 Democrat Party platform reads:

“We know that global climate change is one of the biggest threats of this generation – an economic, environmental, and national security catastrophe in the making. We affirm the science of climate change, commit to significantly reducing the pollution that causes climate change, and know we have to meet this challenge by driving smart policies that lead to greater growth in clean energy generation and result in a range of economic and social benefits.”

CLIMATE CHANGE has occurred constantly throughout the earth’s history, driven by powerful natural forces. There is no good evidence for the speculation that human emissions of carbon dioxide could cause major climate effects, and plenty of evidence against it.

Still, the political forces that demonize carbon dioxide are so well-funded and powerful that a young person aspiring to an academic career dare not express disagreement, according to Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who spoke on “Alarming Global Warming: What Happens to Science in the Public Square?”

“Carbon dioxide is part of the cycle of life, not a pollutant,” Orient explains. “All living things are made of carbon that was once in atmospheric carbon dioxide.”

Medieval technology such as windmills cannot replace coal, natural gas, and oil to provide the electricity and transportation fuel on which modern society depends. Drastic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions would have at most a negligible effect on earth’s temperature, but would cripple agriculture, medicine, industry, and defense, Orient states.

“Energy poverty from misguided policy based on bad science is one of the biggest threats to this generation,” she states. “Not carbon dioxide.”

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Excercising – Importance of Warm-up and Cool-down

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

Health is only one topic for this blog, yet I tend to bias towards it for personal reasons. Also I know quite a few people, some of them friends, who are also undergoing cardiac issues.
It is therefore appropriate to post cardio specific information even if of no interest to the majority of readers. In this case, I am well aware of the general teaching of this practice but never have the reasons been offered.

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Rehabilitate Your Heart

One of the most crucial parts of an exercise program for any heart patient is warm up

Working in cardiac rehabilitation this was often one of the biggest challenges I would encounter on a daily basis. Getting patients to understand and perform a warm up prior to starting into vigorous exercise. Often our lifestyle has so many time constraints that people just jump right into the vigorous activity and neglect this critical part of the exercise session.

What is a warm up?

Warm up is starting into activity slowly to allow your vessels in the heart and muscles throughout the body to dilate. This takes 5-10 minutes to accomplish. The easiest way of warming up is to start into your activity at the lightest possible level both in the form of resistance and in the form of intensity or speed.  Others will do slow walking or light calisthenics. Stretching is not…

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How Stress Influences Disease: Study Reveals Inflammation as the Culprit

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

English: Academic Buildings of Carnegie Mellon...

English: Academic Buildings of Carnegie Mellon and the Cathedral of Learning (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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I have asked various medical advisors, familiar with my cardiac event details, about stress as a contributor to heart disease. Other than blood pressure increase, not much was informative. I do not have BP issues and even less so now that I am on post-stent medication.

So the causes and effects of inflammation are generally not near the forefront of the minds of the medical practitioners. The result seems likely that the usually recommended treatments for ailment symptoms are not always targeting the real causes.

Now, I have this very interesting article to read and share with readers. H/T to “Rehabilitate Your Heart” and the source article at ‘Science Daily‘.

ScienceDaily (Apr. 2, 2012) — Stress wreaks havoc on the mind and body. For example, psychological stress is associated with greater risk for depression, heart disease and infectious diseases. But, until now, it has not been clear exactly how stress influences disease and health.

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Euro collapse imminent, experts believe

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

English: Various Euro bills.

English: Various Euro bills. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This ‘Natural News‘ post by Ethan Huff, is a picture of a woeful financial situation, heading for a certain crash. In accounting terms, an inevitable end to a system dependent on real growth when growth can not be sustainable. Add in the greed of the banking system, creating money of no value except the paper its written. Ie., computer records which equals no value. Also add in bankruptcy which cannot be solved by borrowing money, where not even the interest can be repaid, in a system where austerity drags money out with the certain result that the system collapses.

This either makes some weird sense to the financiers or they must in fact realize the above and are just playing for time while they secure there own selfish futures and literally bugger the rest of the world. This status largely applies across the Western world whether in the EURO or other money systems. Such a collapse as would suit the ‘Globalist’ leaders.

(NaturalNews) The future does not look very promising for the euro, the flailing currency of the European Union (EU). Speculation among many bankers, company executives, investors, government officials, and others that the euro is about to completely unravel are actually helping to fuel the currency’s decline, say some, a process that many others, including euro architect Otmar Issing, have long believed was inevitable anyway.

The ongoing debt crisis in the “Eurozone,” or the bloc of European countries that are part of the EU, is only continuing to worsen, and EU officials have been unable to come up with a viable policy solution to jump start the EU economy. Meanwhile, the local economies of Greece, Italy, and Spain are in rapid decline with no end in sight, and countries like Germany and Finland that have had to continually prop them are up are growing weary of having to keep the ship afloat, so to speak.

Many European banks have stopped lending across their own countries’ borders, investors have pulled their assets out of European markets, and the Constitutional Court of Germany, one of the key countries holding the EU together, will soon determine whether or not its continued bailout efforts for the worst performing countries in the EU are even legal in the first place. All the signs, in other words, are pointing to an eventual euro collapse.”Banks, investors and companies are bracing themselves for the possibility that the euro will break up — and are thus increasing the likelihood that precisely this will happen,” writes Martin Hesse for Spiegel Online. “The most radical option to protect oneself against a collapse of the euro is to completely withdraw from the monetary zone.”

Euro architect admits currency in decline

Even Issing, the former chief economist at the European Central Bank who originally helped found and establish the euro, believes the currency was merely an “experiment,” and one that the financial markets of the world are no longer taking seriously. Over the course of this slow debacle, many investors have switched to tangible investments like real estate, rather than take their chances on the euro.

Even the U.S. dollar, which has been on a downward spiral of its own, is viewed by many as more viable than the euro. Because the dollar is perceived as being weak rather than structurally unsound, it is preferable to the euro, and is considered to be the “lesser of two evils.” And it is becoming increasingly obvious that no matter what policy measures are put into place at this point in time, there may be no way to save the euro.

“Over the long term, the monetary union (of the euro) can’t be maintained without private investors,” says Thomas Mayer, a former chief economist at Germany-based Deutsche Bank. If politicians keep trying to prop up the currency with bailouts and other failed policies, he adds, the euro “would only be artificially kept alive.”

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Vaccinations – Proof that potential dangers are hidden.

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

1802 caricature of Jenner vaccinating patients...

1802 caricature of Jenner vaccinating patients who feared it would make them sprout cowlike appendages. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This ‘VacTruth‘ post provides conclusive proof that authorities do not reveal all to the public, or even the dispensing agencies. This article deals with a particular disease, but the ramifications apply to vaccines in general.

There seems to be no simple answer to this dilemma. There definitely are dangers. We cannot trust the official information regarding the degree of the dangers.  The efficacy of vaccinations is also an unknown as the sources of published information cannot be trusted. So both the importance of immunising and the dangers are unclear. Reported cases of side-effects are not reliably documented. The lack of reliable information makes this a lottery situation. The persons at risk may be a minority, but are you or your child one of the minority?

“At Last! Government Documents Locked Up for 30 Years Proving This Vaccine Unsafe Finally Revealed”  By .

Many parents are opting to have their children vaccinated with the single measles, mumps and rubella vaccines due to growing concerns about the safety of the MMR, but are they jumping out of the frying pan into the fire? Hidden government documents have revealed that leading professionals have had serious concerns about the safety of the single measles vaccines for many years.

Secret government documents that have been under lock and key for thirty years have revealed that the UK government has known for many years that the single measles vaccine can cause the debilitating neurological disorder SSPE or Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis.

SSPE is a degenerative neurological condition, which affects a person’s behavior, memory and coordination, leading to fits, blindness and eventually death. The Disabled World News 2010 [1] says that the symptoms a person with SSPE experiences are subtle:

They usually include symptoms such as changes in behavior and mild mental deterioration such as memory loss. The symptoms that follow are commonly involuntary jerking movements of the person’s head, limb or trunk jerks, and additional motor function disturbances. The person may experience seizure activity, or become blind. As the disorder advances, the affected person might lose the ability to walk as their muscles spasm or stiffen. The person progresses towards a comatose state, followed by a vegetative state. People with SSPE commonly die as a result of fever, heart failure, or their brain’s inability to continue controlling their autonomic nervous system.

1972 serious concerns about the measles vaccine’s potential to cause vaccine-induced SSPE had grown in momentum. It was decided that a group called ‘Expert Group on the Surveillance of SSPE’ was needed to study the problem in more detail. On February 9, Medical Officer F.C. Stallybrass wrote a request to UK’s leading professionals asking them to attend a meeting on Monday March 13, 1972 in room D1001 of the Alexander Fleming House. His letter contained a selection of documents, which he stated ‘may form a basis for discussion.’[2] The members of this group were listed on a separate JCVI (Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunization) document titled ‘Proposed Membership of Expert Group on Surveillance of SSPE.’[3] The professionals invited were:

  • Professor G. Dick (chairman)                                                                                                             
  • Dr. E.N. Brutt, The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Dr. J.A. Dudgeon, The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Dr. C.J. Earl, National Hospital
  • Dr. T.T.S. Ingram, Department of Child Life and Health, Edinburough
  • Dr. Christine Miller, PHLS, Collingdale
  • Professor T.E. Oppe, St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington
  • Dr. G. Pampiglione, The Hospital for Sick Children
  • Dr. J. Wilson, The Hospital for Sick Children

If this information is not worrisome enough, at around the same time, a memo titled ‘Copy Of Notice To Be Circulated To ABE – Measles Vaccine And Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis’[4] was also sent out, stating that:

‘There has been some concern recently about the suggestion that measles vaccines might occasionally give rise to Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis. Professor Sir Charles Stuart-Harris, as chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, has asked whether members of the Association would be prepared to notify cases we see.’

Note the words ‘might occasionally,’ which in my opinion, were specifically chosen to cover the fact that this was a growing problem.

This document, along with many others uncovered, means that the measles vaccination was proving problematic to the neurological well being of young children as far back as 1972. If this were the end of the matter, then it would be easy to assume that the problems had been overcome. However, the problem of vaccine-induced SSPE continued to persist even when the measles vaccination was combined with the mumps and the rubella vaccination to form the MMR triple vaccine.

What this meant was cases of vaccine-induced SSPE were not only occurring after children received the single vaccine but they were also occurring after they received the MMR vaccine.

Further reading of the article here.

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Self Care and Life Balance: A Prescription for Laughter.

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

Life is not simple, but the best things in life are simple things and often free. The lesson here for me is the importance of the blog title component “Life Balance”. With a slight twist to apply this to my own blog, this post prevents a serious imbalance in the TGRule topic range. In addition readers can create their own balances by having access to both blogs, or blog types.

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Syria – More vocal support against Western Intervention.

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

Latest from the CEC
31 August 2012

Daraya Massacre: A war crime for sure, but whose?

Has another opposition-instigated massacre been pinned on the Assad government in Damascus for the purpose of furthering the West’s campaign of regime change in Syria? Civilian massacres are a trigger for UN intervention into the domestic affairs of a sovereign state, under the UN’s new Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, first applied in Libya. Former British PM Tony Blair, whose office fabricated the WMD “evidence” used to justify the Iraq war, is the architect of R2P, which Blair devised to further Britain’s imperial agenda to shred the principle of national sovereignty as the foundation doctrine of international law. The British and Obama seize on the reports of civilians massacres in Syria to clamor for “regime change” in Syria, but, once again in the case of the latest massacre in Daraya, the actual evidence shows that the perpetrators of the massacre are the Saudi-funded rebels, including al-Qaeda, with whom the British and Obama are siding to overthrow the Syrian government.

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Tony Blair, Syria, and the Peace of Westphalia

R2P is a live trigger for thermonuclear war. What is R2P? The social media shorthand for “Responsibility to Protect”, a new doctrine in international law that the United Nations is being pushed to apply to Syria. At the UN on Feb. 22, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Hardeep Singh Puri, citing the use of the R2P by “over-enthusiastic members” of the international community in the case of Libya and Syria, charged the UN principle of responsibility to protect, or “R2P”, is being used for regime change.

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Source article from CEC Australia Newsletter.

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