Baby-Mother Bonds Affect Future Adult Relationships


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Some sort of synergy or synchronicity. I guess.

What with my youngest daughter currently rearing a 3 month old baby and also current marital relationship issues (not hers), this post title caught my eye.

Sott.net have posted this article in their section ” Science & Technology” for reasons not clear to me, but that is not important. The subject, however, is at least interesting if not also important.

Maureen Salamon,  MyHealthNewsDaily.

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A mother lode of bonding – or a lack thereof – between moms and young children can predict kids’ behavior in romantic relationships decades later, a new study suggests.

Adding to evidence that even preverbal memories are firmly imprinted on young psyches, researchers found that children who had been more securely attached to their mothers, now grown, did better at resolving relationship conflicts, recovering from those conflicts and enjoying stable, satisfying ties with their romantic partners in early adulthood.

“It’s often very difficult to find the lingering effects of early life being related to adult behavior, because life circumstances change,” said study author Jeffry A. Simpson, a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. “People change, but there’s a kernel of stability from early experience in a lot of people.”

Simpson and his colleagues reviewed data from 75 children born in 1976 and 1977 as part of the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation, whose mothers received free prenatal care. These firstborn children were assessed at regular intervals with interviews, questionnaires, teachers’ and parents’ ratings and other observations, culminating with their relationships with their romantic partners at ages 20 and 21.

Measuring the mother-child bond

When the children were 12 and 18 months old, they were videotaped in a stressful lab procedure called “Strange Situation,” in which the children were separated and reunited with their mothers. Those who were deemed to have an insecure attachment with their mothers – meaning they remained distressed throughout the experiment – reported more negative emotions when trying to resolve major relationship conflicts with their romantic partners two decades later.

Simpson noted, however, that these results were affected by factors such as the children’s social skills in elementary school (as rated by teachers) and the strength of their relationships with their best friend at age 16, which had also been monitored.

“We also found that if you were insecurely attached to your mother as a child, but had a really committed partner as an adult, that partner basically protected you from showing dysfunctional behavior in your relationship 20 years later,” Simpson said. “It’s not like you’re destined to be insecure your entire life.”

For example, those who had been insecurely attached as infants were more likely to still be with their partners two years later, at age 23, if their partners displayed better “conflict recovery” at 20 or 21, the study said.

The finding that certain relationship patterns can be overcome under the right circumstances, such as with a well-adjusted partner, also depends on the degree of trauma suffered by the child, and his or her overall resilience, said Dr. Victor Fornari, director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y.

“It’s not just the quality of caretaking and the child’s innate temperament, as well as what his biological predispositions are,” Fornari said. “Certainly all of this begins in early childhood, but it’s not just the quality of the mother-infant relationship that determines the outcome.”

Read on here.

A very interesting subject, well outside my comprehension, but of interest nevertheless.

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Christmas is the time for PEACE and GOODWILL for ALL Mankind


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Well, so it is written.

This is a just a short message to the readers, especially those that have signed for email notification of new posts. Also, to those who have ticked the ‘like’ button. Thank you sincerely for your support and encouragement!

The Peace and Goodwill message may have originated in the Christian religious realm but to me, it is UNIVERSAL. So also is my website theme depicted by its title – Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, the Golden Rule.

I seem to have overlooked another fundamental right – freedom!  Freedom to live our lives in Peace, but not freedom to do evil!

We are unfortunately so far from achieving such goals, that it feels futile in publishing these messages with any expectation of influencing anybody. Especially those in the world that are actively doing the opposite, destroying any chance of peace and sometimes pretending goodwill but acting to the contrary. Often calling themselves “Christians” but disregarding any semblance of adherence to the simplest Christian doctrine (the ‘Golden Rule’).

Basically preaching (hopefully not quite that) to the converted. Yet there are those who believe that energy from our good thoughts does transfer into the environment and perhaps also into cyberspace.

To all accounts we are heading for a rough 2012 as far as our civilization is concerned. So far along the path to annihilation of much that is good with so much evil intent. By the time sufficient awareness becomes widespread, the situation will likely be so bad that the difficulty of reversing, or even reducing the damage, will be immense.

It is certainly not sufficient that there are many of us following and promoting a ‘righteous’ path  but we can be proud of the principles we uphold. We are on the side of ‘good’ and truth and doing the best we can, I hope.

For the forthcoming  New Year(s), I wish all peace-loving people, of whatever race, religion or country, much luck and strong energies towards a better world for all.  Strengths to withstand the onslaught of the ‘ungodly’ and stamina to survive with pride and dignity.

In simple terms, Merry Christmas, Safe Travelling and a Happy New Year.

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Who Really Controls the World?


Here we reproduce much of the ‘New Dawn’ article of the above title. We acknowledge editor David Jones and Author Prof. Dr. MUJAHID KAMRAN for this topical and world issue revelation that gives much support to the fast-becoming-obvious world-domination scenario.

To deny this claim is difficult when one ties together all the current deliberately incited power struggles and takeovers, where non-elected leaders are taking control of countries, leaders who are linked to the very organizations mentioned in the article.

No doubt there will be those who wish to debate this issue, but, to me, the evidence supporting this article is strong. Note the number of famous, respected leaders who are/were aware of this NWO plan, some have died from opposing it. (JFK for example).

Please read this, purchase the New Dawn Special Issue #18 or check out the website linked below.

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organised, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1856-1924)

So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. – Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (1804-1881)

The advent of the industrial revolution, the invention of a banking system based on usury, and scientific and technological advancements during the past three centuries have had three major consequences. These have made the incredible concentration of wealth in a few hands possible, have led to the construction of increasingly deadly weapons culminating in weapons of mass destruction, and have made it possible to mould the minds of vast populations by application of scientific techniques through the media and control of the educational system.

The wealthiest families on planet earth call the shots in every major upheaval that they cause. Their sphere of activity extends over the entire globe, and even beyond, their ambition and greed for wealth and power knows no bounds, and for them, most of mankind is garbage – “human garbage.” It is also their target to depopulate the globe and maintain a much lower population compared to what we have now.

It was Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild (1840-1915) who once said: “I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the British Empire on which the sun never sets. The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” What was true of the British Empire is equally true of the US Empire, controlled remotely by the London based Elite through the Federal Reserve System. Judged by its consequences, the Federal Reserve System is the greatest con job in human history.

It is sad and painful that man’s most beautiful construction, and the source of most power and wealth on earth, viz. scientific knowledge – the most sublime, most powerful and most organised expression of man’s inherent gift of thought, wonder and awe – became a tool for subjugation of humanity, a very dangerous tool in the hands of a tiny group of men. These men “hire” the scientist and take away, as a matter of right, the power the scientist creates through his inventions. This power is then used for their own purposes, at immense human and material cost to mankind. The goal of this handful of men, the members of the wealthiest families on the planet, the Elite, is a New World Order, a One World Government, under their control.

Secrecy and anonymity is integral to the operations of the Elite as is absolute ruthlessness, deep deception and the most sordid spying and blackmail. The Elite pitches nations against each other, and aims at the destruction of religion and other traditional values, creates chaos, deliberately spreads poverty and misery, and then usurps power placing its stooges in place. These families “buy while the blood is still flowing in the streets” (Rothschild dictum). Wars, “revolutions” and assassinations are part of their tactics to destroy traditional civilisation and traditional religions (as in Soviet Russia), amass wealth and power, eliminate opponents, and proceed relentlessly towards their avowed goal, generation after generation. They operate through covert and overt societies and organisations.

Professor Carroll Quigley wrote:

The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands to be able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in private meetings and conferences.… The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralisation of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury to all other economic groups.

Winston Churchill, who was eventually “bored by it all,” wrote around 1920:

From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bela Kun, Rosa Luxembourg, and Emma Goldman, this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played a definitely recognisable role in the tragedy of French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century, and now at last, this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads, and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

The High Cabal Exposed by JFK

It was in the dark days of World War II that Churchill referred to the existence of a “High Cabal” that had brought about unprecedented bloodshed in human history. Churchill is also said to have remarked about the Elite: “They have transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia…” (quoted by John Coleman in The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, Global Publications 2006). Who are ‘they’?

Consider the 1961 statement of US President John F. Kennedy (JFK) before media personnel:

The word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people, inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, secret oaths and secret proceedings. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy, that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence. It depends on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published, its mistakes are buried, not headlined, and its dissenters are silenced, not praised, no expenditure is questioned, no secret revealed… I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people.”

Secret societies, secret oaths, secret proceedings, infiltration, subversion, intimidation – these are the words used by JFK!

On June 4, 1963, JFK ordered the printing of Treasury dollar bills instead of Federal Reserve notes (Executive Order 11110). He also ordered that once these had been printed, the Federal Reserve notes would be withdrawn, and the Treasury bills put into circulation. A few months later (November 22, 1963) he was killed in broad daylight in front of the whole world – his brains blown out. Upon assumption of power, his successor, President Lyndon Johnson, immediately reversed the order to switch to Treasury bills showing very clearly why JFK was murdered. Another order of JFK, to militarily disengage from the Far East by withdrawing US “advisors” from Vietnam, was also immediately reversed after his death. After the Cuban crisis JFK wanted peaceful non-confrontational coexistence with the Soviet Union and that meant no wars in the world. He knew the next war would be nuclear and there would be no winners.

The defence industry and the banks that make money from war belong to the Elite. The Elite subscribes to a dialectical Hegelian philosophy, as pointed out by Antony Sutton, under which they bring about ‘controlled conflict’. The two world wars were ‘controlled conflicts’! Their arrogance, their ceaseless energy, their focus, their utter disregard for human life, their ability to plan decades in advance, to act on that planning, and their continual success are staggering and faith-shaking.

Statements by men like Disraeli, Wilson, Churchill, JFK and others should not leave any doubt in the mind of the reader about who controls the world. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote in November 1933 to Col. Edward House: “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centres has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.” It may be recalled that Andrew Jackson, US President from 1829-1837, was so enraged by the tactics of bankers (Rothschilds) that he said: “You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.”

Interlocking Structure of Elite Control

In his book Big Oil and Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families and Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics and Terror Network, Dean Henderson states: “My queries to bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being denied on ‘national security’ grounds. This is ironic since many of the bank’s stockholders reside in Europe.” This is, on the face of it, quite astonishing but it goes to show the US government works not for the people but for the Elite. It also shows that secrecy is paramount in Elite affairs. No media outlet will raise this issue because the Elite owns the media. Secrecy is essential for Elite control – if the world finds out the truth about the wealth, thought, ideology and activities of the Elite there would be a worldwide revolt against it. Henderson further states:

The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with other European and old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch. According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stockholders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation.

It is well-known that in 2009, of the top 100 largest economic entities of the world, 44 were corporations. The wealth of these families, which are among the top 10% shareholders in each of these, is far in excess of national economies. In fact, total global GDP is around 70 trillion dollars. The Rothschild family wealth alone is estimated to be in the trillions of dollars. So is the case with the Rockefellers who were helped and provided money all along by the Rothschilds. The US has an annual GDP in the range of 14-15 trillion dollars. This pales into insignificance before the wealth of these trillionaires. With the US government and most European countries in debt to the Elite, there should be absolutely no doubt as to who owns the world and who controls it. To quote Eustace Mullins from his book The World Order:

The Rothschilds rule the US through their Foundations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Federal Reserve System with no serious challenges to their power. Expensive ‘political campaigns’ are routinely conducted, with carefully screened candidates who are pledged to the program of the World Order. Should they deviate from the program, they would have an ‘accident’, be framed on a sex charge, or indicted in some financial irregularity.

The Elite members operate in absolute unison against public benefit, against a better life for mankind in which the individual is free to develop his or her innate creativity, a life free of war and bloodshed. James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defence of the US, became aware of Elite intrigue and had, according to Jim Marrs, accumulated 3,000 pages of notes to be used for writing a book. He died in mysterious circumstances and was almost certainly murdered. His notes were taken away and a sanitised version made public after one year! Just before he died, almost fifteen months before the outbreak of the Korean War, he had revealed that American soldiers would die in Korea! Marrs quotes Forrestal: “These men are not incompetent or stupid. Consistency has never been a mark of stupidity. If they were merely stupid, they would occasionally make a mistake in our favour.” The Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the mother of all these, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, are bodies where decisions about the future of mankind are arrived at. Who set these up and control them? The “international bankers” of course.

In his book The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, Col. Fletcher Prouty, who was the briefing officer to the President of the US from 1955-1963, writes about “an inner sanctum of a new religious order.” By the phrase Secret Team he means a group of “security-cleared individuals in and out of government who receive secret intelligence data gathered by the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) and who react to those data.” He states: “The power of the Team derives from its vast intra-governmental undercover infrastructure and its direct relationship with great private industries, mutual funds and investment houses, universities, and the news media, including foreign and domestic publishing houses.” He further adds: “All true members of the Team remain in the power centre whether in office with the incumbent administration or out of office with the hard-core set. They simply rotate to and from official jobs and the business world or the pleasant haven of academe.”

Training the Young for Elite Membership

It is very remarkable as to how ‘they’ are able to exercise control and how ‘they’ always find people to carry out the job, and how is it ‘they’ always make the ‘right’ decision at the right time? This can only be possible if there exists a hidden program of inducting and training cadres mentally, ideologically, philosophically, psychologically and ability-wise, over prolonged periods of time and planting them in the centres of power of countries like the US, UK, etc. This training would begin at a young age in general. There must also be a method of continual appraisal, by small groups of very highly skilled men, of developing situations with ‘their’ men who are planted throughout the major power centres of the world so that immediate ‘remedial’ action, action that always favours Elite interests, can be taken. How does that happen?

It is in finding answers to these questions that the role of secret societies and their control of universities, particularly in the US, assumes deeper importance. The work done by men like Antony Sutton, John Coleman, Eustace Mullins and others is ground breaking. Mankind owes a debt to such scholars who suffer for truth but do not give in. Whenever you trace the money source of important initiatives designed to bring about major wars, lay down policies for the future, enhance control of the Elite over mankind, etc., you will invariably find them linked to the so-called banking families and their stooges operating out of Foundations.

In April 2008 I was among approximately 200 Vice Chancellors, Rectors and Presidents of universities from Asia, Africa, Europe and the US at a two-day Higher Education Summit for Global Development, held at the US State Department in Washington DC. The Summit was addressed by five US Secretaries, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The real emphasis throughout the Summit was only on one thing – that universities in developing countries operate in partnership with foundations so that global problems could be solved! These are private foundations and the only way to understand this emphasis is to realise the US government is owned by those who own these foundations. As an aside the inaugural address was delivered by the war criminal responsible for millions of deaths in Rwanda, trained in US military institutions, and awarded a doctorate – Dr. Paul Kagame! The very first presentation was made by the CEO of the Agha Khan Foundation!

In a fascinating study of the Yale secret society Skull and Bones, Antony Sutton uncovered numerous aspects of profound importance about this one society. In his book America’s Secret Establishment – An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones, Sutton points out there is a set of “Old Line American Families and New Wealth” that dominates The Order (of Skull & Bones) – the Whitney family, the Stimson family, the Bundy family, the Rockefeller family, the Harriman family, the Taft family, the Bush family, and so on. He also points out that there is a British connection:

The links between the Order and Britain go through Lazard Freres and the private merchant bankers. Notably the British establishment also founded a University – Oxford University, and especially All Souls College at Oxford. The British element is called ‘The Group’. The Group links to the Jewish equivalent through the Rothschilds in Britain (Lord Rothschild was an original member of Rhodes’ ‘inner circle’). The Order in the US links to the Guggenheim, Schiff and Warburg families… There is an Illuminati connection.

Every year 15 young men, and very recently women, have been inducted into The Order from Yale students since 1832. Who selects them? A study of the career trajectories of many of those ‘chosen’ shows how they rise to prominence in American life and how their peers ensure these men penetrate the very fabric of important US institutions. They are always there in key positions during war and peace, manipulating and watching ceaselessly.

The influence of the Elite families on the thought processes of nations is carried out through academic institutions and organisations, as well as the media. Sutton writes:

Among academic associations the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Chemical Society, and the American Psychological Association were all started by members of The Order or persons close to The Order. These are key associations for the conditioning of society. The phenomenon of The Order as the FIRST on the scene is found especially among Foundations, although it appears that The Order keeps a continuing presence among Foundation Trustees… The FIRST Chairman of an influential but almost unknown organisation established in 1910 was also a member of The Order. In 1920 Theodore Marburg founded the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of Disputes, but Marburg was only President. The FIRST Chairman was member William Howard Taft. The Society was the forerunner of the League to Enforce Peace, which developed into the League of Nations concept and ultimately the United Nations.

The United Nations is an instrument of the Elite designed to facilitate the setting up of One World Government under Elite control. The UN building stands on Rockefeller property.

Selecting Future Prime Ministers to Serve the New World Order

In his article, ‘Oxford University – The Illuminati Breeding Ground’, David Icke recounts an incident that demonstrates how these secret societies and groups, working for the Elite, select, train and plan to install their men in key positions. In 1940 a young man addressed a “study group” of the Labor Party in a room at University College Oxford. He stressed that he belonged to a secret group without a name which planned a “Marxist takeover” of Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa by infiltrating the British Parliament and Civil Services. Since the British do not like extremists they dismiss their critics as ‘right-wingers’ while themselves posing as ‘moderates’ (this seems like the anti-Semitism charge by ADL, etc. whenever Israel is criticised). The young man stated that he headed the political wing of that secret group and he expected to be made Prime Minister of Britain some day! The young man was Harold Wilson who became Prime Minister of Britain (1964-70, 1974-76)!

All young men studying at Ivy League universities, and at others, must bear in mind they are being continually scrutinised by some of their Professors with the intention of selecting from amongst them, those who will serve the Elite, and become part of a global network of interlocked covert and overt societies and organisations, working for the New World Order. Some of those already selected will be present among them, mingling with them and yet, in their heart, separated from them by a sense of belonging to a brotherhood with a mission that has been going on for a long time. These young men also know they will be rewarded by advancement in career and also that if they falter they could be killed!

Utter secrecy and absolute loyalty is essential to the continued success of this program. This is enforced through fear of murder or bankruptcy and through a cult which probably takes us back to the times of the pyramids and before. Philosophically ‘they’ believe in Hegelian dialectics through which they justify bringing about horrible wars – euphemistically called ‘controlled conflict’. Their political ideology is ‘collectivism’ whereby mankind has to be ‘managed’ by a group of men, ‘them’, organised for the purpose – a hidden ‘dominant minority’. ‘They’ believe that they know better than ordinary mortals. The Illuminati, the Freemasons, members of other known and unknown secret societies, all mesh together under the wealthiest cabal in human history to take a mesmerised, dormant and battered mankind from one abyss to the next. Former MI6 agent John Coleman refers to a “Committee of 300” that controls and guides this vast subterranean human machinery.

In his book Memoirs, published in 2002, David Rockefeller, Sr. stated that his family had been attacked by “ideological extremists” for “more than a century… Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterising my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” That’s it!”

Prof. Dr. MUJAHID KAMRAN is Vice Chancellor, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, and his book The Grand Deception – Corporate America and Perpetual War has just been published (April 2011) by Sang e Meel Publications, Lahore, Pakistan, and is available from www.amazon.co.uk. Prof. Kamran’s website is www.mujahidkamran.com.

So, if one believes this, the question arises – what do we do about it? What indeed? At least the knowledge is a start.

Read the New Dawn article here.

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CATASTROPHE: Up to 100,000 jobs to be slashed after Christmas (Australia)


This news is actually available on the MSM, as this post is based on a ‘News.com.au’ article. I just wanted to make some personal comments relating to information not in the news.

Firstly, I want to criticise the RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia), who may or may not know what they are doing, but they certainly have an inefficient, even dangerous system of national financial controls. Using a ‘sledgehammer to break nuts’ by increasing rates until eventually the system begins to crash due to overshoot, is hardly clever. This is followed by reducing interest rates, after it is too late, until the pendulum swings the other way, again too far, and unwanted  inflation and possibly ‘over’ employment puts power back into the unions hands.

Secondly, I wish to criticise the politicians in accepting substantial pay rises, even if starting 2012, when the peoples’ economy is unwell. Today’s disaster report would have embarrassed them if published in the same week! Being cynical, as usual, I wonder if a deliberate time separation has been arranged?

Thirdly, back to the RBA. The Australian economy generally has a dual “personality”. Industrial booms occur and create a rosy financial picture, resulting in pressure on interest rates. Meanwhile other sectors may be quite unaffected or even be experiencing downturns. Not sufficient to ripple the national book-keeping figures but sufficient for a rate increase to have devastating effects.

Fourthly, not always a factor, but at times shortages create price increases. Because the item(s) happen to be included in a list purporting to be typical family needs, used to monitor inflation trends, they artificially bump up the deemed inflation rate and influence interest rate movements. This, of course, is absurd! Nothing to do with inflation. (Remember bananas due to a bad weather season?).

Fifthly, because of these disparities, the crude controls and the destructive end results, it should be the highest priority to separate general public house mortgage financing from the vagaries of interest rate increases due to inappropriate financial pressures.

Lastly, how robust really is our Australian economy? This unexpected downturn in Christmas shopping activity, (perhaps partly due to internet on-line sales), the projected loss of jobs, suggest that we may be not so robust. In addition, serious claims have been made about the alleged safeness of our banks , reference this recent post -(https://tgrule.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/financial-perfect-storm-slams-aussie-banks/ ).

I understand that the author of these claims is considered by the authorities to be of dubious credentials, I believe this is because of his being a ‘thorn in their side’. However, truths are truths, if they actually are!  The messenger should not be shot for his part, although it is common practice.

It is not to be in any way certain about this question of our banks and their ‘derivatives’, but it would surely be wise to consider that the MSM and government may not always tell us the truth.

An extract from the News.com article:

AUSTRALIA is on the brink of an unemployment catastrophe, with up to 100,000 jobs set to be slashed in the months after Christmas.

But the news isn’t all bad, with economists suggesting the nation’s wobbly economy could drive the official cash rate as low as 3.5 per cent by the end of 2012, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Westpac chief economist Bill Evans, one of the few economists who correctly predicted a rate cut in November, said lead indicators pointed to a very weak employment growth next year.

“We would expect the unemployment rate to edge up to 5.75 over the next six months,” Mr Evans warned.

“But on the flipside, the Reserve Bank would have to cut the cash rate by at least half a per cent to counter (the job losses).”

The comments come as top research firm CoreData suggested the number of unemployed people in Australia will jump by nearly 106,000 next year, assuming the labour force grows at its current rate and the unemployment rate rose to 5.75 per cent, as predicted.

CoreData boss Andrew Inwood said the problem would be felt nationwide.

“One in five Australians now think they are going to lose their jobs in the next 12 months,” Mr Inwood said.

“That’s particularly true in all industries outside finance and mining. Interestingly, our research has found levels of Australian confidence in the economy for the first quarter of 2012 is looking to be roughly the same as it was at the height of the global financial crisis.”

Richard Deniss, executive director of The Australia Institute last night echoed Mr Evans’ views, saying mass layoffs were expected in the retail industry.

“The tourism industry and retail sector are being hit very hard by the high dollar and, while mining is booming, it doesn’t employ too many people,” Mr Deniss said.

“The problem is retail doesn’t make a lot of money but employs a lot of people.”

Read the article here. (From the ‘Optus Zoo home page)

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AGW Motivation, Climate Change Agenda, New World Order, Agenda 21


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This isn’t the first time I have admitted to laziness, so it won’t come as a surprise.

If you are interested in some expert posting and follow-up commentary on the above subjects and their relationships, please follow the link below to the Chiefio blog post “Foia – Agenda 21“.

A great deal of important, factual and frightening information is discussed there. This follows the themes already mentioned on this blog. Themes that are often ridiculed by many, especially the “warmists”.

E.M. Smith and his reliable commenters have poured their energies into these issues. It is pointless to try to emulate their efforts, and I would not be proud to reproduce them here. Actually, I would be proud to have their content on this site, but not proud to have copied it.

Please, do yourselves a favour, learn something of immense importance, learn about Agenda 21 and the related goings-on.

There are some things that you look at, and just say to yourself: “No Way.  That’s Crazy Talk.” and ignore.

That had been my attitude toward “Agenda 21″.   When I first ran into it, and took a glance.  Yet Another UN Nutty Committee with Yet Another Crazy Agenda.  So what? Just some “feel good crap” folks were mumbling at each other in the UN.

From that point forward, as folks would bring it up, I’d think “I’m not going to get involved in running after Crazy Talk and be painted as a believer in Conspiracy Theories.

But when you find that folks in position of influence and power are, in fact, following Agenda 21, promoting it, working to it’s goals, and, dare I say it, to its “agenda”…

At some point you have to recognize that it is a real threat.  Not a small one, either.  It looks to do no less than enforce a global order of mass urbanization and depopulation of the countryside.  The removal of personal property rights.  The establishment of a kind of collectivization not seen since the Third Reich, Stalin’s Russian, and Red China of Mao.  (That’s why I’d just written it off as “Crazy talk”…)    Yet there is real evidence of folks working to pursue Agenda 21.

It has a pernicious infective attribute to it.  A “train the trainer” kind of viral aspect.  It works to influence “from global to local” so metastasizes into millions of local chapters, each under it’s own banner, so not seen as part of a whole.  We see that in the Emails, too.  Like terrorist cells, each cell is to pursue The Agenda in the local area.  Find new recruits.  Expand and control.  Again, “Crazy Talk”.  Yet we find one of them working to influence in the emails.  How many times must something be seen to believe it real?

Read on and be enlightened!

I would be pleased to hear your comments!

His site has much to look at, much to learn from, especially his work and posts on “Average Global Temperature” and likely mis-information by the “respected” authorities.

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Humour – Girlie Wisdom


English: Humour

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I don’t know about you, but I basically live one day at a time, dream a bit about the future, reminisce a bit about the past, sometimes dwell too long on past mistakes and disappointments, but am basically optimistic about the future.

This is not too logical, as I believe in the gloom and doom issues that I publish here to spread the truth as I see it. So whenever some kind friend sends an email that makes me laugh, maybe I over-react, but it makes me feel good

The compulsion to share such things is strong. I hope this makes you laugh too!

Girlie Wisdom!
1. A friend of mine confused her Valium with her birth control pills… she has 14 kids but she doesn’t really care.
2. One of life’s mysteries is how a 2-pound box of chocolates can make a woman gain 5 lbs.
3. My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely.
4. The best way to forget your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
5. The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you are doing, someone else does.
6. The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
7. Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
8. Sometimes I think I understand everything, and then I regain consciousness.
9. I gave up jogging for my health when my thighs kept rubbing together and setting fire to my knickers.
10. Amazing! You hang something in your closet for a while, and it shrinks 2 sizes!
11. Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like…’You know sometimes I forget to eat!’ …..Now, I’ve forgotten my address, my mother’s maiden name, and my keys, but I have never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat!
12. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then they marry him.
13. I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are eating too much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That’s my idea of a perfect day!

Best regards to all my ‘girlie’ friends and readers, and Merry Christmas to all.

[And to prove, or try to, that I am not sexist, #12 is my favourite!]

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Artificial Sweetener Disease; a new breed of sickness


From ‘Natural News‘, (pointer TIP), a good article on the bad health aspects of artificial sweeteners. [Author: S. D. Wells].

(NaturalNews) Artificial Sweetener Disease (ASD) is sweeping across America, affecting tens of thousands of consumers, and Western medicine calls it anything but what it really is, so that doctors can prescribe expensive pharmaceuticals and set up “check up” appointments for the following weeks.
Call it recurring headaches, unbearable migraines, depression, anxiety, muscle pain, arthritis flare ups, buzzing or ringing in the ears, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn’s disease, inflammation, even acid reflux, but don’t call it ASD, or the patient may stop consuming synthetic sweeteners, and then not schedule more doctor visits.
The symptoms of ASD can change overnight, depending on how much chemical sweetener you consume, and which ones. Some combinations are especially toxic. Consumers can go from a migraine headache to vomiting or from vision problems to an upset stomach. Many people experience central nervous system disorders, cramping, nervous twitches and abnormal reflexes. (http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/)”
“It is not a coincidence that a wave of fibromyalgia cases hit the American troops during the Gulf War. Studies revealed that drinking diet sodas in the 120 degree heat lead to serious health repercussions. It was cleverly chalked up under the umbrella term “Gulf War Syndrome,” but the same problems are occurring for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan now. (http://www.militaryspot.com/resourc…)
It is also no coincidence that 4 out of 5 fibromyalgia cases affect women, who are more likely to eat diet foods and consume diet drinks than men. Nearly all chewing gum and breath mints are loaded with artificial sweeteners. (http://healthwyze.org/index.php/com…)”
“There is no prescription drug, and there never will be one, that cures the problems that artificial sweeteners create. In fact, over 70 percent of reported cases of fibromyalgia, chronic depression, IBS and acid reflux are caused by consuming chemical agents which have been approved by the FDA for consumption. (http://www.foodintol.com/food_intol…)”
“The good news is the cure for Artificial Sweetener Disease is absolutely free and involves no doctor, no health insurance co-pays, and has zero side effects. Here is the secret cure for ASD: throw away your sugar free gum and candy, and then trash all foods and drinks you have that are labeled “light” and “zero.” Read the labels on everything, so you can filter out all artificial sweeteners from your products, including aspartame, sucralose, sorbitol, acesulfame-k, aspartic acid, and saccharine.
As an alternative to poisoning yourself, try Xylitol or Stevia in order to cut calories, or simply eat more organic vegetables! If problems persist, take a list of everything you ate this week to your Naturopath or Nutritionist to analyze. Remember, if you’re getting sick from moldy bread, don’t look for a prescription drug to cure you, just stop eating moldy bread. “

Read the full article here:

Very little publicity is given to this subject. People trying to be healthier by consuming less sugar, need to know these details.

Raw sugar may be a good alternative where direct intake is involved. Drinking minimally processed fluids would enable avoidance of excess sugar. Even water comes to mind.

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AGW – Another Voice Pt2 (Climategate Emails still)


Chiefio has published his Part 2 of the FOIA email release.  “Foia – README part 2

I had intended to simply publish the link BUT there is so much interesting stuff even at the beginning that I cannot resist copying some of it.

His additional posts I will just tack on the end.

Perhaps it is obvious that I am enjoying this! (email text in bold)  My comments in blue.

Foia – README part 2

Urban Heat Island, View From The Team

It is interesting that they find a UHI effect, sometimes, but seem uninterested in what that might mean to the validity of their conclusions… Jones looks like he really believes that UHI just doesn’t matter, despite the crummy handling of it in things like GIStemp.

/// The Urban Heat Effect ///

4938 Jenkins/MetO:

By coincidence I also got recently a paper from Rob which says “London’s UHI has indeed become more intense since the 1960s esp during spring and summer”.

0896 Jones:

I think the urban-related warming should be smaller than this, but I can’t think of a good way to argue this. I am hopeful of finding something in the data that makes by their Figure 3.

0044 Rean:

[…] we found the [urban warming] effect is pretty big in the areas we analyzed. This is a little different from the result you obtained in 1990. […] We have published a few of papers on this topic in Chinese. Unfortunately, when we sent our comments to the IPCC AR4, they were mostly rejected.

So we’ve got UHI reported in papers, some of which were rejected, and we know The Team manipulated things to get papers rejected.  Was this one of them?  Jones is trying to refute the findings, but is at a loss somewhat.  From other analysis, we know that UHI is highest as things first change from rural to small cities, but also know that adding cars, tarmac, and miles of city on all sides heats things too.  If more slowly a ramp up than when first turning cow fields to houses and roads.

4789 Wigley:  there are some nitpicky jerks who have criticized the Jones et al. data sets – we don’t want one of those [EPRI/California Energy Commission meeting].

Jones:

The jerk you mention was called Good(e)rich who found urban warming at all Californian sites.

Oh Dear!  Find something they say is not there, and you become a ‘nitpicky jerk’… Well…  Jones then recognizes that UHI was found in California.  At all sites. 

1601 Jones:

I think China is one of the few places that are affected [urban heat]. The paper shows that London and Vienna (and also New York) are not affected in the 20th century.

2939 Jones:

[…] every effort has been made to use data that are either rural and/or where the urbanization effect has been removed as well as possible by statistical means. There are 3 groups that have done this independently (CRU, NOAA and GISS), and they end up with essentially the same results. […] Furthermore, the oceans have warmed at a rate consistent with the land. There is no urban effect there.

Despite the evidence elsewhere, Jones stands his ground.  Never mind that the three ‘independent’ systems share code and do a lousy job of UHI removal.   How he gets ocean warming adjusted for the lag time in overturning is beyond me.  That it matches the land slope makes me think it’s wrong.  Land, with fast response, changes at the same rate as the oceans with a several hundred year turnover cycle?  Doesn’t add up unless there is an effort to enforce conformity, conscious or not.

(Given that ocean temperatures vary from just above zero to much higher temperatures, and they traditionally don’t vary much at the equator, selection of stations could easily enable a global warming trend that matches the land, IMO).

Reconstruction Era

Carpet bag in hand, they press on… /// Temperature Reconstructions ///

1583 Wilson:

any method that incorporates all forms of uncertainty and error will undoubtedly result in reconstructions with wider error bars than we currently have. These many be more honest, but may not be too helpful for model comparison attribution studies. We need to be careful with the wording I think.

4165 Jones:

what he [Zwiers] has done comes to a different conclusion than Caspar and Gene! I reckon this can be saved by careful wording.

How to erase ‘problems’ with “careful wording”?   I’m once again struck by the desire to Reach The Goal, even if it means ironing over things that are pointing to error.  Error bars so wide things become “more honest” but “not be too helpful”?  No problem, word paper it over…

 3994 Mitchell/MetO

Is the PCA approach robust? Are the results statistically significant? It seems to me that in the case of MBH the answer in each is no

4241 Wilson:

I thought I’d play around with some randomly generated time-series and see if I could ‘reconstruct’ northern hemisphere temperatures. […] The reconstructions clearly show a ‘hockey-stick’ trend. I guess this is precisely the phenomenon that Macintyre has been going on about.

3373 Bradley:

I’m sure you agree–the Mann/Jones GRL paper was truly pathetic and should never have been published. I don’t want to be associated with that 2000 year “reconstruction”.

Well, some honesty creeps in.

These three find issues with statistical lack of significance, with random data generating a hockey stick like “Macintyre has been going on about” and one even says he wants to distance himself from the Mann/Jones paper.  Wonder how their careers have progressed from this point?  Would be interesting to see if they learned the hymnal or got sidetracked.  In any case, we know that some ‘inside folks’ recognize The Team’s iconic work is a bit broken.

Well, any warmist who reads this and doesn’t “get it” would have trouble proving he has an IQ above 100, IMHO.  There is so much more of interest, I have a problem in not copying it all. I might later just to satisfy my soul.

One item that struck me in regards to UHI was the reference to China where it would be expected (UHI, that is). Yet they are finding that of all countries, China’s near surface temperatures are least indicative of global warming. This may actually be because of negative “feedback” effects of atmospheric pollution, but these “scientists” really seem to be without much idea what makes the climate system really work. They are hell-bent on following the cause, regardless of the science!

In the meantime –

Read on:

Chiefio then follows up with: (Sorry, wrong post first time)

Foia – README selections   Foia 5335 – FOI answer? Sue them!  (I have yet to read this myself. but I have faith in his work)

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AGW – Climategate II – Another voice supports the email evidence of IPCC agenda & pseudo-science


I refer to this post by ‘Chiefio’, “Foia – README selections”.

Nothing new as such, but support nevertheless. Mike’s usually impressive insight and descriptive skills applied to this issue make this publicity worthwhile. (IMHO)

It makes for easy reading and shows up the AGW scam for what it is,  political, agenda-driven psuedo-science.  Here is a taste:

I thought I’d seen the README file, but all I had seen was a small excerpt on another web site.  (Understandable as the file is a bit long).

This is a long posting.  The best parts are just the README text directly.  If you are pressed for time, just scroll down and read only the BOLD bits.  My opinions can be skipped.

I could just put a link here to the online version, that then it’s not as visible and might just ‘go away’ at some future time.

So, instead, I’m going to reproduce the whole README here, in two parts.  This is part one.  These are the particular emails where Foia has decided to pull out a quote for observation.  I think these need particular attention.  What do they say?  Why was it selected?  To what behaviour does it speak on the part of the Discredited Team?    So I’ll be adding a few comments mixed through the README.

For anyone wanting to look at an individual email, or at the README file, they are all located at this site:

http://dump.kurthbemis.com/climategate2/FOIA/

Foia – README file

It starts with a preamble, then selected email excerpts each with an email number.  We’ll start with the preamble, where Foia sets out some things about motivation.

Substantially Foia says that, IMHO, the money being squandered on the myth of Global Warming could accomplish so much more for humanity that it is, in essence, a Crime Against Humanity to waste the money that way.  Given the massive waste we have already seen, he’s got a point.  Given what damage this will do to the economies of the globe, and how much poverty it MUST bring, to shut down global production, it really does look like a Crime Against Humanity.

Finally, given the apparent support of oppressive agendas, and a specific reference in at least one of the earlier emails we looked at, that they are, in fact, working to support Agenda 21, it can no longer be dismissed as just another whacky hypothetical idea.  When real people, in positions of power and authority, state they are working to support something, that something is, like it or not, real.  That, too, IMHO, is a Crime Against Humanity.  We are given our rights and our liberties by God, or by Nature, pick your favorite.  No one and nothing can change that.  Working to compromise that fact is a crime, and it is against all of Humanity.

With that, the preamble

This is the start text, the heading, of the README file.

/// FOIA 2011 — Background and Context ///

“Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day.”

“Every day nearly 16.000 children die from hunger and related causes.”

“One dollar can save a life” — the opposite must also be true.

“Poverty is a death sentence.”

“Nations must invest $37 trillion in energy technologies by 2030 to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions at sustainable levels.”

Today’s decisions should be based on all the information we can get, not on hiding the decline.

This archive contains some 5.000 emails picked from keyword searches.  A few remarks and redactions are marked with triple brackets.

The rest, some 220.000, are encrypted for various reasons.  We are not planning to publicly release the passphrase.

We could not read every one, but tried to cover the most relevant topics such as…

So here we see that the goal is a noble one.  To save the poor of the world by preventing the squandering of $Trillions.  To support truth and honesty in the evaluation of facts and data, whereas the emails indicate manipulation in support of an agenda.  (So we ought to look for evidence of that agenda driven behaviour in the words of the individuals themselves, below.)  (My bold emphasis TGR).

Read further: 

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Middle East – Trying to Understand What’s Happening


Thanks to TIP for this source: ‘Veterans Today’ posts this ‘Breaking:  VT Intel Report’

“What We Can or Will Tell” By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

Some extracts:

“Veterans Today is the continual recipient of intelligence, much of which is quite unreportable.

There is enough chaos without us making it worse.  Thus, we are censors, though unlike Wikileaks, we don’t take direction from the New York Times or the Israeli ambassador.

Let’s start with Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The US has entered into highly secret and very unorthodox negotiations, with the also very secret approval of General Kayani, with certain political leaders who, quite technically:

  • Don’t run Pakistan
  • Are known to be very opposed to US involvement

Afghanistan:

The US forces there, because of the problem with Pakistan are under a fuel blockade.  No jet fuel is getting to Afghanistan and America is running out.

The big problem is helicopters which are powered by jet fuel.  We can’t fly enough in to maintain operations, we can’t drive in because of the blockade and it is vital, even more than food.

Thus, under the table, as it were, the US is “back peddling” and “kissing behind” in Pakistan but thus far it isn’t working.

Within 48 hours something will happen.

Iran:

Iran is holding a US drone, 5th generation. The best explanation as to why they have it is in the article in Veterans Today by Mike Harris.

He is an expert on the technology and has simply put the truth out there.  Believe nothing else.

I have a very friendly relationship with Iran though I am not a big fan of religious government.  I am published there and on both radio and TV with some regularity.  I have worked to help stabilize relations there, Iran, Israel and the US.”

Israel:

The army and other “agencies” are totally sick of Netanyahu as are many of the people.  Obama hates him as do other leaders except for Merkel.  She loves him.  She is totally nuts, by the way, if you didn’t know.

Israel has done this:

Ron Paul – Will He Pull the Trigger?
  • They have turned to Assad in Syria, spreading a story of a phony US invasion of Jordan.  Why?  Israel has angered Turkey.  Turkey is threatening Syria but Syria is protected by Russia, somewhat at least.  Complicated?  It gets worse.
  • To some extent, Israel has revealed that it has considerable control over much of Hizbollah, the “terror group” they complain about so much.  What they are close to revealing is that they are orchestrating their own terror attacks as a way of bilking America out of money.  Ron Paul is very close to announcing this, he has little to lose.
  • Israel has decided to run its own presidential candidate in the US.  I am not kidding.  His name is Newt Gingrich, a man about half an inch from life in prison.  This is an act of utter insanity.

“America needs an election, a real one.  Obama is afraid to lead and the others are a nightmare.”

The complete article is needed to give the whole picture, it is linked here.

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