Obama makes Australia a nuclear target

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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Here we have an extreme viewpoint regarding the Australia’s increased involvement with the USA. One with which I agree in principle.

The arrangement to accept US bases in Australia, to me, is abhorrent. Besides the military ramifications – abetting the US aggression and war crimes and positioning ourselves as assistant warmongers, there is the political aspect of Julia Gillard, making decisions without the support of the people and, in fact the government. Where and when has this been debated and agreed to? Why is this acceptable to the Australian public?

This CEC (Citizens Electoral Council of Australia) media release provides sufficient material to adequately represent this author’s feelings, reactions and criticisms of what should be recognised as unacceptable Australian Government behaviour.

The CEC is outspoken and often rude, even crude. It, however, usually hits the nail on the head with the truth. I will accept without argument, due criticism for any disrespectful opinions or comments but will be happy to answer to the  subject matter of the warmongering and our (Australian) involvement.

Another condition is requested – in reading the article, treat the claim made by CEC of the British influence and control over the US as not relevant to this post. There are undoubtedly links, and also direct UK-Australian links. However, all the warmongering issues cannot be discussed without including considerable Israeli/Zionist influence. There are numerous proofs of this, but this post is not about the behind-the-scenes details. [This comment from ‘PressTV’ post http://www.presstv.ir/detail/210071.html,  ‘REALIST Nov 15, 2011 10:43 AM   “The unelected Zionists puppet stooge Cameron is the second worst ever British prime minister after the Zionists/USA puppet stooge war criminal Tony Blair who should be arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity for the committed genocide in Iraq and Afghnaistan (sic)!! “‘ shows the likely relationships.]

Furthermore, the claim that Obama be removed as President, although deservedly the case, is naive because surely another puppet will take his place.

Julia Gillard is helping Barack Obama paint a target on Australia by establishing a U.S. military base in Darwin in the middle of Obama’s mad drive to attack Iran and Syria and trigger a nuclear world war.

Obama is a British stooge, a carry-on from George Bush but worse, whom the British are using for their imperial strategy of “Balkanising” the Middle East to start WWIII, the way they manipulated the Balkans to spark WWI.

Obama is using drones to murder U.S. citizens; he joined the Brits and French in murdering Libyan head of state Qaddafi; he trumped even Bush’s gross triumphalism on the weekend by playing basketball on the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson that hurriedly buried Osama bin Laden at sea; and he is talking up the bogus threat of Iranian weapons of mass destruction from “evidence” the U.S., Brits and French planted in last week’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report, to give a nod and wink to the plan of crazy Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hit Iran and Syria with pre-emptive strikes.

Such strikes will force an Iranian counter-strike, followed by a U.S. response on Israel’s behalf, and then a showdown with Russia and China.

In the middle of this, Gillard has ratcheted up Australia’s military cooperation with Obama. She is providing a military base in Darwin, as one aspect of a huge expansion of the U.S. presence in Australia, and will sign the Australia-United States Defence Trade Cooperation Treaty, which heavily focuses on defence matters, to coincide with Obama’s address to both houses of parliament, into which Gillard has introduced the Defence Trade Controls Bill 2011, in order to enact that treaty into Australian law.

Numerous strategic analysts have observed that the decision to establish a U.S. base in Darwin is deliberately provocative to China; the insanity of Australia’s current foreign policy was underscored by the casual commentary from Brian Toohey on the ABC’s Insiders program on 13thNovember, on what would be required to militarily defeat, and then occupy, China—Australia’s largest trading partner and major source of national income! Toohey observed “we’re signing up to this change in U.S. military doctrine where they’re working out new ways to conduct a war against China … you’ll be sending your troops into the greatest human mincing machine ever seen.”

The Obama-British war drive is currently a runaway train, which is the last thing the American people expected when they voted for Obama in 2008. U.S. statesman and physical economist Lyndon LaRouche issued a statement on 14thNovember explaining that the reason why the British are using Obama to achieve the insane objective of a nuclear world war, is because the British oligarchy views war as a means to reduce the world’s population, in order to maintain control over the world in the context of the presently unfolding global financial collapse.

In his statement, “To stop World War III, Obama must be removed from office now”, LaRouche warned, “If Barack Obama is not thrown out of office soon, civilization is in mortal danger. The British Monarchy is out to destroy the United States as we know it, and Obama is their puppet instrument for accomplishing exactly that. The overall objective of this London-centered oligarchy is to reduce the world’s present population from the current official level of seven billion to less than one billion.

“That is the issue that can no longer be dodged, if mankind is to survive the coming weeks and months. The present drive for World War III, beginning with the targeting of Iran and Syria, is driven by the British commitment to wipe out more than 80 percent of the human race, just as Prince Philip has demanded on numerous public occasions. Anyone who tries to deny this reality is endangering mankind by their failure to face the truth.

“The British are controlling Obama as their puppet. They are engineering the crisis in Europe to impose dictatorships, and they are behind the wars and threats of global thermonuclear war. They know that their entire trans-Atlantic financial and monetary system is dead. They know that the leading nations of the Asia-Pacific region—Russia, China, India, Japan and the Koreas—are growing, relative to the rapid trans-Atlantic disintegration. This is totally unacceptable from the British standpoint, and so they are using their puppet Obama to prepare for the United States to use nuclear weapons in a global conflict, already set in motion in the new cockpit for war—the Persian Gulf and Eastern Mediterranean region …”

Responding to LaRouche’s statement, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood called for Australians to demand the Gillard government back away from its support for the Obama-British war drive, and return the U.S.-Australian alliance to the principles of national defence and respect for national sovereignty on which the alliance was forged by John Curtin and Franklin Roosevelt in WWII.

“John Curtin broke with British imperial strategy to forge the U.S.-Australia alliance seventy years ago, and save Australia from fascist aggression,” Isherwood said. “It is again time we broke with British strategy, this time to save the world from global genocide.”

The CEC is victimized and criticised by Australian authorities, not because it is overly rude and disrespectful to world leaders (a habit that disappoints me, even though I am not altogether above more-restrained criticisms myself), but because it reveals truths. Apparently the truth hurts! And why not? One thing governments hate is the truth about their motivations and short-comings.

As an aside, Lyndon La Rouche’s assessment of the world financial crisis, its beginning, its causes, its only solutions, are assuredly worth consideration.

So, as usual, I stress that the article be treated with an open mind, that the facts are the important thing, not the messenger, not even the method of conveying the facts. Ask yourself – is this really true? Only you can decide what you think and believe, but give yourself a chance by considering all the possibilities.

You might enjoy ‘s post, the last of the ‘Related Articles’.

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9/11 – Chipping away at the Wall of Lies

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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This ‘Kirwan Articles’ post recalls a story, not entirely new, which is damning and does not deserve to be hidden from the public.

 This is part of the proof that the official 9/11 story is obviously corrupt.

An alert from TIP, thanks.

The Story That Was Never Told!

Late in the day on 9-11-01, this story should have appeared on the front pages of every American Newspaper, and should have been running non-stop on CNN and every other network media outlet on the planet. But it was buried and has been totally forgotten by the so-called media at every possible turn. (*)

The story is this:

‘Did Israeli’s execute 911? On September 11, 2001 NYPD arrested two Israelis fleeing in a truck filled with explosives. They took two to three people in custody. Why did the truck the Israelis were driving, filled with explosives, have a mural painted on the side of the truck depicting the first plane hitting the first tower? The truck was loaded with thousands of pounds of explosives and was headed for the George Washington Bridge. The FBI said that there were tons of explosives inside the van that could have done great damage to the George Washington Bridge. The FBI arrested the two suspects. (CNN tape of this is included in the video). NJ State Police pulled the van over and began to question them. Under questioning the Israelis said that their purpose was to document the event (no explanation was ever given about the tons of explosives, in their van or about why the mural depicting the first plane hitting the first tower was painted (professionally) on their van (which had to have been completed long before the day of the attacks).

The bomb squad was called, to deal with the truck, between 6th and 7th on King Street. The two occupants had fled, and were arrested after the truck exploded. Five men total were detained 8 hours after the attack on the towers, according to the New Jersey News (on screen). All the Israeli’s arrested worked for Urban Moving Systems, a Mossad front company. After 71 days the 5 Israeli’s were taken out of jail, put on a plane and deported back to Israel.’

If these five had been Americans they would have made front page news, and this incident would have been all over the news. But because they were Israelis, and therefore (protected suspects), no stories appeared, and no photographs of the truck with that damning mural on its side were ever published: At the time. Because if that had happened it would have been clear who killed all those people on 911, and it wasn’t a crew operating from a cave in Afghanistan!

Had this story been given the coverage it deserved; there would have been no ATTACK on Afghanistan, because the events of 911 would have been seen for the crime of mass murder which it was; and not as the Governments of Israel, Britain and the US wanted this to be seen. Mossad and the FBI as well as the CIA were all complicit in this coverup, along with those terrorist cells in Washington D.C., more commonly known as the legislative, executive and judicial branches, of this government.

Just as the demonstrators inside OCCUPY need to stop just-watching and start acting; the American public must begin to DEMAND ANSWERS to this and other events that have gone on now for over ten years without ANSWERS. What this means is that all those people that we killed after 911 were murdered for yet another lie; and that this massively important lie changed the history of the United States forever. Because without this false-flag story of 911, there could never have been a PATRIOT ACT or TSA, never mind the invasion and slaughter of millions of people in both Afghanistan and Iraq; not to mention all the additional millions that have come after those two more lies that must be added to the events of 911.

The FBI was the agency that released these Mossad operatives back to Israel – we need to find and arrest the FBI officials that let them go;

ALONG WITH THE HIGHER-UPS THAT ORDERED THEIR RELEASE – and we need to do this BEFORE THE END OF THIS WEEK!

If this story does not become the front-page news that it did not become on 911; then it will be clear that the mainstream media here is also complicit in the events behind this extremely revealing story of the van with the mural of the first tower being struck—before the day even arrived for that to have happened.

Jim Kirwan

The source post here.

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Financial Crisis – Humour or True Analogy?

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

True words spoken in jest:

Mary’s Bar 

For anyone who cannot understand the present financial crisis of the UK , the EU and indeed the whole western world economies.

Mary is the proprietor of a bar in Dublin . She realises that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronise her bar. To solve this problem, she comes up with new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around about Mary’s “drink now, pay later” marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Mary’s bar.

Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Dublin .

By providing her customers  freedom from immediate payment demands, Mary gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages.

Consequently, Mary’s gross sales volume increases massively. A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognises that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Mary’s borrowing limit. He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral.

At the bank’s corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into Drinkbonds and Alkibonds. These securities are then bundled and traded on international security markets. Naïve investors don’t really understand that the securities being sold to them as “AAA” secured bonds are really the debts of unemployed alcoholics. Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation’s leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices are still climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Mary’s bar. He so informs Mary.

Mary then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts. Since Mary cannot fulfil her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and the eleven employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, Drinkbonds and Alkibonds drop in price by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the bank?s liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community. The suppliers of Mary’s bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms’ pension funds in the various Bond securities. They find they are now faced with having to write-off her bad debt and with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds. Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion euro no-strings-attached cash infusion from their cronies in government. The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who have never been in Mary’s bar.

Now, do you understand economics in 2011??

Silly part is that it is true, the financial mess is no joke but is absolutely ridiculous.

A bankrupt system is bankrupt full stop! Printing or borrowing more money is an absurd solution. Never would an individual or business be permitted to solve their problem this way.

The balance sheet remains ‘liabilities exceed assets’, only worse after increasing liabilities. Inability to repay the loans by bankrupting the country further due to higher taxes, reduced sales and services, subsequent higher unemployment is hardly logical. In most countries, real assets have been sold off to multinational companies or foreign investors, so the situation is dire.

Many see this process as it really is, a method of complete control of countries by outside interests. Other solutions might be complicated, but certainly not the draconian, totalitarian anti-social disaster that is in progress.

Unable to acknowledge the source except that it was received as an email from a colleague.

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AGW – Russian scientists predict 100 years of cooling

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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This article deserves exposure. Much to think about, much to fuel serious questioning of the so-called “settled science”.

Impossible to deny that the Sun is the prime mover of our planet’s heat. All else are modifiers and feedbacks.

If the heat source is currently on a reducing trend, factors protecting the planet from cooling are to be welcomed. I don’t believe that CO2 has much significance, certainly insufficient to create a problem, especially if the source is cooling, but those who do believe such a CO2 influence exists should welcome it and not try to reduce it!

The ‘Watchers’ post by chillymanjaro is welcomed and copied here.

In a study of cyclic behavior of the Sun, Russian scientists now predict 100 years of cooling. IceAgeNow reports that these are not just any scientists. This forecast comes from astrophysicist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, and head of Space Research of the Sun Sector at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Russian scientists began by looking at a paper published by J. A. Eddy* in 1976 that documented the correlation between sunspot activity and corresponding large – and disruptive – climate changes on Earth.  Disruptive because the changes frequently lead to economic and demographic crises that affected the existence of entire nations.

Conducting research similar to Eddy’s, Russia’s Eugene Borisenkov discovered a quasi 200- year cycle of global cooling during the past 7,500 years that correlates to times of sunspot minima similar to the Maunder minimum. Abdussamatov points that these were also times when any industrial influence was non-existent.  Our planet warms and cools in predictable 200-year cycles corresponding to 200-year variations in the size and luminosity of the Sun, the scientists found. Previous global warmings – of which there have been many – have always been followed by deep cooling. The 200-year variations in sunspot activity and total solar irradiance (TSI) are the dominating reason for climate change.

Variations in the TSI  and sunspot number (Abdussamatov H.I. Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies. 2005, 21, 328)

“In whole, the solar cycles are a key to our understanding of different cyclic variations in the nature and society.” Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of Space Research of the Sun Sector at the Pulkovo Observatory

Existence of the 11-year and 200-year solar cycles of identical and synchronized variations of luminosity, sunspot activity and diameter of the Sun is one of the most reliably ascertained facts in solar physics. The study of physical processes on the Sun not only gives us an understanding of a large number of astrophysical questions, but also of the questions of geophysics, meteorology, biology and medicine. All energy sources used by humanity are linked to the Sun. The heat and light of the Sun ensured the development of life on the Earth, formed the deposits of coal, oil, gas etc.

TSI variations and sunspot activity since 1611 and our forecast of their changes after 2009 (dash lines) (Abdussamatov H. I. The Sun Dictates the Climate of the Earth. 2009, St. Petersburg, “Logos”, – 197 p.)

“All life on the Earth and its future conditions directly and almost in whole depend on the total solar irradiance (TSI).”Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of Space Research of the Sun Sector at the Pulkovo Observatory.”

Read the complete article here.

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New papers confirm solar effects could bring on little ice ages

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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Even the UK Met Office get a mention!

There seems to be a renewal of interest in solar effects on climate change and especially on little ice ages. It would be too much to expect an early abandonment of the carbon dioxide hypothesis. Equally unlikely is any acknowledgement that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is of insignificant influence for climate. But the acknowledgement of solar influences on climate helps to redress some of the balance.

The UK Met office research referred to in yesterday’s Sunday Times article might well refer to this paper in Nature Geoscience published online yesterday which makes the link between UV radiation variation during solar cycles and cold winters in the Northern hemisphere. The authors are from the Met Office Hadley Centre, Oxford and Imperial College.

Solar forcing of winter climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere by Sarah Ineson, Adam A. Scaife, Jeff R. Knight, James C. Manners, Nick J. Dunstone, Lesley J. Gray & Joanna D. Haigh  Nature Geoscience (2011) doi:10.1038/ngeo1282

Sarah Ineson – Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 3PB, UK 

Abstract:An influence of solar irradiance variations on Earth’s surface climate has been repeatedly suggested, based on correlations between solar variability and meteorological variables. Specifically, weaker westerly winds have been observed in winters with a less active sun, for example at the minimum phase of the 11-year sunspot cycle. With some possible exceptions, it has proved difficult for climate models to consistently reproduce this signal. Spectral Irradiance Monitor satellite measurements indicate that variations in solar ultraviolet irradiance may be larger than previously thought. Here we drive an ocean–atmosphere climate model with ultraviolet irradiance variations based on these observations. We find that the model responds to the solar minimum with patterns in surface pressure and temperature that resemble the negative phase of the North Atlantic or Arctic Oscillation, of similar magnitude to observations. In our model, the anomalies descend through the depth of the extratropical winter atmosphere. If the updated measurements of solar ultraviolet irradiance are correct, low solar activity, as observed during recent years, drives cold winters in northern Europe and the United States, and mild winters over southern Europe and Canada, with little direct change in globally averaged temperature. Given the quasiregularity of the 11-year solar cycle, our findings may help improve decadal climate predictions for highly populated extratropical regions.

A sceond paper in Nature Geoscience also released online yesterday reports that simulations with a climate model using new observations of solar variability suggest a substantial influence of the Sun on the winter climate in the Northern Hemisphere.

Atmospheric science: Solar cycle and climate predictions by Katja Matthes Nature Geoscience (2011) doi:10.1038/ngeo1298

Katja Matthes is at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Interestingly a paper from 2001 with Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt  (of climategate infamy) as co-authors has similar findings:

Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum by Drew T. Shindell, Gavin A. Schmidt, Michael E. Mann, David Rind and Anne Waple,  Science 7 December 2001: Vol. 294 no. 5549 pp. 2149-2152 DOI: 10.1126/science.1064363

Abstract:We examine the climate response to solar irradiance changes between the late 17th-century Maunder Minimum and the late 18th century. Global average temperature changes are small (about 0.3° to 0.4°C) in both a climate model and empirical reconstructions. However, regional temperature changes are quite large. In the model, these occur primarily through a forced shift toward the low index state of the Arctic Oscillation/North Atlantic Oscillation as solar irradiance decreases. This leads to colder temperatures over the Northern Hemisphere continents, especially in winter (1° to 2°C), in agreement with historical records and proxy data for surface temperatures.

Update! The BBC reports on this story here but takes great care to pay due respect to global warming orthodoxy with the statement “The researchers emphasise there is no impact on global warming”.

Of course not – It’s only the sun stupid! And what can the sun possibly have to do with warming the planet?!

Related:

Colder winters to come and solar influence on climate beginning to get its due

Is the Landscheidt minimum a precursor for a grand minimum? 

The original article here.

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World Issues – Various – Covered elsewhere

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

A combination of laziness, time-saving and convenience, I wish to refer to several TIP posts covering issues very close to home here at TGR.

TIP was my introduction to blogging. I owe much to them!  WordPress post count makes this the 222nd post by TGR.

Pity it wasn’t yesterday, when the date was  11/11/11. Maybe plus 1 day still makes it special.

300,000 Flu Vaccines Recalled Over Serious Adverse Reactions

Baxter Healthcare Corp. has announced it is recalling around 300,000 doses of its Preflucel flu vaccine due to an ‘excessive’ amount of adverse reactions. Recalled from thousands of pharmacies and surgeries across Europe, the 300,000 units are to be immediately withdrawn. With seasonal flu vaccines already linked to nerve disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome and narcolepsy and still being given out liberally to citizens worldwide, the adverse reactions must be quite serious in order to prompt a recall. 

Radioactive (?) Tsunami Debris May Hit West Coast In Days

A photo released by the International Pacific Research Center at the University of Hawaii October 24, 2011 shows a Japanese fishing boat found by a Russian ship in the northwest Pacific. A fishing boat from Fukushima and other debris have been found in the Pacific at a location suggesting that flotsam from Japan’s tsunami is drifting east faster than expected, researchers say

Russia to Back Iran against Potential Western Aggressions

Are you willing to see your children die in a war with Russia just to please Israel?

TEHRAN (FNA)- Senior Parliamentary officials in Moscow said on Thursday that Russia would do its best to prevent any military operation against Iran.

Brainwashed for Final Ethnic Cleansing

‘Good examples of the extent to which many (most?) Israeli Jews have been brainwashed by Zionist propaganda and are as a consequence beyond reason and only capable of seeing themselves as the victims instead of what they actually are, the oppressors, were on display in all their naked glory in BBC Radio’s documentary of the week first broadcast last Saturday with the title The State of Israel (meaning, as the programme made clear, the state of things in Israel).’

Click on any heading to link to the TIP post and then follow through to the original.

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New International Report Shreds Japan’s Carefully Constructed Fukushima Scenario

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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A ‘Food Freedom’ post by John Daly, OilPrice.com.

More on radiation dangers, related cover-ups and lies by the NPP industry and its supporters.

According to IRSN, the amount of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 that flowed into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant between March 21 and mid-July reached an estimated 27.1 quadrillion becquerels.  Cesium-137 can cause burns, acute radiation sickness and even death at sufficient doses. It can contaminate food and water and, if ingested, gets distributed around the body, where it builds up in soft tissues, such as muscles. Seafood anyone? asks John Daly.

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Japan’s six reactor Fukushima Daichi nuclear complex has inadvertently become the world’s bell-weather  poster child for the inherent risks of nuclear power ever since the 11 March Tohoku offshore earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, triggered a devastating tsunami that effectively destroyed the complex.

Ever since, specialists have wrangled about how damaging the consequences of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami actually were, not only for the facility but the rest of the world.

The Fukushima Daichi complex was one of the 25 largest nuclear power stations in the world and the Fukushima I reactor was the first GE designed nuclear plant to be constructed and run entirely by the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO.

Needless to say, in the aftermath of the disaster, both TEPCO and the Japanese government were at pains to minimize the disaster’s consequences, hardly surprising given the country’s densely populated regions.

But now, an independent study has effectively demolished TEPCO and the Japanese government’s carefully constructed minimalist scenario. Mainichi news agency reported that France’s l’Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, or IRSN) has issued a recent report stating that the amount of radioactive cesium-137 that entered the Pacific after 11 March was probably nearly 30 times the amount stated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. in May.

According to IRSN, the amount of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 that flowed into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant between March 21 and mid-July reached an estimated 27.1 quadrillion becquerels.

Why should this matter? Aren’t the Japanese authorities on top of the issue?

Cesium-137 can cause burns, acute radiation sickness and even death at sufficient doses. It can contaminate food and water and, if ingested, gets distributed around the body, where it builds up in soft tissues, such as muscles. Over time, it is expelled from the body in urine.

And where might ingested cesium-137 come from?

Seafood, anyone? One of the problems of the release of radioactivity into a maritime environment is that is represents a cumulative food chain, from plankton consumed by larger organisms, as evidenced by mercury contamination of swordfish, none of whom swam around ingesting globules of the silvery metal.

IRSN estimated that of the total amount, 82 percent had flowed into the sea by 8 April, adding that the Pacific was polluted at exceptional speed because the devastated Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant (NPP) is situated in a coastal area with strong currents.

If the IRSN report contained any good news, it was that the impact of the cesium-137 contamination on marine life in remote waters is likely to lessen later this year.

The radioactive silver lining? Radioactive cesium-137 has a half life of roughly 30 years, so if the IRSN estimates are accurate, then by 2041 the Pacific’s aquatic life will only be subjected to a mere 13.55 quadrillion becquerels of radiation.

This is not to suggest that Japanese will shortly be keeling over from consuming their sushi but rather, for better or for worse, a significant amount of cesium 137 has entered the Pacific’s aquatic environment, and the long-term effects of low-level exposure on the population consuming Pacific seafood are unknown. Numerous tests since 1945, when before it  was believed that only massive bursts of radiation were hazardous to human health, have documented the insidious effects of long-term, low level radiological exposure to humans.

Fukushima sits at the nexus where the Kuroshio Current, running northward off the eastern coast of Japan, collides with the cold subarctic Oyashio Current that flows southwards, circulating counterclockwise along the western North Pacific Ocean. Their interaction produces the North Pacific Current, a slow warm water eastwards flowing current between 40 and 50 degrees north in the Pacific Ocean. In the eastern northern Pacific, the North Pacific Current divides into the southern flowing California Current and the northern Alaska Current.

The potential level of pollution outlined in the IRSN report indicate that it is long overdue for both TEPCO and the Japanese government to stop dribbling out information about the true state of events since Fukushima was devastated, and that foreign governments, particularly the United States, whose western shores are washed by the same currents that pass by Fukushima, insist that they do so.

While trillions of dollars are at stake in the worldwide nuclear industry, the potential health consequences are now simply too significant to ignore.

Read the original article here.

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Fukushima Radiation – “Huge”, says Dr Chris Busby.

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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This ‘Veterans Today” article posted August 2nd, provides much to be concerned about.

Given that ionising radiation is undetectable by the body’s senses, it makes sense to consider what everyone says on both sides of the nuclear fence.

“Dr Chris Busby Speaks with the Japanese People

by Bob Nichols:

(San  Francisco) – Dr. Chris Busby, world famous physicist, said tests run at  the respected Harwell Radiation Laboratory in England demonstrate the  airborne radiation in Japan is 1,000 times higher than radioactive  “fallout” at the peak in 1963 of H-Bomb detonations by the nuclear  powers. The calculations were on radioactive Cesium 137.

Busby  certifies the poisonous, radioactive Japanese air to be at least 300  times worse than the air during the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.  Dr Janette Sherman, a highly respected physician and an acknowledged  expert in radiation exposure, has estimated the world wide Chernobyl  Kill to be at least one million people killed to date. The  Chernobyl Disaster occurred April 26, 1986.

Dr.  Busby obtained donated car air filters from vehicles in Fukushima and  Chiba Prefectures as well as from Tokyo, Japan. Busby stated the  radiation per cubic meter of air in Japan was calculated by knowing the  size of the engines and the number of miles driven.

The  estimates must be considered as conservative or low since the smallest  particles go through the car air filters and emerge from the car’s  exhaust. The smallest radioactive particles simply go through a human’s  skin or go to the bottom of a human’s lungs and stay there. The poison radiates cells within a range extending 20 cells  deep in all directions. The dead and dying or mutated cells become  cancers and hundreds of other radiation related diseases.

The  earth’s few nuclear states detonated a total of 2,045 Atomic and  Hydrogen Bombs. During the period before international treaties shut  them down, the US detonated more than 1,300 nuclear weapons “tests,”  first in Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, next in the South Pacific,  then largely in Nevada, USA. The Nevada site is in the South Western US 60 miles, or 96.5 km, from Las Vegas.

The H-Bomb fallout spread first  northeastward with the prevailing winds; then went around the world.  Yes, the US Department of Energy, DOE, lists the unwarranted Atomic Bomb attack at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan as “Tests”.

Dr.  Busby’s Data comparing radiation levels from the radioactive peak of  atmospheric nuclear weapon detonations to Chernobyl and Fukushima.

As  Measured at Harwell by British Radiation Laboratory and representing  the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric level they reported Cesium 137 was  2.4 milliBecquerel per cubic meter. At the peak of the Chernobyl  Radiation Disaster and Explosion the atmospheric radiation level was was  10 milliBecquerel per Kg of air, which is about a cubic Meter. A cubic  meter of air weighs 1.189 kg.

Car  air filters from Fukushima Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture and Tokyo, show the  atmospheric level of Cesium 137 in June, 2011 for  Cesium 137 was  2.7 Becquerels per cubic meter.

The  Fukushima, Japan atmospheric radiation levels are 1000 times higher  than at the peak of Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb atmospheric testing in 1963.

Measured  Cesium 137 radiation from Chiba Prefecture, about 140 km from Fukushima,  was 300 times higher than at the peak of atmospheric testing.

Prof. Kodama Angry about Japanese Gov.’s Gross Negligence (Part 1)

Professor  Tatsuhiko Kodama is the head of the Radioisotope Center at the  University of Tokyo. On July 27, he appeared as a witness to give  testimony to the Committee on Welfare and Labor in Japan’s Lower House  in the Diet.

“After 3 months, … I am shaking with anger.”

Read the complete article here.

Is this real and meaningful? If it is, it deserves acknowledgement, and belief in the potential dangers.

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9/11 – Lack of Evidence – Without looking for It! (Or actually ignoring It!)

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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Thanks to COTO for keeping this issue alive on the net.

The 9/11  tragedy is such an enormous incident, gigantic in its ramifications, yet manages to stay aloof from truth revelations and justice. A travesty of justice, no less!

I am always bemused by judicial judgments “insufficient evidence to prove guilt”. This is logical enough, but to extend this to “therefore innocence is assumed” is not good enough. The decision logically must lie in the middle, insufficient evidence to prove anything – guilt or innocence.

It is, of course, correct to ensure innocent people are free of legal harassment, but the guilty should not escape justice because of insufficient evidence. They should at least be considered not proven either way!

Certainly this applies if no attempt is made to seek evidence, or worse still, to IGNORE evidence. “We found no evidence” is an admission of a miscarriage of justice when no evidence was sought and in some cases, real evidence existed and was ignored.

[As an aside – the claim of silence on the grounds that it otherwise incriminates is logically an admission of guilt. For a person to escape justice on this ploy is a travesty of justice].

In this 9/11 case, it may be difficult to prove guilt, or to prosecute, but the assumption of innocence or no wrongdoing is not acceptable. Obviously, there are guilty people and organizations. “Insufficient evidence” is absolutely an unjust and inadequate finding.

Pleased to copy this post, by UL Truth, to add to the extensive evidence that the whole issue is a fraud. Evidence indisputable to thousands of intelligent people, yet successfully denied by the enquiry commission, politicians, the media and other vested interests. The enquiry was a farce and the justice system seems to be suspiciously absent from the scene. Lies and cover-ups, why else no agreement to hold an open enquiry? The official enquiry has been an admitted failure, why no follow-up?

Here is the post, titled “The 9/11 Commission claims ‘we found no evidence’”

By UL Truth

When Underwriters Laboratories fired me for challenging the World Trade Center (WTC) report that it helped create with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), it said “there is no evidence” that any firm performed the required fire resistance testing of the materials used to build the Twin Towers. Of course, that was a lie.

With this experience in mind, I checked to see how many times the 9/11 Commission Report used the phrase “no evidence,” and noted in particular the times the Commission claimed to have “found no evidence” or that “no evidence was uncovered.”  I discovered that the phrase “no evidence” appears an amazing 63 times.  An example is the dubious statement — “There is no evidence to indicate that the FAA recognized Flight 77 as a hijacking until it crashed into the Pentagon (p 455).”

Of these 63 instances, some variation of “we found no evidence” appears three dozen times.  This seems to be an unusually high number of disclaimers begging ignorance, given that the Commission claims to have done “exacting research” in the production of a report that was the “fullest possible accounting of the events of September 11, 2001.”

The number of times these “no evidence” disclaimers appear in the report is doubly amazing considering how infrequently some of the most critical witnesses and evidence are referenced.  For example, the FAA’s national operations manager, Benedict Sliney, who was coordinating the FAA’s response that day, appears only once in the narrative (and twice in the notes).  And the FAA’s hijack coordinator, Michael Canavan, appears only twice in the narrative, with neither of those citations having anything to do with Canavan’s assigned role as the key link between the military and the FAA, a role whose failure the Commission says caused the attacks to succeed. Similarly, the testimony of FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who says Bin Laden worked with the U.S. government up until the day of the attacks, is mentioned only once in the notes. William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor who has publicly testified to basement level explosions, is not mentioned at all despite having given testimony to the Commission.

It seems a good idea to look more closely at the instances in which the attorneys, myth experts and military intelligence operatives who wrote the 9/11 Commission Report said that they did not find evidence.  Here are a few of the most interesting examples.

  • “We found no evidence, however, that American Airlines sent any cockpit warnings to its aircraft on 9/11.” p11
  • Concerning the hypothesis that one of the alleged hijackers was sitting in the cockpit jump seat since takeoff on Flight 93:  “We have found no evidence indicating that one of the hijackers, or anyone else, sat there on this flight.” p12
  • Within minutes of the second WTC impact, Boston Center asked the FAA Command Center (Benedict Sliney’s team) to advise aircraft to heighten cockpit security, but the Commission said:  “We have found no evidence to suggest that the Command Center acted on this request or issued any type of cockpit security alert.” p23
  • With respect to requests to warn aircraft to heighten cockpit security — “While Boston Center sent out such warnings to the commercial flights in its sector, we could find no evidence that a nationwide warning was issued by the ATC system.” p455

These first four examples highlight the little discussed fact that the 9/11 Commission did not explain how any of the alleged hijackers entered the cockpits of any of the four hijacked planes.

With regard to Flight 11 the Commission states — “We do not know exactly how the hijackers gained access to the cockpit (p 5)” and — “FAA rules required that the doors remained closed and locked during the flight.”  Based on a recording attributed to flight attendant Betty Ong, the report speculates that they might have “jammed their way in.”  One problem with this hypothesis is that the act of breaking down the locked cockpit door would certainly have given the professional flight crew plenty of time to enter the four-digit hijack “squawk code” into the transponder.  This is a simple, standard operating procedure which the crew was trained to follow but none of them accomplished.

Yet another problem is that, according to the story, Atta and his co-conspirators disagreed with the “jamming” hypothesis.  The report states that Atta “had no firm contingency plan in case the cockpit door was locked” and …”he was confident the cockpit doors would be opened and did not consider breaking them down to be a viable idea (p 245).”  These were, apparently, very bold and optimistic hijackers who walked onto the plane assuming that normal operating procedures would not be followed and who did not have any kind of back-up plan in case they were wrong.  In any case, these claims certainly seem to contradict the words of Acting Director of the FBI, Thomas Pickard, who testified that – “these 19 and their superiors operated flawlessly in their planning, communications and execution of this event. They successfully exploited every weakness from our borders to cockpit doors.”

For Flight 175, the Commission report does not describe how the alleged hijackers got into the cockpit nor does it even mention that this first critical step in a hijacking was omitted from the explanation.   Similarly, for Flight 77 and Flight 93, the alleged hijackers just appear in the cockpit and in control of the aircraft.  As with Flight 11, all three crews failed to follow the simple procedure to squawk the hijack code.

What makes this even less believable is that the Commission admits that Flight 93 received and acknowledged a warning (although not from the FAA Command Center) to secure the cockpit four minutes before the hijacking began.  This means that 37-minutes after the third plane was hijacked, and 25-minutes after the second plane crashed into the WTC, the crew of the fourth plane could not secure it’s cockpit or enter the hijack squawk code despite having four minutes warning that hijackers might try to break in.

  • “Saudi Arabia has long been considered the primary source of al Qaeda funding, but we have found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization.” p171
  • Concerning the origins of the funding for the attacks, the report says — “Ultimately the question is of little practical significance.”  But it clarifies that – Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government – or foreign official – supplied any funding.”  p172
  • “We have found no evidence that Saudi Princess Haifa al Faisal provided any funds to the conspiracy, either directly or indirectly.” p498

Recently, the world’s leading insurance provider, Lloyd’s of London, filed a lawsuit alleging the exact opposite of these claims made by the 9/11 Commission.  Although Lloyd’s dropped the lawsuit just days later without explanation, one would think that at least some small amount evidence must have been available for the company to have gone to all the trouble of putting together a case and filing it against the Saudis.  If there was no such evidence, Lloyd’s could be sued for false or frivolous litigation.

Lloyd’s was not the first to contradict the Commission on this topic, however, as the many of the 9/11 victims’ relatives had joined together not long after the attacks to file a 15-count, $116 trillion lawsuit against Saudi royals, including some who were among top government leaders in Saudi Arabia.  That lawsuit was thrown out on a technicality related to the ability to sue a foreign government and, later, the Obama Administration backed the Saudis during the appeal.  What’s important to realize, however, is that it was only the 9/11 Commission that claimed no evidence for Saudi financing could be found.  Obviously, such evidence could be found, it just could not be used to prosecute the Saudi government in the United States.

  • “Exhaustive investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, and other agencies have uncovered no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge of the attacks profited through securities transactions.” p172

The “exhaustive investigations” conducted by the FBI, on which the 9/11 Commission report was based, were clearly bogus.  The FBI did not interview the suspects and did not appear to compare notes with the 9/11 Commission to help make a determination if any of the people being investigated might have had ties to al Qaeda.  The Commission’s memorandum summary suggests that the FBI simply made decisions on its own regarding the possible connections of the suspects and the alleged terrorist organizations.  Those unilateral decisions were not appropriate, as at least three of the suspected informed trades involved reasonably suspicious links to Osama bin Laden or his family.  Another suspect was a soon-to-be convicted criminal who had direct links to FBI employees who were later arrested for securities-related crimes.

The FBI also claimed in August 2003 that it had no knowledge of hard drives recovered from the WTC, which were publicly reported in 2001.  According to the people who retrieved the associated data, the hard drives gave evidence for “dirty doomsday dealings.”

The evidence for informed trading on 9/11 includes many financial vehicles, from stock options to Treasury bonds to credit card transactions made at the WTC just before it was destroyed.  Today we know that financial experts from around the world have provided strong evidence, through established and reliable statistical techniques, that the early expert suspicions were correct, and that 9/11 informed trading did occur.

  • “First, we found no evidence that any flights of Saudi nationals, domestic or international, took place before the reopening of national airspace on the morning of September 13, 2001.”  p329
  • “Second, we found no evidence of political intervention [with regard to the Saudi flights which did not occur before national airspace was reopened].”  p329
  • “We found no evidence that anyone at the White House above Richard Clarke participated in a decision about the departure of the Saudi nationals.”  [Clarke claimed — “I asked the FBI, Dale Watson, to handle that…” and “I have no recollection of clearing it with anybody at the White House.”]  p329
  • “Third, we believe the FBI conducted a satisfactory screening of Saudi nationals who left the United States on chartered flights….They have concluded that none of the passengers was connected to the 9/11 attacks and have since found no evidence to change that conclusion.” and “Our own independent review of the Saudi nationals involved confirms that no one with known links to terrorism departed on those flights.”  p329

For the 9/11 Commission to have made four separate “no evidence” claims related to the widely-reported flight of Saudi nationals out of the U.S. just after 9/11, there must have been a strong reason for this failure of “exacting research.”

Months before the Commission report was published, it was well known that numerous members of the Bin Laden family were among those flown out of the U.S. at a time when no other commercial or private flying was allowed.  “Counter-terrorism Czar” Richard Clarke was the one to make this decision, although he did not coordinate it with Dale Watson of the FBI.  Clarke’s FBI coordinator for these flights was Michael Rolince, the assistant director of the International Terrorism Operations Section (ITOS).

It was reported that Rolince decided the Saudis could leave the country and required only the most superficial examination of their passports and checking for their names on terrorist watch lists.  The fact that many of them were the relatives of the man accused of perpetrating the 9/11 attacks did not lead to any concern or even to basic interviews of the passengers by the FBI.

Rolince, who now works for Booz Allen Hamilton, appears to have been behind several of the inexplicable failures of the FBI to track down the alleged 9/11 conspirators before the attacks.  In 1999, the FBI failed to follow-up on information provided to Rolince about fundraising done in the U.S. by Ayman al-Zawahiri, the alleged “number 2” of al Qaeda.  In April 2001, Rolince also failed to follow-up on a memo sent to him by Dale Watson that warned of a terrorist operation that might have been the plan for the 9/11 attacks.  Dave Frasca, one of Rolince’s direct reports, was the one who disrupted the Minneapolis FBI’s attempt to search the belongings of Zacharias Mousaoui, and Rolince is apparently the one who failed to let the FBI directors know of the arrest of Mousaoui.

  • “Although Whitman told us she spoke with White House senior economic advisor Lawrence Lindsay regarding the need to get the markets open quickly” – “We found no evidence of pressure on EPA to say the air was safe in order to permit the markets to open.”  P555

Like some of the other carefully worded claims in the Commission report, this might be technically true, but the premise is probably false.  Christine Whitman, who was director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just after 9/11, did claim that the air in lower Manhattan was safe to breathe when it was known that was not the case.  This was probably not done for the purpose of re-opening the stock market, however.  It is far more likely that these false claims were made in order to expedite the removal of evidence at the WTC site.

In any case, interested citizens should examine the many “we found no evidence” disclaimers from the 9/11 Commission Report more closely.  Doing so leads one to a better understanding of  how false that report really is, and the Commission’s feigned ignorance of evidence might help lead us to the truth about what happened that day.

Read the original article.

This is so blatantly a cover-up and a travesty of justice that to deny this  is a question of the honesty or intelligence of the denier!

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AGW – Are atmospheric IR Temperature measurements valid?

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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This ‘National Review Online‘ post by Greg Pollowitz raises what is potentially a serious issue. As far as can be seen, this is a new claim, one which will undoubtedly create some degree of turmoil in the blogging space, if not the actual organizational level from the IPCC down and the top scientists who are non-believers of AGW.

Here is the article, relevant to the ‘Carbon Attack’ theme here, and open for comment.

It’s the Thermometer, Stupid

Could the thermometers that the climate alarmists rely on for their apocalyptic warming models be measuring the temperature incorrectly?  Could be:

An independent climate science think tank produces evidence from a leading infrared thermometer manufacturer proving that climatologists were mistakenly taking incorrect readings of atmospheric temperatures. Latest findings are set to trigger a paradigm shift in climate science.

Researchers from Canada, USA, Mexico and Britain this week announce a startling discovery that destroys 20 years’ of thinking among government climatologists.

Climate scientists had long believed infrared thermometers measured thermal radiation from the atmosphere and assumed it was ‘proof’ of the greenhouse gas effect (GHE). Their assumption was that infrared thermometers (IRT’s) were measuring ‘back radiated’ heat from greenhouse gases (including water vapor and carbon dioxide). But damning new evidence proves IRT’s do no such thing.

Now a world-leading manufacturer of these high-tech instruments, Mikron Instrument Company Inc., has confirmed that IRT’s are deliberately set to AVOID registering any feedback from greenhouse gases. Thus climate scientists were measuring everything but the energy emitted by carbon dioxide and water vapor.

One of the researchers involved, Alan Siddons, has analyzed the GHE for over six years. He has long condemned the practice of using IRT’s as a means of substantiating the increasingly discredited hypothesis.

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