Anti-Empire Report on Gaddafi, psychopathic empire and sick media (Libya)

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

The leader de facto of Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi.

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There is much attention being brought to bear on Libya. Yet it is only one of many injustices currently infecting our world.

However, it is one of the latest. One exhibiting clearly that an injustice has been enacted. One clearly defining the instigators. Perhaps the motivations are not so clearly defined but nevertheless clearly labelled as remote from humanitarian, exposing the lies, and revealing ties between ‘Al Qaeda and the West, as well as terrorism and the West. A demonstration of blatant Western aggression and Imperialism.

This COTO report,by William Blum, Anti-Empire Report exposes some interesting truths:

It doesn’t matter to them if it’s untrue. It’s a higher truth.

“We came, we saw, he died.” — US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, giggling, as she spoke of the depraved murder of Moammar Gaddafi

Imagine Osama bin Laden or some other Islamic leader speaking of 9-11: “We came, we saw, 3,000 died … ha- ha.”

Clinton and her partners-in-crime in NATO can also have a good laugh at how they deceived the world.

The destruction of Libya, the reduction of a modern welfare state to piles of rubble, to ghost towns, the murder of thousands … this tragedy was the culmination of a series of falsehoods spread by the Libyan rebels, the Western powers, and Qatar (through its television station, al-Jazeera) — from the declared imminence of a “bloodbath” in rebel-held Benghazi if the West didn’t intervene to stories of government helicopter-gunships and airplanes spraying gunfire onto large numbers of civilians to tales of Viagra-induced mass rapes by Gaddafi’s army. (This last fable was proclaimed at the United Nations by the American Ambassador, as if young soldiers needed Viagra to get it up!)[1]

The New York Times (March 22) observed:

“… the rebels feel no loyalty to the truth in shaping their propaganda, claiming nonexistent battlefield victories, asserting they were still fighting in a key city days after it fell to Qaddafi forces, and making vastly inflated claims of his barbaric behavior.”

The Los Angeles Times (April 7) added this about the rebels’ media operation:

“It’s not exactly fair and balanced media. In fact, as [its editor] helpfully pointed out, there are four inviolate rules of coverage on the two rebel radio stations, TV station and newspaper:

  • No pro-[Qaddafi] reportage or commentary
  • No mention of a civil war. (The Libyan people, east and west, are unified in a war against a totalitarian regime.)
  • No discussion of tribes or tribalism. (There is only one tribe: Libya.)
  • No references to Al Qaeda or Islamic extremism.” (That’s [Qaddafi’s] propaganda.)

The Libyan government undoubtedly spouted its share of misinformation, but it was the rebels’ trail of lies, both of omission and commission, which was used by the UN Security Council to justify its vote for “humanitarian” intervention; followed in Act Three by unrelenting NATO/US bombs and drone missiles, day after day, week after week, month after month; you can’t get much more humanitarian than that. If the people of Libya prior to the NATO/US bombardment had been offered a referendum on it, can it be imagined that they would have endorsed it?

In fact, it appears rather likely that a majority of Libyans supported Gaddafi. How else could the government have held off the most powerful military forces in the world for more than seven months? Before NATO and the US laid waste to the land, Libya had the highest life expectancy, lowest infant mortality, and highest UN Human Development Index in Africa. During the first few months of the civil war, giant rallies were held in support of the Libyan leader.[2]

For further discussion of why Libyans may have been motivated to support Gaddafi, have a look at this video:

If Gaddafi had been less oppressive of his political opposition over the years and had made some gestures of accommodation to them during the Arab Spring, the benevolent side of his regime might still be keeping him in power, although the world has plentiful evidence making it plain that the Western powers are not particularly concerned about political oppression except to use as an excuse for intervention when they want to; indeed, government files seized in Tripoli during the fighting show that the CIA and British intelligence worked with the Libyan government in tracking down dissidents, turning them over to Libya, and taking part in interrogations.[3]

In any event, many of the rebels had a religious motive for opposing the government and played dominant roles within the rebel army; previously a number of them had fought against the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.[4] The new Libyan regime promptly announced that Islamic sharia law would be the “basic source” of legislation, and laws that contradict “the teachings of Islam” would be nullified; there would also be a reinstitution of polygamy; the Muslim holy book, the Quran, allows men up to four wives.[5]

Thus, just as in Afghanistan in the 1980-90s, the United States has supported Islamic militants fighting against a secular government. The American government has imprisoned many people as “terrorists” in the United States for a lot less.

What began in Libya as “normal” civil war violence from both sides — repeated before and since by the governments of Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria without any Western military intervention at all (the US actually continues to arm the Bahrain and Yemen regimes) — was transformed by the Western propaganda machine into a serious Gaddafi genocide of innocent Libyans. Addressing the validity of this very key issue is another video, “Humanitarian War in Libya: There is no evidence“. The main feature of the film is an interview with Soliman Bouchuiguir, Secretary-General, and one of the founders in 1989, of the Libyan League for Human Rights, perhaps the leading Libyan dissident group, in exile in Switzerland.

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Vaccines – US CDC cover up proof of link of vaccines and Autism

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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Natural News posts this article, authored by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer, titled ‘Exposed:
CDC deliberately manipulated, covered up scientific data showing link between
vaccines containing mercury and autism“. The evidence of corruption and lies continues to build.

(NaturalNews)
Deniers of the link between mercury-laden vaccines and autism are going to have a hard time denying the latest findings by the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD). The nonprofit group has obtained critical documents via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that exposes the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention‘s (CDC) role in deliberately lying about and manipulating a key Danish study that showed a clear link between vaccines containing mercury and autism.In 2003, the journal Pediatrics published a study conducted in Denmark that observed a significant decline in autism rates following the country’s elimination of Thimerosal, a mercury-based component, from vaccines. But thanks to the CDC’s corrupting influence, the published version of the study in Pediatrics actually claimed the opposite, and alleged that removal of Thimerosal brought about an increase in autism rates.According to the documents, CDC officials removed large amounts of  data from the study that showed a decline in autism rates following the removal of Thimerosal. The agency then twisted the remaining data to imply an increase in autism rates following the removal of Thimerosal, and suggested that there was no link between Thimerosal and autism.Upon submission of the CDC’s tainted version of the study to Pediatrics, the study’s authors contacted CDC officials to let them know that the agency had incorrectly interpreted the data. They tried to tell the CDC that its figures and conclusions were wrong, and that corrections needed to be made.The CDC allegedly responded by saying that it would take a look at the incorrect data, but proceeded to submit the corrupted version of the study to Pediatrics anyway. After encouraging the editors of Pediatricsto perform an expedited review of the corrupted study, the CDC ended up convincing the journal to publish the fraudulent study, which it did in 2003.Now that this critical information has been officially released for the world to see, CoMeD is pressing the CDC to conduct a full criminal investigation into the matter, and make a formal declaration about whether or not scientific fraud was involved. CoMeD is also calling for a full, immediate retraction of the corrupted study from Pediatrics.”This should not be tolerated by those who are entrusted with our children’s health and well-being,” says Lisa Sykes, President of CoMeD.

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Famous Russian author says 9/11 Inside Job

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

As Mary Poppins sang – “I flit, I fly………..”. It seems this applies to the almost random jumps of topics published here. I guess there are two main reasons, the themes of interest are various and given that they relate to injustices, they rear their ugly heads often and with significance.

The ‘9/11’ topic remains relevant because it is instrumental in “justifying” most of the violence in our world. This injustice must be continuously challenged. Even if the “horse has bolted” so to speak, and the damage is done, the truth must be vigorously sought.

So to offer more evidence and support for the search for the truth about 9/11, the following “Infowars” post is copied here. Relevant activities are revealed in the ‘related articles’.

A bestselling Russian author says the United States orchestrated the September 11 attacks, adding that Washington is behind numerous acts of terrorism in the world.

In an interview with the Russian weekly Argumenti I Fakti, Nikolai Starikov said the US was behind all the crises and wars of the past century and said he was certain that 9/11 was a US conspiracy.

Starikov stated that the recent US allegation claiming that Tehran was involved in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington is another example of the US policy of destabilizing other countries.

Washington sustains its global hegemony through sowing as much discord as possible in other countries, the Russian author said.

He asked how anyone could take seriously the allegations of a country that accused Saddam Husain of possessing weapons of mass destruction but never found anything.

Starikov added that the US needs global shocks to prevent its economy from melting down.

The Russian scholar noted that only collaboration among Russia, China, and Europe in a unified front can prevent another economic debacle like the 2008 economic recession.

Others have to suffer for the US to prosper, he added.

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This information is very relevant to the current world turmoil and should be noted as such. We may not have the opportunity to improve the lot of the general public but we can certainly show up the real culprits of the destruction and protect the reputation of the innocent.

Read the original article here.

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Iron supplements may cause more harm than good

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

Back to health issues.

This ‘Natural News‘ post is interesting because it is the first time that I can recall where iron supplements are questioned. Elizabeth Walling’s article is recommended and is reproduced here.

(NaturalNews)
For the last several decades, iron supplements have been routinely handed out like candy. Because iron is a basic requirement for cell growth and longevity, it is often assumed that people should supplement with extra iron. However, this
faulty belief may carry serious health risks.High Iron Linked to Heart Attack Risk and More

In one Finnish study of more than 2,000 individuals, researchers found that stored iron was more strongly linked to heart attack risk than either high blood pressure or high cholesterol. It is believed that women who menstruate regularly are less likely to experience heart attacks because iron levels are reduced by the loss of blood each month. The same line of logic explains why men who donate blood regularly also experience fewer heart attacks.

High levels of iron are linked to more than just heart attack risk:

– One study showed that iron supplementation disrupted the balance of gut flora in children. Children who were given iron supplements showed an increase in harmful bacteria and a decrease in beneficial bacteria.

– Research indicates that lower levels of iron can actually be protective against infectious disease, leukemia and lymphatic cancers.

– Other studies demonstrate that iron produces free
radicals which accelerate the aging process.

It is easy to see why high iron is a common problem these days, when you consider that the modern diet is heavy in muscle meats and countless foods which contain added iron. Typical
staples in the American diet – such as breads, pastas and cereals – are required by federal law to be enriched with added iron. In addition, iron is also present in many multivitamin and mineral supplements.

A common misconception is that anemia is directly linked to iron deficiency, so iron supplements are often the first line of defense when anemia is suspected. However, anemia can be
caused by other factors as well, such as reduced thyroid function and vitamin B12 deficiency. Supplementing iron in these cases is unnecessary and can exacerbate the problem by not treating the true underlying issue.

It is far more logical to recommend iron supplementation only when tests show an actual deficiency in iron. Using hemoglobin or red blood cell tests to determine iron deficiency may not only be inaccurate, but could be harmful if iron supplementation is given when it is not needed. Even when a true iron deficiency exists, it is safer to eat foods naturally high in iron than rely on
supplements.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.people.com/people/archiv…

http://raypeat.com/articles/article…

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-a…

http://articles.cnn.com/2000-04-26/…

About the author:
Elizabeth Walling is a freelance writer specializing in health
and family nutrition. She is a strong believer in natural living as a way to improve health and prevent modern disease. She enjoys thinking outside of the box and challenging common myths about health and wellness. You can visit her blog to learn more:
www.livingthenourishedlife.com/2009…

Learn more:

http://www.naturalnews.com/034021_iron_supplements_harmful.html#ixzz1cMDNpQV9

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Vaccines – Warnings from the Past. Whooping Cough Issues.

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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Currently, family members are being urged to accept whooping cough vaccinations to protect a new baby. This post has often published warnings about the dangers of vaccinations, more obviously Gardasil, regarding HPV but notably swine flu and MMR.

I confess to no personal expertise in these area but am inclined to be influenced by what I read about information hidden from the public and strong evidence of side effect problems, complete disregard for safety testing and obvious profiteering taking precedence to public well-being.

This issue is now close to home. I would like to know if there are any known side effects  or negative aspects from whooping cough innoculations.

To make this post a little more interesting and universal I refer to a ‘Natural News‘ post from the past ‘Why Vaccinations Harm Children: Health Experts Sound Off’

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What follows is a collection of quotations from naturopathic physicians, health authors, researchers and doctors on the dangers of vaccines. I assembled these quotes from a private library of health books and published them here to make this entire collection public.Here, you’ll learn how vaccines damage the immune system, how they cause asthma and allergic reactions, and why mandatory vaccination policies are a threat to human freedom. If you want to learn even more about why modern medicine’s pushing of vaccines is actually a form of religious fanaticism (which has abandoned all scientific thought), read my related article, “The Flawed Theory Behind Vaccinations, and Why MMR Jabs Endanger Your Child’s Health.”  (http://www.naturalnews.com/025596.html)

You may borrow this list of quotes and publish it on your website, blog or book under the following two conditions: 1) You credit the cited author and book shown beneath each quote, and 2) You credit Mike Adams and NaturalNews.com as the researcher and publisher of this list. Please share this knowledge (with proper credit) so that others may learn the truth about the dangers of vaccines. The lives and health of our children are at stake here.
You may also wish to watch this video of a teenager girl whose
health was destroyed by the HPV vaccine: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/vi…

Recent evidence indicates that routine childhood vaccinations
contribute to the emergence of chronic allergic problems such as eczema, ear infections, and asthma.
While this contention is controversial, a growing number of scientists and physicians maintain that most standard vaccinations permanently disturb the developing immune system, setting the stage for hypersensitive reactions to foods and other common substances. In fact, childhood illnesses such as measles, mumps, and whooping cough may actually reduce the risk of allergy, says Konrad Kail, N.D.
– Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Editionby Larry Trivieri, Jr.
– Available on Amazon.com

Scientific evidence links vaccinations to chronic fatigue,
autoimmune disorders, aids, learning disabilities, and other health problems.
Viera Scheibner notes that the annual death rate in Europe prior
to 1940 from diphtheria was “negligible (less than 300 deaths per million).” After this date, when mass vaccinations against the disease were begun, “unprecedented” diphtheria epidemics followed in “fully vaccinated subjects.” Mass vaccinations against tetanus and whooping cough also began in many countries in the 1940s, and were followed by
outbreaks of the “so-called provocation poliomyelitis.
– Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Meansby Ron Garner
–
Available on Amazon.com

Childhood vaccinations may also be one element that contributes to allergy, in a way that is similar to the mechanisms of the hygiene hypothesis. The vaccinations that prevent childhood illnesses may actually be making
children more vulnerable to allergic disorders, by changing the
natural function of their immune systems. Specifically, the vaccinations appear to make kids’ immune systems too Th-2 skewed, with a relative deficit of Th-1 activity.
–
Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disordersby Kenneth Bock
–
Available on Amazon.com

While the dangers of vaccinations are greatly understated by most health authorities, the advertised benefits are greatly exaggerated. For instance, incidence of the four leading childhood killer diseases—diphtheria, pertussis, scarlet fever, and measles-had already declined 90 to 97 percent before the introduction of vaccines, due to improved sanitation and hygiene.35
– The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Healthby Walter Last
–
Available on Amazon.com

Homeopathic remedies may also help reduce the side effects of vaccinations. Dr. Kotsanis makes the following
recommendations regarding vaccinations: Before vaccinations, give L-glutamine (500 mg), vitamin C (500 mg), and vitamin B6 (50 mg) daily for six weeks. Give probiotics (two times per day) and aloe vera juice (2 oz in divided doses, 2-3 times daily) for three months before and after vaccinations. Make sure the child gets plenty of pure water daily.
– Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Editionby Larry Trivieri, Jr.
– Available on Amazon.com

Immune systems are even harmed by vaccinations because even though they may protect the body from one strain of infectious disease, they weaken the immune system against future strains.
Fortunately, there are many products to help boost immune system function. But remember: Even with the help of these
products, proper immune system function requires greatly reducing exposure to synthetic chemicals and non-natural
substances, as well as following the 3 principles of health discussed in the first half of this chapter.
– Natural Health Solutions by Mike Adams
– Available on Amazon.com

After you were born, during your preschool years,
you got every little cold or virus that came along, but your
immune system was getting some heavy-duty instruction on things to defend against. vaccinations, too, “schooled” your immune system. So as the years passed, illnesses and immunizations helped your body’s immune system begin to develop memories of what was body-friendly and what was body-menacing.
– The Vitamin D Cureby James Dowd and Diane Stafford
– Available on Amazon.com

Proteins used in vaccinations are potential allergens that can produce anaphylactic shock.
When vaccinations were first introduced, many diseases were on the decline; polio lessened 50% from 1923 to 1953, same as in Europe, where polio continued to lessen without using vaccines. Measles declined over 95% from 1915 to 1958 before
vaccinations were used. Measles, mumps, and Rubella/German measles may serve a person’s
normal immune system development and strengthening.
– Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health by Joseph E. Mario
– Available on Amazon.com

Breastfed children generally have a stronger response to immunization and develop higher levels of immunity
after receiving vaccinations than do formula-fed children. …Vaccines are fragments of bacterial or viral material that fool the immune system into thinking that there is an ongoing infection. Vaccines can be “killed”—that is, totally inactivated—or “live,” wherein the organism has been damaged so that it cannot cause infection but is still not completely dead. Vaccines also contain preservatives and other chemicals.
– Vaccination The Issue of Our Timesby Peggy O’Mara
– Available on Amazon.com

A beautiful young girl developed MS a few months after a series of smallpox vaccinations that were given to try to “boost” her immune system; she tried every dietary and herbal cure on earth to stem the inexorable disease; but none worked. My heart ached as I saw her come to my classes each time weaker and weaker, and finally in a wheelchair, unable to focus her eyes or to write. I think it’s not unreasonable to suspect that all
the tampering and the “boosting” and the chemical intervention in the immune system can cause that damage.
– Food and Healingby Annemarie Colbin
– Available on Amazon.com

Research findings now available from many sources are indicating that vaccinations interfere with the body’s immune system development and make people more susceptible to diseases, not less. There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that childhood diseases, most of which are harmless, are critical stages in the development of a strong, fully functioning immune system.
An immature immune system needs to develop naturally, by fighting off the illnesses that occur in childhood.
– Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means by Ron Garner
–
Available on Amazon.com

When legions of parents began to complain that their children had become ill soon after their vaccinations, while still controversial, the government studied the situation and in 2001 began to gradually phase thimerosal out of the vaccinations. Even with this gradual removal, however, the damage was done. Now there are countless new cases of autism, with more emerging every day, and there are also millions of other children with very serious cases of the other 4-A disorders, which are also partly due to the unsafe vaccinations.
– Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders by Kenneth Bock
–
Available on Amazon.com

In addition to the toxic reactions that vaccinations with thimerosal appear to have caused, subsequent live-virus vaccinations may have also caused problems. These vaccinations, which contain small amounts of living viruses, may have directly created infections-through viral material-in children’s gastrointestinal tracts.
– Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The roundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders by Kenneth Bock
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Available on Amazon.com

Compelling evidence is available that the development of the immune system after contracting the usual childhood diseases matures and renders it capable to fight infection in the future. The use of multiple vaccines, which prevents natural immunity,
promotes the development of allergies and asthma. A New Zealand study disclosed that 23% of vaccinated children develop asthma compared to zero in unvaccinated children.
Cancer was a very rare illness in the 1890’s.
–
A Physician’s Guide To Natural Health Products That Workby James A. Howenstine, MD
– Available on Amazon.com

Rubella Vaccine: Does not confer lifelong immunity as a natural mild infection does; 80% of army recruits in one study contracted rubella four months after vaccinations against it. Smallpox and Tetanus vaccinations have been linked to A.I.D.S.. Swine Flu Vaccinations: The misnomer for a man-made plague that causes severe paralysis and heartfailure, which immediately killed 1600 persons vaccinated in 1976; cross-reacts for spinal cord paralysis/Guillaine-Barre syndrome; and may cause death years later from cancer or heart failure.
– Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Healthby Joseph E. Mario
– Available on Amazon.com

It is my belief that the widespread use of antibiotics and
vaccinations is probably among the main causes of immune system disorders.
– Food and Healing by Annemarie Colbin
– Available on Amazon.com

[The] very sudden onset of symptoms is known to happen most frequently to children after their MMR vaccinations. Thus, the vaccinations that contained thimerosal may have created a double hit against the immune system. They assaulted the immune system with toxic mercury. This was followed by
injection of combined live viruses, which could not be effectively handled by a mercury-altered immune system.
– Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders by Kenneth Bock
–
Available on Amazon.com

Chaitow has found that a number of factors negatively impact the immune function, including increased toxic burden due to pollution in all its forms; disturbance of immune systems through repeated childhood and adult vaccinations and immunizations; and damage to healthy intestinal flora due to over-reliance upon antibiotics and steroids (especially birth control pills).
– Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Larry Trivieri, Jr.
– Available on Amazon.com

A little baby is born and immediately given a set of vaccinations. These vaccinations are drugs. They are poisons. They are diseased chemicals. You are injecting the little baby with viruses, drugs, chemicals, and disease. The baby’s immune system begins to act in a totally unnatural way and becomes very susceptible to bacteria. Virtually every child, then, gets infections, primarily an ear infection. These infections were caused by the vaccines themselves. The doctor then prescribes more drugs in the form of antibiotics.
– Natural Cures They Don’t Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau
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Available on Amazon.com

American children often receive some 30 vaccinations within the first 6 years of their lives and children in the U.K. can expect to be vaccinated about 25 times. Within the first 15 months of life, vaccinations including nine or more different antigens are pumped into the immature immune systems of babies. Despite the colossal efforts and large sums of money spent on vaccine research, medicine has never been able to devise a cholera vaccine that works and the drugs for malaria aren’t as effective as a single herb.
– Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You by Andreas Moritz
– Available on Amazon.com

The belief that vaccinations, like flu shots, have eliminated
death from infectious disease in the twentieth century is widespread. In fact, much of the reduction in death from infectious disease is due to public-health measures, including improved nutrition and sanitation. And vaccinations are not without potential danger. We still don’t know the potential long-term effects of vaccination.
– Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Healthby J. Douglas Bremner
– Available on Amazon.com

Multiple vaccinations, especially in newborns, are another major source of childhood mercury exposure because of the
mercury-containing thimerosal preservative. Over twenty-two vaccinations are now recommended for children before the age of two! Effects of exposure can vary from subtle to major malformations but even minor degrees of maldevelopment can have unacceptable consequences.
– Health and Nutrition Secrets by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
– Available on Amazon.com

It has been hypothesized by researchers at Duke University in North Carolina that the particular combination of pesticides, such as organophosphates and carbamates, along with the solvents and toxic metals and other chemicals in the anthrax and botulism vaccinations soldiers were injected with, could have brought about more nerve damage than any one of
these substances could have done individually.
– Toxic Overload: A Doctor’s Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinetsby Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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Available on Amazon.com

These vaccinations, which offer little protection against yearly
flu virus strains, are heavily promoted by the CDC, Public Health Department and most physicians. Many hospitals have made flu vaccinations of the elderly a part of routine admission orders. This, in my view, is criminal.
Some forms of mercury, such as methylmercury, phenylmercury, and ethylmercury, are very fat-soluble. This means that an obese person can sequester a considerable amount of mercury in his or her body fat, as well as in his or her
nervous system.
– Health and Nutrition Secretsby Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
– Available on Amazon.com

DPT may cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
– 85% in 1 -6 months, same as the 2-4-6-month DPT vaccinations risk; the death rate increases eighttimes within 3 days of injection; in one study 70% of SIDS deaths occurred within 3 weeks of DPT vaccinations (give 1 gram Vitamin C to counter); causes reported adverse reactions in 100 per 1000
vaccinations (10%).
– Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Healthby Joseph E. Mario
– Available on Amazon.com

Studies indicate that autism may be the result of adverse reactions to childhood vaccinations.
Dr. Alan Cohen, an environmental physician from Connecticut, notes that high levels of autism and attention deficit disorder (ADD) did not occur until the mandatory use of childhood vaccinations, and suggests that there may be a connection between certain vaccines and the onset of these conditions.
– The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing: A Comprehensive A-Z Listing of Common and Chronic Illnesses and Their Proven Natural Treatments by Gary Null, Ph.D.
– Available on Amazon.com

Vaccination Damage:
Despite the refusal of the conventional health establishment to investigate the long-term effects of childhood vaccinations, independent research reports have increasingly been made public. These link vaccination rates to the epidemic of childhood asthma, as well as to crib death, shaken baby syndrome,
hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, autism, and juvenile diabetes. Since the 1990s, there has been a tenfold or 1000-percent increase in autism, an increase which has been linked by some researchers to the organic mercury preservative commonly found in baby vaccines.
– The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Health by Walter Last
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Available on Amazon.com

As for vaccinations, parents should insist that their children receive only vaccines without thimerosal. Manufacturers are slow in producing mercury-free vaccines, but as a parent you should insist they be free of this toxic metal.
The practice of inoculating the elderly every year against
the latest flu viruses is ludicrous. Recently the CDC recommended lowering the age for yearly flu shots from age sixty-five to fifty-five and some pediatricians are now recommending flu shots for small children.
– Health and Nutrition Secrets  by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
– Available on Amazon.com

Some scientists have attributed the onset of chronic fatigue to the administration of vaccinations. Several members of the scientific community have reinforced this argument against vaccinations by establishing a correlation between Gulf War syndrome, which is predominantly characterized by chronic fatigue, and the vaccination program carried out by the military during the Persian Gulf War.
– The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing: A Comprehensive A-Z Listing of Common and Chronic Illnesses and Their Proven Natural Treatmentsby Gary Null,
Ph.D.
– Available on Amazon.com

The effect of all this is a high incidence of crib deaths in bottle-fed babies, which sometimes occur shortly after immunizations. Vaccinations can further drain the already dangerously low levels of vitamin C. Archie Kalokerinos, M.D., in Every Second
Child, relates that in some Aboriginal communities of Australia every second child given a vaccination died of crib death, but when fed high doses of vitamin C before and after vaccinations, not a single child died.
– The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Health by Walter Last
–
Available on Amazon.com

Few are aware that the success rate for flu vaccinations in the elderly is less than 50 percent, and that each vaccine contains the dubious bonus of mercury and aluminum doses that persist
in the nervous system for decades.
– Health and Nutrition Secrets by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
– Available on Amazon.com

And let me remind you that flu vaccinations are not innocuous. There is conjecture that the mercury and aluminum (metals that are known to have neurotoxic effects) in vaccine shots are associated with long-term adverse consequences. These vaccines can also overstimulate the immune system in ways that are not fully understood. For that reason, I recommend that only people with COPD get flu shots.
– Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health by J. Douglas Bremner
– Available on Amazon.com

Parents are encouraged to read the research on this subject to understand the risks of vaccinations. They can learn about their right to refuse vaccinations for their family. For example, in Canada, there are no laws that can force a person to be vaccinated against their will. Health officials, however, fail to inform the public of these rights. The question of taking vaccines is also an issue for adults. There is such a media blitz, especially toward the elderly, to have annual flu shots; yet there is
very little evidence that they are effective.
– Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means by Ron Garner
–
Available on Amazon.com

The damage that has been caused so far by vaccinations is considerable and surpasses many times the problems that could possibly arise from having no immunization program whatsoever. Many natural ways are available to acquire immunity. All the procedures and natural remedies described in this book can assist you and your family in maintaining natural immunity against disease throughout life. “The best vaccine against common infectious diseases,” according to the World Health Organization, is “an adequate diet.”
– Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You by Andreas Moritz
– Available on Amazon.com

Do not allow your doctor or his or her staff to downplay or dismiss your concerns about vaccinations. Unfortunately, some pediatricians become quite annoyed when parents question or resist some vaccinations, so be prepared to meet some resistance. Even today, as more and more parents and health professionals are waking up to the potential hazards associated with some vaccines, there’s still a lot of opposition out there. I recently asked a respected pediatrician to explain
his vaccine protocol to me. Without pausing for an instant he said, “Oh, we just follow the CDC’s recommended schedule.
– Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) by Deirdre Imus
– Available on Amazon.com

Getting vaccinated is one of the worst things you could do to yourself, your children, and your loved ones. Vaccinations do not prevent illness, they cause illness. The mercury in the vaccines cause autism, braindamage, and disease. The vaccines themselves cause the body to be in an unnatural state and set you up for major disease. In the Natural Cures book I give you several other books that I recommend to discuss vaccines. They are: A Shot in the Dark, by Harris L. Coulter and Barbara Loe Fisher; Vaccines: Are They Really Safe & Effective?, by Neil Z.

– More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease by Kevin Trudeau
– Available on Amazon.comSo when Harris Coulter contends that vaccinations represent the rationalist “medical assault on the American brain,” maybe that’s not saying enough. Maybe the contention is better put as the medical assault on the American individuality. “It’s ironic
because Americans think of themselves as individualistic but really they’re possessed by a herd mentality,” Coulter speculates. “Maybe the American instinct for conformity is caused by childhood vaccinations.” Is Modern Medicine
Now in the Domain of the Criminally Insane?
– Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedomby Richard Leviton
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Available on Amazon.com

Through vaccinations you may gain protection from certain infections, but at the expense of having lost enough useful susceptibility on superficial levels to produce a symptomatic reaction, says Vithoulkas. In other words, you may be
immune to the flu, but you’ll get cancer instead. Disease, says homeopathy is not alien to us, but a necessary elaborative and refining process of our organic being. If we cut off the disease’s mode of expression, which uses the body tissue as a medium, this drives it ever deeper into our organism in search of a venue for expression.
– Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom by Richard Leviton
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Available on Amazon.com

Even though all of the children who received the pertussis vaccine received other vaccinations, the researchers felt that the statistical evidence focused on pertussis. Among the children who did not receive the pertussis vaccine, most had received some other vaccination. Of the ninety-one subjects who received no vaccines, only one had asthma, compared to three with asthma in the 112 who had other vaccinations.
– Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Editionby Michael T. Murray, N.D., Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.
– Available on Amazon.com

Allergies are also on the rise because children’s immune systems are under attack from vaccinations, antibiotics, and the constant use of medicines such as Tylenol that harm the liver,
our most important organ of detoxification. Then they are fed foods devoid of nutrition but loaded with additives, dyes, preservatives, pesticides, and hormones.
– Bottom Line’s Prescription Alternativesby Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
– Available on Amazon.com

[Vaccines] cause hundreds of deaths per year from adverse reactions, reactions that wouldn’t otherwise occur if mass vaccinations didn’t exist. According to a recent announcement (November 14,. 2007) by State and County officials in Maryland
(USA), parents were threatened with jail if they didnt submit their children to forced vaccinations. State Attorney General Glenn F. Ivey vehemently declared that he would criminalize parents who refuse to bring their children to the courthouse to have them injected, on the spot, with vaccines that contain methyl mercury.
– Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You by Andreas Moritz
– Available on Amazon.com

Researchers from the American Food and Drug Administration discovered that vaccinations, particularly the hepatitis B shot, could cause hair loss. They estimate that 50,000 Americans suffer hair loss (alopecia) after immunization every year. The report was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1997. It is nearly impossible to estimate the damage and suffering that has been created and will occur in the future as a result of inadequate information about the dangers of modern immunization programs.
– Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You by Andreas Moritz
– Available on Amazon.com

And now, if we refuse vaccinations for our children, the school authorities harass us because they do not realize how the vaccines are made from toxic pus and blood from diseased animals and do harm. Now, if we decide we don’t want our child who is in liver failure to have a liver transplant, to have an emotionally devastating life for them and for ourselves, filled with doctors, infections, pain and ultimate rejection of the liver and death anyway after a few years, the government can take away that child and arrest us for “endangering the welfare of the child.”
– Stop the Medicine! A Medical Doctor’s Miraculous Recovery with Natural Healing by Cynthia A. Foster, M.D.
– Available on Amazon.com

For a masterly review of the problems associated with vaccinations, I refer the reader to two of the best books on the general subject, Michael Dye’s Vaccinations: Deception and Tragedy available from Hallelujah Acres and Neil Z. Miller’s Vaccinations: Are they Really Safe and Effective? A Parent’s Guide to Childhood Shots. At the end of this book, I also have listed other excellent publications that address this topic.
– Health and Nutrition Secrets by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
– Available on Amazon.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/025595_vaccinations_vaccines.html#ixzz1cGWNPCjKjK

Readers are respectfully requested to contribute comments re their knowledge and experience regarding vaccine safety, more importantly, lack of safety. In particular, whooping cough vaccines and issues.
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Anniversary post – on Potatoes and Potato Heads

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

Potatoes are one of the most used staple foods.

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JustMeinT has posted on food and health today and inspired this special post by The Golden Rule. It is the 200th post and should be something meaningful. (At least to somebody).

Potatoes may be trivial in themselves but much less trivial in the reality of civilization. Initially, I was struck by Clare’s post including a photo of the US beloved psychopathic President holding a Mr Potato Head.  Perhaps there is a likeness, if not in appearance then in demonstrable intelligence.

Potatoes caused a mass exodus from Ireland to America because of a disease destroying the potato crops in Ireland. This created a major influence in the development of the US civilization, later diversified by Italian and Jewish immigration.

Potatoes represent a staple food in the Western world, akin to rice in the East and can be reasonably seen as a survival icon to the human race.

Obama appears to represent the opposite. A promoter of destruction to people, countries and lesser developed civilization. A purveyor of lies and deceit, an instrument of a force against the world’s population. A man not really lacking in intelligence, but just as obviously lacking in compassion and understanding for people, both overseas and his own citizens welfare. Presumably acting in the interests of the powers pulling his strings, his disregard for human life and suffering is an insult to his family, his forebears, his country (whichever that maybe) and the world in general.

This leads us to a more profound topic – civilization in general.  Just a short dissertation on a subject which deserves more attention.

All we, as a people, should need to focus on, is survival. Not of the fittest, the strongest, the richest or the most intelligent, certainly not of our own self, but of the deserving. Civilization as a whole. Where all are deserving and nobody should attempt to play God and place themselves above others.

People born with deficiencies may fall by the wayside, and survival of the fittest might apply, but if fitter people wish to sacrifice themselves in order to help others survive, that should be their right. The opposite approach to this is questionable.

If survival of one’s self is deemed as justification for the elimination of others, then civilization is doomed to a hellish existence. This is close to our actual situation today.

The rights of any man should not be subject to domination by another. This is exactly what has gone horribly wrong with our civilization. An extreme imbalance in most areas of existence because of greed for wealth, corruption and absolute disrespect and disregard for fellow human beings.

What are the essentials of life? Food/drink, shelter (clothing and dwelling), health and community interaction and support. (If for no other reason than to avoid in-breeding).

What are the essentials of a meaningful life, providing some degree of comfort, self-respect, fulfilment and contentment or even happiness? Secure shelter, family, variety of food and drink, health enhancement, entertainment, games and sports, opportunity to be creative, pleasure from nature, arts and crafts.

Without going into detail, what we have actually got, is so far removed from these essentials, that we have all lost sight of them. The details would make a very good separate post, or several. In fact they already do appear here and in other like blogs, in plenty, as injustices and worse.

Books have been written on this theme. It is both personal and all-encompassing.  The few words here are but an inkling of the whole picture.

The moral is that the difference between the essentials of civilized existence and what we currently experience in our cultures, is of the order of difference between the nursing and loving of a new-born babe and the murdering of a thousand people. 

Our civilization has become nothing short of barbaric. What is worse is that the public, in general, are content to see this as acceptable, in a lot of cases even support the barbarity. Perhaps because they are blinded or blinkered, nevertheless their silence or support, whatever it is, permits the situation to exist and continue to worsen.

Clare’s post titled ‘Food = Health? Nah Food = Politics = Money’ is about food and the health of the people, and politics.  Please read it here.

I hope that I will be forgiven for twisting this a little to apply it to the health of our society and civilization.

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Global Warming – More on the BEST claim of proven AGW

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

Sea level was 5 to 7 meters higher during MIS ...

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WUWT posts an article by Alec Rawls, titled ‘Explaining Muller vs. Muller: is BEST blissfully unaware of cosmic-ray-cloud theory?’

This claim by the Berkely group really is only propaganda for the masses and has little scientific credibility, as is shown in this and previous posts.

I find the post section on ocean heat and levels of great interest. Firstly the degree of accuracy in measuring both these parameters is almost mind-boggling.

The immense volume of the oceans and the statistically small amount of data used in computing small but apparently meaningful changes in temperature. Huge variations in measurable ocean height due to tides, wave and global distribution, yet volume changes due to water temperature are assessed in fractions of a mm.

However, these computations are accepted, by scientists on both sides of the fence, as meaningful, i.e., variations in either direction are accepted as a useful measure of actual global, planet temperature or temperature anomalies.

Therefore there is no reason to dispute the reported results if the same rules are applied in assessing them. This is the particular section:

“Almost all of the heat capacity of the biosphere is in the oceans. Thus climate change over time means a change in ocean heat content. Land surface temperature is a volatile expression of this global temperature, depending on whether colder or warmer ocean currents are at the surface. That volatility makes surface temperatures an iffy way to track climate change, and today, better evidence is available.

In recent years, ARGO’s automated fleet of temperature sounding devices provides much improved direct measurement of ocean temperature. According to NOAA, data from these floats show ocean heat content for the top 700 meters as close to flat for about 10 years now:

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(Bob Tisdale says that NOAA has recently started reporting heat content for the top 2000 meters, but apparently it is still a work in progress, as they don’t display it on their heat content page.)

Ocean heat content can also be measured by sea level, which is determined by the thermal expansion of the oceans, plus net land-ice melt. Here is NOAA’s sea level data, compensated for land-ice melt and variations in salinity. It shows ocean heat content as roughly flat for about the last eight years:

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This best evidence indicates that global warming has stopped, which militates against the CO2 theory of late 20th century warming, but the oceans do not show the global cooling that the solar-theory predicts, so it does not clearly favor the cosmic-ray-cloud hypothesis either. The very latest sea level data, however, may finally be telling the tale:

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Steve Goddard, September 2011: “The latest sea level numbers are out, and Envisat shows that the two year long decline is continuing, at a rate of 5mm per year.”

That’s actual sea level, not steric sea level. Subtract out the ongoing land-ice melt from our currently warm climate and thermosteric sea level is falling even more rapidly. If cosmic-ray-cloud effects do dominate CO2 effects, we’ll probably have full proof within the next couple of years.”

So this post has several aspects of interest, all supporting our arguments that the carbon control world-wide drive is not justified by science.  It is past time that the public and governments got their brains in gear and their thinking on a realistic level.

Excellent publishing WUWT. Read the article here.

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Reader responses

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

Today this site has exceeded 6000 views in total. This is over a 6 month period. To see responses is gratifying and I say thank you.
Besides a bit of ego-tripping, it achieves for me a number of things. An outlet for creative instincts, a chance to be ‘heard’, a chance to influence in what I hope is a good way, and an opportunity to lay myself ‘bare’ so to speak -“this is who I am” sort of thing.
Many spam comments have been received. A lot seem genuine and tempt my vanity into publishing them, most are seeking product or services promotion.
If readers really wish to be ‘heard’ please contribute something ‘on-topic’ to the blog. To receive constructive criticism is more productive than praise, but agreement with the blog’s posts is better voiced than just being tacit.

Once again, I say Thank You!

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Libya – Another viewpoint on Gaddafi’s murder.

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

This video has been published on TIP see ‘ROTHSCHILDS FINISH OFF GADDAFI’

I don’t wish to add comment other than it deserves further exposure. As all the pieces come together, the whole truth will become more evident, hopefully.

One thing for sure, the NATO take-over of Libya was not for humanitarian reasons.

I suggest the public owe it to themselves to keep one eye on what is going on in Africa and the Middle-East. It might help understand much that will not appear in the mainstream media.  Only alleged war crimes of other countries hit the news, never those of the US, Israel or NATO.

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Global Warming – More Questions than Answers (updated Aug 12)

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Ken McMurtrie

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“Earth’s Energy Budget Diagram” is part of the title of  a ‘WUWT‘ post by Bob Fernley-Jones AKA Bob_FJ.  Full title is

“Does the Trenberth et al “Earth’s Energy Budget Diagram” Contain a Paradox?”

Much is said and much is commented upon and after spending some time perusing it, I am left wondering to where it actually leads us.

From other posts here and from many references, there will be no doubt on which  ‘side of the fence’ I stand. So certainly I am a “denier”, but not of the truth. Far from it!

Bob Fernley-Jones takes this paper to task for its scientific details, but I am moved to comment on the general science aspect.

Where-ever I look, whatever direction and whatever the duration, my conclusion tends to  ” ‘the science of climate variability’ is far above our usual science fields in complexity”:

The main variables:

  • known unknowns, perhaps unknown unknowns,
  • continually changing conditions,
  • inability to accurately measure parameters,
  • models and assumptions that have no real scientific basis;
  • changing relativities, positional and angular,
  • rotations of the earth itself and its orbit,
  • resulting day and night cycles,
  • rotational axis effects – seasonal variations,
  • cloud effects impossible to quantify,
  • earth surface variability,
  • ocean surface changes with weather,
  • ocean current variability,
  • wind variability,
  • precipitation – rain, sleet, snow,
  • confusion with heat energy and heating,
  • uncertainty on the solar radiation/energy characteristics,
  • lack of agreement on green-house effectiveness,
  • lack of agreement on degree of CO2 as a GHG.

This is not genuine or convincing science, it is an attempt to understand a climate system so complex that it can be discussed, modelled, hypothesised, even analysed, but can never confidently be understood and defined in scientific certainties. Not even attaching statistical degrees of uncertainty resolves this issue. The number and degree of uncertainties far outweigh our ability to make meaningful conclusions.

From all these variables and lack of accuracies scientists have the misguided confidence to come up with a computed global average and attach momentous decisions to their assessments. “CO2 in the atmosphere is the cause of catastrophic weather variations”?  I think not!

Decisions that require or support changes to our civilization that are currently being FORCED upon us, and are destroying our lifestyles and economies, no less.

An extract from  the WUWT post:

Here is the diagram as extracted from their 2009 paper, it being an update of that in the IPCC report of 2007 (& also 2001):

The unusual aspect of this diagram is that instead of directly showing radiative Heat Transfer  from the surface, it gives their depiction of the greenhouse effect in terms of radiation flux or Electro-Magnetic Radiation, (AKA; EMR and a number of other descriptions of conflict between applied scientists and physicists).  EMR is a form of energy that is sometimes confused with HEAT.  It will be explained later, that the 396 W/m^2 surface radiation depicted above has very different behaviour to HEAT.  Furthermore, temperature change in matter can only take place when there is a HEAT transfer, regardless of how much EMR is whizzing around in the atmosphere.

A more popular schematic from various divisions around NASA and Wikipedia etc, is next, and it avoids the issue above:

Figure 2                                                     NASA

Returning to the Trenberth et al paper, (link is in line 1 above), they give that the 396 W/m2 of EMR emitted from the surface in Fig.1 is calculated primarily by using the Stefan–Boltzmann law, and global year average conditions.  Putting aside a few lesser but rather significant issues therein, it is useful to know that:

1) The Stefan-Boltzmann law (S-B) describes the total emission from a flat surface that is equally radiated in all directions, (is isotropic/hemispherical).  Stefan found this via experimental measurement, and later his student Boltzmann derived it mathematically.

2) The validity of equally distributed hemispherical EMR is demonstrated quite well by observing the Sun. (with eye protection).  It appears to be a flat disc of uniform brightness, but of course it is a sphere, and at its outer edge, the radiation towards Earth is tangential from its apparent surface, not vertical.  It is not a perfect demonstration because of a phenomenon called limb darkening, due to the Sun not having a definable surface, but actually plasma with opacity effects.  However, it is generally not apparent to the eye and the normally observed (shielded) eyeball observation is arguably adequate for purpose here.

3) Whilst reportedly the original Stefan lab test was for a small flat body radiating into a hemisphere, its conclusions can be extended to larger areas by simple addition of many small flat bodies of collectively flat configuration, because of the ability of EMR waves to pass through each other.   This can be demonstrated by car driving at night, when approaching headlights do not change in brightness as a consequence of your own headlights opposing them.  (not to be confused with any dazzling effects and fringe illumination)

4) My sketch below demonstrates how radiation is at its greatest concentration in the lateral directions.  It applies to both the initial S-B hemispherical surface radiation and to subsequent spherical radiation from the atmosphere itself.

 5) Expanding on the text in Figure 3:  Air temperature decreases with altitude, (with lapse rate), but if we take any thin layer of air over a small region, and time interval, and with little turbulence, the temperature in the layer can be treated as constant.  Yet, the most concentrated radiation within the layer is horizontal in all directions, but with a net heat transfer of zero.  Where the radiation is not perfectly horizontal, adjacent layers will provide interception of it.”

The main issues that come to my mind are:

Any attempt to quantify energy and heating effects depends on variables known to be occurring but whose exact effects have to be estimated, as distinct from being known.

Firstly, the solar energy, varying in approximately 11 year cycles in intensity, with additional sun-spot activity added in almost randomly.

Then,  an example of an area of earth surface, might be ocean (with variable properties due to wind and tides, therefore wave conditions, and currents), perhaps land (with various vegetation and surface permutations, altitude, buildings, man made surfaces), perhaps ice or snow. All these have different absorbtion and reflective characteristics.

Then each area rotates through a range of angles wrt to solar radiation, from oblique to a short period of vertical incidence and then fades to an oblique dusk. During this 12 hour (nominally) period the reflective angles are similarly varying.

This is followed by another 12 hour(nom) of zero UV radiation and a completely different heat exchange mechanism takes place where the earth radiates its warmth back into the night sky, or not, depending on clouds.

These nominal 12 hour night-day periods then vary with seasons.

Then there are latitude effects, from equator to polar, completely different from each other, also varying seasonally, with changing heating and reflective parameters and day-night period variations.

Yet somehow, a scientist can create an equivalent steady-state “average” of all these variables and suggest a statistically useful scenario. I suspect not!

The energy budget models above are so dependent on assumptions that can not be verified, that they are only useful for school-room education. That they could be considered relevant to the possible global warming effects of CO2 seems extremely far-fetched to me.

Even if the models were somehow representative of reality, the figures used are questionable. For example, it appears in Fig.1 that the cloud and GHG back radiation is responsible for returning 333 of the outgoing radiation 356 W/M>2 which is over 90% and absurd. Further more this 333 W/M.2 simply returns to earth and apparently heats it without any subsequent re-radiation skywards.

I may not be any cleverer than anyone else, I am a qualified Engineer, more experienced in practical science rather than theoretical, but like to consider common-sense as an element of assessing even scientific matters. It seems to me that a great deal of common-sense is lacking in this debate.

Read the WUWT post here. A look at the comments is interesting.

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