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An interesting hypothetical to ponder…

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December 1st, 2011
James Burge

Was just reading an really good article (which I totally recommend reading if you are still a bit fuzzy on the banking crisis) about how the banks got away with the secret bailouts to the tune of about $13 trillion dollars, how those involved told their buddies of the plan to centralize the banks, even before congress, so they could make billions on shorts while keeping the details of these secret bailouts from congress, and the American People, who have now been stuck with the bill.

I mean it really seams like you and a few friends are at a party and the table beside you is really partying it up, hooting, hollering, having quite the time, buying everyone drinks, they seems like okay dudes, and by the end of the night you think they are your new friends. But after they leave the waitress comes around with your bill and it’s about a ten times what you expect your bill to be, the waitress notices your shock and says “those guys you were partying with, before they left they said you were going to take care of the bill.” But just wait, it gets worse, in this scenario you realize that the waitress has to tip out to the guys who left you stuck holding the bill, so any tip you can afford give to the waitress, half or more goes to those guys. Then you find out these guys bet on the fact that you probably wouldn’t be able to pay the bill and they then use either the tip out or the money made on the bet against you, to give themselves and their buddies huge bonuses. Then they are back in the pub trying the same scam the next evening because heaven forbid they use those bonuses to pay for their own drinks.

That story would begin to express what has happened in the states only if you imagine the bill was for $14 Trillion dollars.

Just to get you interested, here are a few items he lists before giving the “6 Shocking revelations about Wall Street’s secret government”.
? The secret Wall Street bailouts totalled $7.77 trillion, 10 times more than the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) passed by Congress in 2008.
? Knowledge of the secret bailout funds was not shared with Congress even while it was drafting and debating legislation to break up the big banks.
? The secret funding, provided at below-market rates, gave Wall Street banks an additional $13 billion in profits. (That’s enough money to hire more than 325,000 entry level teachers.)
? The secret loans financed bank mergers so that the largest banks could grow even larger. The money also allowed banks to step up their lobbying efforts.
? While Henry Paulson (Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury) was informing Congress and the public that only minor reforms were needed to protect Fannie and Freddie from collapse, he met secretly with leading Wall Street hedge fund managers — among them his former colleagues at Goldman Sachs — to alert them that he was about to nationalize the giant mortgage companies – a move that would eradicate nearly all the stock value of the companies. This information was enormously valuable because it allowed these hedge funds to short Fannie and Freddie and thereby make a fortune.
? While Timothy Geithner was head of the NY Federal Reserve, he argued against legislative efforts by Senator Ted Kaufman, D-Delaware, to limit the size of banks because the issue was “too complex for Congress and that people who know the markets should handle these decisions,” Kaufman recalls. Meanwhile, Geithner was fully aware of the enormous secret loans while Senator Kaufman was kept in the dark. Barney Frank, who was authoring key bank reform legislation, was also not informed of the secret loans. No one in Congress was told.
So what does this all mean?

Its only taken about 5 months to report on this crap…

By:
August 5th, 2011
James Burge

Okay, so 5 months after the earthquake and resulting tsunami, the Mainstream media (MSM) is finally starting to report on the high levels of radiation detected in BC. Of course they haven’t mentioned the high levels measured in Alberta rain water as well, (watched a YouTube video the other day of a man testing Lake Louise rain water and getting a reading of 1.5 mS and the manual that came with his Geiger counter tells people to leave the area if you get a reading of higher than 1.2 mS)

Although, can you really call the Straight mainstream??

They have even mentioned the increased infant mortality rates since the disaster, which I haven’t seen elsewhere, except online of course.

But I think the thing that gets me the most, is the bullshit that there is no risk to the public, but 1 in 3,000 will likely develop cancer. Yeah you read that right, it is safe for 2,999 of 3,000, which considering the population of Vancouver alone, ( 2.1 million according to Wikipedia) that means at least 700 cases of new cancers, hardly no risk, low risk to the 2,099,300 who don’t develop cancer, leukemia, or some other disease.

And of course there is the always amusing comment that levels are within normal background exposure or exposure due to x-rays. This is not only misinformation; it is a complete distortion of the actual facts. The biggest risk of exposure to the fallout from Fukushima is not the radiation from the dust released, it is the dust itself. After inhaling the radioactive particles it will continue to expose a person to radiation every day, for the rest of their natural life. (Assuming of course, that the radiation doesn’t turn us into crime fighting super heroes of some kind)

I’m going to let that sink in. No risk to the public, unless you are one of the few to inhale radioactive dust, and then, well, the Canadian government sees you as expendable. Amazing, the people that claim to regulate us to death in order to save us from ourselves, don’t seem to give two shits about saving us from radiation exposure, or even keeping us informed of the levels of exposure. This is of course because Canadian companies make a killing selling uranium to other countries for, lets call them peaceful purposes, which is of course an argument for another time.

What an eye opener…

By:
December 7th, 2010
James Burge

Okay, so I was reading this article on prisonplanet.com which was taken from naturalnews.com and had a moment where, while reading, I had to stop and really digest what was being said, and I feel it is a very important point that needs to be made about governments.

What governments around the world are suddenly beginning to realize [with the recent wiki-leaks release] is that a free Internet is ultimately incompatible with government secrets, and secrets are essential to any government that wants to remain in power. That’s because, as even Noam Chomsky stated in this DemocracyNow video interview (http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11…), most government secrets are based on information governments wouldn’t want their people to discover — secrets that might threaten the legitimacy of government if the people found out the truth. -Mike Adams

What he is saying in essence, is the fact that because governments everywhere are always worried about National security, it seems to prove that they have something to hide.  And not just something to hide from ‘the enemy’ but that it has to be hidden from their own people, because if the citizens found out it would destroy the virtual stranglehold governmentshave over their citizenry. This is why in 1934 the FCC was granted the rights to control radio waves in order to ensure that national secrets aren’t broadcast. This is why the FCC is attempting to assert control over the Internet, which is has no authority over as 1930s lawmakers had no way of predicting the rise of this new form of information sharing.

One thing to be kept in mind, and something they likely should be teaching kids in school (don’t hold your breath):

Governments hate freedom because freedom threatens centralized power and control over the People.

Its as if a tyrannical government has somehow inherited a democracy, and they are now attempting, through what seem to be minor security increases, to dismantle the democracy and replace it with a totalitarian government before the people fully wake up to what is happening.

Hopefully people wake up before that.

And giving mike the last word:

What do the FCC, FDA, TSA, DEA, FTC and USDA all have in common?

They all want more power. They want more authority, bigger budgets and more control over the world around them. They are like cancer tumors, growing in size and toxicity while they consume more and more by stealing resources from a healthy host. The bigger these cancer tumors become, the more dangerous they become to the health of the host body, and the more urgently they need to be held in check or excised from the body entirely.

Exerpt from Timothy McVeigh’s letters to his sister..

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April 21st, 2010
James Burge

Following are excerpts from a letter dated Oct. 20, 1993, and written by Timothy J. McVeigh to his sister Jennifer McVeigh. The idiosyncrasies in spelling and punctuation are Mr. McVeigh’s.

Grandpa McVeigh saw this. He never knew why, but one day, I showed up at his door, freezing outside, in only sweat pants and in total, complete breakdown. Gramps, I’m sure, never told anyone about that day, and I respect him greatly for that, as I spent about an hour upstairs ”losing it.” It was almost suicide at that point, but rage, but denial, but acceptance — all these feelings were battling for control. . . .

Now here’s what led to my current life: It all revolves around my arrival at Ft. Bragg for Special Forces. We all took intelligence, psychological, adeptness, and a whole battery of other tests. (Out of a group of 400). One day in formation, ten (10) Social Security numbers were called out (no names) and told to leave formation. Mine was one.

The 10 of us were told that out of the select group of 400, we had scored highest on certain tests. We had been selected because of our intelligence, physical make-up (165 lbs. 6 ft. being ”ultimate warrier” type — I was only slightly off — 160 lbs. 6’1 1/2”), and physical abilities. We were to feel special, part of a hand-picked group). . . .

We were all asked to ”volunteer” (talk about peer pressure!) to do some ”work for the government on the domestic, as well as international, front.” . . .

What I learned next, both from the briefings, and from the questions and private talks included:

1.) We would be helping the CIA fly drugs into the U.S. to fund many covert operations;

2.) Military ”consultants” were to work hand-in-hand w/civilian police agencies to ”quiet” anyone whom was deemed a ”security risk.” (We would be gov’t-paid assassins!)

3.)Many other details — to verify these last two, see the enclosed article, or watch, again the movie ”Lethal Weapon”. . . .

It also gives you new insight on things like WACO, etc. — they were murdered by hit-men.

Photo: An image taken from video shows Timothy J. McVeigh with his sister Jennifer, to whom he confided in letters.

Deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole…

By:
April 21st, 2010
James Burge

Since writing the last post on the OK City bombing, I have been perusing various articles on the internet and came across a few things I wanted to share. I encourage you to read the other post before continueing with this one.

In my last post I mentioned another individual, wanted for questioning that became referred to as John Doe No. 3, well it seems that although a multi million dollar investigation couldn’t find him but it seems the internets have. A really good article I came across, containing information on an Andreas Carl Strassmeir, who not only moved to Oklahoma from Germany in the years prior to the bombing he looks a hell of a lot like the composite sketch of John Doe No. 3. The article reveals that an ATF informant Carol Howe was infiltrating a white supremacist group ran by Tom Metzger called White Aryan Resistance. In a report she filed in 1994 she said that “she overheard Andreas Strassmeir and Dennis Mahon discussing a plan to blow up Federal buildings including the Tulsa IRS Office, the Tulsa Federal Building and the Oklahoma Federal Building.” It seems to me this provided the evidence needed by the FBI to ‘hijack’ the plot, further radicalize those involved, provide whatever material support needed, (training, explosives) so that they had a patsy all lined up. As for why he wasn’t pursued in the OK city bombing, it seems that Andy the German (as he was known by some) may have been a CIA asset. Apparently one evening, after some of the people Andreas had been associating with suspected something was up, and decided to follow him. They allegedly followed him to a Federal Building, entered the correct code for the locked door. Apparently, in addition to this an individual who worked at an impound lot, got a lot of pressure from lawyers and the state department to release Andreas’ car, and fast, because he had diplomatic immunity, which spells CIA asset to me. When he came to pick up his car, he was more worried about a briefcase which had been searched and was said to have remarked, “’Well, no one will be able to understand what these are anyway.” After leaving the country Strassmeir was said to have remarked:

“It’s obvious that it was a government ‘op’ that went wrong, isn’t it? The ATF had something going with McVeigh. They were watching him, of course they were. What they should have done is make an arrest while the bomb was still being made instead of waiting till the last moment for a publicity stunt. They had everything they needed to make the bust, and they screwed it up.”

For more on this click here.

One of the biggest things going for them is that the general public doesn’t even have a clue about explosions. A large, visibly impressive explosion is rarely that destructive. The pressure waves put of by high explosives don’t give the large cloud of fire and smoke that smaller explosions (usually used in Hollywood for obvious reasons). But it is this pressure wave that causes the damage. However, most explosives experts agree, “[..] [M]y belief is that 4800 lbs of ANFO wouldn’t have scuffed the paint on the building!”

Another thing I came across was a video, of a man, arrested on what he claims are false drug charges used to get him off the street. He was apparently involved in building a bomb that he says fits the devastation seen in the OK city. It also apparently explains the fact that evidence exists that two explosions, 5 seconds apart occurred on the morning of the OK city bombing. This 5 second gap between the first small explosion and the second is to allow a gaseous chemical explosive to fill the air surrounding the structure to be destroyed before that gas is then ignited causing the second explosion. He has no doubt that the OK city bomb was this barometric bomb. The other interesting thing he mentioned at the very end of the film is that the 1983 US Embassy bombing in Beirut, Lebanon (although he claims in the video it was an apartment complex) was the first time this type of bomb had been used.

Some other useful links:
http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_01.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/mcveigh2.htm

OK City, 1st False Flag on US soil??

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April 20th, 2010
James Burge

Well, maybe not the first, but one of the most memorable ‘terrorist’ bombing on US soil murdering 168 people, including 19 children, all under 6. It was said to be carried out by a ‘home-grown terrorist” Timothy McVeigh, with help from Terry Nichols. It was more likely carried out by elements within the US Government in order to pass the Anti-Terrorist Act, which was later used to destroy a $100 Million medical plant in Sudan. This Legislation could not have passed if it were not for the 168 killed that day.

I remember coming across an article somewhere (which of course I can’t find) about Timothy McVeigh’s history and that there is a period of about a year that his whereabouts is unknown. Apparently, a video exists showing McVeigh on a US Military base during that time, apparently undergoing training in explosives.

It was said in the days following this bombing that a sophisticated group of individuals had to be behind it, but only McVeigh was prosecuted (and executed post haste). Apparently, but not surprisingly, security tapes exist showing the explosion and the events before and after the explosion but are apparently not important enough to be released (flash forward to the pentagon on 9/11). They apparently show another individual, who came to be known as John Doe No. 2, sitting in the front seat of the Rider van prior to its detonation. Why was this man never pursued by police? What happened to the other two bombs discovered that day? Why did they not provide a window into the perpetrators of this crime? Why did the government not take a stronger stance on this considering it has come to light that they knew about the bombing prior to the event? What was in that building that needed to be disposed of? Why are there pictures showing a Ryder truck in a clandestine base at Camp Gruber-Braggs? Why was McVeigh smart enough to create a bomb of this calibre but not remember to put a licence plate on his car? And speed? And how could a bomb in a truck parked out front of a building pulverize support columns in the center of the building?

Break a few windows, sure, but those support columns can withstand an upwards of 3,000 psi force, the 4,800 pound ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture bomb, they say was similar to 5,000 lbs of TNT, likely only produced a force in the order of 50-100 psi max (although some things I’ve come across say more like 25 psi especially in the vicinity of the pulverized columns). Although the key here is not the size of the bomb, (especially since the Ryder Truck Bomb seems to be more of a distraction, so witnesses see a blast, the shape charges that blew out the columns aren’t nearly as impressive), it is the location of the charges. How many lbs of explosives do you think were used to bring down what was remaining of the Murrah Building? About 150 lbs according to one thing I read, but they would have been placed strategically around on the columns that remained of the structure. A great analysis of the blast by Benton K. Partin, Brigadier Gen. USAF (Ret.) can be found here.

Early news reports talk of bombs inside the building, including 2 bombs that were disarmed. Where were these bombs located? Early news reports said they were INSIDE the buildings. Witnesses even discussed seeing people, in the days leading to the bombing, examining blueprints in the parking garage located below the building.

There remain, to this day, many unanswered questions, most of which will likely go unanswered indefinitely. Below is a video outlining some of the problems with the ‘lone bomber’ theory pushed by the mainstream news and provides some evidence to support the idea that elements within the US government plotted to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City or at least covered up evidence of others involved in the plot. It looks like OK city may have been a joint Mossad-German intelligence operation, although the reasoning behind it is still just speculation. The big question that remains is weather or not Timothy McVeigh knew of the FBI’s involvement. He likely knew nothing about the charges placed in the building in the days before the blast. It seems another case where the FBI likely encouraged Tim in his plans, providing material support along the way, and ultimately allowing 168 people including children to lose their lives, and for what??

They say, when looking for who was involved, follow the money, well one thing that did come out of this was a $98 Million investigation into the bombing, likely including the costs associated with destroying the evidence before thorough testing could be done which would have easily proven the theories above wrong.

“One day you will find out your government was behind this” – Tim McVeigh

Some good news…

By:
February 25th, 2009
James Burge

I was just emailed this article and thought it was worth the read, so I’m gonna post it.

Newsweek

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1–compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1.

Fareed Zakaria

NEWSWEEK

From the magazine issue dated Feb 16, 2009

The legendary editor of The New Republic, Michael Kinsley, once held a “Boring Headline Contest” and decided that the winner was “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.” Twenty-two years later, the magazine was rescued from its economic troubles by a Canadian media company, which should have taught us Americans to be a bit more humble. Now there is even more striking evidence of Canada’s virtues. Guess which country, alone in the industrialized world, has not faced a single bank failure, calls for bailouts or government intervention in the financial or mortgage sectors. Yup, it’s Canada. In 2008, the World Economic Forum ranked Canada’s banking system the healthiest in the world. America’s ranked 40th, Britain’s 44th.

Canada has done more than survive this financial crisis. The country is positively thriving in it. Canadian banks are well capitalized and poised to take advantage of opportunities that American and European banks cannot seize. The Toronto Dominion Bank, for example, was the 15th-largest bank in North America one year ago. Now it is the fifth-largest. It hasn’t grown in size; the others have all shrunk.

So what accounts for the genius of the Canadians? Common sense. Over the past 15 years, as the United States and Europe loosened regulations on their financial industries, the Canadians refused to follow suit, seeing the old rules as useful shock absorbers. Canadian banks are typically leveraged at 18 to 1—compared with U.S. banks at 26 to 1 and European banks at a frightening 61 to 1. Partly this reflects Canada’s more risk-averse business culture, but it is also a product of old-fashioned rules on banking.

Canada has also been shielded from the worst aspects of this crisis because its housing prices have not fluctuated as wildly as those in the United States. Home prices are down 25 percent in the United States, but only half as much in Canada. Why? Well, the Canadian tax code does not provide the massive incentive for overconsumption that the U.S. code does: interest on your mortgage isn’t deductible up north. In addition, home loans in the United States are “non-recourse,” which basically means that if you go belly up on a bad mortgage, it’s mostly the bank’s problem. In Canada, it’s yours. Ah, but you’ve heard American politicians wax eloquent on the need for these expensive programs—interest deductibility alone costs the federal government $100 billion a year—because they allow the average Joe to fulfill the American Dream of owning a home. Sixty-eight percent of Americans own their own homes. And the rate of Canadian homeownership? It’s 68.4 percent.

Canada has been remarkably responsible over the past decade or so. It has had 12 years of budget surpluses, and can now spend money to fuel a recovery from a strong position. The government has restructured the national pension system, placing it on a firm fiscal footing, unlike our own insolvent Social Security. Its health-care system is cheaper than America’s by far (accounting for 9.7 percent of GDP, versus 15.2 percent here), and yet does better on all major indexes. Life expectancy in Canada is 81 years, versus 78 in the United States; “healthy life expectancy” is 72 years, versus 69. American car companies have moved so many jobs to Canada to take advantage of lower health-care costs that since 2004, Ontario and not Michigan has been North America’s largest car-producing region.

I could go on. The U.S. currently has a brain-dead immigration system. We issue a small number of work visas and green cards, turning away from our shores thousands of talented students who want to stay and work here. Canada, by contrast, has no limit on the number of skilled migrants who can move to the country. They can apply on their own for a Canadian Skilled Worker Visa, which allows them to become perfectly legal “permanent residents” in Canada—no need for a sponsoring employer, or even a job. Visas are awarded based on education level, work experience, age and language abilities. If a prospective immigrant earns 67 points out of 100 total (holding a Ph.D. is worth 25 points, for instance), he or she can become a full-time, legal resident of Canada.

Companies are noticing. In 2007 Microsoft, frustrated by its inability to hire foreign graduate students in the United States, decided to open a research center in Vancouver. The company’s announcement noted that it would staff the center with “highly skilled people affected by immigration issues in the U.S.” So the brightest Chinese and Indian software engineers are attracted to the United States, trained by American universities, then thrown out of the country and picked up by Canada—where most of them will work, innovate and pay taxes for the rest of their lives.

If President Obama is looking for smart government, there is much he, and all of us, could learn from our quiet—OK, sometimes boring—neighbor to the north. Meanwhile, in the councils of the financial world, Canada is pushing for new rules for financial institutions that would reflect its approach. This strikes me as, well, a worthwhile Canadian initiative.

Israel’s War on Gaza continues…

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January 7th, 2009
James Burge

In what can only be described as an onslaught, Israel continues to attack ‘militants’ in Gaza, one of the few remaining strongholds of Hamas the terrorist organization government elected by the Palestinians. Israel broke a ceasefire agreement that had lasted about 4 months, claiming their hand was forced by Hamas militants digging a tunnel out of Gaza to apparently attack Israeli soldiers (remember there is a big wall around these people and they were probably trying to get food and clean water, but I digress). Israel has continued a 12 day offensive defensive attack on the region with the supposed intent of ending numerous (mostly unsuccessful) rocket attacks from the region. However, in what is considered the most densely populated Palestinian land that remains, the attacks on ‘militants’ seem to have been abandoned in favor of killing women and children to either further radicalize the region, further justifying these attacks, or to try and turn the remaining Palestinian population against their resistance movement. (which do you see as more likely?) Israel has admitted to deliberately targeting a school, which they now claim was being used as a weapons dump, or had someone fire on them, even though the UN had assured them that no ‘militants’ were present in the school, only civilians attempting to flee the assault on their homes (remember the wall, they have no where to run). After killing over 600 Palestinians (about a quarter of which have been confirmed to be civilians, although I would tend to think this is likely higher than that) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert voiced his plans to travel to Egypt where another ceasefire will be discussed (and eventually broken).

Eight Israeli soldiers were lightly wounded during battles with Hamas militants Monday afternoon, IDF said. On Sunday, an Israeli soldier was killed, marking the first military death since the ground operation launched Saturday night.

Source: Israeli military surrounds Gaza City, officals say

The above article also mentions of another 4 Israelis being killed during the initial reaction from Hamas, which puts the Israeli casualties in the order of 30, seems a bit one sided (although I can’t seem to find an official Israeli death toll). But Israel’s justification for this precision bombing of Palestinian territory (including hospitals and schools) remains the hundreds of low tech rockets, most of which hit low populated regions of the desert between Gaza and Israel.

With another day of gory news reports inflaming the Arab world, Israel contended that the deaths at the school, at the Jabaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City, demonstrated Hamas’s callousness toward the lives of Palestinian civilians.

Source: Israeli Shells Kill 40 at Gaza U.N. School

I think the above quote says it all, “don’t blame us, all we are doing is bombing what little land you Palestinians have left, blame your elected government because they don’t support the ethnic cleansing of the land we took from you 50+ years ago because it is the rightful Jewish homeland cuz we lived there once too.. Oh yeah, and don’t forget the holocaust, yeah that too…”

Although I support Israel’s right to defend its land from rocket fire, there is little talk of the overt actions of the part of Israel to further radicalize those trapped in the world’s larges internment camp.

Look at this way, let’s say for a moment that the Native Americans and the Mexicans rounded up all North American Europeans, forcing them into ghettos, refugee camps and then put a nice big wall around the whole thing so no weapons, bombs, fuel, food or other supplies can enter. I mean those North Americans should be able to take care of them selves and feel content in their quality of life. Then, in the event that the North American Militants fired rockets into Native American and Mexican territory injuring someone, the Native American and Mexican Soldiers are completely justified in bombing schools and refuge camps and not guilty in any way of provoking such attacks.

Think about it!! Seriously…

Climate Change, Case Closed???

By:
January 5th, 2009
James Burge

I just finished reading a blog article from the Huffington Post about Climate Change and the ‘global-warming-is-an-exact-science’ crowd, and have a few things to say.

I have to start out with the typical disclaimers that seem to be required for anyone debating the global warming myth. Firstly, I too see our climate changing and I too am concerned about the possible outcomes. Secondly, we do not require an excuse to be better to our environment or to question the workings of this complicated biosphere. Lastly, my genuine concern for our planet (and its future residences) exists regardless of the global warming science that is typically used to induce guilt.

That being said, there remain a few clarifications.

As pointed out in the article mentioned above, our climate is always changing.

There has been no stable period of climate during the Holocene, our own climatic era, which began with the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago.

This last ice age, as some of you may be aware, saw the majority of what is now North America under glaciers. But of course, one could (wrongly) assume that after the ice age temperatures leveled out and have remained relatively constant ever since. Average temperatures have gone through warm periods, where civilizations thrived, and cold periods, which tended to coincide with plague, famine, and empire collapse. “History shows that periods of cold are far more stressful to humanity than periods of warm.”

Another thing that was brought up by the Huffinton Article is that the relationship between temperature and CO2 levels aren’t as cut and dry as some would like us to believe. Scientists have found that there is about an 800 year delay between the rise in global temperatures and the rise in CO2. This is to say that the CO2 levels could not have ‘caused’ the initial warming, but that it may contribute in some way to the continued warming cycle. So could this actually show that increase in global temperature has an effect on the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere?

When the ocean-atmosphere system warms, the oceans discharge vast quantities of carbon dioxide in a process known as de-gassing.

Doesn’t seem quite as cut and dry when you look at it that way.

Do you know what the most common greenhouse gas is?

Methane?

Carbon Dioxide?

Nitrous Oxide?

Water vapour…

I wonder how long until water vapour becomes a controlled substance and hanging clothes up to dry outside cited for the increase in global temperature? I guess it depends on how much money governments can make outlawing CO2 emissions. The amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is well above the levels of CO2, so why aren’t we hearing about it in all of the global-warming hoopla?

So since water vapour is a greenhouse gas, an increase in water vapour will increase global temperatures, right?

Wrong! Increased water vapour actually reflects more UV light thereby decreasing the amounts seen on the ground. Increase water vapour would also contribute to high levels of precipitation that also have a cooling effect. Also, due to the high heat capacity of water, a lack of water vapour in the air contributes to increased temperature fluctuation from day to night as seen in most arid climates.

The fact is our planet has seen global averages well above and well below levels we see today. The only certainty is that the climate will continue to change. The resulting questions are two fold, 1) how will humans adapt to climate change? And, 2) will guilt, through man-assisted-global-warming be used to justify these adaptations? or will the natural sense of pride in our Earth along with the acceptance of a dynamic/changing climate?

The article goes on to mention the fact that there is evidence that other planets in our solar system are warming and that cosmic rays from other galaxies could actually have an effect on cloud cover here on Earth.

As NASA has corroborated, the number of cosmic rays passing through our atmosphere is at the maximum level since measurements have been taken, and show no signs of diminishing. The result: the seeding of what some have taken to calling “Svensmark clouds,” low dense clouds, principally over the oceans, that reflect sunlight back to space before it can have its warming effect on whatever is below.

My point: ‘Proof’ exists on both sides of this issue, and although I agree that Climate change will likely be one of the major tests of humanity, in my opinion, the human influence on climate change is irrelevant and is only wasting time. Also, the claim that climate change is case closed is at best dubious (would they not welcome science showing that we aren’t doomed as some claim). There is no statute of limitations on truth, something seen as true in science today can (and will likely) be proven false at least in part, whether the science was in already or not (see Newtonian Physics vs. Quantum mechanics). The best evidence for ulterior motive is when ones mind seems to be made up and evidence is then cherry-picked for only those discoveries that prove that point.

In conclusion, should we recycle and use less energy and be more environmental? Of course!!! Should we sturdy the climate and begin preparing for monumental shifts in climate? Of Course!!! Should we each pay governments to save us from the boogie man climate change? HELL NO!!!

Possible Link Between Morgellons Disease and Genetically Modified Food?!?

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December 16th, 2008
James Burge

I’ve been following the stories of Morgellons disease closely because it was, until recently, considered by Western Medicine, to be part of a mass delusion. The idea that just the perception of suffering from an unknown disease could spread amongst a population of educated individuals intrigued me because something about it just didn’t fit.

Acording to an article I just came across:

Morgellons Disease was first described when a woman’s 3 year old son developed rashes and intensely itchy sores which produced weird multicolor fibers emerging from his skin. She put up a website about the condition in 2001 and named it “Morgellons Disease” after a 17th century report of a similar affliction.

Common symptoms include the sensation of crawling beneath the skin, the growth of multi colored fibers from leasons and scabs that have formed in the skin. Some have even reported inexplicable hair loss, loss of visual acuity, and loss of the sense of smell. In addition to these, lets call them physical symptoms, there are also many mental symptoms that are reported and are (for me) the most interesting. Things like short term memory loss, an inability to focus or concentrate, mood swings, confusion, depression, disorientation and other neurological problems such as clumsiness, stumbling while walking, and impeded speech. More symptoms can be found here.

As mentioned above, one of the most identifiable symptoms is the various colored fibers that appear to grow out of leasons in the skin. It was because of this that most western physicians concluded delusional parasitosis, when patients (or their parents in the cases of delusional parasitosis by proxy) would bring in to physicians fibers that they would claim were expelled from the skin.

Nearly any marking upon the skin, or small object or particle found on the person or their clothing, can be interpreted as evidence for the parasitic infestation, and sufferers commonly compulsively gather such “evidence” and then present it to medical professionals when seeking help.[1] This presenting of “evidence” is known as “the matchbox sign”.

Source: Delusional parasitosis

So until recently it was nearly impossible to be taken seriously by a physician who, rather than look at the many symptoms that do present themselves, would dismiss the individual as delusional. This has caused Morgellons sufferers to be ridiculed and marginalized and have received very little help for their suffering as a result.

Recently the US Center for Disease Control has in fact begun a study in California, of a small number of sufferers so they have at least for now come to the conclusion that more information about this condition is needed.

We do not know the cause of this condition or whether this condition is new. CDC has received an increased number of inquires from persons who report similar symptoms; therefore, we are conducting an investigation to learn more about this unexplained dermopathy.

Source: CDC Unexplained Dermopathy (aka “Morgellons”)

However, where the CDC was slow in their reaction to complaints from people, others have not been so slow to investigate the fibers that are produced. A recent article made the following claim.

A study of the fibers shows that they contain DNA from both a fungus and a bacterium which are used in the commercial preparation of genetically modified foods and non-food crops (such as cotton). The fibers themselves are primarily cellulose, which the human body cannot breakdown or manufacture.

It goes on to claim:

These fibers twist and twine, grow and divide. In short, living beneath the skin of people, they form parasitic lesions out of what should be non-living material but which, through the horror of genetic modification, has taken on the characteristics of a living thing.

According to the article, “some researchers say that every person they have tested has some level of Morgellon’s type pathology in their skin.”

An even more provocative finding is that biochemist Vitaly Citovsky discovered that the fibers contain a substance called “Agrobacterium,” which, according to New Scientist, is “used commercially to produce genetically-modified plants.” Could GM plants be “causing a new human disease?”

Source: Skin Disease Might be Linked to GM Food

Lastly, it is also worth mentioning that most Morgellons sufferers allegedly test positive for lime disease. It could be that lime disease affects our immune system in such a way as to make one more susceptible to whatever causes Morgellons. However, it seems strange to me that while physicians were completely discounting Morgellons as a mass delusion one could still find information about the apparent link with lime disease. It is possible that such a claim could be used to cover-up these apparent links with genetically modified food and create plausible deniability.

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