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Flat Earth, Google and Climate Change — Nuts!

Flat Earth recommendations from YouTube on my most recent climate video? Bizarre, but Google (owner of YouTube) seems to have gone nuts. NOTE: Click on the image to see full size (it’s large: 1580×774).

Flat Earth? Can you believe that some people actually believe in a flat Earth? There seem to be all manner of videos on the topic on YouTube.

In case you don’t know, Google acquired YouTube several months ago. The adjustments on my YouTube account took a little getting used to, but everything works well. Except…

Nearly three years ago, President Obama said, “We don’t have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society…. Those who are feeling the effects of climate change don’t have time to deny it—they’re busy dealing with it.”

Equating “flat Earth” with climate skepticism was another low point in Obama’s legacy.

Now, Google (owner of YouTube) is posting recommended videos of “Flat Earth” garbage next to my videos on climate science. You gotta laugh at that insanity. I’m guessing that some of the people who work at Google are Obama fans. I used to be, but that was before Obama started breaking every promise he made, including his oath of office. Oh, well.

I love making videos. It satisfies the artist, writer, and scientist within me.

What does Flat Earth have to do with climate?

Nothing! Except Obama’s one ludicrous slander nearly three years ago.

Still, I’m enjoying the debate with people who are real and have enough sense not to be too attached to their own egos.

My most recent video tackles the erroneous idea that Global Warming would increase tornadoes and hurricanes. This video shows the government’s and scientists graphs to prove this wrong, plus it shows why this idea is wrong. It effectively debunks the government’s insane notion and, tangentially, Obama’s snide remark about flat Earth having something to do with science.

Here’s the video:

Here’s a direct link: Thermophobia — Debunking: “Global Warming causes more storms”

Debunking Flat Earth

For most people, this section of my blog won’t be necessary. They’ve seen tons of evidence disproving the loony idea that the Earth is flat.

For the few who show up with questions or doubts, here are some salient facts to help you see the light—or the roundness of Earth. And don’t worry. No ridicule intended. I’ve had crazy ideas before and learned that I was wrong. That’s part of life. Heck, I used to believe Al Gore and his fancy little film with the word “Truth” in the title.

First of all, any student of science knows the principle of gravity and that the most natural shape for a source of radial attraction is a sphere. We can see the circular shape of the Moon in our sky. We see the circular shape of the sun. For astronomers who know how to do it safely, they’ve seen sunspots circle the surface of the sun as it rotated. We’ve seen the circular shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse. These should be compelling enough.

But we also have pictures from space. Have photographs in space ever been faked? I suppose that’s possible. The American government has lied so many times, I’m not sure anyone would ever have an accurate count. But why would the Moon, Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Mars and dozens of moons in the solar system be spheres, but not Earth?

Flat Earth? Nope! Nothing explains all the phenomena we experience like a sphere. And flat fails miserably.

Even more compelling is the fact that a flat Earth would get the same insolation (incident light from the sun) across its entire face, making the polar ice caps melt. Explorers would be able to find the edge and—oops!—fall off, or something.

I know for a fact that people make international calls to different time zones—noon in one location and 9 PM at the other location. A flat Earth would have the same level of sunlight at all times.

Need I go on?

As corrupt as the US government is, I wouldn’t be surprised if they had hundreds of people creating “flat Earth” videos just so Google could annoy climate skeptics or discourage interested citizens from looking at videos of skeptical science or simply science that doesn’t go according to the UN’s political agenda.

Now, I know of people who work for the government who are very nice. My father worked for a company which had a NASA contract in the 60s. One of my brothers worked for the post office and ended up taking on two routes and still finishing earlier than his co-workers.

So, what do you think about Google flashing “flat Earth” recommendations next to climate videos? Is that entirely bizarre? Or are you one of those conspiracy deniers?

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Vacation Medellin, Cebu 2016:02

Juvy and I on vacation.

Sometimes, you don’t know you need a vacation until you’re on one. Staying focused at work can be good until you let that focus blind you to other needs.

My wife’s niece, her husband Jilmore and their son visited us for a few days. When they were ready to go back home, at the northern end of Cebu Island, my wife asked if we could take a day off to visit them. I had just finished a job and didn’t have a new one lined up. “Sure,” I said.

We packed and made our way to the main thoroughfare—the highway which connects the entire island—North and South—with Cebu City in the center. The island itself is 196 km (122 miles) long, and 32 km (20 miles) wide at its broadest point. Cebu City is the oldest city of the Philippines and its first capital (1565–1569). Nearby Mactan Island is where Magellan died before his crew finished the world’s first circumnavigation of the globe. Not a nice way for Magellan to finish his vacation.

Juvy and I live in the Cebu City metropolitan area with a population of 2.5 million people. I’ve lived in this area for over 8 years and loving it more each year. Sometimes it seems I’m on a permanent vacation.

Vacation: Medellin, Cebu

Kalanggaman Island, Camotes Sea, Leyte

The municipality of Medellin has a population of only 50,000, near the northern tip of Cebu Island. It has a population density of only 680/km2. Along the coast, where our niece and her husband live seems almost rural. Their house is only about 30 meters from the Camotes Sea. The western side of the municipality faces the Visayan Sea.

Every meal comes with rice, even breakfast. Many Filipinos could not understand why an American would love rice so much. But I grew up eating rice—not every meal, but at least once a week. Sometimes breakfast is rice and fish or rice and egg. Simple, but tasty.

The family began to prepare a picnic for our planned trip to Kalanggaman (bird sanctuary) Island. While I jotted down ideas outside, looking out over the sea, Juvy had acquired a chicken. Jilmore’s uncle held it up by the feet for me to see. The chicken, upside-down, looked at me with innocent, but dazed eyes. Yes, lunch! Thank you, chicken.

As it turned out, our vacation picnic became a late afternoon snack.

Rod on the trip back at sunset on the Camotes Sea. Still 30 minutes from home.

We got a late start—roughly 1:00 pm. Two boats carried the family East toward Kalanggaman. Even starting out, I could see the ghost of faint blue hills on Leyte across the strait. But Kalanggaman has no hills, so it remained invisible throughout most of the journey there. We got back to Medellin about half an hour after sunset. The small resort island is about 26 km (16 miles) from Jilmore’s home. It took close to two hours to get there. New ownership wouldn’t let us land unless we paid an entrance fee. After two hours to get there, we landed anyway, but stayed on the beach long enough to rest before returning. Even so, it was well worth the trip.

Despite keeping my face and hands in shadow for most of the trip, they became extremely red from the sky and sea. One of my nieces from America said I should have used suntan lotion, but I told her I had stopped using the stuff when I learned that skin cancer became prevalent about the time suntan was being first promoted. No thanks. A little apple cider vinegar on the burn helped quite nicely. This felt far more healthy. A badge of honor for my vacation.

The video, below, gives a taste of the trip there and back, plus our short walk the next day to Medellin Hideaway on the peninsula jutting out into Bogo Bay.

Vacation Video

Or you can view the video at my YouTube channel—Vacation 2016:02 – Philippines, Cebu, Medellin.

More Vacation Pictures & References

Me on the boat trip to Kalanggaman Island.

Juvy and I at Medellin Hideaway.

Family just outside Medellin Hideaway. Left-to-right: Lordelegene (niece), Juvy Martin, Rod Martin, Louie Jay (nephew), Jilmore

Map of Philippines and Cebu. Locator Map: © Eugene Alvin Villar, 2003 (https://commons.wikimedia.org-wiki-Us...). Cebu Map: Magalhães (CC BY-SA 3.0).

 

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Outlawing Guns and Drugs — Government Madness

Dudley Brown using a semi-automatic rifle. Outlawing guns could prevent this, but what are the dangers? Photo: Dudley Brown (PD).

Outlawing Guns is Crazy

Guns don’t kill. People do. People also use knives, baseball bats, fists, elbows, feet, cars and anything else that’s convenient. It’s not the fault of the knife, bat, car or gun. It’s the fault of the person wielding the item. Putting responsibility where it belongs is the only sane response. First of all, the person doing the crime is responsible.

And we are each responsible, if we are to solve the problems of the world. To the sensitive person who frequently thinks in terms of victims and their rights, the idea of others taking responsibility for the acts of perpetrators may seem crazy. But they’re thinking 2-dimensionally. They don’t think they’re connected to everyone else. They remain separate and selfish—”me” versus “them.”

When we all take responsibility for each other, then we solve the problems of the world. This is the unselfish approach. This is people working together as deciding individuals, instead of as unthinking collectivists.

Leland Yee, former California legislator keen on outlawing guns, until he was convicted of gun trafficking and other crimes. Photo: Tim Bartel (CC BY-SA 2.0)

In a Stossel television episode entitled, “Texas vs. California,” John Stossel interviewed Leland Yee, a Democratic State Senator for California’s District 8, which includes parts of San Francisco and the Peninsula. In that segment of the program, the topic was gun control and the use of guns by school faculty and administration. Yee was vehemently against gun use by school employees. On the other side, Suzanna Gratia Hupp, a former Republican State Representative for Texas’s District 54, wholeheartedly supports teachers and school administrators carrying concealed weapons. Hupp had witnessed first-hand what obeying gun control laws can do to prevent law-abiding citizens from protecting their loved ones. Both of her parents were killed by a lone gunman and her handgun had been dutifully left in her car glove compartment a mere hundred feet away.

That Stossel interview was aired January 17, 2013. Quite ironically, on March 26, 2014—a little over a year later—the FBI arrested Yee for gun trafficking, amongst other things. Yee may be an example of extreme hypocrisy, but the pretense doesn’t end there.

Some state and federal legislators want people not to have guns, even if it is to protect themselves. Would those same legislators be willing to give up their armed bodyguards? Somehow, I think not.

Outlawing guns only makes law-abiding gun owners into outlaws. We already have plenty of outlaws owning guns. Passing laws is not going to force them magically to give up their guns. And, as in the case of Hupp losing her parents, such laws can make people more vulnerable.

Outlawing Drugs is Crazy

Crack cocaine smokers in Vancouver alleyway. Does outlawing drugs really help them? (PD)

Like outlawing guns, outlawing drugs is also crazy. Why?

Drugs are not the problem. They’re the symptom. Outlawing drugs doesn’t solve the root problem.

Why do governments like outlawing drugs? One justification seems to be that drug users go crazy and steal from others to pay for their next hit. Drug users are less responsible and more prone to violence or other criminal acts. Drugs make people less productive.

There is some truth to all of this, but the problem is with the individual, not the drug. Many drug users never cause such problems. We don’t outlaw cars when people drive recklessly. We take the driver’s license, fine the driver and sometimes put them in jail. All well and good. Right target. Kicking the car is the wrong target.

Drug dealers frequently use guns to protect their turf and their illicit industry. They are in the business because drugs are illegal, so they can jack up the prices to keep up with the built-in demand. But what if drugs were made legal and priced very cheaply? Drug dealers would likely go into a different business. Drug-related crimes would virtually disappear. The government would be out of the drug business. Perhaps the CIA would have to fund their illegal operations some other way.

Government imposing its morality on individuals only makes government more powerful, individuals less free and new problems abound. People should be protected to do whatever they want to do, so long as it doesn’t harm others. That’s the best place to start. Let people decide their own course.

We need to educate people toward making their own decisions, not taking away the decision-making process and placing it in the hands of the government. We need to enable the individual; not suppress them into compliance.

Laws are needed to penalize those who impose their views on others. Oops! But government already does that. And that’s the problem. Government needs to get out of the way and put the responsibility for such things back on the individual. Compassion belongs to individual effort—not government mandate. And drugs are a problem of compassion—not legislation.

The Tyranny of Outlawing Guns

March on Washington for Gun Control. Outlawing guns has a noble purpose, but misguided. Photo: Slowking4 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Outlawing guns, drugs and other things gives government more power. Would outlawing candy reduce obesity? Probably not. But outlawing guns serves one other purpose that the Corporate media doesn’t usually talk about, if ever. Guns in the hands of individual citizens makes the government less likely to become entirely tyrannical.

Is someone pushing the government toward more tyranny? It seems so, for that is the direction American government has been headed for decades. More and more, the Constitution is being shredded. More and more, law enforcement officers are being taught that constitutionalists are potential terrorists. Loving the founding principles of the country = terrorism? Regrettably, that’s the way things have been heading, especially since 9/11. And 9/11 was an inside job. The proof of this is something the mainstream (Corporate) media won’t touch, except to ridicule.

Perhaps, it shouldn’t surprise us to hear that some feel the government is behind many, if not all, of the lone gunmen mass murders. We already know that the government is largely owned by the Corporations. If this were not the case, then we would see hundreds of pharmaceutical executives in jail for involuntary manslaughter. Instead, Big Pharma has paid tiny fines (billions compared to their hundreds of billions in profits), and executives don’t have to admit any wrongdoing. We would see thousands of bankers in jail for the 2008 housing fiasco. Instead, the bankers got $700 Billion in bailouts.

Of course, any talk that the government has committed some conspiracy is frequently ridiculed by those who have not done their homework. Conspiracies are dirt ordinary. Governments commit conspiracies all the time. This is part of the CIA’s and NSA’s operating basis. This is part of military standard operating procedure. This is increasingly a standard for scientists. Remember Climate-Gate? Those scientists were found guilty of crimes, but were not punished because of expired statutes of limitation. The top military brass responsible for the massive security failures on 9/11 all received promotions instead of courts martial. Let that single fact sink into your brain for awhile. The government rewarded incompetence in the face of a deadly enemy… or did it? Or was it rewarding those who aided in the False Flag attack on itself (a conspiracy of the darkest kind)? The beneficiaries of 9/11 were largely major corporations in the Military-Industrial-Complex.

Slow Creep of Government Outlawing Liberty

Suzanna Hupp testifying in front of the US Senate. She suffered from outlawing guns, yet remains a vocal opponent of gun control laws. Photo: US Senate (PD).

To any student of history, the United States government has increasingly become one of outlawing the very liberties upon which it was founded. Besides outlawing guns, now, free speech is increasingly beleaguered. HR 347 makes free speech punishable as a felony in some instances, and secret service agents are able to use their own discretion in determining what they find to be objectionable speech.

More and more campuses now have free speech zones that prevent students from speaking to their fellow students, except those who happen to be walking through that zone. In some instances, the zones are located at one of the places on campus which receives the least traffic. This effectively silences any free speech. Increasingly, the government seems to be encouraging this breach of the First Amendment.

There seems to be one class of people who walk around feeling wounded all the time. They remain perpetual victims to others who are not politically correct.

I once lived in California (for 25 years) and experienced this mentality creep into schools, business and everyday life. During my younger, more naive days, I supported some of this. It seemed the natural thing to do. Government was not doing enough to protect us. I was a Liberal Democrat. But after years of studying history and listening to both sides of these issues, it became clear that I had been drinking the socialist victim Kool-Aid too long.

Outlawing guns, drugs and more make us all less safe, because it gives far too much power to the central government. Perhaps it’s time for us to take back the liberty that the victims have tried to take from us.

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Book Trailer — Thermophobia, Extreme Weather

Cover of my new book, Thermophobia, the topic of the book trailer.

While writing my next book, Thermophobia, Shining a Light on Global Warming, I produced two videos, each a little over 10 minutes long, and each as a book trailer for Thermophobia.

First of all, “thermophobia” means “fear of warmth.” The book gives a critical look at the climate change controversy being beat to death by news media, politicians and highly politicized government agencies. The book looks at the simple principles of science that make the “climate change” debate seem increasingly bizarre. For instance, the United Nations is promoting a fear of warmth in an ongoing Ice Age—the kind of illogical stance you would only find with a lunatic or a psychopath.

Creating a video with the right software makes all the difference between a painful chore and a delightfully creative effort. The most recent videos were created using Camtasia Studio 8. Three years ago, one of my customers insisted I get Camtasia and a fast internet connection so I could produce videos and upload them to one of his websites. I’ve been hooked ever since. Fast in the Philippines is still far slower than the speed I enjoyed in America, but it’s getting better, year by year.

The software is extremely intuitive. Much of it works by simple click-and-drag. Once you get the hang of its various parts, it becomes second nature to insert video, audio, pictures or special effects.

Book trailer production in Camtasia Studio. Click on image to view full size.

Book Trailer Preparation

My first step was to sketch out a rough outline for what I wanted to say. After nearly two years of research, that was easy. With each concept I wanted to illustrate, I searched for pictures and videos that could help me explain the concepts I wanted to relate in the simplest terms.

YouTube makes it easy. They have a Video Library and Audio Library from which you can build your own videos.

From the YouTube menu, I select “My Channel,” and right above the banner header, click on the “Video Manager” link. On the Video Manager page, on the left is the “Creator Studio” menu. Clicking on “Create” opens up either the Audio Library or Video Editor.

For this book trailer, I started by selecting Video Editor. Above the video window, I would type in a new title in place of “My Edited Video.” For instance, I wanted video clips of tornadoes, so I typed in “Tornadoes 01.” Then, above the search window, I selected the “CC” in a circle symbol (which stands for Creative Commons), typed in a search term—tornadoes—and hit enter. Then I scrolled through the thumbnails of videos and clicked on the ones I wanted to investigate. If I liked a clip, I would drag it to the video timeline to add to my “Tornadoes 01″ resource. Once I had all the tornado clips I wanted, I would click the “Create Video” button in the upper right. Processing by YouTube takes several minutes, depending on the length of your accumulated clips. Once the processing is done, you will see a thumbnail of the video in your Video Manager. For these resource clips, I edit them to make them “Unlisted” instead of “Public.” Then, I download each resource video to my computer for building my own video in Camtasia.

For downloading from YouTube, I use a browser extension from SaveFrom.net. I had been using another one, but my antivirus software started blocking it. Good to play it safe.

While in YouTube’s “Creator Studio,” I then select “Audio Library” and listen to the various pieces of music and sound effects until I find just what I want. For my “Extreme Weather” video, I felt extremely lucky to find music which not only captured the emotional tone I wanted for each segment of the video, but remarkably, the various movements within each piece of music ended up matching the visuals and the text. It was uncanny. When I wanted to emphasize a point, the music changed to accommodate the needed emphasis.

So, here it is.

Thermophobia, Extreme Weather — Book Trailer

Please let me know what you think. All constructive criticisms are welcome.

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Has YouTube Gone Crazy, or Have They Joined the Dark Side?

One Sign That YouTube May Have Gone Crazy

YouTube logo + Devil Goat head by Diablorex (CC BY-SA 3.0) + Devil Horn hand gesture by Madgator14 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

If you’re watching a video on football, you would expect to see recommended videos along the side of your browsing screen to include more football videos and perhaps a few videos similar to those you’ve seen before. But what if you saw recommended knitting videos and you’ve never seen such before and have never indicated an interest in them? What if you’ve never watched anything even remotely associated with knitting?

What if YouTube keeps recommending knitting videos and you keep rejecting these recommendations?

Did this happen to me? Something similar.

For the last few months, YouTube has recommended dozens of Flat Earth videos. I keep rejecting the topic, YouTube states that they will update my preferences, but they keep recommending more Flat Earth videos. Groan!

While researching my next book—Thermophobia, Shining a Light on Global Warming—I ran across an article about President Obama comparing “climate change deniers” to members of the Flat Earth Society—in other words, crazy. One cannot accuse Obama of being a heavy lifter when it comes to logic. When I voted for him in 2008, it was my own naiveté over his pretty, but empty rhetoric. I can learn from my mistakes.

Is this what YouTube is using to associate an interest in climate science with flat Earth lunacy? Are their programmers biased against those who believe in real science rather than popularity (“consensus”) pseudo-science? Or are they trying to make others think that questioning the “consensus” is crazy, like believing that the Earth is flat.

Is YouTube Being Stupid?

Questioning beliefs and dogma, and preferring scientific discussion does not equal belief in a flat Earth. That’s like equating knitting with football. Dumb!

Or is YouTube Being Evil?

Someone has an agenda to make people associate crazy ideas with questioning their agenda. For instance, the United Nations is doing a lovely job promoting Global Cooling in the midst of an ongoing Ice Age. That’s pretty crazy and potentially deadly for billions of us humans. After all, it’s pretty difficult to grow crops in the snow or in rain-starved land because the climate is suddenly colder. (Colder oceans means less evaporation, fewer clouds and less rain.) We live in an Ice Age (as evidenced by those little white things which persist at the poles throughout the year) and promoting a fear of Global Warming is the height of insanity. Does YouTube actively support this insanity? That would make them evil. Oh, well!

YouTube Not Looking Very Good

YouTube recommends several videos next to my new video on climate science. Half of them are about “Flat Earth.” Crazy or evil? Click on the picture to view full size.

YouTube is owned by one of those big corporations—Google. And I used to love big corporations. I loved the idea of creating big and thinking big—changing the world for the better.

But when a company like YouTube is either massively stupid or evil, big is the last thing they should be. Big stupid or big evil are not good, and I don’t know which is worse.

Perhaps we need to come up with a new, human-friendly, civilization-friendly video sharing website. But how do we keep it from being corrupted as has YouTube and Google?

I figured out in the last couple of years that corporations are based on one very evil principle—selfishness. That is their foundation. Everything they do must—by law—support the bottom line. It is the fiduciary duty of every corporate officer to be selfish and to increase the bottom line. Many have broken the law, killed thousands, avoided jail time and have greatly expanded the bottom lines of corporations. For this, they have been handsomely rewarded. When sweet, warm and fuzzy Nestlé buys up water rights and prevents people from getting water by which to live, the old 1950s jingle about Nestlé making “the very best” takes on a decidedly sour taste in my mouth. Corporations will be cute if they have to be, but they will gut you and toss your dead carcass in a pit if it will increase the bottom line.

Perhaps we need to get away from group think. Perhaps we need to avoid collectivism in all its forms. If we, as individuals, can stop being self-concerned, then we become invulnerable. The psychopaths who are promoting Global Cooling in the current Ice Age, and apparently also promoting “Flat Earth = Climate Science”—these psychopaths are self-concerned. That makes them vulnerable. They don’t mind committing any and all crimes, and that makes them fearless, but they are still doing these crimes because they want something. Perhaps ultimate power?

When I posted my recent video, Thermophobia: Extreme Weather, the recommendations next to the video showed 4 “Flat Earth” videos in the first 8.

Not very smart, YouTube—or ethical.

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Famous Quotes — Verifying the Wisdom Upon Which We Rely

Albert Einstein, 1921. Photo: F. Schmutzer (PD).

The world of social media seems full of famous quotes these days. A pretty picture with a famous quote by someone of whom we may or may not have heard, can create a lasting impression—at least long enough to inspire our day.

Quite often though, these famous quotes were never spoken or written by the famous person to which they are attributed. Yet, the famous quote is to be found all over the Internet. This kind of makes you wonder how many lies there are on the Internet that are believed by the masses. Too many who repeat the quotes are too lazy to check. Could it be also that some are too trusting—believing in everything they find on the Internet?

Verifying Famous Quotes

There is no single source with every possible quote listed along with their sources. For many of the famous quotes you may find on the Internet, WikiQuote.org remains a relatively good source for verification. It’s not perfect. Like Wikipedia, it relies on volunteers to add its content. Much of the material added is referenced, so you have a way to double-check their verification of quotes. Many misattributed quotes are included in some of their articles so you can know that some of popular sayings were found by Wiki volunteers, but found to belong to someone else. Other famous quotes have been found, through exhaustive searches, not to have been included in any of the famous person’s writings or speeches.

Some Famous Quotes Destroyed by Misquoting

Norman Vincent Peale. Photo: Roger Higgins, World Telegraph (PD).

One famous quote I looked up today, from Norman Vincent Peale, I found on a popular quote site called BrainyQuote.com. The problem with this site is that they have no verification of quotes, their attributions or their sources. And, in today’s instance, they got the quote wrong. The difference, at first glance, appears to be subtle and insignificant, but upon closer inspection, is shown to be both profound and important.

Here is the incorrect quote from BrainyQuote.com:

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

The correct quote, with documented source in WikiQuote.org, is as follows:

“Change your thoughts and you can change the world.”

According to WikiQuote.org, this wording is, “As quoted in Back on Track : How to Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve (1997) by Deborah Norville, p. 201.”

But notice the differences. On the popular website, “you change your world.” This is small-minded and weak. Of course you change your own world—your mind—by changing your thoughts. That doesn’t say much. That’s pretty worthless compared to the real quote. What Mr. Peale really said talks about one individual—you—having the ability to change the entire world by changing your thoughts. With the misquote, a change in thought has no stated change on anything except the person’s own internal world—”your world.” With Norman Vincent Peale’s intended statement, each one of us has far more power to affect all of civilization and history. See the difference?

So, if you ever use some website like BrainyQuote.com to find cool, famous quotes, take the extra step to verify that the person actually said it. Verify the wording, too.

If you find a false quote that sounds better than the original, then feel free to use it, but don’t tack the person’s name on it, if they didn’t say it. You might add something like, “Sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein, but this is a paraphrase of a much longer quotation,” or something like this, depending on the special circumstances.

If we all do our part, we can help raise the quality of material on the Internet, including the use of famous quotes.

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Using Muslims to Divide and Conquer — False Flag Black Ops

Fearing and Hating Muslims

President Ronald Reagan gives Muslim fighter, Muhammad Ali a jab to the chin. (PD)

Why should you care if Muslims are used as pawns, if you’re not a Muslim? Because it could happen to you, too.

I see so much hatred being spewed through the social media—Facebook and Twitter. I suspect every channel has this problem. A woman is raped in Sweden and the automatic response is, “Muslim refugees did it.” The problem with lumping a large group of people into one label is the lack of thinking involved. Let’s carry this to its extreme to emphasize this point. A human raped in Sweden, so let’s condemn all humans.

We need to resist the temptation to be lazy. And labels are the tools of the lazy and the self-concerned (selfish, egotistical).

In my last blog, I talked about a Civilization Restoration Kit. One of the items involved developing the skill to recognize evil in all its forms. This takes practice. Even after many years, I’m still learning. One of those evils is to spread hate.

Muslims Didn’t Do 9/11

Muslim convert, German diplomat Murad Wilfried Hofmann. Photo: Tarawneh (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The Muslim patsies were given special, preferential treatment by the US government in getting visas to America. One consulate official refused to approve their visas, because their applications were chock full of errors. Whoever wanted those visas approved, went over his head and had them approved anyway.

In the weeks leading up to 9/11, FBI field agents spotted suspicious behavior from Muslim men who wanted to learn to fly a plane, but not to land one, or so the story goes. Headquarters told the agents to leave the Muslims alone. Why? Could it be because patsies who were in jail on 9/11 couldn’t be accused of doing those terrorist things?

There were many other signs of government complicity. I write about them in my book, Favorable Incompetence. If you’re at all interested in learning more about the big event which still is used to change the world, even today, please buy a copy. It’s only $3.99 on my own website (the link above). Your purchase helps to pay my small bills and keep the body running.

But here are a few of those other signs of government complicity.

New York Mayor Giuliani started the scrubbing of the crime scene on the evening of 9/11. As a former federal prosecutor, he knew he was committing a felony, so even ignorance could not be used as an excuse.
The top military brass responsible for the massive security failures and resulting deaths on 9/11 all received promotions instead of courts martial. The story doesn’t get any more insane than this. Rewarding deadly incompetence with promotions? Either the government and top military have gone insane, or they’re corrupt and helping to cover up their complicity in 9/11.
Government scientists at NIST attempted to hide the perfect free fall of the third building to collapse on 9/11. Most people still don’t know about WTC7 and the fact that it collapsed late in the afternoon of 9/11, despite not being hit by an airplane. Perfect free fall occurred for a little over two seconds and near perfect free fall accompanied the building all the way to the ground in about 7 seconds. Perfect free fall means zero resistance. No one in this universe has ever experienced solid steel offering zero resistance. NIST was creating a fantasy and attempting to cover it up in fraudulent science, like starting their timer early, before continuous motion of collapse had started.

What does this mean for Muslims? Plenty. They were scapegoats in the largest False Flag event in history. If you don’t know what a “False Flag” is, I suggest you do some research. Watch some of the YouTube videos which describe them. But in a nutshell, “False Flag” means an attack by a country against itself, carrying the colors of another country in order to provoke anger against that other country. A False Flag is a lie used to extort money, motivation and commitment behind a corrupt cause—to go to war against an otherwise innocent nation or group.

What Muslims are Taught in the Koran

Muslim Kareem Abdul-Jabbar playing the game he loved and did so well. Photo: Steve Lipofsky Basketballphoto.com (CC BY 3.0)

Is the Muslim religion evil? I don’t know. I do know that there are some who want to divide us and have some of us hate others who are not like us. Muslims form about 23% of the Earth’s population. If enough of the Earth’s population starts to hate Muslims, perhaps we could kill off that 23% and everyone else would cheer. Who benefits from this kind of genocide? Who clamors for population control and eugenics?

I’ve heard all manner of evil sounding things that are apparently taught in the Koran. I’ve heard similar about the Bible. I know, too, that taking the Bible literally is one thing shared by atheists and Fundamentalists alike. It’s wrong, because the spiritual subject of the Bible cannot accurately be represented in literal human words. I suggest that those who condemn the Koran and its teachings may be doing the same thing. I don’t know enough about the Koran to know for sure. But there are many seemingly outrageous statements in the Bible that seem insane when taken literally, but which mean something entirely different when taken spiritually. Does this apply to the Koran? Again, I don’t know. But anyone who uses the Koran’s words literally to spew hate—they remain suspect. Their actions are evil for attempting to divide us more completely.

If Muslims Are Not the Enemy, Then Who Is?

Muslim comedian, Dave Chappelle. Photo: Davej1006 (CC BY-SA 3.0), cropped.

Who are the people with a fetish for population control and eugenics? I call them the “psychopathic elite”—the globalists who own multi-national corporations, who support the cooling of the planet in the midst of an ongoing Ice Age, who funded 9/11 and its cover-up, and who promote vaccinations with their dozens of harmful toxins. Not only are these psychopaths killing us, but they are reducing our mental capacity and attention spans. The educational system of the West has had to lower its SAT threshold twice in the last decade, meaning that the average intelligence is plummeting. IQ 100 (average) no longer is as smart as it used to be.

While it’s true that a few Muslims are performing terrorist acts, they remain pawns of the psychopathic elite and their minions. Names? The Rockefellers are amongst them. So are the Rothschilds. Likely there are thousands of the super rich and powerful, all interconnected. Some of the minions include the Gates, the Bushes, Obama, Clinton, Blair and others. But we need to forgive even them for their crimes against us. We need to take responsibility for their evil acts, just as Jesus took responsibility for all the sins of the world. By taking 100% responsibility for all the evil they perpetrate against us, we are truly following Christ and even following Gautama Siddhartha Buddha. Both were emissaries of love. And Christ was the greater teacher, because he came to Earth already Enlightened (awake spiritually).

Whenever you hear someone else spewing hate about Muslims, Muslim refugees or the teachings of Islam, ask them if they want to kill all humans. Shake up their hate. Shine a light on it. Make them uncomfortably aware of their own crimes of blind ego. They may hate you for it. But you have planted a seed which may or may not one day sprout. Let us all do this, so that we may reap a far larger harvest.

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Civilization Restoration Kit — Keeping the New Dark Ages as Short as Possible

Civilization Restoration Kit: The Parthenon as seen from the south. This building is an icon of civilization and its fragile nature. Photo: Thermos (CC BY-SA 2.5)

This article is about developing a Civilization Restoration Kit — currently, a work in progress. Why would one be needed? Because we have already entered a new Dark Ages.

Definition: dark ages, n.

An era of ignorance, superstition, or social chaos or repression. Example: a novel depicting the dark ages in the aftermath of a global war.
The early or crude stage in the history or development of something. Example: back in the dark ages of radio technology.

From: http://thefreedictionary.com/Dark+Ages
The Current Dark Ages

For several years, I suspected that we might be approaching a new dark ages. Nations, including the United States, have been going crazy with war—threatening the ultimate in horror—World War III. Politicians have been becoming more openly deceitful and corrupt. For instance, President Obama condemned President Bush for his lack of transparency and then became perhaps the least transparent president in American history. He accused his predecessor of bypassing Congress and said he would never do that. It wasn’t long before Obama was creating law with his Executive Orders and taking the country to war against a nation which had done nothing to America, bypassing Congress and listening instead to the United Nations. I had voted for Obama in 2008 and quickly learned how much of a liar the man was. In the back of my mind, I had suspected for years that something was wrong in the world of politics. It took Obama to pop my bubble of delusion for good.

With the recent New Years, I came to realize that the new Dark Ages is already upon us. We have endured such a gradual transition that few, if any, have noticed its arrival. Many have talked about the pieces of this new Dark Ages:

9/11 was an inside job blamed on Muslims (20% of the world’s population). Now, Muslims are kicked off of airplanes for speaking Arabic. Muslim refugees are shunned by many. The ignorance runs deep on this topic.
Our language has been mangled in the manner of Orwell’s 1984. American wars are now “peacekeeping actions.” Conspiracies are fantasies and all talk of them is ridiculed; thus the conspirators are free to operate more openly. Ironically, conspiracies remain dirt ordinary.
Society has been ripped along ideological lines and polarized. Corporate pundits have defined the groups which pigeonhole entire segments of society. By adding details to those definitions, Corporate Party owners can sway one group or another to think a certain way, playing the individual egos like a symphony.
Individuals have been dumbed down using a myriad of methods. Mindless distractions like reality television erode the critical thinking skills of individual people. Fluoride in the water and in toothpaste tends to lower IQ. Aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines and sprayed from airplanes (persistent chemtrails) attacks the brain leading to neurological damage and to diseases like Alzheimer’s. Mercury and other toxins in vaccines are creating an epidemic of neurological disorders in children, covered up by the once highly respected CDC.
GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are being fed to hundreds of millions, despite studies showing that GMOs and the herbicide Roundup greatly increase health risks, including massive tumors and early death in as early as 7–9 years in humans. Glyphosate, the chief ingredient in Roundup, has been declared a carcinogen by the World Health Organization. This same substance has been found in drinking water, mothers’ milk and in children’s urine.
We live in an Ice Age that is 2.6 million years old, yet the United Nations, President Obama, NASA and thousands of scientists are pushing to cool the planet. They’re promoting a fear of warmth in an Ice Age. If you’re halfway awake, you’ll feel the unreality of this ironic situation. It’s a bit like a man suffering from hypothermia rushing into a walk-in freezer for a quick cold fix, when the ideal therapy is a warm blanket and a bowl of hot soup. NASA promoting this fear of warmth (Thermophobia) is a bit like someone promoting a fear of food to a hungry man.

Many people are choosing to be willfully ignorant. They choose to ignore facts that upset their comfortable view of reality. I’ve tasted a bit of this. For instance, I fell in love with Al Gore’s infamous film on climate, but that was before I did some digging on my own. I fell in love with the superficial gloss and rhetoric that promised “truth” and “saving the planet.” You have to realize that most politicians lie a lot, so a politician including the word “truth” in the title of his film should set off alarms of caution. Such a breakthrough only made me more aware of the fact that there may be many additional blind spots in my own worldview.

Personally, I’d like to see everyone survive the coming storm, but I’m afraid that willful ignorance may lead to billions losing their lives. Is there enough time to wake them up. Perhaps we can each do more, but ultimately it will depend on all of us together.

The Game Behind the Current Dark Ages

Civilization Restoration Kit: Science historian, James Burke, creator of the much beloved TV mini-series, Connections. Photo: Andrea Mann of London (CC BY 2.0).

When I first saw the television miniseries, Connections, by James Burke, in 1978, I began to realize just how fragile is the infrastructure of civilization. I discovered how the failure of one small part—small enough to hold in your hands—had been responsible for darkening nearly a third of the United States. Our current world is held together mostly by forward inertia. As long as things continue to move smoothly, all will be well, relatively speaking.

But we’re on a collision course with financial meltdown. In 1913, unscrupulous bankers pushed through Congress, in America, the creation of a private bank which would oversee the creation of currency. Clever bankers created each dollar with a dollop of debt attached to it. The upshot of this arrangement was that the nation’s debt could never, ever be paid off. For if more currency was created in order to pay off the debt, new debt would automatically be created. Perpetual enslavement. With America’s debt now skyrocketing past $18 Trillion, it’s only a matter of time before the debt bubble pops and the dollar is relegated to the trash bin of history. With virtually every currency in the world attached to the dollar in one fashion or another, the entire planet hangs by a very slender thread.

Could this be manufactured chaos? The bankers who had come up with this strategy had known for over a century that you always finance both sides of a war. Controlled chaos was thus managed by determining the outcome of each conflict. The old gambit of Problem-Reaction-Solution has been played out time and time again with similar results. The ones who create the problems always have solutions ready to sell an unsuspecting public—cattle led to the slaughter. These are the False Flag black ops that alarm the citizens and make them angry enough to go to war against an innocent enemy.

But what if each individual were aware of the guys behind the curtains? What if each person had the skills to create a civilization on their own? What if each human being remained fearlessly confident and were not swayed by the fear mongering of those in power?

Civilization Restoration Kit — Taking a Bite Out of the New Dark Ages Duration

Civilization Restoration Kit: All roads used to lead to Rome, but that civilization died. Forum Romanum. Photo: Carla Tavares (CC BY-SA 3.0)

When I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, I came to appreciate the unwieldy nature of civilization—a lumbering behemoth, slow to alter course. Asimov’s story covered an entire galaxy, but the lessons learned there can apply to our one, lonely planet. Civilization, it had been determined, was destined to suffer a 30,000-year Dark Ages of relative chaos, ignorance and repression. Psychohistorian, Hari Seldon, determined that this Dark Ages could be shortened to 1,000 years by establishing a group of talented engineers and artisans in the outskirts of the galaxy. They would preserve humanity’s collective knowledge and expand upon it.

Across the planet, in our own reality, people are preparing for the coming collapse. Survivalists, gardeners turned farmers and more are looking out for themselves and their families. Others, like the Thrive Movement, are creating ways to change the course of history so that people and civilization can survive and thrive as a unit. I feel it is important for each of us to become involved in preparing for the future. But particularly, I feel it is important for us to see what we can do to shorten the coming Dark Ages.

The contents of the Civilization Restoration Kit would include all of the skills needed for the task. Here’s what we can do. Have each person attain the following:

An ability to recognize evil in all its forms. With this skill, each person cannot easily be fooled by those who would lead us astray.
Humility, love, responsibility and fearless confidence. These are the ingredients of True Forgiveness—an essential part of building or restoring a civilization.
Skills to grow your own food, build your own home and civil engineering to establish infrastructure for your family’s survival.
Critical thinking and humility to learn new things. Without humility, we too often think we know all the answers and miss the clues that we may be wrong. Humility is the “empty cup” that allows us to pour in new knowledge.
Unafraid of change, but capable of telling good from bad change. Clamoring for change of any kind is reckless at best. We have to have the wisdom to know what will do more harm than good. Asking for change in the heat of emotion is also reckless. We must be unafraid of waiting until the time is right—when we have all of the facts that are needed for the correct change.
Lack of self-concern, so extortionists have no leverage. In my 65 years, I have found that self-concern is the root of all evil. Jesus called this “First” which would become last. Gautama Siddhartha referred to it as “ego” or “ignorance.” If you imagine any possible crime, behind it you will find self-concern as the driving motivation. When we give up all concern for self, and turn our attention outward to loving others unconditionally, only then can we put evil behind us. This isn’t easy. Even Jesus found it difficult.
Knowledge of science and technology, plus the wisdom to use it properly for the benefit of all. I love technology and science, and have for all my life. But there are many who would abuse nature and humanity for their own selfish ends. We need to balance such knowledge against the impact it will have on those around us.
Knowledge of the pitfalls of history and how to avoid them. My 11th grade world history teacher made it clear that the most important thing we can learn from history are the motivations of its major players. Suddenly, history went from super boring to a most important and exciting subject.
Forgiveness of those who follow self-concern (evil). Others will make mistakes. Some will even destroy for their own selfish gain. And many of those criminals won’t care what damage they wreck on those around them. We need not only to forgive them, but as part of that forgiveness, we need to take 100% responsibility for their actions against us. This may sound impossible, but I describe how in my book, The Art of Forgiveness. When you find the spiritual sweet spot, such impossible things become effortless.

Civilization Restoration Kit — Goals for Limiting the New Dark Ages

Goals for the Civilization Restoration Kit:

We have a socioeconomic system that is not based on selfishness, debt or scarcity

For example: No more corporations with stockholders. Such entities look out for themselves at the expense of others. Pure greed.
No more collectivism; instead, we use something like an altruistic anarchy (no government); or a spiritual monarchy, if we can find someone as selfless as Jesus or Gautama Siddhartha.


We have a decentralized societal management system that is not based on force.
We have an educational system that is based on empowerment and real-world skills.

Entrepreneurial methods.
Creativity.
Building.
Cooking.
Farming.
Scientific investigation and critical thinking.
Social interaction and superior management skills.
Innovation.
Thinking outside the box; and creating new boxes; or doing away with boxes altogether.


Science no longer allows ego to play such a large role.
Science uses a new operating paradigm based on restraint and humility; no longer skepticism. The bias of doubt is no longer used to manage the egos of scientists.

What Are Your Thoughts on Keeping the New Dark Ages Short?

Your input is vital. Why? Because we’re all in this together. Each of us may miss some vital aspect of the problems before us. By each of us taking 100% responsibility, then we increase our chances of becoming aware of all aspects of the coming storm. So, what observations have you made? What suggestions do you have? What would you add to the Civilization Restoration Kit?

Over the coming months and years, I will continue to contribute to this growing movement. The more of us who create our own movement toward altruistic goals, the more our decentralized efforts will overcome the ones with all the guns and psychopathic blood lust. So, speak up! Help us improve the Civilization Restoration Kit so we can keep the new dark ages short.

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Bias on the Internet — Signs of a New Dark Age?

President Bush, Jr., looking over 9/11 fires and Wikipedia-CIA logos. Bias on the internet is creating some strange ideas. Photograph of Bush: Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0, via Wikipedia. Photograph of New York on 9/11: National Park Service, PD, via Wikipedia.

Bias on the internet is a form of self-imposed stupidity. I’m an expert on this larger subject. I’ve done it a lot. The nice thing is, anyone can change simply by deciding to change. Ego makes it painful to change, so that has to tell you something about ego. It’s not the real you. It’s not your identity, but a false identity that gets in the way.

Ego is fear and all other forms of self-concern. Ego is “me” separate from everyone else.

The problem in today’s world is that there are some unscrupulous people who know how to play ego like a symphony. They murder 2,977 in New York and Northern Virginia and move all of civilization in a drastically different direction. Part of their slick trick was blaming it on Muslims.

Bias on the Internet—Your Taxes Hard at Work

The CIA had their Operation Mockingbird. Taxpayers have been paying for their own stupidity or dumbing down.

In early February 1981, President Reagan asked CIA Director William Casey what he thought the goal of the agency should be. Casey replied, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

Each individual who ridicules someone else is revealing an active bias which contributes to the demise of civilization. Sound harsh? All it takes is 7 Billion people each taking one step backward to have all of us be immensely closer to oblivion. That’s teamwork, in a twisted sense.

David Rockefeller, in his Memoirs, confessed with pride to having conspired against the best interests of the United States. With more than two dozen lobbyists for each federal legislator, working against the best interests of the United States takes treason to a new level. Several times, congressmen have tried to get laws passed which would effectively censor the internet—SOPA, PIPA, CISPA and now the TPP. The tactic we’ve been unwittingly paying for is one of transferring power from elected legislators to unaccountable individuals for which there is no oversight. Students of history will recognize that the same thing happened in 1913 when the power to make money in America was transferred from Congress to the private Federal Reserve System of private banks.

With every product or service purchased from a corporation, every citizen is contributing to their own enslavement or death. This becomes clearer when you realize that the one ingredient common to all corporations is the attitude of selfishness. And psychopaths are the most effectively selfish people on the world.

Bias on the Internet—Wikipedia Style

There’s so much bias on the internet, I created my own climate website to counter those prejudices. Life springs forth in the Namib Desert after a rain. Rain can be more frequent with global warming, because there is more water vapor from warmth’s evaporation. Photo: Hans Stieglitz (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikipedia.org.

I’ve been a minor contributor to Wikipedia for several years. If ever I see a typographical error, or see an error in fact, I log in and correct it. Wikipedia is a pretty cool idea. So, it came as an annoying disturbance to read someone complaining about Wikipedia, showing disrespect for it as a source of information. At the very least, Wikipedia can give a person multiple sources of information in its lists of references.

But the last couple of years, I’ve started to see what the critics have been saying. Because Wikipedia is open for anyone to edit, corruption of its viewpoint is a very real danger. I witnessed this on its treatment of the 9/11 topic. Wikipedia administrators will not let anyone make changes to the main 9/11 article without prior approval. Wikipedia has become a mouthpiece for the mainstream media and the government viewpoint on things. And when the government and mainstream media are both owned by the same psychopaths who perpetrated 9/11, this makes Wikipedia part of the problem.

On November 20, 2015, I noticed a problem in one Wikipedia article on “Greenhouse and icehouse Earth.” The article quoted one source saying that the Holocene might last for another 50,000 years, based on Milankovitch cycles. This one idea is interesting and remains a possibility, but I had read another article that provided a different possibility—that the Holocene was already overdue to end. I added the following text with the appropriate reference.

On the other hand, one study states that interglacials of the current Ice Age tend to be around 11,000 years long, and the Holocene interglacial “has already lasted somewhere between 17,000 calendar years and 11,500 calendar years.”

My text and citation lasted ten minutes. Within ten minutes someone else had reverted my change back to the original.

My reason for adding the change was, “Added reference to W.S. Broecker article indicating possible short-term end to Holocene.” Someone else named William M. Connolley reverted my change because, “accurate, but very old and in theis [sic] context, misleading).”

I wanted to see what would happen if I simply put my change back. My reason, “Old facts are never out of date. Age is irrelevant. Context is very relevant for glaciation return.)” My reference was from 1998, yet the article already had other references from not only 1998, but also 1992. Old? Some data is never “old.” Some data can be replaced by newer, more refined findings, but that was not the stated issue.

This time, my change lasted for several hours. The same person reverted my change, giving his reasons as “same reasons as before.”

If I had nothing else to do in my life, it might prove interesting to discuss this change with Mr. Connolley and to help him see the logic of my position. But for writing that might persist on the internet for mere minutes, it hardly seems worth it.

Instead of contributing to the slippery, elusive slope of Wikipedia, I decided to create my own climate website, http://globalwarmth.org.

Bias on the Internet—Science by Ridicule?

While doing research on climate and sea level rise, I came across a forum where Dr. Mörner, an expert in sea level, was mentioned in a derogatory way. Someone mentioned that Dr. Mörner was into dowsing and that this simple fact was all they needed to turn off any mention of the good doctor. Wikipedia maintains their encyclopedic style, but with carefully placed venom. Others ridiculed him, so it’s okay for you to ridicule him and to forget all about his expert knowledge of sea level rise. Rather than make it about the facts of his knowledge, the focus is on the man—ad hominem—a logical fallacy.

Dowsing? That does sound strange. To anyone with only a grounding in science, it’s hard to see a connection with reality. How can dowsing possibly be real? Dowsing is supposed to be a method of finding water by holding a stick while walking across the land in search of water. How can two branches coming together to a point have any ability to detect water?

But everyone who ridicules Dr. Mörner for it likely never studied dowsing, never wrote a paper on it, never did experiments in it, and likely never even tried it. This kind of ridicule I call “unsupported dismissiveness.” It’s a subjective bias with no resemblance to real science. Remember? Science is supposed to be unbiased.

If you’ve followed my writing for awhile, you might remember me talking about the big bias stuck in the middle of science—skepticism. The very paradigm of standard operating basis for science is itself a source of immense bias. This may come as a shock to most scientists and even to most laymen. But just look at the definition. In fact, several definitions of the word include the term “doubt.” You can’t get more biased than that.

Okay, just so your cognitive dissonance doesn’t go critical, the preferred paradigm of science is restraint and humility, not skepticism. Restraint merely means no action until all the data is in. Even then, conclusions could be wrong, but using proper critical thinking in analyzing the data, the conclusions have a far better chance of being right. Humility is the attitude that “I don’t know” or “I will let reality tell me, rather than me use my own ideas.” Skepticism, on the other hand, starts with a rejection—a doubt. All too frequently, this doubt comes with a heavy dose of arrogance—a subjective “know-it-all” attitude.

Rather than ridiculing someone for their beliefs in something we don’t understand, we should look at the data they present and take each piece of data for what it is worth.

Bias on the Internet—Prejudice and Fear

I’ve seen a lot of people ridiculing Muslims, lumping them all in one homogenous group. All Muslims do _______. But do they really? Are all Muslims terrorists. Absolutely not. Using the same logic, we could say that humans did the things of which Muslims were accused, and all humans are thus guilty, so condemn all humans. Not very logical.

Christians are becoming more un-Christian-like, saying that they would never accept refugees in their state. I even read of one of my cousins doing this. We need to use wisdom, but fearing all refugees because a few bad apples were violent is not only not logical, it is anti-Christian.

The power behind our corrupt governments wants us to fear and to lump people into easy-to-manage groups. The wise approach is to learn how to read people and their egos, then to decide based on the “fruit” they bear. We need to resist the urge to react, for reacting, instead of thinking, is the height of feeblemindedness and insanity.

One survey found, in the last year or so, that a vast majority of Americans approve of the CIA torturing prisoners. I wonder how true it is. Does a majority really feel this way, or is it the Corporatocracy making stuff up to make people think a certain way? Whatever the truth of the majority, that doesn’t matter. We can only change our own individual selves.

In order to eliminate bias on the internet, we need to start with ourselves. We need to stop being prejudiced, reactionary and dull-witted. We need to be humble and observant. We need to remain willing to give up yesterday’s truths for improved versions. We need to be willing to have been wrong all along and to give up lies for truths. Only with this malleability and a hunger for real truth can we hope to improve.

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Persistent Contrails — Possible Threshold From a Combination of Factors

Spoof: Persistent Contrails, a Scientific Paper Explaining Away a Controversial Phenomenon

By John D. Jokerfella

Persistent contrails split natural clouds. Chemtrails Global Skywatch 2015:1121 from Facebook post.

The groundbreaking work of Bernard and Simmons, et al, (2001), established a baseline for the phenomenon of persistent contrails. Their work goes a long way toward explaining the prolonged existence of these jet aircraft condensation trails. Their paper also counters the popular notion of “chemtrails” and the conspiracy theories that dire political forces are spraying the population for nefarious reasons. This paper will attempt to set the record straight by showing that contrails tend to persist when air traffic reaches a certain critical threshold, combined with global warming and other factors.

A significant abundance of persistent contrails have been documented as early as 1997, reaching a relative peak in 2007. The phenomenon of persistent contrails has remained intermittent, because it requires certain atmospheric conditions to manifest. Among these conditions are,

Upper atmospheric cold
Water vapor saturation
Partial pressure of CO2
Adiabatic lapse rate
Insolation incident at the upper atmosphere
Cosmic ray flux as modified by solar wind
Ambient global warming radiation from below

The volume of American air transport passengers carried in 1996 stood at a little over 571 million. This was the last year without any known evidence of persistent contrails. Though there is not a direct correlation between persistent contrails and passenger volumes, these volumes do have a loose relationship with the occurrence of persistent contrails, because they tend to indicate actual airplane traffic and the volume of exhaust delivered into the upper troposphere. In 1997, passenger volumes reached 590 million and contrails started to persist for periods as long as several hours, but the occurrence of these was intermittent, broken and rare. The trails themselves tended to start and stop, leaving gaps of several hundred feet. Not all aircraft left persistent contrails, even those traveling through the same parcels of air. This intermittency is discussed in depth by Borland and Springer (2009). Because air traffic between 1997 and 2003 hovered close to the threshold, aircraft found conditions more rare for forming persistent contrails. Here are the passenger volumes for that period (figures in millions of passengers):

1997—590.6
1998—588.2
1999—634.4
2000—665.3
2001—622.2
2002—598.4
2003—589.0

Persistent contrails and rainbow effect above Spokane, Washington. Spokane Climate Engineering Watch from Facebook post.

Because this phenomenon had not yet attracted the attention of serious scientists, thorough records were not kept of persistent contrails during that period. But our study reviewed thousands of hours of news footage and other video sources, where dates were given, in order to piece together a history of early persistent contrails. We found that this phenomenon largely disappeared in 1998, showed strong re-occurrence from 1999 through 2001 and virtually disappeared from 2002 to 2003. Certain geographic exceptions have been noted (see appendix). From 2004 on, persistent contrails became a far more regular phenomenon, because passenger levels—and thus actual plane traffic—increased above the threshold level, remaining above 678 million, and reaching 762.6 million in 2014.

References:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/I...

http://nationmaster.com/country-info/...

Back to Reality on Persistent Contrails (Chemtrails)

Persistent contrail above Cebu, Philippines. This is the first chemtrail I’ve witnessed in 8 years living here. Taken November 30, 2015, 5:27 pm. Click on the image to see in greater detail.

I’ve had people stop talking to me because I believed in my own memory and in what I saw with my own eyes. Calling persistent contrails “chemtrails” is only a logical extension of observation. Why? Water vapor behaves one way; chemtrails behave in an entirely different way or ways. There may well be different kinds of contaminants from time to time, but persistent contrails are not natural byproducts of jet engine exhaust. Some chemtrails have the added behavior of rainbow effect, while the surrounding clouds (water vapor) do not show a rainbow, much as an oil slick shows rainbows while the surrounding water does not.

I’ve experienced 44 years of clear skies and non-persistent contrails—from my first memory of contrails in 1953 up until 1997, when I saw my first chemtrails. The spoof, above, which tries to explain away chemtrails as something dependent upon a narrow threshold of airline traffic is admittedly ridiculous. Soil and snow samples have shown extreme concentrations of elemental aluminum (not natural), strontium and barium—increases from previous records. Aluminum “acidification” is apparently killing off trees and other plant life.

Air traffic in the Philippines remains far less than that experienced in America. That in the Central Visayas region is even less, yet I saw my first chemtrail last November 30, after 8 years of clear sky bliss. So, our spoof’s explanation for the abrupt appearance in persistent contrails at an air traffic passenger threshold of 590 million is bogus. If these unnatural, persistent contrails (chemtrails) start to increase as they did in Arizona (I lived there from 1997–2007), then I can expect to see more continuous trails, more of them and on more days, in the years to come. I love clear, clean skies. For now, I’ll enjoy the clean skies when I have them. And I’ll pray for the psychopaths who think that their persistent contrails are somehow the right thing for Earth.

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