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Mobile Ready Tools to Make Your Website Responsive the Easy Way

Man using iPad to navigate to mobile ready Tharsis Highlands website. Photo: 891864 by Godserv via Morguefile.com

Mobile ready tools are just what you need to bring your website up-to-date. Google wants everyone to make their websites easy to find and to use. This helps them and their customers, but it also helps your own visitors. With a larger and larger share of internet users arriving at websites using mobile devices, it only makes sense to cater to their needs.

When I first heard this, I let out a long sigh and wondered how I’d ever find the time to reinvent all of my own websites (nearly two dozen of them). Surprisingly, the task is pretty simple. It still requires a lot of work, but there are a couple of straightforward ways to achieve the desired end result.

Mobile Ready Tool: WordPress

Though it helps to know PHP to make the most of WordPress, you really don’t need any programming to set it up and to use a host of settings, properties and features. In order to make your website mobile ready, or what is also called “responsive,” you need to use a responsive theme.

First, install WordPress in your root folder, if it’s not already there. The key to ensuring your website is mobile ready (responsive) is to use a theme which is fully responsive.

Simply go to the WordPress themes page:

https://wordpress.org/themes/

Click on the Feature Filter button, and under the Layout column, click “Responsive.” Select any other filters you may wish to use. Then, click the Apply Filters button. Finally, select the theme you would like to use. Or you can merely search for the theme by name from within WordPress.

What is remarkable about WordPress, if you don’t already know, is that it already comes with a large array of pre-programmed features that make managing your website exceptionally easy. You can create standalone pages just as you could on an entirely handcrafted website, as well as the regular blog postings that are a standard item in WordPress.

If you have WordPress installed in a sub-folder, moving it to your root does require some work. Everything you need to know can be found at,

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

Mobile Ready Tool: W3.CSS

If you like having more control over the look and feel of your website, and don’t mind getting your hands dirty writing code, W3 Schools has developed a mobile ready tool you may find indispensable. Really, all it contains is a CSS file with optimized code for an entirely mobile ready website. You can use it as-is, modify it to suit your needs, or piggyback your own external CSS file to cascade with theirs.

You can find a tutorial for working with their W3.CSS file at,

http://w3schools.com/w3css/default.asp

I’m developing my latest website, GlobalWarmth.org, using this approach. The website has only a placeholder home page at the moment, but I hope to have it launched in the next few weeks—hopefully before the end of November, when the Global Warming conference in Paris will have started.

Mobile Ready Hybrid: WordPress + W3.CSS

Click on book cover to see a Landing Page using W3.CSS, not part of WordPress which runs the remainder of the site.

I have already used both mobile ready tools on my Tharsis Highlands website. First of all, I converted the entire website to WordPress, installing the software in my root directory. Then, I created two separate folders which are not part of WordPress. These host my direct marketing Landing Pages and Download pages using W3.CSS.

Here’s the home page at TharsisHighlands.com.

And here is one of my landing pages promoting my book, The Art of Forgiveness.

The nice thing about using W3.CSS for your landing pages is that you can design them any way you want, especially excluding links to other pages. After all, in a landing page you want to funnel the visitor toward the deal closer.

I’m a perpetual student. There’s always more to learn, whether it be technology, writing, science, spirituality or current events. I hope these tips and links help. Do you have any questions or suggestions? I would love to hear from you.

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Chemtrails — The Elephant in the Room People are Ignoring

One of the dozens of photographs found in social media showing the ugly horrors of chemtrails. This was supposedly taken in Yosemite, California, 2015:06.

You’re an idiot if you believe in chemtrails. That seems to be the subtext going around these days in forums, in government pronouncements and in the corporate party news media. I guess I’m one of those idiots.

What are chemtrails? First, let’s start by saying that they are not contrails. Condensation trails (contrails for short) are the white trails that appear after a jet airplane travels through the sky, usually at a high altitude, in a relatively clear sky. Contrails normally last only a fraction of a second. Sometimes they might last for several seconds. This all depends on the conditions at the aircraft’s altitude.

Since the late 90s, people have been witnessing a new kid on the block which persists for hours—sometimes all day long.

Chemtrails—Believing in Them is Like Ridiculing the Emperor with No Clothes

One of many chemtrail photos found in social media. It’s hard to know which ones are real and which ones are fake. Here, the photo shows trails coming not from the engines, but from the wing tips.

There is an old fable about an emperor who was so gullible he was sold a new wardrobe by a very lazy and unethical tailor. The wardrobe, of course, did not exist, but everyone went along, because the emperor could cut off your head, if he wanted to. The story comes from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (Danish: Kejserens nye Klæder) by Hans Christian Andersen.

One friend and former employer asked me a few years ago if I believed in “chemtrails.” I replied that there is nothing to believe. Either you’ve seen them or you haven’t. They are unnatural and unlike anything I’ve seen for most of my life. That was the last I ever heard from her.

I remember my first contrail. I was about three years old and one of my relatives pointed it out in the sky overhead. The trail lasted for just about one second behind the jet aircraft flying above us. It must have been a military jet. There weren’t too many commercial jets flying, especially over West Texas in the early 50s.

I’ve been a fan of space travel most of my life. I love wide open spaces. I soak up views of the sky, like most humans soak up oxygen. In the first 44 years of my love of open skies, I never noticed one instance of a jet aircraft trail lasting more than a minute. Then, in 1997, it happened. I moved from Los Angeles to Phoenix and noticed an occasional, ugly scrawl across the sky, like some errant artist had decided to mar my lovely view. I thought nothing of this, except to be slightly annoyed. But then, it started to increase markedly. When I visited friends in Los Angeles a few years later, I noticed that the same junk had invaded skies there, too. So, it wasn’t merely a Phoenix phenomenon.

Chemtrails Appear Out of Nowhere, but No Spike in Air Traffic

Chemtrails with a sense of humor. “Remember this from when you were a kid?” And the reply to a “no” answer might be, “Me neither!”

In 1970, the number of air transport passengers carried in America were 163 million. By 1996, this had increased to 590 million passengers. Yet, in all that time, I observed no persistent trails.

One year later, chemtrails appeared, yet air traffic had increased over the previous year by only about five percent. Ten years after I first noticed them, they were a relatively constant phenomenon in the Phoenix skies. It seemed like prison bars, locking my soul on Earth, keeping me from soaking up the wide open spaces. In those ten years, air traffic had increased only 26%, yet had gone from 0 chemtrails to dozens crisscrossing the skies and lasting all day long.

In 2007, I moved to the Philippines. The move was good for several reasons. I moved to be with the love of my life. Last month, we celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary. Also, I celebrated eight years without chemtrails overhead. We have an international airport not far away, but I’ve never seen one chemtrail in all those eight years.

Chemtrails Against Global Warming

Chemtrail Comparison: Real clouds versus the toxic, slimy film which coats our skies these days.

Why would anyone use chemtrails? It’s also called “geoengineering,” and in a 2013 article in Der Spiegel, David Keith explored the use of aerosols to reflect some of the sunlight back into space to help cool down the planet.

Scientists seem to be chomping at the bit to implement this geoengineering, but ironically, it’s been going on since at least 1997. The chemicals used include aluminum (elemental), barium and strontium. Biochemists have tested soils and found sharp increases in the amounts of these toxic substances. If it rains down on the soil, it also must be getting into our lungs. Elemental aluminum, which is highly unnatural, has been linked to neurological problems, including Alzheimer’s disease.

Meteorologists who talk about it, are shut up. Other meteorologists learn that if they want to keep their jobs, they are not to talk about chemtrails.

But even more ironic is the fact that the UN, governments and news media are pushing cooling down the planet in the midst of an ongoing Ice Age. Read that again. Yes, we’re in an Ice Age and have been for 2.6 million years. Cooling down the planet in an Ice Age is like pouring gasoline on a fire in order to put it out. The disconnect with reality here is huge. It’s like the Emperor’s New Clothes have made everyone stupid.

The Holocene won’t last forever. If we’re still in the Ice Age when it ends, then we’ll have another glacial period. And glacials usually last for 90,000 years. That’s 900 centuries without much rain. That’s nearly a hundred thousand years with very little food.

Some scientists and governments have become either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil. I don’t know which is worse.

Chemtrails Breaking Through the Public Blindness

In the following video, scientists, pilots and other concerned citizens speak out in Shasta County, California, before the county government. The topic: chemtrails.

Chemtrail Discussions in Social Media

It seems only inevitable that a topic like chemtrails would break into social media, like Facebook. Whenever there is a controversial topic, inevitably someone is always there to proclaim believers to be crazy. One such gentleman asked me if I believed every crackpot idea I find on the internet. How do you respond to a loaded accusation like that? That’s like, “Did you beat all of your former wives before murdering them?”

Those who don’t like chemtrails sometimes document the skies near where they live. This one shows chemtrails supposedly taken between Urbana and Independence Iowa, 2015:1102.

The same gentleman went on to add several other entertaining comments. One included a dark, grainy, black-and-white photo with chemtrails covering the sky, and silhouettes of soldiers in combat uniforms pointing this way and that. He said that this showed that persistent trails existed for 63 years. On one hand, he condemns anyone who would believe anything they find on the internet (and I don’t), but then expects everyone to believe him and everything he says. This kind of poor logic fills the dialogs on the subject of chemtrails, but also other controversial topics like vaccine injury, climate change, 9/11 truth, conspiracies and much more.

Some skeptics have wondered if the government or some corporation had paid some of these less-than-logical commenters to post their inane verbiage. I suspect that they wouldn’t have to. Enough people have poor enough understanding of such things, but big enough egos, all anyone would have to do is to plant a few stories in the corporate party media which ridicule such ideas to make them immediately unpopular with those who have big egos.

When former CIA director, William Casey, told his president his intentions for the agency, he revealed a great deal of evil in government. He told then-president Reagan, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” They don’t need an army of CIA agents visiting Facebook. They only need an army of Big Egos finding something to bash so they feel bigger. That’s how ego works, especially if you’re not self-aware enough to know you have one that’s being played by experts who run the captains of industry.

Are you one of the crazy ones who thinks there is something strange and unnatural going on with these persistent trails, or do you believe otherwise. Don’t be afraid to speak up. I don’t have a big ego. Years of experience have helped me put it in its place.

References

All references retrieved on November 4, 2015

Coalition Against Geo-Engineering. (November 3, 2015) “Scientist along with e pilots set out to test Chemtrails phenomenon, all while breaking a few world records in the process.” Retrieved from http://wp.coalitionagainstgeoengineering.org/2015/11/monumental-air-test-planned-to-examine-geoengineering/

Grolle, Johann. (November 20, 2013) “Cheap But Imperfect: Can Geoengineering Slow Climate Change?” Retrieved from http://spiegel.de/international/world/scientist-david-keith-on-slowing-global-warming-with-geoengineering-a-934359.html

Hodgskiss, James. (October 17, 2015) “CRACKED! Top Climate Scientist Admits to Ongoing Geoengineering.” Retrieved from http://chemtrailsprojectuk.com/cracked-top-climate-scientist-admits-to-ongoing-geoengineering/

Murphy, M. (November 2, 2015) “Michael J. Murphy’s Letter to Activists; Geoengineering, Paris Climate Agreement and the Coming Carbon Dictatorship.” Retrieved from http://wp.coalitionagainstgeoengineering.org/2015/11/michael-j-murphys-letter-to-activists-geoengineering-paris-climate-agreement-and-the-coming-carbon-dictatorship/

Nation Master. (ND) “Passengers carried: Countries Compared.” Retrieved from http://nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Transport/Air-transport/Passengers-carried

World Bank. (ND) “Air transport, passengers carried.” Retrieved from http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR

Facebook Pages:

https://facebook.com/AustraliansAgainstChemtrails/

https://facebook.com/ChemtrailWorld/

https://facebook.com/groups/globalskywatch/

https://facebook.com/InternationalChemtrail/

https://facebook.com/Stop-Chemtrails-330176123695801/

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Thermophobia — Fear of Global Warming and Ignorance of the Current Ice Age

Cover of my new book, Thermophobia

Thermophobia means a fear of warmth. It’s also the title of a new book I’m working on. And I have a series of videos in the pipeline on this very same topic.

Of course, thermophobia comments on the current global warming hysteria making governments give up their sovereignty and tax their people Trillions of dollars to stem the tide of the terrifying warmth.

The way they talk about it, you’d think the planet was burning up. NASA calls it “Earth’s fever.” Yet, the big elephant in the room no one seems to be talking about is the startling fact that we’re in an Ice Age. Yes, you’ve heard about those little white things at the poles. As long as they persist, we’re still in an Ice Age.

The truly uncomfortable fact about this is that when the Holocene ends, then we’re back to 90,000 years of glacial cold. That’s the real danger. According to W.S. Broecker, in his article, “The End of the Present Interglacial: How and When?” he presented the notion that the Holocene is running about 600 years over the average length of an interglacial in the current Ice Age.

Warmth is good. Life thrives in warmth.

All of the so-called “extreme weather events,” are ordinary and statistically uninteresting. We are not getting a frightening increase in any of them. Floods, droughts, tornadoes and tropical cyclones—none of these are on the rise. Not yet. We may be able to thank global warming for that.

Droughts, tornadoes and hurricanes tend to increase with global cooling. For one thing, cooling means less evaporation and less precipitation (rain, snow, etc). Storms derive their energy from temperature differences. Like an electrical battery, the stronger the thermal difference, the stronger the storm potential. During the Little Ice Age, storms were stronger and more frequent. The reason may be simple: there was a greater thermal potential between the poles and the equator, because of the greater cold in the higher latitudes and relatively little change near the equator.

Thermophobia—The Wrong Direction

Thermophobia has us inadvertently wishing for a return to this: Icebergs and continental glaciation. Photo: Christopher Michel (CC BY 2.0) via Wikipedia.

Fear of warmth (thermophobia) is the wrong direction. We should sober up to the serious threat of global cooling, and embrace global warming. The largest downside of warming is rising oceans. It may seem cruel, but people should not be so attached to real estate. We can move the coastal cities. Growing crops in the snow when the Holocene ends will be impossible.

If the Holocene were to end later today, it might take as little as 50 years to settle into the next glacial period of the current Ice Age. What would that mean? First, it would mean 90,000 years of frozen climate.

All that cold will turn off most of the rainfall. Deserts will take over the landscape. What isn’t covered by ice and snow will be dry and desolate, for the most part.

Many of the cities which people want to protect from rising oceans will be covered by glaciers in a few generations, unless we can end the current Ice Age.

The corn and wheat belts of the world will likely either be covered by permanent snow or desiccated by the lack of rain. At the risk of sounding like a fear monger, Billions might die from the cold directly, from starvation or the inevitable food wars. But there is hope.

The Cure for Thermophobia—Facts Instead of Lies

There are so many lies being pushed by Corporate news media, governments and NGOs. For one, their use of the term “climate change” to describe their so-called modern problem is deceitful. Why? Because climate has changed for billions of years. Climate will always change. Their use of the term creates confusion. Perhaps this was intentional.

The so-called “scientific consensus” is also bogus. It should not shock anyone to find out that science is never done by consensus. To claim that it is proves to be an argumentum ad populum type logical fallacy. Science is never a popularity contest. That lunacy was supposed to have ended with the Renaissance. But scientists have egos, and today’s scientific community is too easily bought with corporate and NGO funding. Anyone who says that this is not an implicit corruption, is not paying attention. Scientists know they won’t get funded if they don’t satisfy their benefactors. No honey, no money.

Another cure for thermophobia requires more work—namely, ending the Ice Age. Once people see the benefits of a warmer world without polar glaciation, they will wonder why they waited so long. We would need to move the cities, or build dikes. San Francisco would be perfect for this. Move the crops to the appropriate latitude. Help ensure fauna can migrate easily to a more comfortable habitat.

Some scientists have estimated that it would take something like 5,000 years to melt the polar ice. Regrettably, we may not have that long before the Holocene ends. And we still do not yet know what controls the climate. CO2 certainly doesn’t. It’s a factor, yes, but correlation between CO2 and temperature only appear on the scale of tens of thousands of years. On the decadal and million year scales, they only occasionally coincide and without seeming cause-and-effect. The Svensmark study provides a possible major driver—the forces which control cloud formation: cosmic rays and the solar wind which controls cosmic ray access to Earth.

But what can we do to end the Ice Age? Is it even possible? Here are some thoughts:

Orbiting reflectors to direct more sunlight down into polar waters. This will increase the evaporation and precipitation, growing the glaciers, at first. Would it melt the glaciers in the long run?
Low albedo slabs, manufactured and installed on top of existing glaciers, especially Greenland and Antarctica. How many millions would be needed?
Ocean stirring to keep the thermohaline conveyor from shutting down as it was theorized to have done during the Younger Dryas “big freeze,” twelve thousand years ago. My website, Mission: Atlantis covers this physical stirring as a possible driver for the sudden Younger Dryas end.

How much of these would be enough? If we focused our planetary efforts on this, rather than paying $Trillions in “carbon tax,” could we do it? If 7+ Billion people pitched in, would we have enough of a workforce?

Perhaps someone should raid the upcoming Paris climate conference and turn their agenda on its head. Promote global warming instead of thermophobia.

Do you have any other suggestions?

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Art Quality — Discerning Excellence in a Fast Food World

I have spent many hours at coffee houses, contemplating art quality, writing my next book, or designing a new video. Photo: Café de Flore by Arnaud 25 (PD) via Wikipedia.org

Art quality is something that has concerned me since 1953. That’s when I first started drawing with an eye at capturing the feeling and detail of my subject. I was 3 years old.

Being married comes with some interesting responsibilities that touch on this “art quality” topic. One of those responsibilities is going with the wife when she tries on clothes.

“How’s this one?” she may ask.

“That’s nice,” I reply.

“Really?”

Of course, I’m being honest. There are many qualities about what she is currently wearing that are truly “nice.” Perhaps the color is pleasant. Perhaps the neckline has an interesting swoop to it. But most of what she tries on is only “nice.”

Then, she tries on a dress that seems to have been made in heaven. Everything about it works—the cut, the design, the material, the color.

“Wow!” I say, and feel goosebumps all over. It’s as if something clicks into place and all the planets align. The dress is not necessarily explicitly sexy. It can be that, but the true “wow” factor is in the degree of quality the artist added to their masterpiece. The difference between, “that’s nice,” and “wow,” involves this nebulous feature called “art quality.”

I’m no fashion designer, but I can recognize when a dress is either “nice” or “wow.” Certainly, personal tastes are involved, but beyond individual preferences, there is an underlying level of art quality that sets one piece above the others.

Using Art Quality to Select Music

One of my current projects involves producing a short documentary on global warming, called “Thermophobia: Fear of Warmth.” The video requires a few serious pieces of background music, but my favorite is decidedly happy.

Two of my preferred sources for royalty free music are Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), and YouTube’s “Free Music” audio library. I have listened to hours of music, searching for the right kind of pieces for my video productions. Many works seem to fall flat or are too repetitive and miss opportunities for exciting change-ups. Many pieces are “nice,” but don’t take me somewhere exciting and new.

What we like as individuals may vary quite a bit, because of our singular, and very different backgrounds. Personally, I can’t stand most Hip Hop, but there have been a few, rare pieces that combined rhythm and melody in a way that produced a full “Wow” effect in me. Most country and western is the same way, but when I hear Willie Nelson singing, “On the Road Again,” I feel like moving with the melody.

A true work of art has enough of the structure with which we are familiar to reach us. It contains some patterns from nature that we recognize, perhaps not consciously. It communicates to us on a deeply visceral level. It has interesting textures and contrasts, whether it is a painting or a piece of music. It has enough variety in its patterns to keep us entertained. For instance, a song can have different sections, including a chorus. By having some repetition in form and texture, we have the piece as a whole maintain a degree of integrity. All the parts fit together snugly. But the repetition can get boring if everything about each iteration is the same each time. Subtle differences can make the repetition take on new levels of energy. This is one of the things I liked about Boléro by Ravel when I first heard it.

Coffee stains are one of the badges of honor for time spent tracking down art quality. Texture: Coffee Stained Paper 905211 by Taukast via Morguefile.com. Photo: Café de Flore by Arnaud 25 (PD) via Wikipedia.org

Many of the pieces of music to which I listen frustrate me. Why? Because they start out with a good theme, a melody or texture that shows promise, but then they beat it to death with mindless and flat repetition. Groan! Frequently, I feel a strong urge to learn music, to take their composition and do it the way I want it done—to show off their theme in a way that elicits the “wow” I’m looking for. Maybe next lifetime. I’m still enjoying my current art forms—video and writing.

By looking at these distinctions and discriminating between them, I’m learning more about my own art. I’m learning to become more patient, yet demanding of myself. I’m starting to see a deeper level of possibilities I have yet to explore.

Let me give you an example of this art quality dimension.

First is a piece of music which sounds nice. It’s listed on YouTube as “Mood: Happy.” It’s called “Coffee Stains,” by Riot. I like it. They do some interesting change-ups, keep the texture varied, and start with a simple, yet compelling idea. By the end of the piece, though, I’m tired of it. I might find a place for it, but I’m in no hurry.

“Coffee Stains” by Riot

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You can find art quality even in the design of a robot. Gemini symbol: SeLarin (CC BY-SA 3.0). Photo of Robot Pair: JosepPAL (CC BY-SA 3.0). Both via Wikipedia.org.

Next is a piece which grabbed me immediately, the first time I heard it. It sucked me in and kept me enthralled all the way through. Though I’ve listened to this one piece of music several dozen times already—and I can get tired of it—I find myself waking up in the morning hungering for another listen. This really is “wow” stuff. Now, it may not strike you as particularly “wow,” especially if you don’t like this kind of music. That’s an individual thing. But listen for the sparkles and highlights. Feel the driving vigor underlying the entire composition. Savor the warmth of the human voice added almost as if it were a bonus instrument. The textures are light, perky and energetic. The piece is called “Gemini Robot,” by Bird Creek. See if you can tell the difference between the “nice” of “Coffee Stains” and the “wow” of “Gemini Robot.”

“Gemini Robot” by Bird Creek

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One of my all-time favorites of any genre is “Air” by Johann Sebastian Bach for its simplicity, elegance and purity. I always listen to it when I need a powerfully calming influence that inspires and uplifts.

Do you have a favorite piece of art that gives you that “wow” because of its art quality? I’m talking about any piece of art—paintings, sculpture, movies, music, whatever. If you can, give me your top three “wow” pieces. Describe why they wow you.

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The Joke of Modern Medicine — Brilliant Science Blinded by Arrogance and Money

Modern medicine and Doctor Evil are destroying health, rather than restoring it. Most MD’s don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t know the history behind the petrochemical poisons they prescribe.

Modern medicine is a joke. People are living longer, yes, but in what condition? Are they vibrantly healthy until 120, or do they limp along, taking a handful of medicines just to stay alive, despite the pain and growing dementia?

There are many things which can affect the body. But there is one item which affects the body more than all the other things combined. The irony is, the doctors of modern medicine don’t study this one powerful item. It’s called nutrition. Most doctors get one brief course on the topic and then move on to more “interesting,” modern medicine stuff.

This is as insane as car mechanics studying macramé and refusing to study engines, fuel and lubricants. Okay, this isn’t a perfect analogy, but I’m sure you get the idea. More bulk in the form of food gets into the body than any other substance. Add up all of the air, light, pollution, water, and pathogens—these don’t compare to the impact of the food we eat.

“You are what you eat,” is a common phrase most of us have heard. And it makes a lot of sense. Many Americans eat three meals and numerous snacks each day. Every one of those periods of ingestion (eating) is another opportunity to put something good or something bad into our bodies.

How many nurses talked to their doctors about nutrition and were laughed at? “Oh, you’re one of those,” the doctor might say with a sneer of ridicule. I’ve heard of at least one instance of this. I suspect this attitude is far more prevalent than many might suspect.

It pains me to say it, but most of today’s modern medicine doctors are the real quacks. Their job is to prescribe poisons that damage the body, but make immense profits for the Medical Industry.

Earlier this year, I lost my brother, Larry. He wouldn’t listen to me about alternative methods of healing—the kind that had saved me from the brink of death over 8 years ago. But he wanted his “modern medicine.” That was his choice. I will sorely miss him.

Modern Medicine is Against Cures

Jews in Nazi concentration camp, victims of Pharmaceutical company greed, both Bayer and BASF helped to kill 60 million in WW2.

It makes me a little angry that so-called “modern medicine” has corrupted the art of healing so profoundly. Instead of using nature to help cure illnesses, the Medical Industry uses poisons to maintain diseases. Modern medicine is a cutthroat business meant to grow profits and eliminate competition. They are guilty of mass murder, but won’t be convicted, because they hide behind ignorance or the pretense of “caring.”

Even if there were no sinister conspiracy behind this, there is certainly sufficient pressure to increase the bottom line. Cures kill profits. Health maintenance proves wimpy on sales. Disease maintenance is the giant of corporate profit. Why? Because maintaining a disease means the patient keeps coming back just to stay alive. The patient is powerfully motivated to hand over their money, again and again and again. It’s an extortion racket.

In my book, Dirt Ordinary, I show how conspiracies are far more common than most people think. In fact, there are at least 489 new conspiracies starting every second, on average. The reason is simple: People are selfish or self-concerned.

I suspect that most doctors are good people. They want to help.

Not long ago, I saw a video where a doctor had discovered that the vaccines he had been giving children contained the heavy-metal toxin, mercury, in them. He immediately stopped giving the vaccines, after thirty years of blissful ignorance. Most doctors simply do not know what they’re doing. They’re living a lie started by powerful psychopaths with lots of money.

John D. Rockefeller Sr and Jr in 1915. They corrupted the health field and created modern medicine with its focus on petrochemical pharmaceuticals.

The Rockefellers had lots of oil and needed new customers. So, they got behind the petrochemical medicine idea. They funded medical colleges, but insisted that their men become members of the schools’ boards of directors to ensure that their money was well spent. Real medicine died back then—more than a century ago.

Revisiting our car analogy, let us say you have a loud clanking noise from your engine. Your mechanic takes a sledge hammer to your engine and the clanking stops. “Cured,” says the mechanic. “But,” you say, “you’ve killed the car.” That’s modern medicine.

But real medicine is being reborn, despite the cutthroat mentality of the big corporations. It is being reborn despite the catcalls of “quack” and “charlatan.” Today, I saw a video that gave me new hope for humanity. It’s the first of nine episodes documenting a world tour to discover what the true cancer experts are doing to prevent, treat and cure the illness. I encourage you, your family and all your friends to watch this.

And it’s about time. So-called “modern medicine,” corporate style, has thrown billions of dollars against curing cancer and has made zero real progress. And their treatments continue to kill patients along with the disease. Too bad they don’t have a separate statistic for deaths by treatment.

When the corporations own the newspapers and the pharmaceutical companies, who do you think they will side with when people compare modern medicine with real medicine?

Do you have any modern medicine horror stories? Do you have any successes with real medicine? What are your thoughts?

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Finding Happiness in an Increasingly Crazy World

Finding happiness is frequently easy for children. Photo: #228550 by Singhajay via Morguefile.com

Finding happiness seems more and more difficult for more and more people, these days. Jobless rates have skyrocketed over the last several years. Government statistics don’t seem to reflect those who have give up the search.

Many crime rates seem to be down, but the perpetual state of war is now more than 14 years in the making. Hostilities have threatened to expand into Syria and Iran. Even with the recent controversial deal with Iran, the potential threats posed by potential hostilities has many people even more worried than ever.

Government tyranny seems to increase with each passing month. For instance, a recent survey of Americans showed that a vast majority of them wanted GMO items properly labeled. Yet Congress passed a “safe and accurate food labeling” act which did the opposite. Whoever named the bill was being deceitful in the extreme. Corporations get more help than the citizens. Even so, citizens seem to welcome the increasingly powerful government.

More Americans approve of illegal CIA torture, because they are afraid. People have taken on the Jack Bauer mentality of expediency for the supposed “greater good.”

Anyone accused of aiding terrorism instantly has no rights. The government can do anything to them. Oops, they died during torture. Too bad they were later found innocent of all secret charges.

The liberties and protections for which America’s founding fathers fought so hard are now being systematically dismantled.

Threats of terrible epidemics make the news. Laws requiring mandatory vaccination are being passed in more states. Hushed reports of vaccination-caused deaths increase the level of worry.

News of climate catastrophes don’t help either. Finding happiness is becoming challenged on all fronts—health, family, finance, social and natural. The United Nations, governments and the news media make it seem the world could burn up with a runaway greenhouse effect. Our home planet could become like the dead hot-box, Venus. No matter that it’s all lies. The damage is done; people are worried to death.

The Solution to Finding Happiness

The solution to finding happiness is extremely simple and, with a little practice, extremely easy. How?

First of all, there’s no need to go looking for happiness. You create every feeling you feel. For some, this may seem to be a strange concept. But think about this: Something good happens and you smile; something bad happens and you frown.

Let’s take this apart. Let’s look more closely at what’s really happening.

Though it may look as though the external event is causing the emotion, it’s not. First, you perceive the external event. Then, you interpret its meaning to you. Next, you make a judgment based on that interpretation. Finally, you create an emotion to go with that judgment. Because we like things neat and tidy, we choose an emotion which we judge is compatible with our interpretation.

Finding happiness is not easy when you’re receiving a traffic citation. Brazilian federal highway officer gives a driver a ticket. Photo: Fabio Pozzebom (CC BY 3.0 BR) via Wikipedia.org.

Here’s an example.

Let us say Tom has had a number of moving violations registered against his driver’s license. Today, Tom is feeling a little stressed, because he’s late for his job. As he’s driving toward work, he’s distracted by a flashing light in his rearview mirror. A police car is right behind his.

Tom pulls over and feels his heart pounding in his chest. He feels sick, as if his world is ending. If he loses his license, he can’t work. If Tom can’t work, he’ll lose his apartment. He will starve and die.

The officer comes to his window carrying a briefcase. That’s strange enough, but his briefcase looks exactly like the one Tom owns.

Cautiously, Tom rolls down his window.

“Excuse me, sir,” says the officer. “Your briefcase slid off your roof when you made the turn back there. Please be more careful.”

Tom’s heart stops for a moment. It restarts as he thanks the officer. The embarrassment he feels is nothing compared to the heart attack he had been contemplating moments before.

The flashing lights, police car, and the precarious state of his driver’s license—all of these were related only by Tom’s jump to an erroneous conclusion. He decided to feel overwhelmed and fearful. The decision was entirely his.

Most worry and fear that people feel are based entirely on erroneous “what-ifs.” What if he’s going to give me a ticket or take away my license?

But the cause-and-effect nature of feelings goes far deeper than this.

Imagine the following: Instead of Tom freaking out with the flashing lights and worry about being one citation away from losing his license, he views the flashing lights as some kind of mobile party. The dark blue uniform he views as a clown costume of an official party, master of ceremonies.

Finding happiness is easiest when you decide to create it. Juvy and I on a boat to Bohol, Philippines.

Delusion? Only if Tom is unaware of the actual reality is this a delusion. The meaning and importance that Tom gives the details of reality are what remain critical here. Giving those details new meaning and a judgment of insignificance can prevent a panic attack.

So long as Tom remains fully aware that the police car and officer are what they are, his assignment of meaning is purely and only an act of creation.

In our modern society, we have become trained so thoroughly to face reality and to ridicule those who don’t, that we have trapped ourselves into an impossible corner. We need to learn that it’s okay to play with reality. In our quest of finding happiness, we need to learn how to create our own emotions.

The first, and perhaps most powerful method involves gratitude. Yes, finding happiness can be as easy as being grateful for everything you have.

Replace every worry with gratitude. Instead of looking at what you don’t have, concentrate on what you have.

If you’re trapped, be grateful that you can still breathe. If you’re dying, be grateful that you’ve lived. Fixating on the negatives frequently makes things worse. Some people give themselves a heart attack by deciding on the wrong meaning or fixating on the negatives instead of the positives. It would prove to be a real shame to die of fright only moments before your rescue.

Faith in Finding Happiness

Juvy and I got married 8 years ago today. We found happiness which continues to this day.

Let’s be clear about the meaning of “faith.” Many people confuse belief and faith; they’re not the same. Belief can be strong or weak; faith is absolute. With belief, you can be motivated to act (or not). With faith, you can work miracles. Big difference.

Some people even get the crazy notion that faith doesn’t make things easy; it merely makes things possible. They miss the entire meaning of faith. They’re looking 180° in the opposite direction.

When you give in to an idea—a way of viewing reality—with an unshakable confidence, but a perfect willingness not to have it that way—a miracle happens.

Example: In 2006, I had spent more than a decade being divorced. During that entire stretch of time, I had not dated anyone. For a year, I looked and found only heartache and disappointment. Then, in mid-April, 2007, I decided to be happily in love. No matter that I had spent a year looking, but had found only failure. No matter that I didn’t yet know the name or face of my love. I decided to love her anyway, even without the pleasure of her presence.

Day by day, I concentrated more and more on being grateful for her love.

For instance, while at the grocery store, I would pull out my cell phone and say, “Oh hi, sweetheart.” I would nod and wait for her to finish talking. All the while, I felt an incredibly delicious love. “Dinner at your place sounds wonderful. What time?” I continued to listen to my silent phone as I placed items in my shopping cart. Then, I laughed, grateful that my dearest had such a lovely sense of humor. “Okay, my darling. See you at eight.” Pause. “I love you, too. Bye, for now.”

Finding a little more happiness taking a walk in Cebu City, Philippines

After a couple of weeks of this, I had grown so comfortable in my feeling of gratitude, that I no longer resented being without anyone or worried about how long it would take. As far as I was concerned, it was already a done deal. I had arrived at my destination.

It seemed pleasantly coincidental that I had achieved this comfortable state of happiness by my birthday. That evening, I discovered that I had received an email from one of my dating memberships. But this one was different. From halfway around the globe, a woman named Juvy wanted to get to know me. As I soon discovered, she had every personality and spiritual trait for which I had been so grateful for the previous two weeks. A little over five months later we were married, October 17, 2007. That was eight years ago, today.

How can you use this? Get creative. Make a list of the things you want in your life. Then take the word “want” out of the equation. Simply “have” those things right now. Enjoy them in every way possible. Be grateful for them. While you’re at it, consider this improvement: enjoy your new “havingness” for the benefit of others, instead of yourself. This is one powerful distinction I only recently learned. This has “love” and “success” written all over it.

Let me know your thoughts and questions. Please share any successes you’ve had along this line.

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Success — More than a Positive Mental Attitude

A positive mental attitude can sometimes lead to great physical success. The yacht Samar, including helicopter. Photo: Pline (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikipedia.

There are many possible measures of success. Money remains perhaps the shallowest, right behind possessions and status. Having money, things and status are no guarantees of success or even happiness.

Some measure success by the accomplishment of some goal. Yet, some have discovered that, once a goal has been achieved, they are left feeling empty and without direction. With this discovery comes the realization that success was not an endpoint, but a lifestyle—an attitude.

Many great mentors have talked about having a positive mental attitude, frequently abbreviated “PMA.”

Some teachers have associated PMA with positive thinking. While the two tend to go together, positive thinking is no guarantee of a positive mental attitude. Though there is some overlap, there remain great swaths of human existence where positive thought is nowhere near PMA.

As a young man, I remember reading the story of Pollyanna. She always had a cheerful outlook, but almost always unrealistic. She lived in a state of delusion, happily ignorant of the darker aspects of life. She would not let any of that darkness interfere with her joyful disposition.

The past few days, I’ve been working on a book about happiness. I hope my client is happy with it. I suspect that the draft of the first half of the book may receive some challenges. My approach is unorthodox. Unlike Pollyanna, I recommend facing the darker aspects. More than merely thinking happy, positive thoughts, we must harbor a happy attitude. True success comes from this.

Moving Beyond a Positive Mental Attitude

Monk meditating. The practice of meditation can sometimes help cultivate a positive mental attitude. Photo: Phra Ajan Jerapunyo-Abbot of Watkungtaphao, by Tevaprapas Makklay (CC-BY-3.0) via Wikipedia.

I learned many years ago that we are responsible for our own condition in life. Too many people, though, confuse “responsibility” with “blame.” Simply put, blame is a negative attitude that shifts a burden from self to another. Responsibility, on the other hand, remains a positive attitude of taking the driver’s seat for the benefit of all.

A positive mental attitude has many of the correct ingredients for success, but too frequently it misses out on humility and selflessness. Some people can be quite selfish about PMA. This can lead to a very shallow form of success based on self-concern.

Why “shallow?” Any success which fulfills a physical, selfish need, can be stolen or damaged. Amass a fortune, mansions, yachts and status with politicians, and all of it can be lost because of war.

Any self-concern leaves a person vulnerable. A person who has only had purely physical experiences cannot begin to understand a life without self-concern, so their version of a positive mental attitude is always a selfish and vulnerable one.

Forgiveness Beyond a Positive Mental Attitude

Christ had more than a positive mental attitude when he walked on water. Painting: Julius Sergius Von Klever (PD) via Wikipedia.

In my book, The Art of Forgiveness, I relate my experiences in discovering the true form of forgiveness. That was my first taste of true success. It involved absolutely zero self-concern. What involved a positive mental attitude, did so without any hint of selfishness. I was completely humble to the needs of others. I remained perfectly willing to give up everything for their needs. During those few minutes of bliss, I felt nothing but love for them, despite the assaults of several of them against me and my vehicle. Also, I felt a fearless confidence that came effortlessly.

The miracle which followed almost seems secondary. That miracle—traffic opening up for two miles on one of the busiest streets in the world, during rush hour—was not the true success that day. It was a byproduct of success. The real success was in the spiritual state of being, outside of mind and body. It was the perfection of love, humility (selflessness and connection to others), responsibility (for the viewpoints of others as well as my own), and brave poise which resides at the heart of all true faith.

On that day, forgiveness became effortless. So did all other forms of miracles.

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Victim Worship and Other Diseases

Victim worship can sometimes lead to a heated finger-pointing argument. Photo: David Shankbone (CC BY-SA) via Wikipedia.

There’s a big difference between victim worship and compassion. Conversations on the topic can quickly descend into name-calling shout fests. Anyone who doesn’t have the politically correct view is a monster, an imbecile or, as one Twitter member stated, “I suspect far worse.”

What is victim worship? It is the willful elevation of a victim to the status of most important person. How does this differ from compassion? For one thing, compassion focuses on solving a problem. There’s not a shred of “poor, poor me” or smothering sympathy in it. There is an attitude of “get over it,” that most victim worshipers would find offensive or, as my most recent discussion mate said, “supremely ignorant and dangerous.” Let’s call this person Pete.

But let’s take a look at the real intent, here.

By saying, “get over it,” there is no sense of leaving the sufferer without help or direction. Instead, it’s guidance to change the attitude from one of wallowing in the “poor me” attitude and rising out of victimhood toward a healthy healing. Does a shift in attitude help? Of course it does. But pharmaceutical companies don’t pay for such “feel good” research. They cannot profit off of attitude changes. In fact, it’s likely disastrous to their bottom line.

Pete made the comment, “Many mental illnesses, depression for eg [sic] are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, they are physical…”

Unbeknownst to Pete, I have suffered depression. There was a period in my life when everything seemed to be going wrong. I felt the chemical imbalances that threatened to drive me over the edge. Thankfully, I’d had teachers and mentors who would not put up with such a victim mentality. I learned very quickly that we create the feelings we feel. Biochemistry may tug in one direction or another, but we are in control. We decide. Anyone who tells you any differently is either misinformed or has flabby ethics.

But we have to ask: What’s the goal? Healing? Or feel-good failure?

Modern medical science has created many wonders, but also many monstrosities. Prescription drugs are notorious for side effects that are not always fully documented. Some anti-psychotics and anti-depressants have been found to increase the incidence of suicides. Yet, when studies come out which declare such dangers, they are frequently attacked and followed up with an opposing study funded directly or indirectly by the pharmaceutical company. Drugs are big business. They don’t cure. They maintain the disease. Cures are bad for business. Keep this thought in mind when you next visit your doctor. Be skeptical about the motives of the industry. Your personal physician may have a good heart, but the bias of the industry is toward profitability. And they funded your doctor’s education. These points should not be at all controversial. Corporations are selfish by their very nature. It would prove shocking to find one which was not selfish.

Victim Worship Rule #1: Expectation of Disease Maintenance

Prescription drugs, today’s icon for victim worship. Photo: by Sponge (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikipedia.org.

The idea of never getting better runs counter to my own logical nature. Putting up with the notion that a problem will persist forever seems crazy to me. When my last doctor in Arizona told me that I would be taking a little purple pill for the rest of my life, I balked. I dug in and started doing some research to find alternatives. And I found them. Acid reflux can be cured by a change of diet and either digestive enzymes (papaya is best) or apple cider vinegar (yuck). I tried the vinegar, first. In Arizona, it was the easiest to find. Sure enough, it worked. It tasted awful, but that was a small price to pay for a rapid improvement in health. Big Pharma and the medical profession were wrong. I was not the victim they wanted me to be.

When my doctor recommended statin drugs to lower my cholesterol, he also said that I would be taking them for the rest of my life. Wrong again! In fact, after a few months of those pills, I noticed that I was dying. All of the bad side effects in their literature were coming true and I felt like death warmed over. Against my doctor’s wishes, I stopped cold turkey and researched alternative medicine for other ways to clear up my body. I found one article that said cholesterol was merely the body’s defense mechanism against blood that had become too acidic. Coating the walls of the arteries with the goopy stuff was meant to keep the artery walls from being damaged by the acid. Changing your diet to exclude refined sugar and other toxins was the only way to reverse the condition.

I also found every substance that claimed to help reduce dangerously high cholesterol levels and made it a daily part of my diet. A body cleanse also helped. A daily diet of rice bran and vegetables turned everything around. I soon felt alive again.

Now, it’s been nearly nine years without statin drugs or acid reflux medicine. Cured? Why not? Politically correct speech prohibits me saying such things, but I no longer have respect for such tyranny.

Victim Worship Rule #2: Condemn Those Who Are Not Politically Correct

I too was stunned by this notion of victim worship. Photo: Anita Patterson, via Morguefile.com.

When I struck up a conversation with my new friend Pete, I remembered the wisdom of Christ when he said not to cast your pearls before swine. I knew that I was asking for punishment by engaging Pete, but I was curious about what kinds of things Pete might say to goad or ridicule someone like me. Let’s call it an experiment.

I had responded to someone else’s post when they condemned the notion that anyone would ever say to a cancer patient, “Just get over it.” On Twitter, you have only a limited number characters to get a point across. This can sometimes be an instant recipe for overstepping the bounds of the politically correct.

The idea of offending someone is not very high on my list of favorite activities. In fact, I absolutely dislike offending anyone. By the same token, I dislike muzzling someone who has a valid point to make. Even if someone else finds it offensive, it can prove helpful to air such notions, especially if the person saying such things is open to learning. Sadly, the politically correct crowd are rarely open to learning anything; they already know “everything,” or so they would have us believe.

Pete jumped to so many conclusions about me, I lost count. He assumed that because I love God, I hate science. He told me that I was ignoring the latest science. Really? Science is great, yes. But it’s not infallible. And where corporate profits are involved, science is decidedly corrupt.

Pete said, “Would you say get over it or accept God to someone with a broken leg? If so, then you are at best an imbecile.”

Don’t you love it? Of course, I would not say that to someone with a broken leg, but the label “imbecile” lingers like a bad fart. I commented on Pete’s use of ad hominem, a very poor technique in logical debate. But his next statement proves that he has little idea what the term actually means.

“You made you [sic] out dated [sic] and dangerous views on mental health clear, so no ad hom just a description of your intelligence.”

But what is intelligence? Is it a state of mind? A capacity for solving problems? Or is it a perception of the environment and an ability to connect the dots, so to speak? Could it be all of these? Twentieth century rogue philosopher, L. Ron Hubbard said that intelligence is the ability to discern differences, similarities and identities. If you concentrate on any of the three, to the exclusion of the others, your intelligence is severely crippled. I think Pete concentrates on “identities.” To him, all “God believers” are the same. They have only one identity—unintelligent, blind believers who hate science, reason and logic.

I can’t help but laugh at Pete’s one-dimensional view. But it’s also sad that some people who think they are so logical and smart, are so unreasonably blind. Arrogance will do that. IQ shows a person’s logical potential. EQ shows their social potential. Those who have the highest EQ are more likely to be successful in business and in life. My score is relatively low on both counts, compared to the rest of my family. I only have a 139 IQ (once it tested at 141, but I think that was a fluke). I have a big ego and relatively low EQ (though, improving in recent years, thanks to my wife).

Daniel Goleman’s EQ is the more important aspect of intelligence—emotional intelligence. It tends to indicate a person’s compassion, but also their humility. And humility is essential to learning anything new. Ironically, intelligence is crippled—blinded—by a “know-it-all” attitude. Pete knew everything about me. And it was easy, with his identity-based intelligence. He had me all figured out.

When someone says something that another views as offensive—or politically incorrect—attack is frequently the first tactic. Rather than asking about the intent, or kindly informing the other person of a perceived offense, they attack. Why is this?

It’s part of the Victim Worship mentality. “Poor, poor me. See what you’ve done to me?”

Making Victim Worship Political

Moments after one of the towers collapsed. Never before or since has a solid steel frame high-rise building collapsed like this. During 9/11, the crime, it happened 3 times, and one building was not hit by a plane. Photo: Wally Gobetz (CC BY 2.0)

The American government has been feeding this insanity for decades. Social security was part of it. Welfare another part. Government handouts and grants—yes, that too. Making people dependent upon the drug pusher is a common marketing ploy. This time, the drug was not a chemical, but an attitude. You can depend on Uncle Sam to solve all your problems. Got a problem? Forget about it. Relax. We’ll solve it for you.

In the old days, Americans were problem solvers. They had a “can do” attitude. If a settler didn’t “just get over” their victim attitude, they frequently died. A “solutions” attitude was no guarantee, but it increased your chances of survival and winning.

Some people confuse a “solutions” attitude with delusion. The two may look alike, but they are worlds apart. The positive attitude of “solutions” faces reality; delusion doesn’t.

Pete let me know how he felt: “Oh and your attitude towards mental health is an utter disgrace.” Alas! He doesn’t know that I love mental health—for everyone, including for Pete.

Yet he remains clueless about my attitude, because he didn’t ask; he attacked. But even if he had asked, the pattern seemed clear. He was looking for something to ridicule.

When someone like me steps over the boundaries of the politically correct, we are no longer worthy of being listened to by the victim worship gang. That’s okay. We don’t need their approval.

These victim worship gang members are the swine who trample pearls, because they do not understand them. They don’t want to understand. In their small world, they are already right and all-knowing. I know it’s not politically correct to judge them as such, but making the distinction helps to understand when it is optimum to engage a person and when it would prove to be counterproductive. Pete doesn’t know it, but I love him. I hope he gets better.

I feel bad for Pete. He’s missing out on so much of the world. People don’t fit so neatly into his little, labeled cubbyholes.

People are not normally victims to be worshiped. They have to be taught to be that way. The American government has done a pretty slick job of teaching victim worship. Just look at 9/11. Question the official conspiracy theory and you’re somehow insulting the victims’ families. The entire nation suffered on that day, me included. I feel insulted if anyone doesn’t question the official 9/11 fairytale.

Let me know if you’ve encountered any victim worship in your own life. And let me know how you handled it.

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The Dangers of Water Vapor — Making a Mockery of the Global Warming Scare

Water vapor condensing in cool air from a man’s breath. Photo: 920222 by dierregi via Morguefile.

Water vapor holds first place amongst all greenhouse gases—a whopping 96% of all greenhouse gases by average volume. Carbon dioxide comes in a distant second. Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas, but at its current minuscule content, doubling it would produce an immeasurable effect. Yet politicians have already implemented a cow fart tax in some parts of the world. This isn’t about climate or money; it’s about power and government intrusion into our lives. The more they can get away with, the more they will do.

In dry air (without water vapor), the constituents are,

Nitrogen—78.084%
Oxygen—20.946%
Argon—0.934%
Carbon dioxide—0.04% (approximately)
Methane—0.00018% (approximately)

But the air in our atmosphere is never perfectly dry. When there is high humidity, water vapor—the gaseous form of water—far exceeds the amount of carbon dioxide. So, water vapor does most of the heavy lifting in keeping Earth warm by greenhouse effects—a radiation blanket that traps much of the warmth and keeps it from escaping into space.

Water vapor definition: Water in a gaseous state, especially when diffused as a vapor in the atmosphere and at a temperature below boiling point (thefreedictionary.com).

Water vapor coming off of a geothermal cooling tower. Photo: geothermal 84466 by seriousfun via Morguefile

What the alarmists don’t tell you in the global warming debate is that many industrial processes release immense quantities of water vapor, too. The alarmists are happy to point out that CO2 creates an amplification of the greenhouse effect, but that is not the only effect which happens. There’s the more monstrous amplification of the dreaded water vapor.

And—watch out—you contribute both major greenhouse gases with every breath you take.

Water vapor can greatly increase the greenhouse effect, adding positive feedbacks to increase the warming which produces more evaporation (water vapor) and more warming. But it can also create negative feedbacks through cloud formation and reflecting much of the sunlight back into space before it has a chance to warm the planet.

So much of what the news media and proponents of the “climate change” scare do, tries to stifle debate through ridicule, witch hunts, and claims of “consensus” and “settled science.” The problem is, science is never “settled” and is never done by consensus. Science is not a popularity contest and never has been. And even the so-called “laws” of science have been revised and updated as science discovers new things about our universe. Newton’s laws held sway for hundreds of years, but got an upgrade with Einstein’s Relativity. Not settled!

In climate, the debate is still raging over the amount additional warming that new carbon dioxide adds to the atmosphere. Many scientists feel that the quantity of this warming is extremely small. But the answers are not yet in.

Most ironic about this topic is that warmth is not really the bad guy they make it out to be. Life thrives in warmth and dies in the cold. If you believe the media and the governments, you’re becoming blind to logic and reality. As former head of the CIA, William Casey told President Reagan in 1981, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Are you feeling it, yet?

If you look at Earth’s history, you find that there have been periods of roughly a hundred million years each in which both carbon dioxide and temperature were far higher than today. Life thrived. And the planet did not suffer some world-destroying meltdown. Here’s a chart of the last few hundred million years of global average temperature and CO2 levels.

Why Not a Water Vapor Tax?

Water vapor coming off of a steaming cup of tea or coffee. Photo: Steaming6 857867 by rsbc via Morguefile

If the climate change alarmists are so bent on taxing the production of carbon dioxide, why not add a water vapor tax, too? Individuals will have to pay for every breath they take—part carbon tax, part water vapor tax.

Cook a meal? Water vapor tax for all the steam which comes off your meal, and carbon tax for the energy you use (either direct carbon dioxide production from burning fuel, or indirect CO2 production from the use of electricity which depends on the burning of fossil fuels).

When you exercise or otherwise exert yourself, you sweat. When that sweat evaporates, that’s more water vapor. And, of course, all that heavy breathing also produces far more carbon dioxide.

To Deny, or Not to Deny

The climate change alarmists like to call their skeptics, “deniers.” Besides being an emotionally charged term (false comparison to Holocaust denial and other forms of “not facing reality”), it remains a hollow term with little basis in fact. It’s like asking an innocent man how many times he molested his daughter. Once the accusation is out there, some brainless people will always assume the man is guilty. Incredible!

In a video I saw recently for the second time, Lord Christopher Monckton—a champion in the cause of climate change calm and reason—took a rather interesting survey at the 2014 International Conference on Climate Change. In his keynote speech, he asked his audience of so-called “deniers” six questions:

Does climate change?
Has the atmospheric concentration of CO2 increased since the late 1950s?
Is Man likely to have contributed to the measured increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration since the late 1950s?
Other things being equal, is it likely that adding CO2 to the atmosphere will cause some global warming?
Is it likely that there has been some global warming since the late 1950s?
Is it likely that Man’s emission of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950?

One hundred percent (100%) of the audience effectively said “yes” to each of these. Not a denier in the lot. All too frequently, the climate change alarmists accuse them of disagreeing with all of these points. Looks like the alarmists are wrong on all counts.

“We are not climate change deniers,” said Monckton.

The debate isn’t about climate change, but about the amount of man’s contribution to that change. Even amongst the alarmists, there is great disagreement on how much. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has published findings that have a broad range of estimates—all produced by computer models, instead of real observation. And all of the model outputs are running decidedly “hot”—above the temperatures actually observed. Oops!

Ice Age Denial

Water vapor is needed for rain and this becomes scarce with global cooling. Photo: dead tree desert 37016 by clarita via Morguefile

What the climate change alarmists fail to mention is that we’re in an Ice Age and that the current warming trend hasn’t begun to return Earth’s climate to the far warmer average of past millennia. In fact, the alarmists are in denial that we’re still in an Ice Age. But you know those “little” white things at the poles? Yep! Indications that we’re in an Ice Age and have been for nearly 3 million years.

Being in an Ice Age, means far less rain than normal. Why? Because rain requires water vapor, and the largest portion of water vapor comes from evaporation of the oceans. When it’s cooler, evaporation is more scarce. A potent example can be found in human experience in the early part of the Holocene. Climate then was sufficiently warmer than today by enough to cause significant increases in evaporation and rain. How do we know? During a 3,000 year stretch, the Sahara was green. What is desert, now, was grazing land.

At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Earth was coming out of a minor cold spell called the Little Ice Age. It made food harder to produce, because of lower temperatures and a lack of rain. That Little Ice Age also caused more violent storms because of the greater thermal potential between poles and equator. Melt the polar glaciers and there is very little difference (thermal potential) between poles and equator. Thus, fewer and weaker storms. This is opposite to what the alarmists are saying. But think about it. Which creates more energy. Which produces more energy, a weak, used battery (less potential), or a fresh, new battery (more potential)? Now, that you know, the lies of the alarmists seem to grow pretty thin.

But the level of carbon dioxide at the start of the Industrial Revolution was historically quite low—dangerously low. If levels had been half of what they had been, all plant life would have been on the verge of dying of suffocation—not getting enough CO2. If that ever happens, then most all life on the planet would disappear. Why? Because animals cannot survive long without plants.

Some of the alarmists tell us, “Why not be safe and do something to cool down the planet. Prevention won’t harm us. Just in case we are right.” The problem is, blindly taking action to prevent problems could end up creating more problems, like ending the Holocene early and ushering in a new glacial period. Moving cities because of rising oceans is far easier than growing crops in the snow for 7-plus billion people. When snow is permanent in the corn and wheat belts of America, people will starve to death, by the millions.

After Dangerous Water Vapor, Reducing Oxygen Footprint?

Water vapor is essential to life, just as is carbon dioxide. Photo: Pearl Lake Blue Water 986435 Michael Kirsh via Morguefile

Growing plants are contributing to the disaster that threatens to destroy the world (joke). Plants produce oxygen which gives rise to more animals which breath out carbon dioxide. Perhaps next we should launch a campaign to reduce our oxygen footprints, too.

Ironically, there are some who seem quite happy with the idea that humans will die off and leave the world to species which don’t destroy nature. That sentiment seems to be all too common these days, along with legalized murder (abortion), euthanasia, forced sterilization, forced vaccinations (despite dangerous toxins) and government programs to experiment on its own citizens. Yes, the United States has a dark history most people would rather not know about.

The problem is not humans. It never has been. The problem is selfishness—the one attitude that remains the source of all evil.

Though some of the ideas in this article can seem somewhat comical, what the governments have been doing in this climate change hysteria has been ironically not so funny. Critical thinking has become short in supply. We too readily believe the media and the governments, trusting them to do the right thing, all while feeling a bit queasy that something is not quite right.

There is a rare breed of psychopath who knows the difference between right and wrong, doesn’t care that people suffer and has truckloads of money to accomplish their every whim. They use their money to buy governments, to poison the thoughts of the masses with mind-numbing distractions called “entertainment,” while subtly shifting the language toward Orwell’s Newspeak. They have some of their oil companies fund the so-called “deniers,” while the Biggest Oil Rockefellers fund the alarmists. Like the psychopaths of old, they know that there is power in controlling both sides of any debate. But it only works as long as you are not aware of what they are doing, or don’t believe it is as bad as it actually is.

Comments, solutions? I’d love to hear what your thoughts are on this topic.

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Weakening America — The Slow Death of a Great Nation

Old man hobbling on a walking cane, a symbol of a weakening America. Photo: Joaquim Alves Gaspar (CC BY-SA 3.0)

There used to be a certain “can do” attitude in America that seems largely missing these days. A great number of forces have been weakening America for well over a century.

Being a student of history, it has become somewhat clearer to me that America was never perfect. Not even close. But it was far better than all the rest. Yet, with each improvement, some of the heart and soul of the nation was lost—stripped away by invisible fingers as surely as acid etches the surface of raw metal.

On average, Americans have become soft, needy people. Instead of nation builders, they have become leeches on the heritage of our forefathers. There are exceptions, but the average is sorely slumped.

Obesity and illness have skyrocketed. Health care costs in the United States are the highest in the world, but the health status of Americans is sub par.

The SAT exams have had to be recentered downward a few times in the last several years. Our children are becoming dumber. Perhaps they’ll have to recenter the IQ scores, too. Everyone who stabilized at one level will get an automatic bump because the average at 100 now has a new, lower meaning.

The Forces Weakening America from Within

An old man in San Jose, symbolizing weakening America from the inside. Photo: Shayan Sanyal (CC BY 2.0)

We have traitors amongst us—people who are actively, yet quietly, stripping away the strength and virility of America. Conspiracy? If you are one of those who thinks conspiracies never happen, then you are living in a delusion. In my book, Dirt Ordinary, I show how there are nearly two million new conspiracies starting each hour on this planet, all year long, every year. Children do it, businesses do it, and so do governments. Wherever there is selfishness and self-concern, you will find the seeds of conspiracy.

In David Rockefeller’s memoirs, the elder banker admits to conspiring “against the best interests of the United States.” And he’s proud of it. That’s treason.

The Neo-Cons wrote in 2000 how they needed a “new Pearl Harbor” to help them achieve their goals. They got their new Pearl Harbor and covered up the crime by blaming it on Muslims. Mayor Giuliani scrubbed the crime scene in New York. And the top military officers complicit in the crime all received promotions. “Incompetence” was merely the facade used to hide the conspiracy.

Some people resist the idea of conspiracies. They’ve been trained well. I even found myself reacting to the word while teaching a college class, here in the Philippines. The reaction took me by surprise. The deeper I looked, the more surprised I became. I had been programmed to react to the word so that I would not look in that direction. Curious. Who did the programming?

In 1981, when Ronald Reagan moved into the White House, he met with all of the government people with whom he’d be working. When he met with the head of the CIA, William Casey, the chief spook told the president, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

What most people don’t know is that the CIA, starting in the 50’s, began a program called Operation Mockingbird to influence the American media.

How chilling it is that these facts resemble so closely the details in Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, 1984. Was the CIA behind the notion of manipulating how the American public viewed the word “conspiracy?” I’ve noticed that people here in the Philippines don’t have the same reaction to the word as most Americans. Another researcher at Storm Clouds Gathering noticed a similar effect in several European and a few Third World nations. Americans have a unique, knee-jerk reaction to a word, making them shy away or close off their attention toward any controversial ideas that border on “conspiracies.” In fact, the behavioral force is so strong that even questioning the official conspiracy theory of 9/11 gives rise to the “conspiracy theorist” label. Questions equal “conspiracy theories?” Worse, mention a few facts about 9/11 that upend the official conspiracy theory and you get the same label. Facts are not “conspiracy theories.”

Americans have become blinded by their own language. Conspirators can now do what they do in the open with relative impunity. Those who can see what they’re doing will become social pariah, if they talk about it. Sweet programming. Hitler, Chairman Mao and Big Brother Joe Stalin would’ve loved this.

American wars are “peacekeeping actions.” The concept of intelligent distinction has been eroded, because the word “discrimination” has been altered from its positive meaning to a dark, negative meaning. No longer do you hear advertisers say, “Those with discriminating tastes, choose our product over brand X.” Our language has slowly been dumbed down. If a word no longer exists for a certain meaning, then that idea becomes harder to think about.

Weakening America Through the Health System

Angel of Death, Josef Mengele (1956 photo in Argentina), and children at Auschwitz. Similar travesties have been weakening America for decades.

Americans are living longer, but enjoying it less. The medical machine is getting fat off of disease maintenance. Like any selfish beast, it thinks only of itself. When a cure rears its pretty head, they immediately cut it off. There is no peer reviewed study. Any study at all would be bent by the dictates of the corporations potentially affected by such a beautiful cure. Most such cures, though, are quickly outlawed and shunned as “quackery.” The thousands of beneficial results become labeled as “hearsay” or “anecdotal evidence.” The label is all that is needed to dismiss such results.

There’s no profit in cures. There remains handsome profits in maintaining diseases in perpetuity. Most of those working in healthcare feel strongly that they are providing a wonderful, compassionate service. It only takes a few at the top to steer the ship of healthcare toward the cliff of greed and dozens of others to mask the real intent with seemingly reasonable measures.

A world map of cancer rates shows that America and most western aligned nations have the highest death rates. What do they have in common? The food they eat and the chemicals in which they bathe their bodies. So much of the poisons used on our bodies (medicine, food additives, cosmetics, sun tan oil, etc.) are made with Rockefeller petrochemicals.

America’s infamous CDC has a dark past. For forty years, that health agency had conducted illegal experiments on black men in Tuskegee, Alabama. More recently, they were found to have hidden information linking MMR vaccines to autism. This saved the pharmaceutical industry millions and made them billions, but cost the lives of thousands, and the health of millions of young children.

Weakening America Through the Education System

Drawing of the cap of a fool which fits the head of a dunce. Weakening America by making more dunces.

There was a time when students from all over the world flocked to America for its superior education. Perhaps the inertia of that flow still exists, but American education is sub par. America is so far from first place on reading, science and mathematics, it has become a veritable laughing stock.

When one young boy from Thailand arrived in the United States, he barely spoke English. His grades in his home country had been hovering just above failing. Yet, within a year of his arrival in Los Angeles, he was making near straight A’s. American education was drop-dead easy compared to Thai schools. Little Thailand beats America? Incredible.

Albert Einstein once said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”

Yesterday, I saw a wonderful interview with Lord Christopher Monckton. He opened my eyes even further on the dire state of education in the West (not just in the United States). Missing are the old school basics of grammar, logic and rhetoric. In their place are pale apparitions that pretend to be these things. The focus is on learning facts and rote memorization. Any one student who digs in to find understanding has an immense advantage over their peers.

When I ghost wrote an autobiography for a young man several months ago, he related how he had mastered the subject of computer networking by achieving a deep understanding of the “why” behind the dry facts. On any given day, his co-workers were stuck on their first assignment at mid-day, while he had finished all of his assignments and went home early. The power of critical thinking and deep understanding is lost to most Americans, these days.

Part of the problem is that they have become emotionally attached to things and ideas. Their ego has gotten in the way. If anyone challenges their cherished beliefs about a topic, they become the enemy, rather than a new source of learning.

Weakening America Through Finances

President Barack Obama meets with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke 4-10-09. Keeping alive the illusion that the Fed is part of the government, further weakening America.

When Nick Rockefeller told the late Aaron Russo about the Rockefeller family plans for America, Russo was dismayed. For instance, Rockefeller related how his family had supported Women’s Liberation—not for some altruistic ideal, but in order to break up the family unit, and to mold the child into a ward of the State through the educational system.

Politically Correct speech has corrupted the minds of our children. Warm and fuzzy feelings about polar bears have made them incapable of seeing that Global Warming is good for life and that the returning Ice Age glacial period will kill literally billions of us.

Women’s Liberation also doubled the Rockefeller income. How? With women working, the tax payments to the private Federal Reserve Banks nearly doubled. Private? Most people don’t know that the Federal Reserve System is not and never has been a part of the United States government. It is an independent, private bank, set up by the government, but owned and operated by private banks, owned by private individuals. Conspiracy? You bet. Just read The Creature From Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin

Today, America stands on the edge of a precipice—an eighteen Trillion dollar drop toward oblivion. We have a debt bubble unlike any other seen in the history of humanity. This bubble, like any illegal Ponzi scheme, enriches a few at the top and will leave countless others destitute when the national debt bubble pops.

Finding Our Way Past the Weakening of America

Sprout in a light bulb. A symbol for overcoming the current weakening of America. Photo: copyright TakingITGlobal

We need to become more self-reliant, but also more generous and compassionate. Instead of depending on the government and its currency, we need to create real wealth—the kind that dollars can’t buy.

In my science fiction novel (under the pen name, Carl Martin), Touch the Stars: Diaspora, the protagonist is a teenager who comes of age to take on world-class responsibilities. In that book, young Gordon Roanhorse creates his own affirmation—with a snap of the fingers and intense feeling, he says, “Got it solved,” even if the solution is not yet apparent. This kind of attitude is the stuff of civilization building. But it cannot be done selfishly. Selfishness and self-concern remain the roots of all evil. We have to love others as if they were ourselves and to wish for them everything that they desire. When Jesus told his fellow Jews to give to Caesar that which is Caesar’s, he was speaking to this spirit of unconditional generosity.

Having the faith that self will be taken care of, taking our attention fully off of self and giving to others without the need for any recompense—these are the things that will renew the Earth and create a new America from the detritus of the corrupt, old nation.

There are many actions we can take to improve the chances for our children, but any action taken selfishly will only add to the problem in the long run. We must learn to forget selfishness. This is the simple solution, but it remains difficult for any one individual to implement. Jesus warned us about this. He knew it would be difficult. And his sacrifice was the symbol of that difficulty. Once we accept this burden, we gain a new kind of freedom. For without self-concern, we no longer have any limitations. We can never again be a victim. We can create for the benefit of all without any burden of worry. And that is indeed a bright idea to save us from a weakening America.

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