Protect, restore and expand US forests

For several hundred million years forests have been consuming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing carbon.  That stored carbon is released into the atmosphere when we cut down or burn trees and disturb forest soils.  Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, one-third of all carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere from human activities have been a result of deforestation.

One way to accelerate the removal of carbon dioxide that is already in the atmosphere is by restoring degraded U.S. forests and soils. If we reduce logging and unsustainable uses of wood, we can significantly increase the rate at which our forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ensure that it will remain stored in naturally-functioning forest ecosystems. Continue reading “Protect, restore and expand US forests” →

The Bradley Manning saga

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Above are three photos of Bradley Manning. I was suspicious at one time that they were pulling a body switch on us, but there is not enough evidence to make that assertion. However, I was very suspicious that his arrest, torture, and of course sex change operation, were not real. Now, after doing research for this piece, I am not certain that they were fake, although he was, I believe, merely used as a tool.

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JFKTV now available in full format

We are pleased to be able to add Tyrone McCloskey’s book-length treatment of the JFK assassination, JFKTV, to this blog. It is permanently linked on the right under “Public Hoaxes.” Tyrone prior to this time had serialized the work in ten parts, which are still scattered about on this blog. Ownership of the work is his, and it will remain here only as he allows it to do so. You might say we are borrowing it.

As with any new discovery, Tyrone’s work grew out of a central focus by a group of people – he gives due credit at the end. It was his effort alone, however,  to produce this work, as can be felt in the meticulous reasoning and research behind the words. It is a powerful piece. As I understand the timeline, the Mathis piece on JFK, the Hidden Kings, was also in the works as Tyrone worked on this, and publishing dates place that work first. However, the two men did not consult one another in their respective efforts. We are fortunate to have both in our our midst.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: An early version of Elon Musk?

Under [his father Leonardo’s] guidance Mozart began playing the piano at age four, was a skilled musician at age six, and was subsequently propelled through Europe, visiting Vienna at six in 1762,  Paris in 1763, London in 1764, and Italy in 1769 at the old age of thirteen. As a young child in Rome, he wrote out the entire score of a nine-voice religious work after hearing it twice. He played the piano brilliantly, he read concertos  at sight, he improvised, and he composed from the age of six; his first symphony came at eight, his first oratorio at eleven, his first opera at twelve. At fourteen he conducted twenty performances of that opera. The Pope decorated him, Empress Maria Theresa took note of him, he heard Haydn’s string quartets in 1773 and wrote his own first six that same year, at age 17. (Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and their 1,000 Greatest Works, Phil G. Goulding, P121

That all sounds a little Elon Musky, if you ask me, a contrived ‘great’ man, a product of publicity and deception.

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JFKTV: Segment Ten

Other Dead Kennedys

After JFK’s scenes concluded, the next up was Bobby. The aisle had to be cleared for Nixon and selling Tricky as more popular than Bobby was impossible at that point. But then JFK’s “death” guaranteed Bobby’s “demise” as Nixon was the play all along.

On the night of June 4th, 1968, Robert Kennedy, then a Senator for New York, was driven from the Malibu home of his good friend…. John Frankenheimer, where he had spent the day relaxing, the last day he would be Robert F Kennedy. Once again Frankenheimer was tapped to direct a Kennedy Assassination Show, though with less flash, a smaller scaled production befitting the lesser rank RFK held vis a vis his brother.

As always, a lone nut character was groomed for the role of assassin to act as the initial culprit. Rigged into the plot would be the second level of conspirators, the old rugged CIA, thus once again dividing those who would take an interest in the “evidence” and try to draw their own conclusions. Continue reading “JFKTV: Segment Ten” →

Where, oh where, is our universal healthcare?

All “developed nations” provide universal health care to each and every citizen, except one.  The United States is the lone exception.   We hardly discuss universal health care anymore.   We’re too busy chattering on about insurers, hospitals, drug companies, doctors, anything but universal healthcare.  Universal healthcare does not necessarily mean government-only health care.   Many developed countries implementing a universal health care systems offer both public and private insurance and medical providers.

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The Get Out of Jail Free Card: Manuel Noriega, Michael Milken

Please note, in the text that follows there will be references to spook numbers contained in Wikipedia, a way of messaging one another that we outsiders are not supposed to understand. The numbers they use have significance to them, and are often expressed in many ways. “33”, for instance, a widely used one, can be expressed as 3+3, or 6, 3*3, or 9, or 3^3, 27. Other numbers that seem to recur are 8, 22, 11, 47 (perhaps just another way to say 11), 77 (always watch out for terrorist events on July 7), and 555. In reading over the Wikipedia pages regarding Noriega and Milken, these numbers appeared frequently and out of sequence.

NoriegaManuel Noriega

The life and times of Manuel Noriega does not read right. We are told that he worked closely with the CIA from the 1950s up until the US invasion of Panama in 1989. We are told that he ran cocaine during this time, and that the CIA was aware of it, but found him otherwise useful and so overlooked his activities. Here’s Wikipedia:

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Who needs the IRS when we have fake churches to launder political cash?

Right on schedule, Trump fakes delivery of another campaign promise.  Right-wing, authoritarians have long advocated against any prohibition against bonding politics and religion, claiming it infringes on their rights of free speech and religious expression.

This is not a new battle between right and left, and is not restricted to the U.S.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!  Today we commemorate Mexico’s victory at the Battle of Puebla (1862), one year after the end of Mexico’s Reform War (1858–61).  The Reform War was a civil war fought over the issue of separation of church and state.  Liberals believed in freedom of religion and separation, while Conservatives favored union between the Roman Catholic Church and the Mexican State.   Continue reading “Who needs the IRS when we have fake churches to launder political cash?” →