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Plenty of cults exist - every cult has its 'religious dogma', its idols, its 'prophets', its 'science', its 'proof' and its intolerant liturgy of demands. Cults everywhere: Corona, 'The Science' or Scientism, Islam, the State, the cult of Gender Fascism, Marxism, Darwin and Evolution, Globaloneywarming, Changing Climate, Abortion...
Tempus Fugit Memento Mori - Time Flies Remember Death
The fraud of the stock markets. The Cult of Keynes.
Bubble economics. Zero interest rates, endless money printing and distortions in capital, have created in most countries an incredible bubble in real estate and stocks. Central Banks – Keynesians to the man and woman – believe they are gods, that they can control manipulate, deceive and lie. Of course these Mandarins make cycles worse, they enrich their friends in the investment banks [and themselves]; they cause a cycle of busts that targets the average investor; they make fixed income savings a dream of the past; and they create enormous debts and leverage that can never be paid back or restituted, but simply defaulted on.
To justify their actions the Central Keynesian-Monetarist Bankers make up data [GDP, unemployment, inflation]. A personal favorite is of course 'Inflation' which is always zero. The answer is 0 - the methods to arrive at zero can change. Central Banks have changed the calculations. Using 1980s or 90s inflation metrics yields an inflation rate 2x what the Central Keynesians report today [about 3-4% p.a. vs. less than 2%]. Inflation calculations are for example a joke. It excludes 2/3 of the family budget and money creation. Money creation in the US alone last year was close to 5%.
How can you devalue the currency and have no inflation? No food, energy, taxes or other items which 'fluctuate' are allowed in inflation calcs. Therefore Central Bank inflation numbers measure precisely nothing. In most countries currencies have been mauled, their value erased, yet the peasants are told there is no inflation – even as food, energy, housing and other costs go up year after year by 5%, 10%, or in the case of some food items and utilities, 30%. Yet inflation is near zero ?
Inflation is the key metric to keep the fraud going. Even if oil prices have collapsed, currency values have likewise been annihilated. Any person living in reality knows there is inflation – probably 5-8% p.a. depending on where you live. But that would not allow the Central Keynesians to keep rates at zero or negative, and keep the stock markets primed and bubbled. After all, in the US and elsewhere, it is an election year [pick your year] and the 'right' Keynesian cult party must win.
Collapsing stock markets are notoriously bad for politicians. Real world inflation and fiat currencies in decline, are a good reason to hold some physical gold and silver - no matter what the 'experts' say.
Central Bank fraud. There is no inflation. There is nothing bad about endlessly increasing the money supply. More money in circulation has no impact on inflation. There is no need to save money. Just invest in housing and stocks. Inflation is precisely '1.9 %', or whatever the fraudulent number is today. Since 1971 and the end of the Gold standard, prices, debt, money printing have gone straight up. A dollar in 2015 was worth maybe 15 cents of a 1971 dollar. Utilities across the world, along with many food items, not to mention housing are up 10% p.a. Money supply far outpacing its circulation has eroded and exploded many national currencies. But of course according to the great gods of Central Banks; there is no inflation.
Plant food has nothing to do with climate. It falls out of hydrological systems. They use to teach that in grade 9 science. Gaia emits 95 % of this trace chemical which comprises a rounding error 4/100 of 1 % of atmospheric gas by weight. It is dwarfed by other chemical compounds. Climate is of course a convection system of cosmic, thermodynamic, oceanic, and other complex variables. There is no single 'agent' responsible for climate and the so-called greenhouse effect would be a part of this convection system. That used to be taught in grade 9 science as well.
The unhinged, extreme, rabid and disconnected-from-reality-cult of Gaia and warming, is portrayed nicely in the following article which fearmongers the peasant about Greenland disappearing. There has been no change to the ice mass on Greenland in the modern times. None. In fact given that the Medieval Warming Period was much warmer than modern temperatures it is clear that in the past 1000 years the Greenland ice sheets have likely grown. In any event, there is nothing to be alarmed about.
But not if you need grant money, political power, regulations and expanding government. Then it must be the end of the world. Instead of 'scientists' saying that Greenland is fine, they scream that it has 'lost' 9 Trillion tons of ice. Wow! This massive number is however 0.3 % of the ice mass of Greenland – statistically insignificant. But that does not open up the coffers of Trillions of dollars in fraud and corruption. Better trumpet end of Greenland instead ! 'Scientists' and 'models' say so !
“Never mind that we are actually in an interglacial period, which essentially means “a brief time-out within an ice age before everything freezes again.” Brief in geological time-scales that is, which is thankfully not really relevant in terms of human lifespans. And we are currently firmly on the long term down-slope:
Earth’s climate over the past 65+ million years (today is on the left hand side of the chart). The temperature maximum is estimated to have occurred about 50-55 million years ago, since then the trend is pointing down – click to enlarge.
A more near term chart (this one has to be read from left to right, i.e., today is on the right hand side) also shows this trend quite clearly. The recent period of warming is an unremarkable blip, indistinguishable from any of the other unremarkable blips that have occurred in the past. In fact, we should be eternally grateful that the downtrend has been briefly interrupted. The “little ice age” as it is known today was not a happy time. There were frequent crop failures and the winters were bitterly cold. The Thames in London tended to be frozen in Winter.
The red blip to the right is the small recovery in temperatures since the terrible cold of the little ice age. Who exactly almost warmed us beyond recognition 8,500 years ago is not quite clear – can we blame Cro-Magnon, the Neanderthal genocide perp? The Romans probably had too many cows or something. The main point is however the long term downtrend. This may indeed be worth worrying about, if one wants to insist on worrying about something – click to enlarge.”
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Greenland has Retained 99.7% of its Ice Mass Over the Past Century
That’s right – the 9,000 billion tons amount to mere 0.3% of Greenland’s ice mass, or a 5 meter deep layer of an ice sheet estimated to be 1.5 kilometers thick. At this rate, all the ice will be gone in about 33,000 years (we suspect the polar bears won’t care).
What makes this especially remarkable, is that those 0.3% are a lot less than the margin of error embedded in estimates of the actual ice mass – these estimates range from 2.6 × 106 km3 to 5.5 × 106 km3. The latter estimate would make for a 3 km deep ice sheet at the center. The calculation of the 0.3% ice loss over the past century is based on the low range estimate. A picture is worth more than a thousand words as they say. Here is a look at Gulliver’s lost ice cube:
Greenland’s lost ice cube in perspective – or as one reader of David Middleton’s article put it: The consensus among 99.7% of Greenland’s Ice Cubes is that “We Are Still Here!”
The article is great - more Eco hysteria over nothing. 0.3% is a rounding error and unworthy of mention.
It was much warmer in the MWP there and across the world; then it is today.
Evolution makes great science fiction. In the days of non-scientist Darwin, a man who suffered from various mental ailments and who never did perform one single experiment to confirm that pond scum became the professor of climate theology; a single cell was considered just a globule of 'jelly'. This 19th century 'age of science' belief still holds sway in the 'scientific community' of Darwinism, despite the fact that the single cell is more complicated than an urban center. No one has ever shown, or even come close to proving, that a single cell can arise from nothing; self-assemble; manufacture its own code; repair itself; and produce complicated enzymes and proteins from 20 amino acids into specified chains of 50 or more.
Even 'science' publications sound befuddled and alarmed when trying to fit the obvious fact that biological organisms are systems of software and information; into the box of the 'single globule of life became a 100 trillion cell complexity, achieved by random chaos and unguided processes'. One could apply this same theology and metric to software and web systems perhaps......
It does not matter where you look at the bio-chemical level, Evolution does not explain anything.
Protein manufacture:
(From Science Daily): “Scientists have studied protein synthesis in ribosomes for decades now, and that knowledge of how nature builds proteins could pay off big time. The potential for artificially manufactured proteins is enormous: “Making these miniature factories cell-free, which eliminates the maintenance of a living system, simplifies the process and lowers cost.” An example is helping soldiers on the battlefield with life-saving proteins.”
How is a manufacturing process, based on blueprints from DNA software, possible by random chance ? Are car plants also formed by chaos, producing complex vehicles by luck and trial and error ?
Stem cells:
Science Magazine reported results of a new study that shows reprogrammed adult stem cells (induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS) are just as good as embryonic stem cells.
“Researchers who hope to use stem cells—the unspecialized cells that produce all of our tissues—to treat diseases face a dilemma. Stem cells from embryos (ES cells) could provide a wealth of new cells but spark ethical objections. Stem cells produced from adult cells (so-called induced pluripotent stem [iPS] cells) avoid the ethical difficulties, but some scientists have questioned whether they are as powerful as ES cells. A new study suggests that the two types of stem cells are equivalent and may help soothe worries about the capabilities of iPS cells.”
Well that should end the destruction of innocent babies for 'science' should it not ?
Abiogenesis:
Evolution absurdly claims that life arises from natural processes only; meaning that inanimate objects can create living matter. The first law of thermodynamics expresses reality, namely that only energy and matter, beget energy and matter. Life develops only from life.
"Pasteur’s discovery of chirality is one of two major obstacles he erected in the path of evolutionary theory, obstacles that have only gotten higher over time. The early hopes of the Darwinians should have died in their tracks with discoveries of Pasteur and Mendel. ..
The other obstacle Pasteur raised to evolution was his law of biogenesis, the principle that only life begets life. Since the Greeks, and probably long before, philosophers and commoners believed that life could arise out of nonliving material. Is it not a common childhood observation that maggots and flies and all sorts of vermin seem to magically appear out of nowhere? The myth of spontaneous generation seems silly today, but was a common opinion throughout most of history. Leeuwenhoek opposed it with rigorous observations through his microscope, and the “macro” version of spontaneous generation eventually succumbed to the experiments of Redi and Spallanzani. (These are often used as textbook examples of the experimental method.)”
Not one single evolutionary 'scientist' has demonstrated the following:
-a complex single cell arising from dead matter
-a functioning single cell arising from chaos
-chirality from natural chaotic processes
-DNA software being formed either from nothing or from RNA [a favorite pathway of Darwinians, to explain the software encoded in each cell].
Science is proof not story telling. Evolution is thus a theology of metaphysics.
The greatest Frenchmen of all time ? I would vote for Clovis, Jean de la Valette, Lavoisier, Cabot and Champlain; and perhaps the greatest of them all, the Catholic, humble, scientific, inquiring and courageous Louis Pasteur. He is simply the greatest biologist in history, and one of the greatest chemists. Unlike today's 'science', Pasteur proved his ideas with confirmed scientific method and integrity including such epiphanies as: biogenesis; pasteurization; germ theory and inoculation. He was not a character cripple or an immoral grant seeker. Pasteur was big-hearted, just and moral. He did not 'invent' in order to be published, or influence public policy; or engage in fear-mongering like today's 'scientists'. He did it because he was a genius who could help humankind.
Pasteur's genius included inter-alia:
Chirality:
-While studying crystals under polarized light, he found that certain molecules come in left– and right-handed forms that are mirror-images of each other, a phenomenon now known as chirality.
-Even more remarkable, he found that living things use entirely one hand. Most natural substances are composed of fifty-fifty “racemic” mixtures of both hands, the “stereoisomers” of a given chiral molecule, but for some reason living things were 100% pure of one hand.
-Pasteur recognized this as a defining characteristic of life, and it remains a mystery to this day. The problem is compounded by the discovery that RNA and DNA contain sugar molecules that are 100% right–handed.
Abiogenesis destroyed:
-In Pasteur’s day, a majority still believed that micro-organisms came from nonliving matter; for one thing, they seemed to proliferate rapidly even in distilled liquid; for another, there were so many varieties, they seemed almost chaotic and impossible to classify. Micro-organisms also seemed very simple.
-His opponents already knew that a sealed jar of nutrient broth would not generate life. They surmised that air contained a vital ingredient. Pasteur believed that microbes in dust, not the air itself, produced the swarms of living things.
-Pasteur put a nutrient broth into a flask, then heated and shaped the neck into a horizontal S-curve open to the air. Dust containing the microbes became trapped in the curve and could not enter the broth, but the air could pass freely in and out. Pasteur demonstrated to his critics and skeptics that under these circumstances, the broth remained sterile, while flasks without the swan neck swarmed with microorganisms.
-In fact 154 years later, the S flasks still stand open and sterile.
Anthrax:
-Pasteur took 50 sheep and inoculated 25 of them with weakened anthrax bacilli. Then, in a good controlled experiment, he exposed all 50 to the full virulent form. All the inoculated sheep survived; every one not inoculated died.
Rabies:
-Rabies is a viral infection. The virus was too small to be seen by microscopes in Pasteur’s time. This lack of evidence threatened his germ theory, but Pasteur was convinced an unseen microbial agent caused the disease, and proceeded to follow his procedure of finding ways to weaken it. Eventually was successful inoculating dogs with a series of increasingly potent rabies shots that appeared to provide immunity.
-Patients, bitten by rabid animals, flocked to his lab, for the first time having hope to be spared an agonizing, painful, certain death.
Pasteurization:
-Through experiments with yeast in wine, Pasteur found that by heating the wine to a certain temperature after fermentation but before spoiling bacteria invaded, the wine could be preserved much longer without loss of taste.
-This discovery was soon applied to milk, orange juice, and many other goods, and revolutionized food processing. Now, drinks could be carried on board ships without spoilage.
From this discovery alone, Pasteur could have become incredibly rich, but he never took advantage of his contributions, believing that science must work to the benefit of man. A quite different view than today, where science must rule man, even if the 'science' is nothing but a cesspool of deceit and lies.
More at source
Evolution is a metaphysical project looking for a reality. Sadly for the 'science' of pond scum to the screaming plant food-causes climate-theologian, there is no reality on this planet to comport itself to the mindless dogma that the unknowable, unfathomable complexity of life arrived by 'chance'. Chaos does not create structure. A five year old knows this.
One of the shibboleths of the cult of Darwin is that Dinosaurs all died out through the usual [yawn] impact of yet another big rock 65, 75 take your pick, millions of years ago.....How the rest of the fauna on earth survived – and plenty did – is never disclosed. Yet every single human culture has myths, writings, drawings, legends, stories and even petroglyphs of dinosaurs. Beowulf the first classic literature in Anglo-Saxon perfectly describes a T Rex and a pterodon – how would humans know what a T Rex or a 'dragon' looked like, if they had not seen it?
Then we have Dinosaur soft tissue, which explodes the myth that these creatures did not exist with man. They most certainly did.
“December 1, 2015 Researchers from North Carolina State University have confirmed that blood vessel-like structures found in an 80 million-year-old hadrosaur fossil are original to the animal, and not biofilm or other contaminants. Their findings add to the growing body of evidence that structures like blood vessels and cells can persist over millions of years, and the data not only confirm earlier reports of protein sequences in dinosaurs, they represent a significant advance in methodology.”
Notice the last sentence, imploring you to believe that blood vessels can last millions of years.....whatever.
In this report, Dr. Mary Schweitzer is listed as a co-author. Though an ardent Darwinian, she is famous for her discovery of Dino soft tissue in 2005. She never has lost her evolution religion of course. That would mean a stop to the grant funding. Can't have that now. Why not lie in exchange for money and publication opportunities ?
Live Science added its confirmation that this is original dinosaur tissue:
“Now, several tests show that the specimens are the original blood vessels, making them the oldest blood vessels on record to survive with their original components, the researchers said.”
No evolution of any of the tissue was found......
“The researchers also tested the bones of chickens and ostriches, both of which are living relatives of dinosaurs. In both the modern and ancient samples, the peptide sequences were the same as those found in blood vessels, the scientists said.”
The 'scientists' theologize that iron, the magic pixie dust, preserved the soft Dino tissue....
“Dinosaurs' iron-rich blood, combined with a good environment for fossilization, may explain the amazing existence of soft tissue from the Cretaceous (a period that lasted from about 65.5 million to 145.5 million years ago) and even earlier. The specimens Schweitzer works with, including skin, show evidence of excellent preservation. The bones of these various specimens are articulated, not scattered, suggesting they were buried quickly. They're also buried in sandstone, which is porous and may wick away bacteria and reactive enzymes that would otherwise degrade the bone.”
'Buried quickly' obviously indicates a flood, in which a cement mixture is created. As well, iron does not preserve anything for millions of years.....maybe a few at best, in contrived conditions, not in nature, and not in a chaotic environment.
“Iron does appear to preserve tissues, even keeping blood vessels intact at room temperature for two years. Could iron keep soft tissues intact for millions of years? At least four reasons show why the study’s results, amazing though they are, answer with a clear “No.”
First, “Ostrich vessels were incubated in a concentrated solution of red blood cell lysate,” according to the study authors. Their procedure involved extracting and purifying iron from blood. But ancient dinosaur and other fossils did not have the advantage of scientists treating their carcasses with a blood-soup concentrate.
Second, many of the still-fresh fossil biochemicals described in the literature do not show evidence of nearby iron. ...
Schweitzer and her coauthors think so. They wrote, “In life, blood cells rich in iron-containing HB [hemoglobin] flow through vessels, and have access to bone osteocytes through the lacuna-canalicular network.” Yet, the study authors did not demonstrate this supposed access, they merely asserted it.
...Third, for experimental control, the Royal Society authors kept ostrich vessels in water to watch them rot. Does this resemble the burial conditions of dinosaurs, which are mostly dry today and have been primarily dry perhaps since the day of burial? Water accelerates tissue decay by providing for microbes and by facilitating degradative chemistry. So by adding water, these scientists may have rigged their “control” sample to show a higher-than-expected decay rate difference.
...Fourth, just because this iron increases the “resistance of these ‘fixed’ biomolecules to enzymatic or microbial digestion” does not necessarily mean that it increases resistance of these “fixed” biomolecules to degrading chemical reactions. In other words, these authors have again shown that iron inhibits microbes, but they did not show that it inhibits the oxidation and hydrolysis reactions known to relentlessly convert tissues into dust.”
The theory that iron can stop soft tissue from normal bacterial and other chemical degradation is mostly conjecture. You can't equate contrived lab experiments with nature, and draw sweeping conclusions and call that 'science'. There is no science here, but a jumbled, desperate and obtuse effort to justify the canard and myth, that Dinosaurs 'must have been exterminated 75 million years ago'.
If a 'creationist' were to behave in a similar manner he would be pilloried by the 'scientific establishment'. Maybe the grant seekers need to apply their own standards to themselves.
Software code according to humanists-Atheists-naturalists, apparently self-creates, self-repairs, self-mutates, self-codes. This would surprise modern software engineers. It would be as if some philosopher clutching a Phd declared that Amazon's complex web business, developed from a far simpler website through randomness and self-creation; and this simple web-site had in turn arrived into existence by a random chance explosion of chaotic software code, with no design, which somehow and spectacularly, had arranged itself into a functioning web site. All code declared to be nothing but electrical chance encounters. Such an argument would be declared insane, not scientific. But when applied to the natural world, and to human existence, this dialectical materialsim is applauded as urbane, educated, proven, scientific and obvious.
The certainty of madmen.
"Even the simplest life requires a tremendous amount of genetic information, so the amount genetic information required for the diversity of life in our world is simply unfathomable. Is it reasonable to assume that this information arose through unguided naturalistic processes? Or does the evidence point to an intelligent designer?
The Information Enigma is a fascinating 21-minute documentary that probes the mystery of biological information, the challenge it poses to orthodox Darwinian theory, and the reason it points to intelligent design. The video features molecular biologist Douglas Axe and Stephen Meyer, author of the books Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt.”
Your house did not self-assemble, its materials did not arrive in their utility by chaos. Why would the human body, mind, soul and brain be a combination of meaningless chaos ?