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Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
An accurate perspective of our solar system. https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/every-solar-system-model-youve-seen-is-wrong
Some of the comments gated a special pension. Here are two.
Aw leaf them alone! They are just branching out into new areas of their music – cultivated growth, if you will. Some would try to box them in but they are going places, building on their roots to find new and interesting melodies.
Even though I have a deeply rooted affection for puns, they really need to trim some of these down. Although I must admit, this tree-o of musicians do seem to be very avant-garden. Maybe we should set them up with a hedge fund so they can really grow their capital. I foreseed great things in their futures.
Nutrition more effective than medication and mental illnesss rising despite medication. They are finally catching on!
Scott Morrison’s obsequious falling in behind the United States and United Kingdom in targeting Iran again confirms the late former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser’s assertion that Australia does not have an independent foreign policy.
At least elements of the media, unlike the Labor Party, are sceptical about this decision, as they should be, given that it is so clearly a crisis orchestrated by the Trump administration and British government, and yet another deadly Middle East regime-change fiasco in the making.
So why is Labor supporting it? Once again, ALP stands for Another Liberal Party—like with banking abuses, police-state laws now used to raid journalists, and mistreatment of refugees, Labor is desperate to be bipartisan on foreign policy, not just because it is scared of its own shadow, but because it is also subservient to the Anglo-American war machine. The only differences between Labor and the Liberals are in degree and tone, not in substance.
More lies
The government claims it is deploying the ADF to the Strait of Hormuz to “de-escalate” the situation, and to protect “freedom of navigation” from Iran, which has been seizing ships. As usual, their claims are premised on lies.
The current flash point in the Strait of Hormuz has its origins in US President Donald Trump’s decision in 2018 to unilaterally withdraw from the nuclear agreement with Iran.
It escalated on 5 May when Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton—one of the notorious neoconservative liars who orchestrated the 2003 invasion of Iraq—suddenly announced the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber taskforce to the Gulf in response to an unspecified “number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings”.
Very significantly, on 14 May the top UK Commander in the region, Maj. Gen. Chris Ghika, publicly contradicted Bolton in a Pentagon briefing to state that there was no increased threat level from Iran. Just two days later, the UK government overruled Ghika and agreed there was an increased Iranian threat.
From that moment, the British escalated the situation, in coordination with the Washington neocons. On 19 May the UK announced the deployment of its waterborne SAS equivalent, the Special Boat Service, to “protect shipping”. Only then did shipping incidents start to occur—indicating that either John Bolton and his British cronies are the prophets of our time, with greater insights than even local British commanders, or that they have orchestrated the incidents to provoke an escalation that can be the pretext for an invasion to achieve Bolton’s longstanding goal of regime change in Iran.
The following shipping incidents have occurred after the deployment of US and British forces to the Persian Gulf:
Now, Australia is buying into the lying Anglo-American narrative, citing the freedom of navigation chestnut to justify our presence.
A comparison must be made to China and the South China Sea, where our Anglo-American allies use the freedom of navigation excuse to sail naval forces with enough firepower to blow up the world. The two countries that most depend on freedom of navigation in both the Persian Gulf and South China Sea are not the USA and UK, but China and Iran. Notwithstanding the current crippling US sanctions, Iran depends entirely on shipping through the Gulf to sell its oil. Iran’s biggest customer is China, which depends on shipping through the Persian Gulf for half of its oil imports, which then must also be shipped through the South China Sea.
Bizarrely, Iran and China are being demonised as the risk to the shipping lanes they depend upon most, when in fact the real risk is Anglo-American provocations. This demonisation was taken to its extreme when Australian Liberal MP Andrew Hastie compared the rise of China to that of Nazi Germany, and called China a “challenge” to our “democratic values”. Hastie made the comments in a 26 June speech to the neoconservative Henry Jackson Society in London, one of whose founders, Cambridge University professor Brendan Simms, trumpeted his Society’s vision in a 2011 article praising the Libya intervention entitled, “Democracy can be dropped from 10,000 feet” i.e. “democratic values” can be bombed into countries. After destroying Iraq, Libya, and Syria, Hastie’s neoconservative friends are now targeting Iran for a regime-change bloodbath, and fantasise about ultimately overthrowing China.
Australians must face the fact that Iran and China are not threatening the world, we are. It is our responsibility as citizens to demand our government withdraw from the Anglo-American regime-change agenda, assert a truly independent foreign policy, and support a new international economic order based on sovereign nation-states respecting each other’s sovereignty, but cooperating on economic development that can lift the world out of poverty and ensure prosperity for future generations.
I’d be wary of the fumes though…
SUCCESS! SUSTAINED PUBLIC & SENATE PRESSURE has forced the National Health and Medical Research Council – NHMRC to release the taxpayer funded draft First Review into homeopathy it commissioned and buried in 2012 – which it said it would never release.
As suspected, the First Review was thorough, conducted by a highly experienced reviewer and concluded “encouraging evidence for the effectiveness of homeopathy” in several medical conditions.
The release appears strategically timed to manage risk before NHMRC is once again put in charge of conducting new reviews into 16 natural therapies – despite being under active investigation by the Commonwealth Ombudsman for misconduct.
Freedom of Information documents reveal the First Review was good quality, but the document released is ‘annotated’ to try and discredit it – without any right of reply by the author or disclosing the full backstory.
A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half of which have been killed in recent years …
A great interview with a researcher on the cutting edge of how to maintain your mitochondria and therefore your health.
Some snippets:
Mitochondrial dysfunction is evident in every disease. When, for any reason, the mitochondria do not function perfectly, disease and aging result. So keeping your mitochondria working optimally is of primary importance in keeping healthy and aging well.
Exercise increases the number of mitochondria in your body. As much as doubling them!
Calorie restriction helps.
A study of 91 women found that how good you feel determines 10-15% of the mitochondrial energy production the next day.