Reposting this.  It seems like a lifetime ago…like a fairy tale story…but it’s not a happy ending.

Did you folks hear about Energy Transfer Partners using Blackwater-like outfit called TigerSwan to violently stop the protests and dig up burial grounds?  Now I hope those who doubted what the protestors were saying now believe them.  I was stunned by the police and sheriff deputies in riot gear.

There was no riot.  There was no riot.  There was no riot.

I hope that folks think about their precious water every time they open up the spigot.  Sadly, I don’t think they will until it no longer comes out or they get oil or fracking gas instead of life giving water.  Three days without water is all it takes for your body to shut down.

In Indiana, with 15 million pounds of toxins spewed into the rivers every year, the Wabash and Erie have been poisoned.  Officials have even warned folks not to eat fish from the Wabash, it is that bad.  And the Wabash is a major river that gave life to many…

And they were allowed to poison it at the expense of the future life: people, fish, cranes/eagles/turtles, creepy-crawlies, and the plants.

This is what DAPL was all about.  To prevent future Wabash and Ohio Rivers…

 

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When I first saw the National Geographic photo of a porcupine standing up, quills fully flexed, in front of a lion, I thought that the porcupine had successfully fought off the lion.  I was sad later to find out that was not the case and the porcupine was dinner.

Then I came across this story recently of a porcupine being yet another meal for a python.  They try to state that the porcupine was not the cause of the python’s demise, but later in the story, they say that the python tried to regurgitate and the quills caused its demise.

They said that porcupines are on the menu of pythons so it could not have been the cause.

Hmmm…

Porcupine does not go down without a fight…so it shoots quills into the python.

Python realizes it tangled with the wrrrroooonnng porcupine and tries to regurgitate the little fighter.

Big Mistake. You lose.

I just admire the porcupine so much.  They are a small, gentle creature, but man, they don’t back down.  They fight to the end.

With that said, I found this while looking for the lion photo (hat tip to Huffington Post):

 

Badass.

 

 

Ed McGaa has passed over to the other side.  May he be at peace.

 

 

 

And let’s set the record straight once again:  MARIE ANTOINETTE DID NOT SAY THOSE DEPLORABLE WORDS!!
She was deliberately smeared by French snobs who could not relate to the poor.

They wanted to deflect attention to their own gluttony at the expense of the working poor.
The words “let them eat cake” were uttered by a court hangers-on who apparently ignored their own privileged position that sucked off the teat of the common folk. Unreal.

Louise Linton hashtagged her designer apparel as she departed a UNITED STATES TAXPAYER PAID 747 (or whatever the full size plane is)…and then had the gall to throw her privilege into the face of an American citizen who called her out on her “let them eat cake” moment. Incidentally, I tried to find the original post by Betsy Klein that had the original twitter by Louise Linton with the designer clothes labeled on the picture as she departed the plane.

Not only that, but the trip was not even about official U.S. government, but about seeing the eclipse!!!

watchdog group suspects Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin ‘s trip to see the government gold in Fort Knox on the taxpayers’ dime with his wife, Louise Linton, was actually spurred by a desire to be in the prime viewing area for Monday’s total solar eclipse.
It was Linton’s rant on Instagram against a woman critical of her bragging about pricey designer clothes she wore on the trip that drew the suspicions of that watchdog, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

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During that visit, the former Goldman Sachs (GS) partner Mnuchin, Linton and a group of other civilians that included Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , R-Ky., visited the gold depository and watched the solar eclipse.

And in my own dealing with poverty and those who look at me like I am a scab on the face of humanity.

I have been on the interstate traveling with my car full of my things.

You would not believe how the poor are treated…but here are a few examples:

I was stared at by the young and the old.  There was a car full of the younger folks who were LAUGHING at me and my car full of what I hold near and dear.  I now wonder if they took a selfie of my furnishings-on-wheels and posted on their fartbook page…having a laugh at this poor person’s predicament.

“Look at this car!  Haha!”

Not only that, I had briefly come back to Indiana and then went back to South Dakota.  I was stopped by a police officer in Woodhull Illinois.  It was dark, late night, and I had stopped at the very same gas station I had stopped in on my first journey out to South Dakota.

I had not broken any laws.  I had not been drinking (they have been trying to say that I am a drunk or have a problem with booze — just for the record, I have not had a drink since February 2015.  Normally, I would have a drink on New Year’s and perhaps one other time during the year.  I cannot afford to hurt my liver, so I don’t drink. )

But this officer pulled me over simply because my car was packed full of my crap.  His first comment was that I could not possibly see out of the car.  Nope.  It was apparently lost on him that I HAD TO HAVE SEEN HIS LIGHTS in my mirrors in order to pull over.

I did not ask him the question I have told you guys that you should — what was I being charged with?  If they cannot answer that, you do not have to give your information over to them and they do not have the right to search your car.  This is based on the 4th Amendment.

But when you’re poor, cannot afford an attorney, you go along to get along.  So I gave him my license when he asked for it.  It was only afterwards that he stated I have expired license plates.   I pointed to the temporary sticker in my window that showed I had tried to renew the license plates in South Dakota, but they would only give me a temporary plate because I did not have my title, as it was in Indiana.  He ignored that and gave me a lecture on getting my plates renewed.

He pulled me over for “driving while poor…”  Blacks know it as “driving while black…” because they too get pulled over for no reason at all.  I recall a black judge who talked to us in one of my college classes.  He was pulled over all the time for DWB even though he was not breaking any laws.

Meanwhile, I’m listening to the TV and the Defense department wanting more money, more money, more money.  They already get 40 percent of the budget while school funding and food stamps are cut….

Say no to the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about…killing people for profit, destroying the earth with chemicals used in bombs are sins.

 

 

I met some wonderful people in a place that you would not expect it.  I had no less than four people talk to me about spirituality this week.  I had been praying to find others like me and my prayers were answered.  I am still somewhat stunned by people talking to me like they had known me for years about such deep spirituality.  And they were all white…another stunner because I’ve tried talking to other white folks about my deepening spirituality but have been met with misunderstanding…so I quit talking about it.  Then God shows me that there are others like me whom have followed their hearts and paths and God’s guidance to arrive at new and deepening understanding.

God Bless us All.  🙂

Preaching to the choir…living through it is the toughest.

Source: After the fire

Story here.

I am only beginning to unwrap all the racist, self-righteousness that I learned growing up as a white girl.  What was done to the American Indian were deliberate acts of destruction of culture, of family, of spirituality.

And what white folks don’t understand is this:  your families and your spirituality are being destroyed now through subtle means…

…taking children “away” through schools that are not teaching children cooperation, but an unhealthy competitiveness to lie, cheat, and steal to “win” the good grades.  This teaches children unethical behavior to get what you need, screw everybody else.

…feeding your children an unhealthy breakfast that robs the parent of time with their child, as well.

I hear of schools now implementing plans to teach children what parents should be teaching them.

White folks need to heed what was done to the American Indian, to Black folks, and the poor…

 

…where there once was a river that had to been wide and deep but now a stream barely deep enough to wade in…I imagine her as she was in full life — plenty of fish to feed families, frogs hopping in the water the minute the little ones approach, dogs lapping up the water, cattails standing erect.  It is so rare that I even see cattails anymore that they feel like nostalgia to me.  Eerie.

Algae is forming..death is at the door because algae takes the oxygen from the water…

…and yet, the dragonflies and butterflies and waterwalkers tell me that all hope is not lost — that there is time for Mother Earth to heal if we stop destroying her and the life giving water that flows through her…

Mni Wiconi! (mini which oh nee)

Water is Life!

I have often stated that I thought that the toxins in our bodies were interfering with our connection to God.

I have read in different places about fluoride being bad for us, but no one explained it as well as this site.

Regarding Fluoride
After generations of misleading propaganda about the benefits of water fluoridation, the truth is finally emerging. Dr. William Hirzy, former EPA risk assessment scientist, explains water fluoridation remains a government policy because of “institutional inertia [and] embarrassment among government agencies that have been promoting this stuff as safe.” Science clearly demonstrates that fluoride is a toxic chemical that accumulates in your tissues over time, wreaks havoc with enzymes, and produces a number of serious adverse health effects, including neurological and endocrine dysfunction. Children are particularly at risk.
Although almost every other nation except Australia, has recognized Fluoride as a health disaster and eliminated use of it, the US continues to fluoridate almost all of its water. Fortunately, with more public awareness there has been some local victories against fluoridation.
Most of the fluoride is accumulated in the pineal gland because it is the 2nd highest organ that receives blood-flow in the body. In addition to drinking, we absorb it by showering in it. Its half-life is over 20 years and can cause massive brain damage to unborn fetuses, and it gradually impairs IQ and other problems such as depressing cell growth rate.
The first intentional addition of fluoride in drinking water occurred in the early 1930′s in Nazi Germany for the purpose of sterilizing humans and forcing the masses into a calm docile state of submission and declining health-state. Marketing it as a benefit to children’s teeth, the sodium fluoride allowed for more easy control of the population.
Research chemist Charles Perkins was sent by the U.S. government to ascertain the truth on water fluoridation and found: “The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass control that was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population of any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies… In this scheme of mass control, ‘sodium fluoride’ occupied a prominent place… However, and I want to make this very definite, the real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children’s teeth… The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty… Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluorine will in time gradually reduce the individual’s power to resist domination by slowly poisoning and narco-tizing this area of the brain tissue, and make him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him… I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great Farben chemical industries and was prominent in the Nazi movement at the time… I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spend nearly 20 years researching in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, and pathology of fluorine… Any person who drinks artificially fluoridated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person, mentally or physically.”

If you haven’t read World Without Cancer, this would be a good time to read it.  It corroborates the assertions that our health began declining after WWII, and it was a deliberate act.

And if you have any doubts that satan is behind all of this evil, I hope that you now realize what has been happening.  The pineal gland is a connection to God, and only those feeding the Dark Side would want to stop people from connecting to God.