Granny Miller has a post up on the curious phenomenon of preppers.
I am positively revolted by the survivalist perception and belief that somehow there will not be enough food, water, clothing, shelter and goodness and humanity to go around when “the collapse” comes.
…wisdom from the elders….
( TEOTWAWKI = The end of the world as we know it. TSHTF= the sh*t hits the fan.)
Global News has this up on highway collapse thought to be caused by several local earthquakes.
So…yeah, I’m looking at fracking in the area. Here’s a report on fracking near the area:
(not linking to it for obvious reasons)
thehydroexcavationblog.com/south-texas-hydro-excavation-link-love-shale-fracking-growth/
From the article:
U.S. oil production has reversed a 30-plus year decline and, by some estimates, the country will become the world’s largest oil producer by as early as 2017 and will achieve full energy self-sufficiency by 2030.
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::…meanwhile, citizens are dropping dead of *mysterious* illnesses at a rate parallel to the amount of fracking being done…..:: /not really snarky, but a little too close to the truth
I found a protest blog by Mexican nationals. Again, you’ll have to use google translate.
I also found this on the detrimental decision to release control of Mexico’s oil resources to outside investors. Combine that with this previous story on the huge reserves just ripe for fracking…and well, you can draw the picture.
Egyptians are also protesting fracking. Can you imagine poisoning the Nile? Good Grief.
...Congress cuts unemployment benefits. I disagree with the writer’s assertion that the Democrats “wanted to continue” unemployment benefits. Are you kidding me? These are the same people going along with Third Way mentality that wants to end New Deal social programs….
…meanwhile, they budgeted $500 Billion for the defense budget….a budget that should be reigned in, because they have too many contractors, too much waste, (want to find money to support the jobless, give food to the hungry, and find homes for the homeless? $430 MILLION in cutting waste is a place to start) and an NSA that is running amok.
There is just something very, very wrong when a country spends more money to kill people than save them.
Gene Logsdon has a post up on the Christmas gifts that go against the notion that you have to buy the “latest” to make someone happy. I’m all for the practical gift that someone will truly use and appreciate. I would love to get a jar of homemade orange marmalade or a jar of raw honey for Christmas.
Be sure to read the comments–a former Marine bought a farm after leaving the service and he writes about it in the comments. A truly inspiring story. Enjoy.
The more I learn about the gut and neurological health, the more amazed I am at the intricate workings of our miracle bodies…and how spot on Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride is with the GAPS diet…
I’ve been all over the ‘net this morning, reading blog after blog on probiotics. One linked to this post on the gut-brain-skin axis.
Some of this is over my head, but it appears that probiotics help reduce inflammation after a heart attack.
Here’s a good paper on the connection between probiotics and the brain. It is so interesting that fermented food, like sauerkraut, can contain acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. Blows me away.
This blog has a recipe for GAPS yogurt. Since I was very sensitive at first, I gave up on yogurt. I tried making my own according to another member’s method of putting it in an electric skillet on low heat, but didn’t have satisfactory results. It could have been that I didn’t use yogurt starter, but rather, used store-bought kefir. I found out later that this brand, an expensive organic brand, was putting the live cultures back in after processing it.
Yeah, that’s not going to work.
I like her idea of using raw milk. But since obtaining raw milk is a crime…I’ll have to go through the Mafia to get some. /super snarky
She talks about using her food dehydrator for growing the culture, but I thought it might be easier to use a yogurt maker. I looked at several brands, and they had automatic shutoffs at 6-10 hours, which is waaaay too short a time to allow the cultures to develop…but there was this one that follows GAPS, too. Not having tried it, I’m not able to give any kind of review on its ease of use or reliability.
You might remember this post with a quote that says the words “third way”. Not long after I posted it, Ed on the Ed Show (MSNBC) mentioned the Third Way. I can’t remember exactly what he said, but it was negative and the segment intrigued me.
I’ve just now gotten around to doing a bit of research on Third Way. Whew…do you smell a rat?? Me, too.
Red flags are going off with Elizabeth Warren being attacked by supposed Democrats for…speaking out against selling us out to the 1% by cutting Social Security and other social programs….calling them “populist”. Um-hmmm…that and the word “entitlement” are key words for the “I’ve-got-mine-screw-you” crowd.
Now, getting back to the previous post with Hillary Clinton’s religious leader saying those words: third way…and how they wanted to do away with New Deal programs:
It emerged, he [Reverend Don Jones] says, as a third way, a reaction against both separatist fundamentalism and the New Deal’s labor-based liberalism.
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Social Security. Public Schools. Medicaid. Medicare. Public employees like fire fighters, police. Public Libraries. A decent living wage.
I know that it’s hard to believe they want to destroy it all, but all signs are pointing towards that very end.
Elizabeth Warren stands in the way of that.
Here’s a humorous video up on it:
Please, please run for President, Elizabeth. Please!! I’ll go knocking on doors…whatever needs done to help get you votes. Hillary Clinton is nothing but a Goldwater Girl doing the dirty work of the bankers, warmongers, education profiteers, Big Oil, Monsanto, and no doubt countless other organizations that don’t give a crap about Americans or America, the poor, the elderly, the children, the environment, nor the middle class.
Please run, Elizabeth.
…I walk outside in 16 degrees of crisp winter air with a dusting of snow on the ground…I hear a single bird singing. Singing!
…doggie loves being out in the crisp air and I smile at the little frisky dance she does when she, uh, does her business…just happy to be alive, I guess. :p
…a wonderful meal for Christmas…blessings to those who don’t have that…
… for the money to get the oil changed in the car and now it doesn’t sound quite as loud as before…
…the ability to chelate and get this horrible poison out of me…
…and the wonderful “coincidences” that happen in life: I went to the used goods store to blow the stink off of me (get out of the house for awhile). My favorite area is the book area, naturally. I found one to buy, and started heading to the cashier. She told me that they were only fifty cents today, so yeah, I’m going back to get some more. I found an old book on the folklore of the Mississippi. Get this–the cashier says, “I grew up along the Mississippi.” I kid you not. What are the chances?
She went on to say that they have locks that allow the boats to pass, and one time they couldn’t get the locks to open. They sent divers down and they came right back up–she said there was a 65 pound (?) catfish blocking the gates, and they weren’t having anything to do with it. She went on to say that they all caught fish along the Mississippi, using boxes. She said they caught a 55 pound catfish once. I asked her what one does with that big a fish–throw it back? She said they ate it–just sliced it up into fillets.
She went on to say that they (fishers and hunters) would feed the town once a year. They’d bring the fish, and the hunters would bring wild game of all sorts. They had turkeys, quail, duck, etc. She said they had turtle, too, as they would get caught in the fishing boxes.
She said they would have heating pans all lined up. The women would supply the side dishes like scalloped potatoes and such. She said they did that every year. I told her that would never happen here (Indiana). She sighed and said that was one of the things she regretted about moving here.
And now that I think of it–there was a time that my neighborhood had an annual picnic. I don’t think they do that anymore. But it was different–each family would bring their own meat, veggie, drink, etc., so it wasn’t like the Mississippi version where the meat was provided and the sides were a community offering. I’m not trying to say one version is better than another–just different. There’s nothing like getting together for a meal, though…
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….little things and little moments of gratitude for all of the above…
First, the legal stuff: Statements posted on this blog are for information only, and should NOT be taken as medical advice. If you need medical advice, you should seek it from those who are licensed to give medical advice. You are responsible for any decisions you make, or actions you take (or do not take).
(It is sooo stupid that I have to say that when I have had more harm done by licensed medical professionals than by non-professionals. Pshaw.)
Okay—I was doing research on herbs used to rid the body of xenoestrogens, and came across several helpful sites. (xenoestrogens are plastics/chemicals that match the body’s estrogen receptors, taking the place of the real hormones).
One of the sites mentioned the connection between xenoestrogens and breast lumps. I had tried this product, Estrosense, many years ago, but stopped taking it because of an adverse reaction. I was unaware of that I was full of mercury at the time, and since turmeric is sulfuric, it made me miserable….being that I was sulfur dominant from the mercury.
I tried it again the last two months, and had a successful go of it this time around.
And guys, if you think this is *just* a woman’s concern…think again. Signs are out there that these stupid fake hormones are affecting men, as well. So ixnay on the hormones-only-affect-women-bit.
More here on the connection to breast cancer and xenoestrogens.
Here’s a good blog on what to do to avoid them. I think it is always better to avoid them in the first place rather than trying to remove them afterwards.
While doing that research, I came across a blood purifer using plants, called Kroeger blood toner. I researched the ingredients, one by one, and found a fairly helpful site on herbs here. It just never gets old discovering all the neat stuff that plants can do for us. Like I’ve said a zillion times before–we’ll discover that all the stuff we called “weeds” were the cure for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc….
Milkweed being one of those undervalued plants….as shown by the site. Now we see the damage that herbicides are doing through the chain of nature…first the milkweed, then the butterflies:
A major cause is farming with Roundup, a herbicide that kills virtually all plants except crops that are genetically modified to survive it. As a result, millions of acres of native plants, especially milkweed, an important source of nectar for many species, and vital for monarch butterfly larvae, have been wiped out.
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Monsanto, milkweed, and the monarch butterfly. A 59% decline!!
Gah, I remember when we saw milkweed *everywhere* we went. Now you’re lucky if you see a few plants scattered here and there. Same with burdock. Our dog rarely came home without burrs on him (this was back in the day when you let your dogs run loose.)
Nope…now we need manicured lawns with nary a weed on them. Got to be perfect.
I used to allow a small (24 x 24) patch of my lawn go to weed…much to the irritation of my neighbors who thought of me as the local hippie of the neighborhood. It.just.was.not.done. It was like I was letting the whole neighborhood go to hell. And the thing was–my little overgrown patch was off the road behind a line of private evergreens. Only two neighbors could actually see the *jungle* (said with a grin).
Anyway….I’m all for allowing more manicured space go back to its natural habitat.
There’s a certain peace, tranquility, and restfulness when nature is allowed to be…nature. There’s nothing like bending over to admire a plant when a butterfly comes floating by and lands on a plant near you….as if to say hello…
…and *thanks* for not messing with my nourishment and my home…
Michael Twitty has done it again with this blog on African Soul Fried Rice. Sounds delicious.
I like the fermented aspect of the food. I wondered if he means the bean from the locust tree…so I went looking and found this.
It’s considered medicinal, too….gotta wonder how much wisdom has been lost about our ancient remedies. Thanks, modern medicine, for a bang up job of ignoring past wisdom. /snarky, for sure.
The locust beans are seen as a nuisance here…as is the dandelion. We’ll discover, when it’s too late, that the things we thought were nuisances were healing plants to cure cancer, diabetes, etc.
Michael Twitty also has a blog up on some badass rice growers. Yes, badass rice growers. I *love* that they are bucking the system, the status quo of Big Ag and getting the cold shoulder for it. They are raising rice crops in unconventional ways that thwart the Ag profiteers who want to sell chemicals and bioengineered rice. Heh.
On top of that, the way that they are raising it lowers the arsenic level in rice–very important to lower our exposure to heavy metals.
From the Washington Post article:
Thomet has unwittingly aligned himself with a small group of experimental U.S. farmers and hobbyists, probably no more than 50, who are breaking with a tradition that dates to colonial America. They’re rejecting paddy rice in favor of an increasingly accepted agricultural system that promises to increase crop yields while decreasing water use, chemical dependency and even the amount of arsenic in our grains.
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See, it bothers the status quo when you don’t play along with the technology-is-king mentality. Using one’s brain is not allowed. :p
Wisconsin, bless their little hearts, have drafted a resolution that they are a “TPP-free” zone. The negotiations have been shielded from public scrutiny but the article states that bits have leaked out and…it’s scary as hell–a Monsanto lobbyist is leading the negotiations.
From the article:
Countries, including those in the European Union, could also find it increasingly difficult to ban, or even require the labeling of, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) if biotech companies determine that those countries’ strict policies restrict fair trade and infringe on the companies’ “rights” to profit.
To top it off, corporations would be allowed to resolve trade disputes in special international tribunals, effectively wiping out hundreds of domestic and international food sovereignty laws. Products labeled fair trade, organic, country-of-origin, animal-welfare approved, or GMO-free, could all be challenged as “barriers to trade.”
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It’s an attack on local autonomy….the right to decide what is best for your community.Good Grief, these corporations can.not.get.enough.profits. Greed, greed, greed.
Eagle 
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