Video: A Voice for the Voiceless

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by River Voices, Published on May 23, 2015

On March 16th Voice for the Voiceless Camp set up to protect Junction Creek area.

Today the camp is denying access to Aspen Planers the company who will be trying to start up their logging again in Junction Creek any day now. It is the wish of Xwisten elders, the camp, children of Xwisten among many others that there be no further logging in this area of their territory.

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Wisconsin Republican Compromise Ups State Ed Budget, Then Steals the Money for Vouchers

…and here we go…the blatant destruction of public schools…courtesy of the Koch Brothers and neocons/neolibs

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Wisconsin, led by extreme-right Governor Scott Walker, demonstrates how one party state government can execute a compromise.  In February, Walker proposed cutting $127 million out of the budget for K-12 public education.  Last week the Republican dominated state legislature put back a good part of that money.  Then the legislature re-directed much of it away from public education to private and parochial schools.

Here is how Jessie Opoien of the Capital Timesdescribes what happened: “The co-chairs of the Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee said on Tuesday its Republican members have reached an agreement to provide an additional $200 million for K-12 education than what Gov. Scott Walker proposed in his two-year budget.  The funds will restore a $127 million cut next year that was proposed in Walker’s budget, and will provide an additional $100 per pupil in state aid the following year.”

Except here’s the catch, according to Wisconsin…

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USDOE Advertises Charter School “Competition” Reviewer Positions for Only One Day

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The US Department of Education Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII), an office that Fordham Institute’s pro-privatization president Michael Petrilli supposedly helped to create, has decided that offering the public an opportunity to apply to review state recipients of federal charter school grant money was so important that it should be advertised for one day only– and right before Memorial Day weekend, at that.

obama shh

According to the USDOE blog on May 22, 2015, the information below was posted “one day ago” (May 21, 2015). It is supposedly an advertisement for peer reviewers for yer another USDOE grant “competition,” this one for state-level charter school planning, establishing, and advertising “success.” However, given the OII’s very brief publicizing of the ad, I’m thinking it already has all of the supposedly-solicited “entrepreneurs,” “funders,” and “venture philanthropy” experts in place and that this public ad is mere formality.

Charter Schools Program Seeking Reviewers for…

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Saving Geneva

(Ed. Note ~ I wrote this post two years ago when I first realized Geneva was in danger of being sold and/or transformed into a profit-making venture.  I am getting the feeling that people are interested in visiting Geneva.  If you go, go with respect of nature and God in mind.  If you go because it’s a sacred place and you want to feel God’s presence, I would recommend going three or four hours after eating a meal and without rushing through it.  Nor anxiety if you don’t connect with God the first time you go.  It may take you more than a few times to feel God’s  presence and understand.  Perhaps God wants to see if you’re really serious about it.  It might help, too, listening to 60s spiritual music — Day by Day, “Joy” by Apollo 100, Get Together by the Youngbloods, etc.)

So…going back to the church I grew up in…I was informed that Geneva, the summer camp I attended when a youngster, is in trouble.

It’s funny because I was just there with my kids on that Saturday prior to Mother’s Day, and I said that I hoped nothing ever happened to this place.

Little did I know…

I went during the magical time of the late 60s and early 70s.  My counselors were my first teachers about the environment.  I remembered being yelled at because we took a shortcut through the woods instead of using the already created path.  It causes more erosion to use the shortcut, hence the counselor getting upset.  And when I say “yelled at” I mean a stern talking to — not berating us.  I also learned to identify trees by their leaves.

The cabins were natural wood with the boys on one side and the girls on the other, with a fireplace in the center.  The cabin below is the one I stayed in several times:

camp cabin

I learned crafts such as pressed flowers, making candles by using cardboard milk cartons, sand, and then pouring the wax inside.  I also learned plaster of paris artwork, and basketweaving.

This is the camp that I learned how to row a canoe.   It was such a powerful experience that to this day, I still cherish the memory of the beauty of  the  Tippecanoe river.

camp walking path

In this area, we roasted marshmallows and hotdogs, told stories, and yes, we sang “Kumbaya” and “We Shall Overcome” as the counselor played guitar.  It’s sad that Kumbaya is now an object of derision.  If memory serves me, it comes from Africa, and means “Come By Here, Lord”.

We also made delicious homemade ice cream by using a hand crank ice cream maker.  We all took turns cranking it so no one had the burden.  We all shared in the labor…hmmm…what a concept. /snark

During the week, each cabin (there were five) created some form of entertainment to be performed on Friday night, our last night there.  One year, we did a skit that involved us being parts of a car.  Our guy counselor and another had a gentle rivalry going on, and he named the car sales after the other counselor.  And of course, we, the car, broke down. 🙂

In addition to the wooded area, there were two meadows where all of the cabins would gather for singing.  As I walked through there, I thought this could be a place to hold the Midwest version of Woodstock, minus the nudity and drugs.  It’s just hard to describe the feeling of the place — like it’s hard to describe the positive light and love of the 60s and early 70s to the younger generations.

And with that thought, it would be great if we could have a concert there to benefit Geneva.  They made bad decisions in building condos there to bring in income, but instead it has caused them to go in debt to the tune of $500,000.  I asked if we could come up with that money, whether Geneva could sustain itself and the answer I got back was “yes”.

I don’t want to see this turned into a non-profit, which is what they are leaning towards if they can’t come up with a way to save it.

 

Dr. Andrew Wakefield on Dr. William Thompson, CDC whistleblower

Dr. Wakefield is still fighting the good fight — even after having his medical license taken away because he has a conscience and in good conscience, he could not keep silent about the disturbing link between MMR and autistic symptoms. He wasn’t willing to play ball with Big Pharma, as soo many others are:

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From the video: Andrew Wakefield:

“Mainstream media has sold out.  It sold out. 

“I sat once with Sharyl Attkisson, one of this country’s greatest journalists, working for CBS.  And she said to me, ‘Andy, when we finish this interview, . . . I will get a call from the top floor, from the money men, and they will say, that interview does not go out, because I’ve had a call from our pharmaceutical industry sponsors, and if it goes out, then they are going to pull their sponsorship.’ And that is why she left [CBS].” 

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The media is bought and sold, folks.  You should never get your medical information from mainstream media — any of them that Big Pharma sponsor are compromised and you are not going to be given all the facts you need to make an informed decision.    Not only did CBS compromise itself with Atkisson, the idiot they have doing their medical segments appears to be a Big Pharma plant.  His biased “reporting” is transparently pro-Pharma. He actually had a segment in the past few months were they jumped on Angelina Jolie’s removing her breasts and uterus as the way to prevent cancer.   They featured a woman whom also did this and she was saying that she had a responsibility for her family to do it.   This was an incredibly manipulative ploy to lead women to do something that has severe consequences.  Ask any woman whom has had a hysterectomy and found that she did not make the problem go away, but instead had more issues to deal with.  Not only that, but surgery on women is BIG BUSINESS and doctors have been performing hysterectomies on women as a main source of income.

No where in the CBS segment were mentions of how diet and environmental factors impact cancer greatly.  Nor did he disclose that there are cancer cells in one’s body at any given time.  Your body takes care of the cancer cells like any other disease.  It’s only when there is something wrong with the immune system that cancer cells grow and start to overwhelm the immune system.

As I’ve said before, I now know of two individuals whom recovered from STAGE IV cancer with juicing.  Juicing!

I have several family members and others I’ve known whom have had cancer and were treated with chemo/radiation.  Only one family member recovered. Of the local folks that were stricken —  they were sick as dogs during the precious time they had left on Earth…too sick to be able to spend that precious remaining time with their family.

I’m already juicing every other day as a preventative and to help recover from heavy metal poisoning, and will up it if I am so diagnosed.  I am a testament that the body is a miracle and all it needs is proper nutrition, removal of toxic substances, and time as tools to help it do its miracle work.

An investigative reporter asks if dental amalgams are safe…

…I had to get over my initial shock that there is an investigative reporter asking the obvious questions that any hack could have asked:  why is mercury considered hazardous material outside of one’s body….but it’s perfectly okay to put it inside a person’s mouth that is subjected to high pressure chewing?

Link here.

People, such as myself, have been voicing this to anyone who would listen.  Doctors have testified before Congress about it….and nothing is done.

Margaret Hamburg had a serious conflict of interest when ruling against the public’s interest, that is the information about people like me who were made terribly ill by dental amalgams.

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While on the corporate side of the revolving door, between stints in the Clinton Administration and the Obama Administration, Dr. Margaret Hamburg served on the board of directors for Henry Schein, Inc., receiving, for example, $282,365 in 2006 and $249,151 in 2007 for the handful of hours generally involved in being a corporate director. With a court settlement requiring FDA to classify amalgam within the first 75 days of her taking office,13 Dr. Hamburg’s remaining interest in Schein – including stock options held until July 27, just 24 hours before the rule was announced – should have resulted in her immediate public recusal from the amalgam rulemaking.

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Despite appearances, Hamburg was guiding the ruling from behind-the-scenes.

I’ve lost precious time– of the years of my children growing up, of productive work years, and the loss of precious health that nearly cost me my life.    I cannot get any of that back.  All I can do is keep talking about it until this poison is no longer put in people’s mouths, in vaccines, dumped into Lake Michigan by BP, and other industries who regularly dump mercury/heavy metals into our rivers — the source of our drinking water.

This is not a benign substance!  Mercury kills!  Mercury dumbs people down!  Mercury/heavy metals cause Alzheimers!

Be the change you wish to see in the world…Gandhi**

It is truly unbelievable how spoiled celebrities in Hollywood are wasting precious water to show off.

People watering their lawns is one of my pet peeves…and in California, where they are in desperate circumstances…it’s doubly irritating to me.

Listen up, egocentric Kardashians, JLo, Streisand, et al:  If you cut your grass to 3 inches in height, the grass roots will go deeper, where there is moisture, and should not need to be watered.

Here in July, where it gets really dry, I never watered my lawn because I always had the mower set to at least 3 inches so the grass could survive without watering.

See, the Ayn Rand selfishness theory doesn’t work in the real world…people’s survival depends on one another.  What are you going to do when the water runs out???

Oh, right, I forgot for a moment…the rich celebrities will have water trucked in from other states, taken from poorer communities that won’t have the money nor resources to fight off the takers.

All of this is the backdrop of yet another pipeline break and the water being polluted with oil on California’s coast….disaster.

**edited to correct spelling of Gandhi.  Stupid dyslexia.