Natural Cleaners **edited

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You know, coming out of the brainwashing from those that stand to profit off of consumers…I had to really become ill** before realizing how dangerous chemicals are…even those promoted as “helping” us, such as cleaners.  It’s really hard to break away from that mindset because we’ve been misled to believe that natural is not as powerful as chemical.

Meanwhile, chemicals destroy the very thing that keeps us healthy: your immune system.

So, I personally switched to baking soda, vinegar, and borax as my main cleaners.  I got this recipe from a natural health magazine:

6 Tablespoons Apple Cider Vinegar

2 Tablespoons Borax

Mix these two with a small amount of hot water in a quart spray bottle, then add enough filtered water to make a quart.

Vinegar and baking soda make a good toilet bowl cleaner.  Baking soda is a natural antibacterial and a nice scrub for tubs and such.

Farmer’s Almanac also has an article up on natural cleaners.  I like the uses of ash for scrubbing oil stains off of brick.

Being the change you wish to see in the world starts at home — detoxing our world is part of that.  It’s difficult to feel God’s presence when you’re toxic.

Be well, my friends.

**edited:  Being so toxic from heavy metals, I would get migraines from car exhaust fumes, even if I only walked a total of twelve blocks to the grocery and back.  Or being exposed to cigarette smoke.  Or perfumes/after shave…and on…it proved to me how toxic chemicals really are and left no doubt in my mind that they destroy one’s health.

CEO to worker pay gap

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Reblogging this, too, for the continued lack of effort on the part of politicians who forget minimum wage voters the minute they are in office…to the homeless who are working. HOMELESS WHO ARE WORKING. Just thought I’d repeat that for all those who continually bash the homeless for being in the spot they’re in…

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I went looking for the latest figures on CEO to worker pay gap and found this piece.  The speech given by Mary Jo White is good, too.  Although, I think she protests a little too much on the power of the SEC and its ability to stay unbiased in an increasingly biased world.  It just seems to me that Bush, Cheney & Co., did everything they could to diminish any agency that could thwart them and their banker, oil, and defense contractor friends.

This from Canada Broadcasting–the Swiss and Europeans are enacting a law capping executive pay at twelve times the lowest worker’s salary.  Boy, you’ll start seeing those poverty level wages start to go up pretty fast, eh?

Businesses such as Glencore Xstrata and Roche, which are headquartered in Switzerland, say they may consider leaving the country if the rule is passed.

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Show me the money…

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It’s been awhile since I’ve posted this — I’ve recently had to re-commit to not buying sweatshop clothing. I was offered a gift certificate to purchase clothing at stores that stock nothing but sweatshop clothing. I was afraid that I would appear ungrateful because I refused the gift…this is, as I see it, about spirituality as well as conscience — do unto others as I would wish others means not supporting corporate slave owners that make millions off of clothing while paying workers a $1 a day.

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Adidas is not paying workers of a factory closed even though they have promised to adhere to a code of conduct.

After I became aware of the use of sweatshops for clothing, I started to deny my kids certain clothing they wanted because it was made in a country operating sweatshops.  I recall yelling matches with one of my daughters because she couldn’t have the “cool” clothes these stores were selling.

At my university, there was a hunger-strike because the university was using sweatshops for its apparel.  There was a lively discussion on it in one of the classes (a rare thing, believe me, because classes were set up to have lecture-only–rarely did we have meaningful discussions)  –angry students were going to grill some steaks by the hunger-strikers.  These folks had done nothing to them–they were protesting mistreatment to other human beings—so why would that anger them? Unbelievable.

I used…

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Lac La Ronge Indian Band members are traveling across the north teaching people how to garden

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This is awesome! I hope that composting and permaculture are included in the courses.

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Lac La Ronge gardenThe Star-Phoenix, April 27, 2016

Every time Phillip McLeod went boating along the Churchill River in northern Saskatchewan, he saw huge cleared areas along the forested riverbank.

Curious about who had once tamed the land, the Lac La Ronge Indian Band member told the elders what he’d seen.

“They said ‘That used to be our garden,’ ” McLeod recalls. They told him stories of using dynamite to blast away rocks and trees and of nurturing a wide range of crops including strawberries, melons, potatoes and carrots.

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Elsipogtog roadblocks planned to keep drugs out of community

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You know, they said after 9/11 that the infringement of our personal rights was worth it to curtail terrorism…and look where that has led…
I admire the thought to rid the community of drugs and I know how they have destroyed communities and families. I just don’t think this is the way to go about it. Perhaps a history lesson of the 60s — where we had a great movement of peace and tolerance for one another until drugs were introduced. David Crosby was asked what destroyed the 60s movement…and he answered “cocaine”. I see this happening all over again with meth and legalized marijuana…it’s hard to be strong against the Dark Side when you’re toxic from chemicals — be they recreational or not. The young do not understand why the politicians want them doped out of their minds…

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Elsipogtog john-levi John Levi, an Elsipogtog warrior chief, plans to set up roadblocks in his community to stem the flow of drugs. (Ian Bonnell/CBC)

Warrior chief John Levi says ‘It’s about time we made a stand and got our community back’ from influx of drugs

By Tori Weldon, CBC News, Apr 28, 2016

John Levi, the warrior chief at Elsipogtog First Nation, is planning to erect roadblocks on the three routes into the Mi’kmaq community in an attempt to curtail what he says is a steady stream of street drugs entering the reserve.

“It’s been many years that we’ve had problems with drugs in our reserve,” said Levi.

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Malaysia Flight 370 found?

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Video here:

 

As you know, I had a vivid dream of MH370 about two weeks after it disappeared.  It was at the bottom of the ocean, everyone still strapped in their seats — with the exception of three bodies I saw float to the top.  To be more specific, these three people were in the first three seats of the left side of the plane (as you face forward), at the front of the regular section (in other words, not first class).   And this I did not reveal before, because I did not want to upset folks, but I have to say that the feeling I got was that these three were somehow connected, perhaps even responsible, for the plane going down.

Sea World continues to hold Tillikum captive **edited

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…instead of transporting him back to his native waters in the Pacific Northwest.

I love how they continue to portray themselves as giving a rat’s behind on Tillikum’s health and how they spin keeping him isolated in marine jail (medicine tank).

How can they justify 30+ years of keeping him caged?

Take him back to his native waters where he was stolen from…let him live free for what time he has left.  As I said before, they are probably worried that he would actually improve being  released from marine prison…

To those of you that pray or send Light and Energy, please do so for Tillikum…and all caged animals.

**Edited to add:  found this link about the story.  Note that Sea World launched a million dollar Public Relations campaign to boost its image…instead of doing the right thing by using that money to transport Tillikum back to his native waters.

Beeswax food wrap

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Reblogging this great idea. In the comments, someone said they melted the beeswax in a double boiler, and then used a brush to *paint* on the beeswax. Great idea! Be the change you wish to see in the world….starting with reducing dependence on suffocating plastic. 🙂

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Ali Does It Herself has a blog up on a great idea for food storage.   I’m all about getting rid of plastic for the environment, and this is a way to do that.  I usually use glass for storing food,  but this looks promising, too.

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Statement from Vancouver #Occupy INAC

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Glad to see the reference to holding women sacred. Only when women are treated as equals; only when the rape culture has been eliminated; only when the gentle is respected and honored along with the fierce will we begin to correct all the wrong that has been done. God Bless those that feed the Light.

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INAC occupation vancouver mask drum A young masked warrior at #OccupyINAC Vancouver, April 18, 2016. Photo via Facebook.

Occupations of offices of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) continue in Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver, along with protests across the country and a tent camp in Regina.  Below is the statement from Vancouver #Occupy INAC (hopefully we’ll get a text version to post).

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INAC protesters fenced out in Regina

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Good Lord. Cage them like animals. The symbolic gesture is telling of the contempt for freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. And the right to redress of one’s grievances.

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INAC occupation regina tents fences REGINA,Sk: APRIL 19, 2016 – The landlord has put up a temporary fence to keep protesters at the INAC office on city property on the 1800 block Albert St. . Photo by Bryan Schlosser

by Kerry Benjoe, Regina Leader-Post, April 19, 2016

A fence wasn’t enough to deter protesters in front of the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) office in Regina Tuesday.

For a third day the office remained closed to the public as protesters maintained a presence outside. At 3 p.m., a six-foot metal fence was placed on the property line in front of the INAC building, but protesters only moved their tents outside of the fence onto public property. They plan to stay put.

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