17 Monday Apr 2023
Posted in Citizenship, Climate Change, Community, Coronavirus, Death, Economics, Family, Health, Human Extinction, Musings
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By the time we realized the truth, it was too late to do anything.
Humans never were good at understanding our limits.
Our hubris was our demise.
14 Monday Nov 2022
Today’s blog is a guest blog.
I just cannot write about this yet as I have not had time to process.
So Dan gives the update from The HARN today.
Send him some love, as this isn’t easy for him either.
~ Jami
These photos of Gaazhii were taken on the final day of Fall up here, November 1st 2022. The others a few days later, at the time of the Full Moon.
Gaazhii went out @ Noon and returned 11 minutes later to show off his new toy (a big fluffy Mouse) that seemed to be broken. He tossed it up in the air several times, I informed him he should not eat that on the stoop, he then tossed it onto the leaves and proceeded to begin his lunch. Aunt Annie always says “you gotta eat what you kill“.
I looked away, as I cannot handle this part, I looked back just in time to see the tail get sucked in!
Next was a run to the Pond where he lay in the warm Sunshine before traipsing down the path stalking Chickadees, as I shouted “Leave The Birdies Alone”. He disappeared into the Pines just past the birdhouse & headed East towards the swamp.
We spent the next 48 hours yelling his name every time we stepped outside. Finally a neighbor phoned and let us know she had found 2 Black Cats alongside County 2 in past weeks. Our neighbor took Jami to where she had put them in the woods.
Jami first identified a feral cat, we had known about a year, who we called “Gerri” that Gaazhii had been traipsing thru the woods with this Summer. Next she found our Gaazhii curled up like he was taking a nap. She brought them back to The HARN and we dug a hole between the Firepit & the Pond where we often observed the 2 of them frolicking, it’s marked with Stones and Hummingbirds.
He was the Best Cat I ever Knew.”
~ Dan
12 Monday Sep 2022
Posted in Citizenship, Climate Change, Community, Death, Human Extinction, Insanity
We failed to maintain our water systems… and are realizing it at just the moment the climate is bringing a big surge in what it’s sending us in the way of floods.
Exponentials never were our forte. ⚠️
05 Monday Sep 2022
Posted in Citizenship, Climate Change, Community, Death, Insanity, Local Reporting, Preventing Line 3
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Accountability, climate change, Climate Crisis, Line 3, Line 5, Line 93, MN PUC, MNDNR, MPCA, Pipelines
Snowden, Manning, & Assange showed, by our own definitions, that the U.S. is guilty of war crimes. They have been imprisoned for revealing these truths.
Water Protectors and Land Defenders too have been charged and locked up for trying to tell the hard truths.
The unrelenting news of flooding, fires, drought, and ecological devastation shows little pause in the fray towards… “progress”.
At what point do humans come to understand that their own comforts [mostly enjoyed by the elite, mostly white, citizens] are the very destruction of the air on which they are dependent?
The water is being controlled, disregarded, and poisoned. The air and land are being polluted indiscriminately.
What are we doing to preserve the land, air, and water… on which we depend for the essentials of life?
Are we simply running towards our own deaths… and bringing death for so many more in the process?
We ignore truth to our own peril.
We of Waadookawaad Amikwag continue to work to uncover the truth. Help us spread the word?
Tim Walz 800-657-3717
AG Ellison 800-657-3787
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (800) 657-3864 [I usually call Deputy Commissioner Peter Tester at 651-757-2013… though he doesn’t usually answer. Or return calls. Maybe that’s the MPCA way? 🤔]
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources 888-646-6367
And if you’ve given up on the state, as many of us have found them to be non-responsive… maybe try these folks:
US Army Corps of Engineers 651-290-5882
US Environmental Protection Agency 312-353-2000
Miigwech.
22 Monday Aug 2022
Posted in Being Yourself, Citizenship, Coronavirus, Death, Economics, Health, Human Extinction, Insanity
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“My sources are more scientific than your sources” seems where America lives these days.
And the truth is becoming harder to find every day. As the scripted MSM focuses us where they want us to look… and think tanks explain it all to us.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
~ unattributable
… and we find ourselves unfriending long-term associates after too many frustrated communications. 😶 Perhaps we can no longer Agree to Disagree?
Can’t argue though… with the HUGE AMOUNT of excess deaths we’ve seen since Covid was released upon us. About a quarter of our dead each day are attributed to Covid it seems, so there’s SOMETHING that we might want to address, eh?
Here’s the latest (and pretty scary) link from Dr. Pierre Kory – of Deleted Senate Subcommittee Hearing fame. He and his group of Frontline Doctors – those responsible for ERs in major metro areas links during Covid days – have struggled to secure almost any public debate on facts with state authorities (and by state I mean both state and federal). Yet these Physicians – trying from the beginning to tell us what was happening – have been largely censored from easily accessible public domains… accused of providing “disinformation”.
What claim of “disinformation” can be credible without providing the details discrediting said information? Especially when this proposed “disinformation’ is notably dissenting from the mainstream narrative? Especially when the approved national narrative is based on deviating from established norms and protocols of scientific review? Even Fauci’s failed AZT vaccine for Aids was pulled after a few dozen deaths. But not these Covid vaccines, for which they continue to eschew any review for adverse events, no matter how numerous. [See above review on Pfizer’s pregnancy safety data – just released.] What reason can the Feds give for removing the video of Kory’s Senate hearing – a public forum? Unless it’s about controlling the narrative to promote a (designed) Vaccines Only Solution?
Throughout the Covid-19 debacle, I’ve based my information on discernment from a variety of credible sources (Dr. Hong, Dr. Martenson [still so true 2 years later…], Dr. Campbell, among others) I’ve been watching for a couple years now, and correlating that information to the data in the landscape. I’ve read sooo many medical papers, analyzed so much genetic information, and listened to hours upon hours of medical explanations while perusing thousands of data records in my attempts to understand our situation.
I’ve watched as my sources have been confirmed and wondered often at the censored response to successful campaigns. And, perhaps most telling of all: No mention by CDC of Vitamin D as a critical element for our immune systems, something for years the powers that be encouraged with a Does a Body Good campaign? [Yeah, that wasn’t based on science either, eh? Just sales. And, Jesus, do we have to sexualize fkn everything? FFS. I wonder how much these old commercials drove my development.]
There remain so many unanswered questions.
How can one demonize a group of Frontline physicians (who have saved thousands of lives throughout Covid) as we concurrently watch the CDC continue to change paths, making little to no progress but lots of profits for Big Pharma, in the absurdity they call their National Covid Response?
How are humans so convinced of vaccine safety and efficacy as we watch continuous Covid infections (what the fuck is the definition of a vaccine if not to prevent spread of the disease you’ve supposedly been inoculated for???), and why on earth would you expose a developing child to this formula, without knowing the long-term implications? Especially as children have been so minimally impacted by Covid-19 with regard to hospitalizations and death?
I guess it’s the same crowd who has been convinced to work the best hours and days of their life, sacrificing their children’s plays, games, and TIME – their children’s literal milestones – to give themselves to The Man… for some ready cash. These who are largely unaware of the wage slavery to which they are beholden. Who trust their government enough to inject their children with a concoction that may very well be increasing rates of infertility and spontaneous abortion in pregnant women (thus, doing God knows what to our developing generations… our grandchildren… our grand nieces and nephews).
Meanwhile…. air pollution…. kills 7M each year… and we’re hearing fuck all on that (let alone doing anything about it).
We’ve had three known nuclear meltdowns at power plants… so can we now admit humans might not be as smart as we try to storytell we are… in this concocted reality we call life?
We only know what we know because of those who have been willing to sacrifice themselves to their causes. Watch Meltdown: Three Mile Island and then think about your pandemic response teams?
I also found this interesting item this week… Tulsi on a Bill for Snowden & Assange.
Here’s to the Whistle Blowers.
The real truth tellers. Risking all to keep us informed. I’d say we owe them a listen.
Don’t forget to shine.
Remember your soul is the one thing you can’t compromise.”
David Gray Shine
23 Monday May 2022
Posted in Death, Happiness in Life, Homesteading, Local Reporting, Musings
With recent travel to Indiana, we were blessed to have a wonderful caretaker here at the HARN to watch out for Gaazhii while we were away. In addition to home and cat care, she blessed our space and cleaned it up, pulling us to continue towards more cleaning and organizing as we got settled back at home.
This week we have gathered wood – after a walk with Gaazhii on his new leash – one of those pull ones that dogs use to go further away. He’s gonna have to build up his muscles to pull it, though, so far, we’re doing ok with it. Also got him some flea/tick oil for his neck as we found a first tick this weekend. Ugh.
And… (major, years overdue job…) cleaned out the fridge!! [(not pictured) Also did loads of laundry!!]
It’s still cool here in the woods so we’ll be focusing on wood cutting and gathering to prepare for summer fires and winter warmth later this year. Meanwhile, I found some time for crafting!! Always good to get some creative juices flowing. Just finished (almost*) reading Good Life, Good Death as you can see pictured here. HIGHLY Recommend this book. [*Found the last few pages cut from the book… oddly.]
The Rocket Mass Heater will need some work this summer/fall as we prepare for another season and hope for a finishing of the mass additions. Gardens are greening and await news of who will come. So far lettuce and onion are the most prolific visitors, besides – already GIGANTIC – rhubarb.
Oriole came through for a brief visit over the weekend! Robin (opichi) is often seen foraging in the yard.
We have new friends popping up all around… daffodil, hepatica, gooseberry, raspberry, rhubarb, fern, iris, peony, cone-flower, and circles of chives! We listen to the frogs croaking each evening and the sandhills chortling as crow makes an occasional pass through forest. Haven’t seen makwa (bear) of late… yet chickadee guards the meat scraps he finds! The wind and rain continue to bring messages of warning and love. Turkey… gichi-bine… maintains a presence on the porch.
We hope you too are looking forward to a fun spring of growing and enjoying time with all your relatives.
18 Monday Apr 2022
Posted in Being Yourself, Death, Happiness in Life, Musings
I was talking with a friend whose album is about to drop and he’s concerned my copy hasn’t arrived yet. Told him, “…gotta remember we live in the MN hinterlands with the rocks and cows. 🤣😉💖 I’m not worried. It’ll be here when i need it. The universe keeps showing me this… every day. It’s timing is more perfect than i can sometimes understand… so I get mad. But… it’s usually perfect… in hindsight.”
…and that’s what I felt drawn to blog about this weekend. So… here goes!
Another friend’s comments recently brought more clarity to me on this idea of “there is no bad”. I was recalling the fire I built [ingii-boodawe (I believe) is ‘I built a fire’ Ojibwemong] last week, first one I’d done in a long while.
It wasn’t an easy fire and this may have been from the temperature differential though I wonder more if it wasnt simply a gift from ishkode/fire.
I got everything set up as I’d done in the past and it looked good… for a minute. The fire was drawing into the j-tube. Yet the smoke also kept drawing into the house. Not a ton, but enough to have me think it might be excessive. It wasn’t like there was no draw… just not enough to keep all the smoke pulling through the j-tube into the barrel and out the chimney. So I worked and talked and moved misan (pieces of firewood) and then finally, after a few minutes, she got her draw!
I decided I needed to open the windows and I pulled the fan (that usually blows warm air from the stove to the rest of the house) and put it facing out the kitchen window, which I’d cracked, along with the window on the storm door.
As I told the story to my friend she noted it was as if the stove had ‘smudged’ the house for me and I was able to sweep out all the old energy! This new perspective doesn’t change the struggle I felt in the moment, though it gives a much happier memory of the event overall. So… there is no bad?
There’s something to removal of old spirits… old ideas… and clearing the way for new information.
We’ve spent much time over the last decade hearing Enbridge claims Line 3 Replacement project was “good for Minnesota” but we see how that just hasn’t been true.
Not only did Enbridge spend the last decade lying about their expected impacts to our land, they worked on reimbursing themselves for back taxes… and lowering the taxes they’ll pay going forward… as their industry dies. And citizen monitors are adding their voices to the outcry of what we’re discovering in the land.
This past week Wisconsin DNR closed comments on Enbridge’s Line 5 Pipeline Re-route through the Bad River watershed.
While the re-route does nothing to Answer to the request of Bad River Band for Enbridge to remove its pipeline from their watershed, it could destroy the Wisconsin water quality, as we’ve watched them do here in Minnesota.
Evidence is coming to light, as can be seen in this latest video, of the horrors Minnesota still faces… as Enbridge continues to flow far and through their new Line 93 pipeline- supposed replacement for Line 3… while old Line 3 remains in the ground, rotting away, and their construction messes remain unremediated and secret from the public. I been asking MPCA this past week about when we might get the report back on their Frac-out Investigations… per Minnesota Reformer, it was expected last fall… over 6 months ago. 😲
Here’s commentary submitted Friday to the WDNR asking for a denial of the project by Waadookawaad Amikwag -Those who Help Beaver – a group of tribal members and citizen monitors engaging to detect concerns and insist on their remediation along Enbridge’s Line 93 corridor.
Share it? Help inform Minnesotans and our neighbors in Wisconsin of the concerns Enbridge’s construction practices, as well as their apparent cover-ups, fabrications, and dismissals of public water quality concerns.
Dear Wisconsin DNR,
We are writing today to encourage you to deny Canadian Corporation Enbridge’s Line 5 Re-Route project through the Bad River watershed.
It is unclear how you might justify approval of a new fossil fuel project, as the UN Secretary General António Guterres has recently made clear that the IPCC report states we must do more, and by that, he especially stresses doing LESS with fossil fuel development. Over and again he speaks of the failure to reduce fossil fuel usage as leaders provided false promises that lacked associated action. He insists leaders must no longer lie or delay, stressing fast change is necessary if we hope to save a future for our children and that change must focus on protecting our natural world.
If Secretary-General Guterres’ urgent plea is to be heeded, a DENIAL of Canadian Corporation Enbridge’s Line 5 project is the only way to align with your Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Mission:
To protect and enhance our natural resources:
our air, land and water;
our wildlife, fish and forests
and the ecosystems that sustain all life.
To provide a healthy, sustainable environment
and a full range of outdoor opportunities.
To ensure the right of all people
to use and enjoy these resources
in their work and leisure.
To work with people
to understand each other’s views
and to carry out the public will.
And in this partnership
consider the future
and generations to follow.
You’ll see it’s not so different from that of Minnesota’s DNR mission…
The mission of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is to work with Minnesotans to conserve and manage the state’s natural resources, to provide outdoor recreation opportunities, and to provide for commercial uses of natural resources in a way that creates a sustainable quality of life.
Minnesota decided to permit Enbridge’s Line 3 re-route, much to the current misery of those of us along the Line 93 (Line 3 Replacement pipeline; henceforth “Line 93”) corridor who now live with many negative impacts to our region. In the aftermath of the Line 93 construction, we see a path of devastation across our state, cutting directly through Indian Country and affecting all the inhabitants of this land; swimmers, crawlers, flyers, plant nation – including Manoomin and all medicines, four-leggeds, as well as the two-leggeds.
The Line 5 draft EIS is incomplete in several key ways, which would lead WDNR to make a bad decision. Please consider the input from Downstream Strategies report entitled Pipeline Impacts to Water Quality: Documented impacts and recommendations for improvements as you consider any permit conditions and restrictions you propose to allow.
This Downstream Strategies report (hereafter DS report) examined real-world experiences with four pipeline projects: Mountain Valley Pipeline and WB Xpress Pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia, the Rover Pipeline in West Virginia and Ohio, and the Mariner East II Pipeline in Pennsylvania. While these pipelines had individualized and shared concerns and failures, most were around sediment control and horizontal directional drilling (HDD) – both factors which would be of concern in the Bad River watershed and which were factors here in Minnesota.
The most significant water quality problems faced along both the WB Xpress and Mountain Valley pipelines have included inputs of sediment-laden water to streams. Most of the routes for these two pipelines cross mountainous terrain characterized by steep slopes, headwaters streams, and highly erodible soils. Reasons for failure of erosion and sedimentation controls that led to sedimentation in waterways were notably improper installation and lack of maintenance of the structures.
Mariner East II and Rover Pipelines both experienced significant water quality issues related to spilled drilling fluid during horizontal directional drilling, which contaminated streams and wetlands. Additionally, failure of erosion and sediment controls due to improper installation or insufficient maintenance, as well as a lack of approved erosion and sediment control best management practices, were major sources of violations for both pipelines.
This report also offers recommendations for improving regulation and oversight, best management practice design and implementation, and construction techniques for large-scale pipeline projects. These recommendations are based on observations of what went wrong during construction of the four pipelines, and techniques and requirements that are working to minimize water quality impacts. Notable recommendations include requiring site-specific stormwater plans for all stream and wetland crossings, encouraging companies to complete construction projects in shorter sections, and increasing regulatory inspections at the expense of the pipeline companies.”
Pipeline Impacts to Water Quality:
Documented impacts and recommendations for improvements
[Executive Summary, page iv]
Indeed, as citizen monitors, two of whom are abutters to the Line 93 corridor, one just north of where the pipeline crosses under Mississippi River at her headwaters along Great River Road (Clearwater County 40) and another who lives at the Line 93 crossing of Mississippi River also along Great River Road (Aitkin County 10), we’ve witnessed first-hand not only the failures of planned implementations for environmental controls and refusals to adhere to permitted requirements during construction, but also the damage resulting from the rush of construction as Canadian Corporation Enbridge installed this pipeline in a very short 10-month window, as opposed to the 2 years of construction proposed during the application process.
This DS report discusses the processes by which pipeline construction can impact the environment, but more importantly, it focuses on the areas where states learned hard lessons, and it provides important researched recommendations to states facing permit decisions for pipeline projects.
The DS report notes that use of Best Management Practices (BMPs) on pipeline projects can be hindered by local regulations as well as these factors (page 5), all of which we witnessed during Enbridge’s Line 93 construction:
An overview is provided for each of the four studied pipelines including photo-filled case study summaries, as well as an overview of the important role Citizen Monitoring can have in identifying impacts before, during, and after construction (page 11).
Lesson 1: Construction has permanent and severe impacts to the environment, despite Enbridge’s claims to the contrary.
Unfortunately the BMPs do not adequately address the need to protect groundwater. For example,wherever shallow groundwater is within 30 feet of the surface, deep trenching, HDD and the use of sheet pile to stabilize trenches can lead to pollution of groundwater by frac-outs and disruption of aquifers by breaches. In Minnesota, Enbridge caused at least 28 frac-outs (we have evidence that there are more that weren’t reported) and 3 major aquifer breaches (again, we have evidence of far more).
These projects require sufficient pre-design and pre-construction investigation and necessitate groundwater specific BMPs and reporting/notification requirements for the applicant.
Based on our experience in Minnesota we strongly recommend the following:
As we believe the hope of WDNR would be to implement restrictions and conditions to prevent damage to the environment if there is a decision to permit, we believe adhering to these recommendations can potentially help Wisconsin avoid some of the devastating experiences Minnesota had in our recent interactions with Enbridge. Three breached aquifers and many frac-outs still suspect in our waters is what we citizens are left to monitor. We are hopeful that we leave you forewarned, and thus, forearmed.
Current work in Minnesota by White Earth Reservation, et al includes flyover data of the entire Line 93 Corridor with thermal imaging, which appears to indicate as many as six additional breaches to the three currently reported by MDNR.
The closing Recommendations section in the DS report can help inform Wisconsin DNR on some of the construction problems, alongside some potential solutions (page 27). Adhering to these recommended guidelines can help prevent Wisconsin seeing a re-iteration of the Minnesota experience on the Line 93 build.
Lesson 2: Partner with citizens to understand potential impacts and to monitor projects.
We encourage you to resist Enbridge’s assumptions and insinuations that citizens should be treated as your enemy.
Along the Line 93 construction project here in Minnesota, citizen monitors were often the first ones aware of violations to the permit, with agencies being dependent on these citizen reports to discover infractions not readily communicated during construction by Enbridge.
Citizen monitors can reveal in-field concerns, and can play an important role in discovering areas that might not have been considered or foreseen by agencies and/or applicants. Having more intimate, longstanding, and direct contact with the land, especially throughout the seasons, local monitors can understand changes more readily than those unfamiliar with this landscape. They can also be key in reporting violations, as evidenced in Minnesota for the Line 93 project.
The Willow River frac-out was a key example as seen in this posting that includes video detail of a violation discovered just after the July 4th holiday in 2021. Citizen monitors, arriving on scene prior to the arrival of any Enbridge workers, witnessed a frac-out of warm drilling mud into Willow River. A spill kit was evident at river’s edge, yet there was no Enbridge response team present. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency records revealed they were not informed until late that day of the incident. DNR Officers were soon on-site and threatening to arrest people, notably before the frac-out had been reported to the MPCA, including as citizen monitors were attempting to secure water samples. Aitkin County Sheriff Dan Guida reported he was aware of the frac-out and noted to the monitors, “Enbridge is taking care of it”, again prior to the incident being reported to MPCA. No water samples were taken, except those taken by the citizen monitors. During the day of monitoring, DNR Conservation Officers continued surveilling and arresting people as the frac-out occurred, seeming to ignore the environmental concern. In reporting that followed, the message of law enforcement looked to silence and/or disparage the citizen monitors, again adhering to the Enbridge narrative about those in opposition to their project, while no mention was made of law enforcement’s prior awareness of the spill in the press coverage.
Citizen monitoring includes the full scope of reporting from pre-construction challenges through post-construction monitoring.
Lesson 3: Acknowledge that some areas are fundamentally unsuitable for pipeline construction.
Enbridge and its consultants will systematically downplay environmental risk.
This was clear in Enbridge’s initial documentation, which downplayed HDD risks associated with their first Mississippi River crossing:
Most of Enbridge’s HDD assessments were similarly written, yet, as noted above, at least 28 frac-outs were reported along the new corridor, two of which were reported by MPCA at this location, spilling an unknown quantity of drilling mud, as Enbridge continues to refuse to provide data on this aspect of their construction project. [It should be noted Minnesotans are still awaiting a report from the MPCA on their HDD investigations, expected in the fall of 2021.]
Based on testimony from reitred MDNR pipeline specialist Paul Stolen on 11/19/2014 and for years thereafter, it was clear that the LaSalle Valley along the proposed Line 93 route was a place that should have been considered unsuitable for this type of project. His testimony was based on publicly available geology of the area and geotechnical investigations performed by pipeline companies, as well as his own experience with pipeline construction, including in this location. Other independent geologists reviewed and confirmed Mr. Stolen’s interpretations. Nevertheless, Enbridge’s consultant Barr Engineering asserted and testified that “none of the data collected suggests that a pipeline will adversely affect hydrologic conditions during and after construction.” Hindsight unfortunately vindicates Mr. Stolen’s testimony and shows Enbridge and Barr to have been terribly wrong: Line 3 Replacement Project LaSalle Creek Corrective Action Plan.
We must remember: Enbridge’s justification for the Line 93 project was to “replace” a deteriorating pipeline the Canadian corporation had been neglecting for decades.
Enbridge’s reasoning was based on falsehoods, and their own misinterpretation of a federal consent decree, as they successfully used the example of their own ill-maintained Line 3 to justify a new pipeline project, creating a new corridor as their leases on Reservation land were expiring.
One might more appropriately view the deterioration of Enbridge’s Line 3 as a sign of things to come with their “replacement” pipelines.
The following from the Line 93 project timeline and post-construction review might assist your decision-making:
The DNR has three current corrective action plans in place for the artesian aquifers ruptured by Enbridge during their Line 93 construction process at Clearbrook Terminal, LaSalle Creek, and Milepost 1102.5.
Lesson 4: Plan for comprehensive permit oversight and enforcement.
Permit oversight and enforcement are key and we include several ideas from the DS report.
Based on our experience with Enbridge on the Line 93 project, 17 of their 40 “independent” environmental monitors were previous Enbridge contractors or employees. Previous employment for an applicant should disqualify a monitor as “independent” and it may provide insight as to why several violations witnessed in Minnesota were not reported in a timely or transparent manner. Key to inspections are that they are: frequent, sufficient, and performed by trained, independent inspectors.
We are unaware of any on-site independent management personnel or monitoring equipment employed during Line 93 construction.
While our experience agrees that HDD may be the least destructive way to cross streams, it is not a panacea. Here in Minnesota, Enbridge’s licensed professional engineer signed a report stating the low-risk of HDD, even as the pre-construction borings indicated an assurance that frac-outs would occur, and, in fact, might be common. [Feasibility Assessment by J.D.Hair & Associates, Inc. (pg 606): “Although there is a possibility that cobbles and boulders or pressurized groundwater conditions could be encountered, it is our opinion that experienced HDD contractors will be able to successfully install the crossing.” See pages 601-616. We would respectfully question their definition of what constitutes a ‘successful’ installation.] Additional geotechnical borings in areas where HDD and/or sheet piling will be used can reduce the uncertainties that might be revealed with construction, as we found here in the Mississippi Headwaters.
While company stormwater managers can be influenced by profits and timelines, state designated overseers can have a narrow role of environmental impact monitoring to the permit expectations. As mentioned above, the independence of monitors on the Line 93 project was insufficient to assure ready reporting of concerning impacts.
Requiring applicants to provide all air photo, drone images and remote sensing data employed before, during and after construction, within five working days of acquiring the data, can allow for timely reactions to concerns. Real-time web updates on all work sites can also give quicker insight to indicator data.
Several mapping tools were used by citizen monitors to document the concerns along Enbridge’s Line 93 route. Mapping the Black Snake was a tool used early on that showed concerns from Alberta to the protest of construction and Watch The Line MN had a project map that included hundreds of recordings of before and during construction details in hopes to assure a return of the landscape post-construction to promised conditions.
The closest we had were citizen monitors… though we support the DS report recommendation for these tools to help assure adherence to permitted agreements.
Again, Minnesota has Line 93 experience with this recommendation as well with MDNR filing a $3.32M mitigation and penalty funds, though the $20,000 maximum administrative fine was likely irrelevant to a company the size of Enbridge. Minnesota is currently considering legislation to increase these fines to $20,000 per day of violation. That would have taken Enbridge from a $20,000 fine to one of $7,240,000, factoring in the Clearbrook breach which flowed from 1/21/2021 through 1/18/2022.
Perhaps one of the most oft-heard questions citizens posed post-realization of the Clearbrook aquifer breach was why this violation did not stop construction for the project as a whole, when it was clear that Enbridge had not transparently reported the ongoing environmental damages. MDNR claimed a lack of authority. Stop-work order agreements in permits could have prevented this lack of authority over our own landscape as a Canadian corporation prioritized completion of its pipeline construction above remediation of the bleeding aquifer.
Lesson 5: Require more modern BMPs than Enbridge proposes
When it comes to BMPs, the DS report offers several considerations that should be adopted.
BMPs must be properly selected and sized based on the drainage area. A set of practices with specifications that address large drainage areas should be followed. Construction across ridgetops and headwaters watersheds poses a challenge to stormwater control. Extra attention to drainage area calculations during the design phase and utilization of ESCs specially designed for these sensitive environments can help protect water quality in these areas. These practices can include, for example, diversion ditches or dikes on the uphill side of a construction area that transport water away from the right-of-way and help prevent controls from being overwhelmed.
Controls to adequately handle flow associated with access roads must not be overlooked. This report documented instances where BMPs directed flow off the right-of-way and onto access roads, causing significant erosion and sedimentation of waterways. Like the pipeline corridor itself, access roads can channel runoff and sediment, often directly into streams and waterbodies, if ESC practices are not in place for the road surface and associated ditches and conveyances. Large pipeline projects typically have many miles of access roads.
Specifications regarding vegetative stabilization in challenging conditions, such as steep slopes or shade, should be developed and followed during construction. Erosion resulting from vegetation that did not grow was observed on the MVP.
A state-certified professional geologist should be on site to monitor HDD activities and to help guide responses should an IR occur.
When company staff are spread across an extremely large construction site, as is the case with many of these long pipelines, it can be difficult to mobilize and correct BMP failures before waterways are impacted. When staff are responsible for managing and monitoring very large areas, it can also take time to notice failures. Additionally, management structures often require that managers who are not on site make decisions necessary to quickly remedy failing BMPs or to adjust construction plans based on on-site conditions. Improving this management structure to allow for quick adjustments at a construction site would help prevent impacts due to failing BMPs or when the conditions on the ground necessitate additional controls than are described in plans.
Perimeter controls, such as silt fences and filter socks, can act as channels when not utilized correctly. To remedy this, more time should be spent in the design and planning phase. The drainage area must be properly calculated. Additional ESCs—such as Jhooks, diversions, and outlet sediment traps—can be used to accommodate large drainage areas.
Large-scale pipelines should be built to completion in short sections, thereby limiting the total area disturbed at any one time. The pipeline projects described here utilized a construction method that left very long stretches of the pipeline route with active construction areas. For example, trees were cleared along most of the routes, then the trenches were dug along most of the routes. ESCs were installed as work progressed, but very large areas were denuded at one time. Typical construction projects must stabilize open areas before moving to new areas; this same strategy should be applied to pipeline projects. This would allow attention to be given to a smaller disturbed area during intense storm events by staff and ensure controls are properly constructed and maintained. The extremely large construction sites also pose a challenge for regulatory agency inspectors.
Lesson 6: Require geotechnical investigations and robust pre-impact monitoring before you have to make decisions about permit conditions or permit approval.
In Minnesota the agencies did not require robust monitoring before construction started, so now they have no way to quantify the extent of environmental damage nor the permanence or impermanence of impacts. We implore you to treat each wetland and each stream as a valuable and unique system that deserves particular attention and understanding. “General permits” and blanket statements about hydrologic conditions are not appropriate for a project of this scale.
Lesson 7: Look for ways to build trust, not destroy trust.
The trust between the public and its government is a valuable resource, and should be cared for as such.
Co-opting the process of environmental management, Enbridge spent nearly $8M to buy Minnesota law enforcement force to silence those in opposition along their project route, including over $2M in compensation to MN DNR Conservation Officers. As DNR Officers were tailing citizens who, in their own hopes of assuring compliance with the permitted parameters, were monitoring the construction corridor, DNR Officers missed environmental damages Enbridge was covering up; failures that included horizontal directional drilling frac-outs and breaching of artesian aquifers. We recommend your resources be used to uphold permit conditions rather than as enforcers to help Enbridge stymy public opposition.
We, the members of Waadookawaad Amikwag – Those Who Help Beaver – a group of tribal members and citizen scientists working to monitor Enbridge’s Line 93 corridor post-construction, offer these above ideas for your consideration.
Our hope is to save you from the same Enbridge experience
we faced, and continue to remediate, here in Minnesota.
It didn’t have to be this way.
Miigwech bizindaawiyeg. Thank you for listening.
Waadookawaad Amikwag Team Members
Debra Topping, Nagajiiwanaang (Fond du Lac) 1854 Treaty, R.I.S.E. Coalition Co-Founder,
Gaagigeyaashiik / Dawn Goowin, Gaa-waabaabiganikaag (White Earth) 1855 Treaty, R.I.S.E. Coalition Co-Founder, 1855 Treaty Authority Alternate Board Member, Indigenous Environmental Network, Sierra Club North Star Chapter Executive Committee Member
Ron Turney, Gaa-waabaabiganikaag (White Earth) 1855 Treaty, Indigenous Environmental Network Drone Pilot
Jeff Broberg, Minnesota Licensed Professional Geologist, Founder MNWOO (Minnesota Well Owners Organization)
Jaci Christenson, Volunteer advocate working to protect water, address our changing climate, and uphold treaties
Jami Gaither, Retired Metallurgical Engineer, Abutter to Line 93 in 1855 Treaty Territory, Climate Justice Advocate
Shanai Matteson, Abutter to Line 93 in 1854 Treaty Territory, Climate Justice Advocate
Alexander Aman, Drone Pilot & Data Analyst, Climate Justice Advocate
Michele Naar-Obed, Climate Justice Activist, citizen scientist, Ally to Anishinaabe water protectors and treaty rights.
21 Monday Mar 2022
Posted in Coronavirus, Death, Economics, Human Extinction, Local Reporting, Politics
As we watch information come leaking out from various places, it’s getting harder and harder to ignore that we may have been sold a bill of goods with these mRNA vaccines. It’s a deep and complex topic and today I’m simply going to pose questions for consideration.
As we find so little available data that shares the needed details to understand much of what we’d like to understand, it’s hard to know the truth. Though I keep working to discover it.
So today we look to excess deaths as an indicator of how well we’re faring. And things don’t look too good overall. Here’s what we see globally:
Here’s what we have on US mortality.
Based on this info, hard to say vaccines are doing much? In fact, could it be argued that, with deaths at least 10% above expectations since last summer, we’re continuing to see higher death rates in spite of vaccination… or might it perhaps be because of vaccination?
What this graphic depicts is that, early on in the pandemic, we were actually seeing LESS DEATHS than normal! You can see the excess deaths were less than zero (so, lower than expected rates) right up until about when the WHO declared the pandemic on 3/10/2020. We crossed the zero-line around March 1st and there followed a MASSIVE SPIKE in excess deaths to almost 40% by Spring 2020.
Starting in mid-April, we saw a drop over two months in excess deaths to about 10% excess deaths. Was this a result of restrictions that prevented travel and encouraged social distancing, mask-wearing, and hand washing? [It certainly was not about vaccines as those had not yet been developed.]
2020 continued with a summer uptick (as we re-opened and tried to go back to normal, largely failing to protect with our Covid countermeasures and plans). This uptick bumped excess death rates to over 20% by early August and then fell again to bounce around 10-15% as “flu season” began again, when we saw a corresponding bump in excess deaths – back up to over 40% this time.
This next big spike seemed a result of returns to school and family holiday gatherings as many tired of being cooped up. By Thanksgiving 2020 we were halfway to this next bump over 40% excess deaths which, by the end of the year was starting to drop again. Was it people returning to more mindful practices after some scary stories of the Covid experienced by others? School holidays? We’ll likely never know. Still, three and a half months later, by mid-March 2021, we were back down under 5% excess deaths.
One might argue that the drop in excess deaths we saw in early 2021 was a result of the vaccines. Since excess deaths fell starting in late 2020 (when some had been vaccinated – though mostly only the elderly at that point in the game) and fell steadily through the first quarter of 2021 from over 40% to under 5% by early April, it seems logical to say it was vaccines. Though was it? Or could it have been mask mandates, lockdowns, people taking precautions, or all of the above?
Through the spring and summer of 2021, excess deaths remained between 5-10% over expectations. But by August-2021 we see another surge to almost 40% excess deaths again. So, if it WAS Vaccines that brought the drop in early 2021, it seemed they were no longer effectively keeping death in check as excess deaths shot up from under 10% in mid-July 2021 to almost 40% again by the end of August-2021.
Again, due to causes we may likely never truly understand, excess deaths began to fall to about 20% by the end of October-2021. While in the beginning and end of summer-2020 we saw drops to only 10% excess dead, our drop in 2021 never took us below 15% (actually, about 16.8%) excess dead.
In November-2021, as the Omicron wave hit on the other side of the world, we watched our excess dead hover from 17-20% and then, as 2022 came to be, we watched the rate continue to rise – this time to over 25% excess dead.
Some called Omicron a “vaccine variant” – as it created natural immunity without severe disease, bringing herd immunity to Nations of Africa and others which had been denied access to man-manufactured vaccines by more affluent (hoarding/uncaring/profit-driven/pick-your-adjective) nations. [Lucky them? As we see vaccine adverse events data continue to pile up and data concerns on vaccine trials continue to look skeptical as whistle blowers speak to the details?]
As of the latest available data, the US Excess Mortality remains at about 25% of expected death rates.
Even with vaccines in place.
Even with Coronavirus mandates dropping like rocks from the hands of politicians fearing re-election chances?
There are a couple dozen first-term Governors facing the voters this fall – and we’re suspecting many will find it rough going. [Walz in MN, Evers in WI, Whitmer in MI. Dunleavy in AK, Newsom in CA, Polis in CO, Lamont in CT, Desantis in FL, Kemp in GA, Little in ID, Pritzker in IL, Kelly in KS, Beshear in KY, Mills in ME, Sisolak in NV, Sununu in NH, Grisham in NM, Hochul in NY (already a victim there), DeWine in OH, Stitt in OK, McKee in RI, Noem in SD, Lee in TN, Gordon in WY.] I’m guessing Desantis might hang on, maybe Newsom? I figure Dems who locked down too long and hurt their economies (does that maybe include everyone?) and Republicans who didn’t use mandates and saw high deaths (also several?), may both face angry constituencies? Though… Who knows?!?!
Meanwhile… I’ve pulled data for the deaths and will be investigating it more closely.
A quick look at the figures for Minnesota are frightening. Alzheimer deaths were 240 in 2020… and 810 in 2021. And the cardiac categories continue this troubling trend. Hypertensive disease accounted for 60 dead in 2020… and 254 in 2021. Other diseases of the circulatory system almost quadrupled year-over-year (jumping from 124 to 482). That kind of growth seems to say there’s something abnormal causing this surge in deaths.
Here’s the data from the CDC itself on America’s excess deaths.
We can see that their figures show our children – and even our younger working age folks – have not been at much risk during the pandemic. Folks arguing for an end to vaccine mandates – especially for children – based on the adverse affects and apparent concerns about how mRNA works in the body long-term… might have a point it seems.
And what do the CDC say is on the rise? What is causing this uptick in deaths above normal expectations?
Diseases of the circulatory system. Heart concerns. Aneurysms, Blood clots, Cardiac Ischemia, Heart attacks, Strokes, that kind of thing.
[Coincidentally, exactly where we’re hearing most of the impacts of mRNA happen in the body? Blood clots that appear to form after vaccination may be the source? Perhaps it’s not all conspiracy theory and conjecture… as the CDC tells us nothing on what they’re doing to study the apparent increases in blood disease deaths?]
Unfortunately, the US data is limited or difficult to access (as well as being suspect as the influence of financial incentives have impacted how data was recorded and reported… affecting many of the medical decisions made for our citizenry, sadly).
I’d ask: If vaccines have been so effective, why are we still seeing excess dead at the rate of 25%? Why did the fully vaccinated breakthrough cases in Minnesota account for 52% of our dead in the latest reported week – and today we will see new data on those figures. Thus far, about 30% of all Minnesota dead were fully vaccinated per Minnesota Department of Health.
Anyone?
Update, after looking at MDH Covid Breakthrough Case figures for fully vaccinated residents.
21 Monday Feb 2022
Posted in Citizenship, Climate Change, Community, Death, Economics, Human Extinction, Leaving the Rat Race, Musings, Racism
As the second decade of the new millennium began, there were many who succumbed.
They died of broken hearts.
They were let down over and over again. They were lied to repeatedly.
They were beaten into broken-heartedness… and many took their own lives.
The systems didn’t track loneliness… or happiness, for that matter.
Only dollars. Earned and spent.
While the dollars rolled up, faster and faster to those at the top… those overlooked by the system suffered… more and more.
The irony is that this system depended on these whom it had let down so many times over the years. So the system itself began to fail.
Eventually, after the protests in the streets, the bridge blockades, and fights for rights, enough of us backed down, again and again… that the government – aligning the millionaires inside and outside Congress… and joining with the financial backing of their good friends at the Corps(e) [Corporations Kill, eh?] – realized they could get away with just about anything!
That swearing in of Kavanaugh to the SCOTUS… on a Saturday afternoon?!? That was just another day in Absurdia as the leaders of Whitelandia doubled down. Other things to come included:
The media had been brought into the fold in years prior, so the citizenry barely recognized the programming they were being fed. It all seemed so reasonable and hopeful, always HOPE FILLED NEWS! [Always END with a story about puppies… or a 15-year-old kid who made a new ‘green’ tech that astounds!] The media fed the pipe dreams the rich and powerful sold to the masses… to keep them hoping that they would soon join the rich and famous… and have all they have!
But this pipe dream became more and more clearly a dream… and not a reality. A dream sold to placate the masses to continue their days as cogs in the machine… to keep production high (and wages low!) and eat up resources to make all those things that promised to make life grand! [But only for those who could afford them.]
As more and more lost the needed resources to stay fed, housed, clothed, and cared for… they moved back to the land… as they had no other option. Whether going far into the woods or setting up camp in the park as a last resort, these refugees found varying degrees of success [usually related to their starting points – along with the color of their skin (sadly, also related to where each might have started) – and the amount of available resources at that point when they left the “system”.]
Those who lost relationship with their human relatives often found solace in nature, a welcoming challenge that was fair, not put out of balance by rules that upended logic, laws that no longer protected ‘The People’. The forest gave freely to all who searched for mushrooms, roots, plants, and meat.
Only those who began to live in reciprocity with the Earth – which had always provided everything on which they relied – were able to survive. Only by living within the caring carrying capacity of Her bounds, were they able to begin again, remembering the broken-hearted, who’d been unable to find their way to sanity… and safety.
06 Monday Dec 2021
Posted in Being Yourself, Citizenship, Death, Human Extinction, Local Reporting, Politics
Tags
Covid, COVID-19, Ivermectin, Kory, Marik, Michael Capuzzo, Minnesota, SARS-CoV-2
I’m not saying vaccines are 100% ineffective, I’m simply saying they aren’t 100% safe (at least not as we’re administering them here in the US)… and that they are not our only way forward.
I’m really saying, “It Didn’t Have To Be This Way.” [More on this at the bottom.]
While many would agree with me in saying the vaccines are not 100% effective, it seems that few will agree the vaccines are unsafe. But one thing most of them can agree on is this: Ivermectin Doesn’t Work and Is UNSAFE!
The question is… Why? And maybe more importantly, WHY is there so much disagreement about these ideas. And most importantly perhaps, WHY can we not DISCUSS these matters freely and without such vitriol?
I have really been heartbroken by those who have chosen to attack me for speaking my truth as I share what I feel are valid concerns that require some consideration.
Some simply want to label me “Anti-vaxxer”… and thus conveniently put me into a category of “Stupid” or “Trumpster” as they stand in righteous beliefs regarding their vaccines… and my lack of care.
I’ve been especially frightened by the harsh lashing out from those who have called me a friend.
If I cannot even talk openly with friendly relations about these ideas, then how on earth are we to find truth among the masses?
Nuance is hard for most of us and even harder as truth is becoming more difficult to determine.
All I can say is that I’m working as hard as anyone to understand the world. And I’m listening to what I’m learning and working to put all the pieces together.
Unfortunately, the more I work, the harder it is to find hope that we’re gonna find our way through all this mess.
The harder it is to know what is true, who I can trust, and what I ought do.
I told Dan this past week, if the Abortion Ban and Vaccine Mandates both manage to find a way forward and into our near-term future, then I suspect we’ll be at war by my birthday, just a few months hence. As I discussed with a friend this morning, there are legal ideas… and then there are ethics and logic. It’s seeming more often each day that the legal does not always rest well on logical, scientific, or moral ground.
I’m also concerned that these times are looking quite similar to those that preceded both WWI and WWII. We have economic uncertainty, communication breakdowns, global scapegoating, and system failures that do not bode well for our future being bright. And we wonder why our children are shooting each other in schools and overdosing on opioids? We can look at ourselves for these answers.
Yet, there doesn’t seem much impetus to find that middle ground in logic and ethics. Instead, greed seems the biggest motivator in the Vaccine/Covid Treatment game.
Yet the data from India, Japan, and Chiappas show that Ivermectin does work?
And the chatter about Ivermectin being a “horse-dewormer” and/or “dangerous” has been shown to be politically driven misinformation for this Nobel Prize Winning drug. [FFS, even the correction opener on this piece is an embarrassing attempt at misguiding the public – though with our poor education system, it has seemingly worked… as I have family members in medicine who poo-poo Ivermectin as HORRIBLY UNSAFE! (I would welcome anyone who has links to articles that DON’T mention Ivermectin… without disparaging it as ‘unhelpful’ for Covid.)]
Perhaps the best written summary can be found in the below quoted article*:
This was not something many people thought possible. But while the world was living the nightmare of the COVID-19 pandemic like a Michael Crichton sci-fi horror production where the planet is facing a plague apocalypse, millions die, and doctors can do nothing as brilliant pharmaceutical scientists race to develop vaccines to save the globe in the final scene, Paul Marik had a different movie in his head. He was startled and appalled that all the national and international public health agencies recommended that the most well-trained, well-equipped doctors in history stand down and wait on big pharma’s lab scientists while the worst pandemic in a century devastated the world. “It’s therapeutic nihilism to say that doctors can do nothing,” Marik said. “Supportive care is no care at all.”
What Marik did was assemble four of his closest friends, who also happen to be four of the top academic critical care doctors in the world. He challenged them to join him in an expert panel to continually review the literature while treating their COVID-19 patients and developing treatment protocols—lowcost generic therapies that countless black and brown and poor people all over the world would need, he saw from the beginning, or face a coming catastrophe without treatments or vaccines. …
ICUs were getting hammered by the new respiratory plague all around the world, but Marik had
The Drug That Cracked COVID by Michael Capuzzo
assembled a group of intensivists with nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed papers and books and over a century of bedside experience in treating multi-organ failure and severe pneumonia-type diseases. If anyone could arrest the coronavirus in a living patient, they could.
And they DID! The MATH+ and I-MASK protocols have saved many. Though the safety of Ivermectin is hard to argue against, we see that many have. And we continue to see no consideration of it by our prescribed Doctor, as he notes the organization’s protocols do not allow Ivermectin prescriptions to be written for Covid treatment, I am left to no other conclusion than this may well be a de-population plan.
We are told here in America that, until you have COVID symptoms that warrant hospitalization, there is no treatment for you. We are not given any guidance for boosting our own immune systems and are even discouraged from taking Vitamin D, or anything… save a jab of vaccine, to help ourselves. Meanwhile, our mortality for 2021 is HIGHER than that of 2020. Even with those highly touted EUA jabs in place? Hmmm.
Sadly, as I read the words of Dr. Pierre Kory, I feel the same of my own doctor, who continues to refuse to consider any medical information I present:
Kory never tires of reminding critics that the modern Hippocratic Oath, the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki, makes it abundantly clear that all medical research is secondary to the doctor’s clinical judgement in the moment, whether the patient is dying of COVID-19 or giving birth. The doctor is morally compelled to use their best clinical judgement and the “best available evidence” in that instant, not tomorrow or next year when more data is published. As the WMA puts it: “The health of my patient will be my first consideration.” Clearly the medical establishment is now routinely violating that ancient oath, Kory says, and as a result he “feels estranged from most, but not all, of my colleagues.” …
In the new world of medicine, the COVID world, he says, “Only big randomized controlled trials by big pharma/big academic medical centers are accepted by big journals, while others are rejected,” while only studies in big journals are accepted by big public health agencies for drug recommendations, and only drugs recommended by big public health agencies “escape media/social media censorship.” “This leaves you with a system where the only thing that’s considered to have sufficient evidence or proven efficacy is essentially a big new pharmaceutical drug,” he adds. “If it doesn’t come from the mountaintop, it doesn’t exist,” Kory says. “The people on the ground, we cannot do any more science that’s considered credible. We’re discredited as controversial and as promoting unproven therapies and our Facebook groups are shut down, Twitter accounts are locked, YouTube videos are removed and demonetized. It’s really almost totalitarian what’s happening when we’re just well-meaning scientists trying to do the right thing by our patients.”
The Drug That Cracked COVID by Michael Capuzzo
Perhaps this censorship is the true problem? Again, this goes back to the beginning where I ask:
Can we not OPENLY DISCUSS the facts and come to the TRUTH?
It seems in today’s regulatory-captured capitalism, we may be SOL for that plan.
Good luck to you all in finding your way.
I’d ask that you consider taking a moment after hearing something you find a bit hard to swallow – perhaps especially from those for whom you hold any love – to ask yourself,
“What if they aren’t all wrong?”
Perhaps, if I have not convinced you then a couple last stories from Capuzzo’s piece will inspire?
Dr. Manny Espinoza was dying of COVID-19 in his Texas hospital when his wife, Dr. Erica Espinoza, asked the doctors to try Ivermectin as a last resort, and was refused. Erica hired a life-flight helicopter to take Manny to the Houston hospital of FLCCC co-founder Joseph Varon for the cheap little pill that in four days had her husband sitting up smiling and telling their children about the “miracle” that saved his life. “We see this every day,” Dr. Varon says. “They say it’s a miracle, I say it’s the science, but it’s the truth.” In Atlanta, Georgia, eighty-four-year-old Lou Gossett Jr., the Oscar-winning black star of An Officer and a Gentleman, gravely ill with COVID-19, checked out of a hospital and was three days from his lungs failing, doctors said, when his son connected him with an FLCCC doctor in Florida who gave him Ivermectin. Gossett quickly recovered and made a very short film for the FLCCC doctors that ends: “I’m very grateful to all of you for literally saving my life.”
In Cushing, Oklahoma (pop. 7,826), Dr. Randy Grellner saw Kory’s testimony and started giving his patients Ivermectin, which he’d used safely for years for parasites, for COVID-19 because he was “tired of the heartache…tired of the misery…I’ve seen enough death and despair.” In a few weeks the overwhelmed clinic dropped from twenty-five new COVID-19 cases a day to two. “The first thing that surprised me was how fast was the recovery in seventy-five and eight-five-year-old people,” Dr. Grellner said. “I know there’s controversy. I have no political motivation. I don’t have any desire except to put husbands and wives back together. If you’re getting problems from an organization that you work for that says you can’t use it, I would question that organization. If we’re not doing what is best for the patient, then we need to find another occupation.”…[And what about Judy, with whom all this began?] She was quite amazed to learn from her children that while she was lying unconscious and near death with COVID-19 she became a front-page story in The Buffalo News and a Joan of Arc figure in a new revolution, the grandmother who won the first legal fight in the battle of Ivermectin. It is an unprecedented civil rights uprising of doctors, nurses, scientists, Nobel-Prize winning biologists, billionaire health philanthropists, civil rights activists, and thousands of ordinary people across Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Canada, and the United States fighting a global, big-data-driven medical establishment. They’re fighting for the lost little things, the little data—the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, the survival of the Hippocratic Oath, and the most important of civil rights, the right to life.
The Drug That Cracked COVID by Michael Capuzzo
* Big thanks to the link to the Capuzzo piece, which I found via Battle over whom to believe about ivermectin (also a good read) from Clark County Today News. READ THE WHOLE FUCKING THING!
if you want some info on Omicron, I recommend Dr. John Campbell, who says things are looking good. Still… mask up to protect others? Or is that no longer a thing?
And here’s a long presentation from Heather and Bret on the details, the arguments, and – at about halfway through – information on many of the alternatives.
As I noted above… It didn’t have to be this way. 😞
At 1:22:00, I’m with Heather on her “my doctor” comment. More 😞…
Update later in the day of publish:
this latest from Darkhorse Podcast is truly horrifying. Though timely.
And I found this from earlier this year.
and Brand is on it too… with the latest Pfizer whistle-blowers in the Intercept. The hits just keep on coming!
12/7/21 update… more bad news on vaccines... from Doc Martenson.
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