Figuring out the Propaganda?

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CELDF, climate change, Covid, COVID-19, Enbridge, Guantanamo, Keystone, Lies, Line 3, Line 93, Miscarriage, mRNA, Propaganda, Stillbirth, Vaccine, Walker Brook

It’s hard to say what has been most frustrating about my life as an activist but perhaps it’s the freaking absurdity of what continues to sell like hotcakes? Against all logic. Even though the deception can be discovered with the least bit of scrutiny? 🧐

Natalie sings of our situation…

Regardless of whether it is Big Pharma, our government, or Big Oil, my concerns about the players are finding themselves on solid ground. The proof continues to emerge on Enbridge’s Line 93 construction failures (while state agencies continue to remain silent on these as-yet-unreported concerns) and data keeps coming to light on the adverse impacts of the mRNA vaccines.

While it can be difficult to face the blowback from those who are not yet discerning the bullshit, I’ll continue to speak truth as I discover it. And I’ll be ever grateful for those who are willing to discuss life matters openly… to find truth together.

This past week shows recent concerns being wrangled:

1. The news on vaccines continues to come. None of it good, sadly, for those who’ve been inoculated with mRNA.

• While we can’t expect the same here in the US, it was good to see the addressing of medical issues from vaccination in the UK. I like how he says government is supposed to be “of, by, and for the people”…. and data shouldn’t have to be pulled, like teeth, by Freedom of Information Act requests. It should just be given. Indeed. And on the Enbridge’s failures as well? Figuring out the oligarchy yet? And how it is killing us… Sometimes slowly with pollution, sometimes by the millions with an escaped gain of function research virus… And sometimes a jab at a time? FFS. Good luck, everybody.
• Spike protein circulating in kids with Covid vaccination. Reports on myocarditis after inoculation… Strangely no unvaccinated control group for comparison. Hmmm. 🧐
• Here’s the US Senate report on the origins of Coronavirus. Knowing this since Mother’s Day 2020… at least… apparently I’m just brilliant? Or simply not drinking Kool aid from big pharma?
• Adverse impacts from vaccines resulting in death. It didn’t have to be this way… Standard payment of ₺120,000 provided by UK government! In the U.S., it’s best to not count on any reimbursement. Don’t count on even any acknowledgement of possible vaccine in jury? FFS. The government is still PROMOTING VACCINATION! For BABIES!
• New WHO Treaty And what might go wrong with giving the WHO even MORE CONTROL over pandemic response? After they failed so miserably on Coronavirus? Note: Within a few months, the UK has gone from inoculating babies… to restricting the Covid vaccines to ONLY those over 75. Will the U.S. follow this lead? Nah! Too many profits to be had!! Plus, Carbon Reduction Power!!

• And today’s word: Miscarriage and stillbirths Again, more requirements for requesting specific data, rather than it being included for a FOIA. What are they hiding so thoroughly? The apparent lack of data since 2020 is QUITE DISTURBING. [Video comments are really horrifying on this one. Lots of anecdotal evidence shared. This was telling: “My wife and I chose not to take the vaccine and had a healthy baby boy 2 weeks ago. While at the hospital 2 nurses commented on how wonderful it was to finally have a woman come in without hypertension and a baby that wasn’t underweight. They said Covid causes that and that’s why they’re only just seeing these issues now. I’m sure the US government has data relating hypertension in pregnant women to the vaccine and id be very curious to see it”]

2. Even the Aspen Institute is now a Propaganda Program!! For crying out loud. Next thing you know Fox News will be telling more truth than MPR? 🧐 Lots of shake ups in MSM this week, eh? Feels collapse is nearer every day and we’ll only know about it if we’re watching alternative media. Perhaps you can check out these tidbits to learn more?

• Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For “Weaponized” Free Speech The nature of surveillance and control (or fascism… as you wish)
• Today In Empire: War Machine-Funded War Games, Facebook Censors Hersh, And More If you’re rather look forward rather than backward, as in the above on past election shenanigans, this is good too on what’s to come.
• Really, ALL HER STUFF IS GOOD. This is the latest… The Empire Of Hypocrisy The US is raging about Russia jailing a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges, while the US is: 1) Jailing Julian Assange for doing good journalism. 2) Threatening to imprison Matt Taibbi. 3) Charging African People’s Socialist Party members with “propaganda” crimes. (Just to bring these links full circle? If you only have 2 minutes – listen to this one from 2:15…)

3. Industry failures that result in Environmental damages:

• The Findings on the Keystone XL Failure in Kansas The overriding concern in day to day life here at the HARN is when Enbridge’s Line 93 might fail. With aquifer breaches throughout Clearwater County along its corridor, the most frightening place for failure is either LaSalle Valley or, my best guess, Walker Brook Valley. With this just in on the Keystone Pipeline failure last year, Walker Brook feels more likely every day. Fatigue is an obvious problem with a pipeline resting in a bog that is constantly rising and lowering with fluctuating water levels, eh?
• Tesla supplier Talon Metals accelerates hunt for nickel in Michigan Yet the Upper Midwest appears to be catering to extractive industry clients? Learn more… from the salesmen. How’s that keeping with environmental safety? Spoiler alert: It’s not. See below.]
• Meanwhile… ‘They’re destroying us’: Indigenous communities fear toxic leaks from Canada oil industry How many more signs of failure by industry, how many more tornados or hurricanes or floods, how many more puzzle pieces of horror will it take for humanity to see we’re pushing the limits and literally destroying the sources needed for our survival. (If you laughed once at those Easter Island photos as a kid… might want to look real hard in the mirror next chance you get.)

4. How capitalism works…

• Love this dude Matthew Desmond Why the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep dying. Poor die at a rate of 500/day… Just because they are poor. Being poor is REALLY EXPENSIVE. SO MANY RULES that create strive for the poor while giving more help to the rich. Guess the rich got better bootstraps?
• Pamphlet #13: On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability Our laws are not designed for environmental rights… or workers’ rights for that matter!! Educate yourself on your own disenfranchisement? If you want to do something about all the madness?

And that’s to not even mention Guantanamo, the Canadian Kids, or Earth Day celebrations.

I’ll see you Monday! {Unless, like Tucker, my producer kills my show!!} 😬

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Humans

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Humans

A sculpture of a posthuman breathing
from the last tree on Earth…
by Vladimir De Thézier

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.

They Come to See the Lady Slipper Orchids

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activism, Enbridge, Highway 34, Line 3, Line 93, MNDOT, Trees

We’ve heard orchids are fragile and take long years to bloom, yet here in Minnesota’s harsh winter climate we revered their beauty so, we made the Showy Lady Slipper our state flower. And we have many scenic byways where everyone can enjoy their beauty as they often thrive in the wet ditches along our roadways. If you haven’t seen them, make plans to do so. And act quick because the state road projects are ignoring them… Leading to their destruction… at quite the pace now.

So why doesn’t the state of Minnesota care for and protect this flower we profess to hold in such high regard?

Instead, MN Department of Transportation seems hell bent on spending our tax dollars in destroying the beauty of our state, giving away the Tree Nation relatives to the best bidding logger for his troubles, and assuring the vacationers stop coming because…

Why bother? Nothing special to see here anymore.

It seems the Department of Transportation has figured out a way to prevent fatalities along Highway 34! …a problem most of us didn’t even realize was a problem we face. Because we don’t.

Their solution involves the culling of thousands of trees along a 7-mile stretch of Scenic Byway through the Smokey Hills State Forest. (Forest, you know, as in TREES.) As part of this tree clear cutting, they will remove stumps and regrade the ditch. This is the part that eliminates the Ladyslippers.

I didn’t know much about these flowers before moving to Minnesota but definitely recall my first sighting. I was with my mom at the edge of Lake Itasca in our gem of a state park, which hosts the Headwaters of the Mississippi. She’s the one who found them and when I saw the beauty I was stunned. What soft pink color, flowing curves, and a little spot where sometimes you might find a spider or some other being enjoying in a closer view. If I was small enough I’d sure want to climb inside and see what’s happening in there! What more lovely cavern of beauty could a spider wish?

As a resident along County 2 in Clearwater County, I watched a few years ago as the County widened our road and extended their easement far to each side, clear-cutting the beauty along this scenic drive info Itasca State Park from U.S. Highway 2. Only two of us fought the easement request, saving many trees. It’s one of my proudest accomplishments since moving to Minnesota.

As my neighbor put it, “if I wanted to live on the plains of North Dakota I would have bought a house in North Dakota.”

As the project was state-funded, it required the deep cuts to the sides of the road, clearing the beauty of the trees, reportedly to allow people to avoid crashes, by being better able to see deer. Also, it process, destroying the fragile habitat of the Ladyslippers.

The result is that while we may still be living on a Scenic Byway, we no longer live in a scenic landscape. This is in part because in addition to culling most of the trees, the state also allowed Enbridge Incorporated to build a tar sands pipeline adjacent to the “Scenic drive“. This video depicts what we hope will not be the fate of those living along Highway 34, as Joeb assured me there would be no burn piles with this project. It depicts the destruction of clear-cutting we witnessed along County 2. (Now in addition to fewer trees you see more erosion barrier, still present almost a year and a half post-Enbridge Line 93-construction. I just found out last week the damages aren’t seen as “permanent” until 5 years. I’m sure all the erosion barrier will have grown into the habitat by then so the visual damages will be gone? Yet the damage remains. And continues.)

When I spoke with MNDoT on this Highway 34 clearcut I was told the Scenic Byway designation would remain. Yet I asked Joeb Oyster, project manager for the Highway 34 resurfacing:

“My guess is that the reason this was named a Scenic Byway is because of the trees. … Will it really be a scenic byway, for which to designate?”

When the County 2 project was being revealed, several of us met with the County Engineer Dan Sauve at the public meeting asking him what would be done to save the Ladyslippers. He expressed no concern for the flowers saying only, if we wanted to remove them, we were welcome to do so. So we did!

Dozens of us, in the summers before construction, were out there taking hundreds of these beauties to new homes in hopes we can restore the ditches by returning them post-construction. It seems these days if there’s anything you’d like done in your community you best do it yourself.

And if there’s anything you want protected you best do that yourself too because the state isn’t working for protection on our behalf. I’m not sure who they’re listening to exactly, but it’s not the people who have lived here, whether for generations or millennia, or just a few years like me.

A simple solution, perfect for a scenic tree-lined drive – a few informative speed limit signs – could do the trick. Yet did the state consider this? Apparently this idea was beaten out by an idea that culling trees on the south side of the road – at a cost of millions of dollars to taxpayers – will save money in chemical costs because with the trees gone, they won’t need so much salt in winter.

If you’ve passed 3rd grade, you likely see the folly in their plan. You know about the low angle of the sun in winter… and how it would mean hundreds of feet of trees would need cut. Even if this idea was one that made sense, it would be destructive beyond belief virtually eliminating any Scenic on the Byway.

If you’ve passed high school economics, you likely realize it’s gonna take an awful lot of salt savings to make up for, what is it now, almost $16M in logging costs?!? That’s a WHOLE LOT OF SALT!

And what of those vacationers? The ones who used to come here to see the Ladyslippers? Their dollars will be spent elsewhere as we create a dull and lifeless Minnesota.

How’s that helping out children, Tim Walz? Clear-cutting their landscape. Ever hear of Easter Island? The more I watch, the less I can judge those Easter Islanders. Our “leaders” and “managers”, charged with protecting our natural resources, are giving them away as they clearcut more each year. And to what end?

I don’t know if you’ve driven many of the roads in Minnesota, but I’m sure I’ve seen stretches of wide open road – not a tree in sight – and still… A snow and ice encrusted reality!

I have to say their solution is likely to create even more of the problem they were trying to avoid in the first place. The only thing I’ve noticed on County 2 since they widened the road and stripped the easement from trees is that people drive as if they are now on an open runway: faster than ever.

At a meeting with the public last night in Detroit Lakes, we learned of all the ways not only MNDoT but also the Federal Highway Administration have FAILED to follow proper protocols that include working with Scenic Byway folks to adhere to their rules regarding Scenic Byways, which this stretch of Highway 34 in the Smokey Hills is currently designated.

Why is it -with this much public opposition, including Tribal Nation voices – that the agencies, state and federal, refused to meet with the public? They were all invited to the public hearing last night, but refused to attend and hear the near 150 voices that quickly mustered on a Tuesday evening to hear what is happening to our world.

Trees = Pipelines?

I heard yesterday of training given at the Minnesota DNR for their employees. It seems they tell their people that, if they are approached by citizens who ask about pipelines, the Department of Natural Resource policy is to NOT ENGAGE.

Maybe Minnesota Department of Transportation has a similar policy for citizens who ask about the Trees?

Wrapping up 2022 and Hopes for 2023

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Anorak, Enbridge, Happiness, Life, Line 3, Line 93, Peace, Ready Player Two, Win

As Dan and I made our way home from Nagaajiwanaang (Fond du Lac Reservation) on New Year’s Eve, I felt wonderful Peace.

It seems I’ve done all I can in the past year to bring good, find solutions, offer my help, and do my best to win*.
And it was good to feel that success alongside good friends and collaborators who are so supportive.

As I remember all those who have been a part of this past year, it’s lovely to recall times of collaboration, feelings of breakthrough, and delicious times of fun and frivolity – though I can’t find a video of our vow renewal.

It’s harder to remember the times of hopelessness, the feelings of defeat, and the many ugly discoveries we’ve made in the land.

Yet we are bouyed by those around us also working for good. And you can see and hear my latest in a lucky piece where I rant and rave while little birds eat from my hand.

*Here’s what I mean by “win”.

Blessed New Year as you do your best… to Win.

Day 1001

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cleavage, Coronavirus, Covid, Covid Origins, Fauci, furin, John Campbell, lab origin, natural cause, Peak Prosperity, SARS-CoV-2, Senate Report, Vaccine, virus, Wuhan

Taking a moment today to look back on some of what we’ve learned in the last few years from our experience with Coronavirus.

Had formal lockdowns continued, today would be day 1001 of lockdown here at The HARN.
On a promised 21-day resolution. Remember that?!?
[Trevor Noah does… and he speaks to it in his new special, which we watched last night.]

The Good News is that truth is beginning to come to light, which brings a sense of sanity as we realize we were right all along… about so much of it.

To start, based on all the data, this now clearly seems a lab-manipulated virus that somehow escaped, not something that occurred naturally or transferred from people to animals at a wet market.

This first photo below shows the online searches for flu-like symptoms in China in late 2019, indicating the case prevalence was not the wet market, but more likely a result of October issues with lab workers. [Feel free to read my ongoing blog on this debate.]

While this is not conclusive, what is conclusive is that we see no evidence of mutation evolution or any identification of an intermediate host for SARS-CoV-2, as is typical of natural spillover events with other viruses. As with Avian Influenza A H7N9 in 2019, there were multiple introductions over a wide geographic region. While this was also found with MERS, it was not seen with SARS-CoV-2, which appears to have a single origin that spread from Wuhan, and no plausible zoonotic evidence of origin.

Wuhan area online searches for Flu-like symptoms 12/20/2019-1/18/2020
Atypical of previous experience with flu-like viruses, such as H7N9.

If that’s not enough evidence for you, please look no further than the polybasic furin cleavage site. Those who vociferously claimed that this was a virus of natural origin noted, “Obtaining related viral sequences from animal sources would be the most definitive way of revealing viral origins.” [Yeah? Well, then can someone PLEASE TELL ME WHY has this NEVER HAPPENED? There are NO fully formed or evolutionary intermediates! SARS-CoV-1 had a KNOWN animal reservoir AND evolutionary intermediates while SARS-CoV-2 has none of this.]

First came the Lancet piece (still available online, though discredited now) written by a long list of “scientists” who noted: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”

[This letter, engineered by Fauci and others in behind-the-scenes emails and meetings, was reported to have been an early attempt to quash reports of a possible Lab Origin.]

Subsequent to this propaganda, Nature Medicine published The proximal origins of SARS-CoV-2, also still available online though subsequently refuted as false. That this piece has had influence is shown by its almost 6 million views and its use as justification in 2,627 subsequent papers.

Pertinent to its inaccuracies and omissions:

• While bat coronavirus research was widely carried on, there was NO MENTION of that in the paper. Sir Jeremy Farrar admitted the Wuhan Institute of Virology was like the “Wild West”, yet no mention of that in the paper either.
• Professor Kristian Anderson, a lead author on the paper told colleagues that features of the virus looked as if they’d been “engineered in a lab”… yet no mention of that was made in his paper strongly claiming a natural origin. [We’re heading back to that polybasic furin cleavage site, which I’ve known about since 5/4/2020, thanks to Peak Prosperity’s reporting.]
• The second notable feature of SARS-CoV-2 is a polybasic cleavage site (RRAR) at the junction of S1 and S2, which was claimed as evidence that this could NOT HAVE BEEN manipulated in a laboratory!! [WTF? We have evidence of many cases of use of this furin enzyme (American teams in 2006 & 2009, a Japanese team in 2009, and the Dutch in 2008, and… in October 2019 in Beijing labs) as a lab manipulation used to make cuts to provide access for cell-to-cell activity. Dr. Michael Osterholm, deceiver that he is, is referenced in an interview with Joe Rogan where he denied these kinds of engineering skills would exist. Meaning, he’s either an ignoramus in his field… or a liar. I’m Team Liar, in case that’s not obvious, which means I don’t doubt his knowledge, just his ability to speak truthfully about it.]
• In an attempt at wholesale avoidance of seeking TRUTH, Dutch virologist Professor Ron Fouchier noted that debating this lab vs. natural origin idea any further would “unnecessarily distract top researchers from active duties”. [So rather than seeking full understanding, these folks are willing to simply tell a story they hope will stick?]
• Professor Edward Holmes, another author on this paper, says people in China believe Covid is from a lab, that their government is lying to them, yet this also was NOT MENTIONED in their paper. [Though one can argue that this, as well as the previous point by Fouchier, are irrelevant to finding truth?]
• Professor Kristian Anderson readily admits that passage of SARS-live coronaviruses has been going on for years, yet the known inadequacy of several Wuhan Labs was NOT MENTIONED in his paper. A simple explanation for escape from the lab could be a lack of proper security protocols. If labs were not designed or maintained for this level of genetic work, escape would be possible, yet no mention was made of this, even with the KNOWN Coronavirus gain-of-function work being done in Wuhan?

Meanwhile, the Senate Report An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic showed “the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 that resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely the result of a research-related incident.” While they note, “This conclusion is not intended to be dispositive,” we have more and more evidence coming out that refute the natural-origin claim.

To prevent future pandemics, it is important that we understand whether SARS-CoV-2 spilled over directly from animals to people, or indirectly in a laboratory accident. The genome of SARS-COV-2 contains a peculiar pattern of unique restriction endonuclease recognition sites allowing efficient dis- and re-assembly of the viral genome characteristic of synthetic viruses. Here, we report the likelihood of observing such a pattern in coronaviruses with no history of bioengineering. We find that SARS-CoV-2 is an anomaly, more likely a product of synthetic genome assembly than natural evolution.” 

Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2

Origin of the virus is one thing. Response is quite another.

With the vaccine injuries we’ve heard reported, I’m really glad we avoided that whole vaccination fiasco entirely. I’m sorry for friends and family who didn’t realize the deception involved (brought to you by our corporatized systems) or who bowed to pressure. I’m sorry for any who may have suffered and I’m hopeful that few have. While some may have benefitted from vaccination, there is no way to know whether the risks imposed, particularly by mRNA vaccinations, might be a problem now… as well as in the future.

There is much chatter about vaccine injuries and growing concern about how accumulation of mRNA in the body might bring impacts. While mainstream narrative has largely belittled and negated these ideas, with the growing numbers of unexplainable excess deaths, we might want to be cautious about COVID vaccinations. This is especially true for those groups who have little risk from COVID infection, notably young people.

This idea that we risk vaccinating our children to protect the aged and infirm has been a BIG RED FLAG for me from the beginning. And now we have more data that seems to support my concerns.

In September 2021 vaccinated people accounted for 23% of coronavirus fatalities, while in January and February 2022, this percentage grew to 42% of coronavirus fatalities. It now seems the “help” of vaccines was completely oversold as 58% of August Covid victims were reported as vaccinated, leading Kaiser Family Foundation vice president Cynthia Cox to formally admit, “We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

And then there’s this… from March 2021. In 35 seconds, the former CDC Director admits the most likely scenario was from a laboratory escape. Dr. Redfield also notes that normal zoonoic to human transmission “takes a while” and this doesn’t “make biological sense”. At three minutes, he admits to the gain-of-function work on Coronavirus. The CNN piece notes several things which now are not so surprising to many. Terribly, we failed to heed this reporting and it became a one-off lost in time. Though perhaps it was too late in the game to change much anyway?

I know this is a controversial topic yet perhaps we can continue discussions, hopefully without censorship? And by giving serious eye to data, to determine reality, rather than some truthy make-believe world where vaccines don’t actually prevent transmission of illness anymore? And, as hard as it may be to admit, come to the conclusion that we’re not being told the whole truth?

I’m grateful for those who continue to work at finding the truth, no matter the criticism. I can tell you from my personal experience, this is NOT an easy task.

Thanks for listening. Miigwech bizindaawiyeg.

Double Fucked?

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.

yep… fucked

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Exponentials never were our forte. ⚠️

Maybe triple fucked?

Here’s to the Whistle Blowers

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COVID-19, Death, Disease, SARS-CoV-2, Vaccine

“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.]

Image of Vitamin D unsureity fm CDC

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).

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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

Waadookawaad Amikwag – Top Story!

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activism, Aquifer, Aquifer Breach, Enbridge, Line 3, Pipeline

Great work by ALL our ALLIES for sharing online and talking to everyone they know… about the horror of Enbridge’s Line 93 (Line 3 Replacement pipeline) Construction. We are NOW the TOP STORY on MPR’s home page!!

Great work, Water Protectors!!

Sunday brings us to the TOP STORY on MPR!!

Here’s a link to our 8/3/22 Press Release. Great coverage from Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative!

Our Video on Enbridge’s Breach of the LaSalle Valley Aquifer.

Consider subscribing to our channel?

It’s time to #StopEnbridge NOW! …before any further communities are raped and pillaged by this Canadian Corporation.

#StopLine5 in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Miigwech for your support.

Reinventing Progress with Charles Eisenstein

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Charles Eisenstein

LIsten to the essay first if you’d like… for an interesting perspective.

Reciprocity with Mother Earth

I particularly like #4 in his list… of a new vision:

A New Conception of Progress

Here is what that new story and new conception of progress might look like:

☆ Real security comes not through control, but from relationship and belonging.

☆ Nature has a fundamental tendency toward complexity and wholeness. Our destiny is to participate in the coming alive of the cosmos, to be part of the unfolding of complexity and beauty into new domains.

☆ Now is the time to turn the technologies of control toward a new purpose: to serve life and beauty on earth. That starts with healing the damage we have done.

☆ No technology is inevitable. We have the power to collectively choose how we will develop. We can choose technologies that conform to our emerging values of beauty and life.

☆ More is not necessarily better, because reality will always escape the primal cognitive technologies of control called labeling and measuring. In the future, we learn the limits of quantitative reasoning, and turn our main energies toward qualitative enrichment.

☆ Life and earth are sacred. When we reduce them to a finite value, we commit sacrilege. All resources of the earth are therefore meant for sacred use. When we use them, we always ask whether this will contribute to more beauty, more love, more wonder, and more life.

☆ Labor is also sacred; meaningful labor is necessary for human well-being. Therefore, technology should seek not to replace it, but to extend its creative powers.

☆ Because we humans are not the sole possessors of intelligence, order, and purpose, we can achieve much more by allying ourselves with an intelligence larger than ourselves than we can relying on our own power to control the world through force.

Portion of the Charles Eisenstein list on A New Conception of Progress from his essay “Reinventing Progress“

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Comment Exchange:

alwayscurious Apr 22 This is very thoughtful, optimistic and spiritual. However, as Aquinas would say, you can’t have good without evil, as you can’t have light without darkness. Control is more than a need to connect, it is fundamental to narcissism and psychopathy.

Comment on Charles Eisenstein posting on Reinventing Progress (this is the link to an audio version)

My reply:

I LOVE your name! I too am always curious…
Agree on your closing [“Control is more than a need to connect, it is fundamental to narcissism and psychopathy.”], as I’ve been learning MUCH about narcissism in recent days.
Excellent point.
Though on Aquinas’ point, it feels to me like there is black in white and white in black – as is shown in the Tao. I see the “evil” in me – the fear-based pull for control. Though I also see it’s far more engaging and enlightening to work within my community to allow what is… which I call “good”… as I work to make minimal negative impact on those around me.
Not easy work!!
We can’t understand light without knowing darkness. This is true? As far as I can see.
Though I am working to understand that There is No Bad. What is IS.
And what I learn from this is my journey.
May your journey be blessed.

Response on Charles Eisenstein post on Reinventing Progress

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i urge you to consider what progress means to you.

Is it the “convenience” items that make your life easier, faster, more full?

Or do you long for a progress that makes life more beautiful, delicious and connected?

Is satisfaction found in a “Happy” Meal? Or the PB&J made with homemade jam, from berries picked in the local wood and peanut butter made fresh at the local co-op?

Is convenience delivered in tiny plastic cups and Styrofoam packaging? Or is that packaging actually what is making it harder to breathe each day? Not being able to breathe isn’t very convenient, is it?

Do you find joy in racing to and fro to practice, lessons, games, and the all-important shopping? Or is joy found in the walk around the block, greeting neighbors and discovering a new tree or bug or flower friend?

Progress is what we call “forward movement toward a destination”.

Consider where you’re headed today?

When?

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Freedom, Power, Revolution

Why do we wait?

Working hard and long hours…

for wages that cannot sustain…

making due as best we can…

giving the managers the benefit of the doubt…

until they’ve worn us down to almost nothing,…

before we, realizing our strength in numbers,…

finally revolt?

1937 photo by Margaret Bourke-White – Breadline during Louisville Flood.
The American Way… looks to be hitting its limits. World’s highest standard of living… only if you’re in power, white, male, obeying the system rules… which violate the laws of nature. What could go wrong?

[Stop reading here… looking at this photo… and have a good day. The above is plenty to ponder.
For those who cannot help their curiosity, or are drawn to read on, let’s move into the topic of death.
You are now forewarned… and thus forearmed.]

Is it possible, our anthropocenic immortality mythology is our own worst enemy… while it helps the powerful and already wealthy continue to thrive… in their maintenance of the status quo? No matter how many empty promises they have to make… or how many times they have to say “Green New Deal”? 🧐

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If the first 30 seconds of this interview doesn’t grab you… skip it. Though I advise you to listen. This transparent and honest conversation resonated and understanding its ideas might help others find a new way forward. It’s impacted me significantly in the last week.🦋

If you want to listen, also check out this info about its content:

13:30 is especially interesting around what constitutes A Good Death. 16 minutes in, he speaks of coming to dying as a God. VERY interesting. Esp at 17 minutes… VERY good for those facing a fatal illness now. Dying as your final flower. [20 minutes] Oh… 24 minutes.🦋 This is good for any aspect of life… Then an interesting question…for the dying pastor. And then the story that follows… Really, I hope you decide to listen to this interview. So much insight… OK.
Listen to the rest if you got past 32 minutes where he makes really interesting statements about death and religion and community… and examines their impacts. I’m happy to have been linked to this interview. If you make it past the story at 34 minutes, you’ll realize everyone needs to listen to this… eh? By 50 minutes… your mind will be blown? For me… I’m now WIDE OPEN.
As we approach extinction, our aging in increasing and our sense of need for immortality grows more desperate? And then… dissection of Afterlife. Living with your Goneness… what a lovely concept. We must realize our co-dependent relationships.😲 I hope I will be an ancestor my descendants will claim. This is a really intense listen. beware. Find the miracles. We all deserve the truth. In case this leaves you sobbing as it did me… the short video at the link might be a comfort. [Or… for those who didn’t watch it yet… a warning.]

Thoughts On Dying Well In A Death-Phobic Culture

Your death, it doesn’t mean you any harm. It’s the most faithful companion you’ll ever have.

The inability to die is one of the things that calls our humanity into deep disrepair.

We’re death phobic in the extreme. Your dying is your life and your refusal to know that is not life affirming. It’s life betraying.

The great consequence of refusing to die well is the corruption of the capacity that others can grow by virtue of attending to your dying. What would their understanding be of dying then? … (Without this understanding) You’ll have another generation with a grudge, and a grievance, against the natural order of things.

In a culture that does not believe in endings, how do they solve heartbreak? The answer is: less heart. And that’s why the sedation and the anti-depressants.

Where is it written that the best dying is the one you don’t notice? Why… should dying not break your heart?

When you become a practitioner of grief, it stays. Now, you don’t get invited to many parties… if you become a practitioner of grief. But your understanding of love is renovated for all time.

My ability to be alive became habit form me. I looked around and I became, almost involuntarily, grateful.

Death it’s an ending, but you can know that you will die… so that you can chart your course accordingly.”

Thoughts On Dying Well In A Death-Phobic Culture Feb 24, 2021

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If you think this too crude… the lower portion of this blog, I’d ask you to consider this.

Which is worse?

• Willfully starving people to death in a broken and biased economy based on limitless planetary resources? [A Gross Lie]
• Or allowing someone to choose their own end – for their time in this mortal coil – in a way of beauty, knowingness, and with sacred witness? [A Beautiful Truth]

Allowing us to come to dying as Gods.
Not alone. In an ICU. As we struggle for breath.

We might all want to go Down In The River To Pray.

The earth is what we all have in common.
~ Wendell Berry

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Update 5/5/2022:

I spent time re-watching the second part to the Campfire Stories with Stephen Jenkinson. It begins and ends with Mattias and I encourage you to listen to his good words. I have watched several times now and I like to begin about 7:30 into the video… where Stephen mentions River of Abundance in Time.

I believe I live within Forest of Abundance of Time.

I hope you live with an abundance of time.

Blessed be.