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Some Info on Guns

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Having spent several evenings talking with ladies who had no earthly idea of what they were looking at when shopping for guns for self-protection, I decided to put some of my thoughts on paper.

There are more gun manufacturers than ever. Your chances of finding a good fit for your lifestyle and protection are excellent. Many manufacturers are creating lines specifically geared for women, including how they typically carry their weapons (purses, anyone?) and their size/strength ratios. There are also more types of ammunition to go with these guns.

I grew up in an NRA household… but that was in the 1970s, before the NRA got so friggin’ nutty about carrying military-style full-auto arms. My dad kept a sizeable collection of fairly exotic ordinance under my bed, in my chest of drawers, and tucked into the attic crawlspace on the other side of my closet. He would describe the protective packaging and length and I would go to the spot and fetch it for him to play with.

The first thing I have to point out is the two basic types: revolvers and semi-automatic. If you want something you can use while still half-asleep, or conversely, while scared shitless, get a good double-action revolver, the more basic, the better. 

Semi-automatic pistols have a “magazine” that you load the bullets into, and the magazine goes up into the butt of the gun where it feeds into the chamber. These tend to be a lot sleeker and the new space-age materials make them lighter and very durable. The thing is, you have to pull back on the top of the thing (the slide) in order to start shooting… which can cost you seconds, especially if you fumble. Once you start shooting, you can keep squeezing until the gun presents you with an empty chamber. You can usually carry more ammo in the magazine than most revolvers, and you can reload by hitting the button to release the spent magazine and then sticking a fresh one in. You sacrifice some ease of use for the smaller size.  Remember it is a “magazine”, not a “clip”… a clip goes onto the top of a really big rifle to feed the ammo directly into the chamber.

If you go for your Concealed Handgun License, you need to qualify on a semi-automatic gun, which most CHL classes will rent to you for that class, that way you can carry either kind of gun after you get your license. In Texas, you have to qualify with a minimum of .32 caliber… period. You can bring your 9 mm, your .40 caliber or anything else you want for the class, but the minimum is .32 caliber.  Once you have your license, you can carry anything you darn well want to… as long as it is concealed.

In Texas, you have to get the CHL in order to carry outside of your property. You can keep a gun in your car at all times, but you can’t take it out of your car unless you are on your property or have the CHL. Having the CHL doesn’t mean that you can carry a firearm just anywhere either… a lot of malls (probably with Yankee owners) forbid carrying on their property, along with a number of government buildings, stadiums and what-not. I won’t bother going to any of these malls.

If you don’t have anyone around to teach you the ways of guns, by all means, take a class! The NRA can refer you. So can your local gun shop. Knowledge is power. Getting yourself past the fear is very empowering.

Now a couple more things:  (1)  You don’t flash your gun unless you are prepared to use it. If someone has broken into your house with you in it, you don’t attempt to make threats. If someone has kicked in your door or window, you shoot first and ask questions later. In Texas we have something called the “Castle Doctrine”… as in “your home is your castle”.  In a lot of instances, simply the presence of a gun has made all the difference in the world, and caused a would-be attacker to flee.

(2)  There is no such thing as “shoot to wound”. You shoot to kill every damn time, and believe it or not, that is a tough thing to accomplish under pressure. You don’t want the criminal coming back with bigger ordinance to use against you, and you don’t want him coming back with a lawsuit, either. Speaking as an ordained minister, go ahead and kill the bugger! He’s going there fast, anyway, so help him get his death-wish. You might as well stop him from continuing on a long string of murders.

Silencers?  Why? Quit watching TV!  The most idiotic thing I ever saw was the title sequence for the old Avengers TV series… shows a silencer on a revolver. I guess that looked tough to the producers, but it showed their ignorance… revolvers are open chamber so the noise comes out of the back. If you shoot, believe me, you want the noise to be noticeable! Noise is your friend! A shot fired into the asphalt of a parking lot does constitute the use of “deadly force” in Texas, but it is more than enough to get someone’s attention if you are stopping an assault.

A word about WD-40:  Only in moderation, and only on revolvers that are easy to clean. WD-40 is basically olive oil, and as such, it turns to goo in fairly short order. When the stuff originally came out, policemen would spray down their guns with this stuff, and discovered that it caused their handguns to misfire in bad way… really embarrassing and dangerous. I inherited a semi-automatic .22 target pistol that had been sprayed down with WD-40… it was so gunked-up that it wouldn’t fire at all. I had to take it to a gunsmith to take apart and use his ultrasonic cleaner on it… $70 to reclaim the use of that gun. Stick to good synthetic machine oils. Talk to your gunsmith.

Gun control:  Means using BOTH HANDS… capice?

SOME FINDINGS:

In finding ammo, I’ve discovered that .32 and .22 are relatively easy to find, even at WalMart.  The .38 and .357 got kind of rare after Obama got sworn in.  9 mm is a lot easier to find across the board. Bear that in mind.

My first handgun purchase was back in 1978… I was 18 and I purchased a North American Arms stainless steel, 5-shot, .22 long rifle derringer, and I carried it either in my pocket or in my purse. We didn’t have the current concealed handgun laws back then. I have two of these now. Great to have on you while doing your walking program. It makes an excellent loud noise, which alone is a deterrent. Not very good past 20 feet, but you wouldn’t want to get hit with a .22 hollow-point, either.

Several manufacturers make a good compact double-action revolver that has the hammer concealed… you just point and squeeze. Smith & Wesson makes a Model 442 Revolver and uses .38 special ammo. Ruger makes the same thing for like $300 less, and theirs is called the LCR.  The idea behind this is so you can throw it in your purse without that hammer thing on the top getting hung up on anything, and you can just keep your hand on your gun in your purse and shoot through your purse if you have to. You just squeeze. I like Ruger… good products and good value.

I personally carry a Kel-Tec P-32 semi-automatic pistol… 9 ounces loaded. The magazine holds 7 bullets, and you can carry with an additional bullet in the chamber so you can just squeeze away without having to cock it. I choose not to because there is no “safety lock” button on the gun. If I have to pull that puppy out, it is going to be intentional.  http://www.kel-tec-cnc.com/  Expect to pay around $350. Taurus makes something similar for about $450.

Something new I discovered:  The Taurus Judge.  It is a small frame 5-shot revolver that can shoot either .45 caliber long bullets or .410 shotgun shells, which makes it a favorite with campers and hikers that come across lots of snakes. Now… a .410 shotgun shell probably won’t kick a lot, given how chunky this particular handgun is. The spread of the pellets in that cartridge ammo would really guarantee enough hits to prove a deterrent to just about any critter, including the two-legged kind. I’m betting the .45 bullets would tend to kick like a mule.   http://www.taurususa.com/  Expect to pay around $500 new, but that depends on the barrel length. The longer the barrel, the better the accuracy and stability.

Now… as for longer weapons… I offer the following link:  http://www.captaindaves.com/guide

Kel-Tec does manufacture a series of semi-automatic rifles in different calibers, and they make these things to be upgraded on a whim. Several models can fold in half. Their SU-22 rifle can carry 26 rounds of .22 caliber long rifle, and will accept magazines for the Atchison M-16 conversion (more ammo). My friends will typically ask you to consider a carbine of some sort. Just bear in mind that you will need training and you will have to carry it… don’t over-do.

If you opt for a shotgun, get one that will hold as many shells as possible. That single-shot may not be enough if it came down to it. The lower the gauge, the bigger the cartridge and the larger the BBs inside the cartridge… and the bigger the kick when fired. Remember that. 

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 Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-05-07 03:58:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Native American Prophesy and World History

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

If you get the chance, take a look at his video regarding Native American prophesy about the times we are in:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7cylfQtkDg  there are several parts, so watch all of them. The elders depicted in these films explain things, both in the historical context and in the prophetic context. They speak about how the United States is basically going to die. They speak about how how out of the top 100 “economic units” in the world, 49 are countries and 51 are corporations. That means that corporations are calling the shots.  Today we are living in a fascist corporatocracy… the merger of corporation and state, with the top criminals in Wall Street taking everything they can, plundering all the world, leaving nothing but waste behind.  Look around.  America is in that unsustainable “age of empire” that has collapsed every other empire we’ve ever seen… including the Roman Empire, British Empire, French Empire and Nazi Germany.  We’re already in two war arenas, and our military isn’t doing well.  The U.S. is billions and billions in the hole, and most of that money is going to special corporate interests. War is a racket, and the racketeers are in charge.  The corporate news media is flogging the upcoming probable war with Iran, which has just been equipped with nuclear power and weapons by the Russians. If we, or Israel, messes with Iran, it is going to be bad.  Other markers for this time period include a very probable staged terror event.

We’ve got a short amount of time to get ourselves situated right.

A few people have looked at me like I was crazy when I told them what was coming up in the next few months. Some in the new age community have told me that you manifest what you focus on. Okay… so I have empowered myself to get my ducks in order so I cannot be blindsided by the coming probable economic melt-down.  I’ve been loading up on storable foods, I yanked my money out of the bank and stock market, I’ve invested in metals… and I started a garden.  With that kind of groundwork done, I have handled my preparations for the future as best I can, and I can focus on manifesting whatever I want from a place of security without the distraction of being worried.  Empower yourself to do what you can to get your house in order to lessen the potential for real hardship as you can.  The last thing you want to do is rely on the government to help you… remember Katrina? How about the BP oil spill?  Nope, you’re on your own if you want to survive and even flourish… and that will take some preparation.

Remember the story about the grasshopper and the ant?  The ant worked hard to prepare for the winter while the grasshopper played all summer and then died when winter set in.  This economic winter is gonna be a bitch. People are going to die. There will be riots. Like Gerald Celente says, “when people have lost everything and they have nothing left to lose, that is when they lose it.”

The government is actively doing its best to destroy America. All the laws that prevented total corporate takeover have been removed… the anti-trust acts, Glass-Steagall, the regulations that kept consumer banks apart from investment banking… all of it has been dismantled. Remember back in the 1970s  and 1980s when we had the big savings and loan scandal and the government had to bail out and then investigate thousands of savings & loans nation wide?  Over 5,000 crooked bankers were sent to prison!  Now the rules are gone, the accounting guidelines have been rewritten, and the people who used to investigate, aren’t investigating.  The big-wigs at Goldman Sachs, AIG, Citibank, and the dozen or so others who crashed the market back in 2007/2008 with their derivatives should really be in prison. 

Remember back in the 1970s… after Nixon took us off the last vestiges of the gold standard, it took 2 years for the inflation to hit. The Federal Reserve printed only 13% more money per year over those 2 years, and it translated to a 12% inflation rate. The Fed did a correction by raising the interest rate to 20% to suck the excess money out of the system. The other big difference… we still had our manufacturing base because we hadn’t shipped our jobs overseas. Most of us did pretty well in spite of the high interest, and personally, I was too young/broke at the time to be noticed by Carter’s tax mafia… or Clinton’s for that matter.

Given that it takes 2 years for inflation to hit after they decide to print lots of money… 2008 was when Bush’s TARP bailouts started, followed by all of Obama’s bailouts… he even sent $300 Billion to bail out Greece!   Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have $5 TRILLION exposure to the mortgage market, so technically the government is the primary landowner. Bush, Obama and the Fed have increased the money supply some 120% and there is now some $105 TRILLION in government debt, and most of it has gone to big-wig criminals that created the very same set of crises to begin with.  That is an ungodly amount of currency.  The inflation will likely be hitting this fall… 2 years after the TARP bailout started the ball rolling. We have no idea how high the inflation rate will be, but given the enormity of the situation, it’s likely to be a booger-bear.

We have been looted and now we are being stuck with the bill. People aren’t gonna stand for that, especially when the few that still have jobs and medical benefits see that their premiums have gone up and the insurance coverage they get from their jobs is being taxed as income.  I predict massive tax protests. I can also predict that a lot of people are going to quit filing tax returns to fund this nonsense. 

The mid-term elections coming up?  Bah!  Even if nothing but Tea Party type candidates win in this election, that still leaves all the lame ducks in control through January… and with nothing to lose, they will do everything they can to further their crooked agenda in those 3 months.

The Weimar Republic collapsed one currency, paying off their war debt in debased currency,  then created a new currency backed by the one thing they had:  land.  They still couldn’t make an economic recovery, since in the treaty of WWI, the forces for appeasement gave away Germany’s breadbasket, the Sudetenland. When the rest of the world was whooping it up during the roaring 20’s, Germany couldn’t feed itself.  It wasn’t long after that when a twerp named Hitler came to power, promising “change”.  Having learned the lessons of history,  German Chancellor Merkel decided not to debase the German economy, but rather to make it possible to actually make money by not doing a bunch of bailouts and “stimulus”… and they’ve now got a nearly 9 percent GROWTH rate as a result.   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/world/europe/14germany.html?_r=2&scp=7&sq=german%20economy&st=cse

If the Fed decided to rein it all in this time, how the heck would they do it?  I don’t think they can and I really don’t think they intend to. They will most likely continue to print all the money they can until the whole house of cards collapses. They will pay the debts with debased currency, then they will restart the economy with a new currency that is backed by something else.  But what?  We won’t be allowed to back our currency with OPEC oil any more. We’ve still got oil & gas, lots of real estate (land), minerals of all sorts… of course Obama’s doing his best to stop all of that from being developed.  Even if they do have a new currency waiting in the wings (Amero, anyone?) it may not be readily accepted.  When they do introduce the new currency, you probably won’t get much in trade for the dollars you’re holding in the bank and stock market now. You might as well beat them to it.

Will a currency changeover be orderly?  I kinda doubt it.  Obama’s criminal wild bunch have already legislated a bunch of currency controls to keep us from being able to access our money.  When the dollar collapses and the hyperinflation hits, there will likely be a protracted “bank holiday”  preventing us from having access to our money, and the money will likely have very little value when you can access it.  Can you imagine spending your whole paycheck for a loaf of bread?  Yeah… that bad.  

Can you and your family live on the food, cash and trading goods you have in your house for say… 3 months?  How about longer?  While you have the chance, start buying food before the prices go up.  The grocery stores have to raise the prices on the new, more expensive inventory as they bring it in to replace the old inventory that is being bought up. Buy that $1 can of beans now… don’t wait unti it is $2.50.  Load up on closeouts.  Make sure you have seasonings to make it taste good.  Stock up on what you would want to eat if you got stuck at home for some weeks. You don’t wanna be stuck in a breadline at a FEMA camp.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

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The Practical Side of Preparing for the Apocalypse

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

http://www.naturalnews.com/028712_preparedness_survival.html  Just got a link to an article about this!   And:  http://www.infowars.com/u-s-food-prices-spiraling-out-of-control/

I’ve had the guidance to store food for the long haul, Mormon style, for the last year or so. I also got the guidance to get into gardening, which is now slowly paying off. I purchased a FoodSaver System and began buying dry foods in large amounts, say, 25 pounds or more, and then breaking it down into more manageable amounts using the FoodSaver System. I’ve been buying bulk beans of all sorts, rice, quinoa, amaranth, millet, oats, nonfat dry milk, and a whole range of other staples and putting them in suck-wrapped bags of 4 to 7 cups each. In addition to this, every time I hit Sam’s Club, I pick up some extra staples… Spam, canned chicken or turkey, Ro-Tel Tomatoes with Green Chiles, tomato paste and sauce, dried onions, spices… just about anything I can imagine I might need to prepare simple and nutritious meals.

In America, we are at a crossroads. We know the government is rogue, with unabated and up-front corruption, and is going the way of Nazi Germany… massive expansion of power accompanied by runaway inflation and unprecedented taxation.  People are already showing their displeasure with both political parties, and are getting more vocal about it. The government is pushing through its corporatist/new world order agenda as fast as it can before the mid-term elections.  In short, we can expect things to really get strange.

Living on the Texas gulf coast, I can tell you what cattle people can be based on what has happened during the past few hurricanes. People are short-sighted and stupid… which is to say they are prone to not planning ahead. People are not necessarily good at feeling the situation. I didn’t evacuate during either Hurricane Rita or Ike because I listened to my inner guidance. I even tried to convince my neighbors that they didn’t need to leave, and yet they spent the entire 3 days sitting on a highway in the heat, while I stayed home and relaxed in relative comfort and cooked one nice meal after another. The grocery store shelves were empty 3 days ahead of hurricane landfall. After the hurricane had come and gone, people stood in line for hours outside of local grocery stores, which had very little to sell, but were only letting 5 people at a time inside anyway. The traffic stayed crazy the entire time. It took two months for the grocery store shelves in my area to get back to normal stock levels.

The thing is, the big forecast economists like Gerald Celente and Peter Schiff predict hyper-inflation possibly hitting by the end of this year, and by 2012 at the very latest, causing prices to go up to where most people’s paychecks can’t keep up enough just to put food on the table. That sets the stage for civil unrest, there is the possibility of having to shelter in place… perhaps for weeks. http://www.prisonplanet.com/%e2%80%9cthings-are-never-going-to-get-that-bad%e2%80%9d.html

I can tell you that inflation is already hitting at the grocery stores, and they aren’t carrying the variety they used to.

If the crazies running that whole “new world order” thing manage to pick a war between Iran and Israel, it would probably involve a nuclear exchange and the price of oil would go up. Gas prices could go over $10 a gallon, which would bring most food transport to a screeching halt, and would certainly shove all prices skyward. You’re looking at supply versus demand, and a lot of people caught with their pants down. Depending on the season, we could see riots, or segments of the population starving to death… or dying in FEMA camps. Martial law could become a possibility, with entire neighborhoods closed off by military cordons. It might take a while before things settle down again.

The Mormons have it right… they encourage their families to save as much money as they can and store large amounts of food at home – a three-month supply of what they normally eat and a year’s worth of long-term stocks such as wheat, rice and nuts. Many Mormons also can their own food, and their 140 Mormon storehouses include canneries that stay busy… even more now because of the economy and the number of natural disasters. www.providentliving.org

I’m not a Mormon, but I was reared on the Texas gulf coast. We understood the need for stored water and “hurricane food” that we maintained and cycled through the pantry, and of course, the means to cook a meal, whether charcoal or propane.  http://rocketstoves.org/ has how-to material on making a stove that will heat a whole gallon of water with a few twigs as fuel. Or buy one already made from http://www.stovetec.net  I’ve certainly got twigs in my yard.

Now, when you buy and repackage bulk foods, you have to get into the concept of cycling this stuff. You have to eat it and replace it. I discovered that this cuts down on food expenses quite nicely, while cleaning up your diet.  Believe me, your gut will thank you. If you can only find quinoa at the local health food store for around $5 a pound, and you can buy 25 pounds of it in bulk for $2 a pound, then that is a substantial savings, even with shipping costs. Every dollar you save is worthwhile.

A 12-ounce can of turkey meat, half a cup of brown rice, some non-MSG bullion, a fresh onion, some tarragon, and either a can or packet of frozen mixed veggies makes a really good chicken dish in the rice cooker.  For added pop, I make up a packet of biscuit mix and add that in little globs on top to cook… instant dumplings. 

I purchased some whole grain brown rice elbow pasta from http://www.sunorganic.com and decided to make macaroni and cheese with it… a little butter, milk, Velveeta, and a pinch each of paprika and turmeric. It is far, far better than any other you’ve ever had.

Please talk to your friends and relatives about this topic. Ask them to at least start buying a few extra pantry staples every time they go to the grocery store. When I mention this among people I work around, it is often the case that someone says that their pastor has been encouraging them to stock up… that’s a good thing. Listen… I’d rather have to give food to the food banks than not have it when I really need it.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-05-05 06:43:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Home Depot Observation

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

My friend in Santa Fe, New Mexico is dealing with some really strange phenomena. New Mexico is melting down and there isn’t a peep about it in the media. Their governor apparently stole billions of dollars from the state, the attorney general is also a crook, the crimelords are running things, and the police can’t be bothered to deal with any crimes that they can’t take a profit from (traffic enforcement). There is no immigration law enforcement.  The economy there stinks worse than probably anywhere else.  The grocery stores aren’t really stocking much, either, so they line the fronts of the shelves with food and don’t load any stock behind that.   The food banks are tapped out and even Costco isn’t carrying anywhere near the variety that we have here in Houston. 

So my friend is trying to put some resources together so she can handle the upcoming shifts, and the probable crazy stuff that may very well accompany all of that. I’ve walked down the aisles at Costco and my local grocery store with her on the phone… I tell her what I see and the price and she tells me how much of it to buy for her. I’ve shipped several heavy boxes to her this past month.

The latest thing was that she needed to find a way to store her food stash so the bugs wouldn’t get into it. It needed to be light and air tight. I suggested she go down to Home Depot, which has the 5 gallon paint buckets with the good lids that have rubber o-rings in them. They’re tough to get open once you have filled them and clamped the lid down.  Turns out, the Home Depot in Santa Fe is out of them… and has been for some time… and they’re not restocking very much, either. She went all over town trying to find something along those lines, but couldn’t. 

This evening after dinner, I went to my local Home Depot, and got my friend the lids, and got myself some buckets and lids as well, among other things. I asked an associate to please check to see if there were any more of the crank-up flashlights… he came back to report there were none. The fellow then asked about why he was seeing so many people loading up on things like these buckets, and emergency type supplies like the batteries and crank radios and the like. I simply explained things as best I could in a nutshell:  we’re about to experience hyper-inflation, and people are preparing by pulling their investments out of the banks and stock market and buying food, ammo and metals.  I explained that we could see the real poo hit the fan as early as first quarter of next year, but we will likely see obvious price inflation hitting as early as this fall.  The man looked at me with glazed, uncomprehending eyes and said that he was glad I was keeping up on these things, as he didn’t have time to.  The poor schmuck… he seemed too old to be that stupid.

The experience tells me that a lot of my neighbors here in Houston are paying attention and trying to stock their pantries, if nothing else.  I’m glad about that.  I’m concerned about the other folks that can’t wrap their heads around what’s going on, hoping that everything will continue bumping along. I try to educate people, but I can’t do their thinking for them. I’m genuinely worried about family members of mine that opt to complain about where the country is heading, and how their 401-Ks are tanking, but aren’t doing anything to be able to handle what looks to be coming up pretty soon. I plan on taking a load of food over to my mom and ask her to “store it for me for a little while”  just to get her marginally equipped.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

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THE SECRET TO TIGHT GUMS…

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

I just got the ol’ postcard notice from my dentist. This is the same dentist that George Herbert Walker Bush goes to here in Houston. The guy is a real peach, and tries to be gentle. I don’t have the trepidation at the concept of going to the dentist that I used to. I’ve got a handle on a lot of the underlying problems that were giving me hell so many years ago.

Well… last summer, I finally decided to go to the dentist, after having not gone for three years. The hygienist x-rayed me, checked me over and cleaned my teeth, and remarked at how very little plaque I had, and that my gums were amazingly tight. Their main comment was that I had probably been brushing my teeth a little too hard, most probably because I hadn’t been going to the dentist regularly. The dentist himself confirmed this, looking at my information sheet listing the many vitamin and herb supplements that I take, either with every meal, or as I feel the need. These include a whole vitamin C supplement, B-complex, co-enzyme Q-10, MSM, gelatin/silica supplement, Fo-ti, calcium-magnesium-zinc, omega 3-6-9, vitamin D and E, and beta carotene. If I’m fighting an infection, I know to add selenium, olive leaf extract (in capsules) and oregano oil gelcaps to the pile.

I mentioned that I switched to iced tea in place of soda pop, and I use Stevita stevia sweetener in that iced tea. I also munch on ice after meals to clean the teeth, or at least knock off the big chunks. I also switched to non-waxed dental floss, because the unwaxed variety scrubs between the teeth better, and I usually swish with colloidal silver  (and I swallow it) instead of regular mouthwash. I also use an “organic” toothpaste without fluoride, that uses essential oils to control bacteria in the mouth. Fluoride, I’ll remind you, not only does nothing whatsoever to help your teeth, but makes you acquiescent to all sorts of abuse (probably the main reason why we’re in the current pickle with our government), and shuts down the pineal gland (the source of most of our psychic ability). Most of the sweets I make at home are sweetened with stevia, xylitol and inulin-FOS, and much cleaner ingredients than you will ever see in the grocery stores. On top of all that, my campaign to get the candida out of my body has definitely helped my gums.  All of these differences are very good.

I still needed some serious care at the time… I had one cracked tooth, and a couple of the crappy veneers that the quack dentist put on several years ago (and she cut my gums to do so) were falling off, leaving sharp edges. I needed a crown for that broken tooth, so he took a cast and then installed a temporary crown, then got rid of a couple of amalgam fillings and patched one of the veneers. I got to break the whole bill down into four payments, which helped, though it really took a chunk out of my budget. It kept me from putting any money away for the last four months of 2009 and into 2010, which made paying income taxes a booger-bear.

Listen… my teeth aren’t much to look at. I grew up in an area (South Houston) with a lot of natural fluoride in the water that caused me to have streaky yellow teeth; kind of like horse teeth. That quack dentist on Highway 6 is no longer in that location, and her partner in crime, the endodontist she sent everyone to, is now deaf (she never listened to anyone anyway). The point I’m making is that we have to take care of ourselves the best we can while we are in these fragile bodies. That means questioning the standard medical or dental line and doing our own research. It also means listening to our own bodies. What you do that impacts your dental health, also remarkably impacts the rest of the body in every way, long term.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-04-25 16:03:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Wampum Redux

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

I was looking at a Discovery Channel program about some Viking settlements they’ve unearthed in Great Britain. The more I learn about this branch of my ancestry, the more impressed I am with them. They were consummate traders. They had a trading network that brought fine goods all the way to northern Europe from the middle east. They couldn’t make fine wire to wire-wrap things (see my own website for examples similar to what they did) so they imported it. They swapped for things. 

 They wore silver barter bracelets… cuff bracelets that they would chop off sections of and use for currency; if a Viking wanted a new leather jerkin, he’d ask a purveyor how much and they’d weigh the barter bracelet, then measure the appropriate amount and chop it off with an axe. If they carried silver or gold coins, they chopped these into pieces as required per transaction.

The Native Americans… Indians… were very similar. Some 500 tribes scattered across the Americas networked their trading and met at a number of trading sites. Coral, abalone and cowrie shells have been found in burial sites far inland, well away from the tribes who were geographically close to these goods. What one tribe had, another tribe wanted.  Pipestone found its way all over the Americas. When tribes or individuals rendezvoused at these trading sites, people were also exchanged… marriages were arranged.  Most tribes were extended families, so you didn’t marry within your own tribe… these ancestors understood the problem with inbreeding.  “Wampum” was the trading medium… and at one point, they settled on beads and shells as the “wampum” and wore these strung on necklaces or decorating clothing, to be removed and traded with as needed.

The point is, where there are people, there is a requirement and a desire for trade. It’s against human nature not to want to trade. We got away from traditional bartering with the advent of “currency”. I can see that we’re going to be going back to the old ways of doing business, at least until a new currency can be established, hopefully without the private banking cabal involved.

Those of you that have been reading my humble blog, know that I’m a “prepper” and a “gold & silver bug”.  I recently cashed out my IRAs that had been languishing in the bank, however “safe” that was at such a miserably small interest rate. Believe me, when a bank has held $10,000 of your money for a whole year and barely paid you $50 in interest… it is time to buy metals.  I paid the fees and taxes, and  purchased silver and gold bullion, and a few other potentially useful things.  Gold is for preservation of wealth, and silver would likely be the preferred medium for barter.

I know that silver and gold prices have been heavily manipulated, especially silver. Silver used to trade at a 16-1 ratio with gold, meaning that the price of silver was being held artificially low to begin with before Goldman Sachs and the other criminal banksters began shorting it… selling positions in the metal without even holding any of the metal. Why they got away with that is completely beyond me. Suffice it to say, that at some point, anyone having dealt with them will eventually go back to them and demand to see the vault, and at that point, metals prices will likely jump. They’ll definitely jump when the dollars that have been held by other countries around the world are brought back to the U.S. to purchase what they can before what little value the currency has craters once and for all and the hyper-inflation hits hard.  

Okay… so there are a few of you that don’t really understand what could happen when the dollar loses its hegemony as the world’s default currency. Right now, all oil is traded in “petro-dollars” with the U.S. dollar as the pricing unit. Our government is spending money that it doesn’t have and the banking cabal Federal Reserve is printing it, causing the money to lose its value as the supply dilutes. At some point, the countries that have been buying our debt (as in Treasury Bills) will consider it a bad investment because the new dollars being paid to them are not going to be as valuable as the old dollars they bought the T-bills with… and they will offload the dollars any way they can, either by dumping them in the financial markets or by coming to the U.S. and buying up anything with perceived value while they can. Either way, all that money comes back here, and the dilution factor hits in earnest. 

  • Which means that OPEC will not accept dollars in exchange for oil any more.
  • Which means that fuel will likely become scarce, and farmers will have a tougher time affording fuel to run those big machines to do the farming, and that the truckers that move the food across the land will probably be making a lot fewer trips.
  • Which means that your local grocery store might not be able to restock inventory.
  • Which means that food prices would likely be going up hugely because of the cost of production and the cost of shipping. 
  • What do you think people might do in that event?  The poorest among us would feel the effects first. We’ve already got over 40 million people relying on food stamps.  So under those circumstances we may be looking at the possibility of civil unrest, riots, martial law, lockdowns of entire districts, and… starvation.
  • Which means that each person will likely be stuck with whatever they’ve got stored.
  • Power generation could very well be effected, as could other utilities. Are you ready for far higher prices on utilities coupled with blackouts and rationing?
  • It could take a while to get things straightened out… perhaps months, maybe longer. 
  • Things could come to a standstill in the meantime while food production localizes and farmers’ markets take the place of supermarkets. Barter will likely become the main means of trade.

Even if you have a modest budget… if you can still dine out on burgers a couple of times a week, you can retool and make some basic preparations.  Eat a nut-butter sandwich instead of McDonald’s, and put that money to work for you by buying some stuff. Come on now, you can buy a 1-pound bag of lentils, beans, rice or split peas for like $0.85  so if the average McDonald’s lunch is like $6.00, you can buy at least six bags of food you can store. Or you could save the cost for a couple of those lunches and go purchase some junk silver (90% silver coins) or some generic silver round at a local bullion dealer. Yes, you’d pay sales tax on bullion purchases under $1,000, but you’d have something that would be worth something.

A lot of grocery stores are closing out some inventories… I picked up 1 pound shake dispensers of spices (onion powder, garlic powder, chili powder, etc.) for $2 each. You’ll need to flavor those beans. I picked up some close outs on organic unbleached white flour for $3.50 a 5 pound bag… I learned to make tortillas from scratch.  Shop the sales!  Find a friend with a Costco or Sam’s Club membership and go shopping with them… you can buy twice as much for the same price as a regular grocery store. 

Do these things for yourself while your dollars will still purchase things that have real value and are useful, and that could very well sustain you. I’ve been telling people to clean out their closets to get rid of anything they don’t use, store food in every nook and cranny, and buy ammunition for self-defense. Gold and silver are good, but food and ammo will likely come into play first.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

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Obama Admits He Isn’t an American!

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8&feature=player_embedded

When you get the chance, take a little time to watch this video. Obama (Soetoro) as much as admits that he isn’t a born American, and his stupid wife has said so several different times on camera. Why is this posturing, incompetent jerk still in the White House? Having perjured himself over and over, both throughout the campaign and ever since, he should be doing hard time in the federal prison system… and that twit Joe Biden with him!

Listen… these creeps are doing their level best to crash the country, both from within and without. We have an election coming up this November… assuming they haven’t managed to already crash the currency and declare martial law to quell protests and riots. As it is, we’ve got more debt than the combined gross national product of the whole planet, and most of our economy is based on debt.  We’re already looking at an Argentina style hyper-inflation currency melt-down coming to America really soon.  Time to wake up.

We gotta get out there and vote ALL incumbents out of office… except Ron and Rand Paul… and make sure everyone we vote in is a constitutionalist that wants to shrink government to a manageable level, bring the military back home to police our own borders and remove the expanding surveillance state AND getting rid of a private banking cabal called the Federal Reserve.   Gang… look at your candidates carefully… ask them real questions and insist on real answers to find out where they’re coming from. If checking their backgrounds reveals they’ve never held a legitimate job in their lives, you don’t vote for them, and make sure nobody else votes for them.  Make darn sure they plan to get rid of the Federal Reserve. If a candidate gets into office and refuses to do what we put him there to do, he needs to be recalled and removed… fast.  The last mid-term election in 2006 proved a complete betrayal. We gotta get rid of the prostitutes on capitol hill.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

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ObamaCare and Other Fascist Grabs

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
If you get the chance, give a listen to the Alex Jones Infowars interview with Judge Napolitano.  I have to tell you, it is quite empowering! We do have a lot more options than you might ordinarily think.
http://www.infowars.com/judge-napolitano-on-alex-jones-tv-obamacare-is-unconstitutional/
Gang… we are staring down the abyss.  Obama — or rather Soetoro — and his cabal are rushing to lock onto every manner of controlling us they can possibly invent before the November mid-term elections.  Right now, there are 14, going on 16 states filing suits stating that ObamaCare is unconstitutional, and mostly citing the 9th and 10th amendments of the Constitution. Truth is, ObamaCare violates MOST of the constitution… period.  Reading down the list: it also violates the 4th, 8th and the 14th amendments, and also violates a number of articles.  
Am I kidding? No!
*    According to the rules of how legislation is supposed to be done, this bill was written by the insurance industry’s lobby, and rammed through congress without anyone reading or understanding it. Legislation is supposed to originate in the House, then go to the Senate, then back to the House if a lot of changes where made, and if not, it goes to the president. It is a violation of article 1, sections 7 and 9.  This is an example of midnight legislation, similar to the 16th amendment that gave us the income tax.
*     It gives illegal aliens open access to health care here, with no I.D., even while they don’t pay income taxes here, while it requires tax-paying citizens to have that accursed “national I.D.” card we spent the last 8 years fighting off.
*    It takes away our freedom of privacy.
*    It forces us to buy insurance we don’t want and can’t afford.
*    It legally forces us to purchase a PRIVATE PRODUCT by a company… a violation of all the anti-trust laws.
*    It tells us what to do and limits our choices, threatening excessive fines and imprisonment.
*    If gives an unseen non-elected official total control over our health care. It allows that official to disallow health care coverage to anyone with a pre-existing condition, including children.
*    It contains numerous industrial pork-barrel giveaways… including the vaccine and drug manufacturers.
*    It does NOT contain any attempt at tort reform. 
*    It is an unfunded mandate.
*    It is a massive redistribution of wealth… period.
Obama and his cabal have lied time and again, not just about this legislation, but all of their campaign promises.  Obama is not a socialist… he is a totalitarian and a fascist. He wants absolute control over every aspect of your life. 
Obama himself has already perjured himself in all 50 states…  ”Barack Hussein Obama” is not his legal name… it is Barry Soetoro on his certificate of adoption by his Indonesian stepfather, which, if he wasn’t already born abroad, certifies that he doesn’t qualify to be president under the constitution.  
You can bet that his bunch will be doing their best to ram through “cap and trade” as quick as they can, before the mid-term elections tosses most of the democrats (and hopefully all incumbents) out on their ears. They are rushing even as we speak. Pelosi openly made threats to the democrats in the House to get them to vote for the ObamaCare bill, telling them that they had to do this and “take the hit” for the party. Voting the “party line” instead of their conscience or the will of the constituents is more than grounds for not only voting them out at the next election, but calling them back to their districts and pressing charges against them.
You can also bet your bottom dollar that they will most likely stage a terror event just to grab even more control. I would guess that a lot of the vandalism on campaign offices was probably staged, too.  Just watch. Things are getting interesting.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-03-29 05:15:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Predictions Regarding ObamaCare

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Gang… first of all, hit this site and sign the petition: http://www.grassfire.com/130/petition.asp?ref_id=500064

and this one:  http://www.grassrootsaction.com/220/petition.asp?Ref_ID=3302&RID=21563424

I did predict that there were going to be some lawsuits being filed in the courts to overturn ObamaCare as unconstitutional… and there are already.  Here is an article on that: http://www.personalliberty.com/news/states-say-healthcare-bill-is-unconstitutional-will-sue-federal-government-19685333/   Turns out Texas already has one in the works.   Also, in the past couple of days, there have been instances of vandalism against campaign offices and numerous threats via e-mail, regular mail and voice mail, along with a deluge of phone calls pouring into the offices of Representatives and Senators. I don’t know if this is authentic or staged to justify further erosion of our civil liberties.  When the taxes and fines start hitting, people will really be up in arms.

No matter what, I predict there will be a landslide against the Democrats in the mid-term elections. I just hope that we can stop the dysfunctional pendulum swing back to the Republicans, because they aren’t a solution… we need third parties that are interested in going back to Constitutional law. We need people who run for office to be dedicated to shrinking government and its grasping. We need strict term limits and a new law put in place that removes the country club medical plan and retirement plans the Representatives and Senators now enjoy… after all, they are only part-time employees. If they can’t live with what they’ve legislated for the rest of us, they need to fix the system for all of us!

If, for some reason, ObamaCare is not overturned, I can make some very realistic predictions:

A lot of doctors will either quit the doctoring biz altogether, or will close their formal practices and then go into private, by referral, cash-only practices off the books. I’m betting on a lot of doctors moving their practices across the border to Mexico, then commuting back and forth across the border from home to their practices. I wouldn’t blame them, either.  Imagine having to make a trip to Mexico to get your basic yearly physical and some lab work done.

We will see a huge drop off in the numbers of people going through medical school. Who would want to go a quarter-million + dollars into debt for a degree that will, by legislation, won’t allow you to pay your own bills?  I mean, really, paying the student loans, plus malpractice insurance, plus the costs of maintaining a practice… it all adds up. The whole point to becoming a doctor, if you aren’t motivated by serving humanity by healing people, is to make money.

I can also predict that a lot of smaller employers are going to go to hiring most of their employees as contractors because of the massive taxes this ObamaCare scheme will levy on employers… in other words, very few people will have real jobs with benefits.

ObamaCare, since it will take the money directly out of your bank account without your permission, will also result in a lot of people getting out of banking… no savings or checking accounts to be plundered.  If anything, most will keep a token amount of money in a passbook account so they can cash their paychecks.  As a result, more people will also be hiding their income, and we will become increasingly a cash-and-carry society. A lot of people will probably be leaning more toward bartering.

Alternative currency is already coming into play:   Idaho is minting their own silver round and accepting it as currency and S. Carolina is trying to ban federal currency altogether. At least the Idaho thing isn’t banning the dollar, and it certainly would help the mining industry in that state to provide jobs. http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/03/15/idaho_silver/index.html

If you thought the IRS was already bad, wait until they start trying to enforce new and more draconian taxes.  The IRS doesn’t have to play by the rules as other law enforcement; they can drag you in and force you to prove your innocence.  ObamaCare is going to be a tax on everyone, not just those earning over $200,000 a year… and under hyper-inflation, that amount is not going to amount to much. If you’re already having a tough time making ends meet, wait until this stuff gets put into action.

ObamaCare will force a lot of companies to force their retirees off of their good insurance and into Medicare, mainly to begin accruing monies to pay out in the stiff taxes they are staring at. People who opt to keep their company health insurance will find that it will be taxed as if it were income… yes, that is a fine for keeping your corporate insurance.

I am also predicting massive tax protests on all levels. No-Eyes, the Native American prophet, predicted this one… and that it may result in blood running in the streets. Obama and his fascist bunch are picking up and running with Bush’s neocon internment camps and will likely use any excuse to round people up and lock them away. Yes, I’m predicting civil unrest.

I predict that a lot of people are going to become more educated on maintaining their own health and will seek out natural health care… naturopaths and homeopaths. We will be returning to the days of the “root doctor” and “kitchen witch” for primary health care. You might want to go ahead and hit the bookstores for some books on herbal medicine, and perhaps start stocking up on some common herbal curatives.

I am also predicting massive, runaway inflation very similar to what Argentina went through. We’re already seeing it. We’ve been seeing the manufacturing jobs getting oursourced for years, thanks to Clinton and Bush signing NAFTA and CAFTA into law.

I can also predict more people turning every square foot of their yards into family farm plots to supplement their diets, and preserving the excess for the long term. Food is going to get really, really expensive.  Actually, it already is. Start buying seeds and putting in some raised garden beds filled with rich soil. If you haven’t started already, you need to be storing food Mormon-style. Buy some foods in bulk and store it in airtight containers.  I’m not kidding. If civil unrest keeps truckers from delivering food to the stores, or if the military decides to cordon off entire areas, or if things get to the point where you will have to “shelter in place”, or if inflation gets to the point where you need a barrel of cash to buy a loaf of bread, you will need to live on your stored foods for a while.   I’m already seeing some disturbing trends in the local stores… even WalMart is carrying less variety and isn’t keeping up with stocking. You might also want to consider some other items, like a rocket-stove so you can cook your meals using just a few twigs.  http://rocketstoves.org/

Another thing… ammo. If you run low on Spam, that squirrel in your yard is gonna look mighty tasty. The local duck ponds are going to be missing some stock, too. Personally, I’m leaning more towards keeping “cuy” (guinea pigs) like they do in Peru… not as prone to parasites.

Okay… so am I predicting the apocalypse? Actually, I’m just trying to cover the bases. Things might continue to grind along as they have been, but I’m allowing for some craziness.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-03-26 08:12:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Preppers Unite… Quick!

Friday, July 16th, 2010

My blog, originally started as a way of teaching about stone medicine and new age/spiritual topics, has shifted toward being an informational forum  for other people who have gotten similar guidance to begin making preparations for the oddball times to come.

I’m talking about getting yourselves liquid, getting rid of excess possessions and making a few bucks while you can.  Then get into storing food and water, and securing your property and your person.  Make sure you have one or more good working guns and plenty of ammo for each one, and make sure each member of your household knows how to use same. Food prices have gone up and estimated 40% since the beginning of the year.  In the event of martial law and civil unrest, you will either have to bug-out or shelter in place. How long can you live on the food you have stored in your house? Do you have something to barter with? Silver has been shorted in the markets by the banksters… take advantage of the opportunity to buy some now.

I’ve been trying to get a bead on the time frame of when this stuff is probably going to come about. I tried checking with a couple of astrologers, who both said that it is “hard to call” using their system. Taking a look at the aspects: On July 20th, Saturn goes into Libra, while squaring Pluto and opposing Uranus. Pluto and Uranus are all about CHANGE, while Saturn is about stabilization as well as being a harsh teacher. We have three planets squaring with cardinal signs.  The United States was born in Cancer. On July 23rd, Jupiter goes retrograde in Aries… Jupiter is your money planet, and it’s about to go backwards until November 18th. We have some favorable aspects with the full moon on July 25th. On August 6th we have a GRAND CROSS and on August 20th, Mercury goes retrograde until September 12th.  That is a lot going on!  My astrologer, Enola Dominiak, says that she’s worried that this Saturn in Libra cycle for the next couple of years may involve violence.

Okay… so my own take, based on this and some dowsing along with my own gut:  We will probably have one more modest stock market rally this summer, and it won’t last long. The economic stuff will become patently obvious by fall, and the currency could crash between then and the first quarter of 2011. We essentially have through the fall to get it together. If you have a lot of money in IRAs, you may have to start getting it out a little at a time, considering that banks tend to have limits on how much cash they can give you.

http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/2010/07/alex-jones-issues-red-alert-100.html

When you get the chance, please take a look at this video of Alex Jones’ program posted on Gerald Celente’s blogsite. Granted, Alex Jones’ delivery style is a tad over the top, but I think he’s essentially got it right. We can expect an engineered terror attack, most likely before the end of this year. We can expect the econonmic mess to be patently obvious to all by this fall. We can most likely expect the crash of the dollar early next year.

The cool thing is that WE THE PEOPLE are the wild card in all of this.  The globalist cabal is afraid of us. They know we’re waking up and we can oppose them. By standing up and opposing expanding government power, with the use of our law enforcement as nothing more than a revenue-generating tool, we stand up for ourselves and our freedom.  Arizona is removing the network of speeding cameras because the majority of people refuse to pay the fines. Arizona has made the federal laws regarding immigration their state laws, and is now poised to enforce those new state laws this summer, in spite of the federal suit to stop them from enforcing the federal law of the land.

Obama clearly wants to crash the system and he’s been siding with an assortment of people with that stated goal. Everyone on Obama’s cabinet is an extremist or globalist, and most have had a hand in creating the economic collapse while directly profiting from taking jobs out of the country and people from their homes. These, and other assorted corporate creepos, are engineering a series of disasters… economic, environmental and socialogical… to suit their own agenda.  The cool thing is that voters are already getting rid of the status-quo careerist politicians of both parties in favor of constitutionalists (Tea Party) in the primaries.  We can expect Obama and his cronies to push through their agenda as fast as they can while they are still lame ducks in office, before the new people are sworn in. They don’t see any problems with doing as much harm as they can since they no longer have anything to lose. They just passed the so-called “financial reform act” to give the Federal Reserve and the banks even more power.  We need to make a lot of noise at these legislators… failing that, we need to make sure our new candidates dismember all that nasty, disasterous legislation.

Gang, we really do have the power to look after ourselves, our families and our communities. The answer to “1984″ is “1776″.  We have to be ready to stand up for our freedom. The more noise we make, whether through blogging, or Tea Party events, or simply talking to friends and neighbors one-on-one, is all it takes to stem the tide of the global police state that the CFR and Bilderbergs are trying to impose on us.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc   She also offers an e-book, “Fat-Free Spirituality” which is packed with advanced spiritual knowledge.

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