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The O.G.'S of Homeland SecurityNo Thanks to Thanksgiving
By Robert Jensen
I celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving.
This may surprise those people who wonder what Native Americans think of this official U.S. celebration of the survival of early arrivals in a European invasion that culminated in the death of 10 to 30 million native people.
Thanksgiving to me has never been about Pilgrims. When I was six, my mother, a woman of the Dineh nation, told my sister and me not to sing "Land of the Pilgrim's pride" in "America the Beautiful." Our people, she said, had been here much longer and taken much better care of the land. We were to sing "Land of the Indian's pride" instead.
I was proud to sing the new lyrics in school, but I sang softly. It was enough for me to know the difference. At six, I felt I had learned something very important. As a child of a Native American family, you are part of a very select group of survivors, and I learned that my family possessed some "inside" knowledge of what really happened when those poor, tired masses came to our homes.
When the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock, they were poor and hungry -- half of them died within a few months from disease and hunger. When Squanto, a Wampanoag man, found them, they were in a pitiful state. He spoke English, having traveled to Europe, and took pity on them. Their English crops had failed. The native people fed them through the winter and taught them how to grow their food.
These were not merely "friendly Indians." They had already experienced European slave traders raiding their villages for a hundred years or so, and they were wary -- but it was their way to give freely to those who had nothing. Among many of our peoples, showing that you can give without holding back is the way to earn respect. Among the Dakota, my father's people, they say, when asked to give, "Are we not Dakota and alive?" It was believed that by giving there would be enough for all -- the exact opposite of the system we live in now, which is based on selling, not giving.
To the Pilgrims, and most English and European peoples, the Wampanoags were heathens, and of the Devil. They saw Squanto not as an equal but as an instrument of their God to help his chosen people, themselves.
Since that initial sharing, Native American food has spread around the world. Nearly 70 percent of all crops grown today were originally cultivated by Native American peoples. I sometimes wonder what they ate in Europe before they met us. Spaghetti without tomatoes? Meat and potatoes without potatoes? And at the "first Thanksgiving" the Wampanoags provided most of the food -- and signed a treaty granting Pilgrims the right to the land at Plymouth, the real reason for the first Thanksgiving.What did the Europeans give in return? Within 20 years European disease and treachery had decimated the Wampanoags. Most diseases then came from animals that Europeans had domesticated. Cowpox from cows led to smallpox, one of the great killers of our people, spread through gifts of blankets used by infected Europeans. Some estimate that diseases accounted for a death toll reaching 90 percent in some Native American communities. By 1623, Mather the elder, a Pilgrim leader, was giving thanks to his God for destroying the heathen savages to make way "for a better growth," meaning his people.
In stories told by the Dakota people, an evil person always keeps his or her heart in a secret place separate from the body. The hero must find that secret place and destroy the heart in order to stop the evil.
I see, in the "First Thanksgiving" story, a hidden Pilgrim heart. The story of that heart is the real tale than needs to be told. What did it hold? Bigotry, hatred, greed, self-righteousness? We have seen the evil that it caused in the 350 years since. Genocide, environmental devastation, poverty, world wars, racism.
Where is the hero who will destroy that heart of evil? I believe it must be each of us. Indeed, when I give thanks this Thursday and I cook my native food, I will be thinking of this hidden heart and how my ancestors survived the evil it caused.
Because if we can survive, with our ability to share and to give intact, then the evil and the good will that met that Thanksgiving day in the land of the Wampanoag will have come full circle.
And the healing can begin.
"COLUMBUS DISCOVERED: Murder, Rape, Genocide, Grand Theft, Lies, ETC...
One day in front bartolome De Las Casa (a spanish missionary), the spanish dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 people. Such inhumanities and barbarisms were commited in my sight, he says, 'As no age can parrallel, the Spanish cut off the legs of children who ran from them. They poured people full of boiling soap. They made bets as to who, with one sweep of the sword, could cut a person in half. They loosed dogs that devoured an Indian like a hog, at first sight, in less than a moment. They used nursing infants for dog food"
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SO, WITH THAT BEING SAID, LET US LEARN FROM HISTORY'S ATROCITIES SO THAT WE DO NOT CONTINUE TO REPLICATE THEM, BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY: "THOSE THAT DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE BOUND TO REPEAT IT."
Peace y'all.
More Natural Cures Revealed
by Kevin Trudeau
(From Freedom Allah's MySpace Blog)
Chapter 11
STAY AWAY FROM
THESE PRODUCTS
Conventional medicine is a collection of
unproven prescriptions the results of which,
Taken collectively are more fatal than useful to mankind.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
In the book Natural Cures I mention that one of the things you should avoid is pork. People always question me about how important this is. Some of my best friends still, to this day, love their bacon, ham and sausages. I am not judgmental. I sit down and have meals with people and watch them enjoy their double-cut stuffed pork chops. Everyone has to make their own choices based on what they feel is best for them. I certainly encourage everyone to eliminate pork, or at least reduce the amount of pork they are consuming. I believe that by doing so you will be sick less, have more energy, lose weight, feel better, be happier, sleep better, live longer and be much less prone to developing serious degenerative disease. I personally believe pork is one of the major causes of degenerative disease in the body. I am not alone. Dr. Ted Broer is a major advocate in eliminating pork from your diet. Major religions concur. Muslims and Jews, for example, are forbidden to eat pork in any form. Dr. Jeff McCombs, author of the book Lifeforce, also has found that eliminating pork causes a dramatic increase in a person's energy level and health, as well as disease-fighting capabilities.
Here is what Dr. Jeff McCombs has to say about eliminating pork from diet. "People are always asking me about the risks associated with eating pork and pork by-products. There are multiple references all around the world as to the dangers of eating pork. Being in practice for many years I have firsthand experience in what occurs when someone stops eating pork and all pork by-products.
Over the years, with virtual 100 percent certainly, I can tell you that when my patients go off pork they virtually ALWAYS feel much better, have more energy, and their symptoms, whatever they may be, start to disappear as if by magic. Ironically, if they start to eat pork again, their symptoms reappear, their energy level plummets, and the feeling general malaise takes over. One of the greatest risks in eating pork in an unknown one. It is a retrovirus called porcine endogenous. This retrovirus lives in all pork cells. Scientists have no idea how this retrovirus affects humans. What is known is that these viruses survive heating and cooking, even at extremely high temperatures over long periods of time. If you are not familiar with what retroviruses can do, think of AIDS. The symptoms that come from AIDS are associated most often with retroviruses. Retroviruses use the body's own cells to replicate themselves. This means that retroviruses go undetected for many, many years as they spread throughout the body. Brown University reported that retroviruses pose a significant threat to the public. When a person eats pork on a regular basis they're loading their body with these retroviruses. These retroviruses dramatically reduce the body's ability to fight off disease, suppress the person's immune system, and make the consumer of pork more susceptible to disease, as well as creating a general overall malaise.
When a person goes off pork for thirty days they almost always have an increased sense of well-being, a heightened sense of awareness, a high level of consciousness, are much happier, smile more, laugh more, sleep better, and whatever physical symptoms they have, almost always those symptoms diminish or vanish. Eating pork causes many problems, including hormonal imbalances, joint and back pains, inflammation, excessive histamine production, headaches, increased susceptibility to colds and flus, as well as potentially being partially responsible for degenerative disease such as arthritis, heart disease and caner. From what I've personally observed, I believe eating pork is like vaccinating your body 'against health.' Pigs also harbor many other toxins, are latent with diseases, and contain worms. Most flu viruses that we encounter in the United States come from the lungs of pigs that create an incubator for the combination of bird, human, and porcine viruses. The Center for Disease Control has stated that as many as 200 of these combined viruses make their way from Southern China to the United States each year through pigs. Pigs scavenge and eat anything in their path including dead insects, worms, rotting carcasses, rats, their own feces, garbage, and other pugs. Whatever a pig eats turns to meat on its bones within a few hours. Pork is virtually undigested garbage. Pork causes stress in the body, both physically and emotionally, and gives rise to physical poisoning. This is a fact that is well known in the scientific community. It is obvious to everyone that when pork products are not prepared properly sickness can result in their consumption. However, this also applies to all pork products, including cured meats such as ham and bacon, smoked meats, sausages, etc. When someone consumes a freshly killed pork product instant symptoms develop, including acute inflammation of the appendix and gallbladder, colitis, intestinal problems, gastroenteritis, typhoid, eczema, various forms of abscesses, spasm, etc. These symptoms are also observed in people after consuming any pork product, including salami, bacon, sausage, and ham.
As I mentioned, flu viruses in pork live in the lungs. A professor at the London Institute for Virus Research states that flu viruses remained alive and active and were found in sausages, hot dogs, ham, bacon, pork chops- virtually all pork products. This means that the fly viruses and other viruses that live in the lungs on pigs and in the tissues of pigs survive the cooking and preparation process. When you eat any pork product you are eating living, dangerous viruses. Additionally, pork is the primary sources of the taenia solium tapeworm. This type of parasite spreads throughout the body. One in six Americans has triginosis and gets it from eating pork. Like most parasites, these go undetected for years, and years, and years. These parasites steal nutrients from our cells and promote inflammation and degeneration within all tissues. They help create an environment that is conductive for caner, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, as well as indigestion, gas, bloating, acid reflux, fatigue, and depression. So whether it's the retroviruses, the parasite tapeworms, the flu viruses, the histamine increasing compounds, or any of the other toxins present in pork, you may want to consider why you would ever gamble with your health by eating pork. From Confucius to Moses, to Muhammad, to present day science and research, pork has always been and continues to be a very risky health choice. It may be the 'other white meat,' but it's definitely not the right meat!"
Dr. McCombs makes some excellent points. I would encourage all of you, if you want to do an interest test, to do what I did. I eliminated pork from my diet for thirty full days to see if I noticed any difference. I did, in fact, feel "lighter." I felt more "alive." My breathing was better. I felt generally "healthier," but I wasn't totally convinced. So, I went out and ate my favorite meal of pork loin roast. Within minutes I became violently ill. That was enough for me to know that pork is poison. If you have symptoms of any kind, if you have illness or disease of any kind, if you want to be cured of what is ailing you, you must do the steps in Chapter 6 in the Natural Cures book. One of those important steps is eliminating, or at least dramatically reducing, the amount of pork you consume. I do believe that one you start reducing pork, every time you eat it you will feel horrible that you will see that a total elimination of pork may be the right choice for you. I hope it is because I do know you will see and feel a dramatic difference within the first month.
GOLIATH CELEBRATES ITS 5TH YEAR IN HARLEM
November 1st, 2009
Goliath Promo Video from Chris Faust on Vimeo.
Event Info:
Date: Thursday November 19th, 2009
Time: 8pm-11pm:
Admission: FREE
