Tiny Iraqi Refugee Fleeing From Shelling
(To see all 21 refugee photos, please do look at the slideshow - it is worth seeing!)  Link to slideshow:  http://hubpages.com/slide/Lord-I-AM-My-Brothers-Keeper/1953749

Welcome to "World Refugees 101"

What you will learn here may change your life forever, and not for the better - unless it stirs you with compassion and inspires you to help the masses of world refugees in whatever way you possibly can.

If we do not help, then who will?

Learning all of what I am going to share with you, has made me realize how fortunate most of us really are. I appreciate each and every little thing I am lucky enough to have, including such small things as soap, water, and food. These things are out of reach for about 80 million refugee people in the world, who, through no fault of their own, find these things completely unattainable.

I have been having a difficult time putting the faces of these poor people out of my thoughts, and having trouble sleeping at night, for thinking about them and the horror that is their lives. Auschwitz was nothing, compared to what is going on in the world today, in our own times.

Recently, I became curious about the Iraqi and Afghanistani refugees of war, and wanted to know how many of them there were, and where they were.  As I conducted this study, I discovered that there are many, many more refugees than I thought there were.

This article represents a small overview of the results of the research I have been doing on the world's refugees - who they are, where they are from, how many there are, where they are living, why they have been forced into their refugee status, who is helping them, what conditions they are living in, and what their prospects are.

The following is only the tip of an enormous iceberg.

What I have found is alarming - no, shocking and frightening! Why is the media not talking about this? We are not hearing the truth about this. We only hear bits and pieces. No one is putting the stories all together in one place so we can see the reality of how many refugees there are, and how many different wars and civil wars there are.

It's as if we are just supposed to go on as if it were not really happening, or as if it were "normal".
 

But, this is most definitely NOT normal!
 

Once you put all the facts and statistics together, it becomes very obvious that all these wars are deliberate, and not coincidental, and that the outcomes have been planned, and even prepared for in advance. It would appear that the fomenting of all these civil wars, genocides, ethnic cleansings, etc, is a vast, intentional means of subduing these developing countries in order to render their populations helpless, for the purpose of facilitating the imposition of global government.

The "great powers of the world" seem to be doing the very bare minimum to help these people and seem to want things just "kept quiet". The full reality of what is going on in the world, and the situation that so many millions are in, is certainly not being revealed by mainstream media.

Why are the governments of richer, larger countries not raising their voices in an outcry against all the abuses, genocides, and humanitarian crises occurring? Why will they not help these people?

I contend that it is because they don't care, and because they are complicit and in agreement with it.

As in all cases, much can be learned by "following the money". Don't forget there are NATO peacekeeping troops in many of these countries, and so they are thus necessarily involved in the military conflicts occurring in these places. There have even been stories accusing UN-affiliated officials of either backing or financing various military factions involved in civil wars, or of making lucrative deals with sub-contractors and enriching themselves off the misery of the refugees forced into the refugee camps.
 

Also to be taken into serious account, is that various rebel armies receive substantial financial backing from other governments, or from large corporate interests. This is especially true in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rebel Generals dress and surround themselves in fantastic finery purchased with stolen and donated money, and grandstand outrageously with international peace mediators.

In 2006, the UN gave an estimate of 12 million refugees in the world. Things have become much, much more desperate since then, and are worsening daily.

On June 20, 2009, World Refugee Day, that figure became 42 million. This statistic is misleading, however, as the 42 million cited, are only the refugees that the UN knows about, that are in UN Refugee Camps, and who have registered with the UN and received UN Refugee Cards. The actual number of refugees is probably twice as high.  There are many, many millions more refugees who are not interred in the UN camps, and who have not been counted into the UN official refugee figures.

These refugees are all people who have been forced to flee from their homes because of the violence of wars - either invading armies from other countries, or civil wars in their own countries - or they have escaped from genocide, ethnic cleansings, religious persecution, climate change, or natural disasters.
 

They are either "internally displaced" ("IDP", having fled their homes and living as refugees in their own countries) or "externally displaced" (having had to flee to other countries).

They are sleeping in the sand or dirt, on beaches, in makeshift tents, abandoned buildings, in refugee camps, or in jails or prisons. Wherever they are, their living conditions are appallingly unsafe and unsanitary. For the most part, they have no running water to bathe or clean with. They are refused medical care and their children are not allowed to go to school.

The only food they receive is what they are given by relief workers in the camps where they are, which is usually only barely enough to keep them alive - often they only receive a couple of cups of grain and a little oil per day.
 

Most generally, they are treated as prisoners, and are not allowed to leave the camps and move around. They are not permitted to contact family or friends, nor to use any forms of communication like internet, phones, mails, etc. Sometimes this is because it is unsafe to leave the camps, and sometimes it is because the government of the hosting country does not permit them to leave the camps. They are usually not allowed to work to try to earn money to help themselves.

For the most part, they are not allowed to have lawyers, nor to avail themselves of the court systems to petition the governments of the countries where they are for asylum.

Children are separated from parents, husbands separated from wives, and friends and families separated. Often family members are located in separate camps a great distance away from each other. 

That's if they are lucky enough to get into a refugee camp.  More often than not, after arrival in a country where they seek sanctuary, they are arrested and deported back to where they came from against their will, regardless of whether they are in danger of being killed upon re-entering the country they fled from or not.  Family members are separated after being arrested, and are deported separately from each other.

In some countries, the refugee camps are either attacked by terrorist armies who kill all the refugees within, refugee camps are bombed as in Gaza, or the camps are invaded by soldiers who beat, rape, murder, or kidnap the refugees. In many cases, the refugee camps themselves are infiltrated by representatives of rebel factions who coerce the refugees into leaving the camps to fight with them, or even kidnap refugees from the camps to force them into fighting or to enslave them.
 

In the case of refugees in the Serbian conflicts, hundreds of thousands of women refugees were "punished" for their ethnic group by being raped by the soldiers. There are hundreds of thousands of unwanted orphans there now, products of these rapes. Refugee women of Somalia, Darfur, Congo, and other African countries are also being subjected to this terror. In the Congo, young boys are kidnapped and forced to serve as soldiers, or to work as slaves in coal mines, by the rebel soldiers.

The refugees are charged abusively exorbitant fees for any legal help or permits by the governments of some countries, and for any extra privileges or favors. In a few countries, refugees are used by the governments as slave labor and are not paid for their work. In Malaysia, refugees are even sold on the slave markets - or in the case of the Falun Gong in China, they are used as involuntary organ donors.

Many refugees have been living in displacement camps for many years - some as many as 10-20 years, and their situations are beyond hopeless. Often, they have been forced to go from country to country, or have been moved from one camp to another and another, depending on safety issues at the camp locations due to armed conflicts breaking out, if there is not enough water, or when the housing facilities have outlived their limit for usefulness. (Most refugee tent housing has a life span of only about 10 years)
 

Hundreds of thousands have lived much of their lives in the camps and have necessarily become resigned to their sub-standard existences and "statelessness". A great many who live in the refugee camps were born in the camps and have never known anything else. Once they are in the camps, it is sometimes extremely hard to get out of them and get re-patriated and resettled elsewhere.
 

There are few countries that will accept asylum-seekers, and if they do, they accept only a very few, compared with the millions who are so desperate to become citizens with rights, and not "stateless". Their fates are completely dependent on politics, treaty results, and international asylum agreements. They are also at the mercy of the hosting country as to whether or not they are permitted to approach the courts for asylum petitions. Also, they may have to remain in the camps for many years while they are waiting for their own countries to decide whether to permit their re-entrance into their homelands.

Life within the refugee camps is very dangerous and uncomfortable, to say the least. Not only are the refugees in danger of being attacked and murdered by armies, raped or beaten, but there is much crime and violence within the camps themselves. Some camps have tens of thousands of people living in them, and bitter rivalries break out between camp internees, or the stress and hardship of living in the camps occasions internal violence and crimes such as robberies, assaults, and rapes.
 

Living conditions in refugee camps are appalling - there is usually either no water, not enough water, or the water is contaminated. The camps mostly lack facilities for the proper disposal of waste and sewer. Many refugee camps lack electricity and proper cooking facilities, and internees are forced to cook and heat their tents with coal provided by relief agencies, or even with animal manure procured on their own from goats or sheep, which contributes to the general unsanitary conditions of the camps.

All of this, along with the crowded conditions, the malourished state of the refugees, and the lack of proper medical care and medicines, often results in outbreaks of disease such as cholera and other life-threatening infectious diseases. The chronically ill and disabled find it especially difficult to live in the camps.

The world's refugee situation does not appear to have any chance of improving in the near future. Fresh outbreaks of violence seem to spring up daily. Recent earthquake disasters (HAARP?) in Sumatra and American Samoa, and the alarming new and devastating violence in the civil war in Pakistan, in which many hundreds of thousands more Pakistanis have been displaced, does not bode well for the future of the world's most vulnerable.

My heart bleeds for these people. I don't care what mainstream media says or doesn't say. I don't care what the government says. I don't care if everyone around me pretends they don't notice what is happening. I know what I myself feel when I read the stories of the refugees, and when I see the misery in their faces.
 

I feel a terrible despair and the most all-encompassing compassion for their plights, and a deep grieving inside, for all of humanity.
 

These are human beings. They deserve all the same basic rights that any human being deserves anywhere. They deserve those rights regardless of race, national origin, religion, or political affiliation. They deserve to have food, water, hygiene, homes, electricity, heat, freedom from abuse, education, and the opportunity to earn a living. Most of all they deserve to be safe and live with dignity.

I don't know what can be done to help all these people. I don't know how we can stop the raging, Satanic, murdering machine of the NWO, global government, and marauding military madmen.
 

I do know that wherever, and whoever these people are, they certainly deserve our thoughts, our help, and our compassion, as fellow human beings.

There, but for the Grace of God, go we ourselves.
 

Who is to say that it won't happen here in the United States before it's all done and over with?

I am sending thoughts of love and caring to all of these refugees, no matter where they are. And I am praying for them all, whoever they may be. There is little else I can do for them due to my own straitened circumstances, and God is the only one who can help them all.
 

I pray that He does.

I will be uploading a new web site very soon which will deal with world refugees. Perhaps I can at least make more people aware of the plight of refugees, and show others how to help.

I will add the url to that web site here, as soon as it is published.

Thank you for reading this, and I hope that you will pray for these people, as I am doing.

UN Refugee Tents at Dabaab, Northern Kenya

SOME STATISTICS REGARDING WORLD REFUGEES:

http://www.worldrefugeesurvey.org/
 

(These statistics have been painstakingly pieced together from many different sources - they may not be current, nor entirely accurate, and also, there are many refugees whose numbers and whereabouts are unknown, due to lack of reporting entities, or to the severity of the violence in the areas where they are, which prevents relief agencies from reaching them. The numbers are constantly changing - often UN refugee camps are closed down suddenly, or moved to other locations as a result of unsafe, violent conditions.)

Countries Hosting Refugees with Numbers of Refugees and Origins:

(This is only a very partial list)

Algeria - 96,500 (Western Sahara, Palestine, Niger)

Bangladesh - 193,000 (Rohingya fromMyanmar/Burma) plus another 100-200,000 unregistered living outside the refugee camps

Botswana - 23,100 (Zimbabwe, Namibia)

Brazil - 21,400 (Colombia, Angola)

Burundi - 26,300 (Congo, Rwanda)

Cameroon - 91,900 (Central African Republic, - Chad, Nigeria, Rwanda, Congo, Burundi, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and others.

Canada - 72,500 (Mexico, Haiti, Colombia)

Chad - 330,500 (Sudan/Darfur, Central African Republic)

China - 332,000 (Vietnam, North Korea, Myanmar)

Congo-Brazzaville - 40,000 (Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda, Angola)

Congo-Kinshasa - 192,000 (Angola, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan, Congo-Brazzaville)

Cote d'Ivoire - 26,300 (Liberian)

Ecuador - 135,000 (Colombia, Peru, Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Iraq, Ghana, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Armenia)

Egypt - 152,400 (Palestine, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia)

Ethiopia - 135,000 (Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan, Congo-Kinshasa)

Europe - 302,200 (Iraq, Russia, Somalia, Serbia, Afghanistan)

Ghana - 18,700 (Liberia, Togolese)

Guinea - 28,100 (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire)

India - 411,000 (Sri Lanka, Tibet/China, Myanmar, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Nepal)

Iran - 993,600 (Afghanistan, Iraq, and others, plus more than one million unregistered Afghans)

Iraq - 39,500 (Turkey, Palestine, Iran)

Israel - 16,500 (Eritrea, Sudan)

Israeli-occupied territories - 1,828,100 (Gaza Strip, West Bank)

Jordan - 621,600 (Iraq, Palestine, former Palestine, plus nearly 2 million Palestinians with Jordanian citizenship and not counted as refugees)

Kenya - 377,400 (Somalia, Nubian, Ethiopia, Sudan, Congo-K, Rwanda, Uganda, Eritrea, Burundi)

Kuwait - 40,000 (Iraq, former Palestine)

Lebanon - 333,500 (former Palestine, Iraq, Sudan)

Libya - 18,900 (Former Palestine, Sudan, Somalia)

Malawi - 11,600 (Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia)

Malaysia - 171,500 (Myanmar, Philippines, Indonesia)

Mauritania - 30,600 (Western Sahara, Mali)

Nepal- 121,300 (Bhutan, China - Tibetans)

Niger - 15,700 (Chad)

Pakistan - 1,775,600 (Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq)

Panama - 11,500 (Colombia, El Salvador, Cuba, NIcaragua)

Russian Federation - 107,000 (Afghanistan, Georgia, Central Asia)

Rwanda - 59,000 (Congo-KInshasa, Burundi)

Saudi Arabia - 291,000 (Former Palestine, others, also hundreds of thousands of Myanmar Rohingya & about 70,000 stateless Bidoons)

Senegal - 35,000 (Mauritania)

Serbia - 96,500 (Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina)

South Africa - 256,000 (Zimbabwe, Congo-Kinshasa, Somalia, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India)

Sri Lanka - 250,000-300,000 internally/externally displaced due to civil war Tamil Tigers vs. Sri Lanka Government

Sudan - 310,500 (Eritrea, Chad, Ethiopia, Congo-K, Central African Republic)

Syria - 1,763,900 (Iraq, Former Palestine, Somalia)

Tanzania - 321,900 (Burundi, Congo-Kinshasa)

Thailand - 368,800 (Myanmar, Laos)

Turkey - 18,200 (Iraq, Iran)

Uganda - 155,400 (Congo-K, Sudan, Rwanda, Somalia, Burundi, and others)

United States - 161,200 (Cuba, China, Myanmar, Iraq, Haiti, Iran, Bhutan, Colombia, Somalia)

Venezuela - 211,000 (Colombia plus 200,000 unregistered)

Yemen - 145,700 (Somalia, Iraq, Ethiopia, Sudan)

Zambia - 88,900 (Congo-K, Angola, Zimbabwe, Rwanda)

Countries having citizens who are refugees, or groups that are refugees - refugees from these countries are either internally or externally displaced:

(This list is by no means complete - there are many more)

Sudan, Darfur, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Angola, Nigeria, Bhutan, Central African Republic, Chad, Libya, Liberia, Namibia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Tamils, India, Kenyan Nubians, Kurds, Malaysia, Rwanda, Haiti, Myanmar (Burma), Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar, Congo-Kinshana (Democratic Republic of Congo), Burundi, Uganda, Mali, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Kosovo, Mauritania, Cuba, Nicaragua, Tibet, China, Uganda, Eritrea, Ghana, Former Palestine, Palestine, Turkey, Serbia, Russia, Sierra Leone, Namibia, Niger, Western Sahara, Cote d'Ivoire, Gaza Strip, West Bank, El Salvador, Georgia, Cameroon, Kenya, Armenia, Laos, North Korea, Philippines, Guinea, Yemen, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru, El Salvador, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Sumatra, American Samoa, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Bidoons of Saudi Arabia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Togolese, Biharis (Bangladesh)
 

Countries that are hosting refugees from other countries:
 
(Not a complete list - there are many, many more! Many countries already over-burdened with their own internally displaced refugees, are also hosting refugees from other countries. Syria is past the breaking point and in a humanitarian crisis, with so many refugees from Iraq and Somalia. It would seem that there is no place to go that is safe, for these people...)

Algeria, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, China, Conga-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Cote d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Europe, Ghana, Guinea, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israeli-occupied territories, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Panama, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United States, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia

LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO HELP
WITH REFUGEE AID EFFORTS:

Here are some organizations that work to help refugees all over the world:

UNHCR - United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees
Is responsible for the overall co-ordination of world-wide refugee services and of the camps. They subcontract to a number of agencies and organizations listed below to provide food and essential services in the camps.
http://unhcr.org

LWF Lutheran World Federation
LWF, as an implementing partner of UNHCR, has been responsible for care and maintenance of shelters, service-centres, water supply and sanitation and community services activities
http://www.lwf.org
 

International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC)
Organization whose humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance.
http://www.icrc.org/
 

IRC - International Rescue Committe, provides relief, respect and renewal to refugees and victims of armed conflict around the world, also resettlement assistance
http://www.theirc.org/
 

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The IFRC is the world's largest humanitarian organization with 186 members
http://www.ifrc.org/
 

Save the Children UK
An international children's charity based in the UK which supports both emergency and long-term relief and development projects.
www.savethechildren.org.uk/
 

International Save the Children Alliance Homepage
Save the Children fights for children's rights, delivers immediate and lasting improvements to children's lives worldwide.
www.savethechildren.net/
 

Doctors Without Borders | MSF USA
Doctors and nurses volunteer to provide urgent medical care in countries to victims of war and disaster regardless of race, religion, or politics.
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
 

Médecins Sans Frontières International Homepage
Is a secular humanitarian-aid non- governmental organization best known for its projects in war-torn regions
http://www.msf.org/
 

Caritas International - Provides direct aid to refugees of armed conflict and natural disasters
http://caritas.org/
 

Oxfam International
A group of non-governmental organizations from three continents working worldwide to fight poverty and injustice. Oxfam International is a confederation of 14 organisations working with over 3000 partners in more than 70 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty
http://www.oxfam.org/
 

Oxfam America
United States branch dedicated to finding long-term solutions to poverty, hunger , and social injustice around the world.
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
 

UN Agencies:

United Nations High Commission for Refugees:
http://www.unhcr.org
 

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
http://www.ohchr.org
 

United Nations Development Programme in Bhutan:
http://www.undp.org.bt
 

UNICEF - The United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - works for children's rights, their survival, development and provides special protection for the most disadvantaged children: victims of war, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of violence
http://www.unicef.org/

UNDP and the other UN agencies (UNICEF, WFP, UNFPA, and WHO), work together
 

Non-Governmental Organizations:

Amnesty International:
http://www.amnesty.org

Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org
 

South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre:
http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc
 

Habitat International Coalition Housing and Land Rights Network:
http://www.hic-sarp.org
 

Jesuit Refugee Service:
http://www.jrs.net
 

Here are some helpful links to learn more about refugees and connect with places that are trying to help them - or at least this is a small start in that direction:
 

UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - The UN Refugee Agency
http://www.unhcr.org/
 

International Rescue Committee
http://www.theirc.org/
 

UNRefugees.org
http://www.unrefugees.org/
 

Refugees International
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/
 

USAid.gov
http://www.usaid.gov
 

World Refugee Survey
http://www.worldrefugeesurvey.org/
 

US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)
http://www.refugees.org/
 

American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) - a 40 year old non-profit organization, provides humanitarian relief aid to Palestinian refugees, and people in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, etc.
http://www.anera.org/
 

Iraq Veterans Refugee Aid Association
http://www.iraqveteransrefugeeaidassociation.com/
 

AmeriCares
http://www.americares.org/

THE UNHCR HAS VIDEOS!

SEE VIDEOS BY THE UNHCR ABOUT REFUGEES:

UNHCR YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/unhcr
 

UNHCR also has a video channel at
http://www.Livestation.com
 

DONATE TO THE UNHCR UN REFUGEE AGENCY
https://www.kintera.org/site/c.lfIQKSOwFqG/b.5019079/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp

 

URGENT: Humanitarian Crisis in Pakistan NOW!

Pakistani Tamil Refugees, victims of recent violence in the 25 year long Pakistan Civil War, at a Refugee Camp in Sri Lanka - UN Sec. General says "Worst conditions he has ever seen in almost 30 years" Photo by Getty Images

Pakistan Refugees Facing Humanitarian Crisis

Things are especially dire in Pakistan right now, where there are over 2 million Pakistanis displaced in NW Swat Valley, following recent violent conflict between militants and governmental forces, causing an extreme emergency humanitarian crisis.
 

Help UNHCR's relief efforts in Pakistan

http://www.unhcr.org/emergency/pakistan/global_landing.html
 

Learn More About This Emergency: "Pakistan : Swat Valley Emergency"

http://www.unhcr.org/emergency/pakistan/global_landing.html
 

Bosnian Refugee Woman Crying
 

HERE IS WHAT I WROTE WHEN I FIRST SAW ALL THIS:
 

(I don't know what this is; it is not a poem, it is not prose, nor anything structured whatsoever.  It is just what came pouring out after seeing all those refugees, especially after researching Iraqi refugees, victims of the US occupation.  I became so angry and full of despair and also ashamed, and yes, even frightened of my country!  Please don't try to categorize this as a type of professional writing style - it is purely emotion, and that is all.)

"Lord, I AM My Brother's Keeper"

I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER!

It breaks my heart and literally drops me to my knees...

To contemplate what these poor people and others are enduring.

Helpless victims of the satanic hatred of the murderous death-mongers,

They are the blameless targets of the greedy, snarling money-masters.

I can not bear to even imagine their grief and the agony in their hearts.

I can not turn away from their pain,

Nor can I alienate myself from their anguish.

I feel their agony down to the depths of my soul.

My heart cries out to my Father, saying, LORD!

I AM my brother's keeper!!!

And you???

What kind of country has the USA become?

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!!!

A nation consumed by hatred and paranoia,

Aflame with self-righteousness and cruel intolerance,

Totally bereft of compassion and humanity -

And awash in greed and selfishness.

Let me just ask this one question of you:

Where has your compassion and understanding

For your fellow humans gone?

My whole being cries out to the Universe:

"Where is your love for your brother?"

"Where is your empathy for your own kind?"

"Where IS your brother? Do you know?"

The life force within me shouts:

"Why can you not understand?"

Don't you know that we are all one and the same?
 

We are but mirror images of eachother;

Myriad, lovingly-crafted, and essential pieces that, together,

Miraculously form one beautiful, awesome whole -

Each part unique and with its own purpose,

And all together, vibrating with the force of sacred life,

Shining as one in unison, reflecting God's love from above,

Filling the Universe with boundless love and perfect harmony.

What have you done, what have you done?

What have you done, my sisters and brothers,

With the love freely given to you by the Creator?

And what have you done, what have you done?

With the precious lives that were entrusted to your care?

Why will you not accept the power of love?

And the light of goodness and mercy?"

Tell me, my sisters and brothers:

WHERE HAS YOUR LOVE GONE?

Satan, vile and putrescent spawn, defiler of the perfect,

Murderer of God's lambs, and liar from the beginning,

How is it that you have been able to fill the hearts of men

With such horrific hatred and greed, cruelty and murder?

And made God's children to forget their Creator and the Law of Love?

SHAME on those who perpetrate these horrors.

SHAME on the war-mongers and the torturers of the weak

SHAME on those who squander the riches of the world,

While so many millions of innocents are homeless and starving.

SHAME on the murderers, the killers of the innocent,

SHAME on the makers of widows and orphans,

SHAME on the purveyors of violent death to women and little babies!

SHAME on the people of the world everywhere

For their hatred that has caused the murder of their brethren,

And SHAME for tolerating this genocide.

Let us pray for these people who are living in such horrific conditions.

Let us pray for mercy and peace for all those who suffer and are oppressed.

And let us pray that we ourselves are spared from such horrors.

God help us all.
 

Turn to whoever is standing next to you right now

And tell them that you love them.

That you respect them no matter how different from you they are.

And that you wish nothing but peace and good will for them.

If we would all do that, maybe we could cause peace to reign in the world.

I AM my brother's keeper!!!

And you???

(by MagicStarER)

WHY do we all avert our eyes and pretend we don't see this?

WHY are we all pre-occupied with such trivial things while this is happening?

How to Donate to UNHCR Refugee Efforts:

PLEASE!  DONATE TO THE UNHCR REFUGEE AGENCY!!!

It does not have to be a lot - A small donation goes a long way towards alleviating the suffering and hardship that the world's refugees are enduring. Your donations will help provide housing, potable water, blankets, electricity, food, medicines, and education for refugees and their children. You can even choose which country you would like to make a donation to.

Here is where to go to donate to the UNHCR:

https://www.kintera.org/site/c.lfIQKSOwFqG/b.5019079/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp

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 Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, the Un, and the Global Refugee Crisis (Gender in a Global/Local World)&

The Art of Dumpster Diving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-air8-AWps

Has our ailing economy really reduced us to dumpster diving? Have financially strapped Americans really been brought down to digging in the dumpsters to get what they need to survive?

It would appear that "dumpster diving" has certainly become more popular since our economy took a down-turn! And it's not just poor, homeless people who are raiding the dumpsters; it has also become a political and environmental statement, according to the "Freegans".

The term "Freegan" derives from the terms "free" and "vegan". Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living, based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. They are not necessarily homeless, nor destitute, but are making a political and environmental statement by their opposition to a society based on consumerism, materialism, careless disregard of the environment, waste, and greed.

They differ from environmentalists, in that instead of fighting the system, they simply refuse to be a part of it. They often refuse to punch a time clock, and don't want to obey limiting or regulatory rules imposed by a society that they decline to participate in.

Freeganism started in the mid 1990s, out of antiglobalization and environmentalist movements. "Food Not Bombs" is a Freegan group who served free vegetarian and vegan food that was salvaged from food market trash by dumpster diving.

What is "dumpster diving", exactly?

Well, very simply put, it's scrounging around in dumpsters, looking for things other people have thrown away, that you can use, and salvaging them either for your own use, for charitable purposes, or for reselling the items for profit. People dig in dumpsters not only for food, like the "Freegans" do, but also for other useable items - anything that is still good and can be used, re-used, or recycled.

"Dumpster diving" also includes "curbside driving", which is looking for stuff people have set out at curbs in front of houses or apartment buildings for the trash company to pick up and haul off.

Usually, in the United States, after someone has thrown something into the garbage, it is no longer their property, and is free for the taking. But dumpster divers have to be careful that they are not trespassing, or they might get into trouble.
 

What other problems do dumpster divers run into? Well, you have to be careful not to "get any on you". I'm talking here about bacteria, questionable substances, etc. Most divers wear gloves and old clothing, and use a pole to grab things up out of the dumpsters with. Things pulled out of dumpsters need to be disinfected and decontaminated before using!

Also, they have to bang the side of the dumpsters before "diving in", just in case there is a stray racoon, rat, possum, or skunk in there! Some dumpster divers in big cities have even encountered dead bodies in the dumpsters, both animal and human! Others have found loaded guns, knives, drugs, etc.

Sometimes store security personnel get irate when they see dumpster diving occurring, and some are responding to the nuisance by locking their dumpsters up. Compacter dumpsters should never be entered; you might get "compacted" yourself!

And, another risk is getting stuck with somebody's infected needle. So, dumpster divers have to be careful, or they might end up sick, bit, squished, arrested, bitched at, or stuck!

Professional dumpster divers are familiar with garbage pick-up days and times, and will hit the dumpsters just before the garbage man gets there, to get the biggest hauls.

Where do people dumpster dive? Behind the stores of whatever it is they are looking for is usually a good place to start. The dumpsters behind grocery stores and bakery stores yield produce, dented canned goods, and other food stuffs with expired dates. Sometimes whole bags of produce will be thrown away just because one piece is spoiled.

Other good places are Walmart stores, electronics, clothing, and furniture stores, gift shops, pharmacies, bread stores, health food stores, etc.

What kinds of things do dumpster divers find, besides food? All kinds of things! From clothing, to televisions, computers and accessories, furniture, personal care products; you name it, dumpster divers have found it.

Now you are probably wondering if I have ever participated in this new "National Past Time"...

I can unashamedly admit that I have! And was kind of glad I did. After I got over being mortified that someone that knew me would see me doing it, or that I would get in trouble with angry store security workers, that is...

I wasn't worried about wild animals or bacteria. My biggest fear was that someone would catch me digging in a dumpster!

However, I had a good friend named "Dumpster Donnie", who lived in the most exquisitely furnished and decorated house I had ever seen a bachelor to live in! He had collections of the most fascinating things, beautiful antiques, and gorgeous art work and wall groupings all over the place! You could never tire of looking at all his interesting things!

I asked him where he had acquired these things. At first, he was reluctant to give up his "trade secrets", but eventually he gave up a few of them! All his beautiful white wicker patio furniture was retrieved from the dumpster behind a "Trees and Trends" store. His fancy phone came from the one behind Radio Shack. His new computer came out of a dumpster by the "Best Buy" store.

His luxurious recliner, coffee and end tables, antique lamps, and many other things came from his "curbside driving" expeditions. His curbside forays were very lucrative, indeed. In fact, he gave me a beautiful antique radio that everyone compliments me on, whenever anyone comes to my house!

And his beautiful new sofa came from the truck behind an expensive furniture store, where they threw "scratch and dent" new furniture away,free for the taking. (I did visit that truck many times - I came up with 2 recliners, a new sofa, dressers, end tables, a telephone table, a computer desk, and a beautiful brand new queen-sized mattress and box spring, with the plastic still on it!

Not to mention the box of abandoned kittens I found there one afternoon. There were five of them, one of which was my beloved Gertrude, an opinionated Siamese Tortie. She was only 2 weeks old when I found her. Between me feeding her, and my Chocolate Lab, Joe, babysitting her while I was at work, we came up with the most beautiful, smartest cat in West Kentucky! (She did sort of think she was a dog, though. Oh, well...)

From curbside driving, I have rescued all sorts of things. Dressers, tables, chairs, pictures, a stereo, planters; so many things I can't even remember them all!

I kind of hold back on the food diving, though - I'm sort of funny about what I eat...

Dumpster diving. Might be a good thing!

Gertrude sure thought so!

"Gertrude", My Beloved

Dumpster Diving Rescue Kitty:

Here is "Gertrude", my beloved furniture truck rescue kitty,
all grown up! This is not the best pic, but the only one I have.
She loved "Joe", my Chocolate Lab, and here she had jumped
 into his pen to be with him! They were best bosom buddies! I
just adored this kitty!  She was well worth diving in after!

 

Food Rationing? Not in the Dumpster!

Art & Science of Dumpster Diving

Price: $11.95
List Price: $20.00

Google Swine Flu Tracker Map (Please add Kansas, Minnesota, Kentucky, & Illinois...)

After researching and reading about the "Swine-Avian" Flu Virus that has killed so many in Mexico, and sickened many in California, Texas, Kansas, New York, and now Minnesota, (And before I finish writing this, I bet there will be another state announcing Flu cases!), there is one funny little thing that I just can't wrap my mind around and get this all to make sense.

Let me explain how I ended up here at this point where I have this funny little question, and can't completely figure things out in a logical way that satisfies me...

You know, I am looking at the geographical locations of the states in Mexico where cases of this flu epidemic have been reported. And also the locations of reported "swine flu" in the United States. The locations seem to be strategic and spread out, taking into account that we have only heard about a very small tip of the iceberg as far as actual flu cases reported thus far.

Doesn't this seem suspicious to you? It does to me. Usually, when there is an outbreak of a virulent flu, it starts out in one location and then spreads out. It almost seems as if these locations were chosen deliberately to obtain maximum pandemic potential effect. Do you see what I am saying? Spread it around at different locations and wait for it to fan out and spread until the blanks are filled in...

Here is the link to the Google Swine Flu Tracker Map in case you want to follow it:

Google Swine Flu Tracker Map

(Please don't forget to add Kansas and Minnesota if they are not on there yet when you look at this map...  Come to think of it, you better put Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois on there, too - you'll see why in a minute...)

Well, that brings me to the next step in my attempted rational analysis of this mess.

During all the last winter months, West Kentucky was sprayed heavily and constantly with chemtrails (or contrails, however you prefer to call them...) Of course, we had Ice Storm 2009, which was a good exercise in power, cell tower, television, internet, water, and land line phone outages, not to mention no stores and no gas...

(A MySpace friend who lives in Southern Illinois reports chemtrail spraying and the same widespread viral illness there, too, during the same time frame)

One of the added benefits of the spraying, besides our "weather-modification experimental ice storm", was that almost everyone I talked to in my area came down with one hell of a flu virus.

Guess what the symptoms were?

You got it! Cough, respiratory congestion, fever, sore throat, swollen glands, body aches, fatigue, weakness, and for some, burning eyes, sinus infection, laryngitis, diarrhea, and vomiting.

Hmmmm....

Doesn't that match the symptoms of this "Swine-Avian" flu virus exactly?

This flu virus lasts about 3-4 months, and just can not be shaken off.  The sore throat, fever, swollen glands, weakness, and laryngitis linger for months, and recur intermittently.  (I still do not have my voice back and it's been since the middle of January!)

Oh, and by the way, does anyone think this may be why my puppy, Annie, got so sick and puked her guts out for 5 days?

I literally thought on several occasions that I was going to die, that I was going down... 

The antibiotics, etc., that the Doctors gave me did absolutely nothing to help it. 

The only way I finally got myself to start feeling better was to cleanse my system by starting a rigorous raw veggie and fruit diet, no refined sugars or flours, no processed foods whatsoever, and by drinking "Breathe Easy" tea by Traditional Medicinals, which you can purchase at the organic sections of Kroger stores, or at http://TraditionalMedicinals.com .  I don't  know which of the herbs in this preparation is the one that worked, but something sure did!  I immediately began to feel better as soon as I started drinking this tea:




http://traditionalmedicinals.com/all_products/product/22

Here's what in it: 

(I'm thinking the licorice root is what did the job, so keep it in mind!  Licorice Root is a known immune system booster!)




I went to the doctor about it when I got so sick.

When I tried to tell him about my symptoms and how terribly sick I had been and for how long, he told me to "Shut up!" I was shocked at his reaction, to say the least.

Anyway, there was no flu swab done. As far as I know, no one in my area had a flu swab done. Even though, when I went to the Emergency Room for these very same symptoms and could not even get seen, because it was so packed with people with my same complaints, you would think that it would have been obvious to local health authorities that we had an epidemic going on around here.

Many people here are still sick with this stuff.

I have not been seeing much in the way of chemtrails for the past 2 weeks. I feel much better now that they are not spraying. Everyone else seems to feel better, also.

Anyway, I really do think that they already dumped this flu virus on us here in Kentucky in January, but our incompetent doctors and health-care workers, coupled with dumbed-down authorities, blew it off, and people got better by themselves. Some died, but not in large enough numbers to draw a lot of attention...

The question I have is this:

Why are these reported locations of "Swine Flu" so strategically located, and why are they so sure that this is actually "Swine Flu"?

I mean, it just seems so "staged", somehow.

You know, like they want to make it very clear to us that there is a "Swine Flu Epidemic" and scare the shit out of all of us, so we will want to rush right down to our doctors' offices or to the hospitals to get a flu shot immediately so we won't catch it.

Really, though...

Usually, when you go to the doctor and tell him/her that you have these symptoms, they tell you, "Oh yeah, you've probably caught a little flu virus - just go home, drink lots of fluids, rest, and take some Tylenol and you'll feel fine again in a few days".

I mean, hasn't that been your experience?

Whoever heard of a doctor rush-jobbing a flu swab on you for a little cough, sore throat, body ache thing?

Unless, of course, these doctors have been super-indoctrinated to expect a Flu Pandemic beforehand... Which they HAVE.  Read the Health-Care Workers - Nurses section at the top left of http://flutrackers.com and look for the in-services on Pandemics health-care workers have been having...

Think about it....

And think real hard about those chemtrails, those tales of "detention camps", "depopulation", global government, underground bases, all those Executive Orders giving the President dictatorial powers, and those FEMA trains and coffins...

Think about all that has happened in the past 9 years or so: the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, illegal wiretapping, torture, vaccines that cause autism, police brutality and tasings, arrests of protesters, the rush to take away our guns, poisons and pathogens in our food, and in our water, the robbery of all our money via the bailouts, and the absolute refusal of our elected officials to listen to us...

I know I have been doing just that...

To keep up with the "Swine-Avian" Flu, go to http://flutrackers.com

See "Immuno-Shield" Immune System
Booster and  Other Herbal Formulas here

(Enter Immuno Shield into the search bar
at the top left of the page to get to this
product when you go there, to see it and
other Herbal Immune System Boosters...)

Stupid Myspace won't let the link work. 
Here it is again...

Immuno-Shield Link that works-
http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=3253&u=124158&m=1162&urllink=&afftrack=

(Yep!  I sell this stuff!  Please buy some!  It's good stuff!  :)

GET OFF THE GRID NOW!

Part 3: Building Your Own Expandable Starter Solar Power System


 

(The system I'm providing doesn't include wind or generator,
but you can add these things later)

The following is a quick list of what you will need to put together a small-scale solar power system for your home.  It uses an 80-watt solar panel which is linkable to more panels if you want to add more later.  It uses a 1500 watt inverter and a 30 amp charge controller, which leave lots of room for you to add more solar panels and more batteries.

You won't be able to do a whole lot with this little system.  You won't run your central heat and air off this, nor any major appliances.  But you will be able to run some lights, your laptop, radio, cordless phone, charge cell phones, watch TV, and use some of your smaller appliances.  (Beware coffee makers, use lots of electricity!  So do hair dryers!)

It is a good little system to get started with, and is expandable to large enough to where you could power a small dwelling or cabin with it, by adding batteries and panels.  If you add more batteries, you will need to re-calculate the gauge of your wire to accomodate the new power load.

Another addition you could make to improve this system would be to add a Kill-a-Watt to it, so you can see a read out of your power usage.

I found all the components of this system at one place.  This will make it easier for you to get it all at once.  (But not necessarily cheaper.  The same solar panels can be gotten elsewhere for a substantially lower price!)  I am saving you the work of having to learn what size charge controller and inverter to get.  Don't get smaller.  These are way too big for this system.  That does not hurt anything.  But that way, you won't have to go out and buy bigger ones when you expand your system.  If you get these items too small, you are going to have problems. May as well go ahead and get the right ones from the start.

Then all you will have to do is add more panels, add more batteries, or more components like wind or generator, more inverters, and adjust the grouping of the batteries, and gauge of the wiring to accomodate to the adjustment of the amp differences.

As you get into this, you will learn more ways of improving your system and adding more things to it to make it more efficient and powerful.



WHAT IS IN A SOLAR POWER KIT?


Solar photovoltaic (PV) panel - collects daylight and converts it into electricity
12v Deep Cycle Marine/RV Battery - stores the electricity for use later on
Solar Charge Controller - stops the solar panel from overcharging the battery
12v - 240v Power Inverter - converts the power in the battery to 240v AC

Some useful ..

*A 12v 80 amp/hour battery stores 960 watt/hours of electricity (12 x 80 = 960).
*960 / 2.5 hours winter charge = 384
*384 / 15 days = 25.6 watt solar panel


HERE IS WHERE TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH POWER YOUR STUFF USES:

http://www.ccis.com/home/mnemeth/12volt/12volta.htm
50 Computer 70
19" color TV 120 Computer monitor 55
Stereo 50 Computer printer 20
VCR 25 Hand mixer 100
Satellite Receiver 20 Blender 350
Heating pad 50 Toaster 1250
Electric blanket 150 Microwave 650-1000
Electric drill 500 Coffee maker 1250 brew, 200 warm
 
Appliance Watts Use Time Watt Hours Amp Hours
13" color TV 50 3 hr. 150 15
Satellite Receiver 20 3 hr. 60 6
Computer/monitor 125 2 hr. 250 25
Coffee Maker 1250 20 min 417 41.7
Microwave 1000 15 min. 250 25
Totals > 1127 112.7 
 
Average Power Consumption of Common Appliances
Appliances Watts Appliances Watts
Blender 300 Refrigerator (20 cf.) 150
CB radio 5 Satellite dish 30
CD player 35 Sewing machine 100-500
Ceiling fan 10-75 Table fan 1-25
Clock radio 1 Toaster 800-1500
Coffee maker 800-1200 TV: 25" color 150
Computer 80-150 TV: 19" color 70
Dishwasher 1200-1500 TV: 12" B&W 20
Dryer (elec.) 4000 Vacuum cleaner 200-1200
Dryer (gas) 300-400 VCR 40
Elec. blanket 200 Waffle iron 1200
Elec. clock 3 Washing machine 500
Evap. cooler 300-1000 ½" Drill 900
Frying pan 1200 71/4" Circ. saw 750
Furnace blower 300-1000
Garage door opener 350

Lights:
Garbage disposal 450 100W Incandescent 100
Hair dryer 900-1500 60W Incandescent 60
Iron 900-1200 25W Incandescent 25
Laptop 20-50 25W Comp.flourescent 28
Microwave 600-1500 15W Comp.flourescent 18
Printer: laser 300-475 42W Halogen 42
Printer: ink jet 60-75
 


HERE IS WHERE TO GET EVERYTHING YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE YOUR SOLAR POWER SYSTEM:

Tractor Supply Co.
877 - 872 - 7721
Tractor Supply Store Customer Service
Hours: 7am - 5pm Central Time Monday - Friday
http://tractorsupply.com

You will be able to find your local Tractor Supply Store from the main site, to pick up your order at your store and thus avoid paying shipping!
 


HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED FOR YOUR 80 WATT SOLAR POWER SYSTEM:

(You can see Photos and Descriptions of all these items by typing the name of the item into the search engine bar at:)

TRACTOR SUPPLY
http://tractorsupply.com

QTY     NAME OF ITEM

1 - 80 Watt Polycrystalline Solar Panel with Sharp® Module
PRICE: $629.99 (you can substitute this for a better 100 watt panel if you want)
1 - Schumacher 1500w Inverter
PRICE: $179.99
1 - 30 amp Digital Charge Controller
PRICE: $149.98
3 - Stowaway Deep Cycle Marine/RV Battery
PRICE: $79.99 X 3 = $239.97
SKU Number: 4001105
1 - Lynx Battery Terminal Top Heavy Duty Red Black
PRICE: $4.99 X 6 = $29.94

SUB - TOTAL = $1229.87
TAX =                       73.79 (KY .06)
TOTAL =            $1303.66



 
OTHER THINGS YOU MIGHT NEED:


Conduct-Tite Battery Cut-Off Switch, 300 Amp, Battery Isolator
PRICE: $13.99
200 amp class "T" fuse
10' # 2/0 inverter cable
6 position fuse block
 


You may need additional help in choosing wire gauge, setting up your batteries and wiring them correctly, and verifying that your components are correctly installed. 

Please consult with someone who knows what they are doing and make sure that you handle the equipment safely and that it is properly connected and installed before you even get started on this.

ENJOY YOUR NEW FREE SOLAR POWER!

(Tell me THANK YOU!  LOL!)

I REALLY, REALLY WISH I HAD THIS $1303.66 TO MAKE THIS

SOLAR SYSTEM.  BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO COME

AND SHUT MY POWER OFF VERY SHORTLY, AND I HAVE

NO IDEA HOW OR WHEN I WILL BE ABLE TO GET IT

TURNED BACK ON AGAIN. WISH TO GOD I HAD BEEN

ABLE TO GET THIS DONE MONTHS AGO.  THERE JUST

HAS NOT BEEN ANY MONEY FOR ANYTHING AT ALL.

I HOPE THAT THIS SYSTEM IS CLEAR AND EASY TO

UNDERSTAND, AND THAT SOME OF YOU (HOPEFULLY, MANY!)

WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE THIS POWER SYSTEM AND:

GET OFF THE GRID NOW!


all my love,

MagicStarER:

SAYS LOVE EACH OTHER!

Personally speaking, that is...

As some of you are probably already aware, I have COPD and some other bad health problems which have gotten progressively worse over the past 6 years or so, to the point where, much as I just hate it, there seem to be a whole lot of things I can't do anymore; even little things are too hard.  I am always so weak and everything makes me get short of breath.

I have been trying to get my Social Security Disability now for almost 5 years, altogether.  This has been made very difficult, due to the fact that I have no health insurance, have been too ill to work now for over a year, and have no money to pay for doctors nor for medications, etc.

The past 6 months have been a nightmare of no income whatsoever, of being so ill that I have actually thought I was probably going to die anytime, of going without water, electricity, and heat, and basically, without everything! 

And especially, going without basic medical care, because the only doctor that would even take me with no insurance/no money treats me like I am shit, and not worth medical treatment. 

In the six years he has been my (doctor?), he has never ordered not even one single solitary diagnostic test!  Not a sputum culture, no lung biopsy (should be done for all respiratory conditions to rule out certain serious lung diseases like IBF, etc.), no blood tests, NOTHING whatsoever! 

Anytime I try to ask him if he doesn't think I should have such and so done, he ignores it.  I am especially concerned now because I have been losing consciousness, and coming to, not knowing how I got there!  Very scary.

No other doctor in the area will take me, because of no money and no insurance.  And, no, there are no clinics that will, either.  So don't even go there! 

A few weeks ago, when I went to an appointment with him, I tried to explain to him that I have not been able to breath, chest pain, sore throat, lost voice, etc, for the past 4 months, and he actually told me to SHUT UP!  He threatened to "not let me have my breathing treatments", if I didn't shut up. 

He wrote in my records that I "caused trouble" and am a "problem patient".  He even went so far as to accuse me of "faking" swollen glands and laryngitis. 

When I went into status asthmaticus in his office, he told me I had "done it to myself"! 

(I had to go to the Emergency Room immediately upon leaving his office, where it took an ambulance ride complete with IV and oxygen mask, an adrenaline shot, and six breathing treatments to get me breathing again...) 

(Oh, but I "did that to myself", right?)

He refused to write the prescriptions for my inhalers, my breathing treatments, my blood pressure pills.....  So I've been doing without almost all of my medications that I have been on for years.

He is a devil from hell.  And there is just no reasoning with an asshole like that.  Why even try? 

I found out from his nurse today that, in my chart, "some doctor had blacklisted me as a "difficult patient".  (I don't know why anyone would do that, I don't think I am that difficult, just would like to have some normal, everyday medical care, nothing too out of this world) 

And that is why no one in this city will let me have any medical treatment, and why they all treat me like shit, and won't do anything to treat my condition, making me suffer with no treatment. 

This also means that my Disability Claim has been being sabotaged for the past 6 years and this is why I have not gotten my Disability. 

(What do YOU think a Doctor who accuses you of "making" yourself go into "status asthmaticus", and tells you to "shut up" when you try to tell him what is wrong with you, is telling the Social Security Administration???? 

He's sure not saying anything that might HELP you, that's for sure!

Anyway, that's the medical side of it...

Not much I can do about it, but just try to stay alive and treat myself with herbs and diet, etc., and hope I can keep myself alive until I can get some medical 
care. 

The doctors here cover for each other like Sicilian Mafiosos.  (They are probably all Masons...)

So, in the meantime, besides having no medical care, I am unable to work because I am too sick.  So I have no income whatsoever.  I have been struggling along since last October, with charities helping me pay the utilities. 

But I have now run out of charities to turn to.  There is nowhere else to go. 

I talked to the power company supervisor this afternoon. 

I did find a Kentucky State Law that says that electrical companies have to give people with a medical certification a 30 day Delay in Disconnection of services. 

I have a medical certification (but it now has to be renewed, I found out...  and I won't have time to get it done before they turn off my electricity early tomorrow morning - how convenient for them!) 

I read the statute to the woman.  But she kept insisting that even if I brought the new Medical Certificate from the Doctor in to her, they would just give the Certificate to their "team of lawyers" for them to "look at", and that they would still cut off the lights, and would grant no delay nor extension in the disconnection. 

I'm like:  "What part of English language do you not understand, anyway"?  The Statute does not say:  "Give the certificate to the lawyers to look at."  It says:  "DELAY CONNECTION FOR THIRTY DAYS IF THERE IS A MEDICAL CERTIFICATE!"

I asked her if she could extend the disconnection for a day or 2 until their lawyers looked at the Medical Certificate and the law.  She said no.  So I asked her "Who would that possibly hurt, if you were to put if off for a day or 2?  Are you HUMAN?" 

I called the devil Doctor's office to ask them to fax the needed medical letter to the Power Co.  The doctor's out.  (Will be out tomorrow, too!  Fancy that!)  And they don't know if he will even do it, because it is in my chart, that I am a "difficult patient" who "caused problems" in the office.... 

(Because I tried to tell the jerk I've been deathly sick for months and my lungs keep filling up with fluid and I am drowning in it and it feels like I am going to die???)

Anyway... Maybe they'll fax the letter over there and probably not...

And tomorrow morning, bright and early, they will be here to shut off my electricity.
 
I called some other places.

The Federal Energy Assistance people (LIHEAP) tell me to complain to the Mayor's Office. 

(Our mayor is the biggest asswipe you ever saw on the face of this earth!) 

One time I drove down the street where he lives, (in the rich section, of course...) looking for an address.  I overshot the house number, and pulled into a driveway, to back out and turn around to go back, when this man flew at my car from his driveway, with housecoat flying and fists flailing, face all red and distorted, and screaming and cussing about "get the hell out of his driveway" - and, I'm thinking:  "Man!  Who in the hell IS this lunatic?" 

Well, it was our mayor...

All I did was pull in and back out - wasn't even driving a raggly looking car or anything... 

There's something very wrong with that man...

Something tells me he won't help me on this... 

What do you think?

The other option I have is to talk to the City Commissioner.  (I tried - can't get ahold of him...)

The power company is BLATANTLY BREAKING THE LAW!

Anyway, they are going to shut those lights off tomorrow morning, and there is not a damn thing I can do about it. 

I owe them $300.  If they shut them off, and I have to have them turned back on again, that $300 will have turned into at least a thousand, what with extra fees, a triple deposit, and the usual clerical and mathematical screw-ups they are so known for. 

One time I had a $60 bill that turned into $575!  (Figure that one out - I wish someone would, because I sure couldn't!!)

Through all this mess of distorted nightmares, I have really not had the luxury of "feelings".

It has been such a struggle to just get from one day into the next alive, that I do not even think about how I "feel". 

I am a very optimistic, very positive, and very pro-solution type of a person.  I don't let things get me down, I get busy!  I am a very strong person.  I don't give up.

I am trying to remember that.

But it's really hard at this moment.
 
I feel like giving up.  I just don't see how I can solve this stuff anymore.

Don't tell me shelters (waiting lists >5 months and I would not let my dog be there!)

I own my own home.  I'm NOT leaving it.

Don't tell me churches, either.  They won't do shit!  I know, I've tried.

My last idea for fixing this mess was to learn how to build a small solar power system myself, learn the best way and which products I needed to make it all work right, and apply for a grant from ModestNeeds.org so I could buy the stuff to build it with, myself.
 
It took me over 2 months of research and studying (by a person who is hopelessly brain dead electronically), to learn the concept of how it works, how to calculate amps, watts, watt/hours, kilowatt usage, how many panels and batteries, how much energy this would give me and what I could use with it, which part connects to which and how, and which capacity inverter and charge controller should be used with which capacity panels, calculating amperes and proper size wire gauge, and which configuration of battery package, and how to connect the batteries in 24 volt sequences... 

If you use the wrong size controller or inverter, you can blow some stuff up!
 
You can probably see this was not easy.
 
What made it even harder, was that I had to find ALL these things at the SAME PLACE, because ModestNeeds.org will only cut ONE CHECK to ONE PLACE. Not a bunch o' checks for different places.

I finally came up with Tractor Supply.  They had it all. 

It took me 5 hours to put together a proposal, and 3 alternate proposals. 

I got it all done, went to the ModestNeeds site to fill out the application.

Guess what it said?

"Our application capacity is full at the moment and we are not presently accepting applications."

Like I said, I don't think very much about my "feelings".

And I never cry, not hardly ever.

But my whole fucking body is shaking right now and the tears are gushing like a geyser...

FUCK YOU, OBAMA!

Where's MY "Change I Can Believe In"????

So I'm letting you know:  after

tomorrow morning I won't have any

electricity, and I won't be able to get

on the internet - I don't know how

long that will be.  I have no idea

whatsoever.  God only knows.

But I'll be thinking about you.

Believe that! 

 My phone number is:  270-441-9014 if you want to call
(They won't shut that off.  I paid it today.  $20 Lifeline Service for
low-income people...  Good deal!)

CHEAP LAND IN KENTUCKY!






GET OFF THE GRID NOW!

Part 2: Finding Rural Land To Achieve Self-Sufficiency


I have been urging people to get out of the big cities and find a place in the country somewhere to avoid the approaching meltdown that will make cities too dangerous to be in very soon.

If I lived in a city, I would want somebody to tell me where to find cheap land. I have found it.

There is land here starting as cheap as $600 AN ACRE!

This is the link to look for land in Kentucky - but you can find land anywhere at this site:

GO LOOK!

LANDandFARMS.com 


Another thing to try is this:

Foreclosed HUD Properties!!!

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street S.W., Washington, DC 20410
Telephone: (202) 708-1112 TTY: (202) 708-1455

HUD Exchange
Free Foreclosure Listings
Search Ky Bargain Homes and Liquidation Properties
http://www.hudexchange.com/dyn/KY/i/hudex/h/hudex//search.html

Find the address of a HUD office near you
http://www.hud.gov/localoffices.cfm

Find Foreclosures
http://realestate.aol.com/foreclosures

Tips on Buying Foreclosure Properties
http://realestate.aol.com/article/_a/tips-on-buying-foreclosure-properties/20060817172209990001

Guide to Foreclosure Help
http://realestate.aol.com/information/foreclosure-help

Understanding the Foreclosure Process
http://realestate.aol.com/information/foreclosure-process



(I want this one!)

http://www.landandfarm.com/properties/15_ac_kentucky_lakes_dev_ky.asp 

 OR THIS ONE :

http://www.landandfarm.com/properties/223_ac_in_ky_close_to_columbia.asp

  The first one is just down the road from my sister, about 40 miles away from me. Price per acre? $1.667!!! If I get my Disability back-pay, it's MINE!

IF ANYBODY IS THINKING THEY WANT TO MOVE DOWN HERE, GET SOME LAND AND TRY TO GET OFF THE GRID AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, AND IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING UP TO FORM A GROUP, PLEASE LET ME KNOW - THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS, AND TALENTS, $$ CAN BE POOLED TO ENSURE BETTER QUALITY OF SURVIVAL!!!!

Why Are We In This Mess?

What To Do?






Ava C.
March 27, 2009

Everyone's eyes are on the bankers and Wall St. as well they should be.

But we need to step back and think. How did these people ever attain such total power over our economy in the first place?

We need to consider the history of this country - it's settlement, progress, and the role of the individual over time. In the beginning, settlers cleared their own land, planted their crops, built their own houses and barns, made what they needed, swapped or bartered for what they could not produce themselves, and relied on NO ONE but themselves.

It used to be that people did not live beyond their means, nor did they buy things they did not have the cash to pay for. Factories and stores produced, and bought and sold on a cash and demand basis only. No bubbles. Just real figures and real money. No hedge funds, no housing bubbles!

The money-lenders got into the picture and people started borrowing! It was so easy! Borrowing for next year's seeds, for a tractor, for livestock, or a bigger barn. As they were able to become bigger and better, they borrowed MORE!
We were taken off the gold standard, the Federal Reserve was created, and the money-changers TOOK OVER! They wanted us to buy more! Grow bigger! Produce more! Bubbles after more bubbles!

They became the owners and directors of the big factories and corporations which employed millions of people that became slaves to the time clock, to producing more and more! So their slavemasters could make more and more money.

Over time, basic survival and life skills have been lost. Almost all are dependent on their subsistence from factories, corporations, service industries, all of which are owned by big corporate crooks and who else? THE BANKERS! We have allowed them to turn us into helpless slaves! Our livelihoods are at their whims and their screw-ups. They do not care about us, only about making more and more money! They use us, drain us, control us, and destroy us, so they can get richer!

During the Depression, those who lived on farms, and knew how to grow and make things, survived! Those who lived in the cities and worked in factories, became subservient to the bankers and the corporations. They lost their souls.
Americans did not learn from the Great Depression. We continued to allow the money-changers to run America. We gave these corporate bastards control of our economy, of our factories, of our entire gross national product! We should have gotten rid of them back then. But our own greed, and our own desire to live a "comfortable" life, and to live beyond our means blinded us, and now we are slaves to this system. Most Americans don't even know how to survive anymore.

They have taken control of our basic services, like power, water, and gas. We depend on them for these things. If they decide to withhold them, we are f***ed!

They have decided that American labor is too expensive, and that they can make more by taking their factories overseas and using cheaper labor and having cheaper overhead costs. SCREW AMERICANS, they say! Oops, there went our livelihoods.

Our government is in cahoots with these bastards, and helping them rob us blind. Don't expect them to help. They won't.

The only way we can TRULY save America, is by returning to our original values. And that means: taking responsibility for our own survival, getting off the grid, not depending on this system for our subsistence and our means of livelihood.

Why keeping feeding this monster? Why keep giving them our sweat, our efforts, and our life's blood? What are we getting out of it? A little weekly salary? That we can't even make stretch far enough to pay both our rents and buy food with? We have to choose whether to buy groceries or buy medicine. Whether to pay the rent or pay the light bill?

Our economy is totally collapsed. It is not ever going to get right for the average American. People are homeless all over the place. People have nothing to eat. There are no jobs. Struggling just to get from one day to the next! We have to go through all kinds of regulatory bullshit to do ANYTHING in this country anymore. Why should we have to do this? Because the corporate banker bastards that run this country and us, too, SAY we have to!

What will we do? Line up at the soup kitchens? In the unemployment lines? Go piss in cups and see if they'll give us a shit-ass job where we have to sell our souls, work our fingers to the bone, put up with all kinds of abuse, and barely make enough to eat and support our families?

Or stand in line to see if they'll throw us some crumbs so we can eat tomorrow? Sit around like dummies while they steal our every last penny that we earned with OUR sweat, OUR work, and OUR sufferings? Watch helplessly as they take it ALL, shut off our lights, take away our homes, our cars, our children?

Say "Oh, thank you" when they spray us with chemicals and pathogens, put poison in our food and our vaccines, build concentration camps to put us in, when they won't listen to a damn word we say, and just do whatever the hell they want to do?

I CALL BULLSHIT!


It doesn't have to be this way.

We are accomplishing NOTHING by continuing to participate in this neverending crap.

You want to know how we can stop it all?

By telling them to kiss our asses! By returning to our true and core values.

We don't NEED to live in fancy houses, buy a new car every year, wear designer clothing, watch American Idol, and shop in boutiques at the Mall! We don't need credit cards, lines of credit, money markets, nor even bank accounts!

What we need to do is go get us a piece of land and get to work! Make our own livelihoods like our ancestors did. Screw the banks, screw the corporations - all they are is slavemasters! They have destroyed our values, our families, our health, our very lives, and our country.

This is about way more than just "being one with nature" - this is about our core values and how we live, and our survival - about our independence and self-respect.

It is perfectly possible to build a sustainable, off-the-grid life.

Just think about it.

If we become self-sufficient, then we do not need to rely on them anymore, we would rely on ourselves!!! Everybody and everything would be a whole lot happier, healthier, and more in balance with nature and with our own inner selves!

We could be proud of ourselves and our work again! We could once again lead busy, productive lives that were of benefit to ourselves and our families! We can teach these values of hard work, responsibility, and self-sufficiency to our children!  People would get along better with each other and become more helpful to each other.

Americans have become lazy, irresponsible, and helpless. Get off your asses and get to work for yourselves, not for the corporate bastards! Don't let them take our last shred of self-respect.

I have lived in big cities, and also in rural areas, like now.  I know that the shit is going to hit the fan, and very soon. We are going to have food shortages, job lines, hunger, and a whole lot of suffering going on. You will be caught helpless if you live in a big city - there will be no place to go but to depend on the system, which is NOT going to help you!

Look at California, at the homeless! Next, it will be you!  What's the government doing? Sending those people to the Concentration Camp, for God's sake!

WAKE UP! THINK!!! Fight back!

It's either that, or just give up, lay down, and let them trample over you and kill you!

Many people may not like what I am saying here. But it is true and you know it.

We have to be resilient and tough if we are going to make it through what lies ahead.

YES. WE. CAN. REBUILD. AMERICA. WITHOUT. YOU. BARACK. OBAMA!!!!!

Now. 

I am going to go back to studying about how to build a solar energy system because these a**holes are going to shut my lights off and I need to survive!

I am going to put an ad on Free-Cycle looking for a used hand pump so I can finish digging my well.

And I am going to go pick up 2 water storage barrels that I found for free.

The "natural disasters" with subsequent occupations and maneuvers by the National Guard and law enforcement are nothing more than practice runs in preparation for "the big one" where they will move in on us and take over.
 
I, for one, do not intend to fall into their trap!

DON'T YOU DO IT, EITHER!



TENT CITY THEN:





TENT CITY NOW:




Don't want to listen? Don't want to fight back?
That's OK. Go back to sleep now.
Your government will take care of you!

(A NOTE TO THE FREAKS AKA "THE NEW WORLD ORDER GLOBALISTS", WHO HAVE BANKRUPTED AMERICA AND PLAN ON SUBJECTING US TO POVERTY AND SERVITUDE:)


YOU FORGOT HOW TOUGH AMERICANS REALLY ARE!

WE CAN DO THIS!

WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE ARE TOUGH!

Here is my advice:


GET OUT OF THE CITIES! They will be death-traps! If there are food shortages you will be dead ducks! You must get out of the cities and to the country! Where you can defend yourself and survive!

Now, the first thing they will do is do away with your utilities (water and electricity), your gas, your communications, (they will jam your cell phones, internet, radio, and TV), and get rid of your food supply! What are you going to do then, hey?

Come on down south and buy some cheap land, and a cheap used mobile home or a fixer-upper in the country, and get off the grid NOW! You can still get land here for $1200-$1500 an acre! You can get a really nice used mobile home or rural dwelling for $5,000 or even less. Raise your own food, dig your own well, build your own solar/wind powered energy system, stock up, and batten down the hatches!

Think of a service or a product that will be in demand during a Depression, and grow it, make it, swap it, or learn how to do it!

We are in a full-blown Depression and our jobs are disappearing faster than we can say "piss into the wind".  We need to re-find our pioneering, resilient, and hard-working spirit - that same spirit that made this country! If we continue to wait on the Federal Government for "Change That We Can Believe In", the only thing we will end up with is holding an empty bag (Doh! It has already happened!) Don't just sit there wondering what is going to become of us, nor even trying to "change the government"!  This will not solve a thing, not anymore.

We already know what the solution is. It is US! WE are the backbone of this country, and the constructors and creators of everything that makes it great! No more slavery to the banks! No more depending on a broken system. No more being frightened about the future, nor how we will survive. We must get back to the land, work it, and make it provide what we need.

Our ancestors did it. They cleared land, built houses, dug wells, planted crops, preserved their food, made what they needed, and they survived. Maybe they did not have the technological advances that we have now.  And that is where we have the advantage - we do have that edge, and we can use it now to survive!

Quit bitching about the government. There are no answers there. The only possible salvation is in the land, and by rolling our sleeves up and getting to work on saving ourselves.  And we need to get busy right now and get to it! 

You know it and I know it.

And this is where the "Globalists" have screwed up.

They forgot how talented, resourceful, hard-working, ingenious, and just downright TOUGH Americans ARE! They thought they could just double us down into submission and servility.

HAH! They are wrong! We are Americans! And we can take care of ourselves! Don't let them take away your pride and independence!

A COUNTRY BOY CAN SURVIVE!




Hank Jr. has it right - Country Folk Can Survive!



HOW TO SURVIVE THE DEPRESSION

Possible ideas for surviving the Depression:

*Build and sell solar and/or wind power systems (or install them)
*Free Wireless Networking - set up independent wireless networks so people can stay online if major ISP's and cell phone towers go down!!!! This is the first thing they will get rid of, and this will be a CRITICAL SERVICE if they jam our phones and internet! Get to work, guys!!
*Vegetable Truck Gardens - sell or swap food
*Well digging
*Swap meets or services
*Sustainable Farming Communities (Cooperatives) - Get together a group of people and start a sustainable, self-sufficient, communal living project
*Radio, tele-communications, printers, journalists
*Survival equipment
*Camping Gear
*Help people refurbish low-cost housing into off-the-grid homes
*Agricultural teaching, agricultural workers
*Farmers!!! Farmers who can teach others!!
*Carpenters!!!
*Anyone who knows how to make or do things like FARMERS, organic gardening, herbal gardening, permaculture, animal husbandry, sewing, carpentry, construction, electrical/wiring, septic, tool-makers, die-casters, printers, tree-cutting, making lumber, wind/solar power construction/installation, wildcrafting, herbal remedies, water filtration, mechanical, roofing, backhoe, heating/air conditioning, food preservation, handyman, butchers, brick-layers, cement, plumbing, hauling services...
*Invest in Solar Power
*Any other needed skills for getting off the grid, getting back to basics, and self-sufficiency.

Ssshhh! AMERICANS AT WORK!!!!!!!
















































Americans are TOUGH! Don't ever FORGET that!

We built this country with our sweat, hard work, determination, creativity, indomitable spirits, moral values, intelligence, skills, and ingenuity.

We can do it again. And we WILL do it.

Don't wait for a hand-out from the Fed.

Just get to work! You know what needs to be done, just DO IT!