Just out today: President Obama allows Shell Oil to drill in Arctic Sea

Not surprised at all!

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If there is any doubt about the hold Wall Street and Big Oil has on some of our top elected and unelected officials who are Conservative/Corporate Democrats not to mention Republicans ……. this story has  just broke from politico.com less than an hour ago …

“The Obama administration gave Shell approval today to drill for oil and gas in the undersea Arctic, escalating a battle with the same environmentalists who cheered the president’s actions on climate change earlier this month.

The Interior Department’s expanded permit will allow Shell to tap oil- and gas-bearing zones beneath Alaska’s Chukchi Sea before the drilling season ends late next month. The move also puts new pressure on Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to speak out about Arctic drilling, just weeks after she said she had “doubts” about allowing it.”

This is exactly why Bernie Sanders is needed to re-take the future…

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News – fact or fiction?

Many people are waking up to the propaganda put out by mainstream news which is controlled by vested interests. Here is a talk given by a U.S. news journalist who discovered what ‘astroturf’ was about and how the big corporations manipulate to dictate their agenda. http://yournewswire.com/video-how-mainstream-media-brainwashes-the-masses/

Ever since tel-lie-vision came on the scene it became easier for the masters of illusion and now it seems we are addicted to the various screens of all shapes and sizes!

We are in danger of being taken over by technology and must find the balance within nature or lose our innate power and wisdom. We are part of nature and need the elements for our health and sustenance. We have delegated our power and responsibility to ‘authority’ and it is time to take it back before we lose everything of value in the natural world to inhuman artificial intelligence. Our governments are in service to a hidden agenda which uses technologies that we have paid for against us. Our strength is within us as long as we can feel what is right and act for the good of humanity. We all have our parts to play in this great challenge before us and being grounded with earth will help.

Children are being attacked by vaccinations from birth onwards in an attempt to distort and control their natural development and much more is coming to light. The education system also is controlling and doesn’t allow space for imagination to flower. Healthy development of the human being must allow balance of both hemispheres of the brain. It is time to heal the divine masculine and divine feminine within us all and have fun! ❤

Pendle Hill looking towards the Fylde Coast

Walking down our favourite hill in Lancashire, the views all round are fabulous especially looking to the coast. We took the easier climb from the Nick o’Pendle, a very pleasant walk indeed. As I reached the top I felt the silence quite tangibly which stopped me in my tracks! A hill famous for witches and the beginnings of ‘Quakers’ as a vision experienced by George Fox.  

 

  Quiet Day at Whalley Abbey – a Quaker group

Today a group of fourteen Quakers from East Lancashire gathered at Whalley Abbey conference centre for a quiet day organised by some Friends from Blackburn Quaker Meeting.  They had organised a programme of activities for the day which were held in silence, one of which was punctuated with striking a singing bowl and various readings at intervals. Our breaks and lunch were also in silence which helped to deepen the experience and become more aware of our senses. 

Whalley is the most central town of Britain without the outer isles according to Ordnance Survey and the ruins are Cistercian and features in ‘The Spine of Albion’ by Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare who dowsed the Belinus and Elen serpent lines which travel north from the Isle of Wight to the top of Scotland. Both of these lines travel through the site at Whalley and Elen passes through the garden, where we had a meditative walk and I enjoyed being barefoot on the grass. Elen goes into the ancient church of St Mary outside the Abbey grounds and I would like to return to that another time.

I am grateful for having that shared space today with Friends and can still feel the experience of peace ❤

  
 

Grand Witches Cauldron gathering at Eco-camp in Wales

Arrived yesterday afternoon after having some lunch at Powis Castle and looking at the beautiful gardens cared for by National Trust. A lovely spot in mid Wales with a field and woodland and a small vegetarian/vegan cafe. I didn’t stay up for the drumming and singing, just felt the need for rest and could hear the lovely sounds anyway. It was a bit tight with an air bed in my small tent but with everything around me I could put more layers on when it felt colder. I woke up to lovely sunshine as I am facing east and looking forward to a peaceful day with lovely people.  

What an amazing place and gathering of friends! We experienced the four elements of earth, air, fire and water and the weather was hot and sunny on Saturday and remained dry on Sunday which was good. I am grateful for the experience and love shared, blessed be! Many thanks to Kerry who volunteered to drive us when we agreed to go, only a few days previously.

 

Sprayed skies

Last day for walking in Gaistal, we caught earlier bus which was full of walkers when we were picked up. This time we started walk from Salzbach and went up the path we came down before and I felt much lighter and was able to walk faster with ease. There were quite a few planes spraying and leaving their chemtrails so the sky filled up by noon. The air was cooler today which also is a relief from the heat of previous days. 

We eventually had a longer walk than I anticipated as we went on the low route to Iglesee which was a disappointment as there wasn’t much water left there. We then continued and came back a higher route to return to Tillussalm and had a beer before walking back to the bus stop at Salzbach for the last bus. I bathed my hot and tired feet in the stream whilst watching a tiny brown mouse who froze when it realised someone was there.  We heard from our head waiter that the length of the valley was 18kms so no wonder we were tired and needed a bath to recuperate!

   

Too hot for much activity

Yesterday we walked in the beautiful Karwendal Nature Park on the hottest day of the year I heard. It was not an easy uphill walk in the heat to the Pleisenhutte, which was built at the end of WW2 by a man who had been in active service and just wanted to get  away from the world. The views from up there were incredible! We met a kindred spirit towards the top and spent nearly two hours talking before we needed to get back down to get the train back to Seefeld.  The son of the builder now deceased and his wife run the business which provides lovely food and refreshment and simple accommodation for those who want to do the higher paths the following day. There were quite a few cyclists there also. When we reached the start of the walk and a bar for drinks at 6pm we were so hot and tired we just had time for a beer before continuing to the bahnhof. We got back to the hotel at 7pm and when we arrived for dinner most of the guests were eating outside as it was still very warm and pleasant. 

Today it feels even warmer and we’re having a relaxing day, too hot for much walking so it’s the shade we prefer for now. 

 

An accidental fall

My first time on an e-bike yesterday did not turn out well and was perhaps a bit too adventurous, as we didn’t know the bike route well enough and were not practised with these bikes from the hotel. We had just turned  off the main road from Seefeld to Mittenwald onto an old road and I didn’t like the look of this. I was following my husband and soon the road became a loose gravelled surface as it was going downhill behind a disused fake castle, when I realised that my speed was faster than I wanted and braking caused me to skid and I was thrown sideways, catching my face on the right cheekbone. There was a grass verge which I climbed onto and lay there to recuperate whilst in shock but also calm. I had grazed one knee and both hands as well as around my right eye and the front of my shoulder was sore. We went back to town as soon as I felt able to get back on the bike and went to the pharmacy, who sent us to the doctor next door, a very nice young man with a sense of humour who I took to straight away. So I was cleaned up and bandaged and warned that my eye would bruise and discolour more the next day, though fortunately no broken bones.

We returned to the hotel and gave up on biking and spent the rest of the day relaxing round the pool. I felt quite happy to slow things down and I wasn’t in much pain thankfully. I managed to disguise my eye at dinner that evening.

Today I had to wear my large sunglasses to hide the black eye that had appeared and for the rest of the day. It has been a hot day and we have done a lovely walk up the Gaistal and wasn’t difficult except for coming down the last part of the path which was also gravelly and slippery, needing more care as I wasn’t feeling too confident after my experience yesterday. I’m pleased that everything seems to be healing well and swellings have gone down and putting my feet on the grass for quite a while yesterday may have helped with that as I’d heard that earthing can reduce inflammation. 

 

The Alternative Budget

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The Alternative Budget

There is an alternative to George Osborne’s austerity budget. Richard J Murphy of Tax Research UK has prepared this alternative budget for 2015. I wonder if Mr Osborne will take note?

Richard Murphy: My Budget for 2015

I gave a talk to Quakers in Bury StEdmunds last night, and thank them for their hospitality. In the question and answer session, which took up the larger part of the evening, I was almost inevitably asked what I would be doing tomorrow if I was to be presenting the budget. It was a good question. It deserves an answer, albeit in somewhat less detail than if I was really at the despatch box.

  • I would first lay out the background to an economic plan for the UK that recognises three fundamental facts. The first is that we need more, better paid, jobs. The second is that we need…

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Gratitude to the trees

I’ve always loved trees and walking through forests. Today our walk took us through the pine forest up to the Moserer Hohe to collect a stamp, on our way to getting a gold badge for walks in the Olympia region. I felt very thankful to the tree roots on the walk down which wind across the path and give good foot holds. I like to touch a tree trunk and feel their life force and connect with the earth that way and give thanks. This led me to appreciate our connection with the trees throughout our history and how we take them for granted perhaps. We do far too much destruction of nature and need to care more for the trees especially the older deciduous ones. 

A selfie on the way up.