Yeah, I read those stories. What a crock. The last thing we need is CNN turning into Faux News Lite. They're doing a pretty good job of that already.
A very important message for the people of Earth today:
Here are some excerpts:
Only love can stop war: a call to the world from a Northern Cheyenne chief
Our people’s teachings, connecting us to the land and the universe, have enabled us to survive genocide and can point the way to peace –146 years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn
At theBattle of the Little Bighorn, 146 years ago, my ancestors defeated the US army’s Seventh Cavalry led by George Armstrong Custer, who had previously massacred Cheyenne people.
This 25 June, on the anniversary, I will make a call to end genocide to protect diversity. I do not make this call lightly. Rather, I am speaking with a great sense of urgency from lived experience.
For the Cheyenne, the genocide started with what the US army wrongfully called “the Indian wars”, when it was nothing more than the slaughter of our people, buffalo and horses to exterminate our way of life. It is this very genocidal mindset which now produces the climate crisis, further genocides, even the threat of nuclear war.
I want to share with you the story of how my people and my family survived through generations – despite many attempts to exterminate us. The fact that we survived is a lesson in resilience, and I know that we also survived for a reason: to protect and share our teachings for a time such as this.
My late father Chief Phillip Whiteman Sr was a descendant of chiefs. We are peace chiefs – we never provoke war, our main role is to steward our people and way of life.
My father’s grandmother, Quill Dress Woman, was a little girl at the battlefield and witnessed Cheyenne matriarchs push sewing awls into Custer’s ears so that next lifetime he would listen. They did this because after the Washita massacre in 1868, where Custer had attacked a peaceful Cheyenne camp resulting in the killing of many women and children, our Cheyenne chiefs still made peace with him in a sacred pipe ceremony.
They told him to rub the remaining ashes into the ground, and warned him he would end up like the ashes if he ever double-crossed the Cheyenne. Custer did not believe us, but whatever the medicine men said after ceremonies always came true.
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The fact that we have survived this genocidal onslaught with our language, ceremonies and teachings is nothing short of a miracle. We were not supposed to survive, still we did.
Have you ever asked why? We know. We survived because these teachings, passed on from generation to generation, connect us to the land and the universe. They are the best counter-remedy to the intergenerational effects of genocide.
One of my teachings is that the Creator shows her love for diversity in her creation. Without the understanding of diversity there is no unity, and without unity there is no oneness with Creator.
The Creator wants us to love each other; that is what the loving Creator is all about.
Looking at the wars, mass shootings and genocides happening around the world right now, and reading about what has been done to my people above, you might ask: how can people do this to each other?
The answer is simple: what we do to each other has already been done to us. European peoples were engaging in wars and suffering the effects of genocide long before they came here, and unfortunately it is still happening now. Today, humanity faces unprecedented extinctions due to what we have done to Mother Earth.
What you call natural disasters are Mother Earth’s way of healing herself.
If western thinking could have solved these life and diversity-threatening conflicts, it would have been done by now. In 1946, Albert Einstein made a call to “let the people know that a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels”. Cheyenne teachings elevate our thinking, whereas western genocidal and exploitative thinking has brought us all to the brink of extinction. I call it a mind virus: it is oppressive and does not value diversity.
We will never end war and genocide unless we change the mindset that created it. War cannot defeat war, only love can stop war.
My love and my forgiveness do not depend on you. I want toforgive you for what you have done to my people, the genocide and the eradication process. This might be our last chance to put an end to this genocidal and suicidal mindset.
I love you, and there is nothing you can do about it.
@coyote (because i know he would love this)
Following up on this post in the previous thread:
https://www.jeannemayell.com/community/postid/55534/
If Ginny Thomas is brought up in the hearings, that may spur calls for Clarence to resign, but I'm not sanguine about that actually happening.
I wasn't clear in that post that what I didn't think would happen was him resigning. I did think that there would be calls for him to resign, and that is now happening:
Need a great good News Story? Well this should do the trick.
How about this Tweet thread from an immigration lawyer in Virginia who helped oust more than one biased newly appointed immigration judge.
Yes, we can overcome and persevere through really dark times and not just find the light but throw open the curtains and flood the whole house.
https://twitter.com/HMAesq/status/1537976367848927232?s=20&t=PrIygg-n6jn3xJ81WPQvDQ
@lynnventura
Wow, it's hot...nonstop heat in Houston for the last couple of months. I think one day of rain. I think my parents are right I should move back to Michigan, the other day it was 99 in Houston but 79 in Detroit. I think I might wanna go home. People are going to have a rude awakening in the south when it becomes so unbearably hot they'll have to move up north with the Yankees. The people along the equator just might be totally screwed. 2 billion people might be moving from south and southeast Asia into Russia in the future. Putin is wasting time and money on a stupid war when his country will be overrun when it's weakened. So dumb. Denying climate will cause the most awful migration in human history. I wouldn't be surprise if nukes go off somewhere in the future not exactly a global nuclear war but small regional ones. Something like Ready Player One.
I saw a meme of Homer telling Bart that this is the hottest year of Homer's lifetime, but it will probably be the coldest year of Bart's lifetime. It made me a little depressed.
@lovendures Thanks for posting this! A couple of years ago this guy would have been given a medal. For those who don't think Merrick Garland is doing anything, I can tell you that immigration courts, although still not great, are being transformed. And complaints are being heard. Most of the immigration system is under the jurisdiction of Homeland Security, but the immigration judges are under the Dept of Justice. Their boss? Garland.