"This is all that we had hoped for,"

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Wednesday February 10, 2021 · 10:07 AM PST

2021/02/10 · 10:07

This is what I have been reminded of during this morning’s testimony.

From Reuters via Wired 12/14/2001

BIN LADEN CAUGHT ON TAPE

WASHINGTON -- OSAMA bin Laden said he was the most optimistic of all his colleagues about the Sept. 11 attacks but not even he dared hope they would bring down the World Trade Center towers, according to a videotape released on Thursday that Washington says seals bin Laden's guilt.

The Pentagon released the nearly hour-long amateur videotape, accompanied by an official U.S. translation, that U.S. officials say incriminates the Saudi-born militant, now being hunted in Afghanistan.

"(Inaudible) we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower," said bin Laden, according to the U.S. translation.

"We calculated that the floors that would be hit would be three or four floors. I was the most optimistic of them all," recounted bin Laden, seated on a flowered sofa discussing the attacks with a group of men, possibly in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

Bin Laden, who inherited millions from his family's construction fortune in Saudi Arabia, makes reference to his own knowledge of that business.

"(Inaudible) due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only," bin Laden said.

"This is all that we had hoped for," he said, according to the translation. Instead, the weight of the upper floors brought down the entire structures as they collapsed.”

What happened on January 6, 2021 was Donald Trump’s wet dream

Smudging the Whitehouse

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Sunday December 20, 2020 · 1:55 PM PST

2020/12/20 · 13:55

I can’t even imagine the horribly bad, shit, energy that will be left behind in the Whitehouse when you know who and his band of pure evildoers leave. I have seen articles about how it will need to be disinfected/fumigated from top to bottom and that definitely needs to happen. But then there should be one more very important step taken, a sage smudge, ceremoniously done by a powerful spiritual healer(s) from one (or more) of our indigenous tribes. It will probably take more than one healer/leader to cleanse that house. They will need to go to every corner (good luck in the oval office) and let the smoke and their prayers cleanse all the evil that has taken place there in the last four years. This feels so important to me, I had to find away to try and reach someone who can tell someone close to PE Joe Biden or someone on his team that this really should happen. I can picture it in my minds eye, The Healers with their sage and prayers being followed throughout with singers and drummers joining in.

And in the bedrooms hang dream catchers as and extra layer of protection.

Walking and Praying in the Lakota Way

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Friday June 29, 2018 · 8:44 PM PDT

2018/06/29 · 20:44

I am writing today to ask for help. I am not someone who beats around the bush or has to lead you down a flowery path and then at the end make it be about asking for something, or goes around asking anyone for anything, but this is different. So I’m going to be right up front and if you want, this is where you can stop reading. I am not asking for myself but for someone who is very dear to me, my friend Duane Two Bulls.

Duane Two Bulls is a young Lakota pipe carrier from Oglala on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

I have lived out here in Wyoming for a while now. I could share so many stories about how my walk in life has taken me in the most amazing direction. How I have had the profound privilege of becoming friends with so many on Pine Ridge Reservation and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (I know that the “S” word is politically incorrect) Reservation, which was established through the blood of relatives of the Wounded Knee survivors and the relatives there they fled to, after the massacre, so please don’t blast me. There is a reason.

http://www.sioux.org/

I digress. There is so much I wish I could share about my experiences in being connected to and becoming a part of Indian Country. Maybe another time.

Back to Duane:

Duane Two Bulls, my friend, has grown up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He has known the struggle of his people, his whole, young life. He has seen the deaths of many friends and relatives around him due to drugs, alcoholism, catastrophic car wrecks, murder and suicide. You hear the expression “the struggle is real.” It is there, on these reservations. Very real. Exposed to so much sorrow and heartache has not beaten Duane down as it can do, living life as Lakota, or being Native. He has risen in life, even though he is only in his mid-twenties, to take on the burden and blessing of being a Pipe Carrier. The path he walks is one of suffering and sacrifice for his people. Pipe carriers are chosen by members of their tribe and the spiritual leaders within their communities. They are chosen because they are walking in the way of their people. They have learned the ceremonies, songs and prayers. They do not drink or do drugs or carry themselves in a bad way. They walk and live in prayer, sacrifice and power. They teach the young what it means to be Lakota. He and his friend Stetson Eagle Elk, also a young pipe carrier, traveled here to Wyoming three weeks ago to lead sweat ceremonies for anyone who wanted to come. They opened their hearts in such a beautiful way to anyone who wanted to learn and understand what it means to be Lakota.

So here is why I am asking for help for my friend Duane.

Sundance season is underway in Indian Country, please don’t blast me for saying the “I” word. https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/ Duane and Stetson are traveling to the different Sundances to bring their songs, prayers and support to the dancers. They will also participate in their own tribes’ Sundances in July, as dancers. This weekend Duane was called to the Black Hills to support ceremony participants. While they were up there it rained hard and the road turned to mud. When they were coming out their car hit a huge rut in the muddy road causing extensive damage.

I know of so many people who want to help those who are in that struggle on the various reservations. They gather clothing and other items to send, in the hopes there will be a beautiful Native person or child out there on the reservation wearing that coat or shirt. I know during Standing Rock the whole world was sending so much to help in that struggle. This is a microcosm of helping just one who really needs it right now so desperately.

If you can help Duane continue to support his people throughout Sundance season, you can do so by sending $ to:

Duane Two Bulls

810 ½ Mallow Street

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

or via PayPal

tasunke.nagi@gmail.com

Or even if you have or know someone who has a vehicle they may be willing to donate.

I know there are things like Gofundme and others but I would rather connect you directly to him so there could never be any doubt about him getting every bit of help possible.

If anyone has any questions or any concerns, please feel free to contact me:

Patty Sabon

307 203-5111.

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