Occupy San Francisco Raided
"It was 1:30 in the morning; they gave everyone a five-minute warning to evacuate, then started arresting people, smashing tents… what they did in Zuccotti, and everywhere else, too."
So it was that Occupy San Francisco became the latest [encampment] to be evicted, after a period which has seen camps in Wall Street, Oakland, and beyond also cleared.
"There were a lot of tears," added Scott Rossi, who has been involved in OccupySF since September. "The thing about a lot of the occupations is the people that camp there have nowhere to go, so there were a lot of tears from that portion."
Several hundred police were involved in the eviction, with around 70 protesters arrested. Rossi told the Guardian the operation was "like a lightning raid."...Divine Feminine Institute opens
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The Christian Devil is Real
According to American anthropologist Michael J. Harner, there is a hallucinogenic drink called natema made from a combination of Amazon plants that gives the Jivaro shaman entrance to the "real" world... Many times the Christian missionary had told the shaman Mashu of the devil [a Satan or Belial like Buddhism's Mara] feared by white men. But since he had never seen the spirit, Mashu remained skeptical. Some time later, after drinking natema, Mashu was confronted by this figure of the "white man's devil." Since that time, Mashu has remained convinced of this spirit's reality.
Mayan Calendar's Apocalypse
Apocalypse 2012 (3:45) - The end of the Mayan calendar in 2012 is a source of speculation by ancient alien theorists, who believe the Maya were visited and influenced by ETs.
US Horses are sent to Mexico to be Eaten
Since all three US horse slaughter operations were ordered closed, the number of horses exported to Mexico for slaughter has exploded. As of Dec. 20, 2007, 44,475 horses had been shipped to Mexico for processing for human consumption compared with 10,783 shipped at the same time in 2006 -- a 312 percent increase. Especially troubling is the treatment of the horses once they cross the border into Mexico. In October, the Humane Society of the United States released a video showing the brutal stabbing death of a fully conscious horse at a Mexican slaughter facility.
- AUDIO: Domestic Horse Slaughter: Five years ago, Congress cut off federal funding for horse meat inspection, which effectively killed off the factory slaughter of horses in the United States. The unintended consequence of that action has resulted in the inhumane transport of old, abandoned, and neglected horses to slaughterhouses outside of the US, to Canada or Mexico, where they may be subject to cruel treatment and unregulated slaughter.