In 2008, 59% of Alaskans voted for John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, over Barack Obama, the Democrat. In 2012, 55% of the state’s voters voted for Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, over Barack Obama, the Democrat. In 2014, 52% of Alaska voters voted to legalize recreational marijuana. Why do these numbers matter? Because it shows that blue states, like Colorado, Oregon and Washington, aren’t the only states where marijuana can be legalized. And that energy is on its way to deep south and deep red Georgia.

The leading bill is expected to be filed in the General Assembly and would allow Georgians to use cannabis oil to reduce seizures that accompany epilepsy and some other illnesses. But another state senator is taking a much broader approach to the matter...

As it turns out, honey is a lot more useful than a tea or oatmeal sweetener. It has a trove of healthy values other than being eaten for better health. Here are some of the more unusual, lesser known uses for honey.

1. Treating wounds. Only non-life threatening wounds, of course. If you have bumps, scrapes, scratches or bruises, applying a bit of honey to the area will help soothe the pain and heal faster.
2. Hangover remedy. The high fructose content of honey allows your body to process alcohol faster. If you’re having a real rager of an evening, take a spoonful of honey before bed and again in the morning. Don’t remember to hydrate!
3. Treat red parasite infections. This is one I definitely didn’t know! a 1:1:1 mix of water, vinegar and honey might not taste great, but it helps get rid of mild red parasite infections.
4. Cleansing the skin. Honey is a natural exfoliate. Wash your face with honey and rinse with lukewarm water. Warning: this face wash might be tough if you have facial hair. Did I learn this from experience? We’ll go with maybe.

In the 1960s, the Espanola Galapagos tortoise was in pretty tough shape. There were only 15 individuals remaining – 12 females and 3 males. But fortunately, that was the animal’s low point. 50 years of dedicated conservation effort has brought the population of the tortoise up to 1,000 individuals! More importantly, their recovery is stable, and it looks to be on its way up.

In 1973, the Galapagos Islands National Park Service started a captive breeding and reintroduction program for the giant tortoises. Through this program, they have been able to breed and release 1500 of the captivity raised tortoises back onto the island of Espanola. Unfortunately, the non-native goat populations on the island had to be culled.

Dylan Charles, Editor
Waking Times

Like a ship lost at sea, battered by the angry seas, life goes on in the matrix of confusion.

At the whim of our social engineers, the media narrative changes every week now, with new crises and concerns emerging without warning, tossing public and political sentiment and discourse to and fro, while keeping us in the dark about the real, deeper issues at play in our world.

What about the Orwellian permanent war? Silence. Fukushima and the wholesale industrial rape of the earth? Silence. The Bankster criminals that are looting everyone and enslaving us all to phony debt? No perspective on this either.

So many of you have experienced things that were masquerading as love, that weren’t love at all. Again we say, love does not hurt, love does not reject, love does not betray, love does not judge or control another. The hurtful experiences that you may have had are caused by the absence of love, not by love itself.

So we urge you to redefine what love is through your wisdom and new perspective. What is your new definition of love? Can you see now that love only includes, uplifts, supports, celebrates, encourages, nurtures, understands and connects? Once you are clear about what love really is, you are far better able to see situations in their truth, and will never confuse the absence of love for real love ever again. ~Archangel Gabriel

HJ: Life is always trying to move us squarely towards what we want and need and challenges are an integral part of that journey.  And, in fact, when we transform how we see and experience them by moving into a state of acceptance and gratitude from the incredibly vast wisdom of the universal laws that bring them to us, we can literally catapult ourselves towards creating the reality we truly want to be living.

This is a great little article with some powerful suggestions for transforming your life from a struggle into a blissful expression of gratitude.

- Truth

5 Lenses That Will Shift Your Mood from Pissed To Blissed

By Bob Sima | The Transformational Troubadour

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Anger, disappointment, frustra...

How are you going to approach your existence on your Earth-plane? As always, The Universe gives you the opportunity to exercise your free will. You can both embrace and take in all you can from stretching, growing and moving forward or stop just short of your bliss. The Universe is most happy to oblige. ~ Creator