Iraq is a beacon of Freedom in the middle east. I doubt anyone in Iran would have risked their lives by taking to the streets the summer of 2009 to demand Freedom without the Sacrifice of the American Military and Americas blood and treasure being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Arab Spring that has taken place this past summer was also incubated in Fallujah and Bahgdad. The Women of these nations now or will soon have the opportunity for education and participation in the political process, and those opportunities will be a great blessing for generations to come.
NOTE: I’ve received a number of requests to repost my analysis of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Here it is.
BHP
September 11, 2011
PREFACE ( September 11, 2005)
I wrote this article in October 2001, less than one month after the terrorist attack on the WTC. Something I didn’t say in the article: I knew, beyond any doubt, the minute I saw it unfolding on TV, that it was an Inside Job.
Since I do not watch television and have not had any cable hook-up for many years, I had to go to a neighbor’s house to watch the news reports, after receiving a phone call from my niece in Colorado.
Call it spirit-filled intuition (clairvoyance), one of the gifts of the spirit God has bestowed on me. Call it reason or logic, based on my many years of direct experience working for the criminals in the U.S. Government. Call it anything you like. All I can say is that I immediately knew it to be true: It was an Inside Job.
I have never personally investigated 9-11, at least not the nuts-and-bolts variety of forensic investigation. I did not have that opportunity, lacking the resources and having lost most of my professional contacts in law enforcement and the intelligence community by that time.
In fact, many years ago, I had worked on a somewhat regular basis with various police departments, including NYPD, as an “independent consultant” (though I was often “sent” by CIA); where I worked with detectives in investigations of murder and other criminal cases, missing persons, etc.
Though I was born on Manhattan Island and lived there for many years, on and off, from early childhood until I was in my mid-twenties; attended college and seminary there, I moved from that place for good in 1975 and have only gone back infrequently over the years since then. After 9-11, I have refused to go there at all. Just my choice and for personal reasons.
But since so many people in the general public now (finally!) believe that 9-11 was an Inside Job, as a result of the many reports based on real forensic investigations by professionals since that time, I thought it might be interesting to repost this article.
It was originally published by Conspiracy Planet and subsequently made its way onto many other sites. None of those sites will publish my work anymore, as a result of the libel and disinfo campaigns being waged by my enemies in the U.S. Government and their stooges, toadies and minions.
I should add that this article is an editorial. It is based on my opinions (as a former intelligence operative, a Jungian analyst and Christian minister); considered professional opinions though those may be.
Though there are many facts included, those facts do not in any way substantiate my opinion that 9-11 was an Inside Job. So please, as always, I ask that you read it with an open mind, a compassionate heart, and make of it what you will.
One more thing you need to know: Included in this article is a transcript of the “deathbed confession”, a videotape which was later revealed to be a hoax. The hoax was perpetrated by filmmaker, Mike Z. [Zieper]
When I first found out about the hoax, I was furious, to the blood-boiling point. I called Mike Z a “scumbag” in public reports and generally gave him hell. You see, I was the only person (or at least the first) who actually made a written transcript from the video and incorporated it into a widely published article.
But it is important to say that the deathbed confession itself was in no way the pivotal issue in writing the article. I had begun the article before I got the video by e-mail from Mike Z. I included it because it seemed to fit so well into everything I believed (and still do, to this day) about the 9-11 Terrorist Attack. And about the satanists who run the U.S. Government. So please keep this in mind when reading the article.
Lastly, Mike Z apologized to me some time later. Below, find his e-mail to me. I did forgive him, after speaking to him on the phone. He admitted his ploy was wrongful, seemed truly repentant and I accepted his apology, though as I told him, I don’t condone what he did.
He is certainly a talented artist, and if he would use his talents to make “protest” films without promoting them as the real deal, he could be doing a great service to the skeptics who do not believe the government is capable of such things as terrorist acts of mass murder, all the while blaming the scapegoat du jour, which in the case of 9-11 happened to be Osama bin Laden (a long time CIA asset.)
Mike Zieper’s Letter to Barbara Hartwell:
Dear Barbara,
I owe you an apology. I used you to expose my tape to the world. And I should have thanked you for your help.
I believe that there are very simple reasons why things are the way they are. I made the DEATHBED CONFESSION tape to communicate some of these ideas.
At the time, I wanted to avoid a flame war so I accepted the criticism and abuse that I received. I understand that I was muddying already murky waters.
But you should know that I read the article you wrote (TYRANNY, TREACHERY, TERRORISM & TRAUMA) and agreed with your analysis of the situation completely.
I can’t begin to understand what you have personally been through. I’ve had my share of weirdness since the FBI took an interest in me.
But, as one person whose email is being read to another, I want to say that you have done great work.
Don’t give up the fight,
Mike Z
TYRANNY, TREACHERY, TERRORISM & TRAUMA: THE FORMULA
No doubt about it, there was a formula utilized by the perpetrators of Nine-One-One. No matter whodunit –it was a well and precisely planned operation.
From Webster’s Dictionary, a definition of ‘formula’: “A set form of words for use in a ceremony or ritual”.
The formula can best be described in four simple words:
TYRANNY, TREACHERY, TERRORISM and TRAUMA.
TYRANNY: Absolute power, especially when exercised unjustly or cruelly.
TREACHERY: Willful betrayal of fidelity, confidence or trust; perfidy.
TERRORISM: The systematic use of terror, violence and intimidation to achieve an end.
TRAUMA: An emotional shock that creates substantial and lasting damage to the psychological development of the individual, generally leading to neurosis.
Which leads us to…..
TOTALITARIANISM: A form of government in which one person or party exercises absolute control over all spheres of human life and opposing parties are not permitted to exist.
Sound familiar? Where have we heard this before? Has our government betrayed us? Are we being ushered into the Fourth Reich?
But….it couldn’t happen here…..
Or could it?
OCCULT RITUAL AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM
Was the mass murder and mayhem — the operation code named Nine-One-One — a ceremony or ritual?
And if so, what kind of ritual? For what purpose?
Was Nine-One-One simply the most extreme ‘international incident’ to date in a long-term operation of ‘trauma-based programming,a part of the ‘ritual abuse’ of the American public?
Worse yet, was it a ‘Satanic Blood Sacrifice’?
Could these sorts of hideous rituals be part and parcel of the programming of the collective American psyche? If so, to what end?
These are not easy questions to answer, much less furnish proof for. Yet the answers leap out in a plethora of dramatic symbols, for those who have eyes to see –and more importantly– the freedom of mind to perceive.
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS: BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION AND MIND CONTROL
For centuries, occultists have relied on symbols to harness the power of the human mind for use in rituals.
By far, the greatest creative power resides not in the conscious mind, but in the unconscious, and even more so in the vast reservoir of what Carl Jung termed the Collective Unconscious. The unconscious ‘thinks’ in symbols (pictures) instead of words. If a picture is worth a thousand words, maybe that’s why.
You don’t have to believe in Jung’s theories to understand the power of symbols. Symbols are all around us; but never more compelling than when they are internalized within the life-force of the mind.
Internalizing a symbol is not hard to do, either by a voluntary act of conscious will, as in prayer or meditation….or by the imposition of someone else’s will as in hypnotic suggestion, black magic or mind control.
Once a symbol has been internalized, it takes on a life of its own. And once it digs in and puts down roots, its power over the mind of the host –for good or ill– grows as it is watered and fed by the conscious mind.
The easiest way to ‘feed’ a symbol is to use repetition.
Flash that symbol over and over in front of the subject’s eyes until the point of saturation and it reaches critical mass.
The perpetrators of mind control have developed this sort of ‘ritual’ not only as a science, but to a near art form. Dominating the energy –individually or collectively– in the psyche of the target is the cornerstone of mind control.
THE TRAUMATIZED MIND
Let’s consider the most potent symbol flashed into our consciousness by the perps of Nine-One-One.
The World Trade Center towers.
A raging inferno.
People leaping from the windows.
A larger-than-life spectacle of death and destruction.
Many writers have noted that there was an element of unreality in it all –like something you’d see in a movie.
But it wasn’t a theatrical production. It was real.
The immediate reaction of most people witnessing this horror was shock, or intense shock and trauma. How could it be otherwise?
When trauma strikes, the boundaries protecting the psyche come crashing down. The ability to think critically and analytically is suspended. Until the shock wears off –if it ever does– the traumatized mind simply reacts. And it reacts emotionally.
A traumatized mind is vulnerable and therefore far more suggestible. And the suggestions the mind is most willing to accept are those which it believes will ensure its protection and survival…at any cost. This the key to “trauma-based programming”.
Read it and weep: It works.
Could it be that Operation Nine-One-One was planned for this precise purpose?
Using terrorism to traumatize Americans into a mass panic which the perps knew would lead to their unquestioning and emotionally-based desire for protection and survival… at any cost?
Have many traumatized Americans been programmed to give up their freedoms in the false, irrational and emotionally-based belief that they can exchange their freedom for protection and thus ensure their survival?
If so, they’ve made a deal with the devil –and there will be hell to pay.
MASS MIND CONTROL IN AMERICA: DEEP BLACK COVERT OPERATIONS
It is hard to pinpoint with precision the beginning of institutionalized use of mind control in America , but 1947 was certainly a critical year.
In 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency was created from its precursor, the Office of Strategic Services. The agency was staffed predominantly with Nazi scientists brought to the U.S. under an operation code named Project Paperclip.
In 1953, the CIA ‘officially’ began the MK Ultra mind control program, under the direction of Dr. Sydney Gottlieb, incorporating roughly 165 sub-projects.
George Hunter White, colleague of Nazi criminal Sydney Gottlieb, described his involvement in the CIA’s infamous MK Ultra project this way:
“I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun…..Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest?”
Indeed, where else? Where else, but in America, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Home of the Criminally Insane Agency.
Does this utterly demented, deranged and demonic mind-set tell you anything about the agency –or the government– that could implement such a project, at the cost of unimaginable human suffering, while the perpetrators are swept merrily along in the sadistic thrill of it all?
Who can tell us about the depth of such suffering?
Maybe we could ask Eric Olsen. CIA “suicided” his father, Frank Olsen in 1953, connected to the MK Ultra operation, then engaged in a massive cover-up. The real story has only just begun to come out, but the lies and betrayal continue apace.
In 1999 The Expert Witness Show, hosted by Mike Levine, ran a series of programs about CIA mind control. I was one of the guests interviewed, as were Eric Olsen and Martin Lee, author of Acid Dreams, a classic book on CIA and MK Ultra.
I was asked to appear on the program as a survivor of MK Ultra. Yet I was given little opportunity to tell my story. Had I been allowed more air-time, perhaps my testimony would have shed some light not only on the mind control abuses of the past, well-documented and eloquently stated by Olsen and Lee, but on the fact that the atrocities of mind control are still going on to this day in our country.
Sydney Gottlieb, the project’s founder, was purportedly ordered by DCI to destroy all MK Ultra documents, circa 1976-77. We know that ALL the documents were not destroyed, as evidenced by those which remain. However it is my belief that there are many more documents in existence which have not yet come to light. I believe this because of my own involvement in MK Ultra and other black projects and also because this has been confirmed to me by insider sources.
Furthermore, I know the project was never abandoned, as CIA claims. I know this because I myself was still involved long after the program was purportedly “discontinued”.
In fact, MK Ultra is still operating today. The names of its sub-projects may have changed and some of the players have passed away. But the game remains the same. It didn’t stop. It just went deeper black, that’s all.
And what’s worse, the scope of mind control has expanded to include not just a small group of “test subjects” but the attempted brainwashing of the entire population.
Witness: HAARP
Witness: EM Frequency Weapons
Witness: Psychotropic Drugs
Witness: Satellite technologies
Witness: Biochip Implants
And these mind control systems are only the tip of the iceberg…
In the words of the psychopath Jose Delgado: “A psycho-civilized society.”
A DEATHBED CONFESSION: BLOOD SACRIFICE RITUALS AND THE GROUP WITH NO NAME
On the evening of October 6, I began writing this article. On the morning of October 7, I received e-mail from an unknown source. Strangely enough, the content of the message fit right in with what I was writing. It may shed some light into the darkest corners of the human psyche, as reflected by the body politic. And, if true, it is chilling to contemplate.
Subject: conspiracy tape?
Message: have you seen this ?
I had not, so I clicked on the URL to a web page which contained one item: a link to a video. The text on the web page: “This is a tape that was made by my father-in-law’s client, who was dying of cancer. He left instructions that he wanted it to be seen.”
The scene opened on a man in a hospital bed. A full head of white hair and thick black-framed glasses. Tubes ran from a bedside machine into his right arm.
It was the deathbed confession of a man who claimed to have worked for 27 years for “the group with no name”. His identity as well, was undetermined.
The man appeared to be addressing his lawyer, “John” making a confession regarding the nefarious activities he had been involved in. He appeared agitated and had some difficulty speaking, so some of his testimony was unintelligible. I’ve transcribed it to the the best of my ability here:
“John, this is the last time you’ll hear from me. Thanks for your friendship, your loyalty, thanks for your hard work. You’ve been more than just my lawyer, you’ve been a good friend.
I’m going to ask for one more favor. Do this thing for me. I’m going to tell you….secrets. These things are true. I want to tell people. I want people to know…to confess…..
About the Wall Street that never was…..all lies.
Something else…I’ve been working for the group with no name….the way things are done.
I was….management…yes, bookkeeping…keeping track of the money. They don’t care about money…listen, I can try to explain..but it’s difficult…gonna be hard to explain.
I’m not crazy…..You’ve heard all those conspiracy stories…Jews, Masons, secret societies….some truth in it…it sounds insane.
But I tell you, I’ve seen terrible things….listen….
The Mayan culture in South America….Mayans were the first ones… no one discusses these things.
They killed….[unintelligible]
Harrington was always talking….he’s gone now….leave his name out of it.
They betrayed us…..our era.
This is the way things are done. You must have wondered yourself… what the hell is going on here ? This is the way things are done. Listen to me…try to understand.
The blood sacrifices they did down there…hearts were torn out… thousands of them…their own people. You know why they did it? It’s the power…the power created from pain and suffering.
There are those who have ultimate power….who decide how things will go….part of a strategy…part of a plan.
Let me explain….I was programmed in the usual ways… Skull and Bones, the Bohemian Grove….[unintelligible]…so I could be used….
I don’t know all that much….
The reason is the transfer of power…that’s why they do what they do….magic…ancient magic….occult practices.
They discovered the transfer of power and energy…know what I’m talking about?
They discovered certain practices. You can’t even conceive of. I don’t exactly know how it’s done. I avoided finding out. I couldn’t stomach it.
The reason they create wars, atrocities, murder, assassinations, genocide…it creates a form of power..energy. They use that. I don’t know how….I know it moves… and it works….I’ve seen it… horrible things. It’s a science…it works.
I wasn’t involved in that. It just came into my life…27 goddamn years!
They told me I’d be there to witness the end…I was this close… 27 years…now I won’t be there to witness it… to see it coming…and to die now.
You know I never smoked…they do this all the time…it’s punishment…no right to do this to me….
They lied…I kept my end of the bargain…they said there was no problem.
They lied….
Listen… May 17…August 9….November 5…November 12…watch…see what happens….then you’ll know.
I’m speaking the truth.
There is no way to stop them. Both sides know how it works… terrorists in the third world… doing the things we used to do… They’ve already started killing off the herd…it’s in the water… it’s in the air…
It’s the way things are… I can’t put it any clearer than that…God help me…
Get this goddamn thing away from me! Turn it off!” [Waving his arms at the camera.]
End transcript.
Was this tape a hoax? I don’t believe so. There were too many realistic elements. The hospital setting. The man’s obvious distress and difficulty speaking. To me, it comes off as a real deathbed confession.
Of course, it proves nothing. But how much “proof” do we need?
Haven’t we heard and read about all of this many times before? Ad nauseum?
How many witnesses do we need? How many confessions? How much testimony?
How many tortured souls?
How much more bloodshed?
When is enough, enough?
FREEDOM IS NON-NEGOTIABLE
Now I have a few questions for all self-respecting, freedom-loving American citizens:
Are you willing to “negotiate” with the powers-that-be for your freedom?
Do you believe that your freedom, like a license to drive or to practice law, is a privilege issued by the state?
Will you let your freedom –or lack thereof– be determined by the covert agenda of the “group with no name”, a cabal of Satanists and Bonesmen perpetrating mind control, fomenting terrorism and engaging in blood sacrifice rituals?
Or is your freedom — as protected under the U.S. Constitution– a God-given right?
“In the fall of 2009 I had just finished up a couple months worth of research on the H1N1 Vaccine, and what I had learned frustrated and disturbed me to the level that I organized a “Don’t Inject Me!” Protest at the Capitol in Denver and invited all of the top Vaccine Activists in America to attend.”
“It is my testimony that the Lords Peace and eventually entering into his Rest, which rest is the fullness of his glory, will be the result of Faithful Adherence to the Ten Commandments and Enduring to the End as we muster our way through life’s trials and tribulations.”
“Here is a quick synopsis of the Economic Plan of the Marxist Looters and Moochers from Rands book: (I really think to be congruent the President and his Economic Advisers should just bite the bullet and publish this plan as the logical next step.)”
“Why write about this painfully private and horrifying episode on the eve of the biggest power grab in American History by the federal government? These stories need to be told.”
“Please take the time to research, pray, and thoughtfully explore alternatives to drug therapies when making the choice whether to eat antidepressants during pregnancy and lactation.”
“Get a new apron, have your husband get you pregnant, throw out all your high-heeled shoes, and happily welcome another blessed child into your home. We have a certain stereotype to proudly thrust in the faces of all who judge us…..it is BAREFOOT AND PREGNANT!!!”
“This master work of musical art was written for birthing mothers! I am absolutely convinced of it. I am also convinced that a healing energy is contained within the text, music, words, rhythm, creshendo, decreshendo, harmony, use of every musical trick under the sun including fugue, aria, relaxed unhurried delivery, seemingly crazy dynamics, gradually increasing tempo with a final triumphant spitting of the text….an almost nah nah na nah nah…..”Death….WHERE is thy STING????”
“I have just one message for these doctors, and it is this:
“Physician, heal thyself“ The moral of the proverb is counsel to prove your trustworthiness with your own affairs before attempting to tell others what they should do.”
“Since I first started reading her column in the Conservative Chronicle, she has consistently been one of the funniest, most thoughtful writers I have ever read.”
After months of research and preparation I published the post on the evening of July 4th, 2005.
Independence Day was a symbol of how I felt about my work on the Internet, and it felt right to begin this adventure on my favorite holiday.
I had been participating on the internet since 1997, and had begun with a web site called Millennial Family in 1999. It feels like a lifetime has slipped by since those early years of figuring out how to share my story…
I snail mailed my first book to five publishers and they all rejected it. My brother Dave helped convince me to publish the book on the internet as an E Book. When I think about those early efforts to convert my Word file to a PDF without the formatting being lost in transition, I have to laugh thinking about the same problems cropping up 14 years later when publishing Word files to Kindle, Nook, or Smashwords. (Note to anyone interested – DON’T even bother putting your word file into a PDF before publishing on Kindle…just save it as a Rich Text Format (RTF), and publish away – it will look best on all hand held devices as an RTF *This is a publishing tip that Independent Writers can take to the bank)
During those early years of writing, I wrote so many sentences with a baby nursing on my lap that I believe I could win a one hand typing contest. Paul purchased an awful digital camera and I spent hours uploading pictures to share cooking tips with Mom Readers. When my daughter purchased a digital camera with video in 2007, I “rented” it from her to create Cooking and Provident Living Blog entries. I recently remixed all of those old videos at One True Media and uploaded them to You Tube to use as content for the most recent issue of Blogging Mothers Magazine.
I don’t particularly like making movies with the equipment we have here at home and have vowed I won’t make any more movies until I can buy a decent camera. I don’t regret learning how to make digital movies, it’s just that I could make them so much better and faster with real professional equipment.
I’m grateful to have made it safely to this day and give Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ all of the thanks for making that happen. This adventure has been unexpectedly difficult and many, many times I walked away vowing never to come back. But I am still here and believe that because I owe my life to the Perfect Grace of my God, I should respond in kind by mustering on as well as I can manage.
To my enemies I say, Karma is real and what goes around does indeed come around. To my friends and readers, thank you for sticking with me for all of these years. To my beloved Family who have endured more than their fair share of distress because of my writing, I probably never would have started this endeavor if I had known how it was really going to be, but I am grateful that all of you are still here with me, relatively healthy and whole, and that Heavens Blessings have kept us alive and safe when at times it felt as if the whole world was crashing down on my head.
Here is to another six years of The Natural Family Blog!
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When I was preparing to write this blog back in 2005, I spent a few months researching to figure out the most straightforward way to proceed.
I had used the services of an excellent web design company in Boulder to set up my first site at Natural Family Co and when I was ready to go, I called my web designer and asked him who had the best blog software and what was the best way to host the blog.
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I took his advice to heart and thus began the most frustrating side to my blogging adventures. Movable Type was designed by Programmers who know terms like Perl, CSS, and html. I purchased the book HTML for Dummies and used it a few times to help me learn how to do certain functions. But if I was not married to my husband Paul, a computer genius, I would have given up that first year.
It did not help matters that soon after I began Blogging my site was continually spammed with nasty comments, trackbacks, and pings, and the most revolting porn and drug ad comments were hitting me day after day after day making conversations nearly impossible. I have since read about other alternative health care bloggers who have had the same thing happen, up to and including sites torn down, especially sites that talk about alternatives to Chemotherapy, and computers hacked so bad they had to be replaced.
Conversely Mom Bloggers like Dooce who continually hold up Allopathic Medicine as the supposed savior of her life in the form of anti depressants and who use vaccines for every known disease for her and her children, have traffic and advertisers out the wazoo.
Not complaining, I understand the various forces at work attempting to disrupt the flow of information on the web.
Movable Type proved nearly impossible for me to edit and once, I lost all of my content as I attempted to change the CSS format into something that looked a little more colorful. Paul helped me find my blog posts after I made that costly mistake and I just reconciled myself to the fact that the type of blog platform I had chosen would not be edited by me and I could not hire anyone to help me make it more beautiful because of a lack of money.
Despite the lack of beauty on my blog, traffic was great, and I consistently had 40,000 unique visitors coming to my site every month. Those who came in for a look often stayed to click around quite a bit and my hits were always at the 400,000 mark. It was not a “high” traffic blog by technorati standards, but I was happy.
In 2009 I had an advertiser express interest in embedding a widget on my blog. I had the technical ability to install pictures with links as ads, but was dismayed by the my lack of ability to install widgets. Thus began my education about widgets, sidebars, flash players, and the various blogging platforms that could or could not host my advertisers content.
In November of 2009 I made the almost impossible decision to download all of my blog archives and begin again on this WordPress Platform. The reason this decision was so difficult is because I knew that I would lose most of my traffic and all of my links would become invalid. I was not aware of how many people were coming into my blog because of postings in chat rooms and email lists. After making the change I realized that over 95 % of my traffic was from search engines and all of those links were invalid. It literally made me sick to lose all of that traffic when I had worked so hard to write and produce multimedia that others found valuable.
Recently I went into my blog archive from the old movable type platform and looked at my traffic from the past year. It still records who is coming in, who referred them, and what they are attempting to look at, even though the post is gone. I was again disheartened to learn that 240,183 unique visitors had come in trying to find my posts over the past year and every single one of those people had been turned away. I also had a total of 524,839 hits to my blog, again resulting in INTERNAL SERVICE ERROR replies to my potential readers.
This past month a post I did on that former blog platform called Jennys Flu Soup, which I cross posted at Free Republic was the high traffic post of the month. 1,659 people wanted to access my blog to get more information about my soup recipe and it was not there for them to read. UUUGGGGHHHHhhhh!!!
I have now been happily blogging at WordPress for over a year and my total unique visitor count is 44,586. Wordpress does not indicate unique visitors vs. hits in the stats. I suspect that number is just hits, although it could be unique visitors, I don’t know. The point is my traffic has NEVER recovered from the change and it just makes me sad.
I quickly learned that while WordPress has amazing features regarding embedding widgets and installing videos in blog entries, Blogger has some nice features as well. So last year I created a Blogger version of this blog and every once in a while I import all of my recent posts to keep it updated. Changing my archives from movable type to wordpress to blogger is a story that would take a book to write, it was not easy and made for a very difficult transition. Those archived posts on Blogger all look a little screwy, but the words and some of the links are still the same for those who want to wade through that maze of formatting hell.
Do I have any advice for a Mom who is just beginning her blogging career?
Sure.
If you are looking to just journal your life and import pictures of your family to later be made into a book, use Blogger. It is so easy to use.
If you are writing a blog that is for technical or professional use and want to really impress your associates and include advertising on your site, use the services of a Professional Web Hosting Company like Fatcow to create a polished, amazing finished product with WordPress as the Blogging Platform. Wordpress allows you to upload your multimedia content in text, audio, video, and still pictures to share with readers. Wordpress also has Comment Sections that can be hooked up to Facebook and Twitter Accounts so that your blog will immediately be published on your favorite social media sites!
I have used them exclusively for many years to host my web site, and love the technical service, it really cannot be beat!
If you are writing a blog that is meant to poke the powers that be, disrupt the flow of dollars and resources currently flooding into the coffers of the New World Order, then for sure, use WordPress to smack them at every juncture.
Use Fatcow services to re register your domain every year (Mine is WWW.JennyHatch.com) and every week or so save your posts in a file that is not contained in your computer so that you can easily and within minutes be back on the web posting when they hack your site, flood your home computer with viruses, and mangle the files stored on your laptop.
You can also have several blogs “waiting in the wings” all ready to go, so that if they tear down your site, you can easily make those blogs hosted at Live Journal, Blogger, Posterous, and WordPress go live the second they pull your content off the web. I have designed several blogs to serve this purpose in my life should the powers that be attempt once again, to pull down this site.
It comforts me to know that my voice will be heard even if they manage to hack and attack to the point where I am completely disabled…
Don’t assume that every “alternative” news outlet will be willing to host your content. When I began blogging, Pajamas Media was happy to post quite a bit of my content on the site. Then shortly after I had sent along that very post on Alternative Remedies for Flu, which they used, they would not accept any more of my stuff and I noticed a Theraflu ad prominently posted on the site a few weeks after not accepting any more posts.
Free Republic has been the most willing site to host my content these past 6 years. Huffington Post has also hosted a few of my citizen journalism reports, and I have had content posted at The Bitter Pill since Amy Philo invited me to be a guest blogger at the site. These sites are all way more popular than they used to be and all you can do as a blogger is send your links to them and hope that they will post and in the case of Free Republic, not pull your content off once it is published.
I also started writing for Blog Critics Magazine last year and although they only published about half of what I sent to them, they were willing to publish a few of my articles.
No money has been involved in any of these collaborations. I blog because I love to write and I am PASSIONATE about my content. I would love to make a few more dollars from my writing, but selling one book a month on amazon and getting ten or fifteen dollars every now and again for an ad placement is about all I am making at this juncture. It does pay my web hosting fees, so for now I am content.
When you pick fights with the wealthiest people on the planet, it does tend to ensure that the advertising dollars do not come flowing like a spigot into your bank account. I read that Dooce gets $40,000.00 a month from her advertisers. I wish her well and hope that her blog continues to be a cash cow for her family.
I will not accept ads from companies that poison and intoxicate families.
So, if you have a nice business dedicated to helping families be healthy, consider advertising on The Natural Family Blog. If not, happy trails…
Not sure what makes my comments at Huffington Post so awful that they are continually published and then dumped. But the comment I made agreeing with Liz Cheney was sent down the memory hole…
