WHY WAS MICHAEL SERVETUS BURNED ALIVE AT THE STAKE?

I has taken centuries of suffering to get over  the bloody Crusades (meaning cross bearers) and its torturous Inquisition.  During this time great scholars such as Aristotle and  Galileo suffered by their discovery that the Earth was oval instead of flat as the church thought it was.  Another prominent man, Martin Luther was considered an infidel. He protested Catholicism and founded Protestantism.  Poor Michael Servetus, a scholar and physician who studied the pulmonary system,  was burned alive at the stake because he disagreed with  the church. John Calvin who founded Calvinism and the Presbyterian Church was the culprit behind this atrocity.

Throughout this course of history (Catholic and Protestant) the church has also also persecuted women, as Islamic women are still being oppressed.

Fortunately Islam is now going through what the Crusaders viciously committed for centuries. But now there is a turning point in the Middle East. The Muslim Arab Spring that started in 2010 during the Tunisia Revolution has turned into waves of reform spreading throughout the Arab League.  Young Muslims are seeing the light as they are recognizing women's rights. Fortunately educated voices of humanitarians have  also cried out for church reform, and now even Pope Francis does not think same gender marriages are sins.

The youngest of the "Big Three Related Religions"–Islam founded between 610-622 CE, is still going through a persecution stage.  But there is a light beaming at the end of long, dark tunnel. The people are crying out for democracy, free speech, employment and human rights.  Unfortunately their protests, as often happens, has ended up in bloody civil wars, aggregated even more by the blunder of the 2003 Iraq invasion, attack and occupation of Iraq.

What is more, the good goals have burst into civil disobedience that has erupted  into riots of slaughter and carnage.  Only the people themselves can solve their own civil wars.  Yankees and Confederates in the American Civil War fought it out alone and finally the war ended.

Whether a nation fights on its own or with help of others, these religious wars ends up with millions of casualties among soldiers and civilians alike. Human inherent rights if ignored always climax in deadly wars.

Helene Smith (Mame), 
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

DON'T LET YOUTHS READ WHAT PLATO, BORN IN 429 B.C.E., BELIEVED

Dear Ones. Plato, one of the most astute thinkers of all times, believed in advancement of fresh ideas often squelched by sectarian authoritarians. He was ahead of his time regarding wisdom. His world was caught up in fear and superstition that provoked burning of babies on bonfire (originally bone fire) alters and young women thrown off cliffs. Young men were also sacrificed as burnt offerings on battlefields to appease imagined gods in the sky. In short, his creed was to create a good government,a better one than ever before. Youths, beware of corrupt politics. Be super innovators creating peace in a war-torn world. By the way, Plato,like Socrates his mentor, questioned everything. Both great men believed education was quintessential for young people, as well as government–the best road map to a happy, safer world. Helene (Jingleheimer) Smith (Mame), World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

DONT'T TAKE AMERICA BACK TO IT'S FRAUDULENT WAYS! MOVE THE CHESS MEN FORWARD INSTEAD.

Dear Ones,  What ever happened to life, liberty and happiness? Don't take America back to its fraudulent ways. I love America. The United States is a beautiful nation with goodhearted, kind, considerate people. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. But let's keep our ideals but don't hide our history under a dusty-musty carpet with more interest in a militant corporate industrial war economy than our virtues? The followin  U.S. corruption demonstrates a few outstanding historical events: 

CONSTITUTION WRITTEN BY SLAVE OWNERS WHO REFUSED TO FREE AMERICAN AFRICANS AS ENGLAND DID IN THE 1830S 

HISTORIC GENOCIDE OF FIRST AMERICANS CONSIDERED TO BE THE ENEMY AND EVEN IN THE 1970S TARGETING THESE PEOPLE WITH STERILIZATION UNDER THE CIA

CONSTRUCTION OF MILITARY BASES NEXT TO INDIGENOUS LANDS USED FOR NUCLEAR TESTING AND NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING, MARKED "DANGEROUS ZONES" IN FORMER U.S. ATLASES AND UNWANTED FOREIGN BASES CONTAMINATING LAND

FOR YEARS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION AGAINST WOMEN IN SALEM WITCH TRIALS

NUNS FOR YEARS DRAPED IN LONG BLACK ROBES WITH THEIR HEADS SHAVED UNDER BLACK VEILS SINCE PAUL SAID THEIR HEADS HAD TO BE COVERED FROM FEAR OF THE DEVIL GETTING IN TO WOMEN'S HAIR

WOMEN NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE EVEN THOUGH GREEK PHILOSOPHER PLATO BORN IN 1424 B.C.E SAID WOMEN HAVE THIS RIGHT

INTER-RACIAL MARRIAGES CONSIDERED CRIME VIOLATIONS AGAINST INHERIT HUMAN RIGHTS

SAME GENDER WEDDINGS OUTLAWED

POLITICIANS KILLING OVER 70 THOUSAND JAPANESE CITIZENS WITH GENOCIDAL ATOMIC BOMBS

FAULTY NATION BUILDING BY FORCING REMOVAL OF  SHAW OF IRAN,  ETC
 
2003 U.S. ADMINISTRATION COMMITTING WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ WITH NO PROSECUTION

WHY FOMRER U.S. ATLASES MARKED NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATIONS WITH RED "X's" BESIDE THEIR LAST REMAINNG LANDS?

War is a mockery, a chilling theater of black smoke and asnhes.

How could politicians ignore blatant Muslim warning that Washington and New York City would be attacked by terrible  chaos in America?  The reason being–U.S. leaking oil & gas contamination, a history of thousands of military bases often abandoned with no clean up of toxic lethal poisons and nuclear wastes, as well as child deforming Agent Orange, dumped on foreign land?

Dear Ones,

Native American lands, too, have been nuclear run and dump grounds with over 500 sovereign western nations having militant bases intentionally built next to their sacred land. Years ago I had an atlas marking each site with a red X, denoting were nuclear tests were made, another historic attempt of genocide.  U.S. atlases no longer include these sites still contaminated. Dear Ones, As a result of the United States assuming the uniform as world cops, millions of families and soldiers and animals have died as they in the aftermath of the Iraq War and all wars succumb from war diseases and suicides. I know most forms of life are dear, but how do these atrocities stack up to four Americans killed during the Benghazi attack over an anti-Muslim video?

 Helene Smith, (Mame), World Enlightened News W.E.N)

SURVIVING REFUGEES –A STRONG BACKBONS IN A WORLD NOW MINGLED BY ALL CULURES WITH THE RICH NOW FORCED TO SUPPORT THE POOR

Poetic justice! Already Syria has lost more than half its population.  During and through future aftermath of this religious political war, land mines alone make the nation lethal as wars keep slaughtering.  The Ho Chi Mingh Trail through Laos in the Vietnam War suffered so many missiles fired in carpet bombing that women are still losing their lives as they try to detonate duds to save their children.  By the way the U.S. government tampered with weather by artificially changing the climate on this road to prevent the opposition from getting supplies through during the Monsoon season.

Dear Ones,

Those not directly involved in wars forget about their aftermaths.   All violent aggression causes displaced people to flee from toxic missiles and even crudely built oil drums bursting in air through the stench of bloody, contaminating terrorism.  These demonic barrels are filled with TNT and rusty shrapnel, the bane of wars for decades as soldiers and civilians alike suffer the rest of their lives with this crap under their skin and lodged in their bodies–along with brain disorders and suicides.

But the irony of war mongerng is this.  People escape to other nations as the poor mingle rabidly with the rich, often those living in luxury as their bloated bellies fill up with the fat off the land.

Now the world is quickly becoming an alphabet stew–the mixing of a great variety of rich cultures, customs, mores and languages by survivors who have gained strength through chaos of war.  They.know what dirty, unwanted jobs are like from experience. Many will eventually return to their homelands.  But many will stay and provide new strength to transform Earth to  a vote for peace instead of more war.

Helene Smith (Mame),

World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

CAN U.S. STOP ISIS IN FOREIGN LANDS WHEN IT CAN'T STOP WHITE SUPREMIST KKK IN AMERICA?

Both of these radical groups are dangerous.  They represent hatred on planet Earth that is beautiful but marred by mislead people. Often psychotic, these confused human beings are conditioned and programmed by weak minds that fixate on killing and abusing.  The leaders they follow in turn have been warped by ideologies, a euphemism for absolutist law religions gone astray.

Eventually their poisoned minds will do them in if they don't get help from family or friends.

Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News,  (W.E.N.)

IN BENGHAZI CONSOLATE BOMBING BY TERRORISTS FROM ANTI-MUSLIM VIDE0 CAUSED FOUR AMERICAN DEATHS–BUT 9-11 KILLED 4000

Dear Ones,

This atrocious act, whether spontaneous or not, was done by terrorists, no matter how politicians want to twist the fact..  This former azadministration ignored the following Saudi complaint as transparent injustice in handling the investigation allowed these leaders to get away with murder, violations against International Law and Criminal Court.

I saw this threat broadcast over world TV before 9–11–"Get your unwanted US military bases out of Saudi Arabia or else Washington and New York City will be attacked." But this same administration refused to negotiate with the Muslim warnings. Their plate was already filled up with fixations  on assassinating Iraqi Saddam Hussein, knowing he had previously negotiated U.S. chemicals and biological poisons for illegal biological warfare to Iraq used in proxy Persian Gulf wars. (Riegle Report)

Today the Obama staff especially, Vice  President  Biden and Secretary Kerry, are historically evolving before the eyes of the world.  They have invigorated the trend of serious rhetoric and diplomatic relations versus futile turkey hawk wars that continue to generate religious chaos after centuries of the "Big Three originally Semitic related religions causing millions of deaths and suffering.  Volcanic eruptions and Earthquakes have caused more deaths than what nature has done, and at a faster rate.  Accumulated greenhouse gasses are smothering the lower atmosphere of Earth our common home.

This is why President Obama wants to concentrate on U.S. domestic problems to wean America from military war mongers wanting bigger and more dangerous arsenals that keep expanding.

Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightening News (W.E.N.)
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WHY THE THREE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS ARE STILL FIGHTILNG ONE ANOTHER SINCE THE FIRST CENTURY CE

First of all, d'abord, as they say in France, the acronym definition of B.C. means "before Christ" and A.D. means "in the year of our lord, Anno Domo" with both referring to Christian time.  But the most of the world calculates time according to C.E. –"common era" and B.C.E.–"before the common era."  The later method is universal and includes all people, not just one biased persuasion, what indicates  a cultural lag in culture to this day.

Now for the history of the three related Abrahamic religions in a gun shell.

Dear Ones,

The father of Hebrews, Christians and Muhammadan was Abraham who in 2000 B.C.E. lived in  Babylonia (meaning gods of gods), and its capitol being the city of Babylon.  Here King Nebuchadnezzar built the beautiful Hanging Gardens  one of the ancient world wonders, for his wife.  Today this ancient kingdom is Iraq, Mesopotamia in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It was bombed in 2003 by as administration behaving uncivilized for zealot control of its natural resources, mainly oil.

Abraham and his wife Sarah had a son, Isaac.  After he was born Isaac almost became a burnt offering sacrificed for ancient gods since the primitive religion was based on fear and superstition/. Later Abraham had a son. Ishmael, to a concubine (hand maid) named Hagar.  Meanwhile Sarah proclaimed "No son of Abraham will ever inherit his land." At this time men in a paternalistic world society would never take serious the words  of a woman–unless it was to their advantage.

Meanwhile Pharisee Paul of Tarsus in Asia Minor (now Turkey) founded his new faith, Christianity, that the Hebrew people rejected since they were looking for a Jewish Messiah (even though Jesus was Hebrew).  They were looking for some future prophet to lead them in the first century.  Jesus was believed to have said,  "You can't be a prophet in your own land." Paul later addressed people in Antioch, Syria, (now being blow apart with refugees fleeing by the thousand) where Christians got their name in derision.  Paul, a Jew (meanimg Judah) founded his new religion years after the death of peacemaker Jesus, who he never knew. Gentiles became his followers. In 60 C.E. Roman soldiers beheaded Paul for being the founder of a new religion not allowed by the emperors. This event was after Jesus of Nazareth was crucified for preaching peace among men. Paul's letters and texts now make up most of the New Testament, tacked onto to the ancient Hebrew Bible, what traditional Jews still resent.

Now back to Sarah, Abraham's wife.  Her vehement claim that no one could inherit Abraham's land,  greatly affected the founders of Islam. The Promised land of Israel involved other regions and their shared holy sites such as Philistine, Canaan land of milk and honey, what is still Palestine after all these years.

All three original Semite religions claim Israel (named for mythological Noah's grandson) on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, Temple Mount and other holy sites as there own–common sites as many of the inhabitants continue to shed over them. This alone makes it quintessential for law religion being restricted from governments of people representing every nationality and faith. Non law religions do not have problems for the most part.

Believe what you want, but don't let ingrained rival dogmas rule state affairs, governments by the people.  These wars now are serial killers, proxy aggression with arms exported and imported around the world.  God only knows where they end up as they cause genocide and contaminate Earth with accumulative lethal toxic greenhouse emissions. Religious war departments also mess with nature causing the worst hurricanes, earthquakes and drastic climate changes in the history of the third planet from the sun.    

If these three related religions persist in blowing each other up, all the multitudes caught in the fire,will continue to suffer and die, too. Wars cause the most carbon and are the grossest gas guzzlers.  Lighten up and save Earth and all forms of life!

Helene Smith (Mame)
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)













  

A MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE THREE FIGHTING ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS

Dear fine people, our  spiritual prophets must all be weeping after centuries of these related faiths having so much hatred in their minds that they continue to blow up one another and contaminate Earth, capitalized for respect.  Traditional American  Indians wisdom states,  "We do not own Earth.  Earth own us."  So we only have a window in the history of world time.  So let's make the most of it as we become worthy renters in preserving our only common home from radical weather caused by radical men bombing one another "in God's name."  No deity should have to take the blame for such human atrocities.

May we look within our hearts and see how we scorn one another so much that refugee-making wars have reduced beautiful Earth to rock level. When I hear that displaced war-torn families in desperation are herded into camps with no food or water and have only bare ground to lie down upon I, too, am greatly saddened.

In the zeal to conquer one another for Pyrrhic victories, not worth their cost, human beings are treated like beasts. Since sectarian war warfare is so beastly the suffering are treated like animals.  And the kind people try what ever they can do to help them. They throw bread to them over their pens and even hand bits of food through the chained fences.

The great peacemaker, Jesus, is no longer among the people of the Middle East and can not multiply the bread and the fishes, a traditional story from three holy books of this entire kindred family that has its deep roots stemming back to Biblical days.

I know what endless grief and sorrow people go through. I have lost all my sons.  It is our surviving children we must all think about instead of our selfish endless circling revenge and endless religious strife. The future is theirs, not we the parents.

My next post will be the history of the three related persuasions for young people to know since they don't know why these religions have been fighting each other and themselves since the first century.

Helene Smith (Mame),
I say this in love for all the world's good people.
World Enlightening News (W.E.N.)

BENGHAZI INVESTIGATED FOR DEATGS OF FOUR PEOPLE BUT 9-11 triggered 4000 DEATHS OVER IGNORED SAUDI THREATS TO REMOVE U.S. BASES CAUSING 9–11–NO QUSTIONS ASKED

Negotiation and serious rhetoric trump any irrational wars made by war mongers.  International Law is suppoded to enforce its rules.  More than 4000 lives and even more from the toxic contaminated aftermath were lost on September 11, 2003 when G.W. Bush and his administration intentionally chose to ignore the Muslim warning that something terrible would happen to America if its military bases weren't removed from Saudi Arabia.

But dear one's,  at that time the U.S. Iraq-invasion leaders were instead fixated on exterminating Saddam Hussein who made chemical deals with America and was maintaining order in that sovereign nation that never attacked the United States.  Now that the same administration occupied Iraq and Afghanistan it is unstable and out of control. And there was no independent investigation of the "born again" president who heard voices that "God" told him to go war in these countries.

In the Second Boar War that ended in 1902 against the British, Dutch Paulus Kruger of Transvaal in South Africa  kept a Bible with him at all times. Before he made any political decision he would open his book at random and the first verse he read was what he trusted to commit anything.

Because Bush refused to talk and negotiate with the Muslims he called "evil doers," America suffered greatly from neglect and no negotiation as the president and his staff instead planned to take control of oil by an oil pipe line in Afghanistan while bombing Iraq in a smoke screen. This Tea Party violation of International Law was not enforced.

The cost of lives and trillions of dollars from 9-11 and the wrong-doing Iraqi-Afghanistan war and its aftermath cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars.

The Benghazi bombing cost four lives with political investigations costing tax payers escalating  money as I write.  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure in any nation. 

Helene Smith (Mame)
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

WHAT HISTORICALLY TRIGGERED THE AMERICAN TRAGEDY OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

It wasn't  just the CIA who knew about the warning "If the U.S. doesn't remove its bases from Saudi Arabia, something terrible is going to happen to America. Washington and New York City were targeted for an attack.  

But G.W. Bush and his cronies decided to ignore the threat prior to 9-l–l. Washington and New York City were targeted.  Instead this president fixated on an oil pipe line through Afghanistan.  He was more interested in putting the tragedy on backs of Iraq, a sovereign nation that never attacked America. Besides, would unwanted foreign military bases be allowed to be built on American soil?  O wad the giftie gee us to see ourselves as ithers see us.  Ah yes! The ghost of Bobbie Burns still haunts the world.

Dear Ones,

At the time the president had Muslim guests at the White House and immediately jetted them back to their homeland.  This action was never investigated and in more recent years we found out who funded the 9-11 atrocity, but instead Bush, hearing a voice from "God," waged war on Iraq, with fake excuses of yellow cake and nuclear bombs.

This scenario prompted me to call offices of senators in Washington.  An assistant in one of them said to me, "You mean it wasn't the Iraqis who attacked America."  I knew then we were doomed.  The Bush administration had pulled the wool over the eyes of more sheep than we could imagine.

When the Bush administration invaded attacked and occupied Iraq in 2003 General Colin Powell said. "If the United States buys this aggression, we'll own it."  And now we own the cost of more than a million lives, casualties and contamination of millions of people with the aftermath continuing to kill and brutalize soldiers and non-combatants alike. Once a war is committed, it takes a magician to put it back into the hat.

Statistics don't cover aborted and deformed babies lost in toxic wars. Their parents bury them.  War is the biggest aborter of infants who also die from malnutrition from loss of their mothers in war-torn zones. Little kids also die.  The administration tried to remedy the atrocious carpet bombing and sent the survivors tricycles which they couldn't use among  jagged broken glass and tetanus rusty nail ruins from  U.S. invasive brutality by men violating International Law that prohibits urban war zones and other breaches of human rights..  So their parents ended up taking off the wheels to make into little wheel chairs.

Let's get out of the business of refugee-causing wars and concentrate on bringing secular education and happiness to the world instead. Sunshine and laughter instead of black powder smoke from scorch and burn military "shock and awe"–criminal acts to the environment and all forms of life.

Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News

WHY CAN ONE COUNTRY STOCKPILE NUCLEAR BALLISTICS UNDER GROUND WHILE ITS ADVERSARIES ARE REQUIRED CONSTANT SURVAILLANCE?

All nuclear armed  nations hold the rest of our world as hostages, caught in the middle of threatening cross-fire–with mutual annihilation assured for the deaths of millions.

What is good for the gander is  good for the goose. Injustice of inequality is a constant challenge as nations get even with revenge of past brutality against human rights.

Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

WHEN VICE PRESIDENT AARON BURR FIRED THE FATAL SHOT BRINGING SECRETARY OF STATE ALEXANDER HAMILTON TO HIS KNEES

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the United States, but St. Marys, Georgia is the second oldest city.  Its waterfront is active as boats leave for Cumberland Island, largest barrier reef in this area of the Atlantic Ocean. This all natural ocean beach, resembles a beautiful highway of white sand and dunes protecting all wild life, what it was like when Aaron Burr landed their around 1804.

At that time he had his pick from a herd of wild horses.  These magnificent creatures stem back to the time when Spaniards reintroduced them to America.  Tom and Lucy Carnegie raised thoroughbreds on the island.  Their will stated to let them go to roam with the wild horses. Eventually they all became feral, with foils born free with their manes flying in the wind as they stampede the beach or walk along with tourists and guides, a very emotional sensation of what life was like years ago in then 1700s.

The federal government through Donation Lands awarded General Nathaniel Greene, a hero of the Revolutionary War, with Cumberland Island. Tom and Lucy Carnegie built a house here on the same foundation, now in ruins from war-torn activity and several fires.  Dungeness is still a famous site with the moon shining on it at night, shadows of the past looming over this historic land.  Tom's brother, Andrew the Pittsburgh steel magnate and author, was a frequent visitor to this exquisite National Coastal seashore.

It was John F. Kennedy, Jr. who married a local woman here at the little Baptist Church. At the other end of the island are original homes of the Carnegie family, open for guests staying over night.

The town itself has unforgettable memories from ghosts of former days in Oak Park waterfront cemetery that still has its bricked in border segregating American African people in bondage. Fortunately this is now just a black mark on its past, typical of the times. The town has its quaint old mansions, some now serving as bed & breakfasts. In the old historic center leading to the wharf, there's the French Quarter and adjacent art galleries and boutiques.


But the most historic structure of all is Colonel Archibald Clark's home. He was a classmate of Aaron Burr, Vice President with President Thomas Jefferson.  Alexander Hamilton participated in a number of duels.  But when Burr challenged him to one in 1804 when Hamilton played dirty politics, he  forgot Burr was a professional sharp shooter.  Although the vice-president was victorious Burr had to flee for his life since he had shot the Secretary of State.

Burr retreated to the home of his friend, Clarke, and later visited Col. Butler who owned all of St. Simmonds Island. I wrote the illustrated Return of Aaron Burr about this home now on the National Register. Certain times of the year tours and wine tasting parties are given by the gracious host and  hostess if this remarkably restored house.

For history buffs interested in historic re-enactments this community was bombed in the War of 1812 and during the Civil War. Some of the old houses still have cannon balls filled with shrapnel lodged in their structures.

For years St. Marys operated a huge paper mill on prime property bordering the river and sea. Plans are now being made for a huge resort hotel overlooking the wharf on the St. Marys River. I don't know if an innkeeper/restauranteur has bought the land or not. (check St. Marys Downtown Development Authority (912 882 8111).  But whoever does purchase it, they will enjoy a peaceful life like they never had before–at beautiful St. Marys by the Sea.
had before–at beautiful St. Marys by the Sea.

Today one of the old lumber mill buildings is a landmark site for plays and musicals. Its producers  excellent professional expertise as fine as some of the theaters in New York City.  Barbara Ryan, who produces the fantastic St. Marys Magazine, is also quite actively involved in the playhouse next to a tour railroad car on its original tracks.


St. Marys is the best kept secret in historic United States of America.

Helene Smith (Mame).
World Enlightened News (W. E. N.)

EARTH'S FIRST & ;PRESENT PERSUASIONS ARE STILL BASED ON FEAR & SUPERSTION AS WARS ARE WAGED UNDER THE CLOAK OF RELIGION

For example, when U.S. was are declared churches are draped in political bunting,  For years many of my essays involved "radical preachers"–President Kenyatta of Kenya's words–provoking terrorism among the world's youth. For the first time I heard this truth from a prominent leader in Africa who said this on TV. 

Dear Ones,

The main reason for historic wars has always been absolutist rulers taking advantageous of their forceful power position to gain land, natural resources and control of other nations and territorial governments–the spoils of war. But today the reason for these wars have escalated to survival against nuclear missiles.  So what is the solution for endless sectarian civil (religious) wars, that amount to uncivilized madness?.

By now all thinking people realize the three related rival religions have lone wolf extremists and well-organized followers trying  to exterminate each others faiths, even within their own nations, shades of the torturous Inquisition and beheadings.  The cross-bearing extremist Ku Klux Klan finally was harnessed from lynching with strong laws and penalties while ISIS continues to endanger humanity.

Does anyone think radical leaders must call off their dogmas that declare "My religion is the only real, legitimate one?"  The pitchers continue to pour out fighting words into the minds of those already conditioned and programmed to aggression, often young people who listen to authoritarians instigating terrorism .  But youths of today are more astute than most of us think. Why should they take the brunt of wars when adults sit at home willing to sacrifice their  lives for any cause war mongers can hang bunting on.

Just this past week a  new Pauline religion, among thousands of others, takes its man-written persuasion books as Latin sanctum sanctorum.  They interpreted the Bible as meaning parents must beat their children for their inherent sins.  Sadly one son is dead from satanic religious corruption and the other one almost died from the "holiest of holies."

If preachers in power would stop blaming their gods for committing wars, Earth would be a much better place among all the stars and planets in the universe. And young people wouldn't have to be sacrificed as primitive men did by their burnt offerings of youths to the gods. Superstition and fear are still the world's worst bane.

Abusive archaic beliefs still provoke corruption in a global flaming tinderbox.  Let's bring in some sunlight to relieve the dark shadows of the past.

Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N

AGENT ORANGE IS NOT A NEW SPICE

Let's face it with more than face book. World military departments instigated by religious  , are the real culprits of weapons of massive devastation.  Look these departments of everlasting doom straight in the eye.  Everyone knows their main fixation is death and the escalation of the most  inhumane devices to cause death and suffering that amounts to serial killing.

These satanic behemoth measures lead to aftermaths that keep on killing and deforming new born babies from war contaminants–toxic chemicals, deadly oil spills, radioactive arsenals and stock piles that keep the cold and bloody hot wars exploding.

Dear Ones,

We all know no nation wants to be dumped on–what happened with deformity and cancer causing wastes such as herbicide Agent Orange and nuclear disease-causing debris that's often dumped in international U.S. military bases, especially those left unclean and abandoned.  Besides all this extermination and defective mutations, wars cause millions of refugees, displaced and fleeing people from bombs bursting in air, land and seas.

So what should we do when nations try to kill one another? For one thing, it's usually over three related rival religions all shouting "We're the best!" All countries must negotiate and use serious rhetoric for equality and freedom of personal beliefs. Not what G. W. Bush did by invading, attacking and occupying Iraq.  General Colin Powell warned America if we did this illegal behavior, according to International Law, we would own Iraq–lock, stalk and barrel–an impossible situation that President Obama is attempting to solve, in Afghanistan as well.

What would happen if we brought our troops home and let Russia and the Middle East solve their own problems with political radical ISIS?  The United States must deal with this same ISIS and others as well in our own homeland.  For instance, faith-based Ku Klux Klan and other fanatical   maddening evangelical religions are also racist, with men foaming at the mouth as some members beat their children to death if they try to leave the cult–even their own sons?

America job description does not include "Be THE COPS OF THE WORLD!"

Helene Smith (Mame,
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)



Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

RONALD REAGAN ENVISIONED A WORLD FREE OF NUCLEAR WARS

Why can't human beings rid ourselves of radioactive arsenals all over Earth?
This is the dream  of the universe.  But it's a pipe dream in a war economy where corporate military industrial money means more than human and all forms of life.

Dear Ones,

Our oceans alone are filling up with warming nuclear and chemical wastes as nations dump and run to get rid of these toxins and cancer producing poisons killing marine life. Atomic energy is the dirtiest fuel of all. It was  in Somalia where modern pirates erupted to ward off rogue ships dumping radioactive waste lapping at it's shoreline. No nation wants the waste, often dumped on American Indian nations.

Nuclear torpedo testing and scuttling outdated radioactive military submarines and active ones  worldwide melt arctic ice as they travel.  Political warriors cheer because the meltdown will enable faster commercial travel, while at the same time fish and shrimp will have to be made from non–organic matter.  When this happens, it remains to be seen how people fare health-wise.

It may take nature itself or some force beyond outer space to jolt us into taste for improved chocolate chip cookies instead of bitter taste for more Earth destroying endless religious wars still inflaming the only planet we know that supports life. As long there's one string left on the harp of hope, future generations may have a chance.  And that doesn't include HAARP in Alaska– electro-magnetism– climate change such as what the U.S. did during the Vietnam War on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, as well as severe carpet bombing with women still detonating duds. Besides centuries of accumulated greenhouse gas emissions and lethal explosions, is this also causing radical weather change?

Young people commit suicide from war-torn combat or crippled or brain damaged for life will take the lead. They're already jaded by being sacrificed for missile fodder by reckless armed force leaders and archaic thinking.  Religious wars need to be solved by their own people burdened by their own civil wars. Each nation must solve its own ISIS and other absolutist extreme political problems that are plaguing Earth.

International negotiation and serious rhetoric is sign of a new age for life,  liberty and happiness.

–"O beautiful, for spacious skies and golden fields of grain, for purple mountains majesty . . . . "

Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

GUN LAWS ARE QUINTESSENTIAL FOR SHOOTERS OUT OF CONTROL OF THEIR MINDS GONE MAD

Years ago I used to perform in a one-woman monologue on the life of Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly) who in a whirlwind tour broke record in less time than Phileas Fogg in  Jules Verne's novel Around the World in 80 Days.  She was born in Apollo, PA–a journalist who investigated New York's mental hospitals by admitting herself as a deranged patient.  She was sponsored by the editor and owner of WORLD NEWS in New York City.

Dear Ones,

Through her book Ten Days in a Mad House she brought instant reform to mental hospitals in New York City as soon as newspaper boys hit the streets with headline news, "EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT!"  This was in the dark days when mental institutions were called "snake pits."  Any family member could be committed with no psychological testing, just to get rid of the person.

Now America must reform its gun laws. To hell you say–the U.S. doesn't even have gun laws! Gun shooters are often people with mental problems including hot-headed young men obsessed with uncontrollable anger and hatred. We also need to bring back better education and mental institutions instead of draining national coffers for more war.

Helene Smith (Mame),
Enlightened World News   (Historic folder with author's photo showing impersonated Nellie Bly is in  Pennsylvania Room of Carnegie Library in Oakland section of Pittsburgh.)

WHEN THE G.W. BUSH ADMINISTRTION INVADED, ATTACKED AND OCCUPIED IRAQI 2003

It was for oil control, violations against International Law and its International Court.  The administration committed war crimes and was never prosecuted.  Words expressing sorry helps, but unenforced punitive action just makes it easier for the same crimes to repeat themselves.  This worldwide law alone states urban areas must not become battlefields of violence and terrorism forced onto children  and other non-combatants victimized with trauma, suffering and death. 

But arrogant leaders went full steam ahead by carpet bombing a sovereign nation that had never attacked the U.S., with most of thinking America shocked by the awe of bulling in the name of "nation building in God's name"–innocent millions of people killed, maimed and war-torn by a born-again Christian who said his god told him to do it.  We hear about "passing the buck" but this inhumane genocide and child deforming warfare is the epitome of reckless irresponsibility.  

Dear Ones,

The U.S. that led aggression against a sovereign  nation that never attacked America, carpet bombed the city of Fallujah so grotesquely that  women there are continuing to give birth to still-borns and severely deformed  infants, as all combatant parents on all sides of war catastrophes suffer with chemical and radioactive weaponry.

Doctors without borders are the heroes of modern warfare.  When their hospital in Afghanistan  was bombed to smithereens in October 2015, a nuclear age coined  word, the world rose up in outrage for good reason.

But why wasn't the Bush administration, that admitted it was wrong,  get the same response? Senator Obama and most American also objected to this atrocity, a genocidal International Law offense.  And it was President Obama that was left with this outrageous chaos that spilled over into neighboring Syria.

We the government of the United States must stop meddling in Middle Eastern affairs,  what President Jefferson insisted, other than offering humanitarian aid. Wars of illegal toxic weapons exchange ending up in unintended places and chicanery through proxy wars must end for beautiful Earth and all its inhabitants.

Remember the WWII song, When the Lights Go On Again, All Over the World and When Johnny Comes Marching Home, all the people will cheer–hurrah! hurrah! This is the most genuine victory of all. The spoils of war increase dirty politics for more endless combat. Blessed are the peacemakers.


Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

BEWARE OF WARRIER CANDIDATES SAYING, LIKE G.W. BUSH, "GOD TOLD ME TO GO TO WAR/"

When anyone blames a deity having no recorded history other than the most modern ones following the linage of gods and goddesses of prehistoric time, you will be led through faith and archaic holy books written  by men in a paternalistic world of endless serial killer wars and oppression against women.

Dear Ones,

Even Paulus Kruger, the Dutch president of the South African Republic during the second Boar War of 1888, believed God led him to war, as did Genghis Khan and other misled un-evolved men in histor.

Kruger was uneducated except for his Bible he had as a child. When it came time for a serious national decision, he opened this book, the only one he ever read, and the first verse he randomly saw was the one his god led him to for his war plan. Today many evangelicals follow the same dangerous decision as they also depend upon governmental choices through prayer, with a god who answers them at his own whim.  But that's all right.  After all, God is God!

Dear Ones,

By the way, when President Kruger wasn't wearing his beaver top hat, his wife used it as a waste basket.

Helene (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

THANK GOODNESS FOR C-SPAN FEATURING REP. LORETTA SACHEZ WHO USED TO LIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Her warrior views are the same as mine. The U.S. military takeover of the world, even within American embassies overpowering foreign affairs with their increased security due to imperialism, is a perilous sign of aggressive measures that turn off citizens of each nation. I love America, but she is being bullied by the militant corporate industrial war machine making Earth and all forms of life sick.

Dear Ones,

Embassies were originally havens of humanitarian sanctuaries that secured  human rights. Added to this imperialism I again note the history of thousands of American worldwide polluting military bases bullying foreign lands where the people have to suffer the consequences of contamination, including the health of military families.

America is great because of its freedom, but when any nation decides their government is the best, this is why the entire Roman Empire fell–the people's money used for excessive armies and lethal weaponry as domestic funds crept into the overpowering military.

The United States government by overturning the Shaw of Iran provoked an avalanche that started a hard ball to roll into the 2003 invasion of Iraq that is an International Law violation.  Because this war crime went unenforced the Middle East has turned into a barrel bomb explosive mission that involves the original three Semite rival religions gone berserk. It is so complex, no president can sort it out, especially when the military if blowing black gun powder smoke to cover up even the tragedy of recent Doctors Without Borders hit with numerous deaths. The army was warned that what they targeted was a hospital, another violation against International Law and its Criminal Court.

Getting back to Representative Sanchez, born In Mexico, I can imagine her as a future president since she understands the culture of the Middle East along with her long experience as a member of the House.

Some day women will indeed be elected president instead of neglected in these United States. There will even be presidents not born in the U.S.  Albert Einstein, father of the world's most famous equation also influenced scientific philosophy. What a great president he would have been–especially since he abhorred war, the cloak of murder.



Helene Smith (Mame)
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

THANK GOODNESS FOR BERNIE SANDERS AND THOM HARTMANN TWO OF THE MOST INTELLEGENT MEN IN THE AMERICAS

For aeons I have watched the Thom Hartmann TV show.  This talk host is the top radio host in the United States. He long ago had the wisdom to include Senator Sanders daily on  his programs.

Dear Ones,

On October 4th C-SPAN, another excellent channel,  had Peter interview Thom Hartmann.  The response was overwhelming. For years Thom Hartmann coverage was limited and many people didn't have the opportunity to hear him and the senator.  I am indeed indebted with gratitude to these fine gentlemen for knowledge I would never have gleaned otherwise.

What greater men could lead these United States.

Helene Smith (Mame),
founder of World Enlightened News (W.E.N.), author of 50 published books based on history and the arts

ALL SANE ADULTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO OWN FIREARMS FOR PERSONAL AND FAMILY PROTECTION IF THEY FEEL THE NECESSITY

The National Rifle Association intimidates politicians.  With no action or protective laws to counter domestic attacks, America quakes in fear of more weapon slaughter in the hands of reckless, misled, confused and weak minded boys and immature men.

As I wrote in my last post, it's not the guns that kill innocent people in all walks of life. It's the powerful ammunition that is back firing and causing nationwide chaos and suffering.  We the government must control our own nation's warfare against one another.  By the way, automatic weapons are not needed to shoot game or to carry out law and order. These type of arms don't belong on the streets of America the beautiful.

Getting back to the Constitution, our founding fathers and  mothers, advising the leaders. meant the right to bear or carry guns.  They didn't infer powerful ammunition of today.  They were only familiar with musket balls and muskets.

But the most vital thing about the colonial leaders was their profound wisdom. Thomas Jefferson who wrote these United States Declaration of Independence and contributed to the thinking behind the establishment of the Constitution, also wrote "Constitutions and laws of order are written for the people of their own time, only."  However, the seasons of man on Earth change and need to be adjusted to fit modern times.

President Jefferson added, "The Constitution and its amendments need to be updated every 34 years."

Congress must make laws demanding licenses for bearing and carrying guns allowed only by responsible, accountable citizens. These licenses must take a certain amount of time to procure.  For god sake, even banks require at least a month for home owners to procure a loan. Drivers, as well as bickers also must have legal licenses.  Beer and wine distributors need to have licenses.  And don't forget marriage, hunting and fishing licenses. And they don't even pertain to life or death. Yet we let deranged and radical, extreme racist religionists get free reign to slay at the whim of a clown hat!

Dear ones, we're centuries behind Father Time!

Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

WHY ISN'T THERE A LAW AGAINST CARELESS WEAPON CARRIERS WIITH NO LICENCE & NO OVERSIGHT FROM SHOOTING UP AMERICA?

Today many deeply troubled boys and men are obsessed by warped demonic means to kill students and people in general, often to carry out their frustrations. Nothing hampers them for their atrocities. And because of their affliction, they seldom live to be prosecuted.

Meanwhile the U.S. requires licenses for many reasons, but nowhere is there demand for gun license that also includes a period of time to processing security measures  so guns don't get in the wrong  hands that kill  innocent people.

Beer and alcohol licenses take time with restaurants willing to wait. Lack of checkup in gun sales give the trigger-happy reckless a free-pass to kill in a rage of  hatred and anger. 

Dear Ones,

Let's overturn the tables of the money changers in the dramatic way Jesus of Nazareth did in the Pauline Testament.  Get to the real problem immediately. It's the wealthy lobbyists in Congress who prevent what is right for America–licensing and laws to control all weapons. There is no law or order in uncontrolled shooting that destroys security for all of us whether out in the public or in the privacy of our beloved homes.

Regarding weapons of aggression, besides individual wild lone wolves, the biggest carbon producers and gas guzzlers in the world are wars. Between domestic violence and the terrorism of toxic greenhouse emission explosions, we the people and green Earth are being extinguished by weapons in the wrong hands. Keep your powder dry, but weapons without license or security measures  amount to  delusive madness.

One of Willie Nelson's ballads he wrote is, What Ever Happened to Peace on Earth?"  Let's start singing instead of loading weapons for gun slinging on the streets of America or in urban war zones.

Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News (W.E.N.)

U.S. MILITARY RECKLESSLY DROPPED 7 H-BOMBS ON LAND AND IN THE SEA–SHOULD IT BE IN CHARGE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?

The United States is a powder keg with a history of tax payers building and maintaining thousands of military bases,  leaking and reeking, with spilled oil as they pollute nature–especially the abandoned ones.  The military leaves these bases without cleaning them up because it is too expensive.  Wars are Pyrrhic, not worth their cost–named for a king who learned the hard way. These bases all conveniently provide worldwide land for covering up toxic military waste and surplus poisons such as Agent Orange. Under black shadow of secrecy, they conceal their waste, like cats in a pile of sand.

Dear Ones,

How can the military bring American security when it is irresponsible and unaccountable for  deaths and suffering on the only planet we know, as do all government aggressive armies.  In cahoots with our government and its machine of endless serial killing, turkey vulture political leaders are  more interested in the military industrial profits that only benefit wealthy corporations.  Instead of listening to our wise prophets, all war economies worship a sacred sacrificial cow, young people offered up as burnt offerings while the world prays for international peace.

Right now the House of Representatives is haggling over war victims in order to nix the Iran Nuclear deal.  But to be fair what about the victims of atomic bombs killing and maiming thousands upon  thousands of Japanese citizens even though their government was historically in the midst of surrendering.  But it all about us.

And don't forget U.S. genocide of American Indians. Do we also have memory loss of how in the 1970s these same indigenous people were victims of extermination through forced sterilization under the hand of the CIA director.  It was Senator James Abourezk who exposed these atrocities before Congress. None of the above victims and families have ever gotten recompense for their suffering and losses. It is way over due for lighting a torch to see our own corruption, like the history of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the worse regulatory agency in our own government–we the people.

My family and I were dyed in the wool Republicans for decades, but ever since the born-again Tea Party took over, Eisenhower warning about industrial military warfare has gone unheeded.   And it has been no party ever since!



So Republicans in Congress, cut blaming others as a lame excuse to oppose the international Iran Nuclear Agreement so well-researched with time and diligence.

Helene Smith, (Mame)
World Enlightening News (W.E.N.)