The vast Roman Empire fell when its military funds used most of the royal coffers for aggression, conquest, greed, control and power. Can the world not learn from the ancient past? Cicero said, "Those who don't know their history remain children all their lives." Virgil wrote, "There is no safety in war." We need to return history classes in our schools, what would also increase employment.
Dear Ones,
It's not the old foggys, but instead Earth's youths–programmed to be human sacrificial lambs–who are now rising up in power. They are sick of wars, especially on their own soil. Combat soldiers and their families grieve and are stressed out from deaths, life-long physical and mental handicaps and abandonment of combatants in the aftermath of reckless irresponsible wars that are disgraceful, with overwhelming expenses. Service forces will always be needed for natural mega-disasters that keep increasing from war explosions and activity.
War veterans know the most regarding being used and then left standing in line for medical help with many dying in the waiting list. Without war, there is international safety and defense. You would think that evolving man, short for human, would have realized this by now, since anyone not in favor of world peace are left behind in the progress of human equality.
So how do youths combat such powerful authoritians without more blood shed that also causes poverty and a cantaminated Earth? Here's the secret. What do young people want? It boils down to happiness, health, excitement, adventure, recognition, competition, security and employment–youth choice versus old people's choice in continuing archaic sacrifices on battlefield alters of burnt offerings to the gods.
My blog, ANGELS FOR PEACE–ZILLIONS OF WORLD VOICES, proves how much Earth is yearning for the end of failed solutions in wars. The world yearns to give youths choices instead of constant of endless killer wars, with some of the youths dying in the process of training.
The answer is–the Earth must have an alternative to combat. This new vision is in sports. In other words, those who do not want to be conditioned, programmed or trained to kill can choose exilerating sports instead. But this would require international co-operation. The periodic Olympics are wonderful, but annual competition among nations would bring value to all lives, parents as well as young people.
This would mean good paying salaries, from funds not used for aggression. An increase of employment through sports would be a tremendous asset, with young people staying home to raise their children instead of losing the best part of their lives on foreign military toxic soil.
The sports idea is just one alternative. Those interested in the arts would also have a chance to succeed in their interests–music, singing, dancing, painting, drawing, writing and so much more versus obsolete bombs, toxic missiles and lethal chemical and radioactive munitions, all illegal regarding international law that is not enforced.
In drone and climate warfare the military tampers with global climate change that is turning into drastic disasters and devastation as nature rebels from greenhouse gas emissions as well. International treasures could be used for the good things of life instead of death through torture machines, cyber war games and secret hacking to spy on other nations about their newest satanic war devices.
The endless circle of flame for centures has fueled religious wars, with youths serving as scapegoats. Combat soldiers are grieved by losing their best friends as their parents never get over the losses of their children.
Thank goodness the present administration is showing signs of negotiation skills and cutting down the size of the military. Remember, the most powerful nations in the world struts like peacocks on steroids, have enough nuclear bombs and child-deforming ammo to blow up the entire Earth, but none of them could stop surprise attack such– as on September 11, 2001–unless the administration had listened to the threatening warning over U.S. military bases on foreign lands that was ignored–now a historical recorded fact.
Plato wrote,
"Only the dead see the end of wars."
But it is the older generation that still doesn't get it.
Mame
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
VISIONS OF WISDOM–FIRST NATIONS WITHIN A NATION
During the first largest holocaust Native Americans were targeted and died by the thousands of untold numbers. Europeans came to America seeking freedom from religious suppression and oppression. But once the newcomers experienced liberty of expression and worship, they imposed the same hardship and cruelty on indigenous people in North, Central and South Americas. Missionaries set out to take their land and proselytize them against their will. American Africans got the same treatment in slave ships where they had buckets of water poured over them for baptism into a foreign cult–according to dictionary meaning.
Dear Ones,
As I wrote before, there is no word for religion in traditional First American vocabularies. This ethnic group reflects the first spirituality in the United States. Their members never fought in the name of religion. In later years their youths served in most American wars as citizens of the United States, as did American Africans.
American Indian spirituality is different from religion that has dogma as its foundation, meaning enforced religious man-made laws. This fact becameflamentory when those opposing the Pauline religion were tortured and abused. These indigenous people do not worship any deity. Instead the original people respect nature and live close to it as they object to anything that would harm the environment, the sustenance of us all.
People no longer call European cultures tribes, as they once were. There are more than 550 nations within the United States nation. These traditionalists speaking their own language and living on the last remnants of their sacred land, are now referred to as Native Nations out of respect for the original people. As much as fundamentalists tried, no one could take from traditionalists their original belief system amd languages, what they are now teaching their offspring. They never accepted any foreign religion.
State and church historically worked in cahoots with one another, with intentional extermination through genocide. Native Nations are around two percent in U.S. population surveys. Regarding their wisdom and way of life, here is a passage from the book, Visions of Wisdom that I wrote with sacred Sun Dance leader, Mickey Old Coyote of the Apsaalooka Nation–at his request.
"We are one with Earth. We belong to Earth, not the Earth to us. Those who help Earth help themselves and others as well. We comprehend a superior power who has no gender. Our down-to-Earth spirituality is neither mystical nor lofty. It is practical. We do not elude to grandeur or pretension. We see honest truth through observing nature.
We make peace with that powerful force stronger than we are. It is the great voice in the thunder and the four sacred winds–First Maker. All these elements–Earth, fire, water and are–are life-giving. We communicate with nature for inspiration and all our needs for survival, nourishment and hope. We proclaim no place called hell. Neither is it devil-driven. We are not born in sin, a concept that has no meaning in our culture–what "the Black Robes brought to our land.
Traditionalists have no man-made cathedrals filled with stolen gold of the Americas. We look up at the lodge-pole pines, a spiral to the sky. We need no edifice other than the mountains and plains of our sacred lands. There is no date of the beginning of our spirituality. It is timeless. Traditionalists make no claims or controversial dogma portrayed as false truths.
First Nations never had reason to break into factions. Yet, a confused belief has been enforced on us who have no animosities among hundreds of First Nations. We base our culture on ancient philosophical beliefs, devoid of gods born of virgins and rising again, what defies nature. Mythology is not part of our ancestral history. Our stories are teaching methods for our young to learn about life and how to deal amiably with others.
Our belief system adheres to nature that progresses with the greatest regularity based on insight and ancient, enlightened knowledge. Nature offers beauty, optimism and a good feeling toward a bright future. Nature guides us to life-sustaining methods of survival and nourishment that the unelected Bureau of Indian Affairs has tried to squelch ever since its beginning. By living intimately close to nature we deplore man-made devastation of the only planet we know.
Our value system was ripped apart by B.I.A schools, what missionaries fought over as they used government take-over of our funds–stolen monies for foreign schools in the East, with some students running away on foot and returning to their homes on reservations, are last sacred lands. Churches that are not taxed also took away our land for their buildings against our wishes, as students' braids were cut off along with other abuses they had to endure, such as not allowing them to speak in their own tongues to one another. Some died from resisting religious bigotry with these early schools their secret burial grounds.
Traditionalists inherently are conservationists, naturalists and ecologists deeply revering Earth and all its wonders, as many of the young people volunteer for fires on westerns lands and were builders of modern day skyscrapers. If our culture had been free to follow our own value system, we would not have problems forced on us today, such as welfare, what we never needed until our rights were taken from us. Indian spirituality that never died needs not be reborn. It survives now stronger than ever."
In the voice of Chief Plenty Coups in 1912,
"Their wise ones said we might have their religion, but . . . we found there were too many kinds of religion among white men and scarcely any two agreed which was the right one to learn. This bothered us a good deal [since they] did not take religion any more seriously than [their] laws . . . [only taking advantage of them] when dealing with strangers. These are not our ways. We have never been able to understand white man, who fools nobody but himself."
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Author tweets for international
peace and peace of mind
Dear Ones,
As I wrote before, there is no word for religion in traditional First American vocabularies. This ethnic group reflects the first spirituality in the United States. Their members never fought in the name of religion. In later years their youths served in most American wars as citizens of the United States, as did American Africans.
American Indian spirituality is different from religion that has dogma as its foundation, meaning enforced religious man-made laws. This fact became
People no longer call European cultures tribes, as they once were. There are more than 550 nations within the United States nation. These traditionalists speaking their own language and living on the last remnants of their sacred land, are now referred to as Native Nations out of respect for the original people. As much as fundamentalists tried, no one could take from traditionalists their original belief system amd languages, what they are now teaching their offspring. They never accepted any foreign religion.
State and church historically worked in cahoots with one another, with intentional extermination through genocide. Native Nations are around two percent in U.S. population surveys. Regarding their wisdom and way of life, here is a passage from the book, Visions of Wisdom that I wrote with sacred Sun Dance leader, Mickey Old Coyote of the Apsaalooka Nation–at his request.
"We are one with Earth. We belong to Earth, not the Earth to us. Those who help Earth help themselves and others as well. We comprehend a superior power who has no gender. Our down-to-Earth spirituality is neither mystical nor lofty. It is practical. We do not elude to grandeur or pretension. We see honest truth through observing nature.
We make peace with that powerful force stronger than we are. It is the great voice in the thunder and the four sacred winds–First Maker. All these elements–Earth, fire, water and are–are life-giving. We communicate with nature for inspiration and all our needs for survival, nourishment and hope. We proclaim no place called hell. Neither is it devil-driven. We are not born in sin, a concept that has no meaning in our culture–what "the Black Robes brought to our land.
Traditionalists have no man-made cathedrals filled with stolen gold of the Americas. We look up at the lodge-pole pines, a spiral to the sky. We need no edifice other than the mountains and plains of our sacred lands. There is no date of the beginning of our spirituality. It is timeless. Traditionalists make no claims or controversial dogma portrayed as false truths.
First Nations never had reason to break into factions. Yet, a confused belief has been enforced on us who have no animosities among hundreds of First Nations. We base our culture on ancient philosophical beliefs, devoid of gods born of virgins and rising again, what defies nature. Mythology is not part of our ancestral history. Our stories are teaching methods for our young to learn about life and how to deal amiably with others.
Our belief system adheres to nature that progresses with the greatest regularity based on insight and ancient, enlightened knowledge. Nature offers beauty, optimism and a good feeling toward a bright future. Nature guides us to life-sustaining methods of survival and nourishment that the unelected Bureau of Indian Affairs has tried to squelch ever since its beginning. By living intimately close to nature we deplore man-made devastation of the only planet we know.
Our value system was ripped apart by B.I.A schools, what missionaries fought over as they used government take-over of our funds–stolen monies for foreign schools in the East, with some students running away on foot and returning to their homes on reservations, are last sacred lands. Churches that are not taxed also took away our land for their buildings against our wishes, as students' braids were cut off along with other abuses they had to endure, such as not allowing them to speak in their own tongues to one another. Some died from resisting religious bigotry with these early schools their secret burial grounds.
Traditionalists inherently are conservationists, naturalists and ecologists deeply revering Earth and all its wonders, as many of the young people volunteer for fires on westerns lands and were builders of modern day skyscrapers. If our culture had been free to follow our own value system, we would not have problems forced on us today, such as welfare, what we never needed until our rights were taken from us. Indian spirituality that never died needs not be reborn. It survives now stronger than ever."
In the voice of Chief Plenty Coups in 1912,
"Their wise ones said we might have their religion, but . . . we found there were too many kinds of religion among white men and scarcely any two agreed which was the right one to learn. This bothered us a good deal [since they] did not take religion any more seriously than [their] laws . . . [only taking advantage of them] when dealing with strangers. These are not our ways. We have never been able to understand white man, who fools nobody but himself."
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Author tweets for international
peace and peace of mind
Sunday, May 18, 2014
HALF CENTURY REVENGE OF CORPORATE SLAUGHTER FROM U.S. PREDATOR DRONES
A professor at MIT said he regrets his work on drones that fuel hatred instead of protecting Americans. "It is revolting that anyone could accept to do that, just kill people from a room somewhere as if they are non-human"–his own words about unmanned people killers–assassination. Ingrained militant global flying machines cause world havoc, an ongoing carbon boot step to an all out explosive robot war.
Dear Ones,
There needs to be an immediate moratorium against 50 secret years of global world military terrorism–unmanned robots–what makes the killers have the same notoriety as those targeted. The Bush-Cheney administration provoked an increase in drone attacks as the C.I.A., the Pentagon and drone supporters of Congress carried out demonic carnage increasing global violence. These men also initiated legislature to bolster drone warfare and the controversial School of the Americas that trains recruits for torturous inhumane programming,
There is a strong animus against drone assassinations by angry young men who have lost family members from heartless drones, not to mention the irresponsible fundamentalist world populace. And this retaliation means inevitable counter attack.
Forceful warfare, the latest on the street, is difficult for the present administration to overcome, since militant clandestine powers still advocate the same illegal, insidious warfare that defies international law and court. The military wags the collie, with certain militant wizards in brass armor and ribbons out of harm's way managing the recruitent of scapegoat sacrifices.
Surveys also disclose that fundamentalist Americans don't care!–with many mad ones looking forward to the end of Earth as we know it! Mindless thinking ignores the fact that drone torture is lethal and instead of providing security is increasing threats of boomerang attacks on U.S. soil. Getting even through these armed drones is just continuation of an everlasting circle of gun fire. Besides nuclear, drones now fill our nightmares–with the three related mainstream religions triggering endless vengeance on one another and all others caught in the cross-fire.
Statistics record over 4,700 people killed worldwide in drone attacks, mostly collateral damage, a military term to lessen the shock of human bloodshed–including U.S. citizens–one a sixteen-year old. These atrocities are a disgrace to Earth's indigenous people, traditionalists who avoided killing in a coup–what they mean as having courage to get close enough and touch one another.
First American traditionalists never waged murder in the name of religion, a word missing in their vocabularies. Their spirituality respects the harmony of nature, as reckless war mongers on steroids bomb, devastate and contaminate Earth.
President Carer revealed, "We don't know how many hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed in drone attacks." Indigenous people and Latin America are especially disturbed over drones, with Veterans for Peace, the ACLU and Code Pink vehemently protesting this immoral behavior to stop other immoral mentality–horror tales of massive woe.
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Author tweets for international
peace and peace of mind
Dear Ones,
There needs to be an immediate moratorium against 50 secret years of global world military terrorism–unmanned robots–what makes the killers have the same notoriety as those targeted. The Bush-Cheney administration provoked an increase in drone attacks as the C.I.A., the Pentagon and drone supporters of Congress carried out demonic carnage increasing global violence. These men also initiated legislature to bolster drone warfare and the controversial School of the Americas that trains recruits for torturous inhumane programming,
There is a strong animus against drone assassinations by angry young men who have lost family members from heartless drones, not to mention the irresponsible fundamentalist world populace. And this retaliation means inevitable counter attack.
Forceful warfare, the latest on the street, is difficult for the present administration to overcome, since militant clandestine powers still advocate the same illegal, insidious warfare that defies international law and court. The military wags the collie, with certain militant wizards in brass armor and ribbons out of harm's way managing the recruitent of scapegoat sacrifices.
Surveys also disclose that fundamentalist Americans don't care!–with many mad ones looking forward to the end of Earth as we know it! Mindless thinking ignores the fact that drone torture is lethal and instead of providing security is increasing threats of boomerang attacks on U.S. soil. Getting even through these armed drones is just continuation of an everlasting circle of gun fire. Besides nuclear, drones now fill our nightmares–with the three related mainstream religions triggering endless vengeance on one another and all others caught in the cross-fire.
Statistics record over 4,700 people killed worldwide in drone attacks, mostly collateral damage, a military term to lessen the shock of human bloodshed–including U.S. citizens–one a sixteen-year old. These atrocities are a disgrace to Earth's indigenous people, traditionalists who avoided killing in a coup–what they mean as having courage to get close enough and touch one another.
First American traditionalists never waged murder in the name of religion, a word missing in their vocabularies. Their spirituality respects the harmony of nature, as reckless war mongers on steroids bomb, devastate and contaminate Earth.
President Carer revealed, "We don't know how many hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed in drone attacks." Indigenous people and Latin America are especially disturbed over drones, with Veterans for Peace, the ACLU and Code Pink vehemently protesting this immoral behavior to stop other immoral mentality–horror tales of massive woe.
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Author tweets for international
peace and peace of mind
Friday, May 16, 2014
THE AFTERMATH OF WAR–CONTINUED HELL!
The U.S. and other top military governments have funds to commit wars but never enough to clean up their messes–with taxpayer's money that could instead by used for education and health–such as research evidence for the cause of cancer and other war diseases from pesticides made from WWII surplus nerve gases that kill.
World war departments recruit youths to be scapegoat sacrifices as these combat soldiers are proudly announced that they are sacrifices for god and county!–on battlefield alters carried over from the archaic past when children were given up to gods as burnt offerings–in the name of a god, the generic name for deity. What good god would want such a satanic thing!
Does it never occur to the high brass that human sacrifices–with big generals that betray us out of harms way–are an insult to combat soldiers as they die and are wounded in battle, if they don't take their own lives first–a very sad, grievous fact.
Mark Twain was right, he wanted no part of war after experiencing it. He said his biggest aim was in making a bee-line to the nearest fence, jump over it and go home. I mention this fact from time to time because I am thankful that he saved his life as the world forever enjoys his wonderful literature and humor.
This brings up another pet peeve. After one war is over before going into the next endless one, wounded combatants are brushed aside and often die from waiting in line to get treatment. We should not be surprised with the format of war–a bad habit of committing and abandoning those who were trained, programmed and conditioned into killing, as we wonder why minds are stressed out with trauma for the rest of the lives of armed combat forces.
When the Bush wars first attacked Iraq and Afghanistan I envisioned thousands of dead and dying soldiers on both sides, with the survirors coming home without legs and arms and shell-shocked minds. None of us should be surprised over these war-torn youths.
Caskets are rarely seen in large numbers coming back from battles–out of sight, out of mind. All the therapy in the world cannot erase what combat armed forces have to endure. Whatever helps to bring relief is good–but the subconscious mind never forgets as nightmares attack in the middle of the night.
Besides physical and mental abuse of young people, military bases both domestic and foreign are built and stocked with toxic chemical and child-deforming, mentally retarding munitions such as Agent Orange herbal waste originally used against western First Nations in the U.S. Nuclear waste also leaks in the oldest nuclear waste dumping site in Washington state at Hanford, now leaking and threatening the Columbia River. This is just the top of the volcano in a dump and run world.
The U.S. with thousands of military bases, mostly unwanted–what caused September 11, 2001 tragedy–does not have funding to move all its industrial war equipment and clean up the pollution. This disgrace contaminates foreign lands looking like waste lands the likes of which T. S. Eliot never could have imagined. To abandon military bases without reclamation is just one more atrocity of war.
Often these poisoned lands are those of indigenous peoples who who have no clout as they live on or beside poisonous petroleum soaked, atomic blasted soil and streams endangered by rusting war engines as the inhabitants, too, are contaminated by wars and their aftermaths–the last of First American inherent lands.
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Author tweets for international peace
and peace of mind
World war departments recruit youths to be scapegoat sacrifices as these combat soldiers are proudly announced that they are sacrifices for god and county!–on battlefield alters carried over from the archaic past when children were given up to gods as burnt offerings–in the name of a god, the generic name for deity. What good god would want such a satanic thing!
Does it never occur to the high brass that human sacrifices–with big generals that betray us out of harms way–are an insult to combat soldiers as they die and are wounded in battle, if they don't take their own lives first–a very sad, grievous fact.
Mark Twain was right, he wanted no part of war after experiencing it. He said his biggest aim was in making a bee-line to the nearest fence, jump over it and go home. I mention this fact from time to time because I am thankful that he saved his life as the world forever enjoys his wonderful literature and humor.
This brings up another pet peeve. After one war is over before going into the next endless one, wounded combatants are brushed aside and often die from waiting in line to get treatment. We should not be surprised with the format of war–a bad habit of committing and abandoning those who were trained, programmed and conditioned into killing, as we wonder why minds are stressed out with trauma for the rest of the lives of armed combat forces.
When the Bush wars first attacked Iraq and Afghanistan I envisioned thousands of dead and dying soldiers on both sides, with the survirors coming home without legs and arms and shell-shocked minds. None of us should be surprised over these war-torn youths.
Caskets are rarely seen in large numbers coming back from battles–out of sight, out of mind. All the therapy in the world cannot erase what combat armed forces have to endure. Whatever helps to bring relief is good–but the subconscious mind never forgets as nightmares attack in the middle of the night.
Besides physical and mental abuse of young people, military bases both domestic and foreign are built and stocked with toxic chemical and child-deforming, mentally retarding munitions such as Agent Orange herbal waste originally used against western First Nations in the U.S. Nuclear waste also leaks in the oldest nuclear waste dumping site in Washington state at Hanford, now leaking and threatening the Columbia River. This is just the top of the volcano in a dump and run world.
The U.S. with thousands of military bases, mostly unwanted–what caused September 11, 2001 tragedy–does not have funding to move all its industrial war equipment and clean up the pollution. This disgrace contaminates foreign lands looking like waste lands the likes of which T. S. Eliot never could have imagined. To abandon military bases without reclamation is just one more atrocity of war.
Often these poisoned lands are those of indigenous peoples who who have no clout as they live on or beside poisonous petroleum soaked, atomic blasted soil and streams endangered by rusting war engines as the inhabitants, too, are contaminated by wars and their aftermaths–the last of First American inherent lands.
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Author tweets for international peace
and peace of mind
Thursday, May 15, 2014
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR
This astute international journalist represents a beautiful blend of the good from the Middle East and the good from the Western world. As an extremely gifted war correspondent, she was born in London, and is fluent in Persian as well as English. She graduated from the University of Rhode Island summa cum laude with a B. A. degree in journalism.
Dear Ones,
In Christiane Amanpour's own words, "I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, my bicycle and 100 dollars."
The rest of her life is sheer success after being hired in 1983 on the foreign CNN desk in Atlanta, Georgia. Six year later she was transferred to Frankfort, Germany where she was emerged in the democratic revitalization encompassing Eastern Europe. She is fearless, strong and confident in her career through giving a profound picture of what's going on in the world at large.
In 1990 she reported for the Persian Gulf War and afterwards the Bosnian war and other problem areas. She is known for giving both sides to any conflict and covering it well with indepth thought. Her compassion for humanity in general contributes to her strength. She is not afraid to report genocide when it is what it is, as she genuinely feels children's needs and exposes their abuses.
In covering just about all war zones and reporting terrorist bombings she predicted that a Serbian general was guilty of setting off six shellings in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, and a judge proved her to be right. Some men chide her for being clarvoiant what many women possess. But the whole picture reveals that she is observant, well-read and makes it her goal to be internationally informed about what is going on in the Middle East and elsewhere, another one of her strong suits. She knows her cards and how to play them well with world-wide truths.
Christiane has met many diplomatic celebrities in her interviews and correspondence, such as Yasser Arafat and French President Jacque Chirac, whom I also have been honored through correspondence. She is the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
From 1996 to 2005 Christine had a contract with 60 Minutes of news reports and interviews. She is the reciepient of the Peabody Award and over 32 other awards and honors.
In Amanpour's own words, "I really believe good journalism is good business." And she gives it her all. She also has appeared in journalistic films. But personally, I see Christiane Amanpour, not only very talented in her field, but also as a lovely woman who reminds me of Rosland Russell who played the lead in Auntie Mame. Christine is a of real value to the world as she informs us all.
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Author tweets for international
peace and peace of mind
Dear Ones,
In Christiane Amanpour's own words, "I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, my bicycle and 100 dollars."
The rest of her life is sheer success after being hired in 1983 on the foreign CNN desk in Atlanta, Georgia. Six year later she was transferred to Frankfort, Germany where she was emerged in the democratic revitalization encompassing Eastern Europe. She is fearless, strong and confident in her career through giving a profound picture of what's going on in the world at large.
In 1990 she reported for the Persian Gulf War and afterwards the Bosnian war and other problem areas. She is known for giving both sides to any conflict and covering it well with indepth thought. Her compassion for humanity in general contributes to her strength. She is not afraid to report genocide when it is what it is, as she genuinely feels children's needs and exposes their abuses.
In covering just about all war zones and reporting terrorist bombings she predicted that a Serbian general was guilty of setting off six shellings in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, and a judge proved her to be right. Some men chide her for being clarvoiant what many women possess. But the whole picture reveals that she is observant, well-read and makes it her goal to be internationally informed about what is going on in the Middle East and elsewhere, another one of her strong suits. She knows her cards and how to play them well with world-wide truths.
Christiane has met many diplomatic celebrities in her interviews and correspondence, such as Yasser Arafat and French President Jacque Chirac, whom I also have been honored through correspondence. She is the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
From 1996 to 2005 Christine had a contract with 60 Minutes of news reports and interviews. She is the reciepient of the Peabody Award and over 32 other awards and honors.
In Amanpour's own words, "I really believe good journalism is good business." And she gives it her all. She also has appeared in journalistic films. But personally, I see Christiane Amanpour, not only very talented in her field, but also as a lovely woman who reminds me of Rosland Russell who played the lead in Auntie Mame. Christine is a of real value to the world as she informs us all.
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1.blogspot.com
Author tweets for international
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
DEAR TED TURNER
As founder of CNN you are one of Earth's greatest champions for international peace. Giving $1 billion to the United Nations for harmony among all countries, you exemplify what you stand for.
I personally want to also thank you for your part in promoting alternative energy such as solar, wind and water instead of dirty dinosaur fuel.
As you know, many problems would be solved by leaving the dirty oil and coal in the ground so miners don't have to grind hours underground and die suddenly or from diseases, as wildlife is killed from oil spill tragedies as well. Seas are also contaminated together with First Nation's where radioactive and chemical runoff of war waste is targeted for the last of their lands.
The increase of employment through renewable fuel would allow workers to stay above ground in the sunshine in a pleasant non-oily and dust-free atmosphere without the fear of death, same as in wars.
Since wars are often fought from lust over other nation's natural resources, alternative energy is inevitable to help cease climate warfare and Earth's destroyed environment and survival. War is the product of greed, power and the failure to listen to legitimate complaints over inherent human rights.
And thank you, too, for the Turner Broadcasting System that offers classical movies on TV. It's good to be able to see films of bygone years–so enjoyable for entire families.
Now, in your own words,
"It's time to put war and conflict behind us and act like civilized, educated people. My message has always been for peace. I believe that we're programmed to love and help each other, not to kill or hurt each other. I strongly support our troops and would never intentionally say anything to harm these men and women."
You went on to share sad facts, that combat soldiers are dying more from suicide than from fatal shots and explosions. It's good that the public finally knows about this tragedy of youths by the thousands taking their own lives from stress, trauma and brain damage of war. Maybe now voices for peace will cease wars.
About the disasters such as attack and invasion against Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, to mention a few atrocities of terrorism, you went on to say the military industrial complex–what President Eisenhower warned against–is so entrenched in war, that Congress won't address the problem.
Another sage wrote, "It is forbidden to kill. Those who wage wars are murderers, what is punishable–unless the aggression is done in large numbers and to the sound of a trumpet." You are aware of this, but most people aren't. The author of the quote is historian and satirist, Voltaire who had to flee for his life from time to time between France and England. This was during the Christian Inquisition since he was working on a dictionary and encyclopedia–science and knowledge that defied the dogma of the hierarchy.
P.S. Just read about one of your constant letter writers on the Internet, a fundamentalist preacher ranting about John in the New Testament. I did research on the unknown John and discovered he had been exiled to the Greek island of Patmos–a 100-year old man hallucinating about beasts and red devils–in solitude. At least he told the truth that his "Revelation" (first sentence in his book) was his and his alone–figments of imagination carried from one generation to another up to the present as gospel dogma, while Bible thumpers still scratch their heads wondering what in the world he was talking about.
Mame
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I personally want to also thank you for your part in promoting alternative energy such as solar, wind and water instead of dirty dinosaur fuel.
As you know, many problems would be solved by leaving the dirty oil and coal in the ground so miners don't have to grind hours underground and die suddenly or from diseases, as wildlife is killed from oil spill tragedies as well. Seas are also contaminated together with First Nation's where radioactive and chemical runoff of war waste is targeted for the last of their lands.
The increase of employment through renewable fuel would allow workers to stay above ground in the sunshine in a pleasant non-oily and dust-free atmosphere without the fear of death, same as in wars.
Since wars are often fought from lust over other nation's natural resources, alternative energy is inevitable to help cease climate warfare and Earth's destroyed environment and survival. War is the product of greed, power and the failure to listen to legitimate complaints over inherent human rights.
And thank you, too, for the Turner Broadcasting System that offers classical movies on TV. It's good to be able to see films of bygone years–so enjoyable for entire families.
Now, in your own words,
"It's time to put war and conflict behind us and act like civilized, educated people. My message has always been for peace. I believe that we're programmed to love and help each other, not to kill or hurt each other. I strongly support our troops and would never intentionally say anything to harm these men and women."
You went on to share sad facts, that combat soldiers are dying more from suicide than from fatal shots and explosions. It's good that the public finally knows about this tragedy of youths by the thousands taking their own lives from stress, trauma and brain damage of war. Maybe now voices for peace will cease wars.
About the disasters such as attack and invasion against Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, to mention a few atrocities of terrorism, you went on to say the military industrial complex–what President Eisenhower warned against–is so entrenched in war, that Congress won't address the problem.
Another sage wrote, "It is forbidden to kill. Those who wage wars are murderers, what is punishable–unless the aggression is done in large numbers and to the sound of a trumpet." You are aware of this, but most people aren't. The author of the quote is historian and satirist, Voltaire who had to flee for his life from time to time between France and England. This was during the Christian Inquisition since he was working on a dictionary and encyclopedia–science and knowledge that defied the dogma of the hierarchy.
P.S. Just read about one of your constant letter writers on the Internet, a fundamentalist preacher ranting about John in the New Testament. I did research on the unknown John and discovered he had been exiled to the Greek island of Patmos–a 100-year old man hallucinating about beasts and red devils–in solitude. At least he told the truth that his "Revelation" (first sentence in his book) was his and his alone–figments of imagination carried from one generation to another up to the present as gospel dogma, while Bible thumpers still scratch their heads wondering what in the world he was talking about.
Mame
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MARK TWAIN AGAINST FUTILE WAR
Samuel Clemens most poignant quotation is his war prayer that reveals the raw truth of war. Google it. His other quotes adamantly reflect how strongly he felt against bloody battlefield aggression. He had experienced more than one of these debaucheries.
Dear Ones,
Other war quotes express Mark Twain's passionate distrust of man-made wars. His reasoning is enlightening and robust at the same time.
"To be a patriot, one had to say and keep saying, 'Our country right or wrong' and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that this phrase is an insult to the nation." Nationalism is one step away from fascism.
"Before I had a chance to another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away."
"War is a waste of projectiles. There has never been a just war, never an honorable one . . . on the part of fighting a war, I can see a million years ahead." Mark Twain goes on to remind us of the eternal war cry from the pulpit followed by cheering lies of statesmen, in the name of God, and grotesque self-deception.
"All wars must be just killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom in other circumstances you would help if you found them in trouble and who would help you if you needed the same."
"If a cannon's mouth is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. " He also observed that only one third of the men who fought survived, what seemed to him to be quite "Napoleonic in its grandeur."
"Man is the only animal that deals in the atrocity, War. He is the only one that gathers his brothers about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march . . . and help slaughter strangers of his own species who have never done him harm and with whom he has no quarrel. And in the interlude between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands, and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man."
"An inglorious peace is better than an dishonorable war."
Mame
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Dear Ones,
Other war quotes express Mark Twain's passionate distrust of man-made wars. His reasoning is enlightening and robust at the same time.
"To be a patriot, one had to say and keep saying, 'Our country right or wrong' and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that this phrase is an insult to the nation." Nationalism is one step away from fascism.
"Before I had a chance to another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away."
"War is a waste of projectiles. There has never been a just war, never an honorable one . . . on the part of fighting a war, I can see a million years ahead." Mark Twain goes on to remind us of the eternal war cry from the pulpit followed by cheering lies of statesmen, in the name of God, and grotesque self-deception.
"All wars must be just killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom in other circumstances you would help if you found them in trouble and who would help you if you needed the same."
"If a cannon's mouth is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. " He also observed that only one third of the men who fought survived, what seemed to him to be quite "Napoleonic in its grandeur."
"Man is the only animal that deals in the atrocity, War. He is the only one that gathers his brothers about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march . . . and help slaughter strangers of his own species who have never done him harm and with whom he has no quarrel. And in the interlude between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands, and works for 'the universal brotherhood of man."
"An inglorious peace is better than an dishonorable war."
Mame
www.macdonaldsward.com
helenesmith1.blogspot.com
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