"A SOUL 4 A SOUL"

 

"Hey...thanks for showing up"  queenadalite says "Come on in if you dare:7)"

Go ahead....get comfy on my nice soft couch.  The cat is friendly if you are:0 

I thought we could meet like this today, nice and intimately and face to face.  It's been such a long time since we talked.

The World is still sick.  Chronic Heart Failure...it's a killer man!  Speaking of "killers".  We still have the acrimonius stench of evil Assad and his allies.  Wreaking of the death of 60,000 of his own kind.  60,000 man!  I mean c'mon....has the world gone deaf, dumb and blind?  Couldn't even think of writing another blog after the last.  I had to scream it and dream it with those who were doing whatever they can.  I hopped on the twitter ride man...and now I can't get off. tee hee hee  When the people in Gaza, Syria or wherever there is persecution so obviously without representation...You know I have to show up.  And if I give them a voice or make their moment brighter....how can that be wrong?  Twitter has given new meaning to the worth of words...for sure.

I mean...I know I can get carried away on there and admittedly lose time I could have spent otherwise.  I get all steamed up...loved up....and fired up for the cause.  It's a rush...it's connecting....and I still believe in supporting what will benefit all.  Old revolutionaries don't go away...we go futher!  Look at those like John Perry Barlow who are still standing up and putting their money to the causes that now embolden the younger versions.  The tragedy of losing someone like Aaron Swartz is not having him to carry on in his bright example for all those still to come....at least not in person.  When you think of someone's life like a thread woven so beautifully in our future as his was and is....how can you not weep for what could have been..... Thankfully there are many, especially his peers, who will not let his story die.

You and I know there's a *silver cord* that connects us all to each other.  There are those who will deny it eternally; but they never get the sublime pleasure of the options.  The chance to reach out to someone who shares similar visions and even those that may be vastly different.  There can be common ground if we remember the ground we all walk on. 

Why do you think IdleNoMore is here?  Have you been watching their beauty?  Don't you love their bravery?  With mindful presence always of their guardianship with our Earth.  Trying to snap all the rest of us out of Climate Complacency.  I think it's workin man....I really do.  My roots are filled with Native blood and those who worked and preserved the land. 

You know I'm going back home this Spring...yeah...  I think of sweet Indiana breezes everyday on the rolling tuna can they call the Boston MBTA.  Friend...if that's not a lesson in urban sociology...whew!  Literally...it stinks!  This town makes all my empathic senses recoil anymore.  I've lost the lust for discovering "big city" life.  It now leaves me as cold as my view of that gray sky, gray buildings, on this cloudy first day of March. 

I'm leaving a lover in the deal and that depresses me...so much that I have had days of weeping in mourn for our loss.  No one's fault really....we can't stop loving each other...we just can't be in the same place right now.  The sadder aspect of having many life paths....you sometimes have to break the physical connection that was what brought you together in a most miraculous way.  We beat the odds for a long sweet 5 years.  But he will be in my heart forever....my Boston Blue Eyed Devil<3

At least the cat comes with me....I could never see him anywhere else.  We are bonded in that unconditional love kind of way.  Pets don't understand the human dynamics....they blissfully don't have to.

So anyway,....enough personal gabba goop:)

Have you been watching the real story of the hour? Those brave & passionate souls known as the PayPal 14?  This is iconic my friend.  Something someone like me with some history under my feet is really awed by.   You know they're in court today...yeah, yeah...And with the best representation I can imagine. 

Stanley Cohen is a legend; but he's also just a mindful citizen of the World...like you and I.  It just so happens he excels in traversing issues related to protection of everyone's freedoms....and I mean everyone's.  In fact,  there are those who hate him because he does not discriminate or allow himself to be biased by anyone or any governments interpretation of the law. 

Because he knows ultimately the laws should be our process of protection.   He's the Guardian of the Cyberspace New Frontier now....and his cases will hopefully teach all governments how we should be carefully setting precedents.... for all the new and still unknown implications for many years to come. 

I can't think of anyone else I'd rather have holding our hand and leading by example.  I hope many understand what a donation to him is really worth.  You know he works so much pro-bono stuff...that's what he's doing this minute in the San Francisco Federal courtroom for the PayPal 14....but really for all of us.  Up with the Rebels! I love it and admire him so.  It's hard to tell him and those beautiful 14 how grateful I am they share my world.

 And my brave, stupendous hero Bradley Manning.  What a beautifully strong young soul.  Reading his life, his motives, his dreams...and his faults....for the whole world to hear.  Finally!!!  It's so appalling what governments will do to save face...to send a message of ultimate control.... Will they ever learn????  It's just like here we go again....you remember.  We may be old farts to some...but I'd rather have the wisdom I bring in these kind of days.  It's a revolution the world doesn't want to accept. 

They're baffled how people worldwide can actually come together in such a united way....and still be from so many cultures...religions....environments.  They truly never thought it would happen????  Bahrain banning Fawkes masks!  Can you believe it?  The more tyranny, the more the organism increases.  Anonymous has reached a multiplication factor totally proportionate to people's disgust.  People are disgusted man...and they don't care who knows it or how much they're threatened or even deleted...  It's not like an army mentality....that's why their enemies don't get it...ha ha ha...

My sadness though is in those who would actually believe Assange is turning a cold shoulder or not supporting Manning.  Don't they know if not for his vision....Bradley Manning would not have found a vehicle for what he felt belonged to a world who deserved the truth.  Decidely there was naivete on both their parts....but still....the ramifications of what they both have done... did alter history. 

They did make a difference in perception of many things.  They did inspire and give people a platform to come together.  Just think of all that has been born since Wikileaks came to be.  The sadness is the sacrifices of their own freedoms and those in support of them.  You know we could be considered "Enemies Of  The State" for just having this conversation.  I guess we can only hope the tide will swell and grow ultimately in our favor.  I believe personally it already is.  I want to live to see them both recognized for the heroes they are.....My grandmother lived to be 100 you know.  I think I have a fair chance.

So now finally...here's the story I called out to get you here:)  You know I work in a hospital and do the cardiac ultrasound thing...  Oh yeah...it's way cool.  I'm  literally putting my hands on people's hearts, while looking at and evaluating all the inner workings.  It's an awesome job...I know I'm lucky.  But you know it means I see an average of 35 people a week...7 a day.  Some real jewels.....and some really rotten and rotting souls....It goes with the job.  Anyway....I'm seeing a cross section of all walks of life too.  I've met famous authors....post World War II physicists....immigrants from every country you can imagine....It's never dull. 

So last week I'm doing a portable and dragging around my machine...and my patient as it turns out is a Rabbi.  A very verbose one at that.  In his room in the background is a current television news show.  They are discussing the execution of a man who was found to be mentally deficient.  The argument was heated obviously as there was a murder in the mix.  So you know me.  I have that sweet hoosier girl thang' even when I'm trying to be my most professional.  Would rather engage them with kind gentle manner than some of the brusk stuff they get from the docs.  So he likes that I am most respectful of him and his circumstances.  No one wants to be in the hospital.  Especially anyone who's used to being in control.... I just want them relaxed and trusting of my care.  With this one I understand he is used to having a level of respect that goes beyond courtesy....so I give him what he wants....or try to.

I start his exam and everything is copesthetic....I can do 70 pictures and measurements in about 30 minutes these days.  Experience counts you know:)  What most people don't get....is that I'm doing a huge amount of critical thinking while acquiring data.  The Cardiologists are literally dependent on what I give them to make an accurate diagnosis.  So once I relax them....I get into my zone and I'm off.  But not with this one.  

He decides he needs my attention, as he needs someone to prove and help support that his attitude about the life and death of this man on tv is correct.  I know...I know...all my alarms are going off in my practical self....loudly telling me " Don't go there". 

When I won't stop.... he grabs my hand and pulls it away from his chest and makes me look him in the eyes!  Angry eyes.  Asking me now in no uncertain terms.  Do I think the man on tv should live or die? 

Before I can even come up with a good pacifier....he's already telling me..."Well I know the answer! There is only one if you know the Bible.  Do you know what the Bible says about this?"  I'm in it now....I gotta let him go in for the kill...and he does. 

"The Bible says: A Soul For A Soul  It's that simple.  There is no other answer!"  It was in that moment as I looked into eyes filled with self aggrandized anger....that it hit me.  This wasn't just a vehement Rabbi's view....this was our legacy.  One cloaked cleverly in a religious context. 

The reason for taking a life that only Man could have come up with.  It you take one of mine....I am entitled to take one of yours.  I can't say I didn't honestly think to myself it's no wonder Zionists have sentenced their people to misery of an endless nature...

.But the U.S. uses the same mindwashing whenever we're supposedly under attack.  We have to get them back....we have to show them.  You know that's why all us women are always telling you to take a chill pill with the War Games shit!  Damnit!  We gotta get beyond that...

Which reminds me....I couldn't care less that we're waiting to hear who the next Pope will be either.  I've been living in a city that's been soaked in all the Catholic ways and I know now what that breeds.  Just watching the good little souls all lining up on the subway platform....you'd swear sometimes there was a nun around still tellin' them what to do....Sorry....I just have to get it out. 

You know I don't prescribe to the whole organized religion crap.  And I'm never going to tell anyone what to believe or practice in their spiritual realm....but me...I'm rooting for the Natives:)

Wow!!!  We've been rolling on the floor for awhile...contemplating the fate of the World.  What was that you put in my pipe?  Glad you came though really.  I needed it.  There's no better medicine than getting with your kind and blowin' smoke up to the one who created us all....and saying thanks....for friends like you<3

Come back soon....I promise not to be so dried up and scarce.  I'm still in it all the way for the journey...just like you my friend.

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"I Love The World....But I Think It's Time For Therapy"

After so many years working in the Medical Field, I find I think of things with a similar mindset to patient care.  First comes the diagnosis and then a plan of action.  Right now I see the world as a male patient specifically, as there is a difference in the way each gender presents itself.  

Because we undoubtedly still live in a "male dominated" society globally; it's easy to think of this patient as I would confronting most male patients.  The reason for this is "denial of symptoms".  Denial is the most common symptom these days among most patients; but without a doubt,

 men take this to the extreme.  

The male ego hates to admit defeat or weakness, and therefore will overcompensate with all kinds of strategies of avoidance.  There is no denying though, that we are still governed globally by a majority of male leaders.  Even recent statistics prove that females in the workforce are still being paid up to 17% less than their male counterparts.  Though females have been educated more equally and have accumulated experience on a more level playing field; why is this still an undeniable fact?

When approaching any patient with a viable treatment plan for their invidvual dilemmas; you obviously don't want to come from a place of extreme confrontation.  This only serves to bring about more defensive behaviour and hinder the progress needed overall.  

With that in mind, I am also not wanting to slam the World with angry accusations or absolute dictates to achieve the most desirable consequence.  

With most male patients a certain amount of letting them get things out verbally, is a healthy way to engage them.  Because their denial and actually fear, is dictating them to respond as a victim; they do what I call "fancy tap dancing".  They try and take you away from the subject they want so badly to avoid, by pleading themselves as only victims.  

So you sit back and listen to all they can think of to convince you they have no guilt or ownership in the matter, and let them spew till they're finished.  This is actually a good time to send in the more junior physician, as it is time consuming and tedious and needs to be learned only by the experience.

Many times this process culminates in the actual emotional breakdown of the male patient.  A time when he is obviously too drained to do anything else....and hopefully the whole idea of his guilt has been absolved with his outpooring of sins finally confessed.  Then and only then, you have before you a frightened human being who is ready to admit he is just too weak to fight any longer.  Then it's not his fault .....again.  It's the doctor's fault for getting him into this state and thereby taking away his ability to function.   

Think I'm exaggerating?  Ask any Medical Student or Resident; who gets to go in first?  By the time the patient has worn themselves out, then the more calm and obviously more decisive and seasoned physician emerges on the scene.  Engaging the poor humbled patient with extreme detante and charisma.  As finally,  the physician knows as well as his crumbled patient, who is finally in control.  

That is, if the patient decides he wants to win too.

O.K.  Admittedly I like parables and parody in my explanations to seduce your attention:7)  To me, the scenario I have just presented, is the state of our World today.  In fact, the World reminds me these days of a bloated, overindulging, non-compliant, Congestive Heart Failure nightmare.  An end result of too many resources and not enough movement.  The way the body relieves itself of waste is when you move.  Cease to move and you accumulate toxins and poisons that drive the normal stasis of your physical existance into chaos.  In some cases and more frequently currently, these patients also become chronic offenders.  Ultimately, draining others resources in the form of the cost of care for their careless behaviours.  

Are you with me now?

The World is the "patient" and someone must do the "therapy"...and soon.  This is actually a common thought that encompasses points all around the World presently.  Confronting this patient is just like the one above and no less in denial and full of vile poison from his sickness.  Not unlike the Evil dictators who still think they can also live in a world of denial.  While spewing their poison on innocent bystanders and those who can afford least to lose their resources.

When I think of it this way, I then think of all the energetic ones we are sending into the front lines.  Many young and inexperienced; but also joined by all the wisdom of their senior comrades and enlivened by the thirst, of those still to find their lives and futures....

The ones who wish to envision ideologically...because it's their birthright....or should be.

I am speaking, of all the Occupy Movements everywhere and the bold bravados of all things real and surreal....the brothers and sisters of Anonymous.

A formidable front line in Truth.  A variety plan of approach as diverse as it's members.  Surrounding the patient slowly, innocuously, and with the power of numbers to their advantage.  Really not unlike a group of young doctors on rounds who converge on the patient.  Should the patient try and impose too much and too long his own ego into this battle...a battle of wits is sure to come into play.  The masters of control assume the posture they have been assigned in their mission....and the patient ultimately bows down to being out of his element....so to speak....or at least that's the hope.  Do not forget though, that our patient, the World, has a male mentality in dealing with his illness and cannot be under-estimated to achieve even bizarre behaviour in retaliation.  Sound familiar?

The people who are brave and dilligent in wanting to speak the Truth for All and question the continual denial of a problem...are the heroes they never really wanted to be.  They really just wanted to see everyone happy and healthy.  They really just want the patient we all love...our World,

to be well in a way that heals us all.  

Our World is sick today in a way like never before.  Too many resources and not enough movement.  The kind of movement of enlightenment, that promises hope for more than a few....and for even those who can't stand up for themselves.   

The World is sick with pollution that grows more serious and with far reaching consequences.  We are under attack of things like more radiation in our atmosphere....As Our male World patient is in total denial for his greed to have more and more.....

Sacrificing others to feed his greed for his gluttoness ways.  Daring confrontation; but diverting attention incessantly.  Threatening and ranting to get his way.  Using force in the end to insure his selfish state.  Committing bizarre and vile acts and fits of temper, as a result of all the bloated and poisonous chemistry that churns inside.  

To all the wonderful fighters whomever you are and wherever you are......I applaud you in deep gratitude.

With the deepest respect and most maniacal wit....I humbly homage the all emcompassing Anons and all their devotion in action.

To all the journalists outside the box and on the borders....we all value your worth as well.

To all the Ones who read this because your heart and mind know things are not well.

You are the medical equivalents of the "Grand Rounds".  A collective of individuals a collective of impetus towards your goal.

You must heal the patient.

The process must be clear and concise if you are to command the respect of your patient.  Utilizing your charm and charisma is most acceptable in achieving a positive outcome....and diffusing the temper tantrum of your patient.  

This is afterall, a meeting of the minds.  Experience does count.  Leaders must be capable of delegating.  

The Collective must succeed.

Even the World can't be sick forever without consequences.

The  important thing is that the conversation has started.

Now, how do we convince the World that he wants to win?

The floor is open to All

Remembering always, ....that Time does not wait 

And a fatality is not in the plan...

But our fate is

An intervention is warranted

Before it's too late

This cartoon courtesy of artist Victor Ndula at a great site to visit "The Cartoon Movement".

http://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/4284?fq=theme.conflicts

"Fading Freedoms & Fighting The Good Fight"

It's been awhile again since we took this journey my friend.  Welcome back to the inner recesses of me.  The place where I come to talk of all, great and small.  As seen thru the eyes of this one who thinks she sees it all:)

Instead of letting the clouds of emotions form, that breed my more weighty thoughts; I've been releasing and gathering on my beloved Twitter playground.  A way to instantly share and emote in brief cadre, whatever is "breaking news" or profound additions to that which we feel passionate about.  

Because I love words and using them spritely, I can appreciate the way messages are delivered, as much as their content.  The more people you follow, the quicker the delivery of all kinds of things to get you stirred up.  I love the human spirit and the individuality of an extremely diverse community.  It really is using the ether in the best and worst ways, to bring us together.  

The most common thread for all these live wires these days is freedom.  Freedom for a woman to choose what she will do with her body.   Freedom from bullies both juvenile and adult, who prey on the weaker of the pack.  Whether it's relentless mean and sometimes physically abusing young people, or the more subtle and silent but deadly tactics of adults.  When the president of the United States calls out a faction of our governing body for trying to use "Social Darwinism" to get what they want; this should make you wake up.  In reality, how many know what it really means?

The most profound and basic rights we have taken so long for granted, are truly being dissected and even eliminated in an alarming proportions.  One of the most precious of these is Freedom Of Speech.  Even as I or any of us ever imagined we could witness this in our lifetime; it is happening and it is insidious and it makes me very nervous.  Granted, it's being done in the most sophisticated way and in the name of our country's security; but does that make it right?

In the last week there has been an enormous amount of information regarding new entities in our existence.  Huge complexes are being built and implemented in many countries simultaneously.  Some with formal announcements and some without.  For the purpose of these new minions of data, is to collect all of our data.  High functioning inner sanctums of surveillance are being integrated into our lives for monitoring our behaviours.  But why now?  And why aren't more people questioning this now?

You could say this came about in response to one present day famous pirate.  A voice with a vision capable of combining like visionaries to join his merry band.  Utilizing a broad band width of imagination and intelligence to combat the dark forces who would steal the truth from us all.  A beacon of light to enable all the little people to fight on fair ground with the most menacing armies of darkness.  And yet, they call Julius Assange a traitor.  

So now our governments would look on those of us who see the visionary as a hero, as fellow criminals.  Even though no case has been tried to prove guilt or innocence; it feels as though we all are being shifted to guilty till proven innocent.  If you openly support and participate in the "Occupy Movements"; you are also under scrutiny.  Some of the more innocent have found this out the hard way and felt the sting of being slapped for being bad children.  Right here in the land of "The Free And The Brave"; it is no longer a given right to speak out or speak up.  They just let us think we can now and then film us for future reference or future incrimination.

We were watched in the days of the Viet Nam protests too; but it was still much eaiser to "fall between the cracks", as the cracks were much wider then.  Those that wised up about using too much technology even in it's infant stages, soon learned the wisdom of bypassing wires for face to face encounters.  We had hidden villages within cities that were foreign to our enemies, where safe harbor and sanctuary were available on a minute's notice.  We had community and commonality on our side.  Today it's much more difficult to vanish indefinitely and the enemy is no longer intimidated to infilitrate.  In fact, all those revolutionaries all over the globe are learning lately to be suspicious among their closest allies.  The intimidation tactics to recruit spies is prevalant; but so is the desire of some to just be part of the glory of doing "their duty" for their country.

Odd bit of play going on here, wouldn't you say?  No wonder there are so many trying to speak out and make changes.  We are all at battle with a dominion of control like never before.  Where all our world leaders are so in sync with their roles that have left us in the dark to their ultimate power.  In just reading about the recent decision on appointment to lead the World Bank, I found a whole strategy of play that most are blissfully unaware of.  Appointments that have more to do with direct political implications than background or experience.  Alliances that feed off one another and are so conjoined as to be like one entity of governing body.  A body that want's no part of the common man's opinion.  Who in fact fears an uprising of little voices that can become loud and angry mobs.  

So that is why we must all be watched now.  The usual distractions are not enough any longer to keep people from reaching out to each other.  Not everyone wants Social Networking just to look at endless tidbits of people's lives.  We have found another way to create our hidden villages within villages.  We find each other easily and "mind sparks" fly for it.   We have those who are courageously committed to getting the real stories out that would affect all our futures.  Facts and figures that speak the truth boldly instead of innuendo.  Putting blame where it cannot hide and history in perspectives of clarity.   Now do you see the threat?

Though we've suffered mass mind washing in this country and shared it with our so called allies; the people are waking up to the dupe of the "War On Terrorism".   Wars that cost those that can afford it least and make wealthy those who deserve it least.  We've become a global being of War instead of human beings.  The human beings aren't happy.  They are standing up and crying out loudly enough to be heard; but how many will succumb to the smack down?  I wish for all those brave ones to not become victims.  To fight the good fights with all you have, while steadily protecting yourself at all times.

These are the latest surveillance proposals who will track you.

Here's a great piece courtesy of "The Bureau Of Investigative Journalism" on our huge complex here in the states.

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/04/02/americas-new-data-centre-makes-uk-surveillance-plans-seem-petty/

Here's a story from "The Independent" on how David Cameron is defending surveillance in the U.K.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-defends-government-surveillance-plans-7618435.html

Lastly, here's another great article from "The Atlantic" on how the West is supplying the Arab Nation with the latest in surveillance techniques...and others.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/surveillance-inc-how-western-tech-firms-are-helping-arab-dictators/254008/

In ending our journey fellow internaut, I hope you will be enlightened in your chosen path.  Do not go blindly into the Net.  As innocent as you may think you and what you say are; there are those who undoubtedly think differently....

It's no longer the Julian Assange or Bradley Manning who are the only suspect here and high time we stopped buying that criminal mind wash bilge and ask why to speak the truth is to be deemed a criminal?  When in reality they challenged criminal governments everywhere.

Carry On all Fighters of the Good Fight, and worthy and wise warriors may you all be!  Support each other and give shelter and guidance when needed.  It is your spirit to help one another and even those who can't fight for themselves, that makes you a rare beauty and beacon of light in these times.  

Just be safe to fight another day.  

"What If The Whole World Stood Up For The World?"

Whew! What a day in the world.......

Trying to write these days is a muddy feeling.  Trying to keep my word that I'll only write when I feel moved so passionately as to do so....means I could write every day these days ....and never get it all out.  

Try writing about what is an enormous threat to our society....when it's Oscar's night....when it's Wikileak's night....when OWS camps are flaring livestreams like firecrackers....because they want their night.  When the victims of war are crying because it should be their night and will not let the world forget their pain.

We are all yelling out our causes and passions these days, like children all trying to speak at once.  Bartering has begun and spun a new currency among the organizers.  Signatures and petitions and above all showing up....is supposed to be the answer for everything...except it's obviously not.

And while the infighting for attention, with loud tantrums among all the little rebels and wound up organizers is going on....

Who is really talking about coming together, which is the power they all are craving?...There's still no ascending to a higher collective mind and trusting in more than making sure we still have Obama next November.  Sure it's monumental to have Obama in our highest office; but it's also time to really see the global citizens we all are meant to be.  Otherwise, what good is our one little country, if the world around us is blowing itself to bits....and setting it's sights on us as the problem.

People all over the world were moved by the shock and tragedy of 911...our leader of the land then said we must make those feelings about war.  Just look what it's done to us....I could never allow that again.  To have those in power who push agendas dominated by whatever large "interest group"...will never further us as a society or human beings.  Religion has become the new push to de-humanize us; but it's really the wealth behind the religion that we must continue to confront.  OWS is right....it is about the 1% puppetmasters and always has been.  We are not who they would try and make us be.  But how do we make everyone remember, without waiting for another catastrophe?  The fire is already lit again for those who are threatening retaliation in our homeland, for dis-honoring theirs.  Whatever God we believe in, would he really deem this righteous behaviour?  We only all have but one creator.  A history of religions all over the globe all echo a common theme and always have.  I live my religion every time I study the hearts I'm viewing on my job.  You simply cannot see what I see and have witnessed for almost 20 years now, without respecting the obvious design.  Every cell in our body is designed to work together.  Not unlike everything we witness in nature and now also take for granted.  We were designed to work together too...why wouldn't we be?

One word...Greed.  The most evil outcome of a most magnificent design.  If a certain group of cells in our body tried to get greedy, the body would try and find a way to self correct.  We are the body and now we are trying our best to run around and fight for what we innately know is true.  What is in our genetic codes that we cannot deny.  We want the body to survive; but how do we do surgery?

Every good scientist or doctor, knows you start with gathering information.  Looking for disease where it grows and thereby making it a more real target.  Initiating the correct treatment and outcome, which automatically calls the body to do it's part in the healing.  If you are afraid or negligent in exposing the cancerous matter that only wants to take over...the body is left weakened and may succumb to the worst.  

Greed is the cancer in our society and body of man these days.  The only way to survive is to confront it as a whole body.  We have to figure this out somehow.  Because right now, all the alarms on the life support machine are going off loudly.  

One hundred forty four Syrians died today.  Nine thousand people have died there since the government launched it's crackdown in March.

A scared and concerned doctor relates what it's like listening to Israeli drones overhead again in the West Bank.

A fed up young high school student took a gun to school and fired on young students and killed one and wounded four.  Possibly in response to anouther round of bullying.

Brave OWS protestors await eviction confrontations in multiple cities in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and hope they will not somehow become part of the body count.

About twenty five thousand people will die of hunger today around the world.

Poor sweet dolphins are beaching themselves in numbers like never before.

Our body is dying not because we've lost our souls; but because there is someone who thinks they should own them all....somewhere....everywhere...Greed is the reason for want of control...all over our world.

So what if....the whole world stood up as one body really.  While we are protesting and organizing...when will we stand up for the whole?  What if we start organizing a specific time everyday to be the example?  What if it all started with just standing together from all groups and acknowledging sincerely that we are all together?  Instead of dwelling on all our differences and leaving that legacy for children to imitate and think it's alright to kill each other....why not just recognize we really are but made from one....who only meant for us all to be one with one another?

What if the whole world stood up for the world to heal?

Please watch this video and spread it around...unfortunately embedding has been disabled...but don't miss this.....it's just the truth and always has been....as pointed out by one who tried to enlighten us...even as he became a victime too.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSoj1xzH99s

"How To Stop The C.W.A. By Helping To Ratify CEDWA...NOW!..(Pun Intended:)

It's been preying on my mind lately that women's basic rights are truly in jeopardy.  Though it's obviously a personal issue with women more than men; men like the kind I cherish are just as concerned.  Because it does concern all of us...and this is a bold attempt to challenge so much that has been hard fought.  So why in the world...would the good ol' U.S.A. ....be the last to join the global community and ratify CEDWA?  

To bring all those up to speed who don't immediately reference the two organizations at issue today....here's a link to each that in essence represents each cause.  To not be aware that this kind of organizing is going on with both sides, could once again be the needed catalyst for a monumental shift to the Right, and back in time about 150 years or so.  So read up and please do your own research for whatever depth you choose to matter....just be aware that not to choose matters NOW...which brings me to another resource link for "The National Organization For Women".  The last of which is a vital much needed place to visit for updates on all issues of women's rights and human rights.

First I give you the latest call from the leaders at "The Concerned Women For America".  

http://www.cwfa.org/content.asp?id=20864

Second is the page for the "CEADW" Women's Rights Treaty Fact Sheet....where you can also join and donate.

http://www.now.org/ratifywomen/factsheet.html

In pondering what I really wanted to say about this important topic, I took a look at another woman who would certainly want us all to speak up.  Before Susan B. Anthony became a beacon for women's rights, Lucy Stone was starting the conversation.  She was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree.  She was also the first person to ever be cremated in Massachusetts.  In between these two monumental events, lies a story rich with bravery and passion, and the stubborn will to succeed above all.  Even asking her only child to carry on after her, which she did up to the age of 92, inheriting the "Woman's Journal" in Boston, which ran from 1870 to 1931.  The whole purpose being to bring light to causes pertaining to human rights and not just women's rights.  Equality for all was key in Lucy Stone's mind, and also called her to speak up for abolishing slavery.  For a woman in the 1800's she traveled extensively to speak and recruit the numbers needed to bring about the changes she believed would truly make everyone's lives better for it.  Suffering times of attending to family members in their final hours at the same time she suffered personal ills.  Her convictions led her to those of like mind, both male and female.  In the end, she lived to see many of her dreams for a better society won out.  Even she knew though, that the battles were not over.  The very reason she instilled her only child and daughter to carry on.  But what about the rest of us?  Shouldn't we too carry on for all those valiant efforts over a century ago...that are again on the agenda?  Not if the C.W.A. can help it...and believe me...they are more than a little organized, networking, and politically re-enforced more than ever.  This is the closest thing to a civil war this country has seen since Lucy Stone was being stoned by her adversaries.  So who are our present day adversaries who wish to take away our rights?  Here's more on that story and hopefully an exposing moment for the ones we really need to fear.

Beverly LaHaye started the C.W.A in 1979 in protest to the "Equal Rights Ammendment".  She is totally against feminism and purports the christian principles she and her followers feel to be not only fundamental but the only way to think and live.  

"Feminism is more than an illness; it is a philosophy of death."  Beverly LaHay

The C.W.A. once commented on a gay tourist couple visiting the United States...as a threat to border security and domestic terrorists.  Even as she has never denied charges that her son Lee is openly gay...and also happens to manage the CWA's money.

"Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives, do not deserve to be in office."  Beverly LaHaye.

This is why the CWA's site has all kinds of current info on politicians they support, who in turn are supporting their causes.  Something I'm sure makes those highligted elected officials more than a little uncomfortable...or does it?  Have these values and principles really so invaded our present culture to the point they are considered acceptable...even common?  You damn well better believe it!  And here's a few examples:

The CWA has also been the driving force behind legislators allowing our very history books to be changed to favor their beliefs and mission.  What is their mission?  Here's an exerpt from another CWA page on this subject:

"Founded to oppose feminism, Concerned Women for America (CWA) claims to be “the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization.” Its mission is to “bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy.”

CWA was formed in 1979 by Tim LaHaye and his wife, Beverly. At the time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was gaining steam, and conservative activists sought a vehicle to oppose it that would – at least on the surface – be run by women. (Today, three out of five of the organization’s highest-paid positions are held by men.)"

You just can't make this stuff up....even exposing their plan of having an organization...that only on the surface appears to be run by women!  How bold can you get?  Pretty damned bold when you have the millions this couple has bilked from loyal followers in book and seminar sales.  Enough to give generous contributions to supporters like Jerry Falwell and by starting their own PAC.  These are the people openly opposing feminism and equal rights....and oh by the way....they truly see and preach those opposed to their views as the damned and evil devils who must be considered enemies.  Who is buying their books and taking stock in their philosophies?  Tim LaHaye has authored over 40 books with close to 10 million copies estimated in circulation.  Beverly and he co-authored her first offering, "The Act Of Marriage", which has sold over 2.5 million copies since 1976.  Not to mention at least 1,000 seminars of their psychologically-oriented "Family Life Seminars, Inc.  Somebody is listening...including your neighbors, co-workers, and maybe even your boss.  They teach how to profile people based on what they believe to be a handful of types.  They also of course provide personal profiling to help you better understand yourself and others....from their perspective.  The only truly Christian perspective always...of course.

So there you have the leaders of what is more than a small concern on our horizon.  The far Right wing Christian conservatives who wish to take us not only backwards in history; but on a course that likens civil war.  They are and have been preaching the "Us Against Them" philosophy with other evangelical like minds, for over 30 years.  Not like my hero Lucy Stone...but clearly for profiteering and controlling large segments of population to empower their goals, and the goals of big businesses who have given them support and steered their goals, like the Koch brothers and Karl Rove.  The ones who would use their ranks to forward the New World Order philosophies of ultimate control of us all.

So this is a large reason why the CEDWA has yet to be ratified by the U.S.  Because to know it's fundamental principles and causes, you first have to believe in equality for all....women, gays, children....and all those who deserve to be free just because they are fellow humans.  Please remember this the next time you hear any talk of legislation designed to challenge all our freedoms.  It's not just a woman thing....but even the CWA knows that women are the real activists for these causes always.  Even when it's their men who clearly want this control...enough to sacrifice all we've learned and earned in the last century.  Don't be dumbed down.  Don't look the other way.  And don't forget that in reality they are the same people who will faithfully show up on election day next November....and already are.

Here's the link to NOW:

http://www.now.org/

And lastly, here's all to know about the founders of CAW and all their consorts from the "Biblical Discernment Ministries", updated 2005...

http://rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/lahaye/general.htm