Let us do away with the romanticism surrounding the military, whether it be American or otherwise. A military is a government killing organization used to murder as many innocent men, women and children as possible using minimal effort and loss of soldiers and all of this slaughter is done for money, power and currently for Israel by the USA.
The military is a male system of brutality; men brutalize with violence and terror via murder, rape, humiliation and mass destruction. Boot camp is a ridiculous phrase to describe the metamorphosis of average folks into unquestioning killers and rapists. It is an organization that creates a population of sociopaths and animals that are unleashed on civilian populations both at home and abroad and is a dysfunctional system of misogyny, racism, bigotry, machismo and silence.
Fort Hood is a base where some of the worlds worst war criminals are trained to kill brown people for America and Israel; patriotism, manufactured or false threats and promises of glory is the propaganda that lures young men and women to devote their lives to being a member of a club drowning in the blood and sorrow of murdered children.
If you're stupid enough to believe the lies they tell you to entice you to sign your life and innocence away, then you're stupid enough to die before you get to your deployment to start practicing the methods of savagery the military has infused you.
Soldiers are killers. They are highly effective murderers of the innocent, after all, that is the entire goal of boot camp and military training: to annihilate a man or woman's psyche and replace it with the psychopath who will kill children by day and rape women and girls by night and round up innocent men and put them in concentration camps called Abu Graib for daily humiliation and torture sessions.
Finally, once all the American killing is done and the soldier is tattooed with screams of babies and the wails of mothers and drowning in the blood of the blameless, then the government labels you a hero and places medals on your chest to further weigh you down as you return to a world too quiet for the unquiet mind.
Fort Hood: what did you expect to happen? Death. Soldiers or children, either way death is what the military does.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Forgiveness
After a summer drenched in betrayal and soaked through with treachery, I was left broken and wondering how much forgiveness am I responsible?
It's become very popular for victims of horrible crimes to go on talk shows and proclaim they've forgiven the perpetrator for whatever unspeakable violence was committed against them and/or their loved ones. These public announcements have a hollow ring to them just like any other excessive gesture, it smacks of a desperate need to understand and organize rather than a quiet knowing that defies understanding and certainly no peace emanates from the television lights.
I have played fast and loose with forgiveness in a lifetime riddled with too much to forgive but, a startling realization settled over me these past weeks;to forgive is to participate in the Divine. What a stunning revelation that I am unqualified to forgive anyone for anything, worse, filtered through my jagged humanity forgiveness became an open window for destruction to enter and provides fertile ground for malignant hands to sow suffering.
So, it is this: galvanizing the awesome power of forgiveness is not for me to attempt. Forgiveness has profound implications and ripples that we, as mere humans, are not equipped to comprehend or unleash; simply, we are too small for the magnitude of Forgiveness, we're made for more human pursuits like letting go of resentments and letting bad love die.
Today it seems arrogant that I once believed I had the power to forgive anyone. A wretch like me can only hope for Grace in this moment and the willingness to know I am too small to wrestle with the largess of the darkness that Forgiveness dissolves.
What if I were to rise above the dark cesspool of filth and walk away? What if that were enough?
What then?
It's become very popular for victims of horrible crimes to go on talk shows and proclaim they've forgiven the perpetrator for whatever unspeakable violence was committed against them and/or their loved ones. These public announcements have a hollow ring to them just like any other excessive gesture, it smacks of a desperate need to understand and organize rather than a quiet knowing that defies understanding and certainly no peace emanates from the television lights.
I have played fast and loose with forgiveness in a lifetime riddled with too much to forgive but, a startling realization settled over me these past weeks;to forgive is to participate in the Divine. What a stunning revelation that I am unqualified to forgive anyone for anything, worse, filtered through my jagged humanity forgiveness became an open window for destruction to enter and provides fertile ground for malignant hands to sow suffering.
So, it is this: galvanizing the awesome power of forgiveness is not for me to attempt. Forgiveness has profound implications and ripples that we, as mere humans, are not equipped to comprehend or unleash; simply, we are too small for the magnitude of Forgiveness, we're made for more human pursuits like letting go of resentments and letting bad love die.
Today it seems arrogant that I once believed I had the power to forgive anyone. A wretch like me can only hope for Grace in this moment and the willingness to know I am too small to wrestle with the largess of the darkness that Forgiveness dissolves.
What if I were to rise above the dark cesspool of filth and walk away? What if that were enough?
What then?
Monday, September 28, 2009
Israeli Soldiers Display Bravery
The most difficult thing a person can do is to speak out against your own tribe, it is also the bravest.
The United Nation has released a devastating report of Israel’s’ Gaza invasion in 2008 accusing the Jewish nation of war crimes and crimes against humanity; this is merely more documentation of the mass murder, home demolitions, humiliation, ethnic cleansing and collective punishment that Israel engages in on a daily basis towards the Palestinian population.
A group of Israeli soldiers have formed an organization called Breaking the Silence to bring to light the truth of what their politicians keep denying and to free their burden of carrying those lies in addition to the weight of being a soldier in a military occupation.
The following are some of the war crimes these soldiers claim the Israeli Defense Forces or IDF, was engaged:
Intentional and mass military targeting and destruction of civilian property, use of White Phosphorous which produces injuries referred to as ‘dead flesh’, it kills , burns and destroys everything it touches, it is a form of nuclear and chemical weaponry.
The tips of missiles are coated in the White Phosphorous and dropped among civilian populations; Israeli used these nuclear dipped missiles in Lebanon and this link shows disturbing photos of the result: http://www.goldbamboo.com/pictures-t2525.html.
As per usual, the IDF and Israeli politicians blatantly lied and denied Palestinian, Lebanese & NGO claims that the Jewish nation was unleashing a chemical weapon previously unseen in warfare. Any one making such claims was accused of being anti-Semitic, a predictable and at this point, useless label used to silence any and all dissent towards Israel.
One of the most disturbing allegations made by these brave soldiers is the confirmation that IDF superiors encouraged and ordered their soldiers to engage in using Palestinians as human shield; an accusation that Israel repeatedly makes of Hamas and Hezbollah and when investigations are conducted not only is it found to be a false and fabricated lie but, evidence only proves it is the IDF engaging in using civilians as human shields. One such disturbing video shows grown men, IDF soldiers using an 11-year old Palestinian girl as a human shield: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscKLRlqliU.
Israeli military senior officers instructed soldiers to shoot and kill with complete disregard for civilian status which, according to Breaking the Silence, has sadly become the culture of the IDF leaving some it’s soldiers with moral questions about their role in the war crimes being committed against innocent men, women and children.
And now Israel wants Iran attacked because they’re just a small, innocent, harmless, victimized Jewish nation in a sea of savage Arabs who want to kill them all; never mind the Iranians are not Arabs and the Jews are doing 98 per cent of all the killing and all the invading.
The United Nation has released a devastating report of Israel’s’ Gaza invasion in 2008 accusing the Jewish nation of war crimes and crimes against humanity; this is merely more documentation of the mass murder, home demolitions, humiliation, ethnic cleansing and collective punishment that Israel engages in on a daily basis towards the Palestinian population.
A group of Israeli soldiers have formed an organization called Breaking the Silence to bring to light the truth of what their politicians keep denying and to free their burden of carrying those lies in addition to the weight of being a soldier in a military occupation.
The following are some of the war crimes these soldiers claim the Israeli Defense Forces or IDF, was engaged:
Intentional and mass military targeting and destruction of civilian property, use of White Phosphorous which produces injuries referred to as ‘dead flesh’, it kills , burns and destroys everything it touches, it is a form of nuclear and chemical weaponry.
The tips of missiles are coated in the White Phosphorous and dropped among civilian populations; Israeli used these nuclear dipped missiles in Lebanon and this link shows disturbing photos of the result: http://www.goldbamboo.com/pictures-t2525.html.
As per usual, the IDF and Israeli politicians blatantly lied and denied Palestinian, Lebanese & NGO claims that the Jewish nation was unleashing a chemical weapon previously unseen in warfare. Any one making such claims was accused of being anti-Semitic, a predictable and at this point, useless label used to silence any and all dissent towards Israel.
One of the most disturbing allegations made by these brave soldiers is the confirmation that IDF superiors encouraged and ordered their soldiers to engage in using Palestinians as human shield; an accusation that Israel repeatedly makes of Hamas and Hezbollah and when investigations are conducted not only is it found to be a false and fabricated lie but, evidence only proves it is the IDF engaging in using civilians as human shields. One such disturbing video shows grown men, IDF soldiers using an 11-year old Palestinian girl as a human shield: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscKLRlqliU.
Israeli military senior officers instructed soldiers to shoot and kill with complete disregard for civilian status which, according to Breaking the Silence, has sadly become the culture of the IDF leaving some it’s soldiers with moral questions about their role in the war crimes being committed against innocent men, women and children.
And now Israel wants Iran attacked because they’re just a small, innocent, harmless, victimized Jewish nation in a sea of savage Arabs who want to kill them all; never mind the Iranians are not Arabs and the Jews are doing 98 per cent of all the killing and all the invading.
Israeli Soldiers Display Bravery
The most difficult thing a person can do is to speak out against your own tribe, it is also the bravest.
The United Nation has released a devastating report of Israel’s’ Gaza invasion in 2008 accusing the Jewish nation of war crimes and crimes against humanity; this is merely more documentation of the mass murder, home demolitions, humiliation, ethnic cleansing and collective punishment that Israel engages in on a daily basis towards the Palestinian population.
A group of Israeli soldiers have formed an organization called Breaking the Silence to bring to light the truth of what their politicians keep denying and to free their burden of carrying those lies in addition to the weight of being a soldier in a military occupation.
The following are some of the war crimes these soldiers claim the Israeli Defense Forces or IDF, was engaged:
Intentional and mass military targeting and destruction of civilian property, use of White Phosphorous which produces injuries referred to as ‘dead flesh’, it kills , burns and destroys everything it touches, it is a form of nuclear and chemical weaponry.
The tips of missiles are coated in the White Phosphorous and dropped among civilian populations; Israeli used these nuclear dipped missiles in Lebanon and this link shows disturbing photos of the result: http://www.goldbamboo.com/pictures-t2525.html.
As per usual, the IDF and Israeli politicians blatantly lied and denied Palestinian, Lebanese & NGO claims that the Jewish nation was unleashing a chemical weapon previously unseen in warfare. Any one making such claims was accused of being anti-Semitic, a predictable and at this point, useless label used to silence any and all dissent towards Israel.
One of the most disturbing allegations made by these brave soldiers is the confirmation that IDF superiors encouraged and ordered their soldiers to engage in using Palestinians as human shield; an accusation that Israel repeatedly makes of Hamas and Hezbollah and when investigations are conducted not only is it found to be a false and fabricated lie but, evidence only proves it is the IDF engaging in using civilians as human shields. One such disturbing video shows grown men, IDF soldiers using an 11-year old Palestinian girl as a human shield: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscKLRlqliU.
Israeli military senior officers instructed soldiers to shoot and kill with complete disregard for civilian status which, according to Breaking the Silence, has sadly become the culture of the IDF leaving some it’s soldiers with moral questions about their role in the war crimes being committed against innocent men, women and children.
And now Israel wants Iran attacked because they’re just a small, innocent, harmless, victimized Jewish nation in a sea of savage Arabs who want to kill them all; never mind the Iranians are not Arabs and the Jews are doing 98 per cent of all the killing and all the invading.
The United Nation has released a devastating report of Israel’s’ Gaza invasion in 2008 accusing the Jewish nation of war crimes and crimes against humanity; this is merely more documentation of the mass murder, home demolitions, humiliation, ethnic cleansing and collective punishment that Israel engages in on a daily basis towards the Palestinian population.
A group of Israeli soldiers have formed an organization called Breaking the Silence to bring to light the truth of what their politicians keep denying and to free their burden of carrying those lies in addition to the weight of being a soldier in a military occupation.
The following are some of the war crimes these soldiers claim the Israeli Defense Forces or IDF, was engaged:
Intentional and mass military targeting and destruction of civilian property, use of White Phosphorous which produces injuries referred to as ‘dead flesh’, it kills , burns and destroys everything it touches, it is a form of nuclear and chemical weaponry.
The tips of missiles are coated in the White Phosphorous and dropped among civilian populations; Israeli used these nuclear dipped missiles in Lebanon and this link shows disturbing photos of the result: http://www.goldbamboo.com/pictures-t2525.html.
As per usual, the IDF and Israeli politicians blatantly lied and denied Palestinian, Lebanese & NGO claims that the Jewish nation was unleashing a chemical weapon previously unseen in warfare. Any one making such claims was accused of being anti-Semitic, a predictable and at this point, useless label used to silence any and all dissent towards Israel.
One of the most disturbing allegations made by these brave soldiers is the confirmation that IDF superiors encouraged and ordered their soldiers to engage in using Palestinians as human shield; an accusation that Israel repeatedly makes of Hamas and Hezbollah and when investigations are conducted not only is it found to be a false and fabricated lie but, evidence only proves it is the IDF engaging in using civilians as human shields. One such disturbing video shows grown men, IDF soldiers using an 11-year old Palestinian girl as a human shield: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscKLRlqliU.
Israeli military senior officers instructed soldiers to shoot and kill with complete disregard for civilian status which, according to Breaking the Silence, has sadly become the culture of the IDF leaving some it’s soldiers with moral questions about their role in the war crimes being committed against innocent men, women and children.
And now Israel wants Iran attacked because they’re just a small, innocent, harmless, victimized Jewish nation in a sea of savage Arabs who want to kill them all; never mind the Iranians are not Arabs and the Jews are doing 98 per cent of all the killing and all the invading.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Foot
Your foot rests sweetly in slumber
asleep in the cocoon of night
gentle, like an angels breath on a pillow
How it breaths in the night
So much innocence
cherry like, each of your toes
Each perfect and full
Of such joyous wonder and squeal
How it burst me
Completely
Yours,
A footprint
a dream of life
foretold before wisdom came
and manifest just in time
before darkness swallowed the imprint
How you sustain me in the night
Unknowing and pure
Of the softest exhale in that foot
A Godliness contained
while you speak to the wind
it lays in wake
Unknowing and unpretentious
So much goodness
Impossible
Simply impossible
How your’ foot in pure passive repose
alters my existence and allows me rest
in this bed of turmoil and new riches
your’ foot in it’s plumpness is
such loveliness
such wonder
within my being I hold the imprint
of those curled ones,
happy and untroubled
untouched by the night it nests in
How your perfection moves me
After the rains and the water wash me away
the impression of your foot will stay
and the new downpour will come
to bring with it
my dreams for you in little pitter-patter across the floor
leaving a trail of this prayer into tomorrow.
asleep in the cocoon of night
gentle, like an angels breath on a pillow
How it breaths in the night
So much innocence
cherry like, each of your toes
Each perfect and full
Of such joyous wonder and squeal
How it burst me
Completely
Yours,
A footprint
a dream of life
foretold before wisdom came
and manifest just in time
before darkness swallowed the imprint
How you sustain me in the night
Unknowing and pure
Of the softest exhale in that foot
A Godliness contained
while you speak to the wind
it lays in wake
Unknowing and unpretentious
So much goodness
Impossible
Simply impossible
How your’ foot in pure passive repose
alters my existence and allows me rest
in this bed of turmoil and new riches
your’ foot in it’s plumpness is
such loveliness
such wonder
within my being I hold the imprint
of those curled ones,
happy and untroubled
untouched by the night it nests in
How your perfection moves me
After the rains and the water wash me away
the impression of your foot will stay
and the new downpour will come
to bring with it
my dreams for you in little pitter-patter across the floor
leaving a trail of this prayer into tomorrow.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
A beautiful boy!
09/09/09
On this most fortuitous day, news of my second born and most precious son arrived!
He is so beloved and so precious and I can't wait to see him and hold him and love him.
Most important of all, these two boys of mine will be brothers for life. They will grow up together, love one another, play together, fight and forgive, they will be an unbreakable and loyal duo. They have eachother.
On this most fortuitous day, news of my second born and most precious son arrived!
He is so beloved and so precious and I can't wait to see him and hold him and love him.
Most important of all, these two boys of mine will be brothers for life. They will grow up together, love one another, play together, fight and forgive, they will be an unbreakable and loyal duo. They have eachother.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The Toddler Years: Four Ways to Help You and Your’ Child Get Through This Phase in Life,Together!
Riding the transition from infancy to toddlerhood can be a challenge for any mother and the entire family as everyone adjusts to the new dynamic.
Here are four tips to get you through the tough haul from baby to big boy:
1. This is a little known fact: the toddler years officially begin at twelve months! There is so much made about the ‘terrible two’s’ that no one mentions the wackiness begins at one year. This can be confusing and frightening for a mother to watch her child’s personality change overnight; don’t worry, it’s just the toddler stage upon you.
2. Toddlers are more aware of their surroundings and environments and can easily become over stimulated so it’s important to do two things to keep your son or daughter from overloading: first, toddlers need plenty of sleep, so make sure their naps are scheduled and taken. Second, set aside some quiet time every afternoon without music or television or excessive family noise, it will help them calm down and re-center.
3. Toddlerhood is a highly frustrating time for your baby because they are more aware of their needs and have minimal or no language skills to communicate their needs so the frustration level is very high, all the time! Tears and tantrums define this phase and your temperament will adjust to the irrational and angry response to innocuous situations; just give it some time and let them vent if they need to and then just carry on with whatever activity you were all doing. It’s time to get comfortable with public embarrassment!
4. Once your child reaches twelve months they become very territorial and refuse to share anything with anybody! They view themselves as very powerful so when they are playing with older kids, I recommend stepping in once the tugging match begins and take your toddler away from the toy or game.
It’s a stressful time for the toddler too so they will need extra hugs and kisses especially when they know they’ve upset you; it’s essential for their well being that your children know your love is not dependent on their behavior!
Remember, as with all things in life and babies, this too shall pass!
Here are four tips to get you through the tough haul from baby to big boy:
1. This is a little known fact: the toddler years officially begin at twelve months! There is so much made about the ‘terrible two’s’ that no one mentions the wackiness begins at one year. This can be confusing and frightening for a mother to watch her child’s personality change overnight; don’t worry, it’s just the toddler stage upon you.
2. Toddlers are more aware of their surroundings and environments and can easily become over stimulated so it’s important to do two things to keep your son or daughter from overloading: first, toddlers need plenty of sleep, so make sure their naps are scheduled and taken. Second, set aside some quiet time every afternoon without music or television or excessive family noise, it will help them calm down and re-center.
3. Toddlerhood is a highly frustrating time for your baby because they are more aware of their needs and have minimal or no language skills to communicate their needs so the frustration level is very high, all the time! Tears and tantrums define this phase and your temperament will adjust to the irrational and angry response to innocuous situations; just give it some time and let them vent if they need to and then just carry on with whatever activity you were all doing. It’s time to get comfortable with public embarrassment!
4. Once your child reaches twelve months they become very territorial and refuse to share anything with anybody! They view themselves as very powerful so when they are playing with older kids, I recommend stepping in once the tugging match begins and take your toddler away from the toy or game.
It’s a stressful time for the toddler too so they will need extra hugs and kisses especially when they know they’ve upset you; it’s essential for their well being that your children know your love is not dependent on their behavior!
Remember, as with all things in life and babies, this too shall pass!
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