THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU!!! DONE- called senators and reps. AND I'M PRAYING- PRAYER to lift up humanity to the principles of this nation. AND may we learn to make amends individually and collectively. <3
Your perspective in prophetic, true, in a way obvious, but needful to be heard. Not to mention brave and inspiring. I will make calls, and forward your post to my minister, whose voice reaches many here in Pittsburgh. This is yet another sacrifice the lives and treasure of We the People for the sake of our greedy and corrupt overlords. I pray daily that we all find the sanctuary of our souls and that it shelter us from the storms we're facing.
Those that are not students of history might want to revisit President Eisenhower's "Farewell Address" concerning the military and corporate bloc that has dragged us into so many conflicts since WWII was ended. The War on Drugs, has been an absolute failure, but an excuse for spending untold amounts of money that could be used for many other needed purposes within our nation. Lederer and Burdick's books, "The Ugly American" and "A Nation of Sheep" can open one's eyes to the longer-term effects in our relationships with other peoples and nations. "The Emperor's New Clothes" syndrome which seems to be still alive in this country, has been a guiding light in the MAGA movement. Wayne D. Armitstead's "Capitalism Perverted - Exposing the Sources of Income Inequality" shows how capitalism in this country has truly separated the elite from the rest of the economic groups. As citizens of this nation, hopefully we will explore the concept of Enlightened Self-Interest rather than one of I can't be bothered.
Biden wisely added to it, talking about a Tech-industrial complex. Big Tech has now joined the ranks of the military-industrial complex, exponentially increasing the danger.
Ps. One thing I would like to mention as a kid who grew up with a military contractor dad.
21st Century War is technology heavy. The Chinese I'm making giant advances in this area. Just as armaments changed drastically between the 19th and 20th Century, and even between the first and second half of the 20th century, military progress across the globe has gone in the direction of more and better technology.
Whether we like the arms race or not it's real. If Americans don't want to be buried by better war making tools they have to start making better ones themselves.
That doesn't mean I think your vision to create a technology of peacemaking is folly. I continue to believe you do not need to wait to become President of the United States to begin building the equivalent of the Department of Peace. Find your allies and your cohorts and do for this what you did for gay men who were dying horrendous deaths from AIDS in the 1980s. Work your lessons and make your Miracles.
I'm glad you'll be publicly speaking at the anniversary of ACIM. As that book's foremost speaker on a *practical application of The Course, I have faith that you can achieve this if you wish.
Because War isn't going to become any less scientific. So Peace does need to keep pace.
Remember, Yoda once said "There is no try. There is only do, or not do."
Thank you for giving credit to Joe on this. Also, being fair to him, he was the public Tipping Point that pushed Obama to support same-sex marriage. Which eventually led to legalization and positive change for millions of people in the United States.
Given your history with the LGBTetc community this is an issue dear to both of us. 💟🌈💟
Thank you for writing on this. The actions of moving military assets to the Venezuelan coast is a BIG DEAL!
Also, thank you for bringing up the.piece about the Senate voting to stop Trump from taking military action WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS!!!!
I am so angry and frustrated with the long line of presidents taking mitary actions presidents are not authorized to take by congress.
And with regard to our government and drug trafficking - let's look at the role of the CIA in drug trafficking if we are going to talk about how the US drug war played out around the world!
Americans have yet to grasp that every action begets a reaction. The Law of Karma ensures that what we visit on weaker nations will reverberate throughout time and space only to return to us.
Trump disregards all restraint, and not only is collapsing all democratic principles but destabilizing the entire world, ushering in widespread traumatic enactments, massive ecocide and extinction. We need to come together, we the majority who believes in goodness, and overturn the ethos of selfishness and accumulation.
By trying to better the world on a daily basis, millions of people can heal both the planet and become a force a transformation of Americans' foreign policy, policies too often based on greed, ignorance and violent self-aggrandizement. We can do better--and we must!
“All are needed, everyone. No one is too small or young to take part in this Great Plan for the rescue and the rehabilitation of our world.
Resolve to do this and be assured that My help will not be withheld.
How to start? Begin by dedicating yourself and all that you are and have been to the service of the World, to the service of your brothers and sisters everywhere. Make sure that not one day passes without some act of true service, and be assured that My help will be yours. This, the path of service, is the only path for true men, for it is the path which leads them to God.”
Thank you. This is beautiful. I am always so grateful for our fellow world citizens who care and speak up about the actions of thr Uniited States on the world stage. God bless you.
¨During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the United States. The president revealed that the attacks were conducted without warning, were intended not to stop but to kill all persons on the boats, and succeeded in their missions.
Trump has claimed that his victims are “narco-terrorists” who were planning to deliver illegal drugs to willing American buyers. He apparently believes that because these folks are presumably foreigners, they have no rights that he must honor and he may freely kill them. As far as we know, none of these nameless faceless persons was charged or convicted of any federal crime. We don’t know if any were Americans. But we do know that all were just extrajudicially executed.
Can the president legally do this? In a word: NO. Here is the backstory.
The Constitution was ratified to establish federal powers and to limit them. Congress is established to write the laws and to declare war. The president is established to enforce the laws that Congress has written and to be commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Restraints are imposed on both. Congress may only enact legislation in the 16 discrete areas of governance articulated in the Constitution — and it may only legislate subject to all persons’ natural rights identified and articulated in the Bill of Rights.
The president may only enforce the laws that Congress has written — he cannot craft his own. And he may employ the military only in defense of a real imminent military-style attack or to fight wars that Congress has declared. The Constitution prohibits the president from fighting undeclared wars, and federal law prohibits him from employing the military for law enforcement purposes.
The Fifth Amendment — in tandem with the 14th, which restrains the states — assures that no person’s life, liberty or property may be taken without due process of law. Because the drafters of the amendment used the word “person” instead of “citizen,” the courts have ruled consistently that this due process requirement is applicable to all human beings. Basically, wherever the government goes, it is subject to constitutional restraints.
Traditionally, due process means a trial. In the case of a civilian, it means a jury trial, with the full panoply of attendant protections required by the Constitution. In the case of enemy combatants, it means a fair neutral tribunal.
The tribunal requirement came about in an odd and terrifying way. In 1942, four Nazi troops arrived via submarine at Amagansett Beach, New York, and exchanged their uniforms for civilian garb. At nearly the same time, four other Nazi troops arrived via submarine at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and also donned civilian clothing. All eight set about their assigned task of destroying American munitions factories. After one of them went to the FBI, all eight were arrested.
President Franklin Roosevelt panicked and ordered all eight summarily executed. When two of the eight protested in perfect English that they were born in the U.S., and their protests proved accurate, FDR decided to appoint counsel for all of them and to hold a trial.
At trial, all eight were convicted of attempted sabotage behind enemy lines — a war crime. The Supreme Court quickly returned to Washington from its summer vacation and unanimously upheld the convictions. By the time the court issued its formal opinion, six of the eight had been executed. The two Americans were sentenced to life in prison. Their sentences were commuted five years later by President Harry Truman.
The linchpin to all this was FDR’s decision to appoint counsel and have a trial. The Supreme Court made it clear that even unlawful enemy combatants — those out of uniform and not on a recognized battlefield — are entitled to due process; and, but for the trial afforded to the Nazi saboteurs, it would not have permitted their executions.
This jurisprudence was essentially followed in three Supreme Court cases involving foreign persons whom the George W. Bush administration had arrested and characterized as enemy combatants detained at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In wartime, U.S. troops can lawfully kill enemy troops that are engaged in violence against them. But, pursuant to these Supreme Court cases, the United Nations Charter — a treaty that the U.S. wrote — as well the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — another treaty that the U.S. wrote — if combatants are not engaged in violence, they may not be harmed, but only arrested. All this presumes that Congress has in fact declared war on the country or group from which the combatants come. That hasn’t happened since Dec. 8, 1941.
Now, back to Trump ordering the military to kill foreigners in the Caribbean. International law provides for stopping ships engaged in violence in international waters. It also provides for stopping and searching ships — with probable cause for the search — in U.S. territorial waters. But no law permits, and the prevailing judicial jurisprudence deriving from the Constitution and federal statutes absolutely prohibits, the summary murders of folks not engaged in violence — on the high seas or anywhere else.
The Attorney General has reluctantly revealed the existence of a legal memorandum purporting to justify Trump’s orders and the military’s killings — but she insisted the memorandum is classified. That is a non sequitur. A legal memorandum can only be based on public laws enacted by Congress and interpreted by the courts. There are no secret laws, and there can be no classified rationale for killing the legally innocent.
If the memorandum purports to permit the president to declare non-violent enemy combatants on a whim and kill them, it is in defiance of 80 years of consistent jurisprudence, and its drafters and executors have engaged in serious criminality. Where will these extrajudicial killings go next — to Chicago?¨
THE SHOCK DOCTRINE - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. 1:18:37 min
¨The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of "shock therapy". This centers on the exploitation of national crises to push through controversial policies while citizens are too emotionally and physically distracted by disasters or upheavals to mount an effective resistance. The book suggests that some man-made events, such as the Iraq War, were undertaken with the intention of pushing through such unpopular policies in their wake. Some reviewers criticized the book for making what they viewed as simplifications of political phenomena, while others lauded it as a compelling and important work.¨
Yes, this is so tragic. I'm at a loss for why there isn't greater outcry and some Congressional spine to stand up to this. I think Trump has longed for a war for a long time. Hegseth is surely in that camp. Now, I think the regime thinks this offers a Wag the Dog opportunity to shift focus away from Epstein, broken economy, etc. BUT, I don't think it will work especially since a big chunk of Trump's base is starting to wake up to just how flawed he is and how duped they've been.
Mother Hale use to remind me growing up back on the 40s how the USA was always policing the world how and the government leaders were all much the same when it came to wars and sending our troops into war. My Uncle was killed in WWW1 and my best friend’s dad was killed in the Korean War. I remember Harry Truman and Eisenhower mostly. Today I just listen mostly to all the rhetoric and political garble…so much corruption 😢
The noosphere (pronounced NOH-uh-sphere) is the layer of the world made of thought, meaning, ideas, language, beliefs, and shared consciousness. It’s not physical like the atmosphere or the biosphere. It’s the next layer up — the sphere shaped by human minds and human conversations. It’s the shared field of thought humanity lives inside. A global “cloud” of ideas, stories, and beliefs. An invisible environment created by our conversations, values, and meaning-making. Marianne, by expanding our awareness, you are altering the noosphere, which in turn changes people's thinking and, consequently, behavior. The noosphere ultimately determines our reality. Keep up the good work.
Go to Indivisible peaceful protests, write to senators and congressmen, pray for peace for all, h’opponnopono them that choose to betray our constitution, our rights for freedom, justice and equality for all! Blasting the world and all its inhabitants with love and light! I truly believe that together we Can and Will make a difference! ❤️🕯️🕉️☮️🙏🏼❤️
THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU!!! DONE- called senators and reps. AND I'M PRAYING- PRAYER to lift up humanity to the principles of this nation. AND may we learn to make amends individually and collectively. <3
Well said Marianne. The Disunited States is a terrible threat to peace and safety and the planet's species everywhere
Your perspective in prophetic, true, in a way obvious, but needful to be heard. Not to mention brave and inspiring. I will make calls, and forward your post to my minister, whose voice reaches many here in Pittsburgh. This is yet another sacrifice the lives and treasure of We the People for the sake of our greedy and corrupt overlords. I pray daily that we all find the sanctuary of our souls and that it shelter us from the storms we're facing.
Those that are not students of history might want to revisit President Eisenhower's "Farewell Address" concerning the military and corporate bloc that has dragged us into so many conflicts since WWII was ended. The War on Drugs, has been an absolute failure, but an excuse for spending untold amounts of money that could be used for many other needed purposes within our nation. Lederer and Burdick's books, "The Ugly American" and "A Nation of Sheep" can open one's eyes to the longer-term effects in our relationships with other peoples and nations. "The Emperor's New Clothes" syndrome which seems to be still alive in this country, has been a guiding light in the MAGA movement. Wayne D. Armitstead's "Capitalism Perverted - Exposing the Sources of Income Inequality" shows how capitalism in this country has truly separated the elite from the rest of the economic groups. As citizens of this nation, hopefully we will explore the concept of Enlightened Self-Interest rather than one of I can't be bothered.
Biden wisely added to it, talking about a Tech-industrial complex. Big Tech has now joined the ranks of the military-industrial complex, exponentially increasing the danger.
Ps. One thing I would like to mention as a kid who grew up with a military contractor dad.
21st Century War is technology heavy. The Chinese I'm making giant advances in this area. Just as armaments changed drastically between the 19th and 20th Century, and even between the first and second half of the 20th century, military progress across the globe has gone in the direction of more and better technology.
Whether we like the arms race or not it's real. If Americans don't want to be buried by better war making tools they have to start making better ones themselves.
That doesn't mean I think your vision to create a technology of peacemaking is folly. I continue to believe you do not need to wait to become President of the United States to begin building the equivalent of the Department of Peace. Find your allies and your cohorts and do for this what you did for gay men who were dying horrendous deaths from AIDS in the 1980s. Work your lessons and make your Miracles.
I'm glad you'll be publicly speaking at the anniversary of ACIM. As that book's foremost speaker on a *practical application of The Course, I have faith that you can achieve this if you wish.
Because War isn't going to become any less scientific. So Peace does need to keep pace.
Remember, Yoda once said "There is no try. There is only do, or not do."
Thank you for giving credit to Joe on this. Also, being fair to him, he was the public Tipping Point that pushed Obama to support same-sex marriage. Which eventually led to legalization and positive change for millions of people in the United States.
Given your history with the LGBTetc community this is an issue dear to both of us. 💟🌈💟
This has to do with the Trump puppet government he wants in Venezuela.
yep
Like Iran in the 50's to keep middle east from trending to spend oil revenues on peoples needs.
Thank you for writing on this. The actions of moving military assets to the Venezuelan coast is a BIG DEAL!
Also, thank you for bringing up the.piece about the Senate voting to stop Trump from taking military action WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS!!!!
I am so angry and frustrated with the long line of presidents taking mitary actions presidents are not authorized to take by congress.
And with regard to our government and drug trafficking - let's look at the role of the CIA in drug trafficking if we are going to talk about how the US drug war played out around the world!
And US gun manufacturers who regularly export arms to known drug cartels.
Marianne or anyone who knows, WHEN WAS this vote? I didn't see a headline in the morning newsletter I read in the NYT most every day.
And, it was not covered in a way that caught my attention on the Sirius/XM middle of the road radio news program, The Julie Mason Show.
How can a vote like that manage to fly under the radar?
It's a Metal Misery Horseshoe.
Americans have yet to grasp that every action begets a reaction. The Law of Karma ensures that what we visit on weaker nations will reverberate throughout time and space only to return to us.
Trump disregards all restraint, and not only is collapsing all democratic principles but destabilizing the entire world, ushering in widespread traumatic enactments, massive ecocide and extinction. We need to come together, we the majority who believes in goodness, and overturn the ethos of selfishness and accumulation.
By trying to better the world on a daily basis, millions of people can heal both the planet and become a force a transformation of Americans' foreign policy, policies too often based on greed, ignorance and violent self-aggrandizement. We can do better--and we must!
“All are needed, everyone. No one is too small or young to take part in this Great Plan for the rescue and the rehabilitation of our world.
Resolve to do this and be assured that My help will not be withheld.
How to start? Begin by dedicating yourself and all that you are and have been to the service of the World, to the service of your brothers and sisters everywhere. Make sure that not one day passes without some act of true service, and be assured that My help will be yours. This, the path of service, is the only path for true men, for it is the path which leads them to God.”
Maitreya
London
The head of the Masters of Wisdom
Thank you. This is beautiful. I am always so grateful for our fellow world citizens who care and speak up about the actions of thr Uniited States on the world stage. God bless you.
Judging Freedom w/ Judge Andrew Naolitano
WHEN PRESIDENTS KILL
Judge Andrew Napolitano Oct 13, 2025
¨During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the United States. The president revealed that the attacks were conducted without warning, were intended not to stop but to kill all persons on the boats, and succeeded in their missions.
Trump has claimed that his victims are “narco-terrorists” who were planning to deliver illegal drugs to willing American buyers. He apparently believes that because these folks are presumably foreigners, they have no rights that he must honor and he may freely kill them. As far as we know, none of these nameless faceless persons was charged or convicted of any federal crime. We don’t know if any were Americans. But we do know that all were just extrajudicially executed.
Can the president legally do this? In a word: NO. Here is the backstory.
The Constitution was ratified to establish federal powers and to limit them. Congress is established to write the laws and to declare war. The president is established to enforce the laws that Congress has written and to be commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Restraints are imposed on both. Congress may only enact legislation in the 16 discrete areas of governance articulated in the Constitution — and it may only legislate subject to all persons’ natural rights identified and articulated in the Bill of Rights.
The president may only enforce the laws that Congress has written — he cannot craft his own. And he may employ the military only in defense of a real imminent military-style attack or to fight wars that Congress has declared. The Constitution prohibits the president from fighting undeclared wars, and federal law prohibits him from employing the military for law enforcement purposes.
The Fifth Amendment — in tandem with the 14th, which restrains the states — assures that no person’s life, liberty or property may be taken without due process of law. Because the drafters of the amendment used the word “person” instead of “citizen,” the courts have ruled consistently that this due process requirement is applicable to all human beings. Basically, wherever the government goes, it is subject to constitutional restraints.
Traditionally, due process means a trial. In the case of a civilian, it means a jury trial, with the full panoply of attendant protections required by the Constitution. In the case of enemy combatants, it means a fair neutral tribunal.
The tribunal requirement came about in an odd and terrifying way. In 1942, four Nazi troops arrived via submarine at Amagansett Beach, New York, and exchanged their uniforms for civilian garb. At nearly the same time, four other Nazi troops arrived via submarine at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and also donned civilian clothing. All eight set about their assigned task of destroying American munitions factories. After one of them went to the FBI, all eight were arrested.
President Franklin Roosevelt panicked and ordered all eight summarily executed. When two of the eight protested in perfect English that they were born in the U.S., and their protests proved accurate, FDR decided to appoint counsel for all of them and to hold a trial.
At trial, all eight were convicted of attempted sabotage behind enemy lines — a war crime. The Supreme Court quickly returned to Washington from its summer vacation and unanimously upheld the convictions. By the time the court issued its formal opinion, six of the eight had been executed. The two Americans were sentenced to life in prison. Their sentences were commuted five years later by President Harry Truman.
The linchpin to all this was FDR’s decision to appoint counsel and have a trial. The Supreme Court made it clear that even unlawful enemy combatants — those out of uniform and not on a recognized battlefield — are entitled to due process; and, but for the trial afforded to the Nazi saboteurs, it would not have permitted their executions.
This jurisprudence was essentially followed in three Supreme Court cases involving foreign persons whom the George W. Bush administration had arrested and characterized as enemy combatants detained at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In wartime, U.S. troops can lawfully kill enemy troops that are engaged in violence against them. But, pursuant to these Supreme Court cases, the United Nations Charter — a treaty that the U.S. wrote — as well the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — another treaty that the U.S. wrote — if combatants are not engaged in violence, they may not be harmed, but only arrested. All this presumes that Congress has in fact declared war on the country or group from which the combatants come. That hasn’t happened since Dec. 8, 1941.
Now, back to Trump ordering the military to kill foreigners in the Caribbean. International law provides for stopping ships engaged in violence in international waters. It also provides for stopping and searching ships — with probable cause for the search — in U.S. territorial waters. But no law permits, and the prevailing judicial jurisprudence deriving from the Constitution and federal statutes absolutely prohibits, the summary murders of folks not engaged in violence — on the high seas or anywhere else.
The Attorney General has reluctantly revealed the existence of a legal memorandum purporting to justify Trump’s orders and the military’s killings — but she insisted the memorandum is classified. That is a non sequitur. A legal memorandum can only be based on public laws enacted by Congress and interpreted by the courts. There are no secret laws, and there can be no classified rationale for killing the legally innocent.
If the memorandum purports to permit the president to declare non-violent enemy combatants on a whim and kill them, it is in defiance of 80 years of consistent jurisprudence, and its drafters and executors have engaged in serious criminality. Where will these extrajudicial killings go next — to Chicago?¨
https://judgenap.substack.com/p/when-presidents-kill-c8c
THE SHOCK DOCTRINE - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. 1:18:37 min
¨The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of "shock therapy". This centers on the exploitation of national crises to push through controversial policies while citizens are too emotionally and physically distracted by disasters or upheavals to mount an effective resistance. The book suggests that some man-made events, such as the Iraq War, were undertaken with the intention of pushing through such unpopular policies in their wake. Some reviewers criticized the book for making what they viewed as simplifications of political phenomena, while others lauded it as a compelling and important work.¨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL3XGZ5rreE
Distract the public, justify the war machine - Wag the Dog (1997) 4:38 min
https://youtu.be/hmM8rE_LdFA
WAG THE DOG - Trailer 2:33 min
https://youtu.be/steA_PZPkc8
Yes, this is so tragic. I'm at a loss for why there isn't greater outcry and some Congressional spine to stand up to this. I think Trump has longed for a war for a long time. Hegseth is surely in that camp. Now, I think the regime thinks this offers a Wag the Dog opportunity to shift focus away from Epstein, broken economy, etc. BUT, I don't think it will work especially since a big chunk of Trump's base is starting to wake up to just how flawed he is and how duped they've been.
That's why I'm concerned they'll move fast
And... they can't have a "Department of War" without a **war, right? 😠
He's desperate for a distraction from the results of the last election and the Epstein news cycle.
Mother Hale use to remind me growing up back on the 40s how the USA was always policing the world how and the government leaders were all much the same when it came to wars and sending our troops into war. My Uncle was killed in WWW1 and my best friend’s dad was killed in the Korean War. I remember Harry Truman and Eisenhower mostly. Today I just listen mostly to all the rhetoric and political garble…so much corruption 😢
The noosphere (pronounced NOH-uh-sphere) is the layer of the world made of thought, meaning, ideas, language, beliefs, and shared consciousness. It’s not physical like the atmosphere or the biosphere. It’s the next layer up — the sphere shaped by human minds and human conversations. It’s the shared field of thought humanity lives inside. A global “cloud” of ideas, stories, and beliefs. An invisible environment created by our conversations, values, and meaning-making. Marianne, by expanding our awareness, you are altering the noosphere, which in turn changes people's thinking and, consequently, behavior. The noosphere ultimately determines our reality. Keep up the good work.
Go to Indivisible peaceful protests, write to senators and congressmen, pray for peace for all, h’opponnopono them that choose to betray our constitution, our rights for freedom, justice and equality for all! Blasting the world and all its inhabitants with love and light! I truly believe that together we Can and Will make a difference! ❤️🕯️🕉️☮️🙏🏼❤️
Yes, indeed, it's time to call the switchboard--again and again!
Well articulated and truthful thought. Thank you, Marianne