Too Fat to Fight

The military once again uses their assets in the media to issue another national security warning.

No, this time it's not al-Qaeda or homegrown extremists. It's fat kids. And kids that are dumb and criminal.

At least 9 million Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 are too fat and unfit to serve in the military, says "Too Fat to Fight," a report being released today by Mission: Readiness, a group of retired military leaders. 

The new report follows findings from the senior military leaders group that 75 percent of adults in that age range are unqualified to serve in the armed forces because they lack the physical conditioning, don't have high school diplomas, or have criminal records. 

On Monday, one of the organization's members, retired Maj. Gen. Wesley E. Craig, said early childhood education {war propaganda} was important to national security. 

Speaking before several hundred educators and business leaders at a forum on early education in Harrisburg, Craig said, "Our national security in 2030 is heavily dependent on the boys and girls in preschool and kindergarten right now." 

"I'm here to say that if we don't take action soon, it's going to get harder to recruit qualified people to serve," said Craig, a former commander of the 28th Infantry Division of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. 

Being overweight or obese is the leading medical reason applicants fail to qualify for military service, "Too Fat to Fight" states.

"Every month, hundreds of otherwise excellent candidates for military service are turned away by recruiters because of weight problems," retired Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in the report. 

Since 1995, the proportion of recruits who failed their physical exams because they were overweight has risen by nearly 70 percent, the report says. {more}

Wars without end require planning and the kindergartner of today is the killer of tomorrow. How can a fat fighter chase the terrorists up and down the mountains of Afghanistan? Occupations of foreign lands is no place for the obese.

Now we all cringe every time we see a 200 lb. 12 year old chase down his Big Mac with a Mountain Dew. It's a sure sign that the corporate jingles have been successful. The health care costs of childhood obesity are bad enough and how do parents afford new upsized clothes every few months?

But I'm thinking that the military is overreacting. New technology can overcome the lack of slim bodies to kill civilians and women and children.

That's what drones are for .....

Too Fat to Fight

The military once again uses their assets in the media to issue another national security warning.

No, this time it's not al-Qaeda or homegrown extremists. It's fat kids. And kids that are dumb and criminal.

At least 9 million Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 are too fat and unfit to serve in the military, says "Too Fat to Fight," a report being released today by Mission: Readiness, a group of retired military leaders. 

The new report follows findings from the senior military leaders group that 75 percent of adults in that age range are unqualified to serve in the armed forces because they lack the physical conditioning, don't have high school diplomas, or have criminal records. 

On Monday, one of the organization's members, retired Maj. Gen. Wesley E. Craig, said early childhood education {war propaganda} was important to national security. 

Speaking before several hundred educators and business leaders at a forum on early education in Harrisburg, Craig said, "Our national security in 2030 is heavily dependent on the boys and girls in preschool and kindergarten right now." 

"I'm here to say that if we don't take action soon, it's going to get harder to recruit qualified people to serve," said Craig, a former commander of the 28th Infantry Division of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. 

Being overweight or obese is the leading medical reason applicants fail to qualify for military service, "Too Fat to Fight" states.

"Every month, hundreds of otherwise excellent candidates for military service are turned away by recruiters because of weight problems," retired Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in the report. 

Since 1995, the proportion of recruits who failed their physical exams because they were overweight has risen by nearly 70 percent, the report says. {more}

Wars without end require planning and the kindergartner of today is the killer of tomorrow. How can a fat fighter chase the terrorists up and down the mountains of Afghanistan? Occupations of foreign lands is no place for the obese.

Now we all cringe every time we see a 200 lb. 12 year old chase down his Big Mac with a Mountain Dew. It's a sure sign that the corporate jingles have been successful. The health care costs of childhood obesity are bad enough and how do parents afford new upsized clothes every few months?

But I'm thinking that the military is overreacting. New technology can overcome the lack of slim bodies to kill civilians and women and children.

That's what drones are for .....

Health, Beauty, Power and Persecution

"Love of beauty is taste," Ralph Waldo Emerson said, and this reminds us of how important beauty is in life. But despite the beauty that's around us constantly, I'm not sure how much attention we pay to it except in those special moments when we're in front of a gorgeous sunset or watching the innocence of children playing.

Well, Analytical Trilogy is connecting us up again with the importance of beauty for health and society. But it's really ticked off the powerful.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, Health and Beauty, Power and Persecution.

Dr. Keppe talks about how he has based his psycho-social science on music, and you can understand that if you perceive the universal structure that lies behind music. Mozart said that music should never be painful to the ear - even when portraying great horror. It should always flatter and charm the ear he asserted, and thereby always remain music.

This implies a design to the music, or at least the adhesion to some rules and laws that come before the musician. And this is how I see Dr. Keppe's science - as revealing to us the rules and laws of life that come before the human being. And with which we must harmonize if we wish to have any chance of leading a useful and meaningful life.

Being in resonance with that universal harmony - that divine music, if you will - should be natural to us. But we've pulled ourselves away from it so much we've lost contact tiwh that truth of ourselves and that's why we feel so lost and empty, and why our societies are so far away from what we all know they should be.

This program is a way for us to discuss this by addressing your specific problems or challenges in your life. We open our phone lines every Monday at 2:00 pm ET through Skype. You can drop me an email at joneshealing@gmail.com and I'll help you set that up. Write me, and please let others know about this progam. We're at www.healingthroughconsciousness.com, and we have a Facebook page, too. Let your friends and contacts know about Dr. Keppe's work.

You're going to be hearing much more about him and Analytical Trilogy over the next months and years. His grasp on the human psyche and the social reality is far ahead of anything else you'll hear out there. Do stay in touch. It's always good to hear from you.

Today, Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco and I embark on a wide-ranging discussion that covers everything from health and beauty, to power and persecution.

Click here to listen to this episode: