Healthy Living
July 8, 2014 at 8:28 am (Air, Alternative Medicine, anuraagah, Art, Attainment of the Dao, ॐ, Balance, Biology, Buddhism, Chakras, Chi Gung, Dalai Lama, DNA, Earth, Education, Emotions, Energy, Environmental activism, Equanimity, 道, Fire, Genetics, Globalization, Healing, Health, Herbal Medicine, Human Rights, Internal Arts, Liberation, Love, Matter, Medicine, Meditation, Metal, Metaphysics, Motivation, Music, Nei Kung, Philosophy, plant-based diet, Prayer, Psychology, Quantum Physics, Revolutionary, Science, Science Education, Spiritual, spirituality, Taiji Chuan, Taoism, the Divine, Virtue, Water, Wood, Yang, Yin)
serious times
June 27, 2014 at 8:09 pm (Air, anuraagah, Art, Attainment of the Dao, ॐ, Balance, Biology, Chakras, Dalai Lama, Earth, Emotions, Energy, Environmental activism, Equanimity, Fire, Genetics, Global Warming, Globalization, Greece, Healing, Health, Herbal Medicine, History, Homer, Human Rights, Internal Arts, ﷲ, Judaism, Justice, Learning disorders, Liberation, Love, Matter, Medicine, Meditation, Metaphysics, Motivation, Nei Kung, plant-based diet, Prayer, Quantum Physics, Response to Intervention (RTI), Revolutionary, Science Education, Spiritual, spirituality, Taiji Chuan, the "gods", the garden, the LORD of ALL, the power that commands the universe, the Source of all life, Tibet, Vice, Virtue, Wood, Xing Yi, Yang, Yin, zombie apocalypse)
Tags: environmental activism, Human Rights
World Hunger
- 842 million people – or one in eight people in the world – do not have enough to eat. 2
- 98% of the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries.2
- Where is hunger the worst?
- Asia: 552 million2
- Sub-Saharan Africa: 223 million2
- Latin America and the Caribbean: 47 million2
Aiming at the very heart of hunger, The Hunger Project is currently committed to work in Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India, Ghana,Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Senegal and Uganda.
Women and Children
- 60 percent of the world’s hungry are women.2
- 50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack proper maternal care, resulting in 240,000 maternal deaths annually from childbirth.3
- 1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in developing countries.4
- Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year. That is 8,500 children per day.6
- A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by hunger.5
- 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone.6
- Every 10 seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.5
The Hunger Project firmly believes that empowering women to be key change agents is an essential element to achieving the end of hunger and poverty. Wherever we work, our programs aim to support women and build their capacity.
HIV/AIDS and other Diseases
- 35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.7
- 52 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS are women.7
- 88 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.7
- 6.9 million children died in 2011 each year – 19,000 a day- mostly from preventable health issues such as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.5
Launched in 2003, The Hunger Project’s HIV/AIDS and Gender Inequality Campaign works at the grassroots level to provide education about preventative and treatment measures.
Poverty
- 1.4 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less.8
- Rural areas account for three out of every four people living on less than $1.25 a day.9
- 22,000 children die each day due to conditions of poverty.10
Rural Hunger Project partners have access to income-generating workshops, empowering their self-reliance. Our Microfinance Program in Africa provides access to credit, adequate training and instilling in our partners the importance of saving.
Agriculture
- 75 percent of the world’s poorest people — 1.4 billion women, children, and men — live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihood.11
- 50 percent of hungry people are farming families.11
In each region in which we work, The Hunger Project provides tools and training to increase farming production at the local level. In Africa, our epicenter partners run community farms where they implement new techniques while producing food for the epicenter food bank.
Water
- 1.7 billion people lack access to clean water.12
- 2.3 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases each year.12
- 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and none of the 12 percent lives in developing countries.13
The Hunger Project works with communities to develop new water resources, ensure clean water and improved sanitation, and implement water conservation techniques
Sources:
- US Census Bureau, International Data Base
- State of Food Security in the World 2013
- MDG Report – Goal 5, 2013 (pdf)
- World Hunger and Poverty Statistics, 2013
- MDG Report – Goal 4, 2013 (pdf)
- World Food Programme Hunger Statistics
- UN AIDS Report on the Global Epidemic, 2013
- IFAD Rural Poverty Report 2011
- Human Development Report, 2007/2008
- UNICEF State of the World’s Children, 2010 (pdf)
- FAO Addressing Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises, 2010 (pdf)
- WHO Unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (pdf)
- Water as Commodity – The Wrong Prescription by Maude Barlow, The Institute for Food and Development Policy
- A Life Free From Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition, Save the Children, Feb 2012
VICTIMS
SHORTLY after the birth of her sixth child, Mathilde went with her baby into the fields to collect the harvest. She saw two men approaching, wearing what she says was the uniform of the FDLR, a Rwandan militia. Fleeing them she ran into another man, who beat her head with a metal bar. She fell to the ground with her baby and lay still. Perhaps thinking he had murdered her, the man went away. The other two came and raped her, then they left her for dead.
Mathilde’s story is all too common. Rape in war is as old as war itself. After the sack of Rome 16 centuries ago Saint Augustine called rape in wartime an “ancient and customary evil”. For soldiers, it has long been considered one of the spoils of war. Antony Beevor, a historian who has written about rape during the Soviet conquest of Germany in 1945, says that rape has occurred in war since ancient times, often perpetrated by indisciplined soldiers. But he argues that there are also examples in history of rape being used strategically, to humiliate and to terrorise, such as the Moroccan regulares in Spain’s civil war.
As the reporting of rape has improved, the scale of the crime has become more horrifyingly apparent (see table). And with the Bosnian war of the 1990s came the widespread recognition that rape has been used systematically as a weapon of war and that it must be punished as an egregious crime. In 2008 the UN Security Council officially acknowledged that rape has been used as a tool of war. With these kinds of resolutions and global campaigns against rape in war, the world has become more sensitive. At least in theory, the Geneva Conventions, governing the treatment of civilians in war, are respected by politicians and generals in most decent states. Generals from rich countries know that their treatment of civilians in the theatre of war comes under ever closer scrutiny. The laws and customs of war are clear. But in many parts of the world, in the Hobbesian anarchy of irregular war, with ill-disciplined private armies or militias, these norms carry little weight.
Take Congo; it highlights both how horribly common rape is, and how hard it is to document and measure, let alone stop. The eastern part of the country has been a seething mess since the Rwandan genocide of 1994. In 2008 the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a humanitarian group, estimated that 5.4m people had died in “Africa’s world war”. Despite peace deals in 2003 and 2008, the tempest of violence has yet fully to subside. As Congo’s army and myriad militias do battle, the civilians suffer most. Rape has become an ugly and defining feature of the conflict.
Plenty of figures on how many women have been raped are available but none is conclusive. In October Roger Meece, the head of the United Nations in Congo, told the UN Security Council that 15,000 women had been raped throughout the country in 2009 (men suffer too, but most victims are female). The UN Population Fund estimated 17,500 victims for the same period. The IRC says it treated 40,000 survivors in the eastern province of South Kivu alone between 2003 and 2008.
“The data only tell you so much,” says Hillary Margolis, who runs the IRC’s sexual-violence programme in North Kivu. These numbers are the bare minimum; the true figures may be much higher. Sofia Candeias, who co-ordinates the UN Development Programme’s Access to Justice project in Congo, points out that more rapes are reported in places with health services. In the areas where fighting is fiercest, women may have to walk hundreds of miles to find anyone to tell that they have been attacked. Even if they can do so, it may be months or years after the assault. Many victims are killed by their assailants. Others die of injuries. Many do not report rape because of the stigma.
Congo’s horrors are mind-boggling. A recent study by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Oxfam examined rape survivors at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a town in South Kivu province. Their ages ranged from three to 80. Some were single, some married, some widows. They came from all ethnicities. They were raped in homes, fields and forests. They were raped in front of husbands and children. Almost 60% were gang-raped. Sons were forced to rape mothers, and killed if they refused.
The attention paid to Congo reflects growing concern about rape in war. Historically the taboo surrounding rape has been so strong that few cases were reported; evidence of wartime rape before the 20th century is scarce. With better reporting, the world has woken up to the scale of the crime. The range of sexual violence in war has become apparent: the abduction of women as sex slaves, sexualised torture and mutilation, rape in public or private.
In some wars all parties engage in it. In others it is inflicted mainly by one side. Rape in wars in Africa has had a lot of attention in recent years, but it is not just an African problem. Conflicts with high levels of rape between 1980 and 2009 were most numerous in sub-Saharan Africa, according to Dara Kay Cohen of the University of Minnesota (see chart). But only a third of sub-Saharan Africa’s 28 civil wars saw the worst levels of rape—compared with half of Eastern Europe’s nine. And no part of the world has escaped the scourge.
The anarchy and impunity of war goes some way to explaining the violence. The conditions of war are often conducive to rape. Young, ill-trained men, fighting far from home, are freed from social and religious constraints. The costs of rape are lower, the potential rewards higher. And for ill-fed, underpaid combatants, rape can be a kind of payment.
Full article: http://www.economist.com/node/17900482
The power that gives life
May 31, 2014 at 1:09 am (Air, Alternative Medicine, anuraagah, Art, Attainment of the Dao, ॐ, Balance, Biology, Buddhism, Chakras, Chi Gung, Christianity, Dalai Lama, DNA, Earth, Education, Emotions, Energy, Environmental activism, Equanimity, 道, Fire, Genetics, Geology, Global Warming, Globalization, Greece, Healing, Health, Herbal Medicine, Hinduism, History, Homer, Human Rights, Internal Arts, Islam, ﷲ, Judaism, Justice, Learning disorders, Liberation, Love, Matter, Medicine, Meditation, Metal, Metaphysics, Motivation, Music, Nei Kung, Philosophy, Prayer, Psychology, Quantum Physics, religion, Response to Intervention (RTI), Science, spirituality, Taiji Chuan, Taoism, the Divine, the power that commands the universe, the Source of all life, Theology, יהוה)
Do you believe it’s possible that SOMETHING created the universe and all existence? Is it possible that a power greater than the universe exists?
-“yes, God is the creator of all existence, God alone commands all…”
-“How did the universe come into existence? That’s a hard one, but evidence suggests that the giver of life is controlling the universe, which makes it a greater power than the universe.”
-“SOMETHING HAD to have made life!! Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation of microorganisms, life doesn’t arise from nothing. The universe too, didn’t arise from nothing. The SOMETHING that brought the universe into existence is what most people in America refer to as GOD. The universe came from SOMETHING. That something is a power greater than the universe and what is known to mankind.”
-“How did we get here? I think the answer is so BIG that we would have difficulty wrapping our minds around it.”
-“I definately believe it’s possible. At our core we are but the light of consciousness. A power gives life to that light.”
-“Our people believe that the power that gives life is alive and we communicate with it and we give thanks for life and all the blessings of life. We live our lives in thanks and gratitude. It is a power that is greater than the universe…”
-“יהוה alone gives life to the universe. יהוה alone has power over all.”
In Love
March 7, 2014 at 4:46 am (Air, anuraagah, Art, Attainment of the Dao, ॐ, Balance, Chakras, DNA, Earth, Education, Emotions, Energy, Healing, Health, ﷲ, Liberation, Love, Prayer, Revolutionary, Science, Spiritual, spirituality, the Divine, the Living God, the LORD of ALL, the power that commands the universe, the Source of all life, יהוה)
A brief introduction to DNA
March 5, 2014 at 5:26 pm (Art, ॐ, Balance, Biology, Chakras, DNA, Earth, Education, Emotions, Energy, Equanimity, 道, Genetics, Healing, History, ﷲ, Learning disorders, Liberation, Medicine, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Psychology, Quantum Physics, religion, Science, Science Education, spirituality, the Divine, יהוה)
Tags: Introduction to DNA, Watson and Crick
In 1928, British scientist Fredrick Griffith was trying to learn about how certain types of bacteria produce a serious lung disease known as pneumonia. He isolated two slightly different types of pneumonia bacteria from mice.
weighed in the balance
February 28, 2014 at 3:26 am (Attainment of the Dao, Balance, Christianity, Islam, ﷲ, Judaism, Metaphysics, Music, Psychology, Quantum Physics, religion, Revolutionary, Spiritual, spirituality, the "gods", the Divine, the Living God, the LORD of ALL, the power that commands the universe, the Source of all life, Theology, Vice, Virtue, World Scriptures, Yang, Yin, יהוה)
Tags: Belshazzar, the prophet Daniel
Fight Oppression.
February 5, 2014 at 4:52 am (Air, anuraagah, Art, Attainment of the Dao, ॐ, Chakras, Chi Gung, DNA, Earth, Education, Emotions, Energy, Environmental activism, Equanimity, 道, Fire, Genetics, Geology, Globalization, Greece, Healing, Health, Herbal Medicine, History, Human Rights, Internal Arts, Justice, Learning disorders, Liberation, Love, Matter, Medicine, Meditation, Metal, Metaphysics, Music, Nei Kung, Philosophy, Psychology, Quantum Physics, Response to Intervention (RTI), Revolutionary, spirituality, the "gods", the Divine, the Elements, Vice, Virtue, Water, Wood, Yang, Yin)
the power of pure/positive thought
January 29, 2014 at 3:23 am (Air, Alternative Medicine, anuraagah, Art, Attainment of the Dao, ॐ, Biology, Chakras, Chi Gung, DNA, Earth, Education, Emotions, Energy, Environmental activism, Equanimity, 道, Genetics, Globalization, Healing, Health, Human Rights, Internal Arts, Learning disorders, Liberation, Love, Matter, Medicine, Meditation, Metaphysics, Music, Nei Kung, Philosophy, Psychology, Quantum Physics, Response to Intervention (RTI), Revolutionary, Science, Science Education, Spiritual, spirituality, Vice, Virtue, Yang, Yin, יהוה)
Dr. Masaru Emoto, a researcher and alternative healer from Japan has given the world a good deal of evidence of the magic of positive thinking. He became famous when his water molecule experiments featured in the 2004 film, What The Bleep Do We Know? His experiments demonstrate that human thoughts and intentions can alter physical reality, such as the molecular structure of water. Given that humans are comprised of at least 60% water, his discovery has far reaching implications… can anyone really afford to have negative thoughts or intentions.
The rice experiment is another famous Emoto demonstration of the power of negative thinking (and conversely, the power of positive thinking.) Dr Emoto placed portions of cooked rice into two containers. On one container he wrote “thank you” and on the other “you fool”. He then instructed school children to say the labels on the jars out loud everyday when they passed them by. After 30 days, the rice in the container with positive thoughts had barely changed, while the other was moldy and rotten.
After watching this video, we have to ask ourselves…if our thoughts can do that to the water and rice?.. then what do our thoughts do to our body??? It seems clear that negative/impure thoughts damage our body. The more we allow our minds to dwell in negativity and impurity, the worse the damage is. The more we keep our minds on pure/positive thoughts, the more we can enhance our health and well-being.
the spirit within
November 15, 2013 at 2:25 am (Air, Alternative Medicine, anuraagah, Art, Attainment of the Dao, ॐ, Biology, Buddhism, Chakras, Chi Gung, Christianity, Dalai Lama, DNA, Earth, Education, Emotions, Energy, Equanimity, 道, Fire, Genetics, Geology, Healing, Health, Hinduism, History, Human Rights, Internal Arts, Islam, ﷲ, Judaism, Liberation, Love, Matter, Medicine, Meditation, Metal, Metaphysics, Music, Nei Kung, Philosophy, Psychology, Quantum Physics, religion, Revolutionary, Science, Science Education, Spiritual, spirituality, Taiji Chuan, Taoism, the "gods", the Divine, the Elements, the garden, the Living God, the LORD of ALL, the power that commands the universe, the Source of all life, Theology, Tibet, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Virtue, Water, Wood, World Scriptures, Xing Yi, Yang, Yin, יהוה)
Born within it’s mind
rhythm with the rhyme
beyond space, beyond time
the living sublime
the cycles of life
from beginning to end
and around again
going deep within
from the source we spring forth
and we return in the end
to a beginning again
light shining within
health is wealth
October 5, 2013 at 5:01 am (Air, Alternative Medicine, anuraagah, Art, Attainment of the Dao, ॐ, Buddhism, Chakras, Chi Gung, DNA, Earth, Education, Emotions, Energy, Environmental activism, Equanimity, 道, Fire, Genetics, Geology, Globalization, Healing, Health, Herbal Medicine, Hinduism, History, Human Rights, Internal Arts, Islam, ﷲ, Judaism, Justice, Liberation, Love, Matter, Medicine, Meditation, Metal, Metaphysics, Music, Nei Kung, Philosophy, plant-based diet, Psychology, Quantum Physics, religion, Revolutionary, Science, Spiritual, spirituality, Taiji Chuan, Taoism, the Divine, the Elements, the garden, the power that commands the universe, the Source of all life, Theology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Vice, Virtue, Water, Wood, Xing Yi, Yang, Yin, יהוה)