All Discussions Tagged 'peace' - iPeace.us2024-03-29T14:09:52Zhttps://ipeace.us/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=peace&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBeauty of Light in Actiontag:ipeace.us,2015-10-14:2217368:Topic:232715562015-10-14T12:58:09.978ZJulie Millerhttps://ipeace.us/profile/JulieMiller
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<p><b>Nourishing Your Inner Garden <br></br></b> Melchizedek’s Weekly Message ~ September 14 – 21, 2014<br></br> Received by Julie Miller<br></br> September 14, 2014</p>
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<p><br></br> Men and women alike, both enjoy a stroll through a beautifully maintained garden, one that is rich in colour. There are gardens all over the world that are breathtaking give you a…</p>
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<p><b>Nourishing Your Inner Garden <br/></b> Melchizedek’s Weekly Message ~ September 14 – 21, 2014<br/> Received by Julie Miller<br/> September 14, 2014</p>
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<p><br/> Men and women alike, both enjoy a stroll through a beautifully maintained garden, one that is rich in colour. There are gardens all over the world that are breathtaking give you a feeling of tranquility and serenity. Have you ever walked down an unknown path that led to a secret garden or one that wasn’t expected to be there? When they are discovered, the intake of breaths is priceless, a feeling of wonder fills these adventurous dear souls as they walk into a place that looks as if it’s been there forever yet is maintained by its own beauty and grace.</p>
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<p>Have you ever considered that within the chest cavity of the temple of your body is a garden waiting for you to discover, one that you are holding all the seeds needed to be cultivated, where seeds of pure joy, love and compassion are planted, where one sprouts forgiveness and gratitude? Such a place does exist dear ones, and each of you have your own garden that is being cultivated by your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions. Have you met your own secret garden yet? If you have are their weeds of discord still needed to be cut away? Are there thorns of egoic notions poking holes in your spiritual or personal development? Is the love that is pure and unconditional growing a rainbow of delicate flowers, delectable fruit, a canopy of luscious trees, and heavenly scented herbs? Your inner garden dear ones is symbolic of your inner self and how much time you have spent cultivating and creating this divine and essential aspect of your Self.</p>
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<p>Your own inner secret garden is a space that offers healing, a place that allows you to find peace and calm so it can filter into your own mindset so the rest of your Self is brought to a place of serenity and loving, compassionate composure. How does one find their secret garden? The more you work on developing and maturing your inner and outer self, the more blooms and growth your inner garden will receive. To see your inner garden you must be able to envision this beautiful place that grows or shrinks depending on what your thoughts, actions and feelings are. Imagine what would grow if all your thoughts were love-filled, then compare those with thoughts filled with dis-ease. As you, yourself grows and develops, you move from one learning experience to the other, how does all your movement effect your inner garden? When you progress, does your advancement enhance your garden, if you regress or become stagnant, even a little how will this alter your inner garden?</p>
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<p>Of course we are speaking metaphorically, but for some dear souls seeing their inner self as an inner garden that grows, blossoms and develops depending on how they have cultivated a relationship with their own inner self provides a better learning tool or way of developing their inner self. The more you come to know your authentic, pure self, the more vibrant energy you create and this energy is never wasted. This creative, vibrant energy helps to blossom your own life, and its current direction. It shows you what needs to be let go, in order to make room for new and to bring balance into all areas of life. Even though your life is busy and you have many temptations to overcome, doesn’t mean your life is meant to be filled with one drama after another. You do have a choice to cultivate a life that is simpler, filled with love and peace at every step. You can bring that inner garden into all things that you are part of.</p>
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<p>When you are responding or reacting in a non-loving manner, the less vibrant you become. At those moments you can fill your thoughts with blossoms that are bright, that bring joy and peace. You can see what clutters your over-thought mind and weed out what is not necessary. Allow your good, loving thoughts be the bright beautiful flowers, that are lovely and fragrant. As you change your thoughts, feelings and actions you also change what is growing in your inner garden…the brighter and more positive you become, the brighter and more flourishing your inner garden becomes.</p>
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<p>As you begin to cultivate your inner garden, contemplate on the design of your inner landscape. Determine what you need to transform what you have learned into wisdom, how this wisdom can change your inner garden to a place of bliss, a place to come when you need deep healing and rejuvenation. The more you become acquainted with your inner self, the more are able to grow and create in your inner garden as it is a part of you. Your inner voice or intuition that often tries to get your attention will guide you through your dreams, deep meditation experiences, possibly through symbolic means and feelings of synchronicity. When you pay attention to your inner voice, which is your inner gardener, the one that helps make your garden grow, she’ll continue to guide you and alert you when you are needed to be cautious. Become respectful of this great inner guide, this part of you that often gets ignored and overlooked.</p>
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<p>Get to know your inner voice, allow yourself to become acquainted with the wisdom that this inner gardener has always had to offer. Remember your controlling mind will want to control your actions, but the serene and wise inner voice, the inner gardener of your inner self will encourage you to quiet so you can hone in on the stirrings of your heart and spirit so you may become aligned with the deepest part of yourself. Your beautiful and always creating inner self and voice will try to alert you about other people, you may get a strange feeling of dread wash over you, a sudden chill of discontent…this is your inner gardener, your inner voice encouraging you to stop and to pay attention. Sometimes she will come to you in dreams or visions, giving you vivid dreams and images of warning and of how to move away from the warning and to continue to progress forward. What is the hardest dear ones is deciphering the dreams as they can take on many meanings.</p>
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<p>To plant the best inner garden dear ones we suggest you begin with planting seeds of unconditional love, compassion and peace. By intentionally planting such seeds, you are providing yourself with the ability to continuously nourish them, to cultivate them on a daily basis through your own actions, thoughts and feelings. Pay more attention to what is going on inside that busy mind of yours. Question your thoughts. Are your thoughts kind, helpful and loving as you mingle with others or when you are by yourself? As you are planting seeds in your inner garden we offer a few planting suggestions: Consider planting seeds of creativity, respect, bravery, appreciation, and any other seeds that flourish under love’s care.</p>
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<p>The landscape of your inner garden can be filled with beauty and symbols that reflect your heart-filled wisdom, and your divine aspect and calling. Learn to quiet the overload of mental chatter so inspiration can enter your thoughts. Meditation and dreaming allows your mind to relax so you can be guided by the inspirations of your inner self. Learn to attune to the highest of energy and vibration and work within those levels, become the master of your own inner garden and allow your inner garden to bring bliss into all areas of your life.</p>
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<p>As your inner garden grows and develops, continue working at maintaining a relationship and connection with the gardener of your inner garden, your intuition or inner voice. She is there to guide you, and to show you the direction of your heart. Learning to listen and to act upon her guidance is the biggest challenge for many dear souls as they are still struggling to lose the grip of their controlling mind that has been filling them with egoic thoughts and ways for a long time. Remember dear ones, your intuition is a gift from God, it is there in each of you. It is the part of you that carries the spark of wisdom of your Divine, Glorious Self. When you get certain warnings or feelings it is important to pay attention to them as your inner voice or intuition is trying to tell you something. Your inner gardener also provides you with all the information you need to make the best choice for any decision. Becoming more aligned with this divine aspect of your deeper self also deepens your connection with all of your inner space, with your inner self and of your inner gardener.</p>
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<p>Because of the high’s and low’s life brings you, it is vitally important to remain grounded as often as possible. It can be easy to become un-grounded as you converse and mingle with many diverse personalities. Life can be messy and hard, you know this because you have survived many hardships already. Remember to weed out the parts that are done and over. Every weed you remove, gives room for something beautiful to grow, something that comes from unconditional love for yourself and for the world you live in.</p>
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<p>Whenever possible, take your shoes off and feel the grass, dirt or sand beneath your feet…allow nature to heal you from her garden even if that garden is just a patch of grass. Harmony can be realized and reclaimed as you continue to work on your inner self, aligning with the nature of who you are and with the natural beauty of the living world around you through long walks and time in solitude that allows you to contemplate, to think, to put things in their place; where one figures out what needs to be weeded out and what needs more attention.</p>
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<p>Your inner garden is your inner sanctuary. How it develops all depends on you. But we can see all the good you can bring into the world, just by changing your thoughts, when you change your thoughts, your feelings change and when your feelings change then your actions change and as you can see you create a domino effect of positive change that is also contributing to your inner garden that is beautiful, bright with light of love.</p>
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<div class="title"><h2>Rwanda, 20 Years On – “100 Percent American Responsibility”</h2>
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<div class="title"><h2>Rwanda, 20 Years On – “100 Percent American Responsibility”</h2>
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<hr/><p>April 6, 2014 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the shooting down over Kigali of a plane carrying two African heads of state, Juvénal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi. We know that that terrorist crime—surely the worst of the 1990s—triggered unending war, destruction, and massacres in Rwanda and Congo. Yet it has never been elucidated and nobody has been brought to justice. Despite the wilful blindness and amnesia about the most critical crime in the Rwandan and Congolese tragedies, politicians, diplomats, pundits, intellectuals, and retired presidents, prime ministers and generals, constantly invoke “Rwanda” as though the word alone confers some supposed truth and moral authority on the political, military and imperial positions they defend. “Rwanda” has been used specifically to justify violent military “humanitarian” intervention in Libya, Sudan, Mali, Syria, and the Central African Republic. “Everywhere is Rwanda for the humanitarian imperialist,” noted Max Forte in his book <em>Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa:</em></p>
<blockquote><p>The official and deafening narrative behind the use of the word “Rwanda” holds that:</p>
<p>1) horrible Rwandan Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly a million Tutsis after a mysterious plane crash killed the former president of Rwanda on April 6, 1994;</p>
<p>2) that the Rwandan Patriotic Front led by the brilliant military political strategist Paul Kagame, now president of Rwanda, swept down from the North, stopped the genocide and took power on July 19, 1994;</p>
<p>3) the international community stood idly by while Nazi-like killers virtually eliminated the Tutsis of Rwanda’s; and</p>
<p>4) Paul Kagame has transformed that genocide-torn country into an African miracle thanks to his visionary, though tough, political leadership. We have thus learned from “Rwanda” that in the future and in the name of humanity, we—meaning the armies of North America and Europe—must intervene militarily to prevent these peoples from killing themselves.</p>
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<p><strong>“100 percent American responsibility”</strong>—Boutros Boutros-Ghali</p>
<p>One of the first to put a crack in the official narrative was Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was Secretary General of the UN during the Rwandan war. He declared to me that, “the Rwandan genocide was 100 percent American responsibility.” The man whom US State Department officials called “Frenchie” before they unceremoniously ejected him from the UN explained: “The US effort to prevent the effective deployment of a UN force for Rwanda succeeded with the strong support of Britain.”</p>
<p>Declassified Clinton administration documents confirm that then US Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright was instructed by the State Department on April 15, 1994 to do everything necessary to have the UN withdraw all UNAMIR forces from Rwanda and to ensure that there would be no more discussion and no more resolutions. Thus after the Rwandan Patriotic Front resumed war on April 6 with the downing of the presidential plane, Washington’s policy was not to obtain a ceasefire. Yet that would have been the only logical, just, and legitimate policy under the 1993 Arusha Peace Accord, which Washington, along with London and Paris and others, had initiated and oversaw under UN auspices.</p>
<p>All serious evidence and testimony also points directly to Paul Kagame and the RPF as the perpetrators of the April 6 assassination of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. That attack combined with the blitzkrieg-like resumption of war—revealing total preparation and knowledge of the assassination—belies the tale that the RPF swept down to stop genocide. It was more like “Shock and Awe” on Kigali.</p>
<p>Washington’s policy, which flew in the face of the very Peace Accord they were stewarding, was to create conditions for a decisive victory for the army of Rwandan Patriotic Front—whatever the cost may be. There was to be no power-sharing as called for the in Peace Accord because that would have left the RPF hamstrung, unable to achieve military domination in Central Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Whereas the US and the UK actually blocked attempts to achieve peace and stop the killing, the official story would be that all of us, the entire “international community” as they call “us,” simply abandoned the Rwandan Tutsis; thus we should all collectively join in the chorus led by Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright and say, “<em>Mea culpa, mea culpa</em>,<em> </em>Never Again.”</p>
<p>Former Kagame aids have dispelled any doubts about Washington’s and the RPF’s policy of Washington. Theogene Rudasingwa, who was a Rwandan Ambassador to the United States and Paul Kagame’s chief of staff, wrote: “RPF could sense that an international peacekeeping force would freeze the situation and take away its military initiative. Gerald Gahima and Claude Dusaidi articulated this position in the Washington, D.C. and New York meetings.” Then Rudasingwa added that, on the other hand: “In RPF’s media campaign, and on Radio Muhabira, our strategy was to attack the international community for abandoning Rwanda.” (<em>Healing a Nation: Waging and Winning a Peaceful Revolution to Unite and Heal a Broken Rwanda</em>, Createspace, 2014, p. 156).</p>
<p><strong>The “supreme international crime” swept under the rug</strong></p>
<p>Another crucial truth that the deafening narrative has buried is the war that preceded the shooting down of the presidential plane on April 6, 1994. The invasion of Rwanda on October 1, 1990 by 4000 Ugandan uniform-bearing troops that would become the army of the Rwandan Patriotic Front was not only a breach of international law, it was the crime against peace, the “supreme international crime” as Nuremberg Judge Birkett described it. (In its unfathomable wisdom, <em>The</em> <em>New York Times Magazine</em> in a glossy 2002 feature described that invasion as simply “increased tensions.”) Nobody who invokes “Rwanda” to justify humanitarian intervention ever mentions or wants to hear of that invasion or the military occupation and the murderous war that ensued for three and a half years.</p>
<p>In 2010, a United Nations Mapping Report confirmed the genocidal nature of the Rwandan Army’s killing in the Congo following the invasion of Congo (then Zaïre). This should be a hint about the nature of the RPF. In fact, a close look at the war on Rwanda between 1990 and 1994 shows that the massive killing began well before April 1994 and that the perpetrators were the RPF led by Paul Kagame. What has occurred in the Congo also occurred in Rwanda before April 6, 1994.</p>
<p><strong>Victors’ justice fails to provide facts</strong></p>
<p>What about the alleged planning to exterminate Tutsis? Though nobody disputes the fact that there was massive killing in Rwanda in 1994, the problem for the defenders of the popular narrative is that they lack adjudicated facts to back their claims. Although a victors’ justice court—the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda—was established in 1995 with all the means necessary, on the fundamental allegation, “Conspiracy to Commit Genocide,” the man who has been constantly accused of being the “brains” behind the massacres, the “biggest fish,” Théoneste Bagosora, along with his three co-accused were all acquitted of that charge. Despite some eighteen years of trials with masses of sworn testimony and evidence, the facts simply do not support the official narrative about Rwanda.</p>
<p>The Rwandan military and the police, who were the only one able to stop the killing in April, May and June 1994, were simply unable to do so because they were engaged in a war to the finish with a powerful and fully-equipped military machine known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front. That army also enjoyed the political, diplomatic, and military backing of two very powerful countries, the United States and the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>The cynical operating of those two major powers along with their minions thus provoked death and destruction on an unequalled scale in Central Africa. Yet these same powers and their stellar former leaders—Bill Clinton and Tony Blair—have the gall to transform that terrible tragedy into a useful imperial fiction used to justify further military intervention, mainly in Africa.</p>
<p><em><strong>Robin Philpot</strong> is a Montreal writer, translator and publisher</em>. <a href="http://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/rwanda-and-the-new-scramble-for-africa/">Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction</a><em> was published by Baraka Books in February 2014.</em></p>
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