[Ted] Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world

Human, Life and World

The World is wider and more wonderful than we thought. 

Usually, people misunderstands that what they see and experience is all of the world. 

Even if science and technology is developed fast, we don't know many things surrounded us.

The big questions among the people are the nature surrounding human being and human's life and death.

I found again what i couldn't see through Ted.

the wonder of nature is beyond the word. and i also think how great the God creates all of the living things.

in the Bible, there is this phrase.

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

 in Isaiah 55

Human cannot understand everything. 

but most important thing by living this world i think, is How much i love this world and think valuable. 

Eventually, people connected each other and Human and nature is connected by one.

[Ted] Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?

 Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?

• Who is Simon Anholt?

Simon Anholt is an independent policy advisor who has worked to help develop and implement strategies for enhanced economic, political and cultural engagement with other countries.

These strategies are typically in the areas of national identity and reputation, public diplomacy, economic competitiveness, cultural policy and cultural relations, regional integration, export promotion, tourism, educational policy, immigration and related areas of social policy, security and defence, foreign direct investment, sustainability, talent attraction and major international events. He is best known for his work on the image and reputation of countries, cities and regions.

Simon Anholt has been called the "founder", "champion" and "instigator" of the Nation Branding and Place Branding terms, concepts and field of study and practice.

He is the founder and publisher of the global annual research studies: Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index, Anholt-GfK Roper City Brands Index and Anholt-GfK Roper State Brands Index, three major surveys which use a panel of 30,000 people in 25 countries to monitor global perceptions of 50 countries, 50 cities and the 52 States of the Union.

Anholt was a member of the UK Foreign Office’s Public Diplomacy Board between 2000 and 2010, has participated in sessions at the World Economic Forum and has advised institutions including the UN World Tourism Organisation, the World Union of Olympic Cities, the European Travel Commission, and the European Conference on Public Communication.

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" We don't admire countries primarily because they're rich, because they're powerful, because they're successful, because they're modern, because they're technologically advanced. We primarily admire countries that are good. What do we mean by good? We mean countries that seem to contribute something to the world in which we live, countries that actually make the world safer or better or richer or fairer. Those are the countries we like." - in the Ted he said.

When i heard his speech, i also thought what is good country? where do people want to live? 

I agree with him, that is not rich, powerful, successful, modern. many people want to feel safe , live in fair country and government to protect their rights.

To make whole country to be good country, all of the world correct their thinking by one. not for power, success, selfish, for peace, anti-war, human rights, and so on.

Save the Children : children have their rights!

Save the Children: Gaza shelter attack 'shocking'

The charity Save the Children has condemned the attack on a UN-run school used as a shelter in Gaza which has left at least 13 people dead and more than 200 injured.

Save the Children spokeswoman, Cat Carter, described the attack as an "absolutely shocking loss of civilian life".

She said people in Gaza had nowhere safe to go and that children on both sides were becoming traumatised by the conflict.

sourced by BBC News

Many people got shocked by Israel.

Children don't have fault. How can Israel government reward their death?

For many conflicts, We meet together and for the peace, not for their profit, talk and get the solution. and i saw very devoted organization for world peace.

that is  Heavenly Culture, World Peace (HWPL).

the leader of the HWPL works very hard. they will hold the peace conference in Korea. in that conference they wish to invite many organization related in World Peace and Human rights, religious leader and each country's president. 

I think through this conference, the world concur with all the hon.

If many groups for children's rights also participate in the conference, i think they can get many solution for the problems.

Gaza strip : to end the bloodshed

Gaza strip : to end the bloodshed

Editor's note: Aaron David Miller is a vice president and distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and was a Middle East negotiator in Democratic and Republican administrations. Follow him on Twitter. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) -- Woody Allen famously said that 80% of success in life is about just showing up. He's wrong. Success in life -- as in diplomacy -- is about showing up at the right time. So Is John Kerry coming to the Israeli-Hamas crisis too early, too late or just at the right time?

The secretary of state has been eager to get into the middle of this almost since it started. He considered going last weekend from Vienna, Austria, where he had joined five other world powers in negotiations with Iran on the nuclear deal. But he smartly decided -- or was discouraged by the Egyptians who were in the middle of their own cease-fire mediation -- not to go.
Still, the rising number of deaths primarily on the Palestinian side and the real danger of escalation of a ground incursion left him little choice. Regardless of the outcome, after Syria and Iraq, both President Barack Obama and Kerry realized that the United States couldn't sit on the sidelines like a potted plant.

Moreover, Kerry's hot mic comments showing his irritation at Israel's supposed "pinpoint" airstrikes in Gaza revealed a good deal more frustration than simply a desire to collect more frequent flier miles. Kerry is an activist and simply couldn't abide the fact that people were dying and the United States wasn't at least trying to stop it.

But desire and passion won't produce a deal. Kerry proved that in his nine-month effort to negotiate an agreed framework for peace between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
So what will it take to negotiate a cease-fire, and is Kerry the guy to do it?

A key question is whether the combatants now believe it is urgent to reach a cease-fire: You would think that with more than 600 Palestinians dead, thousands wounded and displaced, and Israel soldiers' casualties rising, the conflict would have created an imperative for de-escalation. And it may eventually bring both Hamas and Israel to the point that a cease-fire is a top priority.

At the same time, Israel's successful Iron Dome missile defense system has insulated the government to a degree from popular pressure to stand down, and the United States generally has been supportive of Israel's right to defend itself.
But Palestinian civilian casualties have increased international pressure. And Tuesday's Federal Aviation Administration decision to stop flights to and from Israel temporarily will remind Israelis about the costs of the continuing confrontation.
As for Hamas, it's not easy to read its calculations, in part because it's not clear whether the military or political wing is in charge. But it is evident that having entered this conflict financially strapped and politically weak, Hamas leaders believe they need to show something tangible for the death and destruction their missiles have produced in Gaza. And, by infiltrating Israel through tunnels and confrontation with Israelis in Gaza, they have inflicted more fatalities on the Israel Defense Forces than they did in the entire three-week war of 2008/9.

Indeed, Hamas seems convinced this fight could continue for a while longer. Bottom line: Both sides may be reaching a tipping point when pain outweighs gain. But they just may not be there quite yet.
A second key question is who is in a position to mediate the deal. Kerry's formidable energy and talent notwithstanding, he cannot do this deal on his own. Washington has plenty of influence with Israel under the right circumstances but none with Hamas. And that means relying on regional partners who do. But that poses a variety of complications.
Egypt wants to maintain the key role here while keeping Qatar and Turkey at bay to limit their pro-Hamas leanings. Still the deal will likely require payment of Hamas employee salaries and the Qataris may be the banker on that one. Egypt and Hamas will also need to work out some new arrangement to ease crossings from Rafah -- the largest pedestrian crossing from Gaza to Egypt.

Israel also wants to limit the gains Hamas makes. It wants a clean cease-fire first and only then arrangements that might satisfy some of what Hamas is seeking.
In the middle of this is a secretary of state who's very much improvising in an effort to determine who has the most influence with Hamas and how best to go about using it.
At the end of the day, it's no coincidence that Kerry stopped in Egypt first. Cairo will remain the fulcrum of this process.
The final question is what kind of deal could be achieved. The simplest way to conclude this round would be quiet for quiet: no more Hamas rockets and no more Israeli military action. But it's probably too late for that kind of a cease-fire, and it would likely only be a temporary respite.

At the other extreme are a variety of proposals from demilitarization to reoccupation of Gaza by Israel to eliminating Hamas as an organization. But none of these are realistic. The best that can be hoped for is a kind of stability for stability in which a long-term cease-fire would be followed by a number of arrangements to open up Gaza economically in exchange for Hamas' commitment to stand down and ensure that there would be no attacks against Israel via tunnels and rockets. Indeed Israel may well demand the border with Gaza be supervised to prevent reconstruction and reuse of Hamas' terror tunnels.
In exchange, a number of parties would be asked to deliver on certain commitments: Qatar would pay promised salaries for Hamas employees under the Fatah-Hamas unity accord; Egypt would allow the Rafah crossing to be opened under terms to be negotiated; Israel would agree to open its crossings with Gaza, perhaps with the return -- even in a symbolic manner -- of Palestinian Authority officials in some role in Gaza.

Egypt would continue to crack down on military contraband, slowing Hamas' capacity to rearm. And the United Nations -- together with international donors -- would work to deal with the humanitarian costs of the current crisis.
Sooner or later, something along these lines will be put together. And Kerry can work to assemble part of it. But it will be Egypt that will drive the train, not just because of its desire to be the key actor, but also to limit the outside influences of others.

And of all the potential mediators, including the United States, Israel would likely prefer Cairo, which shares its objective of limiting Hamas gains. None of this will provide a long-term solution to an Israel-Hamas rivalry, let alone to the broader question of how to reach a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian problem. But it will bring to an end another costly round of Israeli-Palestinian violence. And the time for that is long overdue.

the source of the new is http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/22/opinion/miller-gaza-kerry-chances-of-success-ceasefire/index.html?hpt=imi_r1

[Ted] Maysoon Zayid : I got 99 problems... palsy is just one

Maysoon Zayid : I got 99 problems... palsy is just one

Maysoon Zayid is an American actress, comedian and advocate who is of Palestinian descent. She was born in New Jersey in 1974. She described herself in a BBC interview as "a Palestinian Muslim virgin with cerebral palsy, from New Jersey, who is an actress, comedian and activist". Zayid has been a resident of Cliffside Park, New Jersey. She is considered one of America's first Muslim women comedians and the first person ever to perform standup in Palestine and Jordan.

When i was watching this video, i thought positive thinking is very important.
Disability is not very big problem if i think so. Many people have their own trouble. but some people overcome and other can't. the reason is i think their thinking.

If we think we can do, we can do!

This world have many an unsoluble problem. but how about handling them with us?

Suffering People in Gaza City : For Whom is This War?

Suffering People in Gaza City : For Whom is This War?

Many people in the world saw the cruel acts in Gaza City.

Conflicts of Palestine - Israel made many people miserable. This war made many victims. and there's no hope in the Gaza strip. Palestine lives in the underground tunnel. Gaza strip become a fence locking the Palestine. 

copyright by telegraph

Our voice of the anti-war can make less victim. 
Our attention can save more people.

 my homeland is torn by two mass. it was not our will. just we don't have national power. and some powerful country's profit. and some people can't meet their brother or parents to the death. one country become two divided nation. same race and same culture, but we are not same country. This is Korea!

There's no excuse for the war and all the nation do not aggravate war for their benefit. Who can compensate victim of war? if they are our family, we can  Just leave it as it is?


No war and make peace world!

Nelson Mandela, Who is he? South Africa got the hope of the peace by him.

Nelson Mandela, Who is he?

Yesterday was the Day of Nelson Mandela.  Who is he?  He got the Novel Prize and many people give an applause. and South Africa got the hope of the peace by him.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. 

He was South Africa's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.

A Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended the Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. After the South African National Party came to power in 1948, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign, was appointed superintendent of the organisation's Transvaal chapter and presided over the 1955 Congress of the People. 

Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and, with the ANC leadership, was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961. 
Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) and sat on its Central Committee. Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961, leading a sabotage campaign against the apartheid government. In 1962, he was arrested, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.

Mandela served 27 years in prison, initially on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. An international campaign lobbied for his release. He was released in 1990, during a time of escalating civil strife. Mandela joined negotiations with President F. W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multiracial elections in 1994, in which he led the ANC to victory and became South Africa's first black president. He published his autobiography in 1995. During his tenure in the Government of National Unity he invited other political parties to join the cabinet, and promulgated a new constitution. He also created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. While continuing the former government's liberal economic policy, his administration also introduced measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty, and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator between Libya and the United Kingdom in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, and oversaw military intervention in Lesotho. He declined to run for a second term, and was succeeded by his deputy, Thabo Mbeki. Mandela became an elder statesman, focusing on charitable work in combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Denounced as a communist terrorist by critics, he nevertheless gained international acclaim for his activism, having received more than 250 honours, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Soviet Order of Lenin. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name, Madiba, or as Tata ("Father"); he is often described as "the father of the nation".

the source of the images and the words are in Wikipedia 

He worked for peace and he thought the most powerful weapon is peace. and i also think if we make the earth peace world, we can afford everything ; Human rights, environment problem and so on.

although he passed away, we should not stop the effort to make the world peace.