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The Law of Attraction & Sustainability
This in-depth article looks at the concept of The Law of Attraction and The Teachings of Abraham®, asking whether desire is good and if it is possible for everyone to have what they want. Topics covered include:
- Take only what you need
- How many selves do we have?
- Is there enough to go round?
- Can we all have what we want?
- Is desire a good thing?
- The Law of Attraction in action
- Are we spiritually mature enough for limitless abundance?
- Is manifesting abundance in the culture?
- Is it possible to get something out of nothing and is this how the universe came into being?
The Teachings of Abraham®
I have recently been reading some of The Teachings of Abraham® written by Esther & Jerry Hicks – Money and the Law of Attraction and The Astonishing Power of Emotions – and I have found that both books make very interesting reading. One of the central messages of The Teachings of Abraham® is that we can have whatever we want so long as we consistently align our thoughts with the vibration of our Inner Being. We know when we are aligned if we feel positive emotion and we know when we are misaligned if we feel negative emotion. The teaching is, in essence, very simple yet potentially very powerful if we can manage to put it into action.
But there is one implication of the teaching that has been concerning me and that is the issue of consumption. If more and more people start to attract more and more of what they want, isn't that going to lead to even greater consumption and consequently the further depletion of the Earth's natural resources?
At this point I would like to say that it is not The Teachings of Abraham® that I take issue with, but a group of feelings and thoughts which arose within me as I read the Abraham-Hicks books and contemplated their messages. By the end of this article I hope to show that these thoughts and feelings have been resolved and that a deeper contemplation of The Teachings of Abraham® and the Law of Attraction in general helped me to arrive at such a point of resolution.
Take only what you need
What little I know of Native Americans, Australian Aborigines and other indigenous cultures, tells me that they all have or had one thing in common: the concept of taking only what you need and no more. Most indigenous cultures learned to manage the natural resources in a sustainable way by only taking what they needed and making sure they always left enough of the resource for it to regenerate, thus ensuring that the resource would continue to provide for their culture in future generations. This is a concept that resonates with me very strongly.
All of these cultures also feel or felt a very strong connection with the trees, plants, animals and with the planet as whole.
Conversely it seems that there have been a number of cultures in the past which have crumbled because they did not manage natural resources in a sustainable way and because they had a discordant or disconnected relationship with nature.
Our present culture is one of ever-growing populations and ever-increasing consumption. Most people who care to look at where the energy and raw materials come from to fuel our current abundant lifestyles will be aware that these resources are finite and are being used up at a rather alarming rate. Our way of life is quite clearly not sustainable.
Many of the most well-known spiritual figures of our time, including Sathya Sai Baba, have urged us to put a ceiling on desires and curb our appetites for luxury, but The Teachings of Abraham® appear to be encouraging us to desire more. Yet The Teachings of Abraham®, just like the concept of taking only what we need, also resonate with me, so something obviously requires further investigation.
Two selves make it easy
If we assume that each person basically has two 'selves' we can easily dismiss any concerns there might be about over consumption. If one 'self' is the ego and the other 'self' is the higher self things become quite straightforward. If the higher self is what connects us to Source / God / The Universe and the higher self always promotes behaviour which is for the good of all, then all we have to do is align our ego with our higher self and we will all naturally do what is for the greater good. Case closed.
To be fair, one of the messages of The Teachings of Abraham® is to encourage us to align our thoughts with Source energy (our higher self). However, another of the messages is that we can have whatever we want, whatever we desire. But is wanting or desire really compatible with being connected to Source energy? Many spiritual traditions suggest not.
In the preface to Money and the Law of Attraction Jerry Hicks describes how he and his wife, Esther, had just moved into their new Californian home. He goes on to describe the opulence and luxury of their new home and uses it as an example to back up the claim that The Teachings of Abraham® really work. They desired a house like this in California and that is what they got. The message is "if you want to get more of what you want, this book is for you."
But is it a good thing to want more? Is it a good thing to fuel desire which ultimately leads to greater consumption and greater depletion of natural resources?
My previous statement was, I admit, slightly loaded. It implies that more desire leads to greater consumption and that greater consumption means greater depletion of natural resources. Not all desire leads to greater consumption – some people may desire more time or more peace for example, but most of our desires do seem to involve consuming something or acquiring something which requires energy and raw materials to produce it. Also, in theory, we could make everything sustainably and not have to use up the Earth's resources, but in actuality we have not arrived at that point.
Is there enough to go round?
In the Abraham-Hicks books questions are asked as to whether there really is enough to go round – enough for everyone to manifest abundance in their lives – and the usual message is that the Universe is abundant and that it is our thoughts which tell us otherwise. We believe in lack or scarcity and therefore that is what we experience. But nobody seems to have asked the question "so what happens when everyone on the planet desires a new car and we have used up all the Earth's resources? If we no longer have the raw materials to build any new cars, where will they come from? Will the power of our desire attract them to Earth from outer space or will the power of our desire suffice to manifest them out of thin air in accordance with some Universal Law with which we are not yet acquainted?"
There are many ideas which get presented in our world which seem like great ideas until we notice that on closer inspection they will only work if only a limited number of people buy into them. Take the idea of living sustainably. If you have several hundred thousand pounds or dollars available you could afford to buy enough land and lead a self-sufficient lifestyle. You could keep a few animals, grow your own food, generate your own energy and so on. Many people do this under the banner of "sustainable living". But it is only sustainable for those that can afford it. It most certainly isn't sustainable for those who can't. And if everyone on the planet wanted to live like that it would not be possible because there simply isn't enough viable land on the planet for every living person to have several acres each. Also it is only "sustainable" to live like that if we take the wind turbine and solar panels out of the equation because they are made using non-renewable resources in the first place. Also it is technically not "self"-sufficiency because such a way of life depends on animals, plants, weather, water supply, tools, the planet and so on, but that's another topic altogether.
Desiring more material wealth and using the Law of Attraction to draw it into your experience appears to be of the same ilk. It's fine so long as not everybody does it.
Is desire a good thing?
When I was reading Money and the Law of Attraction I was also dipping into a book about Sathya Sai Baba called The Embodiment of Love by Peggy Mason & Ron Laing. It was interesting that when I started to have concerns about whether using the Law of Attraction to increase one's personal wealth was a good thing, the phrase that I read in The Embodiment of Love was "The rich must sacrifice their wants so that the poor may secure their needs". Other spiritual teachings that I have read also say that there is a great injustice in the way that we live today with millions of people still not having enough to eat and millions more suffering in poverty while those of us who live in the so-called developed world live in comparative luxury and consume the vast majority of the earth's natural resources.
Obviously reading The Teachings of Abraham® has highlighted a conflict within me. I also want more but I don't want more at the expense of others or at the expense of the planet. If we can manifest abundance and it does no harm then I'm all for it, but it seems like having more wealth does do harm somewhere along the line.
Before we can accurately discern whether it is a good thing to encourage people to use the Law of Attraction to draw more wealth to them, we need to consider the consequences of leaving people to live as they do. If we don't align with our Inner Beings we create negativity and suffering, for ourselves and others, so that is obviously not a good thing. Looking at it like that suggests it would be far better to encourage people to connect with their Inner Being and consequently start to manifest their innermost desires.
But if we look at some of the people who appear to have been successful at using the Law of Attraction, things no longer seem so clear cut. There are a lot of very wealthy people on the planet who appear to have used the Law of Attraction (knowingly or unknowingly) to generate huge amounts of personal wealth for themselves and their families and it would appear that they do very little to contribute to the greater good, except perhaps encouraging a few other people to believe in themselves a bit more. This is not to say that all wealthy people are bad or self-serving – far from it – but most wealthy people we can think of will have several things in common. They will have large houses, usually more than one house, use a lot of natural resources and appear to have very little concern for the consequences of their consumption. Many people have grown rich by persuading people with very little money that they need to buy material things that they don't actually need. Much of this persuading is done by advertising which is based around telling a lie, or at the very least, creating an illusion which people buy into. "Buy this product and you'll feel better about yourself" is how the story goes.
People who design these products and create the marketing for them know it's not really true, but they somehow manage to disregard that fact.
A "Three Selves" model seems better
This is where we need to go back to our "two selves" model of the individual and replace it with a "three selves" model. If we are going to accept the idea of reincarnation into our philosophy (as many people on a spiritual path do) we need there to be some kind of "self" which is capable of storing our level of progress in each life. In short there needs to be a "self" which evolves through successive incarnations. If the ego is created afresh in each life and the higher self is basically transpersonal, we need a "middle self" which can sit in between the ego and the higher self.
With this "three selves" model in place we can see that, in each life, the first self we get in touch with as we learn to control the ego is our middle self, not the higher self. Now, as each person is basically a unique individual (or at least a unique expression of the Oneness), each person's middle self will be at a slightly different stage of attainment. One person's middle self may be more aligned with his ego whereas another person's middle self may be more aligned with his higher self.
Now when Abraham-Hicks talk of the Inner Being, what they mean is not the same for everyone. When aligning with their Inner Being each person will align with either their middle self or their higher self, to whatever degree they can and this will be determined by their point of spiritual evolution.
The person whose middle self is more aligned with his ego will, when he aligns with his Inner Being, exhibit more personal desires than someone whose middle self is more aligned with his higher self.
If someone feels bad about himself, has no self-esteem, is busy creating negative vibrations which give rise to suffering, and if the next stage of development for that individual is to learn to believe in himself then that surely is a good thing for him to do. Of course some would say "yes but can't we encourage people to believe in themselves and also do what is for the greater good at the same time?" To me that sounds like a very good idea. But of course people have free will to choose how their self-belief will manifest. If they choose to use their self-belief to accumulate personal riches then should we simply see that as a necessary part of their evolution?
In our present culture people are encouraged, through the media, advertising, product placement and technological innovations, to want more and to want it for themselves. They are sold the idea that having more stuff will make them feel better. If there were fewer of these messages and more messages telling people that they don't need these things and, furthermore, that having more things will not make them feel better AND that they could actually choose to feel better anyway, without having more stuff, then maybe people would not have so many desires which appear to be self-serving.
Many spiritual teachings tell us that all desire implies attachment and when we have attachment to an outcome that means we are creating Karma. Many spiritual teachers have said that we should have only one desire, the desire to be closer to God. Desires are OK so long as those desires benefit everyone and are not exclusively self-serving. If the message from the adverts and the mainstream media was "get rich by being compassionate and then use that wealth to spread joy and reduce suffering" I'm sure many of us would feel differently about the concept of growing rich.
Once again, to be fair, The Teachings of Abraham® do actually say that the first step is to get into alignment which ultimately means feeling good. The books point out time and again that believing that "if I get this then I'll be happy" is most definitely to be out of alignment.
So using our "three selves" model we could conclude that people are at the point of evolution that they are at, that it would be better all round for them to come into alignment, and that how much desire they have for personal gain rather than the greater good is largely due to the influences they receive mentally and visually. What we see around us has a great impact on our thinking. What arises from within us equally has great potential to influence our beliefs.
So the more that we broadcast thoughts which are for the greater good and the more we create physical forms of those ideas, the more we will encourage others to use their alignment and self-belief to work for the greater good.
As we align ourselves to the greater good and allow our light to shine, we encourage others, through the process of resonance or sympathetic vibration, to allow their own lights to shine and also work for the greater good.
What do I want?
On a personal level I have been experimenting with having a desire for a new car seeing as my car is getting quite old and rusty, but I know that in order to continue to fuel that desire I will need justify it in some way and I never feel comfortable with resorting to justification because it suggests misalignment. So for now I might try to replace that desire with one that says "I would like to be able to get to wherever I need to go and feel good about it. I would like to feel free and empowered even if I have an old car or no car at all."
I suppose we could say that everything is desire. We could say that wanting a house to live in is a desire and that we could actually survive living outside as many people have to do. The difference is that we find it a lot easier to justify some desires and therefore call them needs.
When I write down, think or voice a desire I can tell by its vibration whether it has any element of misalignment in it. If I say "I want a new car" I feel a twinge of misalignment. If I say "I want to be in alignment and allow my light to shine in the full knowledge that allowing the light within me to shine is the best way of encouraging the light within others to shine also" then I feel a joyous sense of alignment.
Critics might say that this Law of Attraction stuff is all well and good until you want to attract something really outlandish. What if I desire to bring someone back from the dead who has been dead for 30 years? Would the Law of Attraction work for that? Presumably the answer would be that it won't happen unless I believe it can happen and will only happen if I am in total alignment. Presumably the greater the thing we want, the more aligned we have to be and the more we need to desire it. Presumably one small fly in the ointment or one shred of doubt would be enough to prevent it from happening. Presumably the same would apply if I wanted to marry a famous movie actress. Thankfully I don't want either of these outcomes to manifest.
But is the teaching rather too simplistic and, in concentrating solely on the Law of Attraction, does it fail to take account of the influences of other so-called Universal Laws or of the desires of others who may have desires which conflict with our own?
Absolute spiritual truth it seems is hard to come by. All we can do is ask ourselves the question "does this teaching resonate with me and does it make me feel good?" Who doesn't want to feel better? I want to feel better and if something seems to work and does no harm then I'm happy to use it.
I think it's a good thing to become more aware of the Law of Attraction and how it works. Most people do not realise how much they create their own experiences every day. Many people seem to live in a state of blame, anger and resentment. If they could see how the potential to create a happier existence is within their own grasp surely that would be a good thing?
The Teachings of Abraham® promote the message that thought creates and that if one wants to feel better one has to learn to look at life more positively, so overall the message is very positive.
The Law of Attraction in action
Over the years, whenever I have given focused attention to writing about a particular topic, a phenomenon has repeatedly occurred: within days (sometimes hours), books and articles that other people have written along similar lines have come to my attention.
Not only that, but if I pick up a book that I already own and open it at random it invariably has something to say which relates to the subject matter of why own writing.
In the past this has somewhat bothered me because I would think "Oh well if someone else has already written about it, what's the point of me writing about it as well?" Sometimes I would even think that the universe was having a laugh at my expense – it didn't matter what ideas I had, I would always find that someone else had thought about it first and done something with it.
Of course now I know that this was simply a reflection of my own negative self-image. Deep down I thought that I didn't really have anything to say that hadn't already been said and that nobody would be particularly interested in what I had to say. Now I see the wonder of it – by focusing on a subject through writing about it I am seeing the law of attraction in action and drawing into my experience other writings which help to give me deeper insights into the same subjects.
Part way through writing this article I went to make a cup of coffee and opened up The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart which had just arrived in the post and it opened on a page which mentioned Sathya Sai Baba.
Something out of nothing
Another consequence of writing about subjects which interest me is that the very act of writing seems to trigger the arrival of new thoughts. It seems like, until I write down what I think I know, I don't have space in my mind for any new information, but once I have written down the ideas that I was busy holding in my mental awareness, I create space for new ideas to emerge.
Several new thoughts arose after I finished part one of this article.
The first thing I realised was that I am suspicious of getting something for nothing. The Lynne McTaggart book I mentioned came from Amazon. It was a second-hand book from an Amazon seller and the price of the book was £0.01 plus £2.80 postage. When the book arrived, after opening it up and reading about Sai Baba, I noticed that the book was an ex-library book. As I wondered how it could be that the seller could make any money by selling a book so cheaply the thought arose "I bet they stole it". Of course I don't actually think the book was stolen but this is the thought that came up and revealed to me my suspicion of anything that looks too good to be true.
When I was growing up I was taught that there was no such thing as a free lunch and nothing comes for free without there being some kind of catch.
When I looked more closely at this line of thinking I realised that I had an issue with the way that some people talk about the law of attraction: the claim that the resources of the universe are limitless. The idea that there are plenty of resources for everyone to live abundantly does not tally with conventional thought. Some proponents of the law of attraction say that the only limiting factor is our thinking. If we believe in scarcity then that is what we experience. But where is the proof that we can all live abundantly if only we desire it enough, when all the physical evidence around us implies that we are rapidly using up the finite resources of this planet?
As I pursued this line of enquiry I started to consider the idea of things coming out of thin air. When I did this I thought again of Sai Baba because he manifested a huge number of objects for his devotees seemingly from nowhere. Now I didn't visit Sai Baba while he was still alive so I have not witnessed this first hand but I have seen it many times in videos and read countless accounts from witnesses testifying to the amazing number of miracle manifestations that Sai Baba produced. I am of course aware that some people believe that these manifestations were simply tricks but anyone who has studied the enormity of the work that Sai Baba did and the huge number of other miracles he produced will find it difficult to dismiss the manifestations of physical objects quite so easily.
The point that I wanted to make was that this behaviour of Sai Baba, of manifesting things from thin air using nothing but his will, has always fascinated me. Just like stories of wizards like Merlin fascinate me, I have always been drawn to the idea that we can focus our will and our mental energy to produce significant effects in the physical world.
So, on the one hand I seem to scoff at the idea that there is limitless abundance on the planet (which implies that new matter can be created "out of thin air") yet at the same time I am fascinated by someone who appears to have been able to do just that.
As I continued to ponder this idea of something coming out of nothing I began to consider the concept of the Big Bang and the way that plants grow from seeds. The theory of the Big Bang tells us that everything in the universe once existed inside a single tiny point – but how is this possible? Now consider a seed – this tiny little object just needs a bit of water to get it started and then it can grow to a huge size by absorbing energy directly from the sun.
Both these events – a plant growing from a seed and the Big Bang – seem to me to be equally as wondrous as the idea of manifesting something out of thin air.
Are we spiritually mature enough for limitless abundance?
Another thought which often comes up when I consider "magical abilities" like manifesting things from thin air is this: as a species are we really spiritually mature enough to be given the ability to create limitless abundance through the power of thought?
When you look around the world and see how humans have created so much pollution and created so many machines, so much waste, so much noise and had such a harmful effect on the planet, can you imagine what we would do if we had an unlimited resource of free energy?
If there was nothing to curtail the rampant desires of humans for more gadgets and more machines, I dread to think what sort of world we would end up living in if there was an unlimited supply of free energy.
It's the same line of thinking that leads people to say that we should not be looking to colonise another planet because we have not yet learned how to act responsibly on this one. The issue of consumption is one thing; the way that we treat the rest of our species and the other life forms on the planet is another. There already exists enough food on the planet to feed everyone but still some of us throw food into the rubbish bin whilst others starve. As far as many people who live in poverty are concerned there already exists a great deal of abundance on this planet – it's just that they are not getting a share of it.
Just as some believers in the law of Karma say that the starving millions in Africa are starving because of their Karma accrued from past lives, no doubt proponents for the law of attraction would say that these same starving people starve because they are born into a culture of poverty consciousness. Everyone around them believes him- or herself to be poor so every newborn adopts the same way of thinking. And as our thoughts and feelings attract more of the same, they continue to be poor. If that is true I would like to see some people trying to help these people to transmute their poverty consciousness into wealth consciousness to see if it can help them to attract enough food for their families to survive.
Is it all in the culture?
I recently read The Torn Veil by Gulshan Esther. In the book she describes her travels to Mecca and also mentions the culture of generosity in Saudi Arabia in relation to visitors – apparently it is customary to be very generous to people who come to stay with you in that country. It occurred to me that in recent years Saudi Arabia has become a very rich country. Of course most people would say that is due to the presence of vast amount of oil. But Africa has also had huge amounts of natural resources, yet by and large, Africans have not grown rich from these resources. In the past it was mainly the Europeans who colonised Africa and mined its natural resources who enjoyed the wealth that these resources brought and not the indigenous people.
It occurred to me that African culture is much different from European and even Arab culture. African culture is very much rooted in subsistence, hunter-gatherer type thinking. This kind of culture has "take only what you need" at its core as well as the concept that resources are scarce. If food was easy to come by then you would not need to hunt for it.
So is it the African culture that keeps Africans poor? Is it because the predominant way of thinking is that resources are scarce that Africans generally do not create lives of abundance? Are many Saudi Arabians enjoying comparative riches because their culture contains the concept of freely giving?
I don't know the answers to these questions but I think they are worthy of consideration.
Whatever the reasons are for people being poor or being rich, if someone is starving I believe that we who have plenty have a responsibility to help them – not out of obligation but out of love. Why would anyone want a new car for himself instead of wanting everyone on the planet to be fed?
It's all about essence
My own conclusion about the Law of Attraction – which also seems to be the conclusion of some others who have studied it and use it in their own lives – is that the highest expression of the Law of Attraction is to align with our essence and allow our inner vibration to do the attracting – not to use the ego to create personal desires and use the Law of Attraction to "fulfil" those desires.
The Teachings of Abraham® state that conscious thoughts alone will not bring us what we want because those conscious thoughts have to be aligned with what could be termed our unconscious thoughts, in other words our innermost vibration. It is our Inner Being which holds the power to attract and the best way we can use our conscious thinking is to get it out of the way and allow our Inner Being to broadcast to the Universe.
Looking at the Law of Attraction from this perspective allows us to have just one desire – the desire to be aligned with our Inner Being. So now what do I want? Do I still want a new car?
I want to be aligned with my Inner Being. I want to feel good and to help others feel good. I want that feeling good to be for the benefit of all. I want to live in a world where people live in peace and with joy in their hearts. I want people to enjoy abundance on this planet and I also want everyone to be able to share in that abundance. I want that abundance to cause no harm to the planet or any sentient being on the planet. I want everyone to understand the interconnectedness of all life and to love all life on the planet including all the animals, trees, plants and rocks. I want people to see that performing actions with love makes the world a better place, that cooking with love makes food healthier and taste better. I want everyone to know that if they feel unappreciated that they can practise appreciating others and that they will soon start to feel appreciated themselves. I want people to live in harmony with one another, with nature and with Mother Earth.
These are the kind of desires I like. If these desires create Karma then I want that Karma to be good Karma which benefits all. These desires seem to come from a much deeper place than the desires for more personal wealth.
In fact I'm not even sure that desire is the right word for them. It's more like a vision which presents itself and which resonates with me. Do we need desire? Some people say that even wanting to be alive is a desire. I think we need something to drive us onwards and upwards towards a better way of life; something that has the power to drive us forwards. But that something does not need to be desire. It does not need to be ego-based. That something can be called spirit or perhaps spiritedness.
There are many myths around these days, like "more choice equals better quality" or "more competition equals higher standards" which are all too often shown to be untrue. What does bring higher standards and better quality is when people do things with love. If we want a better quality of life or a higher standard of living do we need to know any more than to do whatever we do with love?
Why do so many people live in poverty?
What do you think is the main reason why so many people live in poverty whereas others are wealthy?
The inability to be detached is the main hindrance to manifesting our desires. If we are super clear about what we want in life, and have no resistance to receiving it, our desire will manifest within a very short time. Yet, if we we feel disconnected from our soul, we need the outcome to find happiness and inner peace, and the body falls lower in vibration. We feel we need to work overtime to arrive at our destination, and live from a place of stress inside. When we are vibrating at a higher soul level, it's actually effortless to manifest any outcome or circumstance. It basically shows up in your life because we are so connected and thus available to it.
True detachment is a very advanced state to live from because you are allowing yourself to be absorbed in a deep trust with life. You are totally surrendered to this connection with your highest power and infinite creative energy within. There is no need try to achieve any outcome, or fall into a state of lack or neediness about anything anymore. You know you already have access to an infinite resource of intelligent power, which can attract everything you need. You are simply happy within yourself and your life as it is, and you can feel it to the core of your bones.
Where do I begin? I do believe in "The Law of Attraction", that said it isn't only about having a desire to have it. Wanting something is just the beginning, keeping this at the forefront in your mind is crucial.
Those that are successful, started with a thought, a desire if you will and then didn't stray from that. They worked hard to achieve it, and it was their focus. I think many people miss that point. People think if they think about it a lot, that is enough. Thoughts without action will remain, just thoughts and will never manifest themselves into anything.
I do think anyone can have anything they want, if they are willing to go for it. The thing is, most people don't, they are too wishy washy and not focused and as such flounder in a sea of disorganization and disappointment. These are also the ones who complain that life isn't fair and they haven't had an easy life.
As for the diminishing resources, I don't see this as a problem because most people will never achieve their desires because they won't take the bull by the horns and take a chance.These people are too busy watching the latest episode of their favorite television program or playing a game on Facebook while life passes them by.
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THE Phnom Penh Municipal Court intends to summon employees at Cambodia's Extraordinary Chambers as witnesses to testify in the criminal investigation into allegations of systemic corruption at the genocide tribunal, officials said Wednesday.
"I have just started investigating the case now. I cannot forecast how long it will take, as the case is very complicated and it is hard to find evidence or proof that someone committed corruption," Sok Kaliyan, deputy prosecutor at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, told the Post Wednesday.
International defence lawyers for former Khmer Rouge Brother No 2 Nuon Chea filed a criminal complaint to the civil court Friday, claiming Sean Visoth, the government's top official to the Khmer Rouge tribunal, as well as the court's former chief of personnel, Keo Thyvuth, violated criminal law by "perpetrating, facilitating, aiding and/or abetting an organised regime of institutional corruption at the ECCC during the pending judicial investigation".
The complaint prompted tribunal judges to make a statement denying the allegations, as well as threatening legal action against the lawyers if the complaint was made in bad faith.
Richard Rogers, head of the defence section of the court, said that he supported any measures that would resolve the corruption issue.
"I welcome any procedure that will investigate the allegations and determine whether they have any merit," he told the Post.


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Urban Renaissance is the nonprofit side of the Urban Blueprint. The strategies of Urban Renaissance are designed to educate, edify, strengthen and protect our children. The welfare of our children is the ultimate purpose of Urban Renaissance.
To Fight White Supremacy and End Discrimination.
To be the Pre-Eminent Nonprofit in America in terms of Life Preservation, Educational Renaissance, Business Infrastructure and Human Rights for Black America.
To assist the Urban Blueprint in ending White Supremecy.
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Virtually all of our urban high schools have 30, 40 and even 50% of our youth infected with HIV/AIDS, Herpes, HPV and other STDs, and/or are pregnant.
Nearly half (48%) of Black teen girls get pregnant at least once before age 20—nearly twice the national average. Pregnancy is the #1 reason girls drop out of school. Many girls who are expecting, and those who are already mothers face discrimination by school administrators, teachers, and students.
An alarming 48% of African-American girls ages 14-19 have a sexually transmitted disease, while 88% of girls with HIV are Black. Of HIV diagnoses among 13 to 19-year-olds, almost 70% are to Black teens.
No fewer than 300,000 minorities have gone missing since 2010, one-half of whom were Black and one-half of that number were Black women, according to the Atlanta Black Star.
One in five kids has been propositioned for cybersex. 21% of teens say they have looked at something on the internet that they wouldn't want their parents to know. The largest consumer of internet pornography is the 12-17 age group. For every ten men in church, five are struggling with Pornography, and 47.78% of families said pornography is a problem in their homes.
According to recent national research conducted by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 10.5 percent of all high school-age girls have been sexually assaulted. For every African-American woman that reports her rape, at least 15 African-American women do not report theirs. Sixty percent of Black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of Black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted by Black Women's Blueprint.
Strategies & Programs of Urban Renaissance
1. The Date B4 the Prom
The Date B4 the Prom is a national speaking tour that will take place in cities across America. Our target audience is high school girls, grades 9-12, with speaking dates to be held at churches and schools in the visited cities. We will employ direct and insightful strategies to help our daughters with the many problems they face. Many are in need. They are all in danger. They need us to be there for them and we will. We want to save them all!
The Date B4 the Prom will utilize a number of approaches to get the job done. We will have a website, a blog and hotline named The Love Our Youth Hotline that has a 1-800 all-in number. Looking ahead, there are plans for a positive-spin reality show, as well as an entrepreneurial venture for our daughters.
And finally, we intend to get national legislation passed called The K.I.P. Human Initiative. The vast majority of Black high schools have STD infection rates in the 30%, 40% and 50%. We are talking about HIV/AIDS, Herpes and HPV, among the other STDs. The K.I.P. Initiative is where every high school student voluntary gets tested for all STDs.
The information is then made known to the student body and parents, while keeping individual anonymity in place. Think it can't be done? For starters, the testing will be voluntary. And each school will have psychologists on hand. We already have a mandatory vaccination program in place, and recently it has come to light that this is still yet another way in which The Destroyer does us harm. Have you heard of the link between Black boys, autism and the MMR vaccine? It's quite a terrible predicament, and it's real!
We will only be free when we stop letting tell us what we have to do even though it is not to our advantage, and begin doing what we need to do, for ourselves, which will entirely be to our benefit.
2. Blueprint 99
The Grand Plan that will lead us to the effective end of discrimination in America. It houses The Ten Million Letter Delivery as well as The American Investment Act. Blueprint 99 will reintroduce Black America to the entire world.
3. Compassion Suites
This is the strategy that will address the problems with the American Foster Care System, the system that quickly and unapologetically takes our children from their homes and places them in a system chock full of sexual assault, pharmaceutical drugs and abuse. We must put an immediate end to the inhumane drugging of our children. We must be there for them.
4. The American Prisoner Society (T.A.P.S.)
An organization that fights against the proliferation of the prison industrial complex and the wrongs of the Criminal Justice System. We will fight against profiling, harassment, gang banging, three strike rules, 'consent' searches, and systemic racism. We will fight for their voting rights, Truth in Sentencing, keeping families together and more.
5. City Arts & Entertainment
Television specials, stage plays, PSAs for Urban America and school bus motivational signage for all schools. We will convey uplifting and educational messages and programming to our elementary kids that are sure to help shape positive psyches and develop healthy morale in our children.
6. Africa at Heart
An organization that connects us with people of African descent all around the world. We will connect with Black people in Africa, Australia, Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and where ever else our people may be. This is something that is long overdue, and an event that we should all look forward to.
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The school encourages a healthy balance of work and play. Students are encouraged to experience the challenge and reward of sports, the spirit of participation and the pursuit of excellence through the diverse sports disciplines available at School, predominantly Football, Basketball, Handball, Skating and Tennis. Training is also provided for these disciplines.
Training camps for various sports disciplines are conducted by qualified coaches at St. Mary's Arts & Sports Academy. These camps motivate the children to develop their talents, team spirit and groom their sports dreams. 'A healthy mind in a healthy body' – thus goes the saying.
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I still miss my man, but my aim is getting better.
On life's road, it's not where you go but who's by your side that makes the difference.
Gun control is not about guns, it's about control.
Attention deficit, oh pretty!
If you love someone tell them now. Eternity is time enough for silence.
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I arrived at the school for a meeting but the meeting was over/ at first I thought I was lucky to miss it, but then I realized that I was going to have to help do inventory. We had to walk from room to room and wrote down if there were problems – specifically chairs missing or broke computers. We didn't have a methodical process and were missing rooms. Plus we didn't actually turn on the computers. I didn't believe anyone even looked at the report because the same things had been reported before. As we went around I wrote down the names of each room- they were labeled in a sign over the door but they were had to read. The rooms were large lecture style. One room was dedicated to Christmas and at first there was no decoration but then we realized the teacher was bringing one item out at a time. The most recent item she brought out was a lacy bra that matched her clothes. At one point I was in a nursery and had used my pencil down to the nub. I went to sharpen it but the sharpener was so tall it was out of my reach plus there was nothing left to sharpen. I took a pencil from the cup on the desk instead.
Month: December 2016
Making Room for the Next Phase
I was living in a "new" house although it felt like I had been there a while. The house was large, and I didn't understand how much space it had. I was getting ready to clean it, and I discovered that in addition to the main house, there was an entirely new floor below (in the basement) that had a very long hallway with extra rooms. Many of them were bedrooms, and in fact some had multiple bunk beds. I remember thinking that I didn't realize how much extra sleeping space we had. I felt overwhelmed at the idea of cleaning it all, but I closed off some of the rooms that I wasn't going to need immediately, and then I started cleaning my own bedroom first. I was dusting a shelf, and there were items from my childhood that I didn't really like. There were some very feminine, girly things like ceramic hearts with fake lace around the edge. I thought to myself that I didn't need to keep those things, and that I needed to donate them or sell them.
Then the dream shifted (or maybe it was a second dream.) I was supposed to go to the young adult group at the church and talk to them about Servant Ministry projects. I was supposed to be there at a certain time. First, I was in a big area that resembled an airport but with lots of food places. I was looking for something to eat. It also felt a little like a college dorm cafeteria. I was planning to eat and then go to the meeting. I stopped Will and asked if it was ok if I turned it into a game. I was planning to do trivia like "How many people did we feed with Stop Hunger Now?" He said that was fine. But then I missed the event (maybe this is when I was cleaning??) Dylan came in and said that he and his dad had done it, and although he hadn't wanted to go, he ended up winning the trivia.
Clean Sweep
I dreamed that I was renting office space in a building. I had two large rooms, but was only using one. I had my desk, phone and Internet in one and then a door led to another room that I was using for storage. The Tenant across the hall asked if they could temporarily rent space, and I walked to the landlords office and she said yes, but then it occurred to me that I could consolidate to one room and they could use the other room. She was ok with that too. I got lost on my way back to the office – there were many hallways and it was on the edge of a mall. Normally I entered from Dillard's and I couldn't find Dillard's. Eventually I found it. I talked to them and they were very interested. They wanted to create a waiting room. We walked into the messy storage room and I was embarrassed for them to see it. The items in there were all things I could get rid of. Then I thought about moving into that room so their waiting room could be across the hall instead of around the corner. I wasn't sure how the internet and phone would work though. They saw another waiting room with furniture and tv and really liked that.
A New Sherrif in Town
It's been a while since I have remembered a dream in great detail. Last night, the dream started out in a yard. Buster was chasing deer but this time it was a herd of tiny deer (babies about the size of cats with one momma deer.) By the time I realized they were so small and might not be able to get out of his way, it was too late. I ran over and one deer was so tiny it got on my finger. But instead of hurting them, he played with them and they became friends. I was afraid to touch the tiny one for fear the mother would reject it (much like a baby bird.)
Then the dream shifted. I was in a work trip to the Philippines with a group of people. Me, Daphnie's friend Marie and one other person- a guy that reminded me of my old friend Doug and the capital campaign consultant Jesse- were staying in the Shangri La but Marie had found rates for $120 per night. Rather than being in the main part of the hotel though, we were in a section off the garage. You walked out the door like you were going to the parking garage but instead of going straight out one door, you turned to the right. You walk past a big black desk that belonged to Ramon (from Honduras) and there were rooms. They were light and airy and were set up to be multiple bedrooms surrounding a central common area. There was also an outdoor living area. The only problem I was having was getting the phone to work. I was trying to connect an old manual phone to wifi to call home for free. As I was working on that, they wanted to switch hotels for the next week but I was concerned about the extra cost. I suggested we just try to move into he main part of this hotel. Then I walked out into a mall area, and I was sitting on a bench talking to my old colleague Dave. We had a dog and a tiny puppy that fit on the palm of my hand. Dave was supposed to be taking care of the puppy but he wasn't paying attention to it. I was worried it would die. It had wandered behind the bench and gotten wet. I picked it up and tried to dry it off and warm it up. Then Dave said he was starting a new call center in New Orleans. I said confratulations and he told me he wanted me to come work there and move from Atlanta. I told him I was flattered but that I didn't live in Atlanta any more. I explained my kids were going to be seniors in high school so I couldn't leave and he said that if I was interested after that it would be perfect timing because it would take that long for him to get there and be ready for me. Then we saw Elizabeth and our other colleagues walk by. They were dressed in old west attire. I asked what they were doing and he said it was an excursion. I was upset because I didn't know about it and he said the other guy rooming with us had sent out a full agenda. I was not pleased I didn't get one, but he said I could take his spot. He was supposed to be the sherif. I put a leash on the big dog. He was pretty good about staying with us, but I wanted to be sure he was safe. I wrapped the little dog in a blanket. I ran to catch up and Alison was there, my old friend from high school. I put the sherif stars on my chest and she said "thank God you're here"- apparently it had been challenging with more disruptions since there was no one playing the part of sherif. We started running, and just barely made it to a train that was about to leave. We had to open the doors on the moving train and jump on. It we made it, and I remember thinking this was harder than I thought. Then I woke up.
Interpretation: I believe that this dream was a clear answer to a prayer. I was asked to do something at the church that I was hesitant to do. I had told the person who asked me – almost word for word – the answer that I gave Dave about this job. I also had talked to Ben about the request at the church, and he suggested that a better time would be in a few years. That aligned with what Dave told me that "he wasn't ready yet anyway." I think the part of the dream about the sheriff/ old west was telling me that when it was time to do this job, it would be a lot more work than what I expected.
I have not yet figured out what the miniature animals represent. 🙂


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The average funeral cost in the UK fell last year as bereaved families cut optional extras such as limousines and flowers, according to a new survey which also warns that many struggle to cover all the expenses.
Figures published by Sun Life Direct show that the average cost of arranging a funeral in 2010 was £6,801 – a fall of 4.2% or £297 less than it was in 2009. This was because discretionary costs fell from an average of £2,156 in 2009 to £1,745 in 2010 – the first fall since the company started annual surveys in 2004.
But the overall decrease masks a small rise (4.5%) in the costs of the non-discretionary costs, pushing the basic cost of a funeral up to £2,857. Doctors' fees, funeral directors' costs and an increase in burial and cremation costs have all risen..
The survey reveals cremation costs have risen by 5.4% and burial costs 7%, making a burial £800 more expensive, on average, than cremation. Most funerals in the UK (80%) are cremations – at an average cost of £2,546 – with burials costing £3,168. There are substantial regional variations.A burial in London costs£4,772 while in the north west of England it costs £2,745, the cheapest.
The survey interviewed 1,514 people, mainly British adults, responsible for planning both a funeral and the administration of an estate within the past five years.
Figures released at the same time by the Dying Matters Coalition found that half of UK adults have not made any financial provision for their deaths or even discussed their wishes with loved ones – leaving behind sizeable funeral expenses for relatives to cope with.
It reveals 60% of adults, including 25% over-65s, have not made a will, 82% do not have a pre-paid funeral plan and 46% have not made any financial provision for their own death. The research also shows that fewer than 10% of people shop around and seek quotes from more than one funeral director.
Simon Cox, head of life planning at Sun Life Direct, said: "With the cost of the essential elements of a funeral increasing it is wise to share your funeral preferences and wishes with those close to you and make arrangements to pay for what you want. With plans in place, you can rest easy that when the time comes you will have the funeral you want, without leaving a financial burden."
The Dying Matters Coalition has published a Put your House in Order leaflet which aims to prompt people to address the problems associated with lack of planning for end of life. Lack of forethought, fear and an unwillingness to talk openly about dying and death are blamed for so many people failing to address these issues, it claims.
Eve Richardson, chief executive of the Dying Matters Coalition, said: "We owe it to our loved ones not to leave a mess behind when we die. We owe it to ourselves to arrange our affairs to our own satisfaction and to plan a funeral of our choosing."
Lifestyle-themed funeral websites such as My Last Song, already popular in the US, are also booming in the UK as more consumers look online for money saving advice and funerals to reflect their views and lifestyles.
Charles Cowling, author of The Good Funeral Guide, explained: "Funeral costs are rising fast, and the customer is often getting a bad deal because the funeral industry knows they are dealing with people unable or unwilling to discuss money when organising a loved one's funeral.
"There are many ways of saving money when planning a funeral and negotiating with the funeral directors. The Good Funeral Guide and My Last Song have lots of advice on how to save money and also have a better, more appropriate funeral."


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It isn't obvious how some of the features in the new GoPro Hero 3+ cameras work. But now we know
When we first told you about the new Hero 3+ about a week ago, we weren't sure what they meant by "Super View" which "captures the world's most immersive wide-angle perspecitve", or Auto Low Light which adjusts the frame rate for varying lighting conditions ... and we said we'd let you know as soon as we found out. Well, now we know.
It's not the biggest news - but it's interesting to see that GoPro have taken these design decisions.
First of all, though, overall, the consensus seems to be that the cameras have been improved, with a sharper image, less chromatic aberration, and better colour rendition, with warmer tones and somewhat deeper primary colours.
The GoPro's sensor is 4:3, which means that you're either going to have to crop it top and bottom to give you 16:9 ("traditional" widescreen), which throws away resolution, or you'll have to stretch it somehow. Simply doing this will make everything look short and fat. So what Super View does - and this is something that we in Europe have been used to for around 15 years, is leave the centre of the image pretty much as it is, and increasingly stretch the image as it approaches the right and left edges. Done well, this not only gives an acceptable widescreen image, but also makes it look pretty wide angle as well, even though it isn't. The reason we're used to it in Europe is that this is how manufacturers of early Widescreen sets made them more acceptably compatible with showing 4:3 footage, without leaving ugly black bars down the sides of the picture.
So there's nothing miraculous here; just a bit of stretching.
Low light
Auto Low Light mode is a feature that might save your neck in low light conditions but is far from ideal from a film makers point of view. It's a simple trick.
If you're shooting at 1080/60 and the light drops below a n acceptable level, the frame rate will drop automatically to 30 fps. On playback, you will still have 60 refreshes per second, but in the low light mode, you'll find that every frame is repeated. This allows more light to strike the sensor, but most photographers will see this as a "get out of jail" card rather than something they would seriously want to use, because it takes control away from them. Of course you can turn this off if you don't want to use it.
Thanks to Abe Lislevitz for explaining this in his blog.


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Haphazard Memories: a series of posts inspired by random objects that I've held on to for far too many years. And no, I'm not a hoarder.
Item: Black Duofold Henley
Acquisition date: 1987
Place of acquisition: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Associated memory: First boyfriend (and virginity taker)
Current condition: Well worn
Twenty-six years ago, I
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I was a junior in college. He was a freshman. And he was my first real boyfriend.
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(I'm glad I was older because I didn't have to lie to my teenage daughter a few months ago when she asked me how old I was when I was deflowered. And even though it was back in the olden days, I'm pretty sure I was the last of my friends to go.)
I'm not sure how I ended up with the shirt. Did he give it to me to remember him by or was I just cold one day, put it on and never gave it back? Was it before or after the first of a few times that he broke my heart?
It's too long ago to know for sure.
So long ago that I had kind of forgotten about it. I've lived in the same place for 14 years so there are items in my closet that haven't seen the light of day since they went in there. (A little embarrassing because it means I need to do some closet cleaning.)
But a few weeks ago, it was cold in South Florida and I was looking for a sweatshirt to wear over my pajama top.
And there it was underneath a stack of clothes high up in my closet.
I took it out. Admired it's fraying hem and sleeves full of holes. Marveled at the fact that I still had it. Thought briefly about the guy it used to belong to.
Then I put it on. It fit the same as it used to. Big and cozy. It kept me warm that night while I puttered around the house. Dishes, laundry, Facebook. The usual.
But you can be sure I took it off before I went to sleep that night. I didn't want to bring those old memories to bed with me. Besides, I have my husband to keep me warm.


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If you remember I received a New York Color Liquid Lipshine in #582 Nude York City from www.influenster.com to try. I really did love it so much that the other day when at Rite Aid picking up prescriptions I looked for the NYC cosmetsics end-cap. They had one, and it was pretty picked over – BUT I'm totally excited to say they did have 4 colors I didn't already have. Obviously I snatched them up immediately (Actually I ended up with one more that was a dupe since it was put in the wrong part of the display – that will be another item in my upcoming giveaway).
The formula on each of these is just as awesome as the first one I used. It was not sticky. It was not clumpy. It was just smooth and even a little nourishing. Most of my glosses tend to dry out my lips, but even in this harsh dry winter my lips feel pretty good. I have to re-apply these every two hours or so, which is pretty typical for me, I tend to rub my lips alot.
The colors pictured are
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- 581 Midtown Mulberry
- 584 Honey on the Hudson
- 579 Fashion Avenue Fuchsia
My very favorite is the Honey on the Hudson. It looks a lot like a darker version of my own lips (with shimmer!). The shearest is by far the New York Nude. The remaining glosses are very pigmented, nearly opaque. Below are swatches of each of the colors.
Would I purchase these again? Yes, I am still looking for the remaining colors I don't have.
What gloss do you rock?
FTC Disclaimer: Not affiliated with nor compensated by New York Color. Items purchased by me for my own personal use (except for New York Nude which was sent to me for consideration by PR). For more information please review my disclosure policy.


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Here's a true-or-false quiz on energy.
Here's a true-or-false quiz on energy.
1) If we could harness the tides in the oceans, we'd have enough power to close every nuclear, coal and gas-fired plant and still have lots to spare.
Sorry, but even the Ocean Energy Council won't go that far. While it's nice to think that the rolling waves we enjoy on trips to the beach could turn out to be useful, it's neither easy nor cost-effective to contemplate this on a massive scale. The best that the council can say is that tidal power "can make a valuable contribution to an electrical system which has a variety of sources."
2) There's a simple pill some guy invented that turns water into gasoline.
This has the ring of truth because the claim always comes with the warning that big oil companies are suppressing the invention. You know they would if such a pill existed, but nobody has found one yet. Or maybe that's what the big oil companies told me to say.
3) Your cable box and digital video recorder use more energy than your refrigerator.
Surprisingly true. The National Resources Defense Council found that those black boxes with the glowing lights use about 10 percent more than an energy efficient refrigerator or air conditioner. That means they eat $3 billion worth of electricity in the United States each year. And here's the kicker — they use 66 percent of that power when nobody is watching. That's the extra price we pay for the convenience of having the picture go on as soon as we find the right button on the remote.
4) With all these electronic devices plugged in all over the house, our use of electricity is going up.
Even more surprising, we're still using more but at a slower rate. The Electric Power Research Institute, funded by the big utility companies, predicts that the rate will keep on slowing in the future.
Some savings come from the recession, with people trying to cut back, and from better insulation. But the biggest single factor, according to those energy industry experts, comes from something we all do all the time — changing light bulbs. As more people replace old incandescents with fluorescents, the meter spins more slowly and we save energy and money.
Because lighting accounts for a steady 10 to 15 percent of a typical home's energy use, the new energy-efficient bulbs are the best weapon we have against waste. That explains why a bipartisan Congress created new light-bulb standards in 2007 and President Bush signed the law.
If House Republicans have their way, however, this could all change and that meter could get back up to speed. That freedom you did not know you were being denied would come via H.R. 2417, the "Better Use of Light Bulb Act." It rolls back standards that the industry has embraced and creates a layer of bureaucracy to make sure we have the opportunity to spend more, waste more and get less.