Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Argentina, Brazil et alia call to dump Maduro; world news

2-5-19    The Lima Group includes Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Saint Lucia.   The countries of the Lima Group proclaimed Venezuela's opposition leader and its National Assembly as full members of the multi-nation group while ruling out military intervention to end the humanitarian crisis gripping the oil-rich nation. The move elevates Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to the status of a "fully fledged" member of the group, said Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.
 https://www.unian.info/world/10434003-lima-group-embraces-guaido-calls-on-venezuela-military-to-quit-maduro.html  to the status of a "fully fledged" member of the group, said Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland...."It is very important to understand that Guaido derives his legitimacy from the National Assembly, which is the sole remaining democratically constituted body in Venezuela," Freeland said at the closing press conference of the Lima Group meeting.   https://www.unian.info/world/10434003-lima-group-embraces-guaido-calls-on-venezuela-military-to-quit-maduro.html
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2-5-19    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he is convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not need the temporarily occupied Crimea and Donbas – he wants to "put a Russian yoke back on entire Ukraine."  "When will the war end?  This is a very important question because the subject of peace is exploited by all presidential candidates in Ukraine.  The absolute majority of them declare that they know where the peace is.  'There, just around the corner, if you kneel down and beg – the peace will be there.'  Let me disappoint you – [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is there, just around the corner, waiting for you," Poroshenko said on ICTV's Freedom of Speech program....
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that the Russian Federation reserves the right to react in case of a threat to the right to freedom of religion in Ukraine.
 https://www.unian.info/politics/10433733-mfa-ukraine-backs-venezuelan-opposition-leader.html
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  -Four-year-old Abduleziz Tohti and his father, Abdurahman Tohti.
 Abdurahman Tohti via Uyghur Bulletin/Twitter
      Tohti left his village of Besh Tugmen in Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, in March 2013 and settled in Istanbul that October after studying in Egypt for a few months.  He married his wife, Peride Yasin, in Istanbul in February 2014.  They had two children – a boy, Abduleziz, and a girl, Nadire.  In August 2016 Yasin and the children traveled to Xinjiang to visit family.  Tohti hasn’t heard from any of them since....
  Tohti later heard from people on the ground that his wife was arrested upon arrival and sentenced to ten years in prison.  He has never heard anything official about their fate, and he said he is “completely in the dark.”  https://www.businessinsider.my/mans-family-vanished-saw-son-2-years-later-in-china-propaganda-video-2019-2/
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2-4-19   February 5 marks the 22nd anniversary of a 1997 massacre by Chinese state security forces of hundreds of Uyghur protesters in the Xinjiang city of Ghulja, which was observed with a commemorative gathering this weekend in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan.
  In a statement released Monday, Uyghur Human Rights Project Director Omer Kanat said that following the 1997 killings in Ghulja, China’s moves to eradicate Uyghur identity and culture in the Xinjiang region have spread “in an alarming fashion.  The internment of over one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims means all families today live in a constant state of fear.  They do not know the whereabouts or condition of their loved ones, or even if they themselves will be spared from the camps.  The psychological trauma will be with us for generations,” Kanat said.     https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/ghulja-02042019175208.html
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2-1-19   on the less sunny side, the writer Michael Field warned nearly two years ago that “illegal fishing, much of it by China, is costing some of the world’s smallest and poorest nations hundreds of millions of dollars.”  It’s important to keep in mind that in six of the 18 Pacific nations and territories, the GDP per capita comes to only $2,100 to $5,700 a year.
“Inside esoteric fishing rights conferences it is common knowledge that China’s new and powerful boats could within a decade destroy the $3 billion a year Pacific tuna industry,” Field wrote for The Spinoff Bulletin in New Zealand.
https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/china-pacific-02012019132417.html
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176.  On the higher plane as on the earthly, knights of the spirit feel pain from the contact with dark weapons.  True, the protective net insures against defeat, for light overcomes darkness, but rebounding blows and shocks to the aura and the protective net are real and are felt.   -M:  Fiery World 1935
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398.   Even nowadays there are ignoramuses who rebel against the good of mankind. But pay no attention to these voices of darkness - they will always exist.  Blasphemy, mockery, and slander are the sole weapons of darkness.  Yet you already observe the beautiful energy, and no slander will distress you.   -M:  Aum 1936
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567.  An entire arsenal of weapons of egoism is brought to bear against the peace-loving Brotherhood; simplest of all is to deny the very possibility of the existence of the Brotherhood.    
578.  With what can one block the path of evil?  Only with labor on Earth.  Thought and work directed to the common good will be a strong weapon against evil.  People frequently begin to verbally curse evil, but the disparagement is so ugly--it is impossible to fight it  by means of ugliness.  Such weapons are worthless.  Work and lofty thought will be the arms of victory - such is the path of brotherhood.      -M:  Brotherhood 1937
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136.  We are invulnerable to human weapons yet can suffer injuries from the hierophants of the dark forces, whose ruinous attacks fill space.  Such invisible battles are not fairy tales.  It is one thing to send a ray from the Tower, but it is an entirely different thing to fly to participate in the righteous battle in space.   
289.   Imagine what would happen if a group of guards were to start firing their weapons indiscriminately in all directions.  They could kill each other!  The same thing could happen if a group of people were to repeat a memorized ritual without a harmonious understanding of fundamental truth that underlies it.  
                             (by Schmiechen, 1884)
                                                      -Morya:  Supermundane 1938


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