In 1997, 50 prominent foreign policy experts, including former senators, military leaders, and diplomats, sent an open letter to then-President Bill Clinton outlining their opposition to NATO expansion. “It is a policy error of historic proportions,” they wrote.
Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan wrote in his 1999 book ‘A Republic, Not an Empire’, “By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation.”
The current director of the CIA, William Burns, said in 2008 that for Russia, “Ukraine’s accession to NATO is the brightest of all red lines.”
“I have not yet found anyone who would consider Ukraine in NATO as something other than a direct challenge to Russia’s interests,” he said.
We can learn from the past , the mistakes of encroachment or expansion into other territories, Russia’s origins, and the history of its church is in Kiev. Thinking foreign policy and international relations is important for stability in the world. Joe Bidens government an example, of failing to listen to scholars or geopolitical experts with experience , Joe Biden appears naive when it comes to foreign policy , he has brought Russia and China together, along with other nations, and has created a very unstable world . The USA has a 38 trillion debt and is looking for new markets to service that debt . It appears he sees Nato expansion and a risk worth taking .a dangerous game .
Perhaps John Kennedy had more respect for his adversaries, and in the famous peace he gave, he glorified Russia’s history and culture and sought peace.
An agreement was eventually reached between Kennedy & Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba, subject to #United Nations verification, in exchange for a #US public declaration &agreement not to invade Cuba again. Nato invasions and WW3 , unfortunately maybe .
Joe Biden , and the current administration has led a damaging USA led liberal left agenda, he and his team do not appear to approve of traditional cultural differences , of other countries , he has aggressively pushed his agenda to the point where we are on the verge of a major conflict, the world is more divided and less united . He was and still is the most harmful president in recent times. and the most unfortunate thing is the world waits , for the unthinking and politically naive USA citizens , who really believe USA are Gods chosen people for establishing ” freedom and liberty ” worldwide, they caste their votes in November, fools voting in fools for sure .
But philosophically thinking sometimes people become tools for massive destructive karmic changes , unfit persons become pawns in the hands of karmic fate and synchronicity , things played out played out in a destined history We have to take into account the karma of the planet, the collective karma .
Much harm is being done to so many by so few , and a price will have to be paid one way or another.
The Vedas record these calculations in the politically astute Artha Veda .
A taste of relationships , a taste of time , a taste of humour, a taste of beauty , a taste of enthusiasm , a taste of appreciation , tastes and flavours are abound , but you have to admit they are temporary and generally they are in decline, what a sad state of affairs. The origins of full flavours , the Vedas indicate, are found when tasting temporary flavours longer satisfy , and also when the intelligence of Buddhi yoga develops , such intelligence reveals , that the bodily sences are experiencing fleeting moments , along with the mind that calculates what is acceptable and whats not , only the really intelligent persons can discriminate between the consciousness and the matter that surrounds it , and know its a completely different energy.
It is the arrangements of Krishna that those who come to this world are abke yo experience a reflection of the super subjective reality , but such a taste or a reflection of permanent , will be no substitute for the origins of sensual flavours and unlimited flavours of spiritual emotions , where the full experiences can be found , and that are recorded by Srila Jiva Goswami, Srila Rupa Goswami , Srila Ragganatha das Goswami and Srila Sanatana Goswami , to name but a few of the trancendental Proffesors of the Gaudia Vaisnava school.
The Vedic literature indicates that those who are caught up in temporary affairs can not give their attention to the permanent , so this is a great problem for the individuals , we have to extract ourselves from the temporary addictions and strive for the permanent and the origins and beauty of our consciousness . No one gets something for nothing.
The mind and senses have taken us on a long long journey of deceit , we must know it , we must research these topic , and we must understand the pushings of the scientific materialism educator, and those that insist Darwinian hypothesis is fact based science , we must know , they are clueless when it comes to understanding consciousness.
We must know life comes from life , that’s our experience , just as when we see smoke, we know there is fire .
Problem with left leaning global “democracy “, it abandons the real intelligentsia and embraces sophisticated animals who peddle Darwinian guessing of one life one death as fact, real philosophical thinkers and objective scientific paths are ignored , not only ignored , but misinformation has been given to million of young people , its the work of questionable persons, whose motives are self centred , they are generally puffed up by so called academics , and they are convinced by their speculative calculations.
Every theological text speaks of such arrogantly presented so called knowledge, that is actually destroying family values and cultural traditions that serve people well in their cultivating pure hearts and pure thoughts .
There will always be hypocrisy in all circles , but still , one can always trace origins of correct thinking and truth, fortunately God Himself lies in the hearts of all men and reveals good sense and inspires true leaders to say what they have to say
Time in reality is an allocated period given to conscious beings who temporarily reside in a particular physical or subtle body for a given length period . These time allocation periods are determined not by random events or even physical laws of nature but by unseen laws and circumstances operating beyond the comprehension of scientific communities . One consciousness particle decides a particular allocation of time to another consciouseness particle, everything supervised by a greater consciousness . Where and how the time will be served has been calculated even before death .The many possibilities are constantly at work reacting within the responsive universe. Nobody, in modern scientific terms , has a single clue why such laws of time are affecting different species at different rates , from the Redwood tree to thd Mayfly.
Material nature is only a tiny fragmental part of the Supreme Brahman, Krishna . Krishna has incomprehensible and multifarious energies emanating from Him . Why not understand such things , the light , radiation, electromagnetic forces, and gravitational forces are a spark of unknown energies. Who knows their origins or why they are constants . Lord Krishna is one and different from all of them .Krishna or Visnu ,according to the Vedas ,manufactures every species of life , each under specific strict time allocation . Scientists know quite a lot about the presence of the laws but can not fathom their origins . Why they hold firmly in place is another mystery. They presume them happening by random chance events that begin sometime in a distance past . That’s an easy, childish like guess . The obvious question is , It seems logical , and a fair objective observation , that an order is in a firm place, the laws of universal affairs should have a specific source . After all, in our experience , when we see perfect math symmetry and intelligent design that appear as orderly events , we naturally draw obvious conclusions. The Darwinian alternative that somehow or other these perfect laws of material nature formed and mysteriously maintain themselves seem totally absurd in real terms , the theistic say its an envious conclusion . Many objectively motivated prominent scientists, rebel against the concept of chance events being an ultimate cause . Sir Fred Hoyle, for instance , who could see learly that the laws of nature are finely tuned , with perfect amounts of atoms and compound to make life possible . Sir Fred was puzzled by the availability of so much carbon , which is essential for life . Why should there be so much carbon in the universe , compared to other elements . Everything seems set for life .
Law means lawmaker , that’s logic . The Vedas give details of the fundermental principles of material nature , which incorporate the atomic and ethereal plane of existence . The Srimad Bhagavatam indicates that mind and consciousness and matter are brought together and are obliged to interact with time , each of these energies are independent of each other . In regards to how someone may know the details of the laws of time allocation , the Vedas say the head of this universe Lord Bramha has inconceivable intelligence ,which has been alloted to him , he is the engineer. As much as Einstein, Schrödinger or Bohr have inconceivable intelligence compared to the common man, Bramha’s intelligence is beyond ours .
Lord Bramha , the allocated engineer of this universe, transmits knowledge of all his scientific works within the universe to Narada Muni , his son . He is no ordinary person of course, and he was the Guru of Vyasadeva ,who was no ordinary person . He was the Guru of Sukadeva Goswami , who was no ordinary person , but the speaker of the Bhagavatam ..so one can say the origins of the knowledge of the Vedas and the universe are coming from beings and personalities beyond it .
So, the science contained in summary form in the Bhagavatam stems ultimately from the engineer of universal affairs , and Lord Bramha transmits such knowledge to those that need to know and who have pure senses . Bramha was given the intelligence to carry out his work of creation and laying the foundations of laws by Visnu Himself.
So the universe is certainly most puzzling to the science community. The more they study it , the more complex it becomes , this includes the science of time, its inconceivable nature , and so as said before scientists do not understand why time works the way it does , as much as they cannot produce rna in the laboratory to 100 % purity , the way nature makes it , only 1% purity has been achieved in a laboratory setting . The Vedic system is to accept knowledge from the supreme intelligentsia. The origin of this universe is Lord Bramha, as much as everyone is accepting knowledge from intelligent men and women , people like Richard Feynman , Einstein , Bohr , Schrödinger , Teller etc etc . so why not Lord Bramha ? And the persons he transmitted it to.
The very best scientist always say they know very little of the real details of the universe and its functioning. Unfortunately, some scientists will make bold declarations . Like the immature Darwinians who assume Darwinian evolutionary theory is fact based science Real scientific thinkers know it’s not . it’s at most a hypothesis .
Although the mechanistic Darwinian puts it all down to superstition & traits of evolution , there is a common thread in various cultures throughout the world of the worship of various Demigods and Goddesses . It should not be ignored but rather examined and deeply thought about in philisophical and theological ways and scientifically in terms of a culture of consciousness bringing peace and satisfaction, and incidentally a change in the way neurons within he brsin fire . Lord Siva , Lord Bramha , Lord Indra have their counterparts in all cultures. The Goddesses originate from Srimati Radharani. For example . Lakshmi: The goddess of wealth, fortune, and prosperity. Saraswati: The goddess of knowledge, music, art, and wisdom. Parvati: The goddess of love, fertility, and devotion. Durga: The warrior goddess of feminine power who protects against negative forces. Kali: The fierce goddess of time, change, and the destruction of evil. Each of whom has different expansions and names within different cultures and traditions , such as the Greek Gods and Goddesses. The purpose of the worship of Demigods and Goddesses is to seek various benedictions , and by doing so, one learns to respect higher beings as well as gaining faith in such decending benedictions originating from higher planes . All sorts of benedictions can be sought, providing an understanding of the purpose sacrifices can be understood. Sacrifices and atonement bears fruit . Ultimately, this should lead to the benefits of the gradual spiritual evolution of knowledge culminating in the greatest of good fortune . The direct services of the Supreme Goddess of fortune Srimati Radharani, from whom all the Goddesses are expanded for many reasons. Srimati Radharani services to Krishna in Goloka Vrndavana are the greatest exhibitions of spontaneous love both in union and separation. In Her form as Laxmi, she attends to the services of Lord Visnu . Ultimately, if one can acquire the association of a pure Gaudia vaisnava devotee , who follows Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu one can enter into the association Radharani and her Manjari associates . Such is the power of Srimati Radharani alluring nature , that Krishna , the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is forever seeking Her association and is always hankering for Her beautiful glances and smiles . In her original eternally blissful and ever new and ever enthusiastic playful form , Vrsabhanu Nandini , Srimati Radharani , the Supreme Goddess of fortune is the Guru and Krishna is Her disciple in loving affairs. Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu has revealed all these truths to the Goswamis of Vrndavana , who have composed many slokas and written extensively revealing to the world , the secret of all secrets .
So why not worship the Supreme Goddess of fortune, Srimati Radharani, who is only too willing to award Her sincere following the best of what’s in existence in both the material and spiritual realms , and as She gives it to you , it increases. She is the abode of love and what she gives is knowledge of Her object of love Krishna. There is an eternal competition in love between the two and Chanting Hare Krishna means Radha Krishna.
Rachel Parsons MSc Anthropology, Environment, and Development
It’s a grey, nippy London day on a grey sidewalk on the edge of Bloomsbury, but Jennie Matthias is dancing; her mass of fire-engine-red curls exploding from under her knit cap. She and a group of volunteers are buzzing around several folding tables in front of the St Giles Hotel that are groaning under the weight of freshly cooked curries, heaps of fruit, vegetables, drinks, and pastries. “What time is it?” Matthias, the food hub manager, hollered. “Twelve? Let’s go! Let’s do this!”
She bustles over to the start of a queue of people waiting not far from the tables. By noon the line is about 20 people deep and they will keep coming. Matthias can’t say for sure, but she estimates her Food For All meal distribution hub – one of six – will serve free meals to hundreds of people today, as it does six days a week. During an average year, the organisation collectively serves about 2,000 people a day in London.
“We were doing 5,000 ” during covid says Peter “Para” O’Grady, director of Food For All (FFA). It has “ticked down a bit” since the first lockdown, but not by much
Dear trust members .
The above is a reporter who witnessed our activities first hand on the streets of London.
Throughout last year we continued on with our food for all activities feeding fresh hot meals to the homeless and poor as well as other vulnerable sectors of society. The cost of living we know is increasing. Many mothers with children also are now regularly coming these days to our distribution points.
Our summer holiday meals for children and our deliveries of food to poor pensioners need to be increased we have plans this summer holidays to ramp up our kids clubs meals , as parents are finding it difficult to provide their kids with meals when schools are out .
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This is a reporter from the independent newspaper.
David Cohen is the Independent’s award winning Investigations Editor and Campaigns Editor Who visited us .
Among them was Food For All in Holborn where, in an impressive culinary feat, 2,000 portions of vegan curry were cooked in a giant aluminium pot large enough for five adults to stand in and delivered to Spurs’s stadium and homeless shelters in King’s Cross, Camden .
The charity’s founder, Peter O’Grady, 56, said the pot we cook with is the “biggest in the western world” and that he had bought it at a factory in Agra next to the Taj Mahal. “You can put five of us in it and sail down the Thames,” he laughed.
The massive operation starts at 4.30am every morning when kitchen manager Sofia, 37, turns on the gas “We have a team of volunteers who have peeled and chopped 200 kilos of potatoes and 100 kilos of carrots the night before and they get added in first,” she said.Mr O’Grady arrives between 6am and 7am and starts to work his magic, adding dahl, a wheelie bin of cabbage and another of cauliflower and spinach. Finally he throws in tomatoes, turmeric, ginger and cumin…
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Every single wildlife programme one watches are most definitely contaminated with the Darwinian hypothesis . The reality , according to philosophical common sense and the Vedas , we are veiwing conscious beings like ourselves, who are in currently inhabiting different bodies and for numerous reasons a , billions of lifetimes may have brought them all to their current situation . Certainly you will find Schrödinger, Bohr, Einstein Teller and Feynman would very much understand such declarations , they all have an understanding of the potential of consciousness along with its interactions and that effect matter , causing it to react in different ways , producing bodies, due to how past , present and future are co dependent on each other . Understanding the results of the two slits experiments and the observer effect in a quantum atomic plane is so far impossible to do , So, as Richard Feynman once said anyone who says he understands quantum mechanics , means , he doesn’t understand . Certainly a parallel to the Vedic understandings are present in quantum science , of the consciousness observer effecting matter .
One thing is for sure, and it’s a self manifesting truth , life comes from life . A scientific community has absolutely no idea what consciousness is , so one could very well ask the epistemological question to the Darwinians .How do you know you know ? ,and how do you know you know you know ?
The resounding answer they don’t, yet their conclusions and speculations are regularly pumped into our TV screens and taught as fact based science worldwide.
Sambandha , Abhidheya and Prayojana are all Vedic terms . It means to establish a relationship , act in the relationship and perfect the relationship..
Sabdha brahman is another important and crucial Vedic term. It means a pure sound vibration emanating from a pure heart and mind , that’s completely connected to Divinity . When , by good fortune , one comes in touch with such a person who is able to produce such pure sound it enables one to directly begin to understand, enter into ,and perfect a relationship with Divinity .Without such a connection, one is left on the peripherals , perhaps within the impersonal effulgence of Divinity.
By continued hearing or reading the works of such pure devotees who can emit pure sound , and by especially serving them in many respects, especially hearing and understanding their trancendental words, a perfect relationship in pure love develops , and one can beginto understand the trancendental relationship that such a person has with Divinity , and our own relationship begins to fructify . Thus gradually revealing ones original spiritual form and activities , all these truths have been recorded by the direct followers of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , and indeed Mahāprabhu Himself as the perfect teacher , taught by example , hearing the lila pastimes of Krishna from His devotees.
These topics are all discussed in the Srimad Bhagavatam.
Whether one is in union or separation makes no difference, which was demonstrated by Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , who experienced the simultaneous feeling of union and seperation at the same moment, the highest ecstatic emotions of Srimati Radharani .
Karl Marx thought religion suppressed people & thought he knew better , a path to freedom from conformity and authority, but is it appropriate that a child leaves the authority of the loving parent, who knows how to sufficiently nourish and who loves the child , obviously conformity is the best course of action for the child
In reality, Marx sought to control people & bind them to his thinking , but what knowledge of life’s purposes did he have , before excepting any authority we must know , who is their authority . AND if its their speculative mind that’s cobbled up a philosophy in life or a world or scientific view , why would we want to put our faith in such speculative subjectivity.
Generally we find people are driven by their temporary material senses and minds and a faltering intelligence.
Like five wild horses, the senses can drag one in unwanted directions ,the reigns are the mind, and the driver should be the intelligence.
But the intelligence is recommended in all theological sciences to be in contact with his eternal passenger, the Supersoul or the holy ghost , the super subjective, and within the super subjective realm must seek directions.
Today Globalists , politicians, and scientists control the people ,& in the name of freedom, bind them in temporary illusion & uncontrolled hankering , by getting the unthinking to follow the unintelligent.
The horses of everyone’s senses are completely out of control, the world is in a mess and getting worse.
We must seek the super subjective realm and bring sanity back to our lives ,and help others do the same, seek out the real intelligentsia .
The whole of the Bhagavad Gita gives us the clear rundown. We must accept the rationale part of our consciousness, and except God has rationale, and thus, communication between Him and His parts and parcels is ongoing
