Monday, October 13, 2014

UN Needs to Step Up to ISIS, ASAP

http://usun.state.gov/about/contact/index.htm   Samantha Power
http://www.state.gov/contact/   John Kerry 

Help out and tell them above.

Dear Honorable Ambassador Samantha Power, please see below, and to forward to Honorable Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, thank you.

Subject: RE: ISIS
From: Colby Allerton
To: inquiries@un.org, letters@latimes.com,
        "letters@nytimes.com" <letters@nytimes.com>


Dear Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, and US Secretary of State John Kerry
(via Webform),

It is past time for the UN to create a coalition and stop the expansion of
ISIS.
This is particularly why the charter of the U.N. was established: "...To
maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take
effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to
the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches
of the peace...."
ISIS has traveled and expanded far enough.
Innocent people in several countries face extermination, and this is not
acceptable in modern eyes, when collectively we can prevent these
atrocities and re-establish the rightful sovereignty and peace of the
trampled cities that people deserve.
Please work immediately to intervene, with as many varied nations
contributing as soon as possible.
Days and weeks ahead is too long.
ISIS needs multi-nationally to be first contained and then sent back --
immediately.
Thank you and please hurry up.

G. Colby Allerton

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Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012

Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012
I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.

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