What is Himalayan Pink Salt? (video)

Celtic sea salt vs. Himalayan pink salt: mineral comparison + differences

(Clean Food Living) March 12, 2022. Ever wonder what the differences between Celtic sea salt and Himalayan pink [rock] salt are? This video explores in depth information about the minerals in pink Himalayan salt (an ancient sea salt mined in pristine caves in Pakistan) and the minerals in Celtic sea salt. The hostess compares Celtic sea salt minerals to pink Himalayan salt minerals in a side-by-side chart showing numeric values. Plus this video shows the many similarities and differences (other than mineral content) between the two. With this information we can determine some of the health benefits of each.

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NOTE: Dear friends, please forgive my mispronunciation of Himalayas (called them Himalayans) and of Celtic. I was phonetically saying "Seltic" (like the basketball team) instead of "Keltic" 😊 Many blessings!

China treats Uighurs like Tibetans (video)

John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, HBO, 7/26/20); CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

First China hit Tibetans, now Muslim Uighurs

This giant area, Xinjiang, is where Uighurs live.

XINJIANG, China - John Oliver discusses the severe human rights abuses against the Uighur people, whose land in the northwest was incorporated to be part of the Han people's China. Uyghurs (\wee-gers\) are facing at the hands of the Chinese capitalist-communist government, and why these atrocities are worth our undivided attention.

It wasn't just us. Now the Uighurs are getting it.

For just as Tibet was invaded, occupied, and dismantled with its population ethnically cleansed or disappeared, there is a target on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other territories and minorities who are not Han Chinese.

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Veterans Day: Restrepo, Winter Soldier (video)

Restrepo; Winter Soldier; New Winter Soldier; JewishVoiceForPeace.org (everyaction.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Militarized U.S. law enforcement trades tactics with the Israeli military and police. This worsens Israel’s illegal occupation and makes U.S. police more violent (everyaction.com).

Restrepo (Part 1) is a 2010 documentary film about the illegal US war on Afghanistan, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and the late British-American photojournalist Tim Hetherington.
 
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts

  

Imaginari Pacem

(IVAW.org) "...In spring 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era Winter Soldier hearings, Iraq Veterans Against the War gathered outside Washington, DC and testified to atrocities they committed and/or witnessed while deployed in the US occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

What CIA/ISI did in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

This recording captures the powerful words and images of this historic event. Well-publicized cases of American brutality like the Abu Ghraib Prison torture scandal and the massacre of an entire Iraqi family in the city of Haditha are not isolated incidents. Instead, they are the logical consequences of U.S. war policy. 

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan preserves and honors the participants' courageous contributions in or to ensure that people around the world remember their stories and struggle. The one hour edited video features 13 veterans from three days of testimony given by over 70 men and women who participated in war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The footage addresses such issues as the U.S. military's callous disregard for civilian life, the torture of detainees, the culture of racism inherent in a military occupation, gender discrimination, and the health crisis facing today's veterans..." See also ivawarchive.org/wintersoldier

• War is a Crime (warisacrime.org) Combat is a criminal enterprise known as war, illegal under the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the UN Charter, and other laws, and immoral under a proper... Nevertheless, meet the new war, same as the old war:

Photo by US Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle, March 16, 1968: aftermath of US soldiers' My Lai massacre showing  women and children they raped and murdered.

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Winter Soldier

Good old days: Marine drill instructor abuses new recruits for decades with impunity (AP).

Believe me, guys, I love war and signing drone execution paper more than Trump.

U.S. General Smedley D. Butler spells it out: scam

In February 1971, one month after the revelations of the American massacre of My Lai Village, Vietnam, an astonishing public inquiry into US war crimes committed by American forces in Vietnam was held at a Howard Johnson Motel in Detroit.

The Vietnam Veterans Against the War organized this event called the "Winter Soldier Investigation." More than 125 US veterans spoke of atrocities they had committed or witnessed.

War is peace. Just ask George Orwell.

Though the event was attended by press and television news crews, almost nothing was reported to the American public. Yet, this unprecedented forum marked a turning point in the anti-war movement. It was a pivotal moment in the lives of young vets from around the country who participated, including the young John Kerry. The Winter Soldier Investigation changed him and his comrades forever. Their courage in testifying, their desire to prevent further atrocities and to regain their own humanity, provide a dramatic intensity that makes seeing Winter Soldier an unforgettable experience.

• VeteransForPeace.org
• JewishVoiceForPeace.org
• JVP.org 

Rescuing Afghanistan's Buddhist history

Compiled by Wisdom Quarterly, Megalithic.co.uk , AFP, Science Religion News

"The Lost Buddhas of Afghanistan" (David Adams Films)

Last year [2010] the French archeological mission cooperating with the Afghan National Institute of Archeology began an excavation of an ancient Buddhist settlement at the Mes Aynak temple complex and mine.

Mes Aynak has the second-largest known unexploited copper deposits in the world. The team is racing to rescue as much as possible before the Chinese mining work begins.

Sacred buried treasure can be found throughout Afghanistan (Wall Street Journal)

The Afghan government awarded mining rights to the China Metallurgical Group Corporation [in collaboration with the Chinese government], which is keen to begin work at the site, 25 miles (40 km) from the capital Kabul.

First the Taliban mindlessly dynamited 1,500+ year old statues of the Buddha, the tallest in the world. Now a massive ancient Buddhist monastery is under threat in Afghanistan from a copper and rare earth mining company.

Mining in Afghanistan (NPR)

[This is so valuable to China that it recently pledged $3 billion to Nepal to build up its Lumbini as the Buddha's birthplace. This diverts attention from its more probable location in Islamic Afghanistan, which has many precious archeological sites that neither Chinese capitalists, atheist-communists, nor Afghani Muslims want more attention for.]

A Chinese company intends to blow up an ancient Buddhist monastery south of Kabul to make way for a massive copper mine. The plan has sparked outrage among Afghan and French archeologists, who have recently uncovered more than 100 statues within a large spiritual complex that includes seven burial mounds (stupas) built to house the relics of saints.

Located in a mountainous region southeast of Kabul, Mes Aynak is a hill topped by a 4500-square-meter monastery. [Monasteries were often built near precious metal deposits, which were used to create sacred art on the site.]

Although the site was spotted by archaeologists in the 1960s, it was never excavated. During the late 1990s, the hill was home to an al-Qaida " training camp," according to a 2004 report by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.



In recent years, looters damaged much of the monastic complex in search of antiquities, according to Nader Rassouli, director of Afghanistan's National Institute of Archaeology in Kabul, which is also participating in the current excavations.

Two millennia ago, this region served as a critical conduit in the spread of Buddhism to Central Asia and China, says T. Richard Blurton, an archaeologist and curator at London's British Museum who has excavated in Afghanistan. He says Mes Aynak can provide new data on both the origin and demise of Buddhism in this culturally fertile region.

• See more at Science Religion News with a link to a paid article in Science and AFP.
• NOTE: Because Chinese mining in Afghanistan threatens an ancient tomb complex, Afghan archeologists have unofficially only been given a short time to excavate the site, which due to the US war and other limitations is actually only long enough to describe what is there. But will this informal delay be honored before mining and the site's destruction begins?
• Rescuing Afghanistan's Buddhist history at Mes Aynak

Buddhist leaders attend congress opening

(Jakarta Post) The opening ceremony of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) congress Tuesday represents the largest Islamic organization’s commitment to religious harmony. Wearing orange monk’s robes, two Buddhist leaders stole the spotlight.

They were among the thousands of NU members participating in the congress. One of the Buddhist leaders, Ven. Dhammasubho Mahathera, said his presence was a show of support for the NU. "Harmony can only happen in this country through communication among various religious groups," he said before entering the Celebes Convention Center for the opening ceremony.

The other Buddhist leader, Ven. Siriratanu, said Buddhists in the nation respected the NU as the biggest Muslim group in the country." We are here particularly to honor Gus Dur," he said, referring to the late former president and former NU chairman Abdurrahman Wahid, who was known as pluralism advocate. Source

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Burmese refugees' grim future in Bangladesh

TO OUR MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN BURMA

As Muslims, they were unwanted in Buddhist Burma. As foreigners, they are unwanted in Muslim Bangladesh. Regardless of their ethnicity or religion, they deserve our compassion.

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (The Irrawaddy) — Dildar Begum has no country, no job, no food, and she is fast running out of hope. Her husband is imprisoned in a Bangladeshi jail while she lives in a slum with her five children. She is reduced to begging for rice from her impoverished neighbors. Her family is starving, she said.

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"I can't live this way. It's better if my kids and I die suddenly," the 25-year-old woman said. Begum is one of the hundreds of thousands of members of the Rohingya ethnic group who have fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in neighboring Burma — only to find themselves languishing in filthy slums or open-air camps where food and water are scarce and medical care, nonexistent. More>>

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  (BBC News) They have been called one of the world's most persecuted people. Some argue that they are also one of the most forgotten. Thousands of Rohingya fled Burma for Bangladesh in 1992. The Rohingya people of western Burma's Arakan State are forbidden from marrying or travelling without permission and have no legal right to own land or property.

Rebel Insurgency in Thailand

The Observer, Aug. 23, 2009

(Reuters) Three civil servants were killed in a roadside bomb attack and a Muslim employee of the rubber industry shot dead by suspected insurgents in Thailand, police said. The attacks took place in Yala and Narathiwat, two mainly Muslim provinces near the Malaysian border where close to 3,500 people have died violently since 2004. Suspected Muslim rebels detonated the roadside bomb as the civil servants drove along a road in Yala. The survivors returned fire and four more were wounded in the 15-minute gunfight that followed, police said. More>>

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