exile Tibetan democracy

 Dharamshala: US President Donald Trump has signed The Tibetan Policy and Support Act  2020 into Law, a move that strengthened US policy on Tibet and reaffirmed support to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Central Tibetan Administration. 

CTA President Dr Lobsang Sangay said, "This legislation sends a powerful message of hope and justice to Tibetans inside Tibet. And it bolsters US support for protection of Tibetan people's religious freedom, human and environmental rights, exile Tibetan democracy."

Central Tibetan Administration

great conjunction crescent

 

An individual's striving to become whole, access one's core, is yoga or integration.

Kshema is myriad expressions of one's core, in the world - differential benefic manifestations.   

Once, an industrialist wanted me, to visit his home. 

He drove me in his expensive car, as we surveyed his sprawling estate; and arrived at his tucked away villa. 

A uniformed guard greeted us, opened gates. The driveway snaked through well kept gardens -  a gardener tended in the sunshine. We cruised into a plush portico paved with Italian marble. His wife hurried out to greet us, with billowing, blown hair.

The man turned to me, said apologetically, "What to do Swamiji; my prarabdha."

- Swami Chinmayananda

Great Green Wall

 !5 kilometer wide Great Green Wall project of the African Union, stretches from Atlantic Senegal to Red Sea Eritrea for 7,775 kilometers.

Billions of trees to be planted as buffer by 2030 to counter Sahara's southern spread. 

It is expected to restore 100 million acres of fertile land, cut 250 million tons of atmospheric Co2 and create 10 million green jobs. . 

Ethiopia has made great progress since 2007. But the initiative has reached only 15% of it's targets, in a decade - according to the United Nations.  

Green belt project -  DW television.

Wirus - the other side

Human DNA has a fair amount of wiral ancestry.

Human genome has about 100, 000 known fragments of wiral genetic material - about 8%.

Ancient wiruses that housed into our DNA, millions of years ago, may be our puppetmasters.

"We are creatures controlled by wiruses,"  says Luis Villarreal, evolution scientist, University of California. His team showed that a viral gene is needed for formation of placenta.

"Genes borrowed from viruses give cells ability to grow into tissues and organs. Without these, animal life may have remained, to blobs of cells," says another New Scientist article.

Jan Carette, a Stanford virologist says, "We would not exist without viruses."

Humans may not have existed without viruses 
- Times of India,      April 21, 2020