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The latest news coming from Myanmar shows that the military government has freed at least 70 people who were detained after the peaceful march and protest in the capital. This includes 50 members of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party.
On Thursday, Suu Kyi was given an opportunity to meet with the newly appointed Myanmar government official for further negotiation, which was part of the United Nations brokered agreement to push reconciliation between the military junta and Suu Kyi. It would appear that the talks have been fruitful because on the same day, the 70 pro-democracy protesters were released from their imprisonment.
This is a big achievement for the democratic world because it does show to present and future military aggressors that peaceful negotiations are better if not superior to war mongering. It is also worth mentioning that international economic pressures on the Myanmar government played a significant role in probing the military leaders to put on their thinking cap. After all, no country can be an isolator in this present networked world that we live in. North Korea, with all its communistic gung-ho has similarly bowed to peaceful steps of reconciliation with South Korea.
Would Myanmar open their arms to people's power again? Will they put their trust in ballot boxes? That future scenario remains to be seen. Maybe a promise of a future Nobel Peace Prize to the generals would tempt the military leaders to drop their guns and replace them with voting slips. God bless Myanmar.
Al Gore said global warming was a "planetary emergency". He says his Nobel Peace Prize is an "honour" and a chance to "elevate global consciousness" about the threat posed by climate change but his prize must spur action. The former US vice-president was awarded the prestigious prize jointly with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He said he accepted the Nobel award on behalf of scientists - like those in the IPCC - who had worked tirelessly for years to get the message about global warming out.
His call to action is a timely call. Many a policy remains a policy, but enforcement and active participation in implementation of it is sadly lacking.
It is also a call on my life, that whatever I have found a purpose to do, I need to put action into steps for implementation, if not it is just like a light breeze that comes and is easily forgotten. Talk is easy, work is tough but it is the work that accomplishes while talk will die down.
Consider any resolutions you have made over the last few months that have not been put to action. Make time and effort to roll it in place and to see the fruits of such wise moves.
For years, former Vice President Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how dire global warming is. On Friday, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their warnings about what Gore calls "a planetary emergency." Gore shared the prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists. This scientific panel has explained the dry details of global warming in thousands of pages of footnoted reports every six years or so since 1990.
Gore, fresh from a near miss at winning the U.S. presidency in 2000, translated the numbers and jargon-laden reports into something people could understand. He made a slide show and went Hollywood. His documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won two Academy Awards and has been credited with changing the debate in America about global warming.
For Gore it was all about the message.
What message are you telling the world today that will impact tomorrow?
For years, people have been ridiculing Al Gore for what he stands for and what he believes in, especially Climatic Crisis. Since his loss to George W. Bush in 2000, Gore put aside political aspirations and become a global warming evangelical. He traveled to more than 50 countries. He presented his slide show on global warming more than 1,000 times.
Maybe, it was a good thing that he lost to Bush, since his voice can now be heard and received with passion in so many countries. On the other hand, the enemies of Bush would have wished that Gore should have won.
What message are you leaving for your next generation?
What kind of life example are you leaving behind?
Would your work or passion be remembered as a legacy years after you have gone?
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