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Parliament has passed a bill that would make the aid Canada gives to foreign countries much more effective – but it is at risk of dying in the Senate. If it does not get passed before the next federal election, this opportunity to improve Canada’s foreign aid will be lost.

YOU CAN HELP: Sign the petiton to the Canadian Senate, urging them to pass this pass this bill without delay

Senator Romeo Dallaire is the Senate sponsor of the Better Aid Bill (C-293, Official Development Assistance Accountability Act), which proposes to put poverty reduction at the centre of Canada’s aid spending in the future. The bill is now stalled in the Canadian Senate, where it can’t move forward until Conservative Senators agree to discuss it.

Anti-poverty advocates were crucial in developing the ‘Better Aid Bill’ (Bill C293), which would dedicate Canada’s aid spending to poverty reduction and the promotion of human rights. This bill has already been approved by the House of Commons, but Conservative Senators are stalling its discussion in the Senate.

Here’s what you can do:

Get in touch with Senators from your province to ask them to help move this legislation along. Sign the Petition here.

Support Romeo Dallaire’s fight to get this bill passed. He, along with other anti-poverty advocates and experts, need you to act. Your message could make the difference between a better aid system and a lost opportunity.

Gerry Barr
Chair
Make Poverty History

PS: Last week we sent out a message to people who live in key electoral ridings (those with a Conservative MP) to take action. Thank you to all you who responded – it really helped move the issue forward! Find out if YOU live in a key riding, and what you can do if you do [link]

For more information on the Better Aid Bill, visit http://makepovertyhistory.ca/e/betteraid

Make Poverty History Canada

Keeping The Clutter Away:
Adapted from the best selling, Do It Yourself Space Clearing Kit, by Christan Hummel (One Source Publications, 2006) For more about this book see: http://www.earthtransitions.com/special
You've bought the under the counter organizer, the special stacking shelves, the organizing bins, tiered hanging racks, and all that Home Depot has to offer to organizer your home, but the clutter pile keeps coming back!
While professional organizers and “clutter busters” are the rage these days, with even Oprah and Donald Trump singing the praises of these clutter gurus, few of us realize how to keep that clutter from reappearing once we've moved it out.  Do we ever really ask the question, “Why does the clutter keep coming back?!”  As if having a life of its own, we all know the uphill battle most of us fight trying to keep our homes looking like the ideal we have in our minds of that photo on the front of the magazines.  We have the closet organizers, the desk files organizers, the special toy dressers that double as an ottoman, and all the fun goodies that our professional organizer has recommended, and yet IT KEEPS COMING BACK into our lives!  Why?
Obviously much of our clutter is in fact related to a lack of proper organizing of our space, and if that is ALL that is involved, then you simply need to find one of those magical interior alchemists to help out. However, if you find that your clutter keep reappearing, then you may need to look at the more underlying causes of its reappearance, and this will take you in the field of working to shift the underlying energetic matrix of your home, the energy field that is stuck, stagnant, or somehow blocked, which is attracting the clutter to accumulate in the first place.
In Feng Shui, this concept is referred to as “Space Clearing.”  It is based upon the assumption that our homes reflect the vibrational imprints of the past, either ancient past, or more immediate.  In this case, the battles, and history of the land is reflected and imprinted upon our home environment and may well be contributing to the cause of your clutter.
If you consider the ever popular concept of “Ch'I” in a home--that infamous current loured into our homes by well placed mirror, wind chimes and brightly colored, it is analogous to the life flow of energy in a property. Having sufficient flow of this Ch'I is considered the cause of prosperity, health and good relationships. Conversely, a blocked flow of this Universal life energy produces the converse, chaos, blocks in communications, money, relationships and the whole bevy of problems that lead most of us to call in a Feng Shui consultant in the first place.
However, we do not need to rearrange our whole house to avail ourselves of the magical benefits of a space clearing. With just a few simple space clearing tips, even a novice can begin to clear their environment of vibrational imprints of the past - to sweep out the old to make way for the new, and isn't that why we are de-cluttering our homes in the first place?!
Six Simple Space Clearing Tips to Keep Your Clutter Away:
1. Clutter Concentration: To our subconscious mind, clutter triggers images of stagnation, stuck energy and places where Life doesn't move. It usually represents the things we resist and places that we don't want to put our attention.  Simply put: clean out the clutter.  Piles of laundry, papers, boxes, mail...whatever it is, when we see clutter, our mind equates it with chaos and dead energy.  So make a point to dive into your clutter like a heat seeking missile. Go straight for it, you know where it lives!  Put it away, find a home for it--address it! By putting your attention and focused awareness into that place where clutter has collected, you are reclaiming the places in your environment where you have vacated your consciousness!  So really do it with some enthusiasm, with the knowledge that you are putting your Presence back into this space and that it is YOURS to reclaim.  Once you move that dead energy in your home, you will be surprised at how it moves in your life!
2. Corners: These are the places where the Life energy or Ch'i of our environment comes to a stop like traffic at a four way stop sign.  Take a moment to tune your consciousness into that part of your environment to discover the plants, artwork, or objects which will move the energy of your corners.  The flowing water of a fountain, the flow of air represented by wind chimes, or even the life sustaining energy of a plant can be enough to keep the energy moving and flowing instead of stagnating in your corners. Allow your intuition to guide you towards solutions that redirect the dead energies of a corner into more harmonious, peaceful and joyful spaces.
3.  Closets:  They are the bowels of our homes and offices, the storage bins for old, dead energy. If you don't use it, loose it!  Keep your closets clean, neat, and free of unwanted, old, unused items. Don't allow your closets to become black holes, or they will reflect that energy. Once you have cleared out those closets, offer a simple ceremony of smudging of sage or incense to clear the old lingering vibrations that were there as well. This keeps those closets from reacquiring their old residents again.  Some people prefer to use lemon grass, or an essential oil mixture of peppermint and lemon to freshen up the vibes.
4.  Ceremony:  Ceremony is a time when we honor life, the seasons, and those aspects of living beyond the physical.  It brings us in touch with the worlds beyond our everyday, and reminds us of a vastness of Life beyond our immediate attention. When we make time for ceremony in our life and homes we open a doorway into another dimension beyond this one allowing fresh new ideas, inspiration and energies to flow into our homes.
By ceremonially burning a candle each night we reinforce to our subconscious mind the symbolic of letting the problems and worries of the day as we offer them to the candle's fire.  It is a simple ceremony and one that keeps the energies of your home clean and clear of the burdens of the day. It is also a great way to let go of the past, an ending of a business, a relationship, an old job, all are energetically “released” through simple ceremonies so that their energetic baggage doesn't follow us into our future.
Rather than follow recipes about which ceremony is "right" for your space, feel the unique connection you have with your space, and allow yourself to follow the ceremony you are guided to use. Look for a ceremonial act that seems to match your energies the intentions you wish to inaugurate into your space. Whatever the ceremony, when you do it with intention and awareness that ceremony heralds in the energies of your intention in a much more profound manner than when we simply and perfunctorily go perform the same act.
5.  Consciousness: The power of this cannot be overstated in my opinion. Find the places in your home or office where you have vacated your consciousness, those closets, corners, and dead zones that you pretend are not there, or wish weren't. That room where the kids used to live, or the pile of paper in the office that calls out for help, but we ignore.  Put your consciousness into that space, with intention, and yes, even ceremony, and notice the MAGIC that happens when you do!  Energy flows where attention goes!
6. Cycles: There is a rhythm to Life, a time for growth, and a time for death. Cycles are important to observe: moon cycles are often used for planting, cutting hair, beginning new projects.  Similarly, observing the cycles of the sun of day and night, being more active during the daylight hours, and winding down in the evening when there is less energy available.  As well there are the larger seasonal cycles, solstices, equinoxes.  When we align consciously with these cycles of nature, the rhythm of Life, we find more harmony and balance in our lives. 
When we follow these cycles, we harness the Life energy of the planet begin to dance to the same beat of Life.  So by paying attention to the cycles of Life, we begin to work with them to receive the gift of their energy.
Now is a perfect time to let go of the past and release the old habits and holds we have on our “stuff” allowing a new energy to flow in its place.
With some small investment on our part, we can dramatically change the energies of our environment making our homes a sanctuary to reflect our highest intentions and dreams.
Christan Hummel is the author of the internationally acclaimed “Do-It-Yourself Space Clearing Kit.”  She travels internationally lecturing and training people how to access nature in a co-creative spirit to clear their home environments and communities) her book see: www.earthtransitions.com/special
© Christan Hummel, 2006.
All rights reserved.
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INSIDERS EXPOSE REASONS FOR UFO SECRECY Disclosure Project (www.DisclosureProject.org) Director Dr. Steven M. Greer reports that government insiders have revealed the existence of a shadowy, highly classified program related to UFOs. The reasons for the secrecy are simple: The inertia of highly classified programs, embarrassment over past illegal actions taken to enforce secrecy, and the fact that the energy and propulsion systems behind the mysterious UFO objects have been studied and fully understood. This disclosure would spell the end for oil, gas, coal and other conventional forms of power - and with that, the end of the current oil-based geopolitical order and economy. The truth is our tax dollars have been used to investigate this matter for decades and it is time for a dividend on that investment. The full disclosure of the facts will enable humanity to attain a sustainable civilization without global warming or the need for oil. Recent calls for a US government investigation into UFOs have not taken into account the fact that such investigations are on-going, highly compartmented and top-secret. Dr. Greer states, "As early as 1993, when I personally briefed CIA Director James Woolsey on the UFO matter, we knew of on-going, secret projects to which President Clinton and Mr. Woolsey were denied access. The senior counsel for the Senate Appropriations Committee, then headed by Senator Byrd (D-WV) told me directly that upwards of $100 billion per year was going into so-called 'black' projects, including UFO programs, but that with a top-secret clearance and a subpoena power, he could not penetrate the veil of secrecy." Subsequently, working with philanthropist Laurence Rockefeller, Dr. Greer provided in-depth briefing materials for President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, who reviewed the matter while staying at the Rockefeller's JY Ranch. (The briefing materials are at www.DisclosureProject.org). Dr. Greer reports that "The Clintons refused further disclosure of the! matter. CIA Director Woolsey frankly stated that they could not disclose programs over which they had no control or access. Mr. Woolsey and the Clintons were shaken by the secrecy, and the power behind it." Since then, The Disclosure Project has uncovered thousands of official US documents and top-secret military and corporate witnesses to programs dealing with UFOs, including project code names and numbers. Such operations are rogue and are beyond the scope of Congressional oversight committees. For further information or for an interview with Dr. Greer contact: http://www.DisclosureProject.org. Note: The two paragraphs referring to Laurence Rockefeller and to Bill and Hillary Clinton had to be removed from this press release when we sent it out through our press release service - PRNewswire.com, because they refused to send out the original press release with those references. It was referred up the chain of command at their organization and censored by them. When you think that we have a free press, think again. This was not even censored by the outlets themselves, but by the entry point to those outlets!

Have you heard the saying “read between the lines”
One could say there is nothing there, while restricted by the object at hand, especially written on paper. However between the lines exists.
We read life’s story between the lines often.
I wasn’t invited to the party-they knew I would be disappointed
She tripped me on purpose-so she could laugh at me
They make snide comments at work about me –because I deserve it
If he wants to be better at that-he should start practicing more
Reading between the lines takes us on a journey past the form of creation into reasons and meanings. When an event happens with someone we can decide to take this journey all on our own or we can decide to look beyond our own meaning and judgment of a situation and move close with an open heart and ask what the intent is.
Knowledge and Wisdom of another and their actions do not come from our side of the line. To understand anything in the world, you must learn to look beyond self perceptions into the form and then onward to the creative intention.
Relationships have been ruined by remaining on one side of the line, hearts have been broken, and friendships have grown apart.
Remember there is always a reason behind someone’s hurtful action and that reason is not the one you come up with while you stand on your side of the line----
Move closer and read between the lines, because truly to see another as they truly are we must look beyond our own judgment.
When you allow others room in your heart you become able to release them.
One prayer today there is always a reason behind a hurtful action towards me. That reason is not the one I come up with while I stand on my side of the line. I will read between the lines and not only look at what the action means to me, I will open my heart to understand beyond my definition and see the definition of others. I want to know what the expressions of ALL means to ALL

~ Colleen Kuepfer-Smith ~

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US Congress: Act now on climate change!

This week, over 5,000 young activists and students are gathering to meet face-to-face with the U.S. Congress and demand real action on global warming.
They have asked for Avaaz members worldwide to send in personal letters to the U.S. Congress, and promised to hand-deliver every note. This is our chance to help push history's most-polluting country to clean up its act.
Enter your information in the form below, and then write your message in the box on the right. (You'll find some tips there for how to craft an effective message.) Avaaz will compile the messages and hand them off to the youth activists early Monday morning, and they'll be delivered to Congressional offices Monday afternoon. With less than a month to go before the U.N. climate negotiations begin in Bali, Indonesia, this is a critical moment to push for action.

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