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I would say blue with hints of red and purple because of its a young country not too old it was a colony of Spain, USA and Japan(invaded). Just not sure if it is correct I am wondering because I had a very important dream about the Philippine and China for my future.

@Rasheed In short terms, you wanna say gratefulness depends on your level of consciousness.

@RawJudah Well it's not that's impossible for me to be with people. It's just I don't move and act as I want and sometimes I am just paralyzed but in a way, this loneliness has cured me a lot from neediness. I am calmer just I don't know if its good to be so much alone(if it's healthy). And until when I am going to move as this spirit that I have wants it's just to hard to describe it to you I don't make the moves I want something else is making for me and I don't know until when its gonna control me. I think it's teaching me the lessons I had to learn not to make the same mistake again. I'm in stage limbo.

The lonely are not just sadder; they are unhealthier and die younger. What can be done? LONDON, says Tony Dennis, a 62-year-old security guard, is a city of “sociable loners”. Residents want to get to know each other but have few ways to do so. Tonight, however, is different. Mr. Dennis and a few dozen other locals are jousting at a monthly quiz put on by the Cares Family, a charity dedicated to curbing loneliness. The competitors are a deliberate mix of older residents and young professionals new to the area. “Young people are increasingly feeling disconnected too,” argues Alex Smith, the charity’s 35-year-old founder. He hopes that nights like this will foster a sense of belonging. Taken from the economist.

@RawJudah yeah thats why I am asking if its so good to be alone. Well in my case which I am in a limbo mode(stage) I am alone at the moment. Just one stage takes too much sometimes I worry about that, I am still paralized but calmer, I think solitude helped me that's why I am asking. And it takes a lot of time it worrys me.

@Leonora But my question is how can then loneliness be good

here is a web page to volunteer and live somewhere else https://www.worldpackers.com/

@Chumbimba Hi listen to the videos more than twice a thousand times. And take the lifepoupose course of Leo its fulled by the wisdom of these videos. You are not the only one that had an abusive mother I had her too. She destroyed me and my whole career I left my university and my safe job. And after a catastrophe that I lived, I am getting independent and newborn again in a new country it's hard and painful sometimes I cry but you just have to work more on yourself because it seems that you have a lot of ego in yourself.

Get independent however you know. And take the life purpose course to listen to the videos twice or more times

The amazon rainforest is disappearing and may soon reach a tipping point. SINCE THE 1970s nearly 800,000km² of Brazil’s original 4m km² (1.5m square miles) of Amazon forest has been lost to logging, farming, mining, roads, dams and other forms of development—an area equivalent to that of Turkey and bigger than that of Texas. Scientists worry this is uncomfortably close to the threshold for tree loss, of between 20 and 25%, beyond which deforestation begins to feed on itself, turning much of the Amazon basin into drier savannah known as cerrado. Under Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing president of Brazil who was inaugurated in January, the Amazon appears to be rushing towards that tipping point. The deforestation rate had slowed between 2004 and 2012, when the government beefed up its environmental protection agency, Ibama, and an international Amazon Fund was created to pay for conservation projects. But it began ticking up again after a weakening of environmental legislation and budget cuts during Brazil’s recession of 2014-2016. Between August 2017 and July 2018, Brazil lost 7,900km² of Amazon forest—nearly a billion trees. This year’s figure is almost sure to be higher. Preliminary satellite data showed that 920 km² were cleared in June, 88% more than the same month in 2018. In July 2,255 km² were cleared, a startling 278% more than the same month last year (see chart). Taken from the economist My main questions: Will we have time to react and save the ozone? What if more presidents like Jair Bolosonaro appears like this and exploit the only natural resources that it has. I feel this like a threat to the future because with the temperature rising and with that, the consumption of drinkable water across the entire world which is only three percent. It could cause war through the entire world for water. I think all universities should protest not only against war but also against the deforestation.

@MsNobody The only thing you can do as a person is: 1.) To elevate your own consciousness 2.) Be an example for others 3.) Contribute with your life purpose 4.) Vote. And by the way, it's not only Brazilian ignorance Croatia has it too in Colombia you don't study religion in Croatia you do and Croatians say:" we have the best education in the world we are the land of knowledge" meanwhile Singapore has the best education. So it's not up to the country it's up to you although your country you live is what your education depends.

You cry because you're sensitive, I cry because I think "eu sou Jair Bolsonaro filho da puta eu sou o presidente numero um do brasil, eu vou quemar o Amazonas" I am a devil and have OCD look what I think I cry because of that. But step by step I think I am purifying with these cryings. My family is Colombian and support Alvaro Uribe you really don't know whom to trust.

Nearly half of China’s credit is hidden; much of it goes to vulnerable borrowers Graphic detail Jul 12th, 2019 LOAN TALKS with Belarus; funding for bridges in Liberia; a possible gas project in Timor-Leste; accusations of exploitation in Tanzania; a corporate dispute in India; pledges to support the Rwandan private sector. And that was just the past few weeks. Such is China’s frenetic pace in its overseas lending that its outstanding loans, mainly to poorer countries, have gone from almost nothing in 2000 to more than $700bn today, making it the world’s largest official creditor, more than twice as big as the World Bank and IMF combined. Yet tracking the money is difficult because of limited transparency in its disclosures. A new study by Sebastian Horn and Christoph Trebesch, both of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and Carmen Reinhart of Harvard University creates the most comprehensive picture yet. They find that nearly half of China’s lending to developing countries is “hidden”, in that neither the World Bank nor the IMF has data on it. The problem appears most severe for the most vulnerable borrowers. The authors conclude that in its reporting to the Bank for International Settlements, an organization of central banks, China has not disclosed any loans to Iran, Venezuela or Zimbabwe, despite giving them plenty of money over the past 15 years. ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads My questions: Is china a stage blue country by its values but in practices its green? What are they trying to achieve with these loans? Taken from the economist.

"By seeking to tighten its control over Hong Kong, China has only succeeded in losing the hearts and minds of Hong Kongers," says Kevin Yam, a political commentator. On Hong Kong, China should retreat to advance Hong Kongers have learned that restraint is met by those in power tightening their grip, even more, says Kevin Yam, a political commentator Open Future Aug 22nd, 2019 This is a by-invitation commentary in a series on “Hong Kong’s Future,” part of The Economist’s Open Future initiative, which aims to foster a global conversation across the ideological spectrum on vital issues. You can comment here or on Facebook and Twitter. More articles can be found at Economist.com/openfuture IN THE Gospel of Luke, Jesus is reported to have said: “If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.” (Luke 17:33) Now substitute the words “your life” with “Hong Kong”. That just about tells the story of how China created the conditions for the seemingly unstoppable protest movement gripping Hong Kong in the past few months, and how it can bring Hong Kong back to its fold. In the first years after it resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, China, wisely, took a mostly hands-off approach. In return, Hong Kongers generally viewed China, and more specifically its central government, positively. Even when 500,000 Hong Kongers participated in a protest in 2003 against a proposed anti-subversion law, the public mostly blamed the Hong Kong Government rather than China’s central government. The legislation was duly shelved. Hong Kongers did not keep protesting for more human rights or democratic guarantees, and instead quietly resumed their lives and the city returned to normality. However, China failed to recognize or respect that gesture of goodwill from the people of Hong Kong. Instead, Chinese leaders set off down a path that led them to the present confrontation. After the 2003 protest, China quietly stepped up efforts to meddle in Hong Kong politics. At a grassroots level, China cultivated local figures and helped them to take over various community-based bodies. Such bodies enjoy useful clout. They control who has access to community facilities, from housing estate noticeboards to meeting halls (hint: this is generally not good news for pro-democracy community activists), and can provide pro-China politicians with abundant resources for community events and election campaigns. At the level of territory-wide politics, China also poured money into pro-China political parties and the setting up of multiple policy think-tanks. Meanwhile, the business sector was pressed by China into ceasing or reducing donations to pro-democracy parties or groups. These interventions gradually shut out opposition voices from local communities, as well as from the formal political process. The democratic opposition’s lack of resources also deprived them of the ability to conduct substantive policy research, making it difficult for them to offer meaningful alternative visions for Hong Kong. China has continued this tactic of tightening controls after big protests. In 2012 hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers protested against any attempt to impose mainland-Chinese style patriotic education in the school curriculum. The curriculum changes were shelved, and again protesters offered an olive branch by ending the protests, rather than pushing for further guarantees and assurances. The Hong Kong Government’s response? They offered significant funding to schools that were willing voluntarily to adopt a patriotic curriculum. Chinese leaders set off down a path that led them to the present confrontation And in 2014, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers participated in a 79-day occupation of roads in central business districts, in protest against China’s decision to restrict Hong Kong’s democratic development. The leaders of the protests repeatedly called on protesters to refrain from violence. This restraint was ultimately “rewarded” with zero movements on democratic development, mass disqualifications of anti-establishment figures from public office and the prosecution of several of the leaders of the protests. That brings us to the current protests. They started with demands to withdraw a draft piece of legislation which would have allowed for the extradition of individuals from Hong Kong to China to face trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party. They have now snowballed into a movement against police brutality and in favor of full democracy. Millions of Hong Kongers have participated in the movement, which did not end even after Hong Kong’s government suspended the draft extradition legislation and declared it “dead”. Hong Kongers have learned their lesson. They know that whenever they protest with moderation and with restraint, the response from those in power has been to ignore or to circumvent their demands, and then to tighten the noose further on Hong Kong’s political diversity and freedoms. By seeking to tighten its control over Hong Kong, China has only succeeded in losing the hearts and minds of Hong Kongers. This is a pity. Hong Kong’s remaining freedoms and rule of law mean that it still is an important financial and economic window to the world for China. And some of China’s ideas over the years for integrating Hong Kong further into the Chinese economy have arguably made commercial sense. Unfortunately but understandably, Hong Kongers’ perceptions of those ideas have been poisoned by suspicions that behind them lurks an attempt to erode Hong Kong’s autonomy and distinctiveness. By seeking to tighten its control over Hong Kong, China has only succeeded in losing the hearts and minds of Hong Kongers Against this background, when it comes to Hong Kong’s current situation, few want to see the Chinese military or paramilitary police being deployed in Hong Kong to crush the protests. Most Hong Kongers are also realistic enough to know that China will not grant democracy to Hong Kong any time soon. Beyond that, however, it matters little how the current protests end, whether it be through attrition or some intervention that stops short of the deployment of mainland forces. The tensions between China’s strangling of Hong Kong’s freedoms and autonomy on the one hand and Hong Kongers’ resentment on the other will remain unresolved. Fundamentally, what Hong Kong needs is for China gradually to reverse years of ever-tightening control over Hong Kong’s community, social and political affairs. Doing so would ensure that Hong Kongers feel more, rather than less, of a sense of belonging to China. And with that, Hong Kong and mainland China can work more co-operatively as an integrated economic team, without this being resisted by Hong Kongers. A dynamic, open, confident Hong Kong that is comfortable with its place within China would be a win for Hong Kong, China, and the world. Alas, China’s recent actions suggest that it is, if anything, tightening its grip even further. That is bad news. Some might say that it goes against Chinese history for rulers to loosen controls. That is incorrect. Two of the most highly regarded rulers in Chinese history were the Emperors Wen and Jing of the Han Dynasty, who governed with a light touch and who decentralized power. Historical annals used the phrase “resting together with their people” to praise these emperors’ approach to governance. Hong Kong could do with some of that now. ________________ Kevin Yam is a Hong Kong lawyer and political commentator. The views expressed in this article are his own and do not represent those of his employer or any organizations to which he may belong. From the economist.

And cultural change can unlock the economic potential of people and ideas. Make America great again is more than text on a red cap. It is an argument about the nature of American success: one which President Donald Trump elaborated on in racist comments last week. On July 21st he questioned whether four Democratic congresswomen, all non-white, were “capable of loving our Country”. The same day Stephen Miller, an adviser to Mr. Trump, said the president’s criticisms of America differed from those of his critics because he was defending the “principles of Western civilization”. The comments seemed to imply that American greatness is built on a cultural inheritance that some people cannot access, whether born in America or not. Cultural arguments once loomed large in explanations of the ways in which countries differed economically and politically. Economists mostly abandoned such reasoning in the 20th century, not only because it provided cover for racists but also because of its lack of explanatory power. In 1970 Robert Solow, a Nobel prizewinner, quipped that attempts to explain growth with variables such as culture generally ended up “in a blaze of amateur sociology”. This position is changing, however, and not before time. A better grasp of how cultures work may be needed to understand modern political economy. Taken from the economist

An original attempt to explain today’s paranoid hatreds SOON after the Soviet Union imploded, Pankaj Mishra reminds his readers, The Economist felt able to assert that “there was no serious alternative to free-market capitalism as the way to organize economic life.” Yet today, the notion that a global capitalist economy hitched to a liberal internationalism can bring peace, progress and prosperity have taken a beating. That is evident not only in the violence in Iraq and Syria, where what used to be called the civilizing hand has proven incapable of stemming the bloodshed. It is evident, too, in the vitriolic populism resurging at the heart of Western democracies—in Brexit, in the rise of Marine Le Pen in France and in Donald Trump’s tumultuous route to the White House. Taken from the economist. My question: Could this be a huge collective ego backlash? Is this stage greens failure in middle east countries. Are we too slow with the elevation of consciousness which polarizes society? As economies slow, more people will feel that powerful elites have dangled the fruits of material progress only to pull them away. I think this leads us to stage yellow. But at the moment we cant see this horizon.

https://econ.st/2NsEK6e

@DocHoliday But the average citizen of the world isn't at stage green it's a problematic disbalance between the stages because some countries are concerned about the problematic of nature meanwhile others don't like Brasil could people of Brasil which are at stage blue do anything green. Some citizens are more concerned than others.

I have an idea that I wan to share not only with you that maybe has a big ego: 1. Do body awareness for two hours every day. 2. Do this positive affirmation: "I do body awareness only 2 hours every day and I am patient with my life purpose" This will stop doing more than two hours of body awareness and it will stop the Jojo effect that you backslide when you get more aware. You need a training plan for getting more awareness. The ego makes you unaware and inpatient. 3. Visualize the goals that make you awake. 4. "I own my life" do this positive affirmation, not 100% responsibility because it leaves space for borrowing money from your parents. 5. I don't go to my old comfort zone (this is if you get independent). 6. And mindfulness is optional (IF YOU HAVE TIME). Everyone should develop both hands and legs with a handball ball which will increase body awareness.

I have an idea that I wan to share not only with you that maybe has a big ego: 1. Do body awareness for two hours every day. 2. Do this positive affirmation: "I do body awareness only 2 hours every day and I am patient with my life purpose" This will stop doing more than two hours of body awareness and it will stop the Jojo effect that you backslide when you get more aware. You need a training plan for getting more awareness. The ego makes you unaware and inpatient. 3. Visualize the goals that make you awake. 4. "I own my life" do this positive affirmation, not 100% responsibility because it leaves space for borrowing money from your parents. 5. I don't go to my old comfort zone (this is if you get independent). 6. And mindfulness is optional if you have time. CPTSD can be cured equally as my compulsive obsessive disorder because of its shots down the monkey mind. You will notice it after one year being alone you just need a lot of time and a lot of patience every disorder makes you inpatient.

@JustThinkingAloud I know but my mother is sick I dont know until when she can support me.

Hello, as I already mentioned I will open a gym. That will be my first step is putting myself in a productive mode after not working for 1 and a half year. Leo said you should finish university or something you are good in like for example for me its languages. I can speak German, Spanish, Croatian, English, and Portuguese. But I don't have my own money should I or shouldn't I do the positive affirmation "I own my life" because with this affirmation I can see my intuitive message. I want to learn Chinese. Wich costs me 1 500 000 COP(Colombian peso) per level there are 4 of them so multiply it by 4. I don't have enough money and by the way, I have to learn about cardio exercises. I don't want to stop learning languages because I would feel bad. As Leo said in his life purpose course follow your bliss combine the things you love to do. The only one who can pay me the course is my mother. I sometimes feel so stupid and embarrassing. sorry for writing without any order

I would like to use positive affirmations for owning my life and getting enlightened like for example: 1. I am getting enlightened and I don't follow my ego's temptation. 2. I own my life and I tell no one about my plans. 3. I am patient and I don't seek Croatian comfort(the comfort zone I have in Croatia). Could these here be good ones?

@QandC Well, its an invention I made because it's so hard the ego always comes back and tells you: "let's pick up girls"," lets party", "let's masturbate five times", "Let's not study tonight", etc. He is so damn strong and there are radical implications for it like reshaping your subconscious towards enlightenment.

@hyruga Read Sun Tzu Art of War don't share your plans with toxic people, in this case, my family.