He is a member of Britain’s legendary group ‘Beatles’. John Lennon and Paul McCartney are assessed “They wrote the most popular music in rock ‘ n ‘ roll history.” the Beatles received a MBE(Memberof the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1965. This is exceptional for a pop at the time. John Lennon returned a MBE medal. John Lennon was later to return this medal with the meaning of criticism in the Vietnam war.
This is again emerging as an issue. Why?
A draft letter sent to Lennon’s queen has been found. A connoisseur of the draft this letter is up to 60,000 pounds.
How?
The man found this draft in albums that he purchased at 10 pounds in 20 years ago. The price rose 60 times. HAHAHA many friends will go to Secondhand store.
It is full text.
To. Her Majesty The Queen
I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain’s involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against Cold Turkey Slipping down the charts.
John Lennon of Bag
Lennon’s values
We can say John Lennon is greater than the Beatles at some point. The reason why John Lennon is highly regarded is his strong values for social movement.
John Lennon’s most famous song is rightly the 「 imagine 」. This song is telling us to imagine a peaceful world without state and religion.
John Lennon think Gandhian nonviolence is the only way to transform society.
In his childhood his life is rich. ButAjourneychangedhislifeforever. The trip was made into movies. It is “The Motorcycle Diaries”
It’s a goodmovie.I’vebeengoing onandonaboutthis movie. This is my pleasure these days. I’m in medical school. When he make this trip, He is 23 years old. Next year I’m the same age with him.
I‘mexcitedandnervous 🙂 Can I travel like him?
When he traveled South America, Sweatshop and the gulf between rich and poor were very deep. While the rich enjoy the best life, ordinary people should live extremely poor life. He got to know oppression and exploitation for the populace.
This trip changed Guevara. Guevara’s consciousness turned into a revolution in a
doctor. I love his bold idea beyond ordinary people and his acting power.
I’m expected ‘what travel I meet in next year?’ I’m throbbing. 🙂
“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality… We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.”
– answer to “What is the most important thing to a revolutionary?” by Che guevara
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
This prize arouse an echo. Why? Because he is better known as “Musician” than “Writers”. Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, artist, and writer. He is influential people.
How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man ?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand ?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned ?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea ?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free ? Yes, how many times can a man turn his head Pretending he just doesn’t see ?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
Yes, how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry ?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died ?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
The Times They Are a-Changin
Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters Around you have grown
And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon For the wheel’s still in spin And there’s no tellin’ who That it’s namin’.
For the loser now Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside And it is ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’.
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’.
The line it is drawn The curse it is cast
The slow one now Will later be fast
As the present now Will later be past
The order is Rapidly fadin’.
And the first one now Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’.
Have you tried to sip the lyrics? It is more meaningful when hearing if you think What’s its meaning. Always songs for human rights heat up my mind.
I like this two songs. Hearing this songs, My heart goes up in flames. His singing moves myheart. You can feel this feeling directly only if you listen it. I wish this songs will be good in your life.
Do you have any favorite song? I am curious. 🙂
Do you know what is surprising? Bob Dylan is still unresponsive to the Nobel Prize!!!
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2016 to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.
This War has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the award should also be seen as a tribute to the Colombian people who, despite great hardships and abuses, have not given up hope of a just peace, and to all the parties who have contributed to the peace process. This tribute is paid, not least, to the representatives of the countless victims of the civil war.(www.nobelprize.org)
In addition originally, He is a hardliner on the rebels. 2006 to 2009, while serving as defense minister He dealt a series of blows against the FARC guerrilla group, including the rescue of Fernando Araújo Perdomo, the death of FARC Secretariat member Raul Reyes in a 2 March 2008. So he attain eminence among their own people. However after he became president, He averted his eyes on how to end the civil war fundamentally. The BBC said “A Hawk turned into A Dove”
Colombian Civil War
Despite abundant underground resources such as iron ore, oil, natural gas, Colombia displaced millions of people who end up as refugees and is branded the biggest drug market. Why? Colombia take the long civil war.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) began as a peasant uprising in 1964. What was the will of the people who started FARC?
Anyway this War has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people.
220,000 Colombians were died
6,000,000 people were displaced
Colombian Civil War is one of the most prolonged civil war in recent history and It is only armed conflict in the Americas.
PEACE Is Started!!!
By the mediation of CubanPresident Raul Castro, Rodrigo Londono and Santos pledge to a peace agreement in 2016-09-26.
Pen used in their signature is made from real bullet shell used is civil war. In pen grip “The bullet record our past. Education is our future.” is written in Spanish.
After signing a peace agreement consisting of 297, President Santos give white dove badge to Londono. White dove badge is used for years on Santos’s clothes. The Londono locate it into the chest and smiled. The two shook handswith each other.
Why peace agreement is rejected?
Their rejection is because of detail contents of a peace treaty.
War crimes like drug trafficking and kidnapping of civilians in the FARC areexemptedfromobligation. And It ensures the legitimate political participation.
They who lost a family or whose family were taken hostage in FARC are against what is negotiated. Because It is too generous to rebels.
Yes! 49.78% No! 50.21%
But voterturnout was 37%. Dissenting votesis 57,000 more than vote yes.
President Santos said “We dedicate this award to people suffering from civil war and millions of victims” and “We go a little bit and We get very close to peace.” Santos held a national dialogue for the restoration of peace after the vote.
So, I find a similar situation.
Colombia civil war for 52 years220,000 died
Mindanao civil war for 40 years140,000 died
It is really similar. At the same time, I have many questions.
Why Mindanao’s peace agreement is not rejected? What is the difference? How did they use escape clauses?What is the difference?
Now MILF : Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
This 2nd Peace memorial is set up in the inside of MILF at 2016.It is amazing!!!!!!
1st Peace memorial is set up in 2014. Why? By mediation of HWPL, 40 years of Catholic and Muslim religious war was over.
After 2 years, 10,000 people are in line to greet the HWPL. I was deeply moved by the news.
“Lee, brought a powerful message that adds to the power to achieve peace that we hope and desire. It means HWPL and MILF are partner for peace.” – MILF chairman of Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim
Whatistobedoneabout Colombia civil war?
I think they need more comfort. Wehavemanydifferentemotionssuchashappiness, anger, sadness, and annoyance.
So Respect and communication is needed. It looked like easy but It is really hard.
Finally I think Colombia need to learn ‘how HWPL achieve peace in Mindanao’.
Who are you supposed to root for? ‘Who will win the Nobel peace prize?’ is a name of article that The Guardian writes. The Guardian choose 5 nominees. Aren’t you curious? Let’s see list.
Syrian White Helmets
Angela Merkel
Pope Francis
Greek islanders
Juan Manuel Santos and Timochenko
Syrian White Helmets
There has been no more dangerous place in the world to be a first responder for most of that time. Their motto throughout Syria’s withering conflict has been “to save one life is to save all of humanity”
Angela Merkel
In his speech to the UN refugee summit in New York in September, Barack Obama thanked Merkel and the Germans for their efforts in dealing with the refugee crisis.
Pope Francis
There are many liberals who argue that the pope’s compassion for the poor and his environmental credentials are outweighed by his unbending support for traditional Catholic teaching on abortion and birth control.
Greek islanders
“What we saw was ordinary people, with no order from above, respecting tradition and acting out of sheer hospitality and solidarity. What they did shows the best of humanity in the simplest way.” Helena Smith
Fisherman Stratis Valiamos, 40 said, “People say ‘you’re a hero,’ but this isn’t heroism, it’s the normal thing to do”.
Juan Manuel Santos and Timochenko
The Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, and the leader of the Farc rebel group, Rodrigo Londoño, known as Timochenko, were considered leading contenders for the awards for signing a peace deal last month to end 52 years of war.
Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize 2016?
Nobel Peace Prize will be announced tomorrow. I’m throbbing 🙂
Yoshinori Ohsumi was born 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan. He received a Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 1974. After spending three years at Rockefeller University, New York, USA, he returned to the University of Tokyo where he established his research group in 1988. He is since 2009 a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Do you know Autophagy? Had you ever heard of it before?
Wikipedia says Autophagy (or autophagocytosis) (from the Greek auto-, “self” and phagein, “to eat”), is the natural, destructive mechanism that disassembles, through a regulated process, unnecessary or dysfunctional cellular components.
What does Yoshinori Ohsumi do?
Yoshinori Ohsumi used baker’s yeast to identify genes essential for autophagy. He then went on to elucidate the underlying mechanisms for autophagy in yeast and showed that similar sophisticated machinery is used in our cells.
Meaning of this study
His discoveries opened the path to understanding the fundamental importance of autophagy in many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or response to infection.
Cells also use autophagy to eliminate damaged proteins and organelles, a quality control mechanism that is critical for counteracting the negative consequences of AGING.
Disrupted autophagy has been linked to Parkinson’s disease, type 2 diabetes and other disorders that appear in the elderly. Mutations in autophagy genes can cause genetic disease. Disturbances in the autophagic machinery have also been linked to CANCER.
Finally Intense research is now ongoing to develop drugs that can target autophagy in various diseases.
What can we get from this study?
At first, there would be no much difference. Overtime, “autophagy” will be emerging as a powerful keyword. Wherever you go, you will see “autophagy”.
Our life is always like yesterday and today… But we will always find the answer!!! Social will get better little by little!!! We can make it!!!
Someone says it is reckless optimism. It is very sharpobservation. I want to be a certain person. Also I want many people to be Messenger of Peace. Then the world will be more cool. 🙂
