Published on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 by The Guardian/UK
Food Price Rises Threaten Global Security - UN
by David Adam
Rising food prices could spark worldwide unrest and threaten political
stability, the UN's top humanitarian official warned yesterday after
two days of rioting in Egypt over the doubling of prices of basic
foods in a year and protests in other parts of the world.

Sir John Holmes, undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and
the UN's emergency relief coordinator, told a conference in Dubai that
escalating prices would trigger protests and riots in vulnerable
nations. He said food scarcity and soaring fuel prices would compound
the damaging effects of global warming. Prices have risen 40%% on
average globally since last summer.

"The security implications [of the food crisis] should also not be
underestimated as food riots are already being reported across the
globe," Holmes said. "Current food price trends are likely to increase
sharply both the incidence and depth of food insecurity."

Dear friends,

Sometimes I feel we are very serious in our extremely important
discussions so I share a small joke. Please do not take it too
seriously!

Martin
http://www.orthodoxbahai.com

(Rumbling)
_The origin of humankind_

A little girl asked her mother, 'How did the human race appear?'

The mother answered, 'God made Adam and Eve and they had children and
so was all mankind made.'

Two days later the girl asked her father the same question.

The father answered, 'Many years ago there were monkeys from which the
human race evolved.'

The confused girl returned to her mother and said, 'Mom, how is it
possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad
said they developed from monkeys?'

The mother answered, 'Well, dear, it is very simple. I told you about
my side of the family and your father told you about his.'

Worldwide Distribution - The Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith

Baha'u'llah & Abdu'l-Baha. Edited by Frederick Glaysher,
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Reform Bahai Press, 2008.
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The Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith collects many of the early writings
of Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha, published in the West, seeking to restore and preserve
their vision of the oneness of God, humanity, and all religions.

In addition to all of the 1912 Universal Principles of the Bahai Movement, the book
includes Baha'u'llah's Arabic Hidden Words, selections known as the Spirit of the Age,
an address by Abdu'l-Baha at the Friends' Meeting House in London in 1913, and many Bahai
prayers for community and individual worship and meditation.

Abdu'l-Baha's Covenant

"After Abdul-Baha--whenever the Universal House of Justice is organized
it will ward off differences."
www.reformbahai.org/Covenant.htm

In 1922 this Address Upon the Covenant, delivered by Abdu'l-Baha on June 19, 1912, was suppressed from appearing in The Promulgation
of Universal Peace, though it was "approved" and published in this...

Reform Bahai Articles

"To be a Bahai simply means to love all the world; to love
humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and
universal brotherhood." - Abdu'l-Baha

For over three years now since 2004, the Reform Bahai Faith has
once again existed, born anew from tyranny and oppression, from
essentially the same spiritual upheavals as that of Ruth White,
Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Julie Chanler, and the thousands of Bahais
who left in protest under the imposition of an oppressive organization
based on the fraudulent will and testament of Abdu'l-Baha throughout
the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. God has, throughout the decades, preserved
the historical record of events for perceptive minds and souls.

Despite all fanatical, fundamentalist attempts to suppress all memory
of Abdul-Baha's vision and interpretation of Baha'u'llah's Faith, to root
it out, to coerce and slander, malign and expell, shun and besmirch the
testimony of the Writings and the early believers, the Bahai Movement
has continued to endure, quietly persist, giving testimony to the vision
of God's oneness, the oneness of humanity and religion, and the human
potential for peace and brotherly love.

On Bahai Liberty

The Prisoner of Akka, Baha'u'llah, lived much of His life deprived of
liberty, harassed and suppressed by the tyranny of one despot or another,
yet He envisions a world of global freedom and universal...

95 Theses of the Reform Bahai Faith

Please feel free to share and distribute, in any manner, preferably in full,
these 95 Theses.

To His Great Ends, the Reform Bahai Faith invites all souls to a Convocation
of celebration, brotherhood, and Reform, during Ridvan, 2006.

The Reform Bahai Faith, calling to mind the sufferings and imprisonment of
the Bab, Baha'u'llah, and Abdu'l-Baha, under the brutal oppression of
tyrannical regimes, bent upon silencing and destroying their testimony of
God's New Day, resolves

1. To witness the truth of the deviation of the organized, incorporated
Baha'i Faith from the Path, and its imposition of manifest corruptions and
innovations, over many lamentable decades, that have wrought ever-increasing
alienation, fear, censorship, coercion, misrepresentation, distortion, and
damage, all the stratagems of despots and dictators, political and
religious, upon individual Bahais, their families, and the community of
believers.

2. To seek afresh His Will, as at the dawn of a New Day, whereby the
earth is born anew and man stands transparent before God's manifestation of
His Will.

I've been working on enhancing my biography of the man with more
detail here

http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Ahmad_Sohrab

Will Johnson