WORLD WAR THREE Will BEGIN ON THE SOUTH CHINA SEA

 

 

In 1960 I patrolled the South China Sea in my all weather Navy Interceptor F3H Demon and often crossed paths with Communist MIG 15 Interceptors but in a similar non-combat role but now 55 years later, the times have changed, the war drums are beating and the setting for a Bay of Tonkin false flag incident on the South China Sea could well begin World War Three as well as engulf the far east, including a reluctant Japan, in military if not nuclear conflict: Allen L Roland, Ph.D

"The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like."  ~  Michael Badnarik

 

To fully find the truth regarding the current conflict between the United States in China on the South China Sea ~ one must of course follow the money and realize we are really talking about the survival of the New World Order with the uncomfortable reality that BRICS has become a formidable economic power whereas the world's biggest trading nation (China) and second largest economy will soon find it unnecessary to be anchored to a single currency, the US dollar.

 

Pepe Escobar in March (ICH) revealed that BRICS is where the real global financial threat to the West lies;

" The acronym that all these “forecasts” dare not reveal is BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). BRICS is worse than the plague as far as the ‘Masters of the Universe’ that really control the current - rigged - world system are concerned … The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) – a key alternative to the IMF enabling developing nations to get rid of the US dollar as a reserve currency – will be operative by the end of this year. The NDB will finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects not only in the BRICS nations but other developing nations. Forget about the Western-controlled World Bank, whose capital and lending capacity are never increased by the so-called Western “powers.” The NDB will be an open institution. BRICS nations will keep 55 percent of the voting power, and outside their domain no country will be allowed more than 7 percent of votes. But crucially, developing nations may also become partners and receive loans."

 

As Pepe points out a new global galaxy is developing in the global economic universe and at its center is China ~ " The US “pivoting to Asia” – launched at the Pentagon – is all dressed up with no place to go. Bullying Southeast Asia, South Asia and, for that matter, East Asia as a whole into becoming mere ‘Empire of Chaos’ vassals – and on top of it confronting China - was always a non-starter. Not to mention believing in the fairy tale of a remilitarized Japan able to “contain” China and Isolating the “communist dictatorship” won’t fly. Just watch, for instance, the imminent high-speed rail link between Kunming, in Yunnan province, and Singapore, traversing a key chunk of a Southeast Asia which for Washington would never qualify to be more than a bunch of client states. The emerging 21st century Asia is all about interconnection; and the inexorable sun in this galaxy is China."

The Global elite are not taking these interconnection developments lightly as Pepe correctly predicts  ~ "Of course the ‘Empire of Chaos’(The United States ), business-wise, won’t be thrown out of Asia. But its days as an Asian hegemon, or a geopolitical Mob offering “protection”, are over."

See Pepe Escobar article ~ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41131.htm#.VPlAW8KqJwE.email

 

A Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft on patrol

 

So there you have it, a deeply diminished United States is attempting to prop up its fading Empire by military threats and posturing on the South China sea and at the same time drag in a reluctant Japan to protect its flank.

As Peter Symonds reports in WSWS, the provocations are already accelerating;  "Just days after a CNN news crew joined a P8-A Poseidon surveillance aircraft over a Chinese-administered islet in the South China Sea, it is clear the flight was a calculated provocation aimed at ramping up pressure on China. American officials immediately exploited the reportage to underline Washington’s determination to challenge Chinese territorial claims in these key strategic waters, regardless of the consequences …. Just like the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the media is once again being “embedded” as the propaganda arm of the military as the US prepares for war with China. CNN made no pretense of independent reporting, painting China as the villain engaged in “a massive military build-up” on the islets ~ an early warning radar station on Fiery Cross Reef ~ and dramatically highlighting warnings from a Chinese radio operator appealing for the aircraft to “please go away… to avoid misunderstanding…  US imperialism’s overriding aim is not to secure “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea. Rather the South China Sea has become the pretext for a show of force intended to bully Beijing into accepting US hegemony in Asia. For this, Washington is preparing for, and willing to risk, war."

 

But Symonds cuts to the chase on May 18th by asking the obvious Question ~ Is The US planning a "Gulf of Tonkin" incident in the South China Sea?

Excerpt: "The historic parallels are chilling. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson needed a justification for decisions that had already been made to dramatically escalate US military involvement in a civil war in Vietnam and to begin bombing targets in North Vietnam. Pentagon planners had concluded that Washington’s widely reviled puppet regime in Saigon was incapable of defeating the North Vietnamese-backed National Liberation Front on its own….Preparations for massively expanding US involvement were drawn up well in advance. In the summer of 1964, the US worked with the South Vietnamese to stage a series of provocations ~ probes by US-supplied patrol boats to expose North Vietnamese radar systems …. On August 2, the USS Maddox was monitoring one of these raids in the Gulf of Tonkin, part of the South China Sea, eight miles offshore and well within North Vietnam’s 12-mile territorial waters, that provoked an exchange of fire with small North Vietnamese boats…. Two days later the USS Maddox, accompanied by the destroyer C. Turner Joy, reported coming under fire. There was, in fact, no attack. The entirely manufactured incident, surrounded by a barrage of media sensationalism and official lies, was exploited to paint North Vietnam as the aggressor… …The belligerent response of the United States was presented as justified, defensive actions to maintain “international peace and security in Southeast Asia.”

Then Symonds makes the South China Sea connection ~  "As part of the “pivot” to Asia, the Pentagon is already engaged in a massive military build-up and strengthening of alliances and strategic partnerships throughout Asia directed against China. One of the latest warships, the USS Fort Worth, has just completed a week-long “freedom of navigation” patrol in the South China Sea designed to test and challenge China’s presence…While the USS Fort Worth remained outside China’s claimed territorial waters, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has called on the Pentagon to draw up plans for US warships and warplanes to enter the 12-mile limit and directly challenge Chinese sovereignty. Undoubtedly behind the scenes, far more detailed war plans have been drawn up… But in confronting China, Washington faces widespread anti-war opposition at home and around the world, born of two decades of continuous wars including the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. No one should be surprised by a new “Gulf of Tonkin incident” suddenly emerging in order to try to stampede public opinion behind US aggressive military operations against China."   See WSWS report ~ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41896.htm#.VWvyGzLHPEM.email

The stage has been set and now all the West needs is a militarized ally on its flank and that would mean Japan ~ and it appears that Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has already drank the Obama kool aid and is ready to accelerate Japan’s remilitarization as reported by Ben McGrath in WSWS; " The Japanese cabinet signed off on two new bills on Thursday that will accelerate Japan’s remilitarization. The legislation corresponds to joint-military guidelines agreed to by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his recent trip to the United States. The bills will be presented to the Japanese parliament, or Diet, shortly and a vote is expected by July… The bills have nothing to do with ensuring peace or protecting the public. The Abe government, encouraged by the US, is seeking to remove all restrictions on the operations of the Japanese military, in particular its ability to participate in Washington’s wars under the guise of “collective self-defense….However, central to so-called “collective self-defense” is Japan’s integration into the US military build-up throughout Asia against China as part of its “pivot to Asia.” Speaking last month (after his disastrous fractured English speech to the US Congress) Abe explained why, from Washington’s standpoint, the present situation was untenable ~ “If there were an attack against the US [Aegis] destroyer [near Japan], Japan would not be able to prevent that from happening under the current law,” he said. “In the future, the Japanese Aegis destroyer will be able to protect the US Aegis destroyer… Since coming to office, the Abe 'American puppet' government has boosted military spending, redrawn military guidelines to focus on China, established a US-style National Security Council and enacted an anti-democratic secrecy law. At the same time, Abe has been waging an ideological campaign to whitewash the crimes of Japanese militarism in the 1930s and 1940s to condition public opinion, particularly young people for new wars." See article ~  http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/16/japa-m16.html

The lines have been drawn in the South China Sea and the players have been identified between an over extended American Empire and the new BRICS economic powerhouse that economically threatens the new World Order ~ and could well replace the dollar in the near future with the Chinese Yuan.

Beijing’s response to these recent US provocations, via the Global Times; “If the United States’ bottom line is that China has to halt its activities, then a U.S.-China war is inevitable in the South China Sea … The intensity of the conflict will be higher than what people usually think of as ‘friction’.”

 

In 1960, as a Navy fighter pilot, we feared the Chinese but now 55 years later they are an economic juggernaut and a seeming financial threat which has brought the United States to the edge of purposely starting a war.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”  ~ Albert Einstein

 

Allen L Roland, Ph.D

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/world-war-three-will-begin-on-south.html

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at  allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also a featured columnist on Veterans Today and  guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

 

 

JAPAN TAKES THE GOLD AFTER SAWA'S AMAZING EQUALIZER

Homare Sawa holding world cup with ecstatic teammates

Homare Sawa’s amazing equalizer goal with less than six minutes to play in extra time took the air out of a highly favored American team and set the stage for an improbable and classic world cup victory for Japan: Allen L Roland

In Japanese, Homare means Noble Honor and yesterday Homare Sawa had the noble honor of bringing a Japanese team back from the precipice of a certain World Cup defeat in the final minutes of extra time with one of the greatest pressure goals in World Cup history ~ counting both men and women.

The Americans had finished a scoreless first half with a 12-5 shot advantage but only one was on target and that hit the post. Japan had been bent by a furious American onslaught but they did not break.

The Americans finally broke through in the 69^th minute with Alex Morgan breaking free on a brilliant pass from Megan Rapinoe ~ clearly beating Japan goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori from well outside the box with a scorching drive into the far corner of the net.

But with just nine minutes to play in regulation time, Japan got a break when Buehler and Krieger failed to clear the ball in front of the American net and Aya Miyama suddenly found the loose ball and flicked it into the net from close range.

Tie game and on to extra time.

Once again, with about sixteen minutes to play Abby Wambach gave the U.S. a 2-1 lead ~ scoring an emphatically headed goal on a brilliant pass from Alex Morgan in the 104^th minute.

Victory seemed assured for the Americans who went defensive, substituting for their key playmaker and striker Rapinoe, but with less than six minutes left ~ it was Homare Sawa’s turn to achieve the impossible ~ and that she did with an amazing run through the box on a corner kick where she twisted in the air, thrust out her leg and sent a heel shot towards the goal while tumbling to the turf. She never saw the ball graze Wambach’s arm and be redirected into the net well out of reach of the diving U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo.

That was the turning point ~ you could actually see the momentum shift for the overconfident Americans had never anticipated a shootout but Japan was hoping, prepared and ready for that eventuality. When Boxx missed the first shot on a great kick save by Kaihori and Miyama scored on her first in round one ~ the dye was cast. Sakaguchi’s drive through the hands of Solo in round three, after two more American misses, made it 2-0 Japan. Wambach’s score in round four heightened the tension but Kumagai’s smash over the outstretched Solo sealed the deal 3 -1.

But Homare Sawa’s amazing equalizer was the stuff of legends and here it is in slow motion. Savor this moment, as all of Japan most certainly is, for here is the heart of a true champion rising to the occasion on a world stage and delivering the goods. 30 second video ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIqh8Ui8TNM

Allen L Roland

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Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

LETTER FROM SENDAI

It appears that out of this catastrophe in Japan, the world is ushering in a new way of being and a new state of consciousness where non-essentials are stripped away and finally replaced by social cooperation and altruism ~ the driving properties of a constantly uniting evolutionary process with which we all participate as co-creators: Allen L Roland

This letter from Sendai, Japan speaks volumes about human resiliency in the face of chaos and our deep innate need to cooperate and help one another ~ bringing us closer to nature and our innate connection to a Unified Field of love and soul consciousness.

A letter from Sendai

ANNE THOMAS 3/14/2011

published online @ Ode magazine

Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend's home. We share supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.

During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes. People sit in their cars, looking at news on their navigation screens, or line up to get drinking water when a source is open. If someone has water running in their home, they put out a sign so people can come to fill up their jugs and buckets.

It's utterly amazingly that where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in lines. People leave their front door open, as it is safer when an earthquake strikes. People keep saying, "Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when everyone helped one another."

Quakes keep coming. Last night they struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens are constant and helicopters pass overhead often.

We got water for a few hours in our homes last night, and now it is for half a day. Electricity came on this afternoon. Gas has not yet come on. But all of this is by area. Some people have these things, others do not. No one has washed for several days. We feel grubby, but there are so much more important concerns than that for us now. I love this peeling away of non-essentials. Living fully on the level of instinct, of intuition, of caring, of what is needed for survival, not just of me, but of the entire group.

There are strange parallel universes happening. Houses a mess in some places, yet then a house with futons or laundry out drying in the sun. People lining up for water and food, and yet a few people out walking their dogs. All happening at the same time.

Other unexpected touches of beauty are first, the silence at night. No cars. No one out on the streets. And the heavens at night are scattered with stars. I usually can see about two, but now the whole sky is filled. The mountains are Sendai are solid and with the crisp air we can see them silhouetted against the sky magnificently.

And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on, and I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea from whom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no.

They tell us we can expect aftershocks, and even other major quakes, for another month or more. And we are getting constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling. I am blessed in that I live in a part of Sendai that is a bit elevated, a bit more solid than other parts. So, so far this area is better off than others. Last night my friend's husband came in from the country, bringing food and water. Blessed again.

Somehow at this time I realize from direct experience that there is indeed an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step that is occurring all over the world right at this moment. And somehow as I experience the events happening now in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide. My brother asked me if I felt so small because of all that is happening. I don't. Rather, I feel as part of something happening that much larger than myself. This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.

Thank you again for your care and Love of me,

With Love in return, to you all,

Anne

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/letter-from-sendai.html

About the Author: Allen L Roland is a Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist. Allen is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations. Dr. Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website www.allenroland.com . He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

POSSIBLE RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT CLOSE AT HAND / PROTECT YOURSELF

Wishful thinking is no longer appropriate regarding the nuclear meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant. With yesterday’s startling announcement that the plant may be at level six with seven being a Chernobyl event ~ precautionary measures should be taken : Allen L Roland

Those of us on the West Coast would be wise to increase our intake of potassium iodide over the next few days in light of the increasing severity of the situation at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. "It's clear we are at Level 6, that's to say we're at a level in between what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl," Andre-Claude Lacoste, president of France's nuclear safety authority, told reporters Tuesday.

Today The workers were ordered to leave the facility after the level of radiation at the plant soared to 10 millisievert per hour - above the level considered harmful to human health. Earlier, officials from the nuclear and industrial safety agency said that 70% of fuel rods at the No. 1 reactor had been significantly damaged, as well as 33% of rods at the No. 2 reactor ~ the cores of both reactors are believed to have partially melted, Kyodo news agency said. The meteorological agency said winds near the power plant would blow from the northwest and out into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. The winds were expected to strengthen in the afternoon, the agency added.

Andrew Pollack wrote yesterday in the New York Times ~ “ As Japan races to avoid a nuclear disaster, some Americans and companies in the United States are scrambling to obtain potassium iodide, a drug that can protect people from radiation-induced thyroid cancer .... Potassium iodide, also known by the chemical symbol KI, is used to saturate the thyroid gland with iodine so that radioactive iodine inhaled or ingested will not be retained by the gland…Congress passed legislation in 2002 requiring the federal government to supply potassium iodide capsules to people living within 20 miles of nuclear power plants in the United States. But the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have not implemented that provision, saying the law allows for alternatives.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/health/16iodide.html

Yesterday President Obama told KDKA-TV of Pittsburgh “ that experts have assured him that a nuclear release from Japan will dissipate by the time it gets to Hawaii, much less the U.S. mainland “ but I stopped believing Obama a long time ago. By the way, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt recently joined Obama’s team as a top economic advisor and GE designed the faulty nuclear containment systems that are now breaking down in Japan. So Obama is not about to say anything that could harm his more than cozy relationship with Wall Street and the financial elite ~ the public be damned.

The New York Times reports that GE marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi plant,” as cheaper to build than other reactors because they used a comparatively smaller and less expensive containment structure." The same containment structures that are now breaking down ~ like BP, it’s all about greed, profit and lax oversight ~ and dam the safety concerns!

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/0316/Reports-Lax-oversight-greed-preceded-Japan-nuclear-crisis?cmpid=addthis_email&sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d80e5ecd8cfa879%2C0

Contrary to Obama’s vacuous comments ~ "The worst case scenario is ~ the fuel rods fuse together, the temperatures get so hot that they melt together in a radioactive molten mass that bursts through the containment mechanisms,” said nuclear expert Joe Cirincione. "Some of the radioactivity could carry in the atmosphere to the West Coast of the US," added Cirincione, head of anti-nuclear group Ploughshares Fund. He cited the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster to underline how far radioactivity can travel. "The radioactivity spread around the entire northern hemisphere," from the devastated Ukrainian plant, he said..

As for myself, I’m increasing my intake of Miso soup with seaweed (which I love) kelp and low fat yogurt ( which are all high in Iodine ) and hoping for the best.

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/possible-radioactive-fallout-close-at.html

About the Author: Allen L Roland is a Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist. Dr Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations. Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website www.allenroland.com . He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

CHINA'S INSPIRING TEEN AGE WOMENS WORLD CHESS CHAMPION

At 16 years old, China’s Hou Yifan has become the youngest person, male or female, to win a world championship. Her accomplishment reflects China’s investment in education and human capital which the United States has yet to prioritize: Allen L Roland

This is an inspiring story I love writing, for a nation’s greatest wealth is its human capital, and the empowerment of that capital should be a priority ~ which it isn’t in the United States.

As NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes from Beijing,China where he interviewed and played womens world champion Hou Yifan ~ who quickly dismissed him in 21 moves ~ “China has also done an extraordinarily good job of investing in its people and in spreading opportunity across the country. Moreover, perhaps as a legacy of Confucianism, its citizens have shown a passion for education and self-improvement ~ along with remarkable capacity for discipline and hard work, what the Chinese call “chi ku,” or “eating bitterness.” Full story ~ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/opinion/09kristof.html

As Kristof correctly concludes ~ “ There’s a lesson for us as well. China’s national commitment to education, opportunity and eating bitterness ~ those are qualities that we in the West might emulate as well. As you well know after you’ve been checkmated by Hou Yifan.”

It is obvious that America has become lazy and apathetic and has settled for consumption and greed versus discipline and hard work ~ ( I am because I shop, spend and consume).

China and especially Japan look for the gift within their children ~ especially musical and academic ~ nurturing that gift during their childhood knowing that it will be a treasured companion of their soul as an adult. Discipline and hard work are engrained in their cultures and have become key factors in their countries industrialization.

We, on the other hand, have become a consumer nation and are unfortunately witnessing the deindustrialization of America ~ tens of thousands of factories have left the United States in the past decade alone. The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States.

According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone. Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.

And get this ~ The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000. Here’s why ~according to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million. You can blame Bill Clinton, George W Bush and now Obama for this bloodletting of manufacturing jobs ~ and all in the worship of corporate PROFIT and GREED.

I’m sure you get my point ~ there is a disciplined mindset one achieves when you set your mind to something and strive to achieve it. It greatly helps if you have an educational system or family system that looks for and encourages your gift and intention. I remember tapping into that same mindset when I was determined to be a Navy fighter pilot and set my mind to accomplishing that dream. It was not easy, there were many stumbling bocks that I turned into stepping stones but I never lost track of my goal.

That hard work and discipline paid off many months later when I sat in the cockpit of my single place F3H Demon Interceptor on the number #1 catapult of the USS Ranger as the ship slowly turned into the wind, on a quiet South China sea, prior to an early morning launch. With tears of joy flowing down my cheeks, I realized I was living my dream ~ and I knew there was nothing I could not accomplish if I set my heart and mind to it.

I’m sure Hou Yifan feels the same sense of fulfillment on taking her chess gift to the championship level she now enjoys. Commitment if the key and that can’t be manufactured ~ it must be driven from within by intention and purpose.

It can be as simple as saying YES to yourself and not being controlled by fear,

I am now doing the same thing as an online columnist along with my heart centered work with Veterans with PTSD ~ in that regard, Band of Brothers #4 begins this week. Another dream has come true because I am committed to making a difference with my empowering work with Veterans.

I have a great deal of respect for this quote on commitment from W.H. Murray ~

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

The key phrase here is that the moment one commits oneself, providence moves too ~ because doors will open that would not have opened until that commitment is made. Here’s a perfect example in Hou Yifan’s case ~ as Kristof writes; “Ye Jiangchuan, the chief coach of the national men’s and women’s Chess teams, told me that he played Ms.Hou when she was 9 years old ~ and was stunned. “I saw that this kid was special,” he told me, and he invited her to move to Beijing to play with the national teams. Three years later she was the youngest girl ever to compete in the world chess championships.”

I still vividly remember my grandmother reading my palm when I was a young and very precocious child; She looked at my palm, smiled knowingly and squeezed it. At that moment, I sensed I was special and it was enough for me to later find the courage to live my dreams.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and incredible magic in it ~ it’s the magic of living your dream, being in sync with your destiny and making a difference by sharing the precious gift of yourself.

Allen L Roland

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Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is also available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )

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