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Franz Isemann |
Date: Dec 22, 2006 |
| This video ought to be sent out in many languages. |
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Fernando Calero |
Date: Jan 16, 2007 |
| If heart and reason would get along, at least once in while,
so that we could dream.
If pessimism and optimism would agree, at least once in a while,
so that we could walk together.
If we could dream and walk together at least once in a while...
May be then we not only wish happiness and well being once a year but much more often and we could feel their happiness and well being as ours, because only in he and she resides our happiness and well being.
The best for 2007 and beyond.
Y si el corazón y la razón se pusieran de acuerdo, por lo menos de vez en cuando, para que juntos soñemos.
Y si el optimismo y el pesimismo llegaran a algún acuerdo, por lo menos de vez en cuando, para que juntos caminemos.
Y si juntos soñamos y caminamos, por lo menos de vez en cuando…
Puede que entonces no sólo nos deseemos felicidad y bienaventuranza una vez al año, sino mucho más a menudo y sintamos que la felicidad y la bienaventuranza del otro es también la nuestra, porque en él y ella está nuestra felicidad y bienaventuranza.
En 2007 y más allá, lo mejor!
Fernando Calero Aparicio, Dirección de Relaciones Internacionales
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali
Colombia 2006
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Terri Robson |
Date: Jan 16, 2007 |
| I sent this video to a few of my friends hopefully they in turn will pass it on. |
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Richard |
Date: Jan 17, 2007 |
| This is a good cartoon, except you should have Cheney up there in the booth with Bush. The whole British monarchy while you're at it. http://www.savethemales.ca/000166.html
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Raul Ybarnegaray |
Date: Jan 17, 2007 |
| Why do not say TRUTH and not only HOPE? |
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Michael Diamond |
Date: Jan 18, 2007 |
| A wonderful expression of the need to trade hope for fear. And I remember the time when hope was locked away in a drawer. The year was 1945. The place was the United States. Harry Truman, acting alone, reversed the course that Franklin Roosevelt had set for the world.
Roosevelt's previous vice-president, Henry A. Wallace, would have pursued peace. Roosevelt's Republican opponent, Wendell Wilkie, would also have pursued peace. Harry Truman, for all his virtues, did not.
The Truman Doctrine plunged the world into fear. The foreign policy of the United States, to this day, is perverted by the false assumptions and propaganda that underlay and buttressed that Doctrine.
Now, in the year 2007, how do we replace fear with hope? I urge all people everywhere to undertake a deep and sustained study of the year 1945, when the world became mired in fear.
My own reaction to the Truman Doctrine and the ills that cascaded from it is sorrow. My country used that false notion to plunge the world back into war and colonialism. And this was done for profit—for plunder.
I am sorry. My countrymen should read books by William Appleman Williams and Jonathan Kwitney and Stephen Kinzer and Arnold Offner, et al. And after that studying and sharing, the world needs to hear us say that we regret our errors. We are sorry and are now ready to accept the freedoms for all that Roosevelt, Wilkie, and Wallace would have championed. |
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Danl W |
Date: Jan 19, 2007 |
| Bush and Cheney could have used one word for their campaign slogan: "Boo!" --- their method of involving voting Americans in policy-making is: "Run and hide -- leave global decisions to the Big Boys". Don't buy their fear-mongering. Don't send troops, send real help, support the volunteers, rebuild our greatest image-builder --- the Peace Corps.
The next time around I hope that Americans come out of hiding --- global issues are found in everybody's backyard. My new slogan: "Fear is not a factor" And then let's do what's best for our poor, our seniors, our children and grandchildren.
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Edward Gavin |
Date: Feb 08, 2007 |
| I think this cartton is a very good one. But lets just hope that Bush has something better for the global community since he is the global policeman. And we're talking American hegemony.... |
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Fear got us a second term |
Date: Feb 17, 2007 |
Fear got us into Iraq.
Let's build bridges and not destry them around the world.
Count me in.
Chris |
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David Hazen |
Date: Mar 25, 2007 |
| Some people equate "peace" with weakness. War is the accepted norm. There
is a cynicism about applying the values of our founding fathers--equality, justice and the common defense--to ALL people on the planet. Applying the Golden Rule is considered optional. However, it is necessary for our survival. We are trapped in this spiral of self-dependence and lack of trust. Real progress will never be made until we reduce this level
of fear. Violence is not power, violence is a weakness. It is a tool of
cowards and bullies. It does not create control, it releases chaos. The
culture of violence needs to be replaced, not overwhelmed with police
powers, not corrected with underfunded agencies, not locked up in a jail
cell, not treated as somebody else's problem. It's our problem. I support the creation of a U.S. Department of Peace. |
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Francis Reeves |
Date: Oct 01, 2007 |
I found your fantastic uplifting cartoon recently and have since subscribed to your newsletter. It appears we share the same beliefs. How wonderful to know I'm not alone. I wrote this last year and thought I would share it with you all. Truth, hope and happiness. Keep going - we're nearly there.
With Love,
Francis.
Some believe that the end of our world is nigh and that a new life can be found amongst the stars. Do we really deserve a second chance? We have all that we need on this beautiful earth for a wonderful life, yet we are destroying it with our arrogance and our greed. Our global systems - social, political and economic - have been corrupted through narrow-minded self-interest, in turn producing short term results. It is time for us to learn from our history, and simultaneously releasing ourselves from our past. This will only be achieved through unconditional love. What we sow, we reap. Plant fear, produce negativity. Cultivate with love, harvest joy.
It is not about pointing fingers and accountability. We are all to blame. For the choices we have made and the money we have spent; for the resources we have abused and the weapons which have been used. For each and every action. We together have created this fractured, misguided world. In what kind of world do we wish to live? One filled with fear and despair? Or one filled with love and hope? The only way to predict the future is surely to create it. Love will create the future we desire.
Love is the greatest power we have. Love will change the course of our history. We need a global revolution. A revolution within our minds, our conscience, our very being. When we wake, realising we are all inextricably linked, all one facing the same fate, we will heal our only planet. For ourselves, for our children, for our children's children.
It is possible. We can do it. With love. We have the answers to the problems we believe we face today. It is our intention to solve them that we must reflect upon. If it is to only benefit the few, then we are all doomed to failure. If it is for the love of all, we will flourish. We must re-stitch our world with the thread of love. We must share the burdens as well as the opportunities, sharing the wealth and the happiness too; for we share this earth, our only world. We must globalise love. Through our policies and through our laws; through our media and through our corporate structures; through our education and through our sciences; through our families and through our health systems. Base these on love and compassion for all and our world will change overnight. For love quashes uncertainty and extinguishes fear; love unites, heals and solves. Love is progress. Love is our only hope. We may think that technology will provide the answers to all of our problems and that it is the foundation of our evolution. It will not. It is not. With love as our intention we can achieve anything and everything. For love is true evolution. Love is the answer. Each and every one of us has the tool we need to heal this world. It can cross every border, knock down every barrier, be understood in every language, flow through every culture, supersede every emotion, aid every medicine, support every economy, reinforce every faith, and stop every war. That tool is Love. Life is not for fearing, life is for loving.
We must love all around us, for that is our environment. We must nurture our world, respect our world, love our world. It is the only one we have.
We will transcend to a greater place, a more peaceful and prosperous world, if, and only if, we fill our journey With Love.
francis.reeves@dial.pipex.com
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