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| DREAM Act Part II awaits Brown’s signature Undocumented students in California only need Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature by Oct. 9 to be eligible for state financial aid. The second portion of California’s Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act passed the Assembly Friday, and the historical bill is on its way to Sacramento. Read More |
Event Reminders: Peace & justice rally in Balboa Park on Sun. 9/11Sunday, 09/11/2011 San Diego Vets for Peace and the SD Coalition for Peace & Justice calls for a rally in Balboa Park on Sunday, 9/11 to stand against war, racism & bigotry. Park & President's Way 2-4 pm. NNU’s DeMoro Named Influential in Health Esondido Democratic Club meets Lake San Marcos Dem Club Meets Fallbrook Writer's read, Sep. 14 Sept. 17 County Party Convention NC Film Club screens Exit Through The Gift Shop Free Monthly E-Waste Collection in Encinitas Moving San Diego to a Clean Energy Future NC Film Club rolls The Illusionist List of Democratic events in San Diego County To read the best progressive newsletter west of the Mississippi, click on Jellison's EZINE here NC Film Club offering: In A Better World List of Democratic events in San Diego County To read the best progressive newsletter west of the Mississippi, click on Jellison's EZINE hereThis 'N ThatOf all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.- Nikola Tesla When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible- not to have to run away. If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace." By logic and reason we die hourly. By imagination we live. When the rich make war, it's the poor that die. Only the poor knew the meaning of life; the rich and the safe had to guess. The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. The master's tools will never destroy the master's house. Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. What all men fear, I too must fear - how barren and pointless a thought! Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.... Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members work upon themselves and come to conversion. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human. Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face. God looks unjust but is not. God asks more from those who more is given. They are not greater or better; they have greater responsibility. They must give more service. Live to serve. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence. The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy. The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty - it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contibute the best that they have and all that they are. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. And all good things are yours. There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace. War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. But the wisdom from above is pure, first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deals,; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy. Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members. Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future. All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice. If you live alone, whose feet will you wash? If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy. The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash, your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them. When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self. Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear. | Articles & News: Issa ignores hundred plus at Vista offiice News Well over 100 constituents showed up at the office of Rep. Darrell Issa, who ignored them. The rally last Friday, Sep. 1, gathered to impress on Issa that he must get on board with the urgent need creating jobs in San Diego County. This is the largest rally ever to gather at Issa's office, demonstrating the community's concern with job creation. Elizabeth Warren, a Joan of Arc Democrat You won't evict this grandma CEOs Rewarded for Corporate Tax Dodging CIA had Tried To Recruit 2 SD 9/11 Hijackers Cartoons of the Week Obama, the negotiatorGOP's Unplanned ParenthoodEvolution began with LimbaughUnions & the Middle ClassObama plays poker with GOP Paul Krugman gives Wise investment advice Keep secret chemicals out of CA's water! Yellowstone River oil spill will cost $42.6M Army widow confronts Rumsfeld in public
Army Ranger's widow booted from Donald Rumsfeld's book signing. - Ashley Joppa-Hagemann introduced herself to Rumsfeld, then accused him of being responsible for the death of her husband, Staff Sgt. Jared Hagemann, because "You lied to him, and now he's dead!" He took his own life - after eight deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army found Staff Sgt. Hagemann's body at a training area of Joint Base Lewis McChord a few weeks ago. Her confrontation has cast a dark shadow over the villainous Rumsfeld as he tries to move from book signing to book signing. San Onofre: a Trillion Dollar Threat to SoCal Amnesty for the Indefensible Banksters The First Thing They Took Away-Our Obama Buttons Report: Issa 2nd richest member of Congress D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake Jon Stewart: Is Michele Bachmann's husband gay?
Marcus Bachmann, husband of Michele Bachmann, who referred to gays as uneducated "barbarians", is engaged in a psychotherapy practice, in which, it is alleged, he engages in "repairative" therapy to "cure gays". This was great comedy fodder for Jon Stewart and Jerry Seinfeld, in this very entertaining skit. No deportation for CA gay married couple Broken oil pipeline creates pollution disaster
Exxon Mobil Estimates Oil spill in Yellowstone River will Cost Over $42 Million. Now comes the Godzilla of all pipelines: The proposed Keystone XL pipeline is a terrible idea. The oil it will carry from Canada’s tar sands will travel all the way from northern Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. Think: oil spilling all over America's heartland. Think: way more CO2 all over the atmosphere, since the tar sands are among the most carbon-intensive of all the fossil fuels. Dick Cheney profiteering from his War Crimes
As former Vice President Dick Cheney publishes his long-awaited memoir, Democracy Now! speaks with Salon.com political and legal blogger Glenn Greenwald about his recent article on Cheney, "The Fruits of Elite Immunity." "Dick Cheney goes around the country profiting off of this sleazy, sensationalistic, self-serving book, basically profiting from his crimes ..." Our wars are condemning our soldiers to Hell
The people who should be worried about going to hell are the bastards who sent these soldiers over there for no good reason, and then refuse to pay for the help they need when they come back: A soldier's widow says his fellow Army Rangers wouldn't do anything to help him before he took his own life - after eight deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army found Staff Sgt. Jared Hagemann's body at a training area of Joint Base Lewis McChord a few weeks ago. Late-breaking news: This just in ...
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Witty dialogue, profound explanation of today's economic conundrum, a spiral that could collapse the world economy.
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Ted Olson Interview With Fox News Chris Wallace
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Wallace, insinuating that Gay Marriage is judicial activism, asks where is it in the Constitution that permits gay mariage. "Where is the right to interracial marriage in the Constitution" asked Ted Olsen of Wallace. Brilliant arguments by Olson. When Wallace insists the voters have the right to outlaw gay marriage, Olson asks if it would be constitutional for the voters to force blacks to drink at separate water fountains.
Manning Video:American troops slaughter civilians
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Army intel analyst Bradley Manning faces decades in prison for allegedly leaking this video of a U.S. helicopter attack killing 11 civilians and wounding two children in Baghdad, Iraq. The Army covered up the evidence and declared the war crime "justified". Now they say that exposing the massacre is criminal.
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