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Event Reminders: Giant blockbuster Pride Parade SaturdaySaturday, 07/19/2014 The annual San Diego LGBT Pride Parade is the 4th largest in the United States attracting over 300,000 cheering spectators, supportive organizations, businesses, and significant media participation. Starts in Hillcrest and ends in Balboa Park. Arrive by 9:30AM to get a good viewing spot and to enjoy all the festive atmosphere, wild costumes, happy people partying. San Onofre and Decomissioning Cost List of Democratic events in San Diego County To read the best progressive newsletter west of the Mississippi, click on Jellison's EZINE here Issa Leads GOP Charge to Exploit Refugee Children Carl DeMaio: Send refugee children back home This 'N ThatSmiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.- Thich Nhat Hanh Dust turned to hope. I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace. Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear. It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little better." Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight. Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. Instead of tug o' war, let's play hug o' war. Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. They make a desert and call it peace. If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. World peace is us....We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us. The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too. To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all. We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children. Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance. 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. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. When the rich make war, it's the poor that die. To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are, if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. When the rich make war it's the poor that die. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. 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. Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. | Articles & News: Issa Leads GOP Charge to Exploit Refugee Children Article By Doug Porter -- San Diego Congressman Darrel Issa has never been accused of being camera shy. Since taking over as chairman of the House Oversight Committee in 2011 he's done his best to to keep the media fixated through a series of open-ended investigations: Solyndra, Fast & Furious, the IRS, and Benghazi" Issa's tackling the current humanitarian crisis at the border with bluster and bloviating. Glenn Greenwald (June 19, 2014) 'No Place To Hide'
Intrepid and earth-jarring journalist Glenn Greenwald addresses the dire and dangerous world of total indiscriminate, invasive surveillance and spying on the American public by the NSA and CIA. New. On his current book tour around the U.S. (Videography has shaky start for a couple of minutes - then gets totally engrossing. MURRIETA: Is mob rule now the American way? Sticker shock: Financing costs more than building Cartoons of the Week CA Energy co-ops survive legislative maneuver Fed Judge knocks wind out of Hobby Lobby decision OBAMA rips into the GOP -- Big Texas style
We love seeing Obama when he boxing ears of GOP: "There are a number of Republicans, including a number in the Texas delegation, who are mad at me for taking these actions. They actually plan to sue me. Now, I don’t know which things they find most offensive — me helping to create jobs, or me raising wages, or me easing the student loan burdens, or me making sure women can find out whether they’re getting paid the same as men for doing the same job. I don’t know which of these actions really bug them. The truth is, even with all the actions I’ve taken this year, I’m issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years. So it’s not clear how it is that Republicans didn’t seem to mind when President Bush took more executive actions than I did. Maybe it’s just me they don’t like. I don’t know. Maybe there’s some principle out there that I haven’t discerned, that I haven’t figure out. You hear some of them — ‘sue him,’ ‘impeach him.’ Really? Really? For what? You’re going to sue me for doing my job? Okay. I mean, think about that. You’re going to use taxpayer money to sue me for doing my job — while you don’t do your job." Monsanto Herbicide Linked to Fatal Kidney Disease Bankers begin “Shock Treatment” for Ukraine Intelligence chief in bald-faced lie to Congress
HE LIED to the nation! -- James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) LIED to congress. Let me repeat that for you - he didn't "mislead" -- he LIED! Why he isn't under the jail? Congress impeached Pres. Bill Clinton for equivocating about a sexual dalliance, but Congress sucked up to James Clapper who outright lied about a grave criminal and unconstitutional policy. Nagasaki photos Day After the Atomic Bomb Aug, 6, 1945 - Hubris Versus Wisdom The real reason the US dropped A-bombs on Japan Late-breaking news: This just in ...
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