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avatar who hero ??? humanity indigonous people - climate summit, Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation.

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• 1.
  US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street
• 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s
• 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates
• 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
• 5.
  Europe Blocks US Toxic Products
• 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress
• 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past
• 8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions
• 9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza
• 10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate
• 11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine
• 12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief
• 13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War
• 14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts
• 15. World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco
• 16. US Repression of Haiti Continues
• 17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan
• 18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature
• 19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor
• 20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates
• 21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare
• 22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team
• 23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
• 24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion
• 25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon

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Clips of the police presence at the
G20 protests in London and Pittsburgh. I was horrified watching videos of the G20 protests in Pittsburgh and had to make a video about it. I feel like i'm living in a science fiction movie. Never mind Nazi Germany, this is frickin' Star Wars! The police and Military better wake up soon. Is this the kind of world you want your children to grow up in?

This is the 'New World Order'. It
is not New. And it is not order. Anyone who can still deny it now is officially deluded.

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Noam Chomsky speaks about Gaza, Palestine, Israel
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Naomi Klein: Fate of Planet Rests on Mass Movement for Climate Justice

Hundreds of activists from across
the globe are gathering every day in downtown Copenhagen for the peoples climate summit, the Klimaforum. On Thursday night, Shock Doctrine author and journalist Naomi Klein addressed a packed hall at a panel on ecological debt and climate justice.

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Planetary
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Once called the "religion of healthy-mindedness" by the philosopher, William James, the New Thought movement was born almost 150 years ago as a revolt against the negative dogmas so prevalent in the churches of that day. The early New Thought movement was driven by the discovery that physical healing was possible through the power of mind and spiritual awareness. As that initial idea unfolded into successful application, practitioners of New Thought began to see that the power of an uplifted consciousness could also bring healing to negative circumstances and conditions in one's personal life. As it evolves today, twenty-first century New Thought is driven by a far broader intention. Planetary healing through self-realization is emerging as the new promise of these teachings.

Out of a deep conviction
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Jesus Christ Worshipped Allah and Prophecized the comin of Prophet Mohammed Peace be upon them both.

Jesus Hated War -- Why Do Christians Love It So Much? By Gary G. Kohls, Consortium News Posted on December 28, 2009, Printed on December 28, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/144818/ When Gulf War I ended (during George Bush the Elders presidency), General Norman Schwartzkopf, the field commander, triumphantly proclaimed, God must have been on our side! Such statements arent unusual for glory-seeking dictators, kings, princes, presidents and generals, regardless of what religion justified their particular war, but I cringed when I heard this self-professed Christian warrior claim Gods blessings on the war that made him famous. In his memoir,It Doesnt Take A Hero,Schwartzkopf claimed that he kept a Bible at his bedside throughout the war. I cringed knowing that, according to the biblical Jesus, God is never on the side of the victors. The God of love that Jesus revealed was on the side of the victims, the oppressed, the starving, the sick, the naked, the meek who were victimized by unjust power. Jesus God would not be on the side of the war-makers, but on the side of the peacemakers, the compassionate and long-suffering ones who work to prevent killing and to relieve the suffering of the victims of war. I cringed when I heard Schwartzkopf claim Gods blessings on the carnage that he helped orchestrate because similar claims have been used to rationalize killing throughout history, from ancient times to some of the darkest days of the modern era. As the German Nazis went about their systematic purging of any and all leftist or anti-fascist groups Jews, socialists, homosexuals, liberals, communists, trade unionists and conscientious objectors to war they insisted that God was on their side, too. Adolf Hitler claimed that he was doing Gods will. German soldiers, both in WWI and WWII, went into battle with the words Gott Mit Uns (God With Us) inscribed on their belt buckles. Invoking Gott Mit Uns didnt work just on the uneducated, brain-washable and obedient citizens and conscripted soldiers of Germany. The slogan also convinced most of the educated Protestant and Catholic clergymen to comfortably proclaim from their pulpits that Hitlers wars were endorsed by the Christian God, and therefore every military action could be justified and carried out without guilt. Most Germans wanted to believe that Hitlers wars had to be fought for some higher purpose, a master plan that they trusted would benefit them all by creating Lebensraum (living space), which would mean security for the pure Aryan race. Aggression as Defensive In the Nazis up-is-down world, the propagandists convinced average Germans that Hitlers wars were purely defensive (the sword has been forced into our hands). The terrorizing of foreigners in a neighboring country, in order to steal their land, was the patriotic thing to do. Convincing the German public to engage in murder for the state took a lot of diligent work from Joseph Goebbels, Hitles Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. Goebbels had to persuade the Germans that their neighbors land and oil and mineral resources could legitimately be taken by any means necessary in order to realize the Fuhrers dream of the Thousand-year Reich, where perpetual peace for the privileged German people would finally be realized. The collateral damage done to the innocent civilian-victims of Europe and the Soviet Union, was felt to be unavoidable, and the disappearances of the non-Aryan Untermenschen, mentioned above, was orchestrated with conscienceless bureaucratic efficiency. Bishops, priests and pastors, most of whom had taken an oath of allegiance to Hitler, told their parishioners that it was their Christian duty to join the military and fight and kill for the Fuhrer. Resentment also played an important role in the swastika-waving terror. Most of the street-fighting militias loyal to the Nazi partys politics were WWI veterans who had been rendered unemployable by years of horrific trench warfare experiences. They were justifiably angry about their joblessness, poverty, physical disabilities, mental ill health, traumatic brain injuries, hunger, all worsened by the hyperinflation and impoverishment that go hand in hand with the huge costs of having standing armies and fighting perpetual wars. Many of these unemployed veterans rushed to join the militia groups for the food, shelter and camaraderie, perhaps not realizing that they were helping to create the chaos that would destroy the liberal democratic Weimar republic, an action that would lead the world into another world war that would ultimately turn out to be suicidal for Germany. Most German churches cooperated with, or at least did not vocally oppose, Hitlers agenda. Pastors cheered the Fuhrer from swastika-draped pulpits or they stood by silently as the concentration camps and prisons filled with those suspected by the Gestapo of not being supportive of the regime. All efforts to resist came too late, for the people who objected to the dictatorship were leaderless and unschooled in any nonviolent resistance actions. They had no Gandhi or Martin Luther King and were totally unprepared to act en masse. Blessed Wars Though Hitlers Nazi regime represented an exceptional form of horror in the industrialized slaughter committed during the Holocaust and related mass killings, it must be acknowledged that other countries, including the United States, have undertaken actions that have destroyed other populations and cultures, often with the blessingsof religious leaders. In the last two decades, the two Bush administrations mounted wars in the Persian Gulf region that had the consent (or acquiescence) of the majority of U.S. church leaders, with prayers from Billy Graham in the White House the night before the invasions began. Virtually all Christian evangelical, conservative and many mainstream church leaders and their congregations were active supporters of the Bush wars. Only four American Catholic bishops voted in opposition to Bush the Elders Gulf War I (at an annual conference of U.S. Catholic bishops). In Gulf War II, Pope John Paul II declared that the war was contrary to the teachings of Jesus, but most American Catholic leaders and parishioners ignored the pontiffs warnings and supported the war. Most American Protestants did the same. Yet, General Schwartzkopf and both Presidents Bush are in good company when it comes to believing that God is on their side in war. All U.S. presidents and presidential candidates in recent memory, even President Obama, end their speeches with May God Bless the United States of America, the equivalent of the German militarys Gott Mit Uns. My Veterans for Peace friends are of the opinion that modern war amounts to legally sanctioned, highly organized mass murder and that basic training is psychological rape with serious, often permanent consequences for everybody involved: the victims, bystanders and maybe especially the soldiers. And today, the killing is not just done by soldiers on the ground who can see the whites of their eyes. War is now often done from a safe distance by the high-tech soldiering of high-altitude bombing, supersonic jet fighters, long-range missiles (many of them computer-guided from unmanned drones), and radioactive DU armor-piercing ordnance that will continue killing for many centuries into the future. The victims of this kind of lopsided modern warfare (for which the human targets have no defense) regard these tactics as cowardly acts. Bureaucracies of Death These days, wars are started and perpetuated by a huge conglomeration of war profiteers: corporations (and their lobbyists), government bureaucracies (that obediently follow orders from above), the handlers of pro-war politicians and the financial underwriters of their campaigns, the ruling class, and the Department of War/Defense which has, as job # 1, the planning and orchestrating of current and future military conflicts, whether originating from real, imaginary or invented threats. A major unasked question is what should be the role of religion (specifically Christianity) in the starting and perpetuation of politically motivated wars? If war-makers mix religion and politics by invoking Gods blessings on the cannons and the cannon fodder, shouldnt the churches, which are supposed to be the consciences of the nation, apply core Christian ethical principles to the war question and refuse to cooperate with the slaughter of fellow children of God? Sadly, for the past 1,700 years, Christian churches have not done so. They have largely failed in their moral obligation to teach and live the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount. One only has to read the gruesome history of the many holy wars and atrocities committed in the history of Christendom, including the Crusades, the Inquisitions, the wars of the Reformation and counter-Reformation, the various genocides including the Nazi Holocaust. While the churches have played key roles in the promotion and cover-ups of these brutalities, the churches have not been alone. Whitewashes and excuses have often come from politicians, pundits, embedded journalists and co-opted history-writers, especially the authors of high school textbooks. Recall how, when military spokesmen try to explain away the deaths of non-combatants in these wars, they invoke the term collateral damage (the euphemism for the unintended killing and maiming of innocents in wartime) and quickly dismiss those deaths by spouting the unconvincing phrase that Schwartzkopf and all other apologists for war use: we regret the loss of innocent life. And they piously mouth these equally insincere words; our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims. The same rote phraseology too often comes from the lips of religious leaders. Christ’s Teachings How can the legalized mass slaughter of war, often progressing to the point of genocide, be a part of a Christian tradition that started out with a small group of inspired, oppressed and impoverished peasants who were trying to live by the highly ethical, nonviolent teachings of their pacifist leader? Interestingly, the active pacifism of the early Christian church did prove to be successful and even practical. During the first few centuries of Christianity, enmity and eye-for-an-eye retaliation were rejected. The Golden Rule and the refusal to kill the enemy were actually taught in the church. Gospel non-violence was the norm, so the professed enemies of those communities of faith were not provoked to retaliation because there was nothing against which to retaliate. Rather, enemies were befriended, prayed for, fed, nourished and embraced as neighbors potential friends who needed understanding and mercy. The church survived the persecutions of those early years and thrived, largely because of its commitment to the nonviolence of Jesus. It was not until the church was co-opted by the Emperor Constantine in the early 4th Century that power and wealth changed the priorities of church leaders. Today however, it is obvious that the vast majority of professed Christians have been misled, intentionally or unintentionally, into believing that they can immerse themselves in un-Christ-like realities like war and killing and somehow still be following the gentle Jesus. Today, American Christianity is at risk of going the way of the pro-war Christianity of pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany, which may in the long run discredit the faith much the way Christianity lost credibility among many Germans because their churches and church leaders facilitated those destructive wars. The vast majority of Germans before World War II were baptized members of a Christian church, but since WWII ended church membership has fallen sharply and the number of Germans attending weekly worship services is now estimated to be in the single digits. The psychological and spiritual wounding of the soldiers and their families in the two world wars stripped the German churches of their moral standing. Those PTSD-afflicted ex-church-going combat veterans who lost their faith in the wars, along with their traumatized families, found out much too late that they had not been warned by the very institutions that theoretically should have courageously and faithfully taken on the heavy responsibility to teach private and public morality. Many Germans who survived the wars felt betrayed by their churches and therefore had no inclination to try to reclaim their lost faith. The churches sank toward irrelevancy. The world would have been far better off if the Christian leaders of the world had been faithful to the ethical teachings of the gospels and quit making blasphemous appeals to God on behalf of war, whether with those Gott Mit Uns belt buckles or the God Bless America political sloganeering. 2009 Consortium News All rights reserved. View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/144818/ http://www.consortiumnews.com/

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http://www.examiner.com/x-31244-Louisville-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d20-Obama-Nobel-peace-prize-in-hand-bombs-Yemen-with-cruise-missiles

Just one day after a very public denial that American forces were attacking sites in Northern Yemen, President Barack Obama ordered multiple cruise missile attacks on sites across the tiny, coastal nation, just days after picking up his Nobel Peace Prize. The air strikes were coordinated with the government of President Ali Abdallah Saleh and the attacks left 120 killed, many of them civilians according to witnesses.

President Obama called Saleh after the attack to “congratulate” him on the killings. Al-Jazeera and other regional news outlets reported last week that U.S. military jets launched cruise missile strikes in Yemen, near the border with Saudi Arabia. Al-Houthi reports said Tuesday marked the third day of U.S. military strikes in the region, blaming American forces for striking two mosques in their air raids. Additional statements from al-Houthi groups point to U.S. involvement in the deaths of more than 120 people in recent attacks.  

Last Wednesday, P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, rejected the allegations outright. "We do not have a military role in this conflict," he told UPI. The following day, administration sources admitted that American cruise missiles, on Obama’s orders, hit a “suspected Al Qaeda training camp” north of Sanaa, the capital, and another site, where terrorists were thought to be plotting an attack on the U.S., ABC News reported, citing unnamed administration officials. The politically sensitive strikes Thursday supplement efforts already under way by the government of Yemen to go after Al Qaeda in the country, military officials told Fox News, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the operation. Such an operation is particularly sensitive in Yemen. “It’s very difficult for Yemen to ask the U.S. for help given the nature of their population and its views about the West,” one official said. “And the U.S. doesn’t want to compromise their ability to ask for help.” American Tomahawk cruise missle

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Obama, Nobel peace prize in hand, bombs Yemen with cruise missiles

cruise missile attacks in Yemen

http://www.examiner.com/x-31244-Louisville-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d20-Obama-Nobel-peace-prize-in-hand-bombs-Yemen-with-cruise-missiles

Just one day after a very public denial that American forces were attacking sites in Northern Yemen, President Barack Obama ordered multiple cruise missile attacks on sites across the tiny, coastal nation, just days after picking up his Nobel Peace Prize. The air strikes were coordinated with the government of President Ali Abdallah Saleh and the attacks left 120 killed, many of them civilians according to witnesses.

President Obama called Saleh after the attack to “congratulate” him on the killings. Al-Jazeera and other regional news outlets reported last week that U.S. military jets launched cruise missile strikes in Yemen, near the border with Saudi Arabia. Al-Houthi reports said Tuesday marked the third day of U.S. military strikes in the region, blaming American forces for striking two mosques in their air raids. Additional statements from al-Houthi groups point to U.S. involvement in the deaths of more than 120 people in recent attacks.  

Last Wednesday, P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, rejected the allegations outright. "We do not have a military role in this conflict," he told UPI. The following day, administration sources admitted that American cruise missiles, on Obama’s orders, hit a “suspected Al Qaeda training camp” north of Sanaa, the capital, and another site, where terrorists were thought to be plotting an attack on the U.S., ABC News reported, citing unnamed administration officials. The politically
sensitive strikes Thursday supplement efforts already under way by the government of Yemen to go after Al Qaeda in the country, military officials told Fox News, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the operation. Such an operation is particularly sensitive in Yemen. “It’s very difficult for Yemen to ask the U.S. for help given the nature of their population and its views about the West,” one official said. “And the U.S. doesn’t want to compromise
their ability to ask for help.” American Tomahawk cruise missle

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Satan, the god of this world, WILL NOT always cause havoc. His doom is already foretold, "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." (Revelation 20:10)

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The Story of Cap & Trade

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http://www.storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/

What is The Story of Cap & Trade? The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals:
free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you. http://www.storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/capandtrade.php

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http://my.opera.com/dcimagery/blog/
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love-ellen

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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/do-ipods-cause-cyclist-deaths.php?campaign=daily_nl

Photo via chasingfun
@ flickr.
Zombies are everywhere in
pop culture these days, even having infiltrated TreeHugger. There are not a lot of zombies, however, riding the roads completely fixated on their iPods and thus being inattentive to road conditions, and inadvertently killing themselves. There can't be, because zombies, as most of us know, are already dead. And since they feast on human flesh, why would they be riding cycles and listening to iPods? Still, this article seems to infer that it is iPod listening that is leading to a rise in cycling deaths in Britain.

Photo poka059 via flickr.

Certainly there are horrific stories of cyclists killed - and though no proof is given in reports like this one, it could be plausibly inferred that an iPod blocked out some life-saving sound indications of trouble.

Yet in fact, this is putting the blame solely on the cyclist, when the actual statistics tend to indicated that
it is "clumsy or inattentive drivers" that are to blame in 90% of bike-car accidents. And 90% of cyclist deaths are in connection with an accident with a motor vehicle, according to Ken Kifer's Bike Pages.

But before we go ahead and ban iPod
listening while cycling, shouldn't we take a more comprehensive look at cell phone use and texting while driving, a seemingly grave threat not only to cyclists health, but also to pedestrians' well-being? Way back in 2002, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis calculated that 2,600 people die each year as a result of
cell phone use during driving. In the UK a study last year found texting was more dangerous than drinking while driving.

And in fact, a North
Carolina a law went into effect yesterday putting a $100 fine on texting while driving. A similar NC statute prohibiting mobile phone use is only in effect for teenagers and school bus drivers. Chicago has a law against mobile use while driving going back to 2005, and recently increased the penalty. Elizabeth at Bike Commuters says the National Safety Council is planning to lobby for a nationwide
cell phone use ban.

It seems equally to be common sense to not text while driving as it is to not listen to an iPod while on a cycle needing to be attentive to traffic noises. One solution for cyclists would be to only keep one earplug in while on regular roads. Or how about the Slip - holds the ear buds away from the ears and keeps your ears warm at the same time.

However, recently it seems like the anti-cyclist rhetoric has lately cranked up a notch. Or is it simply that there are more people cycling and thus more chances for motorist-cyclist interactions? In Philadelphia, two pedestrian deaths caused by cyclists have turned the mood against cycling quite sour -
bills have been proposed - one putting at $1,000
fine on riding a fixie bike. Another piece of legislation calls for increasing the fine for riding on the sidewalk from $10 to $300, while another puts the fine for riding while wearing headphones to $300. City Council is also proposing to register bikes. Is this the answer to cyclist-motorist-pedestrian tensions?

Read more about urban cycling at TreeHugger:
Man Gets 20 Days for Shooting Cyclist in the Head
Cyclists Cause Less Than 10% of Bike/Car Accidents
6 Ways to Defuse Anti-Cyclist Road Rage

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10 Good Things About 2009

By Medea Benjamin My almost annual list of ten good things about the waning year has never before posed such a tremendous challenge. In the face of this challenge, I decided to try a minimalist thought experiment, blocking out the many baneful events that colored 2009, and instead seeking out the small, yet powerfully bright notes to inspire and give us hope for the year head. 1. Tens of thousands of people from around the world took to the streets of Copenhagen to call for meaningful action to address climate change, despite continuous attempts to squelch it. Inside Copenhagen’s meeting halls, indigenous peoples from small island nations and the Himalayas spoke powerfully about their rights and their needs. 2. According to recent polls a majority of Americans now see the war in Afghanistan as not worth fighting, and seventy-five percent say no new troops should be sent to that country. Public opinion is on our side. 3. The creative use of Twitter by protesters in Iran brought thousands of people into the streets of Teheran, including students, young people and thousands of young women. Their courageous and innovative use of social media kept the rest of the world informed of events, slipping out from under the country’s blanket of censorship. 4. The Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement to pressure Israel to respect Palestinian rights garnered the support of many groups around the world. The growing list of BDS successes is too long to enumerate here, but to choose only one: In February South African dockworkers, remembering the long history of Apartheid in their country, refused to offload an Israeli ZIM Lines ship in Durban. 5. One of Obama’s first acts in office was to lift the Global Gag Rule, which ended restrictions on U.S. funding for organizations that provide family planning services and that are often the first responders for women in the fight against HIV. 6. The Washington, DC City Council voted in mid-December to legalize same-sex marriage, making it the first jurisdiction south of the Mason-Dixon Line to do so. Same-sex marriage is now legal in Iowa, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut and will be legal in New Hampshire on January 1st. DC Mayor Fenty signed the bill on December 18, 2009. 7.Michelle Obama planted the White House’s first organic vegetable garden, a garden that provided food for her own family’s table and helped to educate the nation’s children about healthy eating. 8. 2009 may go down as the beginning of the end of the failed “War on Drugs”. The Obama administration announced that the federal government would no longer arrest and prosecute medical marijuana patients and caregivers as long as they were following their state’s medical marijuana laws. 9. Last year, CODEPINK launched a campaign calling upon the FBI to add Luis Posada Carilles, a ruthless terrorist who was responsible for downing a Cuban airplane in 1976, to the Most Wanted List and arrest him. On April 8, he was indicted on 11 counts. 10. Obama’s Nobel Prize victory sparked a global debate about what it takes to be a real peacemaker. While many of us were aghast that a president who has escalated a war was receiving the world's principal peace honor, the aspirational goal of the prize is an added pressure on both the Obama administration and us at the grass roots. We realized that we are the ones who have to make peace, that the impetus is as much on us to turn hope into action. I looked around and saw the women of CODEPINK, the impassioned environmental activists in Copenhagen, the young Israeli refuseniks, Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya, and all our friends and allies working for peace and social justice around this country and the world, and realized that WE are the hope and change we have been waiting for. Even after all the disappointments of this year, the items on this list and our own strength and persistence give me immense hope in the possibilities to come as we greet the New Year. So here's a toast to our power and our passion—we have our work cut out for us in 2010! Support CODEPINK's workfor the coming year and help us continue to be a part of the hope and change we want to see! When you make a donation of $50 or more you will receive a deck of our new War Criminal Cards in collaboration with After Downing Street, designed by Iraqi designer, Marina Murad. Marina was born in Baghdad and her family escaped to Amman, Jordan during the height of the first Gulf War. They immigrated to America in the early 1990's. She grew up in Redlands, California, and received her BA from University of California, Riverside in Fine Arts. She is currently obtaining her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She designed these cards as part of her personal commitment to peace and justice.

	Congratulations President Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize - Now please earn it. As President, you have opportunities to continue working for peace including ending the war in Afghanistan and deciding how the federal budget is allocated including the military spending versus domestic programs such as healthcare + following through with your campaign promises! End the war in Iraq Shut Down Guantánamo Bay Prison Reject the Military Commissions Act Stop Torture Work to eliminate nuclear weapons Hold direct, unconditional talks with Iran. Abide by Senate approved international treaties. CODEPINK's promise to you is to find creative, productive ways to hold Obama to his Promises for Peace. We will be the string around his finger that reminds him to practice what he preaches and deliver the change our country so desperately needs. Please join us in REMINDING OBAMA! Pledge to Hold Obama to his Promises for Peace

Resources and Information

Track Obama's Promises with PolitiFact's Obameter or Obama Watcher's Wiki

Visit Countdown to the Withdrawal for information about the withdrawal of troops in Iraq and a countdown widget

Visit the 100 days Campaign to Close Guantanamo End Torture for actions, information,
and resources

Check out the ACLU's Close Gitmo site for the latest updates and information on Guantanamo

Watch Taxi
to the Dark Side

Watch Brave New Films' video about the Military Commissions Act

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Psalm 103 (New International Version) Psalm 103 Of David.

1 Praise the LORD, O my soul;  all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

2 Praise the LORD, O my soul,  and forget not all his benefits-

3 who forgives all your sins  and heals all your diseases,

 4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,

5 who satisfies your desires with good things   so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

6 The LORD works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

7 He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel:

8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious,  slow to anger, abounding in love.


9 He will not always accuse,   nor will he harbor his anger forever;

10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for
those who fear him;

12 as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

13 As a father has compassion on his children,   so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;


14 for he knows how we are formed,   he remembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass,   he flourishes like a flower of the field;

16 the wind blows over it and it is gone,   and its place remembers it no more.

17 But from everlasting to everlasting   the LORD's love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children's children-

18 with those who keep his covenant    and remember to obey his precepts.

19 The LORD has established his throne in heaven,   and his kingdom rules over all.


20 Praise the LORD, you his angels,  you mighty ones who do his bidding, who obey his word.

21 Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts,    you his servants who do his will.

22 Praise the LORD, all his works  everywhere in his dominion.    Praise the LORD, O my soul.

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21st century will be a clean energy century

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/18/as_copenhagen_summit_closes_obama_maintains

Dear Friend, Moments ago, President Obama reached an agreement with world leaders at the climate conference in Copenhagen to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius and to require countries to list their national actions and commitments to achieving emission reduction goals. EDF President Fred Krupp issued the following statement in response: Today's agreement leaves the U.S. in control of its own destiny. We have always known that the path to a clean energy economy goes through Washington, D.C. As President Obama said today, strong action on climate change is in America's national interest. It's the Senate's turn to speak next. Whether we move ahead with a common-sense plan to create new manufacturing jobs in the U.S. and reduce dependence on foreign oil is not up to other countries; it's up to us. A year from now we can be further ahead or further behind, and the Senate will make the difference. Today's agreement takes the first important steps toward true transparency and accountability in an international climate agreement. The sooner the U.S. speaks through Senate legislation, the sooner we can set the terms of engagement for talks to come. There is much work to be done. But, if it wasn't already clear, it is now: The 21st century will be a clean energy century. The question before us is what role will America play in developing the technologies and clean energy solutions in the coming decades? It's up to us to urge our Senators to follow the leadership of President Obama and seize this opportunity to cap our carbon emissions, create millions of jobs and unleash our clean energy future. You can do two things right now to help: Go to our Operation: Climate Vote hub page to find various ways to take action. Make a Year-End donation to help give us the resources we'll need to continue the fight in Washington and get us over the goal line. Thanks for your activism and support, Environmental Defense Fund Environmental Defense Fund 1875 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20009 1-800-684-3322

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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.

Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams Ashley Smith

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