Grandmother Parisha will be on conference call this evening at 9 pm EST to discuss recent developments regarding the earth changes prophesied for this time with particular attention to 2012.
Listen in at
Please mute your phone once you are “in” out of courtesy for all the participants.
More information:
www.parishaonline.com
©2009 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved
This is a new video releases by The Jed Foundation explaining hwo the organization started, and how it is making a difference on college campuses around the country in preventing college student suicide.
Here are excerpts from the poster’s comments: “I’m writing from The Jed Foundation….We are presenting The Jerry Greenspan Student Voice of Mental Health Award for college students who have had mental health issues like the one’s you write about on your site and wanted for you to help spread the word.
“The award is for a video on their experiences with mental health issues and how they are working to raise awareness and encourage their peers on the issue. The award includes a $2,000 scholarship, a trip to NYC to our annual gala in June 2009, recognition through our site and events and possibly appearing on MTVU. The info is on our site (link below).
We are interested… in having folks write about the importance of doing work like this and show casing, if you will, this award we are presenting.
More information at http://jedfoundation.org/programs/student-voice-of-mental-health-award
NOTE: The Deadline for submitting a video to this project is FEBRUARY 13th! You can download an application from their site address shown here. Questions can be directed to studentaward@jedfoundation.org.
From their website, I share with you their Mission, as it appears on their About Us page:
The Jed Foundation works nationally to reduce the rate of suicide and the prevalence of emotional distress among college and university students. To achieve this end, the organization collaborates with the public and leaders in higher education, mental health, and research to produce and advance initiatives that:
You can also find the Jed Foundation, among other places on the net at http://www.youtube.com/thejedfoundation
There, you will find a number of videos on “You Are Not Alone – Fight the Stigma” which feature student sharings as well as educational information from professionals dealing with the issues of student mental health.
I have contacted the Jed Foundation and suggested they network with The Trevor Project, since I did not see any specific references to the LGBTQ population. I hope they follow suit.
Here’s one of their videos:
[NOTE: ALL RIGHTS TO THIS VIDEO BELONG TO THE JED FOUNDATION.]
The Jed Foundation also has a “Half Of Us” Campaign underway that asks students, “How Are You A Friend?” More information about this can be found at http://jedfoundation.org/about/jed-news/how-are-you-a-friend. -MsQueer.
©2009 MsQueer.com. All rights reserved. [NOTE: All language from the Jed Foundation website is the property of The Jed Foundation. No copyright infringement intended.]
On this day, January 19, 2009, as we mark “Martin Luther King Day” around the nation while looking forward with great anticipation to the Inauguration of President-elect Barrack Obama as the 44th President tomorrow, January 20th, I wish to “re-publish” my articles in tribute to a man who, as one newscaster reminded us today, would be 80 years old if still living and able to witness the historic swearing in of the first Afro-American President of the United States.
Dr. King was a personal hero to me. To this day his approach to winning freedom for an oppressed people and forging coalitions – rainbow bridges – continues to inspire me.
We are here to heal separation as the Human Family. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew that. He also understood the ways of the Peaceful Warrior. How I wish I could be able to see him standing there tomorrow in witness of this coming historic occassion, but then I know he will be there!
In appreciation and respect, Deborah Adler.
Original Post at : http://debadlersblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/remembering-rev-dr-martin-luther-king.html
Yes, Monday was the day that Congress selected to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday. I remarked somewhere during the day to a friend of mine that I always used to take part in a memorial march on this day. It was almost a throw-away comment, because we were in the middle of preparing for the gifting of donated library materials to go to various centers in the community. My comment, if heard, I don’t really think was noted.
Perhaps we’ve grown past the day of marches…maybe they are part of the history to which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now belongs…a history that I am also a part of for having been there and participated…
My “wonder years,” as they have been described by a popular bread commercial of the 60’s and 70’s, included the assassinations of a U.S. President, a Spiritual and Civil Rights Leader, and a former U.S. Attorney General and Presidential Candidate; the birth of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War conflict that ripped our nation apart, as if it needed any further help in that department. Marches and Sit-ins were the modus operandi of the day for standing up and speaking out and demonstrating solidarity. Today we have blogs and YouTube and other forms of electronic audio-visual communications to reach the global audience with our causes and concerns. Back then, we had megaphones, and placards painted with our messages of defiance and hope. We sang songs and chanted slogans in unison. Yes, when Ms. Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, it ushered in a whole new era – for all of us.
I was in junior high school when John Kennedy, our nation’s President, was shot. I remember being dismissed from school early after listening intently to the radio broadcast over the school’s public-address system from my math class room. When I got out to where our parents’ cars were already waiting, I remember getting in and the ominous ride home with my mother. I remember the fear I felt inside that we were without a leader and how vulnerable that might make us as a country. I asked her if the Communists were going to take over the country. “I don’t know,” she answered very quietly. “We have to get home.”
John Kennedy’s assassination stopped the world for 4 days, at least in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, where I lived. The nation stayed glued to the TV, hanging on every update that Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley could bring of the initially sketchy details through the capture and then assassination of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby, the President’s body lying in state in the Capital, and the seemingly endless funeral procession through the streets of Washington D.C. to the burial site at Arlington National Cemetery, where a little boy, John-John, said goodbye to his Father with a military salute that captured the hearts of people around the world in the now immortalized front page photograph.
It seems when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, not all of the country stopped in quite the same way. Not everyone was touched in the same way, I suppose, because there were those who celebrated his death. People fed by the ignorance of hatred and bigotry claimed victory. The rest of us held our breath for the future of humanity, wondering would there ever be a time when there was true equality and peace.
These were heady questions for a young high school girl in the mid-1960’s. But they were what occupied my mind in the days following the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.
Dr. King had become a hero to me. Even though I was not an Afro-American, I felt a personal identity with his vision. I was captivated by his eloquence, his passion, his courage, his leadership…his determination to win equality for all people through non-violent peaceful means.
Dr. King captured the heart of this idealistic young high school girl who personalized the racial strife in her country and hungered for a way to make a difference and be heard so that Afro-American people could know that not all White Americans hated those different from themselves. He provided a sure and steady power of example in those turbulent times. And Hope. He was a messenger for Faith and Hope.
So I found myself profoundly affected by the loss of this great leader, Dr. Martin Luther King. It was a loss I had to carry deeper inside myself than that of President Kennedy, because I did not find that it was shared by all of my friends – certainly not at the depth at which I felt it.
My respect and love for this man has grown through the years. I continue to be inspired by his vision and his powerful manner of delivery. May we dedicate our lives to unity and respect for all Beings, that all Humankind – black, white, red, yellow, straight, gay, young, old — and all life on this planet, may know health, wealth and happiness and flourish. Above all, may we all know Dignity and Respect.
Loving Your Enemies, excerpts from a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
original post at: http://debadlersblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/loving-your-enemies-from-dr-martin.html
I wanted to share some excerpts from one of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s speeches, which can be found in their entirety on the internet at http://www.mlkonline.net/speeches.htmlk, among other places.
Excerpts from “Loving Your Enemies:”
There’s another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. You just begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things. You can’t see straight when you hate. You can’t walk straight when you hate. You can’t stand upright. Your vision is distorted. There is nothing more tragic than to see an individual whose heart is filled with hate. He comes to the point that he becomes a pathological case. For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful. For the person who hates, the good becomes bad and the bad becomes good. For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That’s what hate does. You can’t see right. The symbol of objectivity is lost. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.
…long before modern psychology came into being, the world’s greatest psychologist who walked around the hills of Galilee told us to love. He looked at men and said: “Love your enemies; don’t hate anybody.” It’s not enough for us to hate your friends because-to to love your friends-because when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody. Hate at any point is a cancer that gnaws away at the very vital center of your life and your existence. It is like eroding acid that eats away the best and the objective center of your life. So Jesus says love, because hate destroys the hater as well as the hated.
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, “Love your enemies.” It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. That’s why Jesus says, “Love your enemies.” Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption. You just keep loving people and keep loving them, even though they’re mistreating you. Here’s the person who is a neighbor, and this person is doing something wrong to you and all of that. Just keep being friendly to that person. Keep loving them. Don’t do anything to embarrass them. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with bitterness because they’re mad because you love them like that. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
©2009 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved.
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You may think that you are “just one person” but the fact is that many of us “just one persons” can turn the tide. United we are a mighty force to be reckoned with.
Keeping people such as Tom Vilsack out of positions of authority is critical to the evolution of our planet. We must speak up. This is no time to sit back and think that “the other guy” will handle it. More people voted recently in the U.S. election than have for a very long time in our country’s history. The many taking action have elected the first Afro-American President. Now let’s hold him accountable to be the fair, caring visionary leader he has promised us to be.
Stop Tom Vilsack from getting more authority and learn what this man does and understand the outcome and effects he has. Know what his agenda is, be informed. He is not going to help mankind in resources and food.
PLEASE SIGN AND SPEAK UP, STOP THIS.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/t/8516/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783
Get involved. Help President-elect Obama fulfill his promise of returning this country to the greatness of its beginnings. Make your feelings known regarding the danger of this appointment and how counter-productive it is to Obama’s spoken goals. A leader can only be great when they lead from the knowing of what they’re people want.
Pleaase check out the Organic Consumer Association website http://www.organicconsumers.org/
Your email will be sent to your Senators and the President-Elect’s office
More information below, read further…….
—– Original Message —–
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:05 AM
Subject: [rawfood-222] sign petition against obama’s pick for sec of agriculture – we all need to get involved!! and pls forward
Friends,
In spite of 20,00 e-mails from organic consumers and, in apparent contradiction to his announcement that he wants an organic garden at the White House, Obama has chosen Tom Vilsack, a strong bio-tech proponent supporting genetically engineered crops, cloned animals, etc., to run the Department of Agriculture.
As you will see below, Vilsack is truly Monsanto’s boy. He pre-empted the local votes of towns and counties who had voted to disallow GE seeds!
It’s still possible to block Vilsack’s confirmation with a massive support of the petition drafted by the Organic Consumer Association. It’s easy to sign on at this link:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1783
or from the Organic Consumer Association website http://www.organicconsumers.org/vilsack.cfm
Your email will be sent to your Senators and the President-Elect’s office.
The article below gives further details. PLEASE POST THIS TO YOUR E-MAIL LISTS!
Thanks!
Gerhard Bedding, OpEdNews
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Vilsack-is-not-just-totall-by-Linn-Cohen-Cole-081218-394.html
December 18, 2008
Vilsack is not just totally pro-biotech, he is committedly anti-democracy By Linn Cohen-Cole. Excerpts from this article, chosen by Gerhard Bedding:
Vilsack, according to The Organic Consumer’s Association, was named Governor of the Year by Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the biggest pro-genetic engineering lobby in existence. Why? Not for nothing. Because he’d championed local transgenic R&D corporations like Trans Ova, which clones cows. Vilsack was also the founder and former chair of the Governor’s Biotechnology Partnership. Vilsack speaks for biotech. He is the man who helped wipe out the local votes of many towns and counties who had voted not to allow genetically engineered seeds.
http://haphazardgourmet.blogspot.com/2008/11/tom-vilsack-emerges-as-frontrunner-for.html
OCA names six reasons Vilsack was a terrible choice:
* Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack’s support of genetically engineered pharmaceutical crops, especially pharmaceutical corn:
http://www.gene.ch/genet/2002/Oct/msg00057.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/gefood/drugsincorn102302.cfm
* The biggest biotechnology industry group, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, named Vilsack Governor of the Year. He was also the founder and former chair of the Governor’s Biotechnology Partnership.
http://www.bio.org/news/pressreleases/newsitem.asp?id=200…
* When Vilsack created the Iowa Values Fund, his first poster child of economic development potential was Trans Ova and their pursuit of cloning dairy cows.
* Vilsack was the origin of the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, which many people here in Iowa fought because it took away local government’s possibility of ever having a regulation on seeds- where GE would be grown, having GE-free buffers, banning pharma corn locally, etc. Representative Sandy Greiner, the Republican sponsor of the bill, bragged on the House Floor that Vilsack put her up to it right after his state of the state address.
* Vilsack has a glowing reputation as being a schill for agribusiness biotech giants like Monsanto. Sustainable ag advocated across the country were spreading the word of Vilsack’s history as he was attempting to appeal to voters in his presidential bid. An activist from the west coast even made this youtube animation about Vilsack
[The airplane in this animation is a referral to the controversy that Vilsack often traveled in Monsanto's jet.]
*Vilsack is an ardent support of corn and soy based biofuels, which use as much or more fossil energy to produce them as they generate, while driving up world food prices and literally starving the poor.
“Vilsack lobbied hard to get seed pre-emption bills into state legislative bodies, beginning in 2005. These bills seek to control the use of seeds on the state level, and thus deny local communities (and small farmers, and even backyard farmers) the power to establish their own regulations for protection from genetically engineered seeds. If seed pre-emption bills become law, citizens will not be able to regulate where genetically engineered crops are grown, the creation of GE buffer zones, or the banning of pharmaceutical crops, among other things. The use of seeds becomes entirely regulated by government, and opens the door to human and plant exposure to every adverse effect of genetically engineered crops. –And simultaneously ruins biodiversity, because once transgenic seeds prevail, there’s no going back. Seed pre-emption bills have been introduced in sixteen states, and the battle is ongoing. But Vilsack has been one of the chief architects of looming biodiversity disaster, and there’s no reason to believe he’d halt his love affair with genetic engineering and Big Ag just because he’s working for Obama.”
http://haphazardgourmet.blogspot.com/2008/11/tom-vilsack-emerges-as-frontrunner-for.html
Philip F. Incao, MD
Steiner Holistic Medicine
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-Deborah Adler
December is a time when people traditionally travel “home” – or at least think about it – because a number of major religions have significant holidays during this month.
Christians rule with “Christmas” of course, which now gets its commercial launch pre-Halloween. But then, practically speaking, 33% of the world’s population and 82% of the United States population is considered “Christian” (includes: Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox, and other, as well as non-denominational), so the country tends to revolve around Christmas as the major holiday with Hanukkah, Kwanza, Eid-ul-Fitr and Winter Solstice trailing behind.
Actually, I suspect that all of these celebrations have their roots in the Winter Solstice, which marks the moment in time when, according to the wisdom of my Grandmother’s people, The Principle People (T’saligi), the Earth Mother “takes a breath” – and in that moment, sends out a tone that signals to all the vegetation of the planet a “wake up call” that begins the process of growth of shoots reaching towards the surface that will erupt in “the resurrection” of growth in the Spring.
Be that as it may, this is undoubtedly a time when families get together and attempt to function in good cheer. Of course normally “dysfunctional” families – and who’s isn’t these days in some way, shape or form – have a greater challenge. It’s a rare and blessed family that can honestly enjoy each other and embrace each member with acceptance and appreciation. It takes some practice, but it is definitely achievable.
“Holidays” also tend to be the time when family members choose to make significant announcements to the rest of the clan – like, “I’m getting married” ,”I’m getting a divorce” or “I’m Gay.”
If you have had any experience with the “I’m Gay” announcement – either as the announcer or the recipient, then I recommend the following post and resources from one of my other blogs, “MsQueer.” (Well, yes, since I wrote it I would be a tad favorably prejudiced towards it… :) )
It’s an Open Letter to Parents of Gay Teens, but it applies to all ages, and I’ve had positive feedback from both sides of the issue. Hope you enjoy.
See: http://msqueer.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/for-parents-of-gay-teens/
-Deborah Adler
©2008 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved.
Sixty years ago today on December 10th, the United Nations enacted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The following information is taken directly from website, http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
For further information you may visit the official United Nations site,
http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2008/index.shtml
Coinciding with those celebrations marking this historic day in the United States, Gay Activists have called for a “Day Without A Gay” demonstration consisting of LGBT persons and allies “calling in ‘Gay’ (not sick) to work” and taking the day to give service to others in a local human rights or other volunteer organization. I applaud this positive form of “protest” to the recent passing of California Proposition 8 and other anti-gay legislation. The organizers have called for a Day of Demonstrating Love Unto Others. Now, who’s going to argue with that?
(for more details, see my post at http://msqueer.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/day-without-a-gay-positive-action-call-for-demonstration-of-service/
I celebrate the Human Condition this day and every day. May we all work to elevate it to its highest potential – for ALL!
-Deborah Adler
©2008 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved.
John F Kennedy sought to free the American people from the clutches of the Un -American Federal Reserve Bank with the issuance of Executive Order 11110.
Today’s money is identified as “legal tender.” As such, it is worth the paper it is printed on – not the denominations printed on it. It is backed by NOTHING.
JFK issued the Executive Order to issue paper certificates (money) backed by silver held in the U.S. Treasury to stop the Federal Reserve Bank’s insane practice of of loaning unbacked money to this country at interest. The date: June 4, 1963.
This attempt to return the federal government to its role as defined by the Consitution to “coin money” and regulate its value undoubtably is one of the several proverbial nails in President Kennedy’s impending coffin. (After all these years, is there really any doubt left that his assassination was an inside job????)
Read more about this in “JFK Executive Order 11110; Obama’s Smart and Effective Government” at:http://mothanskin.blog-city.com/jfks_executive_order_11110_obamas_smart_and_effecti…
Also you can read more about this at http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/executiveorder11110.htm
and
http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/thefederalreserve.htm
If Barrack Obama wants to really effect change in this country’s policies and ways of doing business, he must take on the monster known to us as The Federal Reserve Bank and free us from its shackles. This is not a federal agency, it is backed by private funding.
Obama will need to tread carefully if he takes this one on, for the powerful few who control this behemoth also control world politics and the economy, not to mention the health and well being of anyone trying to oppose or expose them.
The battle that Kennedy began may not have been won during his brief tenure, but it never saw a retreat either.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11110 WAS NEVER RECINDED!
©2008 Deborah Adler. All rights reserved
In person:
• 34 states allow people to vote in person before Election Day. 31 don’t require an excuse; 3 states and the District of Columbia do.
• 16 states do not allow early or in-person absentee voting.
By mail:
• 28 states allow no-excuse absentee voting by mail.
• 22 states and the District of Columbia require an excuse to vote absentee by mail.
Source: Early Voting Information Center at Reed College
Well, we’re in the final stretch of the 2008 Presidential Elections. Yipee!
I saw a teaser on the front page of USA Today the other day echoing the sentiments of many Americans that ”this election needs to be over.”
Alas, the winner will be announced in just 7 days – or maybe 8, or maybe…if we have some kind of snafu like the past two presidential elections, we may have to wait for a convoluted congressional or judicial process to determine who is really going to take the helm of the United States for the next 4 – or 8? – years.
However it shakes out on the 4th of November, one thing is for certain: this election is a unique opportunity for voters to express their disgust with the political process. I am referring to the option of voting not for the Democratic or Republican candidiate, nor for any of the other independent candidates on the ballot, but for the rightful Democratic presidential candidate: Hillary Clinton.
Anyone planning to write-in Hillary Clinton for President must also write-in a Vice-Presidential candidate in order for the ballot to be valid.
My choice is former Secretary of State Collin Powell. Yes, I know he is a “Johnny-come-lately” to the Democratic party but I prefer him to Obama in the VP seat with Hillary at the helm. I believe they would work very well together.
So that’s my vote, as it will appear on my absentee ballot, which hopefully will be counted. Watch for the returns from Ohio, specifically Noble County. If no report of my write-in is included with the official tallies, it got buried.
Stay tuned…
-Deborah Adler
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