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Willie Nelson Live NYC

July 21st, 2008 Jay Posted in Animal Rights, Arts, Environment, Peace, Willie Nelson | No Comments »

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Willie Nelson sings “A Peaceful Solution” like only Willie Nelson himself can sing it. Guy Meyer shot this video of Willie Nelson performing “A Peaceful Solution” live in New York City.

The great and talented Patsy Cline discovered that she could not sing like Willie Nelson and no one else has been able to do it either. Many people have also said that Willie Nelson never performs the a song the same way twice.

In my opinion this is evidence the great artistic genius of Willie Nelson.

Willie Nelson illustrates that a powerful and important message may be put to music many different ways. Yet all these ways “A Peaceful Solution” has been performed represents only a small fraction of those who agree with the message of peace.

We take strength from the nearly 200 individual and unique versions of “A Peaceful Solution.” This tells us that peace is desired by a broad spectrum of the world’s musicians and videographers.

More than that, this also indicates that many many more people who are not musicians, videographers or even online wish peace in our lifetime. When a song travels among performers and reaches diverse audiences it suggests a more universal acceptance of its message.

Willie Nelson expresses these essential messages in song and music. Messages such as contained in “A Peaceful Solution” continue to resonate with performers and audiences because they hint at basic truths.

It seems that many people need to be reminded of the basic truth that we’re all children of God, and through faith we can actually realize, and daily experience, this ennobling truth.

Remembering this truth uplifts the human spirit.

This uplifting truth has been expressed many different ways. This truth can be expressed without mentioning God if someone finds the idea of God unsettling or unacceptable.

The personal, absolute and infinite source of not only personalities but of all things, meanings and values lives in us and through us. Call It what you will.

Every person is made up of the same stuff as the stars. We are all part of the grand mysterious universe and each of us has a part to play.

It bears upon us to recognize and acknowledge our cosmic nature.

Even the hemp plant, commonly called marijuana, has a part to play. It seems an affront to our very nature to declare an ancient and useful plant illegal.

Even more horrible than the war upon the most useful plant in the world is the war on the animals that have helped people rise above a base existence. Horses, dogs, cats and all other domestic animals too often experience severe abuse and terrible deaths at human hands.

It is way past time that we all consider the type of person who can callously plan the deaths of millions of other beings. This powerful minority is leading the entire planet down a one-way path to total annihilation and obliteration.

The biggest problem these war mongers have is the fact that most people will not kill another human being. People must be brainwashed and heavily indoctrinated before they will become killers.

The roots of PTSD, post-traumatic stress disease lay in the forced exposure to and participation in the atrocities of war. War is the invention of a few less than human individuals who have gained power through ruthless means.

The underlaying truth that Americans are all born into political and economic slavery without their knowledge, understanding, consent or just cause has been hidden from us all.

We all live, work, pay taxes and believe we are all free in the greatest and best nation on earth.

It is a lie.

Forty-five (45) nations provide better health care to its people than the United States. Forty-two (42) nations take better care of its children than the United States.

The liberty of all persons in America is stolen, silently and invisibly by all the rules of conduct and regulations of behavior that precludes your personal freedom to choose to do or not do any and all the things the liars say you cannot do.

Now this phony war on terror restricts our freedoms even more just as the phony war on drugs restricts our freedoms. In the balance impoverished, naive and disenfranchised Americans are deceptively recruited, indoctrinated and brainwashed into becoming killers.

This is more than sanity can bear and leads to PTSD for many of them.

After much research into the psychology of the forces behind history, in a field called Psychohistory, the mentality of leaders and the populations they lead into misery has been revealed.

The circumstances of human pregnancy and birth make us all vulnerable to psychological manipulation. Evil beings take advantage of these vulnerabilities.

The study of political ponerology, the science examining the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes, reveals a description of those who enslave, torture and kill us.

We have a name for these evil people.

They are psychopaths.

Psychopaths specialize in predation upon human beings.

The evidence suggests that psychopaths know more about human beings than we know about them. We do not even know how to easily identify them before they show themselves by the damage they do.

Psychopaths are without conscious or remorse. Psychopaths are incapable of being reformed. Psychopaths are predators upon the human race.

Fortunately psychopaths seem to be only a small percentage of the population. Unfortunately weak willed vulnerable people will follow psychopaths. These weak willed become sociopaths.

Even more unfortunately, this aberrant behavior now dominates United States culture. Our nation is becoming an anathema to the rest of the world.

Make a peaceful resolution,
join the peaceful revolution
and take back America.

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Act to Defeat Genocide in Darfur

July 20th, 2008 Liz Posted in Peace | No Comments »

Important News Update: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has charged Sudanese President Bashir with genocide. The ICC has taken a decisive step forward. Now the U.N. Security Council must act. Click here to urge the U.N. Security Council to follow through on its commitment to peace in Darfur

On Monday the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued formal charges against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir for genocide.

How Bashir will respond is unclear. His record suggests that he could take his vengeance out on Darfuris.

If that danger weren’t enough, a BBC report this week revealed evidence suggesting that China, one of the Security Council’s permanent five members, has been providing the weapons used to carry out the genocide.1

It’s never been clearer that the U.N. Security Council needs a comprehensive plan for Darfur. And its leaders need the political will to implement it.

Click here to help us reach our goal of 50,000 messages that we will deliver to the five permanent members of the Security Council on July 31.

The ICC prosecutor’s charge against Bashir is the first time the court has made such a charge against a sitting head of state. The prosecutor spent years gathering evidence and found that Bashir and his government orchestrated a strategy of genocidal attacks.

And according to the prosecutor, when Bashir didn’t kill with direct violence he “organized the destitution, insecurity, and harassment of the survivors. He did not need bullets. He used other weapons: rapes, hunger and fear. As efficient, but silent.”

And all this happened under the nose of the U.N. Security Council. The Council has watched Bashir unleash a 5-year campaign of terror…without consequences. It hasn’t sent enough peacekeepers. It hasn’t provided enough equipment. And it hasn’t held Bashir accountable as he defies one Security Council resolution after another.

It is time for the U.N. Security Council to finally follow through on its commitment to bring peace to Darfur.

Tell the Security Council it’s time to keep its word and fulfill its moral obligation.

And after you sign the petition, click here to help us reach our goal of 50,000 messages by July 31 by telling your friends and family about our campaign.

Thank you for your help and your commitment to the people of Darfur.

Best regards,

Colleen Connors
Save Darfur Coalition

(1) http://blogfordarfur.org/

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A Peaceful Solution Ichingiching

July 17th, 2008 Jay Posted in Arts, Peace | 1 Comment »

Ichingiching finger picks and sings his own very mellow version of “A Peaceful Solution.” In his statement Ichingiching then suggests deeper aspects of the idea of peace.

Often it can seem that peace is positioned in opposition to war as if they were two sides in a debate. This may be a good opportunity to explore the falseness in this theoretical dichotomy.

There are many ways things can go wrong. Conflict and violence exist as merely two of countless ways to abuse and otherwise diminish ourselves, those around us and our environment.

There is only one way to be right and that is to be right. One crucial criteria of correctness proves to be peace. Peace happens to be a conformation of right thought and right action.

Peace functions as a hub representing a singular alternative to innumerable wrongs. When fully considered peace can expand to be a universal salve to sooth all ailments.

When you act with peace it is not on the same scale as when you act with violence. Peace action cannot be summed up as easily as a terminally violent act reaches a definitive conclusion.

Peace must propagate through countless small almost insignificant courtesies exercised throughout a lifetime. Peace depends upon the very next thing you do every minute of every day.

Please do not be intimidated by the scope of peace because peace can always just be a small thing. Only from a grand perspective can we see the true strength of peace.

The strength of violence is expended in a moment.

The strength of peace lasts for eternity.

A spasm of inconsideration becomes a fleeting nightmare as peace reaches to the two eternities before us and behind us. It comes to us to decide only in the present moment to choose peace.

Only when we decide to hold illusions of resentment, hatred and feelings of revenge in our imaginations does peace become occluded. We literally blind ourselves first in our imaginations and then pretend that we cannot see our way forward.

But a simple act of compassion will expose peace once again to the light of day. However you may decide to label the wrongs you perceive the solution is always the peaceful resolution.

Whether you find fault first with yourself or with others you can always choose to refuse the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and eat instead of the fruit of the Tree of Life.

Renounce a life of suffering and death by choosing peace and reenter the joyous place of your birthright. Each and every one of us has this capacity.

This is the peaceful revolution.

Acknowledge and respect the great mystery that we live in and also acknowledge and respect the great mystery you are. We are mysterious beings living in a mysterious universe.

Peace allows us the possibility to explore these great mysteries as well as the other mysterious beings that share this place with us. It only requires our acknowledgment and respect to be put into practice for peace to manifest all around you.

Phantoms and ghosts have led us away from our purpose. Take Back America.

* * * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *

“I have no illusions about peace in this world.. What does it really mean? Its like asking an infant to define the universe..

I subscribe to the wonderfulness of life as being sacred in all its glory from the smallest to the largest.

As human beings we have the gift and the ability to know the divine beauty of the universe and therefore for the universe to know itself in this moment.

It’s enough that we celebrate each breath we take.. and ultimately share this gift together and in harmony with everyone and everything else. Each breath in and each breath out..

God can be found in the pause.

Before we learn to conquer the seas, sky and space we should learn to know ourselves for that is where ultimate peace lies

In our striving to attain material perfection, we have lost site of our divine right to know love and peace as the indefinable yet un-deniable right of all that gain conscious-ness from the inanimate.

We search externally for something that can only be found ’inside’.

Peace is a state of mind.. we see what we want to see, find what we want to find and believe in what we want to believe.

Peace is not defined as an absolute.. It is relative to our sense of self and measured in terms of each individual’s value system.

There are fundamental rules that collectively we generally adhere to but no one can define (in words alone) the true value and meaning of peace and love.

If we think we have it.. we haven’t. If we think to can define it.. we can’t. If we think we have the answer.. then we’ve not understood the question..

Having and grasping peace is like juggling mist… its enough to know its there.

Live peace, breath peace, walk in peace, appreciate peace.

Strive to be peace but try not to grasp peace.. it is not ours to own.. just to know peace and love peace”

Then we have a chance of peace in this world….
Ichingiching

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A Peaceful Solution Michael Walker

July 16th, 2008 Jay Posted in Arts, Peace | 1 Comment »

Michael Walker created an elegant and thoughtful version of “A Peaceful Solution.” Once again this project has drawn a person of diverse and accomplished talents.

We can only speculate upon the details of an upbringing that gives us Michael Walker as compared to the upbringings that gave us the current administration. How wonderful it would be if as a people we could raise up entire generations to be musicians and artists rather than greedy militarists.

Perhaps if we give pause to consider what led each of us to choose peace then we may reveal a few clues. There have been volumes written about many facets of human development.

Finally a group of people gathered together research from across the spectrum of the social sciences and organized it into a single focused perspective. They called this discipline psychohistory.

Psychohistory examines the psychology of both large groups of people and the psychology of individual leaders who have shaped our current world.

After all the variables were considered, the bottom line seems to be that all advances in human culture have followed broad scale improvements in the treatment of mothers and children.

The corrupt monsters that have orchestrated one abomination after another against the human race were products of the worse upbringing and social conditions available in their time.

Even though we may seem trapped in endless cycles of abuses against mothers and children that create more insane abusive monsters we only have to take the long view to see that over large periods of time the human condition has improved.

The issue at hand may be whether or not we have the time to evolve into kinder and more peaceful people before we make our planet uninhabitable.

Now at this crucial juncture in time, exactly when time seems to be running out, we are presented with the knowledge of how to create an everlasting peaceful world.

In saying that I wish we would raise entire generations to be musicians and artists I am not wishing for a world of Michael Walker clones although that may be preferable to the current state of affairs.

Just look over the diversity among those who have contributed their version of “A Peaceful Solution.” You would be hard pressed to find a more diverse group.

Peace accounts for all diversity. We can all live together in peace.

We can Take Back America.

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I am a Fine Art student from Liverpool England. I enjoy playing guitar, piano, drawing and painting.

My aspirations for my personal future is to be either an artist or art tutor. I often use art as a way of expressing my concerns or opinions about war and the environment, for these to me are the most important issues of our time.

I hope that as I grow older my work will cause me to have a positive influence on the planet. It is for this reason that I am glad to be a part of this project.

Below is a link to some of my Art.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/blooeye/eye.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/blooeye/GeorgeBush.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/blooeye/jellybean.jpg

Coming from Liverpool, I was influenced at an early age by the music of John Lennon and his quest to bring world peace.

I think music has always been (and will be for the foreseeable future) a great way of bringing people together for a noble cause.

That is why this project is so good. For it informs passing observers of our goal and causes the project’s participants to be even more united and determined in their search for peace.

Let’s make this the anthem of our generation!

Peace!

Michael Walker

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A Peaceful Solution John Gottlied

July 13th, 2008 Jay Posted in Arts, Peace | No Comments »

John Gottlied sings his additional lyrics along with the original lyrics of “A Peaceful Solution.” The scrolling lyrics over symbols of Americana and patriotism seems to provide greater direction to a peaceful revolution.

John Gottlied does not seem to have any problem with combining American patriotism and a peaceful resolution. He uses his music to display the possibility that American patriotism can mean something besides militarism.

I believe many people also embrace the idea of a peaceful America. We just cannot always see them because it is too easy to sit down and blend in with what is perceived as the dominant opinion.

This is a shame because I also believe that if everyone who supports a peaceful revolution stood up we would be surprised to find out that we are in the majority.

Peace people have been shouted down by an aggressive minority for too long.

Discover your unity.

Discover your strength.

Do not allow a bully or two to silence the majority of peaceful people.

I am not asking for confrontation but rather vocalization.

Sing out.

Make a joyful noise.

In the silence between your breaths you will hear the voices of many others.

Take heart with this.

Take Back America.

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My name is John Gottlied. I’m forty years old. I am a father and songwriter. I also write essays and poetry. I have always considered myself an advocate of peace and a lover of the natural world.

I feel truly honored to be able to participate in the Willie Nelson Peace Research Institute’s “A Peaceful Solution” Project. I have always admired Mr. Nelson’s amazing talent and his dedication to making this world a better place.

This project should give us all hope that we are not alone trying to change the world, but instead we are a choir spreading a message and inspiring a dialogue towards actions.

I spent twenty-one years in the United States Military and am proud to have served my country. I respect and admire those who choose to serve in uniform. I also believe that war is sometimes necessary, but only as a last resort.

Too many lives are needlessly lost in armed conflicts that are unnecessary and ill conceived. I have lost friends that I served with and had other friends whose lives have been irreversibly changed by war.

There are no victors in war.

We all lose in one way or another and it blinds us to the true value of all life.

My three youngest children live with me and every time I look into their eyes I see the promise and potential that each one of us is born with. I look at the world around me and see that potential being wasted and the promise being ignored.

If one thing I write or sing causes someone to stop and think then I know that I am making a difference. When my children learn from the way I live and interact with the world around me then I know I am making a difference.

Surely we are all here to do more than just collect and consume.

If we are not trying to make this world a better place then why bother at all. Each one of us only has a finite number of years to live, and when we have left this world it won’t matter whether we were rich or poor.

Our legacy will be whether or not we left this world a richer place.

I am only one voice, and at times my voice may fail,
but if a choir is singing the same song, no one could ever tell.
I am only one man, and may sometimes stumble and fall,
but if I pick myself back up then I’ve not lost much at all.
But if we all refuse to sing or won’t rise up from the dirt,
then we’ll never make any progress and then what are we worth.

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