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 PeaceOMatic FREE APP teaches daily lessons in Peace making!

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Peace-O-matic FREE APP teaching daily lessons in peacemaking. Have Apps finally gone from where is the grocery store and pizza shop to human philosophical and psychological thought for making peace? Yes, drawing on a known scientific study fact: The more you think "Peace" the more you feel peaceful, and the more you make peace an option in your interactions with others. Yes, that's a proven fact world wide.

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But really how many of us can use a stress reduction peace quote twittered to us, or texts to us everyday, to chill, cool out, and reduce stress? How many of us really know how to "make peace", versus the great abstract idea of "Peace"? World Peace is overwhelming without help for any of us, and having insights, humor, and methods shown to us every day, can help us pave the wave to a more peaceful life, and world. Thank you Peace-O-Matic!

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FREE PEACE TECH NOW!

  The FREE Peace Tech Solutions Inventory awaits!

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Open-source technologies are playing a pivotal role in helping non-profit organizations around the world to advance their mandates in innovative ways. These tools can variously help with visualizing data on specific issues, empowering citizens to act together on a common issue, communicating and organize community stakeholders, warning communities about potential problems, soliciting community input on new initiatives, etc. While these are not inherently "peace technologies," they can help be powerful tools that help to empower communities and promote social change anywhere.

Ushahidi

- http://www.ushahidi.com
Ushahidi is an open-source, mapping tool that allows people to use mobile phones or computers to submit reports – anonymously in some cases – on a particular issue. It is used for a variety of reasons and in widely different contexts. Here are a few examples of how Ushahidi has been used successfully used across the globe:
• Ushahidi was originally developed and used in Kenya to map the violence that spread across the country following the 2007 election. It was used again in 2010 as Uchaguzi to monitor the results of the constitutional referendum.
• Egyptian’s are using Ushahidi to report and map incidents of sexual harassment and violence through HarassMap
• In Haiti, it was used to help report and plan for the crisis that followed the earthquake in January of 2010. This helped to save the lives of many people under the rubble.
• In the Sudan, Ushahidi was used to monitor the results of the independence referendum.
• In India Ushahidi has been used as an elections monitoring tool.

FrontLine SMS

- http://www.frontlinesms.com
Frontline SMS is a technology that enables Ushahidi. Using mobile phone or computer, it allows users to send and receive text messages with groups of people through mobile phones. It is used by non-profit organizations to reach specific groups of individuals within a target community, enabling them to: run an awareness raising campaign, launch a competition, administer text-based surveys and keep in touch with fieldworkers and staff.
This technology is being used in Egypt to support the HarassMap sexual harassment mapping technology. It is also being used by ‘Plan International’ to strengthen both local and national reporting of trafficking and violence in Benin. It was used in Burundi to support peacekeeping during the 2010 elections in Burundi.

Freedom Fone

- www.freedomfone.org
Freedom Fone is a platform that enables automated, interactive, two-way, audio information to be shared through mobile phone networks. Freedom Fone is accessible, user-friendly, low-cost, scalable, global and does not require Internet access for users or callers. It targets ordinary mobile phone users and takes advantage of IVR: Interactive Voice Response or audio voice menus. This means that it can be used to reach and collect information from people who are illiterate, who do not speak the same language, and who have longer messages to convey. Other functionality includes SMS, Polls and Leave-a-Message.

MxIt

- http://www.MxIt.com
MxIt is a free tool that allows users with even very basic mobile phones to do much more, including chatting to individuals or groups find people who share common interests, gain access to more information inexpensively, conduct transactions, and more. It is being used by organizations such as South Africa’s Cell Life to access remote communities towards improving access to information and to improve communications with people affected by HIV/ AIDS.

CiviCRM

- http://www.civicrm.org
CiviCRM is a free, web-based and open source relationship management solution designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. CiviCRM is a powerful contact, fundraising and eCRM system that allows user to record and manage information about their volunteers, donors, employees, clients, vendors, etc. It further enables organizations to track and execute donations, transactions, conversations,
events or any type of correspondence with each constituent and store it all in one, easily accessible and manageable source.

Full tech resources at: http://peacegeeks.org

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PEACE MONUMENT IN LAS VEGAS?

 Peace art based on the peace symbol, in a city known for sin, and sleaze like Las Vegas?

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Seems Las Vegas has people living in it not completely devoted to gamboling and the "Vegas neon strip". Rather it seems this group wants a Make Peace Art Sculpture Monument, to be located somewhere in the city. For a city that celebrates it's violent past, with "The Mob Museum" this would be such a radical shift, to a higher purpose. The group states: "This is to have a new vision of the city, livable, concerned with greater things rather than escapism, and self indulgence, alone. We want something to build a city's values with and inspire those who live and visit here to a more positive view of who Las Vegas citizens are and what as a city Vegas could be, especially for new business not based in gamboling and sexual allure alone."

Las Vegas the capitol of excess at least when it comes to over sized theme park style displays, tons of neon lights and suburban sprawl, ever accept an artwork that addresses "peace making"? Will the proposed sixty foot tall sculpture budgeted at $360,000 dollars find a home in the city's downtown, where the Zappos corporation is trying to create a new image for creative, high tech business', and living? Discussion with Zappos' Representatives for their "Downtown project" new arts festivals, music etc. have begun. Zappos' CEO Tony Heish recently stated he is investing $465 million dollars into housing, business development, incubator parks, dinning etc. and relocating their corporate headquarters there for a "new" silicon valley style business world. Could such a sculpture monument fit into their plans, or elsewhere in the "New Vegas" as many are calling this revitalization effort?

The Make peace sculpture, one has to admit, definitely has a powerful message and elegant look, but can it fit into Vegas' image of "What happens here stays here" and is often joked, "All Your money" after gamboling and strip clubs? Is it a city that cares about such values as "Making Peace"? A few brave peace makers in the city obviously think so. Take a look for yourself, at the artist's concept drawing in front of Las Vegas' new Smith Center cultural  building downtown:

"Make Peace Sculpture Monumentt" in Las Vegas Downtown concept drawing

To find out more about this project email:  Las Vegas Make Peace Monument Project

 To see this artist sculptor's work visit the web site: makepeaceart.com

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APPLE inc. NO PEACE! WORKERS RIOT IN CHINA!

 Will Apple Inc. face Peace and lose profits as Chinese workers riot for human rights?

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Riot at Foxconn Apple's Factory Underscores Rift in China

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Workers and onlookers near an entrance of Foxconn’s troubled industry park in Taiyuan, China.

By DAVID BARBOZA and KEITH BRADSHER

SHANGHAI — The images and video began to appear on Chinese social networking sites early Monday: buildings with shattered windows, overturned police cars, huge crowds of young people milling about in the dark and riot police in formation.

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The online postings were from a disturbance late Sunday that shut down a manufacturing facility in Taiyuan in north China, where 79,000 workers were employed.

State-run news media said 5,000 police officers had to be called in to quell a riot that began as a dispute involving a group of workers and security guards at a factory dormitory.

The unrest was noteworthy because the factory site is managed by Foxconn Technology, one of the world’s biggest electronics manufacturers and an important supplier to companies like Apple, Dell, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. 

A spokesman for Foxconn said the company was investigating the cause of the incident. But analysts say worker unrest in China has grown more common because workers are more aware of their rights, and yet have few outlets to challenge or negotiate with their employers.

When they do, though, the results can be ugly and, because of social media and the Web, almost instantly transmitted to the world in their rawest and most unfiltered form.

“At first it was a conflict between the security guards and some workers,” said a man who was reached by telephone after he posted images online. The man said he was a Foxconn employee. “But I think the real reason is they were frustrated with life.”

The company said that as many as 2,000 workers were involved in the incident but that it was confined to an employee dormitory and “no production facilities or equipment have been affected.” 

Nonetheless, the plant was closed, the company said.

Foxconn, which is based in Taiwan and employs more than 1.1 million workers in China, declined to say whether the Taiyuan plant made products for the Apple iPhone 5, which went on sale last week. A spokesman said the factory supplied goods to many consumer electronics brands. An employee at the Taiyuan plant said iPhone components were made there. 

Supply-chain experts say most Apple-related production takes place in other parts of China, particularly in the provinces of Sichuan, Guangdong and Henan.

Apple referred questions to Foxconn. 

Labor unrest in Taiyuan, in northern China’s Shanxi Province, comes as strikes and other worker protests appear to be increasing in frequency this year compared with last year, said Geoffrey Crothall, spokesman for the China Labor Bulletin, a nonprofit advocacy group in Hong Kong seeking collective bargaining and other protections for workers in mainland China.

Many of the protests this year appear to be related to the country’s economic slowdown, as employees demand the payment of overdue wages from financially struggling companies, or insist on compensation when money-losing factories in coastal provinces are closed and moved to lower-cost cities in the interior.

But the level of labor unrest in China this year has not yet matched 2010, when a surge in inflation sparked a wave of worker demands for higher pay, Mr. Crothall said.

The Taiyuan protest comes at a politically delicate time in China, with a Communist Party Congress expected in the coming weeks to anoint a new general secretary and a new slate of members for the country’s most powerful body, the Standing Committee of the Politburo.

The government has been tightening security ahead of the conclave through measures like restricting the issuance of visas and devoting considerable resources to watching and containing disturbances like the recent anti-Japanese demonstrations. (continued)

For more as this is an excerpt from the N.Y. Times article: click here:

David Barboza reported from Shanghai, and Keith Bradsher from Hong Kong.


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THE MASTER FILM focuses on Peace?

Breaks Box office Records! Search for self, peace and life's purpose.

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The Master is a 1950s drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as "the Master" (Philip Seymour Hoffman) whose faith-based organization begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man (Joaquin Phoenix).

The film offers a  striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master unfolds the journey of a Naval veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman). We must all find our way to something greater than ourselves to believe in to have purpose. Terrific!



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PEACE MAKER LADY GAGA!

 Lady Gaga makes Peace with her new Peace foundation.

 

In public statements, for "equality and same sex marriage", becoming and used as a symbol for world peace in peace marches on Washington D.C. begs the question what impact on world peace do celebrity figures have, what is the depth of their insights into the very thing called peace?

The following examples do show that "peace" is at least popular, relevant, and media worthy where ever it is exhibited. Magazine covers, tattoos, and even foundations, cover just some of the recent efforts by Lady Gaga. Byt the great news is her "Born this way foundation" anti bullying foundation and gay rights, another area of equality needed for world peace.

Superstardom To Good Use! Lady Gaga To Launch Born This Way Foundation 

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Lady Gaga Asks For Peace On The Cover Of British ‘Vanity Fair’

It’s always heart warming to hear a superstar making efforts to change the world, with their fame and popularity. Lady Gaga is no different as she has always been forthright in her passion for peace and acceptance since she stepped on the scene a couple of years ago.
Expectantly, Gaga and her mother HAVE set out to launch their charity in 2012, Born This Way, to help inspire and encourage bravery, love and acceptance for all individuals. ” My mother and I have initiated a passion project. We call it the Born This Way Foundation. Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying abandonment”, says Gaga on her upcoming project.

These days where bullying is taking over the school experience for many students, it’s good that Gaga is piggybacking on the attempt to outlaw the crime, in her own unique way.

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  Lady Gaga quote on peace: aka: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

“Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart”

Lady Gaga Peace symbol sign tattoo on her wrist, and yours?

 Additional information: 

bornthiswayfoundation.org/

 

Born This Way @BTWFoundation on twitter

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PEACE IMPOSSIBLE AS WOMEN CRUELLY ABUSED!

 Peace impossible without full women's rights, eqaulity foundation of lasting pace world wide!

 
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As long as women throughout the world are abused how can such barbaric cruelty when displayed, offer any hope for making peace? Certainly nations may make peace, sign treaties, but as human cruelty on this level continues in societies around the world, the barbaric nature of  what can only be called "domestic wars" fester away the very stability needed to confront peace making efforts from the ground up, or bottom up.


We can only let these pictures tell the story for all women world wide to take action: after all equality, and freedom from brutal savage harm are the foundation of any form of lasting peace in our future.

Saira Liaqat, 26, poses for the camera as she holds a portrait of herself before being burned, at her home in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. When she was fifteen, Saira was married to a relative who would later attack her with acid after insistently demanding her to live with him, although the families had agreed she wouldn’t join him until she finished school. Saira has undergone plastic surgery 9 times to try to recover from her scars.

Irum Saeed, 30, poses for a photograph at her office at the Urdu University of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, July 24, 2008. Irum was burned on her face, back and shoulders twelve years ago when a boy whom she rejected for marriage threw acid on her in the middle of the street. She has undergone plastic surgery 25 times to try to recover from her scars.

We wish to thank Tom O'Halloran for bringing these photos to the world to see. We don not completely share his views but in this instance, the overwhelming plea of basic humanity towards women and all compels us. But it is for you to decide after seeing the greatest courage of all, that these women possess, that is: to live, tell us and hopefully change our lives as theirs have been changed, forever.

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PEACE'S NEW MIDDLE EAST VOICE:

 Steps needed for Arab Peace Makers

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CAIRO — On the eve of his first trip to the United States as Egypt’s new Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi said the United States needed to fundamentally change its approach to the Arab world, showing greater respect for its values and helping build a Palestinian state, if it hoped to overcome decades of pent-up anger.

Mohamed Morsi: Interview Excerpts

A former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mr. Morsi sought in a 90-minute interview with The New York Times to introduce himself to the American public and to revise the terms of relations between his country and the United States after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, an autocratic but reliable ally.

He said it was up to Washington to repair relations with the Arab world and to revitalize the alliance with Egypt, long a cornerstone of regional stability.

If Washington is asking Egypt to honor its treaty with Israel, he said, Washington should also live up to its own Camp David commitment to Palestinian self-rule. He said the United States must respect the Arab world’s history and culture, even when that conflicts with Western values. 

Interview continued @ NYtimes

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PEACE ART AUCTION DRAWS DAMIEN HIRST! 

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Damien Hirst Donates Spin Art AK-47 Rifle

 

Damien Hirst Donates Spin Art AK-47 Rifle To Peace Auction

Some of the best known names in British Contemporary Art, including Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, Jeremy Deller, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Gavin Turk, Stuart Semple, Sarah Lucas and Sam Taylor-Wood  are uniting for Peace One Day, to react against the horror of violence globally, with ‘AKA Peace’. Creating brand new works for a blockbuster autumn exhibition, to be curated by Jake Chapman in collaboration with non-profit organisation Peace One Day, these artists will reinterpret an AK-47 assault rifle the most recognisable and devastating worldwide killing machine as arresting artworks of intrigue and even beauty; recasting a weapon of devastation as a conduit to peace.

Bran Symondson, winner of the 2011 Amnesty International Media Award, a dynamic photographer who con- ceived the idea of AKA Peace following his experience as a soldier in Afghanistan. “Having experienced action whilst serving in Afghanistan, and seeing how Afghan police adorned their AK47’s with roses and stickers, I wanted to turn the most iconic weapon in the world from one of fear and unrest to one of beauty and intrigue. This has been the seed for creating the ‘AKA Peace’ project” – Bran Symondson

The project, which coincides with Peace Day on Friday 21 September 2012, aims to raise funds for Peace One Day’s Global Truce 2013 campaign whilst increasing awareness of Peace Day itself. The exhibition will take place 26 – 30 September 2012 at the ICA, London, to be directly followed by an auction of the exhibited works held by Phillips de Pury & Company to be held at Howick Place, London SW1P 1BB on Thursday 4th October 2012.

Full list of artists involved: Charming Baker, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Jeremy Deller, Nancy Fouts, Ryan Gander, Douglas Gordon, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Jim Lambie, Lang- lands & Bell, Sarah Lucas, Antony Micallef, Harland Miller, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Marc Quinn, Stuart Semple, Laila Shawa, Bran Symondson, SamTaylor-Wood, Gavin Turk and Rebecca Warren.

Bran Symondson said “The irony of taking the most devastating weapon in the world, and seeing the reinterpretation of the AK47 through these artists’ eyes, into one of beauty is a powerful catalyst for hope and peace, and that is able to grow from a day of world peace.”

Jake Chapman said, “I am not readily associated with a sense of philanthropic optimism, but after a meeting with Jeremy Gilley at Peace One Day, my pessimism was suspended in favour of supporting this audacious attempt to intervene against human injustice. We have therefore assembled a number of artists prepared to do what they can to collaborate against apathy.”

Sam Taylor-Wood said, “In recent times His Holiness, the Dalai Lama has called for the cultivation of world love and compassion by eliminating selfishness and greed. As war is wholly based in selfishness and greed, I can think of no better way for us all to work towards a Global Truce in uniting for a day of ceasefire observed unilaterally across the world. I hope that the AK 47 Art work project raises visibility and hope for this extraor- dinary cause.”

Peace One Day ambassador Jude Law said, “It’s wonderful that so many important contemporary artists have come together to support Peace One Day. It’s exciting to me that art, music and film play such an important role in helping Peace One Day to raise awareness of Peace Day; AKA Peace is a unique and fascinating project.”

The piece created by Bran Symondson is entitled ‘Commodities’; Each bullet is filled with a significant com- modity of what makes the AK47 one of the world’s most notorious weapons.
Earth (representing land), oil, opium poppy seeds (from Afghanistan ) gold, diamonds, cocaine, blood, coffee, dove feather & olive leaf (Peace) and religious symbols. The five burnt dollar bills on the bayonet represent the five friends Bran lost in Afghanistan.

Simon de Pury, Chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, said, “We are proud to be lending our support for Peace One Day. We fully share the concern of the highly talented and very generous group of artists that are participating in ‘AKA Peace’.”

Jeremy Gilley, founder of Peace One Day said, “AKA Peace is a really profound project; turning a weapon of destruction into a weapon of peace is awesome. The benefits of awareness and finance to help Global Truce 2013 is a great outcome. I’m grateful to Bran for having a wonderful idea and it’s an honour to have Jake Chap- man curate the project.”

Peace Day 2012 will be marked by the Peace One Day Concert, at Wembley Arena in London. Headlining the concert will be Elton John, alongside James Morrison and 2Cellos.
For further information about ‘AKA Peace’ visit: www.peaceoneday.org
To view Bran Symondson portfolio visit www.bransymondson.com

There will be 2 opportunities to see all the works.. the first at the ICA (26-30th Sept) and then at Phillips de Pury (4th - 6th October) where the pieces will be auctioned off - the proceeds will go to the Peace One Day charity. This also will tie into World Peace Day on the 21st September (see release for more information). Main Photo: © Bran Symondson founder of AKA Peace

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ACCORDIONS MAKE PEACE in Afghanistan!

 Music humanizes all exchanges.

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Global Post:

By Xeni Jardin 

This video was produced in Afghanistan by Globalpost contributor Gregory Warner. For Which It Stands: Afghanistan, an accordion journey
(Globalpost, via Bigthink, thanks Sepideh Saremi!) 

Just think of what you can do with an Accordion? Let's face it, the United States has been looking for this solution for ten years now. Could this be the true future of all peace making? A little Accordion Polka music please.

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INTERNATIONAL PEACE PICS SHOW SUCCESS!

International Peace day spreading, where were you?

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Where were you, what were you doing? Did you take a moment to make peace? Did you communicate it was a united world peace day, working to make peace? Did you think of freeing all those struggling in poverty, war, hate to live in peace and how you might make peace? Did you think of what really happens when Peace is a reality in your community, town city, country, world and planet? Make peace:

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YOKO ONO CREATES MAJOR PEACE ART NYC 

 International Peace day times square NYC ART

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The Huffington Post  |  By Mallika Rao :

In 1969, Yoko Ono and John Lennon invited the public to join their honeymoon as it unfolded in a Montréal bedroom, complete with a song-writing session with Timothy Leary. This was the start of the couples' iconic bed-in series, and a showcase for what would become one of Ono's favorite concepts: Peace.
Today being the International Day of Peace, Ono isn't missing her cue. Art Production Fund and Ono's anti-fracking Imagine Peace initiative have arranged to broadcast the words "Imagine Peace" hourly across the three largest screens in Times Square all day today, through an initiative by the Times Square Alliance public art program. American Eagle, MTV and Viacom will be displaying the message in 24 languages, so polyglots can rejoice.
In an e-mail to The Huffington Post, Ono said her wish for the Day of Peace is "for all of us to think peace, and allow each other to be peaceful at the same time. Even if it was for one day out of the year, it will have a great effect on our planet and the Universe."

She also wrote us a short poem:

Peace makes people smile, and the nature shine.
It covers our world with wisdom and love
It is the most beautiful thing in life.

Make Peace!

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PEACE MAKING FOR IDIOTS! HOT NEW BOOK!
 How hard & How simple peacemaking is for any idiot!

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Terry Milest

Sept. 2012

Amazing but true insights and facts about Making Peace, what makes it impossible at times, why it will ultimately dominate, but war will still be on the plate, how long till lasting peace and why? Evolution of peace thinking and why we humans go at it! "Peace Making for idiots" tackles all of this with a sense of humor, insight, and references to the basic, do's and don'ts, how it happens in everyday life and what you can do about it, right now, this very first reading, and that's powerful!
It could rewire your mind forever! After all it's written for idiots and any idiot making war, while peace difficult for the rest of us, definitely will love reading this book and seeing it on your book shelf! Sure the truth is sometimes hard to swallow, especially when reading this book, you'll have to take a closer look at your part in the global peace process.Sadly almost all of us fail when it really comes to that, but it's all covered in this electrifying Ebook.

Two hundred and twenty six pages (226 pages) of jammed packed peace making, isn't it time you read the simple truth why so many waging war are idiots and your not? After all peace making is not a sideline sport. There is even a whole chapter of on Peace Sex, never heard of it, well this chapter shows all of us why sex has the power to make peace, and that is fun, right?
This book is sure to become a classic, a must read for all those who want to better understand peace, and are willing to admit there might be something new to learn and think about.

Published by: Peacemaker Press & News Inc.

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BULLETS 4 PEACE?

  Stars really love them.

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Terry Milest

Sept. 2012

How do you feel about Bullets as jewelry? Many major Stars love them jeweled, gold and silver plated, and taken from conflict zones world wide and turned into art by Bullets for Peace  designer Rafi Anteby, a former soldier now turned peace maker. 

Bullets 4 Peace takes used bullet casings, which are meant to be recycled and reused in streets and battlefields, and turns them into beautiful jewelry pieces that promote peace and compassion. Each piece represents a different charitable organization, and features silver, gold and crystal details. Celebrity fans include Heartthrob Justin Bieber, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Jamie Foxx, Eva Longoria, Kanye West, Jessica Biel, Bruno Mars, Audrina Patridge, David Archuleta, and Quincy Jones.

Major Stars wear Bullets4Peace jewelry at Hollywood events

web site: Bullets4peace.com

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ANTI MUSLIM VIDEO, ALL SIDES WRONGS EXPOSED?

Real Issues of Understanding past & present in all world cultures, western, middle east, needed desperately. Anti Muslim Video? Exposes all sides wrongs?

How far have we come as human beings when we cannot comprehend all the issues this stupid yet free speech protected video portrays?

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Terry Milest
@T.Milest

Sept. 16, 2012

"Innocence of Muslims" is the Muhammad Movie by Sam Bacile that caused Muslims to kill United States ambassador, J Christopher Stevens and provoked world reactions, and show the level of misunderstanding, and even the lack of effort to understand by western countries, the world and events that are happening now.

Religion and religious myths have been used for extremism all over the world, from Nazism, to today, and to even justify to the creators of this video, who only muddy the waters, provoke others, and live in the deeper issues of "religious and cultural self righteousness and superiority".

Issues such as religion as a unifying force, but with the darker side of "self righteous drives and beliefs”, many of which cast us back to the 15th century. Asking us living now, to live in pure dogma, and extreme doctrine not just in the Arab Muslim world but within western society. All show themselves, as extreme ignorant of the range of human life needs, from education, economic equality, freedom, democracy, versus bitter resentment for dictatorships, demonizing of other cultures, economic resources (Oil) exploitation etc. which shape the making of peace anywhere.

Where do we begin to find understanding is all these opposing forces, in culture, in societal histories, and “hate mongering”? Or this this a basic human weakness of fear, of what and who we do not understand, and lashing out at any and all targets of convenience our very nature?

One can easily see the issues and vast gulf of confusion in this sampling of  "Innocence of Muslims" YouTube video comments which follow, senseless attack after attack on each other.

Innocence of Muslims Video stills Video on You tube FREE SPEECH protected

Youtube "Innocence of Muslims" comments: follow:

I'm an atheist and I do not decide what should be criticized because that is everything. Everything have to be criticized in order to be able to make right decisions...
ilightbite in reply to TheAnderslindqvist (Show the comment)

muslims go to hell
010fredl

"Islam does not kill people unjustly" you don't want to believe everything the Imman tells you son.
independent.ie/world-news/midd­le-east/execution-video-revuls­ion-as-taliban-shoot-wife-accu­sed-of-adultery-in-afghanistan­-3162012.html
mayoman9w in reply to Sahar Sazx (Show the comment)

this is ignorance
ats810 in reply to Zero Cool (Show the comment)

not fun, causing hate among nations
mohd kalshat

WHAT MAKES ME MAD IS HOW MUSLIMS MADE COMMENTS THAT I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND,LEARN TO SPELL WILL YOU? YOUR WORDS ARE UNKNOWN
needPeace6

we got to get these likes up people
onebadgs400

i suppose that's what Mohammand told you 2 do go around fucking people up the arse what a crowd of sand niggers
micheal gallagher in reply to Amro Elsaadawy (Show the comment)

la ilahe illallah muhammedin resulallah.
yaşasın zalimler,kahpeler ve insanlık katilleri İMANSIZLAR için CEHENNEM...
BEHEY KAHPE BUDALALAR İSLAM DİNİ ONUN KUTSAL KİTABI HZ.KURAN VE ONUN PEYGAMBERİ HZ.MUHAMMED SİZ VE SİZİN GİBİ YOBAZLARIN OLMAYAN AKILLARININ ALAMAYACAĞI VE ALGILAYAMAYACAĞI KADAR YÜCEDİR SİZLERİN BU YAPTIKLARINIZLA DEĞER KAYBEDECEYİNİMİ SANIYORSUNUZ.
AKSİNE NE KADAR YÜCE OLDUĞUNU BİLİNÇSİZCE İKRAR EDİYOR İMAN EDİYORSUNUZ .
YAŞASIN SİZ VE SİZLER GİBİ DÜŞÜNENLER İÇİN CEHENNEM
can eren

i pray to Allah !!! Bless all the Muslims and Christians and urge to stop fighting against this issue and peace be among us. I pray Allah!!! to make Christian Brothers belief in truth of Islam and its blessings, the teachings of what our Prophet Muhammad Taught to the humanity . Please Stop Fighting and Bring Peace among yourselves, its the work of the devil not to unite us and disturb the Humanity by making such mischiefs.
Allah !!! forbid all the characters in this movie .
franky559

This you can see the extreme confusion, fear, and lack of understanding present in these comments, where do you stand? What are the issues we must face to move forward, and what will the effort, work and price be?
We provide you with the link to the video: It is protected by Free speech and human rights, and even many of us would deny that because of this presentation and distorted look at our world and the positions we maintain:

Innocence of Muslims - Muhammad Movie - FULL HD - YouTube

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