Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy the holiday! Enjoy the time to relax, renew, refresh, and appreciate the threads of time. Life happens today and everyday. Life is so unique and awe inspiring. What a privilege from the universe to be alive. Thanks for living. Many blessings of abundance, radiant joy, love, peace, good health, and wealth be unto you. 

Title: Living Peace
Artist: Chris Bauer

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World's First Peace Index

Hello all, happy Wednesday. Please take some time to enjoy your day.

Not so long ago the Institute for Economics & Peace created the world's first Peace Indices. The Global Peace Index and the US Peace Index are composite maps illustrating visual information about peace conditions and trends in peace levels. The Institute's data and findings appear to indicate that there is a strong business need to promote peace.

Peace is a cool...   Global Peace Index key findings.


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The Online Peace Sanctuary

Feel stressed. Feel over worked, exhausted, burnt out. Just want to relax. Keep up the work, and then make time to relax and be at peace- rest quietly and be at peace. 

The demopublican.org/earth page is a sanctuary for world peace on the world wide web. This page is a beacon of peace that emulates tranquility, serenity, and quiet calm.

Anytime online, visit demopublican.org/earth for 10 minutes to get some perspective of where we are in the world. Check out the demopublican.org/earth page at your leisure and see your world become more peaceful. The world is orbiting around the sun on an invariable path to peace.

photograph is courtesy of NASA
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Think peace! Demopublican.org promotes public awareness of the need for world peace.

Demopublican.org is a sanctuary for peace on the world wide web.
Visit the online peace sanctuary anytime:  demopublican.org/earth
The world is orbiting around the sun on an invariable path to peace.

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Armistice Day

Teddy Roosevelt at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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On this day in 1918, World War I (known then as the Great War) officially ended with the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany. The ceremonial signing took place in Compiegne, France on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (November 11, at 11am, 1918). Although this officially marked the end of the Great War, some battles still continued in the Russian Empire and in areas of the Ottoman Empire before ceasing.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, Veterans Day
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November 11 was declared a national holiday by many of the allied nations, to honor and remember the men and women of the armed forced who were killed during war.  After World War II, the name of Armistice Day was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day throughout the British Commonwealth of Nations. In many places throughout the world people take a two-minute moment of silence at 11am local time to honor the 11am signing of the armistice agreement.

Veterans Day, US
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The allied powers included France, The United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth of Nations, Russia, Italy, Serbia, The United States of America, Romania, Japan, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro, and Poland. 

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Remembrance Day, UK
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To veterans and current members of the armed forces throughout the world, may today be a day of peace and re-memory. You are remembered and honored for your service and commitment to justice, security, and peace. Please enjoy your day and may you be safe.

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Maybe today will be the day that all war on earth will end. Let us take a lesson from the past that peace is the best choice.

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Have a Peaceful Friday

Hope everyone had a wonderful, and enjoyable week. Here is an excerpt from the late, great publisher, Benjamin Franklin. This excerpt is from his autobiography:

Benjamin Franklin
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze 1777
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"I continued this (Socratic) method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; It appears to me, or, I should not think it, so or so, for such and such reasons; or, I imagine it to be so; or, It is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting. And as the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive assuming manner that seldom fails to disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat most of those purposes for which speech was given to us. In fact, if you wish to instruct others, a positive dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition and prevent candid attention. If you desire instruction and improvement from others, you should not at the same time express yourself fixed in your present opinions. Modest and sensible men, who do not love disputation, will leave you undisturbed in the possession of you errors. In adopting such a manner, you can seldom expect to please your hearers or obtain the concurrence you desire. 

                                                                                

                                                                                      

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Dollar Ubiquity and Peace

George Washington once wrote, "It is yet to be decided, whether the revolution must ultimately be decided as a blessing or a curse; a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved." 

He later in his farewell address of 1796 says, "I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the state over which you preside, in His holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field, and finally, that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation."

George Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart 1797
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The first part of his prayer, "to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government," most everyone does a good job of this. This is because most people are peaceful and want to have a nice peaceful private life.  The second part of his prayer, "entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field," well this is still being prayed for. This part of the prayer still hasn't been answered yet. The last part of Washington's prayer, "that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind," is, like the first part, doing pretty well. Most prefer peace, and prefer to practice a peaceful life. Most people have a strong affinity for Justice, for loving mercy, and most people are also charitable and humble.

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Washington also writes, "The great Searcher of human hearts knows there is no wish in mine, beyond that of living and dying an honest man, on my own farm."

Will Washington's prayer for his country and for all humankind be ever fully answered? Will there be a love for one another, for fellow citizens, with charity, and a pacific temper of mind? And how about other nations? Will they be able to share in the dream that all people want to have, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness? It is yet to be decided.

We do know that Washington was a slave owner, and that he didn't free his slaves until his death. We also know he was the 1st President. And that he was a great leader, a surveyor, an environmentalist, a farmer, and an honest man who cut down his father's cherry tree. We know too that he graces the US one dollar bill. We also know he was Christian and he believed in Christ. Perhaps this is why his Christian friend Thomas Jefferson, used to remark, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." Tom, and George, both knew that slavery, could not and would not last, not only because it is morally and ethically wrong, but because it is against God's law. It is said, a nation that forgets it's past, has no future. This is in large part true. However, history does not always repeat itself: in the past there was slavery, in the present and future there is freedom!

Ok, so how does this relate to peace? Well take a look at Washington's prayer again- he says, "dispose us all to do Justice, to love mercy, and to have a pacific temper of mind." Pacific temper of mind, is a cool mind, mindful of peace and prosperity. Peace is the way. Washington's remarks from yesteryear, illustrate the threads of peace as peace has continually woven the fabric of our existence and sustenance. The Art of Peace, as Robert Kennedy calls it, has been going on for quite sometime, and it takes time to build a peaceful existence. As the world winds blow, time elapses to further the invariable path to peace on earth.

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Peace Corps Celebrates 50 Year Anniversary (1961-2011)

John Kennedy with Peace Corps Volunteers
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There is a special ceremony going on in Orono today to celebrate the anniversary: wabi.tv/news

The Peace Corps was established by John Kennedy to promote world peace and friendship. This year, the Peace Corps is celebrating their 50th anniversary of "promoting peace and friendship around the world." Congratulations, and thank you for working to create a global climate of peace. peacecorps.gov

The Peace Corps was officially established on March 1, 1961 and, throughout it's history has served more than 138 countries. The Peace Corps is currently serving 76 countries with a staff of 9095 volunteers and trainees. Geographically, 39% volunteer in Africa, 24% volunteer in Latin America, and 18% volunteer in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Economically, 40% of all Peace Corps services go to education, and 12% goes to encourage business development. All this is done on a budget of $374 million a year. To see more quick facts check out the Peace Corps' fast fact page.


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