SOLUTIONS ARE ONLY LIMITED BY ONE’S IMAGINATION….. TOGETHER WE CAN BEGIN TO REIMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES . ONE THOUGHT ACTED UPON GLOBALLY CAN OPEN NEW DOORS, UNITING US ALLL…

TOGHETER WE CAN CHAMGE THE WORLD !!!

MY WARMEST REGARDS …….

MARIA ALEXIA LIMA HOFFMAN ……………FROM BRASIL……..

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDm1AvEa3Y4&feature=channel_page

THANK YOU FOR
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
IN MY DAY

YOU ARE THE GREATEST PRESIDENT THE WHOLE WORLD HAS EVER HAD, AND YET THE MOST HUMBLE.
WE ARE IN TOTAL SUPPORT OF ALL YOUR PLANS TOWARDS MAKING THE WORLD A PLACE WHERE ALL WILL BE TREATED EQUALLY WITH MUTUAL RESPECT AND HUMAN DIGNIITY. A WORLD WHERE ALL HUMANS AS CREATED BY GOD ARE EQUAL, WITH EQUAL OPPROTUNITY TO PURSUE THE AMERICAN DREAM IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD. I JOIN TO SAY THAT WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE..YES WE CAN, AND WE WILL.
YOU MUST BE ALLOWED TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR PLANS IN THE WORLD ORDER.
YOU MUST BE SAFE, AND LIVE LONG TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
YOU MUST BE ALLOWED TO CARE, FEED AND NUTURE THE POOR AND LESS PRIVILEDGED.
YOU MUST BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO UNITE THE WORLD WHICH IS SO UNSAFE.
ONE IS NOT SURE OF SAFETY TILL THE PLANE LANDS AND YOU ARE OUT.
ONE IS SCARED OF ANY ABANDONED LUGGAGE
THE WORLD IS SO UNSAFE
YOU ARE THE ONLY HOPE AND YOU MUST SUCCEED
THE ENEMIES OF PROGRESS MUST NEVER REAR THEIR UGLY HEADS
YOU MUST BE SAFE AND LIVE LONG TO ACHEIVE ALL THESE
SO HELP US GOD…………..YES WE CAN…………………AMEN!!!

I pray he and his team deliver 1/2 of what was promised when he ran. I suspect the 1 trillion dollars wll soon be followed by billions more…no fault of his, ofcourse. I applaude his desire to harness the best policy makers and administrators. I join the millions of people around the world, and particlarly in our country who are hoping and praying he will make a difference. He needs our support if we are serious about wanting him to booster the economy, change the tide of job cutbacks, give relief to our homeless, feed our out of work, provide health care to those in need, help those in debt, change our war tactics, do something about fuel depletion and we have n’t even touched upon his promise to help the poor and sick in other countries.

If we serious, we should do someting too. President Obama asked us to volunteer and help where possilble. Well let us do our part and focus on what we too can do for our country. As another famous President said at his inaugeration; Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Each of us needs to see where we can use our expertise and donate our time, talent. and inclination. Say Yes when asked to help by your church, or an outreach group. Put your passion into action. Be the change you want to see in the world. Be the hero you want to see. The world is big enough and hungers for role models. If you are hurting or have fallen on hard tmes, join a support group. Share your energy and help others who are doing grass root services.

Say “Yes” and give what you can of yourself , if you cannot give anything else. There is always enough for everyones needs but not enough for anyones greed. Do not hoard your talent or your finite time here. Do something , help someone and you will change the consciousness of your community, our country and our world. We are One Humanity. Hold a vision of abundance, peace and agape love. We are One.

I pray that Almighty God be your source of strength.
I pray that Almighty God be the power that you will always plugged into at all times
May you embrace God as your Almighty good shepherd.
We are sure God will empower you to authorized help for the poor nations
May Jehovah God help you and give you the insight to close
The gap of calculated hardship and bondages imposed upon the poor.

May Almighty God cause you to be the voice for the voiceless
Hope for the hopeless
Visionary for battered eyes
May the time to arise and fulfill our destiny and dreams
Be now! Starting Today!
To God be the Glory

President Obama is due the highest respect and appreciation for his loyalty to America and his sacrifice, to serve us, with excellence! He is an awesome leader! He selected an awesome Administration!
I ‘m so proud and honored, to be alive to see such a “Change” at this time…
God bless and protect hime always!

Does this mean that on the long way to the White House you have trimmed your sails and, for the sake of securing the power you will soon assume, fear now to speak truth to power? Does this mean that, unlike Dr. King, your sense of justice is adjustable for the sake of political expedience? Those who supported you from the early days of your primary campaign did so not on account of your response to economic crisis, but because they believed in your sense of justice and your commitment to put an end to business-as-usual in Washington, and because they believed in your genuine desire to shape a new and different world order.

In 1981, while you were an undergraduate at Occidental College, you were among the first of a courageous group of students and faculty who, while the cause was still unpopular or unheard of, spoke out for divestment from the apartheid regime in South Africa. You knew then that it was imperative to place pressure on a racist regime which shamefully oppressed a black and coloured population that was discriminated against, subject to pass laws and control of its every movement, parceled into Bantustans, and subject to detention, torture and extra-judicial execution. When the black population protested, like the school children of Soweto, they could be summarily shot down by police or army. The ANC, under Nelson Mandela, was proscribed as a terrorist movement, its leaders were imprisoned, tortured or killed, its guerillas faced the overwhelming power of the South African army, equipped and trained in part by the United States and its European allies. A regime that was so unafraid to use violence in the defense of its discriminatory and racist regime, and so unashamed to do so in the face of international condemnation, could only understand the language of force. The divestment movement in which you so actively participated understood that the euphemistically and cynically named policy of “constructive engagement” was a moral and practical failure and that only the non-violent force of a financial boycott on the South African regime had any hope of bringing an end to apartheid without an horrific bloodbath.

Public figures as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter have recognized that Israel too maintains an apartheid regime, in practice if not in name. South Africa, now a functioning multi-racial democracy, was a white state for a white people. Israel is a Jewish state for a Jewish people. Its non-Jewish, mostly Palestinian Arab citizens are discriminated against in numerous ways, economically and civilly. The dispossessed and ethnically cleansed Palestinian populations, dispersed in the diaspora and in the refugee camps of Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, are denied the internationally recognized right of return. They have had their lands and homes taken from them by armed and “legal” force, are subject to collective punishment, prolonged states of siege, the absolute and deliberately destructive control of their daily movements. Where South Africa instituted the pass laws, the checkpoints that have proliferated all over the West Bank and at the exits from Gaza prevent students from reaching their schools and hospitals, workers from reaching their places or work, keep farmers from their fields, the sick from the few hospitals that survive to serve them. The illegal settlements, that in contravention of all international laws regarding occupation have proliferated across the West Bank, are designed to be permanent “facts on the ground” and have divided recognized Palestinian territory into segmented islets, into besieged Bantustans, with the intent of preventing a contiguous Palestinian state. A so-called security wall, illegally built, as even the Israeli Supreme Court recognized, on Palestinian territory, has cut farmers from their lands and turned formerly prosperous villages into isolated prisons. Regular Israeli military incursions into Palestinian cities and refugee camps, and bombings from the air, have killed innumerable civilians, many of them children. Since the election of Hamas, in fair and open elections, Israel has subjected the civilian population of Gaza to a prolonged state of siege, designed to suffocate them into submission, depriving them at will of water and power, medical supplies and food, and of access to the outside world. The most recent, all-out assault on Gaza, the disproportionate and bloody use of excessive force, is no act of self-defense, but the dramatic extension of an insidious policy of extermination of a people that refuses to disappear.

Every one of these acts is a crime against humanity. In their ensemble, they constitute one of the most massive, ethnocidal atrocities of modern times. Almost alone among nations, Israel acts in flagrant violation of international law and UN resolutions and does so with impunity. That it can do so is in large part the consequence of the uncritical support offered to Israel by a succession of American administrations. Without the military and economic aid of the United States, which amounts to more than a third of all US foreign aid, Israel could not have mounted its violent offensives against the Palestinians or Lebanon, could not maintain its security apparatus, could not afford the illegal settlements that seek to expand Israel into what remains of Palestinian territory. The United States has supplied the F-16s that are bombarding the Palestinians, their schools, police stations and mosques, and the cluster bombs that continue to kill and maim children and farmers in southern Lebanon. America continues to support Israel to the tune of billions every year at the expense of US taxpayers and at the expense of its moral standing in the world.

You will continue to do so, according to your own web page, because “our first and incontrovertible commitment in the Middle East must be to the security of Israel, America’s strongest ally in the region.” You and your Vice-President, Joe Biden, not only “defend and support the annual foreign aid package that involves both military and economic assistance to Israel”, but moreover “have advocated increased foreign aid budgets to ensure that these funding priorities are met.” In doing so, you lend your support, in the name of the United States, to a regime no less criminal in its acts and in its policies towards its own minority population and its dispossessed Palestinian neighbors than South Africa was in the 1980s. Then, it was argued, South Africa was our strongest ally in the region, a bulwark in the war against communism, a crucial supplier of uranium and other minerals, a prosperous Western-style democracy, if not the only democracy on the continent. To bring down the South African apartheid regime, it was argued, would be to create chaos in southern Africa, unleash a bloodbath in which whites and blacks alike would suffer, and pave the way for a communist or dictatorial postcolonial regime. The divestment movement, a non-violent coalition of students and academics, union members and churches, came together in the spirit of the Civil Rights movement to challenge those self-serving assumptions. It changed the direction of US foreign policy, disgracing its support of a racist regime, and placed effective pressure on the apartheid regime to begin serious negotiations with the ANC. Through a combination of diplomacy and divestment, we did end apartheid, making way for a functioning multi-racial democracy that confronts its challenges, indeed, but has not dissolved into chaos or tyranny.

It is time for the United States to place a similar pressure on Israel. That Israel has been America’s beneficiary, unchallenged in its war crimes and in its acts of terror, uncontested for its racist civil constitution and illegal occupations, has not been to the United States’ advantage. On the contrary, such unquestioning support of Israel has fuelled the legitimate anger of the Islamic world, supplied the justification for terrorism, and continually tarnished the United States’ reputation among the democracies of the world. That the United States has stood so often alone in defending Israel before the court of world opinion in the United Nations is not a sign of its virtue, but of the obstinacy and arrogance of its stance. But it is not for the sake of the reputation or advantage of the United States that you should take a new path in relation to Israel. It is in the name of justice. It is not just to support the territorial ambitions, realized settlement by settlement, of a Zionist minority in the region. It is not just to continue to supply Israel with the most advanced weapons and the most deadly arms in order that it may murder civilians, children and policemen. It is not just that we should support Israel with all our diplomatic force and financial aid, while leaving Israel’s victims to die slowly for lack of food, medicine, water and power. It is not just that we should sacrifice a dispossessed people for the security of a state that discriminates and expropriates, continually and violently ignores UN resolutions and international appeals, collectively punishes those whose right to resist occupation is recognized in international law.

There is no road to peace through such injustice. It may be that the compromise in the end will be the establishment and security of two separate states. Almost certainly, the only hope of a lasting solution is a single state in Israel/Palestine, committed to the civil and human rights of all peoples within its boundaries, irrespective of religion or ethnicity. That is, after all, the standard to which we hold all other states in the world, Israel alone excepted. But no solution at all will be possible until we hold Israel accountable for its criminal violence and its illegal acts, until we cease to supply it with the means to pursue a course of domination and expansion, with arms and warplanes, with finance and diplomatic support. In wake of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, your recent expression of “deep concern” is not enough. It is time for constructive disengagement from Israel, financial, diplomatic, military. What worked in the case of South Africa, divestment and pressure, may finally work in the Middle East.

Without such justice, there will be no peace.

University of Southern California Los Angeles