68,000 Mercenaries in Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empries. 163,500 in Iraq

The Afghanis defeated Alexander the Violent. They defeated
the British imperialists in the 1800's. They defeated
Russians. Now they are defeating the capitalist cartel
of the regimes of the US, UK and Canada. Gordon Brown said on NPR,
('National Pentagon Radio') in the US that he is sending several hundred
more victims to the volcanos of Afghanistan.

Hessian mercenaries employed by the UK
failed in America's Revolutionary War. US
Mercenaries are failing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
68,000 Mercenaries In Afghanistan, 163.500 In Iraq
A privatized military is a war profiteers' military, a military
controlled by war profiteers.

The senior British commander says the war
is unwinnable. In the 1800's, British imperialists
were defeated in Afghanistan.
Please speak up. Please boycott war profiteers.

Now, American soldiers are shot at night out of helicopters
by stinger missiles stolen from the US citizens by the
CIA and sent to the Mujahideen in the 1980's.
Now Brits, Canadians, Americans, Iraqis, Afghanis are dying because of the Russophobia
of our regimes. These soldiers freeze to death or are
gored on the sharp peaks of the Himalayas.



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the following figures are from www.afsc.net



In Iraq
139,000 U.S. troops deployed now
4,256 U.S. military killed
1 million Iraqi civilians killed (est.)
Other numbers
38,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan
661 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan
163,446 Contractors in Iraq
68,252 Contractors in Afghanistan

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25,000 Dockworkers strike against arms shipments

www.ilaunion.org/
www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050108B.shtml
uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php
If no one moves the bombs, if no one flies the planes,
if no one goes as a sheep to slaughter, there can be no war.
www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/us/01cnd-port.html\
n

Faculty Forces Georgetown University to end Doug Feith's
Contract

An architect of the Iraq War has his contract unrenewed.

Thousands of peace poets' pens
poetsagainstthewar.org/

God's firefall of grace ignite all to the courage of
noncooperation with evil

Weekly vigils for peace continue in front of federal buildings
.. faithful sign carriers for 5 years or more
www.protest.net

200 WAYS TO END THE WAR AND UNFOLD PEACE

indymedia.org
www.protest.net
www.worldcantwait.org
www.internationalanswer.org
www.protest.net
www.peaceactionwi.org/
www.codepink4peace.org/
www.ivaw.org
www.mfso.org
www.afsc.org
www.catholicworker.org

1 Fasting for a few hours, 1 day a week, juice or water, or extended times
www.mcc.org/peace/fast/

2
Organize an interfaith prayer in at draft boards, the many factories
of Lockheed world's biggest
amrsmonger, whose burning bombs were dropped from Lockheed planes onto Lebanese
babies, offices of GE, the offices of war profiteers, the homes of their
executives.
www.publicintegrity.org/pns

3
Disinvest in pension funds or private investments from mutual funds of Morgan
Stanley, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Vanguard, Fidelity, Merrill Lynch,
Lehman Brothers, Charles Schwab and other war profiteer and slaughterhouse
invested funds

4 Hire message planes to fly over warmonger
fundraisers pax.protest.net

5 Have pray in vigils outside churches pastored by warmonger nominal Christians
such as John Hagee,
Pat Robertson and others who promote war in the name of
the Prince of Peace

6 Jump in the water... call talk radio ,.no matter what you think of the IQ of
the audience or the host
1 866 55 77377
Bill Press billpress.com
BBC World Have Your Say
bbc.co.uk/worldhaveyoursay
NPR 1 800 989 8255
Diane Rehm 1 800 433 8850

7 Boycott the sponsors of war radio and tv and of war newspapers such
as the Meyer owned Washington Post,
the Sulzberger owned New York Times
and Boston Globe, Gannett owned
USA Today, any paper promoting war.
You will be saving trees. Get news
on the web. Sponsors of warjock
radio include
McDonald's, Aetna, Ford

8 It is up to each person's conscience whether or not he renders bombmoney taxes
to the invading Caesars in Washington, Ottawa, London, Mexico City
and other governments overtaken by war profiteers.
www.warresisters.org/

One of many San Francisco war resisters
marched with a sign which said
"I haven't paid for a bomb in many years"

The War Resisters' League has
many resources online.

Many of them forego social security
and work under the table rather
than pay taxes which kill children
and bloat war profiteers

9 One who organizes his neighborhood block by block for peace will connect with
others. The blocks will merge to become
a mighty river.

10. Visualize peace and the divinity in each unawakened
infanticide bomber. Communicate joy rather than anger.
Smile at strangers, at all.
(We write what we must learn)

11 Avoid personal attacks. Learn the art of conflict resolution.
State the position of those with different positions to their
satisfaction as a communication tool.

12 Join the thousands of cities around the world and 46 towns in US passing
peace resolutions
www.ips-dc.org/citiesforpeace/

13 Peace begins with food? Make our dinner plates nonviolent. Meat and fish are
the most violent foods, fruit nuts and other plant gifts the least.
fruitarians.blogspot.com
postpoems.com/cgi-bin/displaypoem.cgi

14 Make our land nonviolent. Stop the war against plants. 52 reasons not to mow
stopmowing.blogspot.com

15 Breathe deeply. Meditate for peace.

16 Water thirsty trees.. who will tell other trees through the roots..
Where there is no rain, plant trees. Irrigate them. Water
them daily.. If billions are planted, rain will come back to
a region through the agency of mist evaporated by the trees.

17. Create a vacuum for higher flow by recycling, giving away, throwing away
unneeded objects.

18. Circulate peace links

19. A country in which unions
are organized and not coopted
would have transit workers
refusing to take fares until
the war ended.. etc.

20 Avoid inflammatory speech. Build peacebridges with words. (poster
writes what she must learn)

21. David Krieger: Lose an argument to a loved one.
www.wagingpeace.org

22. Those without family or other constraining influences and heroism blockade
planes bound for Israel, trains with weapons for Iraq, or create other acts of
civil disobedience and direct action.

23. Horseman suggests:take over the Fox News mikes or tthose of other
chickenhawk warjocks.. Others
suggesting storming the ABC initiated Rush Limbaugh show
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/08/347602.html
(Pray for 500 Mexican women who took over a tv station)

24. Organize against violence in movies, television and video games.
Sony is one marketer of violent video games.

25. Acquaint militaristic members of religious groups with the nonviolence in
their scriptures
engforum.pravda.ru/showthrea...

26. File lawsuits against war profiteers and their government operatives.

27. Boycott unionbusters linked to war profiteers
(McDonald's, Walmart, FedEx etc.)
www.mcspotlight.org
www.walmartwatch.org

28. End the war on seacreatures.
Eating fishes enables Canadian seal
clubbers.
postpoems.com/cgi-bin/displaypoem.cgi

29. Picket BP, Exxon, Shell, Texaco, Arco, Amoco, all of the many residences and
newspapers of Rupert Murdoch and other warmonger broadcasters such as CNN,
sometimes the CBC, ABC in both
the US and Australia, and the homes of
MP's, senators and congressmen and governors and 'justices', the homes and
offices of
media anchors who are puppets of the Pentagon. indymedia.org around the world
www.oregongasprices.com

30. Students around the US
have picketed military recruiters.
31. Cairns Australia:
American troop ship protested
melbourne.indymedia.org/features/anti-war/
32.
In the ancient spiritual language
of Sanskrit, the word for peace is
shanti. When shanti is repeated,
it becomes Shantish, God who is Peace,
and invokes God's presence.

33. Publicize the victims in every
country Unfortunately the following
link is coopted by war profiteers: www.pva.org

34. Listen to antiwar radio
www.democracynow.org/

35 www.thankyoult.org/
Encourage those who stand up
to the military machine

36 stop the War lawn signs from VotersForPeace.us

37 Show

Robert Greenwald documentary:
The Selling Of Iraq
iraqforsale.org/buy.php

38 If you've never been on the
internet, buy a computer for under $500.. or go to your public library..
have a librarian show you how to
get free email and search for forums.
Organize for peace


39 Show children the beautiful
animated movie written by James
Howard Kuntsler and narrated
by Garrison Keillor.. called Johnny
Appleseed.. a biography of the
nonviolent saint


40
Monitor warmongers

Father Mother God You answer
to all names in all paths by which
You are called. End all war and
violence to any being now

41 Training in nonviolence
www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Martin Luther King's letter from
Birmingham jail

42 Zen's link
www.brasschecktv.com/page/86.html

43. Email those who haven't seen
LooseChange
video.google.com/videoplay

Demand tv stations show
911tv.org/ videos

44. pickets at the homes of
chickenhawk warjocks and
board members and major stockholders
of media promoting the war

45. Organize phoe campaigns to
House and Senate offices of those
voting war funds.. from their
own constituencies.
202 224 3121

46 Work in the Democratic, Socialist, Green,
Libertarian, and other parties for the election
of peace candidates.

47 Multiply good. Provide a cabin or room
free to the world's travelers..
for overnights or what you will

48. The illegitimate regime in the US
has stolen money from the Social Security funds, the
US Postal System etc. It is better to email than to give
money to the war through purchase of stamps.

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.
-Albert Einstein-

(put peace messages on cars:
peacemonger.org/)

sponsors of warjock radio
1. Geico 2. Purina of Nestle 3. General Motors 4. Proflowers
5. Ruth's Chris Steak House 6. Kia 7. predatory lender 5th Third Bank

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sb1108-11-2006, 06:28 PM
50 ways to promote peace
benjerry.com (an endorsement of their ideas but not
their ice cream which causes animal agony, human disease,
and energy waste notmilk.com)

( Ben and Jerry's
icecream is from enslaved cows
and the eggs of factory farmed chickens..
there are many vegan icecreams.. 25,000 cows suffocated in the heat in just 1
month
in just 1 US state in July)
notmilk.com)

1. Be a media guerilla. Use e-mail, fax, photocopies, and newsletters to
broadcast the message of peace. Spread empowering information.

2. Attend a peace rally. Check out United For Peace & Justice or
Peace.Protest.net to find out about marches for peace around the country.

3. Host a peace speaker at an event in your community or at your workplace.

4. Get to know your neighbors. It is hard to reclaim peace without a sense of
community.

5. Make friends with someone of another race, ethnicity, age, ability, or sexual
orientation. Appreciating and embracing diversity helps to promote peace.

6. Take an adventure to neighborhoods of your town or country that are
ethnically focused to appreciate diverse cultures. Cross-cultural understanding
is key to building peace.

7. Travel to learn. Get first-hand experience in how things happen in other
places and bring home questions about how you do things at home.

8. Drive with patience and tolerance. Keep the peace on our streets and
highways.

9. Listen more. Really listen, without giving unsolicited advice. The validation
of being heard is often more important than solving the problem.

10. Learn to say I am sorry. Learn to mean it. Learn when to say it and use it.
These two simple words can prevent violence and save relationships.

11. Be helpful. Random acts of kindness can create more peaceful communities.

12. Spend time with a youngster. This can often remind us of the meaning of a
peaceful world.

13. Practice the art of patience. Be careful not to rush to judgment or action.

14. Start peace conversations. Talking peace, and listening, are critical for a
vibrant democracy.

15. Involve yourself in community parent workshops and family groups that help
parents protect, nurture, and support their children.

16. Peace begins at home. Monitor, nurture, support, and involve your children
and family in keeping peace.

17. Explore your prejudices. Find out what is behind them, how they started, &
how they influence your thoughts and actions.

18. Write a peace song. Peace songs are great tools for organizing and inspiring
people.

19. Use music, art, stories, and drama to explore themes of peace and
nonviolence.

20. Broadcast a peace message using a peace flag, poster, badge, t-shirt, or
bumper sticker.

21. If you own a gun, keep it unloaded and locked up. Store the bullets in a
separate place and hide the key safely away from children.

22. Find your own inner peace. Set aside a few minutes or more each day of
quiet, peaceful time.

23. Join a study circle. Self-education is a fast track to empowerment toward
peace.

24. Attend an educational series on non-violence. Look up peace & justice
organizations in your state at United For Peace & Justice and call them for
information on educational series.

25. Stay tuned to what is going on in the world through newsletters,
periodicals, newspapers, radio, TV, and online.

26. Educate yourself about the violence threatening kids in your community and
nationwide. Help bring safety and peace to kids at Children's Defense Fund and
End Abuse.

27. Learn another language. Being able to communicate in a foreign language
helps you participate in diverse cultures.

28. Help bring peace to the environment by reducing your carbon load emissions.
Learn what you can do at our global warming campaign site at
www.onesweetwhirled.org.

29. Learn how to fight fairly. Fight to resolve differences, not to win.

30. Register people to vote. One reason the political game has gone sour is that
too few of us play. Find out more at Rock The Vote or Project Vote Smart.

31. Become a volunteer on a peace project. Check out Peace Brigades
International, Seeds of Peace, and the Peace Corps.

32. Volunteer at your local battered women's shelter. Learn about the importance
of non-violent conflict resolution.

33. Sign-up as a member of a peace organization like Global Exchange, United For
Peace & Justice, or Peace Response.

34. Call a radio talk show. The good ones are often the town meetings of the
airwaves.

35. Write letters and articles in support of peace and non-violence to the
editors of your local media. Published, they can change minds, and even
unpublished they can impact the media.

36. Sign a peace pledge. A good place to start is www.peacepledge.org.

37. Adopt a politician. Write a monthly letter to your Representative, Senator,
or President on peace-related issues.

38. Take social action to support specific legislative peace initiatives. Try
the Waging Peace site to get started.

39. Vote. Voting is your hard-earned right and your official voice. For
information about the democratic voting process, visit the Federal Election
Commission or the Center for Voting and Democracy.

40. Support organizations and/or campaigns that fight for basic human rights for
all people. Social justice promotes peace. For a start, visit Global Exchange or
Amnesty International.

41. Run for elective office. Be a voice for non-violent conflict resolution,
reasoned sanity, and balance.

42. Learn about nuclear weapons from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Sign an
appeal to end the nuclear threat. Visit the Nuclear Threat Reduction Campaign
and WagingPeace.org.

43. Take part in online advocacy for peace. Some good sites to get started are
20/20 Vision and The Interfaith Alliance.

44. Write to your own government; write to a foreign government. Let them know
you care about what they do and hold them to the same standards for peaceful
conflict resolution.

45. Call your City Council and attend the next meeting. It is often through the
strength of a group that changes are made and community is built.

46. Encourage peace projects for school classrooms. You can find some great
ideas at CelebratingPeace.com and UNESCO.

47. Teach young people skills for non-violent conflict resolution. Learn about
some great strategies from the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program or
www.Images-Education.org for teachers, classrooms, parents, and students.

48. Teach young people about peace. Let your behavior reflect the values you
want them to espouse.

49. Support your community efforts to create jobs and training opportunities for
kids that help them become productive, contributing adults.

50. Dig deep. Oftentimes, reaching peaceful resolution means understanding what
is at the root of a problem rather than what is most apparent on the surface.
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99 of David Krieger's ideas to make peace wagingpeace.org

# Be generous with your smiles.
# Be kind.
# Respect the Earth.
# Walk in a forest.
# Plant a tree.
# Contemplate a mountain.
# Protect the Earth.
# Live simply.
# Help feed the hungry.
# Erase a border in your mind.
# Teach peace to children.
# Read Chief Seattle's Letter to the President.
# Be honest.
# Demand honesty from your government.
# Think about consequences.
# Commit yourself to nonviolence.
# Support nonviolent solutions to global problems.
# Speak up for a healthy planet.
# Demand reductions in military expenditures.
# Be fair.
# Pledge allegiance to the Earth and to its varied life forms.
# Think for yourself.
# Ask questions.
# Recognize your unique potential.
# Join an organization working for peace.
# Be less materialistic.
# Be more loving.
# Empower others to work for peace.
# Oppose all weapons of mass destruction.
# Support equality.
# Speak out for a nuclear weapons-free world.
# Support a Department of Peace.
# Listen to your heart.
# Help the poor.
# Fight against militarism.
# Study the lives of peace heroes.
# Help create a community peace park or garden.
# Commemorate the International Day of Peace.
# Help strengthen the United Nations.
# Support the International Criminal Court.
# Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
# Advance the rights of future generations.
# Be a voice for the voiceless.
# Join an action alert network.
# Be forgiving.
# Laugh more.
# Play with a child.
# Support education and the arts over weapons.
# Help educate the next generation to be compassionate.
# Take personal responsibility for creating a better world.
# Sing.
# Write a poem.
# Organize a church service on the theme of peace.
# Learn about another culture.
# Help someone.
# Support the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
# Oppose the arms trade.
# Clear your mind.
# Breathe deeply.
# Sip tea.
# Express your views on peace to government officials.
# Fight for the environment.
# Celebrate Earth Day.
# Think like an astronaut, recognizing that we have only one Earth.
# Be constructive.
# Let someone else go first.
# Plant seeds of peace.
# Work in a garden.
# Change a potential enemy into a friend.
# Be positive.
# Share.
# Be a good neighbor.
# Send a note of appreciation.
# Tell your friends how much they matter.
# Say "I love you" more.
# Don't tolerate prejudice.
# Demand more from your elected officials.
# Walk by the ocean, a river, or a lake.
# Recognize that all humans have the right to peace.
# Respect the dignity of each person.
# Be a leader in the struggle for human decency.
# Be a friend.
# call for a world free of nuclear weapons.
# Oppose technologies that harm the environment.
# Lose an argument to a loved one.
# Value diversity.
# Walk softly on the Earth.
# Appreciate the power of the sun.
# Speak out for global disarmament.
# Support a democratic order.
# Teach non-violence by example.
# Remember that "No man is an Island."
# Spend time in nature.
# Boycott war toys.
# Be thankful for the miracle of life.
# Seek harmony with nature.
# Remind your leaders that peace matters.
# Oppose violence in television programming for children.
# Listen to Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
# Celebrate peace.

PEACE LINKS
indymedia.org
www.internationalanswer.org
www.afsc.org
pax.protest.net
www.foodnotbombs.net/
wagingpeace.org
peace.mennolink.org/links.html
Mennonite
www.cpt.org/ Christian Peacemaker Teams
www.catholicworker.org
www.hindu.org
www.sathyasai.org
www.batshalom.org
www.peacenow.org
www.converge.org.nz/pma/link.htm
New Zealand
www.people4peace.net/links/
www.teachingpeace.org Colorado
Conscientious Objector links:
quinnell.us/conflict/links/object.html
www.peacetax.org
www.peacepilgrim.com/links1.htm

www.emory.edu/CARTER_CENTER/homepage.htm
www.amnesty.org peace requires
ending state murder
www.tcadp.org
www.abolition2000.org peace
is disarmament
www.actagainstviolence.com
end violent tv images

www.artsforpeaceandjustice.net

www.codepink4peace.org

NEWS FROM ALL SIDES
pravda.ru
english.aljazeera.net
www.afp.com

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sb1108-11-2006, 06:50 PM
PERSONAL PEACE

be in the sun
meditate
begin yoga
exercise
positive thought, because the mind
is a transmitter tower
buy more second hand clothing
live closer to healing water
drive peacefully and slowly
save fruit tree seeds and plant them
grow a garden
bikers: check for bugs, toads, snakes
drivers: offer rides to those at busstops
visualize rain in all the deserts of the
world
visualize God sprinkling the world
with zillions of full grown fruit and
nut trees, grape vines, berry bushes

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sb1108-12-2006, 05:44 PM
Phillip Solomon who
resigned from West Point rather
than be involved in killing:


"I was positive that I objected to war in any form, to killing for any cause,
that these beliefs were a substantive part of my
spiritual nature, and that I couold not become party to any military system. I
was vexed and disillusioned by the existence
of the system which was the law of the land, a law which indiscriminately
prescribed a formula for my conscience. In my ire, I designated it as a
Selective Slavery System, for was it not a form of slavery to have to register
for the draft, to carry a draft card, to be given a status of citizenship? Draft
cards, to me, were symbols of involuntary servitude. I didn't think that free
men should be forced to carry them.... What right
did a group of distant men have to judge my system of morality?
What qualified them to understand my soul? I knew I had the
absolute right to my mind, yet an agency of the government
existed which said I did not have this absolute right. I looked upon modern
militarism as a form of organized religion; the
draft card was a sacrament of that religion. The generals, admirals, and their
subordinate officers were priests. The politicians and industrialists were
missionaires; preaching,
practicing, and spreading the gospel of evil, hate, and killing. All wars were
holy in nature. Political ideologies
were prayers. The battlefield was an altar upon which men were
sacrificed to the gods of war. The battle itself was a Dionysian
festival, and the participants were intoxicated with the wine of
necrophilia. Bombs and tanks, warships and jet bombers, bullets and napalm were
icons to which men had become subservient."

"The law of the land indiscriminately prescribed a formula for
my conscience."

"You are a coward, (he said and I replied) I am braver than you Father

(dialogue between soldier father and conscientious objector son)."

"The bayonet is a phallic system killing in a sexual manner.
The wound is a female symbol."

"I would escape the predatory spirit of my father's bayonet.

"Modern militarism is a form of organized religion."

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boston.indymedia.org/feature...86888/index.php

Boston Jews protest Olmert violence

www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/149670
Israeli Jews protest Olmert violence


www.batshalom.org

www.peacenow.org
68,000 Mercenaries in Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empries. 163,500 in Iraq

Below are many ways to end the illegal
violent stupid and costly wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq. Thank you for continuing with your own
way.