subota, 31. prosinca 2016.

The world has never been in a better place. From poverty to literacy, the rise of women and fall of deadly disease -- on virtually every metric -- the world is better off than it's ever been. It's a powerful reason for us all to have hope, and rise to 2017.

RESPECTED FRIENDS, 

In 2016, hate was given hope -- but now we take it back!  From terrorism to Trump to Syria, it was a rough year. But hidden by all the darkness filling our screens, there's a simple, beautiful, truth: From poverty to literacy, the rise of women and fall of deadly disease -- on virtually every metric -- the world is better off than it's ever been. It's a powerful reason for us all to have hope, and rise to 2017.  So to kick off the new year, here's a video of 10 beautiful reasons to have hope -- let's share them, add our own, and together give the world a million reasons to hope in 2017: 

Even on the environment, we're winning epic progress on everything from historic ocean conservation to an unstoppable revolution in clean energy!  Political extremists and divisive zealots thrive on fear and desperation. That's why they try to convince us that the world is falling apart.  Master trolls like Trump and Putin have even hired vast armies of both real people and fake "bots" to hijack our social media with smears and lies about how awful everything and everyone else is, except them. (this is true! see sources below). What better way to answer them than a million new year's posts about what gives each of us and all of us hope:  Let's take this dose of hope, and let it fuel our determination and that of our friends. Because in 2017, together, we rise.  With hope,  Ricken, Pascal, Bert, Emma, Mike, Fatima and the whole Avaaz team. 

PS - This new year's reflection feels so important, for each of us, and for a world that is at a tipping point -- between love, hope and wisdom, and fear, anger and ignorance. Here are 5 points of reflection that might be useful for your reflection this year: 

      1. Yes, things are serious. A new autocratic world order (60% of Avaazers believe even a second rise of fascism) could threaten everything we love.

      2. But this is also a tremendous opportunity. Humanity, like each of us, learns best from mistakes. Much of our greatest progress has been catalyzed by crisis. If we meet this moment right, we can emerge from it stronger and wiser than ever.

      3. We need to be strong, and to challenge the forces of regress. But let’s not be twisted by the darkness and act from fear and anger. We are warriors for love and wisdom. We must act from that light.

      4. When we do come from love and wisdom, we can see that our ‘enemy’ is not so much any people, as it is unwisdom. Misplaced fear and anger. Lack of awareness and understanding.

      5. These are age-old foes of our people. Our grandparents faced far worse with far less, and they won progress. We have every reason to hope, and no excuse for despair.
And lastly - all the forces present in our world are present within us. Fear and love. Hope and despair. The choices we make in our personal lives shape our world through billions of acts of kindness or cruelty, wisdom or foolishness. All we can do is our best. Let's hit that mark this year :). 

SOURCES: 

99 Reasons Why 2016 Was a Good Yearhttps://medium.com/@angushervey/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#...

How a Putin Fan Overseas Pushed Pro-Trump Propaganda to Americans (New York Times)http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/world/europe/russia-propaganda-elections.html

Invasion of the troll armies (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/06/troll-armies-social-media-trump-russian

petak, 30. prosinca 2016.

PIŠEM PISMA, ODGOVORA NEMA! 2. / JE LI AKADEMIJI VAŽNA ZNANOST?

PISMO PRIJATELJIMA


Dragi prijatelji,

Piše mi kolega Elezović:
Ja sam stao na noge nekon gripe. Odmaraj se s familijom, ovih par dana nikome se ne čitaju mailovi. Bit će vremena dogodine. Slično dopisivanje sam imao i sa don Anđelkom Kaćunkom:
AK: Mili Bože, stigneš li ti Josipe imalo odspavati kad svakodnevno toliko toga napišeš?
Ili imaš neku novu tehnologiju da ti kod kuće na papir izlazi i ono o čemu razmišljaš dok se voziš u automobili ili zrakoplovu? : Božićni ti pozdrav i blagoslov
JP: I dok sam radio samo matematiku pitali su me spavam li ikada:)))
AK: :D Sjajan si. Ali očekivao sam takav odgovor, jer i moj je život sličan...
Pozz&blag
Jutros sam dobio novu poruku od don Anđelka, koja je vezana uz Peticiju ZDS, pa ima smisla spomenuti vam je:
3 minuta · 
Molim Vas učinite što možete da se ispravi već globalno prošireni krivi navod da hrvatska predsjednica od 7. prosinca ima novi nadimak Čokolinda. Naime, ja sam prvi u Hrvatskoj, više od godinu dana prije afere s čokoladama, Kolindu nazvao ČOKOLINDOM i to sam objavio na VL-blogosferi
pa Vam unaprijed zahvaljujem na širenju istine! Svima božićni pozdrav i blagoslov!
NB: Bilo je to upravo u e-pismu TEBI (kako i stoji u postu na Don blogu) :D pa i tebe molim da proširiš istinu o autoru te "stopljenice" koja nije ušla u Hrvatski rječnik "hibrida". A i kako poslušati Nevena i malo odmoriti?
Jutros sam pogledao na portal Hrvatsko nebo moj zadnji tekst koji sam vam poslao. U njemu sam stavio u Prilogu e-maile koje sam poslao ranije na niz adresa. Poslana su ranije od onog u kome sam komentirao tvrdnju Glavnog tajnika HAZU kome je u ime HAZU bilo važno u Hrvatskom saboru istaknuti gdje sam rođen. Mnoge je posebno razveselio taj moj komentar, ali ipak je prevagnulo to što u tim e-mailima to nisam komentirao.
Tako mi Mladen Deletis piše: Inače, imam i ja priču o mjestu rođenja u „Socijalističkoj republici“. Stojim s jednim kolegom (moje godište 1943.) u redu za upis u slijedeću godinu fakulteta. Dobijemo formulare s rubrikom „Mjesto rođenja“ (Zagreb), „Socijalistička Republika“, a kolega će pa „NDH“ – obojica smo rođeni 1943. prije „Dana republike“ Zato sam svima kojima sam poslao takav e-mail napisao novi: Poštovani Na portalu Hrvatsko nebo su me upozorili da Vama nisam napisao nešto što sam u kasnijim tekstovima naveo:
rođen 1948. godine u Socijalističkoj Republici Crnoj Gori nisam stavio:
(netočnou Narodnoj Republici Crnoj Gori, JP).
S poštovanjem,
Josip Pečarić
Bilo je prijedloga za internacionalizaciju ovih pitanja.
Mladen Deletis je želio pokrenuti peticiju potpore meni.
Ipak ja pišem takva pisma (koliko li sam ih samo do sada poslao), pa mi je besmisleno da netko piše i o meniJ
Mislim da bi sve to naišlo na zid šutnje, kao što su imala mnoga moja pisma. Uostalom u tisku je i moja knjiga tih pisama: “Pišem pisma, odgovora nema / Navodna Hrvatska zaklada za znanost”.
Zato sam Mladenu obećao novu knjigu, prirodni nastavak ove u tisku:

PIŠEM PISMA, ODGOVORA NEMA! 2. /
JE LI AKADEMIJI VAŽNA ZNANOST?

Meni je takav odgovor najdraži.
Kako vam se čini?

Vaš,
Josip
 P.S. A sad moram poslušati Nevena. "Čujemo" se dogodine. Uostalom treba još pisati i za tu knjigu, zar ne? 

"God is King, God has ruled, God will rule forever and ever!"



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