compassion, collaboration & cooperation iN transistion
Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video
Congratulations, Mr. President.
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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
Yes we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.
Yes we can.
It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can to justice and equality.
Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.
Yes we can heal this nation.
Yes we can repair this world.
Yes we can.
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics...they will only grow louder and more dissonant ........... We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea --
Yes. We. Can.
Guest appearances -
will.i.am - 0:01
Scarlett Johansson - 0:05
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 0:21
Common - 0:23
John Legend - 0:32
Bryan Greenberg (guitar) - 0:37
Kate Walsh - 0:44
Tatyana Ali - 0:44
Harold Perrineau, Jr. - 0:49
Aisha Tyler - 1:01
Samuel Page - 1:03
Enrique Murciano - 1:07 "Si, podemos" - 1:17
Maya Rubin - 1:08 "כן אנו יכולים (Qen Annu Yecholim)" (Hebrew)
Esthero - 1:10
Eric Balfour - 1:23
Nicole Scherzinger - 1:30
Taryn Manning - 1:40
Amber Valletta - 1:52
Auden McCaw (in Valetta's arms) - 1:52
Kelly Hu - 1:52
Adam Rodríguez - 1:56 "Sí se puede"
Eric Christian Olsen - 2:02
Sarah Wright - 2:02
Shoshannah Stern (American Sign Language) - 2:05
Ed Kowalczyk (guitar) - 2:19
Fonzworth Bentley (violin) - 2:38
Amaury Nolasco - 3:24
Hill Harper - 3:27
Nick Cannon - 3:36
Herbie Hancock (piano) - 3:41
Johnathon Schaech - 3:45
Austin Nichols - 3:50
Tracee Ellis Ross - 4:00
Fred Goldring (guitar) - 4:03
Anson Mount
Alfonso Ribeiro
Cliff Collins
Vera Farmigas whispered b...
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Comment by Michael Grove on December 8, 2010 at 11:28
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“Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain.“
DESTINY IS that which one discovers ... IF every opportunity, with which you are faced,
IS responsibly acted upon in all humility. FATE IS what you are faced with if you don't.
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YES WE CAN ...
survive as a species, here on earth, BUT ONLY IF WE - WAKE UP and find out WHO WE ARE
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NO BETTER STATEMENT, to come out of yesterdays demonstrations in the City of London, prior to today's G20 Summit, was that reported by James Hall in today's Daily Telegraph.
”On Old Jewry, a side-street that leads to Cheapside, two young men are dressed in smart suits with canes and copies of the FT under their arms. On first sight, they appear to be ironically-dressed anti-capitalist protesters.
But they are not. Gavriel Merkado and Vladimir Lavrentiev, both 21, are both at business school in London. ”We are protesting in defence of capitalism. People are too willing to blame capitalism if things go wrong,” says Mr Merkado through wafts of marijuana smoke from nearby dancing crusties.
”The current crisis is all about systemic failure of society at every level; people were willing to take on 120pc mortgages, banks were willing to lend them the money and governments were willing to let it happen. Things need to change but you can't blame capitalism as a concept,” says Mr Merkado, as the two men walk off to read the FT in front of the Bank.
It is the most sensible thing I've heard all day.”
IT was John Maynard Keynes who proposed the International Trade Organisation (ITO), supported by an international central bank, the International Clearing Union (ICU), as an innovative project for the future of world trade just after World War II, and as published in Le Monde in 2007
”With an ITO and an ICU, we could have had a world order in which no country could run a huge trade deficit (the United States deficit stood at $716bn in 2005) or the huge trade surplus of contemporary China. Under such a system, crushing third world debt and the devastating
structural adjustment policies applied by the World Bank and the IMF would have been unthinkable, although the system would not have abolished capitalism. If we could resurrect Keynes’s concept, another world really might be possible: he figured out how to make it work
more than 60 years ago. His plan would have to be dusted off and tinkered with, but its core remains relevant.
It was a neat arrangement. To avoid paying interest or submit to outright confiscation; countries in surplus would race to buy more exports from those in deficit. Those in deficit could sell more and would find it easier to return to equilibrium. Everyone would benefit. Trade would
expand, the world would be more prosperous and peaceful, underdevelope
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