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"Peace in its most fundamental form is the connection of one
human spirit to another. 10 Million Clicks For Peace
hastens the connection process. What a beautiful and remarkable
concept!"
Archbishop Emeritus
Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Laureate |
"10 Million Clicks For Peace has the distinct ability
to...lighten the burden of peacemakers everywhere."
Arun Gandhi, President
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
www.GandhiInstitute.org |
"10 Million Clicks For Peace is a beautiful expression of
our infinite creative potential. We are free to create peace for
ourselves...and now it's as easy as a few clicks. What a
magnificent project!"
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
www.DeepakChopra.com |
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"Thankfully, most of us have never witnessed firsthand the
brutal horrors of war and genocide. For those of us who have
(and I am one), 10 Million Clicks For Peace offers great
hope for the prospect of true and lasting peace in the world. I
whole-heartedly support this noble work!"
Immaculée Ilibagiza
Rwandan genocide survivor and
Author of the books "Left To Tell" and
"Led By Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide"
www.Immaculee.com |
"Once in a great while, a project comes along with the most
profound implications for the future of all humanity. For the
first time in history, every person can effortlessly contribute
to world peace using the power of the Internet. 10 Million
Clicks For Peace is a mission of the highest human spirit
and contains a most remarkable mechanism for creating world
peace. I am honored to give this innovative humanitarian project
my full support that we may once and for all move all peoples
and all nations towards greater kindness, harmony, and love."
Jack Canfield
Co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul~ series and recently
featured in 'The Secret' |
"This reminds me of the saying that it's better to light one
candle than to curse the darkness. Imagine the effect of 10
million clicks for peace -- each click symbolizing a peace
candle!!! Let us join together in one great moment of
dedication, in one special moment of caring to make 10 million
clicks for peace and to light 10 million candles in our hearts.
A noble cause, indeed!"
John Harricharan
Award-winning author of the bestseller
"When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat"
www.Waterbook.com |
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About the Founders
Julian Kalmar |
Julian is a physicist at heart who anticipated spending
the rest of his life in the engineering and scientific
world. However, in 2002, a serious spine injury
profoundly altered his life and his perspective. He
never imagined working on a peace project, let alone
leading a movement, yet his vision and efforts have
helped shape 10 Million Clicks For Peace into what it is
today.
His
previous experience includes 5 years at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, working in radiation-effects
testing of semiconductor devices, and building one of
the world's first large parallel-computers. He spent 9
years working in electronics, 13 years in software
development, and 2 years repairing industrial machines
(some as big as a house). |
His ability to
remain happy after a serious spine injury led his friends to shake
their heads and marvel. He found himself trapped in bed 22 hours a
day; unable to work, unable to drive or walk around freely. He lost
his car and a 6-figure income. Yet he remained happy.
After the first
year in bed, he received a letter from an unhappy friend. He began
his reply with hopes of imparting what he knew about happiness—in
spite of difficulties. Thirty-five pages later, he realized he had a
serious problem…much more to say and not enough paper. It was then
he realized that writing a book could help many find greater
happiness. That book opened the door to a remarkable spiritual
transformation that reconnected him to the teachings from his early
life with his grandparents. They showed him how to be live happily
regardless of circumstances, but they had done something far
greater.
His grandparents
taught him what it meant to be a war refugee, and it was this
knowledge that was to change his life and inspire 10MC some 35 years
later, long after their passing.
While taking a
break from writing his book, Julian became profoundly moved by a
documentary on the plight of Afghanistan's 1 million war refugees.
During the program, he found himself looking straight into the eyes
of a family who could have been his own grandparents 60 years
earlier. In that moment, decades vanished, and he "connected." He
knew immediately that part of the proceeds of his book would go to
help war refugees, yet it would take 4 years before he would finally
come to know the sheer scope of the project he would come to lead.
10 Million Clicks
For Peace is Julian's path to repaying—with compound interest—the
anonymous gifts of kindness bestowed on his grandparents, kindnesses
that allowed them to survive their experience as war refugees. Those
kindnesses are responsible for Julian's very existence.
Julian takes no
credit for 10 Million Clicks For Peace. He believes the project was
inspired. He is just an instrument of the Universe…doing what the
Universe is best at: Connecting.
Rick Beneteau
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Professional Song-writing. Throughout the 1970's and
80's, while "firing up the dry-cleaning boilers" at 5
am, six days a week, Rick pursued his musical passion;
writing, recording, and pitching songs. He won Billboard
Magazine's International Songwriting Competition the
first two years running, and other major music
competitions.
Music
publishers and recording companies started picking up
his material, so he sold his dry-cleaning business in
the 1990’s to form a music production company. He spent
two years building a professional recording facility in
his home. Unfortunately, in the same month his
production company launched, his marriage ended, and his
studio and music royalties were seized by the divorce
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Internet
Entrepreneur. Devastated, and unwilling to lead the starving
artist lifestyle, Rick made his way to the Internet and began using
his entrepreneurial and creative skills to become one of the
original Internet marketers. He was the first person to write about
joint-venturing as a means of Internet marketing, and many of the
biggest Internet marketers in the world, owe their start to Rick's
pioneering work.
He went on to
create top-selling marketing products, like: Ezine Marketing
Machine, Branding You, and Breaking the Bank, and he originated the
Internet's first two-tier affiliate program with his traveling
billboards, I.D. IT! Plates.
Personal
Growth Expert. Rick's articles and quotes have been featured in
hundreds of Internet newsletters as well as in magazines and print
books. One of his most popular quotations is:
Give a shelterless man tools and he will build a home
Inspire him, encourage him, give him vision, and he will build an
empire.
Philanthropy.
In 2001, Rick founded the Internet's first toy drive, an online
holiday mainstay for eight years. Recruiting the top Internet
marketers in large promotional campaigns aimed at making sure no
child is left without at least one gift under the Christmas tree,
InternetToyDrive.org is a corporate sponsor in direct affiliation
with the official "Toys for Tots" program.
Entrepreneurial 9/11 Transition. The tragic events of September
11, 2001 affected Rick so profoundly that he decided to change
direction from helping people build online businesses to simply
helping build people. His breakthrough ebook from 2002, Success:
A Spiritual Matter, the first in a series of products that
bridge business success and spirituality, remains an entrepreneur's
favorite to this day.
In 2003, Rick's
first print book, A Large Slice of Life to Go, Please! was
published, landing him the prestigious Pinnacle Book Achievement
Award and many high-level endorsements.
His current line
of NLP products like Quit Smoking Right Now, Make Every
Day A Great Day and Better Sales Right Now, are licensed
by some of the world’s top self-development entities.
10 Million
Clicks Founder. On the morning of July 15, 2006, Rick was
downloading his usual hundreds of emails. It would be a morning that
would profoundly affect his life.
The first email
was a CNN Breaking News Alert outlining the latest gory details
about the bloodbath in the Middle East. It literally made him
nauseous. The second was from Julian Kalmar, a man Rick hardly knew.
Julian explained that he couldn't sleep that night, fearing for the
lives of two friends, one in Lebanon, and one in Israel, friends he
could no longer reach and whom he feared had been killed. He wrote
that he had asked the Universe what he could possibly do to help,
and immediately, "10 Million Votes for Peace" jumped into his
mind. That was Rick's cue to call Julian. At 6:42 a.m. they began
discussing the project that became known as 10 Million Clicks for
Peace.
Two years later, Rick is as enthusiastic as ever that the work he's
doing will change the world. The Peace Impact Meter (i.e. Peace
Machine) technology he developed with Julian Kalmar opens the doors
of philanthropy wide to the waves of regular folks who want to help,
but don't know what to do. "Now they know exactly what to do and
can see measurable results right on their computers and cell phones.
We'll empower millions to create world peace for their children,
their grandchildren, and themselves, and I believe we'll reach the
tipping point for peace.. This is the legacy I want to leave, and
this work is how I'm spending the rest of my life."
