For a century evolutionists have challenged creationists with a large amount of scientific experiments and theories. Was life on Earth
created by God about ten thousand years ago as described in the Bible or was it a slow and natural evolution spreading over several billion years?
Most scientists dont want a supernatural being to affect Nature and rather like a Darwinian evolution which provides a mechanism for the formation of life.
Unfortunately, Darwinian evolution encounters significant problems in explaining many biochemical systems which cannot be built up by natural selection alone.
There seems to be no direct mutations, no gradual routes to some very large biochemical systems.
And those biochemical systems could not have been built by hazard and chance.
For a while the theory of Intelligent Design satisfied the creationists as it implied the inadequacy of the theory of Evolution in
explaining the gradual steps of life to its complex making. The only logical explanation was to believe in the theory of Creation as
presented by the Bible. So it seems!
The theory of Intelligent Design postulates that the ordering of separate components to achieve an identifiable function depends sharply on the components. The basis of life is the cell. The big molecules that do the work in the cell are proteins
and nucleic acids. They are polymers. The building blocks of proteins are amino acids, and the building blocks of nucleic acids are nucleotides. For instance, the DNA is a nucleic acid
made up of four different kinds of nucleotides: A, C, G, and T. Amino acids and nucleotides tend to associate together in almost an infinite variety of different molecules.
The complexity of the problem faced by the Darwinian scheme of evolution is that evolution cannot explain the step-by-step pathways in a cell. Evolution could not have been happening by chance either. No one
can explain the origin of the complex biochemical systems in a cell. There were no biochemists on Earth several billion years ago. No
laboratories either! The origin of life appears to require an Intelligent Design to direct the complex biochemical processes.
For instance today a biochemist can easily synthesize the components of nucleotides by first purifying and then allowing them to recombine through
chemical reactions. Several billion years ago undirected chemical reactions most often produced useless products. The proponents of the theory
of Intelligent Design concluded that it was becoming
more obvious that the complex biochemical systems of life were not put together gradually but rather quickly. The designer knew what the complex biochemical
systems would look like. The systems were designed by an intelligent agent. Life was purposely arranged. Only Global Communitycan provide a reasonable explanation about how life was formed everywhere in the Universe.
The Guiding Souls to serve God
The Guiding Souls to serve God is a part of a new religion made public for the first time a short while ago on the websites of the Global Community, the Human Family.
The fundamental beliefs are as follow.
The laws of Nature can organize matter to build complex biochemical systems that are at the origin of lifeforms such as a complex human being. The most relevant laws are: biological reproduction,
natural selection and mutation, and each particle of matter has a Guiding Soul.
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All biological structures can be explained in terms of those natural laws and the Guiding Souls serving God.
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All biological structures can be explained in terms of those natural laws and the Guiding Souls serving God. The existence
of Souls does not necessarily imply a special beginning of the Universe. The Universe may have never had a beginning and probably never did.
Souls can only guide the matter of the Universe to serve God. Observations of the Universe show the stars in our galaxy, galaxies,
clusters of galaxies, super clusters of galaxies, and many special objects. A theory of the observable Universe that has stood out over the past decades is
the Big Bang theory. Different types of data point at the Big Bang theory. We may never be a 100% certain which theory of the Universe (and God knows there are many) is correct.
A good reference is my own Master's Degree Thesis:
"La Cosmologie et la Cosmogonie: Une Discussion"
by Germain Dufour
Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Departement de Physique, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. The first draft was handed in
December, 1978; it was accepted on December 15, 1982. Supervisor: Dr. Felix deForest.
( see my CV  )
Even if
the Big Bang was correct, it could also be that the observable universe is a part of an even larger, infinite, universe. That is more likely
to be true. God is infinite in space and time and could have created our observable universe for a higher purpose.
Let us assume here that the beginning of our observable universe was a Big Bang. The conditions for the formation of life on Earth appeared gradually over the past billion years.
Souls were guiding evolution in small ways so as to make it possible for life to be conscious of God.
God is conscious of us through our Souls. In a way, Souls are 'God's plumbing
devices', God ways to communicate with the physical universe, God's medium to connect with us. Most Souls as we see them
today are not as they were at the beginning of the universe. That is if there was such beginning. Let us say that at the beginning of our observable universe, there was the Primeval Atom or Big Bang.
Souls have merged and evolved ever since this beginning. The Primeval Atom was made of the pure light of God and of God's consciousness and Spirit, which today we call Souls. Then
God allowed the Primeval Atom to explode and space, time and matter were formed and the universe evolved as we
observe it today.
At the early stage of this expanding universe, every particle in the universe had a Soul each being a small part of the
primeval consciousness of God. Each Soul was the essence of a small part of God's Spirit. In a way, the essence of each
Soul is its own Spirit, itself a small part of God's Spirit. This is because God exists everywhere in the universe and in every
particle of all galaxies. Souls have an important intrinsic quality, they can merge together, a group of Souls can become one
Soul, a brighter one, different. This is what Souls do best, and it is to unify to better serve God. Souls can evolve as well.
A Soul's primary goal is to serve God. A Soul can affect matter to some extent so as to achieve God's Will.
Souls do their work at all times and everywhere over the entire universe. This is especially true during the formation of stars.
Stars are formed when a large cloud of dust particles collapse on itself by gravitational forces and other physical phenomena which may affect
their characteristics. Then a star, and planets with their moons, if any, are formed. After being born a star system has a lifetime of its own.
For instance, our Sun is believed to be about six billion years old, a young star, really!
Souls continue to do their work at all times during the formation of a new star system. It is very likely that there are billions of
star systems with planets in our observable universe. Souls would have guided matter to create such systems to better serve God. The ultimate goal is the
creation of life on a planet. Life allows Souls to be conscious of God in many different ways, and thus to better serve God.
At the early stage, when the Earth was formed, and a while later, all the conditions for the formation of life were present,
and life was created to better serve God. Life was made of matter and every particle of that matter had a Soul that merged
with all the others. That first spark of life had a unique and independent Soul, and its own Spirit, to better serve God.
Throughout the different evolutionary stages of life on Earth, Souls have guided the step-by-step evolution of life on Earth
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Souls have guided the step-by-step evolution of life on Earth.
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and kept merging to better serve God. They guided the evolutionary process in small ways.
Many groupings of Souls became more complex than others as they were much brighter beings than other groupings, but all serve God in
their own special way. One unique and most wonderful grouping was the grouping that made the Human Soul. God loves
the human Souls a lot because of their wonderful qualities. Through their Souls human beings became conscious of God in
many different ways. Religions of all kinds started to spread on Earth over the past thousands of years to adore God and
pray. Different groupings of Souls affected human beings in different ways and Peoples today have different religious
beliefs. God is like a river feeding plentifully and bountifully all life and plants. There are many pathways leading to the river. They are God's pathways. God loves diversity in Nature and in Souls. God loves good Souls from all religions.
Different religions have different ways to love, adore and pray to God. And God's Heaven exists. Heaven on Earth is
different from God's Heaven. To be in Heaven with God will mean a Soul has left the matter of the universe forever to enter
God's Heaven.
There are other pathways for Souls to enter God's Heaven but they are God's pathways.
Humanity has reached a point in its evolution where it knows its survival is being
challenged. The human species knows through the Souls and now that human Souls have merged and formed the Soul of Humanity,
we will find it easier to fight for our own survival. The Soul of Humanity does not make decisions for us and can only help us understand
and guide us on the way. In the past, human beings have had some kind of
symbiotical relationship (which is something common in Nature between lifeforms in an ecosystem) with the Souls, and now with the Soul of Humanity.
We work together for both our survival and well-being. Cooperation and symbiosis between lifeforms (especially human beings) on Earth
and between lifeforms and their Souls and the Soul of Humanity have become a necessity of life. We help one another, joint forces, and accomplish
together what we cannot accomplish separately. Several billion years ago this symbiosis between matter and Souls resulted in the making of complex biochemical systems. Symbiosis has
worked throughout the evolution of life on Earth and today, the Soul of Humanity has decided to be more active with humanity by purifying
Souls. The Soul of Humanity shows us the way to better serve God.
The Soul of Humanity is helping to bring about the event of Peace in the world. Knowing that Earth is a spiritual entity as well as a physical entity in space
and time in the universe we begin to have a better relationship with Earth and with all its living inhabitants. This way Earth
management will become a spiritual and a natural process whereby each person is responsible and accountable for its management the
best they can. Peace in the world and Earth management have for too long been in the hands of and affected by government and
business leaders, in the hands of a few people on the planet, as opposed to being in the hands of all of us (over 7 billion people on Earth) working together to keep our planet healthy. We are the keepers of the Earth.
The Soul of Humanity will help us:
* Resolve problems, concerns and issues peacefully;
* Reinstate the respect for Earth;
* Work with humanity to keep Earth healthy, productive and hospitable for all people and living things;
* Bring forth a sustainable global society embracing universal values related to human rights, economic and social justice, respect of nature, peace, responsibility to one another; and
* Help to protect and manage the Earth.
We have the responsibility of managing Earth. Everyone shares responsibility for the present and future well-being of life within Global Community. When there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to
choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible damage as oppose to a measure or an action causing an
irreversible loss.
All religions are required to conduct positive actions for peace, join the Peace Movement of Global Community, and re-examine their scriptures, precepts, practices, ethical and moral values in light
of global ecological concerns. Global Community is facing a global environmental crisis. It is very important that every person on Earth accept of being
part of the process in protecting the global life-support systems. The ecological crisis is as much about saving children as it is about saving other
lifeforms on the planet. Our objective is to find statements from all religions that promote the respect, stewardship, protection, ethical and moral responsibility to life and of the environment, the Earth global
life-support systems, and statements that promote a responsible Earth management. We are also asking for specific statements on environmental conservation.
The United Nations are to restructure their organization or start rebuilding it from scratch. The United Nations must reflect
the needs and aspirations of Global Community: all Peoples together, Global Economic Cooperation,
Global Governance, Earth Governance, Earth Environmental Governance, and the formation of Global Ministries similar to those researched and developed by Global Community.
War is the greatest violation of human rights that one people can inflict on another. It brings deaths and injuries, starvation, diseases, millions of people
losing their homes and livelihoods, and massive destruction of property.
Children and teenagers are placed in internment camps, and several are often forced to serve as soldiers. War not only corrupts the morals of soldiers, it leads to a decline
in the morality of the whole nation.
Political and military leaders are always convinced that their particular war is justified. From their point of view, there are several reasons to go
to war: loyalty to allies, religion, a thirst for power, greed, ancient grievances to be settled, or the desire to alleviate suffering among their people.
A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be more advantageous. Today, war is self-defeating because it cannot secure what it sets out to achieve, protection against attack. The hatred for the enemy
whipped up by war and the desire for revenge among the losers leads to an accursed vicious circle from which there is no escape. The difference between
agressive and defensive, or just and unjust wars, is ridiculous. They are tags each side adopted to suit its interests. War and militarism destroy civil liberties within a nation.
What happens to a person's conscience when he/she wears the uniform of the soldier? It is enslaved to the state. The soldier must kill when ordered. No government, whether
democratic or despotic, can allow the soldier to decide what to do according to his/her conscience. That would undermine discipline and the power to fight.
Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should be able to live in peace. This peace mouvement is about courage. Not the courage it takes to go into battle but the courage
to organize resistance to war when a bloody taste for it inflames the world, and the threat of prison in a nation where the human rights and freedom of expression have diminished significantly. It is
about the courage to say NO to the war industry. It is an industry that destroys life on Earth, corrupts society, and violates morality. Military intervention
in the affairs of other nations is wrong. There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of power for itself.
Global citizens are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants".
Today the only wars Global Community is asking you to win are:
a) the war against terrorism using peaceful means;
b) the protection of the global life-support systems; the global environmental crisis; and
c) to give free trade around the world and globalization a good name by changing the existing state of affairs from a global competition to a global co-operation and including
social and environmental concerns in the ways of doing trade and business.
The worst environmental degradation happens in wars. Farm products in fields and livestock are abandoned, there is no more control on toxic wastes, and water, air,
and land are polluted. People are displaced and feel no longer responsible for the quality of life in their communities. Historically, the industrialized nations
have caused the most damage to the environment, with their careless technology and policies. Greengase emissions from factories and vehicles have caused
ozone depletion and acid rain. Leaders of the wealthier nations must be willing to accept responsibility for past mistakes and to help pay the financial burden
for environmental protection of the developing nations. This is the most damaging conflict of interests between the rich industrialized countries
and those that are poor and struggling just for existence. Global Community must help wealthy and poorer nations reach a better understanding of each
other's needs. All aspects are interrelated: peace, human rights and the environment. The poor is more concerned with ending starvation,
finding a proper shelter and employment, and helping children to survive. Environmental issues become meaningless to the poor. In reality, all concerns are interrelated.
As soon as the environment is destroyed beyond repair, human suffering is next. Ecology has no boundaries. All nations suffer the effects of
air pollution, global warming, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, acid rain, ozone depletion, silting of streams, and countless of other
environmental problems. This was the reason for proposing to Global Community the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.
Global Community wants to provide a forum where international conflicts could be argued and resolved peacefully. Because of hatred and mistrust, disputing
parties always find it difficult to express constructive ideas or proposals. A face-to-face meeting may not even be possible. Global Community offers to be a trusted
third party that would carry ideas back and forth, put forward new proposals until both sides agree. When both parties feel they have gained more than
they have lost from the process, the outcome is a win-win settlement for peace.
Building global communities require understanding of global problems this generation is facing. There are several major problems: conflicts and wars, no tolerance and compassion for one another, world overpopulation, human activities accelerating dangerously the amount of greenhouse gases in the air, as population increases the respect and value of a human life is in decline, insufficient protection and prevention for global health, scarcity of resources and drinking water, poverty, Fauna and Flora species disappearing at a fast rate, global warming and global climate change, global pollution reaching unhealthy peaks in the air, water and soils, deforestation, permanent lost of the Earth's genetic heritage, and the destruction of the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet. We need to build global communities for all life on the planet. We need to build global communities that will manage themselves with the understanding of the above problems.
Our planet is populated with living beings consisting of millions of different life forms interacting with each
other to survive, thus forming an intricate web of life in different ecosystems on the planet. The interaction and interdependence between life
forms are the driving force that creates and maintains an ecological - environmental equilibrium that has sustained life on Earth for millions of years enabling it to evolve, flourish and diversify.
On Earth’s surface exists a diversity of arctic, temperate and tropical ecosystems with many different varieties of plants, animals, and human beings, all of which are
dependent on soils, waters and local climates. Thus biodiversity, the diversity of organisms, depends on maintenance of
ecodiversity, the diversity of ecosystems. Cultural diversity
– which in effect is a form of biodiversity – is the historical result
of humans fitting their activities, thoughts and language
to specific geographic ecosystems. Therefore, whatever
degrades and destroys ecosystems is both a biological
and a cultural source. Global Community values Earth’s diversity in all its forms, the non-human as well as the human.
The Global Community believes all citizens have the
right to share the wealth in the world. The free trade agreement between nations must protect and improve social and environmental
rights, not just the economy. A sustainable development in the world would mean finding a sound balance among the interactions designed to create a healthy
economic growth, preserve environmental quality, make a wise use of our resources, and enhance social benefits. Free trade cannot
proceed at the expense of the environment, labour rights, human rights and the sovereignty of a nation. Free trade leads to an
increase in poverty by giving investor rights priority over government decision-making. Employers will be looking for more
concessions from workers. Small businesses will find it more difficult to grow and compete against large corporations.
Free trade entrenches corporate power at the expense of democratically elected officials from local communities, municipal
governments, provincial governments, national governments and states. It is a form of
"world anti-government" (such as the European Union block) as citizens lose the ability to act in their best interests and
find sound solutions to their own problems. Citizens become disconnected with the decision-making process. Their lives are then driven
by the desire of making profits. Fear is used to force people to behave with the dollar sign as their god. In such scenario,
democratic principles lose meaning and no longer prevail. Building sustainable
communities is no longer possible with free trade. The principles of a sustainable development are let go and replaced by the desire of the world business
leaders to make larger profits.
Over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to become completely responsible for their
products from beginning to end. At the end, the product becomes a waste, and it needs to be properly dispose of.
The peoples of all Nations, in creating an ever closer
Global Community among them, a Global Civilization, are resolved to share
a peaceful future based on common values. Conscious of its spiritual and
moral heritage, Global Community is founded on the indivisible, universal
values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity; it is based
on the principles of democracy and the rule of law. It places the individual
at the heart of its activities, by establishing Global Community citizenship (global citizen),
and by creating an era of freedom, security, global justice and social
harmony.
Global Community is a non-hierarchical nonviolent
organization of individuals and organizations that promotes the arts, conducts
workshops, facilitates nonviolent direct actions, educates, organizes,
campaigns, empowers, and aims to rip injustice from its roots. We are committed
to nonviolence. We stand for the globalization of our rights to speech,
thought, religion, assembly, a clean environment, self-determination,
freedom from fear and persecution and freedom from poverty. We stand
for the rights of women, children, elderly, affordable health care, strong
labor rights and social and economic policies that put people and the environment
before profits.
Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should
be able to live in Peace. This Global Peace Mouvement is about courage
to live a life in a harmonious peace order and showing by example, thus
preventing poverty, wars, terror and violence. We need to educate the coming
generations with good principles, being compassionate, social harmony and
global sustainability being some of them.
Life often involves tensions between important values.
This can mean difficult choices. However, we must find ways to harmonize
diversity with unity, the exercise of freedom with the common good, short-term
objectives with long-term goals. Every individual, family, organization,
and community has a vital role to play. The arts, sciences, religions,
educational institutions, media, businesses, nongovernmental organizations,
and governments are all called to offer creative leadership. The partnership
of government, civil society, and business is essential for an effective
global governance based on global concepts and the Scale of Human and Earth
Rights.
Let our time be a time remembered for the awakening of
a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve sustainability, the
quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful celebration
of life. Let our expanding consciousness blend with that of the Soul of
Humanity.
Being unified under the Soul of Humanity dissolves all
barriers and expand our global consciousness. We become more whole and
complete within ourselves and as a group. Our common Spirit is able to
resolve planetary problems in a coherent way. One common 'Global Vision'
allows us to see how all the parts of the whole relate to each other. We
have the right relationship with one another, with all lifeforms and Earth
itself, and with the Soul of Humanity.
The work of Global Community, the global civil
society, and the determination of government worldwide, make it possible
for everyone to comply with Global Law. Building global communities requires
a mean to enforce Global Law for the protection of life on Earth. Global
Civilization guides humanity for the building of global communities. This
is a great opportunity for globallateralism. Global Law includes legislation
covering all aspects of human activities. The
Global Protection Agency
(GPA) will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping
and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO. The GPA will enforce
the law. And that is the third option we offer Global Community. And
that is also how we can stop the global warming of the planet and protect
the global life-support systems, thus largely improving the quality of
life of the next generations.
As we enact global law, we will begin to take on a much
deeper kind of global leadership, one that earns more respect than envy
and more gratitude than hatred, one that can catapult the whole planet
forward into a future where war is no longer thinkable between nation-states
and a legitimate and beneficial global government is able to cope with
global problems.
I believe that there is no greater task in the world today
than for Global Community to proceed through the maturation of its
leadership, emerging from a more self-interested adolescence as a global
leader into a nobler adulthood. We have the potential to act as a torchbearer
for a better tomorrow. Do we heed the call? I hope this message has convinced
at least a few people that the question of how to proceed with that maturation
is of far deeper significance than the reforming of the United Nations.
I thus pray that we move with wisdom, grace, clarity, and love in the days,
years, and even decades ahead.
As never before in history, common destiny beckons us to seek a new beginning. This requires a change of mind and heart, and calling
Divine Will to come into our life to show us the way. It requires a new sense of global interdependence and universal responsibility.
We must develop and apply the vision of a sustainable way of life locally, nationally, regionally, globally, and within ourselves
throughout life. Our cultural diversity is a precious heritage and different cultures will find their own distinctive ways to
realize the vision. We must deepen and expand the global dialogue that generated the ongoing collaborative search for truth and
wisdom.
Our time is the age of global cooperation and symbiotical relationships. There are many different kinds
of symbiotical relationships. Symbiotical relationships exist between nations of the European Union. It is mainly an economic base
symbiotical relationship. Other types of symbiotical relationships maybe created all over the world between communities, nations,
and between people themselves. They may be geographical, economical, social, business-like, political, religious, and personal.
There has always been symbiotical relationships in Nature, and between Souls and the matter of the universe to help creating Earth
and life on Earth to better serve God.
Global Community has begun to establish the existence of a meaningful global co-operation all over the planet. National governments and
large corporations have taken the wrong direction by asserting that free trade in the world is about competing economically without
any moral safeguards and accountability to peoples and the environment. The proper and only way is for free trade to become a global
cooperation between all nations. Global Community is proposing a solution that the process of trading within the planetary trading blocks be changed
from a spirit of global competition to that of global economic cooperation. This is the new way of doing business, the new way
of life.
People in our society often argue that their manufacturing products and the trading principles or rules that regulate their
actions are all legal! But what about ethical values and moral principles?!
What about consumer products?! A Global Community very important principle is: you manufacture, produce, farm or create
a product, you become responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste; you are also responsible for
the proper disposable of the waste).
Over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to
become legally and morally responsible and accountable for their products from beginning to end. At the end the product becomes
a waste and it needs to be properly dispose of. Now trade must be given a new impetus to be in line with the global concepts of
Global Community. When you do exploration work, and develop, manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, you become legally
and morally responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste;
you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste). This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas,
weapons, war products, construction products, transportation and communications products and equipment, to genetically
engineered food products. All consumer products! All medical products! All pharmaceutical products! In order words, a person
(a person may be an individual, a community, a government, a business, an NGO, or an institution) becomes responsible and
accountable for anything and everything in his or her life.
Global consumption is a very important aspect of globalization. Consumers should be concerned with the impact of their decisions on
the environment but also on the lives, human and Earth rights and well-being of other people. Since one of the key functions of
families as a social institution is to engage in production (selling their labour in return for wages) and consumption (using
those wages to buy goods and services), then the role of families has impacts on sustainable consumption and development.
Corporations are required to expand their responsibilities to include human and Earth rights, the environment, community and
family aspects, safe working conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects. Global Community has summarized the rights of every
person on Earth by developing the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.  The scale will eventually be
replacing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Global Constitution established all rights.
Just as corporations have social responsibilities and so do consumers in societies. Consumers are socialized to improve the
quality of their lives. Quality of life is a multi-dimensional, complex and very subjective concept. For instance,
someone who has changed their consumption habits to better ensure that their choices will make a better quality of life for
themselves, the environment and future generations, may be seen by others as having a lower or inferior quality of life since they
have removed themselves from the materialistic mainstream characteristic of our consumer society. Someone may feel that an absence
of violence and abuse in their life leads to a higher quality of living even though they have fewer tangible resources, money, or
shelter; peace of mind and freedom from abuse has increased the quality of their daily life relative to what it was like before.
There are universal quality of life values which lead to "human betterment" or the improvement of the human condition. In addition
to the value of species survival (human and other living organisms), they include: adequate resources, justice and equality,
freedom, and peace or balance of power. A better quality of life for all people of Global Community Earth Government is a goal for all of us and
one of our universal values.
Global Community found that an adequate level of health care is a universal value as well as a human right. We expect adequate health services to
be accessible, affordable, compassionate and socially acceptable. We believe that every individual of a society is co-responsible
for helping in implementing and managing health programmes along with the government and the public institutions.
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How the Earth should be owned is the major economic question of this
time. The world should be owned not just by the people living in it but by all life on Earth and the Soul of Life, the Soul of Humanity.
Today, the impacts of our democracy are destroying the Earth global life-support systems.
A few people have control over so much of the Earth.
To live in a world at peace and have conditions of basic justice and fairness in human interactions,
our democratic values must be based on the principle of equal rights to the Earth.
The core concept needed by Global Community for a better tomorrow is the need to manage our planet, to take charge and take care of our planet with fair benefits for all. To accomplish this, four major items need to be
addressed: Ecology, Sovereignty, Governance and Ethics.
Ecology.
A first priority is protection and care of the environment and natural resources, including creatures large and small. Everyone should be encouraged to think and act as
an Earth manager and support an Earth care initiative. At this moment Global warming is a major problem. Everyone should seek to reduce its causes, and everyone can further these goals by thinking and acting as an Earth manager and by joining in the observance of one great global holiday: Life Day Celebration on May 26 of each year  .
Sovereignty.
Planet Earth is humanity's inheritance. The land, water, air, and the wonderful bounty of natural resources were not human made. Everyone, all lifeforms, has a common right and ownership to their uses. We must recognize the rightful claim of every person to inherit an equitable portion of Earth's natural bounty. That is humanity common heritage.
Governance.
To achieve a balance of freedom and order, local communities must be given a larger responsibility for peace and the care for Earth. Let towns
and cities link with each other locally and across national boundaries in major vigorous independent programs to foster understanding and cooperation in solving social and environmental problems. This can bring the measure of unity we need in our diversity and help foster the trust needed by nations to achieve lasting peace for all peoples.
Ethics.
One of the greatest causes of conflict in history has been the conflicting views of different religions. And at the same time it is religion that has most effectively fostered
humanitarian actions. The question is, can the obvious benefits in different religions be approved and supported without approving that part of their faith with which we differ?
Allegiance to a faith dealing with the mysteries of life: why are we here? Is there a future life? Is there a God? often provides meaning and incentives for a virtuous life. But each person must temper their belief by recognizing any virtue they see in people with a different hypothesis about the mysteries of life. The Golden Rule Principle, also called the Ethic of Reciprocity by theologians, says: "Dont do to others what you wouldn't want done to you." Or treat others the way you would want to be treated. The Golden Rule has a moral aspect found in each religion or faith. It could be used as a global ethic. Every faith is unanimous of saying that every individual should be treated with the same respect and dignity we all seek for ourselves.
Promoting an action program for Ethics  of Earth will quickly bring new attitudes of trust and hope a change of heart worldwide.
Can the world become a better place to live in? Of course! The means of great change are at our fingertips. With the aid of the telephone, radio, TV, computers and web sites we can inspire a new global support for
opinion that will enable us to harvest Earth's bounty. Let us all act together! Let us launch a global campaign for the restoration and renewal of our planet and ourselves as one humanity. Let us promote the creative actions and the ideas that are healing and nurturing people and planet.
We are all members of Global Community. We all have the duty to protect the rights and welfare of all species and all people. No humans have the right to encroach on the ecological space of other species and other people,
or treat them with cruelty and violence. All life species, humans and cultures, have intrinsic worth. They are subjects, not objects of manipulation or ownership. No humans have the right to own other species, other people or the knowledge of other cultures through
patents and other intellectual property rights. Defending biological and cultural diversity is a duty of all people. Diversity is an end in itself, a value, a source of richness both material and cultural.
All members of Global Community including all humans have the right to food and water, to safe and clean habitat, to security of ecological space.
These rights are natural rights, they are birthrights given by
the fact of existence on Earth and are best protected through community rights and global commons. They are not given by states or corporations, nor can they be extinguished by state or corporate action. No state or corporation has the right to erode or undermine these natural rights or enclose the commons that sustain all through privatisation or monopoly control.
Land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, the air, minerals deposits (gold, oil and gas etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property or a commodity. Land is not a product of labor. Everyone should therefore be given equal access to all natural resources.
Only Global Community can rightfully claim ownership of the Earth.
All the Earth natural resources belong to Global Community to be used, developed and protected for the maximum benefit of the people and of all life.
We the Peoples of Global Community are reaffirming faith in the fundamental human rights, in the dignity and
worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and smalll. We the Peoples
implies every individual on Earth. Earth management and good governance is now a priority and a duty of every responsible person on Earth. We will establish conditions under which justice and
respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and we promote
social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.
Earth rights are ecological rights and the rights that Global Community has in protecting the global life-support systems. Earth rights are those rights that demonstrate the connection between human well-being and a sound environment. They include individuals and global
communities human rights and the rights to a clean environment, and participation in development decisions. We define ecological rights as those rights of the ecosystem of the Earth beyond human purpose. They are those rights that protect and
preserve the ecological heritage of the Earth, a global commons, for future generations.
The biggest challenge for social democracy
today is to articulate coherent policies based on a unifying vision for
society.
The major problems to address include:
A. the enormous worldwide wealth gap and the underlying concentration of land and natural resource ownership and control;
B. the privatized monetary structures;
C. building global governance institutions and financing governance and development in such a way as to divert funds
from military industrial profits and into social development and environmental restoration; and
D. the inexistence of Global Ministries as those researched and developed by Global Community.
We need a basic clarification on the concept of "land ownership", starting with the principle that the land
and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and belong equally as a birthright to everyone. Products and services created by individuals
are properly viewed as private property. Products and services created by groups of individuals are properly viewed as collective property.
However, we have reached the deplorable circumstance where in large measure
a very powerful few are in possession of the Earth's resources, the land
and all its riches, and all the franchises and other privileges that yield
a return. These monopolistic positions are kept by a handful of men who
are maintained virtually without taxation.
In today's affairs a very powerful few are in possession of the land and the Earth's resources. These few people operate practically without taxation.
Is that what we want as a global democracy? Who should own the Earth? Who has sovereignty over our planet?
Soveveignty is the status of a person or group
of persons having supreme and independent political authority. The concept of sovereignty is related to the concept of power:
power over a territory, land and water, oil and minerals, as
well as life on Earth. The United Nations (UN) cannot have
normal attributes of sovereignty, which has been defined around a territory
and population.
Global Community has in fact been defined around a given territory,
that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population,
which is Global Community. The issue here is not that of populations
and boundary lines, but of the demarcation of power and control over the
Earth that is the foremost formal attribute of sovereignty. Therefore, Global Community sovereignty has sovereignty over the Earth.
To speak of enforceable global law is to speak of world power. Global
Parliament has the power to make the laws of the land and to make the rules
for the territory of the Earth. Global Law has been and continue to be
researched and developed for this purpose.
Today our democracy is not based on equal rights to the Earth and its natural resources.
Conservation, restoration, and protection of the Earth resources
is about asking ourselves the question of "Who owns the Earth?" The large
gap between rich and poor is conected to
ownership and control of the planet's land and of all other Earth natural
resources. This causes a fundamental threat to democracy. What has become of democracy?
What has become " we the people? "
We need to take a giant step forward to a new form of democracy. We, Global Community, must now direct the wealth of the world towards the
building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs
for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all.
Global Community has proposed a new democratic mandate recognizing
that the land, the air, oil and natural gas, minerals, all other natural resources
rightly belong to Global Community. The Earth is our birthright and
our common heritage. What we make from our mental and physical labor can
rightfully be held as individual property but the profit of the Earth should
be shared by all life. The unjust and inequitable ownership
of the land and of all other natural resources has caused the great majority of local-to-global conflicts
and wars.
Global Community should organize expert groups and begin the necessary intergovernmental negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees levied on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on carbon content of fuels.
Territorial conflict has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others.
Throughout the ages wars been fought over land, and other Earth natural resources.
We have seen oil conflicts in the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea Basin.
We have seen water conflicts in the Nile Basin, the Jordan, and Indus River Basins.
We have seen wars being fought over minerals and timber in Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Congo, New Guinea, and Borneo. We have seen conflicts over valuable gems, minerals and timber in Brazil, Angola, Cambodia, Columbia, Congo, Liberia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
The view from space shows us a global landscape in which competition over resources is the governing principle behind the use of military power. Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries.
Each day taxpayers hand over astronomical amounts of money to build weapons
of mass destruction, fuel dangerous and polluting technologies, and subsidize giant corporations which concentrate the wealth and power of the world in the hands of an elite few.
There is a way to share the Earth? The Global Economic Model proposed by Global Community is truly the best response to the world.
Whoever owns the land and all other natural resources exerts power over those who are landless and no resources. Global Community proposes to
extend democratic principles to include the ownership and control
of the Earth. The Global Economic Model was created for all
the people on the planet. The model makes sure that the
rights of all people and the rights of the planet are one and the same. The Global Economic Model stipulates as well that we, as human beings, are trustees and caretakers
of all other life forms on Earth. The Global Economic Model is global, as people are freed to move beyond
borders and boundaries and claim the whole Earth as their birthplace.
Land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like
surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil etc), water, electromagnetic
spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat
land as private property. Land is not a product of labor. Everyone should
therefore be given equal access to natural resources.
The Global Economic Model proposes to make private property the product of labor. Common property
is all what Nature offers. The Global Economic Model policy removes
taxes from wages and increases taxes and user
fees on common property. The model eliminates subsidies that are environmentally or socially
harmful, and inequitable.
Every national government must show a commitment to making available
enough land in the context of sustainable land-use policies. Governments at all levels should remove all possible obstacles
that may hamper equitable access to land and ensure that equal rights of
women and men related to land and property are protected under the law.
When there are noone wanting the land then Global Community will have
people from other countries in need of land to settle with their families.
Truly, we are on the threshold of a global revolution, and we need to
proceed with the non-violent approach. We need to build an economic democracy
based firmly on the basic principle that the Earth belongs equally to
everyone as a birthright. The Earth is for all people to labor and live
on and should never be the possession of any individual, corporation,
or uncaring government, any more than the air or water, or any other
Earth natural resources. An individual, or a business should have
no more than is needed for a healthy living.
The global economic model is based on respect and value all life on
Earth. It recognizes that we as human beings are trustees and caretakers
of the many life forms that dwell here with us. A global economic model
extends the democratic mandate to solve the land problem by affirming the
equal right of all people to the Earth. It will have a balanced and just
relationship of citizenry to government with enlightened public finance
policy based on land and land rent for the people. Money will be issued
and circulated as a service for the people as a whole rather than used
as a mechanism for the exploitation of the many by the few.
The global economic model is global, as people are freed to move beyond
borders and boundaries and claim the whole Earth as their birthplace. It
is highly decentralized as well, with people living and producing for their
basic human needs within the constraints and parameters of local ecological
systems. A global economic model is about a world that works for
everyone, with plenty of time to expand our minds and elevate our spirits.
We must grasp the injustice at the core of our present economic system.
We need to understand how far we have strayed from reality, and how we have
been led into illusionary games of finance. Our treatment of the Earth
as a market commodity, just like a car or television, is the basic flaw
in our economic ground rules.
When land became a 'commodity' and lost its status as provider and sustainer
of life, Western civilization began its history of subjugation and exploitation
of the Earth and Earth based cultures.
A global economic model can achieve fairness by giving
the equal right of all people to the land and to all other natural
resources, and the right of the individual to the products of labor.
A condition of "ownership" of any particular landsite or natural resource
is payment of the fee back to the community as a whole. This fee is the proper source of public finance for the needs of
the Community.
On the global level the Law of the Seas Covenant is an example of a fee collected basis for public needs as it means that ocean resources are the common heritage of all and a proper source of funding for global institutions.
In order to democratize land rights, we can make land available to individuals and groups
who wish to live in ecologically sustainable villages and farms. Community land trusts can hold title to such lands. The buildings and improvements can be privately owned. This process is a strong incentive for the creation of employment.
The global economic model also allows for an increase of taxes and fees on natural resources:
- Emissions into air, water, or soil
- Land sites according to land value
- Lands used for timber, grazing, mining
- Ocean and freshwater resources
- Electromagnetic or radio-frequency spectrum
- Satellite orbital zones
- Oil and minerals
- Hydropower
The planet and all its resources of land, water, forests, minerals,
the atmosphere, electro-magnetic frequencies, and even satellite orbits belong to Global Community. The Global Economic
Model makes sure that the profits of the Earth will benefit the people
and all life, and secure an age of peace and fairness for all.
Properly managed small farms along with ecological villages
can produce a diverse range of food, fiber, livestock, and energy products
for local markets. Bio methods of farming depending on renewable
energy sources can yield both social and environmental stability. Tax policies that remove taxes on labor and productive capital
will be the sustainable pillar that makes the global economic model works for all.
This Global Movement for land value taxation and natural resource rent
for revenue can provide the basis for worldwide economic democracy. Freedom
to live or work in any part of the globe would also further equality of
entitlement to the planet, and provide a basis for the resolution of resource
wars and territorial conflicts. There would be no more private profit as
unearned income from Earth natural resources. Instead, transparent and
accountable resource agencies would collect resource rents and distribute
those funds in public services or as direct citizen dividends. With fundamental
democracy in rights to the Earth firmly established through legal means
and mandates, basic needs would be secured for all and the militarized
national security state and its bloated budgets could wither away.
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The old concept of a community being the street where we live in and surrounded by a definite geographical and political boundary has originated during the Roman Empire period. An entire new system of
values was then created to make things work for the Roman Empire. Humanity has lived with this concept over two thousand years. Peoples from all over the world are ready to kill anyone challenging their
border. They say that this is their land, their property, their 'things'. Today, this archaic concept is endangering humanity and all life survival. The Roman Empire has gone but its culture is still affecting us today. We
need to let go the old way of thinking. We need to learn of the new concept, and how it can make things work in the world.
A typical community may be what a group of people, together, wants it to be. It can be a group of people sharing with the same values. It can be a group of people with the same cultural background, or the
same religious background. Or they can be people with totally different backgrounds and beliefs. The people making a global community may be living in many different locations on the planet. With today's
communications it is easy to group people in this fashion. It can be a village, or two villages together where people have decided to unite as one Community. The two villages may be found in different parts of
the world. It can be a town, a city, or a nation. It can be two or more nations together.
A global community has a well defined criteria based on global symbiotical relationships. And it does not require the occupation of a specific area of land.
These relationships allow a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
As mentioned above, land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, the air, minerals deposits (gold, oil and gas etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the
trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. Land is not a product of labor. Everyone should therefore be given equal
access to such natural resources.
Similarly, all the Earth natural resources belong to Global Community to be used, developed and conserved for the maximum benefit of the people and of all
life.
Global Community is this great, wide, wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities.
Global Community is defined around a given territory,
that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population,
which is Global Community. Global Community has the power to make the laws of the land and to make the rules
for the territory of the Earth. Global Law has been and continue to be
researched and developed for this purpose.
Global Community concept of ownership states that land
and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and belong equally to everyone as a birthright. Products and services created by individuals
are properly viewed as private property. Products and services created by groups of individuals are properly viewed as collective property.
Global Community allows people to take control of their own lives. Global Community was built from a grassroots process with a
vision for humanity that is challenging every person on Earth as well as nation governments. Global Community has a vision of the
people working together building a global civilization including a healthy and rewarding future for the next generations. Global cooperation
brings people together for a common future for the good of all.
The spiritual belief, universal values, principles and aspirations of Global Community will be attained by:
* practicing tolerance and living together in peace and harmony with one another as neighbours,
* promoting the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
* maintaining peace and security in the world by using negotiations and peaceful means,
* finding unity in diversity with all Life,
* establishing the respect for the life-support system of the planet,
* keeping Earth healthy, productive and hospitable for all people and living things, and
* applying the principle that when there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible,
which causes reversible damage as opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss.
The definition of Global Community concept is truly the 21st century "philosophy of life" framework, some called it the religion of the third millennium, others called it
the politics of the future generations now.
This definition includes all people, all life on Earth. 
It also implicitly says that no-one in particular owns the Earth but we all own it together.
Not just us people, but all life on Earth owns it. The beginning of life
stretches as far back as 4 billion years, and so Life claims its birthright of ownership of Earth, and so does the Soul of all Life, the Soul of Humanity.
The Earth, and all its natural resources, are owned by Global Community, along with all the "global communities" contained therein.
Conservation, restoration, and management of the Earth resources
is about asking ourselves the question of "Who owns the Earth?" The large
gap between rich and poor is connected to
ownership and control of the planet's land and of all other Earth natural
resources.We,
Global Community, must now direct the wealth of the world towards the
building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs
for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all.
And that is a new global commons.
Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact that land, the air, oil, minerals, other natural resources
rightly belong to Global Community. The Earth is the birthright of all life.
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The definition of Global Community concept is truly the 21st century "philosophy of life" framework, some called it the religion of the third millennium, others called it
the politics of the future generations now. Let us remind everyone the definition that has been guiding us throughout the years:
The concept of 'a global community' is part of the
Glass Bubble concept of a Global Community. The concept was
first researched and developed by the Global Community Organization and was summarized on Global Community
website. Then it was further researched and developed by Global Community
and results obtained were published by Global Community in its February
2003 Newsletter.
The Glass Bubble concept
of
"a Global Community"
The Glass Bubble is designed to illustrate the
concept of "a global community" to elementary school children as opposed
to the idea a community is "the street where I live".
It is an imaginary space enclosed in a glass bubble. Inside
this is everything the child can see: above to the clouds, below into the waters
of a lake or in the earth, to the horizons in front, in back, and on the sides.
Every creature, every plant, every person, every structure that is visible to
him(her) is part of this "Global Community. "
By focusing on familiar ground in this manner it can be taught
that every living thing within the glass bubble is there because his/her food is
there, his/her home is there, all he/she needs to survive is there. And every creature
will stay as long as what his/her needs remains to be available within that
"Global Community. "
Look up, look down, to the right, to the left, in front and
behind you.
Imagine all this space is inside a giant clear glass bubble.
This is "a global community."
Wherever you go, you are inside a "global"
Community. Every thing, every living creature there, interacts one upon the
other. Influences inter-weave and are responsible for causes and effects. Worlds
within worlds orbiting in and out of one another's space, having their being.
Your presence has influence on everything else inside your immediate Global Community.
Learn to be aware of that and act accordingly, to create good
or destroy, to help or to hurt. Your choice.
Now let us explore this Global Community that we have
visited and discover why each member is important ~ each bird, each tree, each
little animal, each insect, plant and human being ~ and how all work together to
create a good place to live.
You walk like a giant in this Global Community. To all
the tiny members you are so big, so powerful, even scary…
You can make or break their world. But by knowing their needs,
and taking care, you can help your whole Global Community be a good one.
From the experience in your life and local community tell us:
* Why are you important to this "Global
Community"?
* Why is it important to you?
* What do you like about it?
* What bothers you about it?
* Anything need to be done?
* What is really good there?
* What is very very important?
* What is not so important?
* What is not good?
* What is needed to keep the good things?
* What could make them even better?
* What could you do to keep the good things good?
* Could they help get rid of bad things?
* What unimportant things need to go?
* How could you help get rid of these things?
to sustain Global Community, humanity and all life.
Let each child be aware he/she either grows up to be a person who
helps or a person who destroys.
Each child makes his own choice. He creates his own future in this way. He
becomes a responsible citizen.
This may or may not inspire some sort of creative project of
what "could be" to aid this Global Community to remain healthy. To interact knowledgeably within one's global community has to
be taught ~ especially to urban children. It has to be brought to them very
clearly all life forms interact and depend upon other life forms for survival.
They need to know "reasons why" ignorance of nature's law causes such
damage, and why working in harmony with nature produces such good results. The concept of the Glass Bubble can be extended to
include planet Earth and all the "global communities" contained
therein.
Let us remind everyone the definition that has been guiding us throughout the previous dialogues: 
Global Community concept was first
defined by myself and my wife, Virginie,
back in 1985 and is truly the 21st
century philosophy of life framework,
some called it the religion of the third
millennium, others called it the
politics of the future generations now.
"Global Community is defined as being all
that exits or occurs at any location at any
time between the Ozone layer above and the core of the planet below. It is defined around a given territory, that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population, which is all life forms on Earth."
This definition includes all people, all life on Earth. And life claims its birthright of ownership of Earth, and so does SoulLife, also named the Soul of all Life, Soul of Humanity or God’s Spirit. By extension, the expression Global Community includes the entire Universe, space and time, all matter, galaxies, dark matter, all particles and all unknown parts of the Universe yet to be discovered. Again, Global Community also includes all Souls, God’s Spirit, and that makes it different than just saying Global Community is the Universe, or that God is the Universe. God is everywhere within the Universe and beyond, elsewhere. Guiding Souls serving God are always helping the formation of Life in all places and times. Global Community ethics embrace the process of understanding what is truly important for humanity’s survival on our planet, and that is the Scale of Global Rights which give Peoples the moral foundation for a better individual and community. Global Community ethical grounds are practical, real, and applicable for all women and men of good will, religious and non-religious.
This is the fundamental definition of the expression " Global Community".
This definition includes all people, all life on Earth.
It also implicitly says that no-one in particular owns the Earth but we all own it together.
Not just us people, but all life on Earth owns it. The beginning of life
stretches as far back as 4 billion years, and so Life claims its birthright of ownership of Earth, and so does the Soul of all Life, the Soul of Humanity.
Throughout this paper the land ownership of the Earth means ownership of the land and of all other Earth natural resources.
Following this thinking we see land ownership is no longer a problem. The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all the "global communities" contained therein.
A village, or a city is "a global community" and owns the land around its boundaries. Along with Global Community, it has ownership of all natural resources within its boundaries.
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Global Community Citizenship is offered to anyone who accepts
the Criteria of Global Community Citizenship as a way of life. It
is time now to take the oath of global community citizenship. We all belong
to this greater whole, the Earth, the only known place in the universe
we can call our home. Everyone can become a 'global citizen'.    
Before you make your decision, we are asking you to read very carefully
the Criteria of Global Community Citizenship, make sure
you understand every part of the criteria, and then make the oath of belonging
to Global Community, the human family.
You do not need to let go the citizenship you already have. No! You
can still be a citizen of any nation on Earth. The nation you belong to
can be called 'a global community'. It should be your local global community.
But you are a better human being as you belong also to Global Community,
and you have now higher values to live a life, to sustain yourself and
all life on the planet.
You have become a person with a heart, a mind and Soul of the same as
that of Global Community.
Global Community welcomes you!
Criteria to obtain Global Community Citizenship1. Acceptance of the rights
and responsibilities of a person belonging to 'a global community'
and to 'Global Community', the
human family. That is, to take such a stand has four parts:a) I am not just a woman, I am a person, I am citizen
of a Global Community,
b) I am not just a man, I am a person, I am citizen of
a Global Community,
c) We are responsible, accountable and equal persons
in every way and,
d) We are citizens of Global Community, the human family. We are global citizens.
We need to take this stand for the survival of our species.
2. Acceptance of the concept of 'a global community'.
The concept of 'a global community' is part of the
Glass Bubble concept of a Global Community. The concept was
first researched and developed by the Global Community Organization and was summarized on Global Community
website. Then it was further researched and developed by Global Community
and results obtained were published by Global Community in its February
2003 Newsletter and summarized here in this paper.
We have already said that 'a global community' is not
about a piece of land you acquired by force or otherwise. A typical global
community may be what a group of people, together, wants it to be. It can
be a group of people with the same values. It can be a group of people
with the same cultural background, or the same religious background. One
could think of a typical global community of a million people that does
not have to be bounded by a geographical or political border. It can be
a million people living in many different locations all over the world.
Global Community is thus more fluid and dynamic. Global Community
is this great, wide, wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities.
We need to let go the archaic ways of seeing a community as the street
where we live and contained by a border. The people making a global community
may be living in many different locations on the planet. It can be a village,
or two villages together where people have decided to unite as one Global Community. The two villages may be found in different parts of the world.
It can be a town, a city, or a nation. It can be two or more nations together. We can no longer perceive ourselves as a People who could
survive alone and a People who does not need anyone else. We belong and
depend to this much larger group, that of Global Community. The 21st
Century will see limitless links and symbiotical relationships with and
within Global Community. A global symbiotical relationship between
two or more nations, or between two or more global communities, can have
trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other
aspects as agreed by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that
a relationship is created for the good of all groups participating in the
relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth. The relationship
allows a global equitable and peaceful development.The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not
so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should
be although money can be made a part of the relationship. We all know developed
countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to
stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis
of the relationship should give more importance to the other aspects such
as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support
systems, the entrenchment of the Scale of Global Rights and the
Constitution of Global Community into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural
and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as described
in the global
ministries (health, agriculture, energy, trade, resources,
etc.).3. Acceptance of the Scale of Global Rights.
To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities
and their importance. The Scale
of Global Rights and the Constitution
of Global Community were researched and developed by Global Community to guide us in continuing this process. The Scale shows social
values in order of importance and so will help us understand the rights
and responsibilities of global communities.
Scale of Global Rights
* Ecological rights and the protection of the global life-support
systems
* Primordial human rights
* The ecological rights, the protection of the global
life-support systems and the primordial human rights of future generations
* Community rights and the right that the greatest number
of people has by virtue of its number (50% plus one) and after voting representatives
democratically
* Economic rights (business and consumer rights, and
their responsibilities and accountabilities) and social rights (civil and
political rights)
* Cultural rights and religious rights4. Accptance of the Constitution of Global Community.
The Constitution of Global Community is a declaration of interdependence
and responsibility and an urgent call to build a global symbiotical relationship
between nations for sustainable development. It is a commitment to Life
and its evolution to bring humanity to God. Global Community has focused
people aspirations toward a unique goal: humanity survival now and in the
future along with all Life on Earth. The "Belief,
Values, Principles and Aspirations of the New Age" of the Constitution
are closely interrelated. Together they provide a conception of sustainable
development and set forth fundamental guidelines for achieving it; they
were drawn from international law, science, philosophy, religion, and they
were discussed as research papers during the global dialogues.5. Acceptance of your birth right of electing a democratic
government to manage Earth. The political system of an individual country
does not have to be a democracy. Political rights of a country belong to
that country alone. Democracy is not to be enforced by anyone and to anyone
or to any Global Community. Every global community can and should choose
the political system of their choice with the understanding of the importance
of such a right on the Scale
of Global Rights. On the other hand, representatives
to Global Community must be elected democratically in every part of the
world. An individual country may have any political system at home but
the government of that country will have to ensure (and allow verification
by Global Community ) that representatives to Global Community have been
elected democratically. This way, every person in the world can claim the
birth right of electing a democratic government to manage Earth: the rights
to vote and elect representatives to form Global Community .
6. Acceptance of the Earth Court of Justice as the highest Court on Earth. 
Global Community is promoting the settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice. Justice for all is what we want.
Justice withour borders! The Earth Court of Justice will hear cases involving crimes related to the global ministries.
It will have the power to rule on cases involving crimes related to each one of the ministries.
Prosecuting criminals on the basis of universal jurisdiction regardless of a territorial or nationality nexus required a solid
commitment of political will from national governments and Global Community. Once in effect, the Earth Court of Justice will become the principal judicial organ of Global Community.
The Court will have a dual role: to settle in accordance with international law the legal disputes submitted to it by national
governments, local communities, and in some special cases by corporations, non-government-organizations and citizens, and to give
advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized organs and agencies.
The Court will be composed of judges elected by the Elected Representatives Council and
Earth Security Council. It may not include more than one judge of any nationality. The Members of the Court do not represent
their governments but are independent magistrates. The judges must possess the qualifications required in their respective countries
for appointment to the highest judicial offices, or by jurists of recognized competence in international law. The composition of the
Court has also to reflect the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world.
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