In order to better protect life on our planet, the Global
Community is asking people of all nations to defend and protect their natural
resources. In particular, all the hydrocarbons within a national territory
must be nationalized. It is an obligation, not only of a national government,
but also of all the active forces in a country; it is the duty of local
and municipal authorities, the duty of state authorities – of everyone
– to take upon themselves this defence and this recuperation of natural
resources.
A workable type of Tobin tax should be in place as
it is a powerful instrument to promote sustainable development and force
shareholders in moving away from producing oil. A Tobin tax is a tax on
all trade of currency across borders to put a penalty on short-term speculation
in currencies. The tax rate should be 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars.
The proposal is important due to its potential to prevent global financial
crises such as we are seeing now. Also, an estimated $500 billion per year
makes it possible to meet urgent global priorities, such as preventing
global warming, disease, and poverty.
There is lack of tolerance and compassion for one another.
Conflicts and wars are not sustainable. They never were. The military
option, war, is against global sustainability, global rights, and global
peace in a big way. The worst environmental degradation happens in
wars. War is the greatest violation of global 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. A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be
more advantageous. Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and
too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved
through the military. The military is no replacement to the " will of the people
", democracy, the rule of law, social justice, and to Global Rights and
Global Justice. The Global Community has no need of a subversive military
force. NATO must be subject to the people, the Global Community, and to
the Federation of Global Governments.
We need to realize what is a priority, what is the most
important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need to
make hard choices. We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And
we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can
no longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity
and all life can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the
global environment, and certainly the military is a major one of them.
And there are other activities we must do, thousands of them, to assure
the survival of life on Earth. In view of the planetary state of emergency, we all must change, we must do things
differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance,
and thus bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
The Global Community has developed a strategy to improve
our ways of doing business and trade so as to protect all life on the planet.
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 the Global Community.
You 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, to genetically engineered
food products. All consumer products. All medicinal products! All pharmaceutical
products! The US White House prints out trillions of dollars, bankrupted
money, and hand them over to American industries to acquire foreign corporations
with resources. Most of Canada's large corporations have been bought out
in this way by the US and other foreigners. We have seen a gradual lost
of Canada's sovereignty because of 'Free Trade' and the signing of the
World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement. How can this be happening?! Americans
were bankrupted long before the Wall Street crash. And yet American corporations
have been buying Canadian corporations with money they dont even have.
All on paper! The Canadian energy sector has been a major target of American
buyers. Basically, Canadian natural
resources are being 'legally' stolen from Canada at no cost to Americans
(bankrupted money) and no tax to be paid to Canada. Somewhat like what
the World Bank and the IMF are doing in the world but then the US is also
in charge of these two organizations. The US uses bankrupted money to supply
them with the cash they need to promote American values in the world and
take away Earth resources from the developing nations. This way of doing
things has been going on ever since WWII. Americans are buying their way
with bankrupted money.
Section 3. The Global [ Ecological, environmental, protection of life-support systems ] rights, and the primordial human rights of future generations The US White House has been running a deficit of nearly
a half trillion dollars for a long period of time, and now this deficit
will be over one trillion dollar this year. Americans have accumulated
a nation debt of over 10 trillion dollars. Such state of affairs is actually
that of a bankrupted nation. The high deficit was caused in large part
by the huge military expenditures, the US war industry. Directly or indirectly,
more than half the population of the United States work for the industry.
The global financial crisis has propelled the French Leader
and EU Leader to go all around the world to organize a Summit in November
2008, the Summit of all G8 nations, the most industrialized nations, and
G20 nations, and 'fix' the crisis. Now all these G20 leaders are interested in fixing their
economies, not the global crisis. They are insterested in money, the stock
market, not the people of the world, all life on Earth, the
future of the next generations, or the environment. A money fix will not
solve the problem. Money is used to deal with goods as an exchange between
people, businesses and governments in the world. The problem is not money.
The problem is the amount of goods being taken from the Earth, exchanged and
consumed, and all the pollution associated with this process. The problem
is the fundamentally wrong economic system created to allow these exchanges
to occur for the benefit of a few rich people on the planet and at the
expenses of an overpopulated world, the poor and the middle class people,
6.7 billion people, and at the expenses of all life on Earth, the environment,
and the global life-support systems. A money fix is not the solution.
They will also talk about NATO's future and how the organization
can be used to rule the world under the leadership of the G8 nations. A
fundamentally bad new world order. The main intergovernmental bodies including the United
Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organizations
(WTO), the European Union (EU), and the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) have all endorsed the New World Order on behalf of their corporate
sponsors.
Governments in both developed and developing countries
have abandoned their historical role of regulating key economic variables
as well as ensuring a minimum livelihood for their people. They are no
longer sustainable locally. The United Nations failed to make sustainable
development a priority in every community on the planet. The global concept
of sustainable development that was brought forward in the late 1980s has
failed. The US failed it in a big way and the United Nations would not
or could not hold on to it.
We are dealing with a complex and centralized constellation
of economic power in which the instruments of market manipulation have
a direct bearing on the lives of billions of people. The prices of food,
water, fuel are determined at the global level, beyond the reach of national
government policy. The price hikes of these three essential commodities
constitute an instrument of economic warfare, carried out through the free
market. These hikes in the prices of food, water and fuel are contributing
in a very real sense to eliminating the poor through starvation deaths.
The sugar coated bullets of the free market kill our children. The act
to kill is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program
trading on the commodity exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat
and corn are decided upon. We live in a world where all natural and human resources
are exploited mercilessly, so that a small minority can consume far more
than their rightful share of the world's real wealth. Those at the helm,
the big corporate rulers, are getting bail-outs in this financial crisis,
not Main Street. Now, as we push the exploitation of the Earth social and
environmental systems beyond their limits of tolerance, we face the reality
that the industrial era faces a burnout, because it is exhausting the human
and natural resource base on which our very lives depend.
Living at the crossroads of this global crisis, we must
hasten its passage, while assisting in the birth of a new civilization,
the global civilization, based on life affirming rather than money affirming
values. All over the world people are indeed waking up to the truth. We
should strive and take steps to reclaim and rebuild our local economy.
Be
sustainable locally first, and globally next only if needed. Let go
the WTO, NAFTA or any free trade agreement. It should also be our goal to create locally owned enterprises
that sustainably harvest and process local resources to produce jobs, goods
and services. Ideally our economy should be local; rooting power in the
people and communities who realize their well being depends on the health
and vitality of their local ecosystem. We should favor local firms and
workers, who pay local taxes, live by local rules, respect and nurture
the local ecosystems, compete fairly in local markets, and contribute to
community life. Labour should not be taxed but pollution should. The exploitation
and use of natural resources should also be taxed.
A global economy empowers global corporations and financial
institutions, local economies empower people. It is our consciousness,
our ways of thinking and our sense of membership in the Global Community,
which should be global. Life is about living, not consuming. A life of
material sufficiency can be filled with social, cultural, intellectual
and spiritual abundance that place no burden on the planet. It is time
to assume responsibility for creating a new future of just and sustainable
societies free from the myth that competition, greed and mindless consumption
are paths to individual and collective fulfillment.
Nationalization is not new. The global financial crisis
is good example of nationalization. When Wall Street started to crash, AIG was nationalized by the U.S. Government.
The US Government thought it would be wise to nationalize
key financial institutions, even partially nationalized, so why not natural
resources? They are in great danger of being destroyed (forests, oceans,
fresh water, soils, air we breath, electromagnetic spectrum) or destroying
all life on Earth (petroleum rersources). Once Canadians have recovered
these natural resources, it will generate employment. The plundering of
our natural resources by international and transnational oil and gas companies
has come to an end. And for this reason we want to share the joy on this
historic day of nationalization.
A workable type of Tobin tax should be in place as
it is a powerful instrument to promote sustainable development and force
shareholders in moving away from producing oil. A Tobin tax is a tax on
all trade of currency across borders to put a penalty on short-term speculation
in currencies. The tax rate should be 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars.
The proposal is important due to its potential to prevent global financial
crises such as we are seeing now. Also, an estimated $500 billion per year
makes it possible to meet urgent global priorities, such as preventing
global warming, disease, and poverty. The tax should be managed by the
Global Community and the Federation of Global Governments. In the globalized
economy, there is a lack of adequate funding for global problems such as
disease, poverty and hunger. Global climate change, deforestation, population
growth and unemployment, declining fisheries and pollution threaten local
communities worldwide. Projects which could help to address these needs
and create jobs will cost more than $500 billion annually. Private donors
do not meet the need, and some nations cut their aid budgets. New multilateral
approaches to public finance, such as Tobin Taxes, may provide part of
the answer.
Tobin-style taxes would work well:
Taxes should be designed to conserve resources and energy.
Rather than taxing jobs and profits, taxes should be moved to resource
use, pollution, energy consumption and to reward conservation. A community
should benefit from the use of commonly held resources. Taxes should be designed to increase employment. Moving
taxes onto resources and land use and off of incomes should make people
less expensive to employ. Products produced by green production methods,
which tends to use fewer resources and less energy should avoid taxation.
As energy costs rise, the price of labour becomes more economical, and
green products which tend to encourage value-added processes, should provide
more high quality, skilled jobs than resource intensive products. Resource taxes should be assessed as early as possible.
Resources should be taxed before entering the manufacturing process in
order to green all aspects of the manufacturing process from extraction
to the finished product. Increasing taxes on resource and energy use will
encourage resource and energy efficiency, innovation, reuse, repair, recycling,
and used material recovery.
Ever since WWII the big corporate rulers of the G8 nations
have applied the same scenario all over the world and even using the IMF
and World Bank organizations. Americans are the sponsors of those organizations,
again with money they dont own, paper money, bankrupted money. Through
these organizations, the White House subsidized friendly governments who
help American corporations get whatever natural resources they want often
at the expenses of labour rights and the environment.
The U.S.-controlled NATO has lost its purpose to continue
as a defence alliance. However, its aggressive expansion is endangering
world peace and the survival of life on the planet. Despite its irrelevant
role, NATO has become part of the U.S. military. Becoming a NATO member
proves to be a profit bonanza for U.S.-Israeli weapon industries and arm
dealers. All new recruits into NATO are obliged to increase their defence
budgets to modernise and enlarge their military arsenals at the expense
of vital public services. These defence budgets are truly destroying the
economy of a nation, creating a large annual deficit as we have seen in
the US, and exhausting the planet's resources and destroying the environment.
Nothing good can come out of the military build-up.
Planning, organizing and using crisis in Europe and elsewhere,
the U.S. cancelled the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) in order to
locate ABMs and to lure more nations to sign up for the system.
After more than five years of murderous Occupation, the
US White House is directly responsible for the premeditated killing of
more than 1.3 million innocent Iraqi civilians. Hundreds of thousands of
Iraqi civilians are imprisoned and tortured on regular basis, and at least
5 million Iraqis have been displaced as refugees living in appalling conditions.
The entire sovereign nation of Iraq is destroyed in a premeditated act
of aggression justified by outright lies. Moreover, despite the overwhelming
majority of the Iraqi people’s opposition to the Occupation, the Bush regime
refused to withdraw U.S. troops and mercenaries from Iraq and end the murderous
Occupation of their nation.
We, Global Citizens,
therefore affirm the following recommendations:
When has the UN ever taken side of those nations being
invaded? The UN never did! When has the UN ever stood up for the principles in the
UN Charter and stopped the invaders, and at least enforced hard sanctions
against the invaders? The UN never did! The UN has been a watcher, an observer, a non-participant.
And that is a crime against humanity. The UN should never be promoting war as a solution to
world problems. That alone is against global sustainability. Sustainability
means no war. War is the greatest act of destruction. There is no worst
action than war. The UN is promoting a culture of violence and war, and
certainly that goes against Global Sustainability and Global Peace. That
is the worst thing the UN could ever to humanity. It is totally opposite
to the Global Vision that the Global Community is promoting. And it is
totally insane!
The UN knew America was invading the Middle East. Why
has the UN not enforced hard sanctions against the USA for its bullying
tactics at the UN to get what it wants? The UN leadership could have avoided
the situation we have today. The UN did nothing at a critical time. The
UN watched things happening. The UN is the organization where bullying
takes place by those with nuclear war heads. The world is threatened by
nuclear war heads. The five permanents members of the UN are allowed to
bully any other nations. The USA is invading the world, and the UN can
do nothing to stop them. The USA is allowed to invade other nations, change
their governments, and has often made lies in speeches to the UN, to the
world. The leadership of the United Nations has failed to enforce
disarmement. All weapons of mass destruction should have been phased out
a long time ago. Why are the USA still holding the world hostage with its
40,000 nuclear war heads, and biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction?
What has the UN ever done to help the phasing out of WMDs? Now several
nations, including North Korea and Iran feel threatened just like everyone
else and will refuse to be invaded. They would rather take on the US. Russia
and China will also refuse to be invaded. The UN has done nothing to phase
out WMDs.
Certainly we ought to disarm all nations from all weapons
of mass destruction.
It has become clear that the U.N. has promoted a culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption which cannot reform itself. The Global Community is here to replace the U.N.
The Global Community stands firm on wanting to replace
the United Nations with the Federation of Global Governments.
1990
9/11
2008
The US market took a great hit and pulled the global markets
down. The US-style de-regulated corporate capitalism thrives on empowering
the most powerful and enriching the richest. Power and wealth never percolates
down to the ordinary people, the middle class, not to those who dont work
for the war industry. The few elites from the G8 nations have allowed a
de-regulated Wall Street to collapse on its own and swapping off most people
savings in the process, pension funds, and retirement funds. Millions of
people lost their homes.
In November 2008, EU President-in-Office Sarkozy and US
Administration have proposed a series of summits on global governance,
involving first the G8 and then extending to include G20 nations. They
are proposing the creation of a new global financial system or new Bretton
Woods. The aim must be to overhaul capitalism, not by questioning the idea
of a market economy but observing certain principles. If our world leaders,
the few elites, have their way again, the world will have some sort of
expanded WTO, NAFTA, or G8 nations with an unlimited power over the economies
of the world. A world anti-government! No less! If we believe the EU and
G8 leaders, the world will become a large casino playground with principles.
NATO will be asked to protect such a system. A new world order! Governance
at its best! Money is all that counts! The big corporate rulers, the war
industry, and Christian right will be fully protected. Actually we will
be back to the aftermath of WWII when the US Administration of the time
decided to build the biggest military force in the world at the expenses
of its taxpayers, the environment and all life on the planet. So we are
back to the future once more.
2009
The military is no replacement to the " will of the people
", democracy, the rule of law, social justice, and to Global Rights and
Global Justice. The Global Community has no need of a subversive military
force. NATO must be subject to the people, the Global Community, and to
the Federation of Global Governments. When you associate yourself with
the USA, through NATO, a nation that has created a link in a 737-strong
chain of American military bases in 130 countries, you become one of them.
Those military bases are there for many reasons. They are mainly there
for resources. They are also there to invade, destroy, kill, corrupt governments,
and de-stabilize the world. The Earth cannot afford to be subject to the
military NATO systematic destruction of life on the planet.
Even bad polluting businesses such as the the Big Three
of the US car manufacturing industry have received a bail out from the
White House. It is an same industry that built cars and trucks with engines
being a prime cause of global warming and climate change. It is not only
one of the worst industry in the world but for decades its CEOs and engineering
managers have been given the technology to build energy efficient engines
and even engines with zero pollution. They never, never wanted to change
and instead chose to pollute the planet. And now they are still not willing
to change even though the US Administration is paying their bills. What
is wrong with Americans?! Can't you do anything right?!
What comes next? What other powerful lobbyist groups
will be asking for help and get their bills paid by the White House? America
has been bankrupted for over a decade. The dollar is not worth the paper
it is written on. And yet the White House keeps printing money by the trillions,
the trillions, and hand those dollars to the worst polluters on the planet:
the
military, the energy industry, the car manufacturing industry. The
White House is basically telling polluters to take the money and keep polluting,
you're doing fine, you're an American. Makes no sense! President Obama is the YES man
of the decade to come. He listens to the strongest lobbyist groups of the
USA and give them trillions of bankrupted dollars. Even the IMF and the
World Bank are getting trillions of those bankcrupted dollars to spend.
No wonder a bankrupt America can spread very quickly to the rest of the
world. American values are the sticky gum attached to the dollars. The
White House says take the money and spend it, consume the Earth natural
resources, go bankrupt with us. This way the White House makes everyone
guilty of their crimes. Clever but it makes no sense at all to the future
generations and all life on our planet.
Bad financial fundamentals, out-of-control stock
market, and astronomically high military expenditures have contributed
to the bankruptcy of the US economy. Through its military , the IMF and
World Bank, its lies and bullying tactics at the United Nations, the White
House has spread its fundamentally wrong phylosophie and democratic governance
to the rest of the world. And that is threatening the security of all life
on the planet. Labour rights are abused in efforts to earn more profits.
This leads to abhorrent working conditions, job insecurity and low living
standards (all global rights). The WTO and NAFTA are such organizations
promoting free trade at the expense of labour rights and the environment.
Consumers in developed countries have been socialized to want more and
more things to consume but have not been socialized to appreciate the impact
of their consumption choices on the global rights of other people; that
is, they are not being responsible for their decisions.
We need to realize what is a priority, what is the most
important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need to
make hard choices. We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And
we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can
no longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity
and all life can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the
global environment, and certainly the military is a major one of them.
And there are other activities we must do, thousands of them, to assure
the survival of life on Earth. In view of the planetary state of emergency,
which we declared a shorth while ago, we all must change, we must do things
differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance.
This social-economic crisis can be resolved by asking
ourselves the fundamental question:
Who owns the Earth ?
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. Along with ownership comes the obligation of using the
resources, share them or lose them. Land and all other Earth natural resources
are not commodities. Use the land, share it or lose it. This principle
also applies to banks and similar institutions all over the world and to
Wall Street. You own property because the previous owners could not pay.
Use that property, share it or lose it. The Global Community needs to build
an economic democracy based firmly on the basic principle that the Earth
belongs equally to everyone as a birthright. The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all
the "global communities" along with the Global Community where they are
found. We will need ways of organizing ourselves to help us live
in a world with less energy and fewer material goods. We all have to develop
the skills needed to survive, and we will need to recover a deep sense
of community that has disappeared from many of our lives. This means abandoning
a sense of ourselves as consumption machines, which the contemporary culture
promotes, and deepening our notions of what it means to be humans in search
of meaning. We have to learn to tell different stories about our sense
of self, our connection to others, and our place in nature.
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.
Often what is called trade is really moving of resources
across borders between subsidiaries of the same corporation. Nothing to
do with free competition. Economic activity is centrally-managed and planned
by the corporate elite. Capital move freely across borders as restrictions
on the flow of money have been removed. Corporations can relocate their
operations to the countries with the lowest wages, the least active unions
and the lowest environmental standards. The reality is that more polluting
industries are encouraged to relocate to poorer countries. A polluting
industry tends to increase the chances that people in the surrounding area
will have health problems. It costs less to dump a load of toxic waste
in the lowest wage country.
The Global Community has developed a strategy to improve
our ways of doing business and trade so as to protect all life on the planet.
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 the Global Community.
You 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, to genetically engineered
food products. All consumer products. All medicinal products! All pharmaceutical
products!
Tobin-style taxes would work well:
Taxes should be designed to conserve resources and energy.
Rather than taxing jobs and profits, taxes should be moved to resource
use, pollution, energy consumption and to reward conservation. A community
should benefit from the use of commonly held resources. Taxes should be designed to increase employment. Moving
taxes onto resources and land use and off of incomes should make people
less expensive to employ. Products produced by green production methods,
which tends to use fewer resources and less energy should avoid taxation.
As energy costs rise, the price of labour becomes more economical, and
green products which tend to encourage value-added processes, should provide
more high quality, skilled jobs than resource intensive products. Resource taxes should be assessed as early as possible.
Resources should be taxed before entering the manufacturing process in
order to green all aspects of the manufacturing process from extraction
to the finished product. Increasing taxes on resource and energy use will
encourage resource and energy efficiency, innovation, reuse, repair, recycling,
and used material recovery.
There is lack of tolerance and compassion for one another.
Conflicts and wars are not sustainable. They never were. The military
option, war, is against global sustainability, global rights, and global
peace in a big way. The worst environmental degradation happens in
wars. War is the greatest violation of global 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. A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be
more advantageous. Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and
too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved
through the military. The entire planet is in a state of low intensity civil
war. The ruling elite profit off the exploitation of the rest of the world. There is lack of tolerance and compassion for one another.
Conflicts and wars are not sustainable. They never were. The military
option, war, is against global sustainability, global right, and global
peace in a big way. The worst environmental degradation happens in
wars. The military is no replacement to the " will of the people ", democracy, the rule of law, social justice, and to Global Rights and
Global Justice. The Global Community has no need of a subversive military
force. NATO must be subject to the people, the Global Community, and to
the Federation of Global Governments.
An important aspect of global governance is the security
of a person and of a nation. Security must be achieved by other means than conflicts
and wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right
now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons
right now. Governments that have weapons of masss destruction (WMDs) are
all terrorist governments. The Global Community is asking them to disarm.
No waiting!
Global security can only be achieved if it can be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained
in the Global Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. All people and states
are protected by the Global Community. We will need ways of organizing ourselves to help us live
in a world with less energy and fewer material goods. We all have to develop
the skills needed to survive, and we will need to recover a deep sense
of community that has disappeared from many of our lives. This means abandoning
a sense of ourselves as consumption machines, which the contemporary culture
promotes, and deepening our notions of what it means to be humans in search
of meaning. We have to learn to tell different stories about our sense
of self, our connection to others, and our place in nature.
The Global Community has developed a strategy to improve
our ways of doing business and trade so as to protect all life on the planet.
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 the Global Community.
You 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, to genetically engineered
food products. All consumer products. All medicinal products! All pharmaceutical
products!
Living at the crossroads of this global crisis, we must
hasten its passage, while assisting in the birth of a new civilization,
the global civilization, based on life affirming rather than money affirming
values. All over the world people are indeed waking up to the truth. We
should strive and take steps to reclaim and rebuild our local economy.
Be
sustainable locally first, and globally next only if needed. Let go
the WTO, NAFTA or any free trade agreement.
In order to better protect life on our planet, the Global
Community is asking people of all nations to defend and protect their natural
resources. In particular, all the hydrocarbons within a national territory
must be nationalized. It is an obligation, not only of a national government,
but also of all the active forces in a country; it is the duty of local
and municipal authorities, the duty of state authorities – of everyone
– to take upon themselves this defence and this recuperation of natural
resources.
There is lack of tolerance and compassion for one another.
Conflicts and wars are not sustainable. They never were. The military
option, war, is against global sustainability, global rights, and global
peace in a big way. The worst environmental degradation happens in
wars.
War is the greatest violation of global 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.
A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be
more advantageous.
Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and
too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved
through the military.
The military is no replacement to the " will of the people
", democracy, the rule of law, social justice, and to Global Rights and
Global Justice. The Global Community has no need of a subversive military
force. NATO must be subject to the people, the Global Community, and to
the Federation of Global Governments.
We need to realize what is a priority, what is the most
important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need to
make hard choices. We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And
we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can
no longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity
and all life can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the
global environment, and certainly the military is a major one of them.
And there are other activities we must do, thousands of them, to assure
the survival of life on Earth. In view of the planetary state of emergency, we all must change, we must do things
differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance,
and thus bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
The fundamental criteria of any symbiotical relationship 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 and a more stable and inclusive global economy. The Global Community is inviting you to participate in the formation of global
symbiotical relationships between people, institutions, cities, provinces,
communities, nations, and businesses. But all these crises are due to human activities and,
truly, to our ways of doing business and trade. Our ways of consuming resources
and doing things are the causes of major global problems.
We will need ways of organizing ourselves to help us live
in a world with less energy and fewer material goods. We all have to develop
the skills needed to survive, and we will need to recover a deep sense
of community that has disappeared from many of our lives. This means abandoning
a sense of ourselves as consumption machines, which the contemporary culture
promotes, and deepening our notions of what it means to be humans in search
of meaning. We have to learn to tell different stories about our sense
of self, our connection to others, and our place in nature.
Let us ask ourselves the question:
The Global Community has found that consumption of the
Earth resources and the amount of wastes we create can be managed very
differently, more efficiently, and be less destructive to the global environment.
Our ways of doing business and trade can be improved upon to decrease waste
and consumption of Earth resources.
Often what is called trade is really moving of resources
across borders between subsidiaries of the same corporation. Nothing to
do with free competition. Economic activity is centrally-managed and planned
by the corporate elite. Capital move freely across borders as restrictions
on the flow of money have been removed. Corporations can relocate their
operations to the countries with the lowest wages, the least active unions
and the lowest environmental standards. The reality is that more polluting
industries are encouraged to relocate to poorer countries. A polluting
industry tends to increase the chances that people in the surrounding area
will have health problems. It costs less to dump a load of toxic waste
in the lowest wage country.
The Global Community has developed a strategy to improve
our ways of doing business and trade so as to protect all life on the planet.
Competition wil only be good when corporations, the business world,
has accepted the new way of doing business and obtained the Certified
Corporate Global Community Citizenship. 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 the Global Community.
You 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, to genetically engineered
food products. All consumer products. All medicinal products! All pharmaceutical
products! Rich countries manipulate trade agreements in order to
ensure a profit. Their governments insist on tariffs and protectionism
in areas in which they are weak. For instance, a while ago Canada and the
USA have gone through the process of an economic war in the softwood industry.
The imposition of a 29 percent tariff on softwood lumber by the U.S. Commerce
Department showed that Canadians were duped by the Free Trade Agreement(FTA)
and NAFTA. The U.S. Government protectionism is itself aimed at reducing
the value of the Canadian companies just long enough for American competitors
to acquire them. Many different Canadian industries have already been bought
that way by US competitors. The energy sector is one of them. Free trade
opens up a developing nation's economy to competition with strong, developed,
well-financed, multinational corporations. In consequence, most of the
local producers and manufacturers go out of business thus leaving a developing
nation's economy entirely in the hands of the transnational elite. It is
a form of colonization and of world anti-government. Rich countries force
poorer countries to open up their markets, and then take them over.
The US White House prints out trillions of dollars, bankrupted
money, and hand them over to American industries to acquire foreign corporations
with resources.
Most of Canada's large corporations have been bought out
in this way by the US and other foreigners. We have seen a gradual lost
of Canada's sovereignty because of 'Free Trade' and the signing of the
World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement. How can this be happening?! Americans
were bankrupted long before the Wall Street crash. And yet American corporations
have been buying Canadian corporations with money they dont even have.
All on paper! The Canadian energy sector has been a major target of American
buyers.
Over time Canadian corporations were created to supply
oil and gas to the US, especially California. Pipelines were built throughout
Canada and now feed US customers. Now that Americans own those Canadian
corporations, the cost of selling the petroleum products to US customers
have been lower than what Canadians actually pay for them. No income tax
are paid by the US corporations on Canadian land. Basically, Canadian natural
resources are being 'legally' stolen from Canada at no cost to Americans
(bankrupted money) and no tax to be paid to Canada. Somewhat like what
the World Bank and the IMF are doing in the world but then the US is also
in charge of these two organizations. The US uses bankrupted money to supply
them with the cash they need to promote American values in the world and
take away Earth resources from the developing nations. This way of doing
things has been going on ever since WWII. Americans are buying their way
with bankrupted money.
In Canada, American corporations have the full legal protection
of the WTO and NAFTA agreements. What is even worse is that the cost of
security for sending the petroleum products to the US, by now US own corporations,
is dumped onto Canadian taxpayers, not on the oil and gas, and pipeline
corporations. How fair is that?! How is that possible?! How can we let
that happened?! First American corporations buy Canadians corporations
with money they dont own, bankrupted money. Then they carry Canadian natural
resources through pipelines also built by Canadians taxpayers. They pay
no taxes. And Canadian taxpayers are responsible of security for the transportation
of the petroleum products to the US customers. Canadians are not getting
a fair exchange of natural resources for fake money. They call that ' free
trade '. Canadian environmental standards have to be lowered from beginning
to end, from the exploration phase to development and transportation of
the resources to the US customers in favour of corporations that allow
more pollution into the environment and favor the violation of labour rights
in the process.
Gee!!! What world are we living in?! It is the US invading
Canada, legally. It is the US invading the world, developing nations, legally??!!
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 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. Or they may have totally different backgrounds and beliefs. 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.
The Global Community is thus more fluid and dynamic. The 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 the Global Community. The 21st
Century will see limitless links and symbiotical relationships with and
within the 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 and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
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
Global Constitution 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 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 the 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 Earth Government) that representatives to Earth Government 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 Earth Government.
The US White House has been running a deficit of nearly
a half trillion dollars for a long period of time, and now this deficit
will be over one trillion dollar this year. Americans have accumulated
a nation debt of over 10 trillion dollars. Such state of affairs is actually
that of a bankrupted nation. The high deficit was caused in large part
by the huge military expenditures, the US war industry. Directly or indirectly,
more than half the population of the United States work for the industry.
The global financial crisis has propelled the French Leader
and EU Leader to go all around the world to organize a Summit in November
2008, the Summit of all G8 nations, the most industrialized nations, and
G20 nations, and 'fix' the crisis.
Now all these G20 leaders are interested in fixing their
economies, not the global crisis. They are insterested in money, the stock
market, not the people of the world, all life on Earth, the
future of the next generations, or the environment. A money fix will not
solve the problem. Money is used to deal with goods as an exchange between
people, businesses and governments in the world. The problem is not money.
The
problem is the amount of goods being taken from the Earth, exchanged and
consumed, and all the pollution associated with this process. The problem
is the fundamentally wrong economic system created to allow these exchanges
to occur for the benefit of a few rich people on the planet and at the
expenses of an overpopulated world, the poor and the middle class people,
6.7 billion people, and at the expenses of all life on Earth, the environment,
and the global life-support systems. A money fix is not the solution.
They will also talk about NATO's future and how the organization
can be used to rule the world under the leadership of the G8 nations. A
fundamentally bad new world order.
The main intergovernmental bodies including the United
Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organizations
(WTO), the European Union (EU), and the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) have all endorsed the New World Order on behalf of their corporate
sponsors.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military
alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America, is the official
protector of the corporate sponsors. Governments in both developed and developing countries
have abandoned their historical role of regulating key economic variables
as well as ensuring a minimum livelihood for their people. They are no
longer sustainable locally. The United Nations failed to make sustainable
development a priority in every community on the planet. The global concept
of sustainable development that was brought forward in the late 1980s has
failed. The US failed it in a big way and the United Nations would not
or could not hold on to it.
We are dealing with a complex and centralized constellation
of economic power in which the instruments of market manipulation have
a direct bearing on the lives of billions of people. The prices of food,
water, fuel are determined at the global level, beyond the reach of national
government policy. The price hikes of these three essential commodities
constitute an instrument of economic warfare, carried out through the free
market. These hikes in the prices of food, water and fuel are contributing
in a very real sense to eliminating the poor through starvation deaths.
The sugar coated bullets of the free market kill our children. The act
to kill is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program
trading on the commodity exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat
and corn are decided upon.
We live in a world where all natural and human resources
are exploited mercilessly, so that a small minority can consume far more
than their rightful share of the world's real wealth. Those at the helm,
the big corporate rulers, are getting bail-outs in this financial crisis,
not Main Street. Now, as we push the exploitation of the Earth social and
environmental systems beyond their limits of tolerance, we face the reality
that the industrial era faces a burnout, because it is exhausting the human
and natural resource base on which our very lives depend.
Living at the crossroads of this global crisis, we must
hasten its passage, while assisting in the birth of a new civilization,
the global civilization, based on life affirming rather than money affirming
values. All over the world people are indeed waking up to the truth. We
should strive and take steps to reclaim and rebuild our local economy.
Be
sustainable locally first, and globally next only if needed. Let go
the WTO, NAFTA or any free trade agreement.
It should also be our goal to create locally owned enterprises
that sustainably harvest and process local resources to produce jobs, goods
and services. Ideally our economy should be local; rooting power in the
people and communities who realize their well being depends on the health
and vitality of their local ecosystem. We should favor local firms and
workers, who pay local taxes, live by local rules, respect and nurture
the local ecosystems, compete fairly in local markets, and contribute to
community life. Labour should not be taxed but pollution should. The exploitation
and use of natural resources should also be taxed.
A global economy empowers global corporations and financial
institutions, local economies empower people. It is our consciousness,
our ways of thinking and our sense of membership in the Global Community,
which should be global. Life is about living, not consuming. A life of
material sufficiency can be filled with social, cultural, intellectual
and spiritual abundance that place no burden on the planet. It is time
to assume responsibility for creating a new future of just and sustainable
societies free from the myth that competition, greed and mindless consumption
are paths to individual and collective fulfillment.
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 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.
An important aspect of global governance is the security
of a person and of a nation.
Security must be achieved by other means than conflicts
and wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right
now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons
right now. Governments that have weapons of masss destruction (WMDs) are
all terrorist governments. The Global Community is asking them to disarm.
No waiting!
Security is a global right. The Global Community has broadened
the traditional focus of the security of nations to include both the security
of people as well as that of the planet. Global security policies include:
In order to better protect life on our planet, the Global
Community is asking people of all nations to defend and protect their natural
resources. In particular, all the hydrocarbons within a national territory
must be nationalized. It is an obligation, not only of a national government,
but also of all the active forces in a country; it is the duty of local
and municipal authorities, the duty of state authorities – of everyone
– to take upon themselves this defence and this recuperation of natural
resources.
Nationalization is a necessity because American corporations
have been buying local corporations to acquire natural resources of a country.
This state of affairs has been going on ever since WWII. Over the past
decades, the US national debt and annual deficit have been out-of-control
because of a complete business freedom of the US corporate world. No taxation!
When a large corporation is about to go out of business, the White House
intervened with a bail out.
For example in Canada, the property of the hydrocarbons,
the oil and natural gas, and tarsands, have mostly owned by American and
other foreign corporations. Our natural resources have been bought out
by foreigners. Pipelines have been built to transport the oil and natural
gas to the customers in the United States without paying taxes to Canada.
Canadian corporations that have been taken over by American corporations
with bankrupted money, paper money, Stock Exchange money, money that Americans
dont even have. The White House prints dollar bills by the trillions and
give them to corporations to buy more Canadian corporations. This is no
longer a fair exchange of something tangible with something else of an
equivalent value. We have natural resources and Americans have bankrupted
money to exchange with. That's not right! How can we let that happened?
It is time to nationalize Canadian natural resources.
From this point onward, those Canadian natural resources
will be under control of the Canadian people, for Canadians, and help resolve
Canada’s economic and social problems.
Nationalization is not new. The global financial crisis
is good example of nationalization. When Wall Street started to crash,
Lehman Brothers went for bankruptcy protection, Merrill Lynch merged with
Bank of America, AIG was nationalized by the U.S. Government, Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac were bailed out by the U.S. Government. CEO's and big
investors got out okay; ordinary employees and Main Street people suffered
heavily. The collapse of the Wall Street giants came six months after the
meltdown of Bear Stearns and a year after the start of the credit crisis,
which was due to bad mortgage financing and real estate investments. Despite
all efforts, the U.S. market took a great hit and pulled the global markets
down.
The US Government thought it would be wise to nationalize
key financial institutions, even partially nationalized, so why not natural
resources? They are in great danger of being destroyed (forests, oceans,
fresh water, soils, air we breath, electromagnetic spectrum) or destroying
all life on Earth (petroleum rersources). Once Canadians have recovered
these natural resources, it will generate employment. The plundering of
our natural resources by international and transnational oil and gas companies
has come to an end. And for this reason we want to share the joy on this
historic day of nationalization.
If indeed previous governments have used the Armed Forces
for the benefit of transnational corporations, the Armed Forces can now
be used to unite for their country, for their nation, for their patria.
We are a government of the people, a native government. We are a global
community. We want to ask government to defend its sovereignty, its dignity
and above all the integrity of its territory, we want to ask that it take
charge of all the oil fields of all of its nation.
Unless a reformed or empowered Global Community is leading
firmly upon the principle of equal rights for all Global Citizens, then
the planet will be controlled by a handful of vested interests.
Land is not a product of labour. Everyone should therefore
be given equal access to natural resources. The Global Economic Model proposes
to make private property the product of labour. 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.
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.
So the ownership of the land and the natural resources
will be challenged by the Global Community. People need all tax dollars
to take on the challenge but first must get out of spending on the military
invasion of nations.
Similarly, all the Earth natural resources belong to the
Global Community to be used, developed and protected for the maximum benefit
of the people and of all life.
Global tax
The Global Community proposes to ask you to pay a global
tax on your products. The tax would be high enough to discourage consumers
from buying your products and force you to use viable alternatives. The
Governments of the United States and Canada should put a high tax on all
oil based products and their derivatives and certainly gasoline should
have the highest tax possible. The tax would be a carbon tax for the environment
and the global life-support systems.
A workable type of Tobin tax should also be in place as
it is a powerful instrument to promote sustainable development and force
shareholders in moving away from producing oil. A Tobin tax is a tax on
all trade of currency across borders to put a penalty on short-term speculation
in currencies. The tax rate should be 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars.
The proposal is important due to its potential to prevent global financial
crises such as we are seeing now. Also, an estimated $500 billion per year
makes it possible to meet urgent global priorities, such as preventing
global warming, disease, and poverty. The tax should be managed by the
Global Community and the Federation of Global Governments. In the globalized
economy, there is a lack of adequate funding for global problems such as
disease, poverty and hunger. Global climate change, deforestation, population
growth and unemployment, declining fisheries and pollution threaten local
communities worldwide. Projects which could help to address these needs
and create jobs will cost more than $500 billion annually. Private donors
do not meet the need, and some nations cut their aid budgets. New multilateral
approaches to public finance, such as Tobin Taxes, may provide part of
the answer.
Tobin-style taxes would work well:
Taxes should be designed to conserve resources and energy.
Rather than taxing jobs and profits, taxes should be moved to resource
use, pollution, energy consumption and to reward conservation. A community
should benefit from the use of commonly held resources.
Taxes should be designed to increase employment. Moving
taxes onto resources and land use and off of incomes should make people
less expensive to employ. Products produced by green production methods,
which tends to use fewer resources and less energy should avoid taxation.
As energy costs rise, the price of labour becomes more economical, and
green products which tend to encourage value-added processes, should provide
more high quality, skilled jobs than resource intensive products.
Resource taxes should be assessed as early as possible.
Resources should be taxed before entering the manufacturing process in
order to green all aspects of the manufacturing process from extraction
to the finished product. Increasing taxes on resource and energy use will
encourage resource and energy efficiency, innovation, reuse, repair, recycling,
and used material recovery.
The entire planet is in a state of low intensity civil
war. The ruling elite profit off the exploitation of the rest of the world.
There is lack of tolerance and compassion for one another.
Conflicts and wars are not sustainable. They never were. The military
option, war, is against global sustainability, global right, and global
peace in a big way. The worst environmental degradation happens in
wars.
War is the greatest violation of global 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.
A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be
more advantageous.
Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and
too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved
through the military.
Resources have become the new political boundaries.
Territorial conflicts has for millennium been the basis of war and mass
killing of others. Throughout the ages wars have 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 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
economic and military power.
Truly, resources have become the new political
boundaries. Democracy is an excuse to gain control over those resources
by mega corporations.
Ever since WWII the big corporate rulers of the G8 nations
have applied the same scenario all over the world and even using the IMF
and World Bank organizations. Americans are the sponsors of those organizations,
again with money they dont own, paper money, bankrupted money. Through
these organizations, the White House subsidized friendly governments who
help American corporations get whatever natural resources they want often
at the expenses of labour rights and the environment.
The U.S.-controlled NATO has lost its purpose to continue
as a defence alliance. However, its aggressive expansion is endangering
world peace and the survival of life on the planet. Despite its irrelevant
role, NATO has become part of the U.S. military. Becoming a NATO member
proves to be a profit bonanza for U.S.-Israeli weapon industries and arm
dealers. All new recruits into NATO are obliged to increase their defence
budgets to modernise and enlarge their military arsenals at the expense
of vital public services. These defence budgets are truly destroying the
economy of a nation, creating a large annual deficit as we have seen in
the US, and exhausting the planet's resources and destroying the environment.
Nothing good can come out of the military build-up.
Planning, organizing and using crisis in Europe and elsewhere,
the U.S. cancelled the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) in order to
locate ABMs and to lure more nations to sign up for the system.
After more than five years of murderous Occupation, the
US White House is directly responsible for the premeditated killing of
more than 1.3 million innocent Iraqi civilians. Hundreds of thousands of
Iraqi civilians are imprisoned and tortured on regular basis, and at least
5 million Iraqis have been displaced as refugees living in appalling conditions.
The entire sovereign nation of Iraq is destroyed in a premeditated act
of aggression justified by outright lies. Moreover, despite the overwhelming
majority of the Iraqi people’s opposition to the Occupation, the Bush regime
refused to withdraw U.S. troops and mercenaries from Iraq and end the murderous
Occupation of their nation.
We, Global Citizens, When has the UN ever taken side of those nations being
invaded? The UN never did!
When has the UN ever stood up for the principles in the
UN Charter and stopped the invaders, and at least enforced hard sanctions
against the invaders? The UN never did!
The UN has been a watcher, an observer, a non-participant.
And that is a crime against humanity.
The UN should never be promoting war as a solution to
world problems. That alone is against global sustainability. Sustainability
means no war. War is the greatest act of destruction. There is no worst
action than war.
The UN is promoting a culture of violence and war, and
certainly that goes against Global Sustainability and Global Peace. That
is the worst thing the UN could ever to humanity. It is totally opposite
to the Global Vision that the Global Community is promoting. And it is
totally insane!
The UN knew America was invading the Middle East. Why
has the UN not enforced hard sanctions against the USA for its bullying
tactics at the UN to get what it wants? The UN leadership could have avoided
the situation we have today. The UN did nothing at a critical time. The
UN watched things happening. The UN is the organization where bullying
takes place by those with nuclear war heads. The world is threatened by
nuclear war heads. The five permanents members of the UN are allowed to
bully any other nations. The USA is invading the world, and the UN can
do nothing to stop them. The USA is allowed to invade other nations, change
their governments, and has often made lies in speeches to the UN, to the
world.
The leadership of the United Nations has failed to enforce
disarmement. All weapons of mass destruction should have been phased out
a long time ago. Why are the USA still holding the world hostage with its
40,000 nuclear war heads, and biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction?
What has the UN ever done to help the phasing out of WMDs? Now several
nations, including North Korea and Iran feel threatened just like everyone
else and will refuse to be invaded. They would rather take on the US. Russia
and China will also refuse to be invaded. The UN has done nothing to phase
out WMDs.
Certainly we ought to disarm all nations from all weapons
of mass destruction.
The Global Community stands firm on wanting to replace
the United Nations with the Federation of Global Governments.
The following figure shows a horizontal axis for time
stretching from year 1945 to 2011, and a vertical axis for money spent
by the USA and its military, and NATO allies, or G8 nations. We also show
major events occuring during that period.
1990
9/11
2008
The US market took a great hit and pulled the global markets
down. The US-style de-regulated corporate capitalism thrives on empowering
the most powerful and enriching the richest. Power and wealth never percolates
down to the ordinary people, the middle class, not to those who dont work
for the war industry. The few elites from the G8 nations have allowed a
de-regulated Wall Street to collapse on its own and swapping off most people
savings in the process, pension funds, and retirement funds. Millions of
people lost their homes.
In November 2008, EU President-in-Office Sarkozy and US
Administration have proposed a series of summits on global governance,
involving first the G8 and then extending to include G20 nations. They
are proposing the creation of a new global financial system or new Bretton
Woods. The aim must be to overhaul capitalism, not by questioning the idea
of a market economy but observing certain principles. If our world leaders,
the few elites, have their way again, the world will have some sort of
expanded WTO, NAFTA, or G8 nations with an unlimited power over the economies
of the world. A world anti-government! No less! If we believe the EU and
G8 leaders, the world will become a large casino playground with principles.
NATO will be asked to protect such a system. A new world order! Governance
at its best! Money is all that counts! The big corporate rulers, the war
industry, and Christian right will be fully protected. Actually we will
be back to the aftermath of WWII when the US Administration of the time
decided to build the biggest military force in the world at the expenses
of its taxpayers, the environment and all life on the planet. So we are
back to the future once more.
2009
Change?! President Obama said that word so many
times during the Primaries and the US election. He said he will restraint
powerful lobbyist groups from influencing the White House decisions. That
was just political small talk. He does not have a say on that matter.
The
facts are that during the very first months of the Primaries Obama already
bent down to the two strongest lobbyist groups of the USA:
The military is no replacement to the " will of the people
", democracy, the rule of law, social justice, and to Global Rights and
Global Justice. The Global Community has no need of a subversive military
force. NATO must be subject to the people, the Global Community, and to
the Federation of Global Governments. When you associate yourself with
the USA, through NATO, a nation that has created a link in a 737-strong
chain of American military bases in 130 countries, you become one of them.
Those military bases are there for many reasons. They are mainly there
for resources. They are also there to invade, destroy, kill, corrupt governments,
and de-stabilize the world. The Earth cannot afford to be subject to the
military NATO systematic destruction of life on the planet.
Even bad polluting businesses such as the the Big Three
of the US car manufacturing industry have received a bail out from the
White House. It is an same industry that built cars and trucks with engines
being a prime cause of global warming and climate change. It is not only
one of the worst industry in the world but for decades its CEOs and engineering
managers have been given the technology to build energy efficient engines
and even engines with zero pollution. They never, never wanted to change
and instead chose to pollute the planet. And now they are still not willing
to change even though the US Administration is paying their bills. What
is wrong with Americans?! Can't you do anything right?!
What comes next? What other powerful lobbyist groups
will be asking for help and get their bills paid by the White House? America
has been bankrupted for over a decade. The dollar is not worth the paper
it is written on. And yet the White House keeps printing money by the trillions,
the trillions, and hand those dollars to the worst polluters on the planet:
the
military, the energy industry, the car manufacturing industry. The
White House is basically telling polluters to take the money and keep polluting,
you're doing fine, you're an American.
Makes no sense! President Obama is the YES man
of the decade to come. He listens to the strongest lobbyist groups of the
USA and give them trillions of bankrupted dollars. Even the IMF and the
World Bank are getting trillions of those bankcrupted dollars to spend.
No wonder a bankrupt America can spread very quickly to the rest of the
world. American values are the sticky gum attached to the dollars. The
White House says take the money and spend it, consume the Earth natural
resources, go bankrupt with us. This way the White House makes everyone
guilty of their crimes. Clever but it makes no sense at all to the future
generations and all life on our planet.
Bad financial fundamentals, out-of-control stock
market, and astronomically high military expenditures have contributed
to the bankruptcy of the US economy. Through its military , the IMF and
World Bank, its lies and bullying tactics at the United Nations, the White
House has spread its fundamentally wrong phylosophie and democratic governance
to the rest of the world. And that is threatening the security of all life
on the planet.
We need to grow strong caring communities in which we
get more of our human satisfaction from caring relationships and less from
material goods. We will need to end war as a means of settling international
disputes and dismantle our military establishment. We need to reclaim the
ideal of being a democratic middle-class people without extremes of wealth
and poverty.
Truly, we are at the crossroads of the most serious economic
and social crisis in modern history, far deeper than the financial crisis
itself. In a flash, people saw the worst of humanity, what was hidden behind
Wall Street, greed and mindless consumption, and people ready to do anything
to keep things the way they are now.
Labour rights are abused in efforts to earn more profits.
This leads to abhorrent working conditions, job insecurity and low living
standards (all global rights). The WTO and NAFTA are such organizations
promoting free trade at the expense of labour rights and the environment.
Consumers in developed countries have been socialized to want more and
more things to consume but have not been socialized to appreciate the impact
of their consumption choices on the global rights of other people; that
is, they are not being responsible for their decisions.
We need to realize what is a priority, what is the most
important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need to
make hard choices. We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And
we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can
no longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity
and all life can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the
global environment, and certainly the military is a major one of them.
And there are other activities we must do, thousands of them, to assure
the survival of life on Earth. In view of the planetary state of emergency,
which we declared a shorth while ago, we all must change, we must do things
differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance.
This social-economic crisis can be resolved by asking
ourselves the fundamental question:
Who owns the Earth ? 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.
Along with ownership comes the obligation of using the
resources, share them or lose them. Land and all other Earth natural resources
are not commodities. Use the land, share it or lose it. This principle
also applies to banks and similar institutions all over the world and to
Wall Street. You own property because the previous owners could not pay.
Use that property, share it or lose it. The Global Community needs to build
an economic democracy based firmly on the basic principle that the Earth
belongs equally to everyone as a birthright.
The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all
the "global communities" along with the Global Community where they are
found. We will need ways of organizing ourselves to help us live
in a world with less energy and fewer material goods. We all have to develop
the skills needed to survive, and we will need to recover a deep sense
of community that has disappeared from many of our lives. This means abandoning
a sense of ourselves as consumption machines, which the contemporary culture
promotes, and deepening our notions of what it means to be humans in search
of meaning. We have to learn to tell different stories about our sense
of self, our connection to others, and our place in nature.
Often what is called trade is really moving of resources
across borders between subsidiaries of the same corporation. Nothing to
do with free competition. Economic activity is centrally-managed and planned
by the corporate elite. Capital move freely across borders as restrictions
on the flow of money have been removed. Corporations can relocate their
operations to the countries with the lowest wages, the least active unions
and the lowest environmental standards. The reality is that more polluting
industries are encouraged to relocate to poorer countries. A polluting
industry tends to increase the chances that people in the surrounding area
will have health problems. It costs less to dump a load of toxic waste
in the lowest wage country.
The Global Community has developed a strategy to improve
our ways of doing business and trade so as to protect all life on the planet.
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 the Global Community.
You 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, to genetically engineered
food products. All consumer products. All medicinal products! All pharmaceutical
products!
Living at the crossroads of this global crisis, we must
hasten its passage, while assisting in the birth of a new civilization,
the global civilization, based on life affirming rather than money affirming
values. All over the world people are indeed waking up to the truth. We
should strive and take steps to reclaim and rebuild our local economy.
Be
sustainable locally first, and globally next only if needed. Let go
the WTO, NAFTA or any free trade agreement. Tobin-style taxes would work well:
Taxes should be designed to conserve resources and energy.
Rather than taxing jobs and profits, taxes should be moved to resource
use, pollution, energy consumption and to reward conservation. A community
should benefit from the use of commonly held resources.
Taxes should be designed to increase employment. Moving
taxes onto resources and land use and off of incomes should make people
less expensive to employ. Products produced by green production methods,
which tends to use fewer resources and less energy should avoid taxation.
As energy costs rise, the price of labour becomes more economical, and
green products which tend to encourage value-added processes, should provide
more high quality, skilled jobs than resource intensive products.
Resource taxes should be assessed as early as possible.
Resources should be taxed before entering the manufacturing process in
order to green all aspects of the manufacturing process from extraction
to the finished product. Increasing taxes on resource and energy use will
encourage resource and energy efficiency, innovation, reuse, repair, recycling,
and used material recovery.
There is lack of tolerance and compassion for one another.
Conflicts and wars are not sustainable. They never were. The military
option, war, is against global sustainability, global rights, and global
peace in a big way. The worst environmental degradation happens in
wars.
War is the greatest violation of global 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.
A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be
more advantageous.
Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and
too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved
through the military. The entire planet is in a state of low intensity civil
war. The ruling elite profit off the exploitation of the rest of the world.
There is lack of tolerance and compassion for one another.
Conflicts and wars are not sustainable. They never were. The military
option, war, is against global sustainability, global right, and global
peace in a big way. The worst environmental degradation happens in
wars.
The military is no replacement to the " will of the people
", democracy, the rule of law, social justice, and to Global Rights and
Global Justice. The Global Community has no need of a subversive military
force. NATO must be subject to the people, the Global Community, and to
the Federation of Global Governments.
An important aspect of global governance is the security
of a person and of a nation.
Security must be achieved by other means than conflicts
and wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right
now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons
right now. Governments that have weapons of masss destruction (WMDs) are
all terrorist governments. The Global Community is asking them to disarm.
No waiting!
Introduction
The peoples of all Nations, in creating an ever closer
Global Community among themselves, a Global Civilization, are resolved to share
a peaceful future based on common values. Conscious of its spiritual and
moral heritage, the 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 global law. It places the individual
at the heart of its activities, by establishing the Global Community citizenship,
and by creating an era of freedom, security, global justice and social
harmony.
The 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, all life on Earth, and the environment
before profits.
The responsibility of a peacemaker is to settle differences through compromise and negotiation before they erupt into violence. Conflicting
views do not have to bring about fighting. War is an irreversible solution to a problem. War is never an appropriate solution to resolve a conflict.
The 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.
Peace in the world and the survival and protection of all life on our planet go hand-in-hand. In this paper asking for peace in the world means doing whatever is necessary
to protect all life on our planet. Protecting all life implies binging about the event of peace in the world.
In view of the planetary state of emergency declared by the Global Community, we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better
survival chance and bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
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 the Global Community concepts and the Scale of Global
Rights.
The Global Community has given back responsibility to every citizen on Earth. Everyone shares responsibility for the
present and future well-being of life within the Global Community. We will work together in working out sound solutions to local and global problems.
It would be wrong and dishonest to blame it all on the leader of a country. Most problems in the world must find solutions at the local and global
community levels (and not assume that the leader alone is responsible and will handle it). There is a wisdom in the ways of very humble people
that needs to be utilized. Every humble person deserves to have ideas respected, and encouraged to develop his or her own life for the better.
Sound solutions to help manage and sustain Earth will very likely be found this way. Everyone can help assess the needs of the planet and
propose sound solutions for its proper management, present and future. Everyone can think of better ideas to sustain all life on Earth and
realize these ideas by conducting positive and constructive actions. 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; that is the grassroots process. The Global Community can help
people realized their actions by coordinating efforts efficiently together.
An important objective of the Global Community is to create a peaceful and just society.
We believe that the peaceful development of the Global Community cannot be done unless social harmony is being created
amongst community members.
Hatred and conflict are often rooted in differences between people of different races and religions. We all need to respect people of different races as well as
people of different faiths and religions. We need to unite by recognizing our common desire and need for a harmonious society— a society in which we and our children
and families and friends and communities can all live our lives in peace and harmony. Regardless of our race or religion, we all want and need such social harmony.
Without respect for people of different races or ethnicities or religions, how can we have a peaceful and harmonious society or world? And without a harmonious society,
how can there be the necessary economic development and atmosphere conducive to spiritual happiness and self-realization?
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 Global Community promotes peace and social harmony by:
1. People of all religions are asked to participate in bringing about the event of peace amongst us all
Our first objective will be 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. Specific statements on environmental conservation are also important.
All religions around the world are required to re-examine
their scriptures, precepts, practices, ethical and moral values in light
of ecological concerns. The Global Community is facing a social, economic and 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. It is about creating peace in the world by accepting responsibility to all 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 is used as a global ethic.
A new symbiotical relationship between religion and the protection of the global life-support systems has begun to take place all over the world.
Religious rituals now support the conservation efforts and play a central role in governing sustainable use of the natural environment.
Major faiths are issuing declarations, advocating for new national policies, and creating educational activities in support of a sustainable global
community. The Global Community is establishing a symbiotical relationship between spirituality and science, between our heart and mind,
and God, between religion and the environment.
The human family is finding its role in the universe, a higher purpose and a meaning. We now can celebrate life.
This effort will lead over time to an
escalation of human values and symbiotical relationships transcending money centered economics.
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 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 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.
From life's viewpoint, the ultimate goal of a Soul is truly to create a symbiotical relationship between God and life in all its forms. God loves it when life becomes conscious of God.
And life has achieved its greatest purpose by being conscious of God.
The teaching of 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 becomes 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 6 billion people on Earth) working together
to keep our planet healthy. We are the keepers of the Earth.
On May 26 of each year, let us all celebrate life in our
heart, mind and Spirit.
Let us thank God for the gift of life.
The expression ' Global Community ' is defined as that being:
"all that exits or occurs at any location at any time between the Ozone layer above and the core of the planet below."
This is the fundamental definition of the expression "Global Community"
first defined in 1985.
This definition includes all people, all life on Earth.
The definition of the 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.
We will not explain here why we need to have a security and biodiversity zone over the entire planet because most people know why it is necessary and must be done.
Why it must be done is because the fundamental definition of the "Global Community" includes all people, all life on Earth.
The Global Community is this great, wide, wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities of all life-forms.
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 land ownership of the Earth means ownership of the land and of all other Earth natural resources.
The Global Community is defined around a given territory,
that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population,
which is the Global Community. The 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.
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 the Global Community, it has ownership of all natural resources within its boundaries.
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 the Global Community can rightfully claim ownership of the Earth.
And October 29 is a special day to claim that right.
Let us celebrate on that day!
There is an ongoing daily Global Dialogue
between the people of the world.
There is always a need for helping humanity back onto the path of survival this millennium.
The Global Dialogue is the source of new ideas and finding new ways for our survival and taking along with us other lifeforms on the planet.
The people of the Global Community is using the Global Dialogue to resolve conflicts, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism,
disease, and global rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community is offering other good organizations around
the world to work together to bring warring parties to 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 destroying and polluting,
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, 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 goal for peace in the world can only be reached by resolving these important global problems.
2. Global symbiotical relationships
We need to let go the archaic ways of seeing a community as
the street where we live and contained by a border. It is best for humanity and the increasing world population to see ourselves as people living together or
far apart but in constant communication with each other. A community has no boundaries except of those of the heart, mind and Soul. Many conflicts and
wars will be avoided by seeing ourselves as people with a heart, a mind and a Soul, and as part of a community with the same.
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 of any symbiotical relationship 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 and a more stable and inclusive global
economy.
Symbiotical relationships are needed today for the long term future of humanity and for the protection of life on Earth.
In the context of the global civilization of the 3rd Millennium, we have defined that
any symbiotical relationship is for the good of all, for the good of the 'other'. It is based on a genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour.
The question is how can we improve the political symbiotical relationship to fulfill the fundamental criteria? The Global Community promotes the values
and principles to achieve the fundamental criteria and that requires the promoting and establishment of: global community ethics, mutual respect, respect for life, basic liberties,
justice and equity, caring for the 'other', integrity, responsibility and accountability, and be compassionate.
We will need ways of organizing ourselves to help us live
in a world with less energy and fewer material goods. We all have to develop
the skills needed to survive, and we will need to recover a deep sense
of community that has disappeared from many of our lives. This means abandoning
a sense of ourselves as consumption machines, which the contemporary culture
promotes, and deepening our notions of what it means to be humans in search
of meaning. We have to learn to tell different stories about our sense
of self, our connection to others, and our place in nature.
Rich countries manipulate trade agreements in order to
ensure a profit. Their governments insist on tariffs and protectionism
in areas in which they are weak. For instance, a while ago Canada and the
USA have gone through the process of an economic war in the softwood industry.
The imposition of a 29 percent tariff on softwood lumber by the U.S. Commerce
Department showed that Canadians were duped by the Free Trade Agreement(FTA)
and NAFTA. The U.S. Government protectionism is itself aimed at reducing
the value of the Canadian companies just long enough for American competitors
to acquire them. Many different Canadian industries have already been bought
that way by US competitors. The energy sector is one of them. Free trade
opens up a developing nation's economy to competition with strong, developed,
well-financed, multinational corporations. In consequence, most of the
local producers and manufacturers go out of business thus leaving a developing
nation's economy entirely in the hands of the transnational elite. It is
a form of colonization and of world anti-government. Rich countries force
poorer countries to open up their markets, and then take them over.
3. Global Movement to Help and serve the people of all nations
The Global Movement to Help is an initiative of the Global Community.
It is very important that the Movement be promoted by all Global Citizens. From now on we serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth.
Each Global Government (GG) is made more responsible and accountable to the people of member nations within the region where it operates.
Essential services to the people of each member nation are now the most important global rights on the Scale of Global Rights and are protected by the
Global Protection Agency (GPA) of each member nation.
The Global Movement to Help offers Essential Services to serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth.
As a first step to getting help, all nations can and should approve the first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights.
The approval would supersede the political and physical borders of participating member nations. The approval would mean politics and justice without borders only
concerning those three sections, i.e essential services.
The Global Protection Agency would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help, bypassing normal government protocols.
Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the global level. That is what those first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights
mean. They represent an efficient and immediate emergency response to help.
Over time, we have seen the creation of the United Nations, the European
Union, the South American Community of Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Except for the UN, these organizations are mainly concerned with trade and economics.
The Global Community offers a more meaningful union in the form of nine or more Global Governments. For instance the South American Community of Nations can be
a Global Government by simply accepting the Global Constitution as a way of dealing between member nations. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade,
but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other essential aspects.
The Federation of Global Governments is the place of meeting between Global Governments.
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. The Global
Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale.
We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to the people of that region.
And we want a Global Government to be made of wealthy nations as well as nations in need of help. Be compassionate. Each Global Government is obliged to
offer Essential Services to the people of its member nations. The Global Community offers both a short term solution and a long term solution to the people of all nations.
Both solutions have been integrated into the Scale of Global Rights,
itself a necessary first step which must be approved by all of us. What we offer to the people of all nations is to guarantee rights of Sections 1, 2, and 3 on the Scale of Global Rights.
We serve all people of the Global Community, the people of all nations, all life on Earth, much like an emergency unit would do on a global level.
Concerning Sections 1, 2, and 3, it shall be the Global Community highest priority to guarantee these rights to their respective Member Nations and to have proper legislation and
implement and enforce global law as it applies and as shown in the Global Constitution.
Section 1. Global [ Ecological, environmental, protection of life-support systems ] rights
Section 2. Primordial human rights
Those are our essential services.
The Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace.
The Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications
infrastructure which can bring this about.
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an
elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
The Global Community has shown that corporate-style globalization that ignores the needs of the poor and the environment will no longer be tolerated. The Global Community
is joining students, environmentalists, people of faith, human rights activists, and others, in the global struggle against corporate
globalization being fought in cities and towns across the world.
We works on issues of global economic and social justice and sustainability. We believe another world is possible and necessary. We envision a world free of corporate
domination and crushing debt, particularly in communities of color. We act to expose and change the institutionalized violence wrought by international financial and
trade institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.
Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize.
(Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and so-called economic austerity programs).
Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that
include forced relocation of people.
We are committed to nonviolence and recognizes militarism as a tool used by the global corporate elite to keep money flowing to the privileged few while restricting the
rights of people worldwide. We oppose corporate practice which places short-term profits ahead of human dignity, sustainable development and a healthy earth. 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. We are opposed to the globalization of greed and obscene concentrations of wealth -- we say that
another world is possible and necessary.
4. Global Rights and Justice
Global Rights year one is about to establish global fundamentals and a clear vision to follow, and it is new impetus of the Global
Community to educate everyone about the need for a change in thinking and of doing things amongst all
nations. We need to realize what is a priority, what is the most important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need a clear vision. We need a common
vision. And we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity and all life
can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the global environment. And there are other activities we must do, certainly thousands of them, to assure the survival of life on Earth.
In view of the planetary state of emergency we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance.
Perhaps the Scale of Global Rights represents the strongest pillar of our vision.
In 1985, the Scale of Global Rights was first proposed as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After several decades of research and development,
many global dialogues, we still find the Scale as the best solution to global problems.
Today, we are presenting once more the Scale as the best educating tool to bring about the change the people of the world need to achieve for their own survival.
To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and
reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale of Global Rights and
the Global Constitution are the best guidance for continuing this
process. The Scale shows social values in order of importance and so will
help us understand the rights of a community. What are the universal needs
of a person, family, and that of a global community?
Global rights represent
an ideal and a supreme goal which can give meaning to life in society.
We also accept global rights as part of our universal values
from which we base our decisions. Global Rights are closely
intertwined with democracy. Respect for Global Rights and fundamental freedoms is one of
the characteristics of a democracy. The typical fundamental freedoms of
a democracy (freedom of expression, thought, assembly, and association)
are themselves part of human rights. These freedoms can exist everywhere. Democracy
is a political system based on the participation of the people. It foresees
the separation of powers among the judiciary, the legislative and the executive
authorities, as well as free and regular elections.
The Global
Community is aware that traditional customs and standards
could burden the sustainability of all life on Earth. They could burden
Earth society or any society forever, and holds individuals in a straitjacket.
We cannot accept that. No one can! There are choices to be made and you
must make them. Cultures can develop and can go on developing. Even religious
beliefs may evolve. We are living now, and we are able to
create these changes. We are at least as bright, most certainly brighter,
than the people who were living thousand of years ago.
As far as
the Global Community is concerned, cultural and religious
differences cannot be a reason or an excuse or a pretext for not respecting
human rights including and most importantly the ecological rights. Quite
the contrary, all kinds of cultures may promote human rights and especially
cultural rights. They are different in their achievements, but they are
equal in dignity where they are expressions of freedom. At any time
or in any given place, men, women and children use their culture to invent
new ways of making human rights a living reality. Diversity enriches us
if it respects the dignity of each individual, and if it takes account
of human rights as a whole.
Over the past several decades humanity has better itself through the acceptance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by most nations.
But now is time
to leave it behind and reach to our next step, that is a scale of social
values, the Scale of Global Rights.
Social justice is another
universal value to which the Global Community aspires and accepts
as a universal value. Social justice consists in sharing wealth with a
view to greater equality and the equal recognition of each individual's
merits. All persons within a given society deserve equal access to goods
and services that fulfill basic human needs.
The Global Community deals with both social justice and global justice together.
The Global Justice Movement stands for:
1. Each person has the right to have clean air, clean water, food and housing, along with access to a quality health and educational system.
2. Every person should be respected, equal, free and able to choose their own destiny.
3. Everyone should be able to fulfill their full emotional, intellectual and spiritual potential.
4. Every person must take responsibility for preserving the environment including the fauna and flora, all of which are interdependent.
5. The inalienable rights of the individual include the rights of life, liberty, access to productive property, truly free markets, and equal justice before the law.
6. Global Economic System that is fair for all.
7. It is the duty of democratic government to secure the results the people want from the transparent management of their public affairs, as far as such results do not
infringe on the rights of the individual.
8. The Global Peace Movement is about educating ourselves to engage in personal diplomacy in another country. We are given
opportunities to meet and listen to some of the leading authorities on such subjects as humanitarian
and volunteerism, education, politics, historical, social and cultural perspectives, conflict management, teamwork, world affairs, community involvement, and religion.
9. Global Justice for all Life on the planet and it is about:
* establishing respect for global rights;
* implementing a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics, corporate social
responsibility, protection of human and Earth rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working
conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects;
* establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights;
* 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.
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 is a universal value for anyone, anywhere, and in any situations.
By its way of not dealing with global governance, the United Nations (UN) organization has perpetuated the archaic concept of land ownership, a concept that is threatening security in the world and all
life on Earth. The UN never had a human criteria for the creation of a new nation. Only the can evaluate the creation
of a new nation and dealing with conflicts.
All nations have to be educated of the new way for the good of all.
Global Community is promoting that the creation of a new nation does not have to be at the expenses of human lives and destruction of an entire world. It can and should
always be done through a decision made by a higher Court. We are promoting the immediate use of this higher Court, the Earth Court of Justice to hear cases and to prosecute those nations, corporations, communities, individuals who commit crimes
such as:
* nation states
The Court will also be asked to decide on
* national political and military leaders accountable for violations of international humanitarian law
* 'core' crimes of genocide
* crimes against humanity and global rights
* war crimes
* crimes with significant impacts perpetuated against the life-support systems of the planet (for instance wars and use of weapons of widespread destruction are listed under this category)
* crimes related to the relentless misused of the Earth resources
* environmental crimes
* social crimes as the Court may see apply
* crimes stemming from the global ministries
* the formation of a new nation in the world,
* on disputed lands between nations,
* the de-institutionalization of market speculation, and
* the annulment of the debt of developing nations as the loans are actually a form of global tax given by the rich nations to the developing ones.
The IMF and World Bank loans are called taxes from the rich nations paid to the developing nations; these loans/taxes are really a method of raising global
taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free
technical assistance to non-industrial and developing countries.
These loans/taxes are not to be paid back to the rich nations.
The Court decides in accordance with:
* the Scale of Global Rights,
Global Community criteria for sovereignty:
* the Global Constitution
* Global Law
* the Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act
* the belief, values, principles and aspirations of Global Community,
* international treaties and conventions in force,
* international custom,
* the general principles of law, and
* as subsidiary means, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists.
Without this criteria no one can claim ownership - sovereignty - of any geographical area on the planet.
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 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 the 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 the Global Community) that representatives to the 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 the Global Community.
The impacts of today's 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 Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact that land, the air, water, oil, minerals, and all other natural resources
rightly belong to the Global Community along with the local communities where those resources are found. The Earth is the birthright of all life.
The Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community is truly the best response to the world.
Truly, the world is on the threshold of a global revolution, and needs to
proceed with the non-violent approach. The Global Community needs 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.
Territorial conflict has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others.
Throughout the ages wars have 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 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.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources 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 in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
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 the Global Community. Once in effect, the Earth Court of Justice will become the principal judicial organ of the 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 Federation of Global Governments. 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.
5. Global Citizenship
Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship
1. Acceptance of the Statement of rights and responsibilities of a person, 'a global community' and 'the Global Community'.
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.
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 Global
Constitution were researched and developed by
the 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.
4. Acceptance of the Global Constitution.
The Global Constitution 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.The 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 Global Community" of the Global Constitution
are closely interrelated. Together they provide a conception of a world 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 the 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 Earth Government) that representatives to Earth Government 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 Earth Government.
6. Acceptance of the Earth Court of Justice as the highest Court on Earth.
The 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.
6. Global Law
The work of the 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 the 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.
Global Law can affect several aspects of our lives. Global Law includes: Global Rights, Statutes, Codes, Standards, Bills and Other Legislative Information.
7. Global Governance
Global governance does not imply a lost of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. A nation government exists within the framework of an
effective Global Community protecting common global values and humanity heritage. Global governance gives a new meaning to the notions
of territoriality, and non-intervention in a state way of life, and it is about protecting the cultural heritage of a state. Diversity of cultural and
ethnic groups is an important aspect of global governance.
Global governance is a balance between the rights of states with rights of people, and the interests of nations with the interests of the Global
Community, the human family, the global civil society.
Global governance is about the rights of states to self-determination in the global context of the Global Community rather than the traditional
context of a world of separate states.
Several times in the past the Global Community has requested of the United Nations to restructure and reform its organization to be in touch with the problems humanity is facing in this millennium. They have never replied. Four of the five UN
Permanent Members, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia, are those countries that, not only control the UN, but they are the same countries that have brought disgrace to humanity by their selfish, immoral, unethical,
incoherent, inconsistent, dishonnest, erratic, and mostly aimed at making money behavior in the Middle East and towards Afghanistan. They have given to trade a bad name. Because of them free trade has become a danger to the
extinction of life on Earth. They even got China, the fifth Permanent Member of the UN, to vote YES to invade Afghanistan (without that vote the UN could not have approved), in exchange of China got its membership into the
World Trade Organization (WTO).
Governance of the Earth will make the rule of arbitrary power--economic (WTO, FTAA, EU), political (UN), or military (U.S.A. and NATO)-- subjected to the rule of Global Law
within the global civil society, the human family. Justice is for everyone and is everywhere, a universal constant. Earth governance does not imply a lost of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. A nation government can
exists within the framework of
an effective Global Community protecting common global values and humanity heritage.
Although the Global Community ensures state governments that it will obey the principle of non-intervention in domestic affairs, it will
also stand for the rights and interests of the people within individual states in which the security of people is extensively endangered. A
global consensus to that effect will be agreed upon by all Member Nations.
Humanity is going through a phase of global consciousness.
We see entire nations making choices based on what is good for themselves,
today self-interests, versus what is good for the next generations and
all life on the planet. In other words, they make choices between global
politics versus international politics. International politics are driven by national interests,
self-interests, while Global politics are about the survival of all of
us of the planet.
Global politics is about doing what is right for all of
us now and in the future, and for all life on the planet. We base our understandings
and actions on principles we all know are rights deep down. You cannot
have a nation invading another nation for its resources? its water? its
oil and gas? We have chaos without principles! We have conflicts and wars.
There are ways of doing things that will give everyone a good survival
chance. There are global equitable and sustainable solutions. War goes against global sustainability and global peace.
Global politics are meant to guide us on the right path.
They are meant to bring humanity on a safe ground. They are about the survival
of all of us of the planet.
This is what people who work hard, pay their taxes and
play by the rules want from their political leaders.
You don't expect politicians to be perfect. But you do
want to know that your tax dollars - money you've worked for - are being
spent properly and wisely. The 'Peoples' have been let down.
Most dont even have ethics. If they do they dont follow
them. The problem is the system they have created. It has become
clear that this culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption cannot reform
itself.
An accountable global government, Earth Government, the Federation of Global Governments, is what humanity needs. The Global Community deserves nothing less.
Whatever happen in this 3rd Millennium, which we have called the Global Civilization of the 3rd Millennium, will depend of us and to what extent we
are willing to make a difference to manage Earth wisely. Will our actions be geared to survive a decade, a hundred years, a thousand years, or a
million years? If our actions were geared to survive a million years, the chances are that we would learn to master great things including harnessing the sun flare energy, interstellar travels, genetic engineering, and reajusting the planetary position of another planet in our system to initiate a new life on its surface.
Is it no worth to make sacrifices now?
A sound governance of the Earth is needed for the long term survival of our species. This is 'la raison d'etre' of the Global Community. The Global Community has proposed the creation of global
ministries to manage Earth and humanity's global problems. The higher purpose of humanity is to serve God by propagating Life throughout the universe.
So dont we have an obligation to do whatever we can to protect life on Earth?
Of the many global problems we are facing today, certainly the problem of overpopulation is a major one.
The solution to the world overpopulation is a policy that applies to every family to have only one or two children. It would take a thousand years to
reach our goal of a population of 500 million people on the planet. We would make all efforts to minimize infant mortality. We need to ensure that the women of the world who have shown an interest in the proposal of family planning
would have access to all the help needed to achieve their goal. Contraception for men is also desirable.
Today most major global problems stemmed from our overcrowded planet. Human activities of an overpopulation create major global problems.
Global warming is certainly an obvious example of such global problem caused by an overpopulation of the planet. Conflicts over freshwater usage are on the rise. It is only a matter of time
before a global war over water becomes a reality. We seem to rely on technology to resolve all these problems. But you cant. They are major
problems and each one of them take time to resolve. When all global problems are thrown at you at the same time there is no way humanity can
survive the 21st century. Even today too many nations have a nuclear arsenal that can easily destroyed and be the cause for the destruction of all life on Earth.
Doubling the world population would make the world situation a thousand fold worst than it is now.
More healthy civilizations could coexist together in peace if the global population was 500 million.
The factors that could reduce world's population are:
* promoting one or two child per family
* increase income
* improve literacy
* insure protection of new born children
* educate men and women to family planning and let them be equal partners in all aspects of life
* make men and women use of inexpensive contraceptives with easy access to them
* promote a more healthy and rewarding lifestyle with just one child per family
* expanding women's opportunities
* access to high-quality reproductive health services
Most major global problems would disappear with a world population of 500 million. Today the urban population is increasing at the rate of 60 million
a year requiring the resources necessary for the equivalent of an additional six megacities every year; there are already 19 megacities in the world.
It is imperative that action be taken to control the overpopulation and human activities so that planetary security is not endangered. The current
world's population is over 6 billion and is expected to grow more than 9 billion by 2050. Nearly 98% of this growth will be in the developing countries.
At that time, there will be more older people than children, and the number of people who will be 60 or older is expected to reach 2 billion,
putting stress on retirement and health care systems worldwide.
About half the world lives in cities on 2% of the land, consuming about 75% of the resources and producing roughly the same percentage of the pollution.
In one generation, 3 billion city dwellers will grow to 5 billion while, at the same time, natural resources to support this growth are
shrinking. Biodiversity feeds directly 40% of the economy of the developing countries, yet this natural resource is rapidly being destroyed.
About one out of every children under five years old in the developing countries is malnourished. Sufficient nutrition, shelter, water, and sanitation
will have to reach people in slums, or the world will see more migrations, disease and conflicts. Medical and social advances have allowed
to increase significantly life expectancy. Older people will be require to continue work few more years to help the younger generation.
Let us have a look at global governance today and see how we can manage differently.
Major factors have caused the global crisis which
triggered the planetary state of emergency declared by the Global Community.
An important factor is the disconnected with reality, unfair and corrupted
governance focusing only on finances, trade and consumption.
8. Global Protection Agency (GPA) and global security
Building global communities requires a mean to enforce global law that protects all life on Earth.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) does train and lead a global police force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO.
The GPA is leading a group of people in the world who participate in:
a) peacekeeping and peacemaking mission;
b) creating global ministries for:
c) enforcing global law;
d) saving the Earth's genetic heritage and humanity's heritage;
e) keeping the world healthy and at peace;
f) protecting the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet;
g) dealing with the impacts of: global poverty, lack of drinking water and food, global warming and the global climate change, threat to security, conflicts and wars,
lack of good quality soil for agriculture, polluted air, water and land, overcrownded cities, more new and old diseases out of control, widespread drugs, global rights
abuses, world overpopulation, and lack of resources;
h) broadening the traditional focus of the security of states to include both the security of people as well as that of the
planet. Global security policies include:
* every person on Earth has a right to a secure existence, and all states have an obligation to protect those rights
* prevention of conflicts and wars; identification, anticipation, and resolving conflicts before they become armed confrontations. The Earth
Court of Justice will help here.
* military force is not a legitimate political instrument
* weapons of mass destruction are not legitimate instruments of national defence
* eliminate all weapons of mass destruction from all nations and have inspectors verifying progress to that effect
* all nations should sign and ratify the conventions to eliminate nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
* the production and trade in arms should be listed as a criminal act against humanity; this global ministry will introduce a
Convention on the curtailment of the arms trade, a provision for a mandatory Arms Register and the prohibition of the financing or
subsidy of arms exports by governments
* the development of military capabilities is a potential threat to the security of people and all life on Earth; the ministry
will make the demilitarization of global politics a high priority.
* anticipating and managing crises before they escalate into armed conflicts and wars
* maintaining the integrity of the environment and global life-support systems
* managing the environmental, economic, social, political and military conditions that threatened the security of people and all life on the planet
* over the past decades and even now today, all Five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council (mostly the United States,
Russia and Britain) were responsible for selling weapons and war equipment. These three nations are required to give back to the Global Community
an amount of 8 trillion dollars (American) as a payment for the immense damage they have caused in the world. They have created a culture
of violence throughout the world. They are nation bullies, nation predators. They are responsible for economic mismanagement, ethnic tensions,
crimes, drug abuse, high unemployment, urban stress, worldwide poverty, and pressures on natural resources. Most conflicts in the world
are direct legacies of cold war power politics, senseless politics. Other conflicts were caused by the end of the cold war and the collapse
of old regimes. Other factors have combined to increase tension: religious, economical, political, and ethnic aspects.
In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the military capabilities and forming alliances
with other nations were the only way to 'win'. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the planet. Ethnic
groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly
make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The
only job the military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the highest priority
on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is
no other right possible. Without Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs.
Wars are the biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of Global Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is not possible in cold place.
Security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right now and that means phasing
out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in
all nations of the world, and not just in the Middle East region and North Korea.
Global security can only be achieved if it can be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained
in the Global Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. All people and states
are protected by the Global Community.
9. Planetary State of Emergency
In view of the planetary state of emergency we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance.
There are activities we must do, certainly thousands of them, to assure the survival of life on Earth.
One activity we must abolish today is the business of conflicts and wars.
Throughout the 20th Century, the war industry has created the worse evil humanity has ever encountered: the business of conflicts and wars . It is a business that has made trillions of dollars (American) and
will continue to do so, and it must be stopped. It is the "mother of all evils" created by human beings. It has no moral value, no understanding about Life, no respect for anyone or anything, no law except the rules that it makes for
itself, and all its products are meant to kill and destroy. It has sold its products to the enemies for the purpose of making more profit. It has subdued governments all over the world to make them buy its
products. It has given trade and way of doing business a bad reputation and, therefore, it is a threat to the establisment of business. Although the war industry has a good public image, it does not really
matter who is the buyer as long as the buyer pays good money. No accountability to the Global Community!
The business of conflicts and wars must be abolished for many important reasons.
What happens to a person's conscience when he/she wears the uniform of the soldier? It is enslaved to the state. He must kill when ordered. No government, whether democratic or despotic, can allow the soldier to decide what to do
according to his conscience. That would undermine discipline and the power to fight.
The Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should be able to live in peace. This Peace Mouvementis 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. We are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants".
The best way to win the war against terrorism is to live a life with principles and showing by example. We need to educate the coming generations with good principles,
being compassionate and global sustainability being some of them.
Let us have a look at the nationalization of natural
resources and global taxation on the use of those resources. In order to better protect life on our planet, the Global
Community is asking people of all nations to defend and protect their natural
resources. In particular, all the hydrocarbons within a national territory
must be nationalized. It is an obligation, not only of a national government,
but also of all the active forces in a country; it is the duty of local
and municipal authorities, the duty of state authorities – of everyone
– to take upon themselves this defence and this recuperation of natural
resources. Nationalization is a necessity because American corporations
have been buying local corporations to acquire natural resources of a country.
This state of affairs has been going on ever since WWII. Over the past
decades, the US national debt and annual deficit have been out-of-control
because of a complete business freedom of the US corporate world. No taxation!
When a large corporation is about to go out of business, the White House
intervened with a bail out. For example in Canada, the property of the hydrocarbons,
the oil and natural gas, and tarsands, have mostly owned by American and
other foreign corporations. Our natural resources have been bought out
by foreigners. Pipelines have been built to transport the oil and natural
gas to the customers in the United States without paying taxes to Canada.
Canadian corporations that have been taken over by American corporations
with bankrupted money, paper money, Stock Exchange money, money that Americans
dont even have. The White House prints dollar bills by the trillions and
give them to corporations to buy more Canadian corporations. This is no
longer a fair exchange of something tangible with something else of an
equivalent value. We have natural resources and Americans have bankrupted
money to exchange with. That's not right! How can we let that happened?
It is time to nationalize Canadian natural resources.
10. Conflicts and wars are against global sustainability in a big way
There are several reasons for objecting to war: religious, moral and political. People have different degrees of refusal to go to war. Absolute pacifists, such as the Global Citizens, will not
cooperate with any preparation for war as decided by the war industry, let alone war itself. Others will accept some kinds of service so long as they are not forced to fight. And others
are willing to fight in "just wars." The idea of the "just war" began with St. Augustine. Late in the fourth century he argued that the good
Christian, barred from doing violence on his own behalf, could take arms in a war that was just. Several theologians now say that the standards for a just war are:
a) War must be the last resort and used only after other means have failed.
b) War must be declared to redress rights actually violated or for defence against unjust demands backed by the threat of force. It must not be fought simply to satisfy national pride or to further economic or territorial gain.
c) The war must be openly and legally declared by a legal government.
d) There must be a reasonable chance of winning.
e) The means used must be in proportion to the ends sought.
f) Soldiers must distinguish between armies and civilians and not killed civilians in purpose.
g) The winner must not required the utter humiliation of the loser.
The military option goes against global peace in a big way.
The UN has shown bad leadership! Failure to help humanity! An accomplice of the war industry. An accomplice of the oil and
gas industry to make it easy for the industry to make our planet unsustainable and destroy the global life-support systems.
All world leaders just pretending to resolve global warming and its effects on the global climate have broken Global Law and are dangerous criminals and
will be prosecuted.
The UN should have insisted in giving
hard sanctions to the US for invading Iraq.
The war industry is the "mother of all evils" of our world. It must be shelved. War products and equipment and weapons of mass destruction from all nations must be decommissioned. Join the Global Community Peace Movement.
Today the war industry is exploiting the issue of terrorism for profit.
Everyone knows terrorism cannot be fought by conventional warfare but that would not deter the industry from saying it is the best way to get rid of terrorists.
War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can inflict on another and to all life on Earth. 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. 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.
The people of the Global Community are dedicated in using all its resources to resolve
conflict, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism, disease, and human rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community
is offering other good organizations around the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace. We can accomplish this task by concrete actions such as:
a) Tracking armed conflicts within and between nations around the world and offering assistance in dispute resolution;
b) Promoting human rights and democracy;
c) Monitoring democratic elections;and
d) Educating the public about the advantages of a peaceful solution to any conflict.
War is not sustainable to all life on the planet. It never was. The military option, war, is against global sustainability and global peace in a big way.
Territorial conflicts has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others.
Throughout the ages wars have been fought over land, and other Earth natural resources. Blood resources started when the first explorers came to America and started to shut
dead Natives. Explorers had to come back home with the prospect of future catches for their countries.
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 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 economic and military power.
Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries. Geopolitical boundaries between nations are gradually disappearing to make place to georesources boundaries. Democracy is an excuse to gain control over those resources by mega corporations.
'Blood oil and gas' is certainly a proof of this statement.
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, the 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.
The Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact that land, the air, water, oil, minerals, and all other natural resources
rightly belong to the Global Community along with the local communities where those resources are found. The Earth is the birthright of all life.
The Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community is truly the best response to the world.
How can the U.N.
even be promoting Global Sustainability when, at the same time, the Security Council of the U.N. is promoting the use of the military option, war, as a solution to problems many
communities are facing in the world. Every one knows 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. A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be more advantageous. 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. War and militarism destroy civil liberties within a nation.
We are holding the White House and the U.N. responsible for this change in the Government of Canada position from that of a peace-keeping mission in the world to that of a war-like stand.
What the U.N. did is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth. The U.N. have broken Global Law. The U.S.-controlled NATO has lost its purpose to continue as a defence alliance. However,
its aggressive expansion is endangering world peace and the survival of
life on the planet. Despite its irrelevant role, NATO has become part of
the U.S. military. Becoming a NATO member proves to be
a profit bonanza for U.S.-Israeli weapon industries and arm dealers. All
new recruits into NATO are obliged to increase their defence budgets
to modernise and enlarge their military arsenals at the expense of vital
public services. These defence budgets are truly destroying the economy of a nation, creating a large annual deficit as we have seen in the US, and exhausting the
planet's resources and destroying the environment. Nothing good can come out of the military build-up.
The Canadian Government has recently approved a 64 billion dollars budget deficit. Something never seen in Canadian history. They say it is for Canadians and the economy. What they dont say is that
most of that money has already been spent on the Canadian military and much more will be spent to buy American war products. As if the world, all life on the planet, needs more destruction.
Let us have a look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ).
The entire planet is in a state of low intensity civil
war. The ruling elite profit off the exploitation of the rest of the world.
There is lack of tolerance and compassion for one another.
Conflicts and wars are not sustainable. They never were. The military
option, war, is against global sustainability, global right, and global
peace in a big way. The worst environmental degradation happens in
wars.
1. That the US and its
coalition partners immediately cease all violations of the civil, political
and human rights of the people of Iraq;
2. That the military occupation
of Iraq be immediately ended;
3. That all parties guilty of
war crimes against the Iraqi people be brought to justice under Global
Law; the Earth Court of Justice will prosecute the offenders;
4. That reparations be paid by
all responsible parties to the people of Iraq for the damages caused by
both the war and the occupation; the amount to be paid should be no less
than 8 trillion US dollars coming from the governments involved, and not
from the resources of Iraq;
5. That we work to strengthen
the mobilization of the global antiwar movement;
6. That the occupation of Palestine,
Afghanistan and all other colonized areas is illegal and should be brought
to an end immediately;
The Global Community is very concerned about the state
of the world today and the causes that brought up so much frictions and
wars between nations. The world has seen the rise of an invading world
power, the USA, ever since WWII. The United Nations has never done anything
to stop the invasion. The United Nations (UN) leadership has been one of
a 'watcher', an observer. The UN watch the world go by, on the brink of
self-destruction and of being invaded, environmentally and militarily,
and you do nothing.
11. Abolish poverty
In developing countries, the most important environmental pressure is linked to poverty. Poor people put pressure on the land and forests, over-exploiting them to survive.
These countries must be helped. They must accept the implementation of the Scale of Global Rights into their way of
life. We must give them access to technologies that use fewer resources, energy efficient technologies, 'clean' technologies.
Because governments of developing nations had to promote 'free trade', this situation cause barriers to trade to be eliminated and now we are seeing the globalization of 'free
trade'. Developing nations are now asked to produce only the products they are good at producing and buy from other countries the products they are not as good at producing.
This way the economy of a nation will function at maximum efficiency. So now governments are told to open up their borders and to stop meddling in markets, so
that competition will be free internationally. Often what is called trade is really moving of resources across borders between subsidiaries of the same corporation. Nothing
to do with free competition. Economic activity is centrally-managed and planned by the corporate elite. Capital move freely across borders as restrictions on the flow of
money have been removed. Corporations can relocate their operations to the countries with the lowest wages, the least active unions and the lowest environmental
standards. The reality is that more polluting industries are encouraged to relocate to poorer countries. A polluting industry tends to increase the chances that people in
the surrounding area will have health problems. If pollution kills someone or makes them unable to work, the cost to the economy, or to the industry in the case of a
law-suit, would be roughly equal to the projected wages that the person would have earned in the rest of their life. In a country with low life expectancy and low wages, this
cost will be lessened. It costs less to dump a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country.
Today the watchdog, the 'enforcer' for 'free trade', and also the bedfellow of both the IMF and the World Bank, is the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO is
responsible for monitoring national trading policies, handling trade disputes, and enforcing the GATT agreements. The World Trade Organization (WTO), the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) encourage the privatization of public services and the settling of international
disputes their own way. Any government, acting on behalf of a corporation, can challenge the acts of another government if they "interfere with trade." Complaints are
taken to a WTO dispute resolution body which then make a binding decision. The WTO has forced governments to lower their environmental standards in favour of a
corporation to allow more pollution into the environment, and that is a form of anti-government gone bad with absolute no respect or care for life and the global-life support
systems. Corporations can sue governments if they harm their profits through any unfair barriers to trade. NAFTA and WTO tribunals usually rule in favor of corporations.
So now we really have a new definition for the word 'property' to mean both what is currently owned and profits that could potentially be made. To compensate, we
propose a new definition for 'pollution' and 'human destruction' to mean the pollution and human destruction that the policies of the IMF, World Bank and WTO are causing
now in the world plus the pollution and human destruction that they will cause in the future to the next generations. By providing corporations with a mean to override
governmental decisions, NAFTA and the WTO (and the proposed FTAA) shift power even more into the hands of the elite. And that is also a form of anti-government.
12. Global Economic Model
A fair and equitable Global Economic Model (GEM) forms the basis for peace in the world.
Let us represent the ideal Global Economic Model by four major interacting circles, and call them quality systems: people, Earth resources, economic stability
and the global environment.
They represent interactions. These interactions occur between the systems and within each individual system.
The Global Community has developed mathematical local/global indicators
to assess and measure sustainable development within those four important realities in local/global life.
The Scale of Global Rights is used within the mathematical model to reflect the importance of each quality system in ensuring a sound future for Earth.
People need a healthy environment and resources for family, community, government, business and industry.
Businesses cannot thrive without people and resources.
Earth resources need to be managed wisely so they last longer and be of good use for all of us and the next generations. Let us not waste.
Let us protect all life.
Economic stability depends on people, resources, and good businesses and trade.
The Global Economic Model
was developed to bring stability. The Global Community will help businesses to be part of the
solution to the challenges of globalisation. In this way, the
private sector in partnership with civil society can help realize
a vision: allowing a global equitable and peaceful development
and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
And all of the above cannot exist without a healthy Environment.
The four interacting circles are a simplistic expression of our need for one another, our
interactions, our symbiotical relationships, and the thoughtless damage we can cause if not careful. We are worlds within worlds orbiting in and through each other’s space.
These interactions can be planned and executed in a caring, considerate manner so that all may exist and not destroy the other.
The four interacting circles also give us an indication of how difficult it may be to apply Global Justice for all life on the planet, and how
difficult it is to include the needs of the next generations in our ways of doing things. It has been necessary to
conduct a two decades long Global Dialogue, and longer even, to find a process for the establishment of justice amongst us all. We are now seeing all aspects
of life through a single focusing lens we have called Scale of Global Rights, a guiding tool for the application of Global Law.
And that is the framework of Global Justice for all life on the planet as researched and developed by the Global Community.
But of course we have a different situation happening today: the global crisis.
They are the major factors that have
caused the global crisis which in turn triggered the planetary state of
emergency declared by the Global Community organization.
Let us have a closer look at the global crisis and how it actually happened from 1945 on.
1985
Global revolution started in 1985. The Global Community
was created by the people, for the all life on Earth. Global concepts were
researched and developed, Earth activities were organized, global law and
regulations were developed to protect humanity, ecosystems and global life-support
systems. In April 2008, a planetary state of emergency was declared by
the Global Community Peace Movement to make the world aware of the global
crisis. Shortly afterward the Global Movement to Help was organized to
serve and help people from all nations, all life on Earth. A long-term
solution was also proposed in the form of the Federation of Global Governments.
In 1990, the United Nations help developed and promoted
the global concept of sustainable development. Today this concept is obviously
loosing out as all nations struggle for resources. The United States was
first in shotting down the concept by its invasion of nations to acquire
Earth resources. The Global Community concept is a better replacement for
the concept of sustainable development. And the Federation of Global Governments
is certainly a better fit to replace the United Nations organization.
2001
On 9/11 the USA was already bankrupted financially, economically,
morally, socially, environmentally, and internationally by the US White
House corrupted governance. Governance was seen as the USA new world order.
Those at the helm were the big corporate rulers, the White House, war industry,
and Christian right. Same people as those running NATO organization, and
the G8 nations. By not having a Constitution the EU falls under this category,
and so do NAFTA and FTAA organizations. History now shows it was the economic
and military invasion of the Middle East and Afghanistan that prompted
freedom fighters to bring their message to the USA on 9/11. The world is
ruled by a few elites whose only goal is the acquisition of wealth for
themselves, these elites monopolized the means of production, the global
economy, financial institutions such as banks, the IMF and the World Bank,
and they also monopolized culture and education through the media industry
which they own. People of the developing countries and middle class people
of the developed countries now live in extreme poverty and are not guaranteed
even the basic right of subsistence and freedom, let alone the right to
enjoy modern science, technology, culture and education.
Truly, the US financial crisis had an early beginning
in 1945 when a few elites from the White House, war industry, the military
and Christian right decided to build the most powerful military organization
in the world at the expense of American taxpayers, mostly from the middle
class, and at the expense of the global environment and all life on Earth.
Greed and wants of the rich elite had no limits, and that has caused and
created a huge deficit and national debt to Americans. On September 15,
2008, the world witnessed the beginning of the collapse of Wall Street,
but Americans were already bankrupted on that day. The astronomically high
military expenditures caused America to be bankrupted. The love-relationship
Americans have with their military was not to be blamed for the collapse,
and so Wall Street and financial institutions took all the blame. Even
Main Street was accused of wrong doing. But not the military!?!! Directly
or indirectly, over half the population of the US works for the military,
and that explains a lot of things. This American cowboy style mentality
and economic warfare has spread all over the world. People see working
for the military as a salvation. Poverty, large wealth gap between rich
and poor, between the industrialized nations and the developing nations
have been at the origin of conflicts and wars, and now the financial crisis
showed the world in a flash corruption of the US White House which created
this situation.
Now in 2009, the worst that could have happened is happening.
The bad guys from Wall Street and banks got a bail out. The military has
been exonerated from all charges. Many public and private institutions
are now under the protection of the US Adminstration with taxpayers moneys. Change?! President Obama said that word so many
times during the Primaries and the US election. He said he will restraint
powerful lobbyist groups from influencing the White House decisions. That
was just political small talk. He does not have a say on that matter.
The
facts are that during the very first months of the Primaries Obama already
bent down to the two strongest lobbyist groups of the USA:
1) the military,
So much for peace and diplomacy, and protecting life on our
planet ! The only thing that could save Americans from being just a ' wasteland
nation ' with no moral values is the creation of a Peace Department in
your government, and have the courage to make it the strongest one.
2) pro-Israel AIPAC.
Let us have a closer look at the social-economic crisis.
Truly,
our world is not governed by democratically elected governments. It is
ruled by global financial institutions in the service of financial speculators
who exchange trillions of dollars daily in search of instance unearned
profits to increase the wealth, and the power, of the richest people on
the planet. They bring down governments that displease them, and buy and
sell the largest corporations like commodities. By design and law the defining
priority and obligation of these governing institutions is to generate
financial profits to make rich people richer, in short to increase inequality
in a world in desperate need of greater equity.
We need to grow strong caring communities in which we
get more of our human satisfaction from caring relationships and less from
material goods. We will need to end war as a means of settling international
disputes and dismantle our military establishment. We need to reclaim the
ideal of being a democratic middle-class people without extremes of wealth
and poverty.
Is the Earth owned by
Big corporate rulers?
Wall Street?
G8 nations?
the military and NATO?
Christian right?
or
by the Global Community, all life on Earth?
Conclusion
The Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should
be able to live in peace. This Global Peace Mouvement is about the 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.
The responsibility of a peacemaker is to settle differences through compromise and negotiation before they erupt into violence. Conflicting
views do not have to bring about fighting. War is an irreversible solution to a problem. War is never an appropriate solution to resolve a conflict.
The people of the Global Community is using the Global Dialogue to resolve conflicts, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism,
disease, and global rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community is offering other good organizations around
the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace.
Peace in the world and the survival and protection of all life on our planet go hand-in-hand. In this paper asking for peace in the world means doing whatever is necessary
to protect all life on our planet. Protecting all life implies bringing about the event of peace in the world.
We live in a world where all natural and human resources
are exploited mercilessly, so that a small minority can consume far more
than their rightful share of the world's real wealth. Now, as we push the exploitation of the Earth social and
environmental systems beyond their limits of tolerance, we face the reality
that the industrial era faces a burnout, because it is exhausting the human
and natural resource base on which our very lives depend.
A sound governance of the Earth is needed for the long term survival of our species. This is 'la raison d'etre' of the Global Community. The Global Community has proposed the creation of global
ministries to manage Earth and humanity's global problems. The higher purpose of humanity is to serve God by propagating Life throughout the universe.
So dont we have an obligation to do whatever we can to protect life on Earth?
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.
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 destroying and polluting,
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, 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 goal for peace in the world can only be reached by resolving these important global problems. These problems have brought up a planetary state of emergency.
In view of the planetary state of emergency declared by the Global Community, we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better
survival chance and bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
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 the Global Community concepts and the Scale of Global
Rights.
Our first objective was 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. Specific statements on environmental conservation are also important.
This process was assumed to work well within the context of the Global Dialogue and after defining the Global Community criteria of symbiotical relationships.
In the context of the global civilization of the 3rd Millennium, we have defined that
any symbiotical relationship is for the good of all, for the good of the 'other'. It is based on a genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour.
Symbiotical relationships are needed today for the long term future of humanity and for the protection of life on Earth.
A new symbiotical relationship between religion and the protection of the global life-support systems has begun to take place all over the world.
Religious rituals now support the conservation efforts and play a central role in governing sustainable use of the natural environment.
The fundamental criteria of any symbiotical relationship 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 and a more stable and inclusive global
economy.
The Global Community promotes the values and principles to achieve the fundamental criteria and that requires the promoting and establishment of: global community ethics, mutual respect, respect for life, basic liberties,
justice and equity, caring for the 'other', integrity, responsibility and accountability, and be compassionate.
All religions around the world are required to re-examine
their scriptures, precepts, practices, ethical and moral values in light
of ecological concerns. The Global Community is facing a social, economic and 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. It is about creating peace in the world by accepting responsibility to all 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.
The Global Community has found that consumption of the
Earth resources and the amount of wastes we create can be managed very
differently, more efficiently, and be less destructive to the global environment.
Our ways of doing business and trade can be improved upon to decrease waste
and consumption of Earth resources.
Labour rights are abused in efforts to earn more profits.
This leads to abhorrent working conditions, job insecurity and low living
standards (all global rights). The WTO and NAFTA are such organizations
promoting free trade at the expense of labour rights and the environment.
Consumers in developed countries have been socialized to want more and
more things to consume but have not been socialized to appreciate the impact
of their consumption choices on the global rights of other people; that
is, they are not being responsible for their decisions.
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.
The Global Movement to Help is an initiative of the Global Community and of the Federation of Global Governments, now applying more emphasis on the urgent need from
the people of all nations to give everyone essential services.
The urgent need to give all Global Citizens essential services was made obvious in the past few years after the occurrence of natural disasters, and by
global destruction and disasters created by governments and the military.
The Global Community has already declared a planetary state of emergency to that effect.
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member
nations.
We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to the people of that region.
Be compassionate. Essential services to the people of each member nation are now the most important global rights on the Scale of Global Rights and are protected by the
Global Protection Agency (GPA) of each member nation.
The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to
the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in the Global Constitution and is thus a fundamental guide to Global Law.
The work of the 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 Law includes legislation covering all essential 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 a long term solution
to the planetary state of emergency
we offer the 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.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources 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 in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
The Global Community is promoting the settling of disputes between nations and the creation of a new nation
through the process of the Earth Court of Justice. Justice for all is what we want. Justice is a universal value for anyone, anywhere, and in any situations.
The Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace.
The Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
By its way of not dealing with global governance, the United Nations (UN) organization has perpetuated the archaic concept of land ownership, a concept that is threatening security in the world and all
life on Earth. The UN never had a human criteria for the creation of a new nation. Only the can evaluate the creation
of a new nation and dealing with conflicts.
All nations have to be educated of the new way for the good of all.
Global Community is promoting that the creation of a new nation does not have to be at the expenses of human lives and destruction of an entire world. It can and should
always be done through a decision made by a higher Court.
The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all the "global communities" along with the Global Community where they are found.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources 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 in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
The Global Community concept of ownership states
that land and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and
belong equally to everyone, to all life on Earth, 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.
Along with ownership comes the obligation of using the
resources, share them or lose them. Land and all other Earth natural resources
are not commodities. Use the land, share it or lose it. This principle
also applies to banks and similar institutions all over the world and to
Wall Street. You own property because the previous owners could not pay.
Use that property, share it or lose it.
It should also be our goal to create locally owned enterprises
that sustainably harvest and process local resources to produce jobs, goods
and services. Ideally our economy should be local; rooting power in the
people and communities who realize their well being depends on the health
and vitality of their local ecosystem. We should favor local firms and
workers, who pay local taxes, live by local rules, respect and nurture
the local ecosystems, compete fairly in local markets, and contribute to
community life. Labour should not be taxed but pollution should. The exploitation
and use of natural resources should also be taxed.
Truly the global crisis is the planetary state of emergency.
Living at the crossroads of this global crisis, we must
hasten its passage, while assisting in the birth of a new civilization,
the global civilization, based on life affirming rather than money affirming
values. All over the world people are indeed waking up to the truth. We
should strive and take steps to reclaim and rebuild our local economy.
Be sustainable locally first, and globally next only if needed. Let go
the WTO, NAFTA or any free trade agreement.
Let us have a look at the nationalization of natural
resources and global taxation on the use of those resources.
In order to better protect life on our planet, the Global
Community is asking people of all nations to defend and protect their natural
resources. In particular, all the hydrocarbons within a national territory
must be nationalized. It is an obligation, not only of a national government,
but also of all the active forces in a country; it is the duty of local
and municipal authorities, the duty of state authorities – of everyone
– to take upon themselves this defence and this recuperation of natural
resources.
A workable type of Tobin tax should be in place as
it is a powerful instrument to promote sustainable development and force
shareholders in moving away from producing oil. A Tobin tax is a tax on
all trade of currency across borders to put a penalty on short-term speculation
in currencies. The tax rate should be 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars.
The proposal is important due to its potential to prevent global financial
crises such as we are seeing now. Also, an estimated $500 billion per year
makes it possible to meet urgent global priorities, such as preventing
global warming, disease, and poverty.
The tax should be managed by the
Global Community and the Federation of Global Governments. In the globalized
economy, there is a lack of adequate funding for global problems such as
disease, poverty and hunger. Global climate change, deforestation, population
growth and unemployment, declining fisheries and pollution threaten local
communities worldwide. Projects which could help to address these needs
and create jobs will cost more than $500 billion annually. Private donors
do not meet the need, and some nations cut their aid budgets. New multilateral
approaches to public finance, such as Tobin Taxes, may provide part of
the answer.
The war industry is the "mother of all evils" of our world. It must be shelved. War products and equipment and weapons of mass destruction from all nations must be decommissioned. Join the Global Community Peace Movement.
Today the war industry is exploiting the issue of terrorism for profit.
Everyone knows terrorism cannot be fought by conventional warfare but that would not deter the industry from saying it is the best way to get rid of terrorists.
War is the greatest violation of human and Earth rights that one people can inflict on another and to all life on Earth. 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. 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.
The people of the Global Community are dedicated in using all its resources to resolve
conflict, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism, disease, and human rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community
is offering other good organizations around the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace.
War is not sustainable to all life on the planet. It never was. The military option, war, is against global sustainability and global peace in a big way.
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. Emissions from factories and vehicles have
caused ozone depletion, acid rain, and dangerous greenhouse gases
have forced the global warming of the planet and the climate to change dangerously, the worst threat to humanity and all life. 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. The Global Community helps wealthy and poorer nations reach a better understanding of each other's needs.
All aspects are interrelated: global peace, global sustainability, human and Earth rights and the environment. The poor is more concerned with ending starvation, finding a proper shelter and employment, and helping their 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 developing the
Scale of Human and Earth Rights.
It allows humanity to see life on Earth in its right place and shows us how to protect it. The Scale gives a mean to arrest a new type of criminals because destroying the
global life-support systems is a criminal act and must be punished severily.
War is the greatest violation of human and Earth rights that one people can inflict on another.
We need to grow strong caring communities in which we
get more of our human satisfaction from caring relationships and less from
material goods. We will need to end war as a means of settling international
disputes and dismantle our military establishment. We need to reclaim the
ideal of being a democratic middle-class people without extremes of wealth
and poverty.
And we need to realize what is a priority, what is the most
important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need to
make hard choices. We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And
we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can
no longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity
and all life can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the
global environment, and certainly the military is a major one of them.
And there are other activities we must do, thousands of them, to assure
the survival of life on Earth. In view of the planetary state of emergency, we all must change, we must do things
differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance,
and thus bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
MultiPeace Plus
helps create a world without wars
by
Germain Dufour
Spiritual Leader of the Global Community
President
Earth Government
Federation of Global Governments
February 8, 2009
copyright
Global Community
Acknowledgment
This paper is the accumulated work of the Global Community since 1985. Thank you for participating in the Global Community Peace Movement
and a special thank to:
Dr. Charles Mercieca
Leslaw Michnowski
Guy Crequie
Dr. J.G. Vargas-Hernández
White House
DR. MICHAEL ELLIS
Mme Gabrielle SIMOND
Dr. Leo Semashko
The Soul of Humanity
Allison, Dana, Farida, Gael, Jodie, Katie, Medea, Nancy, Rae,Tiffany, Samantha, Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Willie Nelson & many more..
Dr. Leo Rebello
Summary
Introduction
1. People of all religions are asked to participate to bring about the event of Peace amongst us all
2. Global symbiotical relationships
3. Global Movement to Help and serve the people of all nations
4. Global Rights and Justice
5. Global Citizenship
6. Global Law
7. Global Governance
8. Global Protection Agency (GPA) and global security
9. Planetary State of Emergency
10. Conflicts and wars are against global sustainability in a big way
11. Abolish poverty
12. Global Economic Model
Conclusion
Summary
The Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should
be able to live in peace. This Global Peace Mouvement is about the 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.
The responsibility of a peacemaker is to settle differences through compromise and negotiation before they erupt into violence. Conflicting
views do not have to bring about fighting. War is an irreversible solution to a problem. War is never an appropriate solution to resolve a conflict.
The people of the Global Community is using the Global Dialogue to resolve conflicts, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism,
disease, and global rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community is offering other good organizations around
the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace.
Peace in the world and the survival and protection of all life on our planet go hand-in-hand. In this paper asking for peace in the world means doing whatever is necessary
to protect all life on our planet. Protecting all life implies bringing about the event of peace in the world.
We live in a world where all natural and human resources
are exploited mercilessly, so that a small minority can consume far more
than their rightful share of the world's real wealth. Now, as we push the exploitation of the Earth social and
environmental systems beyond their limits of tolerance, we face the reality
that the industrial era faces a burnout, because it is exhausting the human
and natural resource base on which our very lives depend.
A sound governance of the Earth is needed for the long term survival of our species. This is 'la raison d'etre' of the Global Community. The Global Community has proposed the creation of global
ministries to manage Earth and humanity's global problems. The higher purpose of humanity is to serve God by propagating Life throughout the universe.
So dont we have an obligation to do whatever we can to protect life on Earth?
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 destroying and polluting,
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, 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 goal for peace in the world can only be reached by resolving these important global problems. These problems have brought up a planetary state of emergency.
In view of the planetary state of emergency declared by the Global Community, we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better
survival chance and bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
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 the Global Community concepts and the Scale of Global
Rights.
Our first objective was 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. Specific statements on environmental conservation are also important.
This process was assumed to work well within the context of the Global Dialogue and after defining the Global Community criteria of symbiotical relationships.
In the context of the global civilization of the 3rd Millennium, we have defined that
any symbiotical relationship is for the good of all, for the good of the 'other'. It is based on a genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour.
Symbiotical relationships are needed today for the long term future of humanity and for the protection of life on Earth.
A new symbiotical relationship between religion and the protection of the global life-support systems has begun to take place all over the world.
Religious rituals now support the conservation efforts and play a central role in governing sustainable use of the natural environment.
The fundamental criteria of any symbiotical relationship 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 and a more stable and inclusive global
economy.
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.
The Global Movement to Help is an initiative of the Global Community and of the Federation of Global Governments, now applying more emphasis on the urgent need from
the people of all nations to give everyone essential services.
The urgent need to give all Global Citizens essential services was made obvious in the past few years after the occurrence of natural disasters, and by
global destruction and disasters created by governments and the military.
The Global Community has already declared a planetary state of emergency to that effect.
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member
nations.
We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to the people of that region.
Be compassionate. Essential services to the people of each member nation are now the most important global rights on the Scale of Global Rights and are protected by the
Global Protection Agency (GPA) of each member nation.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources 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 in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
The Global Community is promoting the settling of disputes between nations and the creation of a new nation
through the process of the Earth Court of Justice. Justice for all is what we want. Justice is a universal value for anyone, anywhere, and in any situations.
The Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace.
The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all the "global communities" along with the Global Community where they are found.
The Global Community concept of ownership states
that land and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and
belong equally to everyone, to all life on Earth, 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.
Along with ownership comes the obligation of using the
resources, share them or lose them. Land and all other Earth natural resources
are not commodities. Use the land, share it or lose it. This principle
also applies to banks and similar institutions all over the world and to
Wall Street. You own property because the previous owners could not pay.
Use that property, share it or lose it.
Truly the global crisis is the planetary state of emergency.
A workable type of Tobin tax should be in place as
it is a powerful instrument to promote sustainable development and force
shareholders in moving away from producing oil. A Tobin tax is a tax on
all trade of currency across borders to put a penalty on short-term speculation
in currencies. The tax rate should be 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars.
The proposal is important due to its potential to prevent global financial
crises such as we are seeing now. Also, an estimated $500 billion per year
makes it possible to meet urgent global priorities, such as preventing
global warming, disease, and poverty.
Introduction
The peoples of all Nations, in creating an ever closer
Global Community among themselves, a Global Civilization, are resolved to share
a peaceful future based on common values. Conscious of its spiritual and
moral heritage, the 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 global law. It places the individual
at the heart of its activities, by establishing the Global Community citizenship,
and by creating an era of freedom, security, global justice and social
harmony.
The 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, all life on Earth, and the environment
before profits.
The responsibility of a peacemaker is to settle differences through compromise and negotiation before they erupt into violence. Conflicting
views do not have to bring about fighting. War is an irreversible solution to a problem. War is never an appropriate solution to resolve a conflict.
The 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.
Peace in the world and the survival and protection of all life on our planet go hand-in-hand. In this paper asking for peace in the world means doing whatever is necessary
to protect all life on our planet. Protecting all life implies binging about the event of peace in the world.
In view of the planetary state of emergency declared by the Global Community, we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better
survival chance and bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
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 the Global Community concepts and the Scale of Global
Rights.
The Global Community has given back responsibility to every citizen on Earth. Everyone shares responsibility for the
present and future well-being of life within the Global Community. We will work together in working out sound solutions to local and global problems.
It would be wrong and dishonest to blame it all on the leader of a country. Most problems in the world must find solutions at the local and global
community levels (and not assume that the leader alone is responsible and will handle it). There is a wisdom in the ways of very humble people
that needs to be utilized. Every humble person deserves to have ideas respected, and encouraged to develop his or her own life for the better.
Sound solutions to help manage and sustain Earth will very likely be found this way. Everyone can help assess the needs of the planet and
propose sound solutions for its proper management, present and future. Everyone can think of better ideas to sustain all life on Earth and
realize these ideas by conducting positive and constructive actions. 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; that is the grassroots process. The Global Community can help
people realized their actions by coordinating efforts efficiently together.
The Global Community allows people to take control of their own lives. The 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. The Global Community has a vision of the
people working together building a new civilization including a healthy and rewarding future for the next generations, and living at peace and harmony. Global cooperation
brings people together for a common future for the good of all.
An important objective of the Global Community is to create a peaceful and just society.
We believe that the peaceful development of the Global Community cannot be done unless social harmony is being created
amongst community members.
Hatred and conflict are often rooted in differences between people of different races and religions. We all need to respect people of different races as well as
people of different faiths and religions. We need to unite by recognizing our common desire and need for a harmonious society— a society in which we and our children
and families and friends and communities can all live our lives in peace and harmony. Regardless of our race or religion, we all want and need such social harmony.
Without respect for people of different races or ethnicities or religions, how can we have a peaceful and harmonious society or world? And without a harmonious society,
how can there be the necessary economic development and atmosphere conducive to spiritual happiness and self-realization?
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 Global Community promotes peace and social harmony by:
1. People of all religions are asked to participate in bringing about the event of peace amongst us all
Our first objective will be 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. Specific statements on environmental conservation are also important.
All religions around the world are required to re-examine
their scriptures, precepts, practices, ethical and moral values in light
of ecological concerns. The Global Community is facing a social, economic and 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. It is about creating peace in the world by accepting responsibility to all 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. Paul McKenna, a writer in interfaith dialogue, has found analogues for the golden rule in 13
faiths. These 13 analogue statements are passages found in the scriptures or writings that promote this ethos. Every faith is
unanimous of saying that every individual should be treated with the same respect and dignity we all seek for ourselves. As a
first step in bringing together religious leaders all around the world, the Global Community is presenting here 13 statements that
unify us all in one Golden Rule.
Golden Rule principle and societal sustainability
Native Spirituality
We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.
Chief Dan George
Sikhism
I am a stranger to no one; and no one is a stranger to me. Indeed, I am a friend to all.
Guru Granth Sahib, pg. 1299
Christianity
In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
Jesus, Matthews 7:12
BaHa'I Faith
Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.
Baha'ullah, Gleanings
Judaism
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; all the rest is commentary.
Hillel, Talmud, Shabbat 31a
Buddhism
Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
Udana-Varga 5.18
Islam
Not one of you truly believes until you wish for others what you wish for yourself.
The Prophet Muhammad, Hadith
Taoism
Regard your neighbour's gain as your own gain, and your neighbour's loss as your own loss.
T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien, 213-218
Hinduism
This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.
Mahabharata 5:1517
Confucianism
One word which sums up the basis of all good conduct...loving kindness. Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.
Confucius, Analeets, 15.23
Jainism
One should treat all creatures in the world as one would like to be treated.
Mahavira,Sutrakritanga
Unitarianism
We affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
Unitarian principle
Zoroastrianism
Do not do unto others whatever is injurious to yourself.
Shayast-na-Shayast, 13.29
A new symbiotical relationship between religion and the protection of the global life-support systems has begun to take place all over the world.
Religious rituals now support the conservation efforts and play a central role in governing sustainable use of the natural environment.
Major faiths are issuing declarations, advocating for new national policies, and creating educational activities in support of a sustainable global
community. The Global Community is establishing a symbiotical relationship between spirituality and science, between our heart and mind,
and God, between religion and the environment.
The human family is finding its role in the universe, a higher purpose and a meaning. We now can celebrate life.
A sustainable world can be built with the help of a very powerful entity: the human spirit. Community participation generates the energy needed
to sustain the planet and all life. Religious and environmental communities have formed a powerful alliance for sustainability.
Implemented through the Global Community with built-in mechanisms for optimum input and
oversight guaranteed to all member-states, the Global Community offers a practicable starting point for achieving:
(a) a healthful, sustainable environment for every global citizen,
(b) universal health care, publicly supported,
(c) education for all based upon individual capability,
(d) creative/productive employment for every global citizen, and
(e) post-retirement security.
This effort will lead over time to an
escalation of human values and symbiotical relationships transcending money centered economics.
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 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 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.
From life's viewpoint, the ultimate goal of a Soul is truly to create a symbiotical relationship between God and life in all its forms. God loves it when life becomes conscious of God.
And life has achieved its greatest purpose by being conscious of God.
The teaching of 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 becomes 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 6 billion people on Earth) working together
to keep our planet healthy. We are the keepers of the Earth.
On May 26 of each year, let us all celebrate life in our
heart, mind and Spirit.
Let us thank God for the gift of life.
The expression ' Global Community ' is defined as that being:
"all that exits or occurs at any location at any time between the Ozone layer above and the core of the planet below."
This is the fundamental definition of the expression "Global Community" 
first defined in 1985.
This definition includes all people, all life on Earth.
The definition of the 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.
We will not explain here why we need to have a security and biodiversity zone over the entire planet because most people know why it is necessary and must be done.
Why it must be done is because the fundamental definition of the "Global Community" includes all people, all life on Earth.
The Global Community is this great, wide, wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities of all life-forms.
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 land ownership of the Earth means ownership of the land and of all other Earth natural resources.
The Global Community is defined around a given territory,
that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population,
which is the Global Community. The 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.
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 the Global Community, it has ownership of all natural resources within its boundaries.
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.
This thinking should give us a fresh start for a better future and bring some light to understanding previous claims of the many different
groups such as:
None of the above groups can claim ownership of the land and other Earth natural resources. They never did own the land and of all other Earth natural resources. And they never will.
Only the Global Community can rightfully claim ownership of the Earth.
And October 29 is a special day to claim that right.
Let us celebrate on that day!
There is an ongoing daily Global Dialogue 
between the people of the world.
There is always a need for helping humanity back onto the path of survival this millennium.
The Global Dialogue is the source of new ideas and finding new ways for our survival and taking along with us other lifeforms on the planet.
The people of the Global Community is using the Global Dialogue to resolve conflicts, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism,
disease, and global rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community is offering other good organizations around
the world to work together to bring warring parties to 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 destroying and polluting,
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, 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 goal for peace in the world can only be reached by resolving these important global problems.
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 the Global Community. The 21st Century will see limitless links and interrelationships within the Global Community. That is the 'raison d'etre'
of the Federation of Global Governments. 
The power of Global Community was de-centralized to give each Global Government (GG) a better chance to find the right solutions to global issues. It can act faster and be more effective and efficient in
the context of the Global Community,
this great, wide, wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities within each Nation. The Global Community becomes thus more fluid and dynamic. A global
symbiotical relationship is created
between Nations and Global Community 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. This is
the basic concept that is allowing us to group willing Member Nations from different parts of the world.
The Global Community have showed us that the governance of Earth through global cooperation and
symbiotical relationships was the only possible option for a large population such as the Earth's population, and so, to help
achieve this goal we have developed the Global Constitution
and the
Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act
to govern ourselves as member nations of the Federation of Global Governments.
2. Global symbiotical relationships
We need to let go the archaic ways of seeing a community as
the street where we live and contained by a border. It is best for humanity and the increasing world population to see ourselves as people living together or
far apart but in constant communication with each other. A community has no boundaries except of those of the heart, mind and Soul. Many conflicts and
wars will be avoided by seeing ourselves as people with a heart, a mind and a Soul, and as part of a community with the same.
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 of any symbiotical relationship 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 and a more stable and inclusive global
economy.
The Global Community has begun to establish the existence of the age of symbiotical relationships and global cooperation. An
economically base symbiotical relationship exists between nations of the European Union. Other types (geographical, economical, social, business-like, political,
religious, and personal) may be created all over the world between communities, nations, and between people themselves. 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.
In the context of the global civilization of the 3rd Millennium, we have defined that
any symbiotical relationship is for the good of all, for the good of the 'other'. It is based on a genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour.
The question is how can we improve the political symbiotical relationship to fulfill the fundamental criteria? The Global Community promotes the values
and principles to achieve the fundamental criteria and that requires the promoting and establishment of: global community ethics, mutual respect, respect for life, basic liberties,
justice and equity, caring for the 'other', integrity, responsibility and accountability, and be compassionate.
Symbiotical relationships are needed today for the long term future of humanity and for the protection of life on Earth.
A global symbiotical relationship between nations is more than just a partnership, or an economical agreement such as the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The WTO is about a trade partnership between nations. Of course it is a bad idea to be a member of the
WTO. There are no advantages! The fundamental criteria is not being fulfilled. It just does not work for anyone
except when you have an army to knock down any member who does not do your
five wishes and plus. A membership in the WTO is not needed and nations
should instead seek relationships with fewer other nations only if needed.
Certainly it is better to seek an economic relationship with another nation
we can trust than with a hundred nations we have no control on and everyone
of those nations has a say in the governing of our nation, its environment
and social structure. The WTO only offers illusions to profit the few wealthiest
people on Earth. They say "become an industrialized nation as we are".
But that is the biggest illusion of all. To become an industrialized nation
is far from being the best solution. The best way and solution for any
nation is to follow the Scale
of Global Rights. Right on top of the scale are
the ecological rights, the global life-support systems, and the primordial
human rights of this generation and of the next generations. Economic and
social rights come next and are not the most important. That makes a lot
of sense!
The effect of IMF and World Bank policies in the world caused
the destruction of the economies of the developing nations. They impoverished the people by taking away basic
services and devaluating their currency. They opened up the national economy
to be ravaged by competition with richer nations. Poverty lead to other
problems causing the ecological destruction of a developing nation.
The Global Community is inviting you to participate in the formation of global symbiotical relationships between people, institutions, cities, provinces,
communities, nations, and businesses. We are also
proposing the formation of a political symbiotical relationship between state and global civil society. A similar relationship already
exists between the people of the Global Community, also known as the human family, the global civil society.
Global ministries are a very specific and useful type of symbiotical relationships on Earth. There are urgently needed. The Global Community has been
promoting the formation of global ministries for the proper governance of Earth.
Global ministries are world wide organizations just like the WTO for trade and therefore should have the same power to rule on cases as that of the World trade
Organization. The importance difference between a global ministry and the WTO is that a global ministry follows the fundamental criteria.
Beside global warming, the human activity that affects Earth most is that of food production. We need to form a global ministry dealing only about agriculture and the
protection of our soils. All nations will be part of the ministry. We have to design systems of food production that meet our own needs, and also leave room for these
other lifeforms we want to take along with us. Western agriculture is designed in the end to maximize profit. As a primordial human right, the prime concern of the human
species is to feed people. Therefore we have to do things differently. We will have to produce less livestock as we effectively double the population we need to feed:
ourselves, plus the livestock that is supposed to be feeding us. We also have to apportion the land surface of the whole world more efficiently, using some for highhly
intensive food production (which makes use of less land), some for extensive agriculture (combining food production with wildlife conservation) and designing some
specifically as wilderness areas with global corridors between them.
On the other hand, a global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations can
have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed by the nations involved.
An other example is the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO is mostly lead by powerful lobbying groups subsidized by the pharmaceutical industry. The organization is
money-driven as opposed to be following the fundamental criteria.
A new symbiotical relationship between religion and the protection of the global life-support systems has begun to take place all over the world.
Religious rituals now support the conservation efforts and play a central role in governing sustainable use of the natural environment.
Major faiths are issuing declarations, advocating for new national policies, and creating educational activities in support of a sustainable global
community. The Global Community is establishing a symbiotical relationship between spirituality and science, between our heart and mind, and God, between religion and the environment.
Another very important symbiotical relationship is the relationship of businesses and trade.
We are facing crises of freshwater, food, deforestation,
and ocean health. We need leadership in the protection of all our natural
resources. All of our natural resources are in peril because of what we
do and what that does to our planet. We are facing a fresh water crisis.
We are facing a food crisis. We are facing a crisis over deforestation.
And we are facing crises in our oceans. While carbon emissions from fossil
fuels pollute the air, so does a lot of other stuff. Now is the time to
press for leadership in the protection of all our natural resources.
"Who owns the Earth?"
and think about how to integrate our answer into our
global social-economic system.
3. Global Movement to Help and serve the people of all nations
The Global Movement to Help is an initiative of the Global Community.
It is very important that the Movement be promoted by all Global Citizens. From now on we serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth.
Each Global Government (GG) is made more responsible and accountable to the people of member nations within the region where it operates.
Essential services to the people of each member nation are now the most important global rights on the Scale of Global Rights and are protected by the
Global Protection Agency (GPA) of each member nation.
This Movement is described here. First the meaning of the Global Community expression was defined back in 1985. All Global Citizens are a part of
this Global Community and have accepted the Criteria of the Global Citizenship.
We are all volunteer soldiers
of the Global Community Peace Movement.
Art work by Germain Dufour
Global Community Global Movement to Help offers Essential Services to serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth.
As a first step to getting help, all nations can and should approve the first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights.
The approval would supersede the political and physical borders of participating member nations. The approval would mean politics and justice without borders only
concerning those three sections, i.e essential services.
The Global Protection Agency would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help, bypassing normal government protocols.
Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the global level. That is what those first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights
mean. They represent an efficient and immediate emergency response to help.
First, participating member nations need to give their approval to the GPA.
The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health,
or the European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics.
The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help.
The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to
the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in the Global Constitution and is thus the fundamental guide to Global Law.
Now the Scale of Global Rights is a long term solution and is also a part of the Global Movement to Help of the Global Community.
The Scale was designed to help all life on Earth. What would be preferable is that nations unite amongst themselves to help.
Over time, we have seen the creation of the United Nations, the European
Union, the South American Community of Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Except for the UN, these organizations are mainly concerned with trade and economics.
The Global Community offers a more meaningful union in the form of nine or more Global Governments. For instance the South American Community of Nations can be
a Global Government by simply accepting the Global Constitution as a way of dealing between member nations. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade,
but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other essential aspects.
The Federation of Global Governments is the place of meeting between Global Governments.
Art work by Germain Dufour
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Portal of the Global Community
Artwork by Germain Dufour
August 10, 2008
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. The Global
Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale.
We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to the people of that region.
And we want a Global Government to be made of wealthy nations as well as nations in need of help. Be compassionate. Each Global Government is obliged to
offer Essential Services to the people of its member nations.
The Federation of Global Governments is now applying more emphasis on the urgent need from the people of all nations to give everyone essential services.
The urgent need to give all Global Citizens essential services was made obvious in the past few years after the occurrence of natural disasters, and by
global destruction and disasters created by governments and the military.
The Global Community has already declared a planetary state of emergency to that effect.
Today, earquakes, cyclones and other natural disasters, as well as human made global destruction and disasters, require a rapid and efficient response from the world to help those in needs. We need to be organized and ready to help.
We need all nations to be a part of this Global Movement to Help.
In the chaos after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake in China, which made 5 million homeless, many survivors were separated from their families.
Burma was hit by a cyclone at the beginning of the month of May, leaving over two million persons in need of emergency relief.
Thousands of children and parents have been separated. Nowadays, natural and human made disasters have become more frequent and require a rapid response to help.
The Global Community offers both a short term solution and a long term solution to the people of all nations.
Both solutions have been integrated into the Scale of Global Rights ,
itself a necessary first step which must be approved by all of us.
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Artwork by Germain Dufour
Global Movement to Help main listing:
What we offer to the people of all nations is to guarantee rights of Sections 1, 2, and 3 on the Scale of Global Rights.
Artwork by Germain Dufour
We serve all people of the Global Community, the people of all nations, all life on Earth, much like an emergency unit would do on a global level.
Concerning Sections 1, 2, and 3, it shall be the Global Community highest priority to guarantee these rights to their respective Member Nations and to have proper legislation and
implement and enforce global law as it applies and as shown in the Global Constitution.
Section 1. Global [ Ecological, environmental, protection of life-support systems ] rights
Section 2. Primordial human rights
Section 3. The Global [ Ecological, environmental, protection of life-support systems ] rights, and the primordial human rights of future generations
Those are our essential services.
Artwork by Germain Dufour
The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health,
or the European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics.
The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help.
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Global Protection
Artwork by Germain Dufour
June 26, 2008
The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to
the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in the Global Constitution and is thus a fundamental guide to Global Law.
The work of the 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 essential 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 a long term solution
to the planetary state of emergency
we offer the 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.
The Global Community Global Justice Movement along with the Global Community Peace Movement
have been and continue to be the two major pillars of the Global Movement to Help.
The Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace.
The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications
infrastructure which can bring this about.
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Global Movement to Help essential services
Artwork by Germain Dufour
June 25, 2008
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an
elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
The Global Community has shown that corporate-style globalization that ignores the needs of the poor and the environment will no longer be tolerated. The Global Community
is joining students, environmentalists, people of faith, human rights activists, and others, in the global struggle against corporate
globalization being fought in cities and towns across the world.
We works on issues of global economic and social justice and sustainability. We believe another world is possible and necessary. We envision a world free of corporate
domination and crushing debt, particularly in communities of color. We act to expose and change the institutionalized violence wrought by international financial and
trade institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.
Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize.
(Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and so-called economic austerity programs).
Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that
include forced relocation of people.
We are committed to nonviolence and recognizes militarism as a tool used by the global corporate elite to keep money flowing to the privileged few while restricting the
rights of people worldwide. We oppose corporate practice which places short-term profits ahead of human dignity, sustainable development and a healthy earth. 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. We are opposed to the globalization of greed and obscene concentrations of wealth -- we say that
another world is possible and necessary.
The 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.
The Global Community movements for Global Peace, Global Justice, and the Global Movement to Help, are committed to making all Global Dialogues and Global Exhibitions safe spaces that are open, accessible, and accepting of all.
We welcome everyone to participate in making this happen. If you have any special needs, please let us know.
4. Global Rights and Justice
Global Rights year oneis about to establish global fundamentals and a clear vision to follow, and it is new impetus of the Global
Community to educate everyone about the need for a change in thinking and of doing things amongst all
nations. We need to realize what is a priority, what is the most important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need a clear vision. We need a common
vision. And we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity and all life
can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the global environment. And there are other activities we must do, certainly thousands of them, to assure the survival of life on Earth.
In view of the planetary state of emergency we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance.
Perhaps the Scale of Global Rights represents the strongest pillar of our vision.
In 1985, the Scale of Global Rights was first proposed as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After several decades of research and development,
many global dialogues, we still find the Scale as the best solution to global problems.
Today, we are presenting once more the Scale as the best educating tool to bring about the change the people of the world need to achieve for their own survival.
To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and
reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale of Global Rights and
the Global Constitution are the best guidance for continuing this
process. The Scale shows social values in order of importance and so will
help us understand the rights of a community. What are the universal needs
of a person, family, and that of a global community?
Global rights represent
an ideal and a supreme goal which can give meaning to life in society.
We also accept global rights as part of our universal values
from which we base our decisions. Global Rights are closely
intertwined with democracy. Respect for Global Rights and fundamental freedoms is one of
the characteristics of a democracy. The typical fundamental freedoms of
a democracy (freedom of expression, thought, assembly, and association)
are themselves part of human rights. These freedoms can exist everywhere. Democracy
is a political system based on the participation of the people. It foresees
the separation of powers among the judiciary, the legislative and the executive
authorities, as well as free and regular elections.
The Scale of Global Rights is very clear: the basic human rights are part of the most important rights on the Scale, they are primordial human rights.
Primordial human rights are those human rights that individuals
have by virtue of their very existence as human beings. Primordial human
rights are necessarily human needs but not all human needs are primordial
human rights. Nevertheless there are very specific primordial human needs.
First there are the material needs, the requisites for a dignified life:
For instance, the existing and future uses of water are constantly challenged;
balancing supply and demand is made even harder by the amounts of pollution
found in the air, land and waters. A large part of our body is made of
water, and we cannot live without water; therefore water is a primordial
human right by our very nature. In order to avoid conflicts and wars
over drinking (fresh)water, fresh water has been categorized as a primordial
human right. Industrial pollution plays a major role in the deterioration
of nature but this time the level of pollution is above the carrying capacity
of a healthy ecosystem. Pollution also affects significantly human health and
all lifeforms on Earth. Every person needs Oxygen to live so clean air
is certainly also a primordial human right by our very nature.
The Global Community asks how meaningful
is the right to life or to participation in political life if poverty,
gender inequality, destitution and epidemics prevent individuals from enjoying
freedom of movement, freedom to vote, to marry and so on? The Global
Community found evident that economic and social rights
are the essential prerequisite for the effectiveness and exercise of all
other rights (other than ecological and primordial human rights now and in the future) recognized for human beings.
The developing countries are having a harder
time than others to achieve the exercise of these rights on a lasting basis,
with the problems of economic globalization presenting new challenges.
We must therefore beware of enforcing economic rights alone to the detriment
of individual civil rights and the rights of all individuals to decide
their own fate and the future of their country, their political rights.
The universality of human rights recognizes the right of all individuals
to participate in the cultural life of their community and of other country,
to receive education and training, and to be informed.
The Global
Community is aware that traditional customs and standards
could burden the sustainability of all life on Earth. They could burden
Earth society or any society forever, and holds individuals in a straitjacket.
We cannot accept that. No one can! There are choices to be made and you
must make them. Cultures can develop and can go on developing. Even religious
beliefs may evolve. We are living now, and we are able to
create these changes. We are at least as bright, most certainly brighter,
than the people who were living thousand of years ago.
As far as
the Global Community is concerned, cultural and religious
differences cannot be a reason or an excuse or a pretext for not respecting
human rights including and most importantly the ecological rights. Quite
the contrary, all kinds of cultures may promote human rights and especially
cultural rights. They are different in their achievements, but they are
equal in dignity where they are expressions of freedom. At any time
or in any given place, men, women and children use their culture to invent
new ways of making human rights a living reality. Diversity enriches us
if it respects the dignity of each individual, and if it takes account
of human rights as a whole.
Over the past several decades humanity has better itself through the acceptance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by most nations.
But now is time
to leave it behind and reach to our next step, that is a scale of social
values, the Scale of Global Rights.
Global rights represent
an ideal and a supreme goal which can give meaning to life in society.
Throughout the history of humanity, the rights of human beings have been
defined and enshrined with reference to the values of the dignity
of each individual and of freedom, equality and justice. Human dignity resides in each of us, and this dignity
must be recognized and respected by all. These values
are universal. The Global Community has accepted and enshrined them into its own ways of behaving and dealing with all peoples.
Cultures and societies differ so much that their expression takes varying
forms, but diversity does not affect the foundation of inalienable values
constituted by Global Rights. Each individual is recognized as a representative
of humankind.
The Global Community recognizes
that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Freedom
is both a principle and a value. Individuals have the freedom of decision
and action to the extent that their actions do not interfere with the rights
of others. It is because human beings are free that they are subject of
law and are creators and holders of rights. What good would be freedom if global rights are out-of-control? Freedom and global rights are
therefore basic to each other.
Fundamental freedoms are far from
being enjoyed by all but it is our common future, it is part of our Vision
statement for year 2024. Human freedom is a value to be attained. Equality
is a value, an ideal for people who live a hard day-to-day life of economic
inequalities such as unemployment, and social inequalities caused by the
privileges enjoyed by some people and the exploitation of others, and inequality
of educational and health opportunities. Freedom and equality are both
indispensable. They are therefore accepted and enshrined
as universal values by which the Global Community governs its affairs. As universal values they are concerned with
our ability to decide, to choose values and to participate in the making
of laws, and they are dependent on the recognition of other people. These
values forbid any form of discrimination on the grounds of race, nationality,
sex, religion, age or mother tongue. By accepting both values of freedom
and equality we can achieve justice. One can be answerable for one's
actions in a 'just' way only if judgements are given in the framework of
democratically established laws and courts.
Social justice is another
universal value to which the Global Community aspires and accepts
as a universal value. Social justice consists in sharing wealth with a
view to greater equality and the equal recognition of each individual's
merits. All persons within a given society deserve equal access to goods
and services that fulfill basic human needs.
The Global Justice Movement for all life on the planet
has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace.
The Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications
infrastructure which can bring this about.
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an
elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
The Global Community deals with both social justice
and global justice together.
The Global Justice Movement stands for:
1. Each person has the right to have clean air, clean water, food and housing, along with access to a quality health and educational system.
2. Every person should be respected, equal, free and able to choose their own destiny.
3. Everyone should be able to fulfill their full emotional, intellectual and spiritual potential.
4. Every person must take responsibility for preserving the environment including the fauna and flora, all of which are interdependent.
5. The inalienable rights of the individual include the rights of life, liberty, access to productive property, truly free markets, and equal justice before the law.
6. Global Economic System that is fair for all.
7. It is the duty of democratic government to secure the results the people want from the transparent management of their public affairs, as far as such results do not
infringe on the rights of the individual.
8. The Global Peace Movement is about educating ourselves to engage in personal diplomacy in another country. We are given
opportunities to meet and listen to some of the leading authorities on such subjects as humanitarian
and volunteerism, education, politics, historical, social and cultural perspectives, conflict management, teamwork, world affairs, community involvement, and religion.
9. Global Justice for all Life on the planet and it is about:
* establishing respect for global rights;
* implementing a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics, corporate social
responsibility, protection of human and Earth rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working
conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects;
* establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights;
* 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.
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 is a universal value for anyone, anywhere, and in any situations.
By its way of not dealing with global governance, the United Nations (UN) organization has perpetuated the archaic concept of land ownership, a concept that is threatening security in the world and all
life on Earth. The UN never had a human criteria for the creation of a new nation. Only the Earth Court of Justice can evaluate the creation
of a new nation and dealing with conflicts.
All nations have to be educated of the new way for the good of all.
Global Community is promoting that the creation of a new nation does not have to be at the expenses of human lives and destruction of an entire world. It can and should
always be done through a decision made by a higher Court. We are promoting the immediate use of this higher Court, the Earth Court of Justice to hear cases and to prosecute those nations, corporations, communities, individuals who commit crimes
such as:
* nation states
* national political and military leaders accountable for violations of international humanitarian law
* 'core' crimes of genocide
* crimes against humanity and global rights
* war crimes
* crimes with significant impacts perpetuated against the life-support systems of the planet (for instance wars and use of weapons of widespread destruction are listed under this category)
* crimes related to the relentless misused of the Earth resources
* environmental crimes
* social crimes as the Court may see apply
* crimes stemming from the global ministries
The Court will also be asked to decide on
* the formation of a new nation in the world,
* on disputed lands between nations,
* the de-institutionalization of market speculation, and
* the annulment of the debt of developing nations as the loans are actually a form of global tax given by the rich nations to the developing ones.
The IMF and World Bank loans are called taxes from the rich nations paid to the developing nations; these loans/taxes are really a method of raising global
taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free
technical assistance to non-industrial and developing countries.
These loans/taxes are not to be paid back to the rich nations.
The Court decides in accordance with:
* the Scale of Global Rights,
Global Community criteria for sovereignty:
* the Global Constitution
* Global Law
* the Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act
* the belief, values, principles and aspirations of Global Community,
* international treaties and conventions in force,
* international custom,
* the general principles of law, and
* as subsidiary means, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists.
Without this criteria no one can claim ownership - sovereignty - of any geographical area on the planet.
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 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 the 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 the Global Community) that representatives to the 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 the Global Community.
The Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact that land, the air, water, oil, minerals, and all other natural resources
rightly belong to the Global Community along with the local communities where those resources are found. The Earth is the birthright of all life.
The Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community is truly the best response to the world.
Truly, the world is on the threshold of a global revolution, and needs to
proceed with the non-violent approach. The Global Community needs 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 impacts of today's 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.
Territorial conflict has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others.
Throughout the ages wars have 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 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.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources 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 in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
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 the Global Community. Once in effect, the Earth Court of Justice will become the principal judicial organ of the 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 Federation of Global Governments. 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.
We are all members of the 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 the 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.
The Global Community found evident that
the ecological base is the essential prerequisite for the effectiveness
and exercise of all rights recognized for human beings. The stewardship
of the ecological base has to be given priority before the fulfilment of
various economic and social wishes. Demands resulting from the socio-economic
system of a particular country have to find their limits in the protection
of the global ecosystem. Vital interests of future generations have to
be considered as having priority before less vital interests of the present
generation. Supply chains have to be designed in a way, that the goods
can enter after usage or consumption into natural or industrial recycling
processes. If serious damages to persons, animals, plants and the ecosystem
cannot be excluded, an action or pattern of behaviour should be refrained
from. A measure for supplying goods or services should choose a path which
entails the least possible impact on the ecological and social system concerned.
This way functioning proven systems will not be disturbed, and unnecessary
risks will not be taken. Supply strategies consuming less resources should
have preference before those enhancing more resource consumption. 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.
Policies for securing global rights are:
1. It is better to tax "bads" rather than "goods". Governments have long used selective taxation to discourage use of alcohol and cigarettes,
while unprocessed food and children¹s clothing remain tax-free. It is best to continue this tradition with selective "eco-sin taxes" to
discourage a wide range of grey products and lifestyles. At the same time, taxes would be eliminated on green products and lifestyles. People
should be able to avoid taxation by choosing green products and lifestyles.
2. Taxes should be designed to conserve resources and energy. Rather than taxing jobs and profits,
taxes should be moved to resource use and energy consumption to reward conservation. The community should benefit from the use of commonly
held resources. Using resources is a privilege, not a right, and the user should pay for the privilege. Resources must also be shared with future generations and other species.
3. Taxes should be designed to increase employment. Moving taxes onto resources and land use and off of incomes will make people less
expensive to employ. Products produced by green production methods, which tends to use fewer resources and less energy will avoid
taxation. As energy costs rise, the price of labour becomes more economical, and green products which tend to encourage value-added
processes, will provide more high quality, skilled jobs than resource intensive products.
4. Distributive taxes are preferable to re-distributive taxes. If wealth is distributed more fairly
in the first place less re-distribution will be necessary. Eliminating consumption taxes will eliminate the only tax the poor must pay. By moving
taxes on to resource use and land, the poor, who generally own less land and use fewer resources, will avoid taxation, thus requiring
less redistribution. Taxing land but not the use of land, will reduce taxation on higher density housing, lowering housing costs for low-income
citizens, thus reducing another need for re-distribution.
5. Resource taxes should be assessed as early as possible. Resources should be taxed before entering
the manufacturing process in order to green all aspects of the manufacturing process from extraction to the finished product.
Increasing taxes on resource and energy use will encourage resource and energy efficiency, innovation, reuse, repair, recycling, and used material recovery.
6. Taxing unearned income is preferable to taxing earned income. The tax shift to resource use and
community-generated land values will distribute income more fairly without dependence on income and business taxation to redistribute
income. Taxing unearned income (resources, land) and not earned income (jobs, profits) will reduce the rich-poor gap since the rich
are always in a better position to capture unearned or windfall income by their ability to hold assets that they do not have to consume.
7. Green tax shifting is revenue-neutral, not a tax break or tax grab. The taxes paid by businesses and individuals
collectively will not change, but greener businesses and consumers will reduce their taxes. Grey businesses and consumers will pay higher taxes. Studies have
shown that 50% of businesses and consumers will be unaffected or only slightly affected by tax shifting, roughly one quarter will realize tax reductions one quarter will be taxed more.
8. Resource use and community-generated land value taxation are fairer. Resource use and land taxes are much simpler
to collect and harder to evade than taxes on income and business profits. Since there are far fewer points of taxation than with traditional tax sources, a move
to resource use and land taxation will reduce the size of the underground economy. The difficulty of evading these taxes will reduce the problem of overseas tax havens.
9. Green taxation increases international competitiveness. Eliminating taxes on domestic labour will reduce labour costs in Ontario and
therefore reduce out-sourcing by businesses seeking cheap labour in other countries or provinces.
10. Pay for what you take, not for what you make. Businesses should not be taxed for hiring people or for
earning a profit, but should be charged for using resources and polluting the planet. People should not be taxed for
earning an income or purchasing products but should be charged for the value of land they own and the resources used in the products they
buy. Resource use and polluting are privileges not rights, and businesses and consumers should pay for these privileges.
11. Taxing community-generated land values is beneficial. Since the community around it, not its owner, creates
the value of land, the community should receive the benefits it has created. The owner is entitled to a fair profit
but not to a windfall profit that rightfully belongs to the community that generated the wealth in the first place. Under LVT the specific use
of the land will not be taxed, only the land itself, within the existing zoning. Community-generated land value taxation encourages the efficient
use of land, reduces sprawl, reduces speculation, tends to reduce land prices and improves land use patterns.
12. Taxes should encourage local, sustainable, value-added production over imports. Culturally unique products
and services will be valued by green tax reform over mass production. The sale price should include the true costs of products, services and distances
traveled, and should be designed to encourage local, sustainable production.
13. Taxes should break up monopolies. The most important monopolies are resource monopolies and land monopolies.
When a person or a business has control or exclusive rights over large amounts of a resource or large amounts of land, this person or business reaps windfall
profits, which is unjust. These resources and this land belong to the community and if individuals are granted access to it they should pay a fair
price for this privilege or right. Land Value Taxation aims to ensure that the wealth created by usage of land and resources that rightfully belong
to the community accrue back to that community.
14. Taxes should be applied only once. Rather than taxing the same wealth repeatedly through personal income,
business income, sales, re-sale, interest, capital gains, property transfer, inheritance, taxation should only impact the
use of a resource and the ownership of land on a sustained basis (ie property tax on site value).
15. MINIMIZING INCOME TAXES
a) Moving taxes off of incomes and onto resource
use and community-generated land value is critical in order to achieve
and maintain a green economy
and society.
b) Traditionally governments tax the component
of production in least supply. In the first half of the 20th century labour
was scarce and resources and
land were plentiful and indeed considered
infinite, so it made sense for government to tax incomes and not resource
use or land. Now, however,
resources and land are scarce and labour is
plentiful, so governments should modernize the tax structure by switching
the source of taxation away
from incomes and onto resources use and land.
c) Income taxes are a regressive tax since they
tax a "good" not a "bad". Since jobs are desirable we should not tax employment.
Income taxes are a
disincentive to employment since they make
people expensive to employ. Employers often avoid taxation by employing
fewer people and opting
instead for energy-intensive, chemical-intensive
and resource-intensive production. Conversely, taxing resource and land
lightly sends the message
that these community-held resources are unimportant
and may be squandered by anyone without consequences.
d) It is claimed that income taxes help reduce
economic inequity among people. This is untrue since employers simply pass
on the extra payroll
deduction to consumers. The amount of income
tax paid is irrelevant to labour negotiations, since bargaining is based
on net pay, not gross pay. In
determining an employee's worth, the employer
simply calculates the gross amount based on take-home pay. Salaries of
high worth employees and
CEOs are simply raised to the level necessary
to ensure net pay reaches the desired level.
e) In contrast the rich-poor gap will be narrowed
more effectively by moving taxes off of incomes and onto resource and land
use, since wealthier
people who choose to spend their money on
grey products and lifestyles will be taxed more while people with lower
incomes will be able to avoid
taxation by living green. In addition, replacing
income taxes with green taxes would help conserve resources, save energy,
foster value-added and
labour intensive production (ie. more jobs),
and reduce pollution.
16. MINIMIZING BUSINESS TAXES
a) Neither the right wing call for corporate tax
cuts nor the left-wing mantra of increased corporate taxes will engender
a transition to a just or green
society. Reducing or increasing taxes on corporate
profits is green-neutral (taxes which neither encourage nor discourage
greening the planet). If the
goal is for businesses to succeed and employ
people, it makes no sense to apply business taxes or payroll deductions.
b) Moving taxes off of profits and employment
and onto the resources, land and pollution will speed progress toward a
green industrial economy.
Recourse use and pollution are privileges
not rights, and businesses should pay for these privileges. While business
people would prefer not to pollute
the planet or squander resources, the present
tax structure gives them little choice. Businesses usually follow the path
of least tax resistance and will
readily go green if tax incentives pointed
the way.
c) Green production means more jobs, resource
conservation, and less pollution. Ecological fiscal reform and green tax
shifting are revenue neutral; the
collective tax burden paid by business is
unchanged, but it will reward businesses that go green and discourage businesses
that remain grey.
17. PHASE OUT CONSUMPTION TAXES
a) Sales taxes are unhelpful in moving to a green
society since socially useful and ecologically sound products are taxed
equally to socially or ecologically
detrimental products. To reduce consumption
of resources, taxes should be applied early in the manufacturing process
in order to green all aspects of
the manufacturing process. Taxing early will
dramatically reduce the ticket price of green products and raise the price
of grey products, positively
influencing consumer behaviour. Taxing early
will encourage resource and energy efficiency, innovation, reuse, repair,
recycling, and used material
recovery.
b) Sales taxes are regressive since they discourage
people from making both green and grey purchases, thus damaging the economy
and killing jobs. As
well sales taxes are often unfairly evaded
by the underground economy, while resource use, pollution and land rent
levies, by contrast, are simpler to
apply and more difficult to evade.
18. RESOURCE USE TAXATION
a) Income taxes, consumptions taxes, and taxes
on profits are all green-neutral, ie. green jobs, green purchases and green
profits are taxed at the same
rate as grey jobs, grey purchases and grey
profits. By contrast, resources taxes levied early in the production process
foster conservation,
efficiencies, innovation, value-added production,
and labour-intensive production. Local sustainable production, short run
niche production, and
skilled trades and crafts receive a bias since
the full costs of transportation and mass production are internalized.
b) Taxing resources minimizes waste and pollution
thus reducing the load on government for health care costs, waste disposal
costs, transportation
infrastructure, and pollution cleanup costs.
The market will drive resource and energy conservation without government
micro-management.
c) Resource taxation would focus on a small number
of key local resources and a small number of imported resources
5. Global Citizenship
Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship
1. Acceptance of the Statement of rights and responsibilities of a person, 'a global community' and 'the Global Community'. 
of a global community. The concept was
first researched and developed by the Global
Community.
.
and the Global
Constitution were researched and developed by
the 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.
4. Acceptance of the Global Constitution.
The Global Constitution 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.The 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 Global Community" of the Global Constitution
are closely interrelated. Together they provide a conception of a world 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.
6. Acceptance of the Earth Court of Justice as the highest Court on Earth.
The 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.
6. Global Law
The work of the 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 the 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.
Global Law can affect several aspects of our lives:
a) The Portal of the Global Civilization is being researched and developed by members of the Executive Council of Global Ministers
and by the Global Community through the Global Dialogue process 
b) Global Law includes: Global Rights, Statutes, Codes, Standards, Bills and Other Legislative Information. This WWW site is maintained by the Legislative Counsel of Global Parliament, pursuant to Earth Government Global Law, its legislation. Earth Government Global Law consists of 69 codes, covering various subject areas, the Global Constitution, Bills and Statutes. Information presented reflects laws currently in effect. All Earth
Government Codes have been updated to include Statutes of year 2005. Researched and developed by the Global Community
c) Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act. Researched and developed by the Global Community
d) Global Constitution. We call upon the national governments and legislatures of the world to ratify the Global Constitution for Earth Government and elect delegates to the House of the Global Governments Federation. Researched and developed by the Global Community
e) Agency of Global Police (AGP).
Building global communities requires a mean to enforce global law that protects all life on Earth. Researched and developed by the Global Community
f) Global Protection Agency (GPA).
Global Protection Agency will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO. This is a great opportunity for globallateralism. Researched and developed by the Global Community
g) Global Community Earth Government: Politics and Justice without borders.
Prosecuting criminals on the basis of universal jurisdiction regardless of a territorial or nationality nexus requires a solid commitment of
political will from national governments and the Global Community. The Earth Court of Justice
will hear cases involving crimes related to the global ministries. 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. Researched and developed by the Global Community
7. Global Governance
Global governance does not imply a lost of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. A nation government exists within the framework of an
effective Global Community protecting common global values and humanity heritage. Global governance gives a new meaning to the notions
of territoriality, and non-intervention in a state way of life, and it is about protecting the cultural heritage of a state. Diversity of cultural and
ethnic groups is an important aspect of global governance.
Global governance is a balance between the rights of states with rights of people, and the interests of nations with the interests of the Global
Community, the human family, the global civil society.
Global governance is about the rights of states to self-determination in the global context of the Global Community rather than the traditional
context of a world of separate states.
Several times in the past the Global Community has requested of the United Nations to restructure and reform its organization to be in touch with the problems humanity is facing in this millennium. They have never replied. Four of the five UN
Permanent Members, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia, are those countries that, not only control the UN, but they are the same countries that have brought disgrace to humanity by their selfish, immoral, unethical,
incoherent, inconsistent, dishonnest, erratic, and mostly aimed at making money behavior in the Middle East and towards Afghanistan. They have given to trade a bad name. Because of them free trade has become a danger to the
extinction of life on Earth. They even got China, the fifth Permanent Member of the UN, to vote YES to invade Afghanistan (without that vote the UN could not have approved), in exchange of China got its membership into the
World Trade Organization (WTO).
Governance of the Earth will make the rule of arbitrary power--economic (WTO, FTAA, EU), political (UN), or military (U.S.A. and NATO)-- subjected to the rule of Global Law
within the global civil society, the human family. Justice is for everyone and is everywhere, a universal constant. Earth governance does not imply a lost of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. A nation government can
exists within the framework of
an effective Global Community protecting common global values and humanity heritage.
Although the Global Community ensures state governments that it will obey the principle of non-intervention in domestic affairs, it will
also stand for the rights and interests of the people within individual states in which the security of people is extensively endangered. A
global consensus to that effect will be agreed upon by all Member Nations.
Humanity is going through a phase of global consciousness.
We see entire nations making choices based on what is good for themselves,
today self-interests, versus what is good for the next generations and
all life on the planet. In other words, they make choices between global
politics versus international politics.
International politics are driven by national interests,
self-interests, while Global politics are about the survival of all of
us of the planet.
Global politics is about doing what is right for all of
us now and in the future, and for all life on the planet. We base our understandings
and actions on principles we all know are rights deep down. You cannot
have a nation invading another nation for its resources? its water? its
oil and gas? We have chaos without principles! We have conflicts and wars.
There are ways of doing things that will give everyone a good survival
chance. There are global equitable and sustainable solutions. War goes against global sustainability and global peace.
Global politics are meant to guide us on the right path.
They are meant to bring humanity on a safe ground. They are about the survival
of all of us of the planet.
This is what people who work hard, pay their taxes and
play by the rules want from their political leaders.
You don't expect politicians to be perfect. But you do
want to know that your tax dollars - money you've worked for - are being
spent properly and wisely. The 'Peoples' have been let down.
Most dont even have ethics. If they do they dont follow
them.
The problem is the system they have created. It has become
clear that this culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption cannot reform
itself.
An accountable global government, Earth Government, the Federation of Global Governments, is what humanity needs. The Global Community deserves nothing less.
Whatever happen in this 3rd Millennium, which we have called the Global Civilization of the 3rd Millennium, will depend of us and to what extent we
are willing to make a difference to manage Earth wisely. Will our actions be geared to survive a decade, a hundred years, a thousand years, or a
million years? If our actions were geared to survive a million years, the chances are that we would learn to master great things including harnessing the sun flare energy, interstellar travels, genetic engineering, and reajusting the planetary position of another planet in our system to initiate a new life on its surface.
Is it no worth to make sacrifices now?
A sound governance of the Earth is needed for the long term survival of our species. This is 'la raison d'etre' of the Global Community. The Global Community has proposed the creation of global
ministries to manage Earth and humanity's global problems. The higher purpose of humanity is to serve God by propagating Life throughout the universe.
So dont we have an obligation to do whatever we can to protect life on Earth?
Of the many global problems we are facing today, certainly the problem of overpopulation is a major one.
The solution to the world overpopulation is a policy that applies to every family to have only one or two children. It would take a thousand years to
reach our goal of a population of 500 million people on the planet. We would make all efforts to minimize infant mortality. We need to ensure that the women of the world who have shown an interest in the proposal of family planning
would have access to all the help needed to achieve their goal. Contraception for men is also desirable.
Today most major global problems stemmed from our overcrowded planet. Human activities of an overpopulation create major global problems.
Global warming is certainly an obvious example of such global problem caused by an overpopulation of the planet. Conflicts over freshwater usage are on the rise. It is only a matter of time
before a global war over water becomes a reality. We seem to rely on technology to resolve all these problems. But you cant. They are major
problems and each one of them take time to resolve. When all global problems are thrown at you at the same time there is no way humanity can
survive the 21st century. Even today too many nations have a nuclear arsenal that can easily destroyed and be the cause for the destruction of all life on Earth.
Doubling the world population would make the world situation a thousand fold worst than it is now.
More healthy civilizations could coexist together in peace if the global population was 500 million.
The factors that could reduce world's population are:
* promoting one or two child per family
* increase income
* improve literacy
* insure protection of new born children
* educate men and women to family planning and let them be equal partners in all aspects of life
* make men and women use of inexpensive contraceptives with easy access to them
* promote a more healthy and rewarding lifestyle with just one child per family
* expanding women's opportunities
* access to high-quality reproductive health services
Most major global problems would disappear with a world population of 500 million. Today the urban population is increasing at the rate of 60 million
a year requiring the resources necessary for the equivalent of an additional six megacities every year; there are already 19 megacities in the world.
It is imperative that action be taken to control the overpopulation and human activities so that planetary security is not endangered. The current
world's population is over 6 billion and is expected to grow more than 9 billion by 2050. Nearly 98% of this growth will be in the developing countries.
At that time, there will be more older people than children, and the number of people who will be 60 or older is expected to reach 2 billion,
putting stress on retirement and health care systems worldwide.
About half the world lives in cities on 2% of the land, consuming about 75% of the resources and producing roughly the same percentage of the pollution.
In one generation, 3 billion city dwellers will grow to 5 billion while, at the same time, natural resources to support this growth are
shrinking. Biodiversity feeds directly 40% of the economy of the developing countries, yet this natural resource is rapidly being destroyed.
About one out of every children under five years old in the developing countries is malnourished. Sufficient nutrition, shelter, water, and sanitation
will have to reach people in slums, or the world will see more migrations, disease and conflicts. Medical and social advances have allowed
to increase significantly life expectancy. Older people will be require to continue work few more years to help the younger generation.
Let us have a look at global governance today and see how we can manage differently.
Major factors have caused the global crisis which
triggered the planetary state of emergency declared by the Global Community.
An important factor is the disconnected with reality, unfair and corrupted
governance focusing only on finances, trade and consumption.
* every person on Earth
has a right to a secure existence, and all states have an obligation to
protect those rights
* military force is not a legitimate
political instrument
* weapons of mass destruction
are not legitimate instruments of national defence
* all nations should sign and
ratify the conventions to eliminate nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
* the production and trade in
arms should be listed as a criminal act against humanity;
* the development of military
capabilities is a potential threat to the security of people and all life
on Earth;
* anticipating and managing crises
before they escalate into armed conflicts and wars
* maintaining the integrity of
the environment and global life-support systems
* managing the environmental,
economic, social, political and military conditions that threatened the
security of people and the planet
8. Global Protection Agency (GPA) and global security
Building global communities requires a mean to enforce global law that protects all life on Earth.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) does train and lead a global police force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO.
This is a great opportunity for globallateralism.
The GPA is leading a group of people in the world who participate in:
a) peacekeeping and peacemaking mission;
b) creating global ministries for:
c) enforcing global law;
d) saving the Earth's genetic heritage and humanity's heritage;
e) keeping the world healthy and at peace;
f) protecting the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet;
g) dealing with the impacts of: global poverty, lack of drinking water and food, global warming and the global climate change, threat to security, conflicts and wars,
lack of good quality soil for agriculture, polluted air, water and land, overcrownded cities, more new and old diseases out of control, widespread drugs, global rights
abuses, world overpopulation, and lack of resources;
h) broadening the traditional focus of the security of states to include both the security of people as well as that of the
planet. Global security policies include:
* every person on Earth has a right to a secure existence, and all states have an obligation to protect those rights
* prevention of conflicts and wars; identification, anticipation, and resolving conflicts before they become armed confrontations. The Earth
Court of Justice will help here.
* military force is not a legitimate political instrument
* weapons of mass destruction are not legitimate instruments of national defence
* eliminate all weapons of mass destruction from all nations and have inspectors verifying progress to that effect
* all nations should sign and ratify the conventions to eliminate nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
* the production and trade in arms should be listed as a criminal act against humanity; this global ministry will introduce a
Convention on the curtailment of the arms trade, a provision for a mandatory Arms Register and the prohibition of the financing or
subsidy of arms exports by governments
* the development of military capabilities is a potential threat to the security of people and all life on Earth; the ministry
will make the demilitarization of global politics a high priority.
* anticipating and managing crises before they escalate into armed conflicts and wars
* maintaining the integrity of the environment and global life-support systems
* managing the environmental, economic, social, political and military conditions that threatened the security of people and all life on the planet
* over the past decades and even now today, all Five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council (mostly the United States,
Russia and Britain) were responsible for selling weapons and war equipment. These three nations are required to give back to the Global Community
an amount of 8 trillion dollars (American) as a payment for the immense damage they have caused in the world. They have created a culture
of violence throughout the world. They are nation bullies, nation predators. They are responsible for economic mismanagement, ethnic tensions,
crimes, drug abuse, high unemployment, urban stress, worldwide poverty, and pressures on natural resources. Most conflicts in the world
are direct legacies of cold war power politics, senseless politics. Other conflicts were caused by the end of the cold war and the collapse
of old regimes. Other factors have combined to increase tension: religious, economical, political, and ethnic aspects.
The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the Global Community.
Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people, institutions and values from an outside threat.
The Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Today the security of
people within the Global Community is just as important as the security of states. Citizens must be secure. The Global Community is just as important as the security
and life of citizens and states.
In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the military capabilities and forming alliances
with other nations were the only way to 'win'. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the planet. Ethnic
groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly
make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The
only job the military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the highest priority
on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is
no other right possible. Without Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs.
Wars are the biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of Global Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is not possible in cold place.
There are many related aspects of the global life-support systems:
* global warming
* Ozone layer
* wastes of all kind including nuclear and release of radiation
* climate change
* species of the fauna and flora becoming extinct
* losses of forest cover and of biological diversity
* the capacity for photosynthesis
* the water cycle
* food production systems
* genetic resources
* chemicals produced for human use and not found in nature and, eventually, reaching the environment with impacts on Earth's waters, soils,
air, and ecology
So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right now and that means phasing
out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in
all nations of the world, and not just in the Middle East region and North Korea.
There are many threats to security other than the threats to the global life-support systems and threat caused by weapons of mass destruction and the threats to
the sovereignty of a state, and they include:
* the proliferation of conventional small arms
* the terrorizing of civilian populations by domestic groups
* gross violations of global rights
They also have to be included as part of the GPA's mandate of global security against these crimes.
Global security can only be achieved if it can be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained
in the Global Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. All people and states
are protected by the Global Community.
The Global Protection Agency provides leadership for training people who would like to participate in peacekeeping and global security ...
so that we have a ready cadre of people who are trained and equipped and organised and have communications that they can work with each other.
The overall size of the force, or who would pay for it, have not been discussed, but the idea has been raised with countries in Europe and Asia.
To act as a global policing force, as the GPA aspires to do, many foundations must be laid, especially regarding the move from wielding power derived from
the Global Community to legitimate global leadership. There are many required characteristics that are prerequisite for legitimate leadership:
1. Legitimate leadership is built upon trust. Those who are led must largely believe that the leader is committed to integrity, honesty, and transparent inquiry into problems. The leader’s actions must align with his words
2. Legitimate leadership rests upon checks and balances, which are necessary to ensure power is not corrupted.
3. Legitimate leadership is an act of service. Those in power must show a primary interest in the good of the collective ahead of their self-interest. In this way, true leaders are mission-centered rather than self-centered.
4. Legitimate leadership empowers others appropriately rather than concentrating power disproportionately. In other words, true leaders produce more leaders and empower them as situations demand.
5. Legitimate leadership is visionary, carrying the torch of a possible future.
6. Legitimate leadership is willing to lead by example, including following a foundation of ethics, performing more than one’s share of work, and making sacrifices where appropriate.
7. Legitimate leadership is compassionately fierce when something undermines the good of the whole.
In a company this might mean the CEO fires a slacking employee. In a city, the police may jail a murderer. On a global level, this might even mean
arresting those breaking global law.
The defence function of a leader requires that he safeguard the good of the whole by whatever the most skillful means are to accomplish that defence.
While that is not a comprehensive catalog of leadership prerequisites, I do think those few requirements are foundational and relatively unquestionable.
Without at least a solid foundation of those requirements, the AGP’s actions among nation-states will remain those of a unilateralist leader rather than a global leader.
We will be, and should be, legitimated in the role of a global leader among nation-states and validated as police enforcer.
The Global Community offers a few recommendations for actions that would strengthen and legitimate the GPA's role as a true global leader by gradually creating an international structure
that better safeguards the whole than we can ever do now as a unilateralist leader.
The GPA recommendations:
1. Ban military action in all parts of the world;
2. Lead the way in creating legitimate power for the Global Community, the Federation of Global Governments, subjecting ourselves and multinational corporations to taxation that generates money for programs
that are focused on world betterment and world problems. As a mark of our global leadership, we should commit a greater percentage of our resources to this effort
than any other organization.
3. Hold ourselves to a high standard of compliance around global treaties that aim for collective benefit and the redress of economic, environmental, military,
and political problems.
4. Exert strong global leadership on multinational solutions to pressing health, environmental, and other problems. We should propose innovative new solutions and show leadership in carrying them out, especially in areas such as clean energy development.
5. Take seriously the process of coming clean by exposing corporate interests in politics, lobbying by powerful organizations,
subsidies of fringe military groups, etc. When our global government officials commit to be honest and transparent, a much deeper foundation of international trust
will be built.
The Earth Court of Justice has made clear that the new global law legislation has been enacted, the
Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act,
will be enforced by the GPA. Global Law is now the law of the land on the planet. No one is excuse! Everyone is included! Those breaking Global Law will be prosecuted.
For now, those committing crimes against humanity and all life on Earth will be arrested.
9. Planetary State of Emergency
In view of the planetary state of emergency we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance.
There are activities we must do, certainly thousands of them, to assure the survival of life on Earth.
Abolish the business of conflicts and wars.
Throughout the 20th Century, the war industry has created the worse evil humanity has ever encountered: the business of conflicts and wars . It is a business that has made trillions of dollars (American) and
will continue to do so, and it must be stopped. It is the "mother of all evils" created by human beings. It has no moral value, no understanding about Life, no respect for anyone or anything, no law except the rules that it makes for
itself, and all its products are meant to kill and destroy. It has sold its products to the enemies for the purpose of making more profit. It has subdued governments all over the world to make them buy its
products. It has given trade and way of doing business a bad reputation and, therefore, it is a threat to the establisment of business. Although the war industry has a good public image, it does not really
matter who is the buyer as long as the buyer pays good money. No accountability to the Global Community!
The business of conflicts and wars must be abolished for many important reasons.
What happens to a person's conscience when he/she wears the uniform of the soldier? It is enslaved to the state. He must kill when ordered. No government, whether democratic or despotic, can allow the soldier to decide what to do
according to his conscience. That would undermine discipline and the power to fight.
The 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. We are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants".
The best way to win the war against terrorism is to live a life with principles and showing by example. We need to educate the coming generations with good principles,
being compassionate and global sustainability being some of them.
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, the 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. The Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact
that land, the air, water, oil, minerals, and all other natural resources rightly belong to the Global Community along with the local communities where those resources are found. The Earth is the birthright of all
life. The Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community is truly the best response to the world.
Let us have a look at the nationalization of natural
resources and global taxation on the use of those resources.
The Global Community also proposes to develop a method
of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities,
of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and developing
countries to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social
standards.
The Global Community concept of ownership states
that land and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and
belong equally to everyone, to all life on Earth, 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.
10. Conflicts and wars are against global sustainability in a big way
The 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.
We are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants".
The axe of evil: the war industry, our consumer-driven society and money. Together they bring up the worst in every human being.
The evil is the war industry.
The Global Community has renounced participation in war unconditionally and will show mercy, forgive enemies, put up patiently with oppression, return only good for evil and love for hatred.
The Global Community takes no part in war, never, in any way.
This all means that violence is futile in the long run. To respond to violence with violence is only perpetuating a vicious cycle of violence.
There are several reasons for objecting to war: religious, moral and political. People have different degrees of refusal to go to war. Absolute pacifists, such as the Global Citizens, will not
cooperate with any preparation for war as decided by the war industry, let alone war itself. Others will accept some kinds of service so long as they are not forced to fight. And others
are willing to fight in "just wars." The idea of the "just war" began with St. Augustine. Late in the fourth century he argued that the good
Christian, barred from doing violence on his own behalf, could take arms in a war that was just. Several theologians now say that the standards for a just war are:
a) War must be the last resort and used only after other means have failed.
b) War must be declared to redress rights actually violated or for defence against unjust demands backed by the threat of force. It must not be fought simply to satisfy national pride or to further economic or territorial gain.
c) The war must be openly and legally declared by a legal government.
d) There must be a reasonable chance of winning.
e) The means used must be in proportion to the ends sought.
f) Soldiers must distinguish between armies and civilians and not killed civilians in purpose.
g) The winner must not required the utter humiliation of the loser.
The military option goes against global peace in a big way.
The UN has shown bad leadership! Failure to help humanity! An accomplice of the war industry. An accomplice of the oil and
gas industry to make it easy for the industry to make our planet unsustainable and destroy the global life-support systems.
All world leaders just pretending to resolve global warming and its effects on the global climate have broken Global Law and are dangerous criminals and
will be prosecuted.
The UN should have insisted in giving
hard sanctions to the US for invading Iraq.
The war industry is the "mother of all evils" of our world. It must be shelved. War products and equipment and weapons of mass destruction from all nations must be decommissioned. Join the Global Community Peace Movement. Today the war industry is exploiting the issue of terrorism for profit.
Everyone knows terrorism cannot be fought by conventional warfare but that would not deter the industry from saying it is the best way to get rid of terrorists.
War is the greatest violation of human and Earth rights that one people can inflict on another and to all life on Earth. 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. 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.
The people of the Global Community are dedicated in using all its resources to resolve
conflict, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism, disease, and human rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community
is offering other good organizations around the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace. We can accomplish this task by concrete actions such as:
a) Tracking armed conflicts within and between nations around the world and offering assistance in dispute resolution;
b) Promoting human rights and democracy;
c) Monitoring democratic elections;and
d) Educating the public about the advantages of a peaceful solution to any conflict.
War is not sustainable to all life on the planet. It never was. The military option, war, is against global sustainability and global peace in a big way.
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. Emissions from factories and vehicles have
caused ozone depletion, acid rain, and dangerous greenhouse gases
have forced the global warming of the planet and the climate to change dangerously, the worst threat to humanity and all life. 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. The Global Community helps wealthy and poorer nations reach a better understanding of each other's needs.
All aspects are interrelated: global peace, global sustainability, human and Earth rights and the environment. The poor is more concerned with ending starvation, finding a proper shelter and employment, and helping their 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 developing the
Scale of Human and Earth Rights.
It allows humanity to see life on Earth in its right place and shows us how to protect it. The Scale gives a mean to arrest a new type of criminals because destroying the
global life-support systems is a criminal act and must be punished severily.
War is the greatest violation of human and Earth 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. 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. He must kill when ordered. No government, whether democratic or despotic, can allow the
soldier to decide what to do according to his conscience. That would undermine discipline and the power to fight.
Territorial conflicts has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others.
Throughout the ages wars have been fought over land, and other Earth natural resources. Blood resources started when the first explorers came to America and started to shut
dead Natives. Explorers had to come back home with the prospect of future catches for their countries.
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 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 economic and military power.
Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries. Geopolitical boundaries between nations are gradually disappearing to make place to georesources boundaries. Democracy is an excuse to gain control over those resources by mega corporations.
'Blood oil and gas' is certainly a proof of this statement.
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, the 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.
The Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact that land, the air, water, oil, minerals, and all other natural resources
rightly belong to the Global Community along with the local communities where those resources are found. The Earth is the birthright of all life.
The Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community is truly the best response to the world.
It has become clear that the U.N. has promoted a culture of waste, mismanagement and corruption which cannot reform itself. The Global Community is here to replace the U.N.
How can the U.N.
even be promoting Global Sustainability when, at the same time, the Security Council of the U.N. is promoting the use of the military option, war, as a solution to problems many
communities are facing in the world. Every one knows 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. A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be more advantageous. 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. War and militarism destroy civil liberties within a nation.
We are holding the White House and the U.N. responsible for this change in the Government of Canada position from that of a peace-keeping mission in the world to that of a war-like stand.
What the U.N. did is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth. The U.N. have broken Global Law. The U.S.-controlled NATO has lost its purpose to continue as a defence alliance. However,
its aggressive expansion is endangering world peace and the survival of
life on the planet. Despite its irrelevant role, NATO has become part of
the U.S. military. Becoming a NATO member proves to be
a profit bonanza for U.S.-Israeli weapon industries and arm dealers. All
new recruits into NATO are obliged to increase their defence budgets
to modernise and enlarge their military arsenals at the expense of vital
public services. These defence budgets are truly destroying the economy of a nation, creating a large annual deficit as we have seen in the US, and exhausting the
planet's resources and destroying the environment. Nothing good can come out of the military build-up.
The Canadian Government has recently approved a 64 billion dollars budget deficit. Something never seen in Canadian history. They say it is for Canadians and the economy. What they dont say is that
most of that money has already been spent on the Canadian military and much more will be spent to buy American war products. As if the world, all life on the planet, needs more destruction.
Let us have a look at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ).
( see enlargement )
An amoral and decadent NATO
Artwork by Germain Dufour
September 11, 2008
therefore affirm the following recommendations:
1. That the US and its
coalition partners immediately cease all violations of the civil, political
and human rights of the people of Iraq;
2. That the military occupation
of Iraq be immediately ended;
3. That all parties guilty of
war crimes against the Iraqi people be brought to justice under Global
Law; the Earth Court of Justice will prosecute the offenders;
4. That reparations be paid by
all responsible parties to the people of Iraq for the damages caused by
both the war and the occupation; the amount to be paid should be no less
than 8 trillion US dollars coming from the governments involved, and not
from the resources of Iraq;
5. That we work to strengthen
the mobilization of the global antiwar movement;
6. That the occupation of Palestine,
Afghanistan and all other colonized areas is illegal and should be brought
to an end immediately;
The Global Community is very concerned about the state
of the world today and the causes that brought up so much frictions and
wars between nations. The world has seen the rise of an invading world
power, the USA, ever since WWII. The United Nations has never done anything
to stop the invasion. The United Nations (UN) leadership has been one of
a 'watcher', an observer. The UN watch the world go by, on the brink of
self-destruction and of being invaded, environmentally and militarily,
and you do nothing.
11. Abolish poverty
In developing countries, the most important environmental pressure is linked to poverty. Poor people put pressure on the land and forests, over-exploiting them to survive.
These countries must be helped. They must accept the implementation of the Scale of Global Rights into their way of
life. We must give them access to technologies that use fewer resources, energy efficient technologies, 'clean' technologies.
The debt of the developing nations to the rich nations was a form of global tax and therefore the developing nations dont have to
pay it back. In fact developing nations should expect way more money as tax by the rich nations and not as loans. The state of the world today is the result of a specific
set of interlocking institutions: the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. These institutions are designed to generate massive wealth for the few and poverty for the
rest. The same people who make the decisions in government and corporation make the profit. They create a tight concentration of power. Together they are a form of
anti-government whose only goal is profit. The IMF, through Structural Adjustment Programs, now directly runs the economies of over 70 countries. That means that about
1000 economists and bureaucrats control the economic policies for 1.4 billion people in these countries. That is a form of anti-government. The people that profit most
from the global economy are white people. The people who are most oppressed by the global economy are people of colour. Racism and sexism have become the norm.
The entire planet is in a state of low intensity civil war. The ruling elite profit off of the exploitation of the rest of the world. Earth Government was
looking for a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and
developing countries to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social standards, but there it was all along right on our eyes. The Earth Court of
Justice will be asked to decide on the debt be changed into an actual tax to be paid by the rich nations to the poor nations, and to decide on the amount of tax to be
paid. Developing nations will then be able to start rebuilding their communities as per the Scale of Global Rights. They
will not have to satisfy the economic needs and wishes of the rich nations. The Earth Court of Justice will also be asked to rule illegal the activities of the IMF, the World
Bank and the WTO unless they become a part of a greater whole such as the Global Community, the Federation of Global Governments. These
institutions will be controlled by the greater whole.
Because governments of developing nations had to promote 'free trade', this situation cause barriers to trade to be eliminated and now we are seeing the globalization of 'free
trade'. Developing nations are now asked to produce only the products they are good at producing and buy from other countries the products they are not as good at producing.
This way the economy of a nation will function at maximum efficiency. So now governments are told to open up their borders and to stop meddling in markets, so
that competition will be free internationally. Often what is called trade is really moving of resources across borders between subsidiaries of the same corporation. Nothing
to do with free competition. Economic activity is centrally-managed and planned by the corporate elite. Capital move freely across borders as restrictions on the flow of
money have been removed. Corporations can relocate their operations to the countries with the lowest wages, the least active unions and the lowest environmental
standards. The reality is that more polluting industries are encouraged to relocate to poorer countries. A polluting industry tends to increase the chances that people in
the surrounding area will have health problems. If pollution kills someone or makes them unable to work, the cost to the economy, or to the industry in the case of a
law-suit, would be roughly equal to the projected wages that the person would have earned in the rest of their life. In a country with low life expectancy and low wages, this
cost will be lessened. It costs less to dump a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country.
Today the watchdog, the 'enforcer' for 'free trade', and also the bedfellow of both the IMF and the World Bank, is the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO is
responsible for monitoring national trading policies, handling trade disputes, and enforcing the GATT agreements. The World Trade Organization (WTO), the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) encourage the privatization of public services and the settling of international
disputes their own way. Any government, acting on behalf of a corporation, can challenge the acts of another government if they "interfere with trade." Complaints are
taken to a WTO dispute resolution body which then make a binding decision. The WTO has forced governments to lower their environmental standards in favour of a
corporation to allow more pollution into the environment, and that is a form of anti-government gone bad with absolute no respect or care for life and the global-life support
systems. Corporations can sue governments if they harm their profits through any unfair barriers to trade. NAFTA and WTO tribunals usually rule in favor of corporations.
So now we really have a new definition for the word 'property' to mean both what is currently owned and profits that could potentially be made. To compensate, we
propose a new definition for 'pollution' and 'human destruction' to mean the pollution and human destruction that the policies of the IMF, World Bank and WTO are causing
now in the world plus the pollution and human destruction that they will cause in the future to the next generations. By providing corporations with a mean to override
governmental decisions, NAFTA and the WTO (and the proposed FTAA) shift power even more into the hands of the elite. And that is also a form of anti-government.
The global economy can be affected by the deregulation in the movement of capital and thus by speculation. Money is made off tiny fluctuations in the relative prices of
currencies. Speculation makes it possible for huge amounts of money to be transferred half-way around the world in a matter of seconds. Whereas world trade associated
with actual goods and services is estimated at $7 trillion a year, speculation is estimated at $1.5 trillion a day. If a country's economy starts to slow, billions of dollars can
be transferred out of the country instantaneously, which can significantly affect its economy and the people. This has been the case in 1997 of a number of East Asia
countries. They were bankrupted by speculation. The people were enormously affected for the worst. Speculation can exert tremendous pressure on the internal politics of
a country. It can bankrupt a country's economy. Speculation should be de-institutionalized. Humanity has no real need for speculation, and it does way more harm
than good.
12. Global Economic Model
A fair and equitable Global Economic Model (GEM) forms the basis for peace in the world.
Let us represent the ideal Global Economic Model by four major interacting circles, and call them quality systems: people, Earth resources, economic stability
and the global environment.
They represent interactions. These interactions occur between the systems and within each individual system.
The Global Community has developed mathematical local/global indicators
to assess and measure sustainable development within those four important realities in local/global life.
The Scale of Global Rights is used within the mathematical model to reflect the importance of each quality system in ensuring a sound future for Earth.
People need a healthy environment and resources for family, community, government, business and industry.
Businesses cannot thrive without people and resources.
Earth resources need to be managed wisely so they last longer and be of good use for all of us and the next generations. Let us not waste.
Let us protect all life.
Economic stability depends on people, resources, and good businesses and trade.
The Global Economic Model
was developed to bring stability. The Global Community will help businesses to be part of the
solution to the challenges of globalisation. In this way, the
private sector in partnership with civil society can help realize
a vision: allowing a global equitable and peaceful development
and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
And all of the above cannot exist without a healthy Environment.
The four interacting circles are a simplistic expression of our need for one another, our
interactions, our symbiotical relationships, and the thoughtless damage we can cause if not careful. We are worlds within worlds orbiting in and through each other’s space.
These interactions can be planned and executed in a caring, considerate manner so that all may exist and not destroy the other.
The four interacting circles also give us an indication of how difficult it may be to apply Global Justice for all life on the planet, and how
difficult it is to include the needs of the next generations in our ways of doing things. It has been necessary to
conduct a two decades long Global Dialogue, and longer even, to find a process for the establishment of justice amongst us all. We are now seeing all aspects
of life through a single focusing lens we have called Scale of Global Rights, a guiding tool for the application of Global Law.
And that is the framework of Global Justice for all life on the planet as researched and developed by the Global Community.
But of course we have a different situation happening today: the global crisis.
They are the major factors that have
caused the global crisis which in turn triggered the planetary state of
emergency declared by the Global Community organization.
Let us have a closer look at the global crisis and how it actually happened.
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The Global Crisis
Artwork by Germain Dufour
October 20, 2008
Global revolution started in 1985. The Global Community
was created by the people, for the all life on Earth. Global concepts were
researched and developed, Earth activities were organized, global law and
regulations were developed to protect humanity, ecosystems and global life-support
systems. In April 2008, a planetary state of emergency was declared by
the Global Community Peace Movement to make the world aware of the global
crisis. Shortly afterward the Global Movement to Help was organized to
serve and help people from all nations, all life on Earth. A long-term
solution was also proposed in the form of the Federation of Global Governments.
In 1990, the United Nations help developed and promoted
the global concept of sustainable development. Today this concept is obviously
loosing out as all nations struggle for resources. The United States was
first in shotting down the concept by its invasion of nations to acquire
Earth resources. The Global Community concept is a better replacement for
the concept of sustainable development. And the Federation of Global Governments
is certainly a better fit to replace the United Nations organization.
2001
On 9/11 the USA was already bankrupted financially, economically,
morally, socially, environmentally, and internationally by the US White
House corrupted governance. Governance was seen as the USA new world order.
Those at the helm were the big corporate rulers, the White House, war industry,
and Christian right. Same people as those running NATO organization, and
the G8 nations. By not having a Constitution the EU falls under this category,
and so do NAFTA and FTAA organizations. History now shows it was the economic
and military invasion of the Middle East and Afghanistan that prompted
freedom fighters to bring their message to the USA on 9/11. The world is
ruled by a few elites whose only goal is the acquisition of wealth for
themselves, these elites monopolized the means of production, the global
economy, financial institutions such as banks, the IMF and the World Bank,
and they also monopolized culture and education through the media industry
which they own. People of the developing countries and middle class people
of the developed countries now live in extreme poverty and are not guaranteed
even the basic right of subsistence and freedom, let alone the right to
enjoy modern science, technology, culture and education.
Truly, the US financial crisis had an early beginning
in 1945 when a few elites from the White House, war industry, the military
and Christian right decided to build the most powerful military organization
in the world at the expense of American taxpayers, mostly from the middle
class, and at the expense of the global environment and all life on Earth.
Greed and wants of the rich elite had no limits, and that has caused and
created a huge deficit and national debt to Americans. On September 15,
2008, the world witnessed the beginning of the collapse of Wall Street,
but Americans were already bankrupted on that day. The astronomically high
military expenditures caused America to be bankrupted. The love-relationship
Americans have with their military was not to be blamed for the collapse,
and so Wall Street and financial institutions took all the blame. Even
Main Street was accused of wrong doing. But not the military!?!! Directly
or indirectly, over half the population of the US works for the military,
and that explains a lot of things. This American cowboy style mentality
and economic warfare has spread all over the world. People see working
for the military as a salvation. Poverty, large wealth gap between rich
and poor, between the industrialized nations and the developing nations
have been at the origin of conflicts and wars, and now the financial crisis
showed the world in a flash corruption of the US White House which created
this situation.
Now in 2009, the worst that could have happened is happening.
The bad guys from Wall Street and banks got a bail out. The military has
been exonerated from all charges. Many public and private institutions
are now under the protection of the US Adminstration with taxpayers moneys.
1) the military,
So much for peace and diplomacy, and protecting life on our
planet ! The only thing that could save Americans from being just a ' wasteland
nation ' with no moral values is the creation of a Peace Department in
your government, and have the courage to make it the strongest one.
2) pro-Israel AIPAC.
Let us have a closer look at the social-economic crisis.
Truly,
our world is not governed by democratically elected governments. It is
ruled by global financial institutions in the service of financial speculators
who exchange trillions of dollars daily in search of instance unearned
profits to increase the wealth, and the power, of the richest people on
the planet. They bring down governments that displease them, and buy and
sell the largest corporations like commodities. By design and law the defining
priority and obligation of these governing institutions is to generate
financial profits to make rich people richer, in short to increase inequality
in a world in desperate need of greater equity.
Is the Earth owned by
Big corporate rulers?
Wall Street?
G8 nations?
the military and NATO?
Christian right?
or
by the Global Community, all life on Earth?
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Who owns the Earth ?
Artwork by Germain Dufour
October 19, 2008
Conclusion
The Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should
be able to live in peace. This Global Peace Mouvement is about the 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.
The responsibility of a peacemaker is to settle differences through compromise and negotiation before they erupt into violence. Conflicting
views do not have to bring about fighting. War is an irreversible solution to a problem. War is never an appropriate solution to resolve a conflict.
The people of the Global Community is using the Global Dialogue to resolve conflicts, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism,
disease, and global rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community is offering other good organizations around
the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace.
Peace in the world and the survival and protection of all life on our planet go hand-in-hand. In this paper asking for peace in the world means doing whatever is necessary
to protect all life on our planet. Protecting all life implies bringing about the event of peace in the world.
We live in a world where all natural and human resources
are exploited mercilessly, so that a small minority can consume far more
than their rightful share of the world's real wealth. Now, as we push the exploitation of the Earth social and
environmental systems beyond their limits of tolerance, we face the reality
that the industrial era faces a burnout, because it is exhausting the human
and natural resource base on which our very lives depend.
A sound governance of the Earth is needed for the long term survival of our species. This is 'la raison d'etre' of the Global Community. The Global Community has proposed the creation of global
ministries to manage Earth and humanity's global problems. The higher purpose of humanity is to serve God by propagating Life throughout the universe.
So dont we have an obligation to do whatever we can to protect life on Earth?
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.
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 destroying and polluting,
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, 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 goal for peace in the world can only be reached by resolving these important global problems. These problems have brought up a planetary state of emergency.
In view of the planetary state of emergency declared by the Global Community, we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better
survival chance and bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
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 the Global Community concepts and the Scale of Global
Rights.
Our first objective was 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. Specific statements on environmental conservation are also important.
This process was assumed to work well within the context of the Global Dialogue and after defining the Global Community criteria of symbiotical relationships.
In the context of the global civilization of the 3rd Millennium, we have defined that
any symbiotical relationship is for the good of all, for the good of the 'other'. It is based on a genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour.
Symbiotical relationships are needed today for the long term future of humanity and for the protection of life on Earth.
A new symbiotical relationship between religion and the protection of the global life-support systems has begun to take place all over the world.
Religious rituals now support the conservation efforts and play a central role in governing sustainable use of the natural environment.
The fundamental criteria of any symbiotical relationship 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 and a more stable and inclusive global
economy.
The Global Community promotes the values and principles to achieve the fundamental criteria and that requires the promoting and establishment of: global community ethics, mutual respect, respect for life, basic liberties,
justice and equity, caring for the 'other', integrity, responsibility and accountability, and be compassionate.
All religions around the world are required to re-examine
their scriptures, precepts, practices, ethical and moral values in light
of ecological concerns. The Global Community is facing a social, economic and 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. It is about creating peace in the world by accepting responsibility to all 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.
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 Global Community has found that consumption of the
Earth resources and the amount of wastes we create can be managed very
differently, more efficiently, and be less destructive to the global environment.
Our ways of doing business and trade can be improved upon to decrease waste
and consumption of Earth resources.
Labour rights are abused in efforts to earn more profits.
This leads to abhorrent working conditions, job insecurity and low living
standards (all global rights). The WTO and NAFTA are such organizations
promoting free trade at the expense of labour rights and the environment.
Consumers in developed countries have been socialized to want more and
more things to consume but have not been socialized to appreciate the impact
of their consumption choices on the global rights of other people; that
is, they are not being responsible for their decisions.
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.
The Global Movement to Help is an initiative of the Global Community and of the Federation of Global Governments, now applying more emphasis on the urgent need from
the people of all nations to give everyone essential services.
The urgent need to give all Global Citizens essential services was made obvious in the past few years after the occurrence of natural disasters, and by
global destruction and disasters created by governments and the military.
The Global Community has already declared a planetary state of emergency to that effect.
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member
nations.
We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to the people of that region.
Be compassionate. Essential services to the people of each member nation are now the most important global rights on the Scale of Global Rights and are protected by the
Global Protection Agency (GPA) of each member nation.
The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to
the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in the Global Constitution and is thus a fundamental guide to Global Law.
The work of the 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 Law includes legislation covering all essential 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 a long term solution
to the planetary state of emergency
we offer the 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.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources 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 in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
The Global Community is promoting the settling of disputes between nations and the creation of a new nation
through the process of the Earth Court of Justice. Justice for all is what we want. Justice is a universal value for anyone, anywhere, and in any situations.
The Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace.
The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
By its way of not dealing with global governance, the United Nations (UN) organization has perpetuated the archaic concept of land ownership, a concept that is threatening security in the world and all
life on Earth. The UN never had a human criteria for the creation of a new nation. Only the Earth Court of Justice can evaluate the creation
of a new nation and dealing with conflicts.
All nations have to be educated of the new way for the good of all.
Global Community is promoting that the creation of a new nation does not have to be at the expenses of human lives and destruction of an entire world. It can and should
always be done through a decision made by a higher Court.
The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all the "global communities" along with the Global Community where they are found.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources 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 in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
The Global Community concept of ownership states
that land and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and
belong equally to everyone, to all life on Earth, 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.
Along with ownership comes the obligation of using the
resources, share them or lose them. Land and all other Earth natural resources
are not commodities. Use the land, share it or lose it. This principle
also applies to banks and similar institutions all over the world and to
Wall Street. You own property because the previous owners could not pay.
Use that property, share it or lose it.
It should also be our goal to create locally owned enterprises
that sustainably harvest and process local resources to produce jobs, goods
and services. Ideally our economy should be local; rooting power in the
people and communities who realize their well being depends on the health
and vitality of their local ecosystem. We should favor local firms and
workers, who pay local taxes, live by local rules, respect and nurture
the local ecosystems, compete fairly in local markets, and contribute to
community life. Labour should not be taxed but pollution should. The exploitation
and use of natural resources should also be taxed.
Truly the global crisis is the planetary state of emergency.
Let us have a look at the nationalization of natural
resources and global taxation on the use of those resources.
In order to better protect life on our planet, the Global
Community is asking people of all nations to defend and protect their natural
resources. In particular, all the hydrocarbons within a national territory
must be nationalized. It is an obligation, not only of a national government,
but also of all the active forces in a country; it is the duty of local
and municipal authorities, the duty of state authorities – of everyone
– to take upon themselves this defence and this recuperation of natural
resources.
A workable type of Tobin tax should be in place as
it is a powerful instrument to promote sustainable development and force
shareholders in moving away from producing oil. A Tobin tax is a tax on
all trade of currency across borders to put a penalty on short-term speculation
in currencies. The tax rate should be 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars.
The proposal is important due to its potential to prevent global financial
crises such as we are seeing now. Also, an estimated $500 billion per year
makes it possible to meet urgent global priorities, such as preventing
global warming, disease, and poverty.
The tax should be managed by the
Global Community and the Federation of Global Governments. In the globalized
economy, there is a lack of adequate funding for global problems such as
disease, poverty and hunger. Global climate change, deforestation, population
growth and unemployment, declining fisheries and pollution threaten local
communities worldwide. Projects which could help to address these needs
and create jobs will cost more than $500 billion annually. Private donors
do not meet the need, and some nations cut their aid budgets. New multilateral
approaches to public finance, such as Tobin Taxes, may provide part of
the answer.
The war industry is the "mother of all evils" of our world. It must be shelved. War products and equipment and weapons of mass destruction from all nations must be decommissioned. Join the Global Community Peace Movement. Today the war industry is exploiting the issue of terrorism for profit.
Everyone knows terrorism cannot be fought by conventional warfare but that would not deter the industry from saying it is the best way to get rid of terrorists.
War is the greatest violation of human and Earth rights that one people can inflict on another and to all life on Earth. 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. 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.
The people of the Global Community are dedicated in using all its resources to resolve
conflict, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism, disease, and human rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community
is offering other good organizations around the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace. We can accomplish this task by concrete actions such as:
War is not sustainable to all life on the planet. It never was. The military option, war, is against global sustainability and global peace in a big way.
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. Emissions from factories and vehicles have
caused ozone depletion, acid rain, and dangerous greenhouse gases
have forced the global warming of the planet and the climate to change dangerously, the worst threat to humanity and all life. 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. The Global Community helps wealthy and poorer nations reach a better understanding of each other's needs.
All aspects are interrelated: global peace, global sustainability, human and Earth rights and the environment. The poor is more concerned with ending starvation, finding a proper shelter and employment, and helping their 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 developing the
Scale of Human and Earth Rights.
It allows humanity to see life on Earth in its right place and shows us how to protect it. The Scale gives a mean to arrest a new type of criminals because destroying the
global life-support systems is a criminal act and must be punished severily.
War is the greatest violation of human and Earth rights that one people can inflict on another.
Global security can only be achieved if it can be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained
in the Global Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. All people and states
are protected by the Global Community.
We need to grow strong caring communities in which we
get more of our human satisfaction from caring relationships and less from
material goods. We will need to end war as a means of settling international
disputes and dismantle our military establishment. We need to reclaim the
ideal of being a democratic middle-class people without extremes of wealth
and poverty.
And we need to realize what is a priority, what is the most
important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need to
make hard choices. We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And
we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can
no longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity
and all life can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the
global environment, and certainly the military is a major one of them.
And there are other activities we must do, thousands of them, to assure
the survival of life on Earth. In view of the planetary state of emergency, we all must change, we must do things
differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance,
and thus bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
