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In today's affairs a very powerful few are in possession of the Earth's resources, the land and all its riches, and all the franchises and other privileges that yield a return. These few people operate virtually without taxation. Is that what we want as a global democracy? Who should own the Earth?

Soveveignty is the status of a person or group of persons having supreme and independent political authority. The concept of sovereignty is related to the concept of power: power over a territory, land and water, oil and minerals, as well as life on Earth. The United Nations (UN) cannot have normal attributes of sovereignty, which has been defined around a territory and population.

The Global Community has in fact been defined around a given territory, that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population, which is the Global Community. The issue here is not that of populations and boundary lines, but of the demarcation of power and control over the Earth that is the foremost formal attribute of sovereignty.

To speak of enforceable global law is to speak of world power. Global Parliament has the power to make the laws of the land and to make the rules for the territory of the Earth. Global Law has been and continue to be researched and developed for this purpose.

Today's problem is that democracy has not grounded itself. We have not extended democratic principles to the ownership and control of the Earth. The democratic global government as currently proposed by the Global Community, is grounded in equal rights to the Earth, and thus can create the world of peace and justice that we seek.

Conservation, restoration, and rational use of the Earth resources is about asking ourselves the question of "Who owns the Earth?" The large gap between rich and poor is conected to ownership and control of the planet's land and of all other Earth natural resources. This causes a fundamental threat to democracy. What has become of democracy? What has become "we the people?

We need to take a giant step forward to a new form of democracy. We, 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, healthcare, education, and employment for all.

The Global Community has proposed a new democratic mandate recognizing that the gifts of nature - the land, oil, minerals, other natural resources and a substantial amount of the monetary value accruing to their use - rightly belong to the Global Community. The Earth is our birthright and our common heritage. What we make from our mental and physical labor can rightfully be held as individual property but the profit of the Earth should be shared by all and for all.The unjust and inequitable ownership and control of vast amounts of the land and of other natural resource wealth of our planet is also a root cause of the great majority of local-to-global conflicts and wars. Our current form of democratic governance is severely limited in its capacity to negotiate peaceful means of resolving resource inequities and disputes, whether over oil and other minerals or over land for housing and livelihoods.

The Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community is truly the best response to the world.

Again here we will keep this dialogue within the "philosophy of life" framework of the Global Community, some called it the religion of the third millennium, others called it the politics of the future generations now. Let us remind everyone the definition that has been guiding us throughout the previous dialogues: The Global Dialogue


"The Global Community is defined as being all that exits or occurs at any location at any time between the Ozone layer above and the core of the planet below." The Glass Bubble concept of a Global Community

This is the fundamental definition of the expression "Global Community" first defined by myself and my wife Virginie in 1985. The Glass Bubble concept of a Global Community This definition includes all people, all life on Earth. This is the fundamental definition of the expression Global Communit 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. Evolution, Creation and now, Guiding Souls Throughout this dialogue the land ownership of the Earth means ownership of the land and of all other Earth natural resources.

"A global community" is not about a piece of land you acquired by force or otherwise. One could think of a typical community that does not have to be bounded by a geographical or political border. It can be people living in many different locations all over the world. The Global Community is thus more fluid and dynamic. We need to let go the archaic ways of seeing a community as the street where we live and contained by a border. 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.

The old concept of a community being the street where we live in and surrounded by a definite geographical and political boundary has originated during the Roman Empire period. An entire new system of values was then created to make things work for the Roman Empire. Humanity has lived with this concept over two thousand years. Peoples from all over the world are ready to kill anyone challenging their border. They say that this is their land, their property, their 'things'. This archaic concept is endangering humanity and its survival. The Roman Empire has gone but its culture is still affecting us today. We need to let go the old way of thinking. We need to learn of the new concept, and how it can make things work in the world.

A typical community may be what a group of people, together, wants it to be. It can be a group of people sharing with the same values. It can be a group of people with the same cultural background, or the same religious background. Or they can be people with totally different backgrounds and beliefs. The people making a global community may be living in many different locations on the planet. With today's communications it is easy to group people in this fashion. It can be a village, or two villages together where people have decided to unite as one community. The two villages may be found in different parts of the world. It can be a town, a city, or a nation. It can be two or more nations together.

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. We will see in the Preview how this new system can work.

As mentioned above, land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil and gas etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. Land is not a product of labor. Everyone should therefore be given equal access to such natural resources.

On the global level the Law of the Seas Covenant is an example of a ground rent basis for public needs as it has affirmed that ocean resources are the common heritage of all and a proper source of funding for global institutions. Water belongs to the Earth and all species and is sacred to life therefore, the world’s water must be conserved, reclaimed and protected for all future generations and its natural patterns respected.

Water is a fundamental human right and a public trust to be guarded by all levels of government; therefore, it should not be commodified, privatized or traded for commercial purposes. These rights must be enshrined at all levels of government. In particular, an international treaty must ensure these principles are noncontrovertable.

Water is best protected by local communities and citizens, who must be respected as equal partners with governments in the protection and regulation of water. Peoples of the Earth are the only vehicle to promote democracy and save water.

Similarly, all the Earth natural resources belong to the Global Community to be used, developed and conserved for the maximum benefit of the people and of all life.

The Global Community should set up expert groups and begin the necessary intergovernmental negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees levied on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on carbon content of fuels.

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:

  • Native and aboriginal people claiming that their ancestors owned the land so now they do


  • God gave it to us so the land is ours


  • Property ownership system of the Roman Empire to today, our social-economic system of land owership


  • The military power of this world forcing ownership of land and of all other Earth natural resources against the will of everyone else

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.

The theme of this Global Dialogue being "The planet-Life-Soul of Humanity symbiotical relationship", we will see how the relationship can help this generation of young people and the next ones to remain healthy.

The young people of to-day are interested in all the secret wisdom behind all the existing religions and sifting out the common truths. They seek the best of the best. They are aware of the Soul of Humanity and have established a spiritual symbiotical relationship with it, and thus with God. They seek the exaltation and merging of their Souls into one to gain strength, friendship, creativity, love and light.

Their childhood conditioning has prepared them to act on a firm understanding of what it takes to get along with others, working as a group.

They are educated to understand a broad panorama of human truths ~ all those universal needs and rights every one shares. The Scale of Human and Earth Rights has become an inner truth and the benchmark of the millennium in how they see all values. The Earth Court of Justice brings security, peace and justice for all. They no longer fear the unknown as Justice is for everyone and is everywhere, a universal constant. The Global Justice Movement for all life is now driven by these young people.

They see money for what it is - energy to use for good.

Their idea of power is power over Self.

Each and every Self is dedicated to an idea for good that others can share together in creating this new Eden. Doing good and the well-being of the "other" have become the basic building block of any symbiotical relationship.

What we have here is the birth of genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour which could well change the functioning of global communities everywhere. We are becoming the human family. This new "philosophy of life" of the Global Community has made grounds in people's way of life.

What we have here is the age of global co-operation and symbiotical relationships of all types for the good of all. An age with a mind, a heart and a Soul of its own. A unique and wonderful age never seen before over the entire human history! An age with a vision to caring for life and Earth! An age of the Soul!

However, we have reached the deplorable circumstance where in large measure a very powerful few are in possession of the Earth's resources, the land and all its riches, and all the franchises and other privileges that yield a return. These monopolistic positions are kept by a handful of men who are maintained virtually without taxation.

Whoever owns the land and all other natural resources exerts power over those who are landless and no resources. The Global Community proposes to extend democratic principles to include the ownership and control of the Earth. The Global Economic Model was created for all the people on the planet. The model makes sure that the rights of all people and the rights of the planet are one and the same.

The Global Economic Model stipulates as well that we, as human beings, are trustees and caretakers of all other life forms on Earth.

The Global Economic Model is global, as people are freed to move beyond borders and boundaries and claim the whole Earth as their birthplace.

How the Earth should be owned is the major economic question of this time. The world should be owned by the people living in it.

Unless a reformed or empowered Global Parliament is leading firmly upon the principle of equal rights for the Global Community, then the planet will be controlled by a handful of vested interests.

Land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. Land is not a product of labor. Everyone should therefore be given equal access to natural resources. The Global Economic Model proposes to make private property the product of labor. Common property is all what Nature offers. The Global Economic Model policy removes taxes from wages and increases taxes and user fees on common property.

The model eliminates subsidies that are environmentally or socially harmful, and inequitable.
 

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, 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.

Results from previous Global Dialogues 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 Global Community Earth Govewrnment (GCEG).

Previous Global Dialogues also thought us that there were several universal values and global concepts connecting all communities and societies to each other. And we found that proper Earth management is a necessity and requires all Peoples to unite and actually manage the planet. Local and global policies needed to be developed and implemented by global communities. Every person on Earth is now responsible for this very important duty. The time for action is now - positive and constructive actions to sustain Earth.

The rate of world population growth is beginning to decline, but the total number of people could still double or even triple from today's 6.3 billion before stabilizing a century or more from now. Women in most countries are still having more than the two-child average consistent with a stable population size. Moreover, so many young people are now entering or moving through their childbearing years that even a two-child average would still boost population size for a few decades until the momentum of past growth subsides. Yet there is reason for optimism. The combination of access to family planning and other reproductive health services, education for girls and economic opportunity for women could lower birthrates enough to stabilize world population well before a doubling of today's total.

Motivation, rather than differential access to modern contraception is a major determinant of fertility.  Individuals frequently respond to scarcity by having fewer children, and to perceived improved economic opportunity by having more children. Economic development does not cause family size to shrink; rather, at every point where serious economic opportunity beckons, family size preferences expand.

A)  Foreign aid conveys to the recipients the perception of improving economic wellbeing, which is followed by an increase in the fertility of the recipients of the aid.

B)  Migrations from regions of low economic opportunity to places of higher economic opportunity result in an increase in the fertility of the migrants that persists for a generation or two.

The need is not to control population growth. Governments cannot control childbearing and attempts to do so have sometimes led to coercive approaches to reproduction that violate human rights. The need is rather to expand the power individuals have over their own lives, especially by enabling them to choose how many children to have and when to have them.

Investing in education for girls helps them to contribute to their national economies and to postpone childbearing until they are ready for a family. Providing credit and other economic opportunities for women creates alternatives to early and frequent childbearing. Finally, better access to quality reproductive health services directly benefits women and their families. These approaches increase human capacity, providing the greatest long-term return to societies, individuals and the environment. Moreover, they are likely to lead to an early peak in world population next century.

Comprehensive population policies are an essential element in a global development strategy that combines access to reproductive health services, education and economic opportunities, improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer models of consumption and the good life. Global Dialogue 2008 will therefore have a major focus on such global development strategy, and building global communities for all life on Earth being the final result and objective.

There are many other important issues in support of comprehensive population policies: societal family image, community rights, population health, poverty, scarcity of resources and drinking water, and the destruction of the global life-support systems and eco-systems of the planet. So, in all, Global Dialogue 2008 includes major issues such as:
  • The role of education in building Global Communities for all life. Global Dialogue 2000, the World Congress on Managing and Measuring Sustainable Development - Global Community Action 1, focussed on a Global Community Action Plan to bring together all grassroot movements and civil society to the building of Global Communities for all life on Earth. Global Dialogue 2008 will make this Global Action Plan a reality by calling upon educators a humanitarian service for the education of this generation on the goods of building Global Communities for all life.
  • How to motivate women to postpone childbearing later in life and have less or no children.
  • Comprehensive population policies may be derived from aspetcs such as:
    * societal family image,
    * community rights,
    * population health,
    * poverty,
    * scarcity of resources and drinking water, and the
    * destruction of the global life-support systems and eco-systems of the planet.
  • A global development strategy that combines access to:
    * reproductive health services,
    * education and economic opportunities,
    * improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to
    * healthyer models of consumption and the good life.
  • Making use of the Global Information Media (GIM) in shaping the Global Community for all life on Earth.
  • How can the societal family image be changed to motivate women to postpone childbearing later in life and have less or no children.
  • The development of community rights focussing on global responsibility and accountability of everyone and the community towards decreasing population growth.
  • The integration of Global Citizens rights, responsibility and accountability into the basic social structure of a global community, a nation, and a nation-state.
  • The integration of the Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities into the basic social structure of a global community, a nation, and a nation-state.
  • The management of population health.
  • Obtaining a strong commitment from all Peoples to achieve a negative average annual population growth rate.
  • 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 community citizen,
    (b)     universal health care, publicly supported,
    (c)     education for all based upon individual capability,
    (d)     creative/productive employment for every global community citizen, and
    (e)     post-retirement security.

  • The Global Community is inviting you to participate in the formation of global symbiotical relationships between communities, nations, businesses, or a combination of them. This can be accomplished through the formation of global ministries. The formation of global ministries is the most important event in human history. Humanity sees the need to manage the world affairs in several aspects of our lives: energy, agriculture, environment, health, Earth resources, Earth management, security and safety, emergencies and rescues, trade, banks, speculation on world markets, peace, family and human development, water resources protection, youth, education, justice, science and technology, finance, human resources, ethics, human and Earth rights, sustainable development, industry, and manufacturing products, etc. Global ministries will be given power to rule themselves in harmony with each other. The Global Community is calling for the immediate formation of the:
    Global Health Ministry,
    Global Education and Training Ministry, and
    Global Social Services Ministry

  • Criteria of what makes 'a global community'; criteria of what makes a nation, a State; criteria to create a new nation, a nation-state, and to dissolve one.
  • Having created a global community, a nation, or a state, how would we integrate the Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act into the basic social structure.
  • Having created a global community, a nation, or a state, how would we have the people accepting an ever closer Earth Government among them and living a global life as per the Global Constitution
  • Actions for the good of all as per the Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities of the Global Community citizens. Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities
  • All nations and every person on Earth live a life as global citizens
  • The Scale of Human and Earth Rights replaces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a guiding tool to dealing with one another
  • Global Laws of the Global Constitution become universal and well used
  • Obtaining a strong commitment from all Peoples to achieve a negative average annual population growth rate
  • Adopting and actively practicing the new way of doing business
  • 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!
  • Adopt policies to decrease world population:
  • Delay reproduction until later in life. Delaying reproduction is important in influencing population growth rates. Over a period of 60 years, if people delay reproduction until they are 30 years old, you would have only two generations, while if you do not delay reproduction you would have three generations (one generation every 20 years).
  • Spread your children farther apart.
  • To have fewer children overall.
  • Government commitment to decreasing population growth. Create policies that help decreasing the number of children being born. Policies such as income tax deductions for dependent children and maternity and paternity leaves are essentially pronatalist and should be eliminated.
  • Programs that are locally designed and that include information on family planning and access to contraceptives.
  • Educational programs that emphasize the connection between family planning and social good.
  • The vast disparities in reproductive health worldwide and the greater vulnerability of the poor to reproductive risk point to several steps all governments can take, with the support of other sectors, to improve the health of women and their families:
  • Give women more life choices. The low social and economic status of women and girls sets the stage for poor reproductive health.
  • Invest in reproductive health care.
  • Encourage delays in the onset of sexual activity and first births.
  • Help couples prevent and manage unwanted childbearing.
  • Ensure universal access to maternal health care.
  • Support new reproductive health technologies.
  • Increase efforts to address the HIV pandemic.
  • Involve communities in evaluating and implementing programs.
  • Develop partnerships with the private sector, policymakers and aid donors to broaden support for reproductive health.
  • Measure progress.
  • Participate in Global Dialogue 2008 to help humanity find solutions.
  • More and more young people on every continent want to start bearing children later in life and to have smaller families than at any time in history. Likewise, in greater proportions than ever, women and girls in particular want to go to school and to college, and they want to find fulfilling and well-paid employment. Helping people in every country obtain the information and services they need to put these ambitions into effect is all that can be done, and all that needs to be done, to bring world population growth to a stable landing this century.
  • We follow God's Plan, the Will of God, His New Revelations we were given just a few years ago, and His Soul of Humanity in guiding us ahead


Issues from previous Global Dialogues are included as issues of Global Dialogue 2008.

Issues and Workshop Sessions of Global Dialogue 2006 were very successful in helping us live a life as per the Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act

Issues related to Global Dialogue 2005 with theme 'The Global Constitution' are found at the following Main Index: Main Index of the Global Constitution

You may also participate in editing the 28 Chapters and Preamble of the Global Constitution.

So far, throughout the year 2006, we have accomplished an enormous amount of work all of which to the benefit of humanity. Global Dialogue 2006 has been a success of great work and co-operation amongst all Global Community citizens from 130 Nations. The approval of the Global Constitution by Global Parliament will benefit us all in the decades to come.

Global Dialogue 2008 is a continuation of this great work. We want everyone to participate. Submit your work for Global Dialogue 2008as per the OVERVIEW of the process Global Dialogue 2008 OVERVIEW of the process

Submit a group project, could be a school, college or university project:
A)    Send us your own short version of the Global Constitution. The Global Constitution approved by Global Parliament It has to be developed from the actual longer version approved by Global Parliament.

B)    Send us your own short version of the proposed Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act It has to be developed from the actual longer version.

Depending on the level of participation, we may have different categories for these special projects.

Global Parliament will be reviewing all proposals.

During the Ceremonies of Global Dialogue 2008, Global Dialogue 2008 a special Award ECO Award will be given to the group with the best short version.


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1.     Israel is not 'a global community' and, therefore, not a nation.
2.     Israel is a military outpost of the United States: the 'US-milpost'.
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 457   Who owns the Earth?
 458  The planet-Life-Soul of Humanity symbiotical relationship
 459  To extend democratic principles down to the ownership and control of the earth.
 460  The inequitable distribution of land ownership affects our society, our politics, our environment, our communities - and ultimately our sense of well-being as a people.
 461  Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community has first and foremost the well-being of all the people on this planet. It is based on the triple bottom line of social justice, restoration and protection of the environment, and the strength and stability to provide security in basic needs.
 462  "A global community" is not about a piece of land you acquired by force or otherwise. One could think of a typical community that does not have to be bounded by a geographical or political border. It can be people living in many different locations all over the world. The Global Community is thus more fluid and dynamic. We need to let go the archaic ways of seeing a community as the street where we live and contained by a border.
 463  A typical community may be what a group of people, together, wants it to be. It can be a group of people sharing with the same values. It can be a group of people with the same cultural background, or the same religious background. Or they can be people with totally different backgrounds and beliefs. The people making a global community may be living in many different locations on the planet. With today's communications it is easy to group people in this fashion. It can be a village, or two villages together where people have decided to unite as one community. The two villages may be found in different parts of the world. It can be a town, a city, or a nation. It can be two or more nations together.
 464  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. We will see in the Preview how this new system can work.
 465  As mentioned above, land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil and gas etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. Land is not a product of labor. Everyone should therefore be given equal access to such natural resources.
 466  The Global Economic Model can achieve fairness in distribution, maximum efficiency in wealth production, and securing collective needs. The approach is based on the equal right of all to the land and to all other natural resources, and the right of the individual to the products of labor. The method requires to collect for the people the "ground rent" which means the value of land and of other natural resources, and to remove taxes on labor.
 467  A condition of "ownership" of any particular landsite or natural resource is payment of the ground rent back to the community as a whole. Ground rent is the proper source of public finance for the collective needs of the community. Alternatively, ground rent can be redistributed by direct payment back to all individuals, much as a company returns dividends to its stockholders.
 468  There is no need to forcefully confiscate land titles in order to secure the equal right of all to the Earth. With ground rent as the source of public finance the people as a whole become the "owner" and a title deed functions as a "lease" agreement. The community "allows" individual private use of sites on the condition that its fair rental value is paid to the community. If a particular land site is misused or abused, then the community must charge a higher rate to pay for damages and cost of restoration. Thus there is individual incentive for proper care of the Earth.
 469  On the global level the Law of the Seas Covenant is an example of a ground rent basis for public needs as it has affirmed that ocean resources are the common heritage of all and a proper source of funding for global institutions. Water belongs to the earth and all species and is sacred to life therefore, the world’s water must be conserved, reclaimed and protected for all future generations and its natural patterns respected.
 470  Water is a fundamental human right and a public trust to be guarded by all levels of government; therefore, it should not be commodified, privatized or traded for commercial purposes. These rights must be enshrined at all levels of government. In particular, an international treaty must ensure these principles are noncontrovertable.
 471   All the Earth natural resources belong to the Global Community to be used, developed and conserved for the maximum benefit of the people and of all life. However, the challenges of global warming and non-renewable resource depletion dictates that oil and other non-renewable resource rents should be invested in socially and environmentally responsible ways and primarily in the needed transition to renewable energy technologies. The tax put on non-renewable resources in the world should be citizen empowered.
 472  The Global Economic Model allows for the establishment of micro credit facilities, especially for farmers and women, to promote their access to forms of land tenure that facilitate access to and ownership of land.The Global Community should set up expert groups and begin the necessary intergovernmental negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees levied on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on carbon content of fuels.
 473  The goal of the Global Economic Model policy is to create a model of public finance which offers incentives for correct allocation of wealth amongst every global citizen.
 474  The model makes a clear distinction between private property and common property. Private property is that which is created by labor. Common property is that which is provided by nature. The Global Economic Model policy removes taxes from wages and other private property and increases taxes and user fees on common property. Reducing taxes on labor increases purchasing capacity, reducing taxes on capital encourages efficiency. Shifting taxes to land and resources curbs speculation and private profiteering in our common property and is a practical way to conserve and fairly share the earth.
 475  Only the Global Community can rightfully claim ownership of the Earth.
 476  The theme of this Global Dialogue being "The planet-Life-Soul of Humanity symbiotical relationship", we will see how the relationship can help this generation of young people and the next ones to remain healthy.
 477  The young people of to-day are interested in all the secret wisdom behind all the existing religions and sifting out the common truths. They seek the best of the best. They are aware of the Soul of Humanity and have established a spiritual symbiotical relationship with it, and thus with God. They seek the exaltation and merging of their Souls into one to gain strength, friendship, creativity, love and light.
 478  The young people today are educated to understand a broad panorama of human truths ~ all those universal needs and rights every one shares. The Scale of Human and Earth Rights has become an inner truth and the benchmark of the millennium in how they see all values. The Earth Court of Justice brings security, peace and justice for all. They no longer fear the unknown as Justice is for everyone and is everywhere, a universal constant. The Global Justice Movement for all life is now driven by these young people.
 479  Defining the parameters of sovereignty is a key component of the world order dialogue as it struggles to reach consensus regarding the boundaries and prerogatives of power. Soveveignty is the status of a person or group of persons having supreme and independent political authority. In dealing with the concept of sovereignty, we are dealing with the reality of power. It is power over a territory, over land and water, oil and minerals, as well as those life forms which have miraculously emerged out of the mud of the earth. The United Nations (UN) cannot by the nature of things have normal attributes of sovereignty, which has been defined around a territory and population, is not the same thing as a sovereign UN.
 480  The Global Community has in fact been defined around a given territory, that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population, which is the Global Community. The issue here is not that of populations and boundary lines, but of the demarcation of power and control over the earth that is the foremost formal attribute of sovereignty.
 481  The task of conservation, restoration, and rational use of the earth is vitally linked to the question of "Who owns the Earth?" The ever-widening gap between rich and poor, both within and among nations is a primary source of conflict and violence, a trigger mechanism for warfare. The root cause of this local to global maldistribution of wealth problem is the inequitable ownership and control of the planet's land and of all other Earth natural resources.
 482  The impacts of our democracy are devastating when so few people would come to control so much of the earth, to the exclusion of the vast majority. The forces of our industrial economy have driven land values to such heights, to the benefit of landowners and bank lenders rather than wage earners. The property-in-land problem is the root dilemma of today's democracy. Having life and liberty without land rights breeds unhappiness, unemployment, wage slavery, suffering, militarization and even death. Democratic government as presently constituted, because it is not grounded and embedded in the principle of equal rights to the earth, cannot build a world of peace and justice.
 483  Peace is not only the ability to resolve conflicts non-violently but to ascertain conditions of basic justice and fairness in human interactions. Force has most often predominated over fairness in the long history of human affairs. Territorial conflict has for millennium been a root cause of war. The price of peace has too often been the cost of continued injustice and conditions of economic servitude. Only Global Parliament has adequate legislation to overcome this problem.
 484  What we are seeing is the emergence of a new geography of conflict - a global landscape in which competition over vital resources is becoming the governing principle behind the disposition and use of military power.... the result is a new strategic geography in which resource concentrations rather than political boundaries are the major defining features.
 485   The primary social adjustment of the Global Community is a denial of justice. In allowing anyone to own the land on which and from which other people must live, we have given a person power in a degree which increases as material progress goes on. This way of doing things turns the blessings of material progress into a curse. We must find better ways of doing things, and quickly. The forces of concentration of wealth and power have nearly overpowered us. Why should people die of hunger and disease each year when there is enough to meet the basic needs of everyone? The obvious answer is that wealth is being controlled by a few privileged ones, and they usually are those whose footsteps regularly punctuate the corridors of power. These groups of people have come to see politics as a pathway to wealth acquisition.
 486  We need to take a giant step forward to a new form of democracy. 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, healthcare, education, and employment for all. The task before us is that of building a global order based on the full honoring of our common humanity with profound recognition and respect for the dignity of each and every child, woman and man.
 487  The Global Community has proposed a new democratic mandate recognizing that the gifts of nature - the land, oil, minerals, all other natural resources and a substantial amount of the monetary value accruing to their use - rightly belong to the Global Community. The earth is our birthright and our common heritage. What we make from our mental and physical labor can rightfully be held as individual property but the profit of the earth should be shared by all and for all.The unjust and inequitable ownership and control of vast amounts of the land and of other natural resource wealth of our planet is also a root cause of the great majority of local-to-global conflicts and wars. Our current form of democratic governance is severely limited in its capacity to negotiate peaceful means of resolving resource inequities and disputes, whether over oil and other minerals or over land for housing and livelihoods.
 488  This criminal maldistribution of wealth must be stopped. We need to make some fundamental changes. We need political and economic systems based upon the human right to land and other natural resources. We need governance and land titles that can secure tenure and a genuinely free and fair market system for all. Land values must be delinked from the privatization category, the debt and private banking system delinked from its backing in land, and labor must be freed from taxation.
 489  We are on the threshold of a global revolution, and we need to proceed with the non-violent approach. We need to build an economic democracy based firmly on this most basic principle - 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, society, or unfriendly government, any more than the air or water, or any other earth natural resources. An individual, company, or enterprise should hold no more than is required for their home and sustenance. All that is not used should be held for the free use of family to make homesteads, and to hold them as long as they are so occupied.
 490  When it comes to property ownership it is the value of the improvement only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property...Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds. Landlords grow richer in their sleep without working, risking, or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title. Do what we may, we can accomplish nothing real and lasting until we secure to all the first of those equal and inalienable rights with which.... man is endowed by his creator - the equal and inalienable right to the use and benefit of natural opportunities, all Earth natural resources.
 491  The land problem is the root cause of the wealth gap. The costs to the planet are high when wealth and power spiral into the hands of so few. Loss of species and topsoil, deteriorated air and water quality, global warming and climate change - the list of catastrophes and potential catastrophes grows each day. Those with clear vision frequently feel frustrated by lack of power and financing to remedy these problems.
 492  Roman law developed the ownership concept which legitimized the accumulation of wealth by a few at the expense of the impoverishment of the many. The concentration of property in private hands began very early in Rome and was indeed based on the foundational and legitimizing idea of absolute and exclusive individual ownership in land. This was the same idea which would come to form the basis of the slave-owning, the feudal, and the capitalist economic systems successively. Modern civilization has not yet discarded this antiquated ownership concept, which was originally derived from ancient Rome. In fact, this is one of the main roots of the present global crisis in which the rich becomes richer and the poor becomes poorer.
 493  We have at hand a powerful solution and a way to secure a world of peace and plenty. We need to constitute democratic governance on the firm foundation of equal rights to the land and resources of the earth, a democracy for all people which removes the burden of taxes from the backs of those who labor and instead directs government to collect the value of our common wealth for the benefit of all. A morally correct form of taxation may not lead to everlasting life, but it will promote and sustain the conditions for lives worth living on planet earth.
 494  Democratic systems of governance have not given us equitable land tenure systems. In no instance historically did democratic governments procure the right to land as a human right. In no instance today do democratic governments affirm the equal rights for all to the land and natural resource base that sustains all life.This reality is important to keep in mind when considering how to implement truly equitable systems of land tenure today.
 495  Whoever owns the land exerts power over those who are landless. We have not yet extended democratic principles down to the ownership and control of the earth. How can the young be expected to defend their homeland when they come home to find they have no stake in the land? The inequitable distribution of land ownership affects our society, our politics, our environment, our communities - and ultimately our sense of well-being as a people. The Global Economic Model will have first and foremost the well-being of all the people on this planet. It will be based on the triple bottom line of social justice, restoration and protection of the environment, and the strength and stability to provide security in basic needs. The ethics of the Global Economic Model will flow out of a profound perception that the rights of human beings and the rights of the planet are one and the same.
 496  The Global Economic Model is based on respect and value all life on earth. It recognizes that we as human beings are trustees and caretakers of the many life forms that dwell here with us. The Global Economic Model extends the democratic mandate to solve the land problem by affirming the equal right of all people to the earth. It will have a balanced and just relationship of citizenry to government with enlightened public finance policy based on land and land rent for the people. Money will be issued and circulated as a service for the people as a whole rather than used as a mechanism for the exploitation of the many by the few.
 497  The Global Economic Model is global, as people are freed to move beyond borders and boundaries and claim the whole earth as their birthplace. It is highly decentralized as well, with people living and producing for their basic human needs within the constraints and parameters of local ecological systems. The Global Economic Model is about a world that works for everyone, with plenty of time to expand our minds and elevate our spirits.
 498  How the earth should be owned is the major economic question of this time. The world should be owned by the people living in it. The earth itself is the bottom line. The land is the source of all life and wealth. To survive, we must have somewhere to stand and to rest. But this absolute necessity for our very existence is nowhere guaranteed in our constitutional laws. Our Bill of Rights did not proclaim the human right to the earth.
 499  We must grasp the injustice at the core of our present economic system. We need to understand how far we have strayed from reality and how we have been led into illusionary games of finance. Our treatment of the earth as a market commodity, just like a car or television, is the basic flaw in our economic ground rules. Treating the earth as simply a capital line item is the root cause of the ever-widening gap between those who have too much and those who have too little.
 500  When land became a 'commodity' and lost its status as provider and sustainer of life, Western civilization began its history of subjugation and exploitation of the earth and earth based cultures.
 501  Enormous sums are currently accruing as unearned income to a relatively few individuals, families and corporations who are holding large amounts of land, very valuable and well-located land, and other natural resources as their own exclusive private property. These enormous land values and resource rents are also accruing as unearned income to banks holding mortgages based on exploitative compound interest rates. Truly, when one must work so many years of ones life to pay off a mortgage, one productive hand is as if dead in terms of producing for oneself, as the labor of that hand pays the mortgage. For renters, there is not even equity ownership to look forward to after a life of labor.
 502  One of the major functions of global governance is to grant clear titles to land and other property. Democratic governance as presently constituted has unfortunately not been greatly concerned about how the land was obtained in the first place. We need only reflect for a moment on the fact that in Canada, for example, land was acquired by the colonizers from the native peoples under the old Roman empire land laws of "dominium" - the legalization of land acquired by conquest and plunder.
 503  Land tenure in the West, as far back as the Roman Empire, has been rooted in the legalization of title to land originally acquired by conquest and force. Democratic political rights have not given us democratic economic rights. We can exercise our right to free speech all day long but it in no way guarantees that we can have a secure place to sleep at night.
 504  Confiscatory taxes on labor and productive capital should gradually be removed, as the value of earth natural resources becomes the proper source of funding for the community.
 505  A significant proportion of the profit that has poured into the global banking system in the past several decades was not a product of honest labor, but was in fact a pool of funds generated from the ground rent of oil resources. These funds were loaned to numerous developing countries where they were frequently of benefit to the ruling elite rather than the people as a whole. However, the debt repayments have now fallen upon the middle class and poor citizens who neither voted for nor gained from the borrowed money.
 506  Decreasing the tax on buildings gives property owners the incentive to build and to maintain and improve their properties. As the levy on land values is increased, land speculation and poor land utilization, an example being slum buildings and boarded up buildings, are discouraged. The signal thus sent to property holders is to either improve their properties or sell them to someone who can do so. Either way, labor and capital gain access to land to improve and augment the building stock. The tax incentives are harnessed correctly to encourage effort directed to the provisioning of housing and other basic human needs.
 507  The high price of land means that the modern food and agriculture system provides no options for those who cannot find a paying job other than subsistence on charity or government supports. Those with minimum wage incomes are finding it increasingly difficult to afford decent housing. These social problems and pressures are bound to increase with the cut-off of welfare and other government subsidies to the poor.
 508  Intensively managed small farms and well-designed ecological villages could produce a diverse range of food, fiber, livestock, and energy products for local markets. Bio-intensive farming methods depending on renewable energy sources can yield both social and environmental stability. The establishment of labor and bio-intensive small farming operations can be greatly furthered by land value tax policies which remove taxes on labor and productive capital while promoting affordable land access.
 509  This Global Movement for land value taxation and natural resource rent for revenue can provide the basis for worldwide economic democracy. Freedom to live or work in any part of the globe would also further equality of entitlement to the planet, and provide a basis for the resolution of resource wars and territorial conflicts. There would be no more private profit as unearned income from earth natural resources. Instead, transparent and accountable resource agencies would collect resource rents and distribute those funds in public services or as direct citizen dividends. With fundamental democracy in rights to the earth firmly established through legal means and mandates, basic needs would be secured for all and the militarized national security state and its bloated budgets could wither away.
 510  The solution to the problem of land speculation is land value taxation to be used for the benefit of the whole community. When the land speculator sees the irrationality of paying taxes on land he is not making productive use of, he will be forced to put it on the market for others to use, thus helping to unlock the economic activity of the unemployed and the economically disempowered.
 511  Land value taxation can be the sole means of public finance. Under this policy, improvements on land will not be taxed, only the land value would be taxed. In other words, the financial needs of the community would be adequately taken care of out of the economic rent of land. When people are not taxed on their wages and the returns to capital, there would be no involuntary unemployment; and incomes would be good enough for everyone, such that poverty would be a historical curiosity.
 512  Land value taxation policies shift taxes off of labor and productive capital and onto land and resources, thus collecting ground rent for the benefit of all rather than the profit of a few. Freeing labor from taxation assures maximum purchasing capacity. Collecting ground rent through land value recapture and land value taxation provides an equitable and sufficient source of public funds to finance infrastructure for water and sewage systems, transportation, education and other community services. Land also maintains affordability when it is freed from speculation and private profiteering.
 513  Morally and ethically, a vast amount of the funds of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank represent a theft from the global commons. Under the common heritage principle, these funds would have been used to benefit the people of the world either by direct dividends or as interest free loans through a revolving loan fund type of system.
 514  These oil theft loans made by the world financial institutions should be declared illegal and invalid. In the future, any other money loaned to governments by global financial institutions should be repaid from the ground rent of the indebted nations. Such repayments would therefore fall primarily upon those who are unjustly reaping the benefits of valuable land holdings rather than further burdening the struggling wage earners, small business owners, and the oppressed poor.
 515  A condition of "ownership" of any particular landsite or natural resource is payment of the ground rent back to the community as a whole. Ground rent is the proper source of public finance for the collective needs of the community. Alternatively, ground rent can be redistributed by direct payment back to all individuals, much as a company returns dividends to its stockholders.
 516  The exercise of both common and individual rights in land is essential to a society based on justice. But the rights of individuals in natural resources are limited by the just rights of the community. Denying the existence of common rights in land creates a condition of society wherein the exercise of individual rights becomes impossible for the great mass of the people.
 517  All the Earth natural resources belong to the Global Community to be used, developed and conserved for the maximum benefit of the people and of all life. However, the challenges of global warming and non-renewable resource depletion dictates that oil and other non-renewable resource rents should be invested in socially and environmentally responsible ways and primarily in the needed transition to renewable energy technologies. The tax put on non-renewable resources in the world should be citizen empowered.
 518   We have reached the deplorable circumstance where in large measure a very powerful few are in possession of the earth's resources, the land and all its riches, and all the franchises and other privileges that yield a return. These monopolistic positions are kept by a handful of men who are maintained virtually without taxation.
 519  To speak of enforceable global law is to speak of world power. Global Parliament has the power to make the laws of the land and to make the rules for the territory of the earth. Global Law has been and continue to be researched and developed for this purpose.
 520   The ownership of natural resources ultimately determines the social, the political and consequently the mental and physical condition of a people. Attaining an ethic of wise and careful stewardship of the Earth is likewise inseparable from the task of securing the well-being of individuals. The health of a person and the health of the Earth is interrelated. It is unlikely that environmental degradation will cease until the exploitation of the people is alleviated. The pressures upon those who are themselves exploited to exploit in turn each other and the environment is great.
 521   We now have more national income and national wealth concentrated in fewer hands then we have had since the beginning of the twentieth century. This causes a fundamental threat to democracy. What will become of democracy? What will become of "we the people? What kind of life awaits our children and grandchildren if they have no jobs and no income to buy food or shelter? The primary social adjustment of the Global Community is a denial of justice. In allowing anyone to own the land on which and from which other people must live, we have given a person power in a degree which increases as material progress goes on. This way of doing things turns the blessings of material progress into a curse. We must find better ways of doing things, and quickly. The forces of concentration of wealth and power have nearly overpowered us.
 522  We need to take a giant step forward to a new form of democracy. 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, healthcare, education, and employment for all. The task before us is that of building a global order based on the full honoring of our common humanity with profound recognition and respect for the dignity of each and every child, woman and man.
 523  Global governance has not yet concerned itself with an important global principle question. This question concerns property rights in land - property rights in the earth itself. The fundamental question is, "Who Should Own the Earth?" The right to the Earth cannot be vulnerable to the whim of partisan politics. The right to the Earth must be vested in the people themselves, in a way that can be understood and monitored by the average individual. The answer is of course that everyone should own the earth on an equal basis as a birthright. The right to the earth, the right to the land and of all Earth natural resources is the most fundamental and basic human right - the equal right to earth.
 524  The land problem has been around for the longest time. Why do people buy up large tracts of land near large towns and cities and other government projects without developing them? The objective is to wait for such a time when the land prices would go up so it could be sold at a great profit. This unearned increment or rise in land value is not as a result of anything the land owner has done. It is a socially created value and as such rightly belongs to the community.
 525  Land speculation hampers development as land is held out of use. Those who need land are denied access. This evil strikes at every form of industrial activity. A manufacturer proposing to start a new industry will be forced to pay such a high price for land and this will hamper his competitive power in every market. In addition, in terms of settlement patterns, land speculation creates urban sprawl as people have to go beyond the land under speculation to acquire land to use or to build.
 526  One of the major functions of global governance is to grant clear titles to land and other property. Democratic governance as presently constituted has unfortunately not been greatly concerned about how the land was obtained in the first place. We need only reflect for a moment on the fact that in Canada, for example, land was acquired by the colonizers from the native peoples under the old Roman empire land laws of "dominium" - the legalization of land acquired by conquest and plunder.
 527   Land tenure in the West, as far back as the Roman Empire, has been rooted in the legalization of title to land originally acquired by conquest and force. Democratic political rights have not given us democratic economic rights. We can exercise our right to free speech all day long but it in no way guarantees that we can have a secure place to sleep at night.
 528  We have at hand a powerful solution and a way to secure a world of peace and plenty. We need to constitute democratic governance on the firm foundation of equal rights to the land and resources of the earth, a democracy for all people which removes the burden of taxes from the backs of those who labor and instead directs government to collect the value of our common wealth for the benefit of all. A morally correct form of taxation may not lead to everlasting life, but it will promote and sustain the conditions for lives worth living on planet earth.
 529  Democratic systems of governance have not given us equitable land tenure systems. In no instance historically did democratic governments procure the right to land as a human right. In no instance today do democratic governments affirm the equal rights for all to the land and natural resource base that sustains all life.This reality is important to keep in mind when considering how to implement truly equitable systems of land tenure today.
 530  The intensive dimension of the land problem is what we confront as an economy develops under the current capitalist system. In our system a person makes money from land as a commodity and an investment. As development proceeds land values rise. Some few people are in positions to collect the increased land values, while other people have to borrow money from banks. Banks then collect an ever increasing ground rent - the profit from increased land value - as private profit. Investments are made, production increases, land speculation continues, and land values increase more rapidly than wages. Governments then increase taxes on middle class wages in order to pay for welfare programs for the poor. But soon workers are pressed down again to subsistence levels and the middle class gets angry or perhaps just depressed - if there is still a middle class remaining. The shining hope of progress has been dashed to pieces upon the hard rocks of wealth concentration.
 531  The Global Economic Model is based on respect and value all life on earth. It recognizes that we as human beings are trustees and caretakers of the many life forms that dwell here with us. The Global Economic Model extends the democratic mandate to solve the land problem by affirming the equal right of all people to the earth. It will have a balanced and just relationship of citizenry to government with enlightened public finance policy based on land and land rent for the people. Money will be issued and circulated as a service for the people as a whole rather than used as a mechanism for the exploitation of the many by the few.
 532   The Global Economic Model is global, as people are freed to move beyond borders and boundaries and claim the whole earth as their birthplace. It is highly decentralized as well, with people living and producing for their basic human needs within the constraints and parameters of local ecological systems. The Global Economic Model is about a world that works for everyone, with plenty of time to expand our minds and elevate our spirits.
 533   How the earth should be owned is the major economic question of this time. The world should be owned by the people living in it. The earth itself is the bottom line. The land is the source of all life and wealth. To survive, we must have somewhere to stand and to rest. But this absolute necessity for our very existence is nowhere guaranteed in our constitutional laws. Our Bill of Rights did not proclaim the human right to the earth.
 534  We must grasp the injustice at the core of our present economic system. We need to understand how far we have strayed from reality and how we have been led into illusionary games of finance. Our treatment of the earth as a market commodity, just like a car or television, is the basic flaw in our economic ground rules. Treating the earth as simply a capital line item is the root cause of the ever-widening gap between those who have too much and those who have too little.
 535   When land became a 'commodity' and lost its status as provider and sustainer of life, Western civilization began its history of subjugation and exploitation of the earth and earth based cultures.
 536  The Global Economic Model seeks to eliminate subsidies that are environmentally or socially harmful, unnecessary, or inequitable. Examples of such subsidies are: energy production, resource extraction, commerce and industry, agriculture and forestry, weapons of mass destruction and war industry.
 537   The Global Economic Model aims to eliminate taxes on wages and earned income; productive and sustainable capital; sales, especially for basic necessities; and homes and other buildings.
 538  The Global Economic Model also allows for an increase of taxes and fees on natural resource rents emissions into air, water, or soil; land sites according to land value; lands used for timber, grazing, mining; ocean and freshwater resources; electromagnetic or radio-frequency spectrum; satellite orbital zones; oil and minerals; and hydropower
 539   The resolution of the dilemma of democracy can be found in a three-factor (land, labor, capital) macroeconomic approach. The products resulting from the interaction of land and labor are rightfully held as individual private property, while land and all other natural resources are recognized as the common heritage.
 540  Once the human right to the earth is firmly established in the minds and policies of a democratic majority, land will no longer be taken by the few from the many either by the force of military might or by the mechanisms of the market. The market's ability to place value, combined with the efficiency of money as an exchange medium, results in a range of prices for land sites and natural resources. Those who simply own earth resources, contribute nothing as such to the productive process. Yet under the current private property ethic, they are in an advantageous position of power and can extract the ransom of a 'ground rent' from both labor and productive capital.
 541  When we apply the common heritage principle to land and all other natural resources, then it follows that ground rent, which is a measure of natural resource value, must be treated as 'common property'. A way to affirm the equal right of all to the common heritage is to collect the ground rent for the benefit of the Global Community, a policy we call 'land value taxation'.
 542  Confiscatory taxes on labor and productive capital should gradually be removed, as the value of earth natural resources becomes the proper source of funding for the community.
 543  Roman law developed the ownership concept which legitimized the accumulation of wealth by a few at the expense of the impoverishment of the many. The concentration of property in private hands began very early in Rome and was indeed based on the foundational and legitimizing idea of absolute and exclusive individual ownership in land. This was the same idea which would come to form the basis of the slave-owning, the feudal, and the capitalist economic systems successively. Modern civilization has not yet discarded this antiquated ownership concept, which was originally derived from ancient Rome. In fact, this is one of the main roots of the present global crisis in which the rich becomes richer and the poor becomes poorer.
 544   When Christianity became the state religion of the Roman empire, the early Christian teachings on land were overtaken by the Roman land laws of "dominium" - a legalization of property in land originally obtained by conquest and plunder. A largely corrupted Christianity, uprooted from its early teachings on land ownership, too often went hand in hand with the exploitation and degradation of centuries of colonial conquests.
 545  When it comes to property ownership it is the value of the improvement only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property...Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds. Landlords grow richer in their sleep without working, risking, or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title. Do what we may, we can accomplish nothing real and lasting until we secure to all the first of those equal and inalienable rights with which.... man is endowed by his creator - the equal and inalienable right to the use and benefit of natural opportunities, all Earth natural resources.
 546   The planet and all its resources of land, water, forests, minerals, the atmosphere, electro-magnetic frequencies, and even satellite orbits are the common heritage of all and must no longer be appropriated for the private profit of a few to the exclusion of the many. The Global Economic Model makes sure that the profits of the earth will benefit the people and the planet and secure an age of peace and plenty for all.
 547   The incentive signals of the world's taxation systems currently promote waste, war, environmental damage, and the concentration of wealth. Approximating the composition of the world's $8 trillion tax pie reveals that 90% of taxes fall on work while only 5% is collected from environmentally damaging activities. A mere 3% of global tax revenues is captured from natural resource use and access fees. A modest global tax shift scenario would collect 20% from environmental damage, 15% from land use and resource royalties and cut environmentally harmful subsidies by 90%. This would free up an additional 10% of current revenues and permit a nearly one-third reduction on wages and capital to 50% of total global taxes.
 548  While a clear title to land gives the security of use rights, under current private property regimes it also permits owners to speculate and profit from land as a market commodity. Thus we have also noted cases where landless people who have been given secure title sometimes quickly sell their land for immediate cash benefits. When they are unable to obtain employment to pay rent for housing, the cycle of poverty and landlessness begins anew.
 549   Holding land as investment property and a way to accumulate wealth is actually maladaptive to a market economy. This tenure approach has been identified as a primary cause of the maldistribution of wealth problem which is rampant in capitalist systems. Land can not respond to supply and demand dynamics. There can be increasing demand for land but there is never a corresponding increase of supply as the supply of land was determined aeons ago by whatever unfathomable forces of the universe created it.
 550  The commodification of land and land speculation inflates land values to the point where those who have only labor to contribute to the productive process must pay ever higher amounts for access to land for shelter. Taxation placed upon wage labor further decreases purchasing capacity.
 551  Those with the most valuable land, and there is always the situation that some land is more valuable than others, have an advantage over those with less valuable land. Having a more advantageous position, the holders of the better lands see their wealth increase above and beyond the wealth of those with the poorer land and those who have no land at all. They then frequently use their greater wealth and power to acquire additional land. Soon land values rise more rapidly than wages. Workers must borrow to pay for land. They borrow from those who already have acquired surplus wealth and have deposited their funds in banks. Now the landless must pay interest in order to buy land. The people with surplus wealth become even richer. If the workers lose their jobs and cannot pay the mortgage, they must surrender their land to the banks. The commodified land tenure and land-backed mortgage banking system is the problem, not the solution. We see this problem throughout the world now, for instance in the unbridled power of big financial interests to force people off of lands for so-called development projects, such as big dams which displace millions of people and supply water and electricity primarily to a few wealthy landholders and businesses rather than to all on an equitable basis. Most of the people who are landless squatters around the urban centers in the developing world have been pushed off of their lands in rural areas, displaced from self-sufficient lives where they had direct access to land and resources to provide for their basic needs. This is the extensive dimension of the land problem - the fact that so few now control so much of the land and resources of the world.
 552  As the taxation of land values, essentially a 'user fee' system, becomes an integral component of Earth management, several things would have to happen at the same time:

1. land tenure will be based on fairness, not force, thus ameliorating territorial conflict, a root cause of war;
2. land resources can be equitably allocated;
3. the economic playing field is level;
4. a genuinely free market is encouraged;
5. the gap between the rich and poor narrows; and
6. the necessary collective activities of humanity are properly funded, which include peacekeeping, and the restoration and protection of the environment.
 553  The Global Economic Model has put forward a system of finance based on principles of subsidiarity in terms of implementation. The ground rent of certain specific types of land and other natural resources can be collected by clearly delineated governing bodies from the local to the global level. Thus, cities and counties would draw their funding from the ground rent of surface lands; regional authorities would collect the ground rent of oil and minerals, and of other Earth natural resources, global governing agencies would be funded by a percentage from these two levels as well as that of deep sea resources, the electromagnetic spectrum, satellite orbital zones, and other global natural resources.
 554  Sufficiently high user fees and pollution permits encourage business and industry to find more efficient and cost-effective controls. Pollution taxes function as pay-for-use fees for common heritage resources of land, water and air and make the tax system work for the people and the planet. Taxes also aim to eliminate numerous subsidies deemed no longer necessary, environmentally or socially harmful, or inequitable.
 555   Property tax relief for agricultural land may increase the likelihood that it will attract those looking primarily for tax shelters and speculative investments. Such nonproductive incentives ultimately inflate land values overall, making it increasingly difficult for working farmers to access and maintain acreage for viable agricultural enterprise.
 556  The high price of land means that the modern food and agriculture system provides no options for those who cannot find a paying job other than subsistence on charity or government supports. Those with minimum wage incomes are finding it increasingly difficult to afford decent housing. These social problems and pressures are bound to increase with the cut-off of welfare and other government subsidies to the poor.
 557  This Global Movement for land value taxation and natural resource rent for revenue can provide the basis for worldwide economic democracy. Freedom to live or work in any part of the globe would also further equality of entitlement to the planet, and provide a basis for the resolution of resource wars and territorial conflicts. There would be no more private profit as unearned income from earth natural resources. Instead, transparent and accountable resource agencies would collect resource rents and distribute those funds in public services or as direct citizen dividends. With fundamental democracy in rights to the earth firmly established through legal means and mandates, basic needs would be secured for all and the militarized national security state and its bloated budgets could wither away.
 558  Land value taxation policies shift taxes off of labor and productive capital and onto land and resources, thus collecting ground rent for the benefit of all rather than the profit of a few. Freeing labor from taxation assures maximum purchasing capacity. Collecting ground rent through land value recapture and land value taxation provides an equitable and sufficient source of public funds to finance infrastructure for water and sewage systems, transportation, education and other community services. Land also maintains affordability when it is freed from speculation and private profiteering.
 559  While we are preparing to implement city and country wide land value taxation, we can model this approach through the Global Community Land Trust leases which secure title and tenure to the poor and landless while eliminating the problem of the commodification of land. A Global Community Land Trust (GCLT) is a legal not-for-profit landholding entity with a democratically elected board and transparent accounting procedures. A GCLT issued land lease clearly demarcates land boundaries and which individuals or groups are granted secure tenure and use rights to a particular parcel of land. Under a GCLT lease, land maintains affordability because there is no capacity for land speculation or profiteering. The Trust land cannot be sold so it does not have a purchase value for land users but does have a fair rental value, which in remote rural areas would be extremely low. With no selling price, only a fair lease fee, there is no need to borrow mortgage money for land purchase. This significantly lowers the cost of land for housing and other useful activities.
 560  Nearly half of corporate profits comes from real estate related activities. A tax on land would thus fall heavily on corporate held lands which cannot escape from taxation via offshore accounts and other tax shelters. Labor would gain affordable access to land resources and capital. The products of labor on land would increasingly be owned and controlled by voluntary cooperative organizations. The removal of federal subsidies for agribusiness combined with affordable land access will give a great impetus to organic, sustainable agriculture.
 561  A condition of the permission to extract natural resources or to use water or air would be the advanced payment of environmental security deposits. While heavy pollution taxes would drastically increase incentives for clean technologies, the environmental security deposits would only be returned if the land resource was left in an acceptably healthy condition. All the Earth natural resources belong to the Global Community to be used, developed and conserved for the maximum benefit of the people and of all life. However, the challenges of global warming and non-renewable resource depletion dictates that oil and other non-renewable resource rents should be invested in socially and environmentally responsible ways and primarily in the needed transition to renewable energy technologies. The tax put on non-renewable resources in the world should be citizen empowered.
 562  Global commons are those universal values, principles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, truths we have all in common. They may also be symbiotical relationships. Global commons are the many reasons why humanity get together in times of uncertainty and distress. Wars and conflicts, environmental disasters, earthquakes and Tsunamis, are a few examples. Other times we get together in research and development, the exploration of space, development of new technologies, education, so many reasons for us all to meet and dialogue. The list goes on a long way. Today we are getting together to find new global commons that can help for the survival of humanity and all life on Earth. And so you are asked to participate in Global Dialogue 2008.
 563  Most issues and aspects of global governance and Earth management are already being applied by the Global Community. But there is no agency powerful enough to protect life on Earth from those who care not about it. At best what we have is the Global Justice Movement for all life which has found a process for the establishment of justice amongst us all. What we have not done is the actual governing and managing of the planet as per the Global Constitution and Global Law. And that is our first priority now.




Global Dialogue 2007 Issues
 Global Dialogue 2007
Issues #		  Read contents
 329  The role of education in building Global Communities for all life. Global Dialogue 2000, the World Congress on Managing and Measuring Sustainable Development - Global Community Action 1, focussed on a Global Community Action Plan to bring together all grassroot movements and civil society to the building of Global Communities for all life on Earth. Global Dialogue 2008 will make this Global Action Plan a reality by calling upon educators a humanitarian service for the education of this generation on the goods of building Global Communities for all life.
 330  How to motivate women to postpone childbearing later in life and have less or no children.
 331  Comprehensive population policies may be derived from aspetcs such as:
* societal family image,
 332  * community rights,
 333  * population health,
 334  * poverty,
 335  * scarcity of resources and drinking water, and the
 336  * destruction of the global life-support systems and eco-systems of the planet.
 337  A global development strategy that combines access to:
* reproductive health services,
 338  * education and economic opportunities,
 339  * improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to
 340  * healthyer models of consumption and the good life.
 341   Making use of the Global Information Media (GIM) in shaping the Global Community for all life on Earth.
 342  How can the societal family image be changed to motivate women to postpone childbearing later in life and have less or no children.
 343  The development of community rights focussing on global responsibility and accountability of everyone and the community towards decreasing population growth.
 344  The integration of Global Citizens rights, responsibility and accountability into the basic social structure of a global community, a nation, and a nation-state.
 345  The integration of the Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities into the basic social structure of a global community, a nation, and a nation-state.
 346  The management of population health.
 347  Obtaining a strong commitment from all Peoples to achieve a negative average annual population growth rate.
 348   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 community citizen,
 349   (b)     universal health care, publicly supported,
 350  (c)     education for all based upon individual capability,
 351  (d)     creative/productive employment for every global community citizen, and
 352  (e)     post-retirement security.
 353  The Global Community is inviting you to participate in the formation of global symbiotical relationships between communities, nations, businesses, or a combination of them. This can be accomplished through the formation of global ministries. The formation of global ministries is the most important event in human history. Humanity sees the need to manage the world affairs in several aspects of our lives: energy, agriculture, environment, health, Earth resources, Earth management, security and safety, emergencies and rescues, trade, banks, speculation on world markets, peace, family and human development, water resources protection, youth, education, justice, science and technology, finance, human resources, ethics, human and Earth rights, sustainable development, industry, and manufacturing products, etc. Global ministries will be given power to rule themselves in harmony with each other. The Global Community is calling for the immediate formation of the:
Global Health Ministry,
 354  Global Education and Training Ministry, and
 355  Global Social Services Ministry
 356  Criteria of what makes 'a global community'; criteria of what makes a nation, a State; criteria to create a new nation, a nation-state, and to dissolve one.
 357  Having created a global community, a nation, or a state, how would we integrate the Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act into the basic social structure.
 358  Having created a global community, a nation, or a state, how would we have the people accepting an ever closer Earth Government among them and living a global life as per the Global Constitution
 359  Actions for the good of all as per the Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities of the Global Community citizens. Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities
 360   All nations and every person on Earth live a life as global citizens
 361  The Scale of Human and Earth Rights replaces the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a guiding tool to dealing with one another
 362  Global Laws of the Global Constitution become universal and well used
 363  Obtaining a strong commitment from all Peoples to achieve a negative average annual population growth rate
 364  Adopting and actively practicing the new way of doing business
 365  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!
 366  Adopt policies to decrease world population:
Delay reproduction until later in life. Delaying reproduction is important in influencing population growth rates. Over a period of 60 years, if people delay reproduction until they are 30 years old, you would have only two generations, while if you do not delay reproduction you would have three generations (one generation every 20 years). * Spread your children farther apart.
 367  * To have fewer children overall.
 368  * Government commitment to decreasing population growth.
 369  * Create policies that help decreasing the number of children being born. Policies such as income tax deductions for dependent children and maternity and paternity leaves are essentially pronatalist and should be eliminated.
 370  Programs that are locally designed and that include information on family planning and access to contraceptives.
 371  Educational programs that emphasize the connection between family planning and social good.
 372  The vast disparities in reproductive health worldwide and the greater vulnerability of the poor to reproductive risk point to several steps all governments can take, with the support of other sectors, to improve the health of women and their families:
* Give women more life choices. The low social and economic status of women and girls sets the stage for poor reproductive health.
 373  * Invest in reproductive health care.
 374  * Encourage delays in the onset of sexual activity and first births.
 375  * Help couples prevent and manage unwanted childbearing.
 376  * Ensure universal access to maternal health care.
 377  * Support new reproductive health technologies.
 378  * Increase efforts to address the HIV pandemic.
 379  * Involve communities in evaluating and implementing programs.
 380  * Develop partnerships with the private sector, policymakers and aid donors to broaden support for reproductive health.
 381  * Measure progress.
 382  * Participate in Global Dialogue 2008 to help humanity find solutions.
 383  * More and more young people on every continent want to start bearing children later in life and to have smaller families than at any time in history. Likewise, in greater proportions than ever, women and girls in particular want to go to school and to college, and they want to find fulfilling and well-paid employment. Helping people in every country obtain the information and services they need to put these ambitions into effect is all that can be done, and all that needs to be done, to bring world population growth to a stable landing this century.
 384  We follow God's Plan, the Will of God, His New Revelations we were given just a few years ago, and His Soul of Humanity in guiding us ahead
 385   Global Community Arrest Warrants
 386  To end the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan
 387  To end the United States invasion of the Middle East, of Afghanistan, and of other neighboring nations, including China
 388  The Global Community categorically denies Israel the status of nation and of a global community
 389   Global Peace Movement and Disarmament Global Peace Movement and Disarmament
 390   Earth governance and management Earth governance and management
 391   Global Justice for all life on the planet Global Justice for all life on the planet
 392   Global Politics Global Politics
 393   Global Communities Global Communities
 394   Global Health Global Health
 395   Global Economy Global Economy
 396   Protection of the Global Environment Protection of the Global Environment
 397   Global businesses and trade Global businesses and trade
 398   Research and Development Research and Development
 399   Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act
 400   The Global Constitution The Global Constitution is for all Peoples on Earth, for the Global Community and Earth Government. It is for all life. Not just to fulfill the needs of the most powerful nation. The Global Constitution
 401   Global Dialogue Global Dialogues
 402   Global Sustainability Previous work on Global Sustainability
 403   Vision of Earth, all life, now and in 2024 Vision of Earth, all life, now and in 2024
 404  Global Environment Ministry
 405  We the Peoples are us We the Peoples are us
 406  The United Nations is attempting to take over the Global Community organization identity
 407   Urgent need of an Ombudsperson and for the following Global Ministers:
a.     Ombudsperson   
b.     Global Citizens Peace Movement   
c.     Global Health   
d.     Earth Security and Global Police;
e.     Global Community of North America (GCNA) Emergency, Rescue, and Relief Centre
 408  Celebration of Life Day
 409  A world where life is a gift of God and should be respected versus a world where the messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammad (GR)(GR), is dearer than parents, their children and themselves.
 410  Global Citizens Peace Movement
 411  Freedom of expression in the media industry vs freedom of religion and belief
 412  Love-hate relationship between the Muslem-Arab world and America
 413  Equality of women
 414  A Global Government for a people where religion is more important: democracy is not the only option to unite people as a government
 415   What Do We Know About Carbon Taxes?
 416  Land degradation and its impacts
 417  A Global Government of industrialized nations should include less advantageous nations
 418  Global politics are about the survival of all of us and all life on the planet
 419  Justice for all, and not the political-military solution, as a solution to the problem in the Middle East and Afghanistan
 420  We can do better together as friends and united as a Global Government
 421  Global Government of North America A new future to build together
 422  Global Community Earth Government (GCEG) Global Community Earth Government (GCEG)
 423  Human and Earth rights
 424  Global Governments Federation Global Governments Federation
 425  Portal of the Global Community of North America (GCNA) Global Community of North America (GCNA)
 426  Recommendations to all Peoples on Earth Recommendations to all Peoples
 427  Politics and Justice without borders: Canada and the U.S. Politics and Justice without borders: Canada and the U.S.
 428  Global citizenship Global citizenship Chapter VI of the Global Constitution
 429  Global Laws Global Laws
 430  Direct democracy
 431  People from all Nations are required to sign and ratify the Global Constitution
 432  Global Parliament approval of the Global Constitution
 433  School project: living the VISION
 434  History of the Global Community and of Earth Government
 435  Proposal for an alliance between Earth Government and all Nations
 436  Scale of human and Earth rights
 437  Earth Government Global Economic System
 438  People from all Nations are required to sign the Global Constitution
 439  Global Meeting of the Earth Government
 440  The Global Exhibition
 441  Global Community Earth Government denounces the FTAA, an American initiative to take the economic control of resources of the Americas
 442  Global Community Earth Government denounces the NAFTA, an American initiative to take the economic control of resources of North America
 443  Earth Government Global Law, the Global Constitution, Statutes, Codes and Bills
 444  Global governance and Earth management
 445  Global economy and trade
 446  A universal health care, employment and education for every global community citizen
 447  Management of world financial institutions
 448  Settling of disputes between nations
 449  Management of Earth resources
 450  Creation of biodiversity zones
 451  Global tax
 452  Global response to events in the world
 453  Climate change: responsibilities and accountabilities of cities, global citizens and nations
 454  Protection of the global life-support systems
 455  The last hundred years of oil and gas worldwide
 456  Cities and global communities: power to govern themselves, rights, responsibilities and accountabilities


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Global Dialogue 2006 Issues

 Global Dialogue 2006
Issues #		  Read contents
 266   Send us your own short version of the Global Constitution. The Global Constitution approved by Global Parliament It has to be developed from the actual longer version approved by Global Parliament.
 267   Send us your own short version of the proposed Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act It has to be developed from the actual longer version.
 268  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 2.     Global Community
 269  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 2.1    Definition and global concepts
 270  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 2.2    Establishment of global communities
 271  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 3.     Global politics
 272  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 4.     Global Community Earth Government (GCEG)
 273  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 5.     Global citizenship criteria
 274  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 6.     Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities of the Global Community citizens
 275  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 7.     Scale of Human and Earth Rights
 276  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 8.     The Global Constitution
 277  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.     Global citizens responsibility and accountability
 278  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.1    Public accountability of autonomous public organizations
 279  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.2    Ideas about accountability
 280  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.3     Conflicts within components of accountability
 281  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.4     Role of the Secretary of the Global Council
 282  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.5     Recommendations to modernize the Secretary’s role, and reinforce the integrity of the centre
 283  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.6     Responsibility, accountability and the role of Deputy Ministers in the GCEG
 284  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.7     Ministerial responsibility and the Global Financial Administration Act: the constitutional obligation to account for GCEG spending
 285  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.8     The fundamental principles underlying responsible global parliamentary government
 286  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.9     The evolving nature of GCEG
 287  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.10     Factors that have affected and altered the nature of government and governance in the world over the last 150 years
 288  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.11     Political actors versus professional actors
 289  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.12     The relationship between the exempt staff serving the President and the public servants
 290  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.13     The interface between political actors and professional actors
 291  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.14     The multiple responsibilities and accountabilities of Deputy Ministers
 292  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.15     Mechanisms for political and professional financial accountability
 293  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.16     The Global Parliament procedure and merits
 294  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.17     The responsibilities of an accounting officer
 295  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.18     The roles and accountabilities of Deputy Ministers/Accounting Officers
 296  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.19     Ministerial responsibility and the Global Financial Administration Act: the Constitutional obligation to account for GCEG spending
 297  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.20     Ministerial responsibility in GCEG
 298  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.21     The constitutional basis of global ministerial responsibility
 299  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.22     The statutory basis of financial accountability
 300  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.23     Responsibility, accountability, liability
 301  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.24     Recent statements on responsibility and accountability
 302  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.25     Accountability of Deputy Ministers
 303  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.26     Deputy Ministers’ direct accountability
 304  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.27     Deputy Ministers’ indirect accountability
 305  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.28     Conflict resulting from Deputy Ministers’ accountabilities
 306  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.29     The problem known as “regulation within government”
 307  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.30     Alternative patterns of governance and accountability
 308  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.31     What might be the best model of policy administration?
 309  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.32     Performance management
 310  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 9.33     The Global Community interest
 311  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.     More responsible actions to improve the system of government
 312  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.1    List "A"
 313  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.2    End the influence of money in global politics
 314  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.3    Toughen the Lobbyists Registration Act
 315  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.4    Ban secret donations to political candidates
 316  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.5    Make qualified government appointments
 317  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.6    Clean up government polling and advertising
 318  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.7    Clean up the procurement of government contracts
 319  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.8    Provide real protection for whistleblowers
 320  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.9    Ensure truth in budgeting with a Global Parliamentary Budget Office
 321  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.10    Strengthen the power of the Auditor General
 322  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.11    Strengthen the role of the GCEG Ethics Commissioner
 323  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.12    Strengthen Access to Information legislation
 324  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 10.13    Strengthen auditing and accountability within departments
 325  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 11.     Corporate global citizens responsibility and accountability
 326  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 12.     Corporate global citizens ethics
 327  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 13.     Preventive actions against polluters
 328  Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act 14.     Business and trade responsibility and accountability: new way of doing business and trade for everyone


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Global Dialogue 2005 Issues
 Global Dialogue 2005
Issues #		  Read contents
 60   Global governance and global civic ethic. Global governance and global civic ethic
 61   Agriculture and needs of the Global Community Agriculture and needs of the Global Community
 62   Eradicating poverty Eradicating poverty
 63   Ecology of the new world Ecology of the new world
 64   Global policies and strategies for managing world overpopulation Global policies and strategies for managing world overpopulation
 65   The Kyoto Protocol The Kyoto Protocol
 66   Climate change adaptation and global warming Climate change adaptation and global warming
 67   City planning City planning
 68   Home and community development Home and community development
 69   Settling of disputes between nations Settling of disputes between nations
 70   Reforming the WTO Reforming the WTO
 71   Global dialogue and participation Global dialogue and participation
 72   Human rights Human rights
 73   Societal sustainability Societal sustainability
 74   Sound solutions for an equitable global sustainable development Sound solutions for an equitable global sustainable development
 75   Youth participation Youth participation
 76   Waste management Waste management
 77   Women rights and issues Women rights and issues
 78   Teaching and education Teaching and education
 79   Business Business
 80   Cultural rights Cultural rights
 81   Environment Environment
 82   Spirituality and religion Spirituality and religion
 83   Global economy and trade Global economy and trade
 84   Global cooperation and symbiotical relationships between communities and nations Global cooperation and symbiotical relationships between communities and nations
 85   Genetics Genetics
 86   Arts Arts
 87   Earth rights Earth rights
 88   Biological diversity Biological diversity
 89   Cities: power, rights and responsiblities Cities: power, rights and responsiblities
 90   Democracy Democracy
 91   Measuring sustainable development and well-being Measuring sustainable development and well-being
 92   Literature Literature
 93   Alternative energies Alternative energies
 94   Models of global governance Models of global governance
 95   Scenarios of humanity's future Scenarios of humanity's future
 96   Global life-support systems protection Global life-support systems protection
 97   Ecological resources Ecological resources
 98   The Global Community overall picture and assessment The Global Community overall picture and assessment
 99   Engineering Engineering
 100   Recycling and biodegradability Recycling and biodegradability
 101   Forestry Forestry
 102   Abolition of weapons of mass destruction Abolition of weapons of mass destruction
 103   Global Community Citizenship Global Community Citizenship
 104   Statement of rights and responsibilities Statement of rights and responsibilities
 105   Public Health Public Health
 106   Corporate accountability and global ethics Corporate accountability and global ethics
 107   Universal health care Universal health care
 108   Building and construction Building and construction
 109   Social and Human Development Social and Human Development<
 110   Conservation strategies Conservation strategies
 111   Sustainable development Sustainable development
 112   Sciences and technology Sciences and technology
 113   Preventive actions against polluters Preventive actions against polluters
 114   Water resources Water resources
 115   Global ministries Global ministries
 116   Peace movement Peace movement
 117   Promoting the Global Community Promoting the Global Community
 118   Earth security Earth security
 119   Reforming the United Nations Reforming the United Nations
 120   Drinking water and clean air Drinking water and clean air
 121   Primordial human and Earth rights Primordial human and Earth rights
 122   Global tax Global tax
 123   Information and communications technologies (ICTs) Information and communications technologies (ICTs)
 124   Management of Earth resources Management of Earth resources
 125   Trade Trade
 126   Restoration of the planet, our home Restoration of the planet, our home
 127   Celebration of Life Day Celebration of Life Day
 128   Earth Court of Justice Earth Court of Justice
 129   Global governance and Earth management Global governance and Earth management
 130   Scale of Human and Earth Rights Scale of Human and Earth Rights
 131   Climate change Climate change
 132   Charter of the Global Community Charter of the Global Community
 133   Politic Politic
 134   Justice Justice
 135   Humanity's new vision of the world Humanity's new vision of the world
 136   Mitigating GHGs in Power Sector Mitigating GHGs in Power Sector
 137   Earth flag
 138   Global election
 139   Charter of the Global Community
 140   Earth Court of Justice
 141   Global Ministries
 142   Earth Security
 143   Global governance
 144   Government services
 145   Global Council
 146   Judiciary
 147   International agreements
 148   Nations agreements
 149   Earth management
 150   Global Dialogue
 151   Conference of Presidents
 152   Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee
 153   Council of Ministers
 154   Delegations from Civil Society
 155   Global Community Ombudsman
 156   Parliament
 157   Member States
 158   Member States Rights and Privileges ]
 159   Other Constitutions
 160   Charters of Freedom
 161   Participants
 162   Advisory Board
 163   Governing Bodies
 164   Youth involvement
 165   Communities tell us
 166   Global Dialogue 2005
 167   Global Constitution
 168   the Global Community
 169   Parliament
 171   Civil Society
 172   Citizenship
 173   Global co-operation
 174   Justice without borders
 175   Politics without borders ]
 176   Vision of the world ]
 177   Peoples ideas
 178   Recommendations
 179   Overall picture
 180   Universal values
 181   Constitutional  Affairs  Committee ]
 182   Government meetings schedule ]
 183   University projects ]
 184   Activists work
 185   Promoting materials ]
 186   Bill of Human and Earth Rights
 187   Governance
 188   Earth management
 189   Earth  Governance
 190   Global  Governance
 191   European  Constitution
 192   The United States of America  Constitution
 193   Constitutions of other nations
 194   Draft  of  the  Global  Constitution
 195   The Global Constitution for all Peoples
 196   The Global Constitution and families
 197   The Global Constitution and businesses
 198   The Global Constitution and religion
 199   The Global Constitution and work
 200   The Global Constitution and security
 201   The Global Constitution and health
 202   The Global Constitution and poverty
 203   The Global Constitution and development
 204   The Global Constitution and resources
 205   Protect global life-support systems
 206   The Global Constitution and pollution
 207   The Global Constitution and environment
 208   The Global Constitution and biodiversity
 209   The Global Constitution and social aspects
 210   Sciences and technologies for the Peoples
 211   The Global Constitution and politics
 212   Scale of Human and Earth Rights
 213   New way of doing business in the world
 214   Reaching  out  to  the  Peoples ]
 215   Constitution  of  Canada ]
 216   Globa l rescues  and  emergencies
 217   Primordial Human and Earth Rights
 218   The Global Constitution and wars
 219   Member States Rights and Privileges
 220   Global  election
 221   The  Global  Constitution  and  terrorism ]
 222   Global Constitution and overpopulation
 223   The Global Constitution and NGOs
 224   Financing the Global Parliament
 225   Climate change and global warming
 226   Restoration of the planet, our home
 227   The Global Community Peace Movement
 228   The Global Constitution and symbiotical relationships ]
 229   Global standards and codes
 230   The Global Constitution and working conditions
 231   Global strategy on fresh waters
 232   Global transparency
 233   Trade and trade disputes
 234   Global symbiotical relationships
 235   Money trading and stocks
 236   Space exploration
 237   Global social issues
 238   A shelter for every global citizen
 239   A global strategy for research and development
 240   Research and development
 241   The Global Constitution and racism
 242   Replacing currencies for plastics
 243   A global strategy for oceans
 244   Global Ministries and meetings
 245   Global Community Justice Network
 246   Protecting human rights
 247   A global strategy for human resources
 248   Governance
 249   Global food supplies
 250   Freedom, security, justice and democracy
 251   A global strategy for forests
 252   A global strategy on fishery
 253   Global fight against crime
 254   Global energy needs
 255   The Global Constitution and education
 256   Earth Court of Justice
 257   Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
 258   The same currency for all
 259   The compassionate global society
 260   The Global Constitution and communications
 261   Collecting the global tax
 262   The Global Constitution and Civil Law
 263   Asylum, immigration and border control
 264   Global Community Arrest Warrant
 265   A global agricultural strategy


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Global Dialogue 2004 Issues

 Global Dialogue 2004
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 Issues 1 to 15  Read
 Issues 16 to 31  Read
 Issues 32 to 47  Read
Issues 48 to 59  Read

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1.    Protection of the global life-support systems.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
2.    Overpopulated planet.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
3.    Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
4.    The Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities of a person and of belonging to 'a global community' and to 'The Global Community', the Earth Community, the human family.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
5.    Results of comparing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and charters of nations around the world with the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
6.    Political systems of nations dont have to be democracies.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
7.    A global symbiotical relationship between nations.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
8.    The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
9.    Earth resources.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
10.    Formation of Earth Government for the good of all.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
11.    Mines, and mining the impacts.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
12.    The war industry, the modern evil at work.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
13.    Peace movement of the Earth Community Organization (ECO).[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
14.    Earth security.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
15.    Earth governance.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
16.    Earth Court of Justice.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
17.    Foundation of the new world order.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
18.    Global cooperation in health issues.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
19.    Global community concepts.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
20.    Global cooperation in helping the starving world.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
21.    Humanity scale of social values.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
22.    Upgrading the WTO and the FTAA to symbiotical relationships.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
23.     Earth Government vs the United Nations.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
24.    Business and trade, and new ways of doing business.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
25.    The Kyoto Protocol is everyone's business on Earth.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
26.    Earth rights and the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
27.    Spirituality, religious beliefs and the protection of the global life-support systems.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
28.    Preventive actions against the worst polluters on the planet and those who destroy the global life-support systems.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
29.    Global tax.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
30.    Scenarios of what might be humanity's future.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
31.    Vision of the Earth in year 2024.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
32.    Global strategies.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
33.    Consumerism.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
34.    Charter of the Earth Community.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
35.    Community rights on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
36.     A global sustainable development.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
37.    Women's rights.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
38.    Water resources.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
39.    Bullying occurring at the United Nations, and case of a predator nation.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
40.    Criteria to obtain one ECO, the Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
41.    Children's education.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
42.    Mass media are instrumental in the socialization of youth.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
43.    Commercial exploitation of children.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
44.    Child pornography on Internet.[ Articles published ]p [ Participate ]
45.    Same sex marriages.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
46.     Justice is for everyone, anywhere and anytime.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
47.    Climate change adaptation.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
48.    Agriculture, its practices in the field, and needs of the Global Community.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
49.    Food production and global health.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
50.    Cattle and beef industry, its animal feeding practices, and global trade.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
51.    Forestry, forest industry and its practices, logging and pulp mills, and global trade.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
52.    Space exploration.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
53.    Profit-based conservation strategies for natural ecosystems.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
54.    Cities and global communities: power to govern themselves, rights and responsibilities.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
55.    Societal sustainability.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
56.    War in the Middle East and in Afghanistan.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
57.    The World Parliament of The United Peoples.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
58.    Because of the ways it is affecting us in North America and the Global Community, Canadians want to have a say in the decision-making of U.S. Government foreign policies and of the type of actions to be taken concerning potentially dangerous situations.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
59.    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
60.    Global governance and global civic ethic.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]


1.    Protection of the global life-support systems.

There are many related aspects of the global life-support systems that is affected by an overpopulated planet:
* 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
November 2003 Newsletter: 3.1, 5.0
April 2003 Newsletter: 8D
November 2002 Newsletter: 2A, 2B, 2F
December 2002 Newsletter: 2C, 2D, 2F, 2G
January 2003 Newsletter: 2F
Press release #9

2.    Overpopulated planet.

October 2002 Newsletter: 2B, 7B, 7H
February 2003 Newsletter: 2D
April 2003 Newsletter: 8A
May 2003 Newsletter: 7J
June 2003 Newsletter: A
October 2003 Newsletter: 3A, 5D
November 2003 Newsletter: 2A, 3.2
Press release #6

3.    Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship.

June 2000 Newsletter: 6, 7, 12
August 2003 Newsletter: 8G
September 2003 Newsletter: 4A, 4B, 4C, 5A, 5B
October 2003 Newsletter: 3C, 4A, 4C, 5A
Press release #8

4.    The Statement of rights, responsibilities, and accountabilities of a person and of belonging to 'a global community' and to 'The Global Community', the Earth Community, the human family.

June 2000 Newsletter: 6, 7, 12
November 2002 Newsletter: 2Q, 2R
July 2003 Newsletter: 5A, 5B
August 2003 Newsletter: 7
Press release #7

5.    Results of comparing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and charters of nations around the world with the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.

May 2003 Newsletter: C
August 2003 Newsletter: 8F
December 2003 Newsletter: 2.0

6.    Political systems of nations dont have to be democracies.

December 2002 Newsletter: 2E
November 2002 Newsletter: 2M

7.    A global symbiotical relationship between nations.

September 2002 Newsletter: 5A, 5B, 5D, 5E
November 2002 Newsletter: 2O, 2P
January 2003 Newsletter: 2C
April 2003 Newsletter: 8D
May 2003 Newsletter: 7G, 7H

8.    The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

September 2002 Newsletter: 5A, 5B, 5C, 5H, 5I
December 2003 Newsletter: 3C

9.    Earth resources.

September 2002 Newsletter: 5G
January 2003 Newsletter: 2F
February 2003 Newsletter: 2E
November 2003 Newsletter: 3.1
December 2003 Newsletter: 3A, 3E

10.    Formation of Earth Government for the good of all.

January 2003 Newsletter: 2C, 2D
October 2002 Newsletter: 7B, 7H
November 2002 Newsletter: 2K, 2L, 2N
December 2003 Newsletter: 2B
April 2003 Newsletter: 8G
Press release #5
Press release #6
Press release #7

11.    Mines, and mining the impacts.

April 2003 Newsletter: 8C
December 2003 Newsletter: 3E

12.    The war industry, the modern evil at work.

September 2002 Newsletter: 5K
October 2002 Newsletter: 7F, 7G, 7K
November 2002 Newsletter: 2E
January 2003 Newsletter: 2J
February 2003 Newsletter: 2G, 2H
April 2003 Newsletter: 8F, 8I
June 2003 Newsletter: B
July 2003 Newsletter: A, 6D, 6F, 6G
August 2003 Newsletter: 8H
Press release #4

13.    Peace movement of the Earth Community Organization (ECO).

September 2002 Newsletter: 5F, 5K
October 2002 Newsletter: 7A, 7F, 7G
November 2002 Newsletter: 2C, 2E, 2T
December 2002 Newsletter: 2E
February 2003 Newsletter: 2C
July 2003 Newsletter: 6B, 6F, 6G
Press release #4


14.    Earth security.

April 2003 Newsletter: 8J
November 2002 Newsletter: 2C, 2R
July 2003 Newsletter: 6G

15.    Earth governance.

November 1999 Newsletter: 12.d
September 2002 Newsletter: 3O
October 2002 Newsletter: 7H
November 2002 Newsletter: 2A, 2K, 2L, 2O
December 2002 Newsletter: 2B
January 2003 Newsletter: 2D
April 2003 Newsletter: 8K
Press release #5
Press release #6
Press release #7

16.    Earth Court of Justice.

October 2002 Newsletter: 7A
December 2002 Newsletter: 2H
February 2003 Newsletter: 2G
April 2003 Newsletter: 8L
May 2003 Newsletter: 7I
July 2003 Newsletter: 6C, 6D
September 2003 Newsletter: 5K
December 2003 Newsletter: 3D

17.    Foundation of the new world order.

December 2002 Newsletter: 2B
January 2003 Newsletter: 2D
April 2003 Newsletter: 8M
May 2003 Newsletter: 7D
Press release #5
Press release #6
Press release #7

18.    Global cooperation in health issues.

January 2003 Newsletter: 2C
May 2003 Newsletter: 5
November 2003 Newsletter: 2O, 3.2

19.    Global community concepts.

August 1999 Newsletter: 4.12, 4.13
June 2000 Newsletter: 6, 7, 12
December 2002 Newsletter: 2F
May 2003 Newsletter: E
June 2003 Newsletter: D
October 2003 Newsletter: 4D

20.    Global cooperation in helping the starving world.

November 2002 Newsletter: 2O
July 2003 Newsletter: 4A, 6A
November 2003 Newsletter: 3.2

21.    Humanity scale of social values.

June 2000 Newsletter: 6, 7, 12
November 2002 Newsletter: 2Q, 2R
December 2002 Newsletter: 2A, 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H
April 2003 Newsletter: 8D
May 2003 Newsletter: 7B, 7C
July 2003 Newsletter: 6E
August 2003 Newsletter: 8B, 8C

22.    Upgrading the WTO and the FTAA to symbiotical relationships.

September 2002 Newsletter: 5A, 5B, 5C, 5H, 5I
October 2002 Newsletter: 7E
July 2003 Newsletter: 6H
August 2003 Newsletter: 8E

23.    Earth Government vs the United Nations.

October 2002 Newsletter: 7J, 7K
November 2002 Newsletter: 2D, 2N, 2O
July 2003 Newsletter: 4B, 6I
January 2003 Newsletter: 2D
Press release #5
Press release #6
Press release #7

24.    Business and trade, and new ways of doing business.

September 2002 Newsletter: 5A, 5B, 5C, 5H, 5I
October 2002 Newsletter: 7D
January 2003 Newsletter: 2B
August 2003 Newsletter: 6A, 6C, 8A, 8D

25.    The Kyoto Protocol is everyone's business on Earth.

October 2002 Newsletter: 7I
November 2002 Newsletter: 2F, 2I
December 2002 Newsletter: 2C, 2D
April 2003 Newsletter: 8D
August 2003 Newsletter: 6B
November 2003 Newsletter: 3.1
Press release #9

26.    Earth rights and the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.

December 2002 Newsletter: 2G, 2F
January 2003 Newsletter: 2F
February 2003 Newsletter: 2I, 2J, 2K, 2L
August 2003 Newsletter: 8B, 8C

27.    Spirituality, religious beliefs and the protection of the global life-support systems.

August 1999 Newsletter: 4.5, 4.7
October 2002 Newsletter: 7C
November 2002 Newsletter: 2G
December 2002 Newsletter: 2F
April 2003 Newsletter: 8D, 8E
May 2003 Newsletter: 7A

28.    Preventive actions against the worst polluters on the planet and those who destroy the global life-support systems.

August 1999 Newsletter: 4.b
November 1999 Newsletter: 12.e, 12.f
December 2002 Newsletter: 2G
January 2003 Newsletter: 2B, 2F
February 2003 Newsletter: 2G
May 2003 Newsletter: 7F
October 2003 Newsletter: 3C, 5A, 7I, 7K
Press release #9

29.    Global tax.

September 2002 Newsletter: 5I
October 2003 Newsletter: 4B

30.    Scenarios of what might be humanity's future.

June 2000 Newsletter: 8
November 2002 Newsletter: 2H
January 2003 Newsletter: 2E

31.    Vision of the Earth in year 2024.

June 2000 Newsletter: 8
November 2002 Newsletter: 2H
January 2003 Newsletter: 2E

32.    Global strategies.

November 2002 Newsletter: 2Q
December 2002 Newsletter: 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H
January 2003 Newsletter: 2F
Press release #9

33.    Consumerism.

October 2002 Newsletter: 7D
November 2002 Newsletter: 2T
January 2003 Newsletter: 2B

34.    Charter of the Earth Community.

December 2002 Newsletter: 2E, 2F, 2G, 2H, 2I
January 2003 Newsletter: 2I

35.    Community rights on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.

November 1999 Newsletter: 12.d
January 2003 Newsletter: 2A
February 2003 Newsletter: 2F

36.    A global sustainable development.

November 1999 Newsletter: 12.c
June 2000 Newsletter: 6, 7, 12
January 2003 Newsletter: 2G, 2H, 2K, 2L
February 2003 Newsletter: 2I, 2J, 2L

37.    Women's rights.

February 2003 Newsletter: 2B
April 2003 Newsletter: 8A

38.    Water resources.

January 2003 Newsletter: 2F
February 2003 Newsletter: 2E

39.    Bullying occurring at the United Nations, and case of a predator nation.

September 2002 Newsletter: 5C
October 2002 Newsletter: 7K
December 2003 Newsletter: 8C
October 2003 Newsletter: 5B
April 2003 Newsletter: 8G, 8H

40.    Criteria to obtain one ECO, the Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship

September 2003 Newsletter: 2, 4C, 5A, 5B
October 2003 Newsletter: 4C

41.    Children's education.

August 1999 Newsletter: 4.14, 4.16
November 1999 Newsletter: 12.a, 12.b
September 2002 Newsletter: 5J
November 2003 Newsletter: 3.2

42.    Mass media are instrumental in the socialization of youth.

November 2002 Newsletter: 2R

43.    Commercial exploitation of children.


44.    Child pornography on Internet.

October 2003 Newsletter: 3B
February 2003 Newsletter: 3A

45.    Same sex marriages.

May 2003 Newsletter: 7J
October 2003 Newsletter: 5D

46.    Justice is for everyone, anywhere and anytime.

September 2002 Newsletter: 5K
October 2002 Newsletter: 7A
December 2002 Newsletter: 7H

47.    Climate change adaptation.

October 2002 Newsletter: 7I
November 2002 Newsletter: 2F, 2I
December 2002 Newsletter: 2C, 2D
April 2003 Newsletter: 8D
August 2003 Newsletter: 6B
November 2003 Newsletter: 3.1
Press release #9

48.    Agriculture, its practices in the field, and needs of the Global Community.


49.    Food production and global health.


50.    Cattle and beef industry, its animal feeding practices, and global trade.


51.    Forestry, forest industry and its practices, logging and pulp mills, and global trade.

September 2002 Newsletter: 5G
January 2003 Newsletter: 2H, 2K, 2L
February 2003 Newsletter: 3I, 3J, 3K, 3L

52.    Space exploration.


53.    Profit-based conservation strategies for natural ecosystems.


54.    Cities and global communities: power to govern themselves, rights and responsibilities.


55.    Societal sustainability.


56.    War in the Middle East and in Afghanistan.


57.    The World Parliament of The United Peoples.


58.    Because of the ways it is affecting us in North America and the Global Community, Canadians want to have a say in the decision-making of U.S. Government foreign policies and of the type of actions to be taken concerning potentially dangerous situations.


59.    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY.

March 2004 Newsletter:    article #2

60.    Global governance and global civic ethic.

November 2004 Newsletter:    Parts 3 and 6


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Global Dialogue 2002 Issues

Global Dialogue 2002 was about Earth Management - all Peoples together. It was held in Toronto at the Harbourfront Community Centre, 627 Queen's Quay West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You may read about the Proceedings of Global Dialogue 2002. These Proceedings include Issues and Workshop Sessions of Global Dialogue 2002

The Index is shown here.


Index

1. Scheduling
2. Introduction and Procedure
3. Workshop sessions on Earth Management
4. Workshop session leaders
5. Summary of all Comments and Recommendations from Participants
6. Concluding Remark


Global Dialogue 2002 started August 1st, 2002 on Internet. The period August 17-22 was a time for Workshop Sessions to be held in Toronto and a time for summarizing results, and August 31 was the closing of the Global Dialogue.

Global Dialogue 2002 was being held all over the planet. Our website was used to relate results to everyone so as to continue the discussions with everyone else on Earth.

Their were several Workshop Sessions on Earth Management and were listed here below and in the Proceedings.

Leaders of the Workshop Sessions were allowed to organize their sessions in their own town, university or home, wherever , as long as they assumed all costs. Noone was being paid for their work and expenses. This was strictly on a volunteering basis and no money was available or will be available. Leaders were also required to invite the public, experts and all Participants to their Discussion Roundtables. This was a grassroots process and everyone was invited.

Leaders did not have to do this. They may have even up-out of this process at any time without penalties of any kind. We are breaking grounds with the Global Dialogue and in the ways international conferences may be held in the future. Noone has ever organized a Global Dialogue having people (including the general public) from all over the planet participating interactively from their own town, community, universities or homes.

Daily results of the Workshop Sessions usually included comments and recommendations and were to be sent by email to
globalcommunity@telus.net
in the message area of the email.

All Participants were invited to send their comments and recommendations to the Leaders of their choice.

All Leaders were required to send an Opening Statement related to their Workshop Session. A Closing Statement was also being sent during the period August 17-22.

All Leaders were asked to contact (by email) paper submitters who have written Lead Papers within their respective Workshop Sessions and ask for comments and recommendations. During the period August 17-22, Leaders were asked to summarize results and email them as well.

A listing of the Workshop Sessions is shown here.

Workshop Sessions
August 17, 2002
9:30 am - 12:15 pm        Registration
1:15 pm - 3:00 pm        Opening Ceremony
3:15 pm - 5:30 pm        Session A
1) Consumerism 2) Consumer rights and their human rights 3) Universal values 4) Consumer responsibilities and human responsibilities 5) The Glass Bubble concept of ‘a Global Community’ 6) The Global Community, the human family, the Earth Community 7) The Gross Sustainable Development Product (GSDP) 8) Measuring and assessing Earth management with a comprehensive set of indicators. 9) Sustainable Development for the New Age Civilization. 10) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Earth Management.
August 18
9:30 am - 10:30 am        Session B
1) Religious aspects of Earth Management 2) How does a religion support a sound management of the planet? 3) The new religion of the Guiding Souls, and the Soul of humanity, make it possible to all religions to coexist in harmony. 4) Humanity's higher purpose. 5) Leadership of a nation and religion. 6) The New Age Revelations, by God. 7) The Soul of Humanity's Message. 8) Religion and environmental conservation.
10:45 am - 12:15 pm        Session C
1) Moral responsibility and accountability of all nations 2) Peace Movement of the Earth Community 3) Promoting Peace in the world as a way of life and shelving the war industry forever from humanity 4) The immediate formation of the Earth Ministry of Health 5) Abolition of Nuclear Weapons: security, sustainability and justice in a nuclear free future.
1:15 pm - 3:00 pm        Session D
1) The state of the world today is the result of a specific set of interlocking institutions: the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. The debt of the poor or 'developing' nations to the rich nations was in actuality a form of global tax and therefore they dont have to pay it back. The Earth Court of Justice will be asked to decide on the debt be changed into an actual global tax to be paid by the rich nations to the poor nations, and to decide on the amount of tax to be paid. 2) Native rights in the province of British Columbia are classified as ecological and primordial human and Earth rights and therefore supersede in importance the rights of the greatest number of people of the province. 3) Poster presentation and student project viewing 4) A global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations.
3:15 pm - 5:30 pm        Session E
1) The Soul of Humanity 2) Global corporate ethics 3) Corporate social responsibility 4) Designing, monitoring, and implementing checks and balances for corporations 5) Corporations are required to expand their responsibilities to include human rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects. 6) Freshwater and clean air as Human and Earth Rights.
August 19
9:30 am - 10:30 am        Session F
1) Recommendations of the Earth Community Organization to heads of State and Government, national delegates and leaders from non-governmental organizations, businesses and other major groups of the Johannesburg Summit 2002on Sustainable Development. We have already included in the 'Summary of Recommendations from Participants' a short list of recommendations obtained during a previous dialogue: Global 2000. Global 2000 was the World Congress on Managing and Measuring Sustainable Development - Global Community Action 1 held in August 2000. The same issues discussed during Global 2000 are relevant to the Global Dialogue 2002 on Earth Management - all People together. Several new issues were added for Global Dialogue 2002. All research papers of Global 2000 are still available for reading at . 2) Special interest group and workshop 3) Agricultural Sustainability
10:45 am - 12:15 pm        Session G
1) Trade and globalization 2) The definition of 'Sustainable Development' with the idea that free trade and the planetary trading blocks are serving the Human Family, and not the other way around for the benefits of a few people on the planet 3) Global cooperation, the new way of doing business, ‘a new way of life’. 4) Trade and the Way of Life of the West to include ethical and moral values, responsibility and accountability in all situations and places. 5) The Summit of the Americas, the FTAA and Earth Management. 6) The Peoples Revolution of the New Age.
1:15 pm - 3:00 pm        Session H
1)The Scale of Human and Earth Rights 2) Reforming the structure and voting system of the United Nations organization 3) The Charter of the Earth Community 4) The annulment of the special voting privileges of the Five Permanent Members of the UN, and the establishment of a voting system that give to each nation one vote per million people. 5) The establishment of the Scale of Human and Earth Rights as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
3:15 pm - 5:30 pm        Session I
1) Models of the Earth Government 2) Establishing the foundation of the Earth Gov. 3) Democracy of the New Age Civilization will blossom out of the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. 4) Earth Environmental Governance.
August 20
9:30 am - 10:30 am        Session J
1) Evolution, Creation, Intelligent Design, and now, the Guiding Souls to serve God 2) History in making: the end of superpowers, the birth of the New Age Civilization, the age of global co-operation 3) Proposing our Charter to the FTAA
10:45 am - 12:15 pm        Session K
1) On the creation of a new nation through the process of the Earth Court of Justice: Palestinians and Jews of Israel are invited to the global dialogue to create sustainable communities and a permanent peace movement in the land. 2) Poster presentation and student project viewing 3) New symbiotical relationships between the nations to the North with those of the South
1:15 pm - 3:00 pm        Session L
1) Establishing fundamental aspects and criteria of the New Age Civilization: all Peoples together, the Human Family, the Soul of Humanity, the Earth Community, the Global Community, Global Economic Cooperation, Earth Governance, Earth Environmental Governance, global cooperation, global Ministries, and Earth Government. 2) Leadership for the Human Family: Reflective Human Action for a Culture of Peace.
3:15 pm - 5:30 pm        Session M
1) Reforming the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the FTAA 2) Global financial institutions serving the Earth Community 3) 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 4) Means and action plan of eradicating poverty in the world. 5) The formation of global ministries to manage the world affairs in several aspects of our lives: energy, agriculture, environment, health, Earth resources, Earth management, security and safety, emergencies and rescues, trade, banks, speculation on world markets, peace, family and human development, water resources protection, family and human development, water resources protection, youth, education, justice, science and technology, finance, human resources, ethics, human and Earth rights, sustainable development, industry, and manufacturing products, etc. Global ministries will be given power to rule themselves in harmony with each other. The WTO will not be the only global ministry that can rule on cases related to trade.
August 21
9:30 am - 10:30 am        ECO annual meeting
10:45 am - 12:15 pm        Session N
1) The Earth Court of Justice 2) The Earth Ministry of Justice 3) The Earth Ministry of the Environment 4) Formation of other global ministries 5) The Earth Resources Ministry: assessing, compiling, managing and protecting Earth resources, and the Earth Court of Justice prosecuting cases involving crimes related to the relentless misused of the Earth resources.
15 pm - 3:00 pm        Session O
1) Settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice: the peoples of Kashmir, India and Pakistan are invited to dialogue about the disputed territory of Kashmir. 2) The Earth Court of Justice be asked to prohibit the process of market speculation worldwide, abolish speculation altogether. It can bankrupt a country's economy in seconds. Speculation should be de-institutionalized. Humanity has no real need for speculation, and it does way more damage than good. 3) Fight against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. 4) Poster presentation and student project viewing
3:15 pm - 5:30 pm        Session P
1) Restoration of the planet, our home 2) Global Warming and ratifying the Kyoto Protocol 3) Climate Change 4) Closing Ceremony
August 22
Guided tours. Meet at the site at 9:30 am.
 
 

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Global Dialogue 2000 Issues
Global Dialogue 2000 was the Global Dialogue of the World Congress on Managing and Measuring Sustainable Development - Global Community Action 1 that started August 1st, 2000, on the Internet. The same issues listed below were relevant to Global Dialogue 2002 Earth Management - all People together. We are showing here the Index of Global Dialogue 2000.

Index 1. Scheduling
2. Introduction and Procedure
3. Discussion Roundtables

* Social
* Environment
* Economic Development
* Availability of Resources

4. Discussion roundtable leaders
5. Summary of all Comments and Recommendations from Participants
6. Concluding Remark

The listing of the issues is shown here:
Issues and Discussion Roundtables of Global 2000

Global Dialogue 2002 was being held all over the planet. Our website was used to relate results to everyone so as to continue the dialogue with everyone else on Earth.

Global Dialogue 2000 had 73 Discussion Roundtables divided into the four interacting blocks: Social (37), Environment (16), Economics (8) and Availability of Resources (12).

Leaders of the Discussion Roundtables were allowed to organize their sessions in their own town, university or home, wherever, as long as they assumed all costs. Noone was being paid for their work and expenses. This was strictly on a volunteering basis and no money was made available or will be available. Leaders have also invited the public, experts and all Participants to their Discussion Roundtable. This was a grassroots process and everyone was invited.

Leaders were chosen. They did not have to do this. They were given the opportunity to up-out of this process at any time without penalties of any kind. We are breaking grounds with the World Congress and in the ways international conferences may be held in the future. Noone had ever organized a World Congress having people (including the general public) from all over the planet participating interactively from their own town, community, universities or homes.

Daily results of the Discussion Roundtables usually include comments and recommendations and were to be sent by email to globalcommunity@telus.net
in the message area of the email.

All Participants were invited to send their comments and recommendations to the Leaders of their choice. Participants were required to communicate with their leaders of interest and were required to discuss via email and send comments and recommendations to them.


The listing of the 73 Discussion Roundtables is shown here.

Social Aspects

1. On well-being, the healthy family and the community
2. The role of families
3. Women's issues
4. Personal sustainable development pathway
5. Social development
6. Earth Charter
7. Aboriginal peoples
8. Human Rights
9. Quality of Life
10. Global Ethics
11. Genetic resources
12. Public discussions: listening to all voices
13. Eradication of poverty
14. Wars, armed conflicts, and violence
15. Earth management
16. Cooperation between developing and developed countries
17. Human health
18. Education and training
19. Spiritual values helping a sustainable future
20. Transboundary agreements
21. Disability and globalization
22. Human evolutionary development
23. Institutions for Environmental Governance: issues of Community Participation and Sustainable Development
24. International and interstate conflicts on the base of environmental stress
25. Social-economical problems of environmental refugees
26. Sustainable urban community development
27. Globalization
28. Earth Community: its objectives, the GCAC, the Charter, the grassroots process and the organization
29. World models to sustain Earth
30. Definition of Sustainable Development
31. Vision of Earth in Year 2024
32. The Scale of Values
33. A photo display presentation for interpreting sustainability
34. Dramatic play presentation
35. Implementation of Sustainable Development
36. Measurement and assessment of indicators
37. Population Pressure


Environment Aspects


1. Ecological protection and management
2. Sustainability of technological processes
3. Marine area management
4. Land management
5. Waste management
6. Energy management
7. Ozone layer protection
8. Global warming
9. Climate changes assessment and management
10. Air pollution
11. Water pollution
12. Measurement and assessment of indicators
13. Land Degradation
14. Environmental films to stimulate the emotional perception of ecological problems and motivate people
15. Ecological Education
16. Watershed Management


Economic Development


1. Global Economic Development
2. Risk analysis to measure sustainable development for large construction projects
3. Integrated system of economy-environment accounting
4. Financing sustainable development
5. Measurement and assessment of indicators
6. Sustainability and Global Consumption
7. Sustainability, lifestyle and global consumption
8. Sustainable Agriculture and World Trade



Availability of Resources


1. Resources management
2. Farming
3. Water resources protection and management
4. Measurement and assessment of indicators
5. Energy
6. Mining
7. Tourism
8. Forest Issues and Sustainable Forestry
9. Fresh Water Resources, Clean Air and Human Rights
10. Oil and Gas Industry
11. Manufacturing Industry, Consumption and Sustainability
12. Power Industry




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