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Global Law

a)     The Portal of the Global Civilization is being researched and developed by members of the Executive Council of Global Ministers and by the Global Community through the Global Dialogue process

b)    Global Law: Earth and human rights, Statutes, Codes, Standards, Bills and Other Legislative Information. This WWW site is maintained by the Legislative Counsel of Global Parliament, pursuant to Earth Government Global Law, its legislation. Earth Government Global Law consists of 69 codes, covering various subject areas, the Global Constitution, Bills and Statutes. Information presented reflects laws currently in effect. All Earth Government Codes have been updated to include Statutes of year 2005. Researched and developed by the Global Community

c)     Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act. Researched and developed by the Global Community

d)    Global Constitution. We call upon the national governments and legislatures of the world to ratify the Global Constitution for Earth Government and elect delegates to the House of the Global Governments Federation. Researched and developed by the Global Community

e)     Agency of Global Police (AGP). Building global communities requires a mean to enforce global law that protects all life on Earth. Researched and developed by the Global Community

f)     Global Protection Agency (GPA). Global Protection Agency will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO. This is a great opportunity for globallateralism. Researched and developed by the Global Community

g)     Global Community Earth Government: Politics and Justice without borders. Prosecuting criminals on the basis of universal jurisdiction regardless of a territorial or nationality nexus requires a solid commitment of political will from national governments and the Global Community. The Earth Court of Justice will hear cases involving crimes related to the global ministries. The Court will have a dual role: to settle in accordance with international law the legal disputes submitted to it by national governments, local communities, and in some special cases by corporations, non-government-organizations and citizens, and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized organs and agencies. Researched and developed by the Global Community

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Urgent need of an Ombudsperson and for the following Global Ministers:

  a.     Introduction and requirements    
  b.     Ombudsperson   
  c.     Global Citizenship    
  d.     Global Health   
  e.     Earth Security and Global Police   
  f.     Global Community of North America (GCNA) Emergency, Rescue, and Relief Centre   
  g.    The Judiciary    
  h.    Global Protection Agency   

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Affiliated Centres for Education and Training
Requirements for participation

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Global Dialogue 2007
Politics and Justice without borders. Theme: Building Global Communities for all life
    a.     Global Dialogue 2007
    b.     Process overview
    c.     Program
    d.     Call for Papers

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Proclamations
1.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
2.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
3.    Letter sent by Bill Ellis to the Global Community
The Soul of an apathist
To be or not to be -- mortality and immortality
4.    Letter sent by Tea Kovacevic Molnar to the Global Community
God government
Jesus comments on political issues

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Report
1.     Climate Change 2007 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. It is currently finalizing its Fourth Assessment Report "Climate Change 2007". The reports by the three Working Groups provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the current state of knowledge on climate change.

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Press Briefing

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Currents News
1.     August 2007 Newsletter
2.     July 2007 Newsletter
3.     June 2007 Newsletter
4.     May 2007 Newsletter
5.     April 2007 Newsletter
6.     March 2007 Newsletter
7.     February 2007 Newsletter
8.     January 2007 Newsletter
9.     December 2006 Newsletter
10.     November 2006 Newsletter

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Global Dialogue
1.     Global Dialogue 2008
        Theme
        Issues
2.     Global Dialogue 2007
3.     Issues from previous Global Dialogues are added to issues of Global Dialogue 2006
4.     Global Dialogue 2006

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Global Peace Movement and Disarmament
1.     10 propositions pour la paix , by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Le XXIè siècle est celui du troisième millénaire, il doit anticiper l'héritage que nous laisserons à la nouvelle génération. Ce siècle peut, doit, décider comme le propose l'UNESCO que la pauvreté est une atteinte insupportable aux droits de l'homme mais plus encore, il doit décider que l'humanité est un sujet politique et juridique( déterminant comme instance de vie) supérieur à la logique économique. http://guycrequie.blogspot.com/
2.     The Global Community is given the Day of Life in the Harmonious Era Calendar , by Dr. Leo Semashko, leo44442006@yandex.ru The Quality of Social Existence and Future of Children Global Harmony Day: June 21st
3.    The U.S. Social Forum: Our Best Bet to Turn This Country Around Want justice, peace, a better life for people in this country? Want to show solidarity with international struggles? The best opportunity to do this is about to happen and you're invited. by Tara Lohan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8104/, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.
4.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
5.     Réflexion philosophique reliant dans une perspective d'harmonie la journée du 1 juin ( pour la protection de l'enfance ) et celle du 21 juin ( jour global d'harmonie.), by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Harmonie et paix - et philosophie.
6.     La dimension multiculturelle du dialogue by AMMAR BANNI, Professeur de français et poète ammarbanni@yahoo.fr Il est donc indispensable pour que la culture du dialogue établisse un système multiculturel efficace, aux niveaux régionaux et mondiaux ,et pour accomplir cette tâche ,il est recommandé que le dialogue et sa culture interculturel devraient investir pour le développement de sa culture multiculturelle qui aident les peuples et les nations pour se comprendre et se respecter ; ceci réduirait la possibilité de conflits des cultures et des civilisations . La dimension multiculturelle de la culture du dialogue favoriserait la promotion d'une culture harmonieuse qui peut empêcher l'influence dangereuse sur la société provoquant une incertitude ,une crainte, une terreur et de haine qui mènent aux conflits et aux guerres.
7.     Pour la paix, il faut penser et global et local, by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr A l'origine dote du seul certificat d'etudes, je suis devenu a  40 ans, diplome de 3ieme cycle universitaire. Je sui message du Manifeste 2000 de l'UNESCO, ambassadeur universel de la paix, laureat des Academies Europeenne et mondiale de la culture et des arts. http://www2.blogger.com/profile/16097917629603014188
8.     Le Pacte de la Culture, and La Bannière de la Paix, by Thierry Bécourt, iera.thierry@free.fr A l'origine dote du seul certificat d'etudes, je suis devenu a  40 ans, diplome de 3ieme cycle universitaire. Je sui message du Manifeste 2000 de l'UNESCO, ambassadeur universel de la paix, laureat des Academies Toutes les institutions éducatives, artistiques, scientifiques et religieuses et tous les sites ayant une valeur et une signification culturelles et historiques doivent être reconnus comme inviolables et respectés par toutes les nations, en temps de guerre comme en temps de paix. http://www.bannieredelapaix.fr/
9.     Paix et évolution, by Ammar Banni, ammarbanni@yahoo.fr f you believe in the communion of the spirits, think with us, imagine with us, proclaim with us, the universalism of peace, the right of each man to be for all the other men, the expression of the tolerance and the acceptance of the other

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Global Politics
1.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
2.     Global Warming: driving governments to take action , by John Bunzl – ISPO Founder, Trustee and Coordinator, jbunzl@simpol.org Simpol promotes the Simultaneous Policy (SP), which aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone. Global warming is now at the top of the political agenda. But why aren't governments taking the necessary action? Because any nation legislating to curb the emissions of its industries will make its economy "uncompetitive" with other countries, thus risking investment and jobs moving elsewhere.
3.     Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.
4.     Question of Direction , by Mike Nickerson and Donna Dillman, http://synchronouscity.com/dirq.php Goals are the seeds from which the future grows. When enough people understand this, the conventional wisdom will shift, moving from: our purpose is to expand production and onsumption to our purpose is to enjoy living while managing the planet for generations to come. As you know, the Question of Direction program aims to increase the rate at which this realization takes place.
5.    Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.
6.     Resource Wars: Can We Survive Them? , by Stephen Lendman , lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net Countercurrents.org This article addresses reckless living unmindful of the consequences. It's about endless wars and resources they're waged for. It's about gaining control of what we can't do without, but must learn to, or we'll risk losing far more, including the planet's ability to sustain life. If we reach that point, it won't matter except to resilient beetles and bacteria free at last from us. Instead of being an asset, superior human intelligence has us on the brink of our own self-destruction.
7.     Deaths In Other Nations Since WW II Due To Us Interventions, by James A. Lucas , published in Countercurrents.org , After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other nations, but they produced hardly a ripple.

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Societal family image aspects and issues
1.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
2.     Réflexion philosophique reliant dans une perspective d'harmonie la journée du 1 juin ( pour la protection de l'enfance ) et celle du 21 juin ( jour global d'harmonie.), by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Harmonie et paix - et philosophie.
3.    1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and democratic Governance
PLANET OF EDUCATION FOR WORLD CITIZENS Letter sent to the Global Community by Nina Goncharova, - Russia;
Co-signed by: Carol Hiltner, Jackie Stratton, Susan Quattrociocchi, Maia Rose, Theresa Fornalski, Carolyn Cilek, Clarice Sieden – USA; Claude Veziau – Canada; Igor Zinger, David Kaplun – Israel
Our email: gong3000@ngs.ru
Our websites: http://www.altaimir.org/2007youthfestival.htm and http://Planet3000.site.voila.fr

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Global businesses and trade
1.     The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and TheCorporateCounsel.Net invite you to participate in a free webconference: Tackling Global Warming: Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors. , by NCSE. Climate Change: Science and Solutions http://www.ncseonline.org/2008conference/ http://www.tacklingglobalwarming.com/
2.     Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.
3.     Globalization And Democracy: Some Basics, by Michael Parenti , Michaelparenti.org Countercurrents.org The fight against free trade is a fight for the right to politico-economic democracy, public services, and a social wage, the right not to be completely at the mercy of big capital. The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particu­lar nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations.
4.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?

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Global Justice for all life on the planet
1.     Our Obligation To The World, by Paul Buchheit, published in Countercurrents.org, Our way of life depends on a continuation of the economic and energy policies that keep billions of people in poverty.
2.    Iraqi Oil Workers' Union Founder: U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is Robbery The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil, says oil workers union heavy. by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Rights and Liberties
3.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
4.     The Hidden War For Oil , by Carl Bloice , Countercurrents.org The US bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum was underway in Kenya, three days before a large anti-war action in Washington on 27 January 2007. Carl Bloice elucidates the failure or unwillingness of the Western media to accurately report the invasion and occupation of Somalia by a US backed Ethiopian government. He asserts that behind the US-Ethiopian political alliance lies a strategic move to secure positioning in this oil region.
5.    Israel's 40 Years of Occupation: From Democratic State to Violent Oppressor Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank 40 years ago this week. Over that time, Israel's image has shifted from that of an open society set amid a sea of despotic regimes to that of an international pariah. by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.
6.    The U.S. Social Forum: Our Best Bet to Turn This Country Around Want justice, peace, a better life for people in this country? Want to show solidarity with international struggles? The best opportunity to do this is about to happen and you're invited. by Tara Lohan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8104/, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.
7.    Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.
8.     Resource Wars: Can We Survive Them? , by Stephen Lendman , lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net Countercurrents.org This article addresses reckless living unmindful of the consequences. It's about endless wars and resources they're waged for. It's about gaining control of what we can't do without, but must learn to, or we'll risk losing far more, including the planet's ability to sustain life. If we reach that point, it won't matter except to resilient beetles and bacteria free at last from us. Instead of being an asset, superior human intelligence has us on the brink of our own self-destruction.
9.     Earth, Inc. Sliding Into Bankruptcy, by Stephen Leahy , Inter Press Service Build a shrimp farm in Thailand by cutting down mangrove forests and you will net about 8,000 dollars per hectare. Meanwhile, the destruction of the forest and pollution from the farm will result in a loss of ecosystems worth 35,000 dollars/ha per year. Many leading development institutions and policy-makers still fail to understand that this ruthless exploitation for short-term profits could trigger an Enron-like collapse of "Earth, Inc.", experts say.
10.     Deaths In Other Nations Since WW II Due To Us Interventions, by James A. Lucas , published in Countercurrents.org , After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other nations, but they produced hardly a ripple.
11.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?
12.     Iraq Has Two Virginia Techs Every Day, by Juan Cole, withJuancole.com, and published in Countercurrents.org What is happening in Iraq is the most massive manmade human tragedy of the young century

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Earth resources availability aspects and issues
1.     Greenpeace opens tar sands campaign, by Greenpeace Canada, Edmonton, Canada — Greenpeace has taken a dramatic step to expand its climate and energy campaign by opening an office in Edmonton to oppose tar sands in Alberta.
2.     Action Alert: Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging, by Dr. Glen Barry , Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet (EI) There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council.
3.    Humanity's Footprint 1961-2003 , by Mathis Wackernagel, info@footprintnetwork.org Ecological Footprint, An organization specializing in the calculation system that measures the ecological, social and economic sustainability, Global Footprint Network, and ecological resource use and resource capacity of nations over time.
4.     A World Without Oil, by Daniel Howden The Independent , published in Countercurrents.org, Scientists have criticised a major review of the world's remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are prepared to admit
5.    Iraqi Oil Workers' Union Founder: U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is Robbery The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil, says oil workers union heavy. by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Rights and Liberties
6.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
7.     Resource Wars: Can We Survive Them? , by Stephen Lendman , lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net Countercurrents.org This article addresses reckless living unmindful of the consequences. It's about endless wars and resources they're waged for. It's about gaining control of what we can't do without, but must learn to, or we'll risk losing far more, including the planet's ability to sustain life. If we reach that point, it won't matter except to resilient beetles and bacteria free at last from us. Instead of being an asset, superior human intelligence has us on the brink of our own self-destruction.
8.     Earth, Inc. Sliding Into Bankruptcy, by Stephen Leahy , Inter Press Service Build a shrimp farm in Thailand by cutting down mangrove forests and you will net about 8,000 dollars per hectare. Meanwhile, the destruction of the forest and pollution from the farm will result in a loss of ecosystems worth 35,000 dollars/ha per year. Many leading development institutions and policy-makers still fail to understand that this ruthless exploitation for short-term profits could trigger an Enron-like collapse of "Earth, Inc.", experts say.
9.     Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America. There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted. So let the truth of Alice Friedemann’s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way. by Alice Friedemann, with Culture Change. Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute. The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
10.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?
11.    Hard to Deny: Iraq Is All About the Oil How the U.S. is working to secure Iraq's oil -- one of the most important sources of petrochemical energy on the planet -- and how the Iraqis are resisting, by Michael Schwartz, http://www.alternet.org/authors/6691/, Tomdispatch.com published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth

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Global Economy
1.     Our Obligation To The World, by Paul Buchheit, published in Countercurrents.org, Our way of life depends on a continuation of the economic and energy policies that keep billions of people in poverty.
2.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
3.     Global Warming: driving governments to take action , by John Bunzl – ISPO Founder, Trustee and Coordinator, jbunzl@simpol.org Simpol promotes the Simultaneous Policy (SP), which aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone. Global warming is now at the top of the political agenda. But why aren't governments taking the necessary action? Because any nation legislating to curb the emissions of its industries will make its economy "uncompetitive" with other countries, thus risking investment and jobs moving elsewhere.
4.     Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.
5.     Question of Direction , by Mike Nickerson and Donna Dillman, http://synchronouscity.com/dirq.php Goals are the seeds from which the future grows. When enough people understand this, the conventional wisdom will shift, moving from: our purpose is to expand production and onsumption to our purpose is to enjoy living while managing the planet for generations to come. As you know, the Question of Direction program aims to increase the rate at which this realization takes place.
6.     Globalization And Democracy: Some Basics, by Michael Parenti , Michaelparenti.org Countercurrents.org The fight against free trade is a fight for the right to politico-economic democracy, public services, and a social wage, the right not to be completely at the mercy of big capital. The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particu­lar nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations.
7.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
8.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?

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Cultural aspects and issues
1.     La dimension multiculturelle du dialogue by AMMAR BANNI, Professeur de français et poète ammarbanni@yahoo.fr Il est donc indispensable pour que la culture du dialogue établisse un système multiculturel efficace, aux niveaux régionaux et mondiaux ,et pour accomplir cette tâche ,il est recommandé que le dialogue et sa culture interculturel devraient investir pour le développement de sa culture multiculturelle qui aident les peuples et les nations pour se comprendre et se respecter ; ceci réduirait la possibilité de conflits des cultures et des civilisations . La dimension multiculturelle de la culture du dialogue favoriserait la promotion d'une culture harmonieuse qui peut empêcher l'influence dangereuse sur la société provoquant une incertitude ,une crainte, une terreur et de haine qui mènent aux conflits et aux guerres.
2.     Le Pacte de la Culture, and La Bannière de la Paix, by Thierry Bécourt, iera.thierry@free.fr A l'origine dote du seul certificat d'etudes, je suis devenu a  40 ans, diplome de 3ieme cycle universitaire. Je sui message du Manifeste 2000 de l'UNESCO, ambassadeur universel de la paix, laureat des Academies Toutes les institutions éducatives, artistiques, scientifiques et religieuses et tous les sites ayant une valeur et une signification culturelles et historiques doivent être reconnus comme inviolables et respectés par toutes les nations, en temps de guerre comme en temps de paix. http://www.bannieredelapaix.fr/

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Protection of the Global Environment
1.     Greenpeace opens tar sands campaign, by Greenpeace Canada, Edmonton, Canada — Greenpeace has taken a dramatic step to expand its climate and energy campaign by opening an office in Edmonton to oppose tar sands in Alberta.
2.     Action Alert: Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging, by Dr. Glen Barry , Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet (EI) There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council.
3.    Humanity's Footprint 1961-2003 , by Mathis Wackernagel, info@footprintnetwork.org Ecological Footprint, An organization specializing in the calculation system that measures the ecological, social and economic sustainability, Global Footprint Network, and ecological resource use and resource capacity of nations over time.
4.     Global Warming Is A Human Rights Issue, by Mary Shaw, mary@maryshawonline.com published in Countercurrents.org The U.S. -- with about five percent of the world's population -- remains the world's chief polluter, generating 25 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. And the Bush administration continues to stonewall, lest new emissions regulations should inconvenience his corporate cronies.
5.     Global Warming: driving governments to take action , by John Bunzl – ISPO Founder, Trustee and Coordinator, jbunzl@simpol.org Simpol promotes the Simultaneous Policy (SP), which aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone. Global warming is now at the top of the political agenda. But why aren't governments taking the necessary action? Because any nation legislating to curb the emissions of its industries will make its economy "uncompetitive" with other countries, thus risking investment and jobs moving elsewhere.
6.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
7.     Earth, Inc. Sliding Into Bankruptcy, by Stephen Leahy , Inter Press Service Build a shrimp farm in Thailand by cutting down mangrove forests and you will net about 8,000 dollars per hectare. Meanwhile, the destruction of the forest and pollution from the farm will result in a loss of ecosystems worth 35,000 dollars/ha per year. Many leading development institutions and policy-makers still fail to understand that this ruthless exploitation for short-term profits could trigger an Enron-like collapse of "Earth, Inc.", experts say.
8.    Global Warming Health Effects Higher temperatures over the coming decades are expected to cause more smoggy days and heat waves, contributing to a greater number of illnesses and deaths in the United States, according to international climate scientists. by Jane Kay, The San Francisco Chronicle, TruthOut.org, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth.
9.     Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America. There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted. So let the truth of Alice Friedemann’s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way. by Alice Friedemann, with Culture Change. Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute. The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

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Global Communities
1.     10 propositions pour la paix , by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Le XXIè siècle est celui du troisième millénaire, il doit anticiper l'héritage que nous laisserons à la nouvelle génération. Ce siècle peut, doit, décider comme le propose l'UNESCO que la pauvreté est une atteinte insupportable aux droits de l'homme mais plus encore, il doit décider que l'humanité est un sujet politique et juridique( déterminant comme instance de vie) supérieur à la logique économique. http://guycrequie.blogspot.com/
2.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
3.     Global Warming: driving governments to take action , by John Bunzl – ISPO Founder, Trustee and Coordinator, jbunzl@simpol.org Simpol promotes the Simultaneous Policy (SP), which aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone. Global warming is now at the top of the political agenda. But why aren't governments taking the necessary action? Because any nation legislating to curb the emissions of its industries will make its economy "uncompetitive" with other countries, thus risking investment and jobs moving elsewhere.
4.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
5.    1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and democratic Governance
PLANET OF EDUCATION FOR WORLD CITIZENS Letter sent to the Global Community by Nina Goncharova, - Russia;
Co-signed by: Carol Hiltner, Jackie Stratton, Susan Quattrociocchi, Maia Rose, Theresa Fornalski, Carolyn Cilek, Clarice Sieden – USA; Claude Veziau – Canada; Igor Zinger, David Kaplun – Israel
Our email: gong3000@ngs.ru
Our websites: http://www.altaimir.org/2007youthfestival.htm and http://Planet3000.site.voila.fr
6.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?

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Religion and spirituality aspects and issues
1.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
2.     Réflexion philosophique reliant dans une perspective d'harmonie la journée du 1 juin ( pour la protection de l'enfance ) et celle du 21 juin ( jour global d'harmonie.), by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Harmonie et paix - et philosophie.
3.     La dimension multiculturelle du dialogue by AMMAR BANNI, Professeur de français et poète ammarbanni@yahoo.fr Il est donc indispensable pour que la culture du dialogue établisse un système multiculturel efficace, aux niveaux régionaux et mondiaux ,et pour accomplir cette tâche ,il est recommandé que le dialogue et sa culture interculturel devraient investir pour le développement de sa culture multiculturelle qui aident les peuples et les nations pour se comprendre et se respecter ; ceci réduirait la possibilité de conflits des cultures et des civilisations . La dimension multiculturelle de la culture du dialogue favoriserait la promotion d'une culture harmonieuse qui peut empêcher l'influence dangereuse sur la société provoquant une incertitude ,une crainte, une terreur et de haine qui mènent aux conflits et aux guerres.
4.    Letter sent by Tea Kovacevic Molnar to the Global Community, God government, Jesus comments on political issues
5.    Letter sent by Bill Ellis to the Global Community, The Soul of an apathist
To be or not to be -- mortality and immortality
6.    Christian Right Leaders: America Can Only Be 'Reclaimed' by Religious Revival Religious Right leaders at the Reclaiming America For Christ Conference fretted that America cannot be "reclaimed" from the grip of the evil forces that now engulf it until religious revival sweeps the land, by Adele Stan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8297/, Church and State, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth

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Global Sustainability
1.     Action Alert: Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging, by Dr. Glen Barry , Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet (EI) There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council.
2.     Our Obligation To The World, by Paul Buchheit, published in Countercurrents.org, Our way of life depends on a continuation of the economic and energy policies that keep billions of people in poverty.
1.     A World Without Oil, by Daniel Howden The Independent , published in Countercurrents.org, Scientists have criticised a major review of the world's remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are prepared to admit
2.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
3.     Global Warming: driving governments to take action , by John Bunzl – ISPO Founder, Trustee and Coordinator, jbunzl@simpol.org Simpol promotes the Simultaneous Policy (SP), which aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone. Global warming is now at the top of the political agenda. But why aren't governments taking the necessary action? Because any nation legislating to curb the emissions of its industries will make its economy "uncompetitive" with other countries, thus risking investment and jobs moving elsewhere.
4.     Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.
5.     Question of Direction , by Mike Nickerson and Donna Dillman, http://synchronouscity.com/dirq.php Goals are the seeds from which the future grows. When enough people understand this, the conventional wisdom will shift, moving from: our purpose is to expand production and onsumption to our purpose is to enjoy living while managing the planet for generations to come. As you know, the Question of Direction program aims to increase the rate at which this realization takes place.
6.    Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.
7.     Earth, Inc. Sliding Into Bankruptcy, by Stephen Leahy , Inter Press Service Build a shrimp farm in Thailand by cutting down mangrove forests and you will net about 8,000 dollars per hectare. Meanwhile, the destruction of the forest and pollution from the farm will result in a loss of ecosystems worth 35,000 dollars/ha per year. Many leading development institutions and policy-makers still fail to understand that this ruthless exploitation for short-term profits could trigger an Enron-like collapse of "Earth, Inc.", experts say.
8.    Ecovillage Design Education - Training of Trainers 2007, 27 October - 24 November 2007 , by Pracha Hutanuwatr, http://www.findhorn.org/programmes/programme189.php, published in Findhorn Foundation in partnership with the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Education. Based on the Gaia Education Ecovillage Design Curriculum - an official contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014

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Sciences aspects and issues
1.     The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and TheCorporateCounsel.Net invite you to participate in a free webconference: Tackling Global Warming: Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors. , by NCSE. Climate Change: Science and Solutions http://www.ncseonline.org/2008conference/ http://www.tacklingglobalwarming.com/
2.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.

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Global food production aspects and issues
1.    How Much of Your Food is Being Nuked Before it Hits the Shelf? From fruit to spices to meat, contamination fears and market possibilities are spurring a food irradiation revival. But how safe is the practice? by Brita Belli, E Magazine published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Health and Welless
2.     Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.
3.     One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse, Countercurrents.org At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II.
4.    Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.
5.     Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America. There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted. So let the truth of Alice Friedemann’s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way. by Alice Friedemann, with Culture Change. Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute. The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

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Research and Development
1.     The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and TheCorporateCounsel.Net invite you to participate in a free webconference: Tackling Global Warming: Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors. , by NCSE. Climate Change: Science and Solutions http://www.ncseonline.org/2008conference/ http://www.tacklingglobalwarming.com/
2.     Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.

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Earth and human rights aspects and issues
1.     Global Warming Is A Human Rights Issue, by Mary Shaw, mary@maryshawonline.com published in Countercurrents.org The U.S. -- with about five percent of the world's population -- remains the world's chief polluter, generating 25 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. And the Bush administration continues to stonewall, lest new emissions regulations should inconvenience his corporate cronies.
2.    Iraqi Oil Workers' Union Founder: U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is Robbery The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil, says oil workers union heavy. by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Rights and Liberties
3.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
4.     The Hidden War For Oil , by Carl Bloice , Countercurrents.org The US bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum was underway in Kenya, three days before a large anti-war action in Washington on 27 January 2007. Carl Bloice elucidates the failure or unwillingness of the Western media to accurately report the invasion and occupation of Somalia by a US backed Ethiopian government. He asserts that behind the US-Ethiopian political alliance lies a strategic move to secure positioning in this oil region.
5.    Israel's 40 Years of Occupation: From Democratic State to Violent Oppressor Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank 40 years ago this week. Over that time, Israel's image has shifted from that of an open society set amid a sea of despotic regimes to that of an international pariah. by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.
6.    The U.S. Social Forum: Our Best Bet to Turn This Country Around Want justice, peace, a better life for people in this country? Want to show solidarity with international struggles? The best opportunity to do this is about to happen and you're invited. by Tara Lohan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8104/, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.
7.     Looking HIV And AIDS Issues Through Gender And Human Rights Lenses, by Sirajul Islam, published in Countercurrents.org While analysing gender, HIV and AIDS and human rights, we acknowledged that when men are fighting a deadly human immunodeficiency virus, women are fighting both a deadly virus and wide-ranging inequity in trying to defeat the hazards of HIV and AIDS. We understood that from corner to corner of the world, they face a number of conditions which swell their possibility of HIV infection in gender-specific ways

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Global warming aspects and issues
1.     Greenpeace opens tar sands campaign, by Greenpeace Canada, Edmonton, Canada — Greenpeace has taken a dramatic step to expand its climate and energy campaign by opening an office in Edmonton to oppose tar sands in Alberta.
2.    Humanity's Footprint 1961-2003 , by Mathis Wackernagel, info@footprintnetwork.org Ecological Footprint, An organization specializing in the calculation system that measures the ecological, social and economic sustainability, Global Footprint Network, and ecological resource use and resource capacity of nations over time.
3.     Global Warming Is A Human Rights Issue, by Mary Shaw, mary@maryshawonline.com published in Countercurrents.org The U.S. -- with about five percent of the world's population -- remains the world's chief polluter, generating 25 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. And the Bush administration continues to stonewall, lest new emissions regulations should inconvenience his corporate cronies.
4.     Global Warming: driving governments to take action , by John Bunzl – ISPO Founder, Trustee and Coordinator, jbunzl@simpol.org Simpol promotes the Simultaneous Policy (SP), which aims to deliver social justice around the world, resolve global problems like environmental destruction and regulate the economic power of international capital for the good of all. Simpol seeks solutions to problems that individual national governments cannot resolve by acting alone. Global warming is now at the top of the political agenda. But why aren't governments taking the necessary action? Because any nation legislating to curb the emissions of its industries will make its economy "uncompetitive" with other countries, thus risking investment and jobs moving elsewhere.
5.     One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse, Countercurrents.org At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II.
6.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
7.     The Hidden War For Oil , by Carl Bloice , Countercurrents.org The US bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum was underway in Kenya, three days before a large anti-war action in Washington on 27 January 2007. Carl Bloice elucidates the failure or unwillingness of the Western media to accurately report the invasion and occupation of Somalia by a US backed Ethiopian government. He asserts that behind the US-Ethiopian political alliance lies a strategic move to secure positioning in this oil region.
8.    Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.
9.     Resource Wars: Can We Survive Them? , by Stephen Lendman , lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net Countercurrents.org This article addresses reckless living unmindful of the consequences. It's about endless wars and resources they're waged for. It's about gaining control of what we can't do without, but must learn to, or we'll risk losing far more, including the planet's ability to sustain life. If we reach that point, it won't matter except to resilient beetles and bacteria free at last from us. Instead of being an asset, superior human intelligence has us on the brink of our own self-destruction.
10.     CLIMAT : L’HOMME EST BIEN COUPABLE DU RECHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE Notre réseau de personnes engagées dans la culture de la paix ; nous : les artistes, écrivains, intellectuels divers, qui chantons l’amour de la nature, nous pouvons être le ciment de cette civilisation de l’exigence pour la paix et la protection et la promotion de la nature. by Guy CREQUIE
11.    Global Warming Health Effects Higher temperatures over the coming decades are expected to cause more smoggy days and heat waves, contributing to a greater number of illnesses and deaths in the United States, according to international climate scientists. by Jane Kay, The San Francisco Chronicle, TruthOut.org, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth.
12.    Hard to Deny: Iraq Is All About the Oil How the U.S. is working to secure Iraq's oil -- one of the most important sources of petrochemical energy on the planet -- and how the Iraqis are resisting, by Michael Schwartz, http://www.alternet.org/authors/6691/, Tomdispatch.com published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth
13.    Global Warming Challenges Environmental Law We need a new approach to environmental law that would bypass the debate over property rights vs. the environment and replace the discretion to regulate with the obligation to protect, by Kelpie Wilson, http://www.alternet.org/authors/6735/, TruthOut.org , published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth

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Earth governance and management
1.     10 propositions pour la paix , by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Le XXIè siècle est celui du troisième millénaire, il doit anticiper l'héritage que nous laisserons à la nouvelle génération. Ce siècle peut, doit, décider comme le propose l'UNESCO que la pauvreté est une atteinte insupportable aux droits de l'homme mais plus encore, il doit décider que l'humanité est un sujet politique et juridique( déterminant comme instance de vie) supérieur à la logique économique. http://guycrequie.blogspot.com/
2.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
3.     Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.
4.     Globalization And Democracy: Some Basics, by Michael Parenti , Michaelparenti.org Countercurrents.org The fight against free trade is a fight for the right to politico-economic democracy, public services, and a social wage, the right not to be completely at the mercy of big capital. The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particu­lar nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations.
5.     Resource Wars: Can We Survive Them? , by Stephen Lendman , lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net Countercurrents.org This article addresses reckless living unmindful of the consequences. It's about endless wars and resources they're waged for. It's about gaining control of what we can't do without, but must learn to, or we'll risk losing far more, including the planet's ability to sustain life. If we reach that point, it won't matter except to resilient beetles and bacteria free at last from us. Instead of being an asset, superior human intelligence has us on the brink of our own self-destruction.
6.    1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and democratic Governance
PLANET OF EDUCATION FOR WORLD CITIZENS Letter sent to the Global Community by Nina Goncharova, - Russia;
Co-signed by: Carol Hiltner, Jackie Stratton, Susan Quattrociocchi, Maia Rose, Theresa Fornalski, Carolyn Cilek, Clarice Sieden – USA; Claude Veziau – Canada; Igor Zinger, David Kaplun – Israel
Our email: gong3000@ngs.ru
Our websites: http://www.altaimir.org/2007youthfestival.htm and http://Planet3000.site.voila.fr
7.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?

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Climate change aspects and issues
1.     Global Warming Is A Human Rights Issue, by Mary Shaw, mary@maryshawonline.com published in Countercurrents.org The U.S. -- with about five percent of the world's population -- remains the world's chief polluter, generating 25 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. And the Bush administration continues to stonewall, lest new emissions regulations should inconvenience his corporate cronies.
2.     The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and TheCorporateCounsel.Net invite you to participate in a free webconference: Tackling Global Warming: Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors. , by NCSE. Climate Change: Science and Solutions http://www.ncseonline.org/2008conference/ http://www.tacklingglobalwarming.com/
3.     One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse, Countercurrents.org At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II.
4.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
5.    Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.
6.     CLIMAT : L’HOMME EST BIEN COUPABLE DU RECHAUFFEMENT CLIMATIQUE Notre réseau de personnes engagées dans la culture de la paix ; nous : les artistes, écrivains, intellectuels divers, qui chantons l’amour de la nature, nous pouvons être le ciment de cette civilisation de l’exigence pour la paix et la protection et la promotion de la nature. by Guy CREQUIE
7.    Global Warming Challenges Environmental Law We need a new approach to environmental law that would bypass the debate over property rights vs. the environment and replace the discretion to regulate with the obligation to protect, by Kelpie Wilson, http://www.alternet.org/authors/6735/, TruthOut.org , published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth

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Democracy aspects and issues
1.    Iraqi Oil Workers' Union Founder: U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is Robbery The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil, says oil workers union heavy. by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Rights and Liberties
2.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
3.     Globalization And Democracy: Some Basics, by Michael Parenti , Michaelparenti.org Countercurrents.org The fight against free trade is a fight for the right to politico-economic democracy, public services, and a social wage, the right not to be completely at the mercy of big capital. The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particu­lar nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations.
4.    Israel's 40 Years of Occupation: From Democratic State to Violent Oppressor Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank 40 years ago this week. Over that time, Israel's image has shifted from that of an open society set amid a sea of despotic regimes to that of an international pariah. by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.
5.    The militarization of Canadian Culture Sent by Murray Dobbin to the Global Community
6.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?
7.     Deaths In Other Nations Since WW II Due To Us Interventions, by James A. Lucas , published in Countercurrents.org , After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other nations, but they produced hardly a ripple.

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Drinking water availability aspects and issues

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Global sustainable agriculture aspects and issues
1.    How Much of Your Food is Being Nuked Before it Hits the Shelf? From fruit to spices to meat, contamination fears and market possibilities are spurring a food irradiation revival. But how safe is the practice? by Brita Belli, E Magazine published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Health and Welless
2.     Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.
3.     Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America. There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted. So let the truth of Alice Friedemann’s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way. by Alice Friedemann, with Culture Change. Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute. The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

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Energy aspects and issues
1.     Greenpeace opens tar sands campaign, by Greenpeace Canada, Edmonton, Canada — Greenpeace has taken a dramatic step to expand its climate and energy campaign by opening an office in Edmonton to oppose tar sands in Alberta.
2.     A World Without Oil, by Daniel Howden The Independent , published in Countercurrents.org, Scientists have criticised a major review of the world's remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are prepared to admit
3.    Iraqi Oil Workers' Union Founder: U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is Robbery The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil, says oil workers union heavy. by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Rights and Liberties
4.     The Hidden War For Oil , by Carl Bloice , Countercurrents.org The US bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum was underway in Kenya, three days before a large anti-war action in Washington on 27 January 2007. Carl Bloice elucidates the failure or unwillingness of the Western media to accurately report the invasion and occupation of Somalia by a US backed Ethiopian government. He asserts that behind the US-Ethiopian political alliance lies a strategic move to secure positioning in this oil region.
5.     Resource Wars: Can We Survive Them? , by Stephen Lendman , lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net Countercurrents.org This article addresses reckless living unmindful of the consequences. It's about endless wars and resources they're waged for. It's about gaining control of what we can't do without, but must learn to, or we'll risk losing far more, including the planet's ability to sustain life. If we reach that point, it won't matter except to resilient beetles and bacteria free at last from us. Instead of being an asset, superior human intelligence has us on the brink of our own self-destruction.
6.     Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America. There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted. So let the truth of Alice Friedemann’s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way. by Alice Friedemann, with Culture Change. Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute. The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
7.    Hard to Deny: Iraq Is All About the Oil How the U.S. is working to secure Iraq's oil -- one of the most important sources of petrochemical energy on the planet -- and how the Iraqis are resisting, by Michael Schwartz, http://www.alternet.org/authors/6691/, Tomdispatch.com published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth

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Global pollution aspects and issues
1.     Greenpeace opens tar sands campaign, by Greenpeace Canada, Edmonton, Canada — Greenpeace has taken a dramatic step to expand its climate and energy campaign by opening an office in Edmonton to oppose tar sands in Alberta.
2.    Humanity's Footprint 1961-2003 , by Mathis Wackernagel, info@footprintnetwork.org Ecological Footprint, An organization specializing in the calculation system that measures the ecological, social and economic sustainability, Global Footprint Network, and ecological resource use and resource capacity of nations over time.

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Global civilization aspects and issues
1.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
2.     The Global Community is given the Day of Life in the Harmonious Era Calendar , by Dr. Leo Semashko, leo44442006@yandex.ru The Quality of Social Existence and Future of Children Global Harmony Day: June 21st
3.     Question of Direction , by Mike Nickerson and Donna Dillman, http://synchronouscity.com/dirq.php Goals are the seeds from which the future grows. When enough people understand this, the conventional wisdom will shift, moving from: our purpose is to expand production and onsumption to our purpose is to enjoy living while managing the planet for generations to come. As you know, the Question of Direction program aims to increase the rate at which this realization takes place.
4.     One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse, Countercurrents.org At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II.
5.    The U.S. Social Forum: Our Best Bet to Turn This Country Around Want justice, peace, a better life for people in this country? Want to show solidarity with international struggles? The best opportunity to do this is about to happen and you're invited. by Tara Lohan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8104/, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.
6.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
7.    1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and democratic Governance
PLANET OF EDUCATION FOR WORLD CITIZENS Letter sent to the Global Community by Nina Goncharova, - Russia;
Co-signed by: Carol Hiltner, Jackie Stratton, Susan Quattrociocchi, Maia Rose, Theresa Fornalski, Carolyn Cilek, Clarice Sieden – USA; Claude Veziau – Canada; Igor Zinger, David Kaplun – Israel
Our email: gong3000@ngs.ru
Our websites: http://www.altaimir.org/2007youthfestival.htm and http://Planet3000.site.voila.fr
8.    Ecovillage Design Education - Training of Trainers 2007, 27 October - 24 November 2007 , by Pracha Hutanuwatr, http://www.findhorn.org/programmes/programme189.php, published in Findhorn Foundation in partnership with the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Education. Based on the Gaia Education Ecovillage Design Curriculum - an official contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014
9.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?
10.     Le Pacte de la Culture, and La Bannière de la Paix, by Thierry Bécourt, iera.thierry@free.fr A l'origine dote du seul certificat d'etudes, je suis devenu a  40 ans, diplome de 3ieme cycle universitaire. Je sui message du Manifeste 2000 de l'UNESCO, ambassadeur universel de la paix, laureat des Academies Toutes les institutions éducatives, artistiques, scientifiques et religieuses et tous les sites ayant une valeur et une signification culturelles et historiques doivent être reconnus comme inviolables et respectés par toutes les nations, en temps de guerre comme en temps de paix. http://www.bannieredelapaix.fr/
11.    Letter sent by Bill Ellis to the Global Community
The Soul of an apathist
To be or not to be -- mortality and immortality

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Global mining and mining the impacts aspects and issues

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Biodiversity aspects and issues

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Global manufacturing of products aspects and issues

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Social Justice aspects and issues
1.     10 propositions pour la paix , by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Le XXIè siècle est celui du troisième millénaire, il doit anticiper l'héritage que nous laisserons à la nouvelle génération. Ce siècle peut, doit, décider comme le propose l'UNESCO que la pauvreté est une atteinte insupportable aux droits de l'homme mais plus encore, il doit décider que l'humanité est un sujet politique et juridique( déterminant comme instance de vie) supérieur à la logique économique. http://guycrequie.blogspot.com/
2.     Global Warming Is A Human Rights Issue, by Mary Shaw, mary@maryshawonline.com published in Countercurrents.org The U.S. -- with about five percent of the world's population -- remains the world's chief polluter, generating 25 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. And the Bush administration continues to stonewall, lest new emissions regulations should inconvenience his corporate cronies.
3.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
4.    Israel's 40 Years of Occupation: From Democratic State to Violent Oppressor Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank 40 years ago this week. Over that time, Israel's image has shifted from that of an open society set amid a sea of despotic regimes to that of an international pariah. by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.
5.    The U.S. Social Forum: Our Best Bet to Turn This Country Around Want justice, peace, a better life for people in this country? Want to show solidarity with international struggles? The best opportunity to do this is about to happen and you're invited. by Tara Lohan, http://www.alternet.org/authors/8104/, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message.
6.    Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.
1.     Looking HIV And AIDS Issues Through Gender And Human Rights Lenses, by Sirajul Islam, published in Countercurrents.org While analysing gender, HIV and AIDS and human rights, we acknowledged that when men are fighting a deadly human immunodeficiency virus, women are fighting both a deadly virus and wide-ranging inequity in trying to defeat the hazards of HIV and AIDS. We understood that from corner to corner of the world, they face a number of conditions which swell their possibility of HIV infection in gender-specific ways
2.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?
3.     Child Pornography and Human Trafficking: Cancun's Dark Side , by Heather Gehlert, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Rights and Liberties, A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them
4.     Iraq Has Two Virginia Techs Every Day, by Juan Cole, withJuancole.com, and published in Countercurrents.org What is happening in Iraq is the most massive manmade human tragedy of the young century

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Technology aspects and issues

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Peak oil movement aspects and issues
1.     A World Without Oil, by Daniel Howden The Independent , published in Countercurrents.org, Scientists have criticised a major review of the world's remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are prepared to admit
2.     The Hidden War For Oil , by Carl Bloice , Countercurrents.org The US bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum was underway in Kenya, three days before a large anti-war action in Washington on 27 January 2007. Carl Bloice elucidates the failure or unwillingness of the Western media to accurately report the invasion and occupation of Somalia by a US backed Ethiopian government. He asserts that behind the US-Ethiopian political alliance lies a strategic move to secure positioning in this oil region.
3.     Resource Wars: Can We Survive Them? , by Stephen Lendman , lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net Countercurrents.org This article addresses reckless living unmindful of the consequences. It's about endless wars and resources they're waged for. It's about gaining control of what we can't do without, but must learn to, or we'll risk losing far more, including the planet's ability to sustain life. If we reach that point, it won't matter except to resilient beetles and bacteria free at last from us. Instead of being an asset, superior human intelligence has us on the brink of our own self-destruction.

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Security for all life aspects and issues
1.     Global Warming Is A Human Rights Issue, by Mary Shaw, mary@maryshawonline.com published in Countercurrents.org The U.S. -- with about five percent of the world's population -- remains the world's chief polluter, generating 25 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. And the Bush administration continues to stonewall, lest new emissions regulations should inconvenience his corporate cronies.
2.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
3.     The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and TheCorporateCounsel.Net invite you to participate in a free webconference: Tackling Global Warming: Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors. , by NCSE. Climate Change: Science and Solutions http://www.ncseonline.org/2008conference/ http://www.tacklingglobalwarming.com/
4.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
5.     Iraq Has Two Virginia Techs Every Day, by Juan Cole, withJuancole.com, and published in Countercurrents.org What is happening in Iraq is the most massive manmade human tragedy of the young century

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Our overpopulated planet aspects and issues
1.     One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse, Countercurrents.org At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II.

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Global Health
1.    How Much of Your Food is Being Nuked Before it Hits the Shelf? From fruit to spices to meat, contamination fears and market possibilities are spurring a food irradiation revival. But how safe is the practice? by Brita Belli, E Magazine published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Health and Welless
2.     Looking HIV And AIDS Issues Through Gender And Human Rights Lenses, by Sirajul Islam, published in Countercurrents.org While analysing gender, HIV and AIDS and human rights, we acknowledged that when men are fighting a deadly human immunodeficiency virus, women are fighting both a deadly virus and wide-ranging inequity in trying to defeat the hazards of HIV and AIDS. We understood that from corner to corner of the world, they face a number of conditions which swell their possibility of HIV infection in gender-specific ways
3.    Global Warming Health Effects Higher temperatures over the coming decades are expected to cause more smoggy days and heat waves, contributing to a greater number of illnesses and deaths in the United States, according to international climate scientists. by Jane Kay, The San Francisco Chronicle, TruthOut.org, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, EnviroHealth.

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Arts aspects and issues

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Vision of Earth, all life, now and in 2024
1.     10 propositions pour la paix , by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Le XXIè siècle est celui du troisième millénaire, il doit anticiper l'héritage que nous laisserons à la nouvelle génération. Ce siècle peut, doit, décider comme le propose l'UNESCO que la pauvreté est une atteinte insupportable aux droits de l'homme mais plus encore, il doit décider que l'humanité est un sujet politique et juridique( déterminant comme instance de vie) supérieur à la logique économique. http://guycrequie.blogspot.com/
2.     Our Obligation To The World, by Paul Buchheit, published in Countercurrents.org, Our way of life depends on a continuation of the economic and energy policies that keep billions of people in poverty.
3.     A World Without Oil, by Daniel Howden The Independent , published in Countercurrents.org, Scientists have criticised a major review of the world's remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are prepared to admit
4.     Global Justice for all life on the planet
by Germain Dufour, with the Global Community
The Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace. The Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty. The Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this about. Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
5.     The Global Community is given the Day of Life in the Harmonious Era Calendar , by Dr. Leo Semashko, leo44442006@yandex.ru The Quality of Social Existence and Future of Children Global Harmony Day: June 21st
6.     Question of Direction , by Mike Nickerson and Donna Dillman, http://synchronouscity.com/dirq.php Goals are the seeds from which the future grows. When enough people understand this, the conventional wisdom will shift, moving from: our purpose is to expand production and onsumption to our purpose is to enjoy living while managing the planet for generations to come. As you know, the Question of Direction program aims to increase the rate at which this realization takes place.
7.     One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse, Countercurrents.org At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II.
8.     La dimension multiculturelle du dialogue by AMMAR BANNI, Professeur de français et poète ammarbanni@yahoo.fr Il est donc indispensable pour que la culture du dialogue établisse un système multiculturel efficace, aux niveaux régionaux et mondiaux ,et pour accomplir cette tâche ,il est recommandé que le dialogue et sa culture interculturel devraient investir pour le développement de sa culture multiculturelle qui aident les peuples et les nations pour se comprendre et se respecter ; ceci réduirait la possibilité de conflits des cultures et des civilisations . La dimension multiculturelle de la culture du dialogue favoriserait la promotion d'une culture harmonieuse qui peut empêcher l'influence dangereuse sur la société provoquant une incertitude ,une crainte, une terreur et de haine qui mènent aux conflits et aux guerres.
9.     Le Pacte de la Culture, and La Bannière de la Paix, by Thierry Bécourt, iera.thierry@free.fr A l'origine dote du seul certificat d'etudes, je suis devenu a  40 ans, diplome de 3ieme cycle universitaire. Je sui message du Manifeste 2000 de l'UNESCO, ambassadeur universel de la paix, laureat des Academies Toutes les institutions éducatives, artistiques, scientifiques et religieuses et tous les sites ayant une valeur et une signification culturelles et historiques doivent être reconnus comme inviolables et respectés par toutes les nations, en temps de guerre comme en temps de paix. http://www.bannieredelapaix.fr/

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Education and training aspects and issues
1.     10 propositions pour la paix , by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Le XXIè siècle est celui du troisième millénaire, il doit anticiper l'héritage que nous laisserons à la nouvelle génération. Ce siècle peut, doit, décider comme le propose l'UNESCO que la pauvreté est une atteinte insupportable aux droits de l'homme mais plus encore, il doit décider que l'humanité est un sujet politique et juridique( déterminant comme instance de vie) supérieur à la logique économique. http://guycrequie.blogspot.com/
2.     The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and TheCorporateCounsel.Net invite you to participate in a free webconference: Tackling Global Warming: Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors. , by NCSE. Climate Change: Science and Solutions http://www.ncseonline.org/2008conference/ http://www.tacklingglobalwarming.com/
3.     Question of Direction , by Mike Nickerson and Donna Dillman, http://synchronouscity.com/dirq.php Goals are the seeds from which the future grows. When enough people understand this, the conventional wisdom will shift, moving from: our purpose is to expand production and onsumption to our purpose is to enjoy living while managing the planet for generations to come. As you know, the Question of Direction program aims to increase the rate at which this realization takes place.
4.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
5.     Réflexion philosophique reliant dans une perspective d'harmonie la journée du 1 juin ( pour la protection de l'enfance ) et celle du 21 juin ( jour global d'harmonie.), by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Harmonie et paix - et philosophie.
6.    1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and democratic Governance
PLANET OF EDUCATION FOR WORLD CITIZENS Letter sent to the Global Community by Nina Goncharova, - Russia;
Co-signed by: Carol Hiltner, Jackie Stratton, Susan Quattrociocchi, Maia Rose, Theresa Fornalski, Carolyn Cilek, Clarice Sieden – USA; Claude Veziau – Canada; Igor Zinger, David Kaplun – Israel
Our email: gong3000@ngs.ru
Our websites: http://www.altaimir.org/2007youthfestival.htm and http://Planet3000.site.voila.fr
7.    Ecovillage Design Education - Training of Trainers 2007, 27 October - 24 November 2007 , by Pracha Hutanuwatr, http://www.findhorn.org/programmes/programme189.php, published in Findhorn Foundation in partnership with the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Education. Based on the Gaia Education Ecovillage Design Curriculum - an official contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014
8.     Paix et évolution, by Ammar Banni, ammarbanni@yahoo.fr f you believe in the communion of the spirits, think with us, imagine with us, proclaim with us, the universalism of peace, the right of each man to be for all the other men, the expression of the tolerance and the acceptance of the other

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Clean air aspects and issues

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Corporate accountability aspects and issues
1.     Greenpeace opens tar sands campaign, by Greenpeace Canada, Edmonton, Canada — Greenpeace has taken a dramatic step to expand its climate and energy campaign by opening an office in Edmonton to oppose tar sands in Alberta.
2.     Action Alert: Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging, by Dr. Glen Barry , Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet (EI) There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council.
3.     Our Obligation To The World, by Paul Buchheit, published in Countercurrents.org, Our way of life depends on a continuation of the economic and energy policies that keep billions of people in poverty.
4.     The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and TheCorporateCounsel.Net invite you to participate in a free webconference: Tackling Global Warming: Challenges for Corporate Boards and their Advisors. , by NCSE. Climate Change: Science and Solutions http://www.ncseonline.org/2008conference/ http://www.tacklingglobalwarming.com/
5.     Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd. I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.
6.     Globalization And Democracy: Some Basics, by Michael Parenti , Michaelparenti.org Countercurrents.org The fight against free trade is a fight for the right to politico-economic democracy, public services, and a social wage, the right not to be completely at the mercy of big capital. The goal of the transnational corporation is to become truly transnational, poised above the sovereign power of any particu­lar nation, while being served by the sovereign powers of all nations.
7.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
8.     The Hidden War For Oil , by Carl Bloice , Countercurrents.org The US bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum was underway in Kenya, three days before a large anti-war action in Washington on 27 January 2007. Carl Bloice elucidates the failure or unwillingness of the Western media to accurately report the invasion and occupation of Somalia by a US backed Ethiopian government. He asserts that behind the US-Ethiopian political alliance lies a strategic move to secure positioning in this oil region.
9.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?

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Renewable energy aspects and issues
1.     Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America. There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted. So let the truth of Alice Friedemann’s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way. by Alice Friedemann, with Culture Change. Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute. The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

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Water conservation aspects and issues
1.     Earth, Inc. Sliding Into Bankruptcy, by Stephen Leahy , Inter Press Service Build a shrimp farm in Thailand by cutting down mangrove forests and you will net about 8,000 dollars per hectare. Meanwhile, the destruction of the forest and pollution from the farm will result in a loss of ecosystems worth 35,000 dollars/ha per year. Many leading development institutions and policy-makers still fail to understand that this ruthless exploitation for short-term profits could trigger an Enron-like collapse of "Earth, Inc.", experts say.

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Soil lost prevention aspects and issues
1.     Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America. There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted. So let the truth of Alice Friedemann’s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way. by Alice Friedemann, with Culture Change. Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute. The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

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Forest protection aspects and issues
1.     Action Alert: Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging, by Dr. Glen Barry , Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet (EI) There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council.
2.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
3.     Earth, Inc. Sliding Into Bankruptcy, by Stephen Leahy , Inter Press Service Build a shrimp farm in Thailand by cutting down mangrove forests and you will net about 8,000 dollars per hectare. Meanwhile, the destruction of the forest and pollution from the farm will result in a loss of ecosystems worth 35,000 dollars/ha per year. Many leading development institutions and policy-makers still fail to understand that this ruthless exploitation for short-term profits could trigger an Enron-like collapse of "Earth, Inc.", experts say.

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Green tax aspects and issues

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Ocean conservation and protection aspects and issues

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Global development aspects and issues
1.     Greenpeace opens tar sands campaign, by Greenpeace Canada, Edmonton, Canada — Greenpeace has taken a dramatic step to expand its climate and energy campaign by opening an office in Edmonton to oppose tar sands in Alberta.
2.     Action Alert: Greenpeace, Come Clean and Stop Supporting Ancient Rainforest Logging, by Dr. Glen Barry , Rainforest Portal and Ecological Internet (EI) There is no such thing as certified, sustainable logging of primary forests. Tell Greenpeace to release their suppressed report on industrial certified forestry, and to resign the chair and withdraw from the Forest Stewardship Council.
3.     Our Obligation To The World, by Paul Buchheit, published in Countercurrents.org, Our way of life depends on a continuation of the economic and energy policies that keep billions of people in poverty.
4.     Question of Direction , by Mike Nickerson and Donna Dillman, http://synchronouscity.com/dirq.php Goals are the seeds from which the future grows. When enough people understand this, the conventional wisdom will shift, moving from: our purpose is to expand production and onsumption to our purpose is to enjoy living while managing the planet for generations to come. As you know, the Question of Direction program aims to increase the rate at which this realization takes place.
5.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.
6.    Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.
7.    Ecovillage Design Education - Training of Trainers 2007, 27 October - 24 November 2007 , by Pracha Hutanuwatr, http://www.findhorn.org/programmes/programme189.php, published in Findhorn Foundation in partnership with the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Education. Based on the Gaia Education Ecovillage Design Curriculum - an official contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014
8.     Human Rights And Globalization, by Dr. Samir Naim-Ahmed, published in Countercurrents.org Would globalization enhance the implementation of human rights as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( 1948 ) and the subsequent United Nations agreements , particularly the covenant on civil and political rights ( 1966 ), the covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (1966 ) and the declaration on the right to development (1986 )?

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Global finance industry aspects and issues

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Sustainable Cities aspects and issues
1.     Question of Direction , by Mike Nickerson and Donna Dillman, http://synchronouscity.com/dirq.php Goals are the seeds from which the future grows. When enough people understand this, the conventional wisdom will shift, moving from: our purpose is to expand production and onsumption to our purpose is to enjoy living while managing the planet for generations to come. As you know, the Question of Direction program aims to increase the rate at which this realization takes place.

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Global Community women aspects and issues
1.     Looking HIV And AIDS Issues Through Gender And Human Rights Lenses, by Sirajul Islam, published in Countercurrents.org While analysing gender, HIV and AIDS and human rights, we acknowledged that when men are fighting a deadly human immunodeficiency virus, women are fighting both a deadly virus and wide-ranging inequity in trying to defeat the hazards of HIV and AIDS. We understood that from corner to corner of the world, they face a number of conditions which swell their possibility of HIV infection in gender-specific ways
2.    1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and democratic Governance
PLANET OF EDUCATION FOR WORLD CITIZENS Letter sent to the Global Community by Nina Goncharova, - Russia;
Co-signed by: Carol Hiltner, Jackie Stratton, Susan Quattrociocchi, Maia Rose, Theresa Fornalski, Carolyn Cilek, Clarice Sieden – USA; Claude Veziau – Canada; Igor Zinger, David Kaplun – Israel
Our email: gong3000@ngs.ru
Our websites: http://www.altaimir.org/2007youthfestival.htm and http://Planet3000.site.voila.fr

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Marine ecosystems, fisheries, Eco-label, seafood, and social marketing aspects and issues

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Youth aspects and issues
1.     The Global Community is given the Day of Life in the Harmonious Era Calendar , by Dr. Leo Semashko, leo44442006@yandex.ru The Quality of Social Existence and Future of Children Global Harmony Day: June 21st
2.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
3.     Réflexion philosophique reliant dans une perspective d'harmonie la journée du 1 juin ( pour la protection de l'enfance ) et celle du 21 juin ( jour global d'harmonie.), by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Harmonie et paix - et philosophie.
4.    1st Virtual Congress on World Citizenship and democratic Governance
PLANET OF EDUCATION FOR WORLD CITIZENS Letter sent to the Global Community by Nina Goncharova, - Russia;
Co-signed by: Carol Hiltner, Jackie Stratton, Susan Quattrociocchi, Maia Rose, Theresa Fornalski, Carolyn Cilek, Clarice Sieden – USA; Claude Veziau – Canada; Igor Zinger, David Kaplun – Israel
Our email: gong3000@ngs.ru
Our websites: http://www.altaimir.org/2007youthfestival.htm and http://Planet3000.site.voila.fr
5.     Iraq Has Two Virginia Techs Every Day, by Juan Cole, withJuancole.com, and published in Countercurrents.org What is happening in Iraq is the most massive manmade human tragedy of the young century

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Global fight against trafficking of human beings: aspects and issues
1.     Child Pornography and Human Trafficking: Cancun's Dark Side , by Heather Gehlert, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Rights and Liberties, A conversation with human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro on the coastal city's violence and abuses -- and her lifelong mission to combat them

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Soul of Humanity
1.     The Global Community is given the Day of Life in the Harmonious Era Calendar , by Dr. Leo Semashko, leo44442006@yandex.ru The Quality of Social Existence and Future of Children Global Harmony Day: June 21st
2.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
3.     La dimension multiculturelle du dialogue by AMMAR BANNI, Professeur de français et poète ammarbanni@yahoo.fr Il est donc indispensable pour que la culture du dialogue établisse un système multiculturel efficace, aux niveaux régionaux et mondiaux ,et pour accomplir cette tâche ,il est recommandé que le dialogue et sa culture interculturel devraient investir pour le développement de sa culture multiculturelle qui aident les peuples et les nations pour se comprendre et se respecter ; ceci réduirait la possibilité de conflits des cultures et des civilisations . La dimension multiculturelle de la culture du dialogue favoriserait la promotion d'une culture harmonieuse qui peut empêcher l'influence dangereuse sur la société provoquant une incertitude ,une crainte, une terreur et de haine qui mènent aux conflits et aux guerres.
4.    Letter sent by Tea Kovacevic Molnar to the Global Community, God government, Jesus comments on political issues
5.    Letter sent by Bill Ellis to the Global Community
The Soul of an apathist
To be or not to be -- mortality and immortality

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Peak soils movement
1.     Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America. There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted. So let the truth of Alice Friedemann’s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way. by Alice Friedemann, with Culture Change. Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute. The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

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Global Data Measurement and Assessment

1.    Humanity's Footprint 1961-2003 , by Mathis Wackernagel, info@footprintnetwork.org Ecological Footprint, An organization specializing in the calculation system that measures the ecological, social and economic sustainability, Global Footprint Network, and ecological resource use and resource capacity of nations over time.
2.     One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse, Countercurrents.org At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II.
3.     Deforestation: The Hidden Cause Of Global Warming , by Daniel Howden , The Independent Countercurrents.org The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation far outstrip damage caused by planes and automobiles and factories. The rampant slashing and burning of tropical forests is second only to the energy sector as a source of greenhouses gases according to report published today by the Oxford-based Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of leading rainforest scientists.

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Global poverty, aspects and issues

1.     Our Obligation To The World, by Paul Buchheit, published in Countercurrents.org, Our way of life depends on a continuation of the economic and energy policies that keep billions of people in poverty.
2.     One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse, Countercurrents.org At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday. In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II.
3.    Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor. by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment.

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Our Global Leaders

1.     10 propositions pour la paix , by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Le XXIè siècle est celui du troisième millénaire, il doit anticiper l'héritage que nous laisserons à la nouvelle génération. Ce siècle peut, doit, décider comme le propose l'UNESCO que la pauvreté est une atteinte insupportable aux droits de l'homme mais plus encore, il doit décider que l'humanité est un sujet politique et juridique( déterminant comme instance de vie) supérieur à la logique économique. http://guycrequie.blogspot.com/

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Era of social harmony

1.     10 propositions pour la paix , by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Le XXIè siècle est celui du troisième millénaire, il doit anticiper l'héritage que nous laisserons à la nouvelle génération. Ce siècle peut, doit, décider comme le propose l'UNESCO que la pauvreté est une atteinte insupportable aux droits de l'homme mais plus encore, il doit décider que l'humanité est un sujet politique et juridique( déterminant comme instance de vie) supérieur à la logique économique. http://guycrequie.blogspot.com/
2.     The Global Community is given the Day of Life in the Harmonious Era Calendar , by Dr. Leo Semashko, leo44442006@yandex.ru The Quality of Social Existence and Future of Children Global Harmony Day: June 21st
3.     Question of Direction , by Mike Nickerson and Donna Dillman, http://synchronouscity.com/dirq.php Goals are the seeds from which the future grows. When enough people understand this, the conventional wisdom will shift, moving from: our purpose is to expand production and onsumption to our purpose is to enjoy living while managing the planet for generations to come. As you know, the Question of Direction program aims to increase the rate at which this realization takes place.
4.    Letter sent by Germain Dufour to the Global Community The Global Community celebrates Life Day on May 26 of each year
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
5.     La dimension multiculturelle du dialogue by AMMAR BANNI, Professeur de français et poète ammarbanni@yahoo.fr Il est donc indispensable pour que la culture du dialogue établisse un système multiculturel efficace, aux niveaux régionaux et mondiaux ,et pour accomplir cette tâche ,il est recommandé que le dialogue et sa culture interculturel devraient investir pour le développement de sa culture multiculturelle qui aident les peuples et les nations pour se comprendre et se respecter ; ceci réduirait la possibilité de conflits des cultures et des civilisations . La dimension multiculturelle de la culture du dialogue favoriserait la promotion d'une culture harmonieuse qui peut empêcher l'influence dangereuse sur la société provoquant une incertitude ,une crainte, une terreur et de haine qui mènent aux conflits et aux guerres.
6.     Réflexion philosophique reliant dans une perspective d'harmonie la journée du 1 juin ( pour la protection de l'enfance ) et celle du 21 juin ( jour global d'harmonie.), by Guy CRÉQUIE, guy.crequie@wanadoo.fr Harmonie et paix - et philosophie.

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