A sound governance and management of our planet is
needed for the long term survival of our species and for the protection of all life.
Major factors have caused the global crisis which triggered the planetary state of emergency declared by the Global Community. An important factor is the disconnected
with reality, unfair and corrupted governance focusing only on finances, trade and consumption.
We are dealing here with a complex and centralized constellation of economic power in which the instruments of market manipulation have a direct bearing on the lives
of billions of people. The prices of food, water, fuel are determined at the global level, beyond the reach of national government policy. The price hikes of these three
essential commodities constitute an instrument of economic warfare carried out through the free market. These hikes in the prices of food, water and fuel are
contributing in a very real sense to eliminating the poor through starvation deaths.
Those at the helm, the big corporate rulers, and all of those who, directly or indirectly, work for the war industry, are getting bail outs in this financial crisis, not Main
Street. Now, as we push the exploitation of the Earth social and environmental systems beyond their limits of tolerance, we face the reality that the industrial era faces a
burnout because it is exhausting the human and natural resource base on which our very lives depend.
We live in a world where all natural and human resources
are exploited without limits, so that a small minority can consume far
more than their rightful share of the world's real wealth.
Governments in both developed and developing countries have abandoned their historical role of regulating key economic variables as well as ensuring a minimum
livelihood for their people. They are no longer sustainable locally. The United Nations failed to make sustainable development a priority in every community on the planet.
The global concept of sustainable development that was brought forward in the late 1980s has failed. The US failed it in a big way and the United Nations would not or
could not hold on to it.
The
global financial crisis
had an early beginning
in 1945 when a few elites from the White House, war industry, the military
and 'Christians of the political right' decided to build the most powerful military organization
in the world at the expense of American taxpayers, mostly from the middle
class, and at the expense of the global environment and all life on Earth.
Greed and wants of this rich elite had no limits. They got protection from the military and thus, a military type of political system, also called the
US democratic political system.
Since WWII, they forced expansion of the military onto the American middle class taxpayers. But there was never enough money to pay for the mindless expenditures of the military.
Ever since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. aim has always been a quest for
imperialist domination of the globe through U.S. militarism, including the establishment of 737 U.S. military bases in strategic areas of the world.
That count does not include the new bases now being build in Afghanistan. Certainly several of them will become permanent bases and may be used for the invasion of Iran
for its oil & gas resources. And of course the US will also use the bases to:
a) destabilize Russia, and
b) undermine Russia’s integration with Europe.
So successive corrupted White House Administrations borrowed the money for the military. They fudged reasons and created situations in the world to make believe Americans needed these expenditures and the media did the rest.
As if the Global Community needs more destruction on our planet.
And that has caused and created a huge deficit and national debt to Americans. On September 15,
2008, the world witnessed the beginning of the collapse of Wall Street,
but Americans were already bankrupted on that day. The astronomically high
military expenditures caused America to be bankrupted. The love-relationship
Americans have with their military was not to be blamed for the collapse,
and so Wall Street and financial institutions took all the blame. Even
Main Street was accused of wrong doing. But not the military!?!! Directly
or indirectly, over half the US population now works for the military,
and that explains a lot of things. This American cowboy style mentality
and economic warfare, that is shoot or bomb first and ask questions later, has spread all over the world. People see working
for the military as a salvation. Working for the military, directly or indirectly, created a new class of people in society because working for the military pays well
and means long term employment.
Since WWII and especially during the worst time of the financial crisis those people working for the military were given preferences and bail-outs, trillions of dollars,
never lost their homes and savings,
and this was with the approval of the US White House and other governments of the G8 nations. Anyone else lost their jobs, savings, homes, and now live in poverty.
The financial crisis showed the world in a flash corruption of the US White House and other G8 nations which created this situation.
The US market took a great hit and pulled the global markets
down. The US-style de-regulated corporate capitalism thrives on empowering
the most powerful and enriching the richest. Power and wealth never percolates
down to the ordinary people, the middle class, more specifically not to those who dont work
for the war industry. The few elites from the G8 nations have allowed a
de-regulated Wall Street to collapse on its own and swapping off most people
savings in the process, pension funds, and retirement funds. Millions of
people lost their homes. But not the people working directly or indirectly for the military! Quite the opposite happened!
People connected to the military have been getting bail outs by the trillions of dollars. They are part of 'a different class in our society', let us called them the '
milt-mid class'. That is
the '
military middle class'. Most of them are Christians from the political right. And that makes Christian religion an invading force in the world.
Somewhat like our first North America explorers and settlers. As soon as they stepped foot on the newly found continent they said this is ours.
Just because someone put a flag on Mount Everest, the Moon or on Mars means that someone owns the mountain, the Moon or planet Mars.
Things dont work that way.
Unless you are a predator,
you know someone who kills other life-forms to feed itself. A
killer! An invader! Like our first explorers who found the Americas and shut dead the Natives or, if any survive, force them to become Christians .
That is what we are doing today. No different! Except now we use WMDs. First, we use the World Bank and the IMF to buy a population with bankrupted money, fake money.
Money is the new face of the Christian religion. Not something Christ would have approved of.
And if you believe the American economy will get better because of the trillions of dollars impetus of the new US Administration, dream
again America. Actually dont dream! Everytime you dream it destroys life and the planet.
Besides, having passed Peak Oil & Gas and going down to less and less oil & gas availability in the world, money will soon be meaning nothing. The dollar will soon be worth less
than Zimbabwe money. That's why the US White House never care so much about building an astronomically high national debt and annual deficit. Past US Administrations have
known the reality of resources availability on our planet for decades and never care much about sound economic planning because at the end it is meaningless to them, but not to us.
The "more is better" version of the American dream is unsustainable environmentally, fueling resource consumption that the planet cannot keep up with, and socially,
forcing families into a work-and-spend treadmill that depletes savings and clutters lives. The financial crisis is itself a proof that the dream is unsustainable economicly, as well.
In less than a generation from now, oil & gas depletion will make the prices go much higher than we have seen lately. Our need for oil is everywhere and its price will skyrocket like never before.
A $200/barrel of oil is a likely price until such time when everyone will be fighting for every drop of oil. Most building materials will be too expensive because they
are either made from oil or they are manufactured with the energy of oil, natural gas, and coal. Transportation uses oil (diesel and gasoline).
Electricity is used in the manufacture and construction of houses. Coal (which is transported with diesel) and natural gas
(which uses oil in exploration, drilling operations, and transport of workers) provide the energy for electric power generation. Thus coal and natural gas costs, as well
as the cost of electricity, will increase with the increasing price of oil. Everything will cost more and more as the price of oil increases.
We will be facing the collapse of civilization as we know it.
We are seeing today that the US White House is very nervous about America's future. Trillions of bankcrupted dollars, fake money,
unearned money, are given away by the White House to American corporations so they can buy out foreign corporations
in control of energy resources and of other essential resources for the survival of America.
That is causing a problem in Canada. The oil and gas industry in Canada is owned by Americans and other foreigners. Most Canadians will never see the good of the wealth but they will suffer its impacts on the
environment and the global warming of the planet.
That's right! Just the global warming impacts. This is the proof of how the White House deliberately and strategically from 1947 on, made use of its military and economic warfare
to plunder the resources of the Middle East nations and of nations worldwide, including Canada. Somewhat like pirates on high sea attacking a ship. With the approval of the United Nations, of course! They are still trying to make the world believe
what they have done was the right thing to do. The next generations of Americans will have to live with the fact that their wealth, their goods, their fake righteousness, their out-of-control lifestyle, their ways
of doing things, their prosperous economy over the past decades, their civilization, all of it, is due to the plundering of Iraq, to blood oil and gas, and to the unfair and corrupted
globalization system they have created. Blood resources is not the way we should be dealing with the rest of the world.
Nothing to be proud of! People used to look up to Americans because they did not know their true faces,
and because they were caught in a web of lies of successive White House Administrations.
Now they dont!
G8 leaders are proposing the creation of a new global financial system or new Bretton
Woods. The aim must be to overhaul capitalism, not by questioning the idea
of a market economy but observing certain principles. If our world leaders,
the few elites, have their way again, the world will have some sort of
expanded WTO, NAFTA, or G8 nations with an unlimited power over the economies
of the world. A world anti-government! No less! If we believe the EU and
G8 leaders, the world will become a large casino playground with principles.
NATO will be asked to protect such a system. A new world order! Governance
at its best! Money is all that counts! The big corporate rulers, the war
industry, and Christians from the political right will be fully protected. Actually we will
be back to the aftermath of WWII when the US Administration of the time
decided to build the biggest military force in the world at the expenses
of its taxpayers, the environment and all life on the planet. So we are
back to the future once more.
Now in 2009, the worst that could have happened is happening. The bad guys from Wall Street and banks got a bail out. The military has been exonerated from all charges
and allowed to continue its work of destruction and invasion in the world.
Many USA public and private institutions are now under the protection of the White House Adminstration with taxpayers moneys and nationalized. The world is following
again a path of destruction that got us all here today. Successive corrupted US White House Administrations, bad financial fundamentals, out-of-control stock market, and
astronomically high military expenditures have contributed to the bankruptcy of the US economy. Through its military, the IMF and World Bank, and its lies and bullying
tactics at the United Nations, the White House, and other G8 leaders, have spread a fundamentally wrong philosophy and democratic governance to the rest of the world,
a philosophy of hate, greed and destruction by all means.
Along with the NATO nations and war industry, these leaders are true 21st Century anarchists of our planet.
They are planarchists. They are the worst kind as they hold power and use it without care for life. If there were political
parties on the global level, those of the 'left', those of the 'right' and those in between, planarchists would be of the far 'right', professional thieves
(economists, bankers, financiers, Wall Street workers, Christians of the political right, IMF organization, World Bank organization, White House and Congress officials, NATO, WTO, NAFTA, FTAA, war industry), professional
pirates (not the 'teenager kind' we see today: Somali pirate appears in Kenyan Court).
The kind of 'professional piracy' we see happening today is to do with the IMF, the World Bank, the USA White House, and the G8 nations.
Pirates steal the goods of a ship in open sea. Americans steal the goods of a nation through economic and military warfare.
Over the years, the IMF and World Bank interacted with one another and still do today.
Both organizations, the IMF and World Bank, are mostly sponsored and directed by the US White House. Over the past decades, trillions of American bankrupted dollars, fake money, unearned money, have been given to these
organizations to make developing nations give away their resources to the industrialized nations, G8 nations. For instance,
the IMF looked after the new systems of fixed exchange rates by making exchange easy between different currencies thus
making trade easy between countries. The IMF provided short-term emergency loans (5 years maximum to repay) to governments. The World Bank was to focus on long-term loans at low interest rates to
allow European nations to rebuild and restore. In the 1950s, after European nations had recovered from the war, the World Bank continued to exist by lending to the governments of developing nations especially in
Latin America, Africa and Asia.
In 1973,
US President R. Nixon decided to take America off the gold standard to devalue the US dollar. This US policy destroyed the system of fixed currency exchange rate. After this action, the effect on
the global economy was felt positively by the rich nations of the world, currencies could no longer 'float' relative to each other and the debt of the developing nations increased as they were all created in US dollars. Then
the World Bank loaned more dollars to the developing nations. Often the money was used for war purposes such as in the Philippines and Argentina. War equipment was bought from America, and this had a positive
effect on the US economy. Poor nations saw their debt grow astronomically and were forced to make new loans just to pay for the interests. The IMF supplied more loans under the condition that the poor nations
undergo "
Structural Adjustment Programs". This had the effect that a developing nation's economic policy would be dictated by the IMF. The IMF simply said to the developing nations: do all you can to attract business and
pay off your debts.
Because gold was no longer the standard in support of the dollar,
this new US made system made it possible for the White House to spend trillions of unearned dollars toward the build up of the biggest military force in the world
to be used to invade other nations for their resources, especially the oil & gas resources. This type of financial system could not go on forever and was at the source of
the global financial crisis.
The debt of the developing nations to the rich nations is a form of global tax and therefore the poor or 'developing' nations dont have to
pay it back. In fact poor nations should expect way more money as tax by the rich nations and not as loans. The state of the world today is the result of a specific
set of interlocking institutions: the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. These institutions are designed to generate massive wealth for the few and poverty for the
rest. The same people who make the decisions in government and corporation make the profit. They create a tight concentration of power. Together they are a form of
anti-government whose only goal is profit. The IMF, through Structural Adjustment Programs, now directly runs the economies of over 70 countries. That means that about
1000 economists and bureaucrats control the economic policies for 1.4 billion people in these countries. That is a form of anti-government. The people that profit most
from the global economy are white people. The people who are most oppressed by the global economy are people of colour. Racism and sexism have become the norm.
The IMF and the World Bank are a form of anti-government gone bad as their policies brought poverty to more than half the population on Earth and are causing a major threat to the global
life-support systems. Developing nations started to privatize many services and reduce spending on others so that they would have more money available for debt repayment. The overall effect was that governments were
cutting on education, healthcare and subsidies to keep food prices affordable. After the USA created the WTO and NAFTA, and now the FTAA, nation governments
are no longer allowed to subsidize services. They also have to lower their environmental standards and get ride of labour rights. They will be sued. Governments had to promote 'free trade' and to devalue their currency. Now in a nation whose currency is worth less, all the costs of
doing business are higher and prices for imported goods increase. The IMF basically forced developing nations to focus their economy toward exports, especially cash crops such as coffee, sugar, cotton, etc. and raw
materials such as copper and timber. In consequence of this, several nations produced the same products all at the same time and thus prices for those products went down enormously. The overall effect of the
US policy within the IMF and the World Bank was to eliminate labour and environmental rights, and
increase poverty and ecological destruction in the developing nations while the rich nations got richer.
Their only goal is acquiring the planet's wealth for themselves even if that
means taking down the rest of humanity, all life. They work in tandem with the war industry to invade nations and acquire their resources. Today
they are invading Afghanistan and Iraq, and killing 'freedom fighters'.
They will never leave Iraq until there is no longer a drop of oil and gas left in the Middle East.
Allowing the corporate sector to review their own activities and conducting their own checks and balances is like letting the fox guard the chicken coop, i.e.
multinational corporations have a vested interest in making sure that they make money and go unpunished for breaking global laws. By the time
we realized it was wrong to choose a world economic model based entirely on profit, it was be too late. The Earth ecosystem, our life-support system, have been
destroyed beyond repair. So from now on corporate and societal checks and balances will have to be verified and enforced by the Ministry of the Global Social-Economic
Reform (GSER) as a replacement to the globalization system of the G8 nations.
Truly, we are at the crossroads of the most serious economic and social crisis in modern history, far deeper than the financial crisis itself. In a flash, people saw the worst
of humanity, what was hidden behind Wall Street, greed and mindless consumption, and people ready to do anything to keep things the way they are now. They asked and
got a bail out while most people lost their savings and also the quality of their lives, at home and at work.
Now labour rights are abused in efforts to earn more profits. This leads to abhorrent working conditions, job insecurity and low living standards (all global rights). The WTO and
NAFTA are organizations promoting free trade at the expense of labour rights and the environment. Consumers in developed countries have been socialized to want
more and more things to consume but have not been socialized to appreciate the impact of their consumption choices on the global rights of other people on the planet; that is, they
are not being responsible for their decisions.
The US White House has been running a deficit of nearly a half trillion dollars for a long period of time, and now this annual deficit is well over one trillion dollar.
Americans have accumulated a nation debt of over 10 trillion dollars. Such state of affairs is actually that of a bankrupted nation. The high deficit was caused in large part
by the huge military expenditures, the US war industry. Directly or indirectly, more than half the population of the United States work for the industry. People not connected with the military lost everything they had and now live in poverty.
The global financial crisis has propelled the French Leader and EU Leader to go all around the world to orgainize a Summit this November, the Summit of all G20 nations, the most
industrialized nations, and 'fix' the crisis.
The G20 (Group of 20) is a group consisting of 19 of the world's largest economies, together with the European Union. The G20 was formed as a new forum for cooperation and
consultation on matters pertaining to the international financial system. It studies, reviews, and promotes discussion among key industrial and emerging market countries
of policy issues pertaining to the promotion of international financial stability, and seeks to address issues that go beyond the responsibilities of any one organization.
The G5 group, India, China, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa, could play a stabilising role, especially as it includes several of the world’s largest countries,
each with huge poor populations.
The Group of Eight major industrial nations (G8) were first to announce that they will hold a global summit in November to forge common action to prevent another economic meltdown.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said all European Union nations now backed radical restructuring of international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and
World Bank. He said that the Summit will lead toward "a new capitalism."
Sarkozy said emerging economies such as China, India and others outside the G-8 - the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia -
should also participate because "no one should feel excluded from what we are recasting."
These leaders are interested in fixing their economies, not the global crisis. They are interested in money, the stock market,
not the people of world, the future of the next generations, the protection of life on our planet, or the environment. A money fix will not solve a problem. Money is used to deal with goods as an exchange between
people, businesses and governments in the world. The problem is not money. The problem is the amount of goods being taken from the Earth, exchanged and consumed, and all the
pollution associated with this process. The problem is the fundamentally wrong economic system created to allow these exchanges to occur for the benefit of a few rich people on the
planet and at the expenses of an overpopulated world, the poor and the middle class people, 6.7 billion people, and at the expenses of all life on Earth, the environment, and the
global life-support systems. A money fix is not the solution.
They will also talk about NATO's future and how the organiztion can be used to rule the world under the leadership of the G8 nations. A fundamentally bad New
World Order.
The main
intergovernmental bodies including the United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organizations (WTO),
the European Union (EU), and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
have all endorsed the New World Order on behalf of their corporate
sponsors. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America, is the official protector of
the corporate sponsors.
Planarchists have no true religion, they dont believe in
anything but money and the wealth of the planet for themselves, they have no care for the people they represent except those who work direcly or indirectly for the war
industry and the corporate elite, they refuse to acknowledge the trends of the global crisis and its chaotic end and doing something humane to prevent it, and they refuse
to accept the global concepts researched and developed by the Global Community for the protection of life on our planet.
Because of their wrong way of doing things, our
planet is in great danger of losing its most precious asset: life. They are true anarchists, the destructive kind, and they want humanity to follow on their destructive path.
The global institutions of the Global Community were designed to protect and secure life on our planet. Planarchists dont believe in them. They dont believe in anything
human but money.
And that is threatening the security of all life on our planet. And that makes the planarchists also terrorists of the worst kind. Terrorists to all life on our planet.
What we have learned over time and especially after the crash of Wall Street is that our governing institutions to which we give the power to set our priorities and our
collective course have failed us. We might wonder how such injustice
could happen in a world governed by democratically elected governments. Truly, our world is not governed by democratically elected governments. It is ruled by
global financial institutions in the service of financial speculators who exchange trillions of dollars daily in search of instance unearned profits to increase the wealth, and the power, of the
richest people on the planet. They bring down governments that displease them, and buy and sell the largest corporations like commodities. By design and law the defining priority and obligation
of these governing institutions is to generate financial profits to make rich people richer, in short to increase inequality in a world in desperate need of greater equity.
To this end, the corporations
rise or fall at the pleasure of the speculator, assault of our eyes and ears with advertising messages intended to get those of who already have more goods that they need, to buy more goods. So
what does this big picture overview tell us about what we need to do? How much suffering will changing our ways impose? Well, we need to grow strong caring communities in which we get more
of our human satisfaction from caring relationships and less from material goods. We will need to end war as a means of settling international disputes and dismantle our military establishment. We
need to reclaim the ideal of being a democratic middle-class nation without extremes of wealth and poverty. And we need to encourage and support the Global Community in doing the
same. To do all this we will need create democratically accountable governing institutions devoted to the well-being of people and nature. There can be no trade offs between justice, sustainability,
happiness, and democracy. They are all inseparably linked.
Living at the crossroads of this global crisis, we must hasten its passage, while assisting in the birth of a new
civilization, the global civilization, based on life affirming rather than money affirming values. All over the world people are indeed waking up to the truth. We should strive and take steps to reclaim
and rebuild our local economy.
Be sustainable locally first, and globally next only if needed. Let go the WTO, NAFTA or any free trade agreement. We
should strive and take steps to reclaim and rebuild our local economy.
A global economy empowers global corporations and financial
institutions, local economies empower people. It is our consciousness,
our ways of thinking and our sense of membership in the Global Community,
which should be global. Life is about living, not consuming. A life of
material sufficiency can be filled with social, cultural, intellectual
and spiritual abundance that place no burden on the planet. It is time
to assume responsibility for creating a new future of just and sustainable
societies free from the myth that competition, greed and mindless consumption
are paths to individual and collective fulfillment.
Unless a reformed or empowered Global Community, the Federation of Global Governments, is leading
firmly upon the principle of equal rights for all Global Citizens, then
the planet will be controlled by a handful of vested interests.
It should also be our goal to create locally owned enterprises that sustainably harvest and process local resources to produce jobs, goods and
services. Ideally our economy should be local; rooting power in the people and communities who realize their well being depends on the health and vitality of their local
ecosystem. We should favor local firms and workers, who pay local taxes, live by local rules, respect and nurture the local ecosystems, compete fairly in local markets, and
contribute to community life.
Labour should not be taxed but pollution should. The exploitation and use of natural resources should also be taxed.
Often what is called trade is really moving of resources across borders between subsidiaries of the same corporation. Nothing
to do with free competition. Economic activity is centrally-managed and planned by the corporate elite. Capital move freely across borders as restrictions on the flow of
money have been removed. Corporations can relocate their operations to the countries with the lowest wages, the least active unions and the lowest environmental
standards. The reality is that more polluting industries are encouraged to relocate to poorer countries. A polluting industry tends to increase the chances that people in
the surrounding area will have health problems. If pollution kills someone or makes them unable to work, the cost to the economy, or to the industry in the case of a
law-suit, would be roughly equal to the projected wages that the person would have earned in the rest of their life. In a country with low life expectancy and low wages, this
cost will be lessened. It costs less to dump a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country.
Today the watchdog, the 'enforcer' for 'free trade', and also the bedfellow of both the IMF and the World Bank, is the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO is
responsible for monitoring national trading policies, handling trade disputes, and enforcing the GATT agreements. The World Trade Organization (WTO), the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) encourage the privatization of public services and the settling of international
disputes their own way. Any government, acting on behalf of a corporation, can challenge the acts of another government if they "interfere with trade." Complaints are
taken to a WTO dispute resolution body which then make a binding decision. The WTO has forced governments to lower their environmental standards in favour of a
corporation to allow more pollution into the environment, and that is a form of anti-government gone bad with absolute no respect or care for life and the global-life support
systems. Corporations can sue governments if they harm their profits through any unfair barriers to trade. NAFTA and WTO tribunals usually rule in favor of corporations.
So now we really have a new definition for the word 'property' to mean both what is currently owned and profits that could potentially be made. To compensate, we
propose a new definition for 'pollution' and 'human destruction' to mean the pollution and human destruction that the policies of the IMF, World Bank and WTO are causing
now in the world plus the pollution and human destruction that they will cause in the future to the next generations. By providing corporations with a mean to override
governmental decisions, NAFTA and the WTO (and the proposed FTAA) shift power even more into the hands of the elite. And that is also a form of anti-government.
The Global Community was
looking for a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and
developing countries to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social standards, but there it was all along right on our eyes. The Earth Court of
Justice will be asked to decide on the debt of the developing nations be changed into an actual tax to be paid by the developed nations to the developing nations, and to decide on the amount of tax to be
paid. Developing nations will then be able to start rebuilding their communities as per the Scale of Global Rights.They
will not have to satisfy the economic needs and wishes of the rich nations. The Earth Court of Justice will also be asked to rule illegal the activities of the IMF, the World
Bank and the WTO unless they become a part of a greater whole such as the Earth Ministry of Financial Institutions, a part of the Global Community. These
institutions will be controlled by the greater whole. What we see happening today is a free for all type of trade and businesses, large corporations, are allowed to
go after Earth resources and destroying the economies of the developing nations. We see blood resources acquisitions and take-overs, often on behalf of the free world
with imperialistic goals.
Fot the protection of global communities worldwide we will need to create economic stability by way of Earth rights and taxation of natural resources.
This Global Movement for land value taxation and natural resource rent
for revenue can provide the basis for worldwide economic democracy. Freedom
to live or work in any part of the globe would also further equality of
entitlement to the planet, and provide a basis for the resolution of resource
wars and territorial conflicts. There would be no more private profit as
unearned income from Earth natural resources. Instead, transparent and
accountable resource agencies would collect resource rents and distribute
those funds in public services or as direct citizen dividends.
Policies for securing the Global Financial System (GFS)
1. It is better to tax "bads" rather than "goods". Governments have long used selective taxation to discourage use of alcohol and cigarettes,
while unprocessed food and children¹s clothing remain tax-free. It is best to continue this tradition with selective "eco-sin taxes" to
discourage a wide range of grey products and lifestyles. At the same time, taxes would be eliminated on green products and lifestyles. People
should be able to avoid taxation by choosing green products and lifestyles.
2. Taxes should be designed to conserve resources and energy. Rather than taxing jobs and profits,
taxes should be moved to resource use and energy consumption to reward conservation. The community should benefit from the use of commonly
held resources. Using resources is a privilege, not a right, and the user should pay for the privilege. Resources must also be shared with future generations and other species.
3. Taxes should be designed to increase employment. Moving taxes onto resources and land use and off of incomes will make people less
expensive to employ. Products produced by green production methods, which tends to use fewer resources and less energy will avoid
taxation. As energy costs rise, the price of labour becomes more economic, and green products which tend to encourage value-added
processes, will provide more high quality, skilled jobs than resource intensive products.
4. Distributive taxes are preferable to re-distributive taxes. If wealth is distributed more fairly
in the first place less re-distribution will be necessary. Eliminating consumption taxes will eliminate the only tax the poor must pay. By moving
taxes on to resource use and land, the poor, who generally own less land and use fewer resources, will avoid taxation, thus requiring
less redistribution. Taxing land but not the use of land, will reduce taxation on higher density housing, lowering housing costs for low-income
citizens, thus reducing another need for re-distribution.
5. Resource taxes should be assessed as early as possible. Resources should be taxed before entering
the manufacturing process in order to green all aspects of the manufacturing process from extraction to the finished product.
Increasing taxes on resource and energy use will encourage resource and energy efficiency, innovation, reuse, repair, recycling, and used material recovery.
6. Taxing unearned income is preferable to taxing earned income. The tax shift to resource use and
community-generated land values will distribute income more fairly without dependence on income and business taxation to redistribute
income. Taxing unearned income (resources, land) and not earned income (jobs, profits) will reduce the rich-poor gap since the rich
are always in a better position to capture unearned or windfall income by their ability to hold assets that they do not have to consume.
7. Green tax shifting is revenue-neutral, not a tax break or tax grab. The taxes paid by businesses and individuals
collectively will not change, but greener businesses and consumers will reduce their taxes. Grey businesses and consumers will pay higher taxes. Studies have
shown that 50% of businesses and consumers will be unaffected or only slightly affected by tax shifting, roughly one quarter will realize tax reductions one quarter will be taxed more.
8. Resource use and community-generated land value taxation are fairer. Resource use and land taxes are much simpler
to collect and harder to evade than taxes on income and business profits. Since there are far fewer points of taxation than with traditional tax sources, a move
to resource use and land taxation will reduce the size of the underground economy. The difficulty of evading these taxes will reduce the problem of overseas tax havens.
9. Green taxation increases international competitiveness. Eliminating taxes on domestic labour will reduce labour costs in Ontario and
therefore reduce out-sourcing by businesses seeking cheap labour in other countries or provinces.
10. Pay for what you take, not for what you make. Businesses should not be taxed for hiring people or for
earning a profit, but should be charged for using resources and polluting the planet. People should not be taxed for
earning an income or purchasing products but should be charged for the value of land they own and the resources used in the products they
buy. Resource use and polluting are privileges not rights, and businesses and consumers should pay for these privileges.
11. Taxing community-generated land values is beneficial. Since the community around it, not its owner, creates
the value of land, the community should receive the benefits it has created. The owner is entitled to a fair profit
but not to a windfall profit that rightfully belongs to the community that generated the wealth in the first place. Under LVT the specific use
of the land will not be taxed, only the land itself, within the existing zoning. Community-generated land value taxation encourages the efficient
use of land, reduces sprawl, reduces speculation, tends to reduce land prices and improves land use patterns.
12. Taxes should encourage local, sustainable, value-added production over imports. Culturally unique products
and services will be valued by green tax reform over mass production. The sale price should include the true costs of products, services and distances
traveled, and should be designed to encourage local, sustainable production.
13. Taxes should break up monopolies. The most important monopolies are resource monopolies and land monopolies.
When a person or a business has control or exclusive rights over large amounts of a resource or large amounts of land, this person or business reaps windfall
profits, which is unjust. These resources and this land belong to the community and if individuals are granted access to it they should pay a fair
price for this privilege or right. Land Value Taxation aims to ensure that the wealth created by usage of land and resources that rightfully belong
to the community accrue back to that community.
14. Taxes should be applied only once. Rather than taxing the same wealth repeatedly through personal income,
business income, sales, re-sale, interest, capital gains, property transfer, inheritance, taxation should only impact the
use of a resource and the ownership of land on a sustained basis (ie property tax on site value).
15. Minimizing income taxes
a) Moving taxes off of incomes and onto resource
use and community-generated land value is critical in order to achieve
and maintain a green economy
and society.
b) Traditionally governments tax the component
of production in least supply. In the first half of the 20th century labour
was scarce and resources and
land were plentiful and indeed considered
infinite, so it made sense for government to tax incomes and not resource
use or land. Now, however,
resources and land are scarce and labour is
plentiful, so governments should modernize the tax structure by switching
the source of taxation away
from incomes and onto resources use and land.
c) Income taxes are a regressive tax since they
tax a "good" not a "bad". Since jobs are desirable we should not tax employment.
Income taxes are a
disincentive to employment since they make
people expensive to employ. Employers often avoid taxation by employing
fewer people and opting
instead for energy-intensive, chemical-intensive
and resource-intensive production. Conversely, taxing resource and land
lightly sends the message
that these community-held resources are unimportant
and may be squandered by anyone without consequences.
d) It is claimed that income taxes help reduce
economic inequity among people. This is untrue since employers simply pass
on the extra payroll
deduction to consumers. The amount of income
tax paid is irrelevant to labour negotiations, since bargaining is based
on net pay, not gross pay. In
determining an employee's worth, the employer
simply calculates the gross amount based on take-home pay. Salaries of
high worth employees and
CEOs are simply raised to the level necessary
to ensure net pay reaches the desired level.
e) In contrast the rich-poor gap will be narrowed
more effectively by moving taxes off of incomes and onto resource and land
use, since wealthier
people who choose to spend their money on
grey products and lifestyles will be taxed more while people with lower
incomes will be able to avoid
taxation by living green. In addition, replacing
income taxes with green taxes would help conserve resources, save energy,
foster value-added and
labour intensive production (ie. more jobs),
and reduce pollution.
16. Minimizing business taxes
a) Neither the right wing call for corporate tax
cuts nor the left-wing mantra of increased corporate taxes will engender
a transition to a just or green
society. Reducing or increasing taxes on corporate
profits is green-neutral (taxes which neither encourage nor discourage
greening the planet). If the
goal is for businesses to succeed and employ
people, it makes no sense to apply business taxes or payroll deductions.
b) Moving taxes off of profits and employment
and onto the resources, land and pollution will speed progress toward a
green industrial economy.
Recourse use and pollution are privileges
not rights, and businesses should pay for these privileges. While business
people would prefer not to pollute
the planet or squander resources, the present
tax structure gives them little choice. Businesses usually follow the path
of least tax resistance and will
readily go green if tax incentives pointed
the way.
c) Green production means more jobs, resource
conservation, and less pollution. Ecological fiscal reform and green tax
shifting are revenue neutral; the
collective tax burden paid by business is
unchanged, but it will reward businesses that go green and discourage businesses
that remain grey.
17. Phasing out consumption taxes
a) Sales taxes are unhelpful in moving to a green
society since socially useful and ecologically sound products are taxed
equally to socially or ecologically
detrimental products. To reduce consumption
of resources, taxes should be applied early in the manufacturing process
in order to green all aspects of
the manufacturing process. Taxing early will
dramatically reduce the ticket price of green products and raise the price
of grey products, positively
influencing consumer behaviour. Taxing early
will encourage resource and energy efficiency, innovation, reuse, repair,
recycling, and used material
recovery.
b) Sales taxes are regressive since they discourage
people from making both green and grey purchases, thus damaging the economy
and killing jobs. As
well sales taxes are often unfairly evaded
by the underground economy, while resource use, pollution and land rent
levies, by contrast, are simpler to
apply and more difficult to evade.
18. Resource use taxation
a) Income taxes, consumptions taxes, and taxes
on profits are all green-neutral, ie. green jobs, green purchases and green
profits are taxed at the same
rate as grey jobs, grey purchases and grey
profits. By contrast, resources taxes levied early in the production process
foster conservation,
efficiencies, innovation, value-added production,
and labour-intensive production. Local sustainable production, short run
niche production, and
skilled trades and crafts receive a bias since
the full costs of transportation and mass production are internalized.
b) Taxing resources minimizes waste and pollution
thus reducing the load on government for health care costs, waste disposal
costs, transportation
infrastructure, and pollution cleanup costs.
The market will drive resource and energy conservation without government
micro-management.
c) Resource taxation would focus on a small number
of key local resources and a small number of imported resources
19. Global taxation
A) A tobin tax as a powerful instrument of the promotion of sustainable development 
B) A Green Tax Shift Policy Approach to financing local-to-global public goods
C) The debt of developing countries - was really a global tax developed countries had to pay to developing countries
D) Green tax aspects and issues 
19. A) A tobin tax as a powerful instrument of the promotion of sustainable development
The Global Community is making a strong case in favour of the introduction of a specific type of tobin tax as a powerful instrument
of the promotion of sustainable development, both directly as well as indirectly. Indirectly, it can discourage financial
speculation and currency crises with their devastating effects on countries; directly, as a tax, the proceeds of it can be used as
an alternative source of sustainable development finance in order to promote the establishment of international public goods.
The original Tobin tax proposal can be made into a feasible instrument by engineering it as a two-tier tax (the so-called Spahn
version of the Tobin tax), with tax collection through the international settlements system.
The global economy can be affected by the deregulation in the movement of capital and thus by speculation. Money is made
off tiny fluctuations in the relative prices of currencies. Speculation makes it possible for huge amounts of money to be
transferred half-way around the world in a matter of seconds. Whereas world trade associated with actual goods and services
is estimated at 7 trillion dollars (US) a year, speculation is estimated at 1.5 trillion dollar a day. If a country's economy starts to slow, billions of
dollars can be transferred out of the country instantaneously, which can significantly affect its economy and the people. This has
been the case in 1997 of a number of East Asia countries. They were bankrupted by speculation. The people were enormously
affected for the worst. Speculation can exert tremendous pressure on the internal politics of a country. It can bankrupt a
country's economy. Speculation should be de-institutionalized. Humanity has no real need for speculation, and it does way
more damage than good. Speculation is a form of gambling and is evil.
A workable type of Tobin tax should also be in place as it is a powerful instrument to promote sustainable development and force shareholders in moving away from
producing oil. A Tobin tax is a tax on all trade of currency across borders to put a
penalty on short-term speculation in currencies. The tax rate should be 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars. The proposal is important due to its potential to prevent global financial crises
such as we are seeing now. Also, an estimated $500 billion per year makes it possible to meet urgent global priorities, such as preventing global warming, disease,
and poverty. The tax should be managed by the Global Community and the Federation of Global Governments.
In the globalized economy, there is a lack of adequate funding for global problems such as disease, poverty and hunger. Global climate change, deforestation, population
growth and unemployment, declining fisheries and pollution threaten local communities worldwide. Projects which could help to address these needs and create jobs will
cost more than $500 billion annually. Private donors do not meet the need, and some nations cut their aid budgets. New multilateral approaches to public finance, such
as Tobin Taxes, may provide part of the answer.
Tobin-style taxes would work well:
- On Wall Street, currency speculators trade over $2 trillion dollars each day across borders.
- Each trade would be taxed at 0.1 to 0.25 percent of volume (about 10 to 25 cents per hundred dollars)
- This would discourage short-term currency trades,about 90 percent speculative, but leave long-term productive investments intact.
- The currency market would thus shrink in volume, helping to restore national economic autonomy. Nations again could intervene effectively to protect their own currency from devaluation and financial crisis.
- Billions in revenue, estimated at $500 billion per year, would be generated.
- Revenue could go into earmarked trust funds to fund urgent Global Community priorities.
The proposal is important due to its potential to prevent
global financial crises such as we are seeing now. Also, an estimated $500 billion per year makes it possible to meet urgent global priorities, such
as preventing global warming, disease, and unemployment. The tax should
be managed by the Global Community and the Federation of Global Governments.
In the globalized economy, there is a lack of adequate funding for global
problems which threaten local communities worldwide. Projects which could
help to address these needs and create jobs will cost more than $500 billion
annually. Private donors do not meet the need, and some nations cut their
aid budgets. New multilateral approaches to public finance, such as Tobin
Taxes, may provide part of the answer.
Under no circumstances should the money be managed by the United Nations following the formation of some sort of new Economic Council of the UN.
The UN is a corrupted organization and has been ever since its creation. Every past decisions made by the UN had to be approved by the five Permanent Members.
And that is not acceptable. Over its history the UN has made decisions that are the causes of the planetary state of emergency the world is facing today.
The problem is the organization itself, the way it was created, and the many loopholes for corruption at all levels, especially at the highest levels.
The US White House was the main initiator and promoter for the formation of the UN. Over the past decades we have seen the US Administration bullying
the UN membership to get what it wants. The latest one of those 'US want's we are seeing the impacts today has been the premeditated and illegal invasion of Iraq to acquire and control its
oil and gas resources. Over one and half million Iraquis were killed and the nation destroyed. We have seen a beast of the worst kind at work. And the UN gave America its approval
for the invasion. The UN claims to be the defender of human rights but that is 90% a farce. You dont allow over one and half million Iraquis be killed
and get away with it. You have to stand up firmly for the protection of a nation and all its people.
NATO is in charge they say on behalf of the UN. But the US White House is also running NATO. Corruption and the mindless destruction of our planet are
everywhere. The White House has over a thousand military bases spread over the world all aimed at destruction and de-stabilizing nations
to acquire their resources. The beast is in charge and must be controlled.
It has become clear that this culture of war, waste, mismanagement and corruption cannot reform itself. NATO cannot be reformed. It must be replaced by the GPA.
The UN cannot be reformed. It must be replaced by the Federation of Global Governments.
So the money cannot and should not be managed by the UN. We must first let go the UN and form the Federation, but this time we will do it right.
The $500 billion per year tax should be managed by the Global Community and the Federation of Global Governments, and not by a failed and corrupted organization, the United Nations.
19. B) A Green Tax Shift Policy Approach to financing local-to-global public goods
The Global Community proposes a Green Tax Shift Policy Approach to financing local-to-global public goods.
There is a troublesome and painful contradiction in the lives of many of us who are working for peace, justice, poverty
eradication, debt cancellation and sustainable development. While our hearts and minds focus on building a better world for
everyone, each day we hand over fistfuls of dollars to build weapons of mass destruction, fuel dangerous, dirty and polluting
technologies, and subsidize huge conglomerates which concentrate the wealth of the world in the control of the few. But
together we can end tax tyranny and align our visions and values with how we finance our governments.
Taxation not only raises money to fund government services, it also reflects the overall value system of a society. The goal of
green tax policy is to create a system of public finance which strengthens and maximize incentives for:
* Fair distribution of wealth
* Environmental protection
* Basic needs production
* Provision of adequate government services
* Peaceful resolution of territorial conflicts
Green tax reform makes a clear distinction between private property and common property. Private property is that which is
created by labour. Common property is that which is provided by nature. Green tax policy removes taxes from wages and other
private property and increases taxes and user fees on common property. Reducing taxes on labour increases purchasing
capacity, reducing taxes on capital encourages efficiency. Shifting taxes to land and resources curbs speculation and private
profiteering in our common property and is a practical way to conserve and fairly share the Earth.
Green tax policy CUTS taxes on:
* Wages and earned income
* Productive and sustainable capital
* Sales, especially for basic necessities
* Homes and other buildings
Green tax policy INCREASES taxes and fees on:
* Land sites according to land value
* Lands used for timber, grazing, mining
* Emissions into air, water, or soil
* Ocean and freshwater resources
* Electromagnetic spectrum
* Satellite orbital zones
* Oil and minerals
Green tax policy seeks to ELIMINATE subsidies environmentally or socially harmful, unnecessary, or inequitable. Slated for
drastic reduction or complete removal are subsidies for:
* Energy production
* Resource extraction
* Commerce and industry
* Agriculture and forestry
* Weapons of mass destruction
19. C) The debt of developing countries - was really a global tax developed countries had to pay to developing countries
The Earth Court of Justice is required to rule that the debt of the poor nations or 'developing nations' to the rich nations was in actuality a form of global tax and therefore the poor or 'developing' nations dont have to pay it back.
In fact poor nations should expect way more money as tax by the rich nations and not as loans.
In order to solidify control over resources perceived as being increasingly scarce, some European countries are rewriting laws regarding ownership and control of power and
energy sources. Some leftist national leaders have resorted to outright nationalization of resources and industry assets.
The state recovers ownership, possession and total and absolute control of hydrocarbons.
This means the state will own and sell these resources, relegating foreign companies to operators. Previously,
the law said the state no longer owned the gas once companies extracted it from underground.
This is just the start. Other resources can also be nationalized: mining, the forestry sector, and eventually all the natural resources for which ancestors fought for.
The Global Community has in fact been defined around a given territory,
that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population,
which is the Global Community.
The Global Community has the power to make the laws of the land and to make the rules
for the territory of the Earth. Global Law has been and continue to be
researched and developed for this purpose.
Whoever owns the land and all other natural resources exerts power over those who are landless and no resources. The Global Community proposes to
extend democratic principles to include the ownership and control
of the Earth. The Global Economic Model was created for all
the people on the planet. The model makes sure that the
rights of all people and the rights of the planet are one and the same.
The Global Economic Model stipulates as well that we, as human beings, are trustees and caretakers
of all other life forms on Earth.
The Global Economic Model is global, as people are freed to move beyond
borders and boundaries and claim the whole Earth as their birthplace.
The model eliminates subsidies that are environmentally or socially harmful, and inequitable.
As defined by the Global Community, the concept of ownership states that land
and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and belong equally to everyone, to all life on Earth, as a birthright. Products and services created by individuals
are properly viewed as private property. Products and services created by groups of individuals are properly viewed as collective property.
The Global Economic Model proposes to make private property the product of labour. Common property
is all what Nature offers. The Global Economic Model policy removes
taxes from wages and increases taxes and user
fees on common property.
Conservation, restoration, and management of the Earth resources
is about asking ourselves the question of "Who owns the Earth?" The large
gap between rich and poor is connected to
ownership and control of the planet's land and of all other Earth natural
resources. We, the Global Community, must now direct the wealth of the world towards the
building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs
for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all.
The Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact that land, the air, water, oil, minerals, and all other natural resources
rightly belong to the Global Community along with the local communities where those resources are found.
Along with ownership comes the obligation of using the resources, share them or lose them. Land and all other Earth natural resources are not commodities. Use the land,
share it or lose it. This principle also applies to banks and similar institutions all over the world and to Wall Street. You own property because the previous owners could not pay. Use that
property, share it or lose it.
Global Community fundamentals concerning the question of "Who owns the Earth?" has been integrated into our global economic system that stipulates:
you own a property, use it, share it, or lose it
This principle also applies to banks and similar institutions all over the world. You own property because the owners could not pay. Use that property, or share it or lose it.
Wall Street is cerainly a prime owner of property and is included with this principle.
Only the Global Community can rightfully claim ownership of the Earth.
Each day taxpayers hand over astronomical amounts of money to build weapons of mass destruction, fuel dangerous and polluting technologies,
and subsidize giant corporations which concentrate the wealth and power of the world in the hands of an elite few.
Land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like
surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil etc), water, electromagnetic
spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat
land as private property. Land is not a product of labour. Everyone should
therefore be given equal access to natural resources.
The Global Economic Model proposes to make private property the product of labour. Common property
is all what Nature offers. The Global Economic Model policy removes
taxes from wages and increases taxes and user
fees on common property.
Following this thinking we see land ownership is no longer a problem. The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all the "global communities" contained therein.
A village, or a city is "a global community" and owns the land around its boundaries. Along with the Global Community, it has ownership of all natural resources within its boundaries.
We will see in the Preview how this new system can work.
In today's affairs a very powerful few are in possession of the Earth's resources, the land and all its riches, and all the franchises and other privileges that
yield a return. These few people operate virtually without taxation. Is that what we want as a global democracy? Who should own the Earth? The United
Nations (UN) cannot have characteristics of sovereignty, which has been defined around a territory and population.
So the ownership of the land and the natural resources will be challenged by the Global Community.
People need all tax dollars to take on the challenge but first must get out of spending on the military invasion of nations.
Similarly, all the Earth natural resources belong to the Global Community to be used, developed and protected for the maximum benefit of the people and of all
life.
The Earth is the birthright of all life.
How the Earth should be owned is the major economic question of this
time. The world should be owned not just by the people living in it but by all life on Earth and the Soul of Life, the Soul of Humanity.
Our planet is populated with living beings consisting of millions of different life forms interacting with each
other to survive, thus forming an intricate web of life in different ecosystems on the planet. The interaction and interdependence between life
forms are the driving force that creates and maintains an ecological - environmental equilibrium that has sustained life on Earth for millions of years enabling
it to evolve, flourish and diversify. The Global Community values Earth’s diversity in all its forms, the non-human as well as the human.
Virtually all life on earth, directly or indirectly, depends on photosynthesis as a source of food, energy, and Oxygen, making it one of
the most important biochemical processes known. It is a part of the global life-support systems and is a right that needs protecting at
all costs. The right and responsibility that human beings have in protecting photosynthesis has the highest importance on the Scale of Global
Rights.
On Earth’s surface exists a diversity of arctic, temperate and tropical ecosystems with many different varieties of plants, animals, and human beings, all of which are
dependent on soils, waters and local climates. Biodiversity, the diversity of organisms, depends on maintenance of
ecodiversity, the diversity of ecosystems. Cultural diversity
– which in effect is a form of biodiversity – is the historical result
of humans fitting their activities, thoughts and language
to specific geographic ecosystems. Therefore, whatever
degrades and destroys ecosystems is both a biological
and a cultural source.
On the global level the Law of the Seas Covenant is an example of a global community lease payment basis for public needs as it has affirmed that ocean resources are the
common heritage of all and a proper source of funding for global institutions. Water belongs to the Earth and all species and is sacred to life therefore, the world’s water must be conserved, reclaimed and protected for all future
generations and its natural patterns respected.
Water is a fundamental human right and a public trust to be guarded by all levels of government; therefore, it should not be commodified, privatized or
traded for commercial purposes. These rights must be enshrined at all levels of government. In particular, an international treaty must ensure these
principles are noncontrovertable.
Water is best protected by local communities and citizens, who must be respected as equal partners with governments in the protection and regulation of
water. Peoples of the Earth are the only vehicle to promote democracy and save water.
Similarly, all the Earth natural resources belong to the Global Community to be used, developed and conserved for the maximum benefit of the people and of all
life.
The planet and all its resources of land, water, forests, minerals,
the atmosphere, electro-magnetic frequencies, and even satellite orbits belong to the Global Community. The Global Economic
Model makes sure that the profits of the Earth will benefit the people
and all life, and secure an age of peace and fairness for all.
The Global Community should set up expert groups and begin the necessary intergovernmental
negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the
skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees levied on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on carbon content of fuels.
This thinking should give us a fresh start for a better future.
Properly managed small farms along with ecological villages
can produce a diverse range of food, fiber, livestock, and energy products
for local markets. Bio methods of farming depending on renewable
energy sources can yield both social and environmental stability.
The Global Economic Model
eliminates subsidies that are environmentally or socially
harmful, and inequitable.
Truly, the world is on the threshold of a global revolution, and needs to
proceed with the non-violent approach. The Global Community needs to build an economic democracy
based firmly on the basic principle that the Earth belongs equally to
everyone as a birthright. The Earth is for all people to labour and live
on and should never be the possession of any individual, corporation,
or uncaring government, any more than the air or water, or any other
Earth natural resources. An individual, or a business should have
no more than is needed for a healthy living.
Let us now try to answer a few simple questions.
After all the technology in the world has been used to get to the Moon, and now Mars, all the hard work, all the sweat and pain endured, and more, much more, to finally put a flag on the
Moon. Amazing human achievement! We can really be proud of a team that did it.
Just like the first European explorers who discovered America, they arrived and conquered. Natives did not have a chance.
Natives said America was their home. But no longer! The explorers said it is now ours. Most Natives were shot in the USA. More survived in Canada!
Explorers were not doing this hard work just for the pleasure of finding something new. Their countries sent them and pay for their expenses. Explorers were expected
to find something tangible that could make their countries proud and rich.
The question should be how does this relate to ownership of the Earth?
Does putting a flag on the Moon gives you ownership of the Moon?
Does putting a flag on Mars gives you ownership of the planet?
Does discovering the Americas by explorers gave them ownership of the Americas?
Does climbing Mount Everest gives ownership of the mountain?
The answer is no. None of the above own whatever they claim they do own.
Does mapping the ocean floor gives you ownership of the land nearby? No it does not.
Just because you put a flag on the Moon means you own the Moon. It just does not work that way.
A dog, a bear, a wolf, and many other life species, leave 'something' at the bottom of a tree, a bush, a building, a park bench, but this does not mean the life species owns the
tree, the forest, the park, the building or the town. People can leave a flag or whatever else, but that does not mean they own the Moon, planet Mars, Nunavut or Greenland.
From the Global Community perspective, any new sustainable community brave enough to live on a new, inhabitated land
owns it. That is a basic principle. There no need to ask permission from any organization such as the International Court of Justice or the United Nations.
Someday people from a nation will land on the Moon and on planet Mars for the purpose of settling a colony. They wont ask permission from anybody because there is no one there.
People from another nation might do the same and settle a colony somewhere else on the Moon and Mars. There again they dont need to ask permission to do so.
Things get more complicated when a nation is a predator nation like the first explorers of North America. There were people living on the continent.
The explorers shut dead the natives when they got there. The explorers behave very much like predators. And the nations they represented were predator nations.
A predator nation is behaving more or less like a shark eating smaller fishes. No organization in the world should be going along with such human behavior.
Civilized people can live without killing others to survive. We dont need blood resources to survive.
Now let us deal with the problem of sovereignty over a territory.
The Global Community has established a criteria for a global community to exist.
What makes a 'nation' ? And what makes 'a global community' ?
A nation is defined primarily by its people, its communities; arts, history, social, languages, religious and cultural aspects included.
Fundamentally a nation or a state is defined as "a politically unified population occupying a specific area of land".
Perhaps it is time to leave behind the concept of 'nation'. It has confusing meanings and has been over-used in many situations and by everyone. Is it truly necessary
to discuss about it? I dont think so. Let us move on to the twenty first century. The Global Community has researched and developed new global concepts more
appropriate to our times. The concept of 'a global community' 
is one of them and is certainly a powerful new concept that will make its place in history.
A global community has a well defined criteria based on global symbiotical relationships. And it does not require the occupation of a specific area of land.
These relationships allow a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all the "global communities" along with the Global Community where they are found.
A village, or a city is "a global community" and owns the land around its boundaries. Along with the Global Community, it has ownership of all natural resources within its boundaries.
The Global Community criteria for sovereignty implies control, authority over a territory. The concept of state sovereignty is
embedded in international law. Traditionally, this definition reflects a state’s right to jurisdictional control, territorial integrity,
and non-interference by outside states. Sovereignty implies both undisputed
supremacy over the land’s inhabitants and independence from unwanted intervention by an outside authority.
However, sovereignty has also been increasingly defined in terms of state responsibility and Earth management. This includes a state’s exercise of control and authority over its territory, and
the perception of this control and authority by other states. Sovereignty is thus linked to the maintenance of international security and to the protection of the environment
and the global life-support systems.
Like we have explained above putting a flag on Moon does not give you ownership. Our first explorers did not own the land just because they stepped foot on
North America. Just because you put a flag on Mount Everest means you own the mountain. You dont!
Another example is concerned with ownership of the North, more specifically of Nunavut, Canada.
The population density of Nunavut is 0.015 persons per square kilometer. So 82.4% of Nunavut is practically empty of people. One can say Nunavut is mostly without
people. If someday a colony is set up on the Moon will that mean the people making up the colony owns the Moon? No it does not! The people of the colony could say they own
an area large enough for their own survival, a sustainable living. Not the entire Moon. Similarly for the Inuit people. They dont own Nunavut.
The Inuit are in large part being taken care of by the Canadian Government. They are being used by the Canadian Government to claim soverighty of Nunavut.
Somewhat like the colony on the Moon would be taken care of by the nation on Earth.
So the Inuit people can only claim to own a small area around their communities.
This means that people from all over the world could come to settle a community in Nunavut.
In Nunavut there is also a vast array of different life-form communities such as the polar bears, caribou, Arctic foxes, seals, beluga whales, northern fulmars, and those communities of organisms that inhabit the sea
floor like brittle stars, worms, zooplankton, microalgae, bivalves and some of the lesser known sea spiders.
And there are many more. Everyone of those global communities have an Earth right of ownership
of the North and of all its natural resources. It is their birthright. They dont express themselves in English, but we understand them. Human beings have a moral
obligation to protect and conserve the biodiversity of life on Earth.
The Earth management of Nunavut is an asset to the Global Community and Canada. The Global Constitution shows us how it can be done with Global Law, the Earth Court of Justice,
and how the Global Protection Agency (GPA) and the Agency of Global Police (AGP) can protect the territory. Global Community Arrest Warrants can be issued to anyone
breaking Global Law. The GCNA Emergency, Rescue and Relief Centre is vigilant and quick in helping all life in need of help.
Fot the protection of those global communities we will need to create a biodiversity zone in the North by way of Earth rights and taxation of natural resources.
Land is not a product of labour. Everyone should therefore
be given equal access to natural resources. The Global Social-Economic Model (GSEM) proposes
to make private property the product of labour. Common property is all
what Nature offers. The Global Economic Model policy removes taxes from
wages and increases taxes and user fees on common property.
So let us again ask ourselves the question: "Who owns the Earth?"
and think about how to integrate our answer into our
Global Social-Economic Model (GSEM).
How the Earth should be owned is the major economic question
of this time. The world should be owned not just by the people living in
it but by all life on Earth and the Soul of Life, the Soul of Humanity.
The natural resources of the Earth belong to all the "global
communities" along with the Global Community where they are found. When
people know they own the resources in their communities then people can
start directing the wealth of their resources towards the building of local-to-global
economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal
healthcare, education, and employment for all in their community.
Of course ownership is directly related to sovereignty.
As an example, most of Canada's large corporations have been bought out by the US and other foreigners. The US used bankcrupted money, fake money, unearned money, to do so.
Since WWII, we have seen a gradual lost of Canada's sovereignty because of 'Free Trade' and the signing of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement.
Let us define a human criteria for sovereignty.
Global Community criteria for sovereignty:
- a global community is in place
- the land and its natural resources are just enough to live a sustainable life and for a healthy living
- the community governs its owns affairs as per the Scale of Global Rights, Global Law, Global Constitution, the protection of the environment
and of the global life-support systems
- a symbiotical relationship exists between the citizens and the Global Community
- a democracy based on the fact that land, the air, water, oil, minerals, and all other natural resources within the community rightly belongs to the community along with the Global Community, and
that the Earth is the birthright of all life
- Earth management and taxation of all Earth natural resources
This criteria can be useful in assessing claims of sovereignty all over the planet. Again as an example,
without this criteria no one can claim ownership - sovereignty - of both Nunavut and the Northwest Passage in Canada North. Canada does not own either the area of Nunavut or that of the North West
Passage. Like putting a flag on Moon does not give you ownership. Our first explorers did not own the land just because they stepped foot on
North America. Just because you put a flag on Mount Everest means you own the mountain. You dont! And the Inuit dont own Nunavut either.
The population density of Nunavut is 0.015 persons per square kilometer. So 82.4% of Nunavut is practically empty of people. One can say Nunavut is mostly without
people. If someday a colony is set up on the Moon will that mean the people making up the colony owns the Moon? No it does not! The people of the colony could say they own
an area large enough for their own survival, a sustainable living. Not the entire Moon. Similarly for the Inuit people. They dont own Nunavut.
The Inuit are in large part being taken care of by the Canadian Government. They are being used by the Canadian Government to claim soverighty of Nunavut.
Somewhat like the colony on the Moon would be taken care of by the nation on Earth.
So the Inuit people can only claim to own a small area around their communities.
This means that people from all over the world could come to settle a community in Nunavut.
In Nunavut there is also a vast array of different life-form communities such as the polar bears, caribou, Arctic foxes, seals, beluga whales, northern fulmars, and those communities of organisms that inhabit the sea
floor like brittle stars, worms, zooplankton, microalgae, bivalves and some of the lesser known sea spiders.
And there are many more. Everyone of those global communities have an Earth right of ownership
of the North and of all its natural resources. It is their birthright. They dont express themselves in English, but we understand them. Human beings have a moral
obligation to protect and conserve the biodiversity of life on Earth.
The Earth management of Nunavut is an asset to the Global Community and Canada. The Global Constitution shows us how it can be done with Global Law, the Earth Court of Justice,
and how the Global Protection Agency (GPA) and the Agency of Global Police (AGP) can protect the territory. Global Community Arrest Warrants can be issued to anyone
breaking Global Law. The GCNA Emergency, Rescue and Relief Centre
is vigilant and quick in helping all life in need of help.
Fot the protection of those global communities we will need to create a biodiversity zone in the North by way of Global Rights and taxation of natural resources.
The Global Movement to Help,
an initiative of the
Global Community and of the Federation of Global Governments, is now applying
more emphasis on the urgent need from the people of all nations to give
everyone essential services. The urgent need to give all Global
Citizens essential services was made obvious in the past few years after
the occurrence of natural disasters, and the global destruction created
by the military.
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only
one for several decades ahead of us, is the approval of essential services
amongst the participating member nations. To that effect, new Global Ministries
will be established to guide us onto the path of global sustainability.
The Global Social-Economic Model (GSEM)
is an example of a new Ministry in the process of being developed by the Global Community.
Through these new global ministries, we want each Global Government to
take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates,
and be more accountable to the people of that region. Be compassionate.
Essential services to the people of each member nation are now the most
important global rights on the Scale of Global Rights and are protected
by the Global Protection Agency (GPA) of each member nation. The GPA will
train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military
bodies such as the United Nations and NATO. The GPA is a short term solution,
an immediate and efficient response to help.
There are also long term solutions. The Scale of Global
Rights is the fundamental guide to Global Law. Global Law includes legislation
covering all essential aspects of human activities.
The GPA will enforce the law. And that is a long term
solution to the planetary state of emergency declared by the Global Community. And that is also how we can
solve the global problems facing this generation, thus largely improving
the quality of life of the next generations, and that is how we will bring
about the event of peace amongst us all.
Food riots are breaking out across the planet. We must re-examine corporate control of the food supply. The rise in global food prices has sparked a number of protests in recent weeks, highlighting the
worsening epidemic of global hunger. The World Bank estimates world food prices have risen 80 percent over the last three years and that at least thirty-three countries face social unrest as a result.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned the growing global food crisis has reached emergency proportions.
In recent weeks, food riots have also erupted in Haiti, Niger, Senegal, Cameroon and Burkina Faso. Protests have also flared in Morocco, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mexico and Yemen. In most of
West Africa, the price of food has risen by 50 percent -- in Sierra Leone, 300 percent. The World Food Program has issued a rare $500 million emergency appeal to deal with the growing crisis.
Several causes factor into the global food price hike, many linked to human activity. These include human-driven climate change, the soaring cost of oil
and a Western-led focus on biofuels that turns food into fuel.
This is the brutal world of capitalist agriculture – a world where some people destroy food because prices are too low, and others literally eat dirt because food prices are too high.
We are in the midst of an unprecedented worldwide food price inflation that has driven prices to their highest levels in decades. The increases affect most kinds of food, but in particular the most
important staples – wheat, corn, and rice. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization says that between March 2007 and March 2008 prices of cereals increased 88%, oils and fats 106%, and dairy 48%.
These increases are catastrophic for the 2.6 billion people around the world who live on less than US$2 a day and spend 60% to 80% of their incomes on food.
Hundreds of millions cannot afford to eat.
Food is not just another commodity, it is absolutely essential for human survival.
Those most hit by shortage include the rural landless, pastoralists and the majority of
small-scale farmers. But the impact is greatest on the urban poor. And the rises are producing what we are calling the "new face of hunger" -- people who suddenly can no longer afford the food they
see on store shelves because prices have soared beyond their reach.
The very least that humanity should expect from any government or social
system is that it try to prevent starvation –
and above all that it not promote policies that deny food to hungry people.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was absolutely correct on April 24 when he described the food crisis as the greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model.
There are many factors contributing to this current crisis, including the rising price of oil, deregulated agricultural markets, financial speculation, and biofuels. Another key factor is climate change, which
is affecting crop yield and food production. It is time for us to get serious about understanding the way climate change affects water resources for food production and conversely the way agricultural
water use is leading to climate change. Agricultural practices geared towards growing export-oriented monoculture crops are chemical intensive and have resulted in high levels of pollution in local water
systems. In addition, nitrogen used in fertilizers leaches into water courses increasing the indirect nitrous oxide emissions downstream. This model of production has intensified water use, both in terms
of the water going into the growing of the commodities themselves, but also in terms of inter-basin water transfers. Protecting our waters in local watersheds and wetlands and using them judiciously in
support of local agricultural systems and livelihood practices, rather than continuing with the current strategy of promoting export-oriented, monoculture, industrial, water-guzzling agricultural systems,
is key to reducing the water sector's direct contributions to climate change. Moreover local practices that conserve and enhance local water availability to ensure resilience of rain-fed agricultural
systems are necessary as an adaptation mechanism, to meet climate challenges and to help meet food security goals, two of the biggest challenges for developing countries today. It is time to reevaluate
our agricultural policies that promote water and energy intensive agriculture.
Doing so will help us cope with extreme changes in the hydrological cycle and resultant food and water crises many communities and nations are sure to face. Effective and sustainable water
management in agriculture in support of healthy food systems needs to be part of the climate solution.
The method of introducing and making the transition to the new global finance, credit, money and banking system, is by
extending multi-billion unit revolving lines of credit in Global Credits or Earth currency to all developing countries, and
to other countries, willing to accept the terms defined herein.
The method bases the capacity and ability of the Global Financial Credit Corporation (GFCC) to extend lines of credit simply on facts of people available to work, resources
available, and technology available, whether within a country or by transfer, and is not dependent on nor limited by prior savings.
GFCC shall calculate initial revolving lines of credit in Global Credits or Earth currency on
the basis of:
A. G50,000,000 units (about 1987 U.S. $1 billion) for each million of population for countries having natural population
increase rates by birth of more than 2% annually,
B. G75,000,000 units (about 1987 U.S. $1.5 billion) per million of population for countries having natural population increase rates of between 1% and 2%,
C. G100,000,000 units (about 1987 U.S. $2 billion) per million of population for countries having natural population increase rates of between 0% and 1%, and
D. G125,000,000 units (about 1987 U.S. $2.5 billion) per million of population for countries having zero or less population growth.
The extension of financial credit by the GFCC is further sustained by the following values:
The value of all the resources in the oceans and seabeds beyond 20 km. offshore, which is claimed as Global Territory and as the Common
Heritage of Humanity by the Global Community.
The claim of humanity as a whole (as represented by the Global Community during this transition period) to the equivalent of
G500,000,000 units plus (roughly equivalent of ten trillion dollars U.S. 2004 currency), which the separate nations of Earth currently
propose to obtain from their citizens and spend for genocidal military equipment, preparations, and operations during the next ten
years.
The financial, credit, money and banking system under Earth Government must be based on virtually
unlimited financial credit, which can be extended wherever there are people to work, resources available,
technology available, and viable plans for the use of the credit, without being dependent on or limited by
prior savings or prior capital formation.
Financial credit must be available in sufficient quantity to carry out unlimited and life-saving peaceful
development projects in all countries and all parts of Earth, as well as to implement fully the Global
Disarmament Agency, the Emergency Global Rescue Administration, the World Economic Development
Organization, and all other Global Legislative Measures adopted by the Global Parliament and
subsequently to be adopted by the fully constituted Global Parliamentt.
To launch such a Global Finance, Global Credit, Money, and Global Banking System, it is desirable that the National
Governments of a sufficient number of countries (sufficient to establish full credibility and operative
acceptance of the new global financial system) shall ratify or give provisional ratification to the Global Parliament Constitution,
and agree to use and make the transition to the new Global Financial System.
A basket of measured commodities linked to the value of an hour's worth of labour is one way to define the value of a monetary system's
unit. The selection of items for the basket is somewhat arbitrary, but one can select items that any human being is likely to consume
if the particular resources are available. Once determined by law, the valuation can take place. No valuation can take place if no
world legislation arbitrarily sets the initial value for the unit. The following basket of 16 measured commodities represents
approximately what any adult worldwide on a living wage might be expected to consume or conserve in one day. Therefore, this value
is equal to the minimum wage that a citizen can earn in one four-hour day. The basket is
also a small enough basket to be comprehensible and memorable to most adults. The following basket of 16 measured commodities
linked to the value of an hour of labour is hereby the basis for the unit of Global Credit or Earth currency:
[(1 kilogram wheat + 1 kilogram rice + 1 kilogram corn + 1 kilogram potato + 1 kilogram manioc + 1 kilogram soya + 1 kilogram peanut + 1 kilogram lentil+ 1 kilogram pea + 1 kilogram garbanzo + 1 kilogram nyam) / 11] + 10 litres of pure, potable water + 1 litre crude oil + [(100 grams iron + 100
grams aluminum + 100 grams copper) / 3]
= 1 unit of Global Credit or Earth currency
= 4 hours labour at minimum wage
(@ G0.25 units per hour minimum)
= 1 day's wage.
A person may obtain other commodities by trade in value, so a person need not personally have any of the commodities in stock in order
to conserve value in the monetary system.
The value of the Global Credit or Earth currency may not be adjusted by any external private bank, such as the World Bank, or the
International Monetary Fund. Included commodities may only be added or subtracted by the Global Parliament.
Because gold was no longer the standard in support of the dollar, as was decided by US President R. Nixon in 1973, the effect on
the global economy was felt positively by the rich nations of the world, currencies could no longer 'float' relative to each other and the debt of the developing nations increased as they were all created in US dollars.
This US policy destroyed the system of fixed currency exchange rate.
This new US made system made it possible for the White House to spend trillions of unearned dollars toward the build up of the biggest military force in the world
used to invade other nations for their resources, especially the oil & gas resources. This type of financial system could not go on forever and was at the source of
the global financial crisis.
The Global Community does not propose to go back to the gold standard
or to any other Earth resource, but instead the taxation system proposed in this paper is more than strong enough to replace the gold value system of the past.
The Global Taxation System (GTS) will stabilize the global economy and at the same time protect the global life-support systems and the ecosystems of the planet.
In short, the GTS will allow a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
In this paper we have identified the most dangerous planarchists on our planet. We have also proposed to replace several 20th Century institutions by
more efficient and practical 21st Century institutions designed to allow the survival of our species for generations to come and take along with us
as many as possible other life forms on the planet.
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