All religions are required to conduct positive actions for peace, join the Global Community Peace Movement, and re-examine scriptures, precepts,
practices, ethical and moral values in light of ecological concerns. The Global Community is facing a global environmental crisis. It is very important that
every person on Earth accept of being part of the process in protecting the global life-support systems. The ecological crisis is as much about saving children
as it is about saving other lifeforms on the planet. Our objective is to find statements from all religions that promote the respect, stewardship, protection,
ethical and moral responsibility to life and of the environment, the Earth global life-support systems, and statements that promote a responsible earth
management. We are also asking for specific statements on environmental conservation such as those expressed by the Islamic religion.
The war industry is the "mother of all evils" of our world. Its best protégé is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) but there are other
similar war organizations in the world that are just as bad. It must be shelved. War products and equipment from all nations must be decommissioned. Join the
Global Community Peace Movement.
Today the war industry is exploiting the issue of terrorism for profit. Everyone knows terrorism cannot be fought by conventional warfare but that would not deter
the industry from saying it is the best way to get rid of terrorists. Our governments are now spending tax dollars used for social and environmental programs and
services to pay for more war products and equipment. Terrorists have committed the horrible acts of september 11 because the war industry brought terror in their
homeland and is continuing to do so today in Afghanistan, in the Middle East, and in Palestine. In the "Letter to the people of the Middle East", the Global
Community has asked Muslims not to buy war products and equipment from the West or from any country in the world. The only way to fight evil is by not buying
its products. The industry should die eventually, hopefully.
But now the war industry along with NATO are organizating a massive international media campaign to make taxpayers pay for their expenses. More illusions about protecting the humble people
from nuclear war heads being sent from one continent to another. The terrorist act of September 11 has shown that if terrorists wanted to use war heads they would not use
intercontinental missiles. Throughout the 20th Century, the war industry has created the worse evil humanity has ever encountered: the business of conflicts and wars, NATO. It
is a business that has made trillions of dollars (Canadian) and will continue to do so. It is the "mother of all evils" created by human beings. It has no moral value, no
understanding about Life, no respect for anyone or anything, no law except the ones that it makes for itself, and all its products are meant to kill and destroy. It has
sold its products to the enemies for the purpose of making more profit. It has subdued governments all over the world to make them buy its products. It has given trade
and way of doing business a bad reputation and, therefore, it is a threat to the establisment of business. Although the war industry has a good public image it has bought
for itself using tax dollars, it does not really matter who is the buyer as long as he pays good money. The proof of this reality was easily verified by finding out what war products and equipment were
being used by Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Middle East countries. Over 90% of all war products and equipment were made in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France
and Russia. Four out of five of these countries are Permanent Members of the United Nations and that means they have a 100% control on any proposal submitted to the
organization. The fifth Permanent Member missing here is China. Shortly after the September 11 event, the UN Security Council has approved war against the people
of Afghanistan. To get China to vote YES they gave China a membership in the World Trade Organization(WTO).
The Global Community is promoting the settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice.
The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is
created for the good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on
Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
Issue #591 Human made global destruction and disasters require a rapid and efficient
response from the world to help those in needs.
The melting of the Polar Cap
The U.S.A. military exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable of such an extreme action
against humanity and all life on Earth must be disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North
Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life. Blood resources. 
The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life on Earth by exploding nuclear bombs to melt glaciers and North Pole cap. The Earth Court of Justice will see that Justice is done. In view
of the planetary state of emergency, the Global Community says: for the protection of all life on Earth, a preventive principle is our only alternative. You are guilty until you can prove otherwise. Global Law must be applied. The
United States must pay for the independent investigation. Would you agree?
Planetary state of emergency
Several events have contributed to the planetary state of emergency:
A) widespread poverty and hunger in more than half the world population
B) The global warming of the planet due to human activities
C) Climate change
D) Economic and military invasion of nations by the United States and NATO
E) Absence of fair and democratic global governance at the United Nations and European Union
F) Our global environment and global life-support systems are threatened by:
- any of the above mentioned events
- pollution worldwide
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads over the bottom of the Indian ocean, and that scenario
created a tsunami wave in 2004.
Just a test, said the captain of the submarine that did it.
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable of such an extreme action
against humanity and all life on Earth must be disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North
Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life. Blood resources.
What to do now about climate change
Along with scientific research, we require political, religious, ideological, cultural, philosophical, economic, social and intellectual
coordination. Secondly, since human factor is the main reason for climate change, the transformation in the method of lifestyle and
concepts of economic development required is much beyond the scope of science. Most solutions provided by scientific research are
very limited in scope such as to fill up our automobile tanks with bio fuels instead of fossil fuels. Such solutions will only aggravate the
crises and create new problems. What we need is a total transformation from what we have hitherto followed. This transformation requires
the change of the basic concept of materialistic way of life and pursuit of wealth. This can only be achieved by cultivating moral and
spiritual values among the society and by replacing materialistic pursuits with holistic and simple way of life.
Our responsibility is not only decide the future of existence of
humankind, but also for preserving all the past cultures and contributions humanity has offered throughout its thousands of years history
of existence on this beautiful planet. We need to set aside our national
interests and play the historical and highly moral responsibility in saving this planet and its inhabitants. The very future for all of life,
human and otherwise, depends on their meeting this obligation with nothing short of total resolve!
Problems with biofuels: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does not exist to achieve positive environmental effects,
enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, and accelerated depletion of natural resources
Environmental experts have been warning that biofuels, far from reducing greenhouse gas emissions, actually have a negative environmental footprint. Biofuels gained from extensive plantations of oil palms,
soybean, rapeseeds and the like have a negative environmental footprint due to massive use of pesticides and fertilisers, which leads to acidification of groundwater. You also have to consider whether for the
production of soybean oil the tropical forest in Brazil or in Indonesia is being eroded. Problems with biofuels are numerous: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does
not exist to achieve positive environmental effects, enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, (and) accelerated depletion of natural resources. A
trade-off between fuel and food is taking place, and that the economically more attractive production of biofuels for the industrialised countries has crowded out food production for the poorest regions of the
world. Increasing prices of food, and their scarcity, have recently sparked riots. A two-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures could flip the Amazon forest from being the Earth's vital air conditioner to a flamethrower that cooks the planet, warns a new report released at the climate
talks in Bali, Indonesia Friday. The trees of the Amazon contain at least 100 billion tonnes of carbon -- 15 years worth of global emissions from all sources, he said. "It's not only essential for cooling the world's
temperature but also such a large source of freshwater that it may be enough to influence some of the great ocean currents." It is in everyone's interest to keep the Amazon intact, but deforestation continues
apace, driven by expanding cattle ranching, soy farming, conversion into sugar cane for biofuel and logging. This assault is drying out the forest, making it more vulnerable to burning. Rising global
temperatures are also increasing evaporation rates, drying the forest further. Logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest could trigger “carbon bomb” impacting global climate10 April 2008Print Send to a friend Turning up the heat Enlarge ImageLogging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is exacerbating
global warming by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage, says a new Greenpeace report released today. It also makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and
insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases. If this vicious circle is left unchecked, it could culminate in a massive and sudden release of greenhouse gases referred to as "the carbon bomb,"
the report warns. Canada's Boreal Forest stores 186 billion tonnes of carbon—equivalent to 27 times the world's annual fossil fuel emissions. A widespread outbreak of forest or peat fires could release much of
this carbon, causing a disastrous spike in emissions. In Indonesia, you're tucking into a KitKat or dipping into a tube of Pringles, you might be interested to know that these products contain palm oil that is linked to the destruction of forests
and peatlands in Indonesia. As our new report "How the palm oil industry is cooking the climate" shows, it's a recipe for disaster. The manufacturers of these products - Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever -
are sourcing their palm oil from suppliers who aren't picky about where they site their plantations. As the volunteers at the Forest Defenders Camp in Sumatra have seen, this includes tearing up areas of
pristine forest then draining and burning the peatlands. Indonesia's peatlands act as huge carbon stores so replacing them with plantations them not only threatens the amazing biodiversity, including the rare
Sumatran tiger, it also releases huge volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They only cover 0.1 per cent of the land on Earth, but thanks in part to the activities of the palm oil industry they
contribute 4 per cent to global emissions. If expansion of the palm oil industry continues unabated, that figure can only rise. What's to be done? The Indonesian government should urgently introduce a
moratorium on forest and peatland destruction, which will provide a chance to develop long-term solutions and prevent further emissions from deforestation. And our eyes are fixed firmly on the UN climate
meeting in Bali next month, where the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol will be discussed. With deforestation accounting for up to a fifth of global emissions, including financing for forest protection as a core
part of the plan to tackle climate change is essential.
The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is
created for the good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on
Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
Issue #592 Global warming of the planet due to human activities revisited
The melting of the Polar Cap
The U.S.A. military exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable of such an extreme action
against humanity and all life on Earth must be disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North
Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life. Blood resources.
The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life on Earth by exploding nuclear bombs to melt glaciers and North Pole cap. The Earth Court of Justice will see that Justice is done. In view
of the planetary state of emergency, the Global Community says: for the protection of all life on Earth, a preventive principle is our only alternative. You are guilty until you can prove otherwise. Global Law must be applied. The
United States must pay for the independent investigation. Would you agree?
Planetary state of emergency
Several events have contributed to the planetary state of emergency:
A) widespread poverty and hunger in more than half the world population
B) The global warming of the planet due to human activities
C) Climate change
D) Economic and military invasion of nations by the United States and NATO
E) Absence of fair and democratic global governance at the United Nations and European Union
F) Our global environment and global life-support systems are threatened by:
- any of the above mentioned events
- pollution worldwide
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads over the bottom of the Indian ocean, and that scenario
created a tsunami wave in 2004.
Just a test, said the captain of the submarine that did it.
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable of such an extreme action
against humanity and all life on Earth must be disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North
Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life. Blood resources.
What to do now about climate change
Along with scientific research, we require political, religious, ideological, cultural, philosophical, economic, social and intellectual
coordination. Secondly, since human factor is the main reason for climate change, the transformation in the method of lifestyle and
concepts of economic development required is much beyond the scope of science. Most solutions provided by scientific research are
very limited in scope such as to fill up our automobile tanks with bio fuels instead of fossil fuels. Such solutions will only aggravate the
crises and create new problems. What we need is a total transformation from what we have hitherto followed. This transformation requires
the change of the basic concept of materialistic way of life and pursuit of wealth. This can only be achieved by cultivating moral and
spiritual values among the society and by replacing materialistic pursuits with holistic and simple way of life.
Our responsibility is not only decide the future of existence of
humankind, but also for preserving all the past cultures and contributions humanity has offered throughout its thousands of years history
of existence on this beautiful planet. We need to set aside our national
interests and play the historical and highly moral responsibility in saving this planet and its inhabitants. The very future for all of life,
human and otherwise, depends on their meeting this obligation with nothing short of total resolve!
Problems with biofuels: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does not exist to achieve positive environmental effects,
enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, and accelerated depletion of natural resources
Environmental experts have been warning that biofuels, far from reducing greenhouse gas emissions, actually have a negative environmental footprint. Biofuels gained from extensive plantations of oil palms,
soybean, rapeseeds and the like have a negative environmental footprint due to massive use of pesticides and fertilisers, which leads to acidification of groundwater. You also have to consider whether for the
production of soybean oil the tropical forest in Brazil or in Indonesia is being eroded. Problems with biofuels are numerous: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does
not exist to achieve positive environmental effects, enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, (and) accelerated depletion of natural resources. A
trade-off between fuel and food is taking place, and that the economically more attractive production of biofuels for the industrialised countries has crowded out food production for the poorest regions of the
world. Increasing prices of food, and their scarcity, have recently sparked riots. A two-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures could flip the Amazon forest from being the Earth's vital air conditioner to a flamethrower that cooks the planet, warns a new report released at the climate
talks in Bali, Indonesia Friday. The trees of the Amazon contain at least 100 billion tonnes of carbon -- 15 years worth of global emissions from all sources, he said. "It's not only essential for cooling the world's
temperature but also such a large source of freshwater that it may be enough to influence some of the great ocean currents." It is in everyone's interest to keep the Amazon intact, but deforestation continues
apace, driven by expanding cattle ranching, soy farming, conversion into sugar cane for biofuel and logging. This assault is drying out the forest, making it more vulnerable to burning. Rising global
temperatures are also increasing evaporation rates, drying the forest further. Logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest could trigger “carbon bomb” impacting global climate10 April 2008Print Send to a friend Turning up the heat Enlarge ImageLogging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is exacerbating
global warming by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage, says a new Greenpeace report released today. It also makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and
insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases. If this vicious circle is left unchecked, it could culminate in a massive and sudden release of greenhouse gases referred to as "the carbon bomb,"
the report warns. Canada's Boreal Forest stores 186 billion tonnes of carbon—equivalent to 27 times the world's annual fossil fuel emissions. A widespread outbreak of forest or peat fires could release much of
this carbon, causing a disastrous spike in emissions. In Indonesia, you're tucking into a KitKat or dipping into a tube of Pringles, you might be interested to know that these products contain palm oil that is linked to the destruction of forests
and peatlands in Indonesia. As our new report "How the palm oil industry is cooking the climate" shows, it's a recipe for disaster. The manufacturers of these products - Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever -
are sourcing their palm oil from suppliers who aren't picky about where they site their plantations. As the volunteers at the Forest Defenders Camp in Sumatra have seen, this includes tearing up areas of
pristine forest then draining and burning the peatlands. Indonesia's peatlands act as huge carbon stores so replacing them with plantations them not only threatens the amazing biodiversity, including the rare
Sumatran tiger, it also releases huge volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They only cover 0.1 per cent of the land on Earth, but thanks in part to the activities of the palm oil industry they
contribute 4 per cent to global emissions. If expansion of the palm oil industry continues unabated, that figure can only rise. What's to be done? The Indonesian government should urgently introduce a
moratorium on forest and peatland destruction, which will provide a chance to develop long-term solutions and prevent further emissions from deforestation. And our eyes are fixed firmly on the UN climate
meeting in Bali next month, where the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol will be discussed. With deforestation accounting for up to a fifth of global emissions, including financing for forest protection as a core
part of the plan to tackle climate change is essential.
Food prices rose 4 percent in the United States last year, the highest rise since 1990. All over the world food prices are on the rise. At the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World
Bank finance ministers wanted to focus the world's attention on food crisis rather than the credit crisis.
The bank is turning dirty carbon credits into gold -- bad news for those seeking a real solution to the climate crisis. The World Bank's long-running identity crisis is proving hard to shake. When efforts to
rebrand itself as a "knowledge bank" didn't work, it devised a new identity as a "Green Bank." Really? Yes, it's true. Sure, the Bank continues to finance fossil fuel projects globally, but never mind. The World
Bank has seized upon the immense challenges climate change poses to humanity and is now front and center in the complicated, international world of carbon finance. It can turn the dirtiest carbon credits into
gold. How exactly, does this work, you ask? Quite simply: The Bank finances a fossil fuel project, involving oil, natural gas, or coal, in Poor Country A. Rich Country B asks the Bank to help arrange carbon
credits so Country B can tell its carbon counters it's taking serious action on climate change. The World Bank kindly obliges, offering carbon credits for a price far lower than Country B would have to pay if
Country B made those cuts at home. Country A gets a share of the cash to invest in equipment to make fossil fuel project slightly more efficient, the World Bank takes its 13 percent cut.
Unchecked climate change could spark instability in energy-producing states and lead to the collapse of fragile states around the world. Rising sea levels are what some nations fear most about global warming.
But in Europe, climate change is likely to mean a new flood of immigrants from Africa and other poorer countries, according to a new report.
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. We will have to make some major changes in our agriculture
systems to address some of the upcoming climate challenges. 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 provision of food, water and fuel, a profit-driven war economy contributing to "eliminating the poor" through "starvation deaths", a global symbiotical relationship,
and the new way of doing business and trade
We are at the crossroads of the most serious economic and social crisis in modern history. The process of global impoverishment unleashed at the outset of the 1980s debt crisis has reached a major turning
point, leading to the simultaneous outbreak of famines in all major regions of the developing World. There are many complex features underlying the global economic crisis pertaining to financial markets, the
decline in production, the collapse of State institutions and the rapid development of a profit-driven war economy. What is rarely mentioned in this analysis, is how this global economic restructuring forcibly
impinges on three fundamental necessities of life: food, water and fuel. The provision of food, water and fuel is a precondition of civilized society: they are necessary factors for the survival of the human
species. In recent years, the prices of these three variables has increased dramatically at the global level, with devastating economic and social consequences. These three essential goods, which in a real sense
determine the reproduction of economic and social life on planet earth, are under the control of a small number of global corporations and financial institutions. Both the State as well as the gamut of
international organizations --often referred to as the "international community"-- serve the unfettered interests of global capitalism. The main intergovernmental bodies including the United Nations, the
Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organizations (WTO) have endorsed the New World Order on behalf of their corporate sponsors. Governments in both developed and developing countries have
abandoned their historical role of regulating key economic variables as well as ensuring a minimum livelihood for their people. We are dealing with a complex and centralized constellation of economic power in
which the instruments of market manipulation have a direct bearing on the lives of millions 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 goods constitute an instrument of "economic warfare", carried out through the "free market" on the futures and options exchanges. These hikes in
the prices of food, water and fuel are contributing in a very real sense to "eliminating the poor" through "starvation deaths". The sugar coated bullets of the "free market" kill our children. The act to kill is
instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the commodity exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat and corn are decided upon. When the system doesn't allow people to
protect themselves from corporate harm to their communities, it is time to change the system. Let us embrace the new global order. Can you tell us about "democracy"? It's a word used by everyone and can
mean so many things. Some people might say you are anti-business. Is that the case? Many people in this country don't understand that corporations have personhood rights. Why does this come as such a
surprise to some people? Speak about the regulatory system. It's supposed to keep corporations from doing harm, but everywhere you look -- the water, the land, the air -- everything is polluted. Some believe
that laws such as anti-corporate personhood ordinances are a waste of time because they will be challenged and shot down, so why bother? What is the logic behind civil disobedience to the law? Do you believe
it's possible to change the role of corporations in our society? Let us embrace the new way of doing business and trade. The Global Community proposes to corporations that they take responsibility on behalf of society and people, and that they should pay more attention to global rights, working conditions and
getting ride of corruption in the world of business and trade. We have developed a criteria,
and we ask you to turn it into practice. Governments should encourage enterprises to use the criteria both by legal
and moral means. At first, the criteria should be adopted in key areas such as procurement, facilities management, investment management, and human resources. Corporations want to be seen as good
corporate leaders and have a stronger form of accountability. Business and trade will prosper after stronger common bonds and values have been established. Adopting the criteria will have a beneficial
impact on future returns, and share price performance. The Global Community believes all citizens have the right to share the wealth in the world. Foreign investment and the trade agreement must protect and improve social and environmental rights, not just the
economy. A global sustainable development would mean finding a sound balance among the interactions designed to create a healthy economic growth, preserve environmental quality, make a wise use of
our resources, and enhance social benefits. Free trade cannot proceed at the expense of the environment, labour rights, human rights and the sovereignty of a nation. Free trade will lead to an increase in
poverty by giving investor rights priority over government decision-making. Employers will be looking for more concessions from workers. Small businesses will find it more difficult to grow and compete
against large corporations. The 21st Century will see limitless links and symbiotical relationships with and within the Global Community. A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global
communities, can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the
good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development.
The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a part of the relationship. We all know
developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis of the relationship should give more importance
to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of the Scale of Global Rights and the Charter of the Global
Community into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as described in the global ministries (health, agriculture, energy, trade, resources,
etc.).
The Global Community will do everything possible to give trade the proper guidance for humanity. Trade will become a global co-operation between all nations. The kind of behaviour that happened in the Middle East and in many other parts
of the world will not be allowed again. That is Earth Government ’s commitment to the Global Community to make government and global citizens responsible and accountable. This commitment was defined in sections 11 to 14 of the Global
Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act.
The business community can help to create a biodiversity zone over the entire planet by changing its ways of doing things, and ways of doing business and trade,
and operate its business as per the Scale of Global Rights.
Issue #593 Climate change future impacts
The melting of the Polar Cap
The U.S.A. military exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable of such an extreme action
against humanity and all life on Earth must be disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North
Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life. Blood resources.
The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life on Earth by exploding nuclear bombs to melt glaciers and North Pole cap. The Earth Court of Justice will see that Justice is done. In view
of the planetary state of emergency, the Global Community says: for the protection of all life on Earth, a preventive principle is our only alternative. You are guilty until you can prove otherwise. Global Law must be applied. The
United States must pay for the independent investigation. Would you agree?
Planetary state of emergency
Several events have contributed to the planetary state of emergency:
A) widespread poverty and hunger in more than half the world population
B) The global warming of the planet due to human activities
C) Climate change
D) Economic and military invasion of nations by the United States and NATO
E) Absence of fair and democratic global governance at the United Nations and European Union
F) Our global environment and global life-support systems are threatened by:
- any of the above mentioned events
- pollution worldwide
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads over the bottom of the Indian ocean, and that scenario
created a tsunami wave in 2004.
Just a test, said the captain of the submarine that did it.
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable of such an extreme action
against humanity and all life on Earth must be disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North
Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life. Blood resources.
What to do now about climate change
Along with scientific research, we require political, religious, ideological, cultural, philosophical, economic, social and intellectual
coordination. Secondly, since human factor is the main reason for climate change, the transformation in the method of lifestyle and
concepts of economic development required is much beyond the scope of science. Most solutions provided by scientific research are
very limited in scope such as to fill up our automobile tanks with bio fuels instead of fossil fuels. Such solutions will only aggravate the
crises and create new problems. What we need is a total transformation from what we have hitherto followed. This transformation requires
the change of the basic concept of materialistic way of life and pursuit of wealth. This can only be achieved by cultivating moral and
spiritual values among the society and by replacing materialistic pursuits with holistic and simple way of life.
Our responsibility is not only decide the future of existence of
humankind, but also for preserving all the past cultures and contributions humanity has offered throughout its thousands of years history
of existence on this beautiful planet. We need to set aside our national
interests and play the historical and highly moral responsibility in saving this planet and its inhabitants. The very future for all of life,
human and otherwise, depends on their meeting this obligation with nothing short of total resolve!
Problems with biofuels: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does not exist to achieve positive environmental effects,
enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, and accelerated depletion of natural resources
Environmental experts have been warning that biofuels, far from reducing greenhouse gas emissions, actually have a negative environmental footprint. Biofuels gained from extensive plantations of oil palms,
soybean, rapeseeds and the like have a negative environmental footprint due to massive use of pesticides and fertilisers, which leads to acidification of groundwater. You also have to consider whether for the
production of soybean oil the tropical forest in Brazil or in Indonesia is being eroded. Problems with biofuels are numerous: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does
not exist to achieve positive environmental effects, enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, (and) accelerated depletion of natural resources. A
trade-off between fuel and food is taking place, and that the economically more attractive production of biofuels for the industrialised countries has crowded out food production for the poorest regions of the
world. Increasing prices of food, and their scarcity, have recently sparked riots. A two-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures could flip the Amazon forest from being the Earth's vital air conditioner to a flamethrower that cooks the planet, warns a new report released at the climate
talks in Bali, Indonesia Friday. The trees of the Amazon contain at least 100 billion tonnes of carbon -- 15 years worth of global emissions from all sources, he said. "It's not only essential for cooling the world's
temperature but also such a large source of freshwater that it may be enough to influence some of the great ocean currents." It is in everyone's interest to keep the Amazon intact, but deforestation continues
apace, driven by expanding cattle ranching, soy farming, conversion into sugar cane for biofuel and logging. This assault is drying out the forest, making it more vulnerable to burning. Rising global
temperatures are also increasing evaporation rates, drying the forest further. Logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest could trigger “carbon bomb” impacting global climate10 April 2008Print Send to a friend Turning up the heat Enlarge ImageLogging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is exacerbating
global warming by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage, says a new Greenpeace report released today. It also makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and
insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases. If this vicious circle is left unchecked, it could culminate in a massive and sudden release of greenhouse gases referred to as "the carbon bomb,"
the report warns. Canada's Boreal Forest stores 186 billion tonnes of carbon—equivalent to 27 times the world's annual fossil fuel emissions. A widespread outbreak of forest or peat fires could release much of
this carbon, causing a disastrous spike in emissions. In Indonesia, you're tucking into a KitKat or dipping into a tube of Pringles, you might be interested to know that these products contain palm oil that is linked to the destruction of forests
and peatlands in Indonesia. As our new report "How the palm oil industry is cooking the climate" shows, it's a recipe for disaster. The manufacturers of these products - Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever -
are sourcing their palm oil from suppliers who aren't picky about where they site their plantations. As the volunteers at the Forest Defenders Camp in Sumatra have seen, this includes tearing up areas of
pristine forest then draining and burning the peatlands. Indonesia's peatlands act as huge carbon stores so replacing them with plantations them not only threatens the amazing biodiversity, including the rare
Sumatran tiger, it also releases huge volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They only cover 0.1 per cent of the land on Earth, but thanks in part to the activities of the palm oil industry they
contribute 4 per cent to global emissions. If expansion of the palm oil industry continues unabated, that figure can only rise. What's to be done? The Indonesian government should urgently introduce a
moratorium on forest and peatland destruction, which will provide a chance to develop long-term solutions and prevent further emissions from deforestation. And our eyes are fixed firmly on the UN climate
meeting in Bali next month, where the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol will be discussed. With deforestation accounting for up to a fifth of global emissions, including financing for forest protection as a core
part of the plan to tackle climate change is essential.
Food prices rose 4 percent in the United States last year, the highest rise since 1990. All over the world food prices are on the rise. At the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World
Bank finance ministers wanted to focus the world's attention on food crisis rather than the credit crisis.
The bank is turning dirty carbon credits into gold -- bad news for those seeking a real solution to the climate crisis. The World Bank's long-running identity crisis is proving hard to shake. When efforts to
rebrand itself as a "knowledge bank" didn't work, it devised a new identity as a "Green Bank." Really? Yes, it's true. Sure, the Bank continues to finance fossil fuel projects globally, but never mind. The World
Bank has seized upon the immense challenges climate change poses to humanity and is now front and center in the complicated, international world of carbon finance. It can turn the dirtiest carbon credits into
gold. How exactly, does this work, you ask? Quite simply: The Bank finances a fossil fuel project, involving oil, natural gas, or coal, in Poor Country A. Rich Country B asks the Bank to help arrange carbon
credits so Country B can tell its carbon counters it's taking serious action on climate change. The World Bank kindly obliges, offering carbon credits for a price far lower than Country B would have to pay if
Country B made those cuts at home. Country A gets a share of the cash to invest in equipment to make fossil fuel project slightly more efficient, the World Bank takes its 13 percent cut.
Unchecked climate change could spark instability in energy-producing states and lead to the collapse of fragile states around the world. Rising sea levels are what some nations fear most about global warming.
But in Europe, climate change is likely to mean a new flood of immigrants from Africa and other poorer countries, according to a new report.
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. We will have to make some major changes in our agriculture
systems to address some of the upcoming climate challenges. 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 provision of food, water and fuel, a profit-driven war economy contributing to "eliminating the poor" through "starvation deaths", a global symbiotical relationship,
and the new way of doing business and trade
We are at the crossroads of the most serious economic and social crisis in modern history. The process of global impoverishment unleashed at the outset of the 1980s debt crisis has reached a major turning
point, leading to the simultaneous outbreak of famines in all major regions of the developing World. There are many complex features underlying the global economic crisis pertaining to financial markets, the
decline in production, the collapse of State institutions and the rapid development of a profit-driven war economy. What is rarely mentioned in this analysis, is how this global economic restructuring forcibly
impinges on three fundamental necessities of life: food, water and fuel. The provision of food, water and fuel is a precondition of civilized society: they are necessary factors for the survival of the human
species. In recent years, the prices of these three variables has increased dramatically at the global level, with devastating economic and social consequences. These three essential goods, which in a real sense
determine the reproduction of economic and social life on planet earth, are under the control of a small number of global corporations and financial institutions. Both the State as well as the gamut of
international organizations --often referred to as the "international community"-- serve the unfettered interests of global capitalism. The main intergovernmental bodies including the United Nations, the
Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organizations (WTO) have endorsed the New World Order on behalf of their corporate sponsors. Governments in both developed and developing countries have
abandoned their historical role of regulating key economic variables as well as ensuring a minimum livelihood for their people. We are dealing with a complex and centralized constellation of economic power in
which the instruments of market manipulation have a direct bearing on the lives of millions 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 goods constitute an instrument of "economic warfare", carried out through the "free market" on the futures and options exchanges. These hikes in
the prices of food, water and fuel are contributing in a very real sense to "eliminating the poor" through "starvation deaths". The sugar coated bullets of the "free market" kill our children. The act to kill is
instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the commodity exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat and corn are decided upon. When the system doesn't allow people to
protect themselves from corporate harm to their communities, it is time to change the system. Let us embrace the new global order. Can you tell us about "democracy"? It's a word used by everyone and can
mean so many things. Some people might say you are anti-business. Is that the case? Many people in this country don't understand that corporations have personhood rights. Why does this come as such a
surprise to some people? Speak about the regulatory system. It's supposed to keep corporations from doing harm, but everywhere you look -- the water, the land, the air -- everything is polluted. Some believe
that laws such as anti-corporate personhood ordinances are a waste of time because they will be challenged and shot down, so why bother? What is the logic behind civil disobedience to the law? Do you believe
it's possible to change the role of corporations in our society? Let us embrace the new way of doing business and trade. The Global Community proposes to corporations that they take responsibility on behalf of society and people, and that they should pay more attention to global rights, working conditions and
getting ride of corruption in the world of business and trade. We have developed a criteria,
and we ask you to turn it into practice. Governments should encourage enterprises to use the criteria both by legal
and moral means. At first, the criteria should be adopted in key areas such as procurement, facilities management, investment management, and human resources. Corporations want to be seen as good
corporate leaders and have a stronger form of accountability. Business and trade will prosper after stronger common bonds and values have been established. Adopting the criteria will have a beneficial
impact on future returns, and share price performance. The Global Community believes all citizens have the right to share the wealth in the world. Foreign investment and the trade agreement must protect and improve social and environmental rights, not just the
economy. A global sustainable development would mean finding a sound balance among the interactions designed to create a healthy economic growth, preserve environmental quality, make a wise use of
our resources, and enhance social benefits. Free trade cannot proceed at the expense of the environment, labour rights, human rights and the sovereignty of a nation. Free trade will lead to an increase in
poverty by giving investor rights priority over government decision-making. Employers will be looking for more concessions from workers. Small businesses will find it more difficult to grow and compete
against large corporations. The 21st Century will see limitless links and symbiotical relationships with and within the Global Community. A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global
communities, can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the
good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development.
The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a part of the relationship. We all know
developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis of the relationship should give more importance
to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of the Scale of Global Rights and the Charter of the Global
Community into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as described in the global ministries (health, agriculture, energy, trade, resources,
etc.).
The Global Community will do everything possible to give trade the proper guidance for humanity. Trade will become a global co-operation between all nations. The kind of behaviour that happened in the Middle East and in many other parts
of the world will not be allowed again. That is Earth Government ’s commitment to the Global Community to make government and global citizens responsible and accountable. This commitment was defined in sections 11 to 14 of the Global
Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act.
The business community can help to create a biodiversity zone over the entire planet by changing its ways of doing things, and ways of doing business and trade,
and operate its business as per the Scale of Global Rights.
Issue #594 Economic and military invasion of nations
A new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Iraq, wars are a threat to global security,
invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against humanity and will be prosecuted.
War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can inflict on another and to all life on Earth.
Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah, Iraq. Fallujah faces this new crisis after much of the city was destroyed by U.S. military
operations in 2004. The area around Fallujah city, which lies 70 km west of Baghdad, has traditionally been one of the most agriculturally productive in Iraq. Farmers planted tomatoes and cucumbers north of
Fallujah, others grew potatoes south of the city near Amiriya. Both areas had plenty of date palm trees and small fruit plantations. Now production is down to a fraction of what it was. Farmers have been
struggling with changing times. Residents say they are told of a world food crisis that may be affecting them. But their crisis arises mainly from local factors like shortage of water, fuel and electricity.
Whatever the reason, residents simply want relief. "We just want our lives back," said a college student who gave her name only as Nada. "We want to eat, buy clothes, get proper education and breathe pure
air. No thanks to Americans for their effort to bring us democracy that killed half of us by their bombs and is now apparently killing the other half by starvation. Can you pass this message to the American
people for us?" According to the UN, at least four million people in Iraq do not have enough food, while approximately 40 percent of the 27.5 million population do not have access to clean drinking water. At
least 30 percent do not have access to proper health services.
The invasion of Iraq by the White House is now being seen as the biggest mistake ever done by a nation on
an other nation. It is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth, and a crime yet to be prosecuted. Would
you agree that those guilty of this crime be held responsible and made accountable?
NATO and the White House claimed that they do what they are doing to give security to its population and to
the world. In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the
military capabilities and forming alliances with other nations were the only way to 'win'. That is how NATO
came into existence. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the
planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in
Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small
nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the
military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the
highest priority on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other
rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without
Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the
biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of
Global Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is hardly possible in cold place.
So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry, the worst
of all polluters, from humanity right now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons
right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world,
and not just in some Middle East country. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the
Global Community. Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people,
institutions and values from an outside threat. The Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition
of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Global security can only be achieved if it can
be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained in the Global
Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. Would you agree that the
military option and the war industry should be shelved foerever from humanity and never to be used again to
solve a global problem? American have brought disgrace to humanity by their selfish, immoral, unethical, incoherent, inconsistent,
dishonnest, erratic, and mostly aimed at making money behavior in the Middle East and towards Afghanistan.
You would think we would be 'civilized' by now. Military intervention in the affairs of other nations is wrong.
There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of
power for itself. The invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against
humanity and will be prosecuted. War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can
inflict on another. Would you agree?
Over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to become legally and morally responsible and
accountable for their products from beginning to end. At the end the product becomes a waste and it needs to be properly dispose of. Now
trade must be given a new impetus to be in line with the global concepts of the Global Community. You manufacture, produce, mine, farm or
create a product, you become legally and morally responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it
actually becomes a waste; you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste). This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas, weapons, war products, to genetically engineered food products. All consumer products. All medicinal products! All pharmaceutical products!
The provision of food, water and fuel, a profit-driven war economy contributing to "eliminating the poor" through "starvation deaths", a global symbiotical relationship,
and the new way of doing business and trade
We are at the crossroads of the most serious economic and social crisis in modern history. The process of global impoverishment unleashed at the outset of the 1980s debt crisis has reached a major turning
point, leading to the simultaneous outbreak of famines in all major regions of the developing World. There are many complex features underlying the global economic crisis pertaining to financial markets, the
decline in production, the collapse of State institutions and the rapid development of a profit-driven war economy. What is rarely mentioned in this analysis, is how this global economic restructuring forcibly
impinges on three fundamental necessities of life: food, water and fuel. The provision of food, water and fuel is a precondition of civilized society: they are necessary factors for the survival of the human
species. In recent years, the prices of these three variables has increased dramatically at the global level, with devastating economic and social consequences. These three essential goods, which in a real sense
determine the reproduction of economic and social life on planet earth, are under the control of a small number of global corporations and financial institutions. Both the State as well as the gamut of
international organizations --often referred to as the "international community"-- serve the unfettered interests of global capitalism. The main intergovernmental bodies including the United Nations, the
Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organizations (WTO) have endorsed the New World Order on behalf of their corporate sponsors. Governments in both developed and developing countries have
abandoned their historical role of regulating key economic variables as well as ensuring a minimum livelihood for their people. We are dealing with a complex and centralized constellation of economic power in
which the instruments of market manipulation have a direct bearing on the lives of millions 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 goods constitute an instrument of "economic warfare", carried out through the "free market" on the futures and options exchanges. These hikes in
the prices of food, water and fuel are contributing in a very real sense to "eliminating the poor" through "starvation deaths". The sugar coated bullets of the "free market" kill our children. The act to kill is
instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the commodity exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat and corn are decided upon. When the system doesn't allow people to
protect themselves from corporate harm to their communities, it is time to change the system. Let us embrace the new global order. Can you tell us about "democracy"? It's a word used by everyone and can
mean so many things. Some people might say you are anti-business. Is that the case? Many people in this country don't understand that corporations have personhood rights. Why does this come as such a
surprise to some people? Speak about the regulatory system. It's supposed to keep corporations from doing harm, but everywhere you look -- the water, the land, the air -- everything is polluted. Some believe
that laws such as anti-corporate personhood ordinances are a waste of time because they will be challenged and shot down, so why bother? What is the logic behind civil disobedience to the law? Do you believe
it's possible to change the role of corporations in our society? Let us embrace the new way of doing business and trade. The Global Community proposes to corporations that they take responsibility on behalf of society and people, and that they should pay more attention to global rights, working conditions and
getting ride of corruption in the world of business and trade. We have developed a criteria, and we ask you to turn it into practice. Governments should encourage enterprises to use the criteria both by legal
and moral means. At first, the criteria should be adopted in key areas such as procurement, facilities management, investment management, and human resources. Corporations want to be seen as good
corporate leaders and have a stronger form of accountability. Business and trade will prosper after stronger common bonds and values have been established. Adopting the criteria will have a beneficial
impact on future returns, and share price performance. The Global Community believes all citizens have the right to share the wealth in the world. Foreign investment and the trade agreement must protect and improve social and environmental rights, not just the
economy. A global sustainable development would mean finding a sound balance among the interactions designed to create a healthy economic growth, preserve environmental quality, make a wise use of
our resources, and enhance social benefits. Free trade cannot proceed at the expense of the environment, labour rights, human rights and the sovereignty of a nation. Free trade will lead to an increase in
poverty by giving investor rights priority over government decision-making. Employers will be looking for more concessions from workers. Small businesses will find it more difficult to grow and compete
against large corporations. The 21st Century will see limitless links and symbiotical relationships with and within the Global Community. A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global
communities, can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the
good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development.
The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a part of the relationship. We all know
developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis of the relationship should give more importance
to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of the Scale of Global Rights and the Charter of the Global
Community into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as described in the global ministries (health, agriculture, energy, trade, resources,
etc.).
The Global Community will do everything possible to give trade the proper guidance for humanity. Trade will become a global co-operation between all nations. The kind of behaviour that happened in the Middle East and in many other parts
of the world will not be allowed again. That is Earth Government ’s commitment to the Global Community to make government and global citizens responsible and accountable. This commitment was defined in sections 11 to 14 of the Global
Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act.
The business community can help to create a biodiversity zone over the entire planet by changing its ways of doing things, and ways of doing business and trade,
and operate its business as per the Scale of Global Rights.
Issue #595 Absence of fair and democratic global governance at the United Nations
and European Union
A democratically planned global economy, reflecting the fundamental unity and aspirations of all humanity, the Global Community
A democratically planned global economy - reflecting the fundamental unity and aspirations of all humanity - owes its feasibility
and certainty of success to scientific research establishing the biological basis for human cooperation. A democratically planned global economy offers the Global Community a rational, effective
response to impending trade wars and other instances of human despair arising from the contradiction between "free trade" practices
and national "job protectionism." The "outsourcing of jobs," a further contradiction in the present system, does not serve to address full
employment in the recipient country, much less in the country outsourced. Launching a democratically planned global economy at the
earliest practicable time will bypass the thirty-year time frame projected for equalizing labor costs between underdeveloped national
economies and those of the more developed national economies - while reversing the deterioration of social and environmental
conditions traceable to an economic system increasingly antithetical to global unity and human aspirations. Human cooperation
marshalling with meaning and purpose previously untapped energy and resources on a worldwide scale provides the driving force for
achieving and sustaining a planned global economy democratically embarked upon by all nations.
Recognized as priority goals in this effort are:
(a) a healthful, sustainable environment for every planetary citizen,
(b) universal health
care, publicly supported,
(c) education for all based upon individual capability,
(d) creative/productive employment for every planetary citizen, and
(e) post-retirement security.
In the same vein objective evaluation by the Global Community of all cultural phenomena -
leading inexorably to major overhaul of many cultural institutions - is critical to ending for all time the scourge of global terrorism. Cultural
evolution based upon intrinsic human cooperation promises to give rise to a new epoch for humanity defined by societal sustainability and lasting world peace.
Human potential rests on resolution of deep human needs to know from whence we came,
safety and security, meaning and purpose - consonant with life-centered cosmologies recognizing the cognitive and formative basis of all
compassionate global societies: mate selection, the nurturing of offspring, and early childhood education in a healthful, sustainable
environment.
Democracy and the meaning of effective Earth governance and management with essential services
Democracy and peace amongst nations means follow the pathway to Peace in the world.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means having a global vision for humanity and knowing what is needed to give a healthy future to the
next generations.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means Justice for all.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means sharing global values, understanding our global commons.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means sharing natural resources.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means applying the new way of doing business and trade.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means applying the fundamental principle: you have a property, use it, share it, or lose it. This principle
applies to eveyone from a private individual to worldwide financial institutions.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means effective Earth governance and management.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means participating in the Global Dialogue to resolve problems.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means the absence of wars, disarmament from all nations.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means getting involved, participating, volunteering.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means respecting global rights.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means politics without borders.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means universal health care, education and employment for all.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means a robust global economy.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means the building of global communities for all life and the making of a global symbiosis society.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means a global, legitimate, transparent, comprehemsive, visionary, inspiring, creative, compassionate
leadership to harmonize diversity with unity for the good of all. The Global Community organization offers such leadership.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means integrating into our ways of life global standards and practices, and global law for the protection of
the global life-support systems.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means having the Global Protection Agency (GPA) to give every community security and safety.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means no global destruction of the environment and life habitats.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means educating the population on the need to obtain a negative average annual population growth rate.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means land and all other natural resources on the planet belong to the Global Community along with the
local communities where these resources are found.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means acknowledging, respecting and protecting within a constitutional framework the diverse cultural,
religious, racial, and minority groups that make up a population.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means that the education and upbringing of chidren include the principles and global concepts listed in
the different sections included here.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means creating new global ministries serving the Global Community.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means no taxes on labor but taxes on the uses of natural resources.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means creating symbiotical relationships between communities and nations. As with global ministries,
these relationships must follow the fundamental criteria.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means giving the people of a population the rights to vote democratically for a government of their
choice, to participate in the global referendum on issues, to make sustainable choices for their communities.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means by celebrating Life Day on May 26 of each year.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means by participating in the Global Exhibition each year.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means decreasing the wealth gap between rich and poor, between the industrialized nations and the
developing nations.
Democracy as a way of life requires the presence of essential services
Global Movement to Help offers Essential Services to serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth.
Global Movement to Help essential services to serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth:
Protection of the :
global life-support systems
Earth ecosystems
environment
Security for all life, and safety at work
Peace and disarmament
Have shelter and basic clothing
Global voting
Sustainable agriculture and food supplies
Water resources protection and drinking fresh water
Ombudspersons Office
Global Information Media ( GIM )
Volunteering
Breathing clean air
Global Community Assessment Centre ( GCAC)
Preventive actions against polluters
Eating a balance diet
Sustainable use of human and natural resources
' Clean ' energy
Eradicating poverty and hunger
Universal health care and education for everyone
Global Rights
Employment for all
All of the above essentials for this generation and the next ones
Direct democracy and global voting
Direct democracy is a community right on the Scale of Global Rights. Direct democracy is the right of global citizens to hold referendums on any issue -- and
With a world population still dramatically increasing, a new set of ways of doing things will be
more appropriate in dealing with one another. The Global Constitution shows this new way of doing things.
Shortly after 1985, the Global Community Assessment Centre (GCAC) has researched and developed a process for global voting. Since then GCAC has conducted several global
voting on issues. There are 161 nations that have so far been surveyed. Some results are shown here. More surveys will be completed in the coming months and published here.
Global voting has been and will continue to be a strong mean of obtaining the global opinion on issues. This method is different than data obtained from government agencies
of the 161 nations. Data from those agencies are important but global voting is also very important. Global voting probes directly into a population. It is actually direct
democracy.
Direct democracy implies that:
* Global Citizens are willing and able to participate fully in the
decision making process on issues that most affect them.
* Global Citizens should have full access to information on
global affairs, and the conduct of global business should be
open and transparent, with a well-developed global-wide
communication system.
* Global Parliament should always recognize that it is accountable to
Global Citizens.
* Direct democracy will encourage global citizen input into global
policy, and enable Global Citizens to participate more actively in
global affairs.
* Direct democracy will raise the level of public awareness
and encourage debate of key global issues.
* Global Parliament can exercise the leadership necessary to become a
model of effective “direct democracy” for all global communities.
* A direct democracy global law gives Global Citizens and Global Parliament an
effective and orderly way of addressing contentious issues.
* A direct democracy global law strengthens the hand of Global Parliament by
providing additional credibility in dealing with senior
governments and non-elected bodies.
* A direct democracy bylaw shows that Global Parliament has faith in its
Global Citizens. Thus, Global Parliament in turn earns increased respect from
Global Citizens.
* Direct democracy does not mean
government by referendum. Almost all Global Parliament decisions would
continue to be made as they are now with
the usual consultative processes. Few issues would be
important and contentious enough to prompt referenda.
The Global Community is proposing that:
a) different nations may require different political systems at different times
b) a democratic system is not a "must have it" to be a responsible member nation of Earth Government
c) all democracies are to be upgraded, or improved upon, to be a responsible member nation of Earth Government. The Scale of
Global Rights and the Global Constitution
are the newly added requirements to all democratic systems of the world.
Global rights and democracy
Global Rights year one is new impetus of the Global Community to educate everyone about the need for a change in thinking and of doing things amongst all nations. We need to realize what is a priority, what
is the most important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can longer
do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity and all life can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the global environment. And there are other activities we must do, certainly
thousands of them, to assure the survival of life on Earth. In view of the planetary state of emergency we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance. And this is
what Global Rights year one is about: to establish global fundamentals and a clear vision to follow. Perhaps the Scale of Global Rights represents the strongest pillar of our vision.
21st century democracy starts with essential services
As a first step to getting help, all nations can and should approve those first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights. The approval would supersede the political and physical borders of participating member
nations. The Global Protection Agency (GPA) would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help, bypassing normal government protocols. Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the
global level. That is what those first three sections mean. They represent an efficient and immediate emergency response to help. First, participating member nations need to give their approval to the GPA.
The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health, or the European Union, North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFT), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics. The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help. The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and
efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in
the Global Constitution and is thus the fundamental guide to Global Law. Now the Scale of Global Rights is a long term solution and is also a part of the Global Movement to Help of the Global Community. The
Scale was designed to help all life on Earth. What would be preferable is that nations unite amongst themselves to help. Over time, we have seen the creation of the United Nations, the European Union, the
South American Community of Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Except for the UN, these organizations are mainly concerned with trade and economics. The Global Community offers a
more meaningful union in the form of nine or more Global Governments. For instance the South American Community of Nations can be a Global Government by simply accepting the Global Constitution as a
way of dealing between member nations. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade, but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other
essential aspects. The Federation of Global Governments is the place of meeting between Global Governments. The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us,
would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be
more accountable to the people of that region. The Global Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale.
Democracy, overconsumption and the natural order of things
A growing body of progressives within the global justice movement, including environmentalists, economists and policy makers, broadly
agree that a significant overhaul of the world’s economic and political systems is long overdue, and that without significant restructuring
our most pressing problems will never be tackled. It is time for a significant re-evaluation of global economic and political values and the
creation of an economy that serves the needs of the global community as a whole, within our environmental limitations. In order to
consider how the ownership and management of key resources could be organized, it is useful to group them according to type. There
are three general categories:
-Naturally occurring resources – e.g. land, water, oil, gas and mineral ores
-Produced goods – e.g. agricultural produce, medicines, building materials and machinery
-Services – e.g. utilities, healthcare and education
All beings have impact, and thus all of them leave an ecological footprint. Some of those impacts are in harmony with the biosphere and
thus are in accord with the organizing principles of life; whereas others are discordant. Harvesting nuts in a sustainable manner, leaving
enough for other animals to use and for the reproduction of the species in perpetuity is an example of harmony; whereas clear cutting
and mountain top removal are examples of excess and discord. Some actions compliment life; others diminish it. Over consumption and
waste and the endless economic expansion they cause are the governing principle of capitalism and over population; and, like it or not,
they fundamentally conflict with the natural order of things. This ideology is counter to the organizing principle of life and it has the
effect of diminishing biodiversity and the ecological processes upon which all life depends. Capitalism and reductionism hold that every
component of the biosphere are resources when, in fact, they are sources of life. At some point in human history, man began taking
things apart in an attempt to gain detailed scientific knowledge and understanding; however, in nature—anything apart from the organic
whole is dead. It is easily understood that if someone removes another’s heart from his or her chest cavity, that person will quickly die.
The heart is a vital organ that pumps blood to every part of the body; it is a part of a connected whole. Sever that connection and the
body collapses and death ensues. Likewise, nature has no unimportant parts. The earth functions like a single living organism of
world-size proportions. Everything under the sun exists for a purpose; every organism plays a vital role in the local, regional, and the
global ecology. Remove or destroy a part and the whole suffers; one has diminished possibilities, foreclosed options, and subverted
natural processes, with consequences to untold numbers of species, including Homo sapiens. Western humans tend to give value to the
parts of nature that can be economically exploited, and under values those that cannot. By continually teasing out the separate parts of
nature and isolating them from the organic whole, we are undoing the very fabric of life: we are playing god. Thus, we are living in the
midst of the sixth great extinction episode in the earth’s 4.5 billion year history, and we are the primary cause. Few Americans are aware
of this fact. It does not behoove capitalism to advertise that it is killing the biosphere; it is not good for business. Who wants to be a
cancer? And fools believe that business, rather than ecology, makes the world go round.
The political system of an individual country does not have to be a democracy
It is best for humanity and the increasing world population to see ourselves as people living together or
far apart but in constant communication with each other. A community has no boundaries.
A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global communities, can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it
can have as many other aspects as agreed by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the good of all groups participating in the
relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth.
The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global
economy.
The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a
part of the relationship. We all know developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis of the
relationship should give more importance to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of the Scale of Global Rights
and Global Law into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as described in the global ministries (health, agriculture,
energy, trade, resources, etc.).
The Global Community has shown that a global community can be united by religion to form a Global Government. It does not have to be a democracy. A Global Government based on religion is very acceptable
to Earth Government and the Global Community.
We can no longer perceive ourselves as a People who could survive alone and a People who does not need anyone else. We belong and depend to this much larger
group, that of the Global Community. The 21st Century will see limitless links and interrelationships within the Global Community. That is the 'raison d'etre'
of the Federation of Global Governments. The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating
member nations.
We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to
the people of that region. The Global Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here.
The power of Global Community was de-centralized to give each Global Government a better chance to find the right solutions to global issues. It can act faster and be more effective and efficient in
the context of the Global Community, this great, wide, wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities within each Nation. The Global Community becomes thus more fluid and dynamic. A global
symbiotical relationship is created between Nations and Global Community for the good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth. The relationship allows a global
equitable and peaceful development. This is the basic concept that is allowing us to group willing Member Nations from different parts of the world.
The Global Community allows people to take control of their own lives. The Global Community was built from a grassroots process with a
vision for humanity that is challenging every person on Earth as well as nation governments. The Global Community has a vision of the
people working together building a global civilization including a healthy and rewarding future for the next generations. Global cooperation
brings people together for a common future for the good of all.
Earth governance does not imply a lost of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. A nation government exists within the framework of an
effective Global Community protecting common global values and humanity heritage. Earth governance gives a new meaning to the notions
of territoriality, and non-intervention in a state way of life, and it is about protecting the cultural heritage of a state. Diversity of cultural and
ethnic groups is an important aspect of Earth governance. Earth governance is a balance between the rights of states with rights of people, and the interests of nations with the interests of the Global
Community, the human family, the global civil society.
Earth governance is about the rights of states to self-determination in the global context of the Global Community rather than the traditional
context of a world of separate states.
The political system of an individual country does not have to be a democracy. Political rights of a country belong to that country alone. Democracy is not to be enforced by anyone and to anyone or to any
global community. Every community can and should choose the political system of their choice with the understanding of the importance of such a right on the Scale of Global Rights . On the
other hand, representatives to the Global Community must be elected democratically in every part of the world. An individual country may have any political system at home but the government of that
country will have to ensure (and allow verification by the Global Community) that representatives to the Global Community have been elected democratically. This way, every person in the world can claim
the birth right of electing a democratic government to manage Earth: the rights to vote and elect representatives to form the Global Community.
Energy, the end of the military and wars, democracy and the new world order
As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change. The use of military force to protect the flow of imported petroleum
has generally enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Washington. One might imagine that the current debacle in Iraq would shake this consensus, but there is no evidence that
this is so. In fact, the opposite appears to be the case: possibly fearful that the chaos in Iraq will spread to other countries in the Gulf
region, senior figures in both parties are calling for a reinvigorated US military role in the protection of foreign energy deliveries. There is
mounting perils to the safe flow of foreign oil. Concluding that the United States alone has the capacity to protect the global oil trade
against the threat of violent obstruction, it argues the need for a strong US military presence in key producing areas and in the sea lanes
that carry foreign oil to American shores. An awareness of this new "Washington consensus" on the need to protect overseas oil
supplies with American troops helps explain many recent developments in Washington. Most significant, it illuminates the strategic
stance adopted by President Bush in justifying his determination to retain a potent US force in Iraq -- and why the Democrats have found
it so difficult to contest that stance. We should expect an increase in the use of military force to protect the overseas flow of oil, as the
threat level rises along with the need for new investment to avert even further reductions in global supplies.
In a time when the old order is shattering, a global movement is emerging to challenge the use of war as a tool of statecraft. Cheap oil
provided an energy subsidy that defined the wars, economies, settlements, values, and lifestyles of the 20th century. The result was a
century of wasteful extravagance and inefficiency that encouraged us to squander virtually all Earth's resources -- including water, land,
forests, fisheries, soils, minerals, and natural waste recycling capacity. We are now waking up to the morning-after consequences of a
brief but raucous party. These include depleted natural systems, unsustainable economies, an obsolete physical infrastructure, and a
six-fold increase in the human population dependent on the diminished resources of a finite planet. Cheap oil also fueled a zero sum
global competition for access to resources -- particularly cheap oil -- and for the military superiority required to secure that access. The
United States combined the global projection of military power with the global projection of economic and cultural power to achieve
unchallenged global dominance as the sole reigning superpower. Cheap oil is no more and the global projection of military and economic
power it made possible is no longer viable. According to the scientific consensus, to avoid driving Earth's system of climate regulation
into irrevocable collapse we humans must achieve at least an 100 percent reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions now.
Less noted is the corresponding imperative that to avoid irrevocable social collapse, we must simultaneously
achieve an equitable allocation of allowable emissions to meet the essential needs of every person on the planet. This presents a
particular challenge for the United States. As the world's leading producer of green house gases, the US emissions reduction must be achieved sooner.
There is no place in this equation for war or the global projection of military power. Beyond the fact that military planes,
ships, and vehicles are gluttonous consumers of oil, the central activity of warfare is to kill and maim people and destroy critical
infrastructure to impair capacity for normal life. The collateral damage includes massive scale toxic and radioactive environmental
contamination that renders growing portions of our crowded planet uninhabitable. The more we humans war the more certain our ultimate
collective demise. The second is an emergent social movement calling all the global's parliaments to adopt the principle that
people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the
threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish this goal land, sea,
and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
The day of reckoning for our reckless human ways that many of us have for decades warned would be coming is here. We cannot grow
our way out of poverty. The only way to end poverty and heal our social divisions on an already over stressed planet is through a
redistribution of resources from rich to poor and from nonessential to essential uses. Natural wealth was created by our Earth mother and
is therefore a common heritage of all her children, including all non-human species. None of us has a right to abuse that wealth or to
monopolize it to the exclusion of our sisters and brothers. This brings us to the third element of the big picture: the governing
institutions to which we give the power to set our priorities and our collective course. We might wonder how such injustice could
happen in a world governed by democratically elected governments. The answer is simple and alarming. 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 fortunes -- 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 are already have more stuff that we
need -- to buy more stuff. 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 American ideal of being a democratic middle-class nation without extremes of wealth and
poverty. And we need to encourage and support the rest of the world 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. The idea that beneath the surface of our wondrous cultural
diversity most humans want the same thing is consistent with recent scientific findings that our human brains are wired for compassion,
caring, altruism, and cooperation. It turns out that most people everywhere, irrespective of their skin color, religion, nationality, or
language are happiest when they are being helpful, loving, peaceful, generous, and cooperative. Isn't that stunning? Think of the
possibilities. People of color and women won recognition of their full human rights only as the civil rights and women's movements
successfully exposed the fallacy of the story that people of color and women are less than fully human. Recognizing the full humanity of
all peoples opens us to a deeper understanding of what it truly does mean to be human in all the rich potentials that our human nature
embodies. The environmental movement is replacing the story that nature is a dark and evil threat to be subdued, vanquished, and used
for whatever purposes please us with the story of Earth as a living being, the mother of life, a living spaceship. Through sharing stories
about what makes us truly happy, we come to see the fallacy of the advertising story that material consumption is our source of
happiness. Once this fallacy is seen for what it is, we can enthusiastically share our stories of how we are improving the quality of our
lives by reducing the quantity of our consumption and gaining control of our time to do more of the things that make us feel fully alive.
In everything you do, share the story of our human possibility and of our right and responsibility to create for ourselves and for future
generations, the world of our shared dream. Our distinctive human capacity for reflection and intentional choice carries a corresponding
moral responsibility to care for our Mother Earth and for one another. We must now test the limits of the individual and collective
creative potential of our species as we strive to become the change we seek. In these turbulent and frightening times, it is important to
remind ourselves that we are privileged to live at the most exciting moment of creative opportunity in the whole of the human experience.
The future is in our hands. Now is the hour. We have the power to turn this world around. We are the ones we have been waiting for.
Petroleum supplies are declining as demand increases, a radical change of human habitation on the Earth, drastic reduction of food and fresh water available to people,
Peak Water and Peak Food, we need food sovereignty
Petroleum supplies are declining as demand increases. This unfolding trend will radically change human habitation on the Earth. Among the consequences will be the drastic reduction of food and fresh water
available to people, not only in poorer parts of the globe, but throughout the planet. Industrial societies with their industrial agriculture are dependent upon fossil fuels such as petroleum, natural gas, and coal
for many things, including transportation, electricity, and making plastics and other modern essentials. Oil is the main ingredient in conventional food. As the supply of petroleum and other fossil fuels decline
Peak Water and Peak Food will follow. In recent months we have seen the return of food riots in the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa. Industrial societies run on electricity powered by the cheap energy of fossil
fuels. As the supply of those energy sources decline and world-wide competition for them through wars and other means heighten, more electrical grids will fail, and with them access to both food and water.
The pace quickens. The signs are more numerous. We need even more than food security; we need food sovereignty. Who controls your food? Growing at least part of one's own food--and having something to
trade--will be essential to survival.
Water is not a commodity but is a human and environmental right
We need to shift our understanding of water as a commodity to an appreciation for water as a human and environmental right. All human beings are deeply affected by water and its movements. When we go on
vacation we go to the water. We slide over it, across it, through it. We swim in it. We take part in water rituals and want to be nurtured by water ... we thirst for it. Yet water, in a very deep way, is a women's
issue. It is vital to the role women play in caring for their families. Women bathe and nourish their young, often tend the crops, and are the keepers of the waters. When fetching potable water requires
distance, there is less time for the family and abject poverty and disease result.
We are faced with thoughtless development that paves flood plains and destroys wetlands; dams that displace native people and scar watersheds; unchecked industrial growth that pollutes water sources; and
rising rates of consumption that nature can't match. Increasingly, we are also threatened by the wave of privatization that is sweeping across the world, turning water from a precious public resource into a
commodity for economic gain. The problems extend from the global north to the south and are as pervasive as water itself. Equally encompassing are the politics of water. Discussions about our water crisis
include issues like poverty, trade, community and privatization. In talking about water, we must also talk about indigenous rights, environmental justice, education, corporate accountability, and democracy. In
this mix of terms are not only the causes of our crisis but also the solutions. It ultimately comes down to an issue of democracy. We came to see that the conflicts over water are really about fundamental
questions of democracy itself: Who will make the decisions that affect our future, and who will be excluded?
The future of water is anything but clear. We face a future world fraught with water challenges – too much, too little, too contaminated or inaccessible to meet our needs. We live in a rapidly changing world in
which many of our expectations about natural resources may no longer be met. The seeming abundance of safe, low-cost water may falsely lead us to assume perpetual easy access to all the low-cost,
high-quality water we want, when we want it. The water industry today must examine these assumptions. Although water covers 70 percent of our planet’s surface, less than one-half percent is freshwater
available for our use. Most of our planet’s water is in oceans and too salty for many uses. Much of the remainder is locked in frozen glaciers, is remote from population centers or circulating in our atmosphere.
So this seemingly abundant resource is actually quite constrained.
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.
Water is a fundamental human right and a public trust to be guarded by all levels of government
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 protected for the maximum benefit of the people and of all life.
A new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Iraq, wars are a threat to global security,
invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against humanity and will be prosecuted.
War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can inflict on another and to all life on Earth.
Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah, Iraq. Fallujah faces this new crisis after much of the city was destroyed by U.S. military
operations in 2004. The area around Fallujah city, which lies 70 km west of Baghdad, has traditionally been one of the most agriculturally productive in Iraq. Farmers planted tomatoes and cucumbers north of
Fallujah, others grew potatoes south of the city near Amiriya. Both areas had plenty of date palm trees and small fruit plantations. Now production is down to a fraction of what it was. Farmers have been
struggling with changing times. Residents say they are told of a world food crisis that may be affecting them. But their crisis arises mainly from local factors like shortage of water, fuel and electricity.
Whatever the reason, residents simply want relief. "We just want our lives back," said a college student who gave her name only as Nada. "We want to eat, buy clothes, get proper education and breathe pure
air. No thanks to Americans for their effort to bring us democracy that killed half of us by their bombs and is now apparently killing the other half by starvation. Can you pass this message to the American
people for us?" According to the UN, at least four million people in Iraq do not have enough food, while approximately 40 percent of the 27.5 million population do not have access to clean drinking water. At
least 30 percent do not have access to proper health services.
The invasion of Iraq by the White House is now being seen as the biggest mistake ever done by a nation on
an other nation. It is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth, and a crime yet to be prosecuted. Would
you agree that those guilty of this crime be held responsible and made accountable?
NATO and the White House claimed that they do what they are doing to give security to its population and to
the world. In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the
military capabilities and forming alliances with other nations were the only way to 'win'. That is how NATO
came into existence. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the
planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in
Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small
nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the
military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the
highest priority on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other
rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without
Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the
biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of
Global Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is hardly possible in cold place.
So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry, the worst
of all polluters, from humanity right now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons
right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world,
and not just in some Middle East country. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the
Global Community. Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people,
institutions and values from an outside threat. The Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition
of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Global security can only be achieved if it can
be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained in the Global
Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. Would you agree that the
military option and the war industry should be shelved foerever from humanity and never to be used again to
solve a global problem? American have brought disgrace to humanity by their selfish, immoral, unethical, incoherent, inconsistent,
dishonnest, erratic, and mostly aimed at making money behavior in the Middle East and towards Afghanistan.
You would think we would be 'civilized' by now. Military intervention in the affairs of other nations is wrong.
There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of
power for itself. The invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against
humanity and will be prosecuted. War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can
inflict on another. Would you agree?
A new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Iraq, wars are a threat to global security,
invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against humanity and will be prosecuted.
War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can inflict on another and to all life on Earth.
Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah, Iraq. Fallujah faces this new crisis after much of the city was destroyed by U.S. military
operations in 2004. The area around Fallujah city, which lies 70 km west of Baghdad, has traditionally been one of the most agriculturally productive in Iraq. Farmers planted tomatoes and cucumbers north of
Fallujah, others grew potatoes south of the city near Amiriya. Both areas had plenty of date palm trees and small fruit plantations. Now production is down to a fraction of what it was. Farmers have been
struggling with changing times. Residents say they are told of a world food crisis that may be affecting them. But their crisis arises mainly from local factors like shortage of water, fuel and electricity.
Whatever the reason, residents simply want relief. "We just want our lives back," said a college student who gave her name only as Nada. "We want to eat, buy clothes, get proper education and breathe pure
air. No thanks to Americans for their effort to bring us democracy that killed half of us by their bombs and is now apparently killing the other half by starvation. Can you pass this message to the American
people for us?" According to the UN, at least four million people in Iraq do not have enough food, while approximately 40 percent of the 27.5 million population do not have access to clean drinking water. At
least 30 percent do not have access to proper health services.
The invasion of Iraq by the White House is now being seen as the biggest mistake ever done by a nation on
an other nation. It is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth, and a crime yet to be prosecuted. Would
you agree that those guilty of this crime be held responsible and made accountable?
NATO and the White House claimed that they do what they are doing to give security to its population and to
the world. In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the
military capabilities and forming alliances with other nations were the only way to 'win'. That is how NATO
came into existence. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the
planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in
Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small
nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the
military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the
highest priority on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other
rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without
Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the
biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of
Global Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is hardly possible in cold place.
So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry, the worst
of all polluters, from humanity right now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons
right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world,
and not just in some Middle East country. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the
Global Community. Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people,
institutions and values from an outside threat. The Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition
of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Global security can only be achieved if it can
be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained in the Global
Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. Would you agree that the
military option and the war industry should be shelved foerever from humanity and never to be used again to
solve a global problem? American have brought disgrace to humanity by their selfish, immoral, unethical, incoherent, inconsistent,
dishonnest, erratic, and mostly aimed at making money behavior in the Middle East and towards Afghanistan.
You would think we would be 'civilized' by now. Military intervention in the affairs of other nations is wrong.
There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of
power for itself. The invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against
humanity and will be prosecuted. War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can
inflict on another. Would you agree?
The provision of food, water and fuel, a profit-driven war economy contributing to "eliminating the poor" through "starvation deaths", a global symbiotical relationship,
and the new way of doing business and trade
We are at the crossroads of the most serious economic and social crisis in modern history. The process of global impoverishment unleashed at the outset of the 1980s debt crisis has reached a major turning
point, leading to the simultaneous outbreak of famines in all major regions of the developing World. There are many complex features underlying the global economic crisis pertaining to financial markets, the
decline in production, the collapse of State institutions and the rapid development of a profit-driven war economy. What is rarely mentioned in this analysis, is how this global economic restructuring forcibly
impinges on three fundamental necessities of life: food, water and fuel. The provision of food, water and fuel is a precondition of civilized society: they are necessary factors for the survival of the human
species. In recent years, the prices of these three variables has increased dramatically at the global level, with devastating economic and social consequences. These three essential goods, which in a real sense
determine the reproduction of economic and social life on planet earth, are under the control of a small number of global corporations and financial institutions. Both the State as well as the gamut of
international organizations --often referred to as the "international community"-- serve the unfettered interests of global capitalism. The main intergovernmental bodies including the United Nations, the
Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organizations (WTO) have endorsed the New World Order on behalf of their corporate sponsors. Governments in both developed and developing countries have
abandoned their historical role of regulating key economic variables as well as ensuring a minimum livelihood for their people. We are dealing with a complex and centralized constellation of economic power in
which the instruments of market manipulation have a direct bearing on the lives of millions 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 goods constitute an instrument of "economic warfare", carried out through the "free market" on the futures and options exchanges. These hikes in
the prices of food, water and fuel are contributing in a very real sense to "eliminating the poor" through "starvation deaths". The sugar coated bullets of the "free market" kill our children. The act to kill is
instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the commodity exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat and corn are decided upon. When the system doesn't allow people to
protect themselves from corporate harm to their communities, it is time to change the system. Let us embrace the new global order. Can you tell us about "democracy"? It's a word used by everyone and can
mean so many things. Some people might say you are anti-business. Is that the case? Many people in this country don't understand that corporations have personhood rights. Why does this come as such a
surprise to some people? Speak about the regulatory system. It's supposed to keep corporations from doing harm, but everywhere you look -- the water, the land, the air -- everything is polluted. Some believe
that laws such as anti-corporate personhood ordinances are a waste of time because they will be challenged and shot down, so why bother? What is the logic behind civil disobedience to the law? Do you believe
it's possible to change the role of corporations in our society? Let us embrace the new way of doing business and trade. The Global Community proposes to corporations that they take responsibility on behalf of society and people, and that they should pay more attention to global rights, working conditions and
getting ride of corruption in the world of business and trade. We have developed a criteria,
and we ask you to turn it into practice. Governments should encourage enterprises to use the criteria both by legal
and moral means. At first, the criteria should be adopted in key areas such as procurement, facilities management, investment management, and human resources. Corporations want to be seen as good
corporate leaders and have a stronger form of accountability. Business and trade will prosper after stronger common bonds and values have been established. Adopting the criteria will have a beneficial
impact on future returns, and share price performance. The Global Community believes all citizens have the right to share the wealth in the world. Foreign investment and the trade agreement must protect and improve social and environmental rights, not just the
economy. A global sustainable development would mean finding a sound balance among the interactions designed to create a healthy economic growth, preserve environmental quality, make a wise use of
our resources, and enhance social benefits. Free trade cannot proceed at the expense of the environment, labour rights, human rights and the sovereignty of a nation. Free trade will lead to an increase in
poverty by giving investor rights priority over government decision-making. Employers will be looking for more concessions from workers. Small businesses will find it more difficult to grow and compete
against large corporations. The 21st Century will see limitless links and symbiotical relationships with and within the Global Community. A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global
communities, can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the
good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development.
The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a part of the relationship. We all know
developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis of the relationship should give more importance
to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of the Scale of Global Rights and the Charter of the Global
Community into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as described in the global ministries (health, agriculture, energy, trade, resources,
etc.).
The Global Community will do everything possible to give trade the proper guidance for humanity. Trade will become a global co-operation between all nations. The kind of behaviour that happened in the Middle East and in many other parts
of the world will not be allowed again. That is Earth Government ’s commitment to the Global Community to make government and global citizens responsible and accountable. This commitment was defined in sections 11 to 14 of the Global
Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act.
The business community can help to create a biodiversity zone over the entire planet by changing its ways of doing things, and ways of doing business and trade,
and operate its business as per the Scale of Global Rights.
Issue #596 Pollution worldwide
Problems with biofuels: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does not exist to achieve positive environmental effects,
enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, and accelerated depletion of natural resources
Environmental experts have been warning that biofuels, far from reducing greenhouse gas emissions, actually have a negative environmental footprint. Biofuels gained from extensive plantations of oil palms,
soybean, rapeseeds and the like have a negative environmental footprint due to massive use of pesticides and fertilisers, which leads to acidification of groundwater. You also have to consider whether for the
production of soybean oil the tropical forest in Brazil or in Indonesia is being eroded. Problems with biofuels are numerous: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does
not exist to achieve positive environmental effects, enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, (and) accelerated depletion of natural resources. A
trade-off between fuel and food is taking place, and that the economically more attractive production of biofuels for the industrialised countries has crowded out food production for the poorest regions of the
world. Increasing prices of food, and their scarcity, have recently sparked riots. A two-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures could flip the Amazon forest from being the Earth's vital air conditioner to a flamethrower that cooks the planet, warns a new report released at the climate
talks in Bali, Indonesia Friday. The trees of the Amazon contain at least 100 billion tonnes of carbon -- 15 years worth of global emissions from all sources, he said. "It's not only essential for cooling the world's
temperature but also such a large source of freshwater that it may be enough to influence some of the great ocean currents." It is in everyone's interest to keep the Amazon intact, but deforestation continues
apace, driven by expanding cattle ranching, soy farming, conversion into sugar cane for biofuel and logging. This assault is drying out the forest, making it more vulnerable to burning. Rising global
temperatures are also increasing evaporation rates, drying the forest further. Logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest could trigger “carbon bomb” impacting global climate10 April 2008Print Send to a friend Turning up the heat Enlarge ImageLogging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is exacerbating
global warming by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage, says a new Greenpeace report released today. It also makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and
insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases. If this vicious circle is left unchecked, it could culminate in a massive and sudden release of greenhouse gases referred to as "the carbon bomb,"
the report warns. Canada's Boreal Forest stores 186 billion tonnes of carbon—equivalent to 27 times the world's annual fossil fuel emissions. A widespread outbreak of forest or peat fires could release much of
this carbon, causing a disastrous spike in emissions. In Indonesia, you're tucking into a KitKat or dipping into a tube of Pringles, you might be interested to know that these products contain palm oil that is linked to the destruction of forests
and peatlands in Indonesia. As our new report "How the palm oil industry is cooking the climate" shows, it's a recipe for disaster. The manufacturers of these products - Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever -
are sourcing their palm oil from suppliers who aren't picky about where they site their plantations. As the volunteers at the Forest Defenders Camp in Sumatra have seen, this includes tearing up areas of
pristine forest then draining and burning the peatlands. Indonesia's peatlands act as huge carbon stores so replacing them with plantations them not only threatens the amazing biodiversity, including the rare
Sumatran tiger, it also releases huge volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They only cover 0.1 per cent of the land on Earth, but thanks in part to the activities of the palm oil industry they
contribute 4 per cent to global emissions. If expansion of the palm oil industry continues unabated, that figure can only rise. What's to be done? The Indonesian government should urgently introduce a
moratorium on forest and peatland destruction, which will provide a chance to develop long-term solutions and prevent further emissions from deforestation. And our eyes are fixed firmly on the UN climate
meeting in Bali next month, where the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol will be discussed. With deforestation accounting for up to a fifth of global emissions, including financing for forest protection as a core
part of the plan to tackle climate change is essential.
Issue #597 Nations capable of extreme actions against humanity and all life
On the Scale of Global Rights wars are the worst criminal offenses and most destructive of the environment and global life-support systems. They alone are threatening
in large part the future of humanity and all life on the planet.
War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can inflict on another. It brings deaths and injuries, starvation, diseases, millions of people
losing their homes and livelihoods, and massive destruction of property.
Children and teenagers are placed in internment camps, and several are often forced to serve as soldiers. War not only corrupts the morals of soldiers, it leads to a decline
in the morality of the whole nation.
Political and military leaders are always convinced that their particular war is justified. From their point of view, there are several reasons to go
to war: loyalty to allies, religion, a thirst for power, greed, ancient grievances to be settled, or the desire to alleviate suffering among their people.
A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be more advantageous. War is self-defeating because it cannot secure what it sets out to achieve, protection against attack. The hatred for the enemy
whipped up by war and the desire for revenge among the losers leads to an accursed vicious circle from which there is no escape. The difference between
agressive and defensive, or just and unjust wars, is ridiculous. They are tags each side adopted to suit its interests. War and militarism destroy civil liberties within a nation.
What happens to a person's conscience when he/she wears the uniform of the soldier? It is enslaved to the state. He must kill when ordered. No government, whether
democratic or despotic, can allow the soldier to decide what to do according to his conscience. That would undermine discipline and the power to fight.
The war industry, the military, alone are threatening in large part the future of humanity and all life on the planet.
The Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should be able to live in peace. The Global Community Peace Mouvement is about courage. Not the courage it takes to go into battle but the courage
to organize resistance to war when a bloody taste for it inflames the world, and the threat of prison in a nation where the human rights and freedom of expression have diminished significantly. It is
about the courage to say NO to the war industry and its protégé, NATO. It is an industry that destroys life on Earth, corrupts society, and violates morality. Military intervention
in the affairs of other nations is wrong. There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of power for itself.
We are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants". That word comes from Jesus, opposing the use of violence: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: but
I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."
The evil are the war industry and its protector, NATO. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus
develops the ethic of nonviolence and love of the enemies. Early Christians were probably the first individuals to renounce participation in war unconditionally.
"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Christ has taught us to show mercy, to forgive enemies, to put up patiently with oppression, to return only good for evil and love for hatred and, therefore, war is inconsistent with the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
This shows that a Christian should take no part in war, never, in any way.
This all means that violence is futile in the long run. To respond to violence with violence is only perpetuating a vicious cycle of violence.
God prohibits killing, and no exception at all ought to be made to the commandment that it is always wrong to kill. The sanctity of human life is unconditional.
A short while ago God, Allah, has spoken to humanity once more. The New Revelations
are God's Word. God's Revelations are to be added to previous ones
revealed thousands of years ago. Together they are God's Word, and they will guide humanity for the thousands of
years to come. God's Word reinforce God's compassion and love for humanity and God's care for all living inhabitants on Earth
and of Earth itself. God has said:
"Thou shall banish war as a solution to problems between communities. All Souls involved with war, directly or indirectly,
shall face the Soul of Humanity to be purified. All Souls involved in the making of weapons, war product and equipment
shall be facing the Soul of Humanity."
The worst environmental degradation happens in wars. Farm products in fields and livestock are abandoned, there is no more control on toxic wastes, and water, air,
and land are polluted. People are displaced and feel no longer responsible for the quality of life in their communities. Historically, the industrialized nations
have caused the most damage to the environment, with their careless technology and policies. Emissions from factories and vehicles have caused
ozone depletion and acid rain. Leaders of the wealthier nations must be willing to accept responsibility for past mistakes and to help pay the financial burden
for environmental protection of the developing nations. This is the most damaging conflict of interests between the rich industrialized countries
and those that are poor and struggling just for existence. The Global Community must help wealthy and poorer nations reach a better understanding of each
other's needs. All aspects are interrelated: peace, global rights and the environment. The poor is more concerned with ending starvation,
finding a proper shelter and employment, and helping their children to survive. Environmental issues become meaningless to the poor. In reality, all concerns are interrelated.
As soon as the environment is destroyed beyond repair, human suffering is next. Ecology has no boundaries. All nations suffer the effects of
air pollution, global warming, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, acid rain, ozone depletion, silting of streams, and countless of other
environmental problems. This was the reason for developing the Scale of Global Rights.
The Global Community wants to provide a forum where international conflicts could be argued and resolved peacefully. Because of hatred and mistrust, disputing
parties always find it difficult to express constructive ideas or proposals. A face-to-face meeting may not even be possible. The Global Community offers to be a trusted
third party that would carry ideas back and forth, put forward new proposals until both sides agree. When both parties feel they have gained more than
they have lost from the process, the outcome is a win-win settlement for peace.
The melting of the Polar Cap
The U.S.A. military exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable of such an extreme action
against humanity and all life on Earth must be disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North
Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life. Blood resources.
The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life on Earth by exploding nuclear bombs to melt glaciers and North Pole cap. The Earth Court of Justice will see that Justice is done. In view
of the planetary state of emergency, the Global Community says: for the protection of all life on Earth, a preventive principle is our only alternative. You are guilty until you can prove otherwise. Global Law must be applied. The
United States must pay for the independent investigation. Would you agree?
Planetary state of emergency
Several events have contributed to the planetary state of emergency:
A) widespread poverty and hunger in more than half the world population
B) The global warming of the planet due to human activities
C) Climate change
D) Economic and military invasion of nations by the United States and NATO
E) Absence of fair and democratic global governance at the United Nations and European Union
F) Our global environment and global life-support systems are threatened by:
- any of the above mentioned events
- pollution worldwide
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads over the bottom of the Indian ocean, and that scenario
created a tsunami wave in 2004.
Just a test, said the captain of the submarine that did it.
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable of such an extreme action
against humanity and all life on Earth must be disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North
Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life. Blood resources.
What to do now about climate change
Along with scientific research, we require political, religious, ideological, cultural, philosophical, economic, social and intellectual
coordination. Secondly, since human factor is the main reason for climate change, the transformation in the method of lifestyle and
concepts of economic development required is much beyond the scope of science. Most solutions provided by scientific research are
very limited in scope such as to fill up our automobile tanks with bio fuels instead of fossil fuels. Such solutions will only aggravate the
crises and create new problems. What we need is a total transformation from what we have hitherto followed. This transformation requires
the change of the basic concept of materialistic way of life and pursuit of wealth. This can only be achieved by cultivating moral and
spiritual values among the society and by replacing materialistic pursuits with holistic and simple way of life.
Our responsibility is not only decide the future of existence of
humankind, but also for preserving all the past cultures and contributions humanity has offered throughout its thousands of years history
of existence on this beautiful planet. We need to set aside our national
interests and play the historical and highly moral responsibility in saving this planet and its inhabitants. The very future for all of life,
human and otherwise, depends on their meeting this obligation with nothing short of total resolve!
A new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Iraq, wars are a threat to global security,
invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against humanity and will be prosecuted.
War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can inflict on another and to all life on Earth.
Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah, Iraq. Fallujah faces this new crisis after much of the city was destroyed by U.S. military
operations in 2004. The area around Fallujah city, which lies 70 km west of Baghdad, has traditionally been one of the most agriculturally productive in Iraq. Farmers planted tomatoes and cucumbers north of
Fallujah, others grew potatoes south of the city near Amiriya. Both areas had plenty of date palm trees and small fruit plantations. Now production is down to a fraction of what it was. Farmers have been
struggling with changing times. Residents say they are told of a world food crisis that may be affecting them. But their crisis arises mainly from local factors like shortage of water, fuel and electricity.
Whatever the reason, residents simply want relief. "We just want our lives back," said a college student who gave her name only as Nada. "We want to eat, buy clothes, get proper education and breathe pure
air. No thanks to Americans for their effort to bring us democracy that killed half of us by their bombs and is now apparently killing the other half by starvation. Can you pass this message to the American
people for us?" According to the UN, at least four million people in Iraq do not have enough food, while approximately 40 percent of the 27.5 million population do not have access to clean drinking water. At
least 30 percent do not have access to proper health services.
The invasion of Iraq by the White House is now being seen as the biggest mistake ever done by a nation on
an other nation. It is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth, and a crime yet to be prosecuted. Would
you agree that those guilty of this crime be held responsible and made accountable?
NATO and the White House claimed that they do what they are doing to give security to its population and to
the world. In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the
military capabilities and forming alliances with other nations were the only way to 'win'. That is how NATO
came into existence. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the
planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in
Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small
nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the
military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the
highest priority on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other
rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without
Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the
biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of
Global Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is hardly possible in cold place.
So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry, the worst
of all polluters, from humanity right now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons
right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world,
and not just in some Middle East country. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the
Global Community. Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people,
institutions and values from an outside threat. The Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition
of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Global security can only be achieved if it can
be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained in the Global
Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. Would you agree that the
military option and the war industry should be shelved foerever from humanity and never to be used again to
solve a global problem? American have brought disgrace to humanity by their selfish, immoral, unethical, incoherent, inconsistent,
dishonnest, erratic, and mostly aimed at making money behavior in the Middle East and towards Afghanistan.
You would think we would be 'civilized' by now. Military intervention in the affairs of other nations is wrong.
There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of
power for itself. The invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against
humanity and will be prosecuted. War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can
inflict on another. Would you agree?
Issue #598 Preventive actions against destruction of the global environment, conflicts,
pollution, genocides, invasion of nations, violation of global rights, and Global Law
To create a biodiversity zone over the entire planet by way of Earth rights and taxation of natural resources
For the protection of those global communities we will need to create a biodiversity zone over the entire planet by way of Earth rights and taxation of natural resources.
Climate change is a result of the rising global temperatures associated with global warming and human activities, the effects of which have a direct impact on all life on Earth.
Global warming is causing the melting of the polar ice caps.
The Polar Regions are very sensitive indicators of global warming. These regions are highly vulnerable to rising temperatures and may be virtually ice free by the
summer of 2030.
The Global Community also proposes that all nations of the world promote the Scale of Global Rights and the
criteria to obtain the Global Community
Citizenship. Every global community citizen lives a life with the higher values described in the Scale and the criteria. Global community citizens are good members of
the human family. Most global problems, including global warming and world overpopulation, can be managed through acceptance of the Scale and the criteria.
The Global Community can contribute in
evaluating options and strategies for adapting to climate change as it occurs, and in identifying human activities that are
even now maladapted to climate. There are two fundamental types of response to the risks of climate change:
1. reducing the rate and magnitudes of change through mitigating the causes, and
2. reducing the harmful consequences through anticipatory adaptation.
Mitigating the causes of global warming implies limiting the rates and magnitudes of increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, either by reducing
emissions or by increasing sinks for atmospheric CO2. Reducing the harmful consequences can be achieved by co-operating together with the global ministries on
climate change and emergencies. The Global Community has created the global ministries to help humanity be prepared to fight the harmful consequences of a
global warming through anticipatory adaptation. The global ministries on climate change and emergencies are now operating. The ministries have developed:
1. policy response to the consequences of the global warming, and
2. strategies to adapt to the consequences of the unavoidable climate change.
The Global Community has given back responsibility to every citizen on Earth. Everyone shares responsibility for the
present and future well-being of life within the Global Community. We will work together in finding sound solutions to local and global problems.
It would be wrong and dishonest to blame it all on the leader of a country. Most problems in the world must find solutions at the local and global
community levels (and not assume that the leader alone is responsible and will handle it). There is a wisdom in the ways of very humble people
that needs to be utilized. Every humble person deserves to have ideas respected, and encouraged to develop his or her own life for the better.
Sound solutions to help manage and sustain Earth will very likely be found this way. Everyone can help assess the needs of the planet and
propose sound solutions for its proper management, present and future. Everyone can think of better ideas to sustain all life on Earth and
realize these ideas by conducting positive and constructive actions. When there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a
sound solution would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible damage as opposed to
a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss; that is the grassroots process. The Global Community can help
people realized their actions by coordinating efforts efficiently together.
There are many instances where the Earth Court of Justice could be successful in bringing Effective Earth governance and management and helping to step down the planetary state of emergency.
The Global Community is promoting the settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice.
Justice for all is what we want.
Justice is a universal value for anyone, anywhere, and in any situations.
Justice is to be applied to the military as well. Everyone! Every business and organization!
The planetary state of emergency was brought up by the threat of global warming, climate change, blood resources and blood money,
disarmament not being a world issue, which have let us with no other alternatives than to assume someone is guilty until proven innnocent.
Like President Bush said: a preventive strike is our only alternative from now on. In view of the planetary state of emergency, the Global Community says: for the protection of all life on Earth,
a preventive principle is our only alternative. You are guilty until you can prove otherwise.
For instance, ship owners and captains all over the world will have to prove what they have done with their waste
oil. It is not up to the Global Community to prove that they have dumped it into the oceans.
It is up to the ship Captain and owner(s) to show us their records and prove they have not dumped their waste oils in the ocean.
Our oceans and all life will be protected.
On the Scale of Global Rights wars are the worst criminal offenses and most destructive of the environment and global life-support systems. They alone are threatening
in large part the future of humanity and all life on the planet.
War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can inflict on another. It brings deaths and injuries, starvation, diseases, millions of people
losing their homes and livelihoods, and massive destruction of property.
Children and teenagers are placed in internment camps, and several are often forced to serve as soldiers. War not only corrupts the morals of soldiers, it leads to a decline
in the morality of the whole nation.
Political and military leaders are always convinced that their particular war is justified. From their point of view, there are several reasons to go
to war: loyalty to allies, religion, a thirst for power, greed, ancient grievances to be settled, or the desire to alleviate suffering among their people.
A nonviolent settlement to a conflict would always be more advantageous. War is self-defeating because it cannot secure what it sets out to achieve, protection against attack. The hatred for the enemy
whipped up by war and the desire for revenge among the losers leads to an accursed vicious circle from which there is no escape. The difference between
agressive and defensive, or just and unjust wars, is ridiculous. They are tags each side adopted to suit its interests. War and militarism destroy civil liberties within a nation.
What happens to a person's conscience when he/she wears the uniform of the soldier? It is enslaved to the state. He must kill when ordered. No government, whether
democratic or despotic, can allow the soldier to decide what to do according to his conscience. That would undermine discipline and the power to fight.
The war industry, the military, alone are threatening in large part the future of humanity and all life on the planet.
The Global Community claims that everyone on Earth should be able to live in peace. The Global Community Peace Mouvement is about courage. Not the courage it takes to go into battle but the courage
to organize resistance to war when a bloody taste for it inflames the world, and the threat of prison in a nation where the human rights and freedom of expression have diminished significantly. It is
about the courage to say NO to the war industry and its protégé, NATO. It is an industry that destroys life on Earth, corrupts society, and violates morality. Military intervention
in the affairs of other nations is wrong. There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of power for itself.
We are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants". That word comes from Jesus, opposing the use of violence: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: but
I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."
The evil are the war industry and its protector, NATO. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus
develops the ethic of nonviolence and love of the enemies. Early Christians were probably the first individuals to renounce participation in war unconditionally.
"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Christ has taught us to show mercy, to forgive enemies, to put up patiently with oppression, to return only good for evil and love for hatred and, therefore, war is inconsistent with the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
This shows that a Christian should take no part in war, never, in any way.
This all means that violence is futile in the long run. To respond to violence with violence is only perpetuating a vicious cycle of violence.
God prohibits killing, and no exception at all ought to be made to the commandment that it is always wrong to kill. The sanctity of human life is unconditional.
A short while ago God, Allah, has spoken to humanity once more. The
New Revelations
are God's Word. God's Revelations are to be added to previous ones
revealed thousands of years ago. Together they are God's Word, and they will guide humanity for the thousands of
years to come. God's Word reinforce God's compassion and love for humanity and God's care for all living inhabitants on Earth
and of Earth itself. God has said:
"Thou shall banish war as a solution to problems between communities. All Souls involved with war, directly or indirectly,
shall face the Soul of Humanity to be purified. All Souls involved in the making of weapons, war product and equipment
shall be facing the Soul of Humanity."
The worst environmental degradation happens in wars. Farm products in fields and livestock are abandoned, there is no more control on toxic wastes, and water, air,
and land are polluted. People are displaced and feel no longer responsible for the quality of life in their communities. Historically, the industrialized nations
have caused the most damage to the environment, with their careless technology and policies. Emissions from factories and vehicles have caused
ozone depletion and acid rain. Leaders of the wealthier nations must be willing to accept responsibility for past mistakes and to help pay the financial burden
for environmental protection of the developing nations. This is the most damaging conflict of interests between the rich industrialized countries
and those that are poor and struggling just for existence. The Global Community must help wealthy and poorer nations reach a better understanding of each
other's needs. All aspects are interrelated: peace, global rights and the environment. The poor is more concerned with ending starvation,
finding a proper shelter and employment, and helping their children to survive. Environmental issues become meaningless to the poor. In reality, all concerns are interrelated.
As soon as the environment is destroyed beyond repair, human suffering is next. Ecology has no boundaries. All nations suffer the effects of
air pollution, global warming, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, acid rain, ozone depletion, silting of streams, and countless of other
environmental problems. This was the reason for developing the
Scale of Global Rights.
The Global Community wants to provide a forum where international conflicts could be argued and resolved peacefully. Because of hatred and mistrust, disputing
parties always find it difficult to express constructive ideas or proposals. A face-to-face meeting may not even be possible. The Global Community offers to be a trusted
third party that would carry ideas back and forth, put forward new proposals until both sides agree. When both parties feel they have gained more than
they have lost from the process, the outcome is a win-win settlement for peace.
Problems with biofuels: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does not exist to achieve positive environmental effects,
enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, and accelerated depletion of natural resources
Environmental experts have been warning that biofuels, far from reducing greenhouse gas emissions, actually have a negative environmental footprint. Biofuels gained from extensive plantations of oil palms,
soybean, rapeseeds and the like have a negative environmental footprint due to massive use of pesticides and fertilisers, which leads to acidification of groundwater. You also have to consider whether for the
production of soybean oil the tropical forest in Brazil or in Indonesia is being eroded. Problems with biofuels are numerous: deforestation, increase in greenhouse gas emissions, requirements for land that does
not exist to achieve positive environmental effects, enhanced food insecurity, creation of more poverty, increased soil degradation, decreased biodiversity, (and) accelerated depletion of natural resources. A
trade-off between fuel and food is taking place, and that the economically more attractive production of biofuels for the industrialised countries has crowded out food production for the poorest regions of the
world. Increasing prices of food, and their scarcity, have recently sparked riots. A two-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures could flip the Amazon forest from being the Earth's vital air conditioner to a flamethrower that cooks the planet, warns a new report released at the climate
talks in Bali, Indonesia Friday. The trees of the Amazon contain at least 100 billion tonnes of carbon -- 15 years worth of global emissions from all sources, he said. "It's not only essential for cooling the world's
temperature but also such a large source of freshwater that it may be enough to influence some of the great ocean currents." It is in everyone's interest to keep the Amazon intact, but deforestation continues
apace, driven by expanding cattle ranching, soy farming, conversion into sugar cane for biofuel and logging. This assault is drying out the forest, making it more vulnerable to burning. Rising global
temperatures are also increasing evaporation rates, drying the forest further. Logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest could trigger “carbon bomb” impacting global climate10 April 2008Print Send to a friend Turning up the heat Enlarge ImageLogging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is exacerbating
global warming by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage, says a new Greenpeace report released today. It also makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and
insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases. If this vicious circle is left unchecked, it could culminate in a massive and sudden release of greenhouse gases referred to as "the carbon bomb,"
the report warns. Canada's Boreal Forest stores 186 billion tonnes of carbon—equivalent to 27 times the world's annual fossil fuel emissions. A widespread outbreak of forest or peat fires could release much of
this carbon, causing a disastrous spike in emissions. In Indonesia, you're tucking into a KitKat or dipping into a tube of Pringles, you might be interested to know that these products contain palm oil that is linked to the destruction of forests
and peatlands in Indonesia. As our new report "How the palm oil industry is cooking the climate" shows, it's a recipe for disaster. The manufacturers of these products - Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever -
are sourcing their palm oil from suppliers who aren't picky about where they site their plantations. As the volunteers at the Forest Defenders Camp in Sumatra have seen, this includes tearing up areas of
pristine forest then draining and burning the peatlands. Indonesia's peatlands act as huge carbon stores so replacing them with plantations them not only threatens the amazing biodiversity, including the rare
Sumatran tiger, it also releases huge volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They only cover 0.1 per cent of the land on Earth, but thanks in part to the activities of the palm oil industry they
contribute 4 per cent to global emissions. If expansion of the palm oil industry continues unabated, that figure can only rise. What's to be done? The Indonesian government should urgently introduce a
moratorium on forest and peatland destruction, which will provide a chance to develop long-term solutions and prevent further emissions from deforestation. And our eyes are fixed firmly on the UN climate
meeting in Bali next month, where the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol will be discussed. With deforestation accounting for up to a fifth of global emissions, including financing for forest protection as a core
part of the plan to tackle climate change is essential.
A new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Iraq, wars are a threat to global security,
invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against humanity and will be prosecuted.
War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can inflict on another and to all life on Earth.
Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah, Iraq. Fallujah faces this new crisis after much of the city was destroyed by U.S. military
operations in 2004. The area around Fallujah city, which lies 70 km west of Baghdad, has traditionally been one of the most agriculturally productive in Iraq. Farmers planted tomatoes and cucumbers north of
Fallujah, others grew potatoes south of the city near Amiriya. Both areas had plenty of date palm trees and small fruit plantations. Now production is down to a fraction of what it was. Farmers have been
struggling with changing times. Residents say they are told of a world food crisis that may be affecting them. But their crisis arises mainly from local factors like shortage of water, fuel and electricity.
Whatever the reason, residents simply want relief. "We just want our lives back," said a college student who gave her name only as Nada. "We want to eat, buy clothes, get proper education and breathe pure
air. No thanks to Americans for their effort to bring us democracy that killed half of us by their bombs and is now apparently killing the other half by starvation. Can you pass this message to the American
people for us?" According to the UN, at least four million people in Iraq do not have enough food, while approximately 40 percent of the 27.5 million population do not have access to clean drinking water. At
least 30 percent do not have access to proper health services.
The invasion of Iraq by the White House is now being seen as the biggest mistake ever done by a nation on
an other nation. It is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth, and a crime yet to be prosecuted. Would
you agree that those guilty of this crime be held responsible and made accountable?
NATO and the White House claimed that they do what they are doing to give security to its population and to
the world. In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the
military capabilities and forming alliances with other nations were the only way to 'win'. That is how NATO
came into existence. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the
planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in
Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small
nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the
military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the
highest priority on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other
rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without
Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the
biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of
Global Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is hardly possible in cold place.
So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry, the worst
of all polluters, from humanity right now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons
right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world,
and not just in some Middle East country. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the
Global Community. Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people,
institutions and values from an outside threat. The Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition
of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Global security can only be achieved if it can
be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained in the Global
Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. Would you agree that the
military option and the war industry should be shelved foerever from humanity and never to be used again to
solve a global problem? American have brought disgrace to humanity by their selfish, immoral, unethical, incoherent, inconsistent,
dishonnest, erratic, and mostly aimed at making money behavior in the Middle East and towards Afghanistan.
You would think we would be 'civilized' by now. Military intervention in the affairs of other nations is wrong.
There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of
power for itself. The invasion of nations such as those of the Middle East and Afghanistan are crimes against
humanity and will be prosecuted. War is the greatest violation of global rights that one people can
inflict on another. Would you agree?
Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship.
Over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to become legally and morally responsible and
accountable for their products from beginning to end. At the end the product becomes a waste and it needs to be properly dispose of. Now
trade must be given a new impetus to be in line with the global concepts of the Global Community. You manufacture, produce, mine, farm or
create a product, you become legally and morally responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it
actually becomes a waste; you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste). This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas, weapons, war products, to genetically engineered food products. All consumer products. All medicinal products! All pharmaceutical products!
Issue #599 A rapid and efficient response from the world to help those in needs
Global Community Global Movement to Help offers Essential Services to serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth
As a first step to getting help, all nations can and should approve those first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights.
The approval would supersede the political and physical borders of participating member nations.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help, bypassing normal government protocols.
Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the global level. That is what those first three sections mean. They represent an efficient and immediate emergency response to help.
First, participating member nations need to give their approval to the GPA.
The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health,
or the European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics.
The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help.
The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to
the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in the Global Constitution and is thus the fundamental guide to Global Law.
Now the Scale of Global Rights is a long term solution and is also a part of the Global Movement to Help of the Global Community.
The Scale was designed to help all life on Earth. What would be preferable is that nations unite amongst themselves to help.
Over time, we have seen the creation of the United Nations, the European
Union, the South American Community of Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Except for the UN, these organizations are mainly concerned with trade and economics.
The Global Community offers a more meaningful union in the form of nine or more Global Governments. For instance the South American Community of Nations can be
a Global Government by simply accepting the Global Constitution as a way of dealing between member nations. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade,
but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other essential aspects.
The Federation of Global Governments is the place of meeting between Global Governments.
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. The Global
Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale.
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 Global Community
has already declared a planetary state of emergency to that effect.
Today, earquakes, cyclones and other natural disasters, as well as human made global destruction and disasters, require a rapid and efficient response from the world to help those in needs. We need to be organized and ready to help.
We need all nations to be a part of this Global Movement to Help.
In the chaos after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake in China, which made 5 million homeless, many survivors were separated from their families.
Burma was hit by a cyclone at the beginning of the month of May, leaving over two million persons in need of emergency relief.
Thousands of children and parents have been separated. Nowadays, natural and human made disasters have become more frequent and require a rapid response to help.
The Global Community offers both a short term solution and a long term solution to the people of all nations.
Both solutions have been integrated into the Scale of Global Rights 
,
itself a necessary first step which must be approved by all of us.
A democratically planned global economy, reflecting the fundamental unity and aspirations of all humanity, the Global Community
A democratically planned global economy - reflecting the fundamental unity and aspirations of all humanity - owes its feasibility
and certainty of success to scientific research establishing the biological basis for human cooperation. A democratically planned global economy offers the Global Community a rational, effective
response to impending trade wars and other instances of human despair arising from the contradiction between "free trade" practices
and national "job protectionism." The "outsourcing of jobs," a further contradiction in the present system, does not serve to address full
employment in the recipient country, much less in the country outsourced. Launching a democratically planned global economy at the
earliest practicable time will bypass the thirty-year time frame projected for equalizing labor costs between underdeveloped national
economies and those of the more developed national economies - while reversing the deterioration of social and environmental
conditions traceable to an economic system increasingly antithetical to global unity and human aspirations. Human cooperation
marshalling with meaning and purpose previously untapped energy and resources on a worldwide scale provides the driving force for
achieving and sustaining a planned global economy democratically embarked upon by all nations.
Recognized as priority goals in this effort are:
(a) a healthful, sustainable environment for every planetary citizen,
(b) universal health
care, publicly supported,
(c) education for all based upon individual capability,
(d) creative/productive employment for every planetary citizen, and
(e) post-retirement security.
In the same vein objective evaluation by the Global Community of all cultural phenomena -
leading inexorably to major overhaul of many cultural institutions - is critical to ending for all time the scourge of global terrorism. Cultural
evolution based upon intrinsic human cooperation promises to give rise to a new epoch for humanity defined by societal sustainability and lasting world peace.
Human potential rests on resolution of deep human needs to know from whence we came,
safety and security, meaning and purpose - consonant with life-centered cosmologies recognizing the cognitive and formative basis of all
compassionate global societies: mate selection, the nurturing of offspring, and early childhood education in a healthful, sustainable
environment.
Democracy and the meaning of effective Earth governance and management with essential services
Democracy and peace amongst nations means follow the pathway to Peace in the world.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means having a global vision for humanity and knowing what is needed to give a healthy future to the
next generations.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means Justice for all.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means sharing global values, understanding our global commons.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means sharing natural resources.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means applying the new way of doing business and trade.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means applying the fundamental principle: you have a property, use it, share it, or lose it. This principle
applies to eveyone from a private individual to worldwide financial institutions.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means effective Earth governance and management.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means participating in the Global Dialogue to resolve problems.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means the absence of wars, disarmament from all nations.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means getting involved, participating, volunteering.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means respecting global rights.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means politics without borders.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means universal health care, education and employment for all.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means a robust global economy.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means the building of global communities for all life and the making of a global symbiosis society.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means a global, legitimate, transparent, comprehemsive, visionary, inspiring, creative, compassionate
leadership to harmonize diversity with unity for the good of all. The Global Community organization offers such leadership.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means integrating into our ways of life global standards and practices, and global law for the protection of
the global life-support systems.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means having the Global Protection Agency (GPA) to give every community security and safety.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means no global destruction of the environment and life habitats.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means educating the population on the need to obtain a negative average annual population growth rate.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means land and all other natural resources on the planet belong to the Global Community along with the
local communities where these resources are found.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means acknowledging, respecting and protecting within a constitutional framework the diverse cultural,
religious, racial, and minority groups that make up a population.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means that the education and upbringing of chidren include the principles and global concepts listed in
the different sections included here.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means creating new global ministries serving the Global Community.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means no taxes on labor but taxes on the uses of natural resources.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means creating symbiotical relationships between communities and nations. As with global ministries,
these relationships must follow the fundamental criteria.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means giving the people of a population the rights to vote democratically for a government of their
choice, to participate in the global referendum on issues, to make sustainable choices for their communities.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means by celebrating Life Day on May 26 of each year.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means by participating in the Global Exhibition each year.
Democracy and peace amongst nations means decreasing the wealth gap between rich and poor, between the industrialized nations and the
developing nations.
Democracy as a way of life requires the presence of essential services
Global Movement to Help offers Essential Services to serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth.
Global Movement to Help essential services to serve the people of all nations, all life on Earth:
Protection of the :
global life-support systems
Earth ecosystems
environment
Security for all life, and safety at work
Peace and disarmament
Have shelter and basic clothing
Global voting
Sustainable agriculture and food supplies
Water resources protection and drinking fresh water
Ombudspersons Office
Global Information Media ( GIM )
Volunteering
Breathing clean air
Global Community Assessment Centre ( GCAC)
Preventive actions against polluters
Eating a balance diet
Sustainable use of human and natural resources
' Clean ' energy
Eradicating poverty and hunger
Universal health care and education for everyone
Global Rights
Employment for all
All of the above essentials for this generation and the next ones
Direct democracy and global voting
Direct democracy is a community right on the Scale of Global Rights. Direct democracy is the right of global citizens to hold referendums on any issue -- and
With a world population still dramatically increasing, a new set of ways of doing things will be
more appropriate in dealing with one another. The Global Constitution shows this new way of doing things.
Shortly after 1985, the Global Community Assessment Centre (GCAC) has researched and developed a process for global voting. Since then GCAC has conducted several global
voting on issues. There are 161 nations that have so far been surveyed. Some results are shown here. More surveys will be completed in the coming months and published here.
Global voting has been and will continue to be a strong mean of obtaining the global opinion on issues. This method is different than data obtained from government agencies
of the 161 nations. Data from those agencies are important but global voting is also very important. Global voting probes directly into a population. It is actually direct
democracy.
Direct democracy implies that:
* Global Citizens are willing and able to participate fully in the
decision making process on issues that most affect them.
* Global Citizens should have full access to information on
global affairs, and the conduct of global business should be
open and transparent, with a well-developed global-wide
communication system.
* Global Parliament should always recognize that it is accountable to
Global Citizens.
* Direct democracy will encourage global citizen input into global
policy, and enable Global Citizens to participate more actively in
global affairs.
* Direct democracy will raise the level of public awareness
and encourage debate of key global issues.
* Global Parliament can exercise the leadership necessary to become a
model of effective “direct democracy” for all global communities.
* A direct democracy global law gives Global Citizens and Global Parliament an
effective and orderly way of addressing contentious issues.
* A direct democracy global law strengthens the hand of Global Parliament by
providing additional credibility in dealing with senior
governments and non-elected bodies.
* A direct democracy bylaw shows that Global Parliament has faith in its
Global Citizens. Thus, Global Parliament in turn earns increased respect from
Global Citizens.
* Direct democracy does not mean
government by referendum. Almost all Global Parliament decisions would
continue to be made as they are now with
the usual consultative processes. Few issues would be
important and contentious enough to prompt referenda.
The Global Community is proposing that:
a) different nations may require different political systems at different times
b) a democratic system is not a "must have it" to be a responsible member nation of Earth Government
c) all democracies are to be upgraded, or improved upon, to be a responsible member nation of Earth Government. The Scale of
Global Rights and the Global Constitution
are the newly added requirements to all democratic systems of the world.
Global rights and democracy
Global Rights year one is new impetus of the Global Community to educate everyone about the need for a change in thinking and of doing things amongst all nations. We need to realize what is a priority, what
is the most important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can longer
do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity and all life can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the global environment. And there are other activities we must do, certainly
thousands of them, to assure the survival of life on Earth. In view of the planetary state of emergency we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance. And this is
what Global Rights year one is about: to establish global fundamentals and a clear vision to follow. Perhaps the Scale of Global Rights represents the strongest pillar of our vision.
21st century democracy starts with essential services
As a first step to getting help, all nations can and should approve those first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights. The approval would supersede the political and physical borders of participating member
nations. The Global Protection Agency (GPA) would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help, bypassing normal government protocols. Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the
global level. That is what those first three sections mean. They represent an efficient and immediate emergency response to help. First, participating member nations need to give their approval to the GPA.
The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health, or the European Union, North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFT), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics. The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help. The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and
efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in
the Global Constitution and is thus the fundamental guide to Global Law. Now the Scale of Global Rights is a long term solution and is also a part of the Global Movement to Help of the Global Community. The
Scale was designed to help all life on Earth. What would be preferable is that nations unite amongst themselves to help. Over time, we have seen the creation of the United Nations, the European Union, the
South American Community of Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Except for the UN, these organizations are mainly concerned with trade and economics. The Global Community offers a
more meaningful union in the form of nine or more Global Governments. For instance the South American Community of Nations can be a Global Government by simply accepting the Global Constitution as a
way of dealing between member nations. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade, but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other
essential aspects. The Federation of Global Governments is the place of meeting between Global Governments. The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us,
would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be
more accountable to the people of that region. The Global Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale.
Democracy, overconsumption and the natural order of things
A growing body of progressives within the global justice movement, including environmentalists, economists and policy makers, broadly
agree that a significant overhaul of the world’s economic and political systems is long overdue, and that without significant restructuring
our most pressing problems will never be tackled. It is time for a significant re-evaluation of global economic and political values and the
creation of an economy that serves the needs of the global community as a whole, within our environmental limitations. In order to
consider how the ownership and management of key resources could be organized, it is useful to group them according to type. There
are three general categories:
-Naturally occurring resources – e.g. land, water, oil, gas and mineral ores
-Produced goods – e.g. agricultural produce, medicines, building materials and machinery
-Services – e.g. utilities, healthcare and education
All beings have impact, and thus all of them leave an ecological footprint. Some of those impacts are in harmony with the biosphere and
thus are in accord with the organizing principles of life; whereas others are discordant. Harvesting nuts in a sustainable manner, leaving
enough for other animals to use and for the reproduction of the species in perpetuity is an example of harmony; whereas clear cutting
and mountain top removal are examples of excess and discord. Some actions compliment life; others diminish it. Over consumption and
waste and the endless economic expansion they cause are the governing principle of capitalism and over population; and, like it or not,
they fundamentally conflict with the natural order of things. This ideology is counter to the organizing principle of life and it has the
effect of diminishing biodiversity and the ecological processes upon which all life depends. Capitalism and reductionism hold that every
component of the biosphere are resources when, in fact, they are sources of life. At some point in human history, man began taking
things apart in an attempt to gain detailed scientific knowledge and understanding; however, in nature—anything apart from the organic
whole is dead. It is easily understood that if someone removes another’s heart from his or her chest cavity, that person will quickly die.
The heart is a vital organ that pumps blood to every part of the body; it is a part of a connected whole. Sever that connection and the
body collapses and death ensues. Likewise, nature has no unimportant parts. The earth functions like a single living organism of
world-size proportions. Everything under the sun exists for a purpose; every organism plays a vital role in the local, regional, and the
global ecology. Remove or destroy a part and the whole suffers; one has diminished possibilities, foreclosed options, and subverted
natural processes, with consequences to untold numbers of species, including Homo sapiens. Western humans tend to give value to the
parts of nature that can be economically exploited, and under values those that cannot. By continually teasing out the separate parts of
nature and isolating them from the organic whole, we are undoing the very fabric of life: we are playing god. Thus, we are living in the
midst of the sixth great extinction episode in the earth’s 4.5 billion year history, and we are the primary cause. Few Americans are aware
of this fact. It does not behoove capitalism to advertise that it is killing the biosphere; it is not good for business. Who wants to be a
cancer? And fools believe that business, rather than ecology, makes the world go round.
The political system of an individual country does not have to be a democracy
It is best for humanity and the increasing world population to see ourselves as people living together or
far apart but in constant communication with each other. A community has no boundaries.
A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global communities, can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it
can have as many other aspects as agreed by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the good of all groups participating in the
relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global
economy.
The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a
part of the relationship. We all know developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis of the
relationship should give more importance to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of the Scale of Global Rights
and Global Law into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as described in the global ministries (health, agriculture,
energy, trade, resources, etc.).
The Global Community has shown that a global community can be united by religion to form a Global Government. It does not have to be a democracy. A Global Government based on religion is very acceptable
to Earth Government and the Global Community.
We can no longer perceive ourselves as a People who could survive alone and a People who does not need anyone else. We belong and depend to this much larger
group, that of the Global Community. The 21st Century will see limitless links and interrelationships within the Global Community. That is the 'raison d'etre'
of the Federation of Global Governments. The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating
member nations. We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to
the people of that region. The Global Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here.
The power of Global Community was de-centralized to give each Global Government a better chance to find the right solutions to global issues. It can act faster and be more effective and efficient in
the context of the Global Community, this great, wide, wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities within each Nation. The Global Community becomes thus more fluid and dynamic. A global
symbiotical relationship is created between Nations and Global Community for the good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth. The relationship allows a global
equitable and peaceful development. This is the basic concept that is allowing us to group willing Member Nations from different parts of the world.
The Global Community allows people to take control of their own lives. The Global Community was built from a grassroots process with a
vision for humanity that is challenging every person on Earth as well as nation governments. The Global Community has a vision of the
people working together building a global civilization including a healthy and rewarding future for the next generations. Global cooperation
brings people together for a common future for the good of all.
Earth governance does not imply a lost of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. A nation government exists within the framework of an
effective Global Community protecting common global values and humanity heritage. Earth governance gives a new meaning to the notions
of territoriality, and non-intervention in a state way of life, and it is about protecting the cultural heritage of a state. Diversity of cultural and
ethnic groups is an important aspect of Earth governance. Earth governance is a balance between the rights of states with rights of people, and the interests of nations with the interests of the Global
Community, the human family, the global civil society.
Earth governance is about the rights of states to self-determination in the global context of the Global Community rather than the traditional
context of a world of separate states.
The political system of an individual country does not have to be a democracy. Political rights of a country belong to that country alone. Democracy is not to be enforced by anyone and to anyone or to any
global community. Every community can and should choose the political system of their choice with the understanding of the importance of such a right on the Scale of Global Rights . On the
other hand, representatives to the Global Community must be elected democratically in every part of the world. An individual country may have any political system at home but the government of that
country will have to ensure (and allow verification by the Global Community) that representatives to the Global Community have been elected democratically. This way, every person in the world can claim
the birth right of electing a democratic government to manage Earth: the rights to vote and elect representatives to form the Global Community.
Energy, the end of the military and wars, democracy and the new world order
As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change. The use of military force to protect the flow of imported petroleum
has generally enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Washington. One might imagine that the current debacle in Iraq would shake this consensus, but there is no evidence that
this is so. In fact, the opposite appears to be the case: possibly fearful that the chaos in Iraq will spread to other countries in the Gulf
region, senior figures in both parties are calling for a reinvigorated US military role in the protection of foreign energy deliveries. There is
mounting perils to the safe flow of foreign oil. Concluding that the United States alone has the capacity to protect the global oil trade
against the threat of violent obstruction, it argues the need for a strong US military presence in key producing areas and in the sea lanes
that carry foreign oil to American shores. An awareness of this new "Washington consensus" on the need to protect overseas oil
supplies with American troops helps explain many recent developments in Washington. Most significant, it illuminates the strategic
stance adopted by President Bush in justifying his determination to retain a potent US force in Iraq -- and why the Democrats have found
it so difficult to contest that stance. We should expect an increase in the use of military force to protect the overseas flow of oil, as the
threat level rises along with the need for new investment to avert even further reductions in global supplies.
In a time when the old order is shattering, a global movement is emerging to challenge the use of war as a tool of statecraft. Cheap oil
provided an energy subsidy that defined the wars, economies, settlements, values, and lifestyles of the 20th century. The result was a
century of wasteful extravagance and inefficiency that encouraged us to squander virtually all Earth's resources -- including water, land,
forests, fisheries, soils, minerals, and natural waste recycling capacity. We are now waking up to the morning-after consequences of a
brief but raucous party. These include depleted natural systems, unsustainable economies, an obsolete physical infrastructure, and a
six-fold increase in the human population dependent on the diminished resources of a finite planet. Cheap oil also fueled a zero sum
global competition for access to resources -- particularly cheap oil -- and for the military superiority required to secure that access. The
United States combined the global projection of military power with the global projection of economic and cultural power to achieve
unchallenged global dominance as the sole reigning superpower. Cheap oil is no more and the global projection of military and economic
power it made possible is no longer viable. According to the scientific consensus, to avoid driving Earth's system of climate regulation
into irrevocable collapse we humans must achieve at least an 100 percent reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions now.
Less noted is the corresponding imperative that to avoid irrevocable social collapse, we must simultaneously
achieve an equitable allocation of allowable emissions to meet the essential needs of every person on the planet. This presents a
particular challenge for the United States. As the world's leading producer of green house gases, the US emissions reduction must be achieved sooner.
There is no place in this equation for war or the global projection of military power. Beyond the fact that military planes,
ships, and vehicles are gluttonous consumers of oil, the central activity of warfare is to kill and maim people and destroy critical
infrastructure to impair capacity for normal life. The collateral damage includes massive scale toxic and radioactive environmental
contamination that renders growing portions of our crowded planet uninhabitable. The more we humans war the more certain our ultimate
collective demise. The second is an emergent social movement calling all the global's parliaments to adopt the principle that
people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the
threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish this goal land, sea,
and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
The day of reckoning for our reckless human ways that many of us have for decades warned would be coming is here. We cannot grow
our way out of poverty. The only way to end poverty and heal our social divisions on an already over stressed planet is through a
redistribution of resources from rich to poor and from nonessential to essential uses. Natural wealth was created by our Earth mother and
is therefore a common heritage of all her children, including all non-human species. None of us has a right to abuse that wealth or to
monopolize it to the exclusion of our sisters and brothers. This brings us to the third element of the big picture: the governing
institutions to which we give the power to set our priorities and our collective course. We might wonder how such injustice could
happen in a world governed by democratically elected governments. The answer is simple and alarming. 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 fortunes -- 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 are already have more stuff that we
need -- to buy more stuff. 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 American ideal of being a democratic middle-class
