7/15/10
A Leading Expert on 9/11 Challenges Leading Leftists and Progressives Who Refuse to Call for a New 9/11 Investigation
Why is the 9/11 attack important for the Earth Federation? When a nation and some of its leading intellectuals refuse to look at contradictory and omitted testimony regarding an event which was possibly a "false flag operation" (dirty tricks -- doing a crime and blaming it on someone else), then citizens are denied the true facts. In democracies, facts are vital in order for the citizenry to make good decisions.
Moreover, if 9/11 was a covert operation conducted from within, then a false enemy has been invented which has led to tragic wars -- perhaps against innocent parties and nations.
If the Earth Federation were fully functional, then a brilliant investigator like David Ray Griffin and other 9/11 Truth Movement researchers could appeal to the World Ombudsmus. The Earth Constitution created the World Ombudsmus Office with the idea that citizens would have another legal avenue to seek facts and justice when a government is corrupt, or the media fails to give honest information to the public. (The United Nations lacks such an important legal office to investigate and prosecute crimes which adversely affect other nations.)
In Griffin's recent article ("Left-Leaning Despisers of the 9/11 Truth Movement: Do You Really Believe in Miracles?") in Global Research (July 6, 2010) found at www.globalresearch.ca he presents a strong case which refutes the key Leftist and Progressive intellectuals who have stubbornly refused to look at the contradictions and falsehoods in the 9/11 Commission Report.
From the global perspective, this type of denial or cover-up prevents an objective investigation and allows a nation such as the USA to create a perpetual "enemy" subsequently invading two countries all based upon the 9/11 tragedy. The fact of false flag operations are now well-documented, not just by the USA, but by Israel, and Russia, England, and other countries. If asked to investigate, these countries essentially "investigate themselves" and, of course, find no culpability.
In 9/11, scientists have discovered the real reason the twin towers fell so quickly. It is clear that explosives (nanothermite) were used in a controlled demolition. The jet airliners did not drop these buildings according to an extensive series of research investigations by citizen experts (professional scientists, engineers, and architects).
Moreover, there is physical evidence available which proves that nanothermite was used -- an explosive not available to the average person, but found for military use and for covert operations.
(Editor's note: If the 9/11 Truth Movement is correct, that 9/11 may indeed have been an "inside job", then there is a whole new radical political dynamic which comes into play on the world stage. Muslims may be taking the blame for something they did not do.
What the facts and logic seem to point at rather clearly is that it is fair to expect a new, independent investigation of 9/11 with full revelations of all the facts, not just some, identification of contradictory evidence, omissions, and requiring all witnesses to testify under oath, including ex-President Bush, Jr., Dick Cheney, the Pentagon Generals in charge at the time, and the owners of the twin towers as well as the security company which managed the twin towers. The investigation must also include Building 7. All videos must be released to this new investigation, e.g., the various videos which will show what really hit the Pentagon.)
-RK
7/10/10
A surprising article found in the AARP Bulletin (July-August, 2010) by Joel Bourne, Jr. reports on an ongoing collaboration between medical professionals from the Islamic Republic of Iran and American health professionals attempting to improve primary health care in the poverty stricken rural American Mississippi Delta.
Iran, notes the article, has won recognition from the World Health Organization for its innovative primary health care system which has "eliminated disparities between rural and urban populations" and has reduced "infant mortality in rural areas by tenfold."
American health care consultants visited Iran's rural "health houses" and believe that such a model could benefit rural Mississippi residents. Iran trains "behvarzes" who are villagers trained to provide basic health services and who staff health houses located in villages in rural areas. The behvarzes have a variety of duties such as assisting families to insure timely vaccinations and accurate medical histories. They also consult with sanitation, water testing, and other environmental concerns notes Mr. Bourne.
(Editor's Note -- This small example of constructive, positive engagement between Iran and America serves as an antidote to the war drums we continue to hear from Israeli Zionists eager to attack Iran. Israel demands that Iran abandon attempts to secure nuclear weapons yet is unwilling to give up its own nukes, or to allow UN inspectors free access to examine Israel's own weapons of mass mutilation.)
7/1/2010 (Dr. Martin's first hand report from the ICC Review Conference gives the reader a good feel for the frustrations and obstructions that the present global system presents to reformers. Paradoxically, the failures of the Conference may ultimately advance the standing of the Earth Federation/Earth Constitution as the viable alternative to our stagnant and disastrous existing global political structure. -- Editor)
RESPONSE TO THE GENERAL REVIEW CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
GLEN T. MARTIN
The official results of the General Review Conference for the ICC itself were miniscule and disappointing, only reinforcing our message that under the system of sovereign nation-states nothing effective can really be done. For eleven days, delegates of nation-states made proposals and counter-proposals, jockeying for position, for postponements, for more time, for definitions on what constitutes "complementarity" or "aggression."
Meanwhile, the civil society sector of the ICC Conference was awash with victims of crimes committed in Uganda, DRC, Kenya, and elsewhere in Africa ? waiting for justice, asking for justice, disappointed at the inability of the ICC to even begin dispensing justice.
Even the Chairperson of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Bill Pace, was agreeing to the general feeling at the Coalition meeting that took place on the last day (June 11) which was that the results of the conference from the Assembly of States Parties was disappointing. Three of the main issues considered by the ICC Review were those of "Cooperation," "Complementarity," and developing a definition for the "Crime of Aggression" that is mentioned but not defined in the Rome Statute.
There were not simply official state delegates from the 111 or so nations signatory to the Statute present, but also official reps from a number of other countries that have affiliated themselves in a way that gives them a voice in the proceedings if not a vote on the official documents considered. The US Delegation (very large and, true to form, obstructive of progress) and some others both in and out of the ASP raised all kinds of impediments and caveats regarding the crime of aggression (for obvious reasons) that resulted in nothing significant coming from ASP on this or the other issues (which I am sure Eugenia will go into on the final report). A definition of "aggression" was reached with the agreement that it will not enter into force until 2017 (unless a subsequent official meeting postpones this date).
Israel?s brutal attack on a humanitarian mission on its way to GAZA occurred while the Review Conference was in session. We heard from human rights groups connected with Palestine, Afghanistan, Burma, Columbia, Sudan, Unganda, DRC, and elsewhere, all hoping that a paralyzed and impotent ICC can move us toward some modicum of justice in the world.
Also occurring while the Review Conference was in session was the planetary-scale environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Yet, for the official representatives of the nation-states, and most of the NGOs present, fundamental changes in the structure of our fragmented world disorder were off the table: not even conceivable to most, so colonized are their minds and lives by the present world anti-system. They see no alternative to the unworkable system of sovereign nations, to the massive destruction of the planetary environment by the multi-national corporations, to global militarism and human rights violations, to "development" of poor nations by ever-more intrusions of monopoly capitalism, etc.
Perhaps the only voice for a coherent, unified, and diverse world order of unity-in-diversity came from the delegation from the Institute on World Problems (www.worldproblems.net). There were many good people at the conference and many NGOs from Uganda and other African countries representing the victims of the horrific cruelty and violence that has been happening in many African countries. But few understood that the root of the problem cannot be addressed through tinkering with the present system, e.g. slowly and painfully trying to empower an independent ICC. The root of the problem is in the deeply flawed world system itself: its economic system predicated on elite control, exploitation, and domination of the vast majority and its sovereign nation-state political system causing war, violence, and social chaos everywhere on the planet.
As Eugenia Almand and I spoke with people, and discussed the problems with people from African NGOs who were present, a number of them began to see the problem clearly, and the result was the founding of a new WCPA chapter in Uganda and the establishing of a number of important contacts for our work in Africa.
The results of the participation of IOWP Representatives Eugenia Almand and Glen T. Martin for our work on behalf of the Earth Federation, I believe, were substantial in this and a number of other ways.
As mentioned above there were also many delegates there from NGOs around the world that are part of the CICC (as are IOWP and WCPA). Dr. Almand and I had a great deal of our literature with us as well as many copies of the newly published "A Constitution for the Federation of Earth ? With Historical Introduction, Commentary and Conclusion." Eugenia also had copies of our Provisional World Parliament work on the ICC Rome Statute and the Constitution itself in several different languages. Our literature also included announcements of the next session of the Provisional World Parliament this coming December in Kolkata, thus perhaps getting a few delegates but perhaps more important, making many people aware that this alternative is going on and has been going on since 1982.
Besides talking personally with many people and giving them copies of our literature as appropriate, we put our general literature out each day on the 5 or 6 literature tables that were in front of the various rooms reserved for the Review Conference meetings. Our literature was picked up and distributed among many people, including many States Parties reps.
A couple of days into the conference we also wrote an official statement from IOWP to the delegations at the Review Conference (a modification and elaboration of the "World Court Order" pamphlet). We printed this out (two pages back to back) and had 250 copies of it made and had it officially distributed to each delegate to the conference, which means that all official delegations from the nation-states also received it. I have attached a copy above.
We handed copies of the Earth Constitution book personally to many people, including many official nation-state delegates. This means awareness of a genuine option and the need for a real paradigm shift got to many people from around the world who were assembled there.
Eugenia and I also got scheduled to give a 2 hour Powerpoint presentation on our work. This was not very well attended (there were of course always many things going on) but our presentation was officially announced in the agenda of meetings and we distributed many flyers announcing it. Some people later told us they intended to come to our presentation but couldn't for this or that reason.
Finally, a new chapter of WCPA was founded in UGANDA. There were a number of refugees there from DRC political violence and they were part of a human rights organization from DRC. They became very interested in our work (it is very helpful that Eugenia speaks French), and on the last day, in the afternoon after lunch, they held their first official meeting of WCPA Uganda with EA and myself present. They had a chair a translator person when necessary, a secretary to take notes, etc. There were about 8 men and 3 women from DRC present at the meeting.
Finally, Eugenia and I learned a great deal about the political and human rights situation in Africa, in East Africa, in Uganda, and to some extent in the world. This knowledge and deepening understanding can only further empower our work. The upcoming session of the Provisional World Parliament in Kolkata, India, December 27-31, 2010 will reexamine our work in relation to the ICC and make recommendation to the Parliament for further developing this work.
All in all, from our WCPA/IOWP point of view, our participation was very successful. Perhaps even the widely perceived failure of the Assembly of States Parties to make any progress, is ultimately to our benefit, for our argument, as we have made very clear for many years, is precisely that the real problems of the world cannot be addressed under a system of so-called sovereign nation-states. Only a genuine world federal system can effectively address the many deadly problems faced by the world, from human rights to the environment to militarism to massive poverty and misery.
Just as we did at the General Review Conference for the ICC, the Constitution for the Federation of Earth must become known worldwide as offering the only real practical, sane, and effective hope to address these crises and established a decent future for humanity and our planet.
Received June 13, 2010
(Editor's note: The Institute On World Problems studies the Earth Constitution/ Provisional World Parliament/Earth Federation in association with the World Constitution and Parliament Association. IOWP's analysis submitted to the ICC Conference offers advanced concepts "outside the box" so to speak, principles which, if adopted, could help the Assembly of States Parties reach the goal of an ICC which has the capacity for universal justice with no individual from any country being above the law.)
Towards the Effective Rule of Law ? Institute on World Problems Recommendations
to the General Review Conference for the ICC. 4 June 2010
Institute On World Problems
Cooperating with the World Constitution and Parliament Association
President: Dr. Glen T. Martin
313 Seventh Ave., Radford VA 24141, USA gmartin@radford.edu Fax +540-831-5919 Phone +540-639-2320
Executive Director: Eugenia Almand, J.D.
Govt_rules@yahoo.com
www.worldproblems.net
The Institute on World Problems (IOWP) recognizes common goals and multiple links between the work of the Provisional World Parliament (PWP) that has met in eleven sessions to date and the work of the International Criminal Court developing under the Rome Statute of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP). Among these common goals are the strengthening the rule of law in the world, developing a court at the world level that can hold all individuals accountable with regard to certain heinous crimes, and ending the impunity for these crimes associated with a system of nation-states often recognizing no enforceable law above themselves.
At its Seventh Session in Chennai, India in December 2003, the Parliament reviewed the Rome Statute and passed a strengthened version of the statute as World Legislative Act number 20. This act gave great independence and legitimacy to the ICC by providing the Court with a legislative basis for its operation and linking the Court with an emerging system of global institutions that point toward universality of jurisdiction and enforceability of Court decisions and orders.
If the ASP accepts the common goals indentified above, then the IOWP urges the decision-makers at the ASP to reexamine aspects of the principle of complementarity that appear to defeat these goals. The judicial systems of nations, of course, need to become and remain the first level of responsibility for addressing crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, or other serious offences covered by the Rome Statute. However, as the ICC now recognizes, these judicial systems need to develop into legal conformity with the provisions of the Rome Statute and attain to a consistency of procedures and practices that ultimately hold all individuals everywhere equally responsible before the law and subject to consistent, fair, and objective constraints of the due process of law.
This development of the rule of consistent, coherent law in the world requires an ICC that is truly independent and universal in its jurisdiction and not dependent for its operations on a variety of nation-state actors with differing internal political agendas, differing versions of due process, and differing responses to subpoenas, court initiatives, or court orders. Complementarity in its positive form requires coherent judicial and legal response at the national level prior to judicial action at the supranational level by the ICC. However, complementarity becomes seriously flawed and an impediment to strengthening the rule of enforceable law over individuals in the world if it is construed as requiring ICC dependence on national actors for the gathering of evidence, the carrying out of subpoenas, investigation, or the carrying out of court decisions.
The IOWP recommends that decision-makers within the Assembly of States Parties consider two courses of action directed toward strengthening the ICC toward a truly independent status and thereby strengthening the regime of coherent criminal law for the world that moves in the direction of becoming universal over all individuals, consistent, and enforceable. The first course of action would be to link the ICC formally or informally with the work of the Provisional World Parliament, specifically with World Legislative Act #20, and the upcoming review of this act at the Twelfth Session of the PWP scheduled to meet in Kolkata, India, December 27-31, 2010. This linking process would allow the court to access the strengthened wording of the Parliament version of the Rome Statute thereby empowering it further in the direction of universality and independence of the political variables within nation-state actors.
It would also associate the Court with parliamentary legislative practices and procedures at the supranational level that ultimately must be developed to provide the legitimacy and framework for statutes implemented by any court system. As the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights makes clear under Articles 7, 21.3, and 28, the protection of human rights through the rule of law in the world ultimately requires an emerging judicial, legislative, and executive framework applying equally to all citizens of the Earth.
The second course of action that the IOWP recommends to decision-makers within the Assembly of States Parties is more far reaching and calls upon the goal expressed in the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 28: "Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized." It should be clear that any such viable international order would need to develop not only a universal judicial system beginning with the ICC, but to move toward developing world legislative and executive processes required to lend universal legitimacy and enforceability to court functions.
In the light of these facts, the IOWP recommends that the Assembly of States Parties begin developing mechanisms that allow the ASP to evolve in the direction of becoming a legislative house (a "house of nations") within an emerging world parliament. The fact that the ASP has already developed the Rome Statute body of legislation suggests a nascent legislative role for the ASP. This needs to be developed toward a horizon that ultimately no longer sees the ASP as a treaty of sovereign nation-states but as an emerging House of Nations within a world parliament system that would ultimately include a complementary House of Peoples, directly elected.
The IOWP believes that acting on these recommendations could provide the ICC and the ASP with an emerging framework of goals that lift the work of these bodies out of an ad hoc response to a variety of horrendous situations in which atrocities are being carried out with apparent impunity in various parts of the world toward a program that coherently and consistently develops the ideal of the rule of democratically legislated, judicially administered, and impartially enforced laws over individuals everywhere upon the Earth.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the Institute on World Problems, Drs. Eugenia Almand and Glen Martin.
June 2, 2010
NEWS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT REVIEW CONFERENCE
Drs. Eugenia Almand and Glen Martin have arrived at the ICC General Review Conference under the auspices of the Institute On World Problems, an educational and think tank institution which specializes in the Earth Federation/Earth Constitution and related Provisional World Parliament, the latter of which has passed world legislation with the intention of "strengthening the world court system" according to Dr. Almand.
Delegates from more than 100 countries are attending the ICC Review.
One highly significant issue will be a discussion and recommendation to formally broaden the scope of the ICC to include "crimes of aggression". (Editor's note: It will be interesting to see what is the impact of the recent attack by Israel against the humanitarian peace activists on the high seas trying to bring supplies to Gaza. Will this prod the ICC Assembly of States Parties to broaden the scope of its jurisdiction?)
Also of interest will be what response there will be to the distribution of the Earth Constitution to representatives, many of whom may not be aware of this important document or understand its political significance. Will ICC attendee's grasp the potential for an Earth Federation movement under the Earth Constitution which contains what might be considered a model world judiciary system.
Dr. Almand reports that Bills and decisions of the Review Conference are on the subsequent agenda for the 12th Session of the Provisional World Parliament to be held in December, 2010 in Kolkata, India.
May 7, 2010
EARTH FEDERATION TO ADVOCATE FOR A NEW WORLD JUDICIARY SYSTEM AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT'S GENERAL REVIEW CONFERENCE
Uganda will host the Assembly of States Parties General Review Conference (May 31 - June 11, 2010) for the International Criminal Court.
An important position paper titled "the World Court Order," written by Earth Federation experts, will be circulated to General Review attendees. It outlines a new political paradigm and strategy intended to give the ICC more legitimacy, independence, and strengthen its overall role for providing equal justice for all.
The Earth Federation's Earth Constitution offers an
advanced world judiciary model for the ICC to consider in the context of an emerging democratic world federation in which individual human rights are paramount, as is equal justice for all.
The implications of an "expanding" ICC using the Earth Constitution's authority include a means by which individual criminal offenders of world law would find it harder to be "above the law," even if such individuals had committed crimes against humanity or war crimes.
The Federation's proposal will include an invitation for the attending Assembly of States Parties to consider assuming the role of "Upper House" within the Earth Federation World Parliament. (The Earth Federation already has begun sessions of a Provisional World Parliament under the Earth Constitution.) They would become the "House of Nations" in the Federation's tricameral world parliament.
Quotes from the Federation's position paper reveal an unusual yet bold strategy to upgrade and legitimize the International Criminal Court.
"...the (Earth Federation) Provisional World Parliament urges the Assembly of States Parties to carefully consider the merits of the Earth Constitution and of the World Legislation, which mirrors the work of the Assembly of States Parties."
"Unless the Criminal Court has the court order, that is, the mandamus, also called compulsory jurisdiction, the system fails to comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR Article 28), to guarantee a social order in which human rights are universally protected."
"In December of 2003, the Provisional World Parliament held a general stocktaking review of the Rome Statute. The bill was designed to retain all possible features of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, yet was at the same time given a firm constitutional and legislative basis to the World Court System, with great strength and independence to the Court."
(Editor's note: For those citizens of earth who want a world justice system which takes equal rights for all seriously and who seek individual accountability so that no one is "above the law," then the proposed changes recommended to the ICC/Assembly of States Parties by the Earth Federation will be seen as both visionary and practical, and vitally necessary if we are to bring our world back from the brink of chaos and anarchy.)
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4/10/10 BOLD NEW BOOK BY PROFESSOR GLEN MARTIN LAUDS EARTH CONSTITUTION AS THE ONLY PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO THE WORLD'S CRITICAL PROBLEMS
Dr. Glen T. Martin has been described by this editor as the
"most important unknown man in America." His current book reinforces this assessment of Dr. Martin's importance to the peace, human rights, and environmental movements. Martin gives the reader a practical and clear understanding for what he considers to be the most important document of the 21st Century, the Earth Constitution.
The new release is titled "Constitution for the Federation of Earth With Historical Introduction, Commentary and Conclusion."
His explanatory writing about the Earth Constitution reminds one of the Federalist papers when the American constitution was presented to the people. In this case, Martin's efforts can best be described as a World Federalist paper, defending in convincing fashion the need to replace the current global system and United Nations Charter with the Earth Federation under the Earth Constitution -- a fundamental change which eliminates the global war system of sovereign nation-states and transforms them into a unified global peace system with a democratic world parliament and enforceable world law.
He explains how the Earth Constitution came about, and why it is politically legitimate. Democracy needs this new structure to be authentic. The need and logic for establishing a democratic world federation has been well established by advanced thinkers for many years but ignored by politicians and the public despite its obvious potential effectiveness to be able to end wars, eliminate poverty, and quicken the pace to save the environment.
The Earth Federation Movement is gaining adherents as more people learn of its existence and importance. There have been a series of Provisional World Parliaments. Heads of state and the public are being encouraged to study the Earth Constitution with a view to joining the emerging Earth Federation.
-- RK
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3/22/10
PASSAGE OF HEALTH CARE BILL IN AMERICA WILL HELP BRING USA'S CIVIL RIGHTS CLOSER TO THE STANDARD AS SET FORTH BY THE EARTH CONSTITUTION
Although American's pride themselves in being free, they often do not realize that their freedoms are rather narrow when compared to world standards. For example, Americans' are often seen "speaking their mind" and with pride speak of freedom of speech. What is not known by the public is the high degree of behind-the-scenes censorship which occurs especially as to what subject matter is allowed in mainstream media outlets.
Hence, the near total silence in mainstream media since the discovery by scientists that the 9/11 buildings were not dropped by the aircraft striking them, but imploded using identified explosives. Despite the scientific evidence, mainstream media is silent, and continues to try to discredit the 9/11 truth investigators. The fact that people in the USA have not had a basic "right" to health care (unless you have enough money) is another example of lack of freedom.
President Obama and the Democrats have started to partially correct this violation of a basic civil right as is clearly stated in the EARTH CONSTITUTON in Article 13, # 5 which requires: "Free and adequate public health services and medical care available to everyone throughout life under conditions of free choice."
The new health legislation falls short in that it is not free for everyone although it does insure that poor people will be able to get medical services. Moreover, the legislation fails to include nonregistered immigrants who are banned from even buying health coverage in the new insurance exchanges to be set-up. The EARTH CONSTITUTION recognizes all people as "citizens of earth" with certain inalienable rights and hence the American government's new health care legislation remains too narrow to meet a world standard of civil rights.
Nevertheless, it appears to be a sincere start toward arriving at a world class standard of care in this important area of basic human rights.
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3/10/2010
A GROWING MOVEMENT BY MAINSTREAM AMERICAN CHRISTIANS CHALLENGES "ZIONIST CHRISTIANS" WHO HAVE DEFENDED ISRAEL'S CRIMINAL AGGRESSIONS AGAINST PALESTINE.
A weekend conference (March 5 & 6) held at a large Presbyterian Church in San Anselmo, California (near San Francisco) was packed to overflowing with mainstream Christians and other faiths to learn about the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and to get first hand reports of the carnage at Gaza by the Israeli military.
A Norwegian physician, Dr. Mads Gilbert, showed the evidence of the extensive death and destruction against what was basically an entrapped, civilian population -- 50% of whom are children. Lost arms and legs, blown away sections of children's heads, phosphorous burning of flesh, and more was highlighted in what was an emotional review of state directed terrorism which, according to many speakers, has had the support of the American government including many members of Congress.
Sponsored by "Friends of Sabeel -- North America" ("Sabeel" means "the Way"), there was an impressive array of activists, religious leaders, and political/miltary experts who outlined the devastation and imprisonment of the Palestinian people, including Palestinian Christians.
There is an emerging strategy for boycott, divestment, and sanctions to start the process of separating the United States government from its support of Israel's violations of international law. Growing pressure will be applied for the American government to cease funding Israel despite President Obama's promise of another 30 Billion dollars to be granted what some are now calling a "terrorist state" in view of the facts on the ground from neutral observers such as reflected in the Goldstone report.
A number of participants at this Sabeel Conference were of the Jewish faith and who were concerned that the criminal behavior of the Israeli Zionists will destroy the good reputation of the Jewish religion.
(Editor's note: The Israeli occupation and criminal treatment of Palestinians violate numerous sections of the Earth Constitution's Bill of Human Rights. Under the Earth Federation, the authorities who ordered these crimes would be held individually accountable by the World Attorney General's Office, but nevertheless be granted legal due process as called for in the Earth Constitution's World Judiciary system.)
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3/1/10
SUNDAY, MARCH 14 DWF HOSTS ANNUAL GOOD GOVERNMENT LUNCHEON & LECTURE AT INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, UC BERKELEY
Dr. Tad Daley will be the featured speaker for this March 14th Annual Good Government Luncheon & Lecture Series. Dr. Daley will preview his soon to be released "Apocalypse Never."
Is this a speech that President Obama and his Pentagon generals should hear?
The public is welcome. Event to be held at UC Berkeley at the International House. The full program starts at 11:30 am with lunch, then lecture at l pm. Full program costs $40. Lecture only is $10.
For registration/reservation call (415) 227-4880 or for more details go to www.dwfed.org. Sponsored by Democratic World Federalists a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational/think tank international peace organization.
2/19/10
Global democracy and worldwide referendum subject of event in Brussels
The possibility of conducting a worldwide referendum with an equal vote for every person in the world will be among the subjects of an event in the European Parliament next week Tuesday, 23 February, that is hosted by European lawmaker Graham Watson, the EU Chapter of the Club of
Rome and the Secretariat of the Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. The occasion is planned to be used for the presentation of a "Brussels Declaration on Global Democracy."
The public event will begin with a special screening of the documentary "World Vote Now" that was produced over the span of eight years with field-tests in 26 countries in all world regions. "We are told that democracy creates stability and raising living standards. So why not introduce it on a worldwide scale," said filmmaker Joel Ben Marsden who will be present in Brussels. According to Marsden, he and his team of democracy activists so far got "a lot of enthusiastic response."
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2/17/10
San Francisco Progressive Conference, like the Earth Federation, Proposes New U.S. Amendment to Take Away Corporate Personhood
Sponsored by the Network of Spiritual Progressives (www.spiritualprogressives.org), over 500 progressive activists met in San Francisco on 2/15/10. There was much concern about the direction of the Obama administration. Expanded Pentagon budgets, corporate personhood, the health care debacle, bailing out Big Money, and much more had these progressives confessing to both emotional pain, and indeed, anger.
Similar to the recent discussion in Earth Federation ranks to pass a World Law to Prohibit Corporate Personhood, these progressives want an U.S. Constitutional Amendment to accomplish this same objective, albeit using a rather vague title: "Environmental and Ethical Responsibility Amendment."
Discussion on eliminating "corporate personhood" via an amendment recognized that, even if successful, would apply only here in the United States. Most corporations are multinational. Hence the importance of the Earth Federation's World Law proposal which will be discussed at the Provisonal World Parliament's 12th session this summer in Croatia.
The present writer was highly impressed with the level of discussion of most participants at this Conference, and the inspired leadership with such individuals as Rabbi Michael Learner, Medea Benjamin, and Marianne Williamson, and others.
There was also a proposal for a worldwide "Marshall Plan" in the belief that being kind and generous to others would be much more effective in global politics than using threats, intimidation, death and destruction. American militarization has only made our world less safe, both for Americans and for others in the world.
(The goals of this progressive group were very much in keeping with Earth Federation goals on almost all fronts -- ending war and poverty, increasing human rights, and protecting the environment. They continue, however, to think more in nationalistic terms rather than in terms of global structure change. Many do not yet grasp the critical need for democratic world federation to replace the current global war system and the inadequate and ineffective United Nations. -- Editor)
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2/3/10
FIRST ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE EARTH FEDERATION MOVEMENT APPEARS IN CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER
A small, independent newspaper located in Bolinas, California printed the first commercial advertisement for the Earth Federation Movement. The ad in the Coastal Post hopes to attract peace, human rights, and environmental activists to learn more about the Earth Federation. Five "talking points" were listed including the Earth Constitution as the first "green" constitution ever drafted. It also lists "Disarmageddon" a theme which resonates with the Coastal Post's history of bringing the Palestinian/Israel conflict into closer scrutiny. Criticism of Israel has brought bullying from San Francisco Bay Area Zionists who have tried to put the Coastal Post out of business, but have been thwarted by local activists.
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May, 2010
PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT
Africa Office: Lome, Togo. Dr. Dominique Balouki phone 228-900-0578
Asia Office: New No. 40, Old No 212/1, St.Mary�s Road, Mandaveli, Chennai � 600 028, Tamil Nadu, India. North American Office: 313 7th Avenue, Radford, VA 24141, USA. Dr. Glen T. Martin email: gmartin@radford.edu
Secretary General: Dr. Glen T. Martin Parliament Secretary: Dr. Eugenia Almand, email: govt_rules@yahoo.com
www.worldproblems.net www.wcpa.biz www.radford.edu/~gmartin
. Call to the
Twelfth Session of the Provisional World Parliament
In conjunction with the 13th International Conference of
International Philosophers for Peace
December 27-31, Kolkata, India
To all world citizens and persons concerned about the future of humanity:
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The World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA), organizing agent for the Provisional World Parliament, has arranged the Twelfth Session of the Parliament to meet in India, December 27-31, 2010 in conjunction with International Philosophers for Peace 13th International Conference.
We issue this call in conformance with Article 19 of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth that grants the people of Earth the legal right to begin Provisional World Government until such time as the Earth Constitution has been fully ratified under the provisions set forth in Article 17.
Both Observers to the parliament and Delegates are welcome! Both may participate actively in the proceedings. The developing Earth Federation Movement (EFM) is expressed in these historic sessions held in Brighton, England (1982), New Delhi, India (1985), Miami Beach, USA (1987), Barcelona, Spain (1996), Malta (2001), Bangkok, Thailand (March 2003), Chennai, India (December 2003), Lucknow, India (2004), Tripoli, Libya (2006), Lome, Togo (2007), and Nainital, India (2009). The Twelfth Session will be another such historic event: we are building a truly new world order within the shell of the old!!
Today�s world situation calls for a World Parliament to continually build the body of world law, modeling for the rest of the world the way human problems are properly addressed. It also demands immediate action to establish democratic world government in accordance with the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. Global climate change continues to create disaster for peoples everywhere and is getting worse each day. Global weapons of mass destruction continue to threaten the existence of life on Earth. Depleted uranium weapons used massively in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to poison our planetary environment forever. Global tyranny under the world�s superpower increases daily. The resources of the Earth (land, forests, fisheries, clean water) disappear at astonishing rates. Pollution and toxic waste contaminate ever larger portions of the Earth. We must act now!
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Reserve the dates. Begin planning now! Details of registration are below. These will also be posted on the www.worldproblems.net and www.wcpa.biz, www.earthfederation.info, and www.radford.edu/~gmartin websites. Registration details will be forthcoming soon.
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Dr.Glen T. Martin Professor Dominique Balouki Sir Dr. Reinhart Ruge
USA, Secretary-General Togo, Coordinator for Africa Mexico, President Emeritus
Dr. Dauji Gupta Eugenia Almand, J.D.
India, Vice-President Earth, Secretary for Provisional World Parliament
NEW WCPA CHAPTER ESTABLISHED IN COSTA RICA
January 14, 2010 was a big day for the World Constitution & Parliament Association. WCPA Secretary-General
1/18/2010Glen Martin had spent three weeks in Costa Rica meeting people, promoting the Earth Federation, and studying Spanish.
Near the end of this period, on January 14, Martin spoke to two groups concerning the Earth Constitution and the Earth Federation Movement, the first was an all-day seminar in the College de Abogados (the College of Lawyers) in San Jose. The second was at a meeting of Casa Infinita, an organization devoted to human spiritual transformation. Spanish versions of both the Earth Constitution and the Manifesto of the Earth Federation were given to all participants. A number of copies of Martin�s new book Triumph of Civilization: Democracy, Nonviolence and the Piloting of Spaceship Earth were also sold to various participants.
The meeting with Casa Infinita was arranged by Ana Orozco and the meeting at the Collegio de Abagados by Celina Garcia, both WCPA members and advocates in Costa Rica. Ana Orozco is a prominent social activist in San Jose and Celina Garcia is Director of an organization well-known in Costa Rica called Funcacion CEPPA: the Center for the Study of Peace and Nonviolence, also located in San Jose.
The culmination of the all-day seminar at the College of Lawyers was the founding of a new WCPA chapter in Costa Rica with the ceremonial signing of a charter for the new chapter by all 20 people present. The chapter is named the "Rodrigo Carazo Odio WCPA Chapter" after the recently deceased former President of Costa Rica, who was a great leader for world peace and world law. The wife of former President Carazo was present for the ceremony and the group was honored to have her as the first signatory on the Charter for the new chapter.
The new chapter has scheduled its first meeting for the second week in February and intends to become a major center for the promotion of the Earth Federation Movement both in Costa Rica and Latin America.
12/15/09
Chief Justices of the World receive copies of the Earth Constitution
The World Constitution and Parliament Association was again a major presence at the 10th International Conference of Chief Justices of the World that took place December 12-14, 2009 in Lucknow, India. Approximately 20 WCPA activists from various countries (and a number of cities in India) came to Lucknow to promote the Earth Federation among the justices and participants. They personally gave all the justices copies of the Earth Constitution in Hindi, English, French, or Spanish, depending on their native language. Copies of the Constitution were also available in Esperanto for those who wished to have one. The Justices assembled in Lucknow also voted a resolution demanding a �World Parliament� and the beginnings of a genuinely democratic government for the people of Earth.
Earth Federation to be a Presence at the Upcoming ICC Review Conference
Between 31 May and 11 June 2010, the first Review Conference on the Rome Statute that guides the operations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be held in Kampala, Uganda. This meeting is to be distinguished from the annual meetings of the Assembly of States Parties: the nations who have signed the treaty empowering the ICC. The Review Conference will consider amendments and elaborations of the Rome Statute as recommended by various nations in the Assembly of States Parties.
The Provisional World Parliament has studied some of the excellent statutes of the ICC (such as its statutes on human rights, its penal code, and its rules of procedure and evidence) and rewritten them in the language of a true, constitutionally empowered court. In other words, rather than stating that the Court will �request� of a national government that it turn over a suspect for trial, a true court issues a binding warrant for arrest. A true court has the power of mandamus: the court order. The ICC as it now exists remains hamstrung by the system of sovereign nation-state that has thus far empowered it.
Dr. Eugenia Almand and Dr. Glen T. Martin intend to be present for this review conference in order to show the justices and nations supporting the ICC how to truly empower the work of the court. The court should encourage the members of the Assembly of States Parties to reflect on affiliating themselves with the Earth Constitution under which the ICC can be empowered as one bench of the World Supreme Court.
The host for the ICC review conference in Kampala, head of the Uganda Supreme Court, Hon Justice Benjamin Odoki, supports the work for Earth Federation and has already read documents sent to him by WCPA. He and one member of the ICC present in at the 10th Annual Conference of Chief Justices of the World in Lucknow (December 2009)said they would welcome a WCPA presence in Kampala. At the very least this will be the opportunity for the nations in the Assembly of States Parties to become more aware of the Earth Constitution as a viable option for creating a lawful world order.
10/19/09
PLAN TO INTEGRATE UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES INTO EARTH FEDERATION
The 11th Session of the Provisional World Parliament at its recent meetings (July, 2009) in Nainital, India passed World Legislative Act #47 titled "International Integration, including United Nations Integration, and Integration of Federation Member Missions, Embassies and Consulates within the Earth Federation."
The Act notes that the Earth Constitution calls for the integration of viable United Nations' agencies, but with the definition of "viable" left open to a "negotiable selection" process. The Act assumes a future where enough nations join the Earth Federation that it supercedes the UN, but where useful agencies and trained UN staff are preserved.
In addition to saving worthwhile UN agencies, the Act also provides for a transfer of UN personnel to the Earth Federation acknowledging that "...officials and staffs of the United Nations ...comprise a considerable pool of skilled administrators and staff whose training and experience will greatly strengthen the Earth Federation."
In addition to UN personnel becoming part of the Earth Federation, the Act also includes integration of staff from embassies and consulates. The primary condition for conversion of posts is that the individual gives personal ratification and affirmation to the Earth Constitution.
Such a commitment would "automatically deputize" ambassadors and respective staffs to the world federal level (i.e., the Earth Federation).
EARTH CONSTITUTION TRANSLATED INTO 23rd LANGUAGE
An official of the World Constitution & Parliament Association (WCPA) reported recently that the Earth Constitution has now been translated into Bengali. One can now read the Earth Constitution in twenty-three languages including such diverse languages as Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.
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