8/31/10WILL BIG OIL CASH IN WHILE THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER PAYS FIRST FOR A COMBAT MISSION, NOW FOR AN ONGOING OCCUPATION OF IRAQ? Today the American president announces an end to the "combat mission" in Iraq. He does not discuss the plan to have an ongoing occupation using a mixture of American soldiers (now doing "training", not "combat"), and private contractors (mercenaries) to be stationed in permanent armed bases in Iraq, ready to strike if the puppet government's security forces flounder as the Iraqi people reject this arrangement.
The plan? The American taxpayer gets to pay for "security" for Big Oil as they make lucrative oil deals for Iraqi oil, protected by the might of the American military, new police/military security via the State Dept., and highly paid private contractors replacing the "combat" troops.
War and occupation is good for Big Oil, and good for business as the American taxpayer foots the bill. Prediction: Big Oil will not pay for this protection, or the costs of maintaining a puppet government.
Another prediction: A similar fate awaits Afghanistan as Big Oil seeks a pipeline through that country. It will also require an ongoing occupation of the country coupled with a puppet government to fight off the rebellious people who reject such suppression. The American taxpayer will pay for the mixture of American soldiers and private contractors who will stay in Afghanistan (just like in Iraq) to insure a cooperating puppet government.
The Earth Federation would not accept the stealing of resources by use of military might by any nation and the use of propaganda (false information) to keep the people in fear and paranoia.
9/11 was supposedly an attack by Muslims. Unfortunately, the actual scientific evidence suggests otherwise -- yet the American government refuses a new inquiry. If the Earth Federation were in full existence, it could do an independent investigation to determine the true culprits -- the evidence points to an inside job, a highly sophisticated false flag operation to trick the American people into the "war that never ends."
Predictions: There is likely to be additional "false flag operations" which falsely blame new attacks (possibly again on American soil), on patsies. These terror tactics will justify continued aggression, conquest and ongoing wars.
-- RK
8/28/10
MEXICAN ACTIVISTS MAY JOIN THE EARTH FEDERATION MOVEMENT
Communications between the Earth Federation and activists in Mexico have started since it was learned that student and political activists in Mexico are planning a "First Model World Parliament" to be held in the actual House of Deputies of the Mexican government.
The original connection originated from a meeting with Democratic World Federalists in San Francisco who, in association with the World Alliance to Transform the United Nations, began planning meetings in San Francisco perhaps in October, 2010.
The political importance of this network of strategy discussions is that we see American, Mexican, and possibly activists from Central and South America joining together -- with a strong student involvement.
Earth Federation activists believe that the Earth Constitution is the ideal instrument which will allow the creation of a true, as opposed to a toothless, world parliament.
There are activists who would like to simply have an elected world parliament which offers resolutions in terms of solutions, rather than create a genuine new world body (new world government) to replace the present shadow world government which analysts have noted are unelected, wealthy and powerful in military might and in political corruption.
-- RK 8/28/10
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Received 6/21/10 from Gary Shepherd
Gary Shepherd's analysis is a good history lesson for proponents of democratic world government. The public and politicians may resist, and even resent, logical solutions to our world's problems -- even when the old ways have been convincingly shown to be wrong, and in current times, disastrous. -- Editor
PTOLEMY, COPERNICUS AND WORLD GOVERNMENT
By Gary Shepherd
May - June 2010 issue of United World magazine
gshepher@verizon.net
Long before the advent of the current public arguments about
evolution and global warming, the greatest controversy in the history of
science was the debate between the geocentric, or earth-centered model of the
universe described by the second century Greek astronomer Ptolemy, and the
heliocentric, or sun-centered model, advocated by the 16th century Polish
astronomer Copernicus.
This battle took most of a century to resolve, and it involved some
of the most powerful political and religious leaders of its time. Today, we
have forgotten just what a mental revolution Copernicus' theory represented.
Although some Greek philosophers had speculated about a heliocentric model, the
Ptolemaic model had been almost universally accepted by astronomers for more
than a thousand years. In fact, Copernicus knew that his idea was so radical
that he didn't even have it published until after he had safely died.
It is easy to see why. The idea that the Earth is at the center of
the universe, and that the sun, moon, planets and stars revolve around it
matches our everyday experience. After all, the Earth appears immobile beneath
our feet -- it doesn't seem to move. When we look up at the sky, the heavenly
bodies seem to be moving around us. Even today, we speak of the sun rising or
setting, as if it were the sun circling around the Earth.
What is more, the geocentric model could be used to explain all the
scientific observations that could be made at that time. Because it had been
noticed that sometimes the planets seemed to stop and go backwards in their
orbits for a while, Ptolemy created smaller circles, called epicycles, within
the larger crystalline spheres in which the planets circled around the Earth,
so that they were sometimes moving in the opposite direction from the larger
circle. Using this model, one could calculate precisely where a planet would be
at any particular time -- an important consideration at the time, since most
astronomers were also astrologers, and knowledge of the locations of the
planets at the time of a person's birth was vital to casting horoscopes.
But as time went on, and observations became more precise, the
ability of the Ptolemaic model to predict planetary locations began to break
down. The model was altered by later scientists, making it more and more
complex, in an effort to make it correspond to observations of the real
universe. In fact, the Ptolemaic model became so complex, that some scientists,
in order calculate planetary movements, used the Copernican model for
mathematical purposes, even though they didn't really believe it described the
actual universe.
Eventually, partly because of the invention of the telescope, the
Copernican model achieved acceptance over its rival, and today one would have
difficulty finding an astronomer anywhere who supported the geocentric
universe.
What, one is tempted to ask, has any of this to do with the idea of
world government? Well, the parallels are quite striking. The current system of
independent nation-states, sometimes called the Westphalian system, has existed
for many centuries as the unquestioned model for the way the political world is
designed. Like the Ptolemaic model, it makes sense to us. The nations appear to
exist, they appear to be eternal, and there doesn't appear to be any logical
alternative to it. They match our everyday experience. We speak of the earth,
and humanity, as if they were both divided up into nation-states.
Like the Ptolemaic model, as time has passed the nation-state model
has had to grow more and more complex to match the real world. Treaties,
conventions, and agreements have piled up, one upon the other, to govern the
complicated relations between the different nations. For instance, the Danube
River runs through numerous different nations on its way to the sea. All of the
national governments have a say in governing the preservation of that river,
making it very difficult to come to agreement about anything. The current
system has become so complex that sometimes, in order to make it function
properly, people act as if the world were united, even though they don't really
believe it is.
Just as it was the advance of technology and science led to more
precise measurements that doomed the Ptolemaic model to extinction, advanced
technology is leading toward measurements that are threatening the viability of
the nation-state system. We have peered down at the earth's surface from our
orbital satellites and have seen that there are no borders drawn on the real
earth. We have peered into the intricacies of the human genome, and we have
found no genes for nationality.
Copernicus offered a model that was truer to the real world, and
thus eventually supplanted the older, more inaccurate model. So too must we
offer a model of society that is truer to the real world, which is more
accurate, more sustainable, and simply works better, so that it can replace the
outdated one. One day, the idea of separate nation-states will come to seem as
quaint and antiquated as the perfect crystalline spheres that were a feature of
the Ptolemaic system.
5/24/10
MODERN MODERATE MUSLIM MAN OPPOSES USE OF THREATS OR VIOLENCE TO CENSOR RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION AND FREE SPEECH
A Portland, Oregon Muslim man in a recent article (in USA Today, May 13, 2010) opposes use of threats and violence by some Muslims who have murdered, or threatened to murder, those who have used the image of Mohammed in ways for which they did not approve.
Mr. Harris Zafar is highly critical of Muslim violence used to censor free speech and states that "...Islam does not support people who violently censor free speech. The Quran guarantees freedom of speech..." Mr. Zafar goes on to cite examples from the Quran and from the life of Mohammed himself which support nonviolence.
Importantly, Mr. Zafar also condemns State sponsored blasphemy laws such as used in Saudi Arabia (apostasy potentially punishable by death), Pakistan, and Afghanistan which also may invoke prison or a death sentence.
These majority Muslim states, according to the article, suppress other religious faiths and beliefs using blasphemy laws to silence or imprison religious minorities, journalists, academicians, and dissenters.
[Use of threats or violence to prevent free speech or practice of religion violates the Earth Constitution's Bill of Human Rights.]
Attempts to censor or silence critics is not limited to extremist Muslims. Jewish Zionists in the USA go to great lengths to silence criticism of Israel but use different tactics such as applying pressure to put a newspaper out of business.
Much like Saudi Arabia gives Muslims special rights, Israel does the same for its Jewish population. In both cases, citizens of other religions are second class citizens in terms of legal rights. [Unequal treatment of citizens violates the Human Rights section of the Earth Constitution.]
There is a somewhat different but parallel issue in the United States wherein Jewish Zionists try to silence criticism of Israel's criminal actions against the Palestinians. These Jewish extremists, unlike Muslim zealots, may allow public criticism of their God (Yahweh or Jehova), but they do not allow a full public discussion of Israel's expansionistic aggression against Palestinians and have "unelected" American politicians who dared defy the Israeli Lobby.
Last but not least, we must keep in mind a large group of fundamentalist Christians who (subconsciously) are actually hoping to have Armageddon (the ultimate in violence) to prove that their interpretation of Biblical scripture is "true." These extremist Christians support and encourage Israeli expansionism in the belief that once Israel has conquered all of the so-called "Promised Land" for Jews, then Biblical conditions are fulfilled for Armageddon to occur. Jesus will return while they, the faithful, will "rapture" up to heaven.
Armageddon, with its implication of widespread death and destruction, is not a particularly wholesome or loving value. Jesus, these extremists seem to fail to see, is the Prince of Peace -- not the Prince of Death and Destruction. If Jesus were here now, he would without question condemn any Armageddon scenario -- Jesus, in this writer's opinion, would not approve of the suffering of so many innocent people, such as our children, and would go into action to prevent such a horrible event.
-- Editor
4/30/10
"EQUAL LAND FOR EQUAL PEOPLE" OFFERS A STANDARD BY WHICH TO JUDGE PROPOSED SOLUTIONS BETWEEN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL
Alan Barnett, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor (San Jose State University in California, USA), a peace and social justice activist, has proposed that the path to a fair and peaceful settlement between Israel and Palestine should use the standard of "Equal Land for Equal People."
This principle of equality is in keeping with the standards and inherent basic rights as stated in the Earth Federation's Constitution. It would provide an objective that treats both the Jews and Palestinians (including Christians and Muslims) with integrity and respect.
Dr. Barnett notes that at the present time Israel has 78% of the Holy Land while Palestine has only 22%, despite the fact that when one counts the actual number of Jews and Palestinians in the region (including the Palestinian refugees driven out of Israel and in refugee camps), both have a population of roughly 6 to 8 million people. Hence his notion of "Equal Land for Equal People".
Barnett points out that, under the (international) rule of "right of return" the Palestinians would need more land than they presently have in order to accommodate the many refugees who want to return to their former homes (before being forced out year after year by the Israeli's).
The advantage of "Equal Land for Equal People" according to Dr. Barnett is that "The security of the Israelis depends on the Palestinians feeling that they are being dealt with fairly."
"Peace is only possible if both Israelis and Palestinians are treated as equals," writes Barnett.
Editor's note - "Equal land for equal people" is a potentially important guideline available for mediators in establishing a lasting and productive peace between Israel and Palestine. It is consistent with the Earth Constitution. Every human being is inherently, by birth, a "citizen of Earth" with all of the rights granted in Articles 12 and 13 (Bill of Rights for the Citizens of Earth, and Directive Principles).
3/27/10 MOVEMENT OF BUNKER BUSTER BOMBS BY THE US AIR FORCE SUGGESTS POSSIBLE ATTACK PLANS AGAINST IRAN. ANALYST PREDICTS A "STAGED TERRORIST" ATTACK WILL BE USED FOR JUSTIFICATION.
Analyst Paul Craig Roberts reports that a Scottish newspaper, The Herald Scotland, has reported that "bombs are being assembled for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities." It is claimed by the newspaper that "bunker-buster bombs are being moved to an Air Force base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. One London analyst, Dan Piesch, is quoted as saying, "They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran."
The analysts speculate to what sounds like another "shock and awe" type of devastation as was used against Iraq, with the Western media claiming the attack is for "freedom and democracy" but the real intent will be to establish a puppet government.
A false flag operation followed by a military attack and invasion would be a violation of international law. (Many investigators believe that 9/11 was a false flag operation used as a pretext for war.) Would Israel and the USA act jointly?
If Iran is attacked under false pretense, would high government officials be held accountable by the International Criminal Court for war crimes? Even if Israel alone led the attack, could President Obama or Pentagon generals be tried for an international crime of aiding and abetting?
-- RK
Expect a False Flag Terror Attack To Precede Invasion Of Iran
Paul Craig Roberts -- March 18, 2010
According to news reports, the U.S. military is shipping "bunker-buster" bombs to the U.S. Air Force base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The Herald Scotland reports that experts say the bombs are being assembled for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
The newspaper quotes Dan Piesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London: "They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran."
The next step will be a staged "terrorist attack," a "false flag" operation as per Operation Northwoods, for which Iran will be blamed. As Iran and its leadership have already been demonized, the "false flag" attack will suffice to obtain US and European public support for bombing Iran. The bombing will include more than the nuclear facilities and will continue until the Iranians agree to regime change and the installation of a puppet government. The corrupt American media will present the new puppet as "freedom and democracy."
If the past is a guide, Americans will fall for the deception. In the February issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, a scholarly journal, Professor Lance DeHaven-Smith writes that state crimes against democracy (SCAD) involve government officials, often in combination with private interests, that engage in covert activities in order to implement an agenda. Examples include McCarthyism or the fabrication of evidence of communist infiltration, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution based on false claims of President Johnson and Pentagon chief McNamara that North Vietnam attacked a U.S. naval vessel, the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in order to discredit Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers) as "disturbed," and the falsified "intelligence" that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
There are many other examples. I have always regarded the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City as a SCAD. Allegedly, a disturbed Tim McVeigh used a fertilizer bomb in a truck parked outside the building. More likely, McVeigh was a patsy, whose fertilizer bomb was a cover for explosives planted inside the building.
A number of experts dismissed the possibility of McVeigh's bomb producing such structural damage. For example, General Benton K. Partin, who was in charge of U.S. Air Force munitions design and testing, produced a thick report on the Murrah building bombing which concluded that the building blew up from the inside out. Gen. Partin concluded that "the pattern of damage would have been technically impossible without supplementary demolition charges at some of the reinforced concrete bases inside the building, a standard demolition technique. For a simplistic blast truck bomb, of the size and composition reported, to be able to reach out on the order of 60 feet and collapse a reinforced column base the size of column A7 is beyond credulity."Gen. Partin dismissed the official report as "a massive cover-up of immense proportions."
Of course, the general's unquestionable expertise had no bearing on the outcome. One reason is that his and other expert voices were drowned out by media pumping the official story. Another reason is that public beliefs in a democracy run counter to suspicion of government as a terrorist agent. Professor Laurie Manwell of the University of Guelph says that "false flag" operations have the advantage over truth: "research shows that people are far less willing to examine information that disputes, rather than confirms, their beliefs." Professor Steven Hoffman agrees: "Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as 'motivated reasoning,' which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. In fact, for the most part people completely ignore contrary information." Even when hard evidence turns up, it can be discredited as a "conspiracy theory."
All that is necessary for success of "false flag" or "black ops" events is for the government to have its story ready and to have a reliable and compliant media. Once an official story is in place, thought and investigation are precluded. Any formal inquiry that is convened serves to buttress the already provided explanation.
An explanation ready-at-hand is almost a give-away that an incident is a "black ops" event. Notice how quickly the U.S. government, allegedly so totally deceived by al Qaida, provided the explanation for 9/11. When President Kennedy was assassinated, the government produced the culprit immediately. The alleged culprit was conveniently shot inside a jail by a civilian before he could be questioned. But the official story was ready, and it held.
Professors Manwell and Hoffman's research resonates with me. I remember reading in my graduate studies that the Czarist secret police set off bombs in order to create excuses to arrest their targets. My inclination was to dismiss the accounts as anti-Czarist propaganda by pro-communist historians. It was only later when Robert Conquest confirmed to me that this was indeed the practice of the Czarist secret police that the scales fell from my eyes.
Former CIA official Philip Giraldi in his article, "The Rogue Nation," makes it clear that the U.S. government has a hegemonic agenda that it is pursuing without congressional or public awareness. The agenda unfolds piecemeal as a response to "terrorism," and the big picture is not understood by the public or by most in Congress. Giraldi protests that the agenda is illegal under both U.S. and international law, but that the illegality of the agenda does not serve as a barrier. Only a naif could believe that such a government would not employ "false flag" operations that advance the agenda.
The U.S. population, it seems, is comprised of naifs whose lack of comprehension is bringing ruin to other lands.
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3/11/10
WAR SYSTEM SUCKS TAX MONEY AWAY FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION
On March 14, 2010 Dr. Tad Daley lectured to the public and UC Berkeley students on his new book "Apocalypse Never." But do college students really understand the relationship between their rising college costs and the bloated military/industrial/research war system budget of the United States with over 700 military bases around the world, and a so-called war against terror seemingly everywhere?
Do students really understand who is sucking up the majority of tax money which previously was used to provide an affordable, public college education? The obvious answer is the 700 billion dollars a year (plus or minus 50 billion dollars for black box operations) which buy bombs, bullets, rockets, guided missiles, golf courses for Pentagon generals, early retirement, Stealth bombers, jet airplanes, drones, Navy missile cruisers, and much, much more. Education and health care for Americans?
Many young people are being forced to "join the Army" in order to have a job, get health care, and sometimes, to get a college education.
Untold billions of dollars are being spent outside of America. New billion dollar embassies are being constructed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Billions of dollars to private contractors to rebuild infrastructure in these countries which the USA conveniently destroyed in the first place.
Corporations are (literally) "making a killing" in this war system, as are the smaller businesses that make uniforms, helmets, boots, and other necessities needed by a killing machine. Not to mention the doctors, nurses, consultants, spies, engineers, physicists, and other peripheral personnel used to advance and maintain the high tech war machine system.
Then of course there is the ongoing cost of death and destruction -- rebuilding disabled soldiers, demolished buildings, roads and other infrastructure destroyed by American/NATO bombs, and then having to replace these same bombs and missiles.
Yes, it's a good business -- if you believe in death and destruction.
But it's a bad business for educationand affordable health care at home. The public cannot afford to pay for constant, worldwide wars, both covert and overt, and pay for affordable education. Tough luck, students. Get the education you can't afford thanks to a war system designed to never end.
What could replace the world's war system? A world unity government -- the Earth Federation under the Earth Constitution...designed as a world peace system. Then students could be given affordable, or even free, education -- and universal health care would be a given.
-- Editor
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2/19/10 HOW THE UNPA CAMPAIGN RELATES TO THE EARTH FEDERATION'S WORLD PARLIAMENT
If European parliamentarians seek more democratic representation at the United Nations by adding a "Parliamentary Assembly," but is denied decision-making authority as is the case with the UN General Assembly, then the UNPA (and the UNGA) might consider joining the Earth Federation.
The Earth Federation under the Earth Constitution gives real democratic decision making authority to the Federation's World Parliament. This could become a real possibility since the UN Charter keeps key decision-making power in the hands of the Security Council, and limits the UN General Assembly to making "resolutions." A UN Parliamentary Assembly would most likely suffer the same fate as the General Assembly -- unless the UN Charter was dropped in favor of the Earth Constitution. -- Editor
2/12/10
WHY ESTABLISHMENT PANIC OVER THREAT OF NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION?
An article in the Rock Creek Free Press (Feb., 2010) by Daniel Tencer reports that President Obama's appointee to head the "Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs," Cass Sunstein, proposes "cognitive infiltration" of groups that advocate "conspiracy theories" like the one surrounding 9/11.
Why such panic from the Establishment?
This type of manipulation would most likely be for the goal of trying to avoid a new 9/11 investigation -- which is what the 9/11 truth movement has been demanding all along. (A demand which seems more than reasonable in view of the new factual evidence that has surfaced since the 9/11 Commission Report was shown to be fatally flawed.)
Such an obvious propaganda maneuver by the authorities is in line with the refusal of the mainstream media to allow credible researchers on the air to explain why they think a new 9/11 investigation is warranted. MSNBC, for example, despite trying to be "progressive", has repeatedly ignored requests to put 9/11 investigators on the air -- despite the fact that these researchers have blue ribbon, impeccable credentials.
In fact, no mainstream media (TV or newspaper) dares let these investigators report their findings to the public -- it would convince the public that they had been hookwinked.
The American propaganda apparatus instead attacks these researchers ad hominen -- an old propaganda trick used to avoid having to address the real issues.
Why? It is this writer's opinion that the Establishment has ordered censorship to avoid a new investigation -- precisely because the 9/11 researchers are getting too close to the type of facts that could bring down a ruling oligarchy.
One might speculate that there is a behind-the-scenes panic. 9/11 researchers are gaining more and more credibility worldwide.
But what about the so-called "mastermind" of 9/11? Won't the upcoming trial of Khalid Shikh Mohammed (KSM) put all questions to rest when he conveniently "confesses" in a public courtroom?
In reality, the fear that KSM might not "confess" the way he was "taught" by torture techniques, may be the reason that some politicians panic at the idea of a public trial, and want a military tribunal instead.
There might be a serious problem with KSM. What if he was tortured, not to get at the truth of "who done it", but to create what is known as a "patsy" in false flag operation lingo?
What if the endless series of waterboarding torture sessions failed to condition him enough to be a reliable patsy? (Hint -- if he appears to waiver from what he is "suppose to say", one might predict the possibility of an "accidental death," taking the full blame for 9/11 with him....case closed.)
-- Editor
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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 which will be held in India in December, 2010.
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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2/6/2010
PROPOSED WORLD BILL FOR 12TH PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT
Democracy Enhancement and Corporate Personhood Prohibition Act
Whereas, the fourth broad function of the Earth Federation is "to regulate world trade, communications, transportation, currency, standards, use of world resources, and other global and international processes" (Article 1.4);
Whereas, specific powers of the Earth Federation include the power to "define and regulate procedures for the nomination and election of members of each house of the World Parliament" (Article 4.7);
Whereas, the Earth Federation is responsible to protect the civil liberties identified in Article 12, including "freedom to vote without duress, and freedom for political organization and campaigning without censorship or recriminations" (Article 12.5);
Whereas, the Earth Federation is responsible to "define standards and promote worldwide improvement in working conditions," standards of living, healthcare, sanitation, and other basic necessities for a quality of life for world citizens, including protection of the environment and the ending of war (Article 13);
Whereas, the Earth Federation is responsible to "regulate and supervise supra-national trade, industry, corporations, businesses, cartels, professional services" (Article 4.14), and international communications (Article 4.13);
Whereas, in some major nations today, corporations have been granted "legal personhood," giving them all the rights and privileges of private human persons, with the exception that these corporations cannot die, that individuals operating within the corporation are protected from liability because the corporation itself is considered a collective "person," that corporations are entities without a conscience mandated solely to make a private profit for their investors, and that corporations, in spite of their vast impact on society, may claim privacy from public scrutiny, and other rights of private persons;
And whereas, within such nations, corporate personhood has given corporations the "free speech" of private persons through which they have used their vast economic resources to colonize and destroy the democratic process, engineering the election of law-makers beholden to the corporations, employing professional lobbyists for their private ends, and using a variety of means to manipulate government in the service of minority private interests;
And whereas, within the world prior to the advent of the Earth Federation, democracy has been compromised nearly everywhere by the wealth and power of the few to colonize governments and communications systems;
Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Provisional World Parliament:
Article 1.
Only flesh and blood human beings shall have the rights of legal persons as identified in Articles 12 and 13 of the Earth Constitution.
Article 2.
Private corporations under the regulative jurisdiction of the Earth Federation shall be incorporated . by the World Parliament or its designated agents with legal mandates specifically defining their functions, responsibilities, and modes of operation.
2.1. These legal mandates empowering corporations to perform certain economic operations shall be defined within a framework considering:
2.1.2. protection of democracy,
2.1.3, protection of the environment,
2.1.4 promotion of economic prosperity among people and communities effected by their operations, and, in general,
2.1.5 the common good of the citizens of the Earth Federation.
Article 3.
Private, profit-oriented corporations shall not have the right, as collective entities, to promote any candidate for election or any political cause within the Earth Federation, nor to contribute funds or campaign contributions or other economic support to candidates for office.
3.1. However, individuals working within any corporation, shall have the free and full right to participate in promoting candidates for election or any political cause they may choose,
3.2. Individuals working within any corporation shall have the right to contribute funds to political campaigns within whatever limits may be defined by subsequent legislation of the World Parliament.
Article 4.
Private individuals shall have the right to promote candidates or causes of their choice within the legal criteria legislated by the World Parliament. Such criteria shall be formulated within a framework that limits the ability of wealthy individuals to unduly influence or colonize the political process.
Article 5.
Non-profit political associations of private individuals (as, for example, political parties, advocacy groups, or think tanks) shall be registered with the Earth Federation and operate within whatever legal limits, transparency, and other criteria as may be defined by subsequent legislation of the World Parliament.
Article 6.
Elections conducted under the World Parliament, beginning at the First Operative Stage of the Earth Federation, shall be free, fair, and monitored by independent observers.
6.1. Each candidate shall use a government defined and paid for information booklet (which may also be electronic), of a standard size and overall format that shall be used for campaign purposes (as specified in Article 8.3.1.5 of the Earth Constitution).
6.2. Each candidate shall have equal access to public communications media (electronic or print) under limits and conditions defined by the World Parliament.
6.3. Each candidate shall have the right to use private communications media (electronic or print) as paid for by non-profit advocacy groups or contributions of private citizens under limits and conditions as defined by the World Parliament.
Article 7.
Private, profit-making communications media that are international in scope also fall under the category of corporations and agencies requiring regulation by the Earth Federation (Articles 1.4 and 4.13).
7.1. Profit-making communications corporations shall not be recognized as legal persons within the Earth Federation.
7.2. The Provisional World Parliament recognizes that profit-making communications corporations may play in important role in fostering democratic processes, the diversity of voices necessary to vigorous dialogue and debate, and disseminating information necessary to democratic decision-making.
7.3. With this possibly important role in mind, the World Parliament may wish to define legal incorporation for such entities differently from that from other profit-making corporations.
7.4. Nevertheless, the legal powers of profit-making communications corporations shall be defined within a framework directed toward maximizing the democratic powers of individual persons for participation in political processes and protecting the rights of individual persons to speech and political participation as define in Articles 12 and 13.
7.5. The framework identified in 7.4 may be fostered, for example, through anti-trust or anti-cartel laws that break up media conglomerates into a number of smaller, competing voices, or through legislation requiring the airing of opposing viewpoints.
Article 8.
When considering legislation concerning the items specified under this Democracy Enhancement and Corporate Personhood Abolition Act, the World Parliament shall seek input from each of the agencies within the Integrative Complex of the Earth Federation and from any other ministry or agency of the Federation deemed appropriate.
8.1. Since the World Boundaries and Elections Administration (Article 8.3) is responsible to define the procedures for properly democratic elections (8.3.1.5) and defines the rules for world political parties (8.3.1.6), this agency shall submit annual reports to the World Parliament regarding the successes and difficulties of democratic elections with respect to the functioning of concentrations of private wealth (wealthy individuals or profit-making corporations) and with respect to the operations of communications corporations.
8.2. These reports shall include factual assessments of the degrees to which free and fair popular democracy in the service of the majority of people is disrupted by private wealth, profit-making corporations, and/or communications corporations.
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Article 9.
Penalties for violations of this act shall be determined by the World Parliament and enforced by the world police and world courts.
9.1. All penalties shall apply to individuals and none to corporations, since it is individuals who break the law, not abstract legal entities.
9.2. The penalties and courts shall normally assess greater responsibility to those higher up in the corporate hierarchy, keeping in mind that "obeying orders" from one�s boss does not fully exonerate any individual who knowingly breaks the law.
9.3. Whistle blowers and others who report abuses with regard to this act shall be protected by this law from retaliation by their employers. It shall be the responsibility of the World Ombudsmus to monitor such situations and protect the rights of the persons involved.
2/6/10 FROM THE ANTI-EMPIRE REPORT NUMBER 78 by William Blum www.killinghope.org
(Below is an excerpt from Mr. Blum's latest article.)
The US bombing, invasion, occupation and torture in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bombing of Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and the continuing Israeli-US genocide against the Palestinians have created an army of new anti-American terrorists. We'll be hearing from them for a terribly long time. And we'll be hearing American officials twist themselves into intellectual and moral knots as they try to avoid confronting these facts.
In his "State of the Union" address on January 27, President Obama said: "But if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses, let me know." Well, ending America's many wars would free up enough money to do anything a rational, humane society would want to do. Eliminating the military budget would pay for free medical care for everyone. Free university education for everyone. Creating a government public works project that could provide millions of decently-paid jobs, like repairing the decrepit infrastructure and healing the environment to the best of our ability. You can add your own favorite projects. All covered, just by ending the damn wars. Imagine that.
(Editor's note: A belligerent nation always at war will go so deeply in debt that it will no longer be able to care for its own citizens at home. Worse yet, military and covert operation violence, death and destruction, make citizens less safe because the victims eventually seek revenge. Brutality only pacifies on the surface, underneath the victims seethe with anger and hate.)
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1/31/2010
WILL THE PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS JOIN THE EARTH FEDERATION GOAL OF DISARMAGEDDON?
Representatives of the Parliament of the World's Religions will be contacted soon to propose that the Earth Federation's goal of "Disarmageddon" (world peace without the Armageddon death and destruction scenario)be considered as a goal for this world body of religious representatives. Upwards of 170 religions have been reported to participate in this religious world parliament.
The Earth Federation believes that it is imperative that world peace be achieved without the death and destruction scenario predicted by some religious groups, and prodded on by some of these same religious faiths who predict, or require, an "Armageddon" before there can be a successful peaceful world.
The belief that we are in "the End times" may have led some religious extremists to actively support the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, with the belief that there must first be an Armageddon before the Savior can make His appearance.
The question to the Parliament of World's Religions: Is an Armageddon really all that necessary or desirable in terms of sacred scriptures? Can world spiritual leaders find a means to restrain those zealots who would actually cheer for Armageddon???
-- editor
1/24/10
1000 WORLD ELECTORAL DISTRICTS?
Activists such as those in the Peoples Congress have been contacted by the present writer to consider adopting the Earth Constitution's requirement that "1000 World Electoral Districts" be established for the "House of Peoples" in the Provisional World Parliament.
The Earth Constitution's founders believed that 1000 elected representatives would be a workable number to represent the 5 to 6 billion people in the world.
The proposed Earth Federation electoral districts have been drawn up for all parts of the world, but may be modified when a newer population census is available --possibly this year, according to Eugenia Almand, Provisional World Parliament Secretary.
The Earth Constitution calls for the the Earth Federation's World Parliament to also include a "House of Nations" and a "House of Counselors." This structure is a tricameral model, different from the USA which is bicameral (two houses), or some nations with only a single national parliament.
-- RK
1/15/2010SIGN THAT A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION IS TAKING A PRINCIPLED, MORAL STAND AGAINST A SUPERPOWER
The world public can take hope from the fact that Google Corporation actually took a public stand resisting censorship and snooping by superpower China against human rights advocates. Too good to be true? Multinational corporations are not exactly known for principled, ethical positions when it comes to making money. (Profit seems all too important to many CEO's even if it means violating ethical principles.)
In the present situation, if Google's concerns turn out to be factual, then China is in violation of at least three sections of Article XII (Bill of Rights) in the Earth Constitution. The Bill of Rights for the Citizens of Earth #3 requires "freedom of writing, communication, publication..." and #5 grants "freedom from censorship" and #18 prohibits "surveillance as a means of political control."
Article XIII #3 grants "Full access to information and to the accumulated knowledge of the human race."
Under the Earth Constitution, government authorities (in this case any Chinese official responsible for the alleged action) can be held accountable as an individual if their actions are found to be unlawful after due process proceedings by the judiciary.
Google Corporation is to be congratulated for speaking out on behalf of the world public interest. The Earth Federation would fully support Google in this case because openness to information advances democratic processes -- a top priority for the Federation.
-- Editor 1/15/10
1/9/2010
AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY IS A BETTER DEAL FOR "WE, THE PEOPLE" THAN A WORLD GOVERNED BY SHADOW ELITES
The alarm went out many years ago when some California grassroots activists began to investigate the Bohemian Club which consisted of the rich and/or powerful -- CEO's, former Presidents, Senators, heads of covert agencies, the wealthy, owners of media, etc. It became obvious that there was an "old boys network" which greased the wheels of fortune both in , and out, of government and pretty much controlled outcomes in their own favor.
While many people from other countries have understood who "runs the show" so to speak, Americans have been slow to acknowledge that their own fate was more in the hands of shadowy elites than under their own control. Authentic democracy was more a fantasy than a fact argues Professor Glen Martin, whom I have described as the "most important man in America."
Dr. Martin, from a small university back east and unknown to the public, shows covincingly in "Triumph of Civilization" that we in America as well as elsewhere do not have authentic democracy or full freedoms. People with money have much more "freedom of speech" since they are the ones who can afford to buy media time and who own the main media outlets.
Dr. Martin's importance is that he has gone beyond identifying the key problems, he has also actively proposed powerful new solutions which he is helping to implement.
We must replace the shadow world government with authentic democracy Martin would argue -- and that's where the Earth Federation enters the picture. Through the Earth Federation movement under the inspiring Earth Constitution, "we, the people" can begin to regain democratic control of our country, and world.
Currently we can see that even President Obama, a former community activist, is dominated by wealthy and powerful private interests -- banking, insurance, multinational corporate, and military/industrial. Most of these players are unknown to the people who continue to carry the belief that their America is "free" and "democratic", a fantasy myth which serves private interests well as they recruit young Americans to unwittingly die for oil and other profit-producing interests.
The sad fact is that politicians in America and many other nations are rather obviously bought and paid for by private interests. This same Big Money cabal owns all major media outlets -- hence has control of the messag which helps to manipulate our perceptions in their favor as economist J.W. Smith ("Economic Democracy") has so eloquently explained.
It comes down to "we, the people": Do we want to continue being governed undemocratically in the shadowy hands of private interests, or do we want to stand up for true democracy?
Dr. Martin believes that the time is ripe for "we, the people" to replace the destructive and undemocratic "new world order" with the emerging Earth Federation's "democratic world order"
-- Editor 1/9/2010
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12/13/09
NATIONS RUINED BY PREDATORY PRACTICES OF MULTINATIONALS
Multinational corporations, according to John Perkins in his new book titled HOODWINKED, have replaced nations as the driving force behind geopolitics.
"The emerging rulers are not presidents, dictators, government officials, or politicians. The rulers are corporate CEOs, members of the corporatocracy. Like huge clouds swirling around the globe, their conglomerates reach every continent, country, and village. They are unrestricted by national borders or any particular sets of law. Although many are headquartered in the United States and call upon the U.S. military to protect their interests, they feel no sense of loyalty to any one country."
"As we have seen by Halliburton, they think nothing of relocating to places like Dubai, where they pay fewer taxes." (Editor's note: Halliburton has made millions or billions of dollars of profit from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars of occupation.)
Perkins explains that mantras like"good government is less government" and "free trade" are used to mislead the public. In reality, they are used as code phrases for deregulation and privatization all of which favor, not the public interest, but the multinationals. "...the only governments that mattered were the ones that would provide soldiers to guard oil wells, dams, mines and other corporate assets."
Mr. Perkins calls the economic methods which have ruined many developing nations, and now more advanced countries like Iceland and the United States, "predatory capitalism," and argues that it is a "virus" which must be removed.
"The guiding philosophy for this particular form of capitalism is an uncompromising belief in the privatization of resources, the granting of unfettered powers to corporate executives, and the encouragement of debt so extreme that it results in contemporary modes of enslavement-- for countries and individuals alike."
Has this predatory type of capitalism captured U.S. politicians? Perkins thinks so. He states that while working as an ECM (Economic Hit Man) he learned that when corporations "coveted" a country's resources they would "seduce, bribe, and extort their leaders into exploiting their own people..." If the leaders (of a developing nation) resisted the ECM economic plans, "...they are overthrown or assassinated by CIA-sponsored jackals." If that didn't work, then the USA would subdue the country by going to war, conquering it, and putting in a puppet government doing our (multinational corporate) bidding.
Mr. Perkins reveals to the reader how deep the greed has penetrated America: "We (economic hit men) were so successful in the Third World that our bosses directed us to implement similar strategies in the United States and across the rest of the planet."
Hence, the current economic fiasco/crisis now causing immense suffering in the USA itself.
(Editor's note: The EARTH FEDERATION, unlike the United Nations, provides a means to regulate and prevent "predatory capitalism" by multinational corporations and international investment bankers. Whereas the EARTH FEDERATION'S Earth Constitution provides structures to protect the public from predatory economic practices, the UN Charter does not -- one of the fatal flaws which renders the UN Charter too weak and undemocratic to be able to protect "we, the people" from powerful and unscrupulous special interests.)
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11/5/09
DON'T BET ON INTERNATIONAL LAW TO SAVE US
World federalists have become accustomed to the belief of some peace activists that building a real democratic world federation is too hard to accomplish, will never happen, and besides, isn't needed anyway. So why not just stick with "international law"?
The most recent foray down this path of wishful thinking is from a former Montana law professor, James Ranney, whose recent article in "The Federalist Debate" (July, 2009) argues for the idea that the gradual acceptance of customs, norms, treaties and agreements between nations (equals "international law") will prove adequate, and world federalists are wrong in insisting that only a democratic world federation making enforceable word law can do the job -- of saving the world (from wars, from the Bomb, from poverty, from torture, from climate change, and so on).
Ranney questions the warnings of world federalists who believe that history proves that laws based upon treaties are unstable and can't be trusted. To this writer, the historical facts show clearly that treaties between nations are the equivalent of living on quicksand. International "law" based upon treaties, or custom, or "norms" has deteriorated time after time as the priorities of the nation states change.
In additional to instability, another major drawback for international laws is that they are almost universally undemocratic in origin. Moreover, as the economist J.W. Smith has discovered, international laws, agreements, norms (and customs) basically provide a means for multinational corporations and international investment bankers to "legally" plunder developing nations, the poor, and even the tax paying middle classes. These types of "laws", Smith warns, favor the already wealthy and powerful -- a subtle means to maintain dominance over the majority of people in the world.
So when Ranney views the WTO, World Bank, and IMF as "milestones of International Law" he is unwittingly supporting international structures which many activists believe do more harm than good, especially for "we, the people."
Ranney's mistake is to fail to recognize that many of his so-called "milestones" of international law are actually in fact regressive, steps backward, not steps forward. If allowed to remain in place without the checks and balances of a true democratic world government structure, we will continue to flounder in terms of
resolving critical world problems and crises.
One can only imagine how dismal our world will be if we continue on the present path of dominance by the few, and we make the fatal error of keeping in place international structures (such as the United Nations) which have proved
ineffective, or in the case of the World Bank and IMF, proved harmful to "we, the people."
The EARTH FEDERATION/Earth Constitution is the path out of the swamp of the
old, new world order with its undemocratic design and its unenforceable structure -- so convenient for the few who dominate "we, the people."
"International law" has some good parts which can easily be integrated into the EARTH FEDERATION'S world legislative acts -- a democratic process already underway by the Provisional World Parliament in the form of model world laws.
-- Above commentary the opinion of Dr. Roger Kotila, and may not represent fully the position of the EARTH FEDERATION.
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1/15/2010
ENCOURAGING SIGN THAT A MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION IS TAKING A PRINCIPLED, MORAL STAND AGAINST A SUPERPOWER
The world public can take hope from the fact that Google Corporation actually took a public stand resisting censorship and snooping by superpower China against human rights advocates. Too good to be true? Multinational corporations are not exactly known for principled, ethical positions when it comes to making money. (Profit seems all too important to many CEO's even if it means violating ethical principles.)
In the present situation, if Google's concerns turn out to be factual, then China is in violation of at least three sections of Article XII (Bill of Rights) in the Earth Constitution. The Bill of Rights for the Citizens of Earth #3 requires "freedom of writing, communication, publication..." and #5 grants "freedom from censorship" and #18 prohibits "surveillance as a means of political control."
Article XIII #3 grants "Full access to information and to the accumulated knowledge of the human race."
Under the Earth Constitution, government authorities (in this case any Chinese official responsible for the alleged action) can be held accountable as an individual if their actions are found to be unlawful after due process proceedings by the judiciary.
Google Corporation is to be congratulated for speaking out on behalf of the world public interest. The Earth Federation would fully support Google in this case because openness to information advances democratic processes -- a top priority for the Federation.
-- Editor 1/15/10
1/9/2010
AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY IS A BETTER DEAL FOR "WE, THE PEOPLE" THAN A WORLD GOVERNED BY SHADOW ELITES
The alarm went out many years ago when some California grassroots activists began to investigate the Bohemian Club which consisted of the rich and/or powerful -- CEO's, former Presidents, Senators, heads of covert agencies, the wealthy, owners of media, etc. It became obvious that there was an "old boys network" which greased the wheels of fortune both in , and out, of government and pretty much controlled outcomes in their own favor.
While many people from other countries have understood who "runs the show" so to speak, Americans have been slow to acknowledge that their own fate was more in the hands of shadowy elites than under their own control. Authentic democracy was more a fantasy than a fact argues Professor Glen Martin, whom I have described as the "most important man in America."
Dr. Martin, from a small university back east and unknown to the public, shows covincingly in "Triumph of Civilization" that we in America as well as elsewhere do not have authentic democracy or full freedoms. People with money have much more "freedom of speech" since they are the ones who can afford to buy media time and who own the main media outlets.
Dr. Martin's importance is that he has gone beyond identifying the key problems, he has also actively proposed powerful new solutions which he is helping to implement.
We must replace the shadow world government with authentic democracy Martin would argue -- and that's where the Earth Federation enters the picture. Through the Earth Federation movement under the inspiring Earth Constitution, "we, the people" can begin to regain democratic control of our country, and world.
Currently we can see that even President Obama, a former community activist, is dominated by wealthy and powerful private interests -- banking, insurance, multinational corporate, and military/industrial. Most of these players are unknown to the people who continue to carry the belief that their America is "free" and "democratic", a fantasy myth which serves private interests well as they recruit young Americans to unwittingly die for oil and other profit-producing interests.
The sad fact is that politicians in America and many other nations are rather obviously bought and paid for by private interests. This same Big Money cabal owns all major media outlets -- hence has control of the messag which helps to manipulate our perceptions in their favor as economist J.W. Smith ("Economic Democracy") has so eloquently explained.
It comes down to "we, the people": Do we want to continue being governed undemocratically in the shadowy hands of private interests, or do we want to stand up for true democracy?
Dr. Martin believes that the time is ripe for "we, the people" to replace the destructive and undemocratic "new world order" with the emerging Earth Federation's "democratic world order"
-- Editor 1/9/2010
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12/13/09
NATIONS RUINED BY PREDATORY PRACTICES OF MULTINATIONALS
Multinational corporations, according to John Perkins in his new book titled HOODWINKED, have replaced nations as the driving force behind geopolitics.
"The emerging rulers are not presidents, dictators, government officials, or politicians. The rulers are corporate CEOs, members of the corporatocracy. Like huge clouds swirling around the globe, their conglomerates reach every continent, country, and village. They are unrestricted by national borders or any particular sets of law. Although many are headquartered in the United States and call upon the U.S. military to protect their interests, they feel no sense of loyalty to any one country."
"As we have seen by Halliburton, they think nothing of relocating to places like Dubai, where they pay fewer taxes." (Editor's note: Halliburton has made millions or billions of dollars of profit from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars of occupation.)
Perkins explains that mantras like"good government is less government" and "free trade" are used to mislead the public. In reality, they are used as code phrases for deregulation and privatization all of which favor, not the public interest, but the multinationals. "...the only governments that mattered were the ones that would provide soldiers to guard oil wells, dams, mines and other corporate assets."
Mr. Perkins calls the economic methods which have ruined many developing nations, and now more advanced countries like Iceland and the United States, "predatory capitalism," and argues that it is a "virus" which must be removed.
"The guiding philosophy for this particular form of capitalism is an uncompromising belief in the privatization of resources, the granting of unfettered powers to corporate executives, and the encouragement of debt so extreme that it results in contemporary modes of enslavement-- for countries and individuals alike."
Has this predatory type of capitalism captured U.S. politicians? Perkins thinks so. He states that while working as an ECM (Economic Hit Man) he learned that when corporations "coveted" a country's resources they would "seduce, bribe, and extort their leaders into exploiting their own people..." If the leaders (of a developing nation) resisted the ECM economic plans, "...they are overthrown or assassinated by CIA-sponsored jackals." If that didn't work, then the USA would subdue the country by going to war, conquering it, and putting in a puppet government doing our (multinational corporate) bidding.
Mr. Perkins reveals to the reader how deep the greed has penetrated America: "We (economic hit men) were so successful in the Third World that our bosses directed us to implement similar strategies in the United States and across the rest of the planet."
Hence, the current economic fiasco/crisis now causing immense suffering in the USA itself.
(Editor's note: The EARTH FEDERATION, unlike the United Nations, provides a means to regulate and prevent "predatory capitalism" by multinational corporations and international investment bankers. Whereas the EARTH FEDERATION'S Earth Constitution provides structures to protect the public from predatory economic practices, the UN Charter does not -- one of the fatal flaws which renders the UN Charter too weak and undemocratic to be able to protect "we, the people" from powerful and unscrupulous special interests.)
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DON'T BET ON INTERNATIONAL LAW TO SAVE US
World federalists have become accustomed to the belief of some peace activists that building a real democratic world federation is too hard to accomplish, will never happen, and besides, isn't needed anyway. So why not just stick with "international law"?
The most recent foray down this path of wishful thinking is from a former Montana law professor, James Ranney, whose recent article in "The Federalist Debate" (July, 2009) argues for the idea that the gradual acceptance of customs, norms, treaties and agreements between nations (equals "international law") will prove adequate, and world federalists are wrong in insisting that only a democratic world federation making enforceable word law can do the job -- of saving the world (from wars, from the Bomb, from poverty, from torture, from climate change, and so on).
Ranney questions the warnings of world federalists who believe that history proves that laws based upon treaties are unstable and can't be trusted. To this writer, the historical facts show clearly that treaties between nations are the equivalent of living on quicksand. International "law" based upon treaties, or custom, or "norms" has deteriorated time after time as the priorities of the nation states change.
In additional to instability, another major drawback for international laws is that they are almost universally undemocratic in origin. Moreover, as the economist J.W. Smith has discovered, international laws, agreements, norms (and customs) basically provide a means for multinational corporations and international investment bankers to "legally" plunder developing nations, the poor, and even the tax paying middle classes. These types of "laws", Smith warns, favor the already wealthy and powerful -- a subtle means to maintain dominance over the majority of people in the world.
So when Ranney views the WTO, World Bank, and IMF as "milestones of International Law" he is unwittingly supporting international structures which many activists believe do more harm than good, especially for "we, the people."
Ranney's mistake is to fail to recognize that many of his so-called "milestones" of international law are actually in fact regressive, steps backward, not steps forward. If allowed to remain in place without the checks and balances of a true democratic world government structure, we will continue to flounder in terms of
resolving critical world problems and crises.
One can only imagine how dismal our world will be if we continue on the present path of dominance by the few, and we make the fatal error of keeping in place international structures (such as the United Nations) which have proved
ineffective, or in the case of the World Bank and IMF, proved harmful to "we, the people."
The EARTH FEDERATION/Earth Constitution is the path out of the swamp of the
old, new world order with its undemocratic design and its unenforceable structure -- so convenient for the few who dominate "we, the people."
"International law" has some good parts which can easily be integrated into the EARTH FEDERATION'S world legislative acts -- a democratic process already underway by the Provisional World Parliament in the form of model world laws.
-- Above commentary the opinion of Dr. Roger Kotila, and may not represent fully the position of the EARTH FEDERATION.
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