Friday, January 05, 2007
CREATING AN INTERNATIONAL BUREAUCRACY TAKES CASH - THINK GLOBAL TAX
Not to worry, Mercieca has it covered with the 1% Solution. The details are spelled out at The Homeplanet Alliance:
The director of the Homeplanet Alliance, Mitchell Gold, introduces the Homeplanet Alliance and its 1% Solution as a subsidiary organization of the International Association of Educators for World Peace as follows:
The IAEWP was founded in 1969 by Maltese Philosopher Charles Mercieca and has consultative status at most of the UN agencies including UNICEF, UNDPI, UNESCO, ECOSOC and UNCED. Through our many associates around the world in over 100 countries we promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Peace Education in order to achieve a Culture of peace and non-violence.
Recognizing that civil society requires a funding base outside of the Nation State systems we are developing a funding base, and a concept of "branding" that will facilitate the delivery of this unique funding mechanism.
The 1% Solution is a global funding strategy to assist in funding initiatives like the Greenstar Program worldwide. The 1% Solution is in its development phase and its Board of Advisors is helping to develop the infrastructure for this large endeavour.
The Board of Advisers includes:
Hazel Henderson
Jonathan Granoff
Dr. Charles Mercieca
Dr. Young Seek Choue
Dr. Rodrigo Carazo O.
Dr. Nina Lynn Meyerhoff
Lama Gangchen
Luciano Meira
According to the website the 1% Solution was launched in Greenwhich England in July of 2000 at the 10th World Congress of the IAEWP.
Eight percent of purchases made at the Greenstar website will be forwarded to The Homeplanet Alliance to further this work.
Another Homeplanet webpage dedicated to the 1% Solution refers to it as a "voluntary global Tithe implemented through a Brand Label Marketing strategy. A four-point program is set out on this webpage:
1. All educators both formal and informal are educators for world peace.
2. All educators for world peace will shift buying habits of individuals, organizations, institutions and Nation States to support the 1% Solution.
3. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) will be referred to as Greenwich Peace Time (GPT) as a Symbol of World Peace.
4. All governments will be encouraged to set aside 1% of military budgets to establish a Department of Peace. (endorsed by Dennis Kucinich - Democratic dandidate in the US) Coincidental with the development of the business participatory component is a new classification for accountant - Global Accountant.
Dr. Charles Mercieca appears at the bottom of the website.
Willard Van De Bogart has posted a paper at Earth Portals titled "A Global Economy for the Benefit of the World Community" by Hans Jecklin. The paper claims that "responsibility of the economy towards environment and society has to be channeled into the policies of a global governance." There is heavy emphasis on evolution. He cites Rudolf Steiner and Teilhard de Chardin as authority figures.
His claims "A global order is vital, too, protecting behaviour that benefits the community and drawing the line at behaviour that harms it", though he does not spell out what that behaviour might be. There is a reference to "the connection between spirituality and global responsibility."
The Home Planet website "Supporting a Culture of Peace" links the "Madrid Documents for A Culture of Peace. Clicking the link brings you to this website. There you can read:
The Foundation for A Culture of Peace, at its first Conference in Spain, December 11-13, 2000 developed a document the Declaration of Madrid for the Culture of Peace. This document represents the first steps in proposing a formalization for the Culture of Peace. Included is a concept for four contracts-- social, environmental, ethical, and cultural. The following process for the development of a Culture of Peace was presented and endorsed.
The actualizing of a common vision and process for empowering youth, women, seniors, people living in poverty, and to include the people living in wealth - we include all of the 6 billion of our family. Three meaningful words to integrate: Globality, Accountability, and Spirituality.
A 6-point program is being spelled out that proposed using the "City Mayor Program", bringing this down to the grassroots level. Is this the IAEWP program in the development stages in a website I recently linked that involved the Association of Global New Thought and the Club of Rome? Is this somehow related to the Club of Madrid and the Alliance of Civilizations? I have not yet succeeded in finding out.
