Sunday, May 30, 2010

[GMW #1971] I Am Astonished That I Played A Role In The Creation Of Eleven Of The 32 United Nations Specialized Agencies



[GMW #1971] I Am Astonished That I Played A Role In The Creation Of Eleven Of The 32 United Nations Specialized Agencies
Tuesday 1 June 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
Ideas 401 to 500
Introduction

A Testimony to Hope and Plea for Audacity
by Robert Muller
(Part 2)

I have been involved in the creation of several new UN specialized agencies and world programs in the economic and social fields, including the world-wide United Nations Development Programs where I was the lonely first UN official working with Paul Hoffman, the former Administrator of the Marshall Plan.  The UN listened to me when I suggested to channel the surplus foods of the rich countries which burned them, to children and hungry people in the poor countries, and created the World Food Program.  The World Bank listened to my idea to give low-interest loans to infrastructure projects in the poor countries and created the International Development Agency. 

When I look at the list of the 32 UN specialized agencies and world programs, I am astonished that I have played a role in the creation of eleven of them!

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 14 - Of Writing

I took solace from the fact that St. Augustine started to write the City of God at the age of 59!

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. --Unknown

Fact of the Day:

From the age of 6, Susan Lieu was a powerhouse, answering the phone and removing customers' nail polish at her family's Bay Area nail salon. When she was 12, her world came crashing down when her mother, who had survived a harrowing escape from Vietnam years earlier, died unexpectedly of surgical complications. The experience took much from Lieu, but gave her something that sustains her to this day. After her mother's seemingly senseless death, Lieu said, "I was determined to have a purpose." Since then, the Oakland, CA resident has earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard, supported sustainable farming methods in Vietnam, worked with an AIDS project in an African refugee camp, and started a successful chocolate business. All in the span of a quarter-century! [ more ]
Submitted by: Diane Nilan

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[GMW #1970] I Came To The United Nations To Work For Peace So The Next Generation Would Not Know The Horrors I Saw In World War II



[GMW #1970] I Came To The United Nations To Work For Peace So The Next Generation Would Not Know The Horrors I Saw In World War II
Tuesday 1 June May 2010, Editor: Easy
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Ideas 401 to 500
Introduction

A Testimony to Hope and Plea for Audacity
by Robert Muller
(Part 1)

I joined the United Nations world service in 1948 as a young man who had been in a German Gestapo prison, a French Resistance fighter and had seen the most horrible atrocities of war and destruction.  I came from Alsace-Lorraine, a province of France bordering Germany, where my grandparents knew three wars and changed nationality five times between France and Germany, without leaving their village.  I was a very pessimistic young man.  If this had happened between two highly civilized countries, how could I expect white and black countries, communists and capitalists, rich and poor nations, thousands of religions and ethnic groups to be able to live together in peace?  Surely there would be an incident which would trigger off another world war within twenty years.  Well, there was no third world war.

In the empty war factory in Lake Success where the United Nations was first located, a British delegate asked me what I was doing there.  I answered: "I came here to work for peace, because I do not want my children and grandchildren to know the horrors I saw in the war."  He answered: "I pity you, young man, because you will lose your job.  This organization will not last more than five years."  Well, it celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1995.

I was also told in Lake Success that decolonization was the priority item on the agenda of world affairs and that it would take the United Nations from one hundred to one hundred fifty years to solve the problem.  Well, the UN did it in forty years.  I was told the same about apartheid, women's rights, human rights, and indigenous people, the Cold War, and I could cite other examples.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 14 - Of Writing
I write only what I must.  What happens to the fruit is not of concern to the tree.


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 WORD FOR THE DAY
Don't ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and
go out and do it. Because what
the world needs is people
who have come alive.
Howard Thurman

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

[GMW #1969] World Constitution For Our Mother Earth, Gaia And For Humanity



[GMW #1969] World Constitution For Our Mother Earth, Gaia And For Humanity
Friday 28 May 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 396 ~    10 August 1995

An audacious woman should establish a World Women’s Commission for the drafting of a World Constitution for our Mother Earth, Gaia, and for humanity since the present political system of the world dominated by males will inevitably lead to her destruction and still continues to lead to the killing of their sons, the flesh of their flesh.

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Volume II Chapter 14 - Of Writing
I mainly write with my heart.


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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
-- Anais Nin

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[GMW #1968] Periodic Days, Weeks, Months, Even Years Designated For Cease Fire And Peace Throughout The World



[GMW #1968] Periodic Days, Weeks, Months, Even Years Designated For Cease Fire And Peace Throughout The World
Thursday 27 May 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 380 ~    25 July 1995

In ancient Greece, all wars were stopped to allow the people to attend the Olympic Peace Games. 

The UN General Assembly remembered it and decided in 1994 that the 17 days of the commemoration of the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 should be celebrated with a world cease-fire. 

The General Assembly also adopted the Costa Rican proposal that the week of 24 October 1995, 50th anniversary of the United Nations, should be a world week of peace. 

I would recommend the further decision that the year 2000 be declared a world year of cease fire and peace.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 14 - Of Writing
I love writing as much as Michelangelo loved painting.  My heart jumps with pleasure when I have time to write.  But it was not always so.  At the beginning it was very difficult.

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In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
--Adora Svitak


Inspiration of the Day:
"I loved to write from the age of four, and when I was six my mom bought me my own laptop...I wrote over 300 short stories on that little laptop, and I wanted to get published. Instead of just scoffing at this heresy that a kid wanted to get published, or saying 'wait until you're older,' my parents were really supportive." Since publishing her first book at the age of 7, Adora Svitak, now 12, has spoken for hundreds of schools and educators. She calls for "childish" thinking to embrace bright and creative ideas that would otherwise be considered impractical by most adults. [ more ]

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[GMW #1967] Creation Of Regional Trade, Economic, Ecological And Political Communities And Unions In The World



[GMW #1967] Creation Of Regional Trade, Economic, Ecological And Political Communities And Unions In The World
Wednesday 26 May 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500
~ Idea 376 ~    21 July 1995

I recommend that the Secretary General of the UN or a member government request the inscription on the agenda of the UN General Assembly of an item:

Creation and plans for the creation of regional trade, economic, ecological and political communities and unions in the world.

It is definitely one of the items to be included in an Inventory of Hopes at the end of this century.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 14 - Of Writing
There exists a United Nations Writers Society which I founded.

I want to write radiant works which bring joy and sunshine to the people, moral works which bring goodness and faith to the readers, informative works which bring world knowledge to my human brothers and sisters, personal stories which will inspire them. 

I want to exude, to exalt my joy, hope, happiness and passion for life. 

I beg more world servants to do the same.

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"Maintaining a peace is like keeping a garden in good order. You have to work at it day in and ay out, otherwise the rains wash away the soil, and the weeds get so deeply rooted that it is impossible to pull them out without destroying many good plants as well.

First, and above everything else, we must have an intense desire to make this  succeed.

We can then work out the details of the world council and the regional councils that will be needed.

We can find ways to arrive at just decisions and to enforce those decisions.

We can determine which powers the nations ought to reserve to themselves, which powers will need to be delegated to regional councils, which powers ought to be held jointly by the regional councils and the world council, and which will have to be delegated to the world council alone if the peace of the world is to be preserved.

The airplane, which has brought so many thousands of boys to their death, can also enforce peace. It should not be hard to work out that phase of the problem if we really want to do it."

Henry A Wallace, June 2, 1943

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[GMW #1966] UN Expenditures Smaller Than Universities Around The World Expenditures On International Relations



[GMW #1966] UN Expenditures Smaller Than Universities Around The World Expenditures On International Relations
Tuesday 25 May 2010, Editor: Easy
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~ Idea 374 ~    19 July 1995

In the early seventies, UNESCO published a report that the expenditures of Universities around the world to teach international relations (more than a billion dollars) surpassed the total of the budgets of the UN and of all its specialized agencies (800 million dollars).  It would be interesting to get an updated report from UNESCO on the situation today.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 14 - Of Writing
When I write early in the morning, in nature or in a church it is with an immense feeling of joy and love.  To write is my way of praying, of thanking God for the incredible gift of life and the beauty of His Creation.

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From wonder into wonder existence opens.

 -- Lao Tzu

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

[GMW #1965] Peace And Disarmament Groups Produce Compendium Of Ideas On What People Can Do Against The Armaments Madness



[GMW #1965] Peace And Disarmament Groups Produce Compendium Of Ideas On What People Can Do Against The Armaments Madness
Monday 24 May 2010, Editor: Easy
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Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500

    ~ Idea 373 ~    18 July 1995

In line Idea 372, not buying shares and products from corporations that are involved with armaments, the numerous peace and disarmament groups and associations around the world should join their minds and efforts and produce a compendium of ideas, like these 2000 ideas, on what people can do against the Armaments Madness.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 14 - Of Writing
Where is the best place to write?

Almost anywhere:  in a meeting, in a train, in a plane, in public, in your home, in a prison.  You could not sculpt or paint or practice any other art with such facility. 

Write whenever you can, as much as you can. 

Record your life, your experiences, your thoughts, your observations and your dreams. 

You will learn so much about life, the world, the universe, the people and yourself. 

There is no greater secret of life than to love it, to be fascinated by it and to observe it with endless, joyful, unfathomable passion. 

You will live immensely more.

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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

 -- Albert Camus


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Friday, May 21, 2010

[GMW #1964] Natural Regional Universities - Pacific, Andean, Himalayan, Saharan, Arctic, Atmospheric, Ganges Universities ...



[GMW #1964] Natural Regional Universities - Pacific, Andean, Himalayan, Saharan, Arctic, Atmospheric, Ganges Universities ...
Monday 17 May 2010, Editor: Easy
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~ Idea 352 ~    27 June 1995

In addition to world, continental and regional Universities, we need also natural, bioregional Universities dealing with self-contained natural regions of this planet, for example a Pacific University, an Atlantic University, a Mediterranean University concerned with these seas and oceans and with all the riparian countries.

Others would be an Andean University, a Himalayan University, a Saharan University, an Arctic University, an Antarctic University, a World Atmospheric University, a Mekong University, a Ganges University, etc.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,  
Volume II Chapter 14 - Of Writing
What is the best time to write?
Any time when a good thought, a dream or a beautiful feeling or sentence comes to you.

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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

- Victor Hugo

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