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[GMW
#1963] Creating World And Regional Universities
Thursday 20 May
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[GMW
#1962] World Facilitator For The World's Future, Ministries For A Better Future, Departments Of The Future
Wednesday 19 May
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~ Idea 349 ~ 24 June 1995
Right here and now, huge global problems are developing on this planet which will deeply affect humanity's future, including our possible extinction. And yet, most national governments, business, local governments and the people are only interested in the immediate or the short-term. To heal this situation I recommend that the UN should create a new position of High Commissioner for the World's Future and that each government create a Ministry of the Future or for Future Generations. Margaret Mead similarly recommended that Universitites should have Departments of the Future.
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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.
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[GMW
#1961] Nurturing Regions Of The World To Be Models Of Living In Harmony With Nature
Tuesday 18 May
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~ Idea 328 ~ 3 June 1995
Foreigners visiting Costa Rica are astonished by the natural beauty which has been miraculously retained in this country. Thirty percent of the territory are now protected against depredation. The dream has occurred to me that there should be a world Marshall Plan to preserve this blessed, demilitarized country as a remaining paradise on Earth. Such a plan would prevent the migration of the population from the beautiful rural areas to an overcrowded capitol. It could be a model of a country living in harmony with nature, inspired by eco-communities such as Findhorn in Scotland. Industrialized countries, instead of trying to industrialize Costa Rica, would help it to become a model of a new, more human and natural development, avoiding the errors made in most other developing and developed countries. As a matter of fact, now that there is peace, the whole of Central America should be made a model of ecology and preserved nature, a world park. Verba volant, scripta manent. Words fly away. Writings remain. Nullus dies sine linea. Not a day without a line. How right they were!
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[GMW
#1960] Annual Report On Military Budgets And Armed Forces In The World
Monday 17 May
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~ Idea 346 ~ 21 June 1995
The UN should publish a yearly comprehensive, well-structured report on military budgets and armed forces in the world. Comparisons should be made with other main items in the budgets of nations. For example, very few people in the world, including US citizens, know that even after the cold war US military expenditures in 1995 are equal to the total of all other US government expenditures for transport, education, housing, health, natural resources, international affairs, veterans, outer-space, justice, social services, government in general, salary insurance, economic development, energy, agriculture and trade. There must be something staggeringly wrong with that.
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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc. I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.
Jeanne DuPrau
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[GMW
#1959] Supporting Universities For Peace Throughout The World To Nurture Less Violence And More Peaceful Ways
Friday 14 May
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~ Idea 350 ~ 25 June 1995
Don't be surprised that there is still so much violence in the world. Think that there are hundreds of military academies in the world and practically no Universities for peace, except the lonely, unsupported University for Peace in demilitarized Costa Rica. We will all be equals in the Earth. But it will make a difference to leave behind written works.
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[GMW
#1958] Comparing Paltry UN Budgets With National Budgets
Thursday 13 May
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~ Idea 347 ~ 22 June 1995
When I was briefly the Director of the UN Budget in the late sixties, I published a report to the General Assembly giving comparisons of UN budgets with national budgets, especially military budgets. The UN budget was indeed "petty cash" as it is called in the US State Department. But the UN budget is more criticized than any national budget on Earth. Needless to say, I did not last long in that position. When I was transferred to another post, my former colleagues in the Budget said that it was the end of the "Spring of Prague" and Secretary General U Thant welcomed me as his new assistant with these worlds: "I am sure you will be happier here than in the Budget."
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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc. From, View From The UN by U Thant, Doubleday 1978: "To all who strive for peace, justice, and progress" "I must also express my sincere thanks to my former colleagues in the United Nations Secretariat for their most valuable advice and assistance. Special mention must be made to C. V. Narasimhan, Constantin A. Stavropoulos, Bohdan Lewandowski, Bruce Turner, Brian E. Urquhart, Robert Muller, William Powell, and Yasushi Akashi." "A new quality of planetary imaginations demanded from all of us ... an open acceptance of belonging -- as in fact we all do -- to the human race as well as to our local community ... the mark of the truly educated and imaginative person facing the twenty-first century is that they feel them self to be a planetary citizen. ... this concept of world citizenship ... building the future World Community." Books recommended by Robert are here. Other newsletters by GMW's editor can be viewed and subscribed to here. Subscribe to or unsubscribe from GoodMorningWorld.org |
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[GMW
#1957] Annual Reports Of Arms Sales In The World
Wednesday 12
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~ Idea 345 ~ 20 June 1995
The United Nations should publish a yearly report on arms sales in the world, on the countries of origin of the arms, on the manufacturers and on the so-called foreign "aid" given by rich to poor countries to purchase them.
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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.
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[GMW
#1956] All Nobel Peace Prizes Announced, Celebrated And Handed To Laureates At United Nations General Assembly Hall
Tuesday 11 May
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~ Idea 344 ~ 19 June 1995
All Nobel Prizes for Peace should be announced, celebrated and handed to the laureates in the vast General Assembly Hall of the United Nations in presence of all UN delegates, UN staff, Non-Governmental Organizations and the media. The soul of Alfred Nobel would rejoice.
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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc. Watch Maude Barlow's talk about the state of water of Earth - it can be vastly improved: http://blip.tv/file/3273836/ Maude Barlow educates people all over the world about the crisis of water privatization, and documents how commodification of water results in soaring rate increases and severe water shortages. She says, "Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny the right to life." In her work she particularly advocates for the world's poor, who in some cases pay more for potable water than do wealthier people in the same communities. She travels and lectures widely, arguing that water is a basic right and should not be a commodity. Ms. Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizen's advocacy organization with over 100,000 members. She is also founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world's water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization. Ms. Barlow is the recipient of numerous educational awards and has received honorary doctorates from four Canadian universities for her social justice work. She is the best-selling author or co-author of fourteen books. Her most recent publications are Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water, Blue Gold, The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water (with Tony Clarke), now published in 40 countries; Profit is Not the Cure, A Citizens' Guide to Saving Medicare; Making the Links: A Peoples' Guide to the WTO and the FTAA (with Tony Clarke); and The Canada We Want: A Citizen's Alternative to Deep Integration. She was awarded a Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship in 2005. Ms. Barlow resides in Ottawa, Ontario. You may learn more about this and other events on the Lannan website. Books recommended by Robert are here. Other newsletters by GMW's editor can be viewed and subscribed to here. Subscribe to or unsubscribe from GoodMorningWorld.org |
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[GMW
#1955] A Proper Earth Government That Ends Warrings, Divisions, Waste And Duplication
Monday 10 May
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~ Idea 343 ~ 18 June 1995
The world of today is in the same state as were the American States when great leaders stood up and declared that the warrings and divisions between the states could not continue, that America was in a chaos, with utter waste and duplication between the states. A Constitutional Assembly was held in Philadelphia which met for ten years of bitter debates until it finally produced and adopted the US Constitution with its wise system of balance of powers. The world needs today pressingly a similar initiative. There is need for great leaders of this planet to decide that a world constitutional Assembly be held to draft a constitution for proper Earth government. Perhaps it might take longer since the world is much more complicated than were the American states. But it is also more urgent because this time the whole Earth is in jeopardy and danger of terminal illness. Always carry with you a notebook to write down the flashes of truth, the observations, the ideas and dreams that come to your mind, heart and soul.
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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc. Rabindranath Tagore’s Birthday May 8 Rabindranath
Tagore’s compassion ran deep and permeated his writing.In 1891, he went to manage his father’s estate, living close to villagers and developing sympathy for them which became the keynote for later writings. Although he was awarded the knighthood in 1915, he surrendered it four years later to protest the British massacre of Indians. In “Mind Without Fear,” Tagore shares his dream of a world that’s not been “broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls." According to the Bengali calendar, the date of Tagore's birth is 25th Baisakh, 1268. It is uncertain where this date falls on the Gregorian calendar, May 8 being one of the possibilities. For photos, selected works, and Tagore's conversations with Einstein and H.G. Wells, please see this Rabindranath Tagore webpage.
Titled Prayer in the original
Bengali poem.
Tagore translated the poem to English with the title Where The Mind Is Without Fear Mind Without FearWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high;The last line, for these times, could also be: Into that heaven of freedom, the planet can awake. Books recommended by Robert are here. Other newsletters by GMW's editor can be viewed and subscribed to here. Subscribe to or unsubscribe from GoodMorningWorld.org |
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