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Let's Create a Global Declaration of Loving Intention

If we truly want to make the world a better place, we need to make radical changes now. Tinkering with our broken system isn't going to work because there's a race on between those implementing a one world government, ruled by them through their financial system, weapons and various methods of mind control, and the rest of us participating in a massive, global awakening. The good news is, all we have to do IS put our attention on the solutions and the awakening will spontaneously ignite to encompass the entire globe in short order.

The first step we need to take towards accelerating this global awakening is to understand that what is holding us back is not THEM, it is our own collective beliefs in the old systems and institutions that shaped our beliefs and values. We are our own jailers. If we want to unleash the boundless creativity and love that exists in us all, we need to clear away the old thinking that directly or indirectly supports the institutions and systems that block our unrestrained thinking.

Geographic boundaries are a perfect example of one of those old ideas. According to our current global system of geographic, territorial boundaries, your lot in life is predetermined by how lucky (or unlucky) you are to be conceived in a particular mother's womb. According to theory, anyone can scratch and claw their way to a good (or great) life (plenty of food, water, shelter, education, clothing, meaningful relationships, leisure time, etc), regardless of where they happen to be born, but try and tell that to a resident of North Korea or Zimbabwe or Liberia.

How about the idea that the natural resources of the planet are private property as if god decided to make certain families the heirs to the world's resources? No way!

How about the idea that it's OK to force people to pay to kill and maim other human beings as is the idea of wars funded by income taxes? No way!

So how can we possibly address this and all the other obvious injustices? Change yourself.

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  • David Chester

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    Jan 17 2012: This is a lot easier talked about than done! It is true that our territorial natures are harmfull, but to eliminate political boundaries or even for citizens of one district to share in the advantages possible from all of their common land, is extreemly difficult. Every land owner would oppose it, becuase the gain which they receive through their speculation in the growing value of their natural resource is of importance to them. So what is needed to bring about this desirable change is a few examples of where it works and that when the advantage in fair sharing of the opportunities provided by natural resources, particularly the land, will there exist some modecum of hope. To answer you last question, we should look to such places as Hong Kong, where all the land is leased from the government and the prosperity resulting from its efficient and fair use is experienced by a large proportion of the population. The idea was first put out as a tax on land values. This allows people to own land but to return to the community what their holding it takes from the chance to best use it.

    My other comments on this channel about where the US government made its biggest error may help you (the reader) to appreciate what the taxing of land values instead of incomes, purchases and profits, will bring.
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      Don Traub

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      Jan 18 2012: David, I am not proposing to jump into resolving big problems like resource allocation. Please read my response to David Chester. Incidentally, I spend several months out of the year in Hong Kong.
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        Benjamin Sanchez

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        Jan 18 2012: Hi Don, weighing in.

        1) I think that written declarations will be de-emphasized as the market will favor functionality and the mission statements of sites/companies that put forward that functionality. What I see coming is a world with nations of ideas rather than walls.

        2) There's SO much reading to sift through on this thread! D =
        It's easier to absorb information via text in short bursts.

        3) The global enlightenment has already begun. We are at the beginning of a Galactic Renascence. Between now and the time when we start colonizing space, there is only progress or doom.

        Thank you Don. I hope you'll follow @Planet_Victory as we build up a developers community to build a single open source site to expedite the resolution of all Earthly ills.
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          Don Traub

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          Jan 19 2012: Benjamin, what I'm proposing is simply codifying a core, kernel of ideals from which to measure all proposed solutions. "What I see coming is a world with nations of ideas rather than walls." This is exactly what I'm suggesting. Well put.

      • David Chester

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        Jan 19 2012: Don. I think there is some confusion here. The idealogy about which you write should surely be on a level where nations share a common means for government, without any one of them setting the others at a disadvantage by trade laws or by allowing the speculation in land values to raise their operating (production) costs. Yet the current wave of investment in foreign land by the Chinese and other far-eastern countries will soon cause the price of the available land to rise and for that speculation in the land value to transfer sums away from the home country to the far-eastern one that is speculating in the land value. Thus the basic concept that your good ideas propose must include some of the "big overall effects" of the kind you seem to want to shy away from!

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