Dear friends and colleagues, These "13 impossible crises" are nothing new
with Trump. They have been there for decades and aware people know this. They
are crises that derive directly from the unworkable system of so-called
sovereign nation-states and the impotent UN system that is based upon them.
The only practical and rational solution is to unite the people of Earth under
the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. The united authority of the
people of Earth would then have the mandate and the authority to deal with
these crises. The Earth Constitution is a brilliant blueprint for dealing with
all these crises.
If people are serious about addressing these serious crises, then they should
be promoting the Earth Constitution in their every waking moment. It is found
on-line on our websites (listed below) and is translated into many different
languages. These crises get worse every day that we delay, for it is the
current world system itself that is their fundamental cause. The Earth
Constitution changes that system to global democracy, justice, and
sustainability. It actualizes the rule of democratic law that is implicit in
our common humanity and dignity. Please take action now, for tomorrow it will
be too late.
Yours in peace and hope,
Dr. Glen T. Martin
President, World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA)
www.worldparliament-gov.org
President, Institute on World Problems (IOWP) www.worldproblems.net
Professor, Philosophy and Peace Studies, Radford University
www.radford.edu/gmartin
Laureate, GUSI Peace Prize International
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Any comments ?
Michael
DR Michael Ellis
Club of Budapest Australia
The 13 impossible crises that humanity now faces
George Monbiot
Please don’t read this unless you are feeling strong. This is a list of 13
major crises that, I believe, confront us. There may be more. Please feel free
to add to it or to knock it down. I’m sorry to say that it’s not happy reading.
1. Donald Trump
The next occupant of the White House will be a man who appears to possess no
capacity for restraint, balance or empathy, but a bottomless capacity for
revenge and vindictiveness. He has been granted a clean sweep of power, with
both houses and the supreme court in his pocket. He is surrounding himself with
people whose judgment and knowledge of the world are, to say the least,
limited. He will take charge of the world’s biggest nuclear and conventional
arsenals, and the most extensive surveillance and security apparatus any state
has ever developed.
2. His national security adviser
In making strategic military decisions, he has a free hand, with the capacity
to act even without the nominal constraint of Congress. His national security
adviser, Michael T Flynn, is a dangerous extremist.
3. The rest of his team
Trump’s team is partly composed of professional lobbyists hired by fossil fuel,
tobacco, chemical and finance companies and assorted billionaires. Their
primary political effort is to avoid regulation and taxation. These people – or
rather the interests they represent – are now in charge. Aside from the
implications for the living world, public health, public finance and financial
stability, this is a vindication of the political model pioneered by the
tobacco companies in the 1960s. It demonstrates that if you spend enough money
setting up thinktanks, academic posts and fake grassroots movements, and work
with the corporate media to give them a platform, you can buy all the politics
you need. Democracy becomes a dead letter. Political alternatives are shut down.
4. The transatlantic backdrop
Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the EU are confronted with a
level of complexity that may be insuperable
Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, Britain’s attempts to disentangle
itself from the European Union are confronted with a level of complexity that
may be insuperable. Moreover, there may be no answer to the political fix in
which the government finds itself. This is as follows: a) either it agrees to
the free movement of people in exchange for access to the single market, in
which case the pro-Brexit camp will have gained nothing except massive
embarrassment, or b) the EU slams the shutters down. Not only is it likely to
reject the terms the government proposes; but it might also try to impose an
exit bill of about €60 billion for the costs incurred by our withdrawal. This
would be politically impossible for the government to pay, leading to a
non-negotiated rupture and the hardest imaginable Brexit.
5. Eurozone risks
The Italian banking crisis looks big. What impact this might have on the
survival of the eurozone is anyone’s guess.
6. … and their global ramifications
Whether it is also sufficient to trigger another global financial crisis is
again hard to judge. If such a thing were to occur, governments would not be
able to mount a rescue plan of the kind they used in 2007-8. The coffers are
empty.
7. Job-eating automation
Automation will destroy jobs on an unprecedented scale, and because the
penetration of information technology into every part of the economy is not a
passing phase but an escalating trend, it is hard to see how this employment
will be replaced. No government or major political party anywhere shows any
sign of comprehending the scale of this issue.
8. If Marine Le Pen wins
French politicians are now marching to Marine Le Pen’s immigration tune |
Philippe Marlière
Read more
Marine Le Pen has a moderate to fair chance of becoming the French president in
May. Whether this would be sufficient to trigger the collapse of the EU is
another unknown. If this is not a sufficient crisis, there are several others
lining up (especially the growing nationalist movements across central and
eastern Europe in particular, but to a lesser extent almost everywhere) that
could catalyse a chain reaction. I believe that when this begins, it will
happen with a speed that will take almost everyone by surprise. From one month
to the next, the EU could cease to exist.
9. The UN security council would look like …
If Le Pen wins, the permanent members of the UN security council will be
represented by the following people: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping,
Theresa May and Marine Le Pen. It would be a stretch to call that reassuring.
10. The Paris climate agreement trashed
National climate change programmes bear no connection to the commitments
governments made at Paris. Even if these programmes are fully implemented (they
won’t be), they set us on a climate-change trajectory way beyond that envisaged
by the agreement. And this is before we know what Trump will do.
11. … and the effects on migration
One of the many impacts of climate breakdown – aside from such minor matters as
the inundation of cities, the loss of food production and curtailment of water
supplies – will be the mass movement of people, to an extent that dwarfs
current migration. The humanitarian, political and military implications are
off the scale.
12. … with just 60 harvests left
According to the UN food and agriculture organisation, at current rates of soil
loss we have 60 years of harvests left.
13. … an accelerating extinction crisis
The extinction crisis appears, if anything, to be accelerating.
Enough already? Sorry, no. One of the peculiarities of this complex,
multiheaded crisis is that there appears to be no “other side” on to which we
might emerge. It is hard to imagine a realistic scenario in which governments
lose the capacity for total surveillance and drone strikes; in which
billionaires forget how to manipulate public opinion; in which a broken EU
reconvenes; in which climate breakdown unhappens, species return from
extinction and the soil comes back to the land. These are not momentary crises,
but appear to presage permanent collapse.
So the key question is not how we weather them but how – if this is possible –
we avert them. Can it be done? If so what would it take?
I write this not to depress you, though I know it will have that effect, but to
concentrate our minds on the scale of the task.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/25/13-crises-we-face-trump-soil-loss-global-collapse?CMP=share_btn_link
Sent from my iPhone
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In This Issue:
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From: "Prof. Ernesto Kahan" <ekahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [wwpoenglish] =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_[gha-peace]_Re:_[gha-peace]_?> Date:
Sat, 26 Nov 2016 09:19:28 +0200
Re: [gha-peace] Trump’s Peacefulness and Global Peace Science 2016Dear Leo
and all
In Israel we are very grateful to Russia, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and other
countries for the important help to fight the terrible fires produced by
incendiary terrorists The whole country is burning, trees, forests, houses,
placid animals ... we do not sleep or rest. My wife and I wet the plants to
make them a barrier to the flames. There are 80,000 evacuees
Ernesto
From: Leo Semashko
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 7:49 AM
To: Prof. Ernesto Kahan ; gha-peace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Rene Wadlow
Cc: gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; ghausa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; gha-peace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
; wwpoenglish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; iaewp.org@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gha-peace] Re: [gha-peace] Trump’s Peacefulness and Global Peace
Science 2016
Dear Ernesto,
I was happy to publish your wonderful poem of homage to women on your
personal page.
Thank you,
Leo
Dr Leo Semashko:
-State Councillor of St. Petersburg, Russia; RAN Professor;
-Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony; -Global Harmony
Association (GHA) Founder (2005) and Honorary President (2016);
-Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org;
-Global Peace Science (GPS) from Harmony (616 pages):
www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&keyX5; -SPHERONS as GPS Center
(20 pages): http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&keyB3; -NO TO USA
WAR WITH RUSSIA:
http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/no-to-war-hot-or-cold-with-russia;
-Personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key%3
Any comments ?
Michael
DR Michael Ellis
Club of Budapest Australia
The 13 impossible crises that humanity now faces
George Monbiot
Please don’t read this unless you are feeling strong. This is a list of 13
major crises that, I believe, confront us. There may be more. Please feel
free to add to it or to knock it down. I’m sorry to say that it’s not happy
reading.
1. Donald Trump
The next occupant of the White House will be a man who appears to possess
no capacity for restraint, balance or empathy, but a bottomless capacity
for revenge and vindictiveness. He has been granted a clean sweep of power,
with both houses and the supreme court in his pocket. He is surrounding
himself with people whose judgment and knowledge of the world are, to say
the least, limited. He will take charge of the world’s biggest nuclear and
conventional arsenals, and the most extensive surveillance and security
apparatus any state has ever developed.
2. His national security adviser
In making strategic military decisions, he has a free hand, with the
capacity to act even without the nominal constraint of Congress. His
national security adviser, Michael T Flynn, is a dangerous extremist.
3. The rest of his team
Trump’s team is partly composed of professional lobbyists hired by fossil
fuel, tobacco, chemical and finance companies and assorted billionaires.
Their primary political effort is to avoid regulation and taxation. These
people – or rather the interests they represent – are now in charge. Aside
from the implications for the living world, public health, public finance
and financial stability, this is a vindication of the political model
pioneered by the tobacco companies in the 1960s. It demonstrates that if
you spend enough money setting up thinktanks, academic posts and fake
grassroots movements, and work with the corporate media to give them a
platform, you can buy all the politics you need. Democracy becomes a dead
letter. Political alternatives are shut down.
4. The transatlantic backdrop
Britain’s attempts to disentangle itself from the EU are confronted with a
level of complexity that may be insuperable
Meanwhile, on this side of the Atlantic, Britain’s attempts to disentangle
itself from the European Union are confronted with a level of complexity
that may be insuperable. Moreover, there may be no answer to the political
fix in which the government finds itself. This is as follows: a) either it
agrees to the free movement of people in exchange for access to the single
market, in which case the pro-Brexit camp will have gained nothing except
massive embarrassment, or b) the EU slams the shutters down. Not only is it
likely to reject the terms the government proposes; but it might also try
to impose an exit bill of about €60 billion for the costs incurred by our
withdrawal. This would be politically impossible for the government to pay,
leading to a non-negotiated rupture and the hardest imaginable Brexit.
5. Eurozone risks
The Italian banking crisis looks big. What impact this might have on the
survival of the eurozone is anyone’s guess.
6. … and their global ramifications
Whether it is also sufficient to trigger another global financial crisis
is again hard to judge. If such a thing were to occur, governments would
not be able to mount a rescue plan of the kind they used in 2007-8. The
coffers are empty.
7. Job-eating automation
Automation will destroy jobs on an unprecedented scale, and because the
penetration of information technology into every part of the economy is not
a passing phase but an escalating trend, it is hard to see how this
employment will be replaced. No government or major political party
anywhere shows any sign of comprehending the scale of this issue.
8. If Marine Le Pen wins
French politicians are now marching to Marine Le Pen’s immigration tune |
Philippe Marlière
Read more
Marine Le Pen has a moderate to fair chance of becoming the French
president in May. Whether this would be sufficient to trigger the collapse
of the EU is another unknown. If this is not a sufficient crisis, there are
several others lining up (especially the growing nationalist movements
across central and eastern Europe in particular, but to a lesser extent
almost everywhere) that could catalyse a chain reaction. I believe that
when this begins, it will happen with a speed that will take almost
everyone by surprise. From one month to the next, the EU could cease to
exist.
9. The UN security council would look like …
If Le Pen wins, the permanent members of the UN security council will be
represented by the following people: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Xi
Jinping, Theresa May and Marine Le Pen. It would be a stretch to call that
reassuring.
10. The Paris climate agreement trashed
National climate change programmes bear no connection to the commitments
governments made at Paris. Even if these programmes are fully implemented
(they won’t be), they set us on a climate-change trajectory way beyond that
envisaged by the agreement. And this is before we know what Trump will do.
11. … and the effects on migration
One of the many impacts of climate breakdown – aside from such minor
matters as the inundation of cities, the loss of food production and
curtailment of water supplies – will be the mass movement of people, to an
extent that dwarfs current migration. The humanitarian, political and
military implications are off the scale.
12. … with just 60 harvests left
According to the UN food and agriculture organisation, at current rates of
soil loss we have 60 years of harvests left.
13. … an accelerating extinction crisis
The extinction crisis appears, if anything, to be accelerating.
Enough already? Sorry, no. One of the peculiarities of this complex,
multiheaded crisis is that there appears to be no “other side” on to which
we might emerge. It is hard to imagine a realistic scenario in which
governments lose the capacity for total surveillance and drone strikes; in
which billionaires forget how to manipulate public opinion; in which a
broken EU reconvenes; in which climate breakdown unhappens, species return
from extinction and the soil comes back to the land. These are not
momentary crises, but appear to presage permanent collapse.
So the key question is not how we weather them but how – if this is
possible – we avert them. Can it be done? If so what would it take?
I write this not to depress you, though I know it will have that effect,
but to concentrate our minds on the scale of the task.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/25/13-
crises-we-face-trump-soil-loss-global-collapse?CMP=share_btn_link
Sent from my iPhone
On 27/11/2016, at 5:08 PM, worldwidepeaceorg@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
wwpoenglish Digest Sat, 26 Nov 2016 Volume: 03 Issue: 057
In This Issue:
[wwpoenglish] =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_[gha-peace]_Re:_[gha-peace
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From: "Prof. Ernesto Kahan" <ekahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [wwpoenglish] =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_[gha-peace]_
Re:_[gha-peace]_?> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 09:19:28 +0200
Re: [gha-peace] Trump’s Peacefulness and Global Peace Science 2016Dear Leo
and all
In Israel we are very grateful to Russia, Greece, Italy, Cyprus and other
countries for the important help to fight the terrible fires produced by
incendiary terrorists The whole country is burning, trees, forests, houses,
placid animals ... we do not sleep or rest. My wife and I wet the plants to
make them a barrier to the flames. There are 80,000 evacuees
Ernesto
From: Leo Semashko
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 7:49 AM
To: Prof. Ernesto Kahan ; gha-peace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Rene Wadlow
Cc: gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; ghausa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;
gha-peace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; wwpoenglish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;
iaewp.org@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gha-peace] Re: [gha-peace] Trump’s Peacefulness and Global Peace
Science 2016
Dear Ernesto,
I was happy to publish your wonderful poem of homage to women on your
personal page.
Thank you,
Leo
Dr Leo Semashko:
-State Councillor of St. Petersburg, Russia; RAN Professor;
-Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony; -Global Harmony
Association (GHA) Founder (2005) and Honorary President (2016);
-Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org;
-Global Peace Science (GPS) from Harmony (616 pages):
www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&keyX5; -SPHERONS as GPS Center
(20 pages): http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&keyB3; -NO TO USA
WAR WITH RUSSIA:
http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/no-to-war-hot-or-cold-with-russia;
-Personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key%3
