1998-10-07 Richard Moore [continued…] ———————————————————————— The question of world government ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Above, under the assumption that most nations had achieved functional democracy, I observed that the UN would very likely become a hotbed of enthusiastic international cooperation, and that initial attention would most likely be focused on the creation of a stable framework for international … Read more
1998-10-05 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Oct. 5 Ole Fjord Larsen, secretary of the formative World Parliament of THE UNITED PEOPLES, sent this list of addresses linked to anti-MAI activism. Janet Eaton (a well-known systemic change agent, researcher and educator here in Nova Scotia) did up a very complete list of web sites (annotated), which … Read more
1998-10-02 Richard Moore ———————————————————————— Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 Sender: World Order Conference List <•••@••.•••> From: Helmut Burkhardt <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Dear members of the Evolution of World Order Discussion List, The state of the world, economically, socially, politically, and ecologically and the direction of changes are worrisome to many. Climate change threatens our environment … Read more
1998-10-01 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Oct. 1 Ole (last name?) of a people’s press agency based in Denmark, wrote this enthusiastic endorsement of the Turning Point 2000 – Take Back America! idea: (BTW, if you send postings for this list, it helps if you include your name and “title” (with a web site or … Read more
1998-09-30 Jan Slakov Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 01:44:53 -0300 From: •••@••.••• (R.Magellan) Subject: Tobin tax and indebtedness Dear members of the RN list: I am writing a book whose title is “Economic Globalization and Law”. One of its chapters will deal with the Tobin Tax proposal. I have been amassing research material on this … Read more
1998-09-28 Jan Slakov From: Carolyn Ballard <•••@••.•••> To: “Jan Slakov (E-mail)” <•••@••.•••> Subject: ON-LINE COURSES Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 01:29:51 -0400 —–Original Message—– From: Robert Weissman [SMTP:•••@••.•••] Sent: Saturday, September 26, 1998 5:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list CORP-FOCUS Subject: a commercial break Dear Friends: As it has in recent years, Z Magazine … Read more
1998-09-28 Richard Moore Globalization and the Revolutionary Imperative Part II – Chapter 5 – preliminary Copyright 1998 by Richard K. Moore 26 September 1998 – 5780 words book maintained at: http://cyberjournal.org/cadre/gri/gri.html —————————————————————————- Part II – Envisioning a livable world: common sense, not utopianism —————————————————————————- Chapter 5 – Democracy: collaboration and harmonization instead of competition and … Read more
1998-09-28 Richard Moore [continued…] ———————————————————————— Functional democracy — is it a utopian vision? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So far this chapter has been an investigation into functional democracy, an attempt to identify why Western systems fail to be democratic, and an attempt to identify the processes necessary for functional democracy. In this investigation, perhaps ironically, models from sound … Read more
1998-09-28 Richard Moore ———————————————————————— Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:42:41 +0800 To: •••@••.••• From: “Ibon Foundation Inc.” <•••@••.•••> Subject: International Conference on Alternatives to Globalization Mime-Version: 1.0 International Conference on Alternatives to Globalization November 7-9, 1998 Development Academy of the Philippines Tagaytay City, Philippines Draft Program November 6 Arrival/Registration November 7 8:00 Registration 10:00 Welcome … Read more
1998-09-27 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Sept. 27 It is not easy to get “alternative” (anti-MAI, anti-militarist, pro-democracy, etc.) candidates elected to represent us. But it is possible to get through to some elected officials, even if they are not “alternative” candidates. And in trying to reach them, we can help educate others too. The … Read more