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Lot, Lotto, and Casino Capitalism

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Moreover, we need more of a say in our individual and global development.

 

One option would be to have the peoples and nations join in a more cooperative civilization orientation, such as the model provided by democratic world federalist movements.

 

For example, "The World Federalist Movement is an international citizen's movement working for justice, peace, and sustainable prosperity. We call for an end to the rule of force, through a world governed by law, based on strengthened and democratized world institutions. World federalists support the creation of democratic global structures accountable to the citizens of the world and call for the division of international authority among separate agencies."-

 

http://www.wfm.org/site/index.php/base/main

 

This movement calls for drastic reformation of the United Nations. 

 

The World Federalist Movement arose first  in the 1930s to provide an alternative to the fallen League of Nations and a response to bad capitalism practices and the rise of fascist ideologies. However, it has never been interested in communism or any other autocratic form of governance nor development.

 

http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Org/81887-106

 

The World Federalist Movement later was founded again after WWII and the United Nations had already begun to build an unjust post-war world.

 

Federalism is a concept older than democracies and dates back to the time of Lot, when tribes protected one another whom they treated as family members while trying to keep law and order in a chaotic world.

 

For example, Abraham's many attempts to take care of and support his nephew Lot were and example of the sort of tribes which would soon be found throughout the Middle East.

 

On the other hand, modern federalism is much more peace-oriented than was tribal federalism of Lot and Abraham's days.  For example, the current federal European Union is a relatively peaceful entity--spanning 30 countries who used to often be at each other's throats.

 

http://www.federalunion.org.uk/world/index.shtml

 

Any financial regime in this millennium needs to have as much political commitment as the EU movement has shown towards peace and development.  On the other hand, the EU has only barely touched upon working together with African, Asian and American nations to build a better planet.

 

This is why A world federalist regime is needed to oversee the economic system and to develop cooperatively regions of the world--already under siege by global warming and bad developmental debt earned over recent decades.

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KEVIN STODA-has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.--He sees himself as a peace educator and have been-- a promoter of good economic and social (more...)
 

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ALONE by WML on Saturday, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:04:06 AM
r u A federative, utopian or christian communist? by Kevin Anthony Stoda on Saturday, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:56:55 AM