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Our top priority must be to realize non-violently Article 3 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Those of the First World population have realized Article 3 for themselves and reciprocity is a productive, healthy guideline; so, let's devise and achieve the needful in a socially organic manner to "Meet the Minimum Needs of All",(MMNA), and benefit from the enhanced mental health, prior to pursuit of additional profit.

I am a professor of physics at a university, and I also have an interest in social psychology / social planning. As a boy growing up in India in the 1940s, I observed the implications of scarcity in the distribution of food and other resources. Some received little and that left me uneasy leading to a desire to strive to meet the minimum needs of others around me. Today, economic development has reduced scarcity while the uneven distribution leaves about half the global population in penury.

In the year 2002, I had the opportunity to share this concern 'on the poverty of many' with Quakers of New York Yearly Meeting (NYYM) of the Religious Society of Friends, that eventually led to a (NYYM) Minute on "Meet the Minimum Needs of All" in 2006, and work on MMNA continues...

The creation and utilization of the Internet over the past couple of decades has resulted in higher levels of global communication and interactive participation, creating expectations on global accountability, to drive the future; it places new responsibilities on those who govern and the governed.

This opportunity creates the hope that MMNA may be realized by 2030.

That said, I have published five research papers on human resource development, have negotiated contracts for a group, am in my second marriage, am blessed with two sons and their families, my wife, our daughter, extended family members and F/friends.

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Monday, August 10, 2009
Meet the Minimum Needs of All, (MMNA)- Intention: WEBINAR
"Meet the Minimum Needs of All 2030" (MMNA30), is a framework in the making, that would thread the eye of the needle of justice within global human law, under contest and yet to be acknowledged. With regard to MMNA, national law is ill -conceived, deficient and not in a position to deliver. Global human law is necessary.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Consciousness and Development
Consciousness is endowed with a comprehensive charge to be a global care-giver, that can no longer be ignored by clever localized themes of competition. The article provides the bases for this viewpoint and a suggested course of action to meet the Minimum Needs of All (MMNA), practice geonomics, and elicit universal free-enterprise participation by the global population.

Sunday, February 8, 2009
GEONOMICS: Meet the Minimum Needs of All (MMNA)
(5 comments) "The fruits of the Earth belong to all of us"; that includes, all non man-made resources, such as land, fossil fuels, minerals, the electromagnetic spectrum, oceans, drinking water, the atmosphere, space, and logical structures, constituting our common heritage. The elite who monopolize possession of these must pay "ground rent" on the possession to be distrubuted amongst its natural owners--every man, woman and child alive.

Friday, January 23, 2009
The Management of Evaluated Hope through Trust
(2 comments) Acknowledgment by the First World working population (1200 million) of the 30,000 daily global poverty deaths administered by the global political economy (GPE), can no longer be overlooked. Kindness and charity institutions would always bring us comfort as we tend to poverty created by us; but if we do not want poverty deaths in our name, we must require the GPE to MMNA and facilitate the material human rights of all.

Monday, January 19, 2009
A More Perfect Global Union
(1 comments) Our top priority must be to realize non-violently Article 3 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The First World population has realized Article 3 for themselves and reciprocity is a productive, healthy guideline; so, let's devise and achieve the needful in a socially organic manner to "Meet the Minimum Needs of All",(MMNA), and benefit from the enhanced mental health, prior to pursuit of additional profit.

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