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Peace Day Preview Show: 100 day Countdown Campaign

As part of the 100 Day countdown to the 2010 International Day of Peace observance, Peace Day Global Broadcast (www.peaceday.tv) will post a two-hour preview of this years special event. The preview is broken in to ten (10) segments that include Human Rights, the Eight Millennium Development Goals, and the importance of Peace Day itself.

The preview includes entertainment from some of the worlds top artists, celebrities such as George Clooney and Matt Damon, interspersed with educational pieces from broadcast participants that include UNICEF, Action Against Hunger, Peace One Day, EarthDance, Free the Children, UN World Food Program, Water.org, Stand Up, the UN Millennium Campaign, The Elders, Nothing But Nets, Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots, Amnesty International, Engender Health, CARE, One Laptop Per Child, WE the World, Rain Forest Action Network, and many more.

Connecting the peaces of these outstanding humanitarian oriented charities, non-governmental organizations, and UN Agencies as they work towards social justice, greater peace, and the achievement of the eight Millennium Development Goals is the purpose of the broadcast. The theme is "Building Peace Through Sustainability."

Peace Day Global Broadcast is a "state of the world address", showing the solutions, and how we as a planet are doing in reaching the eight goals of poverty reduction, universal primary education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, combating disease, environmental sustainability, and global partnering.

2010 marks the 2nd annual Peace Day Global Broadcast event, in 2009 the first ever Internet based show followed the sun around the time zones of the world garnering over two million viewers who watched from a variety of websites, Facebook pages, and social network in which the Peace Day Player was embedded. With new relationships in place, a longer broadcast period (September 17th - 21st) and better technology at the broadcasters disposal, it is estimated that over 25 million will participate in the 2010 event.

Starting on September 17th with the ringing of the Peace Bell at UN Headquarters by the Secretary General, Ban-Ki Moon, the broadcast will continue with live feeds from around the world and special segments through the official International Day of Peace as voted upon unanimously by the UN assembly, that date is September 21st. On the 18th featured performers and live feeds from EarthDance locations will be on the menu, the 19-20 is the UN Millennium Review Summit, and on the 21st is the official 24 Hour Peace Day Global Broadcast event.

As part of the lead up to the event, Peace Day has a weekly radio program on Wednesday evenings from www.blogtalkradio.com/peaceportal, during the summer regular people will be asked to submit content via YouTube where they first ask "What's Your Peace", and then share their own peace/passion. Additionally this year, we'll take a special look at the history of the United Nation's International Day of Peace focusing on the efforts of Jeremy Gilley to establish the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence that has a fixed calendar date.

Remarkably, two years on, he achieved his primary objective when the 192 member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted 21 September as an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace. We call that day Peace Day.

On this day, food aide, medicine, and educational supplies are delivered to people in need across the globe without fear that the people providing the aid will be caught in a cross fire. Empirically, in Afghanistan and Africa the day works, aid is safely delivered which helps million upon million of children and adults who are need. Join your consciousness, help spread the message about this important single day where peace is more than just a word, it is a reality. Your part counts, your peace counts, so please, do your peace. Join us at www.peaceday.tv between June 13th and September 17th for the preview, then tune in to the live show September 17th-21st, tweet it, embed the player in blogs on your Facebook page, social networks or other websites.

Add your voice to the 2010 Peace Day Global Broadcast.
Post a video response to our What's Your Peace Campaign at YouTube.com/peacedaytv (coming Monday, June 14th)

The Peace Day Global Broadcast is brought to you by Unity Foundation, PeacePortal.mobi, ShockRa Entertainment, and the GlobaLink Totalvision Network. Sponsors are now being reviewed for acceptance, to apply for a sponsorship position or have your video included in this year's broadcast please e-mail media@peaceday.tv

June 12, 2010 | 5:44 PM Comments  0 comments


Foundations for Solving Global Crisises
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To truly get real about solving the climate crisis, or the related poverty and human rights crisis, or any other global issues common to humanity, requires having a basic set of foundational agreements about:

1) What the common root cause of these problems are; and
2) What constitutes a sustainable solution.

We believe it self-evident that the common cause is the Industrial Age economic model that creates money out of thin air, then requires the living people and the Earth pay the bill in labor or natures resources. When peoples labor pays the bill a debt crisis is eventually created with poverty the inevitable result; when nature pays the bill the environment is damaged. Only a few hundred years old, this economic model based on competiton and conflict has left our children a legacy of debt and a withering planetary environment.

"What an astounding thing it is to watch a civilization destroy its self because it is unable to re-examine the validity, under totally new circumstances, of an economic ideology." ~ Sir James Goldsmith



So What Is the Solution?

Information Age tools can relieve pressure on people and the environment.
Achieving this goal will require a common global community where even the poor can access digital wealth using a free peer to peer Information Age economic system where "value" is created from human elements of creativity (music, words, art) rather than natural resources.

A equal system where one can shoot an animal video instead of an animal, and provide wealth for their family earned by digital sales to a global audience. Prosperity Program in conjunction with Peace Portal Humanitarian Trust, and the FDU can meet this bold goal.

"If the Internet is going to become the engine of global commerce it's cracked up to be, it needs a currency it can call its own - a currency as nonproprietary and international as the Internet itself." ~ Wired

We must evolve to an Information Age socio-economic model for our future, and act responsibly to clean-up our mess if we wish to alleviate the problems caused by the the Industrial Age economy. This will not happen over-night, nor should it, our Plans and Projects are designed to ease the transition pains for humanity while relieving pressure on our environment using a Three Phase Plan.



Phase 1: Plan-It: Identify causes and solutions, participants, and protocals

Phase 2: Plant-It Implements solutions identified in phase one

Phase 3: Planet Integrate solutions over a global network.

Implementing a global Information Age solution will take approximately one generation, it is happening already and will happen irrespective of our efforts; to direct this change in such a way as to also address poverty, freedom, and environment requires three things happen in coordinated synergy.

Peace Portal is therefore sponsoring Projects and Programs required to ensure that the coordinated energy required to achieve this goal can be accessed, added to, and achieved with minimum effort.

Help balance the environmental damage done and GrowTrees like Costa Rica -try Paulownia Tree

May 2, 2008 | 3:15 PM Comments  0 comments


Internet Governance & Sustainability
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The Internet is considered by many to be the global infrastructure of the information society, the most critical piece of the economic, social and cultural foundation of our time. Internet governance can be used to gain a sustainable and freer future, with less poverty and a cleaner environment as long it is not stifled by regulators who are ill equipped to regulate a global community with needs unique to each local, socio-economic, and geographic User. Governance has been on the international agenda for a relatively short time, starting when ICANN was created in 1998.

As the Internet has matured various methods and trials for governing digital communities are now common place, most especially in virtual worlds like 2nd Life, and also in more conventional communities such as eBay or MySpace. With the coming of even greater experiments in Internet Governance are tried, such as the FDU ( Free Digital Universe) "Digitatorship", we expect this issue to become a high priority of International regulatory bodies. Competing regulatory entities from countries who are also competing for trade surpluses, are a big part of why we have a global environmental crisis on our hands in the first place.

Hear me I beg you people, the law forums in which corporations, governments, and all fictional bodies politic are contractually bound to operate is "Competitive." Debt money is created and it trickles down to the Earth paying the bill, the interest on the loan adds insult to injury by creating trickle down poverty - only now it's reaching the 1st world too. Look who you are asking now to solve to the problem, Corporations who have a fiduciary duty to serve their shareholders first (anything else would be illegal), countries their citizens, Trusts their beneficiaries, etc... If we want to really address the environment (reality, Earth, Substance) we will need to "GET REAL" - have living people (all of us) take responsibility by enough peers stepping up and creating a global association where cooperation gets everyone more than competition, a free space.

Additionally, we living people (souls) will need to provide the corporations a place they too can cooperate and still benefit - as long as they behave - like in a Church parking lot fundraisers, where corporate competitors become cooperative Vendors for that day in order to both access the people coming to the Church fundraiser - they can both profit and support the community in this type of instance. A law forum where competition is set aside for the good of all, yet still allows everyone to prosper, would be a excellent Governance system. One is even designed and close to being tested, it should get exciting soon, the Information Age is maturing.

It is my hope that the living people who are the real stakeholders will mature in use of this tool for humanity by participating here, on the WECANSOLVEIT platform, and through participation in open Internet communities working toward sustainable economic eco-systems. If peers (living people) don't speak up, by default it will once again be left to powers that be to provide regulation.

International dialogue tending toward greater regulation has been ongoing since 2003, when delegates to the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) concluded that Internet governance concerns went beyond web names and numbers. Decisions taken around this wider set of issues will have important implications for sustainable development. Examples of points of convergence between Internet governance and sustainable development include:

1. The dependence of developing countries and development organizations on the stability and security of the Internet. The case of Zimbabwe's country-wide interruption in service illustrates this point;

2. The role of the Internet itself in supporting better institutional governance (for example, in facilitating institutional accountability and transparency and citizen participation in governance activities. As the Louder Voices report points out, a significant portion of developing countries do not have the capacity to realize or take advantage of these opportunities); and

3. Internet-enabled global knowledge sharing and management (for example, in the areas of health; food, agriculture and biodiversity; education; and science and technology).

The WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance developed this working definition of Internet governance, which was adopted by the WSIS governments in the Tunis Agenda (2005):

...the development and application by governments, the private sector and civil society, in their respective roles, of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programmes that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.

This definition is helpful in that it enumerates the stakeholders and some of the challenges facing Internet governance; however, it provides no direction as to what a system, or a combination of systems, of Internet governance would require in order to be sustainable.

One of IISD's strategic objectives is to advance sustainable development by contributing to institutional transformation, particularly through promoting the principles of accountability, participation and legitimacy.

The final meeting of the Word Summit on the Information Society in November of 2005 in Tunis saw the creation of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), aimed at providing a "multi-stakeholder" space on a wide range of topics related to Internet governance. IISD's participation in the first meeting of the IGF focused on strengthening the role of young people in the process and on contributing to discussions around the links between the governance of the Internet and sustainable development.

Following the meeting, IISD helped organize and moderated one of the three thematic weeks of the electronic consultation among young people on Internet governance issues. The discussion archives can be accessed here.

Read about the differences between Physical Governance and Digital Governance.


May 2, 2008 | 3:13 PM Comments  0 comments


Why Poverty Exists
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Poverty is a seemingly complex issue; there are many various causes that create conditions of poverty such as lack of education, natural conditions of drought or flooding, and corruption. However complex, there is a single issue that more than any other condition that perpetuates a spiral of ever increasing poverty in the third world, that issue is "use of debt money."



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Governments borrow money, and like any lender the one lending the money wants to be paid back, with interest. Seems fair enough. The problem is that when governments borrow it is the real people whom have to repay the loans, and make interest payments.

"The developing world now spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants." ~ Global Development Finance, World Bank, 1999

Adding insult to injury, the people of a country often never receive any portion of the funds that their government borrowed.



"The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money." ~ Debt - The facts, Issue 312 - May 1999, New Internationalist child2b.jpg



The citizens of countries wind up paying the bills because they have pledged themselves to back the public faith of their governments debt, they are "citizens" and as such are the only collateral governments have, so governments borrow and then necessarily extract resources from their citizens to repay the Creditors. povertyfam.jpg



In 1997 the foreign debts of 'developing' countries were more than two trillion US dollars which averages out to a debt of $400 for every man, woman and child in the developing world - where average income in the very poorest countries is less than a dollar a day. Clearly this is non-sustainable.



Most of the increase in debt during the 1990s was to pay interest on existing loans. It was not used for sustainable development or education, or to address the causes of poverty. In six of the eight years from 1990 to 1997, developing countries paid out more in debt service (interest plus repayments) than they received in new loans - a total transfer from the poor South to the rich North of $77 billion. childpain1.jpg



You would think the richer countries had enough, maybe at least enough to decrease the developing worlds interest payments so less people need starve.



"According to UNICEF, 30,000 children under the age of five die each day due to poverty. That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children - under five years of age, each year." ~ State of the World's Children, 2005, UNICEF



In return for new loans to poor countries, the lenders insisted on 'structural adjustments' to increase their chances of being paid back. This meant cutting government spending on things like healthcare and education - the very services on which poor people, women and children in particular, rely upon to escape the cycle of poverty. Many of these countries have ended up spending more on servicing their debts than on the basic needs of their citizens. deth1.jpg



"The lives of 1.7 million children will be needlessly lost this year [2000] because world governments have failed to reduce poverty levels." ~ Missing the Target; The price of empty promises, Oxfam, June 2000



The debts of the poorest 'low-income' countries are owed to First World governments, or private corporations and 'multilateral' institutions like the IMF. In many cases the Third World governments never even borrowed the money in the first place, instead private debt was transformed into public debt through government guarantees and 'support' for private business. Its not unlike when your credit card debt gets sold to a Third Party Collections company, you didn't contract with the company collecting on you and now the bill has increased over what you owed do to interest, penalties, and processing fees.



It should seem obvious that continued use and borrowing of money which requires interest be paid on it only continues the cycle of poverty. But what other money is there to use?




It seems logical that a complimentary digital currency might provide a solution to this cycle, it would if it could meet the following honest monet criteria; digicash1.jpg




1. It is usable by the individual Globally, meaning usable in a single forum amongst any people irrespective of national, geographic, or other distinctions;



2. It is interest free;



3. It is earned as opposed to borrowed, so it is used as a "Credit" as opposed to a "debt" instrument;


4. Can be earned by activities people are already engaged in;


5. It can be earned starting with nothing;


6. IT IS BASED ON ASPECTS OF BEING HUMAN - NOT NATURAL RESOURCES; a Information Age economic model to compliment the Industrial Age economic model; and


7. It is exchangeable through peer exchange mechanisms both on-line and off with the current publicly issued money system and its various debt bssed urrencies;




~ May You Be Blessed With Good Health, Long Life, Prosperity, Wisdom, & Peace

May 2, 2008 | 3:10 PM Comments  0 comments


FDU Economic Model for the Information Age
Related to this project: Free Digital Universe
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FDU ECONOMIC MODEL:

One purpose of the FDU design is to provide a comprehensive Information Age economic model that sustainably addresses extreme global poverty, over-use of natural resources, and unequal compensation in a globalized world. Our Game is designed to improve the human and planetary condition by supporting humanitarian partners with the capacity to resolve issues related to lack of basic resources in health care, education, jobs, fair wages, food, water, and shelter.

If we trace the causes of poverty, the above mentioned issues, and of environmental degradation on a planeary scale we will find they all have a common root-cause, the Industrial Age economic model. The FDU Game will test a Information Age economic model.

The current economic model creates wealth out of thin air and then requires that one of two forms of substance pay the bill, the first is to extract it from Earths natural resources thereby upsetting our natural planetary cycles; the second source of substance for paying the debt is the labor of living people.

While poverty has always been a issue, it was only with the advent of the Industrial Age and it’s use of paper money that extreme gaps in poverty developed along with the gap between the richest and the poorest.

An analysis of long-term trends since the approximate start of the Industrial Age indicates the distance between the richest and poorest countries has grown, causing extreme poverty to those who are on the loosing side of the equation.

· 3 to 1 in 1820
· 11 to 1 in 1913
· 35 to 1 in 1950
· 44 to 1 in 1973
· 72 to 1 in 1992

The result today is dire. A kindergarten class a second dies, that is 30,000 children a day under the age of five; Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day. This is a direct result of the Industrial Age economic model trying to keep up in our current day with monstrous debt load that has been created out of nowhere via the phenomenon of interest.

“The developing world now spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants.” ~ Global Development Finance, World Bank

This continued cycle of poverty is based on the assumption of a competitive nature based economy. In return for new loans to poor countries, lenders in the 1980s and 1990s insisted on 'structural adjustment' to increase their chances of being paid back. This meant cutting government spending on things like healthcare and education - the very services on which poor people (and women and children in particular) rely. Many of these countries have ended up spending more on servicing their debts than on the basic needs of their citizens.


The Free Digital Universe and it’s component parts hope this Game will help individuals and companies from around the Globe to better respond to the dilemmas created by the Industrial Age. You may view the integrated Information Age Charity Plans plan at www.peacepoprtal.mobi, where the integrated non-profit organizations can be viewed and participated in.

“The technology of the Information Age makes it possible to create assets that are outside the reach of many forms of coercion. This new asymmetry between protection and extortion rests upon a fundamental truth of mathematics. It is easier to multiply than to divide.”

“Information technology will create equivalent opportunities for competitive choice in domiciling economic activities, but with important differences. One is that unlike the medieval frontier societies, cyberspace is likely to be in due course the richest of economic realms. It will therefore tend to be a growing rather than a receding frontier.”

With the tools of the Information Age we can achieve our goals. With the help of the independent peer partners whom have chosen to implement the Free Digital Universe concept, perhaps we can relieve pressure on individuals, communities, and governments.

“If you don’t like the way to the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

“Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev

Most succinctly, the purpose of the Free Digital Universe is to provide a viable starting point for experimenting with Information Age models of commerce which serve to free people by providing them with the tools to become locally self-sustainable.


May 1, 2008 | 12:05 PM Comments  0 comments


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