Wealth without Money

I am one of the wealthiest people who has ever lived on planet Earth. By virtue of my citizenship in the Wealthy Society I have benefits, advantages, opportunities, resources, and riches beyond anything any king, queen, emperor or dictator ever had in any previous age.

To elevate and accentuate my wealthy status I have those notable marks of the wealthy – a higher education, influence, protection under the Law, a network of influential contacts and friends, mobility and opportunity. I have greater degrees of literacy as well as access to publicly funded health care which those folks in previous ages did not have.

They could not fly or drive or make a phone call or have an MRI, let alone blog about their political views in a Free and Open Society. I have all of this and so much more. So do many others. We live in a wealthy society and we are wealthy by virtue of this shared set of resources we call Canada.

Wealth without money is part of our daily culture in Canada. Even our poorest citizens have more than the famous rulers and despots and sages of all the ages past – cars, electricity, big wheel trucks and trailer parks, clean fresh water – indoors , plumbing and heating and air conditioning, light, credit, Internet, cell phones, mass communication, Rights and Freedoms, science and medicine and so on. These all make this society and our people wealthy beyond the dreams of those people of ages past.

Even people at the beginning of the 20th Century could not have conceived of anything so remarkable as what we have become and the world we have built. We are amazing and this gives us advantages as well as responsibilities for our more vulnerable friends, neighbours, families – for the whole world.

Together we can build this remarkable dream. Unified we can change the world into the Canadian Dream of peaceful stability with tolerance and shared wealth - Commonwealth. Divided we will fall for anything because “Nature hates a vacuum!” We can do this - just as Jack Layton urged us to do in his last letter to Canadians.

Why not reach for Excellence and Truth in all things? These two things were the core ideas in the emergence of the Golden Age of Ancient Greece in the age of Pericles.

These two simple and powerful ideas have driven Western Civilization for more than two thousand years. Let them drive us forward into and through the 21st Century.

This is the Golden Age of Canadian Culture.
...
..
.

The Wealthy Society – Tools for Responsible Citizenship

In Canada we have achieved some remarkable democratic benchmarks. As a result of what I call The Wealthy Society Canadians are [or can be] empowered to impact their own world and The Whole World in ways that are not within reach of most citizens of Planet Earth.

One Canadian can have more personal power than 1000 or 10,000 in the streets of Darfur or many communities in crisis around the world. This truth points to and describes our duty and responsibility to humanity and to the ecosystem.

Our peace and civility and stability and our policy of affordable health care have made so much possible. To throw it away or let it be torn from our grasp would be sad after the struggle to achieve it and the equally stiff one to retain those gains.

I think that when we act we should be clear about why we make choices. We represent those other ten thousand who cannot act for themselves and their families. They need us to act in their behalf and in their best interests.

We can easily help guide the world into a renewed and more hopeful world community. Hope still lives in Canada and we can export it. We have the resources. These are the same resources that have lifted so many Canadians out of poverty and helplessness and ill health.

This help has benefited everyone from Mr. Harper and his political team to the officers of our courts and ALL Canadians rich and poor. We all derive benefit from the common wealth.

Our people are our most precious democratic resource. It is with and through and for The People that I want to see Canada governed. I want to see us ruled only by our own unique democratic devices – Constitution, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Law and Order, Parliamentary democracy and traditions of Freedom.

These collective virtues empower all individuals, all groups, all communities, all that we are in sum total as a nation and as The People. We are Canada!
...
..
.

Ambassadors For Peace

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. - Noam Chomsky

The woman [sic] who really loves her [sic] own children...is the woman [sic] that wants to see other peoples' children get their chance too. Nellie McClung

There exists another compelling reality that possesses power to convince us of the need for fair and equal treatment of children in our publicly-funded and
sanctioned school systems. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, Canada is a nation that is coming of age in an historic Moment in which we are badly needed in the Global Community.

There is an emerging sense amongst citizens of The Earth that Canada is doing many things right. We do not seek to harm our neighbours, but rather offer all people kindness and support, especially in times of crisis.

As the world descends into what seems a deeper and steeper spiral of crisis upon deeper and more complex crisis, The Canadian Way is emerging as a beacon of Hope for the community of nations and for the citizens of every part of the Globe.

We have a reputation for making and keeping peace politically and militarily. A frightened and hurting world in conflict is looking to us to discover how people of all types and backgrounds and from every religion and nationality and language group can live together in relative peace and harmony.

We are a microcosm of and the model for a future world that can be responsible and co-operative and just and compassionate, and peaceful.

In order to export this, perhaps our most valuable cultural feature, we will need citizens who know the feel and the zeal of Liberty and are able to co-exist with and value their neighbours as equals, no matter what their condition or age or economic, social or educational status.

There will be no army of Ambassadors for our way of life if we do not provide clear and concrete opportunities for our young people to enjoy the richness that exists in being equal before a Just Law within a functional and purposeful set of Values and guided by a Vision of hope.

If we treat children with kindness and respect they will be much more inclined to remain in school, to get an education and training, and to support the system that supports them in and with appropriate manners.

Children are and can be such able, gentle, kind, co-operative, respectful, interesting, fun, helpful and educational people. Our teachers can learn much from them as students, as do the best of our post-secondary teachers learn from their students.

If we do not actively and energetically, efficiently and intelligently export Peace and our methods of achieving it, then it is highly likely that War will come to visit us in Canada. At that point most concerns around education, teacher employment contracts, availability of resources and so forth will be moot [irrelevant].

Perhaps we can preempt this possibility by acting in accordance with the real urgency of our circumstances and situation. To act now can prevent much
suffering later for Canadians and people of all nations.

Our situation could change suddenly and dramatically for the worse. But we [Canada] can make a significant positive difference. One way is through appropriate and effective education.

Children need Equal Rights in Canada, in our public schools and everywhere.

Peace Pays!

[excerpt from Our Most Precious Treasures: The Rights Of Children - chapter 8]
...
..
.

Restoring the Earth for Healthy Living - How to Clean the Oceans

The Earth – our home – has become a toxic waste pile and we need to clean it up...soon and quickly. The oceans are floating current-driven landfills. The air is damaged. The Earth and Water cry out! Toxic and nuclear disasters proliferate.

I have already begun this process of cleaning up the Mess in my own backyard...literally. I turned a rotting and neglected wasteland into a cool and refreshing paradise at zero cost and with a little capitalistic profit.

Now I'm branching out. Lol I want to clean up the whole Earth and see people profit from that set of actions. Billions and trillions of dollars at just waiting to be harvested. In the process of profiting we shall help the Earth.

If we are busy fighting we cannot be cleaning. I say clean! Make life on earth Sustainable and Clean. Together we can do this...Canadians can help.

I have an idea to help clean the oceans. I understand that in the center of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in the massive circling currents that are constant there are great seas of floating plastic...mostly shopping bags and bottles and sludge and so forth.

They drift and waft in endless circles creating a blight upon this life giving resource – the ocean. These circles of current are called 'gyres” - as in gyroscope.

I have an idea of how to remove that floating waste and derive great profit for many – build an entire new fisheries industry to harvest that plastic. We can refit our idle fishing fleets and build new ones to harvest this floating industrial treasure.

Recently I have seen a new piece of equipment on Facebook that can turn plastic back into oil in a very few minutes and at low cost - see links below. If we equipped fishing boats with the proper gear and sent them out to harvest this new ocean resource, many could be restored to productive dignity and even more to earning and wealth. This would also provide a new reliable source of oil at low cost of extraction.

This is not the whole answer but could easily be part of it. Once we make a start then we can think about finishing the job. It begins with you where you are and in this Moment. Let's clean up the Earth and the ecosphere.

Start now in your own way and in your own part of the world. Don't wait for anyone or anything. Just do your part of any magnitude possible to you...the larger the better.

Canadians can affect large groups and influence outcomes on a grand scale in a peaceful way. We can Dream and build the future we want for our children. Clean oceans are part of my Canadian Dream for our children and many generations to come.

This also appears to be a unique and profitable financial opportunity of a lifetime. Several versions of this technology are already available. All we need is investors to see the potential earnings and environmental savings that exist together in this floating plastic waste.


Japanese version of the machine for small operations anywhere in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGabrorRS8


American version which is on a more industrial scale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWf9nYbm3ac&feature=related

Let's go fishing!

Peace Pays!

“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Garbage_Patch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_Garbage_Patch
...
..
.

The Global Crisis - What's Wrong with the Economy?

SUMMARY - The Global Economic Crisis consists of a global children's slave trade PLUS an adult slave trade in the tens of millions, added to a widespread and growing militarism which under-girds and drives the world economic production. Many assume we must kill to prosper and use slaves to build wealth. I disagree. The rest is excuse making. Read on and consider this...

1 - The Ailment

There is much speculation about what ails the global economy and those local ones like Greece, Italy, America, and others which are trembling as though under some great invisible weight.

All of the experts [pundits and analysts on CNN, BNN, CTV, CBC, BBC, governments, and so on] agree that there are certain symptoms which they can read and use to help investors be wise in their decisions. The markets seem to be ignoring their opinions. Of course the Market IS imaginary. lol

I see the whole thing differently. I see a looming and simmering Crisis of global magnitude and historic proportions hovering in the shadows ready to break into the daylight and surprise the experts and the innocent alike. It is my opinion that if we do not solve the two central problems with the global economy then it will fail – irreversibly and critically.

Rapidly escalating war and militarism globally added to a dependency upon slavery to acquire wealth are the core of the real problem. This is not Sustainable and neither is the rapid destruction of the Earth for industrial extraction purposes.

I prefer to live a life that is clean, respectable and ethically responsible and urge all others to do the same – “no murder and no 'footprint'.” Perhaps this is partly the Oriental influence in my life, which teaches Simplicity in living. I call this “Success with Less.”

The causes of instability and of this economic Problem are really no secret. All media sources bombard our children with the details of this complex crisis all day long every single day. Many grown-ups seem able to filter out this Truth. It is the main message of the Data Flow.

Kids HEAR it...loud and clear. They do the Math and want to be part of the Solution and no longer excluded and lied to. This Crisis I describe is the scary Elephant in the dark room of every child's heart.

Yet governments and leaders [and experts of all kinds] pretend it's not happening...and say it must be about houses or oil or gold. Young people see this pretense as a betrayal. This is not economics. It's self-deception on a grand scale - which is a bad thing when managing international economies. It's about greed and bad [self-] government.

The problem is simple in my eyes. The main industry that drives the global economy is militarism – manufacturing of bullets of all sizes, bombs, missiles, drones, radar systems, transportation, satellite, intelligence, and naval systems and all kinds of aircraft - equipping, arming, warring, and all that goes with it – what President Eisenhower called “the military industrial complex”. We need to stop killing and making war for profit.

2 – The Diagnosis

People seem to accept it as – well 'acceptable' to generate wealth by violence. I do not. I refuse to earn a living by killing anyone let alone innocent children on the other side of the world whom I should be helping. And I don't want anybody killing anybody for me even if it does generate great wealth for some rich folks I don't know.

The other engine of the global economy is slavery. This secret underside of the global economy includes tens of millions of child slaves of many kinds - industrial, commercial, household, agricultural [like chocolate], mining & extraction, recycling, manufacturing, child soldiers, child prostitutes and sex slaves of both genders and all ages in many places, and others who make invisible contributions to the Wealth of Nations.

Their child labouring is increased and magnified by the much larger human slavery problem. Slavery requires tyranny and that's a steep and slippery slope away from democracy and free and fair market capitalism, thereby destroying democracy.

The exclusion of some from Equality excludes us all mathematically. It's the turning of the back on decency and humanity. It's the end of all that makes life meaningful and tolerable and wonderful.

I estimate that the profits from slavery constitute some ten to fifteen percent [10-15%] of the GGP [ Gross Global Product]. This is the buffer that western cultures of entitlement believe that they are entitled to. It appears that it actually belongs to others who are presently in chains and despair and in the grip of seemingly inescapable injustice that is driven by our prosperity and justified by our religions.

We can do better than this. We should do better than this. We MUST do better than this or the human and natural worlds will come to collect what we owe them. They will be angry. They will be armed, for we will have sold them the means to destroy us and all whom we love. That's business!

3 - The Prescription

What is my Prescription to end this injustice and self-destructive behaviour that is terrorizing our youth? A peace-based economy and an end to slavery. We can do this.

Democratically minded people in the past have done it and we must do as they did, which requires strength and courage. We must do it to survive and solve the Crisis – which is a combination of military, environmental, ethical and other crises all combined into a destructive complex Menace.

I have not heard any of this analysis or solutions to it from Mr. Flaherty the Minister of Finance or the Prime Minister Mr. Harper. They're putting their money on the banks. This problem I describe here is just not part of their analysis while it is the larger part of the danger that confronts us.

We need a new national consciousness that includes these dirty details about our wealth and how we get – through violence and exploitation and injustice.

4 – Who We Are

All the while we say Canada and Canadians love justice and peace. Nonsense...but we should. If we do not alter these truths instead of ignoring them, they will find us and make us pay.

We are like those sometimes cruel and exaggerated characterizations of the citizens of the Confederate States in the American Civil War – “content in our arrogant cruelty.”

I say pay now out of goodwill and good economics practice. My calculations tell me that the taxes and penalties on that historic debt will be too much for humanity to bear individually or altogether if it continues to accrue interest much longer.

Widespread terrorism is at least partly due to the consequences of this arrogance. We must find common ground that is decorated with Justice and Peace.

Peace Pays!
...
..
.