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The Poetry Man — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:56:59 -0400

Don't burn the flag. Wash it!

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
-Samuel P. Huntington
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O heal thy heart,
Thou white steely souls
Whose bleeding desire is to rule the world.
American knights, heal this offense.

Heal thy spirit of this dreadful lust.
Do away with itÃ¢â‚¬Â¦
There is much hunger for peace,
For love.

There is much yet to be spoken,
Much to heal of thy sickly onslaught,
Much to be gleaned of this world
And its hunger for salvation.

O! the breath of man
Need be sweetened!
Softness need envelop her,
And the wanton paws of this;

Thy dominant voyage need come to an end,
For it serves only to shackle and bloody
The supple lips of hope
Upon divinityÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s dripping mouth.

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Susan Livingston — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 15:07:47 -0400

Welcome to the propeace community, Mitch. It's good to know that we have great financial minds in the movement. However, I detect a note of frustration in your post, and I want to encourage you to hang in there. The change we all seek is already happening. I hope you will check out the People's Initiative for Departments and Ministries of Peace and see that we do not, in fact, have to be as cohesive as you imagine. What we are witnessing is a case of convergent evolution. Your frustration may be born of the fact that, when you made your entry onto the scene, the world wasn't ready yet. Things hadn't gotten bad enough yet for people to say ENOUGH! Now, the time is ripe. In "do or die" situations, our species has shown a remarkable capacity for choosing the former option. Peace on!

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mitch gold — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:43:52 -0400

the reason I am writing is because I am a peacemaker. You may never have heard of me, as my name is Mitch Lewis Gold. I have not been recognized by the media in my own country for a reason which I would have difficulty articulating - most likely the program for peace that I have been carrying may sometimes get confused with the other messages I carry for spiritual elders. Frankly it is a confusing job at best as it does not pay very well.

However this is not intended to be a rant - or an ongoing dialogue of my trials and tribulations over the past years since we had the Implementation Strategy for a Culture of Peace endorsed by the inaugural session of the Foundation for a culture of Peace. We had been invited to this event by Federico Mayor Zaragozzo when he first learned of our strategy for Peace.
Mr Mayor invited me to Madrid to present our ideas to 250 of the world leading peacemakers at the time. Our presentation was accepted and endorsed by the individuals at the conference including many "household names". I cannot imagine why this program has not received the funding required to test it. It is almost unimaginable I should say. Because the story of the past six years is debilitating at best.

Again I should say the reason I am writing is to ask this network to take a look at the implementation strategy designed almost 8 years ago and add it to your own - that is all that is necessary - to build an economic factor into peace that assures peace. In a way the Propeace month is reinventing our program and reinventing the program enunciated by Dr. Young Seek Choe over twenty years ago . We added one notion to Dr. Choe's initiative that you may well consider. It is expressed in a slogan by the following:
Humankind will make peace when peace makes money.

This is the thought that your organization has enunciated partially in its 1% solution (Kucinich) . Our program is deeper and broader than that. It is rooted in the shifting of the spend and control buttons at the United Nations. In concept the UN has agreed to most of the basic precepts (the MDG's and the UN Global Compact) - but one important quality is outstanding, and it is a pre-condition of the United States participating with the United Nations. Many do not talk about this. It is an unpopular topic. IMHO the US has taken the position that: If the US does not maintain control over the UN then the free world is damned. I think this is the rationale that keeps the discussion off the tables of Dialogue.

Maybe I should make the statement here. There is a law passed in the US that the day following any implementation of a "global tax" by the UN then the US is automatically resigned from the UN. This Bill was drafted I think by Jesse Helms many years ago.

It is this singular bill that keeps the International community dysfunctional. What I have constructed is a way around this law. When I presented the process to Boutros Boutros Ghali he was so encouraging that I may have found a loop-hole - a process for financing peace. He did warn me that there was a bullet with my name on it when I become a success. Well I am not dead yet - so clearly I am not a success.

What I did also present at the time was my process for not getting shot. That was to put the spend and control of the funds generated by my plan and strategy under a Wisdom Council. A council of Elders. I have done that. There are a number of Wisdom Councils coming together in Toronto in July.2006. Our program and processes will be presented to them there as we move on with our concepts and integrate new learnings and teachings over the past nine years.

It is wise for all of us in the peace movement to recognize what we have learned over the past 20 years. And shift our activities based upon these learnings. Jean Houston refers to this as Jump Time and the necessity for the emergence of the Social Artist. Hazel Henderson suggests a change in Ethics through her TV program - Ethical Markets;. and Barbara Marx Hubbard speaks of an Ascending Humanity - how to awaken to your higest self.

So these programs are easily integrated into our eight year old strategy for peace.

How do networks integrate? It is interesting that Bono (U2) has met with me, and has taken several of the ideas for his own, and unfortunately has not integrated. Yvon Choinard from Patagonia - a well meaning human being took a portion of our ideas - through his 1% for the Planet program and we have yet to integrate.

Stephen Lewis, the world's greatest speaker today and destined to be the spokesperson for the planet - if he can just get to understand his role. Right now he is almost immobilized with frustration from what he has seen as he travels the world. Proforpeace should approach Mr Lewis to add one phrase to all his presentation - the label for peace - which we have designated as homeplanet.org .

This of course could change if someone had a better name and logo. Ours has been spiritually integrated so we have a degree of attachment to it. However if change it need be then change it.

What is the next step?

As they say. Get a job. and that is what I am doing.

The job is implementing the program. The money will follow.

Our program has two complimentary programs:
One for Individuals - the cost is $100 to receive the benefits package. There is 250 000 benefits packages created. This will generate $25 M which will be spent in supporting the World Peace network that aligns its vision with our program. It should be noted that the program is almost identical with the one first enunciated in Madrid.

And the parallel program is for Corporations. This program is $120,000. It represents a combination of corporations shifting their behaviour to support new accounting practices - namely triple bottom line accounting - and promotion of the One Per Cent Solution through their companies Vendor Policy Code. Doing business with corporations that are doing business with the planet in mind.

In a nutshell, that is where we are.

The packages are commisionable for any that choose to assist with the marketing and sales - there will be job openings for people teaching peace, and developing media stories on others making peace.

What role will you choose to play?

And what are you already doing that we can support as we move through our process. Peace is not an either/ or process. One thing to remember is that TOO many initiatives disapates our energy - and that is what the corporations want - they want us to delay the process of change. Our role is to bring corporations into Jump Time - the NOW of our social activism.

If any out there have a better strategy that we should align to , please advise.

Peace

Mitch L Gold

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Mitch Lews Gold
www.homeplanet.org
IAEWP
First Nations Indigenous Trust
Institute for Global Accountants
416-924-4449

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mitch gold — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:17:54 -0400

http://peacemaker.blog.com/ Having spent 1000 days on a "peace" vision quest, and now ready for the next step - which probably should have begun a lot sooner, I am beginning my writing and discussion on how we might achieve peace on our planet. My story begins in June 23 1997 at the United Nations. It was the day that the tobacco companies settled for $268 billion dollars. I learned that day that the budget for UNICEF was $720 million with another $270 million coming from the GCO ( Greeting Card operations).

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