January 2011, Issue #35 of The WorldVoter

[The WorldVoter]

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Ted Stalets
Co-President
Vote World Parliament

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The WorldVoter
the newsletter of
Vote World Parliament
— democratic world parliament through a global referendum —

www.VoteWorldParliament.org
Vote World Parliament co-presidents are Ted Stalets and Jim Stark
www.RescuePlanForPlanetEarth.com
This site, above, is for the VWP companion book, Rescue Plan for
Planet Earth

Issue #35, January, 2011
(This issue and all previous issues are posted at
http://voteworldparliament.org/about/newsletter/)

THE SCORE

As of January 16, 2011, 21,562 people have voted. So far, the votes
are 95.4% in favor of creating a democratic world parliament.

Quotes of the month

Vote World Parliament appears to be making great strides on the
Internet. Your work, I believe, will prove to be enormously helpful
to achieving a democratic world federation. Dr. Roger Kotila, Board
Chair, DWF (Democratic World Federalists) USA Vice President, WCPA
(World Constitution and Parliament Association)

I must congratulate you both on a very slick little app here (the VWP
voting booth). It looks totally professional. If the press needs a
contact, give them my phone number and I’ll hype them until they beg
for mercy. Jim, we’re going to win this one. From an email to Jim
Stark and Ted Stalets dated January 7, 2011 from Dwight Gilbert Jones,
author of The Humanist (a novel; available for free download as an
Ebook at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/6769).

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News in brief

New Board member

Dwight Gilbert Jones, from Vancouver, British Columbia on Canada’s
west coast, is the author of The Humanist, and has offered to join our
Board and help us achieve our goals (see quote, above). He is now on
our Board, and here’s his mini-bio:

Dwight Jones is a Humanist writer of speculative fiction and a
businessman in Vancouver, Canada. He studied physics, philosophy and
biosciences at McGill, Simon Fraser and Berkeley. A former computer
manufacturer, laboratory owner and founding Internet provider in BC’s
Gulf Islands, his focus now is on the deployment architecture of AED
(defib) devices. His writings are dedicated to reviving Humanism as a
positive philosophy, free of its appropriation by over-reaching
atheists. A dedicated UN supporter, he feels that the UNPA will become
the cornerstone institution of our species’ future governance, and
that worldwide referenda will break the grip of nationalist elites on
the human family. His websites are: www.humanism.ws and www.elevaed.com.

Press Release coming end of January

The co-presidents of VWP, Ted Stalets and Jim Stark, are issuing a
media release in two weeks or so. The point is that we know how to
make our global referendum go “viral” on the Internet, using our new
“voting booth” initiative. Billions of people want world peace more
than anything else, but “common knowledge” tells them that it’s just a
pipedream, a fantasy that we trot out and salute every Christmas—only
to be tucked away a few weeks later with the lights and the tinsel.
And yet for all our lip service, and even allowing for a large amount
of sincere desire, human beings have fought wars ever since they could
pick up sticks and throw stones, and if the past is any teacher, we
will keep doing that until we nuke ourselves into oblivion—probably
this century.

Some of us are fed up, and intend to start a revolution—a peaceful,
political revolution, but a true revolution all the same. We have a
practical device, the portable voting booth, that permits the human
species to collect a global mandate for the creation of a directly-
elected, representative and democratic world parliament in the next
decade. If we have that global mandate in hand, there is no nation or
group of nations that can tell the whole of humanity to get lost. If
we build it, it will legislate to criminalize war … among other
things. So will people say: “Hey, here’s a cool new tool that will get
us the pipedream we’d pretty much given up on?” Hard to say, but my
bet is that humanity will say “yes” to the vehicle and to the
destination.

The press release is embargoed for the present, but this article
isn’t, so feel free to send it around to all your contacts. And if you
want your name added to a list of those who will receive the press
release the day it goes out to the media, send us your name and email
address (send to voteworld...@webruler.com) and we’ll send the
press release to you in the hope that you will send it on to every
reporter and journalist that you know … and anyone else you think
might appreciate a new future for our world.

Video: How to embed the VWP voting booth on your website or Facebook
page

To see the portable ballot on a website, go to www.LifeProfilesBooks.com
and click on the graphic link. These graphic links are available in 53
languages (via Google Translate; see http://voteworldparliament.org/shadowbox/getballot.html).
For detailed instructions on how to embed the voting booth, see
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAiE-wIsU7U for a video, and
www.voteworldparliament.org/votingboothinstructions.pdf for an
illustrated static presentation. There are four small icons on the
bottom of the ballot, for Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in and Blogger.
The ballot installs in these applications automatically if you click
on the appropriate icon and then log into your account.

(Great truckloads of gratitude to Ted Stalets for the long days of
arduous work he put into conceptualizing and actualizing this voting
booth gizmo. Extremely well done, sir.)

New book on global governance

Random House has published a new book called How to Run the World:
Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance, by Parag Khanna. Reviews
and links to book vendors are on his personal website page for HOW TO
RUN THE WORLD.

Here is Jim Stark’s return email (the key paragraphs) to Parag
Khanna:

Congratulations on the publication of your new book, How to Run the
World. I have put a notice about it in the next issue of our
newsletter, The WorldVoter.

When you talk about enlisting companies and NGOs and “others” into a
global governance decision-making body, I must wonder what happens to
the principles of democracy? Who picks the companies, the NGOs, or
those un-named and somewhat mysterious “others” you refer to? And when
you speak of “delivering” solutions, who are they delivered to, and
who enforces the rules or laws that would be required to make
solutions stick and work? (I could go on, as you may have guessed by
now.)

I am far from convinced that you have put your finger on something
that is better than (or, for that matter, equal to or comparable to)
democracy. My book, Rescue Plan for Planet Earth, applies democratic
principles to global governance. And our NGO, Vote World Parliament
(see www.voteworldparliament.org), actually provides the mechanism (a
global referendum) whereby we can choose, if we want, to create a
directly-elected, representative and democratic world parliament that
is authorized to legislate on global issues.

New coalition a possibility for the global referendum?

Hundreds of organizations and thousands of scholars have been talking
about the idea of a world government/parliament since WWII, to no
great avail. This is why Vote World Parliament calls itself
(colloquially) a “one trick pony” (we often add “but what a trick”).
VWP is focused almost exclusively on how to actually create a world
parliament, leaving the scholarly discourse (mostly) to others. Now,
after six years, other “mundialist” outfits are beginning to recognize
that our limited focus was a wise and critical decision. While meaning
no disrespect to others, we point out that it’s not that useful to
kick around the details of a hypothetical world parliament unless
there is at least the prospect of achieving that goal sometime in the
foreseeable future.

Anyone who is familiar with VWP knows our basic strategy. Collect a
compelling global mandate for the creation of a world parliament, and
no person, group, nation, collection of nations or any other force
will be able to prevent us from constructing what the human race has
voted for. By “compelling,” we mean that at least half of the world’s
adults have voted, and at least 67% of those votes are in the “yes”
column. If this is the case, we think that should be seen as legally
binding under international law, and we think that it should be
politically compelling even if it is not universally accepted as
legally binding.

Our strategy had to answer another key question. Can such a global
referendum be done. Yes, it can be started over the Internet (it can
even be finished over the Internet), and if it acquires momentum
there, it can be turned over to the UN to run a formal world vote (see
UN resolution at http://voteworldparliament.org/allies-initiatives/draft-un-resolution/).
It is our thinking that while we can finish the global referendum on
the Internet, the better way is through the UN, since that way each
nation would be called upon to do a national referendum in tandem with
a national election, which brings into play national resources like
official voters’ lists and scrutineers, thus preventing most voter
fraud.

But how to get the momentum established on the Internet. Well, we have
been striving to accomplish that for more than six years now, but
frankly, we weren’t fully prepared until now. Go to
http://voteworldparliament.org/shadowbox/getballot.html and you’ll see
our amazing new portable voting booth. This device means we know how
to make the global referendum go viral on the Internet. But there is
one proviso; other NGOs (and hopefully churches, unions, entertainment
and sports stars, companies, etc,) will have to help out, to get those
they can influence to cast their votes, and get them to vote “yes.”

In order to achieve this, VWP is prepared to give up control of the
global referendum to a new Board of Directors made up of
representatives of these various groups … at the right time and in a
way that assured the continued integrity of the initiative. To those
who may be interested in playing a role in this potentially historic
plan I say this; join us now. Let’s launch this global referendum such
that no amount of fear mongering can bring us down.

Recommended article

“How the Earth will look in the year 3000,” By Bill Graveland, The
Canadian Press | Metro – Sun, 9 Jan 12:02 PM EST
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/earth-look-3000-20110109-090200-319.html

The 12 “talking points” of WCPA

The following talking points were sent to us by Dr. Roger Kotila, an
American activist in the quest for a world constitution and parliament
(see Quotes of the Month above). They can be found at www.earthfederation.info.
Glen T. Martin (the Secretary-General, World Constitution and
Parliament Association) has added an “explanatory text” on his web
site at www.radford.edu/~gmartin.

Earth Federation / Earth Federation Talking Points

#1 Replaces the global war system with a global peace system

#2 Disarmageddon

#3 Replaces the “new world order” with a democratic world order

#4 Saves beneficial United Nations agencies

#5 Protects and expands core values — freedom, liberty, independence,
democracy

#6 Love of family and country

#7 More local control with increased resources

#8 Freedom of religion

#9 First green constitution

#10 Ecological principles embedded in Earth Constitution

#11 Good government

#12 Protection against tyranny