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Blank State – The Future of World Democracy?
A new project that aims to create a global democracy from scratch has settled on its first goal: to gather at least one member from every country in the world. Blank State, as the group is known, has been founded on a single core principle: democracy. The members collectively decide the goals and structure of the group through discussion and voting. Membership is free and open to all world citizens.
According to the founder, Duncan Rickelton, a democratic structure to represent the people of the world is long overdue: “The people of the world currently do not have a voice. The massive forces at play in today’s global economy are touching more and more lives and determining the future of the planet and the human race. It’s time the race as a whole had more of a say in how this goes.”
Only with fairly recent developments in technology has something like Blank State become possible. Over 23 percent of the world’s population now have internet access, representing an increase of 350 percent since 2000. Also, the popularisation of web 2.0 applications such as embeddable voting widgets is now making it easier than ever to collectivise the decision-making process of large organizations. Blank State is based in a social network (http://blankstate.ning.com) built on the Ning.com platform, which was itself only founded in 2005.
There are already members from eight different countries, but Blank State wants to go much further. The group recently decided to make it their first goal to get at least one member from every country in the world. “This will be our first step towards fair representation,” says Rickelton. “Once we’ve achieved that we’ll see where everyone wants to take this.”
Despite the growth in internet use, engaging a member in every country could be quite a challenge. In Myanmar, for example, still only 0.1 percent of the population has access. But the members of Blank State are undeterred. A message has already been posted in a Myanmar forum – there is still an internet audience of 40,000 people to reach.
A notable inclusion in the list of 195 target countries is the Vatican City. There is as yet no word as to whether the Pope will be invited to join, but with such an inclusive membership policy there is little doubt that he would be welcome.
For additional information about Blank State visit http://blankstate.ning.com
World Democracy Now
Welcome to World Democracy Now.
World Democracy Now is all about world democracy, with videos, articles, and conversation about global democracy. Here’s a bit about me (in 3rd person)… Ted Stalets has, for decades, been interested in emerging technologies, as well as the Internet. From the time of his first Radio Shack TRS80 computer in the late 1970s, he has developed a deep respect for the evolving computer revolution, and more recently, the Internet revolution. An avid futurist, he was featured in a Nashville newspaper in 2005, in an interview focusing on his extensive collection of emerging technology domains and websites. Ted has built several hundred Internet websites dealing with emerging technologies (robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, virtual reality, etc.) geared for the non-technical person. He is serving as Vice-President of Vote World Parliament ( www.VoteWorldParliament.org ) and as Literary Agent for the book – Rescue Plan for Planet Earth – located at www.RescuePlanforPlanetEarth.com.
Please visit www.VoteWorldParliament.org and vote on this… “Do you support the creation of a directly-elected, representative and democratic world parliament that is authorized to legislate on global issues?”
You may vote “Yes” or “No” – after all – we need to see if the world even wants a democratic world parliament – but right now the voting is 93% in favor. Here’s my request of you – look at your own Pros and Cons of obtaining a global (supranational) sphere of political governance and law – and vote your mind. Many problems such as war and climate change have proven to be beyond the scope and jurisdiction of national governments, in my humble opinion…
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Read MoreMight Narcissists in Powerful Positions Destroy Our Democracy Intentionally?
Today, I suspect the founding fathers of this country must be rolling in their graves. For years, we have talked about the wonderful system they put into place, especially because of all of its checks and balances.
I suppose this presented an irresistible challenge to some suffering from pathological levels of narcissism, however. Could the greatest democracy in the world withstand the tinkering of brilliant men like them?
Yes, this was probably a challenge simply too good to resist.
The honorable men who were our founding fathers undoubtedly wanted to believe that only honorable men would lead this country in future times, too. Obviously, though, they weren’t naïve about human nature, especially the nature of the narcissistic, or those men who would be Kings.
Dick Morris w/ Greta On Obama and the G20 Summit or It’s Over! The New World Order Has Begun!
Aired 4/2/09 – Dick Morris with Greta Van Susteren speaks about Obama and the outcome of the recent G20 summit, and it’s NOT good! A “world economic government” has been created! FAIR USE NOTICE This video may contain copyrighted material, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. It is being made available in an effort to advance the understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, and so on. It is believed that this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, the material in this video is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this video for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Democratic World Parliament
Why Are Our Companies Supporting Countries That Do Not Support Democracy?
I believe that it is time for our companies to stop making all our basic products over seas where people are being used for cheap labor to support economies that do not support democracy for all people. I think that our companies are taking advantage of cheap over seas labor to make more profit then they should off of products that should be made here at home. I believe that this practice by our companies is making our need for supplies from other countries more then it should be. I think that it is time for people to start rebuilding our own economy first. I think that buy investing in our economy here at home again for our basic needs will create more jobs for people that are not working in our country.
I believe that companies have to support democracy in our country by making our products here at home again. I believe that making so much of our countries basic products over seas is just taking money and jobs that are needed out of our country. This will just weaken our economy it will give money to countries that abuse their labor force. I believe that our country is not only weaken by this our companies are supporting countries that do not support democracy.
I think that companies that sell their products here should make their products here at home where our own people can prosper from all these sales. Why are our home based companies going to start supporting democracy for all people. I know when one child or person works for less then a fair wage democracy takes two steps backwards. Supporting unfair labor over seas will just make democracy that much harder to support. How can our country preach democracy to other countries when our home based companies abuse their labor force to line the pockets of their government and our own companies.