Saturday, July 25, 2009

NOTHING IS WORSE THAN DOING NOTHING


It is a fact that corruption is a mephistophelean crime which is decimating our societies. It was the origin of the French Revolution. Most people are sedated and weakened by their day to day stress and by mainstream media which make them absent, just watchers. I invite all who haven’t already done so, to embrace a cause, have an attitude, courage of conviction and roll our sleeves up. Changes don't happen by themselves, only active people can make it happen. Governments' and politicians' agendas differ from peoples' priorities. Peoples need to pursue their agendas. Let's join our efforts towards this common gigantic endemic “disease” – no one, no government or organization is doing anything to effectively fight corruption. I invite you to join this vital cause which has implications on all other causes – corruption is indeed behind each and every world’s problems (hunger, unemployment, crime, social exclusion, violence, wars, health problems, environmental problems … all). I urge you to express your views and suggestions and work on a coordinated fashion.

I will leave you with two sets of words of wisdom:
"Learn what part God (or nature) has ordered you to play, and at what point in the human commonwealth you have been stationed." We all have a mission to deliver in life. Persius, Satires, iii. 71

"One man may hit the mark, another blunder, but heed not these distinctions. Only from alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born." Antoine de Saint Exupery

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

THE CALL FOR MORAL COURAGE

We still see discrimination in this world, and slavery and slaughter and starvation. Governments repress their people. Hundreds of millions are trapped in poverty, while nations grow rich and their wealth is lavished in inefficient ways everywhere, including corruption and coveting.

These are differing evils but they are the common works of men, they reflect the imperfection of human justice, the inadequacy of human compassion, our lack of sensitivity towards the suffering of our fellows, but we can perhaps remember, even if only for a time, that those who live with us on mother earth are our brothers and sisters; that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek as we do, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness winning but satisfaction and fulfillment that they can.

Surely this bond of common fate; surely this bond of common goals, can begin to teach us something. Surely we can learn at the least to look around at those of us of our fellow man, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the rooms among us and to understand in our heart that we are brothers and sisters.

The answer is to rely on you, not of time of life but of state of mind; a temper of the will; a quality of imagination; a predominance of courage over timidity; of the appetite for adventure together with the love of thee.

But cruelly an obstacle of this swiftly changing planet will not yield the obsolete dogmas and out warned slogans. They cannot be moved by those that claim to a present that is already dieing; who prefer the illusion of security to excitement of danger that come with even the most peaceful progress.

It is a revolutionary world we live in, and this generation at home and around the world, has had trusted upon them a greater burden of responsibility, than any generation that has ever lived.

Some believe that nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills. Yet many of the world’s great movements are thawed in action have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the protest of reformation; a young general extended the empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth; a young woman reclaimed the territory of France.

These men moved the world and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to bend history in itself but each of us can make a change; a small portion of event and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the love of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from millions of centers from an energy endearing, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Few are willing to bade the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the rash of their societies; moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Those with the courage to enter the moral conflict will find themselves with the companions in every corner of the globe.

For the fortunate among us there is the temptation to follow the easy familiar path, of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who enjoy the privilege of education, but that is not the road history has marked out for us.

Like it or not we live in times of danger and uncertainty, but they are also more open to the creative energy of men than any other time in history. All of us will ultimately be judged and as the years pass we will surely judge ourselves on the efforts we have contributed to the building of a new world society and the extent to which our ideals and goals have shaped that event.

Our future may lie beyond our vision but it is not completely beyond our control.

It is the shaping impulse of our societies that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible ties of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle that will determine our destiny. That is the only way to live.


MINDLESS MENACE OF MORAL PANDEMIC

We are undergoing a mindless menace of moral pandemic which stains the globe and every one of our lives. It is not the concern of any one Society; victims are all peoples, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings love and need. No one can be certain who next will suffer from some crude act resulting from coveting, greed and corruption of those who are in power, be it hunger, misery, unemployment, drugs, crime or senseless acts of bloodshed from unscrupulous acts of fabricated ‘wars’, and yet it goes on and on and on in this planet of ours. Too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of other human beings.

Whoever fabricate these attacks, invasions, dominations, which the propaganda names ‘wars’ in an frustrated attempt to mislead people are criminals hidden behind power. One thing is certain violence breeds violence, hatred breeds hatred, repression breeds retaliation, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and to be mastered.

They manipulate the masses trying to make people look at their brothers as aliens, alien men with whom people share a city but not a community, men bound to us in common dwelling but not in a common effort. Making all share only a common fear, only a common desire to separate from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force.

Our lives on this planet are too short; the work to be done is too great to let ourselves be manipulated and allow this lack of morality flourish any longer. Of course we cannot banish it in a fortnight, but we know that those who live with us are our brothers and sisters; that they share with us the same short moment of life, that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness winning but satisfaction and fulfillment that they can.

Surely this bond of common fate, surely this bond of common goals can begin to teach us something. Surely we can see through that we and our fellow men are being suffocated by evil acts of people in power, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the rooms among us and to remain in our hearts as true brothers and sisters.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

MANIFEST FOR DECENCY, JUSTICE AND EQUALITY

The answer is yes, we can! The social chaos originated by the lack of governance and crisis of confidence in Governments and constituted powers at all levels – federal, state and municipal – have made many of us disillusioned and hopeless the there is a solution. Many have ‘thrown the towel’. But the truth is that the peoples’ agenda is distinct from those that are in power e YES there is a solution to end with this malfeasance to which we are all prisoners. It is practically in all Constitutions that the power emanates from the people and we have to exercise that right. We cannot continue to passively watch all these crimes committed against all peoples and which is worsening for decades, disguised by unscrupulous lies incorporated in speeches and false promises.

1. GIVE AN ULTIMATUM TO CORRUPTION

Positions:

Corruption is the #1 crime perpetrated against Societies and Civilization.

Corruption imposes cruel and deadly socio-economic damages upon Societies.

Governments face a systemic problem in their efforts to fight corruption.

A paradigm shift demands Societies to engage on quest at a global level and act collectively against corruption.

Description:

Corruption has long been infecting civilization and reaching outrageous levels. Political and white collar crimes make the headlines everyday with perpetrators going unpunished most of the time while billions and billions of money stolen from Societies vanishes in sophisticated webs of international fraud schemes.

Corruption is a deadly crime against Society which causes insurmountable socio-economic destruction - destruction of the social tissue, starvation, poverty, unemployment, social exclusion, violence, social unrest, inequality, drug trafficking and consumption, environmental destruction - deforestation; lack of sanitation; water; soil and air pollution. Incommensurable damages, wide and deep.

There are studies carried out by several countries including the United Nations which demonstrate that this is a monstrous and still growing problem.

Governments have a different agendas than those of Societies and have not been able to solve this secular man made global catastrophic crime.

Societies need to act. Without societies' massive understanding and engagement this social-economic genocide will not be exterminated. Societies across the globe must join forces to eradicate this chronic disease.

There are several initiatives that can be taken but require collective action. The central strategy of this cause is to communicate globally and act locally.

We are compelled to fight corruption to the benefit of our Societies. Establish a communication action line in each country, each city throughout the world and engage in this so crucial issue of helping extinguish such utterly cruel and endemic problem.