NOTICE

GOLDTRADER WILL BE POSTING 'LIGHTLY' UNTIL AUGUST 21st DUE TO OTHER 'OUTSIDE TASKS' HE NEEDS TO GET DONE BEFORE WINTER ARRIVES ONCE AGAIN.
UNTIL THEN, HE SUGGESTS YOU THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE THE WEBSITE http://www.worldservice.org/update.html?s=4

THE LINK TAKES YOU TO GARRY DAVIS's BLOG WHICH EXPLAINS THE REASONING BEHIND BECOMING A WORLD CITIZEN, WHICH IS THE STEP BEYOND BEING A 'NATIONAL' CITIZEN, ( a concept that is now dysfunctional in this interweaved and interconnected world).

THE 'ARTIFICIAL' BOUNDARY LINES DESIGNATING SEPARATE 'NATIONS' HAVE ONLY LED TO CONFLICT, WAR, SCARCITY AND DEATH AND IN HISTORICAL TIMES ARE A FAIRLY RECENT INNOVATION.

(At times, political systems work toward honing and focusing power, concentrating it into fewer and fewer hands. Centralizing it, in other words. 

At its height, the Roman Empire represented the pinnacle of centralized power. “Right as diverse pathes leden the folk the righte wey to Rome,” wrote Chaucer, almost a millennium after the Great Empire’s fall. But as with all cycles, short and long, the wheels of history were always turning. During Rome’s later, degenerate stages, and certainly after its collapse, the continent of Europe fragmented into hundreds of smaller, feuding principalities. The Middle Ages (roughly 450-1350) were, by and large, an era of a great political decentralization. Princes and dukes wielded absolute power over their small territories, weakening various kings’ claims on their lands. 

Indeed, it wasn’t really until the Renaissance that any meaningful, large scale consolidation took hold on the continent. During this period, stronger principalities, those that had prospered in trade and were therefore better equipped to withstand military attacks and plagues, began working together and expanding their territories. Once again began a cycle of centralization, of disparate states coagulating into a mass of cells, fused together by broader, overarching legal and political systems, trade agreements and strategic alliances. 

Wealthy families, too, began to gain power and control over larger territories during this time. It was an era that gave rise to the Medici’s, for example, a family of bankers from Florence that gained control of governments in various Italian regions and, later, even assumed the papacy. The Medici appointed family members as princes in lands afar and assured their protection by the Medici-controlled Vatican. Once again, power came to rest in fewer and fewer hands. It was as if history itself had inhaled, drawing closer the disjointed peoples of once-warring regions into bordered, sovereign states. By the 18th and, especially, the 19th century, principalities had fallen almost entirely out of favor...and the world witnessed the birth of the modern nation state.) (FROM THE DAILY RECKONING 8/10/12)

PLEASE INVESTIGATE THE ENTIRE WEBSITE AS IT WILL BROADEN YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON A SOLUTION ABOUT HOW TO ORGANIZE THE PEOPLES OF THIS PLANET INTO A MORE WORKABLE AND LIFE SUPPORTING STRUCTURE THAN THE CURRENT MESS WE HAVE.