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Hi folks this book looks very interesting. Have any of ye read it and what's the verdict, Is there an ISPO set up here or in the process?. If not why should there not be? John fitz 2853387
EUREKA Simultaneous Policy 6/10/01
Return-Path: <jbunzl@simpol.org> Delivered-To: fitzgij@connect.ie From: "John Bunzl" <jbunzl@simpol.org>
To: <info@simpol.org> Subject: The Simultaneous Policy Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:58:13 +0100
EUREKA Simultaneous Policy 6/10/01
Please take note:-
The Simultaneous Policy, a new international campaign to counter the forces of corporate globalisation and international
competition, has been launched in London. Based on the premise that all nations are subject to global competitive
forces unleashed by the ability of capital and transnational corporations to cross national borders, no nation nor group
of nations can control global capital nor can they implement vital economic, social or environmental policies that might
incur market or corporate displeasure. To break the vicious circle of global competition, both between nations and
between corporations, all nations need to act simultaneously by implementing the Simultaneous Policy (SP); a range of
measures to re-regulate global markets and corporations in order to restore genuine democracy, environmental
protection and peace around the world.
Endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Ed Mayo and many other leading ecologists,
counter-economists, churchmen and journalists, SP recognises that party politics has become little more than a sham in
which whatever party we elect, the policies delivered inevitably conform to market and corporate demands and to the
dictatorship of competition. It calls upon peoples all over the world to come together to take policy out of the hands of
politicians and, by force of their numbers and their votes, to compel political parties around the world to adopt SP. By
transcending party-political differences and by offering a means that allows politicians and governments to adopt it
without risking their respective ‘national interests’, SP claims to provide the long-awaited, coherent and practical
solution to globalisation and other world problems.
Based on a new book, "The Simultaneous Policy – An Insider’s Guide to Saving Man and the Planet" by John Bunzl,
the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) has been established to campaign for the adoption of SP.
Acclaimed as "the first writer on the ‘sustainable society’ to advance beyond rhetoric and grapple with the problem of
how such a society might be achieved", the book crucially offers the blueprint for a secure and responsible transition
from the existing paradigm of destructive, international economic competition to the new paradigm of global cooperation
in which global economic, environmental and social problems can be solved.
For more information on the SP campaign, visit our website http://www.simpol.org.
Book Endorsements: "The Simultaneous Policy - An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet" by John Bunzl.
Publication due October 2001 by New European Publications. ISBN 0-1872410-15-4. Pre-publication copies
available now from ISPO info@simpol.org. Please ask for details.
"I thought your proposal was an elegant idea of how change could occur. It reflects the core ideas of how to create
consensus around change. This is the biggest challenge that we have"
Ed Mayo. Executive Director, New Economics Foundation
"It is a good idea. What we need is politicians who will give this issue a high priority."
Polly Toynbee The Guardian
"Your idea for a simultaneous policy is excellent. … Lets hope that people start to listen to this important message."
Helena Norberg-Hodge Member of the International Forum on Globalisation and Director of the International Society
for Ecology & Culture
"It’s ambitious and provocative. Can it work? Certainly worth a serious try."
Noam Chomsky
"…the basic concept is excellent. … Let me know what develops!"
Jakob von Uexkull Founder and Chairman - Right Livelihood Award Foundation
"The Simultaneous Policy is a creative proposal to accelerate progress toward a sustainable global economy. Many
movements and grassroots globalists working for these goals can coalesce around such innovative initiatives"
Hazel Henderson Author of 'Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy'
"…well argued and well thought out. It goes against our bias for the human scale but may be necessary."
Nicholas Albery Chairman – The Institute for Social Inventions, London
"…compelling and provocative. The structure and progression of the [book] fit your argument perfectly."
Moises Naim Editor-in-Chief – Foreign Policy. USA
"Your main theme is a crucial one and I hope it will be heeded. …your approach is unusual because most authors
concentrate on ‘what’ first and leave ‘how’ as a secondary consideration – or duck it altogether."
David Griffiths Author of All This and Unemployment Too.
"…I believe [the Simultaneous Policy] offers a prophetic and practical approach to the global politico-economic
problems of our generation."
Stephen Whiting Quaker Peace and Service – London.
"Bunzl is, I feel, the first writer on the ‘sustainable society’ to advance beyond rhetoric and grapple with the problem of
how such a society might be achieved."
Dr. Aidan Rankin ‘New European’ (European Business Review) - UK.
"Your [book] eloquently describes the crucial problems facing the world today. It explores the inadequacy of the nation
state in dealing with these problems and the inability of the United Nations to move beyond its current constraints.
Simultaneous Policy is an elegant theory which takes many ideas from different places. We must all work to bring these
ideas from theory into practice."
Simon Burall Executive Director, One World Trust (in his personal capacity).
"…the financial world order has become quite cancerous to both people and the planet and what is needed are
intelligent and creative solutions appropriate to the situation. Your proposal to create a level playing field for all that
incorporates environmentally sustainable policies is just such a creative solution."
Richard St. George Director, the Schumacher Society (in his personal capacity)
"…we concur with your comprehensive and insightful analysis of the challenge before us. We also agree that social and
environmental programmes are being subordinated to the demands of the global economy and that, if there is a
meaningful remedy to hand, yours is as constructive as any we’ve seen to date."
Roger Doudna International Programme Officer, Restore The Earth Project - Scotland.
"Simultaneous Policy is a most promising strategy for discovering and establishing a more equitable, efficient and
sustainable economic order."
Shann Turnbull Author of "Democratizing the Wealth of Nations"
"The concept of Simultaneous Policy (SP) is a wonderful way of implementing cooperation which is the new law of
human survival in the globalized world. With it goes moral education inducing a new system of values to satisfy the
requirements of the New Age."
Dr. Farhang Sefidvash Coordinator, the Research Centre for Global Governance
"Working from an East-West perspective in which the interdependency of Buddhism combines with the economics of
E.F. Schumacher, Bunzl argues for a program of restoring social control over the blind destructiveness of corporate
globalisation by simultaneous government policies across world borders. The need for simultaneity of sovereign state
action is an important new dimension of a debate affecting all planetary life."
John McMurtry Author of "The Cancer Stage of Capitalism"
"I must admit that the Simultaneous Policy is a very provocative document. When you start reading this document, it
evokes sharp reactions within you because it challenges the alternative visions and ideas that are closer to your heart
and mind. But, by the time you finish it, you realize that there are a host of alternatives to existing alternative visions and
strategies for the betterment of our lives."
Kavaljit Singh Author of "A Citizen’s Guide to the Globalization of Finance" and "Taming Global Financial Flows"
"…the great merit of your [book] is its proposal for a plausible solution to the many questions, whose urgency much of
the left seems prepared to ignore."
Dorothy Friedmann Green Socialist Network – London.
"…the best ideas are the simplest. With a system like this, there’s no way for governments to wriggle out. All excuses
evaporate. It’s a system which unmasks all those seeking to hide behind theoretical impossibilites. I can’t wait to see
what follows. Well done SP!"
Jackie Navarro ATTAC – Québec, Canada.
"In a time where so many urgent symptoms claim our attention, it seems there is not enough courage nor time to address
the fundamental roots of global present problems and viable roads to face them. The Simultaneous Policy is a simple,
peaceful, low-risk and clear invitation for humankind to jump - in two steps - from a present spiral headed toward
auto-destruction, into another one oriented toward life, cooperation and spiritual growth. To share is to live."
Emilio José Chaves Researcher in Sustainable Development
"Wishing you God speed in your endeavours to progress our humankind with the Simultaneous Policy!"
Godric Bader Life President – Scott Bader Commonwealth Ltd.
"…the SP proposal is a practical means of moving toward global governance. It should be an effective means of
achieving cooperation where any individual government that behaves cooperatively will be disadvantaged until all other
governments also do so. …I wish you the best of luck with your important work."
John Stewart Author of 'Evolution's Arrow: the direction of evolution and the future of humanity.'
"I am sure that The Simultaneous Policy is likely to be of great interest [as] a way of striving for an alternative whilst
being integrated in the current economic system..."
Suzanne Ismail Economic Issues Programme Co-ordinator. Quaker Peace & Service – London, UK
"Mr. Bunzl's vision of all nation's agreeing on a Simultaneous Policy of co-operation for world peace, sustainable world
development, and alleviation of poverty is mankind's one hope of a sustainable quality lifestyle for all."
J.W. Smith The Institute for Economic Democracy - USA
"Tim Noonam of the World Business Academy envisions an Intellectual Overhaul that would lead to a Worldwide
Megashift in the perception of Reality, the kind of shift which according to him, historian Lewis Mumford claims has
occurred only three or four times in recorded history. The late Dr. Willis Harman, Founder of the Institute of Neotic
Sciences, prophesized that the latter part of this century would witness a fundamental Transformation; to me, the
Simultaneous Policy has all these potentials. What a great Intellectual and Academic Project for this century!"
Monday Wehere Founder/President, the Wehere Foundation, Nigeria.
"…provocative and potentially transformative. There are ideas here that could change the world."
Prof. Charles Derber Dept. of Sociology, Boston College, MA, USA.
"Isn’t John Bunzl’s Simultaneous Policy good stuff?"
Lucy Storrs World Voices UK
"Simultaneous Policy is the first book I have seen that offers any real hope of achieving the reforms necessary to
overcome global threats to the environment and human welfare."
Richard Stimson Author of 'Playing with the Numbers: How So-called Experts Mislead Us about the Economy'
"an essential contribution to the debate that is taking place at this time of transition and rapid change in society."
Dominic Dibble World Goodwill - London.
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John Bunzl - Director
International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO)
building global consensus for a cooperative, equitable and sustainable future.
http://www.simpol.org e-mail: jbunzl@simpol.org
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Georges Drouet - Director
ISPO Belgique ispo.belgique@simpol.org
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ISPO Argentina ispo.argentina@simpol.org
ISPO Mali ispo.mali@simpol.org
ISPO India ispo.india@simpol.org
ISPO Brazil ispo.brazil@simpol.org
ISPO Pakistan ispo.pakistan@simpol.org
ISPO France ispo.france@simpol.org
ISPO Nigeria ispo.nigeria@simpol.org
ISPO Sweden ispo.sweden@simpol.org
ISPO Canada ispo.canada@simpol.org
ISPO Switzerland ispo.suisse@simpol.org
ISPO Uruguay ispo.uruguay@simpol.org
ISPO Australia ispo.australia@simpol.org
ISPO USA ispo.usa@simpol.org
ISPO Nepal ispo.nepal@simpol.org
ISPO Cameroon ispo.cameroon@simpol.org
ISPO Denmark ispo.denmark@simpol.org
John Fitz
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