THE  RISE AND FALL OF CIVILISATION: PERSPECTIVES OF MORAL POLITICAL ECONOMY                          


July 20 2010   6-8
House of Lords Committee Room 2A                           
Westminster London SW1A


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Chair

Moeen Yaseen    Managing Director Global Vision 2000


Speakers

Daud Pidcock   Global Vision 2000
Monetary Reformer, Political Activist and Broadcaster.

Compiled ‘Satanic Voices Ancient & Modern’ A definitive reply to Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’. (1992) Arranged publication of ‘Napoleon & Islam’ (1999); Republished “Propaganda in The Next War” (2002) originally published in 1938. Published The Truth About Money – 2002.  2008 Completed and published ‘The Other Road To Serfdom – How Unregulated Capital Caused the CRASH of 2008’. 2010 Completing -The Dummies Guide To The CRASH.

Forum for Stable Currencies, House of Lords/House of Commons; Co-Founder of The National Association For Victims Of Fraud & Banking Malpractice (1987). Director of the Institute for Rational Economics.

1997 Assisted Malaysia by personally delivering James Gibb-Stuart’s ‘5 Point Survival Plan’, to it’s Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohammed, which provided Tansri Nor Bin Yacop with the mechanism with which to avert the Asian Monetary crisis – subsequently acknowledged as “Mahathir’s Master Move” as it denied the IMF, the World Bank and George Soros their ill-gotten gains in the form of ‘distressed assets’ which, like the Crashes of 1929 and 2008, was and still is the entire purpose of such artificially created crises.


Muhammad Rafeeq     Banking Consultant and Internet radio broadcaster  

A Banking Management consultant who has experience in the City going back over 20 years. He began his City career in the discount houses, who traditionally facilitated the issuance of the British national debt through UK Treasury bills and UK gilts. Since 1998 he has specialised in consulting to banks as a financial risk consultant and he is well versant with the original Capital Accord regimes. He was also a contributor to the UK's first regulated Islamic Investment fund, the Al Safa Fund under the auspices of the SFA.

Vijay Mehta       Chair World Disarmament Campaign

President of VM Centre for Peace , Founding Trustee of Fortune Forum  Chair of Uniting for Peace (Action for UN Renewal and World Disarmament Campaign). He is an author and global activist for peace, development, human rights and the environment. Some of his notable books are The Fortune Forum Summit: For a Sustainable Future, Arms No More, and The United Nations and Its Future in the 21st Century.
He along with his daughter Renu Mehta founder of Fortune Forum charity held two summits in London in 2006 and 2007. His latest book in writing is "Military Expenditure and it's Relation to Poverty Reduction"


Lawrence Bloom       Chair Green Economy Initiative  Green Cities, Buildings and Transport panel UNEP
Former Chair World Agenda Council  World Economic Forum  


Michael King       Managing Director   WDX Organisation

Michael King, the Managing Director of the WDX Organisation studied Economics at the University of York and has worked in the computer industry and then in the City. In the Computer Industry he worked with ICL for eighteen years in the mainframe , micro-processor and p.c. eras . In the mid 1980s he joined Reuters with whom he spent the time leading up to “Big Bang” as Major Account Manager and then he was with Citibank when the EBS consortium was formed. He rejoined Reuters as Third Party Application Manager in the mid 1990s where he saw at least 500 creative and useful applications. In 1996 Michael formed 21store.com the UK’s first “dotcom” and became the Managing Director. In 1996 he had the idea for a World Currency Unit. This idea was developed and was funded in 2009.

Canon Peter Challen     Chairman   Christian Council of Monetary Justice

Senior Anglican Chaplain for 29 years of the ecumenical South London Industrial Mission (SLIM), Free Citizen of the Borough of Southwark 1996, Sloan Fellow of the London Business School, Fellow of the RSA and member of its Living Systems Workgroup. Chairs the Christian Council for Monetary Justice, which seeks the restoration of the creation of money to democratic accountability; such credit being lent interest free into the economy, not issued as interest-bearing debt. He is co-author of 'Seven Steps to Justice'.


BACKGROUND


The Islamic paradigm refers frequently to the rise and fall of all nations

and categorically rejects Fukuyama's End of History thesis. Given the

current meltdown and collapse of the Global financial system since 2007-

8 is it right to talk about "After the storm", "Post shock" and "Road to

Recovery" or are we facing a double dip recession with a second wave

and series of bubbles bursting? We are told that failed States exist in

the third world but is Iceland and Greece the start of entire nations in

the North becoming bankrupt and facing sovereign debt defaults. Also

with multiple crises converging at the ecological, enviromental, social

and political arenas are we destined for the global war remedy? So is the

West and the Rest on the rocks? Is Western Civilisation on the Titanic?

If so where are the raftboats? What is the moral and Islamic alternative?                     


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PRESS RELEASE
Embargoed July 18 2010 12OO hours

GLOBAL VISION 2000 LAUNCHES BLUEPRINT TO REPLACE PROGRAMME OF SAVAGE AUSTERITY

Global Vision 2000 the independent thinktank is holding an emergency seminar on Tuesday July 20 2010 in the House of Lords in committee room 2a from 6-8. The theme will be the Rise and Fall of Civilisation: perspectives of moral political economy. Keynote speakers include Moeen Yaseen, Daud Pidcock, Muhammad Rafeeq, Canon Peter Challen, Lawrence Bloom, Michael King and Vijay Mehta. Since our last Parliamentary event we have had a general election and an incoming Coalition government which is imposing a new era of austerity. The purpose of this event is to promote alternative holistic sustainable solutions which open the door to an era of prosperity within the framework of a moral political economy. It is clear that mainstream conventional solutions are solving nothing and indeed we are facing cataclysmic consequences. Nevertheless the opportunity to redeem the dire situation still exists.  We are not only facing a financial meltdown with bankrupt banks but now an economic collapse of the real economy. The Unions are planning to respond with a General Strike with a re-run of 1926. Global Vision 2000 challenges the inevitability of austerity and asks CUI BONO- who benefits and why? Global Vision 2000 will launch a blueprint for a future of hope , stability, justice and prosperity.

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