- Ground-breaking for eight organic farms in North America
launched a global undertaking by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to establish 3,000
organic farms worldwide that will fund his program to reduce global poverty,
promote a balanced world economy, and create world peace.
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- Maharishi's plan calls for a "Peace Palace"
and an organic farm of 1,000 to 4,000 hectares in the vicinity of each
of the world's largest 3,000 cities. Farming practices will be based on
Maharishi Vedic Organic Agriculture, which incorporates the most up-to-date
organic farming techniques, along with the use of traditional Vedic agricultural
technologies, to produce healthy food.
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- Maharishi will answer questions on the role of his Vedic
organic agricultural project in creating world peace during global news
conferences on Wednesday, November 6, and Thursday, November 7, which will
be broadcast live via satellite, Internet webcast, and telephone conference
call (see details below).
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- Demand will be great
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- With much of the farmland in developed nations poisoned
by chemical agriculture and genetic engineering, Maharishi says that global
demand will be great for Vedic organic food. "We will produce food
that is nectar, not poison. People who eat this food will be healthier
and happier-they will think better, speak better, behave better, and be
a better citizen of the nation."
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- Targeting 40 poor nations
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- Maharishi's plan includes a special global development
currency and a Poverty Removal Program for the world's 40 poorest nations.
"We are inviting governments to use the Raam, our global development
currency, as a 'catalyst currency' to initiate agricultural and other development
projects around the world. and, in particular, in 40 poor countries,"
says His Excellency Dr. Benjamin Feldman, Minister of Finance of the Global
Country of World Peace.
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- "There are one billion hectares of unused land with
agricultural potential in these 40 poor countries," Dr. Feldman says.
"The Raam can be used as start-up capital to establish export-oriented
organic farms and to build new houses, roads, schools, and health clinics
in these countries. After a few successful crop seasons, and with the export
of the produce, the Raam can be exchanged for any other hard currency-and
even withdrawn from circulation." Dr. Feldman says national farmers'
associations are also invited to participate in the initiative. Dr. Feldman
says the Raam is now legally circulating in Holland and is being used like
the Euro by Dutch residents-and it will soon be circulating throughout
the European Union and in all continents. The Raam is also circulating
as the currency of Maharishi Vedic City in Iowa, USA, along with the U.S.
dollar, and Raam-based bonds are being offered in 35 U.S. states.
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- Global Country of World Peace
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- The Global Country of World Peace was established two
years ago by Maharishi as "a country without borders for peace-loving
people everywhere." It provides governments with the knowledge and
technologies of Total Natural Law to promote prevention-oriented, problem-free
administration. A Global Chamber of Commerce has been established to provide
a world market for the organic products. "The sale of Vedic organic
food on the international market will bring an immediate infusion of foreign
currency into the poorer countries, which will stimulate local economies
and lift people out of poverty," Dr. Feldman says.
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- 3,000 Peace Palaces in 3,000 Cities
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- Dr. Feldman says that central to Maharishi's program
to create world peace is the construction of 3,000 Peace Palaces in the
world's largest 3,000 cities. Each Peace Palace will be the home for a
permanent group of 100 to 200 experts in Maharishi's Vedic technologies
of consciousness, including Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying.
Extensive published research shows that the peace-promoting influence of
these groups reduces the acute social stress that fuels conflict and war,
and promotes coherence and harmony in the surrounding society. "During
their practice, these groups of Yogic Flyers will enliven the deepest level
of Nature's functioning-the Unified Field of Natural Law-which administers
the infinite diversity of the universe with perfect order," Dr. Feldman
says. "They will radiate indomitable coherence in the collective consciousness,
reducing crime, sickness, and other negative trends, and promoting the
health and well-being of everyone in the city."
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- Founders of the Peace Palace to enjoy profit year after
year
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- Dr. Feldman says that profits from the organic farms
will be used to fund the construction of the Peace Palaces and maintain
the groups of Yogic Flyers. The initial building costs for each Peace Palace
will be covered by local "Founders of the Peace Palace"-investors
who want to create peace and who also want a return on their investment.
"This is a sound financial investment. The organic agricultural production
will provide sufficient yield for the Founders of the Peace Palace to recover
their initial expenditures-and earn a good annual return on their investment
in peace."
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- A source of health and happiness
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- Maharishi's plan is timely and urgently needed, Dr. Feldman
says. "By now, everyone knows that talking about peace will never
create peace. We have to actually produce the effect of peace in the world-and
this will come from groups of Yogic Flyers. These Peace Palaces and Vedic
organic farms will be a source of affluence and peace, health and happiness
for everyone in the world."
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- MAHARISHI'S NEXT GLOBAL NEWS CONFERENCE
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- WEDNESDAY, November 6, 2002
- * 9:30 PM (India Standard Time)
- * 17.00 hours (Central European Standard Time)
- * 11:00 AM (USA EDT)
- THURSDAY, November 7, 2002
- * 4:00 PM (India Standard Time)
- * 11.30 hours (Central European Standard Time)
- * 5:30 AM (USA EDT)
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- WATCH THE NEWS CONFERENCES LIVE:
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- VIA INTERNET at <http://www.globalcountry.org>http://www.globalcountry.org
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- FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA
- Watch live on The Maharishi Channel in SE Asia --
- Wednesdays and Thursdays
- On Europe*Star 1 Satellite at 45 degrees East:
- Frequency 11556 MHz.; Symbol rate 5860; FEC 3/4;
- Polarity vertical
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- FOR EUROPE
- Watch live on The Maharishi Open University Channel
- in Europe, W. Asia, North Africa -- Wednesdays only
- On Hot Bird 3 at 13 degrees East: Transponder 89;
- Channel MOU.2; Frequency 12475 MHz; Polarity Horizontal;
- Symbol rate 27500; FEC 3/4
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- FOR NORTH AMERICA AND CENTRAL AMERICA
- Watch live on The Maharishi Open University Channel
- in the United States and Canada, Central America,
- and the Caribbean -- Wednesdays only
- On Telstar 5 at 97 degrees West: Transponder 27;
- Frequency 12177 MHz; Polarity vertical;
- Symbol rate 23000; FEC 2/3
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- or Listen live via telephone: +1-512-305-4600,
- and enter code 55689# (for Wednesdays only)
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