William Ernest Henley's INVICTUS Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gait, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. ------------------------------ 1974: PIERRE TRUDEAU'S DEBT SCAM Oh Canada's Debt National had much stability Til Nineteen Seventy Four starts exponentiality. Same in Ontario, Quebec, debts doubling over time, Did debts all start to grow in big coincidence sublime? The Bank of Canada once loaned to Provinces and Fed, Without the interest that causes budgets to turn red. It financed major projects, made St. Lawrence Seaway be, Trans-Canada was highway funded sea to shining sea. Not only infrastructure, also paid for World War Two, With interest-free cash, we almost nothing couldn't do. The only question then was how the tax should be assessed, For goods and services? A simple formula to test. For services, they levied tax at end of every year. For assets, tax to pay depreciation. Very clear. With taxes only for depreciation and repair, So easily affordable without the bankers' share. But in Nineteen Seventy Four, Pierre Trudeau cut the feed, Said: "No more interest-free loans for infrastructure need. All governments must borrow now new funds from private banks, And raise new tax to service interest with bankers' thanks." I'll pay my tax for army and police to handle strife, I'll pay my tax for doctors, nurses who protect my life, I'll pay my tax for all engaged repairing road and sewer, I'll pay my tax for social servants helping out the poor, I'll even pay my tax for bureaucrats with no regret, But I object to paying tax for interest on debt. I'll gladly pay my tax for people's time at useful toil, But taxing me for money's time will always make me boil. But worse in Nineteen Sixty Eight, Pierre Trudeau lifted cap, On interest from six percent to sixty, that's the rap. In twelve years central bank rate rose to twenty-two percent. More tax to service greater debt at higher rate was spent. Percent of 30 was the rate at chartered banks we saw, Percent of 40 rate by private lenders under law. A million families evicted, "mortgage" could not meet, With Pierre's high-rate "death-gambles" putting victims on the street. The reason foisted on them for such suffering high rates, Was "Interest will fight Inflation!" Economics states. Who can believe that raising costs can lower prices high? Yet fell for it they did, the biggest economic lie. Pierre Trudeau is responsible for debts out of control, For lifting rate cap, ending interest-free loans, his role. Oh Canada sure could have offered all a living swell, But Pierre in Nineteen Seventy Four turned Heaven into Hell. While Justin could make loans again without the usury, Can we expect but more bad fruit from father's crooked tree? An Engineering drop-out, beta-boy though blooded blue, Like dad, a silver spooner, with, for numbers, talents few. Our taxes disappear since over 40 years ago, For interest on Trudeau's debt we didn't have to owe. If we got back $2 trillion taxed since Pierre helped banks, us, fleece, Reversing algorithm gets back $60 Grand apiece!" If Mr. Spock could at computer central all alone, Debug bad code to save a planet from the danger zone. No help he needed from the lo-techs slows who had no clue. What Spock can do, The Engineer says: "I can do it too." JUSTIN TRUDEAU STOPS CLIMATE FROM CHANGING? (2019) TRICK TO HIDE He's Justin Trudeau, leading fight to stop our climate change, Calls CO2 "pollution." Carbon tax he will arrange. As Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth stokes Oscar-winning fear, Catastrophe is looming if the bar we do not clear. But in Two Thousand Nine, the fraud's exposed in Climategate, Where Michael Mann used "trick to hide decline" since 'Ninety-Eight. Won't show the court his data to his hockey stick graph clear, Caught fudging numbers so the warmer times would disappear: Medieval Warming Period, eight hundred years ago, Greenland was green and Britain even able grapes to grow. Mann's hockey stick omits four centuries of hotter climes, Hides even recent Dust-Bowl days of Dirty Thirties times. Their hang-out limited admits a "Pause" in rise, benign, But "trick" was not to hide a "Pause" but used to hide "Decline." Mann says "trick" means just "clever" scientific way to go, It's not the "trick" but it's the "hide" affronts my ethics so. NAME CHANGE When Global Warming "paused," alarmists had to change the name, To "Climate Change" so either up or down, they win the game. Real temperature's measured in "Degrees" where up's more hot, But up some "Climes" of Climate Change are units never taught. "Let's stop climate from changing" seems too stupid to believe, Til they admit it's really warming problem they perceive. Since "Climate Change" means really "Warming," doesn't mean a "Freeze," So why'd they change the name when it's still measured in "Degrees?" If they had stuck with "Global Warming," as degrees went down, Your own thermometer would show they've played you for a clown. Despite hysteric headlines that the rise did not abate, Now more than 20 years since start of pause in "Ninety Eight," CENSORSHIP The scientific journals censored all the truth who knew, While William Connolley at Wikipedia did too! While prostitute researchers furthering the scam got in, All honest skeptics faced corrupted peer review to win. With thirty thousand-scientist petition to deny, that humans are to blame. It's ball of fire in the sky! They claim "Percent of 97 scientists agree," But nine hundred'n seventy thousand signers I don't see. "Deniers" is the label put on those who disagree. Though none deny that climate changes which must always be. We do deny most climate change is of man-made effect, Our bit more CO2 will temp'rature not much affect. As Youtube showed David Suzuki crushed for all to see, He couldn't even name the data sets on Oz TV. He wants to jail those he can't beat in open fair debate, "I was arrested in the Soo!" kept shut up by the State. BET "None can disprove that climate changes." Safe as it can get. Since climate always changes, it's a bet no one can meet, A false bravado with but only one sure way to beat. So Great Canadian Gambler raised him unexpectedly: "A Hundred says next year is colder, measured by 'Degree.'" Though flashing Thirty Gs on wager that could not be faced, He folded to my C-Note raise. My post he then erased. If said "None can disprove my claim that Martians will invade," Just say "I bet they won't next year!" to watch the scammer fade. The liars backing down from public bet lose "Trust-Me Cup." "Cash says: Won't happen soon!"'s the only way to shut them up. Green candidate in Twenty Twelve Toronto-Danforth race, Where Adriana Magnutto-Hamu said to my face, "I'll make the $100 bet that temperature will rise." But 6 years later, welched on paying hundred dollar prize. TRUMP G20 leaders pledging to the change in climate stop, And only Donald Trump with balls enough the scam to drop. "Where wind-chill temperatures in the beautiful Midwest, Reach coldest ever minus 60." Quite the wintry fest! "What the hell is going on with Global Warming line? Please come back fast, we really need you!" Polar bears are fine. Sea levels haven't risen much with the glaciers growing well, No extra hurricanes, tornadoes, from our warming hell. YOUTH Protesting youth conflate pollutants of environment, With cutting plant food CO2. Wrong fix to implement. I too want clean green power but til then burn oil and coal. Since CO2's no problem, cleanest burn's the only goal. Sure, it hurts to learn that you were taken by the hoax, But aim your anger at its shills who so your trust did coax. When all authoritative voices said that it was so, Can't fault with major topic current thinking not to go. When told it's settled science, no one else need have a say, It means they don't have winning cards that they can put in play. When you hear those who disbelieve reviled on public train, So let it be a lesson that you not be fooled again. END Sun-spots have disappeared, a mini Ice Age on the way, With Engineering drop-out onto whom the blame we'll lay: So Trudeau's culpable by peddling untrue warmth reports, For every schmuck found frozen dead still in Bermuda shorts. With "Scientists" who hid decline, their data, won't bet too, Til Greenland's green again! Do question what they said they knew. Still fooled by trick to hide decline, still Justin leads the way, "I tried to stop climate from changing" on his resume. THE STORY OF MONEY AND BANKING THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND HOW TO FIX IT. (846 verses) (1991) By John C. Turmel, B. Eng. This is the ballad of the Banking Systems Engineer, To set you straight on banking matters that are not too clear. I am an engineer with information that is new, Of planetary ruin and the how of what to do. There is a special duty in the oath to engineer, To fix the problems in the systems that we hold so dear. Since life and death results from work that we are trained to do, Our duty is protection of our little planet blue. We take an oath when we receive our simple iron ring, And know from where the duty of the engineer does spring. PLANETARY DANGER: DEBT GROWTH It strikes me odd that in this age of scientific note, That mankind stumbles on and on, like carrot leading goat. With planetary dangers threatening our biosphere, If you can learn just what is wrong, your knowledge you'll hold dear. If I can show you how to fix this planetary threat, The duty of the citizen's to learn and not forget. FLAW IN THE BANKING SYSTEM The banking system is the brain of our economy, Which regulates our enterprise, responsibility. What's slowing down our enterprise is feedback on our debt, World debt is what's preventing when to working we should get. In the banking system there's a flaw that's got to go. There's feedback that is positive that forces debts to grow. The flaw is in the software while the hardware's working right, It makes debts exponential with a limit out of sight. And as the debt increases, bankers move in on their prey, They close down our capacity and it is only they. The one Destroyer Industry that kills a source of wealth, The only industry that is a peril to our health. Just look around and you will see the debts that burden all, The debts of brothers, sisters, parents, plagued by debt, we fall. Our nations, towns and provinces are burdened all to tears, By an exponential function overlooked by engineers. MAYOR'S PROBLEM A mayor faced with rising costs and shrinking revenues, To study any proposition, he would not refuse. "So many think the job of being mayor is a snap, But the decisions that I'm faced with are an ugly trap. With tools, materials and trades that cover total range, Yet one ingredient is lacking, money to exchange. If snowstorm hits the city and there are no funds to pay, What does my council have to do to clear the snow away? We pledge a million dollar bond to banks to get the cash, With which we pay the skillful men who clear snow in a flash. The merchants gladly take the funds for soon they'll have to pay, The taxes for the snow removal that was done that day. But though a million principle was spent, we must request, That citizens be taxed for principle and interest. To budget who gets scarce resources isn't ever fun, But interest on city's debt is always number one. Whatever rate the bankers set is due amount I pay, Unhappily, which projects live or die's my only say." BANKERS TO BLAME So to this software package of accounting has been let. The force to cripple enterprise with exponential debt. By this accounting package they have seized the right to rule, This software package has become a so oppressive tool. Our bankers, lawyers, judges, bailiffs. The financial crew, Collecting on our effort for the benefit of few. The bankers and the justice system are the ones to blame, For they have got us by the throats in their insidious game. The Governments all borrowing to pay the interest, And hoping there'll be crumbs left over to quell the unrest. With millions idled by the debt while break-downs overwhelm, The lack of money goes right on with no one at the helm. The measures of the World Bank and the I. M. F. as well, Are seen to cause much misery, a documented hell. The private will of bankers rules in towns of every nation, This power is too great for few, this power of starvation. A nation's commerce cut in half is really not a joke, Whole nations suffer constantly under their cruel yoke. Those measures of austerity cause strikes and riots new, The moments of tranquillity are far between and few. And that's when violence is used in putting down their need, And yet men still do risk it all, their lives at stake, indeed. When starving people do rise up, some end up dead, perhaps. Responsibility for which must rest in bankers' laps. SCIENCE But scientists have now in hand the winning way to see, The mathematical road to infallibility. We find in theory of games, the stats of wins to come, In whose dominion lies the key, the word is "Optimum." No man, no God, can but expect the optimum result, To let the science work for us will make us soon exult. It tells us what to do that's best when we can't be too sure, A perfect way to test things out, a way that's clean and pure. Can banking system of the world be programmed instantly To switch to maximum employment voluntarily? Can program disks be switched to alter faulty program code? Of course they can, it's just a little change of system mode. Some planetary cures can be delivered at top speed, The problem's in the software and correctable indeed. It's slowing down capacity while danger looms ahead, Reprogramming is critical or else we'll all be dead. The lack of money is the reason used for the delay, Sufficient funds cannot be found to save us right today. The problem's getting worse and worse, we must take action fast. If they slow down our life support, our planet will not last. RICH MAN SAYS (Robert W. Service) A rich man once spoke up in his attempt to set me straight, His thoughts upon his interest, he honestly did state: "Because I have a million bucks, I sit upon my stern, And leave my living tranquilly for other folks to earn, For in some pro-creative way that isn't very clear, A million bucks will breed a hundred thousand every year. So as I have a healthy hate of economic strife, I mean to stand aloof from it the balance of my life. And yet, with sympathy, I see the grimy son of toil, And heartily congratulate the tiller of the soil. I like the miner in the mine, the sailor on the sea, Because up to a hundred grand they sail and mine for me. For me, their toil is taxed unto the annual extent, According to the ancient law that gets me ten percent. So get a million bucks, my friend, in any way you can, And leave your future welfare to the noble Working Man. He'll buy you suits of Harris tweed, an Airedale and a car, Your golf clubs and your morning Times, your whiskey and cigar. He'll cozily install you in a cottage by a stream, With every modern comfort and a garden that's a dream. Or if your tastes be urban, he'll provide you with a flat, Secluded from the clamor of the proletariat. With pictures, music, easy chairs, a table of good cheer, A guy can manage nicely on a hundred grand a year. And though around you painful signs of industry you view, Why should you work when you can have your money work for you? So I'll get down upon my knees and bless the Working Man, Who offers me a life of ease through all my mortal span; Whose loins are lean to make me fat, who slaves to keep me free, Who dies before his prime to get me round the century. Whose wife and children toil in turn until their strength is spent, That I may live in idleness upon my ten percent. And if at times they curse me, why should I feel any blame, For in my place, I know that they would do the very same. They talk of revolution on a Sunday afternoon, But offer them a million bucks and see them change their tune. So, I'll enjoy my dividends and live my life with zest, And bless the mighty men who first invented interest." ANSWER TO RICH MAN: To the rich man I do say, "You're going for a ride, With global problems out of hand, it might be time to hide. I may have understood your urge to live a life of ease, Before the earth was stricken with the usury disease, But now that acid rain is here, I do not understand, How you can go on merrily without a lending a hand. The ozone is depleting fast, acid rain is here, Nuclear pollution threatens man year after year. You'll find your reasoning breaks down the moment we assess, After inflation, income taxes, money gets you less. If with one hundred dollars you can buy one hundred beers, Invest it in the bank for twenty extra in two years. But the inflation will erode your whole totality, Which buys you only beers you would have got initially. Once government takes taxes, only half your gain you're let, And when you spend your money, 92 are all you'll get. So would you choose to stop accepting twenty more increase, For ending of inflation and that income taxes cease? Please take it from the engineer, the costs are very dear, "My case for linearity in banking is so clear." ECONOMICS In Economics, it is shown, the measurements for debt, Are made in variable units which we all live to regret. The unit of the measurement, the dollar is its name, It's value rises up and down in the financial game. Attempting to do measurement with units that gyrate, Like using rubber rulers, they can never get it straight. This cover for the system that is causing people pain, Is taught in Economics and it scrambles up the brain. In all the other Sciences, stability they use, With inches, feet, kilometers, they do not confuse. Engineers do buildings straight. To stable units thanks. Economists with rubber money build us crooked banks. The concept of a stable money, changing not a bit, Too simple for considering, they won't examine it. The more they've studied rubber money, elasticity, The more impossible it is to ever have them see. What's plugging up their thinking are the errors they were taught. The Economic Science is the story they have bought: "The system must have interest so it be feasible, Considering another system is impossible." But what can cloud the minds of men to wicked knavery, Promoting by the growth of debt, financial slavery? HOW MONEY WORKS How can a substance man creates be kept in short supply? Why is there insufficient for our industry to ply? "Where does our money come from?" has an answer known by few, The source and sink are hidden from the ordinary view. The Governments do not create the money that they use, All Governments are deep in debt, we need some other clues. The media do tell us when supply of money grows, But very few do ask ourselves and wonder "Where's the hose?" "Supply of money must come down," we hear it constantly. But "Where's the drain" is contemplated so infrequently, The banking of liquidity is understood by few. But there must be a tap and drain which money must go through. The engineers are "plumbers" called, a nickname they have earned, Mechanics of the flows of fluids are what we have learned. COMPARISON OF MODELS Comparison of models is the engineering test, Is exponential faulty and is linear the best? A bank of poker chips that works like coins when some do play, A linear banking system for comparison today. Transactions made with colored chips to help in keeping score, Backed up with our collateral, it's one to one. No chore. In poker games we see that chips are traded in and out, Redemption of collateral is what it's all about. Inflation means that what we get for money's somehow lost. They say it's unavoidable. We all must bear the cost. Yet value of the poker chips is constant over time, A mere receipt for assets where there's no accounting crime. Since hardwares are identical, both round and colored too, And one did lose its value while the other counted true, Inflation therefore can't be hardware which works flawlessly, Inflation therefore must be software, programmed crookedly. The bank ads reinforce with Billy and his piggy bank, The notion that the loans they make are from the savings tank. The operation's simple and most everybody knows, A dollar in, a dollar out, is how the system goes. A piggy bank is simple and we've all tried out a few, A money reservoir to save which grows by one and two. LESSON ON INTEREST When sister needs a nickel and the piggy bank is bare, How can her brother help her when the nickel isn't there? And when the piggy bank is bare, no loans are made at all, Since money lacks, there is no way, for commerce not to stall. He asked his father for the coin, his means were to the test, "Please lend a nickel and I'll give you surely interest." "I'll lend you nickel so you learn that loans one should not seek, With interest, you'll owe six cents, I'll see you in a week." So now his bank could lend the coin, the nickel for a fee, He told her "Have six cents next week, at this locality." If sister failed to pay on time, his father might be mean, He made her pledge her favorite toy, a kiddie's type of lien. When neared the day that he should pay his father what was due, He saw there was a problem with some math he could not do. His sister was no help at all, the nickel all she had, He had to find an extra cent to pay it back to dad. When seven days had all expired, her toy he repossessed, And offered it with nickel to his dad as interest. But father said "That's not the deal", there'll be an extra cent, That is what we agreed upon of which you'll soon repent. You owe six cents and have just five, I'll tell you what I'll do, Pay me the five, you owe me one, we'll start again anew. I'll lend you five so you may pay the cent of money's prime, You'll leave with four but owe me six next week at end of time. Next week, with four and owing six, predicament again, "No problem, pay the money's time. I'll see you you know when. Next week, with three and owing six, another one was paid, Next week, with two cents, owing six, he felt a bit afraid. Next week, his last cent paid the time, he left the scene so broke, Next week, he couldn't pay and now learned of oppressive yoke. "To pay your interest you need to have a weekly cent, So you will work a weekly chore to pay for money's rent. For every week thereafter, pupil paid the rental due, And borrowing that nickel was a move he did soon rue. At first it seemed so simple, the rent of money's time, But once you're in, there's no way out, of money's trap sublime. Father demonstrated to his brood that debt's supreme, The stealing of the victim's labor is name of the scheme. BANKS ARE NOT LIKE PIGGY BANKS But banks are not like piggy banks, it's known by very few, The banks are more like poker banks with chips that are brand new. The issuance of currency is hidden from the slate, A rule to have deposits first was made law by the state. A limit's set on money's volume, artificially. It's not on wealth but on our savings supplementary. A hundred dollars to reserves are saved by you and me, Now ninety brand new dollars may be loaned out stringently. The ninety dollars does return and is deposited, So loans for 81 new dollars may be submitted, Depositing new money liberates a fraction more, But less and less until you find you hit a finite score. Again a poker bank could best be used to demonstrate, Just limit the supply of chips and charge an interest rate. A contract bearing interest, a mort gage is its name, Can be translated from the French to see the total game. The word for "mort" is "death" which is a clue we all should heed, The word for "gage" is gamble and a deadly bet indeed. The mortgage is the plight of all, death gamble, it does maim, The debt is always bigger than the money in the game. GAME THEORY The chips can be inflated too and lose some equity, Just charge a little interest and plainly you will see. If ten of you all pledge your watch to borrow ten chips each, Eleven chips is due from all, a mortgage all can't reach. One hundred chips is all you have for principal you got, But no more chips for interest. Those chips were given not. The principal is "P", the debt has grown to "P plus I." The debt has grown with interest so some of you will die. The number of survivors is "P" over "P plus I." The ratio of losers is "I" over "P plus I." This shows "I" over "P plus I" is debt you cannot sate, The confiscation of your watches happens at this rate. Less watches backing up the chips drives value down for sure. We have induced inflation in chips that were once so pure. With exponential functions we can name all of our curves, With differential equations we can follow all their swerves, The Debt times interest equals "d" Debt over "d" "t." This exponential is the Debt times "e" to the "i" "t." With transforms of Laplace, things can reduce to A times B, And A times B is algebra, the simplest way to see. The Laplace 1 over "s" minus "i" will tell us quite a lot, The pole is in the right hand plane, so stable it is not. The only difference in models: interest on debt, With interest at zero, it is linear we get. INTEREST CAUSES INFLATION And though we're told that interest does fight inflation true, I say that is the Biggest Lie. If others only knew. The number of you seized upon goes up with interest, Inflation that results is clearly seen with simple test. You're told inflation's volume of the money on the rise, Inflation's really loss of assets, that I emphasize. Inflation isn't too much cash to chase what we produced, By seizures, money chases stock of merchandise reduced. And though more money or less goods are shifts that feel the same, The seizure of collateral's the shift we have to blame. So by the use of interest, the money does inflate, And by its abolition, money can be steady state. MOTHER NATURE In Mother Nature, ants you see, no slouchers, not a one, They manage full employment which man has yet begun. Like in the Great Depression where men sat before their trees, With hammers, nails and chain-saws, their lot was still to freeze. They couldn't build their houses and they couldn't grow their food, They couldn't clothe their families, such ineptitude. We all are the consumers of our man-made energy, We feed on our own services, we do trade frequently. It could be mass times speed of light, we know that's energy, It could be mankind doing work, instantaneously. But as you meld both energies, value to man does grow, Technology has reached a state, enough for man to crow. All life consumes the product of a melded energy, The tools we have to work for and the sun we get for free. What makes the ants superior to men and all his deeds? The ants are not dependent on scarce money for their needs. To demonstrate, we'll give some chimps some coins put in a slot, And out will come bananas so tree-climbing they need not. It's easier to pick up coins than risk life climbing tree, So is it any wonder that the chimps use coins for free? So chips cut down banana trees to make themselves some swings, With coins to buy bananas, there was wood for other things. Now cut back on the circulation of the coins replaced, And watch them start to fight for coins in ways that men have faced. And would their coins they start to hoard for their security? While others would go hungry and a pity it would be? And as they struggled over coins, would they take a life? Just check man's record and you'll see a case of deadly strife. Man is the only animal who has to pass the test, To get cash for his pay, his boss must pay some interest. Because of lack of money, men were brought down to their knees. Then came the war and there was money, plenty as you please. They now constructed barracks and their food they now could grow, They now could make the uniforms, production on the go. The war did put the scarcity of money to an end, Destruction was acceptable so money they would spend. Where was that money years before with idle men in ranks? The cash was kept in short supply on purpose by the banks. But I believe that engineers can equal ants so skilled, At rounding up and turning on manpower unfulfilled. The need to work may soon pass by for man to earn his keep, In age of new robotics, he should only have to reap. But if you wanted to create new jobs for those who hurt, You could remove a tractor and have 10 men digging dirt. And if you wanted to create more jobs so very soon, You could remove the shovel and give each of them a spoon. It's not the job they really want, it's cash with which to buy, And only useful work should be the enterprise they try. When every source of power can put out all of its might, Mankind will match the ants at last and shed its greatest light. DISCUSSION The rich man answered after thought, "I marvel at the sense, But I'm too old too fight right now, there could be detriments. And should the bankers stop our credit, quickly you would see, The workers be transformed to beggars, sea to shining sea. But cry to think that we're all bound by debt that does increase, The constant strife of debt finance will never ever cease." But sir, it wouldn't be a first. It's happened quite a lot. There's linear in history and rave reviews it got. HISTORICAL EXAMPLES The record most successful case was in the British Isle, Where "Tallies," sticks of money, left King Henry I with smile. Accountants in the Treasury would split the stick in two, One half would be the money and the other half its due. A tally worth a pound of gold to pay the King's expense, The other half amounted to taxation that made sense. The only question left is how the tax should be assessed, For goods and services? A simple formula to test. For services, he'd levy tax at end of every year. For assets, tax to pay depreciation. It was clear. The tax collectors through the land all had an easy way, Since people had their tallies and enough the tax to pay. The tallies funded projects and could pay for everything, With tallies matching tax, a hero, Henry I, their King. For over 700 years, the tallies were in use, But having lost control of money now is Crown's excuse. ANTIQUITY In third millennium BC, King Hammurabai Great: "No fractional reserve checking accounts. There's no debate." B.C. 546, Bank of Lydia was Croesus' quest, "We'll use clay chips instead of gold and save the interest." Soon warring tribes were summoned with Prince Cyrus at the head, Who crushed their little country bank, King Croesus soon was dead. The Spartan King Lycurgus said "All those who journey made, Shall buy in with their gold for chips of clay in town to trade. Whatever chips they have when leaving, with our gold we'll pay, But we shall profit from the interest for time of stay." Solon used a coinage bronzed and set financial rules, "The money system's tricky so I must protect the fools. No Greek for loan may pledge to slavery himself or kin, To let our families be chained is more than mortal sin." In B.C. 338 the Roman Empire took off, With "Aes Grave" copper coins which paid for growth enough." Ghengis Khan made money from a special bark with Seal, Financing public works, no one refused to take his deal. RECENTLY Not only were there Abolitionists in Bible days, But there were many more for abolition I can praise. The Kings and Popes of middle ages were the ones to say, That interest was evil but since then they've lost their way. Some presidents who of this Populist idea knew, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson too. Some brilliant scientific men were also of accord, With Franklin. There was Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. The Native North American Civilizations great, Did "wampum" promissory IOU beads advocate. All issued IOU beads for their horses, hides and seed. Each mark on bead meant value personally guaranteed. The Whites said they should put away their private currency, So braves lined up with Whites at unemployment agency. Forced to use white's currency, they had to play the game, And in the larger game of nations, they came out so lame. Our forebear's generations called it work-bee on a date, Where men could pay their taxes with some service to the state. They built the roads that carve the land, the bridges over blue, To those who said they needed gold, they proved it wasn't true. Now look at how it works today, let's get it understood, Replacing wooden tallies now is paper pressed of wood. Two notes used in America can clearly show the way, Both legal tender now down south. They can be spent today: "United States Note" issued by the nation's Treasury, And "Federal Reserve Note" which is banker's currency. Their fronts are very similar except the name they state, Their backs are very different, it means another plate. The Treasury provided notes for federal expense, And taxed them back to balance books with numbers that made sense. In 1913, other plates were given to the banks, Creation of the money. They gave politicians thanks. The Government had given banks permission to create, A batch of brand new money to be lent at interest rate. The Government then borrowed from them and at their request, The Congress passed the Income Tax to pay them interest. One Congressman objected, Louis T. McFadden, loud, "The greatest crime in history," he said with head unbowed. Ten dollars out, eleven back, it often takes a while, But after years, the end result's a melancholy style. The money from the Treasury, its use did almost cease, To pay the interest to banks, the taxes did increase. And when we ask "The Treasury, why is it never used?" In answer, we get silence and an attitude bemused. So to this day the bulk of the American supply, Is borrowed from the banks at rates that make debts multiply. All Governments do service debt by taxing you and me, Instead of letting Treasury create it interest free. I see no reason for a tax to pay them interest, When use of plates by Treasury would lower taxes best. The money from the Treasury was used down south before. The "Greenbacks" used by Lincoln paid to win the Civil War. The "Continentals" did their job until King George did state: "There'll be no use of your own plates, for gold you'll have to wait." Though we've been told that their revolt was over tax for tea, Ben Franklin said "The war's because they took our currency." SOCIAL CREDIT QUEBEC The books I read on Social Credit made the problem clear, The movement's founder, Clifford Douglas, was an engineer. He pointed out that debt was more than money in the game, But since he couldn't stop the growth of debt he had to claim: "More money should be printed so that people have in hand, Enough so that all the production satisfies demand." Yet interest at zero means no price and money gap, There's no more need to compensate since one-to-one's a snap. Some Social Credit preachers made their mark and took a stand, They spread the Gospel of a friendly credit cross the land. Quebec had Louis Even who was right in what he preached, Grandfather, Adelard Turmel, was pleased when words him reached. The two great laws of Economics, grand-dad said to know, That "Interest is theft" and "Money has no babies." So. SOCIAL CREDIT ALBERTA Alberta had its "Bible Bill," the Aberhart who taught, Depression suicides were caused by bankers that he fought. He promised them provincial currency with which to trade, But rulings pro the banks by courts in Ottawa were made: "No province has authority to make its currency, Since only Ottawa has rule over liquidity." Whenever he suggested using plates from Treasury, The media declared it "funny money theory." We now can see how interesting history can be, Once power wielded with the money plates we finally see. Just note who operates the plates with government in debt, To know who is responsible for policies we get. NAZI GERMANY Even Hitler funded full employment without gold, It's Gottfried Feder, engineer, who saved the vig, we're told. How was it possible Depression stalked the global mob, While Germany alone could offer everyone a job? They based the Reichmark on an hour's worth of work produced, No interest on funding gave economy a boost. Hitler was a racist but Volkswagons are still bought, If "Hitler saved the vig," is "save it too" an evil thought? CANADIAN DEBT SERVICE We're told that government finance is only for the sage, Too hard for Mr. Average, its study to engage. But does it have to be well understood by only few? Or can the problem be explained for Mr. Average too? A closer look at how our governments spend revenue, Might let us know what's gone amiss and what we have to do. I'll pay my tax for army and police to handle strife; I'll pay my tax for doctors, nurses who protect my life; I'll pay my tax for all engaged repairing road and sewer; I'll pay my tax for social servants helping out the poor; I'll even pay my tax for bureaucrats with no regret; But I object to paying tax for interest on debt. I'll gladly pay my tax for human time at useful toil, But taxing me for money's time will always make me boil. When you were little, did you ever dream of printing cash? Of filling up your wallet with some money in a flash? Creating money accurately means TO HAVE THE PLATES, The stamping of some paper into notes best demonstrates; Or stamping metal into coins; or blips computerized, Into your bank account deposits, checks now authorized. So whether paper, metal, volts of electricity, TO HAVE THE PLATES is printing money absolutely free. Now if you printed to spend, the others would bewail, They'd call it counterfeiting and send you off to jail. But what if government would let you print it up to lend? With only what you could collect in interest to spend? If you could print and lend a thousand out at ten percent, You'd make a hundred interest on printing that you lent. But if you could print up and lend a million out you'd get, An extra hundred thousand dollars for your fee on debt! If government stops using its own plates and comes to you, A billion printed nets a hundred million revenue!! With everybody being taxed to pay you interest, Of all the scams in history, TO HAVE THE PLATES is best!!! Though never spending, only lending, riches to await, To all who with the plates become the loan-sharks to the state. And though to join the few who thusly profit, one might dream, Wake up to see we're all the victims of their greedy scheme. Though governments of old ruled "Treasury run money plates," Without the interest to middle-men at rip-off rates, Most governments today to banking industry have lost, Control of money plates so interest is now a cost. To service debt in ninety four, Canada's request, A hundred'n eighty billion dollars paid in interest. We're taxed over five hundred dollars each per month to pay, For interest to holders of our plates they gave away!!! We now see the unjustly cost that makes our tax inflate, And only usury is what we must eliminate. We Abolitionists would get the plates back from the banks, Have Treasury control for only printing charge and thanks. The interest we save would be split up I recommend, For each to get five hundred dollars monthly dividend, Two thousand and five hundred for a family of five, It's thirty thousand yearly helping families survive. As if you owned a share in the incorporated state, An income guaranteed for life, no question, no debate. ACTIONS OF BANKING SYSTEMS ENGINEER As Banking Systems Engineer, I claimed authority, And swore to fix the banking system expeditiously. ELECTIONS The logical reaction was to tell my Parliament, So off I went to House of Commons, tried to make a dent. My presentations noted, filed were very soon forgot, So running in each every race was duty that I thought. The 1997 Guinness Book of Records World, Says "41 elections" on our banner is unfurled. LAW A hundred times I sought injunctions, six right to the top, In each I sought the order that the interest they stop. The Interest Act says that you may take most any rate, Unless another law against it can be found to state. The laws I found were out of Canada's Criminal Code, Some laws to fight the mortgage off, it was the legal road. "Mort" is the section of the mortgage which eliminates, And causes "death" by poverty which seals so many fates. The Section 318 says proofs of genocides derive: "Inflicting on the group conditions where all can't survive." When we see the foreclosures on our farm capacity, We know there'll be less food produced, it is a certainty. And since starvation still exists in many a foreign land, There'll be starvation even more for mankind to withstand. "Gage" is the section of the mortgage which is vulnerable, To gambling sections of the code which are invincible. The Section 197(1)(b)(3) mandates no fee, "Participation in a gamble must be made for free." Participating in the mortgage has an interest fee, So fee charged for a mortgage is a criminality. Another Code of laws that we must take into account, The laws contained within the Bible must be paramount. And finally the Science warns "The deadline's getting near. This is a case of life and death that you should really fear." I argued that foreclosures kept our life support less strong. They had the power to put right the program that's gone wrong. The statements sent to me by banks and credit cards provide, For interest and service fees both listed side by side. We could restrict the program to collect the service charge, Enough the pay the bankers for the service they discharge. So with those laws, I asked the courts to overrule the Act, "Abolish interest and make the service charges fact." EQUATION OF RESPONSIBILITY I pointed out they had the might to instantaneously, Effect repair on our industrial capacity. It's just like a conveyer belt with people in a line, Who fall into abyss of Luciferian design. If you could press a button and cut power to the beast, The belt would have momentum but you'd lose the very least. With the production maximized of butter, not of guns, We still could not get there in time for all the weakest ones. So there would be a finite loss of souls until the day, When all may access credit and for life support may pay. But if you'd waited for a while before you used your might, You'd lose some extra souls for failing to so expedite. And if you had refused to press the button to this day, It would, on you, the blame for every fallen soul we'd lay. With simple mathematics we can count the number who, Have perished by inaction of the men with power few. The number of souls perishing, all due to the delay, Is equal to the number who do perish on that day. With 40,000 children dying every single day, Responsibility belongs to those who had the say. Since all the judges had the power to compel the banks, To fix the killer program so they don't deserve our thanks. The number they must answer for which day to day does climb, Is equal to the number who have perished since that time. Each motion was a shot on goal, a chance to fix the flaw, I took as many as I could but interest is law. JUDGES RESPONSIBLE Six times I went right to the top and all to no avail, Since they found it too hard to grasp, the motions all did fail. The judges all ruled that they failed to see what they could do, They could not change the software to the service charges few. And though I tried a hundred times to get the software switched, The banking system seems to have the judges all bewitched. I honestly believe their rulings did not pass the test, Because there seems to be a real conflict of interest. The judges may be prejudiced for they too are in hock, Or judges may be prejudiced by owning banking stock. Rewrite the banking software and give the bailiffs all a rest, For maximum production please abolish interest. DEFENCE FROM PARABLE OF TALENTS So I defended victims too, those being repossessed, I showed them what to do and how to fight the banks with zest. Jean Metcalfe cared for some retarded women over years, Struck down with allergies, she had a mortgage in arrears. The bank did move to repossess and push her from her home, When she cried out, no one could help. It was a valid loan. She used to be a heavy one, two hundred and forty five, I met her weighing ninety five, she barely was alive. I showed her how to play the game, their watches and her dimes, She practiced how to repossess their watches many times. With knowledge of this she did plead her case right to the top, She said eviction into hostile world would have to stop. The house she lived in was her shield, environmentally, She had no where to go so it was deadly certainly. By using the defence provided in Christ's parable, Repudiating interest but paying principal. So when a bank said that a home had to be repossessed, Defendants offered principal but not the interest. The banks would make a motion to defence disqualify, And argue that the Bible and the Science don't apply. The courts would rule that could not see what it was about, Disqualifying each defence, they ordered families out. The law provided for the time to serve and file appeal, Before the bankers could move in and finish off the steal. But just before the deadline, we would file our document. They'd move and get dismissal but more time they would have spent. And then we would appeal again and they'd reciprocate, Appellate courts would not our argument accommodate. To Canada's Supreme Court was the last stop on the road, They also had no pity for the needy and it showed. The process took a year but the Supreme Court did decide: "The bank has right to your home, lady, and you can't reside." The sheriff and his deputies came by one winter's day, And put her out onto the street, "The banks you always pay." She spent a month outdoors in our severe Canadian climes, It was a shame to see her suffer, proof of worst of crimes. A kindly doctor bought her house and let her move back in, She did survive her big ordeal but she was oh so thin. It was so easy to impede the banks with their own laws, When simple piece of legal paper made them sheath their claws. Because it took time to dismiss all of our documents, Defendants got to live for free while we made arguments. And though evicted finally, with time they'd saved a bit, And having cash to help start over was the benefit. PICKETING With dangers to our life support, there was no time to lose, We could correct financial woes. I had to spread the news. To bring a hidden fact to light, I had to take the chance. The dangers to our planet come from shortage of finance. It's life support we're building here, I hope you realized, Industrial capacity should be so maximized. If engineers will not rise up against this business beast, Who else can be expected to, it's not up to the least. To spread the message I have had to use tactics unheard, And it has left me much besmirched. My person, not my word. Some engineers have said that the profession I disgrace. In answer for my tactics do I point out this one case. Destruction of the Challenger, the shuttle's sorry tale, With engineers who knew the cold would make the rubber fail. They argued into coldest night, the problem was not cured, The crew was launched up anyway, for they were all insured. If you had lots of money and were one such engineer, Would you imperil, by objecting, your future career? Most would have told the astronauts their craft was not too stable. They would have tried to intervene if they thought they were able. If no one listened to your warning, would you go ahead, And write up on a picket sign the words you wished be said? "The weather's been too cold today, the rubber seals won't hold, If you go up, there's no excuse, you'll die and you've been told." Most would have carried picket signs and told all who would hear, Most would have acted in this case of life and death so clear. If no one listened to you would you tell them what you are, And write on cap "The Engineer" who's studied this by far? "The rubber seals are too unsafe, it's death to him who goes, Believe me please, I've studied seals, the engineer who knows." Most would have worn the cap that said this is `The engineer,' Most people to the engineering ethics would adhere. The shuttle engineers did fail to stop calamity, They never should have ceded what was their authority. And if we wished to fix the flaw, would the banks resist? And would they try to thwart those of us wishing to exist? The software is the problem while the hardware's good as new, Inflation can be fixed at will by making debt be true. The correspondence, one to one, of trades of energy, It is the right solution. It's the only one I see. I wore the cap and carried signs to spread my message sure, Abolish interest to fund environmental cure. We have the men, materials, technology to win, To let the bankers slow repair is engineering sin. I picketed the banks at cities all across the land, I picketed our Parliament, the weather to withstand. I picketed the meetings of World Bank and I.M.F., The Queen, the Pope, and politicians. They were all so deaf. The words up on my picket sign were large and made it clear, "Abolish interest and make the problems disappear." So I instilled into their minds some words they never knew, I'm proud to think the Word is sowed in more than only few. LETS Best move of all was giving funds for interest-free accounts, They're known around the world as LETS. To barter it amounts. "Local Employment Trading System" is the name it got, To run the banks' computers right, a way once vainly sought. Greendollars are the currency used in a LETS account, Without the interest that forces growth of due amount. A friend who'd joined LETS barter system made the accolade: "Our trade of goods and services more easily is made. A member who is spending may go negative at will, A positive goes to the one who makes use of his skill. And though we use no money, we have found a way to trade, A giant step in the reform of money has been made. A butcher bought some pastry at the bakery one day, And called the LETS exchange recorder. He was heard to say: "Please debit 20 dollars Green from my account for cake. A credit to account of baker, you, in Green, should make. The baker took his family to the restaurant one night, And called the LETS exchange recorder and was heard to cite: "Please debit 20 dollars Green from my account for meal, And credit the account of restauranteur in this deal." The restauranteur, needing meat, had Green with which to buy, And called the LETS exchange recorder to so testify: "Please debit 20 dollars Green from my account for meat. And credit the account of butcher. Circle's now complete!" Some didn't like to call for every deal they wished to make, And so agreed each other's check in Green they all would take. The butcher went to bakery to buy some loaves of bread, And used a check on which "Worth 20 dollars Green" it said. The baker took his family out to dine and eat their fill, And used the butcher's $20 check to pay the bill. The restauranteur paid for time he spent in dentist's chair, The dentist used the $20 check for car repair. The check from the mechanic paid for caring of a nurse, Her plumber gladly nodded when she took it from her purse. The plumber's children's music teacher, for the check was keen, Because he knew his seamstress happily took all his Green. To her account the check was duly credited at last, And 20 dollar debit to the butcher was amassed. But had she spent the check back at the butcher shop, we'd see, Completion of the circle meant the trades were all for free." In the States the use Timedollars, like in other lands, With chips based on the the hours serving members' all demands. They've Quarter-Hour bills and Half-an-Hour bills, it's true, With bills worth One full Hour, even bills worth Hours two! MAYOR SOLVES DILEMMA WITH LETS The mayor said that if Greendollars served as Locals tell: "Why shouldn't government be one to try it out as well? Another snowstorm hits the city with no funds to pay, We'll test the LETS and see if we have found a better way. This time we pledge the million dollar bond to LETS instead, And see if use of Green will get us very much ahead. The merchant should accept the Green for it's another way, His taxes needed for the snow removal, he can pay. Again we spent a million but the tax to be assessed, Included only principle without the interest. We'd offer Green to fix a pothole to a company, Wishing to pay their tax with unemployed capacity. Today in our society where money clearly lacks, Who could refuse some paper anyone may use for tax? Greendollar paychecks could be earned by all desiring work, The opportunity to pull their weight so few would shirk. Before the budget allocations are completely spent, Can LETS Greendollars help reverse project abandonment? If council members for their tax took part of pay in Green, We'd have some cash left over which is something rarely seen. If civil service took some Green at least for taxes due, The extra cash would guarantee that extra jobs ensue. The only question left is how the tax should be assessed, For goods and services? A simple formula to test. For services, we'd levy tax at end of every year. For assets, tax to pay depreciation. It's so clear. With Green we'd pay for road repairs and I would gladly take, Greendollars from the working men so payment I could make; And we could built our hospitals and I would take as pay, Greendollars to buy medicine and service they purvey. The government that spent the most and had the highest tax, Would be the government providing citizens the max. And best of all we'd have the Green to save environment, A way to pay to save our lives and make us affluent. With Green the unemployed throughout the world could save the day, Without it they will idly sit and die their lives away. We let the State run things for us. In banking they should too. Creation of the money is a service they should do. The LETS can be adapted to most any database, Municipal, provincial, federal. In every case. No need to understand the simple program for we know, Computer pros in government can surely make it go. TREASURY SHOULD DO IT. The answer that makes sense to me is for the Treasury, To take it over from the banks, create it all for free. If funding were all handled by the nation's Treasury, That hundred'n and eighty billion spent environmentally. Then we could pay for hydro dams and I would gladly take, The T-bills from the working men so payment I could make; And we could built our hospitals and I would take as pay, The T-bills to buy medicine and service they purvey. Use money from the Treasury, not money from the banks, And save us all the interest and I will give you thanks. And though retired residents do often feel dismay, They shouldn't fear if we should take their interest away. All those who live on saving bonds to furnish what they spend, Could buy some stocks, create some jobs and get a dividend. So I'll accept the tax for people's time at useful toil, But taxing me for money's time will always make me boil. Would you agree control of money plates by banks should end, With no more tax for interest on money bankers lend? THE YOUTH HAVE A STAKE The ones who should decide on this are equal to the task, The ones who've just learned algebra should be the ones to ask. The younger generation who have most at stake in this, I've heard them demonstrate about the poverty abyss: "We need more money right away, our planet's really dying. Won't someone do what should be done? Seems no one's even trying." Some of the mathematics may be new to some of you, But find someone to check it out, it's worth the time to do. You might seek out an engineer and show him what I've learned, You cannot wait till it's too late, until the planet's burned. This is the question of the greatest engineering test, Their duty as an engineer mandates their interest. If biosphere is ruined and they haven't done a thing, They certainly are engineers unworthy of the ring. The question you must pose to them to put this to the test, "Is exponential faulty and is linear the best?" INQUIRY BY SYSTEMS ENGINEERS A technical inquiry done by systems engineers, Would strip away the fog that's clouded mankind over years. And since it's ruled by software, it is up to you to tell, By your decision only can we solve this living Hell. TO THOSE WHO AGREE To those of you who do agree, your challenge is quite clear, The message must be taken to all those you hold so dear. Affecting every one of you, it's something you should fear, The propagation of this info must be made so clear. Your means can be most orthodox, no picketing or cap, Just speak right up, expose the banking system that does sap. And to computer bulletin boards, you may upload this file, Or make some copies to pass out. Right now. Not in a while. You must explain how money works objecting to the flaw, It's something you must really do. Ship Earth needs new bank law. I wrote this ballad with intent to give you all the WORD, The WORD of HOW the money works, I really hope you heard. If you are one who got the WORD, I must reiterate, The greatest glory goes to he who makes it replicate. Just read the ballad right out loud for any friends to hear, You'll be surprised how readily the WORD stays in their ear. But for the best reaction, you should try to sing the verse, And you will find to fit the bill so many tunes diverse. If you can spread the WORD about the plates to those around, So they can wise up others too, to Hell they won't be bound, For the reward in Heaven imminent for all who teach, Is to attain the place where all the "Friends" of Christ should reach! ------------------------------ BIBLE MONETARY REFORM (600 verses) BIBLE MONETARY REFORM (600 verses) By John C. Turmel, B. Eng. ** <-- New Verses CLERGYMAN SAYS A clergyman, he spoke right up and told me I was right, His Good Book was repetitive that interest was blight. One night he dreamt a dialogue with Jesus Christ and said: "You promised us you'd come. You're late. The planet's nearly dead." He answered "I did not say that I'd come to save the day, I meant that if the planet lives, my way would be the way. The parables I spoke make sense to only those who see, To find the answer to my riddles, you must find the key." Get out your Bibles to detect the key which breaks his code, It has been buried deep within another episode: THIS WORLD'S LAW OF ABUNDANCE In Matthew chapter 13:10, it tells where he was asked, Why did he speak in parables so meanings they were masked? "The reason for disguise of message," note the words he said: "It all comes down to interest, the theme affects the head. To those who have abundance will be given even more, From those without abundance will be taken from their store." This mathematical equation states the function best, This Biblical description of the function interest. To those with spare, the positives, they'll get some extra perks, And those with none, they'll have to pay, that's how the system works. The rich get richer, poor get poorer. It's not brotherhood. It's obvious that interest is Reverse-Robin-Hood. This rule of more abundance was repeated down the line, In Matthew 13:12 and 25 verse 29, In Luke 19 verse 26, with 8:18 as well, **In Marc 4:25, New Testament words used for Hell. **In Thomas 41 from Nag Hammadi scrolls anew, **Apocalypse of Peter 83: 2 7 too. **So Luke, Marc, Matthew, Thomas, Peter, seven times do cite **What most preoccupied the Christ: the Beast he had to fight. **Death-gamble mort-gage was oppression yoke of slavery, **To battle loansharks for the world was why his bravery. CHRIST'S LAW OF ABUNDANCE Omitted from the Bible but in Gnostic Text is found, The greatest of all Christian laws for economics sound. St. Thomas in verse 95's where Jesus said it best: "If you have money, do not lend it out at interest, But rather give it to one from whom you won't get it back," Thus helping out the poorest saves us from financial lack. In Paul to the Corrinthians 2, Chapter 8, 14, We find abundance matched to need with charity foreseen, "Your own abundance now should be supplying for their need, That their abundance later will supply you your own seed. And in this way, who gathers much will not have over-fill, And he who gathers little will be taken care of still. And in this way there soon will be a rich equality, Where people help each other with great productivity." **Same Exodus 16 : 1 7 of God's manna gift: **Some gathered much, some little, those too weak the load to lift. **Who gathered much did not have too much when they loaned their spare, **So those who gathered little did not have too little share. In Paul to the Corinthians, book 2 does so reveal, In chapter 8:11 "You must act to match your zeal. So based on what you have you should complete what you began, And not on what you do not have, to do the most you can." So judge according to your men, materials and tools, And not according to the lack of money ruling fools. In Matthew 5 verse 42, on credit he did say, "From one who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away." In Luke 6:35 he notes the law that we must learn, "Of your abundance, lend without expecting its return." In Luke 14:14 he said the rich should help the poor. "And though you may not be repaid, the Lord will still ensure, That when the resurrection of the righteous does take place, You'll be rewarded at that time, you'll get an honored place." For in Acts 20:35, he tells us to believe, "More blessed is it to donate than it is to receive." In Matthew chapter 7:12, it's hard to miscontrue: "Do unto others what you'd like to have them do to you." If, while in need, you found the interest to be unjust, Refusing to inflict it, while in plenty, is a must. In Matthew 19:24 he says the lure's too great. A man with plenty can't resist and thereby seals his fate: "It's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven high, Than it is for a camel to pass through a needle's eye." **In Matthew 19: 21, we read that Jesus said: **"If you want to be perfect, so the way to get ahead, **Go sell all your possessions, giving money to The Poor, **For treasure up in heaven. Then, come follow me, the doer." **He didn't mean to hand out to the poor in streets your gold, **"The Poor" was his commune, its Treasurer, the funds to hold! **More debtors join bought out from under yoke of slavery! **No wonder Christians crucified, no usurer pity. **In matthew 10, verse 17, he preached across the land, **Repent ye for the kingdom of the heaven is at hand. **"At hand" meant not so "very soon," a parable that fools, **But "very near to here" by changing Hell to Heaven rules. HOW TO PRAY In Matthew chapter 6 verse 9, Christ taught us how to pray: "When you are praying to the Father, here is what you say: Our Father, who in Heaven art, hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom come, thy Will be done on Earth as Heaven, the same. Give us now tomorrow's bread, forgive us all our debts, As we forgive our debtors all their debts with no regrets. And to temptation, lead us not, don't put us to the test, Deliver us from evil one and wicked interest." This is the best example of some Bible tampering, Of scripture by the newer publishers in the ring. Forgive us all our trespasses, as we forgive all those, Who have trespassed against us" is the way that it now goes. It's not a trespass or a sin for one to be in debt, The meaning has been changed as far away as one can get. OLD TESTAMENT So keying on the interest, I searched the Bible through, And found it loaded with advice on what we have to do. The Bible's filled with tales of woe, rich over the oppressed, It's there in plain old black and white, "Abolish interest." In Deuteronomy 23, verse 19 if you would: "Do not charge brothers interest on money or on food." In Exodus 2 2 : 2 5; the rule is manifest, "Don't be like moneylenders, charge him not an interest." In Psalm 15, we see to dwell in God's home heavenly: "On holy hill lives he who lends without the usury." Leviticus, in 25, verse 35's no jest: "You must not lend him any money at an interest." **Warns Exodus 20: 2 3: Do not for yourselves make, **Some gods of gold or silver, Mammon's heartless rule at stake. ISAIAH **Isaiah 24 verse 2 warns of a shifting sand, **When loansharking's allowed to stalk officially the land: **"And it shall be, as with the people, with the priest, no joke, **As with the servant, so with master; none escape the yoke, **As with the maid, so with her mistress; enmity at stake. **As with buyer, so with seller; all must suffer rake, **As with the lender, with the borrower, it shall yet be, **As with the taker and the giver of the usury. **The land shall utterly be emptied, spoiled while decadent, **Beloved fools, they have transgressed His law on money's rent. **So therefore hath the curse devoured earth, not Heavenly, **And desolate are they who dwell in Hell "with" usury. Isaiah Chapter 55, in it he specifies, The way to answer when you hear the sound of needy cries: "All you who have no money and are very hungry still, May come and buy the food we have so you may eat your fill. And you who have no money and clad insufficiently, Do come to buy some clothing so that warmly dressed you'll be." EZEKIEL Ezekiel 3:18 adds responsibility, God states his laws for life with his expected certainty: "And when I tell the wicked man that "You will surely die," You will be held accountable if you don't warn the guy. But if you tell him and he doesn't change his wicked way, You will have saved yourself and he will be the one to pay." In 18:5: "Suppose a man takes not much interest, He takes no usury. He'll live! His actions I have blessed. Suppose he has a son who takes excessive interest, AND lends at usury. He'll die! His actions I detest. But if this son too has a son who doesn't do the same, He does not take the pledge for loans, his greed he overcame. He takes no usury NOR interest that is too high, He will not die for his father's sin, the soul that sins will die. But if a wicked man turns from the sins he did commit, He gives back what he took in pledge. His sins I will acquit. Forgotten will be his offences when I come to judge, Because of good things he does now, I will not hold a grudge. But if a righteous man turns from my law to evil way, None of his righteous deeds will count. He'll die! I do inveigh. So cleanse yourselves of all your sins and cease to be such fools, I take no pleasure in the death of men who break my rules." **Ezekiel in 22 verse 12, the rich, berates, **"You've taken usury AND too high interest the rates. Ezekiel declared that usury AND interest, Could have a different effect, there was a simple test. If interest demanded is of something that can breed, Such interest is payable and not sin I concede. So if you lend a hundred head and ask to get two more, That might not be excessive lending that He would abhor. But if you gain all of the calves and he still owes you some, That would be judged excessive, that is more than maximum. And if the interest is on some silver or some gold, It's usury because there are no babies to behold! It's interest if principal can breed to multiply, It's usury if principal cannot so classify. PUNISHMENTS In Deuteronomy 28, verse 20 it does say, "That if you take the usury, the Lord will make you pay. He'll send on you confusion till you come to sudden ruin, You'll lack success in all you do, a melancholy tune. And though you build a house, you won't reside behind its drapes, And though you plant a vineyard, you won't get to taste its grapes. Your oxen killed before your eyes and you won't eat your share, Your sheep and donkey taken leaving you in great despair. Your sons and daughters to enslavement for your payments due, And worrying and waiting is the punishment for you. Some foreigners will eat the fruit of labor on your land, You'll be condemned to poverty eternal to withstand. He'll lend to you but you won't lend to him. He will prevail, So he will be the head and you will always be the tail." INFLATION AND INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT In Haggai 1:5 he insists "Your way has something wrong, You've planted much but you don't eat enough to keep you strong. You drink but never have your fill, your shoes have broken soles, You put your wages in a wallet that has many holes." In Haggai 1:11, unemployment God commands: As punishment he called for "drought on labor of your hands." In Haggai 2:16, he notes inflation once again, "When one came to a heap of twenty, there were only ten, When anyone went to draw wine, not fifty, but twenty. I struck the labor of your hands. You did not turn to me." Isaiah 28:19 says "it will traumatize, And cause sheer terror when your plight you finally realize. The bed is too short to stretch out, your blanket is not wide, Enough to wrap around you. Thus in need you will abide." Isaiah 55:2 asks "Why is your money spent, On what you cannot eat? Why labor on what won't content?" Isaiah 44:19 says "They've not understood, That half of it I've used for fuel, shall I bow down to wood?" In Proverbs 22, verse 7, it is clear for sure: "The borrower serves lender." It's the rich over the poor. Job 20:19 says that "Heaven will expose his guilt, The wicked does oppress and seizes homes he never built." In Psalm 64, we hear complaint: "Oh god, protect my life, From the conspiracy of wicked men who deal in strife, The crowd of evil-doers who in secret make their plot, And whisper silently that it's a perfect plan they've got." **In Jeremiah 15:10: Yet all those cursing me, **I have not lent or borrowed on accursed usury. HABAKKUK'S COMPLAINT In Habakkuk 1, he cries out to God in all his pain, For the oppression of the poor he asked God to explain: "How long, O Lord, must I cry "help" but find you do not hear, Or cry out "I see violence," but you don't interfere. Why do you make me witness sin? Why tolerate such wrong? The law is paralyzed with justice only for the strong. The wicked foe hooks righteous men into his evil net, And so rejoices in their subjugation by their debt. He therefore sacrifices and burns incense to his net, For by his net he lives in all the riches he can get. Is he to keep his net destroying nations willfully? Is he to swallow up more righteous men than he can be?" The Lord replied: "It certainly will come, it won't delay, When he's brought down, he'll feel the ridicule in what they say: "Will not your debtors suddenly arise and shake your throne? Will they not wake up, make you tremble, force you to atone? Then you'll become their victim for you plundered nations great, Because you plundered them, their plundering will be your fate, For you've destroyed the lands and towns of them whom you disdain, And woe to him who builds his realm on such illicit gain." " In Chapter 2 verse 5: "The arrogant still takes, no bluff, Like Hell and Death his gullet wide, he never has enough." **Proverbs 28:8 says: Who takes the usury, **Amasses wealth for other who'll be kind to the needy. NEHEMIAH ABOLISHES INTEREST In Nehemiah 5 we hear complaints by needy men, Of the conditions that existed in the nation then. Some said "We've had to mortgage all our vineyards and our fields, To get grain during famine though they've had abundant yields." Some others said "We've had to borrow money for the King, Whose taxes on our fields and vineyards leave us not a thing." Still others said "Their flesh and blood is of our family tree, Yet our children suffer under yoke of slavery." When Nehemiah heard them, anger great he could not mask, The nobles and the rulers were the ones he took to task. He called a great assembly where he chose to lay the blame, On bankers, judges, politicians who had run the game: "You are exacting usury of your own countrymen, Unlike my men who freely lend to needy brethren. What you are doing is not right, you must do as we do. So "Stop exacting interest!" It is the Big Taboo. Return their fields and vineyards and their houses and their grain, And also all the usury, the whole illicit gain." The nobles and the rulers said: "They will not have to pay. We'll give them back all their possessions. We'll do what you say." Prosperity resulted from his ban on interest, "Remember me, O God, with favor" was his last request. Watch out for many Bibles where the most important phrase, Has been deleted from the text, the problem not to faze. The message Nehemiah states is "Stop the interest, And give them back what you have seized and it'll turn out best." The newer versions of the Bible simply state "Atone, And give them back their stuff." No talk of interest on loan. Who chose to cut the answer out? Who played this evil role? We know the ones who own the publishers have sole control. HOW INTEREST ARISES One tale to show how interest occurs quite easily, Especially when humans find themselves in scarcity: A father leaving his estate, his sons he has but four, To each of them he gives a sac of seed to grow some more. The first son had misfortune due to natural event, The loss of crop to a tornado, the predicament. The second son, he suffered too, with locusts in his field, His children soon would starve after an insufficient yield. The third son had a tiny crop, but it was touch-and-go, He had eight kids who ate most everything that he could grow. The fourth son's crop was bountiful, his granaries were full. His brothers asked if some spare seeds might be available. In his right ear he heard advice that he knew to be true, "Do help them out and should you fail, they'll be there helping you." But in his wrong ear he heard words so greedy in their tone, "Don't risk security for your success was all your own. But if you rent your seeds to them and gain from what they reap, You soon won't have to work with interest to earn your keep." At some point in man's history, a brother chose that way, Enslaved with debt all of the others lasting to this day. WHO THE LORD MUST BE Ezekiel 34:27 says the poor will know, When they've been liberated from those who've enslaved them so. The one who breaks the evil bars of yoke of slavery, He'll be their savior, that's for sure. No other can he be. NEW TESTAMENT Like Nehemiah, Jesus knew a Lord must set them free, And fight the men who had imposed the yoke of slavery. In Luke 4 verse 18 he says "Anointed by the Lord, I preach the good news to the poor, a world they can afford. The prisoners shall be set free, oppressed shall be released, When comes the year of our Lord's favor, you will surely feast." ASSAULT ON MONEY-LENDERS Abundance had two ancient laws from which he had to choose, Abundance increase for the rich or loans for those who lose. To those who have abundance will be given even more, From those without abundance will be taken from their store, or Your own abundance now should be supplying for their need, That their abundance later will supply you your own seed. In Matthew 4 verse 23, it says in Galilee, He preached the Good News of the Kingdom for those who would see. He taught the difference in laws for three years under Rome. And then in physical attack, he drove his message home. In Matthew 10:34, He says "My friend, do not suppose, That I have come to bring Earth peace, that's not the path I chose. I did not come to bring you peace, I came to bring a sword, A revolution for the poor that's worthy of a Lord." Luke 12 verse 49 repeats "I've come to bring a fire, To see the Earth already lit is to what I aspire. So do you think that I have come to bring you peace on earth? Division is the reason I have come to bet my worth." In Matthew 21 verse 12's the story of his fight, With whip, he battled money-lenders. He was not contrite! He set upon the bankers and he caused them all a loss, For busting up their temple's books, they nailed him to their cross. And so you see, Christ did much more than preach the godly way. He stood against the interest and knew his life he'd pay. But we don't have to die like him, he showed another way, To fight against the usury, a plan for use today. It's in the Parable of Minas, Luke 19:16, And parable of talents, Matthew 25:14. PARABLE OF THE TALENTS The parable of Talents in Matt. 25:14, Depicts a reign where the effects of interest are seen. "The Kingdom that is Heaven is like where a master takes, A lengthy leave of absence and for foreign lands he makes. He calls together servants so his wishes they might learn, "You put my money to good use until I can return." According to ability, five talents to the first, Two golden talents to the next, one talent to the worst. The first did well in industry, it doubled with five more, The next did well in his own way and doubled his to four. The weakest of the servants knew his master to be hard, Afraid to lose the gold, he buried it out in the yard. Years later when the master came, he called them to account, To settle up their debts they had to meet his due amount. The first one said "I've doubled mine. Here's ten with interest." The master said "You've done quite well. To that I will attest." The second said "You gave me two and with two more, that's four." The master said "I thank you for increasing so my store." The third said "Master, we both know, you reap where you don't sow, I buried it and here's what's yours. I found it didn't grow." The master said "A lazy servant, I do you regard, You know I reap where I don't sow, I am a man who's hard. You should have put my money with the bank so that I'd get, My interest when I returned, a failure you'll regret. To those who have abundance will be given even more, From those without abundance will be taken from their store. So give his talent to the others who now have a heap, And throw him into alley where men gnash their teeth and weep." " PARABLE OF THE MINAS The parable of minas in St. Luke 19, 11, Has servant once again rejecting interest in heaven. Again, the servant did remit the mina he received, Again, the master did invoke the law which he believed: "To those who have abundance will be given even more, From those without abundance will be taken from their store. The penalty the servant paid for his audacity. The master ordered to the guards: "Slay him in front of me." " COURTS OF JUSTICE With slavery or death for those who failed in their reports, It's obvious why Jesus told them to avoid the courts. Luke 12, verse 57, warns the debtor of the trap, "You settle with him out of court or you will do the rap. The magistrate will turn you over to the jailers who, Will keep you chained until you've paid the last penny due." The problem is how long it takes for one who is in jail, To earn the money necessary to fulfill his bail? Christ used this clever way make us see how slavery, Is caused by debts that have exploded due to usury. In Luke 11:46, he took the time to note, The Lord's distaste for the judiciary and I quote: "Woe to you experts in the law, you load the people down, You are no help and burden them with loads that make them frown. You've hid the key to knowledge and because you did not see, You've been a hindrance to the ones who have ability." In Matthew 12 verse 38, he warns us to "Watch out, For teachers of the law who walk in flowing robes about. They have the most important places in the synagogue, But they devour widow's houses. That's their epilogue." MISINTERPRETATIONS Because of false interpretations that say he approves, The taking of the usury, his words still make the news. That usury's okay is one interpretation claimed, The master must be Christ since Heaven is the Kingdom named. But does this sound like our reward if faith in him we keep? And who are those in alley where men gnash their teeth and weep? SHOULD TALENTS MULTIPLY? Are they the lazy who have met a Christ Lord they should fear? Has he made punishment for laziness so crystal clear? Some say our duty is to make our talents multiply. And so the lazy servant justly was condemned to die. But if the talents represent the traits of human kind, How could such talent be transferred to other servant's mind? Did servant with the greatest talents who received one more, Begin to play the other's flute, begin to write a score? The physical transferral of the talents must imply, The talents represent real money. That we can't deny. WHAT HEAVEN IS If you were to be asked what for you would be heavenly? There'd be no executions and no alleys, certainly. There would be lots of food and drink, some clothing and a home, A razor and some shaving cream, a toothbrush and a comb. If you had also trappings of a great technology, All of the tools and gadgets that use electricity. Communications, education, entertainment, wealth, A staff of competent physicians watching over health. Most labor that is tedious is done by robots who, Release you to explore the universe God made for you. And best of all you'd want your friends to share in your success, That's why all of us will end up in heaven, I profess. In Heaven, all will have their friends and family by their side. Though evil ones are silenced by a guilt they cannot hide. Within Acts 24:15, he says it's understood, There will be resurrection of both wicked and the good. But John 5:28 points out the day those in their graves, Will rise up for the judgment of the Lord on who he saves, "The good will be rewarded with a life's eternity, But wicked ones will stand condemned for their iniquity." And so our Earth, this little speck of blue dust in the sky, Can be a Heaven here on Earth, we do not have to die. SERVANTS' REVOLUTION But why did servants bury gold when putting it with banks, Would pay their master's interest and also gain his thanks? All that the servants had to do to be the laziest, Was bank the money and let others pay the interest. And with this laziest of ways to satisfy the debt, We must consider what they risked their lives to try to get. Imagine that one servant, when he was a little lad, Took careful note of interest and the effect it had. All borrowed dinars from the man and promised him some more, The charge for dinars' rental was the service they paid for. He looked at how the chariot-makers fared under the rules, The Big Three were Chrysler and Ford as well as General Mules. To pay to make their carts, they sought ten million dinars each, With which to pay the workers. Now the prices had to reach, Twelve million dinars minimum, the price each had to seek, With interest at twenty percent, it wasn't for the weak. With thirty million dinars in the hands of those who buy, And prices set at thirty-six, six thirty-sixths too high, The village bought as many as the dinars that they had, Not all the chariots were bought, it was so very sad. The next year when the master came to settle up the debts, Some of the makers had to lose on their production bets. The President of General Mules approached and did proclaim, "Here is your ten with two more satisfying rules of game." The President of Ford said "I've got my twelve million too, We've sold all of our chariots. It's what we said we'd do." The President of Chrysler Chariots didn't look too well, He said "We're short and we can't pay, our chariots couldn't sell. GM and Ford sold all their stock and though we did our best, We only sold six million's worth, we couldn't sell the rest." The master said "You know I'm hard and reap where I don't sow, Both principal and interest, you should have paid, you know: To those who have abundance will be given even more, From those without abundance will be taken from their store. Though interest creates a lack and some must always lose, You took the mortgage but your chariots they did not choose." So take their stock and sell it off, with prices well beneath, And throw them into alley where men weep and gnash their teeth." Because the servant knew that he was most likely to lose, He chose to guard all of the gold and maybe make the news. And in his actions he rebuked the master to his face, "You say you reap where you don't sow. You thief, you're a disgrace. As we all do the sowing and you end up with the seed, We are the ones who do the work but we end up in need." The master screamed "You know the law that gets me interest, That my abundance should increase, forgetting all the rest. If you had begged me hard enough, I might have saved you yet, But you have lost your chance for an extension on your debt. You'll join the guys from Chrysler in the alley with the rest, Where souls do weep and gnash their teeth because of interest." PARABLES ARE REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY So interest prevents a heaven here on earth for man, It is the cause of poverty and death since time began. These monetary parables transmit the strategy, That Jesus offered us to use to fight debt slavery: One gives to Ceasar what is Ceasar's, all his principal, But no demand for interest, not even minimal. This is the revolutionary tactic Christ designed. It is the tactic that one day a righteous court might find. **1 Timothy 5:20: Do rebuke them when they sin, **In public so the rest may fear and learn some discipline. In Timothy I, 6 verse 6, though some may say it's moot, "The love of money is of many kinds of sin the root. For those who covet money have been lured right off the trail, And pierce themselves with many griefs, their lot in life to fail." The only reason men love money is because it grows, Without the need to earn it. It's a free ride they suppose. **In Luke 6:34 he asks: "What credit can you score? **If you lend only to from whom you hope to get some more." **Luke makes it plain on loans we make, the law we all must learn: **"Of your abundance, lend without expecting its return." 2 Peter 2:15 says that "Quite off the path they've strayed, And they have learned to love the wage of sin that they are paid." In Hebrews 13:5, it says "Your lives should not be stained, With love of money and to be content with what you've gained." In Romans 6:23, Paul says "The wage of sin is death, But know the gift of God is life with an eternal breath." The Pharisees loved money and they sneered when Jesus spoke, He said "What's valued among men is, in God's sight, a joke." In 1 John 5:16, he notes the problem in one breath, Of all the sins the greatest is "the sin that leads to death." In Luke 9:23 he said "For worthiness of me, You must take up your cross and be not like a Pharisee." In Luke 16:13 it shows where he makes the demand, "You cannot serve both God and money." You must take a stand. Isaiah 53: verse 9 defines the penalty, For him who acquiesces to oppression passively. "Though he has not been violent, he still did err for which, He was assigned a grave beside the wicked and the rich." Both servants would not serve the money that they had been lent, Both suffered punishment as if the money had been spent. They could have put it with the banks and caused him no alarm, But each accepted consequence of doing him no harm. PARABLE OF THE SOWER In parable of sower in Luke 8:18 it's shown, How men react when in their minds the Law of Christ is sown: "A farmer went to sow his seed, he spread it all around. Some fell along the path and birds devoured it when found. Some fell in rocky places but died out for lack of base. Some fell among the thorns which choked them out of living space. Some fell on fertile soil and after having taken hold, Produced a mighty harvest with the yield a hundredfold." When asked the meaning of the parable he did reply: "To you has been explained the secrets of the Kingdom High. I spoke in parables to fight Reverse-Robin-Hood, The wicked misinterpreting the tales, but not the good. Forever seeing without seeing, men will surely be, Forever hearing without hearing, you will surely see. Their hearts have grown so very cold, while striving to survive, This game where money's less than debt, where all can't stay alive. Yet you have been enlightened in the search of best of ways, That gives us Heaven here on earth and many better days. For many righteous men and prophets longed to hear and see, But they have never had the opportunity as thee." Colossians 1:26 says "Knowledge of the Word, Unveils the age-old mystery to all those who have heard." The seed's the Word of God and has nothing to do with wood, The "Christ Law" is the seed against Reverse-Robin-Hood: Your own abundance now should be supplying for their need, That their abundance later will supply you your own seed. "The seed sown by the path is like the man who heard my news, About the coming Kingdom but he failed to grasp the clues. The seed sown in the rocky place was he who joyously, Accepted it but with no root, forgot it rapidly, Seed that was sown among the thorns was he who understood, But worries of this life and wealth did choke in him the good. The Word of God brings persecution causing him dismay, So rather than accept those hardships, he soon fell away. But what was sown on good soil was the man who did succeed, To spread the Word producing many times the planted seed." In John 8:31 he says "If you have faith in me, Then you will know the truth and find the truth will set you free." In Matthew 13:52, he says "All those who teach, The way to earthly heaven that they soon have hope to reach, Are like the owner of a house who brings out from his hold, All kinds of treasures valuable, the new as well as old." You'll find that if you teach the law of wise abundance use, You'll come up with your own examples showing the abuse. In Luke 6:39 he asks "With blind man leading blind, Will it not be in darkest pit they both themselves shall find? A student does not not rise above his teacher but it's so, That fully trained, he's like his teacher. He is in the know. No bad tree's fruit is ever good. No good tree's fruit is bad. Each tree can be distinguished only by the fruit it had." In John 15:15 he says "No longer do I call, You servants when your master's inner business you know all. So friendship is the quality to you I attribute, And since it is now known to you, go bear some lasting fruit." Though many say they preach his Word about the world to be, They're negligent if they don't speak of yoke of slavery. If they fail to accept he came to end our poverty, They're not what he calls "born again" because they cannot see. One may not rise above the Teacher but once fully trained, His friendship will be the reward a teacher will have gained. ARMAGEDDON WAR Throughout our history we find submission to a yoke, Made of financial chains invisible to common folk. In Paul 2 Thessalonians 2:10 he says "They might, Still be redeemed but they have not keep total truth in sight. For this, God sends a powerful delusion on their minds, So they believe the lie that causes woes of many kinds." In 1 John chapter 4, verse 5, he says "They are from here, And when they speak their worldly views, the world gives them its ear. But we're from God and who knows God will understand our views, But who does not know God will never listen to our news." In John 15 verse 22, he notes the fact he met, Ezekiel's requirement that a warning they should get: "If I had not forewarned them, they'd have no guilt to adduce, But now that I've exposed the answer, they have no excuse." In Matthew 23:34 he says "You snakes will pay. You brood of vipers. How will you escape to Hell the way? I've sent you prophets, teachers, so your sin they might decry, Some you will flog in synagogues, some you will crucify." In Paul to the Ephesians, 6:12 he sheds a light: "It's not against the men of flesh and blood that we should fight, But it's against authorities who rule iniquity, The spiritual forces causing Earth's adversity." In John 16 verse 8, of master ruling over lands, He says "the prince of this World is convicted as he stands." I doubt that Christ would waste his time where it might do less good, So it makes sense his parables fight Reverse-Robin-Hood. Against the interest it was rebellion he did do, Against the yoke oppressing needy by the wealthy few. In Paul to the Galatians, in chapter 5 verse 1, He said "Though Christ has set you free, the battle's not yet done. You must stand firm despite the odds and shed the bars he broke, And never let yourselves again be burdened by the yoke." Christ wasn't just another man with nothing much to lose, What makes his sacrifice so grand is choice he had to choose. He was a man of wealth responsibility for which, Belonged to three wise kings who came and left his family rich, With gifts including gold ensuring he would not feel need, And yet he knew the anguish of the poor so well, indeed. The war he fought would end all wars, it has a special name, The war of Armageddon is the reason that he came. The Keepers and the Abolitionists of interest, Two armies in the Armageddon war put to the test. The champion of the Abolitionists is Christ outraged, Against the Keepers of the interest, a war he waged. With violence, he pointed out the bad guys on the scene, The bankers and their interest is why he turned so mean. It's true that in his day there was no other remedy, Yet still he gave his life to show the way for all to see. No violence is necessary for revolt today, With politics and open courts, there is a peaceful way. Yet if he took his cross up when he had so little hope, It's time for us to take his whip in hand and start to cope. ISLAM Another prophet great, Mohammed known in Muslim lands, Decreed that it was sinful if one interest demands. In the Koran in Chapter two, at verse two seven five, We find inspired advice from God from which we may derive: "Those who devour usury won't stand up inasmuch, As stands those whom the Evil One has maddened by his touch. That is to say that "Trade is similar to usury, But God permitted trade but not the usurious fee. Those who accept their Lord's command, desisting with no grudge, Shall be forgiven for it's up to God their case to judge. But those who do repeat offence, the consequences dire, Abiding in forever as Companions of the Fire. God will deprive the usury of all blessing perceived, But will give increase for the charity to those in need. For not He loveth creatures wicked and ungrateful so, Give up demand for usury, as true believers go. But if ye do it not you should take notice of a war From God and his Apostle is the thing you have in store. But if ye turn back ye shall have your sums of capital, Deal not unjustly. Ye'll not be unjustly made to fall. So if your debtor has some difficulty to repay, Grant him some time until when he is capable the day. But if you should remit it by an act of charity, That is the best for you if only ye knew verily. And fear the day when ye'll be brought to face His Godly poll, Then shall be paid that what was earned by each and every soul. In Chapter three: 130, "Not devour usury, Doubled, multiplied, it's not way to prosperity. In Chapter 30:39, "That which ye lend for more, Through property of others will not count as Godly score. But that which ye lay out for charity when needy cry, Will show God's increase as the recompenses multiply. BUDDHISM The Majjhima Nikaya Suttra 117's test: Where Buddha says "Wrong livelihood is charging interest." HINDUISM Vasishtha, Chapter 2, Part II, verse 40 of the laws, Of Aryas say Brahmans don't take interest because: God weighed in scales the crime of killing and of interest; And found loansharking worst of crimes compared to all the rest. **RASTAFARIANISM **In ancient Ethiopian Kebra Nagast, 90, **Tells "How Azariah praised up the Queen and her city." **So Rastafarians say: Blessed giver shall ye be, **Without the usury, nor even loans! to the needy. **BAHAI **The Tablets of Baha'u'llah, the Faith Bahai do hold: **"Ecclesiastics most feed on illicit gains untold. **Innumerable are designs, devices to confess! **It's usury despite its fair semblance of lawfulness. **They make a toy of ordinances and the laws of God, **But though they understand it not, still gained is Satan's nod. SIKHISM **In Life Of Guru Nanak: Section 4 in Chapter 5, **A shopkeeper, for usury, should not be left alive. **Impalement was the penalty for who such profit make. **Upon repentance, he progressed in virtue til the stake, **Reduced in size till a mere thorn, pierced, sins all then erased **By virtue's practice is a destiny thusly replaced. **Echo of Ezekiel: Forgotten all the sins, **Of those repenting and atoning, all are Godly Wins. Last edited in July 2017 ------------------------------ Dec. 11, 1996 LOYAL ENGINEER'S 1997 PETITION OF RIGHT TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II The day I got my 1997 Guinness Book, Of Worldly Records, for my name, Turmel, I had to look. I noted on same page, Elizabeth, Your Majesty, Holds record among ruling Queens for Your longevity. Perhaps P.M. of India, Morarji "wise" Desai, Who holds a record on next page for age at work most high, Imparted to Your Majesty the secret of his youth, A secret I have verified as nature's greatest truth. Your Majesty may not recall that during '50s tour, In Hamilton, a child on father's shoulder, waving sure. Your Majesty may not recall on Parliament's front yard, On Canada's Centennial, a Cameron in Your Guard. But Majesty should not forget in 1983, At patriation of our constitution meeting me, My soldier's bonnet now a hard-hat for "The Engineer," My rifle now a pauper's picket sign with message clear: "Abolish Interest," reporters saw on Regal lips, Which made well worth the effort of nine different picket trips. I bring you joyful news of abolition in your realm, Of usury but soon we'll need Your guidance at the helm. Within Your Commonwealth have risen systems LETS of hope, So paupers of Your Commonwealth with unemployment cope. Parliamentary member in Australia, Maggie Deahm, Said LETS is helping needy trade employment like a dream. Four hundred branches serving fifty thousand Brits to date, With branches new developing with funding from the State! Two hundred in Australia where legislation passed, Exempted needy from the tax on income LETS amassed. With Councils offered Green, there is no need for funds to hunt, Laws passed allowing councils to accept Green tax up front. Within New Zealand are a hundred LETS to save the day, With dozens more in Canada to pave the better way. At end of 1994, six hundred LETS around, At end of 1995, twelve hundred LETS abound. Two thousand and five hundred at the end of '96, It's doubling yearly exponentially, the world to fix. Your subjects who have joined the barter LETS make accolade: "The trade of goods and services more easily is made. The program that is used to track our "trading work" accounts, Is known around the world as LETS. To barter it amounts. "Local Employment Trading System" is the name it got, To run the banks' computers right, a way once vainly sought. Greendollars are the currency used in a LETS account, Without the interest that forces growth of due amount. A member who is spending may go negative at will, A positive goes to the one who makes use of his skill. And though we use no money, we have found a way to trade, A giant step in the reform of money has been made. A butcher bought some pastry at the bakery one day, And called the LETS exchange recorder. He was heard to say: "Please debit 20 dollars Green from my account for cake. A credit to account of baker, you, in Green, should make. The baker took his family to the restaurant one night, And called the LETS exchange recorder and was heard to cite: "Please debit 20 dollars Green from my account for meal, And credit the account of restauranteur in this deal." The restauranteur, needing meat, had Green with which to buy, And called the LETS exchange recorder to so testify: "Please debit 20 dollars Green from my account for meat. And credit the account of butcher. Circle's now complete!" Some didn't like to call for every deal they wished to make, So each agreed all other's checks in Green they all would take. The butcher went to bakery to buy some loaves of bread, And used a check on which "Worth 20 dollars Green" it said. The baker took his family out to dine and eat their fill, And used the butcher's $20 check to pay the bill. The restauranteur paid for time he spent in dentist's chair, The dentist used the $20 check for car repair. The check from the mechanic paid for caring of a nurse, Her plumber gladly nodded when she took it from her purse. The plumber's children's music teacher for the check was keen, Because she knew her seamstress happily took all her Green. To her account the check was duly credited at last, And 20 dollar debit to the butcher was amassed. But had she spent it at the butcher shop, we'd get to see, Completion of the circle meant the trades were all for free." A mayor faced with rising costs and shrinking revenues, To study any proposition, he would not refuse. "So many think the job of being mayor is such a snap, But the decisions that I'm faced with are an ugly trap. With tools, materials and trades that cover total range, Yet one ingredient is lacking, money to exchange. If snowstorm hits the city and there are no funds to pay, What does my council have to do to clear the snow away? We pledge a million dollar bond to banks to get the cash, With which we pay the skillful men who clear snow in a flash. The merchants gladly take the funds for soon they have to pay, The taxes for the snow removal that was done that day. But though a million principle was spent, we must request, That citizens be taxed for principle and interest. To budget who gets scarce resources isn't ever fun, But interest on city's debt is always number one. Whatever rate the bankers set is due amount I pay, Unhappily, which projects live or die's my only say. But if it's true Greendollars serve as well as Locals tell: Why shouldn't government be one to try it out as well? When another snowstorm hits without the funds to pay, We'll test to see if LETS Greendollars are a better way. This time we pledge the million bond to Treasury instead, And see if use of Green will get us very much ahead. The merchant should accept Greendollars as another way, His taxes needed for the snow removal, he can pay. Again we'll spend a million but the tax to be assessed, Including only principle without the interest. Before the budget allocations are completely spent, Could LETS Greendollars help reverse project abandonment? If council members for their tax took part of pay in Green, We'd have some cash left over which is something rarely seen. If civil service took some Green at least for taxes due, The extra cash would guarantee that extra jobs ensue. We'd offer Green to fix a pothole to a company, Wishing to pay their tax with unemployed capacity. With Green we'd pay for road repairs and all would gladly take, Greendollars from the working men so payment all could make; And we could build our hospitals and all would take as pay, Greendollars to buy medicine and service they purvey. Today, in our society, where money clearly lacks, Who could refuse some paper anyone may use for tax? Greendollar paychecks could be earned by all desiring work, The opportunity to pull their weight so few would shirk. With Green the unemployed around the world will save the day, Without it they will idly sit and die their lives away. And best of all we'd have the Green to save environment, A way to pay to save our lives and make us affluent. The only question left is how the tax should be assessed, For goods and services? A simple formula to test. For services, we'd levy tax at end of every year. For assets, tax to pay depreciation. It's so clear. The government that spent the most and had the highest tax, Would be the government providing citizens the max. We're told that government finance is only for the sage, Too hard for Mr. Average, its study to engage. But does it have to be well understood by only few? Or can the problem be explained for Mr. Average too? A closer look at how our governments spend revenue, Might let us know what's gone amiss and what we have to do. When you were little, did you ever dream of printing cash? Of filling up your wallet with some money in a flash? Creating money accurately means TO HAVE THE PLATES, The stamping of some paper into notes best demonstrates; Or stamping metal into coins; or blips computerized, Into your bank account deposits, checks now authorized. So whether paper, metal, volts of electricity, TO HAVE THE PLATES is printing money absolutely free. Now if you printed to spend, the others would bewail, They'd call it counterfeiting and send you off to jail. But what if Crown would let you merely print it up to lend? With only what you could collect in interest to spend? If you could print and lend a thousand out at ten percent, You'd make a hundred interest on printing that you lent. But if you could print up and lend a million out you'd get, An extra hundred thousand dollars for your fee on debt! If Crown stops using its own money plates and comes to you, A billion printed nets a hundred million revenue!! With everybody being taxed to pay you interest, Of all the scams in history, TO HAVE THE PLATES is best!!! Though never spending, only lending, riches do await, To all who with the plates become the loan-sharks to the state. And though to join the few who thusly profit, one might dream, Wake up to see we're all the victims of their greedy scheme. While Crowns of old had ruled that "Treasury run money plates," Without the interest to middle-men at rip-off rates, Today most governments to banking industry have lost, Control of money plates so interest is now a cost. To service debt in ninety four, Canada's request, A hundred'n eighty billion dollars paid in interest. We're taxed over five hundred dollars each per month to pay, For interest to holders of our plates they gave away!!! We now see the unjustly cost that makes our tax inflate, And only usury is what we must eliminate. We Abolitionists would get the plates back from the banks, Have Treasury create the money for printing charge and thanks. The interest we save could be split up I recommend, For each to get five hundred dollars monthly dividend, As if you owned a share in the incorporated state, An income guaranteed for life, no question, no debate. And though retired residents do often feel dismay, They shouldn't fear if we should take their interest away. All those who live on saving bonds to furnish what they spend, Could buy some stocks, create some jobs and get a dividend. Does Majesty agree control of plates by banks should end, With no more tax for interest on money bankers lend? The most successful Royal LETS was in the British Isle, Where "Tallies," sticks of money, left King Henry I with smile. Accountants in the Treasury would split the stick in two, One half would be the money and the other half its due. A Tally worth a pound of gold to pay the King's expense, The other half amounted to taxation that makes sense. The tax collectors through the land all had an easy way, Since people had their tallies and enough the tax to pay. The tallies funded projects and could pay for everything, With tallies matching tax, a hero, Henry I, their King. For over 700 years, the tallies were in use, But having lost control of money now is Crown excuse. By opening, Your Majesty, GreenTally LETS account, You'd find some 50,000 Loyal Subjects by your mount, Who will accept Your tax for people's time at useful toil, Though taxing us for money's time will always make us boil. The LETS can grant you love of subjects only Henry knew, As easy as a switch of disk by Say of Royal You. May Engineer bring Majesty in audience to date? On how a Royal LETS of Tallies might avail Your State. For Hour's work, a Royal Tally, would, with Christmas soon, Be hailed by all your loyal subjects as a Regal boon. No need to go to loansharks anymore, we think You're good, For any tallies that you spend in metal, scrip or wood. Fifty thousand LETSers give to Crown Your credit due, Without the bankers' hoop of usury you always knew. I'll pay Your tax for army and police to handle strife; I'll pay Your tax for doctors, nurses who protect my life; I'll pay Your tax for all engaged repairing road and sewer; I'll pay Your tax for social servants helping out the poor; I'll even pay Your tax for bureaucrats with no regret; But I'll resist Your tax for any interest on debt. "Abolish Interest" is the Petition of our Right, As loyal subjects pray out loud for show of Regal might. It's time to slay the dragon of our debt to foreign hands, I'm sure the Sword of LETS will satisfy Regal demands. In Matthew chapter 6 verse 9, Christ taught us how to pray: "When you are praying to your Regent, here is what you say: "Our Noble Queen, Elizabeth, honored be Thy Name, Thy Queendom come, Thy Will be done on earth as heaven, the same. Give us now our daily bread, forgive us all our debts, As we forgive our debtors all their debts by using LETS. And to temptation, lead us not, don't put us to the test, Deliver us with Tallies from their wicked interest." " ------------------------------ Richest Pauper's Prayer To The Richest Man http://SmartestMan.Ca/praybill For a Microsoft Email L.E.T.S. Timedollar checking account by Y2K October 15 1999. To askbill@microsoft.com: World's Richest Man From johnturmel@yahoo.com: World's Richest Pauper Hello, Bill Gates, "World's Richest Man," a Guinness claim to fame. I'm John Turmel, "World's Richest Pauper" politics my game.[1] "The Engineer," "The Gambler" 48 elections clear,[2] As "Abolitionist," L.E.T.S. "Banking Systems Engineer."[3] [4] "Blackjack King;" "Casino Czar;" "Robin Hood;" "Millionaire;"[5][6] "Guerrilla Lawyer;" best "Bank Fighter Extraordinaire."[7] "The Great Canadian Character Anthology says best,[8] The motive for my Pauper's twenty-year persistent quest. As Dr. Walter Schneider, "Math of Gambling" Prof. can swear: "He went from apolitical to running everywhere; One day his interest in interest existed not. Next day, its abolition was his motivating thought." The Pauper's seen some high-school buddies choose to quit the game, You too, "The Man," have buddies I would bet checked out the same. No loanshark, "Richest Man," earned gains were making tools I use. You should concur with Richest Pauper's engineering views.[9] In Nehemiah 5, he says: "You must do as we do. So "Stop exacting interest!" It is the Big Taboo." St. Thomas 95 is verse where Jesus said it best: "If you have money, do not lend it out at interest." Another prophet great, Mohammed known in Muslim lands, Decreed that it was "sinful if one interest demands."[10] No "Mort-Gage" interest and they'd have shouldered life with ease, But their "Death-Gamble" poverty was fatal, their disease.[11] Ralph Nader's found the banks today "unsafe at any speed," And has endorsed Timedollar L.E.T.S. banks "safe for every need."[12] I penned some verses on how L.E.T.S. could end Queen's poverty,[13] But palace staff were little help. No high tech whiz had she. Yet L.E.T.S. in British Parliament hears M.P.s voicing "Yes."[14] "No tax for trading time with neighbors." U.S. I.R.S.[15] Australia says "lifeboat" L.E.T.S. cushions community.[16][17] Great Britain's politicians hail L.E.T.S. "anti-poverty."[18][19] I've marched with Jubilee 2000, though they are ill-aimed,[20] Forgiving poorest's debt is alms, no panacea claimed. But White House, I.M.F., World Bank saw Pauper's placard best, That "Banks Starve Third-World Babies," so "Abolish Interest."[21] With interest switched off in banker's debt machinery, Those former "chains" of debt become mere "straps" borne easily. So Pope, reformers, Jubilee 2000's date is near, Yet Ecuador's "not poor enough" to qualify this year.[22] "Debt Cancellation," "Tobin Tax," they're splashing in the pool, The problem's in the money pumphouse. "Interest" the tool. The vast solution takes all errant money-pumps in hand, It's not a half-vast splashing in the money pool that's planned. Relief could reach the whole wide world to ancient strife placate. Imagine Earth as Eden with no feedback causing hate. The Christians and the Muslims and the Nazis and the Jews, Are in agreement L.E.T.S. conforms to everybody's views. The Richest Man must also tire of a game gone mad, But you have power to switch off the feedback that is bad. An Online L.E.T.S. by Microsoft to shop with "Hours" we trade, With global lifelines reaching all and money local made. We'll gladly pay our service charges, cash or Green amounts, If you'll be veins and arteries to link our L.E.T.S. accounts. Millennium! L.E.T.S. Jubilee! Give "World-Class Gift!" you can, If you grant Richest Pauper's Prayer To The Richest Man. In Matthew chapter 6 verse 9, Christ taught us how to pray: So every day till Year Two Thousand, here is what I'll say: "Our Father, who in Heaven art, hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom come when L.E.T.S. be done on Earth as Heaven, the same. Give us now our daily bread, forgive us all our debts, As we forgive our debtors all their debts with this new L.E.T.S. And to temptation, lead us not. No debt which suffocates. L.E.T.S. Jubilee 2000 from our Santa Billy Gates. Amen with The Engineers P.S. 2008 A decade's almost gone, Bill's opportunity was lost, For failure to use might, a quarter billion souls the cost. Bill studied the inequity as business problem same, World's Richest Man's "Club 5%" gives piece of win in game. For Bill social reform is rich donating to the poor, It's just more of the same, it's alms, his riches are the lure. He could have been a hero to the starving masses, rare, Instead his role has been a mere "no difference" billionaire. ------------------------------ Ode to Laughing Grass CANNABIS HEMP: GOD'S PLANT FOR CERTAIN LIFE Throughout all history, hemp's been a plant of great repute, Four months to grow a mini-tree of twenty foot from shoot, More oxygen converted from dioxide-carbon smogs, Four times more wood than forestry can chop trees into logs. A hardy plant, insecticides and fertilizers, not, It grows so tall the shade kills weeds for fertile garden plot. It's source of protein primary for man and beast alike, The best plant used for finger in environmental dike. With petro-fuels with sulfur being burned into the air, A fuel of bio-mass would help environmental care. Hemp fuel, hemp paints, hemp varnishes, hemp fibers, cloth and rope, Hemp fertilizer, oil and plastics, medicines of hope. The industry of dirty petro-chemicals may fear, It's nature's agri-chemicals we'll substitute, it's clear. The chance that we may yet evade environmental doom, With planet's fastest-growing vegetable, no need for gloom. While alcohol debases, vibes of negative grow strong, The laughing grass makes calm and jolly, wishing no one wrong. There's never been recorded death from cannabis, they say, It's sedative that fits receptors in our DNA. For crops of untold uses which can soon be realized, Our greatest source of bio-mass must first be legalized. The Pauper Party charges that "On lies are based these laws." Abolishing hemp prohibition is our second cause. ------------------------------ Poetic Justice for Young, Emery, St-Maurice Professor Allan Young, alleged medpot champion too, Exposed himself a sham when treason was his duty due. "I went to Parker's hearing to ensure Turmel's good deed, His motion to invalidate the law would not proceed." We saw Marc Emery, publisher of medpot magazine, To keep seed prices high, with abolition wasn't keen. With seeds from Prince of Rot, I bet, with death your crop is kissed, When once you've joined Cannabis Vulture's narc subscription list. Unelected Marc-Boris St-Maurice wouldn't hear, Of any talk of an election for his power dear. Like Emery, he sells seeds and his support for what Young did, Shows up another rat, if even just a snot-nosed kid. I smashed their nest to see the rats a-scurry on the net, But luckily, though rats are big, not many, I will bet. We must be close, so many moles, their covers blown, we saw, To fight The Engineer's case to invalidate the law. ------------------------------ Officer take heed: Hitzig 170 If in your city, officer, a grow-op you should find, Hitzig One Seventy says not to bust a certain kind. "Simply exempted if established medical true need." Catch AIDS or CANCER victims? they're exempted now. Take heed. Remember ere their door you lawfully with force in kick, You'll waste your time if residents within are truly sick. ------------------------------ Flu: Beware of Toxic Ground (To the tune of Oh Susanna) Since viruses of flu mutate, the government made clear: They highly recommend take vaccinations every year. If you inject some little germs, your system will fight back, And build the antibodies that your body now may lack. Hail the needle with state-blessed germs for me, Forget my grand-ma's chicken soup, flu needs toxicity. I got my vaccination for the bird flu like they said, My vaccination for the swine flu or I might be dead. My vaccinations for the A flu, B flu, C flu, three, My vaccinations for the yearly threats I'm told they see. Hail the needle with state-blessed germs for me, Forget my grand-ma's chicken soup, flu needs toxicity. I took my state-blessed germs in duty's 50 years of shots, I don't know if it helped too much but they sure cost us lots. And worse those vaccinations, it may sadly soon be found, Do nothing more than put on tomb: "Beware of toxic ground." Hail the needle with state-blessed germs for me, Forget my grand-ma's chicken soup, flu needs toxicity. John Turmel Oct 31 2009 First Poem: 1979 I want no cops for gambling, sex, or drugs or Rock & Roll, I want no usury on loans. Pay cash or time, no dole. ------------------------------ Ode to Gathafi Obama, Harper, Cameron, Sarkozy if they can, Will kill Gathafi's bad example, kill the honest man. Unlike dictators West supports who steal from all with stealth. No thief is Muammar, he's loved for sharing oily wealth. He made them own homes, cars, and tools, free-market to the test, Mixed in with public services, at socialism's best. He built a lot of hospitals with health care given free, With schools for education, home and foreign, pay no fee. Though Man-Made River Great he built, no tax to worry heads, No interest on loans and $50 Grand to newly-weds. He gave up power to the People's Conferences new. Where all could speak their minds; a chance, here, only for the few. With UN Human Rights the best, what are complaints about? Paid malcontents by CIA are only ones who shout. "Protect civilians from attack" United Nations said, A "No-fly zone" turned to bombardment making many dead. By showing up our leaders as the failures that they are, To blow his earthly heaven up is reason why they war. Youtube for "Gathafi's Green Book" for his ideas on direct democracy and sharing the wealth from the hero we're trying to kill. Africa's very own Gandhi. Muammar Gathafi Gaddafi Gadhafi Ghadaffi Ghadafi Ghadafy Kadaffi Khadafy Qaddafi -------------------------------- occu111016a