Please
propose amendment, insertion or total rejection. Do not get upset if you think a major subject is missing because
it is not as simple as just putting things in.
A subject to go in, for example, is
Complementary and Community Currencies.
Like many subjects (because the Justice concept shows the
inter-relatedness of it all) it can, and should, go under several Justices e.g.
Money, Social, Economic, even Environmental.
Michael and Mary are asked to have a go at this one.
If anybody wants to reject totally,
please do the outline of an alternative in 10-15 lines briefly covering the
following matters:--
1. An overall theme or way of attractively
presenting the subject.
2. A way of involving many groups and ideas
across the world.
3. The key policy issues which express the
subjects of money, economics, social matters, environment, and peace AND their
inter-relation to each other.
4. The policies should be briefly expressed in a few words at most because we all know the shorthand for these things and, if something is not clear, we can ask.
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NOTES
Logo
The
proposed logo combines an omega with an outline of a globe. Inside the globe are the words “Global
Justice Movement” or, possibly, just “GJM” thus revealing more of the outline
of the world’s continents.
Round the
top, on the outside, going clockwise, are the words “Basic Income” OR “Secure incomes” OR “Annual Income”. At the bottom, going across the bottom of
the omega, are the words “Interest-free money”.
Possibly,
the places of the two sets of words could be reversed. Perhaps the phrase “Capital ownership for
all” could be in instead of “Interest-free money”..
Any other suggestions for the words for the logo? Or even no words (just “GJM” or “Global
Justice Movement” in the centre?)
Press BUTTON
to see a page with the enlarged logo and the following text:
(Text)
The basic design of the
GJM logo represents both a globe and an Omega (W)
which symbolises the Omega point. The
Omega point is the purpose and end of the human adventure, which is a genderful
and fully inclusive universal justice and holistic theology, set in an earth
system science.
I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. (Revelations,
22, 12-13.)
Changing
aspects of the website
On
the front page are relatively small areas with short text (e.g. “Join in the
discussion!”) and BUTTONS for, e.g.:
Latest developments, Discussion, Articles, Site map,
etc.
Logo
buttons
Perhaps
all the buttons could be a small circle with “GJM” inside and maybe a tiny
“Press” or “Click” underneath.
Alternatively, a small circle with “Press” or “Click”inside.
Pressing
(or clicking) BUTTON takes the reader to another part of the GJM website. Pressing BUTTON FOR LINK takes the reader to
another website elsewhere.
Dog
Every now and then, there is a lively drawing of a small, generally cheerful, dog which has a thought bubble containing only one or two words (e.g., "?"; "Five?"; “Woof!"; "Grrr!"). It’s a simple, pleasant way of e.g., indicating doubt, reinforcing agreement or disagreement; and can be funny e.g. when the dog suddenly jumps in the air or bites something.
Overall, the dog provides a touch of the light-hearted among the heavy stuff.
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LOGO BUTTON
BUTTONS
for, e.g., Latest developments,
Discussion,
Articles, Site map, etc.
Secure
incomes for all
(OR Basic Income for all OR Annual Income for all)
through capital ownership
made
possible
by
new technology
Capital
ownership for all
individual
ownership of a substantial capital estate providing income
Public capital investment at half the cost
Reduction
in debt!
big reductions in personal, corporate and national
debt
AND
A proper
deal for women
Hope for
the environment and peace
Yes,
these things are possible! And they add
up to a true democracy (unlike the fraud we have today). It’s no good merely being against
globalisation -
let’s be FOR true democracy with its Inclusive
Justice.
Remember
– the world undoubtedly has the technology and productive resources to
eliminate misery, poverty and injustice and save the planet.
However, at present, there is:–
·
Widespread poverty, hunger and homelessness
·
A growing wealth gap between the richest 1% and the
remaining 99% of humanity
·
A growing fear of technological change and its impact
on the environment
·
A rising sense of powerlessness and alienation among
the young
·
Growing
levels of corruption and crime resulting from concentrated power
·
A proliferating violence and deprivation of human
rights – at the family, community and global levels.
And why?
The underlying cause is that the present so-called
‘free market’ system of finance capitalism is unfree, unfair,
anti-democratic and very inefficient.
It can, however, be made truly free, truly fair, truly democratic and,
for the long-term benefit of all, truly efficient.
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Warning
Unless a reasonable standard of living,
true democracy and genuine individual empowerment are quickly extended to all
the poor and oppressed peoples of the world, there may be large-scale
destruction by terror weapons including bio-engineered disease.
In December, 2001, on the one hundredth
anniversary of the Nobel Prize, one hundred Nobel laureates stated that the
most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not from the
irrational acts of states or individuals but from the legitimate demands of the
world's dispossessed. The Laureates
added: “Of these poor and disenfranchised, the majority live a marginal
existence in equatorial climates.
Global warming, not of their making but originating with the wealthy
few, will affect their fragile ecologies most.
Their situation will be desperate and manifestly unjust.”
The events of 11th September 2001 are a
wake-up call that we ignore at our peril.
The Global Justice Movement (GJM) includes YOU, your
group, all people of faith in
all religions, and, simply, people of good faith. Upholding the core concept of Inclusive
Justice, it is based on the principle of agreeing the main ideas, and agreeing
to disagree on the rest. In this way we
can focus on progressing the important things.
Furthermore, by co-operating with each other, the chances of individuals
and groups achieving THEIR aims are much better than if they pursue their aims
alone.
If global justice is to be achieved, much
organisational change is necessary. Yet
that will not happen easily. For
example, five separate inventions had to exist before the first airplanes could
fly. Today, the necessary change
requires the coming together of committed individuals, new mental models or
paradigms, team learning, shared visioning, and the re-thinking of systems. Is this where
YOU fit in? Tell us!
Even these things
are not enough, moreover, because the organisations themselves remain caught
within the larger global system of outdated ideas. It is to this larger system that the GJM mainly addresses
itself.
The GJM has five
interdependent components, called Justices, all of which are necessary if a
truly global justice is to be achieved.
The five Justices
are:– DOG (ears up)
says, “Five?”
·
Money Justice BUTTON
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Social Justice BUTTON
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Economic Justice BUTTON
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Environmental Justice BUTTON
·
Peace Justice BUTTON
The Justices contain powerful, radical
and specific policies on which all people of good faith can agree. Among other things, those policies provide
the basis for a new, stable, just, global monetary system which:
·
addresses poverty and rich-poor divisions
·
focuses on the real, productive, economy
·
protects the environment
·
enables individuals and societies to control their own destiny
·
ends the exponential increase in debt now threatening to engulf the
world
YOU are
invited to join with others in advancing the Five Justices and do it in
your own way. There are many
different ways to achieve the same basic things!! Tell us!!!
GJM Principles
Goodness is our endowment
There is a Source of all creation which has endowed the absolute values of Truth, Love, Justice and Goodness which represent the ultimate ends of human actions. Many people call this Source, God.
All
people are raised and live in total interdependence in a sequence of time and as such are entitled to:
·
have warmth, clean air, clean water, food and housing
·
be respected, equal, free and able to choose their
own destiny
·
fulfil their full emotional, intellectual and
spiritual potential
·
have implemented the Five Justices -
Money Justice, Social Justice, Economic Justice,
Environmental Justice and Peace Justice.
Respect The Earth.
As a trustee of a delicate biosphere whose carrying capacity we
have a duty of care to sustain, every person must respect the rest
of creation and take responsibility for preserving the environment including
the fauna and flora all of which are interdependent and share a divine origin
with humanity.
Abundance Is Possible
The rights of the individual include
the rights of liberty, a basic income, access to productive property through
an expansion of capital ownership ?and trusteeship,
access to the commons, free markets, and the secret ballot, while the
responsibilities of the individual include a continual concern for the rights
and interests of others.
Creative Work For All
There is a hierarchy of
human work: The lowest but most urgent
form of work is for sheer personal survival.
The highest form of work is improving the social order including relationships
with others and doing work the soul must have.
Economic Democracy
True
political democracy can only be built on the foundation of true economic
democracy. It is the duty of democratic
government to secure the results the people want from the management of their
public affairs as far as such results are physically possible and morally
right.
Whatever is physically possible, is financially possible through appropriate democratic and just transformations of society’s economic institutions.
Press the BUTTON for more explanation on the Principles.
Remember – the
world has the technology and productive resources to eliminate misery, poverty
and injustice and save the planet
(particularly if the Motionless Electromagnetic Generator and other new
alternative energy sources become commercially viable).
So let’s demand the Five
Justices!
DOG (faces
front) and says, “Woof!”
Join the Global
Justice Movement!
BUTTON
See
those who have joined the GJM! BUTTON
Compare
Global Justice
with
present Capitalism and Socialism.
Go
on! Press the button! BUTTON
Please contact info@globaljusticemovement.net for
further information.
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make a donation please press here BUTTON
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and efficient enterprise solution to poverty.
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Money Justice
Money is created out of nothing!
It is not widely
understood that, at present, around 97% of the new money supply is fiat
credit money created out of nothing by the private banking
system which then adds a demand for interest.
Government creates the remaining 3% as coins and banknotes.
Thus the inherent
power of government to issue money has, in practice, become a private banking
monopoly. Which might not matter too
much if the monopoly were being used to serve the purposes of the
whole of society and large amounts of interest were not involved.
But the banking
monopoly (contrary to the daily propaganda issued by banks and governments the
world over) is not used to serve the purposes of the whole of
society. It does not
allocate resources in the most efficient way; it does not
allocate resources in the fairest way; it is anti-democratic, and it always
tends towards inflation.
The addition of
interest, moreover, is generally a worldwide device for shifting wealth
from the poor to the rich. The way the
interest mechanism works is complex but interest is a considerable part of every
price that we pay! So, even though
people may get part of their income from interest, they still lose
overall. Generally, 80% of the
population loses as a result of interest; 10%, on balance, neither loses nor
gains – and the last 10% most definitely gain!
DOG says, “80%
lose? Phew!”
Servitude of nations
Furthermore,
country after country is being oppressed by the banking system which, demanding
billions of dollars of interest forever, thinks nothing of crushing a society
and its people. The complete imbalance
of power between the banking system on the one hand and countries, corporations
and individuals on the other happens because the world has been bamboozled into
thinking that newly-created money has to be borrowed from the banking system
with interest added. That interest, particularly in the case of poor countries,
soon compounds to become astronomically large. The result is that the total debt becomes unrepayable.
The situation is
then considerably worsened by corrupt elites who finagle the borrowed money
into Swiss bank accounts, leaving the repayment of principal and interest the
responsibility of their impoverished, politically crushed populations. And this essentially happens because
countries do not yet understand that they do not need to borrow
money for their capital investment with interest added. Instead, governments can create their own
money – with no interest added!
Mother of all ‘stings’
The really
extraordinary thing about the situation is that it is really an obscene fiction
– the Western banks doing the lending never have the money in the first place
because the lent money is created out of nothing! The obscenity becomes particularly perverse because the debts are
imposed on impoverished populations by banks who practise predatory
lending. Such lending happens when a
bank, knowing that the likelihood of full repayment within a short period is
most unlikely, still goes ahead with the lending. It does this because, in that way, it can batten on to the
borrowing country for, not years, not decades, but generations!
This results in
the situation of the Pakistan haris – debt-slaves whose original debt
(maybe a hundred or more years before) would have been a few dollars but
because of poverty, unrepayable at the time.
Then, with compounding interest over the years, the debt becomes larger
and larger and the obligation to repay an ever-increasing amount is passed down
from father to children for generation after generation.
Another version
of predatory lending occurs today when the banking system lends large amounts
of credit (repayable in dollars) to a country’s corporations and
institutions. Then the hyping begins –
Hooray! What a splendidly burgeoning tiger economy! (And it is burgeoning because of all the newly lent
credit). A flood of hot, reckless money
soon follows.
A crisis then
happens and there is a run on the local currency (and its devaluation) as
repayment in dollars becomes impossible.
The crisis is probably deliberately engineered so that the
international vultures can move into the country and buy up the assets of
corporations at distress (and devalued) prices.
Yes, deliberately
– that was the case with Malaysia in 1998.
There was no reason for the run on the Malaysian ringgit: it was the
result of corrupt conspiracy.
Fortunately, the Malaysian government, showing extraordinary courage,
resilience and new thinking, imposed currency controls and resisted the demands
of the IMF. A mere two years later, the
IMF had to admit (it was a grudging admission) that Malaysia had got things
right………..
All of which
tells us the truth – a mother of all stings is going on. A truly successful sting happens when those
who are stung do not realise that they are being stung! That is the situation today because
countries do not yet realise that they do not have to borrow at interest for
their capital spending but can create the needed interest-free money for
themselves.
Until they
realise how money is actually created and that they can create it for
themselves, no country or society can ever be free and will always,
economically, politically and socially, be in hock to others.
DOG growls and attacks a piece of paper
with the words “Banking System”
on it.
Interest is not necessary!
However, once it
is understood that, today, all dominant monetary systems are fiat
systems, (yes, creating money and near-money out of nothing),
then all the lies that at present govern the world are soon exposed for what
they are – lies.
DOG, with piece of paper at the side of its mouth, says, “Lies!”
Thus, contrary to
the lying propaganda put out by the banks and governments, the addition of
interest is not generally necessary (although administration
charges may be). This is a subject of
the greatest importance to Muslims whose religion forbids the imposition of
interest.
To take another
crucial example, the propaganda always says that financial savings are
necessary before capital investment can be made. That’s another lie which results in only the rich being able to
invest.
The truth is
that, since money is nowadays created out of nothing, financial savings are not
necessary before investment can be made.
There may be a need for some form of security against the possible loss
of the investment, but that’s another matter (see Economic Justice).
The Emperor has no clothes!
Acknowledging the
undeniable truth that money today is created out of nothing reminds us of the
child’s story of The Emperor Who Had No Clothes. Yet, as is well understood, the child’s
story is also profoundly true of adult life – untrue fact can be supported by everyone,
or certainly by all the powerful, until some innocent waif points to the
obvious and undeniable, thereby, to the relief of most, collapsing a lying
structure.
DOG enthusiastically chases a naked
fleeing Emperor clutching his crown.
From
the acknowledgement of the truth, moreover, the outlines of new policy soon
become apparent. Some of that new
policy is set out below. To understand
it, please remember:-
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Money is society’s money. Its creation, and the benefits of that creation, should not be a
privilege granted only to the few