EVERYBODY

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.

Global Justice

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BUTTONS for, e.g., Latest developments,

Discussion, Articles, Site map, etc.

All this is possible!

Five Justices!

DOG says, “?”

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.

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 11^th 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

· Social Justice BUTTON

· Economic Justice BUTTON

· 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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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:-

· Money is society’s money. Its creation, and the benefits of that creation, should not be a privilege granted only to the few