Please, let us stop this usury!
Nehemiah 5:10
It’s been a wild couple of weeks—increasing unemployment, Greek debt
crisis, yet another ridiculous bailout, pressure on Goldman Sachs,
accusations of commodities manipulation by JP Morgan Chase, and new
freakish levels of market volatility that might be signaling the next
phase of market collapse. The many day-to-day issues can leave us
dazed and confused, so most people ignore them. Huge mistake.
They are all related to the most powerful force on earth that
controls our lives because it is the very foundation of our
society—usury. We are ruled not by governments anymore but by
financial powers that use interest-bearing debt to exert control over
governments, corporations, and people. Almost all other political
issues with which we concern ourselves are secondary symptoms of or
purposeful distractions from this larger narrative that is never
reported by the Wall-Street-funded media. Sadly the church has
remained silent as well.
Explaining the details can be extremely complicated, but the basic
core to understand is that the US government issues no money. Instead
all money comes from private banking institutions with interest
attached. At times in the past the US government issued real money for
people to use—US notes and coins. But today all money comes from the
Federal Reserve’s private banking system by putting the US government,
i.e. 308,000,000 Americans, in debt. If the US government were not in
debt to the banking system, the American people would have no money.
More technically, the Fed and its Wall Street cartel banks like JP
Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs make billions by doing nothing but
controlling our money. They have the monopoly license to create the
core money in our system from holding US Treasury bonds on their
balance sheets. These bonds represent the debt of the United States.
Thanks to interest, the bonds pull a large portion of our wages to the
banks. The primary purpose of the IRS is to take your wages to pay the
interest back to the banks. In effect, Wall Street owns a good bit of
your labor. And the more bonds they hold, i.e. the more debt the
population is in, the more money they make thanks to the interest flows
and the profits from gambling on your debt. The system is very much
one of “us vs. them.” Such is the nature of monopoly power and usury.
Economics and Morality
Controlling others and living off their backs by forcing them to
borrow with interest in order to have any money is called usury (this
does not include standard, self-liquidating bank loans to businesses to
fund production). It is a system that ensures everything we do, whether
in the public or private sector, feeds Wall Street and the controllers
above it. It creates a two-tiered societal pyramid of money pushers on
top vs. money users on bottom. The power differential is huge.
Everyone is hostage. In doing something as simple as buying food to
survive, we contribute to usury because we only have usury-based money,
not real money. Like the slaves who built the Egyptian pyramids, today
we are stuck building an invisible pyramid of monetary power.
In such a system there is never enough money to pay back all the
interest to the money pushers. The only solution is for the money
users—government, corporations, individuals—to borrow more. This is
the reason our debt continues skyrocketing to increasingly insane
levels. It isn’t about politics, but the fundamental exponential math
underlying the system—the users must borrow more and more to pay back
interest and keep the system afloat. Such math is guaranteed to fail.
Iceland and Greece have reached the point of failure. The rest of the
Europe and the US will experience failure as well. Then we will see
money and assets vacuumed up the pyramid by the money pushers—the
banking establishment that owns the collateral and can take your
property.
The exponential math not only creates exponential debt growth, but also exponentially increasing:
- Scale – government and businesses keep getting bigger; we get smaller and local communities lose their meaning
- Velocity – the hamster wheel keeps spinning faster; human life suffers
- Consumption – we buy more and more things that break more quickly
- Production – we make more and more things that break more quickly
- Inflation – the dollar buys less and less; we can’t seem to make progress
None of these things have to happen in an economic system. They
only happen in ours because of debt-based money, usury, that greatly
benefits the top of the pyramid while everyone else suffers to a
certain degree depending on their level in the pyramid.
So this system is guaranteed to fail due to not only the impossible
math, but also the fundamental immorality. Taken together those five
issues paint a horrible picture. Republicans blame Democrats and
vice-versa. Nope. It’s all a very simple result of a system based on
usury, which used to be considered profoundly immoral. It was a
fundamental violation of every major religion. It still is for Islam,
but Christianity succumbed long ago. They thought a free market
economic system would be beneficial, but got snookered into thinking
that usury had to be part of that system. On the contrary, monolithic
usury kills the free market.
Our monetary system is a top-down controlling machine, not a free
market. It is run not by government, but by the most powerful
financial interests in the world. Some people feel in their guts that
someone must be stealing from them because they just can’t get ahead no
matter how hard they work. Well that’s because it’s true—someone is
legally stealing from them. The simple math of usury pulls money from
people on the bottom of the pyramid who create real value toward those
at the top who create no value. MBAs and others serving the system
must reckon with this truth rather than remaining blind. Farmers
understand it well, having lost their property over the years to the
bankers. Families feel it in the fact that it’s difficult to get
enough money to feed the kids compared to 50 years ago when one parent
could work a standard week and feed a family of five. Everyone in the
system will feel it once the debt system collapses as it is doing in
Greece.
Living off the backs of others was called feudalism 300 years ago.
It was slavery 100 years ago. Today it’s called the “free market”
thanks to the propaganda and fraud of neoclassical economics. It
completely ignores the truth of our monetary system, the math behind
it, and the eventual collapse that will result from it. Greece is
giving us a glimpse, but it is only a mild pre-game warmup compared to
what’s coming. The world will rue the day it was ever seduced into
accepting usury and the illusion of prosperity driven by nothing but
debt.
The Irrelevant Church
On this issue of monolithic usury, the issue from which many of our
other problems spawn, the church seems to have no voice. Recently, an
older church leader told me, “Keep it up, this needs to be addressed,
but you have more guts than me, I don’t want to be killed.” Sobering
comment, to be sure, but in the shadow of Gandhi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Oscar Romero, and Martin Luther King, is the church now impotent? Are
its leaders now too afraid to speak truth to power, to stand against
darkness? Or is the problem that the church is, like most of us,
fooled by the myth that we live in a free market so we don’t realize we
are immersed in an immoral system of controlling usury?
Lower
class Greek citizens are now learning the painful truth about the
mythical free market. A few of them have died as the police brutally
repress them to enforce the usury system for the rich bankers like
Goldman Sachs. Where is the voice of Bishop Romero? “I order you,
stop the repression!” Iceland learned the lesson a few months ago.
Several other populations have learned the lesson in the past as the
controlling debt peddlers punished, conquered, and restructured their
countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Argentina, Chile,
Mexico, England, etc.). The same lesson is coming to the rest of
Europe and the United States. But again, the church seems to be
oblivious. It failed to heed Martin Luther King’s warning, “One of the
great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain
awake…today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake.”
The church has fallen asleep.
The Dialectic of Left vs. Right
A possible reason is that the church has been co-opted by the
manipulative left vs. right civil war created by the corporate media.
In fact, Protestant denominations have split into conservative vs.
liberal camps so they war against each other—Wall Street is brilliant
at divide and conquer. Some sermons in conservative denominations
sound like speeches from conservative politicians. Liberal Christian
magazines sometimes seem to be just liberal political magazines with an
added dash of Jesus.
Postmodernism should inform us that the left vs. right narrative is
contrived to keep people from noticing the real power structure behind
Wall Street that controls our lives. As long as the church submits to
the false framework, church leaders will be “safe.” But that means
they will also be irrelevant because they are not speaking to the
primary narrative in our world that has always caused problems and is
getting ready to unleash far more pain and poverty in the near
future—the issue of monolithic usury and debt servitude. By not
speaking against usury, the church has become a pawn of it. So the
church has largely been conquered by the same concocted civil war that
has divided society.
Dollar Tyranny
Another reason the church may be silent is the simple fact that it
depends on money just like everything else does. Since all money in
our system comes from usury, it is difficult to even notice it. And
what authority would the church have to speak against it since it is
itself complicit in it? Anybody or any organization that uses a
Federal Reserve Note or a credit/debit card, which everyone must do, is
unknowingly participating in usury because, again, all of that money
comes from the bonds held by Wall Street. But knowingly or not, how
could the church or any organization speak against the very thing that
fuels its own existence?
The church’s tax-exempt status may be another reason for the
silence. Tax exemption is one of the powerful ways the financial
empire system influences and controls other entities. If the wrong
person says the wrong thing, the IRS has the ability to suddenly remove
the exemption, which doubles the cost of running that organization.
The church never should have submitted to such tyranny over what may or
may not be said.
Comfort of the Middle Class Bubble
Finally, it seems the comfort provided by the monetary system for
the great mass in the middle, which is a key part of the church, keeps
us from wanting to really think about it. The illusion of peace and
prosperity that has lasted for so long has been nice. Some of us even
thought we had that comfort because we were better people, so God
blessed us. Reckoning with the truth will be painful for those who
believe this. The fact is that our perceived comfort today is a result
of the darkness of usury. The middle can only exist because there is a
bottom that keeps our system afloat. They are the only reason the
middle class exists. Moreover, the comfort is currently an illusion
because most in the middle class don’t realize how indebted they are.
Total unfunded liabilities currently hidden on the government’s
financials put each American in an extra $300,000+ in debt that they
currently aren’t aware of. That debt comes from the fact that, again,
our money comes from usury.
Since the bubble was built on usury, its very existence is immoral,
and everyone who participates in it becomes infected. It is also
flimsy because usury means the bubble is sustained by debt. Many are
already aware of the hollowness of the bubble since it has destroyed
the fabric of our communities and a sense of deeper meaning in life.
But others are able to ignore that and focus on the material comfort.
What will happen to them once the material comfort itself crashes? It
will soon. Some market forecasters predict the final collapse of our
debt system will be worse than the Great Depression. The math is
clear—it will be worse. Just like Greece, we will then see Wall Street
paying the government to crackdown on the people, cancel social
programs, and take their assets from them to hand them over to the
upper class behind the banks. That is the end result of usury—using
debt to control others and take their assets so they have no equity.
At that point it will be too late for the church to save the lower and
middle classes from violent repression and the upper class from their
narcissistic detachment from the horror.
“Silence is Betrayal”
So is there a wing of the church that has not yet sold its soul? Is
there a remaining Christian voice against usury, or are Muslims the
only people in the world who stand against it? The church must wake up
to the truth of our system and become relevant again. This is the
civil rights issue of the 21st century, only this time it is not black
vs. white but a few money pushers vs. the great mass of users. The
power of the bond market is getting ready to wreak havoc. We’re all in
it together this time. As Martin Luther King said, “There comes a time
when silence is betrayal….That time has come for us today.” Will the
real church please speak up?
Canada Free Press