To the Students of the Millennium Cyberschoolbus Conference
held at the United Nations in New York on Dec. 6-8 2000
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/unyouth2000

There were 4 Millennium Events at the United Nations last year:

1) May 22-26: Millennium Forum of Non-Governmental Orgs. (NGOs)
2) Aug 28-30: Millennium Summit of Religious Leaders
3) Sep 06-08: Millennium Summit of Political Leaders
4) Dec 06-08: Millennium Conference of Cyberschoolbus Students

PART 1: MILLENNIUM STUDENT DECLARATION SWITCHED:

Of all student conferences ever held, yours was special because
it was the very last youth conference of the old millennium in the
very most prestigious auspices in the world, the United Nations in New
York. Like the final declarations of the other Millennium Assembly
events, your final U.N. Millennium Student Declaration represents the
old millennium's last word in the United Nations history books about
the hopes and ideals of the "Youth Class of 2000." You had one of the
greatest privileges ever accorded to youth, a chance to have your
voices, your pictures and your statements recorded for posterity in
your United Nations declaration to the new millennium. .
http://event.mediaondemand.com/unstudentconference/20001208/reb28100mr.ram

So you must have have been shocked to find out that your
"Millennium Student Declaration" had been tampered with between the
time it was submitted by your drafting committee to the time it
appeared on the floor of your assembly for final ratification. Check
your Dec. 8 2000 declaration and the resolution for all United Nations
Missions to include a youth delegate is not there and that resolution
was unanimous considering most of you deserve first shot at the jobs.
Check for Darryl van Slack's resolution concurring with Section C6 of
the Millennium Declaration "to restructure the global financial
architecture with an interest-free UNILETS alternative time-based
currency system." It's not there either though you gave Darryl a great
ovation and over 200 of you signed up your emails for the
unyouth2000@... discussion group.

Jodi Mullen < libellule_2000@... > wrote:

> Any amendments that we make to the old resolution will still be
> filed away in some dark corner on a dusty shelf, as do most of the
> great resolutions that the UN officials come up with. I know this
> because I have had the privilege to work with international
> ministers in writing said resolutions. At the end of the week our
> plans were "mysteriously censored" and filed out of the way.
> I'm not saying that this was right, but we were ready to move
> ahead instead of fighting over the past.

Jodi says there's nothing unusual about having
documents mysteriously censored. Perhaps when a student declaration is
censored at some small backwoods conference, no one cares. But this
censorship happened to you right in the United Nations building in New
York in a once-in-a-millennium event. What you voted into U.N. history
on Dec. 8 2000 was a forgery and most of you know it.

Sean Sullivan < Maxim12@... > wrote:

> I agree that it's bad that something the drafting committee wrote
> was taken out (censored) without their approval. However, it's
> important for everyone to remember that we live in an adult's world
> and like it or not, we're not yet adults.

It's a lot more than just bad, it's sensationally bad. Did any of
you expect to go to the United Nations and work hard on your
recommendations to have them dropped at the end without telling you?
Isn't it amazing that such an obvious fraud could happen in the
highest council of our planet? And yet, it doesn't seem to make much
sense for the U.N. to commit such an obvious fraud where anyone could
notice that the final document presented for ratification was not the
final draft handed in, especially when they left off a unanimous item.
What words could have been so important in your document that possibly
the greatest youth declaration in our history books should end up be a
censored forgery? It's one of the greatest news stories of our recent
times and you are the over 200 witnesses to it!

PART 2: MILLENNIUM DECLARATION SWITCHED TOO:

They didn't switch your final Millennium Document on you because
you're not yet adults. I was at the Millennium Forum and authored
Clause C6 "to Governments"of the Millennium Declaration on how to
restructure the global financial architecture. After our Globalization
committee worked long hours on Section C6, I was shocked to find out
that the final document that made it to the floor of our assembly for
ratification as the Millennium Declaration was not our final draft but
a censored substitute. The historic "official document of the General
Assembly (A/54/959) at http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm
was switched before ratification on May 26 2000 in exactly the same
way as as your Millennium Student Declaration was switched before your
vote on Dec. 8 2000. Not one but two Millennium Declarations that are
going down in history were tampered with to remove the very same words
relating to Millennium Declaration C6.

That's amazing. And it's up to me to convince you that there's
something in both resolutions about how to to "restructure the global
financial architecture" that the rich people who control the world
really really do not like. What is it about Millennium Declaration C6
that that so threatens the status quo that two of the most famous
millennial documents in United Nations history have had to be tampered
with to censor mention of it? What words common to both Millennium
Declarations could have been so important as to force them to commit
the same shocking fraud on both historic documents?

PART 3: FACTS BEHIND SECTION C6 OF MILLENNIUM DECLARATION:

Click http://www.un.org/millennium/forum.htm

> In seeking to contribute to the Millennium Assembly and the
> Millennium Summit of the United Nations, civil society organizations
> have organized and held the Millennium Forum on 22-26 May 2000 at
> United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Millennium Forum, at
> which the Secretary-General delivered the keynote address, adopted
> on 26 May 2000 the Millennium Forum Declaration and Agenda for
> Action issued as an official document of the General Assembly
> (A/54/959) http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm

Since the LETS (Local Employment-Trading System) banking software
that provides interest-free currency has been hailed an "anti-poverty"
system in Britain and a "financial lifeboat" in Australia and since I
was one of the original LETS engineers having financed the LETS
software development in the early 1980s and having promoted LETS as
leader of the Abolitionist Party of Canada in a Guinness record 52
election races over the past 22 years, I was invited to make a
presentation to the Millennium Forum's Globalization Working Group
that was drafting Section C6 of the Millennium Declaration on how we
could use the LETS software to restructure the global financial
architecture. That's how I know that parts of Clause C6 were deleted
before it was presented to the Millennium Forum for ratification. The
Millennium Declaration, U.N. General Assembly Document A/54/959, is
just as much a censored forgery as your Millennium Cyberschoolbus
Student Declaration. By the way, does anyone know if your U.N.
Millennium Student forgery has a General Assembly Document number like
my U.N. Millennium Declaration forgery has A/54/969?

If you don't know about LETS local currencies, my home page has a
list of over 700 systems in 45 countries that are all trying to
explain how they work to you. The best explanation for it is a 1-hour
radio broadcast I did a few years ago with Dr. John Hotson, Professor
of Economics at Waterloo University, on how LETS banking could change
the world for the better. You can listen to it at:
http://www.alternatives.com/lets/hotson.ram

Click http://www.millenniumforum.org for the following links to
all the evidence in the Millennium Forum Declaration forgery.

> (1) To read the final "Millennium Forum Declaration
> (2) Speech of the Millennium Forum Co-Chair to the Millennium Summit
> (3) To read the other main papers by sub-thematic working groups
> (4) Complete list of Millennium Forum Participants and addresses
> (5) Open letter of thanks to Forum participants
> (6) To view a recorded Webcast or opening and closing statements
> (7) To participate in an ongoing global discussion of the Forum
> (8) To read news on the Forum, daily by the Inter Press Service
> (9) To communicate with the Forum's Secretariat mngof@...
> (10) To review the program for the 22-26 May meeting of the Forum

Click (4) http://www.millenniumforum.org/html/MFParticipants.pdf
for the list of participants. I'm the first under Canada. Notice that
though everyone submitted the same application form, all my contact
information was left blank. No address, no phone number, no home page
URL so there is no way to contact me.

Click (10) for the timetable of panels. I spoke May 22 in 5.1
http://www.millenniumforum.org/html/Prog_WorkshopsTable_current.htm

> 5. Facing the Challenges of Globalization: Achieving Equity,
> Justice, Diversity
> 5.1 A New Global Economic and Financial Architecture.

Click (8) http://www.millenniumforum.org/html/news/tv052200.pdf
for the Terraviva Inter Press Service Daily Journal of Monday May 22,
2000, Special Edition IPS, Vol. 8, No. 92 page 6:

> "Working Group on the Challenges of Globalisation --
> "Globalisation: People Centred Economics in Sustainable Communities"
> Moderators: John Turmel and Vicki Corpus (4:30-6:00pm, Conf Room 4)

Actually, I did not moderate, I made the presentation on how to
restructure the global financial architecture with an interest-free
UNILETS alternative time-based currency.
http://www.planetwork.org/planetwork.org.recent.html is the web
site of Freed Schmitter, another Millennium Forum participant, who
wrote a glowing report on the UNILETS presentation.

Click (3) for the real sub-themes of Millennium Declaration C6
http://www.millenniumforum.org/html/papers/Globaliz_currentpaper.htm

> Section 5: What the UN must do.
>
> h) Another area of study should be the UNILETS (United Nations
> International Local Employment-Trading System).
>
> i) Local Exchange, Trade and currency practices should be developed
> further and examined for international application. The abolition of
> debts and the eradication of interest are essential components in
> pursuing sustainable human development.
>
> j) The adoption of the time standard of money and abolition of
> interest rates are both ideas worthy of consideration.

In our final draft of C6, we wanted to use an interest-free
UNILETS alternative time-based currency to restructure the global
financial architecture. The name of the agency "UNILETS" and it's
greatest feature, being "interest-free," were included with
"alternative time-based currency." The abolition of interest rates is
mentioned twice and is linked to the time standard of money. LETS is
to be considered for international application and UNILETS (United
Nations International LETS) is the name of the agency to run the
world-wide LETS software that will provide interest-free time-based
currency bank accounts for every citizen of the world.

Now go to http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration.htm section C6
and you'll find nothing about restructuring the global financial
architecture. You have to go to a second Section C6 "to governments."
No kidding. There are two section C6s in the same historic document.
Most people looking for my Section C6 on global financial architecture
reform will find the wrong Section C6 and never look for a second. And
if the censors someday decide to delete the second Section C6
completely, no one will realize it was ever there once it is gone. But
when you do find my second Section C6 in the Millennium Declaration
"to governments," the TURMEL DECLARATION, it says:

> C. The Forum urges The United Nations:
> 6. To make serious commitments to restructure the global financial
> architecture based on principles of equity, transparency,
> accountability, and democracy, and to balance, with the
> participation of civil society organizations, the monetary means to
> favor human endeavor and ecology, such as an alternative time-based
> currency.

So instead of a the complete Turmel Declaration for an "interest-
free UNILETS" alternative time-based currency, the vital words that
were censored from our final draft were the name of the new global
financial architecture and it's greatest feature, just like the
resolution about the "interest-free UNILETS time-based currency" was
deleted from your Millennium Student Declaration.

But the U.N. censors did leave in that restructuring had to done
with a "time-based currency" and that still provides a lot of banking
systems engineering information. A time-based currency, an IOU for an
hour of a neighbor's time, can't have interest or inflation. The Hour
you owe or the Hour you are owed must always be the same 60 minutes no
matter where you are on the planet. The Time Standard of Money is
simply ideal.

So cutting out the words "interest-free" did not have much effect
in defining the new architecture but cutting out the system's name
"UNILETS" did have a great effect since over 45 out of the 180 of the
world leaders attending the Millennium Summit would, upon reading the
Millennium Declaration, recognize LETS as those helpful "anti-poverty"
"lifeboats" springing up in their countries and all around the world.
LETS have been endorsed by Parliaments in Australia, New Zealand,
Britain, Europe and the import of the new UNILETS financial
architecture would have been instantly recognizable to them if the
UNILETS name had not been censored. Those Presidents and Prime
Ministers who have supported LETS in their countries would have
realized that what was being proposed was simply an international
version of the same thing they had all supported at home.
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/urlsnat.htm

When the LETS was translated into French, then the presidents of
France and the Ivory Coast would recognize the software's French name
"SEL" and it's United Nations equivalent, perhaps UNISEL?
http://www.selidaire.org for list of over 300 France LETS or
http://asso.francenet.fr/sel/ for the map of France with dots as LETS.
Perhaps the German President would have recognized its German name of
Tauschrings. http://www.tauschring.de/d0402add.htm Or perhaps the head
of the Netherlands has seen their map with all their LETS at
http://www.horizon.nl/~fransleo/lets/letskrt.htm With over 700 LETS
with internet connections out of the thousands around the world in 45
countries, can you understand why it was so important to cut out any
reference to "LETS" in any presentation of the Millennium Declaration
to the Millennium Summit of political leaders? Cutting out the name
UNILETS was essential to making sure none of them make the link
between the suggested new global financial architecture and the little
LETSystems in their own home towns.

Click (2) http://www.millenniumforum.org/html/news/Mfnews-Co-
Chair_Speaks_at_MSummit.htm for the Speech of the Millennium Forum Co-
Chair Mr. Ahderom to the Millennium Summit on 8 September 2000. Note
that when he raises the issue of the new global financial
architecture, he says:

> 'The Declaration urges governments to make serious 'commitments to
> restructure the global financial architecture based on principles of
> equity, transparency, accountability, and democracy.., stating
> clearly that the United Nations should be the pre-eminent
> international organization overseeing the World Bank, the IMF, and
> the WTO.'

He changed our recommendation from restructuring the global
financial architecture with an alternative time-based currency to
restructuring it by making the U.N. boss. We wanted to restructure
with better banking software, not with different bankers at the top.
This was more than mere censorship of what we said, it was a false
insertion of what we did not say.

Pretty amazing isn't it. The Millennium Forum actually asks that
the world use a "UNILETS interest-free alternative time-based
currency" software to restructure the global financial architecture.
After censorship, the Millennium Declaration only states that the
world should use an "alternative time-based currency." And when it's
finally delivered to the greatest assembly of world political leaders
in history, Mr. Ahderom says we asked that the financial engineering
be restructured to put the U.N. in charge.

Finally, to convince you that censoring the "interest-free
UNILETS" was the reason that two historic Millennium Declarations that
are now recorded in history are both forged substitutions:

Click (6) http://www.millenniumforum.org/html/Reg_emaillistinfo.htm

> The Millennium Form has established an email discussion list to
> promote the discussion of the themes and topics of the Forum.
> Members of this email list will receive both official emails from
> the Millennium Forum and from other members of the list as part of
> the participatory discussion process that lies at the heart of the
> Forum. The list is unmoderated and any member can send to all
> members of the list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MFDiscuss
> If you just wish to receive news and information from the Forum
> only, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MFNews

Millennium Forum News editors at "MFNews" suppressed every single
mention of LETS or UNILETS in every article and press release sent to
them. And now the United Nation's unmoderated open-membership
"MFDiscuss" group has censored UNILETS too!

> Date: Jan 13 2000 10:59:09 AM EDT
> From: brad@... <Brad Pokorny>
> To: JCTurmel@...
> Subject: Re: [MFDiscuss] TURMEL: UNILETS News: 20001030
> Dear Mr. Turmel,
> Getting six email all at once to the MF Discuss group today, none of
> which have anything to do with the Millennium Forum specifically, is
> too much for this group. I've asked you before to confine your
> remarks specfically to the MF and not use the group to promote your
> ideas, however laudable they may be. I've received complains from
> various people about this and so I've removed you from the group
> permanently. Sorry,

Notice that the offending article was UNILETS News 20001030:

> 1) Integrating LETS and TimeDollars <Mary Fee>
> 2) Gorbals Time Bank <Colin J. McGowan>
> 3) International Journal of Community Currencies Research <North>
> 4) Re: UNILETS <Jane Taylor>
> 5) With Gates to Global LETS? <Sabine McNeill>
> 6) Setting up a LETS in New Brunswick <Andrea Berry>
> 7) Neighborhood Improvement Districts <Steven R. Larrick>
> 8) Designing the Green Economy
> 9) Calderdale, West Yorkshire local currency <Ken Palmerton>

Why these articles about LETS from the U.S., Australia, New
Brunswick, Yorkshire UK, have nothing to do with Millennium Forum
Declaration UNC6 is typical. Because he can't see, he assumes everyone
else can't see too. In MFDiscuss message #174, he explains:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MFDiscuss/message/174

> To: MFDiscuss@egroups.com
> From: brad@... <Brad Pokorny>
> Subject: RE: [MFDiscuss] Digest Number 89
> Date: Sun Jan 14, 2001 6:12pm
> For what it's worth, I banned John Turmel of Unilets from the group
> yesterday. I left him on for so long because we wanted this group to
> be as free and open as possible. But that was too much.

So everybody in the world can post a message to the United
Nations Millennium Forum MFDiscuss discussion group except for John
Turmel's posts about Millennium Forum Declaration C6 UNILETS. Since
archive is closed to non-members, send a blank email to MFDiscuss-
subscribe@... to join and see the article. I think my
censorship is a world record, so I wrote:

> From: jcturmel@... < John C. Turmel, B. Eng., >
> Date: Wed Mar 7 2001
> To: info@...
> Subject: First Public Censorship by the U.N.
>
> Guinness World Records,
> On Jan 13 2001, I was the first person banned from the
> unmoderated open-membership United Nations Millennium Forum public
> discussion group.
> Message http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MFDiscuss/message/174
> confirms my claim to the distinction of being the first person to
> suffer such Internet censorship by the United Nations.

So there it is. The words "interest-free UNILETS" were deleted
from the Millennium Declaration leaving only "alternative time-based
currency" to restructure the global financial architecture." Then the
Forum Co-Chair dropped the "alternative time-based currency" we
proposed and said we recommended putting the UN in charge. Then the
whole UNC6 UNILETS resolution is censored from your Student Millennium
Declaration. Every mention of UNILETS has been censored from the
Millennium Forum MFNews list and too much mention of UNILETS has
gotten it censored from the Millennium Forum Discussion list.

History will never know that your U.N. Millennium Student
Conference recommended "youth representatives" in national U.N.
delegations. And they'll never know that you were bright enough to
endorse the Millennium Declaration C6 interest-free UNILETS too.
There's really nothing I can do about it though this story is
sensational enough that there is something that you can do to get
credit for what you really said.

You can bet as other students think about participating in future
U.N. conferences, they'll all have to take into account what they did
to the biggest and greatest. Some may decide to fight against it being
done to them what was done to you. Several people have advised to not
make waves or they might lose the chance to go on another fun trip. As
long as they get to play the game, they don't mind if no one counts
their points. How many of you are going back next year if they can do
the same to you again? Do you really think that next year's students
aren't going to know what they did to you this year? If you sit
quietly and accept it for whatever reason, how will it look if they
don't. You may not fight it, but maybe next year's students will.

You were cheated and it is incumbent on you to fight to correct
the statement they put in the history books with your signature on it.
They wrote a lie in the name of world youth and you signed it. Now
that you it's a fraud with a unanimous resolution missing, how can you
let that stand? Two forged Millennium Declarations is such a
sensational story that all you have to do is call a few media in your
area and tell them you were one of the witnesses to the Millennium
Student Declaration forgery at the United Nations. Then give them your
phone number and the site URL for this post and let them decide if
they want to call you back.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unyouth2000/message/60

And give some thought to starting up a Student Internet LETS
network from among the 160 students on the unyouth2000 list until the
United Nations installs the UNILETS software on the global database.
You're smarter than your parents. Prove it. Act.

LETS Cancel Debt Growth First! Then work on debt.
John C. "The Banking Systems Engineer" Turmel
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel
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