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The Financialist Kill Chain

Oh, gather ye round, ye sons of the soil, and hear of a game that’s grim,

Where shadows of greed with a serpent’s guile weave chains that no sword can trim.

‘Tis the Financialist’s craft, a merciless art, that binds with a velvet glove,

And nations fall in its iron thrall, bereft of their wealth and love.

Through corridors dim where the rulers dwell, they slink with a whispered word,

In government halls, where the proud banners fall, their honeyed deceit is heard.

In the press they weave tales, in boardrooms they smile, their voices a silken snare,

And the people, asleep, see not the creep of the powers that bind them there.

With promises bright as a golden dawn, they offer a boundless loan,

“Take wealth,” they cry, “let your dreams fly high!” – but the terms are of iron sown.

The debt piles tall, unyielding, vast, a mountain no man can scale,

And the nation bows, entrapped, and vows to a yoke that shall never fail.

Now sharp eyes gleam over the land’s fair wealth, her fields and her rivers grand,

Her mines that spark in the deep earth’s dark, her forests that proudly stand.

They mark each prize with a vulture’s gaze, the treasures their hands would claim,

And the people’s birthright, in silent might, is branded with greed’s cold name.

Then storms are loosed with a cunning hand, the markets begin to reel,

The coin grows scarce, and the folk despair as the nation’s foundations keel.

A crisis blooms where no hope resumes, and panic’s the only cry,

For the Financialists’ art has torn apart the dreams that were built on high.

Now comes the hour when the lords descend, their voices both stern and sweet,

“Your debts are due, but we’ll succor you – surrender your wealth complete.”

The mines, the lands, the rivers’ strands, are bartered to clear the slate,

And the nation’s heart, in a bitter part, is sold to a foreign fate.

They strip the gold from the people’s hold, the wealth of a thousand years,

The sweat of the brow, the plowman’s vow, are reaped with unyielding shears.

To vaults afar, beneath a colder star, the riches are borne away,

And the folk remain, in want and pain, to mourn what they lost today.

At last they’re gone, with their spoils anon, no backward glance they cast,

The nation lies where the vulture flies, a husk of its noble past.

No mercy lingers, no helping fingers, to lift what their hands have torn,

And the people weep, in their ruin deep, abandoned, betrayed, forlorn.

So beware, ye lands, of the grasping hands that promise with gilded lies,

For the Financialist’s chain, with its cruel refrain, brings naught but a nation’s cries.

Hold fast your heart, your wealth, your art, and guard what your fathers gave,

Lest ye kneel in thrall to the Kill Chain’s call, and find but a beggar’s grave.

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