[Armageddon]

This is a great presentation regarding the Federal Reserve. Most people do not have a clue how our monetary system works. The Federal Reserve was the biggest scam in the history of the world. This is well worth listening to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3TAh1gy6rc

[Tanada]

The book of the same name is EXCELLENT!

[Armageddon]

I am sure that presentation was a promotion for his book. It is really interesting too. What a great concept they created ( Federal Reserve System ) . You create an entity that lends money to the US government with interest, then the government gives this money to banks that can lend this invisible money to people and they also can charge interest. The banks can lend 9 times whatever their reserves are and keep all the interest. ( fractional reserve banking ). So , when the government borrows this money, it is owed back by the taxpayers. Wow, what a scam. They have created for themselves a stream of wealth that is unimaginable. They are using this wealth now to obtain power. Their next goal is complete control.

[fireplaceguy]

This book is THE key to understanding our government and our banking system.

"Creature" along with "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" is all the information anyone needs to understand the ifnancial debacle unfolding in front of us, and how trivial the events that are staged for us (such as elections) really are.

Glad to see that a few around here are in the know...

FPG

[Angry_Chimp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'I') am sure that presentation was a promotion for his book. It is really interesting too. What a great concept they created ( Federal Reserve System ) . You create an entity that lends money to the US government with interest, then the government gives this money to banks that can lend this invisible money to people and they also can charge interest. The banks can lend 9 times whatever their reserves are and keep all the interest. ( fractional reserve banking ). So , when the government borrows this money, it is owed back by the taxpayers. Wow, what a scam. They have created for themselves a stream of wealth that is unimaginable. They are using this wealth now to obtain power. Their next goal is complete control.

[Armageddon]

Here it is in one presentation instead of 7 small ones

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &plindex=5

[aldente]

Supposedly G.Edward Griffin is affiliated with the John Birch Society.

If so, then the Hegelian dialectic is in full course in his case and Eustus Mullins was copied.

[aldente]

Another example:

Alex Jones started broadcasting in Austin, TX in 1996, the same year that Stratfor (Strategic Forcasting) was registered.

Is he maybe on their payroll?

[Rod_Cloutier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')lex Jones started broadcasting in Austin, TX in 1996, the same year that Stratfor (Strategic Forcasting) was registered.

[Tanada]

Griffin has been a multi decadal opponent of the Federal Reserve banking system, I was hoping this thread would have something relevant about the dispute between the pro-fed and con-fed groups.

[joewp]

Well, I read The Creature from Jekyll Island a couple of times now, and his explanation of things seems to be the most correct. When you combine the knowledge you get from his book, combine it with the real life accounts of Confessions of an Economic Hitman and just look at current events, you can see that pretty much the Fed and central banks rule the world, and tighten their grip every year.

Griffin's "Mandrake Mechanism", the process by which banks create money when they lend it, is verified by several publications of various regional Fed banks. The consequences of that system as he outlined in the book are quite predictable, with the outcome being more debt over a longer period of time. Recent events in Europe bear this out.

I don't know what anyone could say about his characterization of our money system and how it got that way.

I don't even see what bringing up a possible association with John Birch has anything to do with his ideas. I'll agree with a lesson in propaganda from Hitler if it's true. Ideas rise or fall on their own merits.