weloveseaplanes, you can purchase "The Creature" from the
publisher (preferred), amazon, Barnes & Noble or ebay, its relatively inexpensive at about US$25.
It is a great read, tipping in at ~585 pages with extensive footnotes (the bibliography is six pages). It took me about 6 weeks to make it through. Griffin didn't do the original work to cover this subject (Eustace Mullins in
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve and Cleon Skousen
The Naked Capitalist), however he packaged everything up in a single digestible narrative, he even trained as a CPA so he could understand the account"sleight of hand" that is the credit creation process.
Griffin covers the "alternative" history of the modern world, with the view that last 500 years of European history (and much of world history) was driven primarily by two small groups of elites - the bankers who discovered the magic of creating money out of thin air (monetary scientists) and the political scientists who represented the monarchies. These two groups formed a symbiotic relationship to harvest the vast wealth of the populous
for themselves.
He demonstrates, for instance the bankers funded both sides of during the Napoleonic Wars by purchasing bonds (paid by the populous through the "inflation tax" once the war was over and the country returned to the gold standard), allowing the conflicts to be sustained beyond what they would have been had the populous been taxed directly.
From the Wikipedia entry on
Nathan Rothschild:
He operated first as a textile merchant in
Manchester, then from 1804 he began to deal on the
London stock exchange in financial instruments such as foreign bills and government securities.
From 1809 Rothschild began to deal in
gold bullion, and developed this as a cornerstone of his business. From 1811 on, in negotiation with
Commissary-General John Charles Herries, he undertook to transfer money to pay
Wellington's troops, on campaign in
Portugal and Spain against
Napoleon, and later to make subsidy payments to British allies when these organized new troops after Napoleon's disastrous
Russian campaign.
His four brothers helped co-ordinate activities across the continent, and the family developed a network of agents, shippers and couriers to transport gold – and information – across Europe. This private intelligence service enabled Nathan to receive in London the news of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo a full day ahead of the government's official messengers.[2]
This "intelligence" allowed Nathan Rothschild to create a panic on the British Bond market, causing bonds to plunge, at which point he began buying. By the time the government runner had returned to London, Rothschild had bought up most of the bonds at a steep discount, and came to control the Bank Of England.
If this sound familiar, that's because it is. This same "panic" trick has been played out time and time again, allowing the bankers to seize the majority of wealth created in the world.
This is just a sample. I can honestly say this was the most important book I have ever read.
I've uploaded copies of "
The Secrets Of the Federal Reserve", the "
Naked Capitalist" (read first) and Carroll Quigley's "
Tragedy and Hope" (for reference whilst reading the Naked Capitalist) to allow you to begin investigating the "non-approved" version of history.
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