Thanks heaps for posting that. The Creature was also the first book I read about the Fed and the US money supply etc. I have a high reverence of G.E. Griffin for his contributions over the years, and I still read from The Creature regularly.
I would also recommend a book called The Web of Debt by Ellen Brown, which I think is also excellent and in many ways more contemporary, however a little less 'conspiratorial' in a sense. It goes into derivatives, sub-prime, economic collapse etc. She actually puts forward a different argument to Griffin re: Greenback dollars [see below] - she asserts that debt-free govt-issued money is NOT inflationary and simply 'primes the pump' for more business activity. This is in opposition to the dollar backed by the gold-standard that Griffin and Ron Paul (go, Ron!) are all about. I absolutely love both books, but I must say that I refer to The Web of Debt far more regularly for info about market manipulation (PPT etc.), derivatives and collapse. The Creature is great for things like the bailout game, the NWO, fabians and socialism, along with all those interesting little alternative historical takes on events like the Russian revolution etc., and depopulation and The Report from Iron Mountain.
Cheers
Ben
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2. The next jolt came when the program praised Civil War Greenbacks, calling them debt-free. Actually, Greenbacks were contrary to the U.S. Constitution and, although they were not fiat money issued by the banks, they were fiat money issued by the government. That was better than paying interest on nothing to bankers, but they still wiped out the purchasing power of American money through massive inflation. They can not correctly be called debt-free, either, because they represented debt on the shoulders of the government, which means, of course, on the shoulders of the taxpayers. It never ceases to amaze me how people think that the solution to money created out of nothing by those big, bad bankers is to have money created out of nothing by those nice, trustworthy politicians. Yet, that is what this program supports.
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