The post I wrote last week about conspiracies, was a forbearer to this one. The book I was reading was G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature from Jekyll Island. I had this book on my reading list for over 5 years and never gave it priority. Finally, about 2 weeks ago, it came to the top of my stack and I proceeded to devour the material.
The information and the incredible insights were many. Financial systems have a long history and varying types. Hard currencies backed by metals, fiat currencies backed by promises, reserves or fractional reserves, complete with the boom and bust cycles associated with attempts to manipulate the currencies by governments and their cronies. Mr. Griffin expertly walks through some of the varying systems and explains how they operate. He also expertly evaluates the impacts and ramifications of those policies.
Our current system is one in which some will tell you that the Federal Reserve Bank system is private. While technically accurate, Mr. Griffin stresses that the legal status as public or private is less important than its functional status and how it operates. In operation and function, our Federal Reserve is nothing but a central bank. The board is nominated and approved by government, and the entire structure of the bank allows for the government to increase spending without having to raise taxes, which is politically unpopular.
The result is what Griffin and others often call the “hidden tax” of inflation. That hidden tax further stresses the modern fears of wage gaps, and strips the savings and investments of hard earned and saved income from workers by inflating the currency. Inflation is simply a way of pointing out that there are more dollars in circulation, and that they are growing at a faster rate than the goods and services. The effect is rising prices.
To better understand the nefarious result, if I could pay rent, buy groceries, and afford all of my monthly expenses, to include insurance and other required costs at $3,000 a month, then $30,000 in savings would mean I should be able to go an entire year without work and not go without food, electricity or housing. $300,000 would imply that same thing could last for 10 years. The effect of inflation is that a 20 or 30 year savings is actually worth quite a bit less. As the costs of goods continue to climb, it is because the government is using the federal reserve to steal the value of your savings.
Fact is, the natural inclination of an economy is to more efficiently produce things. If a person who had 30 years of expenses saved up didn’t change their life or their habits at all, that 30 years of savings would actually be more valuable and reach 35, 40 or even more in terms of actual value. They would either be able to plan to retire earlier, or leave a larger inheritance to their loved ones and allow for more luxury and wealth in future generations.
The cyclical effect of this nefarious, “hidden tax,” is that people trying to save for future expenses are forced to either save a greater portion of their current earnings with the knowledge that it will be worth less when they need it in the future, giving up more luxury or value today, or they are forced into investing in riskier enterprises. Leaving the workforce to retire then becomes a much riskier venture when a recession could whither away your 30 years of savings effectively overnight.
What do they need all this money for? Well, most of it is spent on programs and foreign interventions. It is squandered on the destruction of goods. Our government takes that money and frivolously spends on bridges to nowhere, bailing out badly behaving and poorly run large banks and corporations, and, of course, the spreading of freedom through death and destruction in foreign interventions.
The Federal Reserve, in truth, provides no real value to the people. It strips value and safety from the people and does so with a government enforced monopoly on legal currency. A plain reading of the constitution also makes it clear that not only is our currency unconstitutional, but so is most of the bloat that it funds.
Where the author takes a twist that I found fascinating and provocative, was when he discusses a nefarious plot and intention to bring about world government. I do not find his arguments convincing, however. Perhaps it is my bias against believing humanity has the capacity to carry out a plan from secret organizations and allegiances spanning decades and even centuries. His facts are indisputable. The Fabian Society did and does still exist, and they did plot to slowly bring about a global socialism. I trust that there are actually groups out there deliberately working towards trying to bring about a global consensus on issues.
I merely chalk these facts up to my general worldview that although each of us has the capacity of high intellectual thought and capacity for growth, that we also all carry with us the inherent flaws of pride and limitations in knowledge. I believe that the very large majority, even perhaps all of the facts outlined by Mr. Griffin, are fully explainable by the good intentions and inherent arrogance of groups of people. Admittedly, though, his citing of The Report from Iron Mountain was concerning.
Published in 1967, it outlined how a global government would need to find another way of controlling masses of people. War has been used effectively as a mechanism to control large masses by a sense of national tribalism. George Orwell’s 1984 talked about how the 3 regional governments used wars against one another consistently to keep the people in line, and as an excuse to invoke treason or conscription to manage dissidents. The report talked about how an effective means was still being looked for, and that a threat needed to be presented which could invoke fear in all of humanity.
Iron Mountain mentioned faking aliens as an existential threat to our existence, but found weaknesses because people would have a hard time believing in something they couldn’t tangibly relate to or had no experiences with. They would be relying on anecdotal stories from people that would increasingly seem unbelievable. Their most promising deep fake was the concept of an environmental threat. People could experience exhaust and see trash or other signs of pollution. A few pictures of animals covered in oil or a straw in the nostril of a sea turtle would be real, repeatable and observable examples of the consequences associated with human impacts on the environment. Since people do not live forever, convincing them that our impact has grown worse and that the very things that allow us to live well are the cause, could be used to get people to willingly give up their power.
The use of central banks means that most of us have reached the stage where only a small recession causes us to look to government for answers, and the increasing debt of the United States places them increasingly at risk of needing to turn to outsiders for assistance.
Whether there is an orchestrated, intentional effort to bring us to a one-world government, or not, is irrelevant to me. It serves only the purpose of driving division and likely making people more vulnerable to adopting inaccurate ideas. We have been brought towards that end regardless. All is not lost, of course, but opportunity to avoid that type of calamity is diminishing daily, and it seems most of our representatives are bent on running faster towards that disastrous result.
I highly recommend the book for anyone wanting to understand a little more about our banking system, the legitimate concerns with it, and the consequences for not ending it. If you enjoy a little trip through known plots and the scandal of a deep conspiracy, you’ll love the book. Get your copy of it here and enjoy The Creature from Jekyll Island.
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