Scary radical stuff.

@Fluffy:

I just got around to watching that.
Very interesting stuff.

Thanks for posting it.

It's amazing what pops up on YouTube sometimes (and then again sometimes it's ghastly - like the new "Gray Bar"!!).

I almost clicked off it because the preamble was not my cup of tea but he hooked me with the Turkish Generals. The mechanism is beautiful and elegant. You get to punish people and pass the blame onto their government. Simple and insidious.

There was another fellow I watched from that conference,: Doud or some such name. He gave an interesting little bit about Revolution House in Old Whittington, Derbyshire where the conspirators met to plot bringing William of Orange to Britain to be king. The loan they took out then in 1688 to set up the government is still being paid today, apparently, due to the magic of compound interest. I have to look into that a bit more to see if it is so.

There was also interesting information about Napoleon's banking whereby he stopped using the banks to put currency into circulation and issued it directly from the government. This allowed him to escape the control of the international bankers and fund his empire without debt - depriving the international bankers of control and income and threatening their business in other countries too. Wellington "defeated" Napoleon at Waterloo but really only fought him to a draw until the Belgians sent in reinforcements.

Lot's of interesting tidbits raised that need more looking into.

I didn't know about either of those claims.



Indeed.