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Stop: Think

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This is probably the best book one can get on economic history as related to the creation and use of money over the last 100 years.

Despite its publication date (1999), this exposé is still completely relevant to the present and future global circumstances. Its prescience is evidenced by the inevitable world financial crisis in 2008. The author does not call a spade a spoon; he tells it like it is and what will be. And he offers solutions. I would give the book 6 stars if I could.

Described in brief: The author, Paul Hellyer, describes how, in their worldwide unbridled avarice for capitalism, corporations have covertly overpowered governments supposedly democratically elected to represent most of us. The said corporations have insidiously taken control of everything that would and could be free, democratic and fair. Even national and international laws are skewed in their favour. The author also shows that the core malignancy to all nations is the world's private banking and financial systems. The banking system has given us 45 recessions and depressions in 200 years, with more to come. (I was forced to flee my country of origin and become an economic refugee because of what international currency trading has done and is doing to the finances and economy of that country. So, I can also speak with knowledge gained from painful experience.)

Hellyer is amongst those who are ahead of his time. His book is in the category of the likes of "The Web of Debt" (ISBN: 0979560829), but Hellyer's book is much more readable for the general reader. He also speaks from a vast amount of more experience than most authors of this genré of economic history.

The serious conundrum is that most people find what Paul Hellyer tells us so extraordinarily incomprehensible, because most people haven't realised the inter-connectedness of everything in the "human universe".

He introduces valuable new concepts such as the relationships between -
- "Permanent government" and "Provisional government".
- "Revolution by ballot box" and "Continuous democracy by referenda".
- "Lip-serviced democracy" and "Citizens initiative".
- "Government Created Money" (GCM)

Global economic crises are a manifestation of "neoliberal" economic policies put into practice by governments and world bodies. For example, the "confiscatory" inflations & deflations, and world financial crises (as in the 2008) are wrought by contemporary forms of finance capital (banking, investment, and trading institutions) in alliance with the states of each nation or country. The theory and practice of "Neoliberalism" is most excellently and arduously described in "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" (ISBN: 0199283273)

Some of the other works in line with Hellyer's are:
Captive State - (The corporate takeover of Britain) - ISBN: 0330369431.
Web of Debt - (Solutions for, and causes of the 2008 financial global crisis) - ISBN: 0979560829.
The Grip Of Death - (A study of modern money, debt slavery and destructive economics) - ISBN: 1897766408. This book is also not outdated. The author, Rowbotham, is/was ironically part of a British government think-tank, which is a remarkable achievement for a non-academic such as Rowbotham.

Companion DVDs to these books could be: (These DVDs may be found on Amazon)
- The Money Masters (History of money. Not to be confused with DVDs on currency trading)
- Money as Debt (What money is really. An outline of the aforesaid "Money Masters")
- The Ascent of Money.

All the aforesaid show how nations have become undemocratic, and are worsening in their "democracy", by restoring what was once in history a feudalistic existence for the masses. Having not been stopped, the new world order has increasingly become one of domination by the power of greed.

One of the few global organisations having the potential for preventing the aforesaid is the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) at [...]
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