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FROM A STUDENT IN BELGIUM
2016 Feb 23 from Robert Camps
Hi Mr Griffin,
I’m Robbert, a Belgian engineering student, and a few days ago, I heard from you for the first time. I’ve just watched this video. (I need to watch your other works on cancer and pharma fraud, but I find this kind of thing very interesting to see the bigger picture.) The idea of the whole monetary system being a scam wasn’t new to me, but yesterday I heard about the Rothenschild family. I never thought before of the fact that all this wealth and power must be flowing to some people, but now I can put a face on it. Right now, I feel as if I can’t escape from this scam, as they have so much power (just like you say here. Now, if I may, I have two questions for you:

– Have you ever been afraid of being silenced/killed? You try so hard to make the people aware of what is happening, and if we manage to change the system, some people are losing a lot of power. Power they could use right now to end it all before it goes out of control.

– Do you think the Bitcoin can be a solution to avoid the whole banking system? When I propose this to my friends, they say that banks are necessary; that sometimes we need loans that the bank can give us. They also think we need the government to be able to inject money in the economy when times are bad. I didn’t find a good answer yet to these arguments. (Or will there be no “bad times” if we can fix the system?)

REPLY FROM GEG:
Hello Robert. Good to hear from you, and I am glad to know that you find my work interesting. You have asked several excellent questions, and I will attempt to answer them as best I can under the load of work, correspondence, and deadlines, but I urge you to take a first step and sign up for my free news service, called Need to Know News. Most of what you ask is a recurring theme in Need to Know, so you will get an in-depth response from that source.

The next step is to connect to Freedom Force International. That’s really where the action is. I would be delighted to see you come into that circle as a member.

Now to the questions. Yes, I am afraid of what they might do to me and my family, but I am even more afraid of what will happen to me and my family if we do not stop the global tyranny that now is descending on us. Men have gone into battle from the beginning of time afraid of what might happen to them but, if they are on the defensive side of the conflict, they have no honorable choice.

Bitcoin is an amazing technology and, in a free system, it could be an excellent alternative to settling financial transactions without banks. In a totalitarian system, however, it is almost useless, because the totalitarians can simply outlaw its use and severely punish those who break the law. The Internet can be used, not only to make transactions, but also to trace those transactions. There is no escape from tyranny except to dismantle it.

Your friends are right when they say that banks can and do perform a useful service to the economy. But we are not talking about those services. We are talking about a corrupt system in which banks and governments have formed a partnership by which the public can be legally plundered by inflation and bank bailouts. Your friends are suffering from a sadly incomplete understanding of what banks really do today. Banks do not need to be eliminated, only made to operate honestly.

Finally, the idea that governments need to inject money into the economy when times are bad is contrary to logic and certainly contrary to history. You cannot help people by giving them money you have stolen from them. In every case where there appears to be a boom in the economy from government injection of money, if you back off a bit and look at the long-term consequences, the effect is devastating. It’s like saying we can help a suffering drug addict by giving him more drugs. True, the immediate effect may be that he feels better at the moment, but he is made even more ill by the treatment and, eventually, he will die from it. The economy works the same way.

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WARS REDUCE POPULATION IN COUNTRIES WITH FEWEST HARVARD MBAs
2016 Feb 22 from Bill Madden
[This is in response to last week’s editorial.]

Because war is an efficient method of transferring wealth, and because most sane humans want peace, those profiting from our many wars need to maintain a high level of fear in the world in order to brainwash the masses into believing that we have to fight terrorism in third-world counties in order to keep the homeland safe. In most cases, the terrorists are rag tag mercenaries without sophisticated weapons. No problem. To keep the enemy viable and the wealth transferring, the American taxpayers supply the very latest military hardware.

In addition to perpetuating the flow of profits, the human slaughter helps reduce world overpopulation in countries with the fewest Harvard MBAs.

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“SHATTER IT TO BITS” editorial
2016 Feb 20 from Lionel Binnie
I share your feelings about the war in the Middle East. [Last week’s editorial, “Would we not shatter it to bits?”]

I lived in the Middle East and my wife and I had many Christian Arab friends. We went to the same church, were invited into their homes and were Godparents for their babies at Baptism, and sponsors for the older children at Confirmation. We now worry that our friends’ families are among the Syrian Christians hiding in the northern mountains of Syria.

Here in Canada I became a friend of a Syrian studying at McGill university in Montreal. He was very happy with Syria. He and his fellow Christians were protected by the government, as were the Druse and other religious and ethnic minorities. He even sent me pictures of Easter processions in Damascus, both Catholic and Orthodox. Now he is working in Amman, Jordan, for his father’s firm. He is safe, his family is safe in Beirut, but his extended family lived in northern Syria, and cannot be contacted.

Syria was a good country until outside powers decided to attack Assad. The “Rebels” were financed by Saudi Arabia because Assad is an Alawite (part of Shia Islam) and he protected Christians and other religious minorities. His type of Islam is hated by the Saudi regime, the current “king” of Saudi Arabia has said that “One and a half billion Sunni are “tired” of Shia and want it gone”. That means that he wants Shia Muslims gone, which can only mean that he wants millions of Shia Muslims dead.

It is hard to tell exactly why Saudi Arabia poured so much money into the Syrian “rebel” cause. But Obama armed them, the diplomatic team murdered in Benghazi were shipping weapons from Gadaffi’s armouries to Syria.

The situation saddens me. A country has been destroyed, people have been driven into hiding, ancient churches and monasteries have been destroyed, and historical masterpieces leveled.