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Book Review: The Creature from Jekyll Island

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A second look at the Federal Reserve
by G. Edward Griffin
Review by Brian R. Wright

1994, American Media , 601 pages

Reposting of original review, 8/29/07.

A friend of mine—who is one of those rare fellows who actually worries about the national debt (which according to this link is ~$9 trillion and counting… fast)—laid Creature on me last time we broke bread together.  In this tome, author Edward Griffin delivers a devastating expose on the background, execution, and remedies to the Federal Reserve Banking system (FRBS).

The system, which amounts to a national bank under control of (surprise) the money interests who dominate the government of the United States, was rather sneakily enacted into law by Congress just before Christmas recess in 1913.  Creature shows how this surreptitious meeting on Jekyll Island, a private resort off the coast of Georgia owned by J.P. Morgan and associates, led to the FRBS and its seemingly unlimited license to steal continuously from the productive class.

The well-dressed thieves on the inside track were as follows:

  • Nelson W. Aldrich, Republican Whip in the Senate, chairman of the National Monetary Commission, business associate of J.P. Morgan, father-in-law to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
  • Abraham Pitt Andrew, Assistant Secretary to the United States Treasury
  • Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank of New York, the most powerful of the banks at that time, representing William Rockefeller and the international investment banking house of Kuhn, Loeb, and Company
  • Henry P. Davison, senior partner of the J.P. Morgan Company
  • Charles D. Norton, president of J.P. Morgan’s First National Bank of New York
  • Benjamin Strong, head of J.P. Morgan’s Bankers Trust Company
  • Paul M. Warburg, a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Company, a representative of the Rothschild banking dynasty in England and France, and brother to Max Warburg who was head of the Warburg banking consortium in Germany and the Netherlands

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Book Review: Assault on the Liberty (1979)

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The true story of the Israeli attack on an American intelligence ship
By James M. Ennes, Jr. (Fourth edition, Raintree, 2013)
Reviewed by Brian R. Wright

This is the second full book[1] I’ve read since coming into the fray of justice for the USS Liberty—justice (and recognition) for its victims and justice (and retribution) for its perpetrators—only recently. [I became aware in March or April of this year, 2017, that the 50th anniversary of the deliberate, unprovoked attack on the ship by the Israeli armed forces on June 8, 1967 was coming right up. I kicked myself for never adequately paying attention to the reality of this horrific war crime against American servicemen and resolved to catch up and pitch in to the cause.]

I’ve gotten to the point of having actually made a presentation to my local Oakland County, Michi-gan, Campaign for Liberty group. Video here courtesy John Irvine productions. [The online pdf of the presentation from which you may derive many useful links for further research is located here.] Further, from June 8-10, 2017, I attended the 50th anniversary event in Norfolk, Virginia, meeting several of the survivors and other supporters. I am working on a followup presentation to the C4L group, on that event, to which I shall provide links, when finished.

Assault is the first and, arguably, the most authoritative of the books on what happened that fateful day. The Liberty was an intelligence gathering ship, with a crew of 294 total, of which a major portion was devoted to secret or at least confidential intelligence work, mainly communications. Ennes was higher-level officer on the intelligence side, who had important line responsibilities for ship personnel and navigation. He was seriously injured during the initial strafing of the Liberty, and drew most of his information from extensive interviews with officers and crew, also from research with official agencies, libraries, and other public sources. Continue reading →

Book Review: Attack on the Liberty (2009)

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The untold story of the Israel’s deadly 1967 assault on a US spy ship
By James Scott, Reviewed by Brian R. Wright

From the Amazon product description:

“Notorious incident: In 1967 the spy ship USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats in international waters during the Six-Day War. Thirty-four sailors were killed and more than 170 wounded, many critically. Israel claimed mistaken identity, which a U.S. naval court of inquiry confirmed, but that explanation is contradicted by the facts of the case.

“Based on new revelations: James Scott has interviewed Liberty survivors, senior U.S. political and intelligence officials, and examined newly declassified documents in Israel and the United States to write this comprehensive, dramatic account. He reveals that officers in Israel’s chain of command were aware of the Liberty’ s identity and shows how events in Vietnam prompted the American government to deemphasize the attack despite widespread disbelief of Israel’s story.

“The son of an attack survivor: Scott’s father, John, was an officer and engineer aboard the Liberty who was awarded the Silver Star for helping to save the ship from sinking.”

Review

I very much appreciate Scott’s book, and though I haven’t yet read all of the key books about the USS Liberty (Liberty), it is certainly among the best written, Scott’s journalism credentials show—Journalist of the Year per South Carolina Press Association in 2003. His descriptive prose on the attacks themselves shines: Continue reading →

Book Review: A.D. After Disclosure (2012)

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When the government finally reveals the truth about alien contact
by Richard M. Dolan and Bryce Zabel

Originally posted, May 2013.

A few years ago I had been made aware, from someone further ‘out on the edge’ of the truth movement, of something called the Disclosure Project and a gentleman named Dr. Steven Greer. I checked out the Project’s Website back when, and made a mental note to follow up in a few years. At first, it was a little too much for me—seeming to challenge on the one hand the law of conservation of energy (systems that produce more energy than they consume) and on the other the existence of intelligent beings besides humans. I went about my business, founded this Coffee Coaster Website, did some writing, and generally promoted the liberty and truth causes, leaving the whole realm of government secrecy about energy and about other beings to Greer and the Disclosure minions.

Until six months ago a 9/11 truther friend gave me a DVD of Richard Dolan’s presentation to an international conference in Amsterdam, which speculated on the existence of a secret space program along with a breakaway civilization. After that, let’s just say I was no longer sitting on the fence wrt other intelligent beings (OIBs)[1]. Dolan made three strong points: Continue reading →

Book Review: The Terror Conspiracy (2006)

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Deception, 9/11, and the loss of liberty… by Jim Marrs
Review by Brian Wright

terror_conspiracyA highly informative book but as with all such exposés, you need to be prepared for your ‘Tory’ friends to pooh pooh the central argument and the mountainous evidence adduced for it. [Which to those of us in the Truth and Freedom Movement is grist to the mill of our demonstration of mind control by those in power.] What distinguishes The Terror Conspiracy from other tracts concerned about 9/11 and the crimes of the Ownership Class is the more general theme that 9/11 was a key part of a broader conspiracy of false-flag terror designed to put the world, and Americans, in particular, under the heel of that would-be tyrannical global financial oligarchy.

Jim Marrs is the author of Crossfire, reviewed in the Coffee Coaster a few weeks ago. That book shows that JFK was certainly not murdered by a lone assassin, based on evidence found and evidence destroyed or corrupted. Rather by a conspiracy of some number of men and agencies who had reason to kill the president. These men/agencies sat at the peak of the military/intelligence power apparatus… and still do.

Crossfire and The Terror Conspiracy (TTC)—my edition was the first (2006), so readers should definitely upgrade to the more recent edition (2011)—are vital links in the knowledge chain that will one day bring down the insidious ‘Unspeakable’ written about so cleanly by James Douglass, also in connection with the JFK assassination. TTC does focus on the Big Mama of crimes against humanity, 9/11, and lays out what has come to be the elemental consensus in the Truth community about the problems with the official conspiracy theory:[1] Continue reading →

The Bad War (2d edition, 2017)

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The truth never told about World War 2 (10/10)
by MS King (reviewed by Brian R. Wright)

The turning point book of the century?

One thing I can say right off the bat, if you give this (what looks like a coffee table book) to your friends next Christmas—unfortunately the printed book does not seem to be available with a color interior (yet)—be prepared for an upheaval in your relationships with those friends. Mike King’s book will radically change the way you look at international affairs, forever… even if you find his facts and points of view disagreeable. I did not. Indeed, I found the gist of what he says inspirational and restorative— though I do have some significant caveats. [Mainly these have to do with what appear to be different ideology: King being more comfortable with the nation-state life form and myself having decided that we the people have been victims of nationalism of any kind long enough. (Though the US Constitution and First Principles of the Declaration I deem sacred enough to accede to governments properly confined by them… so long as people’s independent grand juries are invoked to keep them honest.)]

The positives

Lately, I’m coming to find this iconic statement by the Father of Modern State Propaganda, Edward Bernays, to be pertinent across the whole of roughly the previous 170 years of so-called Western Civilization:

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who run this unseen mechanism constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country.” (Propaganda, 1928)

In other words, we’ve been lied to from infancy, or at the very minimum, kindergarten. By whom? Well, the Men of the Power Sickness, of course (my generic term), or ‘the DIPs (Dominant Inbred Psychopaths),’ to use a more exact phrase from Islamic scholar and commentator on MOPS/DIPs false-flag terror acts, Dr. Kevin Barrett. Author King for the first time reveals to me just how deep and pervasive the cultural brainwashing has gone; I had always held as a basic premise the Main Construct (from the Bad War sales page): Continue reading →

Book Review: Against Our Better Judgment

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How the US was used to create Israel
by Alison Weir

JugdmentThis marvelous little book came my way via a major Detroit-area 9/11 truth activist, Dick Kennedy, who has also kept me up to speed on other serious research by reputable, established journalists and writers on Israel’s role in the global pathocracy. [Specifically, Dick referred me to the courageous book Solving 9/11: The deception that changed the world, by Christopher Bollyn.] From Bollyn and several other sources, no doubt exists whatsoever that top Israeli military and intelligence officials participated in the early planning, detailed preparations, and execution of the 9/11 attacks—including the coverup. Benjamin Netanyahu, current premier of Israel, even said it was a good thing for Israel that the 911 attacks occurred. (!)

Bollyn and now Ms. Weir provide abundant ammunition to show why good ol’ Ben would say such a thing: Israel does benefit from such acts of terrorism because the Zionist Israeli state—like its apparent US subordinate today—is a terrorist syndicate, and has been from the gitgo. It goes back to the beginnings of Zionism in the latter half of the 19th century, which had a central goal of establishing a Jewish state somewhere in the world. Led by a European journalist named Theodor Herzl, the movement coalesced in the First Zionist Congress, in Basel, Switzerland in 1897, and the World Zionist Organization.

Several other locations for the geographic artifice were considered—Argentina, Uganda, Cyprus, even Galveston Island in Texas—but the WZO eventually decided on Palestine… “even though Palestine was already inhabited by a population that was 93-96% non-Jewish.” It was recognized by early Zionists that the United States would be a critical enabler of their objectives. At the advent of the 20th century the large majority of Jewish Americans were not Zionists, and many vigorously opposed Zionism for, among other reasons,  being “a foreign, un-American, racist, and separatist phenomenon.” Continue reading →