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They may have some points; however other key points read like conspiracy theory nuts
This foolishness against fractional reserve banking needs to be crushed. That's Ron Paul-tard level craziness. Which brings up the point, why is the extreme right, the so called "libertarians" and other utopians all coming up with this lunacy at once?
Now if your goal is to make the people with money the owners of all property of all descriptions, then extreme hard money may make sense. If you want a successful economy, it does not.
Fractional reserve banking is not some new thing in the world being perpetrated as a fraud in the modern age. It was sanctioned by the kings of England 400 years ago. It was probably going on in Itally a couple centuries before that. It could have begun a 1000 years ago in Europe.
We would not today be the people we are without it.
The entire history of the industrial and capitalist part of world history is inexorably tied together with FRB. It made the modern era possible.
So, yeah, banks invent money out of thin air. What of it? They were doing so when Columbus discovered the Americas. And possibly when the Vikings did also.
Why are people suddenly so upset over it now?
They use only a few sources to back up ALL their claims: a few radical books
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- By Nicolas Holzapfel
- Dec. 19, 2009
Partly true, but the connections they draw between their different claims are fantastical
http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=52192 says: some things are certainly true, and most have a basis of truth. Theonly problem is how they connect everything together... that's wheretheir "disturbed" minds (or should I say "beautiful" minds ?) are elaborating too much. Where they cross the border between matter of facts and theories.
- By Nicolas Holzapfel
- Dec. 19, 2009
The Zeitgeist Movement and their videos are a huge pack of lies and misrepresentations
I must admit to watching both the Zeitgeist movies and they definitly influenced my world view. Though I always had some reservations in regards to the information provided in the films on a whole I felt they raised a lot of valid points. That is until I started doing some research into exactly what was being stated. I quickly found a number of sites that raised the same questions I had and even a few that claimed to outright debunk everything stated as a lie. (I tried to find these sites again but lack the time or desire to dig them all up. I did find one I had bookmarked. http://www.conspiracyscience.com/articles/zeitgeist/).
- By Rodashar
- Dec. 19, 2009
