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Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story — which it really is. But it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island will change the way you view the world, politics, and money. Your world view will definitely change. You'll never trust a politician again — or a banker.
Customer Reviews:
The Hobo Philosopher.......2007-10-02
This book is not main stream. Its critics would probably call it the radical theories of a "gold bug". A more "establishment" answer to the criticisms brought up in this book can be found in Galbraith's - Money, From Whence It Came and Where It Went.
This book is structured very well. It is easy to read and very persuasive but if you are like me, after you finish this book you will have more questions than you have answers.
The book makes some good points on the other hand it promotes many fantasies.
Mr. Griffin could be right on many things but his answers for the most part would not make things better - but worse in my opinion.
The solution to the MONEY problem are more complicated than the answers that are supplied here. This book is a good book to buy and to read but one must read it very critically - very critically.
Fearfully Factual - Wholly Horrific.......2007-04-22
If you, like me, believe that the truth doesn't always makes sense, but the WHOLE TRUTH usually does, then you will appreciate and value this well researched, carefully written work by G.E. Griffin. Even so, this is just the tip of a much bigger iceberg, but for anyone who wants to know why the working class has to work so hard, just to go backwards, you will find out a very definitive answer in this book. This book is a must have for any TRUTH SEEKER fighting for facts in an age of profiteering deceipt. If you are new to economics, please read "Whatever Happened To Penny Candy" by Richard J. Maybury and Jane A. Williams first and you will know more than than most politicians. Griffins other book, "A World Without Cancer" is equally as researched, informative, and important.
Even a beginner can understand.......2007-04-04
When I first read this book - I had only just begun looking at the banking system and how it worked. My knowledge extended a bit past CNBC - but not much. I found it understandable and enjoyable. Since my original read (about 3 years ago) I have read it again and bought a second copy to loan out - I don't want to lose my original. I'm not sure Joe Average could simply pick it up and be enthralled, but if you have an interest in the banking system - this is a great book - even if you have little background in the subject.
The Matrix .......2007-03-17
AFTER READING THIS BOOK YOU WILL HEAR DISCUSSIONS ON TALK SHOWS, ARTICLES IN THE PAPERS AND YOU'LL LISTEN TO THE RHETORIC BANTERED BACK AND FORTH AMONG PEOPLES TRYING TO GRASP "WHY THINGS ARE HAPPENING THE WAY THEY ARE". WHY DO BANKS GET INVOLVED IN APPROVING HOME LOANS ON OVER VALUED PROPERTY...KNOWING FORECLOSURES WILL SOON SKYROCKET? WHY DOES THE US SELL WEAPON TECHONOLOGY TO COUNTRIES THAT, WE CITIZENS ARE TOLD, ARE PROBLEM COUNTRIES? WHY HAS THE CIA TRAINED FOREIGN BORN INDIVIDUALS, SUCH AS, BIN LADEN AND OTHERS KNOWING FULL WELL WHAT THEY ARE ALL ABOUT? THE MEDIA REPORTS EVENTS AND WE ASSUME THAT IT IS TRUE...THAT IT REPRESENTS REALITY. BUT, THIS BOOK WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON. THEN YOU WILL REALIZE HOW FOOLISH WE ARE TO LIVE IN THIS "WORLD OF MAKE BELIEVE" THAT THE MEDIA HAS CREATED FOR US.
Should be required reading.......2007-03-06
You can read the other reviews for synopsis and overviews. This is a must read and should be required reading for all Americans. It is a well researched and footnoted exposition on the Federal Reserve and far more. Griffin goes into fascinating asides regarding the origins of money and banking and the ways that bankers have instigated wars while supporting both sides. This book should be of great interest to those who enjoy either history, finance, foreign affairs, mystery or politics and answers many questions as to why the "world" is as it is today. The first 50 pages are a little slow and then it reads like a detective novel. It could even be argued that it's one's duty to read this book.
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Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait!
You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story - which it really is. But it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity.
Creature from Jekyll Island is a "must read." Your world view will definitely change. You'll never trust a politician again - or a banker.
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Fascinating, albeit slanted.......2007-10-05
Griffin's work here in exposing the banking cartel is truly a fascinating read, but I am left wondering about the truths of many of his assertions. The author writes with a clearly anti-socialist, pro-libertarian bias, and in at least a few examples completely distorts truths to make his point.
In one example, he maintains that Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist, quoting Lincoln from a campaign speech where he states he has never been, and never will be in favor of equality of the white and black races. Griffin fails to point out, however, that this speech was made in a southern state, and only weeks prior Lincoln says the opposite in a speech in the North. See Zinn's 'A Peoples History' for exact details.
The clearest text on economics, particularly, banking ever written .......2007-08-29
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 men came to the island in November of 1910 courtesy of Aldrich's splendiferous private railway car; every effort was made to conceal their identities and the nature of their business. News did not leak until 1916 when a young financial reporter for Leslie's Weekly, B.C. Forbes (who later founded Forbes Magazine) wrote a story about the meeting... approvingly.
Griffin lays out the objectives of these less-than-magnificent seven straightforwardly, then, what follows is history, as they say. And "history" should be the middle name of Griffin's fascinating book, which is largely a compendium of how the American and world economies developed from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Griffin makes everything so crystal clear, even I can comprehend it. (I can honestly assert that finally, after all the books I've read over the years on money and banking, I truly understand how the federales create money out of thin air.)
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The Bankers Secrets Revealed.......2007-08-12
I first read this book back in 1998. I just got done re-reading it because I work in the financial industry and I wanted to re-arm myself with some good information to advise my clients about. As I write this Sunday 8/12/07, we have seen this Fed spring into action the last week just as Mr. Griffin explained they would when the s**t is hitting the fan. They created $38 billion out of thin air to bail out the hedge funds and institutions with corrosive sub prime mortgage bonds on their books. We are starting to see the alchemy of modern finance come apart at the seams.
I also loved this book because it reads like history book. This country is in bad shape because of central bank planning. It's time to get back to sound money like the founders stipulated in the Constitution. Vote for Ron Paul for President.
Overwrought.......2007-06-30
This author obviously has an agenda. He attaches way too much intelligence to 'conspirators', as if they were the devil incarnate. While a lot of the information and the quotes were interesting, the overwrought tone of the book diminishes its value in my eyes. He borders on sounding like he's raving.
The part about future bank runs was hilarious. How many people keep significant amounts of savings in a bank any longer? How many Americans actually have any savings? A bank run in the 21st century? Ridiculous!
Disaster for bankers.......2007-06-06
If the information contained in this book gets into the hands of too many people, this could destroy the money monopoly machine owned by the Rothchild family, the Queen of England et al.
It could all come tumbling down for these fine people - what would they do?
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This is a survey of recent developments in the field of cointegration, which links long run components of a pair or of a group of series. It can then be used to discuss some types of equilibrium and to introduce them into time-series models in a fairly uncontroversial way. The idea was introduced in the early 1980s and has generated much interest since then amongst econometricians and macroeconomists. The authors discuss the basic ideas in their introduction, and the final chapters review the most recent developments in the field in a non-technical way that will enable economists with some training in modern econometrics to understand and appreciate these developments.
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on June 22, 1993. The length of the article is 543 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Economic Theories in China, 1979-1988.
Author: Nina Halpern
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Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1993
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Jeff Seiple
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A short, funny book!!.......2007-09-17
This book was great. I got it as a gift and it kept me entertained for hours. I would suggest this book for anyone who wants a quick read that will give them lots of laughs.
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The ultimate reference guide to the biggest band in the world goes from strength to strength. U2 continued their worldwide success, completing the massive Elevation tour culminating in their unprecedented triumph at the 2002 Grammy awards. Compiler Mark Chatterton has continued to assemble the most exhaustive U2 database including: Singles, Albums, CDs, Videos and DVDs, Concert List-ings, Solo Appearances, Band Members, Associates and Collaborators and much, much more . . .
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- Don't Waste Your Time
- Hope he's wrong
- Interesting, but vague
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Nostradamus and the Millennium: What May Be Coming
Perry Kane
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It is Summer 2002. Iran has troops overrunning the Middle-east; chemical weapons are exploding in Paris, and a nuclear bomb is detonated at New York's Kennedy Airport. All this was predicted by Sixteenth century French prophet Michel de Nostradamus. The book opens with a brief review of Nostradamus' successful past predictions: the arrival of the first two "antichrists," Napoleon and Hitler; the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, and recent events including AIDS, the Gulf War, and the death of Princess Diana. What follows are Nostradamus' warnings for the future, during and after the Millennium, that he hoped the world would heed and prepare for, including a cataclysmic earthquake for Los Angeles, and devastating droughts, record heatwaves and flooding in Europe. This coincides with major political upheavals: the deaths of Bill Clinton and Saddam Hussein, and the arrival of the "third antichrist" in Iran, who reigns for 27 years and starts the third world war. There is also extensive analysis of the war itself: chemical weapons attacks on France; an invasion of Europe by Islamic fundamentalists, and the destruction of New York; all of which occur simultaneously, throwing the United States on a prolonged military and economic defensive. Once the U.S. and allies are in position to counterattack, they drive the Islamists out of Europe but it is a protracted struggle. The book concludes with the assassination of the antichrist in a coup, and the ending of the war by the victorious United States. There follows a glorious time of peace that Nostradamus envisions for the world after the war.
Customer Reviews:
Nothing to write home about.......2002-07-01
It is a short read. Not much detail here. He starts with the text already translated and that is a disappointment. It seems that most of the real discussion involves the original text.
With that said, most readers will not want to spend days learning French, Latin and other languages to be able to read the quatrains. So the average reader may enjoy this quick and dirty examination of Nostradamus and his predictions. Consider it a beach read.
Nothing to write home about.......2002-07-01
It is a short read. Not much detail here. He starts with the text already translated and that is a disappointment. It seems that most of the real discussion involves the original text.
With that said, most readers will not want to spend days learning French, Latin and other languages to be able to read the quatrains. So the average reader may enjoy this quick and dirty examination of Nostradamus and his predictions. Consider it a beach read.
Don't Waste Your Time.......2002-03-05
I've rated this badly researched and written tome a 'one' for at least providing more than a few good laughs.
It's bad enough that Kane's grasp of near-east and middle eastern history, astronomy, and nearly every other topic, including geography, Greek, Latin, Mythology, Kabbalah, ancient history, spiritual movements, the Papacy, and all things 'Persia' and 'China'and 'Tam' are woefully inadequate for the task he's undertaken. But his obvious grasp of recent and current global events and political leaders is downright laughable. He seems oblivious to these: the true identity of Saddam's son Uday, being groomed to succeed his father; that our current Pres. Bubba and Russia's Pres. Putin are mentioned prominently - and not as 'victors'; that the widespread devastation coming to U.S. cities (not French ones) is described all too well; that Khaddafi's son, with the blessing of his father, has begun a major reproachment with the west that is succeeding and will change the face of Libya; that an army attempting to invade and attack Turkey by crossing the mtns. from Armenia would lose half it's men and equipment, i.e. commit military suicide; that the 'two rivers' is a recurring theme which, in terms of current and post-2002 events, relates directly to the Tigris and Euphrates; that the man in the 'blue turban' is neither Iraqi nor Iranian; that the so-called Antichrist isn't an 'Islamist', but quite the opposite. The list of what Kane misses and fails to grasp goes on and on and on.
The fact that he ends nearly every Line 4 quatrain 'interpretation' with "This part remains a mystery..." should provide readers with a major 'clue' regarding Kane's lack of knowledge, depth, and understanding of all the subjects related to this material, since the Line 4 contents often provide the most telling and important imformation necessary for interpreting the quatrains. That their contents remain 'obscure' to him, given his lack of classical education, insight, and knowledge, isn't surprising.
The glowing praise given this book by others astonishes me in light of the fact that nearly a third of all the quatrains listed - supposedly in chronological order - occurred many years before its publication - some hundreds of years ago, others within the two decades preceeding its writing. His Amero-ccentric views (including the identity of 'the victor')are patently absurd and his assertions on nearly every point - from dating methodologies to Iran to the Antichrist - are dead wrong. His insistence that Nostradamus wrote heavily about the fate of 'his beloved France' reveals Kane's failure to understand one of most crucial and important of devices used by Nostradamus - that of using astronomical information and the names of cities as a clue to locating corresponding places in latitude and time elsewhere which were unnamed (or ungiven) in his time (such as Denver, the Rockie Mtns., Mtn. St. Helena, Chernobyl, etc.) - and makes this book nothing short of a joke. That he lacked even the seriousness of purpose in this endeavor to educate himself concerning astronomy, especially regarding the dates of the planetary conjunctions and alignments given with respect to their visibity from any given location of earth, speaks for itself. Even what little information in that regard he bothered to glean from others is incorrect. Instead, he chooses only the most obvious information to impart, as in Nostradamus clearly spelling out the future destruction of Rome and the Vatican. Kane breathlessly treats his 'discovery' of this nugget as though he's single-handed discovered Eldorado!
A great deal more education, observation, and research prior to attempting this tome would have served Mr. Kane well. I suggest that even those just looking to understand Nostradamus' work better would do well to look elsewhere (John Hogue, for starters) for enlightenment, since it can't be found in the pages of this book. I consider the time and money spent on this book wasted and have only spent this much time and effort writing this review it in hopes of helping others to avoid wasting their time and money as well.
Hope he's wrong.......2001-11-21
Very interesting read. Perry Kane interpretations seem to be very clever but some have been proven wrong. Still an interesting read on Nostradamus. Hopefully, our future won't end which is due for sometime next spring.
Interesting, but vague.......2001-11-15
There are some impressive predictions in this book, interspersed with erroneous ones.
It seems to me that the quatrains of Nostradamus can be so vague that they can be used to predict almost anything. They are also difficult to put in chronological order.
This book was written in 1999. The author wrongly predicted the untimely death of Bill Clinton and the ascension of Gore to the presidency at the start of the millennium. Although Kane does make many references to the beginning of an Islamist war, he fingers Iran as the culprit, when Shiite Iran is one of the only Middle Eastern countries who is hostile to the Sunni fundamentalists.
One impressively interpreted quatrain is:
"Pestilences passed, the world becomes smaller
For a long time lands will be inhabited peacefully
People will cross through the skies, safely, over land and seas
Then wars will start again."
Kane says that this quatrain deals with the new millennium. The attacks of September 11 have indeed brought the safe crossings to a halt.
Most impressively, Kane says about a particular quatrain dealing with World War III: "I wonder if the Arab prince in line 1 is the notorious Saudi Osama Bin Laden; a billionaire who funds Islamic fundamentalist groups....(and who is known to his followers as the "Prince of Terror".
So the reader must judge for him/herself.
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- Holistic Managerial Perspective
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Radio Station Operations: Management and Employee Perspectives (Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication)
Lewis B. O'Donnell ,
Carl Hausman , and
Philip Benoit
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Holistic Managerial Perspective.......2004-02-28
This book provides an overview of the daily operations among the various positions in radio stations. They talk about the business aspect of a station's operations. All of this is introduced in the beginning with a discussion of the history of the medium. The charts and graphs are particularly helpful in establishing time contexts.
Programming is the second key topic covered. In the third chapter, attention focuses on how television changed radio's content. In the fourth chapter the various departmental responsibilities are discussed. This book is well written and documented. It is quite effective in giving an overview of the industry.
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Wake up your Web site with this informative, easy-to-use reference on Dreamweaver. Follow examples and tutorials to create Web page basics such as adding text, creating hyperlinks, and HTML coding. Once you’re familiar with Dreamweaver, you’ll be ready to learn about and implement style sheets, forms, frames, layers, and even programming dynamic pages.
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Not for Macintosh Users.......2005-02-06
I'm sure I'll get slammed for giving this book two stars, but here's why:
"How to Do Everything with Dreamweaver MX 2004" covers only half of what the other books do:
It states that because the Macintosh and Windows interfaces are different in Dreamweaver, the Macintosh platform is not covered. I know that a lot of Web design is done on PCs, but the Macs also have plenty of users. If other books can cover both topics without problems, why can't this author? I can't believe that he didn't have access to both the PC and the Mac platforms. I hope it's not fear of something new and different. That leaves me with other reasons that I cannot post due to libel laws.
By not covering both platforms, the book is useless to Macintosh users because if the interfaces are extremely different, than Mac users are stuck trying to fumble around to figure out why their menus don't match the instructions in the book. Nothing is more frustrating than a training manual that instructs you to click on a button that's in the screen shot but isn't on your computer.
Both platforms should have been covered. It's really as simple as that.
If not, the book should have clearly been marked as "Windows" or "Windows only."
I wouldn't have purchased the book had it indicated Windows only on the cover or the spine or the back or the first text page. Instead it's on the Introduction page, which I generally avoid reading as most typically just an author's own hype for his or her own book or books or degrees or accomplishments, etc., or it fills in the history of the program--all good to know, but not required reading to understand the rest of the book. While that's not hiding the fact exactly, it isn't placing in any of the numerous places buyers generally look to find such information. (We generally look there because that's where we expect it to be-on the front for all to see, not hidden on a page that isn't essential to the book.)
Point is: Don't buy this book if you're a Macintosh user. I'm returning it after owning it for only four hours.
P.S. In case you're wondering why I feel justified in my criticism, I'm a technical writer and editor.
Good.......2004-06-25
Being a relative beginner to Dreamweaver I found Meadhra's book quite helpful. Recommended.
A Very Good Reference.......2004-05-03
This is a good second book to have in your Dreamweaver arsenal. I say second, because it assumes you already know a little about the program, though in the intro the author states that it's for the beginner, I don't believe that's so. If you're just starting I would recommend the Dreamweaver MX 2004 book by Garo Green, however there is a lot of stuff in this book you won't find in Mr. Green's. Once you get in the program, this book will be a handy tool to have on hand. I use it kind of like a reference book. If you've already mastered the basics of the program, than this is a book I'm sure you'll find useful. I know I do.
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