Who thinks that the Federal Reserve is federal and part of the government? Just like Federal Express is a private company, the Federal Reserve is also a private company. The name Federal has nothing to do with the government. No, the Federal Reserve is part of the same racket that this article talks about: a private central bank which coins our money. Not Congress, not the Treasury.
Take out a dollar bill and notice it says "Federal Reserve Note". In the commercial world a note means you owe money. IT IS A DEBT NOTE, not money. Who thinks the $36T in debt is real? It is as real as Federal Express is a real federal agency. CONGRESS IS FULL OF TRAITORS, who outsourced its power of the purse to a PRIVATE CENTRAL BANK. Under this system, that debt will only grow. Arguing over who increased the debt more is a DISTRACTION.
Our financial system is an illusion designed to keep you as a debt slave. To make the financial system real, the commercial entity 'USA, Inc' needs to be dissolved and a new government formed. When it is dissolved, the debt goes away. The coinage of money needs to be put back into the Treasury, backed by tangible assets. Lincoln was shot because he dared to issue Greenbacks, a currency issued by the Treasury. JFK was shot because he issued an EO that declared our money was to be backed by silver and that it was to be coined by the Treasury.
The Civil War didn't dissolve slavery. In 1871, Congress created another set of slaves: us instead of just African Americans, who went from one form of slavery to another. That is also when USA, Inc was created. Your state? It has a Dunn & Bradstreet number making it a corporation. How do you leave a corporation? Opt out. Quit, just like you would a job. It is not necessary to go full prepper, but it is necessary to be able to say 'No' to mandates, which are not laws. Laws are passed by a legislative body whom we the people authorize to rule us. Not administrative agencies telling you to get a gene therapy shot, or telling you to have your dog jabbed every year for a disease for which the dog has lifelong immunity or every three years for a disease that only exists (assuming it does) in the wild, not in fenced back yards!
History is full of lies, and now that the censorship has loosened, question and research everything you were told. It never ceases to amaze me how many lies we were told. It is almost like we are living in a hologram, except that the program isn't created by a programmer (although AI may be involved); it is created by the entertainment industry, the media, the education system and Wall St. It is enforced by the cartels that run the government, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Ag, and for awhile Big Tech. Note all have the word Big in them. To see why, one only has to look at the Covid Scam. Who survived? The Big companies, most of whom are global. We think it's competition. It's not. The system is designed to squash small businesses, because they decentralize the distribution channels and the supply chains. Big allows consolidation and when you have consolidation, you have control.
This is a heavy-duty layout of the 'Scaffolding' beneath the floorboards. You’re pointing to the same mechanism Erdmann describes: the shift of the 'Sovereign Right' to create money into private, corporate hands.
From my perspective as a sociologist, the most chilling part of what you’re saying is the 'USA, Inc.' concept—the idea that our states and agencies are essentially corporations with D&B numbers. It explains why, in the caregiving world, we are treated as 'unpaid assets' rather than citizens. The system doesn't see a woman caring for her husband; it sees a cost-saving line item in a massive, consolidated ledger.
Your point about 'Big' squashing the small is exactly what I see in the Medical-Industrial Complex. They’ve consolidated the 'distribution of care' so much that the individual has no choice but to participate in the 'Debt Note' economy just to stay alive.
Whether it’s the Federal Reserve or the 'Big Pharma' mandates you mentioned, it all points to the same truth: the system is designed for consolidation and control, not for the flourishing of the individual 'Sovereign.' Thanks for the reminder to look at the 'Long Title' of the acts that govern us.
....but it is necessary to be able to say 'No' to mandates....
Yes, you can say 'no' to all those things you've listed whenever you like - just be prepared to be jailed and cast out for your temerity. You have to be prepared for that - and worse..
Yeah, I've noticed the censorship seems to have loosened. Although in a particular way, few people I meet in real life admit to reading the newly available information. Why do you think the censorship has loosened?
This is a staggering "red pill" of a review. I stumbled onto this expecting a dry economic history, but what Dr. Erdmann is describing feels more like a 700-year forensic autopsy of power.
What intrigues me most is the idea that mercantilism never died—it just "re-headquartered." We’re taught to view the transition from Venice to London to the US as "progress," but Erdmann suggests it’s just the same extractive blueprint scaling up. The detail about the City of London being a "stateless command center" essentially running an offshore network that handles over half of global transactions is a chilling "glitch in the matrix" moment for anyone who thinks their national government is in charge.
I’m particularly floored by the "Boston Brahmin" section. To think that the pillars of American academia and philanthropy were built on the literal high-seas drug trade (opium) and piracy puts a very different lens on "Old Money" and the "Founding" myths we're fed.
It seems Erdmann isn't just writing history; he’s documenting the "Spiritual Infrastructure"—the belief that you can alchemically create money from nothing. It explains why our modern economy feels so detached from reality. This isn't a conspiracy theory; it’s a conspiracy of publicly filed facts. I’m definitely picking up the abridged version.
A great review of what sounds like a very valuable book. The City of London has definitely played a far more pernicious and crucial part in history than the court historians will ever admit. Does Mr. Erdmann do interviews?
The Boston opium connection is very interesting, these guys certainly got rich from something. Until John D Rockefeller discovered there was even more money to be made by selling kerosene to China and legal (prescription) drugs to America. It helps if you control the AMA and entire medical system, which of course the Rockerfellers did and do.
But I'm also wondering about the reputedly richest foreign family in China, the Sassoons, and their sidekicks the Kadoories, who are still rich and influential in Hong Kong today - in fact they own the power company there. These Baghdadi-Jewish mercantile dynasties moved seamlessly from the Middle East to India and thence to China riding on the back of the British Empire with trading monopolies which extended their wealth into the stratosphere. The Sassoons once lived in the most opulent mansion in Shanghai. Did they sell opium, or only textiles as claimed? I believe they were instrumental in creating HSBC, formerly the largest bank in the world. With money comes power. The Sassoons became British citizens and moved to country estates in England where guests at their dinner parties included King George, HG Wells, various Prime Ministers, and types like Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour. How are they connected to the Rothschilds, one wonders?
One thing is certain: the real power is invisible. The City of London is a key part of the puzzle.
David Sassoon was straight up a drug dealer and shipper from day one when he landed in Shanghai. Look into the history of that family and it becomes readily apparent the family, starting with David Sassoon, do not possess a soul given what they did to millions of people and destroyed countless families. They also were known for manipulating markets in real estate and other sectors in China just like City of London does to this day.
Disgusting vermin they are right down to their DNA.
Both books I found to be a detailed consolidation an enormous amount of historical data I have studied from different authors and angles for 40 years. I highly recommend them both.
One thing the books do with granular precision, is trace these lineages and their nefarious activities all the way back to Venice. It should be noted however, Venice was not the genesis of usury, nor its pathological psychosis to extract like a spider sucking its prey dry. Venice was merely a port along the historical timeline that stretches all the way back to ancient Sumerian time in the land of Kish, through Babylon, Rome and beyond.
This global pathogen has been a scourge on humanity for 8,500 years at minimum. The parasite in each of its historical iterations, adapts and becomes ever more sophisticated in hiding its existence and clever designs in pursuits of alchemy. Alchemy in ancient times comprised a centuries old quest with chemistry and physics where ordinary lead or other base metal, is transformed into gold. When they figured out eventually that it is not possible to do so, they subtly created an ingenious method to achieve their aims without all those pesky natural limits to chemistry and physics.
They simply created a system where currency could be created out of literally nothing, then use the power of the state to declare that it is money and the only 'real money' in the system they created. The next step was to enliven that system where ordinary human activity could be infinitely taxed and emboldened with tension, war and manufactured scarcity premiums. With that endless conveyor belt of extraction in place, those taxes and premiums bought gold in copious amounts.
Thereby creating an even more efficient form of their holy alchemy in that they create the system out of nothing, which extracts from every living human from birth to death and buys gold with essentially nothing but the stolen life energy of every soul on the planet.
Nice gig if you can get it. Perhaps this is the time in world history that humanity will set aside their differences, raise their consciousness and resolve to extinguish this sociopathic parasite root and branch from the human genome. Once and for all, kill it. Burn it to the ground. Scatter the ashes to the winds and for the first time in nearly ten millennia, pull freedom and sovereignty into the hands of ordinary humanity.
I wouldn't say that. It is apparent they had neither the tools nor the understanding to do it, neither is it likely to be economically rewarding, given the cost of the tools and understanding requisite, but I am pretty sure it can be done. I suspect presently that it would cost a lot less to mine Asteroid Psyche 16, reportedly the core of a shattered planet, with a value estimated to be between ~$1T - $10T today.
I will add that the pathological nature of usury and centralized institutional power is inherently self-limiting. I expect we are witnessing the penultimate apotheosis of that system today, as they inflict global economic collapse and destruction of national polities on humanity, which they intend to reduce the populations of the world to penury and utter desperation that they will offer to fix with bugpods, UBI, goyslop, and 15 minute prisons in exchange for utter subjugation to panoptic under the skin surveillance and management by AI per whatever social credit scheme they seek to deploy to create a manageable herd of humans they can exploit to their heart's content after stealing the wealth of the world.
I do not expect them to succeed at this, because of their narcissistic psychopathy that will cause them to cease posturing as allies as soon as they think their common interests are secure, and it's time to compete with one another for the ultimate overlordship they all believe they alone deserve. In the meantime, folks that actually understand real wealth is society and the company of good people acting in good faith to create goodwill to all good company, will seize the decentralized means of production suitable to their specific circumstances and enable them to themselves produce the goods and services necessary to their survival and to enjoy the blessings of civilization. As the lords of centralized parasitism destroy their powerbase and ravage one another to rule all, communities that mutually cooperate to create wealth and secure it will dramatically out compete less productive centralized industry, and eventually surmount the threats and hazards they face.
We are beginning to transcend a clinal boundary from the crude collective labor based centralized industry ruled by sybarites to the more productive distributed production of wealth and possession of it by folks that use that decentralized production of security to keep it. What comes next will be up to our posterity that merits their wealth and security by making it, but recent developments in security technology demonstrates that swarms of drones that cost ~$50k are competent to defeat ~$T carrier battle groups, and >$100 Manpads create nominal security from swarms of drones. The technological trend is clear, and reveals that decentralization of security first and foremost amongst industries out competes centralization, and this suggests the age of overlords is ending and will not return.
An eye-opening review, would love to be able to read the book, but guessing its not something our local library would buy! And pricewise way out of my reach :(
Who thinks that the Federal Reserve is federal and part of the government? Just like Federal Express is a private company, the Federal Reserve is also a private company. The name Federal has nothing to do with the government. No, the Federal Reserve is part of the same racket that this article talks about: a private central bank which coins our money. Not Congress, not the Treasury.
Take out a dollar bill and notice it says "Federal Reserve Note". In the commercial world a note means you owe money. IT IS A DEBT NOTE, not money. Who thinks the $36T in debt is real? It is as real as Federal Express is a real federal agency. CONGRESS IS FULL OF TRAITORS, who outsourced its power of the purse to a PRIVATE CENTRAL BANK. Under this system, that debt will only grow. Arguing over who increased the debt more is a DISTRACTION.
Our financial system is an illusion designed to keep you as a debt slave. To make the financial system real, the commercial entity 'USA, Inc' needs to be dissolved and a new government formed. When it is dissolved, the debt goes away. The coinage of money needs to be put back into the Treasury, backed by tangible assets. Lincoln was shot because he dared to issue Greenbacks, a currency issued by the Treasury. JFK was shot because he issued an EO that declared our money was to be backed by silver and that it was to be coined by the Treasury.
The Civil War didn't dissolve slavery. In 1871, Congress created another set of slaves: us instead of just African Americans, who went from one form of slavery to another. That is also when USA, Inc was created. Your state? It has a Dunn & Bradstreet number making it a corporation. How do you leave a corporation? Opt out. Quit, just like you would a job. It is not necessary to go full prepper, but it is necessary to be able to say 'No' to mandates, which are not laws. Laws are passed by a legislative body whom we the people authorize to rule us. Not administrative agencies telling you to get a gene therapy shot, or telling you to have your dog jabbed every year for a disease for which the dog has lifelong immunity or every three years for a disease that only exists (assuming it does) in the wild, not in fenced back yards!
History is full of lies, and now that the censorship has loosened, question and research everything you were told. It never ceases to amaze me how many lies we were told. It is almost like we are living in a hologram, except that the program isn't created by a programmer (although AI may be involved); it is created by the entertainment industry, the media, the education system and Wall St. It is enforced by the cartels that run the government, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Ag, and for awhile Big Tech. Note all have the word Big in them. To see why, one only has to look at the Covid Scam. Who survived? The Big companies, most of whom are global. We think it's competition. It's not. The system is designed to squash small businesses, because they decentralize the distribution channels and the supply chains. Big allows consolidation and when you have consolidation, you have control.
This is a heavy-duty layout of the 'Scaffolding' beneath the floorboards. You’re pointing to the same mechanism Erdmann describes: the shift of the 'Sovereign Right' to create money into private, corporate hands.
From my perspective as a sociologist, the most chilling part of what you’re saying is the 'USA, Inc.' concept—the idea that our states and agencies are essentially corporations with D&B numbers. It explains why, in the caregiving world, we are treated as 'unpaid assets' rather than citizens. The system doesn't see a woman caring for her husband; it sees a cost-saving line item in a massive, consolidated ledger.
Your point about 'Big' squashing the small is exactly what I see in the Medical-Industrial Complex. They’ve consolidated the 'distribution of care' so much that the individual has no choice but to participate in the 'Debt Note' economy just to stay alive.
Whether it’s the Federal Reserve or the 'Big Pharma' mandates you mentioned, it all points to the same truth: the system is designed for consolidation and control, not for the flourishing of the individual 'Sovereign.' Thanks for the reminder to look at the 'Long Title' of the acts that govern us.
....but it is necessary to be able to say 'No' to mandates....
Yes, you can say 'no' to all those things you've listed whenever you like - just be prepared to be jailed and cast out for your temerity. You have to be prepared for that - and worse..
Yeah, I've noticed the censorship seems to have loosened. Although in a particular way, few people I meet in real life admit to reading the newly available information. Why do you think the censorship has loosened?
very well stated, many good points, it all ties in as you noted , makes one wonder which reality is real
This is a staggering "red pill" of a review. I stumbled onto this expecting a dry economic history, but what Dr. Erdmann is describing feels more like a 700-year forensic autopsy of power.
What intrigues me most is the idea that mercantilism never died—it just "re-headquartered." We’re taught to view the transition from Venice to London to the US as "progress," but Erdmann suggests it’s just the same extractive blueprint scaling up. The detail about the City of London being a "stateless command center" essentially running an offshore network that handles over half of global transactions is a chilling "glitch in the matrix" moment for anyone who thinks their national government is in charge.
I’m particularly floored by the "Boston Brahmin" section. To think that the pillars of American academia and philanthropy were built on the literal high-seas drug trade (opium) and piracy puts a very different lens on "Old Money" and the "Founding" myths we're fed.
It seems Erdmann isn't just writing history; he’s documenting the "Spiritual Infrastructure"—the belief that you can alchemically create money from nothing. It explains why our modern economy feels so detached from reality. This isn't a conspiracy theory; it’s a conspiracy of publicly filed facts. I’m definitely picking up the abridged version.
A great review of what sounds like a very valuable book. The City of London has definitely played a far more pernicious and crucial part in history than the court historians will ever admit. Does Mr. Erdmann do interviews?
The Boston opium connection is very interesting, these guys certainly got rich from something. Until John D Rockefeller discovered there was even more money to be made by selling kerosene to China and legal (prescription) drugs to America. It helps if you control the AMA and entire medical system, which of course the Rockerfellers did and do.
But I'm also wondering about the reputedly richest foreign family in China, the Sassoons, and their sidekicks the Kadoories, who are still rich and influential in Hong Kong today - in fact they own the power company there. These Baghdadi-Jewish mercantile dynasties moved seamlessly from the Middle East to India and thence to China riding on the back of the British Empire with trading monopolies which extended their wealth into the stratosphere. The Sassoons once lived in the most opulent mansion in Shanghai. Did they sell opium, or only textiles as claimed? I believe they were instrumental in creating HSBC, formerly the largest bank in the world. With money comes power. The Sassoons became British citizens and moved to country estates in England where guests at their dinner parties included King George, HG Wells, various Prime Ministers, and types like Winston Churchill and Arthur Balfour. How are they connected to the Rothschilds, one wonders?
One thing is certain: the real power is invisible. The City of London is a key part of the puzzle.
David Sassoon was straight up a drug dealer and shipper from day one when he landed in Shanghai. Look into the history of that family and it becomes readily apparent the family, starting with David Sassoon, do not possess a soul given what they did to millions of people and destroyed countless families. They also were known for manipulating markets in real estate and other sectors in China just like City of London does to this day.
Disgusting vermin they are right down to their DNA.
Where was he getting the opium from? The BEIC? Who were their owners and directors?
Whoa!
This looks very appealing. Thanks
Excellent summary.
Both books I found to be a detailed consolidation an enormous amount of historical data I have studied from different authors and angles for 40 years. I highly recommend them both.
One thing the books do with granular precision, is trace these lineages and their nefarious activities all the way back to Venice. It should be noted however, Venice was not the genesis of usury, nor its pathological psychosis to extract like a spider sucking its prey dry. Venice was merely a port along the historical timeline that stretches all the way back to ancient Sumerian time in the land of Kish, through Babylon, Rome and beyond.
This global pathogen has been a scourge on humanity for 8,500 years at minimum. The parasite in each of its historical iterations, adapts and becomes ever more sophisticated in hiding its existence and clever designs in pursuits of alchemy. Alchemy in ancient times comprised a centuries old quest with chemistry and physics where ordinary lead or other base metal, is transformed into gold. When they figured out eventually that it is not possible to do so, they subtly created an ingenious method to achieve their aims without all those pesky natural limits to chemistry and physics.
They simply created a system where currency could be created out of literally nothing, then use the power of the state to declare that it is money and the only 'real money' in the system they created. The next step was to enliven that system where ordinary human activity could be infinitely taxed and emboldened with tension, war and manufactured scarcity premiums. With that endless conveyor belt of extraction in place, those taxes and premiums bought gold in copious amounts.
Thereby creating an even more efficient form of their holy alchemy in that they create the system out of nothing, which extracts from every living human from birth to death and buys gold with essentially nothing but the stolen life energy of every soul on the planet.
Nice gig if you can get it. Perhaps this is the time in world history that humanity will set aside their differences, raise their consciousness and resolve to extinguish this sociopathic parasite root and branch from the human genome. Once and for all, kill it. Burn it to the ground. Scatter the ashes to the winds and for the first time in nearly ten millennia, pull freedom and sovereignty into the hands of ordinary humanity.
"...it is not possible to do so..."
I wouldn't say that. It is apparent they had neither the tools nor the understanding to do it, neither is it likely to be economically rewarding, given the cost of the tools and understanding requisite, but I am pretty sure it can be done. I suspect presently that it would cost a lot less to mine Asteroid Psyche 16, reportedly the core of a shattered planet, with a value estimated to be between ~$1T - $10T today.
I will add that the pathological nature of usury and centralized institutional power is inherently self-limiting. I expect we are witnessing the penultimate apotheosis of that system today, as they inflict global economic collapse and destruction of national polities on humanity, which they intend to reduce the populations of the world to penury and utter desperation that they will offer to fix with bugpods, UBI, goyslop, and 15 minute prisons in exchange for utter subjugation to panoptic under the skin surveillance and management by AI per whatever social credit scheme they seek to deploy to create a manageable herd of humans they can exploit to their heart's content after stealing the wealth of the world.
I do not expect them to succeed at this, because of their narcissistic psychopathy that will cause them to cease posturing as allies as soon as they think their common interests are secure, and it's time to compete with one another for the ultimate overlordship they all believe they alone deserve. In the meantime, folks that actually understand real wealth is society and the company of good people acting in good faith to create goodwill to all good company, will seize the decentralized means of production suitable to their specific circumstances and enable them to themselves produce the goods and services necessary to their survival and to enjoy the blessings of civilization. As the lords of centralized parasitism destroy their powerbase and ravage one another to rule all, communities that mutually cooperate to create wealth and secure it will dramatically out compete less productive centralized industry, and eventually surmount the threats and hazards they face.
We are beginning to transcend a clinal boundary from the crude collective labor based centralized industry ruled by sybarites to the more productive distributed production of wealth and possession of it by folks that use that decentralized production of security to keep it. What comes next will be up to our posterity that merits their wealth and security by making it, but recent developments in security technology demonstrates that swarms of drones that cost ~$50k are competent to defeat ~$T carrier battle groups, and >$100 Manpads create nominal security from swarms of drones. The technological trend is clear, and reveals that decentralization of security first and foremost amongst industries out competes centralization, and this suggests the age of overlords is ending and will not return.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17zpks6_R59H0iXJaGkTrtp1SzIFFAQtY
The future is now, and we old men should understand it.
The Financial Times mentioned in the last paragraph is, of course, part of the system.
How long before the likes of Substack are taken away?
An eye-opening review, would love to be able to read the book, but guessing its not something our local library would buy! And pricewise way out of my reach :(