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& REVIEWS THE WEB OF DEBT: The Shocking called "tequila trap": wooed by foreign Truth About Our Money System loans and investment, they then open up by Ellen Hodgson Brown, JD their currencies to speculative manipulation. Third Millennium Press, USA, 2007 We need to "beat the robber barons at their ISBN 0-9795608-0-4 (510pp tpb) own game", says Brown, by replacing their Available: http:/www.webofdebt.com; banking monopoly with a freely flowing www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk Public money supply to restore national sov- os Angeles—based attorney specialising ereignty. Her prescription can be written i civil litigation, Ellen Brown, JD, is internationally to liquidate unfair and the author/co-author of 11 books, most of repressive Third World debt with "the click which deal with health issues. Now, in Web of 2 mouse". The need is urgent, and Brown of Debt, she diagnoses the problems with has a vision of government without taxes or the monetary system and prescribes a solu- debt. This is well-researched book offers a tion for the people to take back their power. _ Way to navigate these troubled times. Long-time NEXUS readers are familiar with the diagnosis: that money (apart from PSI SPIES: The True Story of coins) and credit creation are in the hands of | America's Psychic Warfare Program a private money cartel, which in the US is by Jim Marrs headed by the Federal Reserve—a private New Page Books, NJ, USA, 2007 corporation, not a government institution. ISBN 1-56414-960-9 (318pp tpb) The people have become trapped by "the Available: www.newpagebooks.com debt spider (depicted so aptly by David istinguished investigative journalist Jim Dees in his cover design). The banks must Marrs sets his sights in PSI Spies on top-secret military/intelligence remote view- ing (RV) programs and their spin-offs— 4 which were taken very seriously behind the eae eet ees ba scenes despite the highly publicised mid- tt 1990s US official denials. Marrs started out on this unexpected quest in the early 1990s and had his book ready in 1995, but his pub- lisher suddenly cancelled the deal. It's a long story! Finally, he had a limited edition of this book published in 2000, and this new version is expanded and updated. Marrs's previous historical forays include works on the JFK assassination (Crossfire), global conspiracies (Rule by Secrecy; see 8/01), the UFO phenomenon (Alien Agenda) and 9/11 (Inside Job, 11/06; The Terror Conspiracy, 14/01). His personal "need to know" has seen him rubbing shoulders with Ingo Swann (the brains behind the original remote viewing protocols) and a host of RV experts who've since gone on to start up and/or leave their own companies. Some of ' these RV military/intelligence names would money to people who can't afford to repay be known to our long-time readers: Major- it, as is happening now, it can't be too long General Albert Stubblebine, Col. John before the US economy crashes—and other a jaxander, David Morehouse, Ed Dames economies along with it. Control of the Lyn Buchanan, Mel Riley Joe ° money supply wasn't always like this, and McMoneagle, Skip Atwater and more. Brown points to historical examples show- The projects that these military RV-ers ing that provincial governments once issued arg assigned covered UFOs, crop circles, and lent paper money, where the proceeds Middle Eastern war efforts, goings-on in/on/ were used for the benefit of colonists. around Mars, and much more. Jim Marrs Brown S purview is not purely US-centric, considers the testimony dispassionately and for this is a global problem. She has lived in without putting down his subjects; he's a several countries over the years and now true truth-seeker. His epilogue includes an analyses the spread of the bankers’ web in RV exercise with viewer John Kovacs who nations such as Mexico, Germany (the case : A ' P agreed to investigate Marrs's passion for ei typerinfiation in the Weimar Repu lic), American Civil War re-enactments. The Malaysia “Shing In ines Many of result is a fascinating take on the sound of these nations have been caught in the so- the" ‘ Gent phurg, Contivatny th fa 63 bat- continually seek out new loans to service the interest on existing loans; thus they expand the money supply, which in turn inflates prices and robs us of value for our money. When banks and sub-prime lenders lend THE WEB OF DEBT: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System by Ellen Hodgson Brown, JD Third Millennium Press, USA, 2007 ISBN 0-9795608-0-4 (510pp tpb) Available: http://www.webofdebt.com; www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk LS Angeles-based attorney specialising in civil litigation, Ellen Brown, JD, is the author/co-author of 11 books, most of which deal with health issues. Now, in Web of Debt, she diagnoses the problems with the monetary system and prescribes a solu- tion for the people to take back their power. Long-time NEXUS readers are familiar with the diagnosis: that money (apart from coins) and credit creation are in the hands of a private money cartel, which in the US is headed by the Federal Reserve—a private corporation, not a government institution. The people have become trapped by "the debt spider" (depicted so aptly by David Dees in his cover design). The banks must —_ f OTe tacng ot thet Hes Tym | Tas riage’ ‘= Deke continually seek out new loans to service the interest on existing loans; thus they expand the money supply, which in turn inflates prices and robs us of value for our money. When banks and sub-prime lenders lend money to people who can't afford to repay it, as is happening now, it can't be too long before the US economy crashes—and other economies along with it. Control of the money supply wasn't always like this, and Brown points to historical examples show- ing that provincial governments once issued and lent paper money, where the proceeds were used for the benefit of colonists. Brown's purview is not purely US-centric, for this is a global problem. She has lived in several countries over the years and now analyses the spread of the bankers' web in nations such as Mexico, Germany (the case of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic), Russia, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Zimbabwe, Malaysia, China, India and more. Many of these nations have been caught in the so- NEXUS 73 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com