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central banks in the various nations. Once the central banks are established, and under the
control of the global bankers, wars between nations are contrived with the same banks
financing both sides of the conflict and reaping massive wealth through the death and
suffering of millions.

An example of the deception that has been successfully propagated regarding the causes of
wars is observed in the French Revolution. The French Revolution followed immediately
upon the conclusion of the American Revolution. One can argue convincingly that the same
forces were at work in both, and that lessons learned in America were applied in France.

The common conception regarding the American Revolution is that a spontaneous, popular
uprising of Colonial Americans erupted over the gross abuses of the King of England. As has
been demonstrated in previous chapters, this is a fallacy. There were men of substance who
were set to profit greatly by a break with England and an establishment of an American
government. Rather than being a spontaneous uprising, the details of the Revolution were
carefully plotted in lodges of Freemasonry in this country.

Even as it is suggested that the King of England’s oppression was the cause of the
Revolution, so too has it been told that the French Revolution resulted from the oppression
of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Once again, a revolution has been painted as a
popular uprising. Like America’s Boston Tea Party, France’s Revolution had its signature
act, the storming of the Bastille.

It is commonly understood that a very impoverished and oppressed French people rose up
en masse and stormed the Bastille, a French Prison and fortress, in order to free political
prisoners. The truth is that the population of Paris at the time when this event took place
was around 800,000, yet only 1,000 people took part in this uprising, and these were paid
brigands from the south of France hired by the Duc d’Orleans (a Freemason and member
of the Illuminati).

Nesta Webster in her book The French Revolution speaks of the experience of a Dr. Rigby
who was in Paris at the time. Despite the images portrayed today of the entire city of Paris
being up in arms, and great chaos ensuing, Dr. Rigby did not know that anything was even
occurring that day. He was out touring the city, and in the afternoon visited the Gardens of
Monceaux. Nor were the people of France oppressed and impoverished as a myriad of
history books describe them to be. France was the most prosperous European state prior
to the war. Ralph Epperson writes in The Unseen Hand that:

France held one-half of all of the money in circulation in all of Europe, and in the period
of 1720-1780, foreign trade was multiplied by four. One half of the wealth in France was
in the hands of the middle class, and the “serfs” owned more land than anyone else. The
king had abolished forced labor on public works in France and had outlawed the use of
torture in interrogation. In addition, the king had founded hospitals, established schools,
reformed the laws, built canals, drained the marshes to increase the quantity of arable
land, and had constructed numerous bridges to ease the flow of goods inside the country.

As Ralph Epperson points out in his book, the enemy of the money powers, is always the