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jackfoxy · 2010-06-22 · Original thread
Carroll Quigley,who Bill Clinton called "his mentor", spent much of his great tome "Tragedy and Hope", http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Hope-History-World-Time/dp/094..., writing the history of the intertwined relationship of the ruling and financial elites. Skip the second-hand histrionics you may read about the man and the book, and go right to the source.

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