Hi doma,
Well, I see these are the kinds of claims that he makes about himself. But as I say, his testimony isn't much to work with. It's hardly a shoot the messenger argument when a guy makes a bizarre claim without any substantial evidence to corroborate it, and what he is saying sounds an awful lot like a scam. Take it on trust? I have a slightly higher standard for belief. Sometimes the story isn't credible.
But trying to work on the assumption that he believes what he says to be true. Perhaps the trillions of dollars of counterfeit bonds are one and the same con-a-government scam and he was the naive dupe they were trying to use to connect with the UK treasury. Instead, they ended up connecting with the fraud squad.
The only really large sum of this type of which I am aware is that the US Treasury - over the course of the crisis - leant trillions on short term deposits. But not all at once. This was how much the loans amounted to when added together, but the loans were going in and out over a period of time, supporting liquidity shortfalls in different banks at different times. So adding them together as if they made a single loan which at any one time was $16t would be spurious. The money was turned over a large number of times. But hundreds of billions at one time - yes, probably.
Illuminati and secret agendas - yes, maybe to build a swimming pool or do something for the poor or move along vagabonds or whatever. Some controlling influence over the world - well, from my perspective, seems like another incredible notion backed up with evidence that always seems pretty ropey.
But hey, I'm a plain believe-what-you-see kind of guy, and it seems you are more of a dark-arts, believe-what-you-don't-see sort of person. It isn't paranoid if it's true, as they say.
Denying you are a freemason to a person who believes a freemason would conceal the fact he is one puts a fellow into a kind of mobius strip logic which isn't resolvable. So I don't deny it, but I am not one anyway.
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