Un certain Fehmi Krasniqi, spécialiste en images de synthèse, a publié le 4 décembre 2019 une vidéo sur YouTube qui prétend dévoiler les secrets de la fabrication de la Grande Pyramide de Khéops. Comme elle dure 3 heures et 35 minutes, je ne l’ai pas regardée. J’ai cependant vu qu’il était question dans les commentaires de la fonte du granite et j’ai cherché ce passage. Je démontre ici pourquoi cette théorie est absurde. Je ne m’attaquerai pas aux arguments archéologiques car je n’ai aucune compétence en la matière. La géologie, plus exactement la pétrologie (l’étude des roches), est en revanche mon domaine.

Quotation: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

The first part of the quotation ("If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered") has not been found anywhere in Thomas Jefferson's writings, to Albert Gallatin or otherwise. It is identified in Respectfully Quoted as spurious, and the editor further points out that the words "inflation" and "deflation" are not documented until after Jefferson's lifetime.

The second part of the quotation ("I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies") is a slight misquotation of a statement Jefferson made in a letter to John Taylor in 1816. He wrote, "And I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale"