The Federal Reserve.

“Anyone looking to demonstrate the existence of conspiracies in America need only examine the origins of our current central bank. This is a thoroughly documented conspiracy involving prominent individuals linked to modern secret societies.” -Jim Marrs, Rule by Secrecy (68)

“Someone is using us. Banking as a business was established in the year 1099. The income tax form is called a 1099. Who decided that? Think about it.” -Jordan Maxwell, Matrix of Power

Centralizing banking in a country means placing an enormous amount of wealth in one institution, which mainly serves to enrich the already wealthy and makes the government vulnerable to influence by foreign interests. As Dr. Carroll Quigley, mentor to Bill Clinton, once wrote: “The powers of financial capitalism had an additional ambitious aim, nothing short of creating a global system of financial control held by private hands capable of dominating the political systems of every nation and the global economy. This system was intended to be overseen in a feudal manner by central banks working collectively through secret agreements reached in frequent, private meetings and conferences. At the pinnacle of this system stood the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland—a private bank owned and directed by the world’s central banks, which were themselves private entities. The rise of financial capitalism enabled the centralization of economic control globally, benefiting financiers while harming other economic groups.”

Institutions like the IMF and World Bank, alongside union currencies such as the Euro, have further strengthened and centralized the world’s financial systems, granting these international bankers substantial control over global economies and politics. Their methods resemble those of a loan shark or mafia organization. First, struggling nations seeking loans are forced to hand over mines, railways, forests, or utility companies. To repay the loans, they must often relax environmental regulations, reduce wages, cut education or healthcare budgets, and privatize or sell assets to exploitative corporations like Enron or Exxon. When these nations inevitably fail to pay back their loans, the “benevolent” international bankers provide new, higher-interest loans to cover the old ones, pushing these countries further into debt and dependence. As Mayer Amschel Rothschild said, “Let me issue and control a nation’s money, and I care not who makes its laws.” More recently, Richard McKenna, former president of Midland Bank of England, remarked, “Those that create and issue the money and credit direct government policies and hold the fate of the people in their hands.”

“It is widely known that international bankers have funded nations to wage war against each other. Where do you think countries get the money to purchase tanks, guns, uniforms, and other supplies for warfare? They borrow from international bankers. These bankers have financed both sides of conflicts without concern for who ultimately wins, as their profit comes from the interest charged on these substantial loans. Additionally, they hold the power to influence the outcome of conflicts by simply cutting off the flow of funds. This leverage allows them to use the threat of war to gain or expand their control over governments. By keeping nations in debt, they secure a position that enables them to influence government affairs. One of their other objectives, which they have already largely achieved, is the control over all global monetary systems.” -Alex Christopher, Pandora’s Box: The Ultimate Unseen Hand Behind the New World Order (146)

“I truly believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies… If the American people ever permit private banks to control the issuance of their currency—first through inflation, then through deflation—the banks and the corporations that develop around them will strip people of their property until their descendants find themselves homeless on the land their ancestors conquered.” -Thomas Jefferson

Despite Jefferson’s warnings, Alexander Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treasury, pushed through a Congressional charter in 1791 to establish the First Bank of the United States. This bank stood for 20 years until 1811, when President James Madison and Vice President George Clinton chose not to renew the charter. Madison declared, “History shows that the money changers have employed every form of abuse, conspiracy, deception, and even violence to maintain their grip over governments by controlling currency and its issuance.” Strangely enough, only five years later, still during Madison’s presidency, in 1816 he approved the charter for the Second National Bank. Such a contradictory move led to suspicions of bribery or blackmail operating behind the scenes.

In 1828, Andrew Jackson addressed the central bankers in a speech, stating, “You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to drive you out, and by the Eternal God, I will drive you out… if the people truly understood the gross injustice of the money and banking system, there would be a revolution by morning.” During his presidency over the next eight years, Jackson made it his mission to dismantle the federal charter of the Second Bank of the United States. In 1835, an assassination attempt was made on his life when Richard Lawrence aimed two pistols at Jackson and pulled the triggers—both miraculously misfired. Jackson responded by attacking Lawrence with his cane. Lawrence later told authorities that he wanted to kill Jackson because “money would be more plentiful” for him, and he “could not rise until the President fell.” He claimed the American government owed him a significant amount, which Jackson was preventing him from receiving. This statement clearly referenced Jackson’s battle with the central bank, the evident motive behind the assassination attempt. In 1836, Jackson succeeded in dismantling the Second National Bank, declaring, “The bold efforts the present bank has made to control the government are only signs of the fate that awaits the American people if they are misled into perpetuating this institution or establishing another like it.” When asked on his deathbed about his greatest accomplishment, Jackson replied, “I killed the bank.”

While we were fortunate not to be misled into perpetuating the Second National Bank, we were ultimately deceived into establishing something far worse. From 1837 to 1863, America experienced a period of free banking in which only state-chartered banks operated, and the values of silver and gold remained stable. However, in 1863, Rothschild interests succeeded in pushing a bill through Congress with the help of their ally, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase. He passed the National Banking Act, once again establishing a federally chartered central bank with the authority to print and issue paper currency. During this time, President Abraham Lincoln opposed the central bankers and declared, “The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more arrogant than autocracy, and more self-serving than bureaucracy. I foresee a crisis in the near future that makes me fear for the safety of our country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of this nation will seek to extend its reign by exploiting the prejudices of the people, until wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, and the republic is destroyed.” Tragically, Lincoln was assassinated a year and a half later, in April 1865.

From 1864 to 1913, the National Banking Act and the aftermath of the Civil War effectively forced the majority of American banks to become nationalized. The movement to create a third U.S. central bank began in 1873, when the international banking cartel, comprised of powerful bloodline families, orchestrated the first of three financial panics intended to manipulate the public into accepting the Federal Reserve.

“A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 reveals that these crises were orchestrated by international bankers based in London. By 1908, the public was demanding that Congress take action to prevent further artificially induced monetary panics.” -Eustace Mullins, Secrets of the Federal Reserve

In 1881, President James Garfield was assassinated less than four months after assuming office. He was yet another president who opposed the banking establishment, actively resisting their influence and speaking out against them. He was “coincidentally” shot and killed shortly after stating, “Whoever controls the money supply of a country is the absolute master of all industry and commerce… And when you realize how easily the system can be manipulated by a handful of powerful men at the top, you won’t need anyone to explain how inflation and depressions come about.” The next presidential assassination occurred twenty years later when William McKinley was shot twice at point-blank range by a so-called “anarchist.” McKinley had been a strong proponent of the gold standard and helped pass the Gold Standard Act of 1900, less than a year before his untimely death.

On November 22, 1910, seven of the wealthiest men in the world gathered at J.P. Morgan’s private island retreat off the coast of Georgia, known as “Jekyll Island.” These seven men were Frank A. Vanderlip, Abraham Piatt Andrew, Henry P. Davidson, Charles D. Norton, Benjamin Strong, Paul Moritz Warburg, and Nelson W. Aldrich. Supporting them were the banking and investment interests of the Rockefeller, Rothschild, Schiff, Morgan, and Warburg families. Over the course of seven days, these Jekyll Island conspirators formulated a series of sweeping banking reforms that laid the groundwork for the creation of the Federal Reserve.

When news of the Jekyll Island meetings reached the media, the bankers claimed they were simply on a duck hunting trip. However, later in life, Frank A. Vanderlip, a participant and president of New York National City Bank, admitted otherwise: “There was an occasion near the close of 1910, when I was as secretive, indeed, as furtive as any conspirator… I do not think it is an exaggeration to describe our secret journey to Jekyll Island as the moment that conceived what eventually became the Federal Reserve System.” Woodrow Wilson once remarked, regarding the earlier financial crises, “All of this trouble could have been avoided if we had appointed a committee of six or seven public-spirited men like J.P. Morgan to handle the nation’s affairs.” And that is precisely what ended up happening.

“The American people, having endured the American Revolution, the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson’s fight with the Second Bank of the United States, the Civil War, the financial panics of 1873 and 1893, and now the Panic of 1907, were ultimately conditioned to accept the solution proposed by those who had orchestrated all of these events: the international bankers. That solution was a central bank.” -Ralph Epperson

“These men concluded not to have one central bank in the United States, but several and they agreed that no one was to utter the words ‘central’ or ‘bank.’ Most important, they decided that this creation would be made to look like an official agency of the U.S. government.” -Jim Marrs, “Rule by Secrecy” (73)

They called it the Federal Reserve, but it is neither federal nor a reserve. It is about as federal as Federal Express, and as much a reserve as American Indian reservations. It is a network of banks (5 originally, now 12), headed at the New York branch, all of them privately owned, but made to appear like an official government agency. The original stockholders of the Federal Reserve were Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Warburgs, Russells, Morgans, Peabodys, and Reynolds – all Illuminati families.

“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York was controlled by five banks which owned 53% of its stock. These five banks were controlled by Nathan M. Rothschild & Sons of London. Control over the U.S. Fed is basically control over the world’s money. That fact alone shows how immense the Rothschild Power is. If one examines who has been appointed to head the Fed, and to run it, the connections of the “Federal” Reserve System to the Rothschilds can further be seen. Another private enterprise using the name Federal that the Rothschilds also direct is Federal Express. Any one else might be taken to court for making their businesses sound like they are government, not the Rothschilds. It is appropriate for them to appropriate the name of Federal, because by way of MI6 via the CIA they instruct the U.S. government. Senators are bought and paid off by their system, as investigators of the BCCI are discovering.” –Fritz Springmeier, “Bloodlines of the Illuminati”

In 1913 in an effort to pacify dissenters, the conspirators pre-planned a fake opposition to their central bank scheme. House Banking and Currency Committee chairman Carter Glass wrote what was promoted as an alternative solution, the Federal Reserve Act.

“Jekyll Island planners Vanderlip and Aldrich spoke out venomously against Glass’s bill, even though entire sections were identical to the Aldrich Plan. It was clearly an effort to garner public support for the Glass bill by the appearance of banker opposition … The appearance of opposition by Wall Street was necessary. William McAdoo, Wilson’s son-in-law who was appointed secretary of the Treasury, later revealed, ‘Bankers fought the . . . Federal Reserve Act with the tireless energy of men fighting a forest fire. They said it was populistic, socialistic, half-baked, destructive, infantile, badly conceived and unworkable.’ However, McAdoo said in interviews with these bankers, ‘I perceived gradually, through all the haze and smoke of controversy, that the banking world was not really as much opposed to the bill as it pretended to be….’ Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913, just two days before Christmas with some Congressmen already home for the holidays and with the average citizen’s attention clearly elsewhere.” -Jim Marrs, “Rule by Secrecy” (73-5)

In 1913 Congressman Lindbergh warned that the Federal Reserve System “establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the monetary power will be legitimized. The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.”

After the bankers finished profiting from the world war, they decided to cause an economic depression in the U.S. so that they could further buy up the market, further expand government, and further control the American people. Creating booms, busts, recessions and depressions is completely scientific when you decide the amount of money printed and circulated. As Nobel-Prize winning economist, Milton Freidman said, “The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933.”

“To believe that the Crash of 1929 was a mere accident or the result of incompetence defies all logic. The international bankers who promoted inflationary policies and spread propaganda to inflate the stock market had generations of expertise behind them—far too much to have accidentally triggered the Great Depression. This was the classic game of boom and bust, using economic crises to consolidate political power at the top, where it could be most effectively controlled. The primary cause of the collapse was the deliberately manufactured credit inflation by the Federal Reserve. Over six years, it inflated the money supply by sixty-two percent, prompting market speculation and risky investments by middle-class Americans who were being set up for a financial “shearing.” When the shearing came, people took a grim look at the economy and panicked. Optimism gave way to despair, and this despair led to a readiness to accept a significant expansion of government control over the economy.” -Gary Allen, The Rockefeller File

During the depression Congressman Louis T. McFadden was a very outspoken voice against the Federal Reserve. Regarding the Great depression he said, “It was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence … The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as rulers of us all.”  In 1932 he said, “We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board has cheated the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt three times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of the law by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.”  Proceeding McFadden’s activism he received a series of death threats, and then died of food poisoning shortly after under suspicious circumstances.

“The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson” -US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

“Once Inflation or Deflation has been documented, the government economists point with pride at the supposed perpetrators: the public. They never direct their attention at the real culprit in America: the privately owned Federal Reserve System. This private banking establishment has complete control over the quantity of money in circulation. Therefore, they have the ability to create Inflation or Deflation whenever they choose to do so.” -Ralph Epperson, “The New World Order” (243)

Since the Great depression, the Federal Reserve bankers have continued to manipulate the market for their own gain and done so through periodic planned market plunges after which they buy up all they can. In 1936-37 Stock prices plummeted 50%, in 1948 dropped 16%, in 1953 down 13%, 1956-57 down 13% and late in 57 down another 19%. It has continued like this every few years until today.

In 1963, President Kennedy passed Executive Order 11110 which stripped the Federal Reserve from its power to loan money to the U.S. government. It also called for the printing of $450 Billion dollars in U.S. backed Debt-Free currency and gave the Treasury Department the authority to issue silver certificates against the treasury’s silver holdings. Six months after this JFK was killed. As soon as his successor, Lyndon Johnson took office, the first thing he did was suspend the printing of JFK’s silver certificates, and took them out of circulation.

“It’s money out of thin air. It’s the secrecy of it all that’s so bad. The ownership is by members of all the banks. It is something Congress created. The first central/national bank was created by Alexander Hamilton and Jefferson got rid of it, the second one was gotten rid of by Andrew Jackson, and I’m just looking forward to being the president that gets rid of the third national bank.” –Congressman Dr. Ron Paul, Presidential campaign speech in New Hampshire, Jan. 6^th, 2008

“Do you remember the television show Mission Impossible? If you ever catch a rerun, pay close attention to the opening sequence. The insignia ‘IMF’ will appear on the screen, supposedly representing the ‘Impossible Mission Force.’ The Impossible Mission Force, the IMF, the International Monetary Fund. What were they always doing on the show? They were always manipulating leaders, carrying out assassinations, helping people escape, or engaging in some shady mission—all in a struggle for power. But whose power? They were always supposedly working for a government, but the agents were never entirely sure who that was. They were simply doing their jobs, unaware of who was truly pulling the strings. The ‘IMF’ would just send them on a mission they had to complete at all costs. And if anyone uncovered who was really behind it all, the agents were told, ‘we will disavow any connection to you.’ That is exactly like the IMF—the International Monetary Fund, which is the force behind the Federal Reserve, exploiting our country and damaging our economy. They’re doing it right in front of us, even telling us what they are doing, but we fail to notice it. They spell it out for us on TV, even turning it into comedies like Get Smart. In that show, you have ‘Chaos’ on one side and ‘Control’ on the other. If you ignore the silliness and really watch, it’s easy to see that the same operation controls both sides. They create chaos, then swoop in to ‘control’ it, achieving their agenda. That’s how it has always been done. Get Smart! They’re trying to tell you something.” -Jordan Maxwell, Matrix of Power