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Page posted in July 2006
Who Controls The
Federal Reserve System?
By Victor Thorn
Now that we know the Federal Reserve is a
privately owned, for-profit corporation, a natural question would be: who OWNS
this company? Peter Kershaw provides the answer in "Economic Solutions" where he
lists the ten primary shareholders in the Federal Reserve banking system.
1) The Rothschild Family - London 2) The
Rothschild Family - Berlin 3) The Lazard Brothers - Paris 4) Israel Seiff -
Italy 5) Kuhn-Loeb Company - Germany 6) The Warburgs - Amsterdam 7) The Warburgs
- Hamburg 8) Lehman Brothers - New York 9) Goldman & Sachs - New York 10) The
Rockefeller Family - New York.
Now I don't know about you, but something
is terribly wrong with this situation. Namely, don't we live in AMERICA? If so,
why are seven of the top ten stockholders located in FOREIGN countries? That's
70%! To further convey how screwed-up this system is, Jim Marrs provides the
following data in his phenomenal book, "Rule By Secrecy." He says that the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which undeniably controls the other eleven
Federal Reserve branches, is essentially controlled by two financial
institutions:
1) Chase-Manhattan (controlled by the Rockefellers) - 6,389,445 shares - 32.3%
2) Citbank - 4,051,851 shares - 20.5%
Thus, these two entities control nearly 53% of the New York Federal Reserve
Bank. Doesn't that boggle your mind? Now, considering how many trillions of
dollars are involved here, and how the bankers are WAY above our "selected"
officials in Washington, D.C., do you think the above-listed banks and families
have an inordinate amount of say-so in how our country is being run? The answer
is blindingly apparent. Where does the money come from?
We all know that the
Federal Reserve CORPORATION prints money - then loans it, at interest, to our
government. But wait until you see what a total scam this process is. But before
we get to the meat of this issue, let's remember one thing about the very
essence of banking - primarily that money should have some type of standard upon
which its value is based. In the case of America, we operate on what is called a
"gold standard" (i.e. our money is backed by gold). So, with that in mind, let's
look at how money is actually created, and at what cost. If the Federal Reserve
wants to print 1,000 one-hundred ($100) bills, their total cost for ink, paper,
plates, labor, etc. would be approximately $23.00 (according to Davvy Kidd in
"Why A Bankrupt America"). Now, if you do the math, the total cost of 10,000
bills would be $230.00 ($.023 x 10,000). But, and here's the catch - 10,000 $100
bills equals $1,000,000! So, the Federal Reserve can "create" a million dollars,
then LEND it to the U.S. Government (with interest) for a total cost of $230.00!
That's not a bad deal, huh! The banking industry calls this process "seignorage."
I call it outright THEFT. Why? Well, regardless of the immense profit margin
($1,000,000 for $230), plus the huge interest payments, our government then
needs to STEAL the American people's money to payoff their debts via a Mob-like
agency called the IRS. So the bankers steal from the government, then the
government turns around and steals from the people. I'm no genius, but who do
you think is getting screwed in this process? US - the people at the bottom rung
of the ladder. What's worse is that - now catch your breath - there's NO MORE
gold left in Fort Knox! It's all gone. In other words, the GOLD STANDARD that
our financial system was based upon is now an illusion. We can't convert our
money into gold --- only other currency. The entire underlying basis for our
money is now a lie - a sham. The Federal Reserve has become so arrogant that
they've become a literal MONEY MAKING MACHINE, creating currency out of thin
air!
So that's where the Fed gets their money - they literally make it, then
lend it to us so they can make even MORE money off of it. Money As A Religion
The above-detailed process has become so ridiculous that William Grieder, former
assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, wrote a book in 1987 entitled,
"Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country" that details
how the Controllers have conditioned us to accept this absurd situation. "To
modern minds," he writes, "it seemed bizarre to think of the Federal Reserve as
a religious institution. Yet the conspiracy theorists, in their own demented
way, were on to something real and significant. The Fed did also function in the
realm of religion. Its mysterious powers of money creation, inherited from
priestly forebears, shielded a complex bundle of social and psychological
meanings. With its own form of secret incantation, the Federal Reserve presided
over awesome social ritual, transactions so powerful and frightening they seemed
to lie beyond common understanding." Mr. Grieder continues, "Above all, money
was a function of faith. It required implicit and universal social consent that
was indeed mysterious. To create money and use it, each one must believe, and
everyone must believe. Only then did worthless pieces of paper take on value."
Do you get it? MONEY is an ILLUSION! Why? Because the gold standard upon which
our money is supposed to be based has been eliminated. There's no more gold in
Fort Knox. It's all GONE! Now, money really IS only paper!!! In the past, money
was supposed to represent something of tangible value. Now it's simply paper!
Taken one step further, many of us don't even use paper money any more! Why?
Well, here's a scenario. Many places of employment directly deposit their
employee's paychecks into the bank. Once the money is there, when bill time
comes around, the person in question can write out a stack of checks to pay
them. Plus, when they need gasoline they use a credit card; and groceries a
debit card. If this person goes out for dinner on Friday night, they can charge
the tab on their diner's card. But what about the tip? They simply scribble in
the amount at the bottom of the check. So far, the person hasn't spent a single
dollar bill. Plus, if you bring electronic banking into the picture, we've
virtually eliminated the use for money. And, God forbid, what happens when
encoded microchips are implanted into the backs of our hand? In essence, money
has become nothing more than an illusion - an electronic figure or amount on a
computer screen. That's it! As time goes on, we have an increasing tendency
toward being sucked into this Wizard of Oz vortex of unreality. Think about it.
Americans as a whole are carrying more
personal debt than in any other time in history.
Plus our government keeps going further and
further into the hole, with no hope of ever crawling out. But we have less and
less actual MONEY! We're being enslaved by the debt of electronic blips on a
computer screen! And 70% of the banks that control this debt via the Federal
Reserve exist in foreign countries! What in God's name is going on? As author
William Bramley says, "The result of this whole system is MASSIVE debt at every
level of society." We're getting screwed in a sickening way, folks, and the
people doing it are demented magician-priests that use the ILLUSION of money as
their control device. And I hate to say it, but if we allow things to keep going
as they are, the situation will only get worse.
Our only hope ... ONLY HOPE ... is to immediately take drastic action and remedy
this crime. (to be continued) http://www.victorthorn.com/babel/issue55/federalreserve5
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