Follow The Money

Liberty rests upon a foundation of financial prosperity. Without that prosperity, there is no Liberty. And as the Bolshevik Lenin advocated, the surest way to eliminate Liberty is to eliminate financial prosperity. Our Founding Fathers understood this. That is why gold & silver coin were declared the only Constitutional currencies, and remain today the only Constitutional currencies.

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and

inflation.” - Lenin

With Federal debt in excess of $12 trillion, unfunded p r o m i s e s o v e r $ 1 0 6 t r i l l i o n , a n d 2 2 % r e a l unemployment, there can be no doubt our financial prosperity is threatened. Our jobs, technologies, and industries have been offshored, and no one in government has offered a plan or even an objective to bring them back.

Understandably, Americans are alarmed, and for the first time in a long time beginning to reassess what is true and who is truthful.

It is time for a wake-up call. To find understanding, even in the midst of chaos, FOLLOW THE MONEY. This booklet provides a series of quotes that expose the unseen stealth war that has been waged for over 200 years to determine who will rule this nation - the People, or the Money Power.

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On September 17, 1787 the United States Constitution was adopted by the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was ratified on June 21, 1788. Article I, Section 10 reads in part:

“No State shall … make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of

debts …”

Gold and silver coin were, and remain, the only constitutional forms of money. This was no mere afterthought, but rather the bedrock principle upon which Liberty rested.

U.S. ConstitutionSeptember 17, 1787

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Amschel Mayer Rothschild 1790Father of Central Banking

“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.”

Nathan RothschildAmschel Mayer Rothschild’s son

“I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire … The

man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire. And I control

the money supply.”

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An important part of the “Morris scheme” was “to organize and head a central bank, to

provide cheap credit and expanded money for himself and his allies. The … Bank of North America was deliberately modeled after the

Bank of England.” It “graciously agreed to lend most of its newly created money to the federal government” and “the hapless taxpayers would

have to pay the Bank principal and interest.”

- Murray Rothbard in The Mystery of Banking

Robert Morris 1790 Bank of North America Founder

His was the first effort to burden the nation with a privately-owned central bank

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“Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin

commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and

injustice.”

“We may become a great commercial and flourishing nation. But if in the pursuit of

the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfounded paper money

or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national

credit in its infancy.”

George Washington 1st U.S. President 1789-1797

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“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever

will do good.”

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their

Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright

ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.”

John Adams2nd U.S. President 1797-1801

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“I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity … is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”“If we American people ever allow monopoly banking to control the issue of currency, first by inflation & then by deflation, these banks & bureaucracies that will grow up around them will deprive We, The People of all our property until our children will wake up homeless on the continent which God gave us for our stewardship.”“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements … [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers … and this is the tendency of all human governments.”

Thomas Jefferson3rd U.S. President 1801-1809

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“History shows that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain control over governments by controlling the money and the issuance of it.”

James Madison4th U.S. President 1809-1817

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“You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.”

“If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”

Andrew Jackson7th U.S. President 1829-1837

Jackson defeated the third attempt to establish a privately-owned central bank in America

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March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated the nation’s 16th president. April 12, 1861 Confederate forces fired on Forth Sumter in response to the Federal Government’s blockade of Charleston Harbor port that started South Carolina from foreign commerce. The Civil War had begun. Gold and silver could not be manufactured out of thin air, the very reason they were made the only constitutional currency. To finance the war, Abraham Lincoln broke faith with the Constitution by authorizing the issuance of paper currency. In quick succession, three types of paper currency were created. July 17, 1861 the Act of July 17, 1861 authorized the issuance of Demand Notes, so-named because they were redeemable in gold or silver upon demand. They only lasted from August 1861 to April 1862, because the Government did not have sufficient gold or silver to redeem them. February 25, 1862 Lincoln signed the First Legal Tender Act, authorizing the issuance of United States Notes. These were not redeemable upon demand. February 25, 1863 the National Banking Act passed. It fundamentally changed the nature of the U.S. monetary system. Less ambitious that a single central bank, it nonetheless was a step in that direction. Most importantly, the Act authorized the federal government to charter “national banks” for a period of 20 years, bypassing the States entirely. These banks given the power to issue their own paper money, and to form trusts, i.e., collude. The charter was twice extended, for a total of 60 years. The Money Power sought a permanent charter, which came with the Federal Reserve Act.

National Banking ActFebruary 25, 1863

1863 NATIONAL BANK NOTE

1861 DEMAND NOTE

1862 UNITED STATES NOTE

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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its method or throw light upon its crimes.

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the financial institutions at the rear; the latter is my greatest foe. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."

- November 11, 1864Lincoln was assassinated 5 months later.

Abraham Lincoln16th U.S. President 1861-1865

Lincoln no doubt sought to make things right after the War ended. He did not get the chance. He was assassinated before the War ended on

April 9, 1865.

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The Hazard Circular

July 1862 The Hazard Circular

"Bravery is likely to be abolished by the war power and all chattel slavery abolished. This I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers while the European plan, led on by England, is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages. The great debt that capitalists will see to it is made out of the war, must be used as a means to control the volume of money. To accomplish this the bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are now waiting for the Secretary of t h e T r e a s u r y t o m a k e t h i s recommendation to Congress. It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, as we cannot control that. But we can control the bonds and through them the bank issues."

The London Times

1862 The London Times

“If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North American Republic should become indurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off it debts and be without a debt. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.”

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“We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings and brought all labourers to a common level, but not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by our iniquitous money system we have manipulated a system of oppression which, though more refined, is no less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”

Horace Greeley 1811-1872Newspaper Editor, Founder of the

Liberal Republican Party

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“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal -- that there is no human

relation between master and slave”.

Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910One of Russia’s Greatest Novelists

1908 photograph by Prokudin-Gorskil

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“It is no matter of wonder that this class who control the destinies of the people by controlling their finances, are strongly opposed to the education of the people on the subject of finance, for they know that when this is effected their dominion as financial rulers must cease.”

- from his book Financial Catechism and History of the Financial Legislation of the United States, from 1862 to 1882

Stewart M. Brice 1882Author

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“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of

taxation and inflation.”

LeninChairman of Russia’s Council of People’s

Commissars 1917-1924

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75 US 603 Hepburn v. GriswoldSupreme Court Ruling

December, 1869

In December 1869, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled paper money was unconstitutional in a 4-3 decision.

“The question which this court is called upon to consider, is whether the authority to make the notes of the United States a lawful tender in payment of debts, is to be found in Congress …”

“We are obliged to conclude that an act making mere promises to pay dollars a legal tender in payment of debts previously contracted, is not a means appropriate, plainly adapted, really calculated to carry into effect any express power vested in Congress; that such an act is inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution; and that it is prohibited by the Constitution.”

79 U.S. 457 Knox v. Lee 79 U.S. 529 Parker v. David

The Legal Tender Cases of 1873

Ulysses S. Grant was president at the time of the Hepburn decision.

“His administration was marred by scandal, sometimes the product of nepotism; the neologism Grantism was c o i n e d t o d e s c r i b e p o l i t i c a l corruption. ... On the same day that Hepburn was decided, President Ulysses Grant nominated two new justices to the Court.” [Source: Wikipedia.com]

Grant’s nominations resulted in the addition of two justices to the Supreme Court: William Strong on March 14, 1870, a Yale University graduate, and Joseph P. Bradley on March 23, 1870. The newly reformed Supreme Court reversed the Hepburn decision on May 1, 1871 by affirming two lower court decisions, Knox v. Lee (79 U.S. 457) and Parker v. Davis (79 U.S. 529), collectively known as the Legal Tender Cases . Ignor ing the language of the Constitution, itself, the Supreme Court now ruled that paper money was constitutional.

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“Whoever controls the money in any country is master of all its legislation and commerce.”

“The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender. The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept.”

James Garfield 20th U.S. President 1881-1881

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“Our financial system needs some revision; our money is all good now, but its value must not further be threatened. It should all be put upon an enduring basis, not subject to easy attack, nor its stability in doubt or dispute.”

- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1897

William McKinley25th U.S. President 1897-1901

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Jekyll IslandNovember 22, 1910

“On the night of November 22, 1910 a group of newspaper reporters stood disconsolately in the railway station at Hoboken, New Jersey. They had just watched a delegation of the nation’s leading financiers leave the station on a secret m i s s i o n . I t w o u l d b e y e a r s b e f o r e t h e y discovered what that mission was, and even then they would not understand that the history of the United States underwent a drastic change after than night in Hoboken. ... “The Schiff, Warburg, Rockefeller and Morgan interests were personally represented …” (Source: Secrets of the Federal Reserve , by Eustace Mullins)

The attendees included Paul Warburg, generally credited as the author of the plan; Senator N e l s o n A l d r i c h ( R - N Y ) a n d h i s p r i v a t e secretary, Shelton; Frank Vanderlip, president of National City Bank of New York; Henry P. Davis , a senior partner of J .P. Morgan & Company, and Morgan’s personal emissary; Charles D. Norton, president of the Morgan-dominated First National Bank of New York; B e n j a m i n S t r o n g , o n e o f J . P . M o r g a n ’ s lieutenants; and Abram Piatt Andrew, Assistant Treasury Secretary. Senator Nelson Aldrich’s d a u g h t e r , A b b y , w a s m a r r i e d t o J o h n D . Rockefeller, Jr. Their eldest son was named Nelson A. (Aldrich) Rockefeller, brother of D a v i d R o c k e f e l l e r , f o u n d e r o f t h e U n i t e d Nations.

J.P. Morgan John D. Rockefeller Jacob Schiff

Nelson Aldrich Abram AndrewPaul Warburg

Benjamin StrongFrank Vanderlip Henry Davison

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U.S. Supreme Court DecisionPollock v. Farmer’s Loan, 158 U.S. 601, May 20, 1895In May, 1895 the U.S. Supreme Court declared a federal income tax to be unconstitutional. It reasoned:

“The founders anticipated that the expenditures of the states, their counties, cities, and towns, would chiefly be met by direct taxation on accumulated property, while they expected that those of the federal government would be for the most part met by indirect taxes. And in order that the power of direct taxation by the general government should not be exercised except on necessity, and, when the necessity arose, should be so exercised as to leave the states at liberty to discharge their respective obligations, and should not be so exercised unfairly and discriminatingly, as to particular states or otherwise, by a mere majority vote, possibly of those whose constituents were intentionally not subjected to any part of the burden, the qualified grant was made. Those who made it knew that the power to tax involved the power to destroy, and that, in the language of Chief Justice Marshall, 'the only security against the abuse of this power is found in the structure of the government itself. In imposing a tax, the legislature acts upon its constituents. This is, in general, a sufficient security against erroneous and oppressive taxation.' And they retained this security by providing that direct taxation and representation in he lower house of congress should be adjusted on the same measure.

Moreover, whatever the reasons for the constitutional provisions, there they are, and they appear to us to speak in plain language.

It is said that a tax on the whole income of property is not a direct tax in the meaning of the constitution, but a duty, and, as a duty, leviable without apportionment, whether direct or indirect. We do not think so. Direct taxation was not restricted in one breath, and the restriction blown to the winds in another.”

16th Amendment to the U.S. ConstitutionFebruary 3, 1913The Money Power sought to overrule the Supreme Court decision by amending the Constitution. The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified February 3, 1913, the same year the Federal Reserve Act was passed. Allegedly, it gave the federal government new powers of taxation. It read:

“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”

Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., 240 U.S. 103February 21, 1916This interpretation was challenged. The Supreme Court ruled in 1916 the 16th Amendment did not create new powers of taxation. If the Constitution did not grant this power, and the 16th Amendment added no new powers, what is the legal basis for a federal income tax? What, truly, is meant by the words we have a voluntary tax system.

“… the provisions of the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged, and being placed in the category of direct taxation subject to apportionment by a consideration of the sources from which the income was derived ..”

Decision affirmed in Treasury Decision 2303.

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The Federal Reserve Act was passed by Congress on December 22, 1913 and signed by President Woodrow Wilson the next day. The Money Power had their permanent charter. This was done during the Christmas recess, after numerous representatives had left to spend Christmas at home, as was the custom of Congress in a day of horse-and-buggy. Many of the Act’s most vocal opponents were not present when the vote was taken, and questions remain whether a quorum was present.

Ratification of the 16th Amendment and passage of the Federal Reserve Act in the same year, 1913, was no accident. Central banking and taxation are the twin towers that provide the foundation for a Money Elite that has the power to create money out of thin air. Both were sponsored by Senator Nelson Aldrich (R-RI). The Money Power got what it wanted: control of the money supply. Government got what it wanted: a way to get all the money it desired, simply by borrowing whatever could not be raised through taxation.

Federal Reserve ActDecember 23, 1913

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“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely control led and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

“We have been dreading all along the time when the combined power of high finance would be greater than the power of the government. Have we come to a time when the President of the United States or any man who wishes to be the President must doff his cap in the presence of this high finance, and say, ‘You are our inevitable master, but we will see how we can make the best of it?’”

Woodrow Wilson28th U.S. President 1913-1921

Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, put us into World War I, and sponsored

world government in the form of the League of

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“It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

Henry FordFounder of Ford Motor Company

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"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose".

John Maynard KeynesFather of Keynesian Economics

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Louis T. McFaddenFormer Congressman (R-PA)

“The Federal Reserve (Banks) are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this Nation is run by the International Bankers.”

“Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not ... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.”

“(The Great Depression resulting from the Stock Market crash) was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence ... The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us all.”

Ben Bernanke“I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding

the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.” - speaking at the University of Chicago conference to honor Milton Friedman, November 8, 2002

The Great Depression

The Great Depression tore asunder peoples’ families, homes, farms, and dignity, and left them in despair, forever psychologically altered by its utter devastation. It was caused by the Federal Reserve.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt32nd U.S. President 1933-1945

Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Order 6102 Requiring Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates to Be Delivered to the Government

April 5, 1933

By virtue Of the authority vested in me by Section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended by Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, entitled "An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes," in which amendatory Act Congress declared that a serious emergency exists, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and pursuant to said section do hereby prohibit the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations and hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the purposes of this order:

SECTION 1. For the purposes of this regulation, the term "hoarding" means the withdrawal and withholding of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates from the recognized and customary channels of trade. The term "person" means any individual, partnership, association or corporation.

SECTIONS 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933 ... (further details not shown)

John F. Kennedy35th U.S. President 1961-1963

John F. KennedyExecutive Order 11110

Amendment of Executive Order No. 10289 as Amended, Relating to the Performance of Certain Functions Affecting the Department of the Treasury

June 4, 1963

B y virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended --

(a) By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j):

"(j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12, 1933, as amended (31 U.S.C. 821 (b)), to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of any outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denominations of such silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary silver currency for their redemption," and

(b) By revoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof.

SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Order shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order but all such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said amendments had not been made.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

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James Paul WarburgSon of Paul Warburg

(chief architect of the Federal Reserve Act)

“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether

World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”

speaking before the U.S. Senate

J. Edgar HooverFBI Director 1935-1972

“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even

the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”

- The Elks Magazine, August 1956

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Carroll QuigleyDefense Department Consultant

“For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du

Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.”

- from his book, Hope and Tragedy

Robert Reich22nd U.S. Labor Secretary

“The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant … America’s domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America’s foreign policy is now being run by the International

Monetary Fund [IMF]. … when the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.”

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Today, the U.S. money supply, indeed the U.S. economy, is entirely controlled by the twelve, privately-owned Federal Reserve Banks, most importantly the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with the minor exception of coins from which all gold and silver have been removed. All Federal Reserve Notes are issued by the Federal Reserve System.

Federal Reserve Bankof New York

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Read The Whole Story

If Liberty is to prevail, and America is to be returned to its greatness, the monetary system of this country must be returned to its constitutional roots. The book Money: Defend Your Prosperity provides the essential and compelling insight into the true nature of our monetary system, how it impacts you, your family, and your nation, and what you can do about it. There is no other book like it. It interweaves concepts, principles, history, people, presidents, and money into a riveting story that brings alive the real-life drama and ongoing struggle, that began with our nation’s founding, over who will control this nation - the People, or the masters of money. It provides, in plain language and over 100 illustrations, why things are as they are.

Quite simply, this is one of the most important books you could read.

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