I'm wondering that myself, but I started searching a few years ago and what I've found out up to now is mind-bongling to say the least. So much so, that I've lost friends and contact with family members over it. They just don't want to know that we're being screwed by a few evil people.

Just imagine that you're flying 1st class and you get a perfect view of the land beneath you.
All that money down there is owed to its "creator" plus some, not yet "created" that is the interest. Somewhere along the way we've lost our right to issue our own money and instead we have to borrow from its "creators", the bankers. They've been carrying on this scam for thousands of years, Jesus came across them and got really angry with them. The only time we read of Jesus losing His temper was when He saw the money changers. And we all know what happened to Him. Just what happened to Abraham Lincoln and JFK.

Anyway, as they say, to solve a crime, follow the money, find who benefits from it.

The Federal Reserve Banks are a privately owned consortium controlled by the eight major stock-holding families: The Rothschilds of England and Germany, Moses Seif of Italy, Lazard Freres of France, the Warburgs of Germany, Kuhn-Loeb of Germany, Goldman-Sachs of the United States, Lehman Brothers of the United States, and the Rockefellers of the United States. Only three of these families are American. This small group decides the fates of hundreds of millions of people by their financial policies and maneuvers. It was Baron Meyer Amschel Bauer Rothschild, (born in 1744 and died in 1812), who said, "Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes it's laws."
-- Andy Gause, 01 October 2003

First to investigate and write about the private cabal that is the "federal reserve bank", at the instigation of the Late Great Ezra Pound, was Eustase Mullins. His book "Mullins on the Federal Reserve" was published in 1952 was the first to reavel to the world the secret meetings of the bankers at Jekyll Island, where the Federal Reserve Act was drafted.

Andrew Gause of Andygause.com is a scholar, a monetary historian and coin dealer who's studied and expanded Eustace Mullins' work revealing how the criminals are carrying out their business today.

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