Federal Reserve full of trickery, deceit
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I was a sheeple. I’m afraid I was like most of us taking my freedom and liberty for granted.
Then several years ago I started to feel that something just wasn’t right. I had believed that being a Republican or a Democrat meant something and then I started to realize that really, nothing changed when there was an administration change. The cost of things still rose, the country’s debt still climbed, the federal government still got bigger and I had more rules to follow and more taxes to pay. What was going on?
So I started to pay attention, and more than that I started to do reading and research. In fact I am still reading and researching; and the old adage that “those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it” is completely true. I had always liked history but as I researched, it became evident that “history” books in school were far from thorough and sometimes just plain wrong.
I had to overcome my own case of “Cognitive Dissonance.” This is a phenomenon discovered by scientists in the 1950s of what the brain does when confronted with facts that do not conform to a person’s worldview or strongly held beliefs. Instead of being open to new facts the brain goes into denial. I had to override my cognitive dissonance and integrate information that was new and unpleasant to me.
A perfect example of “history left out” was information about the Federal Reserve, our deceptively named central bank. None of us have been taught about this private banking cartel born of sin and trickery in 1913 that was designed to rake in huge amounts of money for the owner/families, and still does to this day. However, with some effort, it is possible to find the information about this organization and begin to understand why our country/government does some of the things it does.
Most of our founding fathers had good cause to not want a central bank. Europe, where many of them came from, had been controlled by the central banks that had encouraged wars and conflict for monetary gain. The banks had loaned the various governments money to fight those wars and of course earned interest on the money loaned. Wars are very profitable for central banks. (Anything familiar here?) Presidents Jefferson and Jackson both put a stop to central banks started in their day, but the big banks won when they tricked Congress into granting a charter at Christmastime in 1913 when most of the legislators had left for the holidays.
Just how the so-called “Federal Reserve” controls our monetary system is difficult to track but a good source to check out is “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by historian G. Edward Griffin.
It’s a long read but very informative. I have also found a website that has a series of videos that are excellent (and much faster). If I had found this site first I could have saved myself hours of reading. There are five videos of about half-hour each done by Mike Maloney that contain the best information out there. They explain in clear detail about money and how the Federal Reserve has been operating for their own gain at our expense for the last 100 years. I urge everyone to find the site and watch these well done videos. Go to www.thehiddensecrets of money.com and start with number one. I recommend watching number four for sure. It’s hard to stop a wrong if no one understands it.
