by
Yves Jacques
December 23rd, 2013 marks the 100th Anniver-
sary of the Federal Reserve Act; the forming of the
greatest financial power and control authority ever
in the hands of an oligarchy of a few international
banking families. The deception is that most people
believe that the Federal Reserve is part of the govern-
ment and that it has reserves somewhere. The truth
is that the United States Federal Reserve
is not fed-
eral and it has no reserves.
Though the American people like to believe that
we are a democratic nation, the Federal Reserve
System itself is far from being democratic. The Fed-
eral Reserve Board is unelected and is not
accountable to anyone. It controls and
claims ownership of, what should be,
the nation’s money supply, at the ser-
vice of the people for the common
good. Instead, there are private
owners of the central bank (the Fed-
eral Reserve), managing the econ-
omy of the nation and running the
financial system to their benefit.
According to Article 1 of the Con-
stitution, adopted in 1787, our Found-
ing Fathers stated:
“Congress shall have
the Power To Coin Money and Regulate the
Value Thereof.”
It was the intent of the Founding Fathers that
the power to create and control the money be in
the hands of the Federal Congress, not in the hands
of private bankers, who could charge enormous
amounts of interest, and then actually control the
country by controlling its currency. It was the Euro-
pean banker, Mayer Anselm Rothschild (1744 -1812),
who once said:
“Permit me to issue and control the
money of a nation, and I care not who makes its
laws...”
Our founding fathers understood the tricks of
the bankers. It was their belief that the national gov-
ernment must be the only creator of money for the
good of the public.
“Creating” Money Out of Nothing
We should also clarify the term “create”. When
we use this term, we refer to the process used when
bringing money into existence. Money is nothing but
numbers, be it numbers in a ledger book, on checks,
or dollar bills. Using this process most banks are
legally allowed to lend out up to 50 times what they
have on deposit, creating the money out of nothing
and then charging interest on it. Banks create the
principal but do not create the interest to service
these loans. The bankers create money out of noth-
ing by simply writing numbers in their ledger books
and then giving this money to the American people
in the form of loans.
This allows us to write checks based on the num-
bers written in our accounts, but then requires pay-
ment with interest. The result of this is a shortage of
money in circulation, leading to a continuous need
for borrowing more money and causing the continual
increase in the National Debt.
The Federal Government Debt
The United States has plunged itself ter-
ribly into debt since the Federal Reserve
Act was passed in 1913. Before this, the
federal debt was $1 billion, or $12.40
per citizen. State and local debts were
practically non-existent.
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By 1920, after only 6 years of
Federal Reserve “shenanigans”, the
federal debt had jumped to $24 bil-
lion, or $228 per person.
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In 1960 the federal debt reached
$284 billion, or $1,575 per citizen, and
state and local debt was mushrooming.
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By 1981 the federal debt exceeded $1
trillion, and was growing exponentially, as a result
of the bankers having tripled the interest rates. State
and local debts were more than the federal debt, and
with business and personal debts, the total reached
well over $6 trillion. That is 3 times the value of all
land and buildings in America !
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In October 2005, the federal debt alone
reached the $8 trillion mark ($26,672 for each U.S.
citizen).
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Before the financial crisis of 2008 the Public
Debt in the United States was $9,340,497,105,319.74.
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In the short span of five years this debt has al-
most doubled. As of October 24th, 2013 this debt has
increased to $17,070,000,000,000.00 trillion ($53,819
for each U.S. citizen). And that is only the tip of the
iceberg: the total debt (states, corporations, consum-
ers) is currently more than $150 trillion !
The people of America have become tenants
and debt slaves to the bankers and their agents. Our
children and the future generations will be pay
ing
this debt forever. We are now coming to the point
where, eventually, the Government will own noth-
In October 2013, the U.S.A. went through
a crisis when the debt ceiling, voted period-
ically by the Congress, reached its limit of
$16,394 billion. Here is this debt pictured in
stacks of $100 bills.
Of course, these sky-scrapers of
paper money will never exist, since
the debt is made up of money that
does not exist, and inflates because
of compound interest. Even if all the
money in circulation was collected,
one would not even pay back one
percent of this debt.
The U.S. Federal Reserve
100 Years of Deception
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