Mystery, Babylon The Great (2005) - Escape Babylon's Demons
Mystery, Babylon The Great (2005) - Escape Babylon's Demons
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NEWSTAND Copyright 1999.)<br />
How does this banking system work to possess the U.S.?<br />
<strong>The</strong> Federal Reserve (<strong>The</strong> Fed) creates “debt paper” or federal reserve notes which<br />
are loaned to the U.S. government with interest due. This interest income flows to<br />
the foreign bankers putting the U.S. under their ultimate control. <strong>The</strong> Federal<br />
Reserve’s chief task is to influence the flow of credit by affecting it’s general<br />
availability and cost to borrowers. <strong>The</strong>refore the flow of money in a country depends<br />
mainly on the ability of banks to meet the credit and monetary requirements of<br />
industry, trade, agriculture, and all the other segments of economic life. <strong>The</strong> Federal<br />
Reserve has the power to influence the country’s credit situation and, since bank<br />
loans and investments are the main assets that serve as backing for deposits, it’s<br />
money supply. Federal Reserve influence is exerted primarily through the credit<br />
market. (<strong>The</strong> Federal Reserve System Purposes and Function, Board of Governors of the Federal<br />
Reserve System, Washington, D.C. 1954. Pages 7-11).<br />
President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote:<br />
“…I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of<br />
credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. <strong>The</strong> growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities<br />
are in the hands of a few men.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> extent of U.S debt to foreign nations<br />
Consider these statistics showing further the extent of the U.S. debt obligations<br />
courtesy of the extremely informative Grandfather Economic Report by Michael<br />
Hodges found at http://mwhodges.home.att.net/.<br />
<strong>The</strong> U.S. is the largest debtor nation at nearly $7.4 trillion Federal Government debt as of<br />
12/31/2004. Interest on this amount was over $41 million per hour as of the year 2000.<br />
$1.9 trillion or 44% of this debt is owed to foreign investors and foreign banks.<br />
U.S. International debt for 2004 (money the U.S. owes other nations from negative trade<br />
balances) was over $666 billion. It now totals over $3.8 trillion.<br />
U.S. Total National Debt (household, business, financial & government sectors) exceeds $40<br />
trillion. 66% of this debt was accumulated since 1990.<br />
Foreigners now own over $9.4 trillion in U.S. assets; $2.1 trillion more than the U.S. owns in<br />
foreign assets.<br />
In June <strong>2005</strong>, Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker said "he doesn't see how the U.S.<br />
can keep borrowing and consuming while letting foreign countries do all the