There is a building in Basel, Switzerland. To look at it, you would not spare more than a few glances. Its shape reminiscent of a rook on a chess board, little more than an office building with an enthusiastic architect. Its novelty forgotten as your vision slides past the apparition. In truth, this is the seat of power from which the entire world is ruled.
“It is well enough that 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 Ford
What do Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler, JFK, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and Andrew Jackson have in common? They were all world leaders who attempted to overthrow a central bank, and every single one was either assassinated or cast into a war. Andrew Jackson being the sole survivor. An attempted assassination was carried out, however when the assassin’s gun jammed the then president of the United States took his walking stick and beat the man to within an inch of his life.
All the Banks are Bankrupt
The modern bank is a mocking imitation of its intended purpose. While this topic is far larger than a single Substack article, I will attempt to simplify.
There are three things you need to know about banks.
banks do not have money
banks do not lend money
these two facts are purposefully kept from you
It is important to clarify that when I use the word “bank” I am referring to the banking system as a whole. Doubtless your local bank is mostly wholesome, but it operates as a proxy between you and its central bank.
For the purposes of this brief look at the banking world, I will be using the Federal Reserve (the Fed) of the United States as the bank in question.
Lend to me Once, Shame on You
If I lend you ten dollars I expect to eventually be paid back. See? Economics isn’t as complicated as you have been led to believe. But another reality of this engagement is this: I no longer have those ten dollars. Therefore, I am invested in your success.
Banks don’t operate this way, I’ll do my best to explain.
When you ask a bank for a loan several magical things happen.
The money is created out of nothing and given to you as a loan.
You are now expected to make payments on this money that didn’t exist before you asked for it.
The bank has the audacity to charge interest on the money they created out of nothing.
This creates an interesting situation: above all else banks are far more interested in you making payments. If they can print all the money they want, why do they care about being paid back at all? Why indeed.
More Money, More Problems
It is well known that banks print money. This is commonly known as inflation and is considered to be as unavoidable as the weather. We need to manage inflation, reduce inflation, and we look to the Fed as the only entity who can grapple with this elusive and intimidating foe.
The absurdity of the issue is, of course, that the Fed is the origin of inflation. But what is never discussed is the equal and opposite reaction to printing money. It should be no surprise to you that the modern banking system was pioneered by an actual “yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum” pirate. He created a business that would store other peoples gold safely and give them a paper receipt. It didn’t take long to learn that very few people ever removed their gold from his “bank”, preferring to simply buy goods and services with the paper. Gold is a dense metal and cumbersome to transport, who would have guessed this simple fact would be the downfall of our civilization? The pirate kept only around 10% of the actual gold in his bank and could use the rest for his own investments. This became known as fractional reserve banking.
A Debtor’s Prison
If only we still used fractional reserve banking. The currencies of the world have been removed from the so called “gold standard” so what is our money backed by? Debt. The dirty little secret of this grand charade is debt. Every dollar is on loan, probably several times over. Debt is the foundation of our economy, our national debt exists because our economy exists. If all debts could be repaid, our money would vanish. Returned to the depths of the Federal Reserve from which it was spawned.
In the Darkness Bind Them
It’s name is the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). If you were to set foot on its premises, you would find yourself trespassing on foreign soil. The building is considered an extra-territorial jurisdiction, the common precedent for this is embassies which are considered to be a sovereign part of their respective country. While being physically in Basel, Switzerland the BIS is not Swiss. In fact it is not anything, it pledges to no flag, is beholden to no laws, and is ambassador to nowhere. Each central bank controls the currency of it’s respective country and the BIS controls the central banks. It is the central bank of central banks, a private institution in defiance of all common interest.
“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.”
— Nathan Rothschild
We’ve seen the rise of populist political movements across the world. Their policies can be generalized to “we must drain the swamp”. But this rhetoric is often restricted to the political sphere. Either through ignorance or design, the banking cabal is left out of acceptable discourse. The banking system of our world is at war with anything and anyone who isn’t them, cloaked in deception they operate in plain sight to steal the world. It’s not federal, not a reserve, the banks have no money, what little they do have has no value, what value it does have is debt, and the common man remains oblivious. Real change will come only when we drive these merchants from our temple.
Books I read on this topic:
The Creature From Jekyll Island - by G. Edward Griffin
A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind - by Stephen Mitford Goodson