there's a lot of people with OPINIONS about conspiracy theorists but not so many who can answer even the most basic questions about who runs their country!
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The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part I: The Eight Families
                          by Dean Henderson
  
 (Excerpted from Chapter 19: The Eight Families: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf… Part one of a five-part series)
 The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan  Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon  Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with  Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths.   But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of  the oil patch.
 According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of  Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune  500 corporation. [1]
So who then are the stockholders in these money center banks?
This information is guarded much more closely.  My queries to bank  regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank  holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before  being denied on “national security” grounds.  This is rather ironic,  since many of the bank’s stockholders reside in Europe.
 
One important repository for the wealth of the  global oligarchy that owns these bank holding companies is US Trust  Corporation – founded in 1853 and now owned by Bank of America.  A  recent US Trust Corporate Director and Honorary Trustee was Walter  Rothschild.  Other directors included Daniel Davison of JP Morgan Chase,  Richard Tucker of Exxon Mobil, Daniel Roberts of Citigroup and Marshall  Schwartz of Morgan Stanley. [2]
 J. W. McCallister, an oil industry insider with House of Saud connections, wrote in 
The Grim Reaper  that information he acquired from Saudi bankers cited 80% ownership of  the New York Federal Reserve Bank – by far the most powerful Fed branch –  by just eight families, four of which reside in the US.  They are the  Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the  Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of  Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome.
 CPA Thomas D. Schauf corroborates McCallister’s claims, adding that  ten banks control all twelve Federal Reserve Bank branches.  He names  N.M. Rothschild of London, Rothschild Bank of Berlin, Warburg Bank of  Hamburg, Warburg Bank ofAmsterdam, Lehman Brothers of New York, Lazard  Brothers of Paris, Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York, Israel Moses Seif Bank of  Italy, Goldman Sachs of New York and JP Morgan Chase Bank of New York.   Schauf lists William Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff and James  Stillman as individuals who own large shares of the Fed. [3]  The  Schiffs are insiders at Kuhn Loeb.  The Stillmans are Citigroup  insiders, who married into the Rockefeller clan at the turn of the  century.
 Eustace Mullins came to the same conclusions in his book 
The Secrets of the Federal Reserve,  in which he displays charts connecting the Fed and its member banks to  the families of Rothschild, Warburg, Rockefeller and the others. [4]
The control that these banking  families exert over the global economy cannot be overstated and is quite  intentionally shrouded in secrecy.  Their corporate media arm is quick  to discredit any information exposing this private central banking  cartel as “conspiracy theory”.  Yet the facts remain.
 The House of Morgan
 The Federal Reserve Bank was born in 1913, the same year US banking  scion J. Pierpont Morgan died and the Rockefeller Foundation was  formed.  The House of Morgan presided over American finance from the  corner of Wall Street and Broad, acting as quasi-US central bank since  1838, when George Peabody founded it in London.
 Peabody was a business associate of the Rothschilds.  In 1952 Fed  researcher Eustace Mullins put forth the supposition that the Morgans  were nothing more than Rothschild agents.  Mullins wrote that the  Rothschilds, “…preferred to operate anonymously in the US behind the  facade of J.P. Morgan & Company”. [5]
 Author Gabriel Kolko stated, “Morgan’s activities in 1895-1896 in  selling US gold bonds in Europe were based on an alliance with the House  of Rothschild.” [6]
 The Morgan financial octopus wrapped its tentacles quickly around the globe.  Morgan Grenfell operated in London.  
Morgan et Ce ruled Paris.  The Rothschild’s Lambert cousins set up Drexel & Company in Philadelphia.
 The House of Morgan catered to the Astors, DuPonts, Guggenheims,  Vanderbilts and Rockefellers.  It financed the launch of AT&T,  General Motors, General Electric and DuPont.  Like the London-based  Rothschild and Barings banks, Morgan became part of the power structure  in many countries.
 
By 1890 the House of Morgan was lending to Egypt’s  central bank, financing Russian railroads, floating Brazilian provincial  government bonds and funding Argentine public works projects.  A  recession in 1893 enhanced Morgan’s power.  That year Morgan saved the  US government from a bank panic, forming a syndicate to prop up  government reserves with a shipment of $62 million worth of Rothschild  gold. [7]
 Morgan was the driving force behind Western expansion in the US,  financing and controlling West-bound railroads through voting trusts.   In 1879 Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Morgan-financed New York Central Railroad  gave preferential shipping rates to John D. Rockefeller’s budding  Standard Oil monopoly, cementing the Rockefeller/Morgan relationship.
 The House of Morgan now fell under Rothschild 
and Rockefeller family control.  A 
New York Herald  headline read, “Railroad Kings Form Gigantic Trust”.  J. Pierpont  Morgan, who once stated, “Competition is a sin”, now opined gleefully,  “Think of it.  All competing railroad traffic west of St. Louis placed  in the control of about thirty men.”[8]
 Morgan and Edward Harriman’s banker Kuhn Loeb held a monopoly over  the railroads, while banking dynasties Lehman, Goldman Sachs and Lazard  joined the Rockefellers in controlling the US industrial base. [9]
 
In 1903 Banker’s Trust was set up by the Eight Families.   Benjamin Strong of Banker’s Trust was the first Governor of the New  YorkFederal Reserve Bank.  The 1913 creation of the Fed fused the power  of the Eight Families to the military and diplomatic might of the US  government.  If their overseas loans went unpaid, the oligarchs could  now deploy US Marines to collect the debts.  Morgan, Chase and Citibank  formed an international lending syndicate.Public distrust of the combine  spread.  Many considered them traitors working for European old money.   Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, Andrew Carnegie’s US Steel and Edward  Harriman’s railroads were all financed by banker Jacob Schiff at Kuhn  Loeb, who worked closely with the European Rothschilds.
 Several Western states banned the bankers.  Populist preacher William  Jennings Bryan was thrice the Democratic nominee for President from  1896-1908.  The central theme of his anti-imperialist campaign was that  America was falling into a trap of “financial servitude to British  capital”.  Teddy Roosevelt defeated Bryan in 1908, but was forced by  this spreading populist wildfire to enact the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.   He then went after the Standard Oil Trust.
 In 1912 the Pujo hearings were held, addressing concentration of  power on Wall Street.  That same year Mrs. Edward Harriman sold her  substantial shares in New   York’s Guaranty Trust Bank to J.P. Morgan,  creating Morgan Guaranty Trust.  Judge Louis Brandeis convinced  President Woodrow Wilson to call for an end to interlocking board  directorates.  In 1914 the Clayton Anti-Trust Act was passed.
 Jack Morgan – J. Pierpont’s son and successor – responded by calling on Morgan clients Remington and Winchester to increase arms
 production.  He argued that the US needed to enter WWI.  Goaded by  the Carnegie Foundation and other oligarchy fronts, Wilson  accommodated.  As Charles Tansill wrote in 
America Goes to War,  “Even before the clash of arms, the French firm of Rothschild Freres  cabled to Morgan & Company in New York suggesting the flotation of a  loan of $100 million, a substantial part of which was to be left in the  US to pay for French purchases of American goods.”
 
The House of Morgan financed half the US war effort,  while receiving commissions for lining up contractors like GE, DuPont,  US Steel, Kennecott and ASARCO.  All were Morgan clients.  Morgan also  financed the British Boer War in South Africa and the Franco-Prussian  War.  The 1919 Paris Peace Conference was presided over by Morgan, which  led both German and Allied reconstruction efforts. [11]
 In the 1930’s populism resurfaced in America after Goldman Sachs,  Lehman Bank and others profited from the Crash of 1929. [12]  House  Banking Committee Chairman Louis McFadden (D-NY) said of the Great  Depression,
“It was no accident.  It was a  carefully contrived occurrence…The international bankers sought to bring  about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us  all”.
Sen. Gerald Nye (D-ND) chaired a munitions investigation in 1936.   Nye concluded that the House of Morgan had plunged the US into WWI to  protect loans and create a booming arms industry.  Nye later produced a  document titled 
The Next War, which cynically referred to “the old goddess of democracy trick”, through which Japan could be used to lure the US into WWII.
 In 1937 Interior Secretary Harold Ickes warned of the influence of  “America’s 60 Families”.  Historian Ferdinand Lundberg later penned a  book of the exact same title.  Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas  decried, “Morgan influence…the most pernicious one in industry and  finance today.”
 Jack Morgan responded by nudging the US towards WWII.  Morgan had  close relations with the Iwasaki and Dan families – Japan’s two  wealthiest clans – who have owned Mitsubishi and Mitsui, respectively,  since the companies emerged from 17th Century 
shogunates.  When  Japan invaded Manchuria, slaughtering Chinese peasants at Nanking,  Morgan downplayed the incident.  Morgan also had close relations with  Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, while German Nazi Dr. Hjalmer Schacht  was a Morgan Bank 
liaison during WWII.  After the war Morgan  representatives met with Schacht at the Bank of International  Settlements (BIS) in Basel,Switzerland. [13]
 T
he House of Rockefeller
 BIS is the most powerful bank in the world, a global central bank for  the Eight Families who control the private central banks of almost all  Western and developing nations. The first President of BIS was  Rockefeller banker Gates McGarrah – an official at Chase Manhattan and  the Federal Reserve.  McGarrah was the grandfather of former CIA  director Richard Helms.  The Rockefellers – like the Morgans – had close  ties to London. David Icke writes in 
Children of the Matrix, that the Rockefellers and Morgans were just “gofers” for the European Rothschilds. [14]
 BIS is owned by the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, Bank of Italy, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank, 
Nederlandsche Bank, 
Bundesbank and Bank of France.
 Historian Carroll Quigley wrote in his epic book, 
Tragedy and Hope,  that BIS was part of a plan “to create a world system of financial  control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each  country and the economy of the world as a whole…to be controlled in a  feudalistic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert  by secret agreements.”
 The US government had a historical distrust of BIS, lobbying  unsuccessfully for its demise at the 1944 post-WWII Bretton Woods  Conference.  Instead, the Eight Families’ power was exacerbated, with  the Bretton Woods creation of the IMF and the World Bank.  The US  Federal Reserve only took shares in BIS in September 1994. [15]
 BIS holds at least 10% of monetary reserves for at least 80 of the  world’s central banks, the IMF, and other multilateral institutions.  It  serves as financial agent for international agreements, collects  information on the global economy and serves as lender of last resort to  prevent global financial collapse.
 BIS promotes an agenda of monopoly capitalist fascism.  It gave a  bridge loan toHungary in the 1990’s to ensure privatization of that  country’s economy.  It served as conduit for Eight Families funding of  Adolf Hitler – led by the Warburg’s J. Henry Schroeder and Mendelsohn  Bank of Amsterdam.  Many researchers assert that BIS is at the nadir of  global drug money laundering. [16]
It is no coincidence that BIS is headquartered in  Switzerland, favorite hiding place for the wealth of the global  aristocracy and headquarters for the P-2 Italian Freemason’s Alpina  Lodge and Nazi International. 
Other institutions that the Eight Families control include the World  Economic Forum, the International Monetary Conference and the World  Trade Organization.
 
Bretton Woods was a boon to the Eight Families.  The  IMF and World Bank were central to this “new world order”.  In 1944,  the first World Bank bonds were floated by Morgan Stanley and First  Boston.  The French Lazard family became more involved in House of  Morgan interests.  Lazard Freres – France’s biggest investment bank – is  owned by the Lazard and David-Weill families – old Genoese banking  scions represented by Michelle Davive.  A recent Chairman and CEO of  Citigroup was Sanford Weill.
 In 1968, Morgan Guaranty launched Euro-Clear, a Brussels-based bank  clearing system for Eurodollar securities.  It was the first such  automated endeavor.  Some took to calling Euro-Clear “The Beast”.   Brussels serves as headquarters for the new European Central Bank and  for NATO.  In 1973, Morgan officials met secretly in Bermuda to  illegally resurrect the old House of Morgan, twenty years 
before  Glass Steagal Act was repealed.  Morgan and the Rockefellers provided  the financial backing for Merrill Lynch, boosting it into the Big 5 of  US investment banking.  Merrill is now part of Bank of America.
 
John D. Rockefeller used his oil wealth to acquire Equitable Trust,  which had gobbled up several large banks and corporations by the  1920’s.  The Great Depression helped consolidate Rockefeller’s power.   His Chase Bank merged with Kuhn Loeb’s Manhattan Bank to form Chase  Manhattan, cementing a long-time family relationship.  The Kuhn-Loeb’s  had financed – along with Rothschilds – Rockefeller’s quest to become  king of the oil patch.  National City Bank of Cleveland provided John D.  with the money needed to embark upon his monopolization of the US oil  industry.  The bank was identified in Congressional hearings as being  one of three Rothschild-owned banks in the US during the 1870’s, when  Rockefeller first incorporated as Standard Oil of Ohio. [17]
 One Rockefeller Standard Oil partner was Edward Harkness, whose  family came to control Chemical Bank.  Another was James Stillman, whose  family controlled Manufacturers Hanover Trust.  Both banks have merged  under the JP Morgan Chase umbrella.  Two of James Stillman’s daughters  married two of William Rockefeller’s sons.  The two families control a  big chunk of Citigroup as well. [18]
 In the insurance business, the Rockefellers control Metropolitan  Life, Equitable Life, Prudential and New York Life.  Rockefeller banks  control 25% of all assets of the 50 largest US commercial banks and 30%  of all assets of the 50 largest insurance companies. [19]  Insurance  companies (the first in the US was launched by Freemasons through their  Woodman’s of America) play a key role in theBermuda drug money shuffle.
 
Companies under Rockefeller control include Exxon  Mobil, Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco, Marathon Oil, Freeport McMoran, Quaker  Oats, ASARCO, United, Delta, Northwest, ITT, International Harvester,  Xerox, Boeing, Westinghouse, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, International  Paper, Pfizer, Motorola, Monsanto, Union Carbide and General Foods.
The Rockefeller Foundation has close financial ties to both Ford and Carnegie Foundations. 
Other family philanthropic endeavors include Rockefeller Brothers  Fund, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, General Education  Board, Rockefeller University and the University of Chicago, which  churns out a steady stream of far right economists as apologists for  international capital, including Milton Friedman.
 The family owns 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where the national Christmas  tree is lighted every year, and Rockefeller Center.  David Rockefeller  was instrumental in the construction of theWorld Trade Center towers.   The main Rockefeller family home is a hulking complex in upstate New    York known as Pocantico Hills.  They also own a 32-room 5th Avenue  duplex in Manhattan, a mansion in Washington, DC, Monte Sacro Ranch in  Venezuela, coffee plantations in Ecuador, several farms in Brazil, an  estate at Seal Harbor, Maine, and resorts in the Caribbean, Hawaii and  Puerto Rico. [20]
 
The Dulles and Rockefeller families are cousins.   Allen Dulles created the CIA, assisted the Nazis, covered up the Kennedy  hit from his Warren Commission perch and struck a deal with the Muslim  Brotherhood to create mind-controlled assassins. [21]
 Brother John Foster Dulles presided over the phony Goldman Sachs  trusts before the 1929 stock market crash and helped his brother  overthrow governments in Iran and Guatemala.  Both were Skull &  Bones, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) insiders and 33rd Degree  Masons. [22]
 The Rockefellers were instrumental in forming the  depopulation-oriented Club of Rome at their family estate in Bellagio,  Italy.  Their Pocantico Hills estate gave birth to the Trilateral  Commission.  The family is a major funder of the eugenics movement which  spawned Hitler, human cloning and the current DNA obsession in US  scientific circles.
 John Rockefeller Jr. headed the Population Council until his death.  [23]  His namesake son is a Senator from West Virginia.  Brother  Winthrop Rockefeller was Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and remains the  most powerful man in that state.  In an October 1975 interview with 
Playboy  magazine, Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller – who was also Governor of  New York – articulated his family’s patronizing worldview, “I am a great  believer in planning – economic, social, political, military, total  world planning.”
 
But of all the Rockefeller brothers, it is Trilateral Commission  (TC) founder and Chase Manhattan Chairman David who has spearheaded the  family’s fascist agenda on a global scale.  He defended the Shah of  Iran, the South African apartheid regime and the Chilean Pinochet 
junta.   He was the biggest financier of the CFR, the TC and (during the Vietnam  War) the Committee for an Effective and Durable Peace in Asia – a  contract bonanza for those who made their living off the conflict.
 Nixon asked him to be Secretary of Treasury, but Rockefeller declined  the job, knowing his power was much greater at the helm of the Chase.   Author Gary Allen writes in 
The Rockefeller File that in 1973, “David Rockefeller met with twenty-seven heads of state, including the rulers of Russia and Red China.”
 Following the 1975 Nugan Hand Bank/CIA 
coup against  Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his British Crown-appointed  successor Malcolm Fraser sped to the US, where he met with President  Gerald Ford 
after conferring with David Rockefeller. [24]
Next Week: Part II: Freemasons & The Bank of the United States
 Dean Henderson is the author of Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network, The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries and Das Kartell der Federal Reserve.  Subscriptions to his Left Hook blog are FREE at www.deanhenderson.wordpress.com
 Footnotes:
 
-  [1] 10K Filings of Fortune 500 Corporations toSEC. 3-91[2] 10K Filing of US Trust Corporation toSEC.6-28-95 
 
-  [3] “The Federal Reserve ‘Fed Up’. Thomas Schauf. www.davidicke.com 1-02 
 
-  [4] The Secrets of the Federal Reserve. Eustace Mullins. Bankers Research Institute.Staunton,VA. 1983. p.179 
 
-  [5] Ibid. p.53 
 
-  [6] The Triumph of Conservatism. Gabriel Kolko. MacMillan and CompanyNew York. 1963. p.142 
 
-  [7] Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids. Jim Marrs. HarperCollins Publishers.New York. 2000. p.57 
 
-  [8] The House of Morgan. Ron Chernow. Atlantic Monthly Press NewYork 1990 
 
-  [9] Marrs. p.57 
 
-  [10] Democracy for the Few. Michael Parenti.St. Martin’s Press.New   York. 1977. p.178 
 
-  [11] Chernow 
 
-  [12] The Great Crash of 1929. John Kenneth Galbraith. Houghton, Mifflin Company.Boston. 1979. p.148 
 
-  [13] Chernow 
 
-  [14] Children of the Matrix. David Icke.BridgeofLove.Scottsdale, AZ. 2000 
 
-  [15] The Confidence Game: How Un-Elected Central Bankers are Governing the Changed World Economy. Steven Solomon. Simon & Schuster.New York. 1995. p.112 
 
-  [16] Marrs. p.180 
 
-  [17] Ibid. p.45 
 
-  [18] The Money Lenders: The People and Politics of the World Banking Crisis. Anthony Sampson. Penguin Books.New York. 1981 
 
-  [19] The Rockefeller File. Gary Allen. ’76 Press.Seal Beach, CA. 1977 
 
-  [20] Ibid 
 
-  [21] Dope Inc.: The Book That Drove Kissinger Crazy. Editors of Executive Intelligence Review.Washington,DC. 1992 
 
-  [22] Marrs. 
 
-  [23] The Rockefeller Syndrome. Ferdinand Lundberg. Lyle Stuart Inc.Secaucus,NJ. 1975. p.296 
 
-  [24] Marrs. p.53