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In 1789 Alexander Hamilton became the first Treasury Secretary of the  United States.  Hamilton was one of many Founding Fathers who were  Freemasons.  He had close relations with the Rothschild family which  owns the Bank of England and leads the European Freemason movement.   George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Ethan Allen, Samuel  Adams, Patrick Henry, John Brown and Roger Sherman were all Masons.
 
		
		
	
	
 
 Andrew Hamilton
  
 Roger Livingston helped Sherman and Franklin write the Declaration of  Independence.  He gave George Washington his oaths of office while he  was Grand Master of the New York Grand Lodge of Freemasons.  Washington  himself was Grand Master of the Virginia Lodge.  Of the General Officers  in the Revolutionary Army, thirty-three were Masons.  This was highly  symbolic since 33rd Degree Masons become 
Illuminated. [1]
 Populist founding fathers led by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James  Madison and Thomas Paine- none of whom were Masons- wanted to completely  severe ties with the British Crown, but were overruled by the Masonic  faction led by Washington, Hamilton and Grand Master of the St. Andrews  Lodge in Boston General Joseph Warren, who wanted to “defy Parliament  but remain loyal to the Crown”.  St. Andrews Lodge was the hub of New  World Masonry and began issuing Knights Templar Degrees in 1769. [2]  
 
General Joseph Warren
 All US Masonic lodges are to this day warranted by the British Crown,  whom they serve as a global intelligence and counterrevolutionary  subversion network.  Their most recent initiative is the Masonic Child  Identification Program (CHIP).  According to Wikipedia, the CHIP  programs allow parents the opportunity to create a kit of identifying  materials for their child, free of charge. The kit contains a  fingerprint card, a physical description, a video, computer disk, or DVD  of the child, a dental imprint, and a DNA sample.
 The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in 1774 under  the Presidency of Peyton Randolph, who succeeded Washington as Grand  Master of the Virginia Lodge.  The Second Continental Congress convened  in 1775 under the Presidency of Freemason John Hancock.  Peyton’s  brother William succeeded him as Virginia Lodge Grand Master and became  the leading proponent of centralization and federalism at the First  Constitutional Convention in 1787.  The federalism at the heart of the  US Constitution is identical to the federalism laid out in the  Freemason’s 
Anderson’s Constitutions of 1723.  William  Randolph became the nation’s first Attorney General and Secretary of  State under George Washington.  His family returned to England loyal to  the Crown.  John Marshall, the nation’s first Supreme Court Justice, was  also a Mason. [3] 
 When Benjamin Franklin journeyed to France to seek financial help for  American revolutionaries, his meetings took place at Rothschild banks.   He brokered arms sales 
via German Mason Baron von Steuben.  His  Committees of Correspondence operated through Freemason channels and  paralleled a British spy network.  In 1776 Franklin became 
de facto Ambassador to France.  In 1779 he became Grand Master of the French 
Neuf Soeurs  (Nine Sisters) Lodge, to which John Paul Jones and Voltaire belonged.   Franklin was also a member of the more secretive Royal Lodge of  Commanders of the Temple West of Carcasonne, whose members included  Frederick Prince of Whales.  While Franklin preached temperance in the  US, he cavorted wildly with his Lodge brothers in Europe.  Franklin  served as Postmaster General from the 1750’s to 1775 – a role  traditionally relegated to British spies. [4]
 With Rothschild financing Alexander Hamilton founded two New York  banks, including Bank of New York. [5]  He died in a gun battle with  Aaron Burr, who founded Bank of Manhattan with Kuhn Loeb financing.   Hamilton exemplified the contempt which the Eight Families hold towards  common people, once stating, “All communities divide themselves into the  few and the many.  The first are the rich and the well born, the others  the mass of the people…The people are turbulent and changing; they  seldom judge and determine right.  Give therefore to the first class a  distinct, permanent share of government.  They will check the  unsteadiness of the second.”[6]
 Hamilton was only the first in a series of Eight Families cronies to  hold the key position of Treasury Secretary.  In recent times Kennedy  Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon came from Dillon Read (now part of UBS  Warburg).  Nixon Treasury Secretaries David Kennedy and William Simon  came from Continental Illinois Bank (now part of Bank of America) and  Salomon Brothers (now part of Citigroup), respectively.  Carter Treasury  Secretary Michael Blumenthal came from Goldman Sachs, Reagan Treasury  Secretary Donald Regan came from Merrill Lynch (now part of Bank of  America), Bush Sr. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady came from Dillon  Read (UBS Warburg) and both Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and  Bush Jr. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson came from Goldman Sachs.   Obama Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner worked at Kissinger Associates and  the New York Fed.
 Thomas Jefferson argued that the United States needed a  publicly-owned central bank so that European monarchs and aristocrats  could not use the printing of money to control the affairs of the new  nation.  Jefferson extolled, “A country which expects to remain ignorant  and free…expects that which has never been and that which will never  be.  There is scarcely a King in a hundred who would not, if he could,  follow the example of Pharaoh – get first all the people’s money, then  all their lands and then make them and their children servants  forever…banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.   Already they have raised up a money aristocracy.”  Jefferson watched as  the Euro-banking conspiracy to control the United States unfolded,  weighing in, “Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental  opinion of the day, but a series of oppressions begun at a distinguished  period, unalterable through every change of ministers, too plainly  prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery”. [7[
 But the Rothschild-sponsored Hamilton’s arguments for a private US  central bank carried the day.  In 1791 the Bank of the United States  (BUS) was founded, with the Rothschilds as main owners.  The bank’s  charter was to run out in 1811.  Public opinion ran in favor of revoking  the charter and replacing it with a Jeffersonian public central bank.   The debate was postponed as the nation was plunged by the Euro-bankers  into the War of 1812.  Amidst a climate of fear and economic hardship,  Hamilton’s bank got its charter renewed in 1816.
  
Old Hickory, Honest Abe & Camelot
 In 1828 Andrew Jackson took a run at the US Presidency.  Throughout  his campaign he railed against the international bankers who controlled  the BUS.  Jackson ranted, “You are a den of vipers.  I intend to expose  you and by Eternal God I will rout you out.  If the people understood  the rank injustices of our money and banking system there would be a  revolution before morning.”
 Jackson won the election and revoked the bank’s charter stating, “The  Act seems to be predicated on an erroneous idea that the present  shareholders have a prescriptive right to not only the favor, but the  bounty of the government...for their benefit does this Act exclude the  whole American people from competition in the purchase of this  monopoly.  Present stockholders and those inheriting their rights as  successors be established a privileged order, clothed both with great  political power and enjoying immense pecuniary advantages from their  connection with government.  Should its influence be concentrated under  the operation of such an Act as this, in the hands of a self-elected  directory whose interests are identified with those of the foreign  stockholders, will there not be cause to tremble for the independence of  our country in war...controlling our currency, receiving our public  monies and holding thousands of our citizens independence, it would be  more formidable and dangerous than the naval and military power of the  enemy.  It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend  the acts of government for selfish purposes...to make the rich richer  and more powerful.  Many of our rich men have not been content with  equal protection and equal benefits, but have besought us to make them  richer by acts of Congress.  I have done my duty to this country.”[8]
 Populism prevailed and Jackson was re-elected.  In 1835 he was the  target of an assassination attempt.  The gunman was Richard Lawrence,  who confessed that he was, “in touch with the powers in Europe”. [9]  
 Still, in 1836 Jackson refused to renew the BUS charter.  Under his  watch the US national debt went to zero for the first and last time in  our nation’s history.  This angered the international bankers, whose  primary income is derived from interest payments on debt.  BUS President  Nicholas Biddle cut off funding to the US government in 1842, plunging  the US into a depression.  Biddle was an agent for the Paris-based Jacob  Rothschild. [10]
 The Mexican War was simultaneously sprung on Jackson.  A few years  later the Civil War was unleashed, with London bankers backing the Union  and French bankers backing the South. The Lehman family made a fortune  smuggling arms to the south and cotton to the north.  By 1861 the US was  $100 million in debt.  New President Abraham Lincoln snubbed the  Euro-bankers again, issuing Lincoln Greenbacks to pay Union Army bills.   
 The Rothschild-controlled 
Times of London wrote, “If that  mischievous policy, which had its origins in the North American  Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that  Government will furnish its own money without cost.  It will pay off its  debts and be without debt.  It will have all the money necessary to  carry on its commerce.  It will become prosperous beyond precedent in  the history of the civilized governments of the world.  The brains and  the wealth of all countries will go to North America.  That government  must be destroyed, or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.” [11]
 The Euro-banker-written 
Hazard Circular was exposed and  circulated throughout the country by angry populists.  It stated, “The  great debt that capitalists will see is made out of the war and must be  used to control the valve of money.  To accomplish this government bonds  must be used as a banking basis.  We are now awaiting Secretary of  Treasury Salmon Chase to make that recommendation.  It will not allow  Greenbacks to circulate as money as we cannot control that.  We control  bonds and through them banking issues”.
 The 1863 National Banking Act reinstated a private US central bank  and Chase’s war bonds were issued.  Lincoln was re-elected the next  year, vowing to repeal the act after he took his January 1865 oaths of  office.  Before he could act, he was assassinated at the Ford Theatre by  John Wilkes Booth.  Booth had major connections to the international  bankers.  His granddaughter wrote 
This One Mad Act, which details Booth’s contact with “mysterious Europeans” just before the Lincoln assassination.
 Following the Lincoln hit, Booth was whisked away by members of a  secret society known as Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC).  KGC had  close ties to the French Society of Seasons, which produced Karl Marx.   KGC had fomented much of the tension that caused the Civil War and  President Lincoln had specifically targeted the group.  Booth was a KGC  member and was connected through Confederate Secretary of State Judah  Benjamin to the House of Rothschild.  Benjamin fled to England after the  Civil War. [12]
 Nearly a century after Lincoln was assassinated for issuing  Greenbacks, President John F. Kennedy found himself in the Eight  Families’ crosshairs.  Kennedy had announced a crackdown on off-shore  tax havens and proposed increases in tax rates on large oil and mining  companies.  He supported eliminating tax loopholes which benefit the  super-rich.  His economic policies were publicly attacked by 
Fortune magazine, the 
Wall Street Journal  and both David and Nelson Rockefeller.  Even Kennedy’s own Treasury  Secretary Douglas Dillon, who came from the UBS Warburg-controlled  Dillon Read investment bank, voiced opposition to the JFK proposals.  [13]
 Kennedy’s fate was sealed in June 1963 when he authorized the  issuance of more than $4 billion in United States Notes by his Treasury  Department in an attempt to circumvent the high interest rate usury of  the private Federal Reserve international banker crowd.  The wife of Lee  Harvey Oswald, who was conveniently gunned down by Jack Ruby before  Ruby himself was shot, told author A. J. Weberman in 1994, “The answer  to the Kennedy assassination is with the Federal Reserve Bank.  Don’t  underestimate that.  It’s wrong to blame it on Angleton and the CIA 
per se only.  This is only one finger on the same hand.  The people who supply the money are above the CIA”. [14]
 Fueled by incoming President Lyndon Johnson’s immediate escalation of  the Vietnam War, the US sank further into debt.  Its citizens were  terrorized into silence.  If they could kill the President they could  kill anyone.
 
The House of Rothschild
 The Dutch House of Orange founded the Bank of Amsterdam in 1609 as  the world’s first central bank.  Prince William of Orange married into  the English House of Windsor, taking King James II’s daughter Mary as  his bride.  The Orange Order Brotherhood, which recently fomented  Northern Ireland Protestant violence, put William III on the English  throne where he ruled both Holland and Britain.  In 1694 William III  teamed up with the UK aristocracy to launch the private Bank of England.
 The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street- as the Bank of England is known-  is surrounded by thirty foot walls.  Three floors beneath it the third  largest stock of gold bullion in the world is stored. [15]  
 The Rothschilds and their inbred Eight Families partners gradually  came to control the Bank of England.  The daily London gold “fixing”  occurred at the N. M. Rothschild Bank until 2004.  As Bank of England  Deputy Governor George Blunden put it, “Fear is what makes the bank’s  powers so acceptable.  The bank is able to exert its influence when  people are dependent on us and fear losing their privileges or when they  are frightened.”[16]
 Mayer Amschel Rothschild sold the British government German Hessian  mercenaries to fight against American Revolutionaries, diverting the  proceeds to his brother Nathan in London, where N.M. (Nathan and Mayer)  Rothschild & Sons was established.  Mayer was a serious student of  Cabala and launched his fortune on money embezzled from William IX-  royal administrator of the Hesse-Kassel region and a prominent  Freemason.
 Rothschild-controlled Barings bankrolled the Chinese opium and  African slave trades.  It financed the Louisiana Purchase.  When several  states defaulted on its loans, Barings bribed Daniel Webster to make  speeches stressing the virtues of loan repayment.  The states held their  ground, so the House of Rothschild cut off the money spigot in 1842,  plunging the US into a deep depression.  It was often said that the  wealth of the Rothschilds depended on the bankruptcy of nations.  Mayer  Amschel Rothschild once said, “I care not who controls a nation’s  political affairs, so long as I control her currency”.
 War didn’t hurt the family fortune either.  The House of Rothschild  financed the Prussian War, the Crimean War and the British attempt to  seize the Suez Canal from the French.  Nathan Rothschild made a huge  financial bet on Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, while also funding  the Duke of Wellington’s peninsular campaign 
against Napoleon.  Both the Mexican War and the Civil War were goldmines for the family.
 
Nathan Rothschild
 
 One Rothschild family biography mentions a London meeting where an  “International Banking Syndicate” decided to pit the American North  against the South as part of a “divide and conquer” strategy.  German  Chancellor Otto von Bismarck once stated, “The division of the United  States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil  War.  These bankers were afraid that the United States…would upset  their financial domination over the world.  The voice of the Rothschilds  prevailed.”  Rothschild biographer Derek Wilson says the family was the  official European banker to the US government and strong supporters of  the Bank of the United States. [17]  
 Family biographer Niall Ferguson notes a “substantial and unexplained  gap” in private Rothschild correspondence between 1854-1860.  He says  all copies of outgoing letters written by the London Rothschilds during  this Civil War period “were destroyed at the orders of successive  partners”. [18]
 French and British troops had, at the height of the Civil War,  encircled the US.  The British sent 11,000 troops to Crown-controlled  Canada, which gave safe harbor to Confederate agents.  France’s Napoleon  III installed Austrian Hapsburg family member Archduke Maximilian as  his puppet emperor in Mexico, where French troops massed on the Texas  border.  Only an 11th-hour deployment of two Russian warship fleets by  US ally Czar Alexander II in 1863 saved the United States from  re-colonization. [19]  
 That same year the 
Chicago Tribune blasted, “Belmont (August  Belmont was a US Rothschild agent and had a Triple Crown horse race  named in his honor) and the Rothschilds…who have been buying up  Confederate war bonds.”
 Salmon Rothschild said of a deceased President Lincoln, “He rejects  all forms of compromise.  He has the appearance of a peasant and can  only tell barroom stories.”  Baron Jacob Rothschild was equally  flattering towards the US citizenry.  He once commented to US Minister  to Belgium Henry Sanford on the over half a million Americans who died  during the Civil War, “When your patient is desperately sick, you try  desperate measures, even to bloodletting.”  Salmon and Jacob were merely  carrying forth a family tradition.  A few generations earlier Mayer  Amschel Rothschild bragged of his investment strategy, “When the streets  of Paris are running in blood, I buy”. [20]
 Mayer Rothschild’s sons were known as the Frankfurt Five.  The eldest  – Amschel – ran the family’s Frankfurt bank with his father, while  Nathan ran London operations.  Youngest son Jacob set up shop in Paris,  while Salomon ran the Vienna branch and Karl was off to Naples.  Author  Frederick Morton estimates that by 1850 the Rothschilds were worth over  $10 billion. [21]  Some researchers believe that their fortune today  exceeds $100 trillion.
 The Warburgs, Kuhn Loebs, Goldman Sachs, Schiffs and Rothschilds have  intermarried into one big happy banking family.  The Warburg family-  which controls Deutsche Bank and BNP
- tied up with the  Rothschilds in 1814 in Hamburg, while Kuhn Loeb powerhouse Jacob Schiff  shared quarters with Rothschilds in 1785.  Schiff immigrated to America  in 1865.  He joined forces with Abraham Kuhn and married Solomon Loeb’s  daughter.  Loeb and Kuhn married each others sisters and the Kuhn Loeb  dynasty was consummated.  Felix Warburg married Jacob Schiff’s  daughter.  Two Goldman daughters married two sons of the Sachs family,  creating Goldman Sachs.  In 1806 Nathan Rothschild married the oldest  daughter of Levi Barent Cohen, a leading financier in London. [22]   Thus, Merrill Lynch super-bull Abby Joseph Cohen and Clinton Secretary  of Defense William Cohen are likely descended from Rothschilds.
 Today the Rothschild’s control a far-flung financial empire, which  includes majority stakes in most world central banks.  The Edmond de  Rothschild clan owns the 
Banque Privee SA in Lugano, Switzerland and the Rothschild Bank AG of Zurich.  The family of Jacob Lord Rothschild owns the powerful 
Rothschild Italia  in Milan.  They are founding members of the exclusive $10 trillion Club  of the Isles – which controls corporate giants Royal Dutch Shell,  Imperial Chemical Industries, Lloyds of London, Unilever, Barclays,  Lonrho, Rio Tinto Zinc, BHP Billiton and Anglo American DeBeers. It  dominates the world supply of petroleum, gold, diamonds, and many other  vital raw materials. [23]
 The Club of the Isles provides capital for George Soros’ Quantum Fund  NV – which made substantial financial gains in 1998-99 following the  collapse of currencies of Thailand, Indonesia and Russia.  Soros was a  major shareholder at George W. Bush’s Harken Energy.  The Club of Isles  is led by the Rothschilds and includes Queen Elizabeth II and other  wealthy European aristocrats and Nobility.[24]
 Perhaps the largest repository for Rothschild wealth today is  Rothschilds Continuation Holdings AG – a secretive Swiss-based bank  holding company.  By the late 1990s scions of the Rothschild global  empire were Barons Guy and Elie de Rothschild in France and Lord Jacob  and Sir Evelyn Rothschild in Britain. [25]  
 Evelyn was chairman of the 
Economist and a director at DeBeers and IBM UK.  
 Jacob backed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s California gubernatorial  campaign.  He took control of Khodorkovsky’s YUKOS oil shares just  before the Russian government arrested him.  In 2010 Jacob joined Rupert  Murdoch in a shale oil extraction partnership in Israel through Genie  Energy – a subsidiary of IDT Corporation. [26]  
 Within months, Sarah Palin had hired former IDT executive Michael  Glassner as her chief of staff. [27]  Is Palin the Rothschild choice in  2012?