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Mike Moschos's avatar

What that documentary and many other works dont know is that the creation of the Fed in 1913 didnt actually fully centralize American banking and finance (that didnt come until roughly fifty years after its creation in 1913). First off, the Fed was originally created in a decentralized form, it wasnt until 1935 that it was centralized. And then there was pushback after that where for several years it was effectively nullified and its functions placed back into the Treasury. But the real destruction of the Classical American system didnt come until the advent of the so called Neoliberal Era during the latter 1960s to mid 1980s when the geographic, societal, and sectoral capital diffusers -- the strongest pieces of which were outside of the central bank policy and were their own constructs -- were destroyed, and those diffusers were the most key decentralizing mechanisms in banking/finance

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Interesting post, great thanks for reading.

I will note a two of points with which I disagree.

Firstly, there is no English constitution, everything is decided by changeable informal conventions and usages, so the situation that the Bank of England is controlled by the Rothschilds is not surprising. The City has shadow legal power and this is acknowledged in prestigious academic works - Luke Bretherton, Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

As for the Bolsheviks, it seems to me that you clearly underestimate role Jews (including Jewish women's) in the early USSR:

«The Jews would indeed play an important role in the Bolshevik Revolution of

1917. At the first All-Russian Congress of Soviets nearly one-third of

Bolshevik delegates were Jews; at the Bolshevik Central Committee meeting

that voted on 23 October 1917 to carry out an armed rising, Jews made up

five out of the twelve members present. Three out of the seven Politbureau

members (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Sokolnikov) who led the uprising were Jewish.

So, too, were the first two heads of the Soviet State, Lev Kamenev and

Yaacov Sverdlov. Kamenev also ran the Moscow Party, while Zinoviev was

the first President of the Communist International and Bolshevik Party chief

in Petrograd. According to Yuri Slezkine, over 50% of leading Party officials

in Petrograd in 1918 were Jews, as well as 45% of city and provincial

Bolshevik officials. In Moscow, in 1923, the figures were not much different.

Jews made up 29 percent of the Bolshevik “leading cadres.” At that time

Jews also represented 15 percent of all leading secret police officials and half

of the top echelon of the Cheka Secretariat.[39] If that were not enough, many

of the leading non-Jewish Bolsheviks (including Bukharin, Dzierzynnski,

Lunacharsky, Kirov, Rykov, Voroshilov, and Molotov) were married to

Jewish women.» – Robert S. Wistrich, From Ambivalence to Betrayal

The Left, the Jews, and Israel. University of Nebraska Press, 2012

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