"The problem politically is that control of the U.S. long ago was turned over to the bankers and the financiers... it's the same phenomenon that first created and then ruined the British Empire, and it's what created and is now ruining the American Empire today. A side-effect of control by the bankers and financiers is that they are also Zionists, so we have the added multi-trillion dollar burden of trying to conquer the Middle East on behalf of the international oil interests and the state of Israel.

The American people...have been so lulled to sleep by the financier-owned media that we have allowed these disasters to take place and are now reaping the consequences. We have been the fodder for their wars and the signers of their loans... The bankers and financiers do not care if nations and empires destroy themselves and each other, because they are internationalists. In fact, the more war and mass starvation there is the better off they feel. All they need is a base from which to operate." -- Richard Cook