Jordan Maxwell - Matrix Of Power how the world has been controlled by powerful people without your knowledge

PART ONE
OVERVIEW
So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very dif -
ferent personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind
the scenes.
—Benjamin Disraeli, first Prime Minister of England,
in his book Coningsby
At one time or another we've all questioned as to whether all that we see and
are experiencing in our world has some sort of a rational plan behind it, because we
understand now that both the Republican and Democratic Parties in America are
basically run by the same people. The same money finances both sides. We now
know through the work of many historians who have spent their lives working on
research, that both sides of world conflicts have always been financed by the same
people. And, as I've said many times before, this seems to be the method to the
"madness" going on in the world. We know, of course, that we cannot depend on
the truthfulness our leaders. Our leaders are "misleaders." There is a science they
are following. They have their own agenda - and it does not include you.
This agenda also does not include many of our politicians, who have sometimes
felt helpless and spoke out as a result. In 1922, New York City Mayor John F. Hylan
said, "The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which, like a
giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus
of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen.... At the head of this
octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful
banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of
powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their
own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties." What I have
said, however, is that they do control both parties, among many other things in the
world.
Conflicts require money and cooperation. World conflicts require world banks
and international monetary funds. Professional groups all have fraternal orders.
Doctors, attorneys, etc., have their own specific fraternal orders. In the banking
world, it is the same way. They have the same fraternal order in banking and poli-
tics. However, we are not supposed to know anything about that, because that's not
any of our business. That fraternal order in politics and banking has been known for
many years by those on the inside. It has been referred to by different names, at dif-
ferent times, in different countries. The best overall name that we can confer on this
fraternal order, which is running our country, politics, and monetary system, is
Freemasonry.
Our country, like so many before us, and like so many after us, was in fact
founded by Freemasons. Freemasonry, in one form or another, has played a role in
almost every government that was founded in this world. It is powerful in opera-
tion today throughout the world. However, we do want to establish first that what
we are not talking about is Blue Masonry, or the Masonic Lodges in your home-
town. We are not talking about the Freemasons that live across the street from you.
We're talking about a worldwide fraternal organization that is powerful enough, old
enough, and wise enough to operate behind all governments in the world, behind
fraternal institutions, and behind international monetary systems in the world. And,
yes, they are, in fact, connected.