Crushing America in Brief The first salvo was the Bank of the United States, a very early Rothschild operation, which got pooh-pooh'd into oblivion by Andrew Jackson in 1836. Then came the Civil War and the expansion of Presidential and central (Washington) power. This was orchestrated by Abraham Lincoln, who was only doing what had been made necessary by others. The war was in large part a Rothschild operation, both strategic and vindictive in character. Then came the income tax amendment (1909-1913) and the Federal Reserve Act (1913). Both of these were Rothschild-Rockefeller orchestrations. Republican whip Nelson Aldrich, a senator...