For more than a century, powerful institutions — including international banks, the Vatican, and the British Crown — secretly took control of the American government by turning it into a set of corporations. When the U.S. went bankrupt in the 1930s, these corporations used people’s birth certificates to create financial “trusts” in each person’s name. These trusts were treated as assets, allowing governments and banks to borrow money and impose taxes and regulations without people knowing what was actually happening.

This corporate system has been running the country ever since, while making it appear as though the constitutional government was still in place.