-- General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant,1935
John F. Kennedy understood the predatory nature of private central banking and paid the ultimate price, partly as a result of trying to do something about it.
Kennedy understood why Andrew Jackson fought so hard to end the Second Bank of the United States. So Kennedy wrote, and signed, Executive Order 11110 which ordered the US Treasury to issue a new public currency, the United States Note (i.e. Kennedy's "greenback.')
Kennedy's United States Notes were not borrowed from the Federal Reserve but were instead created by the US Government and backed by the silver stockpiles held by the US Government. These notes represented a return to the system of economics on which the United States had been founded, and were perfectly legal for our government to issue. All told, some four and one-half billion new dollars went into public circulation, thereby eroding interest payments to the banksters of the privately-owned Federal Reserve and, much to the consternation of the Fed's owners, this loosened the Fed's control over the nation's economy. Five months later John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and United States Notes were quickly pulled from circulation and destroyed (except for samples held by collectors). Bankster John J. McCloy, president of Chase Manhattan Bank, and president of the World Bank, was then named to the investigatory Warren Commission, presumably to make sure that the banking interests in league with those behind the assassination, remained concealed from the public.
As we enter the eleventh year of what future historians will most probably describe as the beginnings of World War III, we need to more carefully examine the financial legerdemain behind previous wars .
Towards the end of WWII, when it became obvious that the allies were going to win and therefore be able to dictate the postwar financial environment, the major world economic powers met at Bretton Woods, a luxury resort in New Hampshire (July, 1944), and hammered out the Bretton Woods agreement for international finance. By that time the British Pound had lost its position (as the global trade and reserve currency) to the US dollar, this being part of the price demanded by Roosevelt in exchange for America's entry into the war. Absent the economic advantages of being the world's "go-to" currency, Britain was forced to nationalize the Bank of England in 1946. The Bretton Woods agreement, ratified in 1945, in addition to making the dollar the global reserve and trade currency, obligated the signatory nations to tie their currencies to the dollar.
The nations that ratified Bretton Woods did so, on two conditions. The first was that the Federal Reserve would refrain from over-printing the dollar as a means of taking too many real products and produce from other nations (i.e. obtaining such products in exchange for the cost of the mere ink and paper that constituted such currency abundance, which basically would have been, in effect, a kind of imperial tax). That assurance was backed up by the second requirement, which was that the US dollar would always be convertible to gold at the rate of $35 per ounce.
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