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I posted a comment about Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Rose earlier today and almost immediately regretted doing it because it made it seem I had accepted as a legitimate activity the giant fraud of Demo vs Repub political wrangles. That whole thing, as others have observed, is a dog-and-pony show designed to engage and bemuse the "voters," convince them they are doing something effective by voting, and divert their energies from anything that might be truly important.

Such as what?

Such as the nature of our money system and its flagrant iniquity. I ought to resolve here and now to stick to that topic. But it's hard to do. It goes dessicate and boring in a hell of a hurry, partly because one can't match the iniquity of the thing with a sufficient power of rhetoric, and partly because, well, for most human beings it simply IS dry and dusty. Money is great to spend, but who wants to just talk about it and who can bear the excruciating details of its creation and distribution.

But on we must go, and keep trying to enlighten the great mass of the citizenry as to the way they are being diddled, ripped off, and generally hosed by the money masters.

My point for today: I recently bought from Amazon a book, "Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century" by F. William Engdahl (Edition Engdahl, Wiesbaden,Germany, 2011). I haven't read the book yet but have already discovered that Engdahl has produced evidence for a story I had heard of years ago but always in such a mysterious context that you could never be sure whether it was true or not.

Engdahl reproduces on his page 250 a text of Executive Order No. 11110 on the letterhead of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, issued by him on June 4, 1963. Engdahl (who has got to be on the CIA's Most Unpopular People List) suggests this Order may have cost JFK his life and further states flatly that Kennedy was killed by a CIA hit team (also page 250). He supports this by citing William Dankbaar, "Files on JFK: Interviews with confessed assassin James E. Files" (Victoria, BC, Trafford Publishing, 2005).

The language of Order 11110 is quite technical; it amends an earlier Order, No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, and cites "paragraph b of Section 43 of an Act of May 12, 1933 as amended (31 U.S.C. 821 (b), and so on.

But the result of the order was that the Treasury very soon issued in denominations of $5 and $10 about $4.3 billion of interest-free United States Notes (not Federal Reserve Notes), with $10 and $2o notes expected to follow. They never did. Kennedy's successor, Johnson. or at least his administration, stopped the issuance of the silver notes and withdrew the notes that had already been issued. The whole thing was then dropped down the Memory Hole.