A recent talking point re-emerges in another light....

[Paul Mackin]

On 1/24/2012 12:53 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:
> Yes, I've heard what I dismissed as paranoid tales about the Fed,
> mostly connecting it with the dread "Illuminati" ("Yes, yes. Thirteen
> of us rule the world"--and all that rot) for a couple of decades, now.
> I don't really need a conspiracy to believe that banks are out to do
> no one but themselves much by way of actual good, but that doesn't
> mean they're not out to get us. It seems, and the current evidence
> against and the inaccessibility of the rotters who so recently trashed
> the world economy suggests, that the upper echelons of the banking
> cartels--in this case, specifically of the Fed--operate in a safe and
> secure remove from the world. To my knowledge, only Iceland so far has
> prosecuted any bankers, and I do not think they have been able to
> bring any but their own to account.
>
> Uff! down the rabbit hole.
>
> The reason I posted this here, specifically, was the Kennedy speech
> I'd posted a few weeks back appears again at the end of this piece
> juxtaposed as if directed specifically against the banking cartels,
> rather than against the "Communists" who were already the bug-bears of
> the previous decade. I think everyone knows that Kennedy was a Cold
> Warrior. That one's been pretty well worked into dumb acceptance. But,
> is it possible he was the last President to actually set himself
> against the Fed and the banking mafia? Was his paranoia speech a
> cryptic warning regarding something the American public wasn't already
> paranoid about at the time? Was it really just a toss-off blah-blah to
> the newsies trying to get them off his back so he could diddle Marilyn
> in peace? I mean, just askin'.

A couple things to think about:

1.  Executive Order 11110 was no threat to the Fed nor its money 
creation function.

2.  If it's the secret societies speech we discussed a few weeks ago, he 
was talking about the press not giving away secrets to the Russians. 
It's SO obvious, to any one but a true conspiracy theorist.

3.  The press was never an obstacle to Kennedy's carrying on of his 
affairs.*

Sorry to be so DISAGREEable.

P





*On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Recently, I read a very interesting book about this situation. It's called
>> "The Creature From Jekyll Island", by G. Edward Griffin. Not being that
>> well-informed about the operations and history of the Federal Reserve system
>> aside from this book and what I've read about the financial situation in the
>> last few years, including some books by Michael Lewis and the barrage of
>> news articles, I can't say whether his views are all correct, but the
>> history is very interesting.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Ian Livingston<igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USGSOViaulc
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
>>> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
>>> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
>>> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
>>> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> www.innergroovemusic.com
>
>

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