05/18/2002 Archived Entry: "Phoenix & the FBI; Kennedy & the Dollar"

Phoenix rising:

The Los Angeles Times on Saturday named the Phoenix FBI agent who became suspicious about Middle Eastern men taking flying lessons in the U.S., and quoted colleagues as saying Kenneth Willliams is such a good agent that his warnings should have been heeded. Federal law enforcement sources told the newspaper that Williams is a mild-mannered 10-year veteran with a gift for counterterrorism.

The Phoenix-based agent couldn’t be reached for comment by the L.A. Times about the July 2001 warning, and FBI spokesmen in Phoenix and Washington would not confirm that Williams was the one who wrote the memo. But his former colleagues at the FBI told the L.A. Times that Williams' knowledge of terrorism alone should have been enough for superiors to immediately act on his suspicions. "Nobody listened to him," the Times quotes one top former FBI official as saying. "Anyone in FBI management who wouldn't take what Ken Williams said seriously is a fool," said Ronald Myers, who served for 31 years in the FBI before retiring in 2000. "If Ken says something, it's true."

This isn't really new "news" that's happened. Just new to the mainstream. The loony-left and right-wingnuts have had this news out there for a while. Of course, it's laced with fanaticism and paranoia at times, but there are kernels there of the truth. McKinney... and here's the obsessed Clinton-hater Schippers back in October, 2000: (Question #2-- 10/10/01, We're discussing FBI agents across the country having prior knowledge of the attacks...). It's interesting that Shelby is right now out, deflecting criticism from Bush, while attacking the FBI's competency --"I think it was a lost opportunity if you put it all in context, not just the briefing of the President but the FBI is involved here and I think they could have done a better job but they didn’t"-- this gives you some background as to why.

AJ: Now you say, from your sources, I know you represent a bunch of FBI agents who are hopping mad, you probably can't talk about the specifics, you say you are representing them. Are they getting ready to sue or something?

DS: Well they are hoping to, but what do you sue for? What I'm trying to do is get the people in Washington - you see these agents can't come out. The only information that I have is information that is public knowledge. They can't tell me anything that is confidential or anything that is secret, or anything like that. I'm talking about what is public knowledge and these guys can't say anything unless they are subpoenaed.

AJ: That's why you want to get into a court.

DS: I don't want to get into a court. I want to get them into the intelligence committee. I want to get them to talk to the Attorney General, to Gov. Ridge, to General Downing or to somebody who has the ability or the authority to go to the FBI bureaucrats and say "Butt out!" - we are going to do this right...

AJ: So when you are talking to these people at the Dept. of Justice, folks at Congress, what do they say?

DS: They say, that's wonderful, we'll get right back to you. I have never got a call back. I was on a radio program out east, Pittsburgh, and I just hinted that the FBI was sitting on information when they should have been sharing it with others and, as a result, there was a breakdown in intelligence. And the next morning, I got a call from the office of the Speaker of the House, who happens to be an Illinois Republican.

AJ: Hastert.

DS: Yes, Hastert. They hadn't heard the show but they said we understand you've got some information, etc. I said, yes I do, I would really like to share it with somebody. I have at least two and maybe three witnesses that should be subpoenaed to come out there and testify in executive session and tell you what I was talking about. Ok. We'll get back to you. Never heard from them. Couple of days later, I got a call from the Senate Intelligence Committee. We hear that you've got information, etc. Yes, I have information and I'd be perfectly willing to bring it out to you. I'd be perfectly willing to have my witnesses go in there and testify but they have to be subpoenaed. And by the way, I will not talk to staffers because the staffers don't tell the Congressman what they found out. Ok, we'll get back to you. That was last week, I still haven't heard from them.

I never have really gotten into the Kennedy assassination conspiracies, beyond seeing Stone's movie, and visiting the scene in Dallas. But I ran across something somewhere tonight, and then tracked down some of the rest of the story through various google sources. I still didn't find out about the printings that happened between 1964 and it's ending in 1971, but here is this:

Kennedy
On June 4, 1963 Kennedy signed an executive order that had the very real potential of removing the ability of the Federal Reserve from issuing the nations money. Executive order 11110, signed by President Kennedy, gave the US Treasury the authority to print interest free United States Notes. This had the potential of removing the Federal Reserve out of the money creation business, as it placed United States Notes in direct competition with Federal Reserve Notes, an act not to be tolerated by the International Industrial Cartel, who also happen to be the owners of all of the Federal Reserve Class A Stock.

The bankers of the Federal Reserve System print paper money, then lend it to the government at an interest. Kennedy signed an executive order issuing over $4 billion in currency notes through the U.S. Treasury, thus bypassing the Fed's bankers and the hundreds of millions of dollars in interest that would normally be paid out to them. These "United States Notes" were quickly withdrawn after JFK's assassination.

Here is a list of the owners of the Federal Reserve System.

CitiBank - 20.51
Chase Manhattan - 16.79
Chemical Bank - 15.56
Morgan Guaranty Trust - 8.87
Bankers Trust - 4.86
Republic National Bank - 4.6
Bank of New York - 4.46
Marine Midland Bank N.A. - 4.15
National Westminister Bank - 2.94
Mid-Atlantic National Bank - 2.76
United Jersey Bank - .58
Key Bank, USA - .08
All Other New York Banks - 13.83

Total Outstanding Shares 19,742,655**

The thing about Kennedy's executive order, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal debt have another angle, that is worth noting. There are people who make money off of the US going into debt, a lot of money, through the interest payments. As the deficit goes higher, they make even more money. In fact, the Gov't is attempting right now to increase the debt load that the US can have, which would result in more taxes going toward interest payments. There is something to this. However, this conspiracy becomes overloaded with assumptions and statements that have been weighted down with trying to make sure all the pieces fit. "If it won't sell, if it doesn't fit their theories then they will make it up."

I have a Dr. friend that does mutual funds and stocks ($150k of "play money"). He took it all out this last week, about time.

The dollar fell sharply to calendar year lows against leading currencies on Friday... The dollar's weakness pushed the euro to a high of $0.9216, its strongest level in seven months. Against the yen, the dollar fell to Y125.56, its lowest level in about five months. The dollar's slide gathered pace after it broke below 113.5 - its calendar year low - on a trade weighted basis, triggering heavy selling. The index stood at 113.07.

Bankruptcy filings at record levels: Personal bankruptcy filings rose 15.2 percent to a total of nearly 1.5 million in the 12 months ended March 31, the Administrative Office of the US Courts reported yesterday. Filings by businesses rose 10.7 percent to 39,845, including Enron's on Dec. 2. Individuals account for about 97 percent of all bankruptcy filings.

Deconstructing the National Debt means understanding the difference between GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and BFAP (Bush Fantasyland Accounting Principles). According to BFAP, the figure for the publicly stated National Debt is $5.65 trillion. When the National Debt is deconstructed in terms of GAAP, however, you'll find that the accumulated National Debt is closer to $14 trillion.