Lincoln and Kennedy Assassinations

John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln each attempted to extract American currency away from the private banking interests (who eventually formed the Federal Reserve in 1913) and back into the U.S. Treasury.

The banking interests in the Kennedy years (through today) are the same intergenerational dynasty of foreign banking families in the Lincoln years, in the 1800s.

On February 25, 1862, President Lincoln authorized the printing of greenback notes from the U.S. Treasury, backed by silver, in the form of silver certificate notes. This fostered growth that could not be taxed and controlled by foreign banking interests. Needless to say, this action angered the international banking dynasty families.

Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865.

In 1886, a group of millionaires purchased Jekyll Island, off the coast of Georgia, and converted it into a retreat, the USA’s most exclusive club. By 1900, the club’s roster represented 1/6th of the world’s wealth, with members such as Astor, Vanderbilt, Morgan, Pulitzer and Gould on the club’s register.

In 1908, J.P. Morgan (purportedly) created a national money panic, whereby, Congress established a National Monetary Authority.

In 1910, a secret group was formed consisting of the chiefs of major corporations and banks in this country. The group left secretly by rail from Hoboken, New Jersey, and traveled anonymously to the hunting lodge on Jekyll Island, where they laid the groundwork, primarily drafted by (international German banker) Paul Warburg, for what would eventually be called the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) -- the new central bank could not be called a central bank because America did not want one, so it had to be given a deceptive name. A majority of Fed members were to be selected by the private banks that would own its stock.  To keep the public from thinking that the Federal Reserve would be controlled from New York, a system of 12 regional banks was designed. Given the concentration of money and credit in New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York basically controlled the system, although, it was portrayed as a regional concept, which was a ruse.

Thus, the Federal Reserve System was created (orchestrated) in 1910 and codified by Congress in 1913 to become a reality.

Also, in 1913, the personal income tax system went into effect as part of the new system. This allowed the banking interests to inflame the nation's citizens to become involved in the European War in 1914 (World War I). The bankers financed and profited from both sides of the war -- just as they had also financed and profited from both sides in World War II, a couple of decades later.

Since 1776, the USA has been at war 222 out of 239 years. International bankers and many others prosper from global conflict, much of which they manipulate into occurring. For some, war is good.

President Kennedy often made remarks about the negative covert influence of the Fed and of the nefarious covert actions of the CIA. He had expressed the desire to abolish the Fed and curtail (renegade) CIA activities.

"The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society… There is a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot." John F. Kennedy

In November of 1961, President Kennedy halted the sales of silver from the U.S. Treasury. Until then, the silver within the U.S. Treasury was rapidly being sold off at very low prices.

President Kennedy then drafted a bill (H.R. 5389) to authorize the printing of silver certificate notes from the U.S. Treasury to replace the depletion of silver from the Treasury.

In June of 1963, the same day the bill became law, Kennedy issued Executive Order 11,110 which authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to issue silver certificate notes, without any input from the Federal Reserve.

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

President Lincoln angered the banking dynasties and was assassinated -- President Kennedy angered the banking dynasties and was assassinated.

Perhaps, it was simply a coincidence?

Ironically, there is an additional remarkable set of coincidences between President John Kennedy and President Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.

Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Lincoln was elected President in 1860.

Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.

Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.

Sometime prior to Lincoln's assassination -- he was in Monroe, Maryland.

Sometime prior to Kennedy's assassination -- he was with Marilyn Monroe.

Both Presidents were shot in the head on a Friday.

Lincoln was assassinated in a theater named Ford.

Kennedy was assassinated in a limousine made by Ford.

Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.

Lyndon Johnson, succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

Both alleged assassins had three names of 15 letters.

John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839.

Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939.

Booth ran from a theater, was caught in a warehouse.

Oswald ran from a warehouse, was caught in a theater.

Both assassins were assassinated before their trials.

In 1976, the House Select Committee on Assassination investigated the Kennedy assassination, concluding that President Kennedy was probably assassinated by a conspiracy involving the mob, and potentially the CIA.

And if that is true, the mob or the CIA could have conspired to do it at the behest (under the direction or manipulation) of the banking dynasty cabal.

Or perhaps, a coincidence is merely a coincidence?

Sometimes it's hard to believe in coincidence. Perhaps, a coincidence or synchronicity is a supernatural way of drawing our attention to hidden truths.

Follow the money.

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Quote for the Day – "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values." John F. Kennedy

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Bret Burquest is the author of 12 books. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a few dogs and an imaginary girlfriend named Tequila Mockingbird.

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Thanksgiving

On December 4, 1619, the first Thanksgiving celebration was held in America at the Berkeley Plantation in Virginia. Thirty-eight English settlers attended the event. It was part of their original charter to set aside one day every year to observe a day of thanksgiving for their annual harvest.

Due to hardships and other factors, the annual festivities lasted only one year.

On December 11, 1620, 102 Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. The first winter was brutal. Nearly half died from starvation and illness.

The following summer, assisted by friendly Indians, the survivors reaped a bountiful harvest. To show their appreciation, Governor William Bradford invited nearly 100 Indians to join the Pilgrims in a feast of thanksgiving, starting on December 13, 1621, and lasting for three days.

Two years later, the Pilgrims were hit with a draught. One day they gathered to pray for rain. The next morning it started to rain and didn’t stop for several days.

With the crops saved, Governor Bradford, being the party animal he was, declared another day of thanksgiving. Once again the Indians were invited.

As other settlers arrived to the colonies, they too held their own thanksgiving celebrations, each independent of the other.

In 1668, the prevailing government decided to get involved, as governments tend to do, declaring November 25 to be the official Thanksgiving Day. This proclamation lasted only five years.

The first national celebration of Thanksgiving occurred in 1777. It was a one-time event to celebrate the American victory over the British at Saratoga.

Americans love to celebrate wars, which may be why they participate in so many of them.

In 1789, President George Washington created a proclamation declaring Thanksgiving a national event, to be held on the first Thursday of November. Apparently, the first President of the USA was a party animal too.

John Adams, the second President, moved Thanksgiving from Thursday to the previous Wednesday.

Politicians are often meddlesome blockheads who believe that making changes, whether they make sense or not, are a sign of leadership. Later in his tenure, Adams moved it back to Thursday.

Not being much of a party animal, the Third President, Thomas Jefferson, was opposed to Thanksgiving and cancelled the national festivities.

Finally, in July of 1863, shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.

Over the next 75 years, every President followed Lincoln’s precedent, annually declaring a national Thanksgiving Day.

Then in 1941, when Congress had a majority of party animals in attendance, they permanently established the fourth Thursday of November as a national holiday called Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving is a tradition in my family. Some of last year’s activities included:

• Built a pyramid of empty beer cans at halftime of football game.

• Performed the Heimlich maneuver on my nephew to remove a walnut.

• Moved a couch over the spot where the cat threw up to avoid a messy cleanup.

• Debated Uncle Earl about the impact of global warming on Japanese baseball.

• Wrestled with my brother to see who got the wishbone.

• After dinner we set up the Christmas tree in anticipation of the next holiday in line.

• Most of us took a short nap, except for Uncle Earl who kept debating by himself.

• Wrestled with my brother to see who got stuck driving crazy Aunt Edna to the airport.

• Scanned the Internet, looking for a list of symptoms of salmonella.

Thanksgiving is an occasion to thank Mother Earth for blessing us with a bountiful harvest and to thank Father Time for allowing us to enjoy life for another year. And to remind ourselves to start our annual diet, right after the New Year rolls in.

Life is a precious experience.

Be thankful for all the joy and sorrow it brings -- for without sorrow, there would be no joy.

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Quote for the Day – "Thanks for the memories." Bob Hope

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Bret Burquest is the author of 12 books. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a few dogs and is thankful for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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Being It

On January 14, 2011, Christian Heritage High School (Utah) beat West Ridge Academy (Utah) in a girl's basketball game by the score of 108-3.

Even though Christian Heritage High thought it would be disrespectful to slow down the game, there were endless remarks about the ugliness and unsportsmanlike conduct in the outcome of the game by various national sports and news talking heads.

A similar event took place in January of 2009.

Dallas Academy High School in Texas had only 20 girls in attendance and 8 members on the girl's varsity basketball team. They hadn't won a game in more than 4 years.

On January 10, 2009, Dallas Academy played Covenant School in a girl's varsity basketball game. Both are private, parochial schools.

Covenant School beat Dallas Academy 100 to zero.

Micah Grimes was in his fourth season as coach of the Covenant High School Girls Varsity Basketball Team. The team had a record of 2-19 in his first season and he built the program into a state championship contender by the 2009 season.

Covenant often plays larger out-of-district school and had a 6-3 record for the 2008-2009 season so far that year.

When the score was 25-0 against Dallas Academy, Grimes called off Covenant's full-court defensive pressure and began resting starters.

The score was 59-0 at halftime.

In the fourth quarter, Covenant only scored 12 points, totally ceasing scoring in the last four minutes once they reached 100.

Kyle Queal, head of Covenant Academy, subsequently issued an apology to Dallas Academy and offered to forfeit the game -- "It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened.... A victory without honor is a great loss."

The following Sunday, January 25, 2009, Coach Grimes posted the following statement on a youth basketball website.

"I respectfully disagree with the apology, especially that the Covenant School Girl's Basketball Team should feel embarrassed or ashamed. We played the game as it was meant to be played and would not intentionally run up the score on any opponent. My girls played with honor and integrity and showed respect to Dallas Academy."

Shortly thereafter on the same day, Coach Grimes was fired.

Later, Covenant School posted a statement on their website seeking the "forgiveness of Dallas Academy" while expressing their "regrets" for the "shameful" outcome of the game. "This clearly does not reflect a Christ-like approach to competition."

A Christ-like approach to competition?

Is it a Christ-like approach to fire someone for properly doing their job?

Is everyone in Texas insane?

One of the freshman players on the Dallas Academy team, Shelby Hyatt, was asked about the game -- "Even if you're losing, you might as well keep playing. Keep trying and it's going to be okay."

Well, apparently everyone in Texas isn't insane after all.

Recently, a school district in California banned the game of tag from grade school playgrounds. They felt that someone had to be “it” and would thereby get their feelings hurt, thus creating victims with low self-esteem.

Self-esteem is a confidence and satisfaction in oneself. It comes from what we think of ourselves. Basically, you are what you think you are. The higher your self-esteem, the more confidence and satisfaction you possess.

People with high self-esteem respect themselves, thereby gaining respect from others.

• To have high self-esteem, you must realistically accept who and what you are, and have a feeling of worth and competency.

• You must be capable of meeting life’s challenge and believe you’re worthy of happiness.

People with low self-esteem often withdraw within themselves or try to prove themselves by impressing others.

• They lack confidence, hence avoid exposing themselves to failure, or become arrogant and egotistical to make up for their shortcomings.

• They’ll often blame others rather than take responsibility for their own actions.

Nothing builds self-esteem like accomplishment. Sports are an endeavor in achievement. As in life, there are winners and losers. The lesson to be learned in any competition is to win with honor and to lose with grace. You give it your best effort and live with the consequences.

Some signs you may be suffering from low self-esteem are:

• You’re not only afraid of heights but are also afraid of widths.

• You consider indecision to be the key to flexibility.

• Sometimes you stop to think, then forget to start again.

• Your imaginary friend is smarter and better looking than you.

• You used to be indecisive, but now you’re not so sure.

• If at first you don’t succeed, you blame it on the vast right-wing conspiracy.

• You believe that reality is the leading cause of stress.

• When you finally get it all together, you forget where you put it.

• You believe that growing old is inevitable but growing up is optional.

• You always wanted to be a procrastinator but never got around to it.

• You don’t suffer from low self-esteem – you enjoy every minute of it.

• You were “it” once playing tag as a child and it ruined your life.

Life is a series of trials and tribulations – sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes you’re “it.”

Embrace the experience and move on -- in only two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

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Quote for the Day – "Sports does not build character -- it reveals it." John Wooden

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Bret Burquest is the author of 12 books. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a few dogs and where "it" often refers to "that thing over yonder".

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Armadillo Antics

There's a tool shed in my backyard about the size and shape of a typical outhouse. We no longer have use for the outhouse around here, typical or otherwise, since we discovered the miracle of indoor plumbing.

Under the tool shed lives an armadillo. His name is Armando.

The word ‘armadillo’ comes from the Latin word ‘arma,’ meaning wearing armor, and the Latin word ‘dillo’ meaning a very weird thing. In other words, an armadillo is a very weird thing wearing armor, much like Nancy Pelosi if she were wearing armor.

It's basically a small animal, about the size of a pregnant sewer rat, that looks like a miniature brontosaurus afflicted with the shingles.

Armando and I have much in common. We both sleep all day and come out late at night.

I like to gaze at the stars and Armando likes to waddle around the premises in the dark, scratching the ground in search of edible tidbits.

My dog, Buddy Lee, considers Armando to be an intruder.

Armando considers Buddy Lee to be 22 pounds of buffoonery with four legs.

Buddy Lee circles Armando, pretending to be formidable.

Armando ignores such nonsense, knowing he's impervious to an attack because he has the ability to instantaneously curl up into a facsimile of a bowling ball.

Many armadillos occupy my property, about eight acres of hilly woods. They seem to delight in digging holes small enough to be hidden from normal peripheral vision yet large enough to twist an adult ankle, about the size of my ankle, if that adult isn’t careful where he or she steps.

Not only are armadillos hanging out with me, but they also seem to be prevalent throughout the surrounding region. I took an informal, unscientific survey last month of the roadways within five miles of my country estate, keeping a running tally on road-kill whenever I ventured out into the real world. Over a period of 30 days, I counted 11 armadillos, 7 possums, 4 raccoons, and a banana peel.

In terms of road-kill, armadillos are either incredibly abundant or possibly suicidal.

Armadillos are closely related to the anteater and come in about 20 varieties. All varieties have an armored shell for defense. The two most common models are the three-banded and nine-banded variety. The three-banded ones are the only ones capable of curling up into a ball as a defense mechanism.

Because armadillos have a low metabolic rate, with virtually no fat reserves, they can’t survive in colder climates. Native to South America, they’re found in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas and Arkansas. In fact, the armadillo is the state mammal of Texas.

If I’m not mistaken, the state mammal of Louisiana is the red-necked yahoo.

Much like the Housewives of Beverly Hills, the armadillo spends a great deal of its time foraging for food. While the Housewives of Beverly Hills dine on French cuisine and hot fudge sundaes, the armadillo prefers insects, grubs and small vertebrates.

Armadillos have very few teeth, which contain no enamel, that are similar to peg-like molars. Since they primarily eat insects, they don’t have to do a lot of heaving chewing anyway. Like most insect eating mammals, they have a very long, sticky tongue to gather up tiny creatures as quickly as possible.

Armadillos have one of the most unique reproductive features in nature. They always give birth to four identical young, the only mammal known to do so. All four young develop from the same egg and even share the same placenta in the womb. Breeding occurs in July and the embryo remains in a dormant state until November. The four young are born in a burrow in March. All four young are identical quadruplets, always the same sex.

Some female armadillos, mostly ones used in research, have given birth long after they were captured, sometimes up to two years later -- these so-called ‘virgin births’ are a result of the female’s ability to delay implantation of the fertilized egg during times of stress.

By the way, it’s illegal to own an armadillo in Kansas or Missouri, and all road-kill in Oklahoma is legal tender.

Buddy Lee discovered the wonderful world of the skunk one night not long ago. It has given him a greater appreciation of random critters roaming about.

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Quote for the Day – “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” Winston Churchill

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Bret Burquest is the author of 12 books. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a few dogs and where armadillos flourish.

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