The Death of the U.S. Dollar
History records that many national currencies have been
devalued and canceled. Is America's next?
By Ken Raggio
I wrote this original draft in 1998, and have now updated it. It is more relevant today than then.
I was in Washington
D.C. on a Saturday evening, walking down Pennsylvania Avenue
past the White House. In the next block is the World Bank, and next to
it, the International Monetary Fund headquarters. In the context of
D.C.’s sacred American history, I suddenly wondered why these
two non-American institutions - the World Bank and the IMF -
were positioned nearest the White House.
Suddenly, my mind was
conjuring the image of a book I read in 1973, entitled The Day the Dollar Dies
by Willard Cantelon. I met the author in
1971, a distinguished gentleman, a world traveler, and a student of
international money.
He was also an avid
student of Bible prophecy. His new book, The Day the Dollar Dies
spoke in shocking terms of the creation of an
International
Monetary Fund and a World Bank which, he said, would hasten the day
when national currencies would give way to a global monetary system,
and ultimately the “Mark of the Beast” system
mentioned in the book of Revelation.
The
International Monetary Fund, or IMF, was created at a pre-United
Nations conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in July, 1944.
It came into existence on December 27, 1945 (only two months after the
UN was born on October 24), and was established to promote
international monetary cooperation.
Following the
terrifying “Great Depression,” the world was
yearning for assurances that another financial collapse would not
occur. Among the purposes for the creation of the IMF was to ensure the
stability of the international monetary system.
According
to the Articles of Agreement, by which the IMF was established, it
would “assist in the establishment of a multilateral system
of payments”.
I heard Cantelon lecture in
those days, only two years after the IMF, in 1969, created an
instrument called “Special Drawing Rights” or SDRs.
Cantelon was quite alarmed at the essence of SDRs, because for the first
time in history, monetary exchanges were being made without currencies.
The
two strongest currencies of that day were 1. Gold, and 2. the U.S.
Dollar. Various international currencies often fluctuated wildly in
value, creating complex currency exchange.
Special
Drawing Rights were made available by the International Monetary Fund
to facilitate the exchange of foreign currencies with fluctuating
values. SDRs became something like a precursor to paperless currencies.
SDRs set a precedent. Monetary exchanges were being conducted without
money. The long-standing “Gold Standard” from the
past gave way to a paperless exchange system that would only evolve
further and further until almost no international transactions at all
would be conducted in real currencies.
The
Bretton Woods system collapsed after the U.S. Federal Government defaulted in 1971. Since that time, fiat currencies
have been entirely irredeemable for precious metals.
Ironically,
the IMF is now one of the world’s largest holders of real
gold – 3,217 metric TONS worth $45 Billion! When the Bretton
Woods system collapsed, the IMF required participating countries to
contribute their payments in real gold. As a result, the IMF has
sucked-up most of the world’s gold, leaving the world without
the ability to conduct business on a gold standard.
Coincidentally,
while rumors circulated that most of the gold in Fort Knox,
Kentucky had been hauled off, the U.S. Mint stopped
printing “Legal Tender” notes and
“Silver Certificates” (redeemable for metallic
silver).
The U.S. Treasury began printing
“Federal Reserve Notes,” which is generally
referred to as “fiat” money – with its
value defined by the government, not by the value of its metal base.
The U.S. Mint admits that Fort Knox now holds only 147.3
million ounces of gold, down from a high of 649.6 million ounces of
gold in 1941. The gold holdings have not been audited since
the 1950s. Many believe there are no longer any major gold reserves in
Fort Knox.
In the light of Bible prophecy, we can
see where these circumstances lead: a cashless society operating on an
international number system. Gary Allen, in a 1971 book
entitled, None Dare
Call It Conspiracy described the evolution of the
international banking system.
From the middle
ages, when mercenary “knights” conducted wars for
kings and kingdoms, a primitive banking system was conceived where
money was carried from country to country by armed soldiers. Meanwhile,
paper currency, representing gold and silver “in
reserve” circulated by mail carriers. The paper currencies
allowed the wealthy to do business while their actual gold, silver and
precious holdings were kept “in reserve” by
well-known, well-trusted businessmen who charged a fee for handling
their
“fiat” payment transactions.
Forbes
magazine describes Meyer Amschel Rothschild, (1744-1812) as one of the
top twenty most influential businessmen of all times. Rothschild is
known as the “Father of Modern Banking.” Rothschild
institutionalized the “reserve” system of money,
and became the first truly international banker. His five sons
established major international banks in London, Vienna,
Paris, Naples and Frankfurt, and the Rothschild name is forever linked
with the world money system.
Today, the World Bank
and the International Monetary Fund operate on an international banking
infrastructure that has evolved from the early days of the Rothschilds.
The IMF is comprised of 183 member nations, scarcely short of the full
191 UN memberships.
More significantly, both the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are arms of the
United Nations, under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and
Social Council. The symbiotic relationship between the United Nations
and the UN Economic and Social Council, and by extension, the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund, demonstrates the power of
world government over our future money system.
As
global governance rapidly takes precedence over nationalistic economic
policies,
it is easy to see how the United Nations will have the final say over
international currencies.
In much the same way that
the “Special Drawing Rights” (SDRs) in 1969
was
used to homogenize international currencies, the IMF of the near future
is likely to define the terms for international currencies to dissolve
into a single global monetary unit.
That newly
defined global monetary unit will easily transpose into a cashless,
paperless, computerized, individualized, neo-SDR!
In
the New World Monetary Order, the international
“currency” will be the
equivalent of a
Special Drawing Right that is likely to be based on a biometric RFID
(Radio Frequency ID) chip implanted in the human body and identifiable
by a number system.
World Government will own the
World Money System at that time.
Through the UN
Economic and Social Council, which presides over the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund and a whole organization of other financial
entities, the New World Order will be able to authoritatively
implement and enforce the terms of a new international monetary
system, regardless of the objections or participation
(or non-participation) of the world’s countries.
Dr.
Ralph Barton Perry of Harvard once said, “One world
government is in
the making. Whether we like it or not, we are
moving toward a one-world government.”
In
order for an international currency to succeed, nation-states
will necessarily yield their monetary policies to the United
Nations. All nation-states will be forced to participate in an
international monetary system established on a global identification
protocol.
That fact appears even more significant in
the light of the recent U.S. legislation that mandates the
consolidation of all states’ identification systems into a
federally defined system. By force of the REAL ID ACT, passed by the US
Congress in May, 2005 and
scheduled for implementation in May of 2008, the U.S.
will effectively require every American citizen to carry a national
identification number (a state-issued license with a federal database).
Observers
have already concluded that the implications of REAL ID are
onerous
and burdensome. Without a REAL ID, one cannot drive legally, enter a
federal building, collect Social Security, access a government service,
or do business with a bank or an airline. Arguably, it could be nearly
impossible to LIVE without a REAL ID.
This comes
breath-takingly close to the same terms of the biblical “mark
of
the beast.” No man can buy or sell without that mark. With
the national
(REAL) ID scheduled for introduction May, 2008,
people may not be able to buy or sell without it.
(Addendum 10-30-2009 - The PASS ID bill is now replacing the REAL ID. Same basic plan, just delayed because so many states objected to REAL ID.)
Once the international institutions redefine international currencies by a single
standard, and set in order a New World Money System based on a
computerized biometric number system, the good-old American dollar will
be dead, along with every other national currency around the world.
Is
our national ID going to evolve into the mark of the beast? It will all
become very plain the day the dollar dies.
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