This story inclues the JFK video of his description of the conspiracy which many balieve caused ‘the system’ to murder him… Tom Dennen

It took the Roman Empire three hundred years for usury to become ‘just the way it is”. They never fully understood it, because it was an attack on scoiety carried out by the same unseen enemy as today… “a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.” JFK’s Secret Societies speech.

But Rome finally did stop “the ancient curse”.

By the time Emperor Tiberius (42 B.C TO 37 A.D.) took over, Rome was in an econnomic shambles:  the Romans had had enough of massive interest rates and multiple foreclosures that robbed them of their properties, poverty and a disparity of wealth

At that time, “… a powerful host of accusers fell with sudden fury on the class which systematically increased its wealth by usury in defiance of a law passed by Caesar defining the terms of lending money and of holding estates in Italy, a law long obsolete because the public good is sacrificed to private interest” – Tacitus, The Annals of Rome, A.D. 29.

“The curse of usury was indeed of old standing in Rome and a most frequent cause of sedition and discord…

“First, the Twelve Tables prohibited anyone from exacting more than 10 percent, when, previously, the rate had depended on the caprice of the wealthy.

“Subsequently, by a bill brought in by the tribunes, interest was reduced to half that amount, and finally compound interest was wholly forbidden.

“On this occasion, however, Gracchus, the praetor, to whose jurisdiction the inquiry had fallen, felt himself compelled by the number of persons endangered to refer the matter to the Senate. In their dismay the senators, not one of whom was free from similar guilt, threw themselves on the emperor’s indulgence.

“He yielded, and a year and six months were granted, within which everyone was to settle his private accounts conformably to the requirements of the law.
”Hence followed a scarcity of money, a great shock being given to all credit, the current coin too, in consequence of the conviction of so many persons and the sale of their property being locked up in the imperial treasury or the public exchequer.

“To meet this, the Senate had directed that every creditor should have two-thirds his capital secured on estates in Italy .

“Creditors however were suing for payment in full, and it was not respectable for persons when sued to break faith. So, at first, there were clamorous meetings and importunate entreaties; then noisy applications to the praetor’s court, and the very device intended as a remedy – the sale and purchase of estates – proved the contrary, as the usurers had hoarded up all their gold for buying land.

“The facilities for selling were followed by a fall of prices, and the deeper a man was in debt, the more reluctantly did he part with his property, and many were utterly ruined.

“The destruction of private wealth precipitated the fall of rank and reputation, till at last the emperor interposed his aid by distributing throughout the banks a hundred million sesterces and allowing freedom to borrow without interest for three years, provided the borrower gave security to the State in land to double the amount.”

“Credit was thus restored, and gradually private lenders were found, (but) the purchase … of estates was not carried out according to the letter of the Senate’s decree: Rigour at the outset, as usual with such matters, becoming negligence in the end.”

In today’s money a solid gold sesterce would be valued at $16, so the bailout then could be valued at around $1.6 billion in a country with less than a million adults in the population.

Sound familiar?

Jesus is credited with throwing the moneylenders out of the Temple, possibly a distortion of history made up at the Council of Nicea in 300 A.D., but also because in those days, temple gods would be angered by any desecration or theft from them and so moneylenders kept vaults of gold in the local temples.

It’s a long story but simple: a credit- based economy does not work unless government and no other entitiy, controls both the issue of money and the interest rates (if any) on the use of the money supply.

If you want to study economics, find a working economy and study that. Benjamin Franklin’s Colonies were a very good example of working economies, keeping in mind the golden rule: ”More money must come in than what goes out, whether a household, a business or a nation”.

“The reason [the colonial economic model works] is simple.” wrote Franklin. “In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called ‘Colonial Scrip.’ We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods and services pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to anyone.

“The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament, which has caused in the Colonies a hatred of England and the Revolutionary War.”

This was in 1776, almost two hundred years after Europe had come under the control of the new high-interest bearing economy, very similar to Rome’s but with the added thrill of commodity market manipulation introduced in 1693 with Tulip Mania in Amsterdam, just about five hundred years after Henry the First discovered that the Roman Curse had been in effect in the United Kingdom for almost three hundred years before his reign and in 1086 threw the moneylenders out for the same reasons as Tiberius: because of disputes over “matters of usury”.

Much has been said and written about the current economic crises except that it is nothing new.

This is the third time the usurers have slowly and subtly infiltrated western empires, epitomized by what is known as Timothy Geithner’s ‘revolving door’ between Wall Street and the White House today, for moneylenders are now finally and fully in charge, not politicians and certainly not “The People”.

Almost every nation in the world today is up against a wall of debt owned by an international, privately-owned, for-profit central banking system. The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) are run by a small group of lenders holding the world to ransom through an ancient and evil curse… usury.

Most of Europe and the United States (since May 2013) are sitting on a debt-to-Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio of over 100%, which means that 100% of tax and other government revenues are spent on ‘debt servicing’ and not on service delivery.

To pay for it all, the debt ceiling is raised and more money borrowed from private banks.

John F. Kennedy saw all of this and set in motion two initiatives to get America out of the Roman Curse: one, a pull-out from the money making machine called the Cold Wars and the Viet Nam or Middle East Conflict after the expensive First and Second World Wars and two, the introduction of a Franklin-style ‘colonial scrip’ called the Silver Certifiicate which, when cashed in at a bank would give you a silver dollar containing one ounce of 99-fine silver that you could spend anywhere in the world.

After turning down the banks’ offer of 39% or more on loans to finance his Civil War, Abraham Lincoln also issued a ‘Colonial Scrip’, a government currency with the same function as Franklin’s: to make goods and services pass easily from producers to consumers. It was . called the Greenback Dollar.

When the dust settles after this current three-hundred-year credit-driven quicksand of debt, will history keep the two thousand year record intact and allow us to avoid it happening a fourth time?

Or will we allow ourselves to arbitrarily ‘raise the credit limit’ on our bank cards and spend as much as we want, indefinitely, just like the modern moneylenders running the world’s governments are doing and extend our ‘credit’ into infinite depths of debt?

Or do we ‘get off the grid’ and look after ourselves?

The media entities did not liesten to Kennedy’s last words to them…

“And so it is to the printing press–to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news– that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”