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Originally posted by Nygdan
Nothing would happen. The US dollar is paper money, its no longer backed up by gold.
Originally posted by ghost
Good Point! I forgot all about that. The US is no longer on the gold standard, and hasn't been for many years. Why do we have a gold reserve if we are no longer on the gold standard?
Tim
Originally posted by sp00n1
Fort Knox is EMPTY, at least of gold, anyway. One of the main reasons for the security is to keep people from finding out that America has almost no gold left, and hence nothing to pay off our massive debts...
Originally posted by sp00n1
After the 1929 stock crash, the US GOVT made it a felony to posess gold. You had to turn your gold in to the government, supposedly to fix the situation which they had actually intentionally manufactured... (Read Milton Friedman's work on the 1929 "deflation" actions by the Fed that halted our economy by restricting all credit)
Originally posted by sp00n1
After all the gold was turned in and melted down, it was sent off to Ft. Knox (Named after Philander Knox, who worked for the Rockefellers and Rothschilds in passing an unconstitutional 16th Amendment which was not properly ratified!!!). As far as any average idiot knew, the gold would stay there forever.
Originally posted by sp00n1
However, in order to deal with the inflation of the U$D caused by the inflationary measures of the Federal Reserve (which debases the money supply by creating new money out of nothing) the Central Bank had to sell off all the gold, in a desperate, and futile, attempt to keep the price of gold at $35.
Originally posted by sp00n1
Most of the Gold went ot private bankers in Europe.
Originally posted by sp00n1
At around the middle of the 1970's, the US came off of the gold standard, completely, in an attempt to dodge our wwI and WWII debts, which still have not been paid off.
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
The third level security truth is that there is a clase VI-demon trapped in the lowest level. They have it contained in a "soul-force" field, and originally expected it to give the USA a military "satanic option." But instead, any agent who goes down to talk to it ends up splattered on the walls.
The sad part is, you think I'm joking.
You don't even believe in demons, much less that the US government would try to "cut a deal" for global power. So ask me why the Pentagon was built with 5 sides
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Originally posted by I_AM_OVERLORD1
gold is used for one thing........to trade for wepons
[edit on 24-11-2006 by I_AM_OVERLORD1]
Originally posted by whatukno
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
The third level security truth is that there is a clase VI-demon trapped in the lowest level. They have it contained in a "soul-force" field, and originally expected it to give the USA a military "satanic option." But instead, any agent who goes down to talk to it ends up splattered on the walls.
The sad part is, you think I'm joking.
You don't even believe in demons, much less that the US government would try to "cut a deal" for global power. So ask me why the Pentagon was built with 5 sides
.
Ok what the hell is that? a class VI Demon? As far as the pentigon is concerned well if it only had 4 sides it would be silly to call it the pentigon now wouldent it?
There is gold in that thar vault and a whole lot of gold.
Originally posted by dr_strangecraft
O.k. You called my bluff. I was joking with the whole demon thing.
As far as you know.
Actually, my little fiction was inspired by the fact that in 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, when protests were proving to be totally fruitless, a group of Hippies (including Alan Ginsburg) got hold of one of those boxes on wheels you use to mark the lines on a baseball diamond.
They took it to a demonstration in front of the Pentagon. In the middle of the action, they started chanting "Out Demon, Out!" and drawing a continuous chalk circle around the whole of the Pentagon. That, of course, is the way medieval sorcerers were supposed to gain power over demons.
Whole companies of MP's came running. They left the other demonstrators alone, but tried to grab the chalk liner, and beat the crap out of everyone associated with it.
There ya go.
Cops don't have much appreciation for street theater.
As far as you know.