>French President Charles de Gaulle who remained consistently skeptical about the US dollar, saying at a press conference on February 4, 1965, that it was impossible for the dollar to be "an impartial and international trade medium . . . It is in fact a credit instrument reserved for one state only." (Cited in Benn Steil's The Battle of Bretton Woods.

One may speculate on how many of the attempts on his life, were more or less backed by 'the dollar'..

That was a great article.

The Germans also made a demand for their gold, too, sometime ~20 years ago. New York Fed bank supposedly held it since WWII. They didn't get it back either. Because the truth is almost certainly that jews had looted everybody's gold out of that bank over the years. And remember recently somebody called for the US gold reserves to be examined in Fort Knox? What happened there? Nuttin. Because it is likely our gold isn't there either but is nestled in the deepest caves of Israel.