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:: Thursday, August 29, 2002 ::

Gold Bar Ref. List.

The Gold Information Network is pleased to share a detailed reference listing of gold bars from around the world.

A gold bar is defined as any gold item, regardless of shape, which is made by a bar manufacturer, records the name of the manufacturer, the precise weight and the precise purity, and, when exchanged for various fiat currency units - issued by various agents of the taxpayers - are so exchanged for slightly more (2% uplift?) fiat currency units than what the agents of the Bank of England decree the 'gold-to-fiat-currency-unit exchange rate' to be for that day.


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Effort To Steal WTC Gold Failed.

Scorch marks around the basement door to the vaults suggested thieves had tried to break in to steal part of the 3,800 100-troy-once gold bullion bars, belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia.

also at newsmax.


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The Sword And The Olive Branch.



CAROLVS D G MAGN BRIT FRAN ET HIB REX.
EXVRGAT DEVS DISSIPERNTVR INIMICI.
RELIG PROT LEG ANG HIBER PAR. 1643.


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Decrees Concerning Silver.

The effects of the agents decreeing that the "Sherman Silver Purchase Act"-decree shall be no longer obeyed and then the effects of the Colorado taxpayers going along with that decree effected the Colorado taxpayers for many years to come.


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Brinks Mat Gold: The Unsolved Robbery.

It is claimed in some quarters that anyone wearing gold jewellery bought in the UK after 1983, is probably wearing Brinks Mat.


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The Great Meltdown.

The greatest meltdown of gold coins was carried out by agents for the US taxpayers in 1933.

Nearly all the US taxpayers turned over, to the US agents, their gold coins - (coins that bore the assay stamp of the US agents) - millions of gold coins - in exchage for silver coin and/or US bank notes and/or Federal Reserve Notes redeemable in silver.

This was in response to a decree by the US agents to do so.

The coins were then melted into gold bars and became the property of the agents (?). As a result, certain mintage dates have become nearly extinct making them almost priceless in the eyes of collectors.


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Libation Drinking Set.

Another gentleman's showpiece was a glittering "Libation Drinking Set" consisting of three goblets, a pitcher and tray. The appraiser raved about it, saying "This was made entirely from melted-down gold coins, rare indeed. The owner of it was told it was given to his grandfather who happened to be an agent for the Maryland taxpayers before and after that period during the 1860's when agents in the south and agents in the north were killing each other.

The Maryland agents were the so-called "border" agents, with the taxpayers divided as to which side they should join, the northern agents or southern agents. This agent was the catalyst that brought his taxpayers in to the ranks of the northern agents. After the agents ceased their killing, this Maryland agent was rewarded and awarded the Libation Drinking Set by some appreciative northern agents.


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The Happy Buddha.

BR0016 / HAPPY BUDDHA
Only 375 Federal Reserve Note units.
Rub his stomach and make a wish.
He is the god of celebration & prosperity.
He Holds Gold bullion above his head.
Handcrafted in antique bronze in fine detail!
19"H X 8"W
Click here to order.


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Hawala 101.

Centuries old, the system works like a low-tech Western Union: A worker on the landmass called New York (or Boston or the Bronx) wants to send currency units to a friend residing on the landmass called Moscow (or Berlin or some outpost called Argentina). Rather than hassle with the employees of banks, whose transfer services are too costly - and, which are in cohoots with the agents of the taxpayers anyway, the worker simply hands over, say, 5,000 Federal Reserve Note units, plus a modest fee, to his local hawaladar, who then calls (or faxes or e-mails) a hawaladar colleague on the landmass called Moscow with details of the transfer including the code-phrase. The friend then shows up at his local hawala office (the colleague's office) on the landmass of Moscow, shows the code-phrase -- sent to him directly by the worker through other channels, and retrieves the equivalent in Ruble units -- minus the hawaladar's modest fee. The process is quick, no currency units cross an agents' decreed 'line of control', and leaves virtually no paper trail for the agents (records are often kept in code, if at all). Each hawaladar keeps the curreny units he receives for future payouts on subsequent transactions.

The system is ingenious in its simplicity, privacy, and elegance of human trust. The system would operate just the same if gold were transfered.

The agents for the taxpayers have not been able to abolish this form of currency unit transfer system.

Ironically, agents for the US taxpayers have even used hawala to foment unrest. A former Pakistani-based US agent boasted to Institutional Investor that he used hawaladar to funnel money to mujahedin guerrilla agents fighting the Soviet agents on the landmass called Afghanistan. "The hawala system goes beyond anything we [agents] can imagine," he told the magazine. "It is very, very well developed."


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Gold And Economic Freedom.

By Alan Greenspan - when he was 41 years old.

"An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites plusidiots of all persuasions. They seem to sense - perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire - that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the other*."

Ed. Note - As a side note... this "each implies and requires the other" concept is seen in Lysander's writings regarding "trail by jury".


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Howard's End: The Squeeze On Gold.

via gordon.coale blog

Central banks are said to have lent their gold for about 1% per annum - the cheapest borrowed money on earth. They have not reported these loans as sales meaning the the gold reserves as recorded in their books remains constant. But the leased gold is gone.

It has been borrowed by large trading companies called bullion banks. They borrowed at 1%, exchanged the gold for Federal Reserve Note units ["sold the gold"], took the Federal Reserve Note units they received by selling the gold and invested it at 5% or more.

It was sweet multi-billion Federal Reserve Note units deal. But now they are in a squeeze.

They owe the gold bullion back to Central banks but to get it back, they must exchange their Federal Reserve Note units for gold bullion in the open market, which is now a rising market.

They are losing money, big time.

What has saved them so far is that the Central banks are not demanding repayment. Meanwhile the taxpayers do not know that the leased gold is gone. The Central banks do not publish these figures.


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SafeMoneyReport Principle.

In 1982, Mr. Edelson subsequently joined Emanuel Capital Management, where he was a senior trader, managing several million Federal Reserve Note Units of private funds in precious metals. During this time, Mr. Edelson became the largest gold arbitrage trader in the world, trading an average of 13.2 metric tons* of gold bullion daily. Plus, he was also responsible for making future spread markets in gold and silver.

*Ed. Note - 13.2 metric tons of gold bullion is equivalent to 1,062 London Good Delivery [gold] Bars.


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Case Study of the Evolution of a Syndicate's Monetary Arrangements.

by Don Roper (text version here)

[Note: Do this google search to get to the .pdf version of this document (as the text version is hard to read due to the mis-mapping by the auto-mapper of the footnotes of the .pdf version), and, to do further research.]

"I have observed that it seems to be commonplace in the study of a syndicate's monetary arrangements to point out that the history of a syndicate's monetary arrangements are characterized by an evolutionary process in which a syndicate's monopolistic fiduciary fiat inconvertible paper notes and book-keeping or computer entries have gradually replaced commodity monies and their corresponding monopolistic paper notes and book-keeping entries, (which before that, gradually replaced commodity monies and the various corresponding non-monopolistic paper notes and book-keeping entries. The purpose of this paper is to identify the historical forces that lie behind this gradual* evolution.

"I will argue that the fundamental driving force has been and still is the syndicate's quest for seigniorage(1) or profits. In the course of the argument I will examine the financial incentives [profit motive] of the various participants of the syndicate (commercial bankers, central bankers, and agents of the taxpayers) in the evolutional process towards the universal and monopolistic inconvertability of paper notes and book-keeping or computer entries."

(1) - The etymology of the word "seigniorage," stems from the term "seigneur" in English peerage -- a denotion of rank below Dukes and Counts. In the twelfth and thirteenth century, a Seignior Coucy coined money and, consequently, acquired a level of wealth that rivaled the power of the the Duke of Brittany and the Count of Flanders. See Barbara Tuchmann (1978, p. 11). This etymology was brought to my attention by Thomas Swanke.

*Ed. Note - "Gradual" as used here, means over the course of 100 years (4 to 5 generations), more or less. In 1932, the agents for the US taxpayers lowered the "gold to Federal Reserve liabilities" ratio. In 1933, the agents for the US taxpayers decreed that US taxpayers could no longer convert US currency into gold. In 1968, the agents for the US taxpayers refused to convert non-US taxpayers' private holdings of US currency into gold. Between 1933 and 1968 the agents for the US taxpayers reduced, in serveral stages and then finally eliminted altogether, the "reserve ratio of gold to Federal Reserve monetary liabilities". And, in 1971, the agents for the US taxpayers decreed that they would no longer convert US currency, held by non-US agents, into gold. A detailed analysis of the syndicate's gold policies is found in Manne and Miller (1975).


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