Gold Confiscation: Lessons from the 20th Century

Gold Confiscation: Lessons from the 20th Century

by Adrian Ash

BullionVault

Friday, 7 December 2012

 

Three nasty examples of how people lost the gold they owned…

TODAY’S chatter in the trading rooms says some gold owners fear a punitive US tax hike in New Year 2013, with the Obama government targeting precious-metal investors.

Hence this month’s sell-off (or so the tittle-tattle says) – akin to the move by Japanese households to sell gold in late 2011 [...]

Scranton Mayor: Minimum Wage For All Or Become Stockton

The infamous city of Scanton, PA has had financial troubles for a couple of decades – losing population since the end of WWII – but as NPR reported this weekend, the $16.8 million budget gap that Mayor Chris Doherty is trying to fill (and the disagreements between his taxation proposal and the city council’s borrow-more-money view) has driven the mayor to an incredible action. Doherty has reduced everyone’s pay – [...]

911 coverup for Exposure of Operation Gladio?

The day after the Pentagon revealed the unaccountability of trillions of $$s in the DOD budget we had 9-11.  Was the Pentagon budget used to fund the operations of NATO/CIA operation GLADIO?  GLADIO, the stay behind secret governments through out the world used to counter and distabilize the communist threats since the end of WWII.

It has recently been revealed through the investigations of several soverign nations that GLADIO operatives used [...]

WSJ: Dimmer Jobs Picture and Sluggish Home Sales Cast Doubt on Recovery’s Footing

From WSJ:

Rising layoffs, falling home sales and slowing manufacturing activity are sparking fears that the economic recovery is headed for a springtime stall for the third year in a row.

New data Thursday provided fresh evidence that the job market is losing the momentum it built earlier this year, which could pressure fragile housing markets that have been showing signs of life. Separate reports this week suggested that the factory sector, [...]

We cast an avaricious eye towards their oil fields…

4-11-2012

AMERICA’S DEPENDENCY ON MIDDLE EAST OIL
…Given an ever-increasing demand for oil, because of its[America's] “addiction”, and given its limited domestic sources of crude oil, the U.S. will remain dependent on imported oil well into the future.  U.S. policymakers, by their past and present actions since the end of WWII in pursuing this addiction, have apparently concluded that the nation’s interest in oil and other ‘strategic’ resources outweighs the nation’s avowed values [...]

RICHARD RUSSELL: A Massive Stock Market Collapse Will Wipe Out 60 Years Of Inflation & Leveraging

Richard Russell, writer of the Dow Theory Letters, is just looking for the right time to buy stocks.

But that time isn’t now.  And until that time comes, Russell will be keeping his wealth in gold.

He writes in King World News:

What I want to illustrate is that great fortunes are made at super-bear market lows.  But you must have the money at the lows.  Which is why gold is so singular and valuable.  [...]

Bob Chapman: 2012 is going to be quite a year with falling economies in the UK, Europe, the US, China, Japan and the remainder of Asia.

by Bob Chapman, theinternationalforecaster.com

Financial Troubles For Many Nations In The New Year

2012 is going to be quite a year with falling economies in the UK, Europe, the US, China, Japan and the remainder of Asia. Latin America, and Mexico by comparison should fare fairly well overall. England is in a death spiral. Europe is next, the US is not far behind and China and Japan will soon join the disjoined group. We [...]

We are no longer Citizens, we are Consumers

“The laws that express the relation between matter and energy [thermodynamic laws], govern the rise and fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of societies, the movements of commerce and industries, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of a people.” – Frederick Soddy 1911

Every System Has a Driver

And it isn’t ideology.

The system in question is the global economic system that has been increasingly based on consumption [...]

Listen, the whole “global conspiracy” and “New World Order” thing is, in fact, simplistic.

I’ve read a great deal on this, and it just does not fly in the sense proponents wish to believe and argue.

There are very powerful elites. Sometimes they work together. Sometimes they are at each other’s throats. Some elements do want to take things in the direction of some form of global government. Other elements are dead set against it – elements whose power is rooted in a national power [...]