[…] the CIA. There is no parallel here; KGB aimed to ‘subvert the democratic system, where the CIA, even at its most heavy-handed, aimed to preserve it. The gold of Lanaley, Virginia, behind Encounter cannot be held to justify Moscow’s gold backing The Morning Star. Long before the end the myth woven in this book […]
[…] Wright Salmon whose directors include I.L. McKay — also on the board of NZFP. Late 1983: AMEX (SOCAL) gives Gulf Oil a share in the Martha Hill gold ripoff bonanza by selling 15% of its holdings to Brierley through Goodman. Oil Co’s say that only $870 million worth of minerals in Martha Hill while […]
[…] retired but a Treasury insider for many years (his experience stretched back to the aftermath of the First World War and the debates about returning to the gold standard, on which issue he sympathised with Keynes) felt that sterling was in fact undervalued and this was the reason for what he regarded as excess […]
[…] would not be raised. The Australian Kerry Packer group (now Alan Bond) allegedly paid kickbacks to Mara to obtain a 12 year monopoly on television broadcasting. Emperor Gold Mines were reportedly paying hush money to Apisai Tora and the Taukei movement to cover up various land and other swindles. Emperor is owned by Western […]
[…] Thatcher government – a 60 year echo of the FBI’s Sir Alfred Mond’s House of Commons speech on the manufacturing sector being sacrificed on ‘the cross of gold’. (Only the technical language of economics changes: the mechanisms, the power transmission, remains the same.) Beckett’s speech received a standing ovation from the vast majority of […]
[…] repayment first, in front of reconstruction, for the stake of the pound sterling’s status. Keynes felt that the Bank had not learned from the disastrous return to gold in 1925, despite the superficial policy differences in the Bank’s position between then and the war. His exasperation was not unjustified – once more Threadneedle Street […]
[…] latest accusation against China was made by two veteran New York crime fighters, Frank Rogers – city-wide prosecutor of narcotics cases – and Brooklyn District Attorney, Eugene Gold at a press conference. Rogers showed reporters a plastic bag on which the words ‘Peoples’ Republic of China’ were printed in English and Chinese. (18) Needless […]
[…] concerning Abbe Sauniere who was paid millions by the Vatican after he unearthed some ancient coded scrolls in his church which may have led him to Visigoth gold. Both books add little in the way of new and solid information. David Black Notes Someone may have already dug. Wood doesn’t mention it, but there […]
[…] (16 February 1985) who quotes on history of British tapping. Claims all Britain’s cable traffic goes through computers programmed to record sections triggered by key words; eg gold, OPEC etc. Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland excluded from new (minimal) rules on phone-tapping. (Irish News 16 December 1984) In the wake of the […]
[…] man of undoubted integrity’ who had worked for Oyston. After the meeting, Murrin produced a two-page report for Sir Peter Blaker, noting things like, ‘Oyston did bring gold back from Hong Kong’ and ‘My contact and Mr. McNabb then went to see Mr. Richard Arnold FCA. Papers were secured and the agreement was reached […]
