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FOA (2/23/2000; 19:49:22MT - usagold.com msg#6)

Introduction

Hello everyone, I'm glad you could come along. My name is FOA. I see a lot of old faces here,,,, and some new. If you are wondering where we are,,,,,, your participating in one of our walks and talks on "The Gold Trail". You're one of many people who take the long drive out of the city to come here. Some say it clears their mind from things that are not real. Whatever the reason, it seems everyone arrives here sooner or later. For myself, I have been hiking this path for a good part of my life. I prefer it here, because from this vantage point we can better grasp how the world works.

None of us are the first, nor will we be the last to take this hike. Over time, various people and nations have been on this path, perhaps going back a thousand years or so. During some periods this same trail was followed right through the main stream of society. While during other times, like today it has tracked far away from the economic illusions in our modern world.

I see most of you have brought your laptops (computers) and cell phones for internet access. Good. We will be looking at charts and things as we go along. Also, one of our rules here is that no one can offer their credentials of track records to each other. Out here we all are the same with no exception. Just real people taking in the world events as they happen around us. Besides, one's past accomplishments and financial success are about what happened yesterday, not tomorrow. And understanding the future is what time on this trail all about. We will only look back at past events and commentary to gain perspective, understand ourselves and find reasoning. A process that helps all of us think more clearly in this world gone mad.

And one more thing before we get started: some of you were asking who I am. And I also heard those city slickers in the back joking about how this was all "so lame". Well, to address the second item first,,,,, more than a few of you slick dudes have left this trail complaining that the hike made their brain hurt worse than the old leg muscles. We'll see if you new ones are still joking after walking a few miles! Oh yes, I see you're wearing hard sole dress shoes. Now that "is" lame! (smile)

Back to the first question: all of you already know me. Just look in a mirror and see for yourself. I'm the butcher, baker and bricklayer,,,,,, doctor, lawyer and the banker. From the Texas oil man to the yardman in Hollywood, I represent the thoughts, feelings and perceptions that many people have, but never express. After we share some time on the trail, many of you may find that most of this understanding and knowledge of FOA was already with to you to begin with. Truly, it was the years of exposure to "Western life" that has obscured our good reasoning.

Mine is also a world perspective that offers thoughts and views as seen though the eyes of others from many lands. Sometimes it's through the eyes of Another. Oh yes, one more thing,,,,, I'm American to the core! "Born in the USA" and still living a "very" private life in my home there.

Onward

We must view the world in a broad context, just as much as in a detail perspective. The larger perception can be just like looking at a river the valley from the ridge above. From far away it's easy to see what direction national trends are flowing. The whole body moves as one, always towards the sea. The problem comes when we get too close and interpret things using only a small river section in front of us. More often than not, the white water we see only hides a deeper flowing truth.

In like sense, national governments and society in general, are the same as those boulders and eddies in the river. Seen up close, they sometimes give the impression that the river is flowing up stream or sideways, when it's only one small section of a larger political will. The same is true in the modern gold markets. The largest part of the river could be flowing in one direction with an unstoppable purpose, but the various swirls and eddies make it look like it's going in circles.

Further

Within every social order, people have conflicting factions that try to dominate the whole. But if one can understand and pinpoint the logic and reasoning of several dominate groups, we can get a grasp for the overall eventual flow. We have seen through out history and in our modern life that the human spirit, most always reaches for and leans towards natural conclusions to ages old problems. There is something in us that makes mankind flow this way. Time and again we build up our emotional will. Then in a great flood we literally overwhelm the branches and rocks that distort our progress through this stream of life. 

Today, it seems that the need for this natural flow has been perceived by several of the worlds large groups. We see this in the progress of the gold market to date and is something we have been discussing publicly for several years now. We have given many different perceptions of this changing modern gold market. Each appropriate to it's own period of time. Indeed, they were snapshots of political will,,,, each taken in the context of the moment,,,,, all documenting the evolution of gold as a new force,,, a new player in the world today. 

Truly, the stream is being prepared for the great flood that must come, will come! 

We rest now

Our most broad view, expressing our strongest position is this: From ten or perhaps twenty years ago a political will, a concept was being formed that would today change the economic architecture and power structure of the world. Within this change, gold would undergo one of the most visible transformations since it was first used as money. We expect that starting three or four years ago, the actual gold market itself, started responding to this sea change. As such, in our time, physical gold will enter the greatest bull phase in it's human use history.

This my friends is the very trail we walk today. During our hikes and fireside chats, we will point out this political will, consider the logic and express our reasoning for this position. All the while, observing the "river current" in the form of events that will soon confirm our view. Indeed, as Another always said, "time will prove all things".

At times we will walk looking backwards, as we pull up many of our old posts and discussions, detailing the whys and what-fors. Why we said what we said, then. I hope these walks will be as interesting for all of you as it will be for me. When not writing here, I can be sometimes seen discussing gold on the USAGOLD forum as "Trail Guide".

And lastly, I wish to thank Mr. Michael Kosares for creating this fine venue. Displaying all of the creative, professional talents of the Centennial group of people, this entire site is a testimony to their forward thinking ability which is so lacking in most precious metals companies. With this in mind and considering our changing world, a relationship with them today will most certainly benefit the investor in the long run. Possibly in a way one may more fully appreciate later. I encourage you to support your future as well as this USAGOLD free site. 

"the human river flows for the will of no man,,,, it takes our precious time as it's own

our lives are spent learning how it does pass,,,,, yet it will never know how we have grown"

We walk this new Gold Trail together, Yes? Thank you for reading,,,,,, 

FOA / your Trail Guide

FOA (2/26/2000; 11:13:56MT - usagold.com msg#7)

Foundation

http://www.usagold.com/halldiscussion.html

A Day Walk 

If I had a nickel for every time we thought the dollar was finished, I would have a bunch of nickels! Remember back in the early 80s or even further back into the 70s. All we heard was how the dollar was finished and going to crash and burn. Books about hyper inflation and the need for gold / swiss francs were all over the place.

I read all of them to gain perspective and also acted on some of their advice. Made some money on it too. But even then, something just didn't completely ring true about the whole scenario. Indeed, in hind sight, gold never did return above $800, the dollar didn't hyper inflate and most of the world kept using the dollar as a reserve.

Today, we can more fully understand why so much of that early insight failed to deliver. 

True, the dollar was seen as a basket case back then. It had just been pulled from it's gold bond and prices were going up all around us. However, because the world had been on a simi dollar / gold standard, all nations that had previously signed onto using the US buck as their currency reserve now did so with even more resolve. More important, it seamed than using gold itself was out of the question as every country's Central Bank brought dollars as fast as we printed them. The dollar still settled most all trade accounts while dollar reserve buying made an obvious show of support for this world system. No matter how much bad press was offered, they were staying on track and they have continued to do so right up into the 90s!

But all of this flew into the face of what every economist was saying, back then. The common understanding of the era was: if the US didn't stop over printing it's money, we would all experience a major price inflation,,,,,, and no one could stop it! Again, "major" inflation didn't happen and to ask a further question: if the dollar system was so bad, why didn't the world just dump the reserve system and refrain from using it further? In other words, let the dollar be "the US dollar" but don't use it as a backing for your own money system.

Thick Brush Now

Going against the logic of "sound money": through out all the currency turbulence of the 70s and 80s era (including today), the US never did reign in the over printing of it's currency. It continued almost non stop money supply expansion for it's local economy and in addition sent a good portion of it's cash all over the world. On and on the US trade deficit continued to do it's work of feeding ever more US cash into foreign economic systems. We printed paper currency by borrowing it into existence,,,,,, used it to purchase real goods overseas ,,,,,, while foreign governments actively soaked up this dollar flood by expanding their own money supply. 

Like this: When you buy an item externally, a dollar is sent overseas to pay for it. Usually, through the world currency trading arena, that dollar is converted into the local currency of the nation which the goods came from. But more often than not,,,,,,, as we print that dollar out of thin air, the foreign government takes the dollar into it's reserve account and prints one of their units for deposit in the local economic system. They do this because: if the foreign CB didn't save the dollar as a currency reserve ,,,,,, and sent it back into the world currency markets to "buy" an existing unit of their money supply,,,,, this action would drive up their currency value vs the dollar and make the price their goods non-competitive in world markets. In other words, a US citizen couldn't use a printed (borrowed) dollar to buy an item for $10.00 that outside the "dirty float" of exchange intervention would cost $15.00.

This is how the "dollar reserve process" inflates the money supply world wide as we (USA) run a trade deficit for our benifit. It keeps the dollar exchange rate higher than it would naturally be thus allowing a US citizen to buy goods at a cheaper price than our expanding money supply and implied currency value would normally dictate. A process in and of itself that invites still more dollars to flow out and purchase still more external goods. Had foreign CBs not taken so many dollars, the ever expanding US money supply would have long ago impacted currency exchange rates and forced a major price inflation internally (in the US). Yes, the major inflation so many saw coming,,, back then,,,,, would have arrived,,,,, then.

So why did these other CBs do it? The standard explanation was that this created a market for their goods here in the US. Yes that's true, but it begs the question; did no one in their land want to buy goods manufactured locally,,,,,, and pay for them with the same printed money supply? Why is it the US could inflate it's money supply to buy cheaper goods externally for no more than the price of printed paper? But, in the same country our paper was sent to, they couldn't print their own currency to buy their own goods? Why couldn't they raise their real standard of living somewhat using the same process like the US,,,,,, and doing so without the burden of inflation or importing foreign currencies?

Again, why would our printed, inflated money movements not create price inflation for us (USA) in goods purchased externally? What if they (foreign goods producing countries) printed an amount of their money equal to the inflow of dollars,,,, but, without holding paper dollars as reserves to back it,,,,, brought the exact same goods from themselves. Common prevalent economic theory says price inflation would result? Or would it? Or better said: why them and not us? 

Into the deep woods again

Again, and as above,,,,, In the 70s, it was widely held that the dollar reserve system forced other countries to inflate their local currencies, thereby importing dollar price inflation. But, as time went by,,,,, indeed a decade or two now,,,,,, the same process continued non stop, with no change. It seemed that some "other" countries had found a "new way" to somewhat circumvent the dilemma. Or was this "new way" something sold to them in order to extend the dollar system's timeline? 

Many of the lesser third world countries experienced a combination of sporadic hyper inflation and deflation as we forced the dollar reserve system down the throats of their citizens. Their people's living standard constantly fell as they worked ever harder to produce more goods in return for more of our printed dollars. But, instead of using the extra inflow of dollars (positive trade balance) to buy their own currencies in the local system,,,,, thereby keeping their currency strong,,,,, they used that dollar flow as collateral to borrow (from IMF and international banks) more dollars from the world dollar float (mostly called Eurodollars). The lure (or the hard sell) was that they could build up their infrastructure,,, increasing their production efficiencies (human productivity's),,,, thereby raising the national standard of living. Further, they were sold the unneeded idea that even if they didn't completely use the dollar surplus to borrow more, they should hold those dollars in reserve (buy and hold US treasuries) and print more of their own money! 

Again, it seemed they had no advocate to push for their own best interest. No one told them that their people already worked cheaply enough to more than offset the competitive loss of a stronger local currency. No one told them that with a strong local currency structure,,,,( that using the dollar surplus to buy their own currency would create),,,,,,,, would allow them to borrow in their own capital markets. A more go slow approach that builds long term benefits. This process would free them from the entanglements of making international debt payments in another money. Indeed, the costs of those involvement's later proved overwhelming! 

Now the trail becomes more open

For third world countries their international dollar debt exposure eventually locked them into a servitude to the dollar reserve system. Despite all their natural and human resources, currency involvement had taken a lion share of any productivity increases and increased lifestyle this modern world offered.

However, it did help the cause for the dollar reserve system. By creating an ever growing international debt in dollars, eventual dollar demand to service this debt would only increase. Thereby keeping it's value artificially high. In addition, any left over floating dollars quickly took the form of US treasury debt held in these small countries treasuries. There they were used to further hyper inflate their own currency supply.

For the more developed gold owning countries of the G-7, they had a different question in mind. Again, if taking in inflated dollar reserves was the act of importing US dollar inflation into ones local economy,,,,, and in the process creating a market for your goods overseas,,,, why not just print your own currency without taking in dollars,,,,,, and in doing so give the same buying power the US citizens have in your market,,,,,, to your own people?

If it's not price inflationary to take in part of a world "inflated dollar supply" and create jobs for your people locally,,,,,, why would it be any more inflationary to print your own currency outright? Indeed, why does one need a dollar inflow to legitimize the same money inflation process? That being currency inflation to create jobs?

Why should we (as dollar asset holders) think about this question? Because someone else is and doing something about it today! 

Back to a marked trail

Today,,,,,, and after all of this,,,, the dollar never did crash from price inflation. At least nothing like what was expected earlier in the last two decades.

The dollar reserve system was never going to fail then because the major world economic powers were willing to use (waste) all the productive efforts of the worlds people to keep it running. Looking back we now understand the thinking behind this. Without the dollar acting as a reserve, we would have had to go back to a gold system. There was no other currency structure strong enough or deep enough to carry the load. 

But, gold had been proven to be much to easy to circumvent as a national or world currency. It seemed human dynamics would never allow an economic system that operated on a pay as you go process without gold debt. If history had proven anything it was that if we have a money,,,, fiat or gold,,,,,, we are going to lend it, borrow it and in the process create debt. Yes, even using gold!

Even if we have a pure gold system, human nature will find a way to turn it into securities. In doing so we will,,,,, come hell or high water,,,,,, lend more gold than we have and borrow more than we can pay back. One has but to return to the history books to see it all in plain print. Over and over again, we start with a solid gold foundation and soon degrade it into trash. It's not just the American way,,,,, it's the world's way. 

Because the modern world had progressed into the efficiencies of using high speed digital fiat currencies, no one at that time or today, was willing to crash the whole system by returning to gold. I suspect that the worlds richest would have lost a lot, but so to would "us regular" people. Even with our savings in the form of a "digital illusion", at least we had a job to go to and a dream in our bank account. Removing the dollar and returning to gold would have erased the illusion and temporarily shut down the jobs. 

So, dollar hyper inflation never arrived and gold did not make it's run because world CBs bet your productive efforts on supporting the dollar reserve. In the process, the US standard of living was raised tremendously on the backs of most of the worlds working poor. But this is not about to last!

A broad view from the ridge

Not long after the US defaulted on it's gold loans,,,, dollars held as gold certificates,,,,,, major thinkers began the long process of forming another world currency. One that would not maintain the fiction of a gold standard with the somewhat fixed gold prices inherent in such a system. The creation was distorted, to say the least. Just as the River in my first post was often seen in distortion, so too was this currency issue. It began with the European Currency Unit (ECU) and has later progressed to it's present state of the Euro.

After operating on a fiat system for 20+ years people are starting to realize that the only thing that backs a currency is the real productive efforts of their people. Yes, over time we always borrow more than out productive efforts can pay back and proceed to crash the money system. 

But what else is new? (smile)

We call this a money's "timeline" and it's as new an idea a life, death and taxes! Time and debt age any money system until it dies. The world moves on. Only this time gold is going to play a different part in the drama. We will all watch it unfold.

It seems people saw something else that would make the Euro unique. Paid up assets also stand behind circulating money. Indeed, if someone owes a $100,000 dollar piece of land , has a good producing job and borrowed $50,000 against his land,,,,,, the world is likely to circulate that debt note as a fiat land backed currency. But, if his gold (the land) is worth $1 million in a free physical market,,, AND RISES FURTHER IF CURRENCY SUPPLY OUTPACES REAL PRODUCTION,,,,,,, and his other debts are relatively low ,,,,,, the same note would circulate just as effectively if the $50,000 was borrowed against his name alone. 

In essence, the jump into the Euro is more based on a new currency that is more honest in dealing with our historic human dynamics. Let's try not lying to ourselves and admitting that gold alone in a currency will not remove our will to borrow and lend and therefore eventually defraud each other! Would it not be better to at least not shackle the money to gold. Indeed, a real physical freegold market will constantly be devaluating any fiat currency over a long term. While removing the need for CBs to maintain fixed exchange structure through a dirty float against gold. 

But, the most important aspect is in the escape valve gold would provide to developing countries with positive trade flows. Those that wish to settle their debts outside the currency arena using gold as a settlement. Or, if they wish, to buy gold in the open market with their trade reserves.

The secret to all of this is in the "Legal Tender laws". Allowing gold to be used as a Legal Tender,,,, "for the settlement of all debts public and private",, but changing international law such that no form of debt can force it's payment in gold! This opens a one way street for gold and a two way street in fiat currencies. No one will lend gold because they cannot force it's return in the courts, thereby making gold a physical only international currency. Yet, on the other hand, we all must borrow in this modern world and currencies will be the only avenue for this. Creating a demand (and added value) for them in addition to general use demand. 

The first thought many will have is that everyone will just buy gold to make debt payments, driving out fiat currencies. But remember, if you have debts they will be in currency settlement only. One will weigh the cheapest form for repayment! Gold in this atmosphere will be completely free to trade, become extremely expensive and stay that way. Not to mention that it's sale as a commodity (outside it's money use) on the private level will be well taxed. 

We rest now

True there is a lot more to this story. Some posters have been discussing it publicly for some time on the USAGOLD forum. If you want a wonderful background reading on what "Freegold" would mean,,, get your laptops out tonight and read the link above. There is also considerable agitation voiced against this view. 

First read all of:

Aristotle (2/7/2000; 7:15:24MDT - Msg ID:24589) It begins! -----* Executive Summary --an Outline of Observations *-----

My position: The world is going to change it's currency system before long and this will greatly impact the wealth of dollar asset holders. Not to mention physical gold holders. As a note for further consideration and talks,,,,, we have talked before about the "Texas Railroad Commission" and how it once declared oil a public utility and later controlled it's production. In the future, international law must declare all large gold reserves to be "public utilities" in the countries they reside. Mines will be very profitable and good investments after they recover from the destruction of our existing paper gold market. Still, their total production will be controlled and somewhat taxed. Small private operations will more likely be heavily taxed.

We will pick up the pace later (smile). Eventually getting to oil and the markets today.

Fires out.

Thanks for reading,,,,,, FOA/ your Trail Guide

FOA (2/28/2000; 10:18:13MT - usagold.com msg#8)

First walk

The real hike begins

In my last post "Foundation", we raised several questions as we walked. Some were implied and others were direct. But all were mentioned to give pause to think. Today I'll offer my thoughts from an old study.

By 1971 the remnants of our gold exchange system had two major forces working against it.

First:

The US had printed way more dollars than it had gold to redeem them. This didn't even take into account the fact that Americans couldn't exchange the native part of the money supply for gold. The whole concept of physical bullion keeping officials from printing too much money became shot full of holes. The reality of our modern day dictated that any major world power, not just the USA could eventually override the precedent of a money supply tied to a fixed price of gold.

It seemed that as powers became super powers and nations represented larger people blocks, their ability to just walk away from a stated monetary policy increased. Thereby negating the good effects of gold on a system.

The US had changed it's gold backing policy once before as hard times attacked the local economy. After the 1929 downturn began to gut the wealth of almost everyone, we just took gold out of the INTERNAL money system and added that supply for backing the EXTERNAL money system (foreign dollars). Indeed, all American gold was called in from US citizens. So, for anyone that owned real gold (in their hands), the historic dynamics of retaining ones wealth in gold during a "debt destroying black hole experience" was removed. Further, the "gold force" was not allowed to do it's job of cleaning out all the "dead wealth" created through the prior process of inflating the money supply.

Of the many excellent writers on the USAGOLD forum. I think some would see that the "hard times" of economic contraction are created in the first place by not adhering to a golden monetary system. I agree. But looking at it today, whether it's before the fact or after the fact, society just will not work within a system that fully kills off bad debt. Even if one separates society into two groups,, "controllers" and "the rest of us", it's still the way the world has functioned from the beginning. So, the perception I have received as to how policy will evolve in the future presumes human dynamics will continue as they always have. 

Also:

Having changed the rules once (1933) already. We (USA) later proceeded on the same road again. By 1971, we were making dollars at a rate that virtually assured another change in the gold backing game. Indeed, it was becoming obvious that gold could not control the will of a large nation.

Second:

In addition, the very system itself offered no discipline. Think about it. Accepted policy dictated that a nation's gold was held in the same geographic economic block that utilized the money said gold was to represent and control. If that block held the gold and the "real money substitutes" under the same society roof, there was no impartial authority to control how the rate of gold could be exchanged for dollars! A natural, fair $X dollars for X amount of gold exchange rate could be changed at will and for the economic will! For a true gold system to really work, gold would have to be stored and it's conversion rate controlled in a separate nation from the country that printed the money. Without that separation, a large modern power could "using local law, take it out of the system" or "not ship it's gold" if the money supply increased too much. Indeed, this first item was followed by the second and is exactly what happened after 1971.

So, our modern society was quickly proving that it was incapable of maintaining a monetary function of gold if it was intertwined in any official fiat currency mix. Even if the currency represented an outright gold receipt in storage and supposedly redeemable through force of international law!

The trail is heading uphill now

Few people can fully accept or consider that oil became the backing for world dollars after gold was removed in 71. But that is exactly what happened in theory and practice. Using some earlier writing, I'll tie them into what we are saying today. I'm going to repost some of my comments 

(between ---- marks) from the USAGOLD forum archives. Starting with FOA (1/15/00; 14:58:12MDT - Msg ID:22961).

---- my friend, they were not using this concept as a real "commodity money play" in the "gold standard perception". At that time we were buying local oil with "fiat dollars" (made so by the 1933 internal gold confiscation) and foreign oil with "gold dollars". But, as you pointed out, dollar production was so far past it's "gold backing" that it was obvious they (USA) were pegging dollar printing to oil prosperity, not gold reserves. Still, with London gold and oil mostly settled in dollars, the foreign dollar oil pricing fully well expected to cash in unneeded dollars for gold. As we can see, reality and present day events of that time were as "mismatched" as today! All of the dollars success was ultimately made possible because oil could (and was) priced so far below it's "economic worth" to the world. At that time, even our Middle East friends had no idea just how useful oil would (and had) become to maintaining the world economic base.--------

Having read that (and keeping it in mind), I return to the implied questions of my "Foundation" post below. "Why in the world did foreign governments, especially Europeans, eventually go along with supporting a now fiat dollar reserve system after 71?"

Well, the whole notion of using any paper money is in the confidence that we can eventually trade it for something,,,,, Beer, food, clothes, cars, etc.. Gold was always in the money mix to insure that we could get these items at a somewhat standard price. Still, most of society thinks along the immediate line that: "I don't care where the fiat money comes from or what it's backed by,,,, especially if I can get something well below today's value cost,,,, and it benefits me, now!"

This is where oil made the jump from being "just a commodity" to "the major world necessity that can and did back the dollar". Prior to the US going off gold in 71, our whole economic structure was expanding because we were gaining massive leverage through cheap oil. Back then, oil was literally changing our lifestyle for the better, and doing so because it's dollar price was so incredibly low relative to what science was doing with it. Modern science had made oil worth so much more than we paid for it, we could extrapolate our debt and money supply growth far into the future and still figure that productive increases would cover it. In effect, the US was targeting it's economy and money value to future oil flow value, not gold. Here is the same thought in my post:

------ the new found prosperity from cheap dollar oil was being used to justify mountains of dollar debt. As long as a barrel of oil could be used to produce more relative real wealth than the dollars used to buy it represented, dollar inflation worked in the only political measurement that counted. "An increase in the standard of living"!--------

The only problem was that if we continued this route, two things had to give: we would have to leave the gold standard because our money supply was exploding (relative to gold supply) and find a new source of oil because ours was running out. Again, here's more from my old post

-------At that time (prior to 71) we were buying local (internal) oil with "fiat dollars" (made so by the 1933 internal gold confiscation) and foreign oil with "gold dollars".-----

------ , dollar production was so far past it's "gold backing" that it was obvious they (USA) were pegging dollar printing to oil prosperity. Still, with London gold and oil mostly settled in dollars, the foreign dollar oil deals fully well expected to cash in unneeded dollars for gold.--------

In the eyes of our official thinkers then,,,, For the local US economy to mature we needed to get off the gold standard,,,,,,,, get the world to accept fiat dollars backed by oil,,,, and find more oil that could deliver triple dollar value for every dollar we paid! It was a tall order and one that would require a major adjustment. The transition through out the 70s was rough to say the least. 

More from my post:

-----------they (usa) were already shipping so many dollars out and any more would further aggravate the "possible gold drain perception". This was everyone's problem then as the industrialized world wanted to still get gold if needed, but they also liked the "non inflationary" (relative to that time) expansion of the dollar base as it expressed the new oil economy and it's real goods produced wealth. The US wanted new oil reserves to be "Local" (the Americas), because it could be paid in "fiat 33" cash (internal dollars were not backed with gold after 1933) , not the more golden "foreign cash". Both our neighbours to the north and south ever asked for much gold. In this light they acted like the local oil companies that received post 1933 dollars for oil (as mentioned above). Yet, to get these new reserves for fiat 33, they had to prevent the very cheap Middle East oil from supplying it all if dollar (oil) prices were higher. --------

------- First and foremost, everyone was caught flatfooted as the dollar broke from gold. Like I said above, the industrial world loved the dollar expansion in the oil context presented. (They were) Caught between what appeared as a good system based on cheap oil and the loss of gold delivery ------

------ Even as we left gold behind (1971) and oil went up (1978), the system still worked (at higher prices) because oil was perhaps delivering $100.00 worth of value and being brought for $30.----------------

In a somewhat convoluted way, by leaving the gold bond, it forced all world oil prices higher. Advancing the search for new (still cheap by value return standards) oil and paying for it using dollars backed by not only oil payment settlement in dollars but the continued purchase of supply "well under world use value".

G-7 countries knew that initially they would have to sell some gold in a controlled burn that would allow gold to seek a higher level after the dollar / gold break. However, once oil producers understood that gold was going to be "managed" at reasonable levels, the continued pricing of oil in dollars and it's flow was assured for some time. Allowing the exchange of dollars for gold on the world markets,,,, as needed and wanted.

This also appealed to major countries outside the US because it addressed the "second" problem I listed in the beginning. That being the geographic location of a currency's real backing asset. With most of the world oil reserves located outside the US,,,,,, and the US slowly running out of it's domestic reserves,,,,,,, using oil as a backing dynamic somewhat controlled the "free will" of the US. If indeed, the US backed away from managing a cheap gold market or ran it's printing press too fast,,,,,, oil prices could be managed upward in a devaluation of the dollar. No, not the best of policy concepts for the world, but better than perceiving that the US "Fort Knox" gold was a control on money printing! 

Going back to the initial logic of my "Foundation" post, this was the context that G-7 countries "brought into" as they accepted and supported the new fiat dollars without gold. Like I said, the alternative would be a real mess to behold and this position brought time. Time to conceive and introduce a new world reserve structure. 

It worked in a broken pattern for a number of years. Oil and gold defied all predictions of higher prices as they retreated from every advance. Central banks gorged themselves with worthless dollar reserves and prevented a hyperinflation of the dollar in the process. They did this, because they knew that gold had the ability to completely replace any and all loss of dollar reserve value once a new system was in operation. 

Cutting across the field and returning to today's trail

Nations today, with little gold holdings seemed to have no clue to where this was all going. To a degree, the US used them as they took in dollars and never brought gold at all. They must be thinking that the dollar can be expanded forever and never lose value! To this end, they have based their entire social and economic order on selling goods to the US for a dream in return. Yet, after all these years they are only now seeing that foreign dollars are worthless when the US only runs a trade deficit that will not reverse. The real risk today is now being understood. The American economy will only slow down from a hyperinflation,,,,, and that will be caused from a shift from the dollar reserve function! Trapped holding dollars and no gold to compensate, these other nations are headed for real trouble. 

Again, thoughts from my Foundation post

Euroland thinkers (today) are beginning to see where they really don't need dollars in reserve to retain market share in the US. Just as I asked: "if the US is just pumping it's money supply to build a bubble,,,, flooding the world with inflated dollars that we must buy to engage exchange rates..... With the Euro in play,, why do I need to hold their dollars to legitimize the further creation of my own currency? I can buy gold as a "wealth asset" to hold as a physical reserve and print my own money supply....... It's the same difference and at least I have a reserve that 

" " IS NOT FLOWING FROM AN IRREVERSIBLE TRADE DEFICIT " " !

In better words:

The Euro float is still too small to receive a massive dumping of unneeded dollars. Indeed, the more the US tries to discredit the Euro,,,, the greater the risk of a "Washington Agreement #2" where the BIS / ECB uses unneeded reserve dollars to BYPASS the paper markets and massively buy "real PHYSICAL gold". In fact, all they have to do is enter the market in a minor way and the entire paper gold arena will go up in flames. 

So, Is the Euro falling? Or is the dollar running away as a liquidity crisis threatens it's use? 

Are we at the very doorstep of a crash in the US markets and it's dollar? 

All caused by an evolving transition from the dollar reserve system? 

We have some old writings on this subject and will examine them later. 

We make camp here

FOA/ your Trail Guide

FOA (03/02/00; 20:15:21MT - usagold.com msg#9)

A Clear Path

It's a nice day to get outside! Let's walk a while.

Think back at our recent history of gold and one can build a better perspective of this "new gold market".

Onward:

After the 1971 gold window was closed, the gold market didn't immediately feel the effects of major physical buying. At least until 1976. Most of the world remained shocked that the dollar was no longer backed, but perception remained that eventually gold would be brought back into the official money system. Yes, the dollar did drop in value but not so much that it would destroy the reserve system.

The world remained tied to using dollar reserves even though gold no longer backed them. Oil prices began their long march upward, but most of these early advances were more so political statements, rather than related to the dollar problem. Oil states, flush with cash, were able to convert dollars into bullion at still reasonable prices (as could everyone else). In addition, rising oil revenues were running well ahead of bullion prices and goods inflation. Producers saw little reason to overly rush into gold because some thinkers still held the prospect of a later dollar / gold relink. Especially so as gold began to sink in price after the US made it legal to own again (for US citizens). 

By early 1976, gold was heading for $100 an ounce and making dollar holders less nervous. At that price gold was only a little more than double it's last official price of $42 per oz.. It seemed that the US had achieved what was largely unspoken at the time:

---------- By taking the dollar off the gold exchange system, it provoked a large increase in the dollar price of oil. As I just pointed out, most of those early price rises were political. But not all of it. There was some marking of oil to the free price of gold in a attempt to replicate any lost bullion value. Still, initially, oil prices more than made up for their (producers) now accepting fiat "greenbacks".

Oil was then and is now the life blood of our "new oil economy". For the US, this rising price set in motion a massive effort to find new untapped reserves that were unusable with the low prices an earlier gold dollar generated. Prior, without a rising oil price, the US faced the real prospect of running out of local oil and having to accept the reality of eventually importing Middle East crude for close to 100% of it's needs. What many only speculated about in the late 60s, later became reality as the Middle Eastern reserves did indeed prove large enough to supply and cheap enough to pump for everyone's needs. Their reserves would outlast and underprice our reserves, as long as we paid them in gold dollars. -----------------------

I pointed out in my "First Walk" post how oil was indeed taking over the job as an asset backing the dollar. Even with the first increases in dollar oil prices, the world and the producers were very willing to accept a dollar value based on an expanding "new oil economy". At least until mid 1976!

Look over here:

Of course, during this time there was plenty of "background noise" on the world stage. There always is and it usually distorts the picture just enough to keep us from seeing what was really happening. Like looking at a river up close, in the rapids, instead of far away. But, in 1976 :

------The IMF convened a monetary summit in Jamaica and ratified "The Jamaica Accords" in April. For some major people, this paper was the reality that drove home the golden point. The Accords formally recognized the managed floating currency system for the duration. Marking a turning point in how national super powers effect fiat currency use in our new modern economy. But more importantly, gold was "demonetized" as a reserve asset! -------------

Most everyone immediately grasped what this meant; "that gold would no longer back the currencies as it did in the old gold exchange system". However, for some 15 years to come, no one fully understood what was really said! In the Accords, the wording stated that gold would remain a " " Reserve Asset" "! Indeed, as a non currency, real wealth "reserve asset", this world class money was set free to become a backing for any economy. Even one based on a new reserve system. This my friends, was the key to perceiving what would later happen in the world gold markets. We'll get back to it later.

It's no secret why gold went wild from it's lows that year. For the first time since the 71 break, really big demand was driving the market. No it wasn't just the public's buying of coins and small bars. Nor was it the futures traders with their paper orders that caused gold to rise so much. It was the wholesale scramble by huge dollar holders trying to buy some of those "reserve assets" before it's price went sky high. This buying was in the form of 400 oz bars,,,,,,, lot's of them at a time! Some Central Banks slowly sold into the storm in a effort to manage the demand. Politics and the media did a good job of telling the story as they saw it. But the real reason for the managed rise was to demonstrate to oil producers and other dollar holders that everyone couldn't convert if they brought physical all at once. Had some banks not sold, gold would have gone into the thousands, and in the process destroyed the dollar long before it's date was due. Without a reserve system to replace it, our world economy would have crashed and burned.

Further along the path:

Without the prospects of gold ever backing the fiat money system again, a good portion of the next oil price hikes (late 70s) were dollar related. It wasn't until the mid 80s that two things occurred to lower oil prices for an extended period of time. 

First----- 

The incredible rise in oil prices once again took away some of the pressing need for producers to buy gold. Oil itself was compensating for price inflation. Not to mention that gold was seen as still relatively high. Further, the gold marketplace itself was evolving into more of a contract market than a physical one. Offering hope that financial demand could be channelled away from becoming physical demand. 

Europe, London and the US had all joined together in a quiet effort to better manage the price of gold. All in an effort to once again buy time for the dollar. From a US perspective, this time was needed to "work out" the dollars problems. From a Europe / BIS perspective, it was time used to build a dollar replacement. 

Did both of these power blocks know what the other was doing? I think they fully well did. But as is usually the case in warfare, the generals on each side think the other doesn't have a chance. Truly, the net effect of this joint effort resulted in a stalled gold market, even though the reasons for it differed. 

Second------

Once the evolution of this supposedly free gold market was seen by oil as backing the value of the dollar (with a stalled gold price), production was increased in the mid 80s. The combination of OPEC's added supply and the new supply created by the price induced US drilling, all forced oil prices down. The whole process was seen in the media as the world's dealing with OPEC and forcing the dollar down their throats in the process. But no one ever made the connection that they didn't have to take dollars for settlement and the world would still buy oil. But support the dollar for a purpose they continued to do! 

Oil still had it's political ups and downs over the years and the same reflected in it's prices. But supply was mostly assured from a level to falling gold price. During the next ten years form 85 through 95, few really noticed that although gold and oil charted in the same direction, they never flowed in the same direction. Nor did they grasp how the gold market was engineered to supply gold for this very reason. 

With most of the dollar oil problem licked, the G-7 began an effort to keep the dollar in play. Even though it's debt had aged it and it's timeline was running out. In 1985 they started a series of currency moves that would last until the early 90s. From the "Plaza Accords" (85) to the "Louvre Accords" (87), it was all an effort to stall and stretch out any crisis of the dollar. It seemed that no matter how much the dollar was inflated or how much debt was built upon it, it would be supported for all the world to see. Not even the gold market would be allowed to reflect any portion of this ongoing currency crisis. Showing their full colours in managing this "new gold market", the $500 price in late 87 was quickly brought down. Indeed, the evolution from a bullion marketplace into a mostly "new paper marketplace" was well underway. The later fall in price after reaching a Gulf War peak, was even more stunning. 

It was right about here, in the early 90s that some major players began to stop trading gold. Instead they started slowly buying physical. It seems they finally understood what the "Jamaica Accords" of so long ago really meant. Indeed, it was worth leaving all the "winnings to come" on the table! Because, no matter how high dollar assets would go, physical gold was destine to go much, much higher. 

In December of 1991, twelve members of the original "European Economic Community", now called the EU (European Union) signed the "Maastricht Treaty". It spelled out the process where they would establish a full currency union, called the EMU (European Monetary Union). 

Once the EMU process was signed into law, we could see that there was indeed a purpose behind the formation of the "European Economic Community" in the early 70s. Because it closely followed the 1972 "Smithsonian Agreements", signed in Washington, declaring the dollar / gold break an official act by the US. Nor was it a coincidence that the very first discussion of a Pan Euro currency block in the form of a "European Economic Unit" was first heard of in 1976. The date of the "Jamaica Accords". The EEU, a precursor to the Euro, soon became official in the early 80s. 

On January 1 1999, the Euro was born. On the headlines of almost every paper, the new Euro currency immediately became the topic of speculation. How high or low would it go,,,,,,, will it last,,,,,, what good is it,,,, and on and on. Yet, completely hidden from view and outside most speculator interest, one important item was overlooked. Once this competing reserve currency was formed, the two major power blocks of the world no longer shared the purpose of maintaining a paper gold market! Established, maintained and supported for the purpose of absorbing the demand for gold, it's price damping effects were no longer needed. 

What an overview:

From a Euroland viewpoint, the dollar no longer needed to be supported by a low gold price. With the Euro in place and holding a large portion of the worlds new, non currency "reserve asset" for support, they no longer had a reason to buy at $280 or sell at $480. Indeed, they told the world they were backing out of the paper gold game with the Washington Agreement. We fully expect that during the 5 year time frame of that agreement, physical gold will soar from lack of supply as they trade it outside the London dominated paper markets. We also expect a convoluted workout of the left over contract markets as they fluctuate between $0 and $infinity. Further, the greenback could now go as high or as low as world traders would like to take this now "on it's own" currency. 

From an oil producer viewpoint, with the physical gold market now only a shadow of the total "paper gold market", they can now only float a few dollars in sufficient amounts back into physical gold. With half the gold market supporting players retreating into the Euro umbrella, the present market will revert to little more than a paper float. With this in mind, it should be no surprise to anyone that crude prices began rising almost immediately after the EMU. Eventually, even $30 oil will disrupt world dollar debt to a point where the dollar exchange rate collapses. Forcing a run from dollar settlement and into Euro or a Euro + gold pricing basket for crude. 

Prior to this they watch the same drama today you and I see. An ongoing dollar liquidity crisis that had long ago reached the end of it's timeline. Now it grows worse, brought about by not only the loss of most of it's Euroland financing function,,, but also it's Pan European support. Truly, this crisis demand will drive the dollar ever higher. A hyperinflationary trigger, not completely unlike the one facing Japan today. Day after day one has but to watch the US Fed ever pumping reserves in a effort to reflate a world dollar tire that's full of Euro holes!

From a gold bullion viewpoint: the Jamaica Accords signalled a permanent shift from holding gold and fiat currencies in competition with each other. Yet, the eventual good effects of such a shift would only happen once the sick dollar system was killed by it's debt load. Untill 1999, one of the two world's power blocks had a purpose in keeping it alive. Until a fall back replacement could be formed, a dead dollar would leave gold alone in the currency roll and sent the world into a depression. Truly, with talk of the EMU falling apartin 1997, oil wasn't the only entity that would have bid on gold if the Euro had failed. 

But it didn't. Soon, bullion will return to doing what it did centuries ago. Representing the value of the worlds assets and productive wealth. Only, with the world having far more in the way of modern things than ever before in it's history, "Freegold" trading as a "reserve asset" will be valued as never before.

You ask, what are the dynamics of such a position? 

How are world investors prepared for this event? 

I'll tell you my view,,,,,,, next time on the trail!

Thank you for walking with me,,,,,,, FOA/ your Trail Guide 

FOA (03/10/00; 10:51:52MT - usagold.com msg#10)

A Fireside Talk

We have walked a ways since our last chat, 03/02/00. Let's expand on what was said in each of these rambling talks.

"Introduction Post"

To understand gold we have to look at it through worldly eyes, in a very "broad context". This is important because gold has a better history of storing true net worth over people's lifetimes. More so in a generational sense, not just in the decades span most of us choose to see it in.

Even though fiat currencies often record it as a poorly performing asset in the relative short run, it has far outperformed every paper money system. That's because every paper money system has eventually died from old age while gold lives on.

During both the short and long haul, physical gold is wealth insurance for our extended families. This holds true because even holding gold in the early successful stages of a currency's life, war, politics and natural disasters can work to destroy any nation's assets. This includs ones personal wealth that's denominated in the business structure of said destroyed society. Gold mines included!

Over time, one could never compare the returns of investing in stocks and bonds to owning gold. This is simply because when gold is entangled in currency schemes, it's fiat value is falsely presented while the currency system ages. Only the commodity use of gold is reflected, not it's much higher wealth "reserve asset" function.

However, this present era has become one of those unique periods in paper money history when gold will take a great leap in value during the relative short term. Perhaps we can define it as being between 1990 and 2010. Having covered the accumulation phase of the first ten years already, the next five should be one for investors to just sit back and watch. The last five will be a time where we spend some of our physical gold wealth.

This will occur in a transition from an ageing currency that's still entangled in gold valuation schemes and politics, into a new currency reserve system that's positioning itself to let gold run. In this new venue, we are going to see gold become a world class "reserve asset" that's not tied directly to any official money system.

Again, once physical gold is swept clear from paper moneys, it's value in real life terms will soar.

The modern gold era never changed. Banks lend the currency that is invested in South Sea - like companies. Then the companies and governments create ever more currency debt at the request of the populous. At first the currency is a receipt for gold, then it becomes a receipt for more receipts. Then more currency is created to save these same failing debts receipts, but no gold is there to back it! The endless cycle goes on, all the while hiding our modern value of gold in the process. As the game reaches the end, we even begin to think that the "natural things" and "real things" of life are not the only wealth. Rather, a contract can also be held as one's life savings. It will end!

As paper debt increases, it ages the currency by always generating more "fiat receipts" than human production can ever service. Then, at the end of the "currency timeline", in a great flood of human emotions, we reach for "natural conclusions" to a non retractable financial problem!

One of the conclusions we reach are that physical gold can replace the lost values we once placed in fiat debt and equity, even the loses in paper gold and gold equity! In this drama these same fiat values that we once traded as wealth receipts can no longer be valued at par with real earth things. Once at this point we reach for natural real wealth on a epic scale. 

In the process the entire society, including the government structure and it's outgoing money system are all carried with us in an emotional flood to the sea. Sweeping away the whole format of our worlds currencies and real wealth. We will watch this new format unfold.

This is why so many fail to see why one should hold physical gold at this time, in this closing era. They ask, why now? What is different from 20 or 60 years ago? Seeing only the jewellery value of gold in contrast to past official fiat currency rates (dollar at $42 in gold) as enough appreciation to be fair. We think a move to $600 is enough and invest for that outcome. Locking ourselves out of the real surge.

These questions and perceptions arise because we can only review the recent history of gold. As such it was unnaturally priced in the fiat currencies of pounds and dollars, not traded "next to the currencies" and valued as a "real wealth" "reserve asset". In a price discovery process such as is coming, gold in the past would have reflected all the great wealth advances that have happened sence the early ages of European gold coinage.

Again, for most of us this recent period offers only a fiat value comparison and leads us to accept it's present low fiat valuation. Yet, gold's fiat values over this era were only relative to it's manipulated price during an extended Anglo-Saxon currency timeline. A period that saw the dollar take over the pound's role of representing and dominating all world wealth. Including gold wealth!

During this whole period, gold's value did have small shifts up and down. Even our recent 20+ years are representative of these small shifts. Yet, because of our fiat perceptions we see these moves as large bull and bear runs for the metal. While all the time a truly great value leap in gold was building, waiting for the present dollar lifetime to end. Once the dollar gold entanglements are ended, gold's relative worth in modern world wealth and production abilities will return. In our modern day, the old adage that "gold is worth a mans suit" will prove far, far too low a value.

While we think about this, I'm going to eat some fresh trout. Then, tonight, under the stars we can come closer and extend the next "Foundation post" and others.

FOA/ your Trail Guide

FOA (03/10/00; 17:00:46MT - usagold.com msg#11)

A Fireside Talk (continued)

Hiking a gold trail usually requires us to ramble on as we walk mentioning any points, commenting on good views and taking notes as we proceed. But, after the end of several days on a trail, around a quiet fire, we put it all together. This is the format we take. Our first fireside talk was just posted. It and these (continued) posts will expand on our walking "Thoughts" before we continue the hike.

"Foundation Post"

From several viewpoints we proposed the same question: Why did so many of the world's nations continue to support a dollar reserve system after it went off the gold exchange standard? 

They definitely had a choice; continue to use the dollar or go back to using gold. They choose to use the dollar! I pointed out how this policy flew in the face of common sense, and especially did so as the US only embarked on a policy of continued monetary expansion. In effect, inflating the whole world's currency systems right up into the end of 1997.

My point was that their actions can only be justified from a position of "buying time". Most of the major World and European countries had economies and currencies that could stand on their own in a competitive world. Yes, their transition from a dollar reserve would have been painful. But, compare that loss to the percentage of lifestyle gain they paid as a tax to the US by artificially maintaining the dollar exchange rate. Their Central Banks support polices were a decision to waste their citizens productive efforts in a process that held together a failing currency system. 

They could not be this dumb! As I pointed out in the Foundation post:

-----For the more developed gold owning countries of the G-7, they had a different question in mind. Again, if taking in inflated dollar reserves was the act of importing US dollar inflation into ones local economy,,,,, and in the process creating a market for your goods overseas,,,, why not just print your own currency without taking in dollars - - In doing so give the same buying power the US citizens have in your market,,,,,, to your own people?------------

The other side; why not create a market for your own goods by selling them to your own citizens, using your own currency as a reserve?

Clearly, after 1971 the result of a failed dollar reserve system would have delivered a healthy dose of "real" price inflation to the US. Not just the 10% or 13% we experienced! But at least for the major European countries, with their money systems expanding on their own over the next 20+ years, their citizens would have brought their own lifestyles somewhat relative to their efforts. At least this was more reasonable than paying slave taxes in the form of dollar support. Or maybe it wasn't ?

Indeed, the whole world would have slipped further down the inflationary scale had the dollar failed. Everyone's lifestyle would have slipped a lot more than it did. More in the US, less in Europe. But more importantly, the whole international house of trade would have slowed tremendously without some form of world currency reserve. It's possible, that once we left the reserve system, the return to an increasing momentum of world trade flows would not have been seen again for several generations. Such is the case a world financial fracture on this scale could have created. 

Yet they didn't return to gold! In the eyes of many, gold had been discredited as a controlling force that could regulate world finances and trade flows. Yes, gold was an option then, but we had just seen how modern superpowers can just walk away from the discipline of gold. In my post:

----Even if we have a pure gold system, human nature will find a way to turn it into securities. In doing so we will - - come hell or high water - - lend more gold than we have and borrow more than we can pay back. One has but to return to the history books to see it all in plain print. Over and over again, we start with a solid gold foundation and soon degrade it into trash. It's not just the American way,,,,, it's the world's way. ------------------

It seems the only explanation for the continued support of the dollar came in the form of "buying time": time to recreate a world reserve currency. But this time, make it subject to a whole group of diverse nations of conflicting political wills. In this format no one country can call the shots for the world. In addition, take away the need to compete with gold. Let gold be a supporting "reserve asset" that trades in a free market, unlent and non monetary so as to circumvent it's manipulation. 

In this position a modern digital fiat currency can only represent the productive efforts of the nation blocks it represents. No different from the fiat schemes we have endured for 60+ years. Only this time without an illusion of gold backing and it's discipline. As such, a free market for gold will, on a ongoing basis, constantly devalue any and all currencies of the world. Just as in a somewhat similar concept where the stock markets of the world today currently discount the inflation of their local currencies.

Perhaps the payoff will be worth the past sacrifice of so many productive assets and savings. Perhaps we will never know just how far the world would have sunk had they written off the dollar back then. Without that knowledge as a measuring stick, we cannot compare if the recent loss was worth it. 

Today, dollar support is winding down in the growing shadow of a Euro currency. This will eventually have a tremendous negative impact on all paper assets denominated in dollars. Whether they are viewed as hard paper assets or soft, the coming price inflation will wreck the use of dollar trading vehicles. Hard gold, owned as physical gold will make all the difference in the world.

Next, how oil was used to mask the motives of building the Euro, even as it supported it's creation. We will next extend the "First Walk" post. But first, more logs on the fire.

FOA/ your Trail Guide

FOA (03/11/00; 08:26:08MT - usagold.com msg#12)

A Fireside Talk (further continued)

Expanding from the: "First Walk Post"

Many political problems confronted any drive towards an EMU. In order to build a consensus for a Pan European currency, the architects had to have time, years of it. The last thing they needed was a world-wide economic downturn brought on by a failing dollar system. Working between 1976 and 1982, the software for such a system was only just beginning to really take shape. It was a slow, hard process because during this period and many years prior, the dollar was already experiencing convulsions. They needed at least another ten years, but without something to make the dollar more acceptable even five years was too long. 

Working within a large group of nations required painstaking discussion of all ideas out in the open, so their agenda had to offer something for everyone. In addition, this new currency could not be seen as a competition for dollar use, otherwise the US would most certainly try to split the group.

It's important to understand that most of the world wanted to at least see another currency that could share some of the dollar's function. It didn't have to replace it. To this end, most every country gave some philosophical and political support in it's creation. But, by supporting a dollar that was now completely removed from any commodity backing system, would require the help of some major players.

Another group was extremely interested to see how this new currency would turn out. The major world oil producers. Prior to 1971, they were secure in selling oil for US gold dollars, even if it's true worth in a modern oil economy wasn't completely understood. At least gold had a long history of eventually defining it's value as equal to modern advances. Better said, if oil did more for the economy, then that increased value would be reflected in a stable value of gold. But after 1976 they found themselves selling a resource for far more than they realized it would bring and doing so in dollars of unknown future value. In the unfolding economics of it all, these people saw the same thing we did. 

From my "First Walk" post:

------Prior to the US going off gold in 71, our whole (USA) economic structure was expanding because we were gaining massive leverage through cheap oil. Back then, oil was literally changing our lifestyle for the better, and doing so because it's dollar price was so incredibly low relative to what science was doing with it. Modern science had made oil worth so much more than we paid for it, we could extrapolate our debt and money supply growth far into the future and still figure that productive increases would cover it (the lost value due to money inflation). In effect, the US was targeting it's economy and money value to future oil flow value, not gold.-------------

After 1976 they (oil producers) jumped into gold but soon found that their excess dollar flow could never even partially be shifted into gold as it was traded on this new commodity arena. For them, gold wasn't just a "trade", it was payment in the form of real "reserve assets". Oil assets for gold assets! If the CBs hadn't sold into the storm, gold would have went to the moon from oil flow alone. So they, and everyone else soon found out that there was a world of difference between trading "gold dollars for real gold" at your Central Bank and "buying commodity gold in a trading arena". In truth, the gold market was only a free market for commodity trading. It was never allowed to trade as a "wealth reserve asset".

The options were few. Buy gold outright and see it's price run past it's "money for oil" value, or include gold in a currency basket for payment of oil. In essence saying: "straighten this currency problem out or you will be the one buying high priced gold"! They optioned for a third way. Continue to sell oil for ever cheaper dollars, all the while waiting for something to replace the failed reserve system. So they watched as the US said they would fix the dollar and Europe said they would replace it.

It was clear that the US would continue printing money as long as it got oil flow at a price that created an increase in American lifestyles. To this end, the dollar economy would eventually crash if oil was not priced cheaply in dollars. In addition, pricing oil in a currency basket with gold would just as easily crash the system. It was here, between 1980 and 1985 that both the US and Euroland proved that they could keep gold on an even level if oil could play the game.

Higher oil prices had indeed brought forth more oil flow and crude reserves for the US. This alone did wonders to extend the US dollar economy and the extra load of debt it was building. From this position alone, producers could justify supporting dollar settlement for oil, but only for a decade or so. The US and Britain were busy building a contract gold marketplace that would channel money away from real gold, thereby freeing up more physical to partially exchange for excess world dollars their oil imports produced.

Still, this didn't explain all of the game. It brought time for the EMU to build, but who was going to carry all the eventual excess dollars that would flow from a booming US? By 1986 a booming US economy was the result of still cheap oil. It was being sold to them and everyone for expensive dollars that flooded the world in an ongoing trade deficit! 

From my "First Walk" post:

------It worked in a broken pattern for a number of years. Oil and gold defied all predictions of higher prices as they retreated from every advance. Central banks gorged themselves with worthless dollar reserves and prevented a hyperinflation of the dollar in the process. They did this, because they knew that gold had the ability to completely replace any and all loss of dollar reserve value once a new system was in operation. -------------

In this new format (post 1982), the US and it's dollar system would only work if oil was sold to them cheaply and in dollars. It's no secret that cheap oil is created by opening the valves. But, dollar settlement without gold was a political agreement just waiting for a reason to change it's mind. Foreign Central Bank support for the dollar was the key that kept this temporary condition working. Still, without the added kicker of a world cheap gold price along with a significant revaluation of that gold in the future, oil would have went for settlement in a Euroland basket of currencies + gold, long ago.

The US had already proven that it could not be trusted with any form of gold currency. At least most of the major European countries still had a good record of trusting gold. This is where we saw the impact of oil in the building process of the EMU. If they were to be at least attracted to a new Euro system, it had to accommodate a new attitude in dealing with gold. They looked at the 1976 "Jamaica Accords" and said, "why not use it as it's written, keep gold as a "reserve asset" not a "money asset". Once outside the money system, at a high enough price, it could become a possible world oil currency without destroying anyone's economy."

These were the early thoughts that have continued to evolve through today. But the trick was in keeping the gold market functioning between now and then. It had to supply some gold to exchange excess dollars, keep the price within reason and maintain the major mining structure for supply. The last was most important because the BIS knew how the dollar faction was using gold to try to fix the dollar. Their agenda worked with the EMU process, but was outside the EMU agenda. Both factions wanted the dollar maintained, but the US was willing to sink gold if it brought ever cheaper oil. It was a short sided political process, but it brought votes. 

The BIS was willing to maintain gold above $280 until the EMU. If they didn't, they would lose the support of oil for the Euro system. It wasn't just the fact that this price kept most of the major mine supply online, it was that crude at around $8.75 in gold was their bottom price. 

When the Hunt brothers were going around talking about "an ounce of silver was worth a barrel of oil" they were closer to reality than even they thought. Prior to 1971, the lowest oil value was pegged by producers at around one gram of gold (at $42 that was around $1.30). At one gram per barrel today, $280 was still the bottom price. It's no strange thing that the real dollar price of oil never stayed around this level either. In any event, this was the reason for all the arm twisting in the summer of 1999. Even though the EMU was a done deal, the Euro was still too young to float partial oil settlement. With gold being driven home by the US faction, oil support for both the dollar and Euro was in limbo. The Washington Agreement not only took care of that, it officially announced to the world that the paper gold markets were ending. Indeed, it was paying the way for Euro Crude! 

Today we are still on track for crude oil settlement to begin happening in Euros. Oil prices have continued the rise we predicted once the Euro was created. What is left of the gold market is but a huge paper float that's slowly losing it's credibility from the loss of over half of it's past major supporters, Euroland. To date, many of the major left over gold contracts are being shifted into Euro based settlement. It's only a matter of time until the illusion of a falling Euro is suddenly erased by a crashing US stock market along with it's dollar. 

Next, we expand my "Clear Path" post. Then we will hike again, while talking about real events today. 

Here are a few parts of Another's Thoughts as some time ago. They give us a different view. We are on his trail today:

6/4/98 ANOTHER (THOUGHTS!)

--------I think, over time, the gold derivatives market did "break" the control of the BIS. Gold is held by many world class entities, as a capital asset. These "Giants" did understand the purpose for $350 gold. In this range, the gold mining industry and many capital reserve gold assets would survive. Gold below $300 was not wanted, as even the BIS would be forced to move with the price much below $280. The last small gold war ended in the early 1980s, as the choice was to use the US$ or go to a gold based economy. No other reserve currency existed, and gold lost the war as all continued to buy dollar reserves.

Today, a new currency is formed. It offers a way to break the dollar valuation of gold without the total destruction of world-wide currency markets and economies. In time, oil producers can offer their low cost reserves at true valuations, that support industry and commerce in exchange for a revalue of real money, gold, in a real currency, Euros!----------------------------

5/26/98 ANOTHER (THOUGHTS!)

-----From the day of our birth we are taught to value all things using the one factor alone, currency! Can one contemplate the value of all possessions in other terms? Do you not have to think first as to "how many dollars is that worth" then "how many dollars is this worth" to compare two items? If it is deep within our mind, that we can know value only in terms of paper, to this I ask, can one know value at all!

The Western mind does focus on "what I buy today for the lowest price". Yet, in this modern world economy, the lowest price is always the function of "the currency exchange rate"? The Yen, it is compared to the dollar today, and used to purchase goods. One year later and the Japan offers these goods for much less, as the Yen has fallen to the US$. The currency value of this purchase, was it "true " today or a year ago? Understand, all value judgements today are as subject to "exchange rate competition"! It is in "this exchange rate valuations" that the private citizen does denominate all net worth! A safe way to hold the wealth for your future, yes? You should ask a Korean or the Indonesian?-------------------

-------One should grasp that "today, your wealth, is not what your currency say it is"! In this world, paper currency is for trade, only! It is for the buying, selling, earning and paying, not for knowing the value of your family holdings! Know this, "the printers of paper do never tell the owner that the money has less value, that judgement is reserved for the person you offer that currency to"! Again, I ask, how can we know a true value for our assets, when they are known only in currency that finds it's worth, as in the exchange rate for another currency?-----------

---------Many will "think long and hard on this", but will find little reason for this position. For it is in your history to know only "things valued in paper terms". Some say, "I hold investments of great increase these past years, and am much ahead of the inflation, if it should come". I say, "your investments, world-wide, have moved little, as it has been the currencies that denominate your assets, that fall a great deal". The price inflation that comes, it is larger than your vision can see! Your past, holds little of knowing value outside of currencies, this does block the good view!-----

-----There is more: Today, the world reserve currency holds the exchange rate of one dollar equals one three hundredth of an ounce of gold! It is this rate, that makes the dollar, not as the Indonesian currency. Perhaps a secure thought? However, even this 1/300 rate is also subject to "exchange rate competition"! This new rate was purchased by the acceptance of the "new paper gold" as equal value to "the physical gold"! This large, new paper gold market was created to increase the supply of "traded gold". The physical gold supply alone could not be increased to bring the dollar into the mid to lower 300s exchange rate area, there by making it "strong in gold". But, as in all new markets, for the "traded gold arena" to accept a "paper gold item" in great amounts, it required new collatteral / assets to give this paper item "integrity"! That "integrity" was found in oil-------

-----Some say, "gold fall because noone was buying it". I say, "gold fall because many were buying it"! They buy as the "trading market" was made "much fat" with added paper! Understand this: The US$ price of gold could only fall if a market existed for paper gold priced lower each time of offer! If the price did not fall, this paper market "could not function" as "it would not be profitable to the writer"! It was, for many years, in the good interest of all, for the dollar to find a gold price close to production cost. That time has now much passed!---------------

------One day soon, this "paper gold item" may lose it's "integrity from oil" by way of "competition" from a new reserve currency! In that day, "paper gold" will rush to become "physical gold" as "dollar gold contracts" rush to become "Euro gold contracts". You see, the value of the gold lost from the Euro CB sales will return in the form of a "Euro strong in gold". The "gold reserves" held for the EURO will offer strength, but it will be the total destruction of the dollar gold market that does make " this currency go home"!-----------

-----When the future comes, and one holds asset values in dollar terms, many may discover, there wealth was not as this currency said it was! In that day, you will know your assets, as expressed in the real money of our fathers! This new dollar/gold exchange rate will end your search for the

"the true value of gold"

Thank you

Another

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FOA (3/17/2000; 9:16:57MT - usagold.com msg#13)

A Fireside Talk (last one before we hike the trail in "real - time" context)

Expanding some of my "Clear Path" post #9.

We are only just now arriving at a time period that will bring about "The Currency Wars". Everything prior to this was only a preparation period to build an alternative currency. The years spent traveling this road were done to prepare the world for an escape medium when the dollar finally began it's "price" hyper-inflation stage. 

Few investors can "grasp" that in reality, our dollar has already been hyper inflated , but without the higher price effects. Years of deficit spending, over borrowing, debt expansion have created an illusion that the dollar was immune to price inflation. This illusion is evident in our massive trade deficit as it carries on with no negative effects on dollar exchange rates. Clearly other investors, outside the Central Banks were helping in the dollar support process without knowing they were buying into a dying currency system.

The only thing that kept this process from showing up in the prices of everyday goods was the support other Central Banks showed for our currency through exchange intervention. As I pointed out in my other writings, this support was convoluted at best and done over 15 to 20 years. Still, it's been done with a purpose all this time. That purpose was to maintain the dollar for world economic trade, without which we would all sink into depression. Indeed, the mainstay of this support required an ever expanding world dollar base. There is simply no way the old dollar debts along with the new ones could have been serviced without this money expansion. 

The entire long term process is / was very clear to a few major financial players as they prepared for the dollar's retirement as a reserve. Their main strategy for dealing with this was found in several positions. One was a long term buying of real physical gold. The other was the acceptance that all trade and investments would eventually transition away from dollar use. To combat this they began to denominate their paper assets and business transactions in other currencies (now the Euro holds the main transition flow). This was done because, as the dollar prices of real things first show real signs of rising, all forms of dollar derivative contracts would begin to unravel. Better said, the process of dollar contract failure would show up in the form of discounts on these derivatives from par value. Because most of our "end time" dollar world has built itself into a huge derivative game, this discounting will occur across the board in almost everything we deal in. Not just gold. 

The first signs that official dollar support is winding down is seen in real world pricing and official policy. The most obvious "first" price sensitive arena to reflect a "real coming inflation" is not gold as so many think, it's the stock markets. Their long term bull run, mostly starting around the early 80s completely reflected this official sanction of world dollar expansion without price inflation. It's only in the last year that we can see where equity markets are telegraphing a transition into dollar expansion "without world support". Better said, major price inflation is coming on a level equal to hyper status. Many stock markets have headed straight up in reflection of this.

Another area where we see this change is in crude oil. For years, every rise in crude prices was quickly shut down from added supply. Done to add the producers portion of help to the dollar support effort. Even war in the oil fields was not allowed to create a dollar destroying price rise. Once the Euro was born and seen in operation as a possible "backup" currency, added crude supply to keep prices low was no longer available. Prices have risen and fallen in a broken fashion that will continue it's upward bias. This policy change is not only a vote of confidence in Euroland, it's also a Euro reserve support function that will lead to much higher physical gold prices later. Oil around $30 (and $45+ later) now values gold upwards to $930 using the old one gram = one barrel from a pre 1971 gold dollar price ratio. This has fueled ongoing trade in gold by the BIS as it seeks more physical gold supply outside the LBMA paper contract world. A process that can only further destroy the present contract gold illusion as expressed in a paper dollar gold marketplace. Eventually, $930 gold crude will become the absolute bottom pricing range as real dollar price inflation begins. 

The most recent example of official policy change toward the dollar was found in the Washington Agreement. It marks the end of Euroland support for the paper gold markets that helped maintain a dollar / oil settlement bond. In the beginning (1980s) it was a joint effort by at least two factions that has today become only a single effort by one faction. The US / Britain.

Even with this, the US accepted a reworked IMF gold structure. Because of this, they (US) are today operating two policy positions that contradict each other. One tries to use an escalation of the gold price to maintain IMF support for foreign US debt, while the other tries to keep the "gold trading desk" of several market makers solvent through an even lower price.

This places Euroland, the BIS and major world physical gold players on a direct collision course with the US backed contract gold marketplace. The effects of this will "most likely" be seen in a literal flood of new paper gold entering this arena in an effort to maintain "bookkeeping" credibility for the market makers. Today we see the beginnings of this change impacting the market as it is evolving into little more than a large paper float that exists mostly for this "bookkeeping" purpose. It will stay viable until dollar price inflation dries up to physical supply that to date still sells into this market. No doubt, the mine companies will become the very last sellers to support this arena. Possibly, selling into it's paper pricing all the way down.

For years, gold bugs have figured that gold would be the next dollar escape mechanism. Not another currency. They gave little thought to the reality that our modern world could not, would not price gold as a "reserve free trading asset" without a digital paper money reserve to do it in. Once the dollar begins it's decline through price inflation, it's use as a reserve and more importantly it's use to establish a gold market will stop. This will cause an unexpected delayed positive impact on gold values as gold's paper marketplace goes through tremendous convulsions. We may see dollar price inflation in all things, yet gold values fall as contracts fail from constricted supply. Eventually, even the mining sector will be forced from shareholder loses and poor contract price economics to abandon the dollar pricing contract system. I expect that during this time the physical price of gold will be soaring as it's lack of trade constricts supply. Most paper gold traders today, don't understand how a real dollar price inflation shrinks physical gold trade, no matter how high or low the price goes. Further, they continue to use the various dollar gold derivatives even as their paper supply mushrooms. A process that forces the contract gold price down. Yet, all the while they are proclaiming that they are "in the gold market" and bemoaning how the manipulation of the metal is giving them loses.

It's important for new players to understand that no government or private banker in the world today can manipulate the dollar price of traded physical gold once real price inflation begins in the reserve currency. A failing currency system would find governments and bankers selling into a virtual "black hole" of demand. 

Prior to dollar price inflation effects, the impact of official policy can only manipulate paper contract prices. Just because traders are willing to sell physical gold for a paper settled contract price doesn't mean that's the real gold value in the world today. More to the point, this is simply a temporary condition that could exhaust itself before price inflation, once physical delivered against paper prices dries up. Thereby forcing contract prices into discount and destruction. 

This modern paper market is relatively a new concept in world gold trade. It was created by banks, western traders and mine operators themselves over the last 15+ years. They supported this market by buying into it instead of buying and trading only real gold. True, the paper promoters may have been dishonest in presenting the effects of this process, but no one was forced to use it! Without user cash flow giving credibility to these paper derivatives, the market would not exist in it's present form. Yes, it's true that the Euroland and dollar faction agenda, along with oil interest and indeed physical gold traders all benefited from this investors market making cash flow! But this is reality for any investment where a buyer of a contract abrogates the security of present real ownership into a paper position with counterparties risk. Even today, call option buyers give their money away in support of this illusion, instead of buying coins outright. Truly, western gold paper traders and gold stock investors today a have evolved and in no way represent what the term "gold bug" used to mean. Today, physical gold advocates are the real gold bugs as they now posses the real leverage paper players only think they have! 

To close, I offer two post from the USAGOLD forum. 

The first is from Mr. Kosares and presents a true picture of how real gold flows have moved over the recent years. It collaborates my point made long ago that CB gold was never flooding the market as traders and the media thought. In reality it's been the evolution of investor use of the paper markets that have set lose so much private gold. Thereby playing into the hands of official policy.

This second post is from Mr. Solomon, who offers up a wisdom that is so very relevant to this fireside talk.

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USAGOLD (3/8/2000; 15:05:37MDT - Msg ID:26541)-------

Interesting Fact....

According to the World Gold Council's Demand Trends #30 released a few weeks ago, theofficial holdings of gold were 1106.0 million ozs in 1996, and 1080.6 ozs in October, 1999. 

In other words, central banks over the past four years have lost in the aggregate a mere 25.4 tons-- or a little over six tons per year.

That after countless mainstream press articles bemoaning the surety of central bank sales, the Bank of England dishoarding, Dutch and Belgian central bank sales, Canadian, Russian, Malaysian ,Jordanian sales -- and others.

What the mainstream press fails to point out consistently is that while some central banks have been selling, others must have been buying. I want to thank my good friend, Voyager, for prompting me on this subject.

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Solomon Weaver (03/14/00; 21:11:52MDT - Msg ID:26846)--

I remember a comment by Another which stated that dollars (cash) was a "derivative"....at first I was confused.. but over time...I started to understand.

Money "derives" its value from what it can move.

Anyone, with half a sense for history and culture, who sits down and ponders the most recent few hundred years of mankind's developments, comes to the dizzying realization that we have developed a massively new epoch in the total history of our species...in the last 300 years we have truly tasted the fruits from the tree of knowledge..and on some levels have indigestion.

The primary common denominator to our survival is knowledge (and its partner, wisdom).

Until about 120 years ago, oil was not very valuable...but the more we discovered how to "burn" it and how to "form" it (chemicals, plastics), the more valuable it became.

Like others here at the forum, I think that gold and silver are due for a return to hard asset category, and given their lackluster performance in the last 15 years, in a time with immense economic progress, can only enjoy a solid recovery (both in price and popularity).

On the other hand, I think we all have to consider that (all paradigms aside) humanity has entered into a world where the physical survival of 50% of our population requires the continuing functioning of a very complex set of physical and economic flows. These folks live in a derivative world. Milk is in cartons. Heat comes in over wires. Wheat arrives baked.

We see the rumblings of reemergence hard-liners in China and Russia and the "idea" of future wars is discussed....The problem with this is that with so much of our ability to create wealth tied to knowledge (techknowledge), invasion of the rich no longer generate the spoils they did before. I think that if we are honest, we will recognize that the extended use of emergency executive orders by the President would accomplish the same thing as having America invaded.

Would any President really want to be the one to do this? When Roosevelt called the bank holiday in the 30's and confiscated gold, does anyone think he wanted this???? He was a decisive man, stepping into a new office where he realized we needed some real bitter medicine. Gold was targeted because it was the "accepted" place for people of all nations to "park their wealth" in pockets "outside of the formal banking system". Back then, there was no highspeed digital money,and a large portion of money was cash....today, when you move money it goes from "your bank" to "counterparties bank". It is almost a pure derivative money. Even if gold were to rise in value such that it could be valued close to the same as today's fiat pool, most of us would die quickly if the digital fiat system did not work.

We look at the divergent paths of gold metal vs. gold paper. When gold paper becomes worthless, gold metal will have value because it holds inherent credibility. But given its very scarcity, that gold metal will need "another currency" to move its value into in order to transact purchases. In a dollar crisis in a digital world, there is really nothing to gain by "confiscating gold"....the primary concern should be to keep the "remnant of the dollar economy" stabile enough that "gold will flow back into it". Perhaps I am naive to believe that our leaders will understand this...if they don't then they are not only fools they are derivatives of fools. I like to hope that this might be one of the reasons why the very intellectually astute monetary mind of Mr. Greenspan decided to stay in power...I think he may be one of the few who understand the problems of foolishness (particularly when viewed in the magic mirror made of gold).

Poor old Solomon

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Thank you for reading

FOA/,,,,,, your Trail Guide

FOA (04/01/00; 16:59:05MT - usagold.com msg#14)

Walking The Trail

http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/longwaves/mar00/msg01356.html

Hello everyone! 

It's been a few weeks and it's time to stretch the legs again. 

During these last few days I have seen several renditions of my discussions from the USAGOLD Forum circulating around. Good! Glad to see it being thought about. I just wanted to let it be known that this was a collection of several of my rambling posts. They were strung together and included some commentary of ORO and a few other good posters there. I don't know who put this together but have seen THC, Singlion, Sharfin and a host of others posting it all over. With a title of "Selling Paper Deeds for Roman Gold" it does truly hit home for gold advocates today. Food for thought in a hungry world. Thanks people, for adding your own special flavor to the currency problems we consider today.

http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/longwaves/mar00/msg01356.html

Onward

Every time the dollar price of gold is driven down we hear cries of despair all over the web. Understand that these sounds you hear are not really the noises of physical pain, rather it's the ages old wale of one person giving his wealth to another and getting nothing in return. (frown) As "Gold Advocates" we hear these same as signals that indicate more free assets coming our way. As Real Gold buyers, the feast only becomes larger and our real wealth greater! (smile)

You see, a Gold Advocate looks at gold as a wealth currency and continues to accumulate it at any better price. Follow those that "mostly" invest in Paper Gold or even the "Gold Industry" and one can only see where more losses are coming at these lower prices. Some gold mines may be a good buy here, but not many of them.

Some moaners place gold as a downtrodden relic and swear never to invest in it again. Yet, from our view, they never purchased "gold the currency" in the first place. Their idea of "hedging their wealth with gold" included a wholesale buying into the concept that "paper gold" was "real gold". It never was and never will be. Paper trading only works while the paper world stays together. A dynamic that is unraveling now!

There is a big risk difference between betting on the price of gold for a short run profit and buying real wealth currency for a long term crisis event. For myself, the largest difference will be in the real wealth gained in the future, not today. Over the last 15 years political gold policy has caused paper players to walked the gold trail like drunken sailors. As a result their assets have done likewise. One step forward in the little gold paper runs and two steps backwards while waiting for the next move. All the while giving away their dollar wealth with nothing to show for it when the real run comes. In the end, they will sober up only to find that they made little progress as most of their "gold" investments brought them full circle. About even if they are lucky! Yet, bullion holders will experience gains that make almost any investment today look tame.

Look over here

The currency of gold hasn't done nearly as bad as paper traders would have us think. As a person of the world I own many currencies (dollars included) and all of them go up and down as much as gold. Some even more so. Because gold is but one very large currency holding for me, it takes on an exchange significance.

Using very approximate values: 

In January 1985 one dollar would buy 1/300 ounce of gold. At the same time it would buy 3.25 German Marks and about 250 Yen. 

Ten years later, by 1995 one dollar would buy 1/375 ounce of gold, 1.40 Marks and less than 100 Yen. 

Here we have two world class currencies moving well over 100% against the dollar! Yet, gold was more stable as it moved only 25%. From Jan 1999 gold has been even more stable than the Euro, today resting within 5% of it's value from the Euro starting range. 

My point is that today, all currencies will run up and down in their race to full fill a fiat's destiny. Yet, in the process their percentages moves could be temporally far greater than what gold moves. Making gold look like the most stable holding of all. Even as paper gold bugs cry about how it's crashing? 

In this light we must all consider ourselves like insurance companies writing risk policies by holding paper currencies. The higher the movement risk, the more interest we must receive to hold our wealth in paper form. Indeed, just as an insurance company is lucky in good years to balance it's exchange rate loses against the same interest return, currencies are not that great a deal in today's world. Physical gold becomes a fine wealth holding that pays a much higher premium than any fiat currency. It's zero interest is "high" in relation to the default (inflation) rate inherent in paper money. In the future, some will even pay a "negative" rate in the paper markets to try and acquire gold through legal force. This is called buying a gold contract in default and trying to force the counter party to produce gold. Some will, most won't!

For all of you with a mind for intrigue, the game is now on to buy gold at negative rates. ORO, the SDR is telling your story. (follow his past discussion on the USAGOLD Forum) If the US would just stop pushing paper gold boulders down the hill,,,,, and stood and watched for a while,,,,, they would see that the avalanche now has a mind of it's own and needs no help. The whole paper gold mountain is on the move. (smile)

Further we walk

All of the massive tonnage of contract gold that is owed today was never as real as investors thought. It was an illusion of paper supply. Most of the gold sold by the European and other world CBs moved no further than the next CB vault. The gold trading world brought this "physical selling" story in it's entity and in the process supported the dollar's life. 

Today, Europe is the greatest supporter of "Freegold" the world has seen for some time. As they act out their policy, the paper gold marketplace as we know it priced in dollars will fail. The completely unexplainable gold sales by the BOE are only a means to this end. They are much more concerned about joining the Euro and saving some BB face than any longer saving the dollar.

The US is now "in it" alone as they have lost the dollar war and the "oil war". Crude oil will not stay in this new dollar price range for long. This was politically arranged to somewhat save US face. We (US) are now calling in every favor, expending the last political capital and inflating the dollar in an end run that will soon lead to nowhere. A grand hyper inflation of prices is now directly ahead on the trail. It should be ushered in with a large "crackup" in the currency derivatives market. Once this event is "in process" the paper gold markets will quickly rush to discount against physical gold. A discount that will break our gold market pricing and physical allocation system. 

Understand that the largest gold rush will be from the paper gold arena into real gold. Any form of asset allocation that took the form of:

" "hey buddy, this security belongs in your portfolio as the gold portion" " 

will be dumped and the remaining value placed in hot pursuit of the real thing. Just watch how it all unfolds, you will fell the pressure.

I for one hope someone can force paper gold lower while physical supplies still sell into it. Because once paper credibility is broken, our physical markets will seem like a speck of sand washed on an ocean shore. 

We were at this same crossroads almost one year ago. The same stress brought about the "Washington Agreement" as it was pieced together during the summer of 99. I expect that this time, stronger medicine will be applied and fully expect it is "in process" now with gold under $280! The only difference today is that the Euro grows more mature and oil ever more independent. 

Onward to camp

Here is a post I offered on our Forum. It's a good reflection of what was just said. Read it around the fire.

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Trail Guide (03/25/00; 16:29:55MDT - Msg ID:27470)

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Journeyman (03/21/00; 06:32:00MDT - Msg ID:27201)

Paper/gold composite spot

I know we all pay lip service, but at times like this, it's good to remember. Also good to remember, if TC or MK was it? was correct, most of the gold "sold" actually travels around to other CBs, it doesn't really enter the market, doesn't affect the supply/demand equation except psychologically.

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Journeym

eco fedorov aaa Russia CB controlled by USA

eco fedorov aaa Russia CB controlled by USA

The National Liberation Movement in Russia has only one goal that unites everyone regardless of their political views: the restoration of the sovereignty of the country and liberation from its occupiers. The inhabitants of Russia must break free from their chains of slavery and become free citizens in a free (non-occupied) country.

To achieve these goals, the government should become ours, i.e. we must completely change the nature of the state, including through amending the Constitution. Society is a broader concept, and in fact, it should feel necessary to partake in this goal because the national liberation struggle is a struggle of the society for the restoration of sovereign control over Russia, including control over state institutions. Today, the state in Russia, as in any colony, works for the occupier under the rules established by it, placing it under the rulers’ direct control. This provision is captured in the existing Constitution. Every day the main task of those millions of officials who go to work is to improve living standards and the solve the problems of the American and European peoples. That is their main function today. At the level of daily activity, it is hard to recognize this without desire and sufficient time for the conceptualization of our historical facts and the current state of affairs in the country as a whole. The following are the tasks of the existing mechanisms of the state in Russia today:

•         assist in the permanent migration abroad of healthy and mostly gifted young people, scientists, children, and everyone else of importance in terms of the labour force (in the same manner as Hitler, who exported labour forces from the occupied territory of the USSR);

•         ensure an uninterrupted supply of tribute and free material resources for Europe and U.S.A. (that is what the Central Bank is engaged in);

•         work towards the strategic tasks of eliminating Russia, the Russian nation, and the Russian people. Such a task exists, and it was publicly identified by the leaders of the USA to the Russian state. This task is also performed by migration flows organized in a special way as to create social tensions and polarization between the citizens. Also, this objective is fulfilled through the absence of a clear policy and real actions in the development of weaker regions of the country, such as what we are now seeing in the Trans-Baikal, the Far East, and the Extreme North. Putin struggles against the cultural destruction of the concept of "Russian", despite American demands to stop such attempts. Nobody is going to obey any orders of the President concerning school education;

          and a common history textbook. Besides that, they publicly say, "We will not do this, we have our own chief in Washington, and he gave us other orders." And the state apparatus obeys these "other orders" of Washington.

There are the three main goals that the American occupants have set about to achieve in the Russian state:1) elimination of the Russian ethnicity and the Russian man as a cultural phenomenon, including; 2) payment of tribute with money and resources; 3) strategic elimination of the Russian state in the same format as it is.

This has made for easier colonial management in accordance with the principle of "Divide and Rule". It is also a typical practice for all colonies. The British divided all their colonies into parts, which resulted in easing the convenience in conducting the management process. Technologically, they created projects for this purpose, i. e. a political project of Liquidators - Alexey Navalny and the political environment of grant receivers, followed by the terrorists and castigators, which for the present moment are temporarily sent to Syria until they are given work to carry out in Russia. Then they will come back and slaughter people in Russia when Navalny and the terrorists prepare the system for this, just as is happening in Syria. After all, there also were "navalnys" at first, who paved the way in people's minds and prepared the system, then the terrorists came, followed by the castigators on the terrorists' backs. In order to destroy the Syrian people there or the Russian people here, it is necessary that the smiling people lead the way. As missionaries, politicians, grant receivers, "navalnys", etc. They should create the conditions to make it possible to introduce terrorism when the time is right.

Russia as a colony

Nonetheless, there have been attempts to remove the system of external control, for example, the rebellion of Korzhakov and the secret service officers, which was suppressed in 1996. As a result, the Khasavyurt Accord was signed, according to which Russia was subject to liquidation within three years. But Putin had time to destroy the oligarchic system and cancel the agreement on the elimination of Russia.For me, it is clear that all the decisions that Putin has to take are prepared by system of the state apparatus controlled by the USA in accordance with the Russian Constitution and its laws. Besides, attempts to eliminate the field of Russian science were recently made, namely, the situation surrounding the Academy of Sciences, and the formation the an innovative type of economy that Putin has spoken about for ten years has already been prohibited. There are still no such institutions and nobody is going to create them. It turns out that the deputies, as the legislative power, take anti-national laws under the dictation of the metropole country, and as a result, Putin is blamed. All the more, the censorship against him works quite diligently. Through placing the Russian media under external control, the USA filters all the information about the struggle for sovereignty being waged today in Russia.         But the information blockade is occasionally broken, and the national liberation movement becomes a more and more noticeable force that intends to solve the problem of sovereignty.

Nationalization of the Central Bank

The Central Bank of Russia is independent and does not report either to the President or to the State, and it wastes rubles by buying foreign currency totalling almost1 trillion rubles a year. Therefore, most of the problems of Russia are particularly related to the "Law on the Central Bank", written by American advisors, which allows the USA not only to buy up all the available resources of the country, but to also influence its internal processes as well. By forcing the bank to work for the state, it would be possible to immediately redirect the money from the reserves (which, in fact, are spent on buying the U.S. debt obligations) to industry and infrastructure, thus initializing the new industrialization which Putin spoke about at the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum."I want all of us to clearly understand  that the coming years will be crucial, and maybe even a critical time not only for us, but for almost the entire world which enters an era of radical changes, and maybe even shocks" -  Putin said. Thanks to the re-emergence of industrialization, the economy, industry, infrastructure, and even Russia's domestic policy will dramatically change, and that will lead to its accelerated development.

The Eurasian Union will finally form a new political system independent of the USA and UK.

The Cold War in the Latent Phase

There are indications that the Cold War did not end with the collapse of the Soviet Union and is still being waged against Russia. NGOs (namely, foreign-funded foreign agents) create a false picture of what is happening inside the country and thereby intentionally distort the essence of Putin's actions. And that is all because a time of serious changes has come to the USA. The Bankers' Empire is collapsing. The debts grow, entire cities come to bankruptcy, and they simply cannot survive without the resources of Russia. The situation in Syria and about Snowden simply showed their true colours to the world. In general, there is one important rule: if someone scolds Russia, then Putin is doing everything right. When Putin left the Federal Security Service of Russia for the post of Prime Minister, he said to his colleagues at parting: "The first stage of the infiltration mission is completed. I start the second stage - the elimination of the gang. "After the defeat of the USSR in the Cold War, we were not allowed to have a national elite. Taking into account that we live in a market paradigm of relationships, under national elites, we understand the wealthy people, the major possessors of significant assets, and their consequent impact on the business and social environment. Today, all the richest people that have          business in Russia, the ones who the "Forbes" magazine writes its publications for, are, in fact, foreign entrepreneurs. That is to say, all their major assets are in a foreign jurisdiction, and therefore, the businessmen themselves are controlled by the USA through a mechanism of pressure. The privatization process took place in the 1990s. How was it? According to the lists prepared by the CIA and the U.S. State Department officers, all the major objects of ownership have been transferred to the oligarchs, who have agreed to hold them under certain conditions. One of the conditions was the transfer of property in the Anglo-Saxon jurisdiction, provided that the control over all major industrial and infrastructure facilities in Russia will be retained by the USA, and the oligarchs were used as a cover for this mechanism. Thus, all the major property objects passed under the control of the United States and its comprador elites that emerged in Russia since the national ones were prohibited. Over the years of the development of modern Russia, a major national business could not be formed, as we have no conditions for its development. Take at the very least the availability of credit. The Central Bank keeps refinancing rate at 8.25% and, having other opportunities to influence the banking system, deliberately creates a situation in which the cost of the end credit reaches 15-30%. If the company is in a foreign jurisdiction, it can be credited abroad under the rates of 3-5%. It is clear that even according to this sole parameter, national business cannot develop because it becomes non-competitive.

Let's add a terrible tax system that is served by a huge staff of state officials and the corruption that is systematically created and controlled by the Americans. After all, hundreds of thousands of corrupt officials of all shades, having stolen their money in Russia, later obtained political asylum in Britain. And being under foreign jurisdiction, the businessman decides to solve these problems and gets access to cheap credit, but becomes controllable by the USA and acts for their benefit. Thus, in the absence of full state sovereignty in modern Russia, there are no major business and national elites.

Changing the Status of National Business

In the system of the national liberation movement, the Committee on the Strengthening of Economic Sovereignty (CES), whose task was to create conditions for the development of national business and the formation of national elites, was created. "For Sovereignty" interfactional group of deputies of the State Duma introduced a draft of Federal Law "On the status of National Business", developed by CES. The core of the draft law was to create conditions for the development of national business. A national register of business will be created in which all the companies located in the Russian jurisdiction can enter. Furthermore, they will have access to cheap credit of 3-5%, which will result in the creation of Central Bank parallel credit rates  for national businesses. And not only access to credit, but also a pre-emptive right to participate in privatization, land allocation, government subsidies, preferential tax regimes, and more will emerge. Therefore, we invite all entrepreneurs who want to see a free and prosperous Russia, who want to develop their business and leave it to their children, to join the national liberation movement and to participate actively in the activities of CES.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION WITHOUT NATIONAL SUPPORT?

A frequently asked question is: "Why can’t we change the Constitution without grassroots support?" To understand the answer to this, simply look at the Constitution of the Russian Federation itself. Chapter 9 regulates Constitutional amendments and the revision of the Constitution. Let's start reading.

Thus, in accordance with paragraph 1 of Art. 135 of the Constitution, the Federal Assembly (the State Duma and the Federation Council) cannot revise Chapters 1, 2, 9 of the Constitution.And we know that Chapter 1 contains a prohibition against the imposition of a state ideology (Art. 13), Chapter 2 pertains to the formalized prohibition of censorship (Art. 29), and Chapter 9 establishes the procedure for amending the Constitution. As such, the Parliament is not able to change the key Chapters. These provisions can be changed during the Constitutional Assembly if 3/5 of the members of the Federal Assembly vote for their amendment.

Furthermore, the Charter of the occupied territory reads: "The Constitutional Assembly shall either confirm the invariability of the Constitution or draft a new Constitution which will be adopted by the Constitutional Assembly by two thirds of the total number of its members, or submitted to a referendum". The work of the Constitutional Assembly shall be determined by the Federal Constitutional Law "On the Constitutional Assembly" which has not yet been adopted. Thus, in practice, it is impossible to change the Constitution. It is necessary to pass this law, but of course the occupant's entire administrative machine will be opposed to such a decision. And here again we are confronted with the need of grassroots support for V. Putin's national policy, because only through this mechanism can the national leader acquire the powers to partake in tougher action which ultimately will lead to the victory of the national liberation movement and change the Constitution back to a sovereign one. That is why participation in the National Liberation Movement’s street protests is the duty of every citizen of Russia who does not want to be a slave or to liquidate his homeland.

What Destiny does U.S. in Store for Russia?

USA is an oppressive colonial power openly proclaiming its colonial interests. The USA solves its internal problems by means of war at the expense of others, and nothing has changed for centuries  except for the technology used to carry out the murders. Accordingly, for the last 20 years, this country has provoked and unleashed the greatest number of wars. Perhaps only Nazi Germany in the XX century has surpassed the USA in a twenty-year period of time. But on the larger timeline, the USA has left the Nazis far behind. They significantly expanded their interventions - Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Libya and finally they reached for Syria,  to say nothing of the participation of the USA in some of the conflicts in Africa. This applies not only to the aforementioned countries, but to the entire world –there are no exceptions for America. They have a "maniac" confidence that all are indebted to them, and that only their rules should govern the world. It is obvious that America has never said goodbye to the cult of power and, moreover, is not going to do so. Let's take, for example, Madeleine Albright, one of the most famous figures of the U.S. Democratic Party. In her interview to Lesley Stahl near the end of 1996, she gave a very ambiguous answer about the impact of the sanctions against Iraq. Lesley Stahl asked her: "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima... and... do you know whether it was worth it?" Albright said, "I think it's a very difficult choice, but the price - we think it was worth it." For them, democracy is when they scalp the living. They have one course, and history, as we know, tends to repeat itself. So, about 8,000 children were killed during the war in Syria. Another 9,000 children are still held by terrorists in high-security prisons, but the methods of killing children in Syria are diverse. About 300 children were killed with knives during the mass punitive actions in such districts as al Ghul and Karmaz Zaytun in the province of Homs. Many were shot by non-governmental forces as they fired into crowds of demonstrators, used by them as "human shields", executed them, or killed them as they were being tortured. Syrians are shot by weapons that have killed Palestinians and Lebanese in the past. The so-called opposition that has already seized power in Libya rushes into power in Syria, and everything will repeat as it had in Iraq in recent years. Shiites kill Sunnis, Sunni kill Shiites, and both kill Christians ... Syria will become the third Iraq if the pro-American gangs calling themselves the Syrian National Council (SNC) win there. American advisers of current "oppositionists" are apparently the same ones who led the Libyan rebels. They changed the first word in the title and now a new opposition group is ready. Well, what will it cost them to organize a RNS (Russian National Council), especially when our country possesses 30% of the world's coal reserves, 40% of oil, 45% of gas, 50%of shale energy, 44% of the world's reserves of iron ore, 30% of chrome ore, 74% of manganese ore, 40% of rare earth ores, 28% of world diamond production, and 30% of all gemstones? And in order to have the puzzle put together in the overall picture, I want to remind one of the "masters’" words. Let's start from the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton: "For the last ten years the policy in relation to the USSR and its allies has convincingly proved the correctness of our strategy to eliminate one of the strongest powers in the world as well as the most powerful military bloc ... we got a raw-material appendage - the state not destroyed by atom which would be difficult to create. Yes, we spent many billions of dollars for this, but they are already close to that which the Russians call self-repayment. For four years, we and our allies have received various strategic raw materials for the amount of 15 billion dollars, hundreds of tons of gold, precious stones, etc. Having loosened the ideological foundations of the USSR, we have been able to bloodlessly remove the state which was the main competitor to America in the war for world domination ... In the next decade, the solution of the following problems is expected: the dismemberment of Russia into small states by interregional wars, such as those that have been organized in Yugoslavia; the final collapse of the military-industrial complex of Russia and the army; establishing of regimes in the republics detached from Russian that we need. Yes, we have allowed Russia to be a state, but only one country will be the empire - the USA," (October 25, 1995). Mrs.Madeleine Albright:"Siberia is too large a territory to belong to one state". Let's also remember Zbigniew Brzezinski, who is undoubtedly one of the key figures of the Cold War: "Russia is the defeated power. It lost a titanic struggle. And to say "it was not Russia, but the Soviet Union" means to escape from reality. It was Russia, called the Soviet Union. It challenged the United States. It was defeated. Now we should not sustain illusions about a great power of Russia. It is necessary to discourage this way of thinking ... Russia will be fragmented and be under guardianship."

Talking about the system of recruitment, we must mention the selection of them nomenclature. This function is an element of strategic management, as the personnel are "cultivated" over the years. For example, a person should grow to the level of Minister within 10-15 years and he needs to be controlled during this entire time. If he performs his responsibilities well, he will be allowed to pass on to the next level. Such a right in the Soviet Union was entrenched in the CPSU Central Committee and the Politburo. A Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet was a technical executive who endorsed all appointments. Today's President of Russia has powers much less than that of the President of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet (see table on p. 199).

All the more, the Russian President has no powers to carry out the nomenclatures’ selection. This function is in the hands of the occupant. The Americans, through their political consultants, identify promising young people, and the work is carried out with those who satisfy the interests of the United States.

In order to make a political career in modern Russia, you have to belong to one of the following groups:

1)      U.S. agent;

2)         corruptionist;

3)      grant receiver.

The agent is generally esteemed as "sacred" by the Americans. The agent is given the "green light" in all regards, and in case of a favourable combination of circumstances, the agent will necessarily rise to the level of minister or his deputy.

         The corruptionists somewhat of a lower level than the agent, but also has a "green corridor", as he is vulnerable in terms of blackmail material, and therefore, is manageable. Additionally, his moral uncleanliness guarantees his loyalty to the occupier. The grant receiver is of yet an even lower level, but in general, also receives support and has all the chances to make a successful career. In addition to this, we must understand that one of ten grant receivers is recruited as an agent. If you or your relatives do not belong to any of the above categories, then forget about a political career in modern Russia. This is important to know because people often ask: "Why does Putin not dismiss this or that official and take another one in their place?" The answer is obvious: the list of candidates submitted for approval will not include people other than those who underwent the occupational filter. This is because since 1991, after the defeat of our country in the Cold War, the personnel selection system is controlled by the occupant.

Therefore, only in the case of a victory of the National Liberation Movement will Russia have the right to exercise the nomenclature’s selection in terms of its national interests. Today, a lively debate which is linked to the theme of "ancestral homes" is taking place. Its core comes down to the following: is it is possible today to live in total isolation from civilization, and if so, then why should the people who are going to go to the hinterland of Russia participate in the National Liberation Movement? It is necessary to emphasize at once that no one argues with the fact that living in harmony with nature, in the absence of the big cities’ stress factors, is, of course, more comfortable in many ways. But let's think WHETHER IT IS AT ALL POSSIBLE TO LIVE surrounded by forests and lakes if the National Liberation Movement does not succeed? Let's suppose that a man makes products and provides for himself. He has the cattle, the poultry, the land that gives fruits and vegetables, and a firewood-heated furnace from late autumn until spring. But excuse me, will he also make himself the matches or other means of starting a fire? Or will he wait in winter for a sunny day to make a fire using a magnifying glass? Let's start at least from the construction of the house. If he wants to build a brick house, it is unlikely that this man will open a brick factory, and if he opens one anyway, he will have to take materials from somewhere: sand, cement, gravel, etc. And this is only the beginning of the stretch of our imagination, but the above is enough to understand that it is impossible to live absolutely independently.

Let's consider the other option: using the benefits of civilization, we build houses and other necessary buildings, stock equipment, salt, matches, and all necessary goods and live for our good. But the question again arises: what shall we do if we get sick, because someone who can at least perform the duties for us on the farm and help us has to be around. And in general, man is a social being, and it will be dullish to live alone, all the more, it is necessary to start a family and have children. Then it is necessary to take care of them. Therefore, the question arises, who will do it? Let's solve this issue as follows: we settle not alone, but collectively, each one has his own piece of land and there are teachers, doctors, and building experts among us (all of them brought books, textbooks, medicine, building materials, and equipment), and there are other people with special knowledge and skills that we need. But the question once more arises: what if something happens, someone harmed someone else or offended another’s wife? Shall we also have to create our own governmental authorities, law enforcement, and judicial systems on a micro scale? Well, problems have arisen among our settlers, and what if a similar settlement appears nearby and they decide to take away land or other things from us? In such a way, we shall sink to tribal relations.

Therefore, even with a cursory analysis of the issue at hand, it becomes obvious that it is impossible to absolutely break away from civilization and the state in today's world. But, indeed, it is quite possible to live at a distance, occasionally visiting the city to sell one’s own products and buy the products of others. If you have a pension or other source of income, then it would be just fine to live in harmony with nature. But all this is IMPOSSIBLE should the National Liberation Movement be defeated. After all, it would mean the elimination of Russia, the country's division into several parts, the unleashing of civil wars, and the genocide of the Russian people. Therefore, there will be no pension, you will not be able to sell your products, and if you come to the city from the forest, you will be killed by scummy cutthroats that are in association with rebel detachments, many of which will scour in our vasts and deal death and chaos as they see fit. By the way, they are being trained today, and some recruited Russian citizens passed their advanced courses in Syria, killing women there and roasting their children on the fire. And then they will come to us. The prospect is not bright, isn't it? But you will not be lucky to sit quietly in the woods: NATO aircraft will drop a bomb on your little farm, then rebels will gather for a barbecue and all your settlement will be sadistically killed and possibly eaten (because we saw how the pro-NATO groups devour the hearts of those killed in Syria).

You may justify your cowardice and unwillingness to fight for the Motherland in any way, including by striving for harmony with nature. During the Great Patriotic War, the deserters also went into the woods, though for some reason, no one stopped to consider them traitors to the Motherland, even taking into account the fact that they lived in harmony with the forest surrounding them. Today it is up to us whether we have a future, or few years later, if we will all be killed throughout the country. Each citizen of Russia must decide whether he is a traitor, a deserter, and a slave, and therefore will not defend his Motherland and will dishonour his great ancestors, or whether he is a free man that wants to live in dignity, and then he will deliberately join the ranks of the National Liberation Movement. We have repeatedly stated that the government of today’s Russia does not have the goal of improving the life of the population. This occurs due to the fact that having lost the Cold War, we lost the right to national self-determination. Our jurisdiction has no strategic body that would manage the country. The Tsar did it is Tsarist Russia, and the General Secretary and Politburo in did it in the Soviet Union. Today, the strategic management of our country is carried out by the international organizations controlled by the United States. The International Monetary Fund gives commands to carry out the reforms in the sphere of the Russian economy, and these reforms are developed by non-profit organizations that receive foreign funding. Then the draft laws designed by the occupiers' headquarters (664 NGOs) are introduced by the Government of the Russian Federation and accepted by the State Duma deputies. Therefore, the task of the state power of modern Russia is the realization of the interests of the United States.

What are these interests? First of all, it is the national security of the American nation. Strengthening the sovereignty of Russia begins the processes of discontinuing the payment of tribute to the USA, not only by Russia, but also by other colonies. This will reduce the standard of living within the United States and, ultimately, lead to the collapse of the American Empire.

Therefore, pragmatic Americans, on the basis of their interests, set about the following tasks to their Russian proxies:

• implementation of the genocide of the Russian people and the elimination of Russian culture;

• payment of tribute;

• elimination of the Russian state and its division into "banana republics".

If we look at the processes occurring in Russia from this part, no one will be surprised by what has now become obvious. The genocide of the population is realized through the following mechanisms:

• the decline in fertility  through the propaganda of immorality, gay marriage, open relationships, orientation of the youth towards their own individual and personal success, creation of the opinion that children are a         burden, creation of social and economic problems, etc.;

• heroin war against Russia. According to the Deputy Director of the Federal Drug Control Service, since U.S. troops entered Afghanistan, heroin production there has increased by 40 times (!), and almost all of it comes to us and kills about 100,000 people a year;

• alcoholization of the population is carried out by means of the promotion of the use of alcohol through market advertisements that target minors, the repeating of the myth that Russians are a native drinking people, and through the pricing policy that has resulted in the increased accessibility of alcohol (today a bottle of vodka is 10 times cheaper than it was in the USSR);

• migration policy. Our society, by means of its migration policy, is saturated with ethnic crime, which in turn works to further the recruitment of a U.S. invasion-sponsored irregular army of rebels from this medium and the implementation of the military component of the plan to eliminate Russia. The payment of tribute is performed through the mechanism of wasting the ruble, about which we earlier spoke in detail (about 1 billion dollars a day or 365 billion dollars a year). Tribute is also paid directly through the budget rule. On top of this, the $500 billion that is annually earned by foreign companies operating in Russia is withdrawn from the country and transferred to the U.S. economy. But the tribute is paid not only with money, as our children are sold to the metropoly. A prohibition of the child slave-trade (The Dima Yakovlev Law) caused an outburst of indignation in the mass media because all the major mass media organs serve the U.S.’ geopolitical interests. The tribute is paid to scientists and labour forces there. Recently, the universities that supplied the greatest number of slaves to the metropole received 9 billion rubles from the American agent and Minister of Education, Mr. Livanov

Liquidation or Development?

Obviously, the liquidation of the Russian state is a cherished goal of the Western "democracies." This goal was set by the occupants earlier, and I must say, they have already implemented this goal on paper, because the Khasavyurt Accord – a peace treaty with Chechnya – was signed. Under this Agreement, the latter had the right to secede from the Russian Federation, which would initiate the liquidation of Russia and would plunge our Motherland into a series of civil wars. Only thanks to the national leader, Vladimir Putin, the signed documents were not implemented in practice. But this does not mean that the occupants have changed their goals. Russia must be liquidated, that is why the Syrian scenario is being prepared for our country. It also includes the plot against Putin from the American-controlled business elites who do business in Russia and the dynamic actions of American agents in power, as well as the street component (accomplices of the occupant, Navalny and company), which will then be strengthened by the terrorists and, later, by the castigators who are trained in Syria today.

I must say that the plans of the Americans are not something unique to Russia. Hitler had the same aims because the logic of a certain worldview leads to these decisions. A large area, great history, ambitious people – all this creates high risks for the metropole, so from their point of view, we need to be liquidated. But our goal is to establish national legal control over all important institutions of the state and society. This must be done in order for the state machine, the mass media, and the financial system to begin to work for the benefit of the Russian nation, not the U.S. as it is today. We have a national leader who has a clear plan of action, but to make this plan work, it is necessary to give enhanced legal powers to Vladimir Putin.

After all, ultimately, everything depends on amending the Constitution, and it would be a coup without the mass support of the people on the street because the President of Russia is the guarantor of the Constitution, and he has no right to amend it himself. By taking to the streets in support of national policies, we allow Putin to shift from the status of the guarantor of the occupational Constitution to the status of the national leader - the system reformer. Only with active grassroots support can the mechanisms to liquidate the American agents in power and strengthenour sovereignty work. Therefore, the support of every citizen is important today, which is why it is necessary to participate in nationwide movements, because these actions are more or less a socio-political battle against the occupants.

Our grandfathers fought with arms for the sovereignty of the Motherland in Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk, to name but a few. We are their descendants, and is it possible that we do not even have the strength within ourselves to carry out actions less significant than the feats of our ancestors? Is it possible that we cannot sacrifice our personal time and take part in street protests to contribute to the noble struggle for the independence of our Motherland? We often hear the question of what is better: socialism or capitalism? Let's study this matter. The origins of its popularity lie in the dissatisfaction of the majority of our citizens with the flawed system that has evolved as a result of Russia's defeat in the Cold War. Dissatisfaction with "wild capitalism", market relations, democracy, privatization, and corruption is expressed by many. But occupational propaganda exists just for this purpose, and its task is to direct the logic of people to the wrong track. There is only one problem, and it is that Russia is a U.S. colony, and therefore, the state apparatus in our country has no right to make decisions for the benefit of the Russian nation. Hence, all the problems we currently have, because they are nothing but the elements of external control that we talked about many times. It's hard to recognize, but this is an objective reality. The businessmen from the "Forbes" list who run the major assets in Russia are in a foreign jurisdiction and fulfil the will of the United States, carrying out the colonial policy in the economic sphere. That is why we are seeing such a gap between the rich and the poor, and that is why major businesses do not invest in the development of Russia, but instead withdraw their money and place it into the Anglo-Saxon jurisdiction.

Only the restoration of sovereignty will give us the right to debug the mechanisms of control over the major businesses in order to make them work for the benefit of our Motherland. Sovereign power will put the major businesses under national control and, having obtained an order for social justice, it will allow for the liquidation of the unjustified gap between the rich and the poor and the development of the middle class. Within 5-8 years after the restoration of the sovereignty of Russia, we have calculated that the Russian economy would grow by a factor of 24 times1.Just through these processes, the massive growth of the middle class will happen, and this will liquidate that enormous gap between the rich and the poor that exists today under the colonial status of our country.

Thus, the victory of the National Liberation Movement removes the above item from the agenda because it eliminates the negative processes that, in fact, cause the indignation of the citizens. But if we are still going to continue the discussion on the liquidation of capitalist relations, another issue remains, which is the issue of private property, because it is the key problem. Do we want to liquidate all private property in general? Do we really need it? Let's try to think a little about this. The implementation of this idea for the individual means the loss of one’s ownership over their housing, land, country house, car, etc. Isn't it better to follow another way? Isn't it better to give citizens the opportunity to live in dignity due to the economic growth and equitable distribution of GDP among the population? If we look at this matter from the point of view of the state, it is obvious that the matter of private property is a matter of the national elites. It is the management system in Russia that is the most vulnerable point on which our geopolitical rivals attacked us throughout the centuries. Solving the problem of sovereignty, we put the major businesses under national control and created the conditions for the formation of national-oriented elites. And then, perhaps, it would be more useful to think about how to do this most effectively using the experience of our ancestors, and not to set up another experiment on the Russian nation which can result in millions of victims, as had unfortunately happened many times in our history.

Without an understanding of what happened in 1991, we shall not understand the problems that exist at the moment and which Russia will soon have to confront. First of all, one of the most important problems concerns the Constitution, because without its modification, the state will not become sovereign. And if you believe the opposite, then maybe you will tell us about which "civilized" countries have a Constitutional clause about the priority of international law over domestic legislation? Well, while the "non-believers" prove the opposite, the participants of the National Liberation Movement should pursue the following objectives independent of their political views, as their fulfilment has the possibility of uniting them all.     These are the restoration of the country's sovereignty, its liberation from occupation, and change of status from being a resident of an enslaved country to the status of being citizens of a free country. Obviously for this purpose, the state should in the first place become ours, i.e. we should completely change the nature of the state, including by passing amendments to the Constitution. Society should do it, because the national liberation struggle is a struggle for the restoration of the national society’s control over Russia, including over state institutions that work for the occupier, like what happens in any colony. The only way for success is for the entire country to march to restore sovereignty and liberation. Do you think that there are other options? The only way in the war is to go to the battlefield and defend the independence of the Motherland. And now we are under occupation, and it is the same war, but a Cold War. And so long as the people do not want to be free, no one will give them their sovereignty. Now it can be done without much effort and without risk, yet the outcome is still uncertain and irreversible changes did not happen. Somebody should participate 5-10 times in monthly meetings and daily pickets, while someone else comes to do the same in Moscow. And all this is in order to change the Constitution, establish sovereignty, and free the country from victimization.

A significant part of the people in Russia are unconsciously ready to betray their country, i.e. betray their grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and that historical experience on which it was always based. This betrayal would be very costly for these people, because the Americans will still be here and start the terror in Russia, as they have already done in Syria, Libya, and other countries. They have no other options, and this is the only way to maintain control over the colonies. We can stop this punitive machine only by opposing it. Today the discussion of various methods of military intervention in Syria persists. The U.S. leadership makes contradictory statements, and this is clear. Indeed, on the one hand, America, following the imperial logic, has to retain its status, which requires it to ruthlessly suppress the processes of the national liberation movements of the colonies. On the other hand, the U.S. government, knowing history, is afraid of becoming the "Hitler of the world." With their actions, they every day sink even deeper in Hitler's footsteps, which entails a certain logic.

This calls for the emergence of an "anti-Hitler coalition", which in today's environment would be "anti-American." Here, we must recall that Hitler did not immediately become the devil incarnate in the eyes of the world, moreover, in 1938, he was named a Man of the Year by the "Time" magazine. A few years later, he became the epitome of evil in the eyes of millions of people. Nobel laureate Obama is well aware of this, as well is the rest of the U.S. government. They want to achieve the same goals as Hitler, but not to step across a certain line. However, the options to achieve these solutions are reduced daily, and they are making it more likely that the U.S. will embark on an uncontested military solution to the problem. Ultimately, the U.S. will step across the line and start waging total terror in the territories of the colonies, including Russia. Only Russian people can stop this terror on their land. To do this, they will have to do what our ancestors repeatedly did, to defend the Motherland! Today it is possible to do it in the socio-political vein while the world is in transitional state. But if we do not do it, terror will begin in Russia.

Judging by the lack of massive street support for the National Liberation Movement, we can conclude that a large number of people do not believe in the seriousness of the consequences of political apathy that leads to the betrayal of their Motherland. They do not want to fight for it, do not want to defend it. The talk that the USA acts with a logic different from that which is dictated by historical necessity can only come from evildoers. These are the laws of life, the laws of international competition, and today the U.S. is starting a third world war to suppress the resistance in the colonies, even at the expense of some of their own interests. There is no time left, we are at the end of our rope, and today we have to defend out Motherland or tomorrow we will be killed by the same Russian citizens that are being trained in Syria today.

The run-up to an American invasion of Syria is for us a signal of the beginning of the military component of the suppression of the National Liberation Movement in Russia, and if someone now hesitates to defend his Motherland, he will automatically become a traitor. Under these conditions, we no longer have the right to put too fine a point upon American agents working in the Russian state authorities, media, business, or financial sector today. In regards these accomplices of the occupiers, we must firstly introduce legal prosecution mechanisms in order to eliminate the "fifth column" in important state institutions, but in order for the national leader to begin to act quickly and decisively, the grassroots component and hundreds of thousands of people on the streets are needed. Therefore, it is necessary to wake up from the lull of enemy propaganda and rise to defend the Motherland by participating in the street protests of the National Liberation Movement!