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This is what happens when you ask the barber if you need a haircut....

Section: Daily Dispatches

4p ET Thursday, August 25, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Participants in the New Orleans Investment Conference,
to be held Sunday, October 30, through Thursday,
November 3, will be invited to a GATA fund-raising
dinner that will include the premiere of the DVD video
recording of GATA's Gold Rush 21 conference in Dawson
City, Yukon, a couple of weeks ago.

The dinner will be held Wednesday evening, November 2,

Back from Gold Rush 21, Embry again tells Canada about gold price manipulation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ted Butler
www.InvestmentRarities.com
Tuesday, August 23, 2005

The most recent commitment of traders report confirmed expectations
of a continued deterioration in the market structure in COMEX
gold,and a further improvement in the market structure in COMEX
silver. As mentioned here last week, we have the unprecedented
condition of gold holding at historic negative extremes while silver

Brien Lundin, Peter Grandich, and GATA all in one CBSMarketWatch story

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:08p ET Wednesday, August 23, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Having returned to Toronto from his appearance
at GATA's Gold Rush 21 conference in Dawson
City, Yukon, Sprott Asset Management
President John Embry has continued to spread
the word of manipulation of the gold price. On
Tuesday he again went on Report On Business
Television in Canada for more than an hour and
again was allowed to speak his mind.

Philip IV''s money is still good at the bar and everywhere else

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Myra P. Saefong
CBSMarketWatch.com
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B9ACBC3B0%2D6B19%
2D430D%2DB46B%2D54D175EF6478%7D&siteid=mkwt

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gold futures lost more than $2 but closed above a
two-week low Wednesday as traders took the market's temperature and

Mike Hartman: Government intervention against gold is obvious

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:30p ET Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A few notes about the wonderful Reuters story appended
here....

* They're not diving into the deep and risking their
lives for U.S. Treasury bonds or Federal Reserve notes.

* The imperial regime of Philip IV of Spain is long gone
but the money he coined is still more than good at the
bar and everywhere else.

* Spanish royal regulations against smuggling didn't

Fearing credit derivative defaults, Fed summons the money conjurers

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mike Hartman's nightly commentary at FinancialSense.com
remarks on the obviousness of government intervention in
the gold market. You can find it here:

http://www.financialsense.com/Market/wrapup.htm

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

You CAN fight City Hall; details on silver initiative; and Mogambo cites GATA

Section: Daily Dispatches

Fed Summons 14 Banks
to Discuss Credit Derivatives

By Hamish Risk and Justin Baer
Bloomberg News Service
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000103&sid=aIAtxJa2MRVI&refer=us

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has invited 14 of the "major
participants" in the credit derivatives market to a meeting next

Greenspan didn''t want to regulate derivatives when they capped gold ...

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:07p ET Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Another point should have been made in regard
to the Reuters story, just dispatched to you,
about the recovery of treasure from the Spanish
galleon Atocha, which sunk off the Florida Keys
in 1622.

Note that while the U.S. government claimed the
treasure after Mel Fisher and his colleagues had
done the years-long and dangerous work of

Don''t be demoralized by Treasury statement; instead, protect your gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

Treasury Department Claims Power to Seize
Gold, Silver -- and Everything Else, GATA Says

GATA Press Release via Business Wire
Monday August 22, 2005

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050822/225303.html?.v=1

The U.S. Government has the authority to prohibit the private
possession of gold and silver coin and bullion by U.S. citizens
during wartime, and, during wartime and declared emergencies, to

Ted Butler: Demonizing the COTs

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Michael Kosares
Centennial Precious Metals, Denver
www.USAGold.com
Monday, August 22, 2005

That the government retains the power to confiscate gold has been
well-known to clients of this firm for some time. Gold ownership in
the United States is a privilege, not a right, and as distasteful as
that might seem, confiscation is a potential reality, like it or
not, so all prudent gold owners should incorporate into their

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