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Attack on South African currency gets recognition
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2001-02-16 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Bill Murphy, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
February 16, 2001
Below is a Reuters story from a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zietung
interview with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.
It seems clear to me that a change is in the wind when it comes to
U.S. government interference in the world gold market.
Secretary O'Neill knows what GATA knows. Through sources GATA
also
The King and I -- as in Murphy
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2001-02-16 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches1:16p ET Friday, February 16, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
A few weeks ago GATA Chairman Bill Murphy told you how the big
bullion banks, short irrecoverable amounts of gold, seemed to be
speculating against the South African rand, as they seemed to have
done against the Australian dollar, to drive down the local currency
and induce gold mining companies to sell more gold forward.
New treasury secretary seems inclined against bailouts
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2001-02-15 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10:13p ET Wednesday, February 14, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
There's an important new article at The Mining
Web about gold consumption and the short position
in gold, written by Tim Wood. You can find it
here:
a href=http://www.mips1.net/MGGold.nsf/Current/4225685F0043D1B2852569F3007384ht...
5F?OpenDocument
Criticism of GATA in South Africa Business Report, but don''t worry
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2001-02-15 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:40p ET Friday, February 16, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
We at GATA would like to think that the following story
from the Financial Times indicates that the new U.S.
administration's international economic policy will
differ from its predecessor's in regard to bailing out
Wall Street and its clients, including the gold cartel.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
GATA chairman''s full report on his visit to South Africa
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2001-02-15 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:45p ET Thursday, February 15, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The old politician said that quot;there's no such thing as
bad publicity.quot; He might have been wrong, but at this
stage of GATA's work, we figure that he's right, so we
will take the following critical commentary from South
Africa Business Report as a compliment to the
effectiveness of the recent trip to South Africa of
Important article about gold consumption and short position
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2001-02-14 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Reginald H. Howe
www.goldensextant.com
February 12, 2001
Not until 80 years after the war began did Thomas Pakenham publish
his authoritative history, quot;The Boer Warquot; (Weidenfeld amp;
Nicholson, 1979; Abacus paperback edition, 1992, reprinted 2000, to
which all page cites refer). Relying on material largely unavailable
earlier, Pakenham emphasizes at the outset that he uncovered four new
Murphy''s report on meetings with miners union, Reserve Bank
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2001-02-12 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches4:55p ET Saturday, February 10, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA member Mark Lundeen has written an
essay on the prospects for gold
confiscation. You can find it at Gold-
Eagle:
a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_01/lundeen021001.htmlhttp://www.gol...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
South African gold is still prey for the British lion
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2001-02-12 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesJohannesburg, South Africa / Monday, February 12, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Today went extremely well.
First I met with the National Union of Mineworkers. Attending were
Mr. S. Zokwana, president: G. Mantashe, generalsSecretary; A. Palane,
deputy general secretary: and Gino Govender, co-ordinator of the
union's strategy unit.
Then, I headed off to Pretoria and a meeting in the board room at the
A letter from Johannesburg from GATA Chairman Bill Murphy
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2001-02-10 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches11:44p ET Thursday, February 8, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Congratulations to our friends and supporters
at www.Gold-Eagle.com and to the proprietors,
Messrs. Vronsky and Westerman, on the occasion
of that Internet site's reporting this week its
24 millionth visitor.
Despite the suppression of the gold price, there
is clearly growing interest in Gold-Eagle and
other gold-oriented Internet sites. People are
Article on prospects for gold confiscation
Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2001-02-10 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Bill Murphy, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Saturday, February 10, 2001
-- Johannesburg, South Africa.
My meeting yesterday with Ms. Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka,
South Africa's minister for mines and energy, went very
well. Attending the meeting was Thabo Mafoko of the
Department of Minerals and Energy International
Relations. Ms. Ngcuka left directly from our breakfast
meeting to take her seat in Parliament to hear the
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