John,
Perhaps some on this thread might like to know a little bit about GATA's Vice-Chairman in Sweden.
Bill
Le Metropole members,
Events are moving at lightening speed. It was only 10 days ago that Café member, Chris Powell, Managing Editor of one of the most prominent newspapers in Connecticut, posted "Invitation to a Lawsuit" at the Kiki Table. It was in response to my Midas du Metropole commentary, "Scandale Gold", now below Chris' commentary. Immediately Café member, Boudewijn Wegerif of Stockholm Sweden, suggested that "GATA" be formed. GATA stands for gold anti-trust action.
Then yesterday, I was on CNBC presenting our case. Earlier that day, the highly visible and popular Canadian website, www. stockhouse.com, published an interview that I had with them before the CNBC show. If you have an interest in this subject, I suggest you take a look at what they have up on their site. Perhaps you know of a gold mining company that you could send it to.
In that piece you will note that GATA is calling for transparency in the gold market. We want to expose the gold loan short position and expose their manipulation of the gold market. To do so we need Watergate, mole type of information to come our way-leads, etc. We need to find out where the bodies are buried. That process has begun.
I received a letter after the CNBC show from Thobe Perram, a Scandanavian miner. He has served commentary on the gold issue at the Dos Passos Table. I believe you will find it to be very informative.
At this time, I would like to introduce Boudewijn Wegerif, Vice-Chairman of GATA, to you. The manipulating gold shorts have quite the determined adversary to worry about.
Boudewijn was born in Holland in 1936, brought up in South Africa, and is now a British citizen living in Sweden. Here is a little background:
Before being banished from apartheid South Africa in 1971, Wegerif was the controlling director of a subsidiary publishing company and managing editor of industrial-economic publications for South African Associated Newspapers, now Independent News. He was banished from South Africa for his voluntary work on the management committee of a church conference center where black/white encounter groups were organised for church and student leaders, in defiance of the color bar imposed by the apartheid
regime.
"The banishment experience caused me to rethink my position in life," he says. "Since economics and finance had been so much part of my work life, I spent many years on an in-depth study of the history and psychology of money, to try to understand money's role in society a little better. The more I got into it, the more I realized how wrong and inappropriate our present debt-based money system is for the challenges we face. I got really mad about the way banks and financial institutions are able to create so-called money, actually debt, out of nothing, and how this is breaking down societies and the environment everywhere, including the United States. I started being invited to give talks and lead seminars on the money issue."
Today, Boudewijn Wegerif is project manager of a Monetary Studies Program connected to a residential college of adult education outside Stockholm. He is free to steer the program in whatever way he feels appropriate.
There have been two marathon walks in recent years—"to bring healing to the economies of the world and the devastated environment in my own way, as a walking prayer for the earth," he says. The first walk was to Rome from Uppsala, Sweden in 1990, and the second walk was to Cape Town from Kiruna in North Sweden, between April 1995 and December 1997. "Along the way I gave hundreds of talks, mainly at churches, and always to the theme of love's victory over the debt cross of the world. The GO GATA campaign is part of that victory."
Just as he was active in South Africa in the 1960s for an end to political apartheid, Wegerif now says he is active in the world to bring an end to the global economic apartheid between the so-called hard currency countries and what he calls the non-currency countries.
"People say that gold plays no part in our divided world economy, but I say that it has very much to do with it. Gold is being deliberately played down and priced down, not only for financial gain by the cartel that GATA is exposing, but because its reinstatement, as an international currency of exchange, represents a threat to the unjust world order of the penniless billionaires—which is what the economic historian Max Shapiro called the people who score off credits."
Boudewijn Wegerif's main role in GATA is as a publicist, to generate broad popular support for the antitrust lawsuit. A first step has been the creation of a GATA email group: gata@egroups.com.
"Obviously the lawsuit we are preparing is going to be of major importance to the gold mining companies and their shareholders," he says. "My role is to show that it is also important for everybody who knows that a genuinely free market requires anti-trust vigilance and legal action against cabals; and that sustainable economic development
is not possible without this discipline."
Boudewijn ( it is a mouthful to say ) has give us our slogan, "GO GATA"
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lemetropolecafe.com
All the best,
Bill Murphy
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