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To: goldsnow who wrote (67648)	4/15/2001 1:33:15 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116759

Story's false about that 2000 tons of Jap gold in Thailand. That gold is no longer there. I took it out with the help of a few G.I.s a few years ago and used it to start a gambling joint in Nevada. (Most of the Japs who knew where it was lived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) Ever been to Vegas? I will tell you a story you might believe. (Believing is the hardest thing you will ever do. Doubting is easy. It is facilitated by ignorance, reinforced by the comfort of the present, and exaggerated by the neuroses of insecurity and fear. Unreasonable doubt is the first thing that comes to an empty mind.) I do know where there is 70.0 tons of real gold buried in the United States or very close by. I am too poor to get there and dig it up, but it is there. (I can't even afford cross the street to buy a cup of coffee. Where did all that Vegas gold go? You guessed it. Crap table.) EC<:-} mailto:echarters@primus.ca

To: goldsnow who wrote (67648)	4/19/2001 4:06:29 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116759

<<Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawat, flew to discuss the find with the senator, who has offered to use the treasure to pay off Thailand's national debt. news.bbc.co.uk. >> OK friends, we can call "bullshit" on their lies now(why did the lies even come forward - cover shorts?) Wednesday April 18 12:20 AM ET Dream Gold Hoard Turns to Nightmare for Thailand By Andrew Marshall BANGKOK (Reuters) - Gold fever was replaced by red faces in Thailand Wednesday as newspapers mocked Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for believing claims that a vast hoard of World War Two treasure had been found hidden in a cave. ``No gold, no bills, only red faces,'' was the banner headline in the Nation daily. ``Thaksin exits cave, enters the real world.'' Controversial senator Chaowarin Latthasaksiri started the gold rush last week by saying that 2,500 tons of booty left behind by the Japanese Imperial Army was hidden in a remote cave near the Myanmar border, stashed inside a train and surrounded by the skeletons of Japanese soldiers who had committed hara-kiri. He said the haul included a massive hoard of gold and U.S. bonds with a face value of more than $50 billion. Newspapers took his story with a pinch of salt -- the senator, a former deputy education minister, had made similar claims before but nothing has ever been found. But Thaksin took the story seriously enough to change his schedule and fly to the cave by helicopter Friday, saying there was no reason to disbelieve Chaowarin's tale and the treasure could be worth ``billions and billions of baht.'' Senior politicians said the treasure was valuable enough to pay off Thailand's $61.61 billion national debt and put the country back on the path to prosperity after the damage inflicted by the economic collapse of 1997. Thaksin announced he would use a satellite owned by friends in the United States to survey the area to help with the treasure hunt. But officials soon pointed out that the bonds were obvious fakes, and Chaowarin admitted he had never actually seen the treasure but was basing his story on the claims of an elderly monk who said he saw it years ago while meditating. ``Comic-Book Nonsense'' As it became clear that Chaowarin -- and Thaksin -- were almost certainly the victims of a hoax, the government scrambled to distance itself from the senator. Thaksin refused to meet a crestfallen Chaowarin when he sought an audience on Tuesday. But the damage had already been done. The Nation said Thaksin had become ``the subject of international ridicule.'' Thai-language business daily Krungthep Thurakij ran an editorial headlined ``Back to reality, Thailand.'' ``This is a lesson for every Thai citizen from country leaders to ordinary citizens to wake up from daydreams to the reality that everybody in the country is still facing the economic crisis which started in 1997,'' the newspaper said. ``There is no miracle to end the crisis overnight.'' The Nation said in an editorial that Thaksin's judgement looked increasingly suspect. It said falling victim to the cave hoax was his latest blunder, following the embarrassing saga of a blast that destroyed a plane he was about to board last month. Thaksin, who initially said a bomb had destroyed the plane and even claimed he knew who planted it, was later forced to concede that the blast was the result of a malfunction. ``After just two months in office, he has already scared the country with claims that someone was trying to blow his plane out of the sky and has given false hope to the nation that its massive foreign debts would be paid off overnight, thanks to a group of bounty hunters,'' the Nation said. ``It's time Thaksin did some soul-searching for the country's sake,'' it said. ``Let someone else be the dream merchant. He's prime minister now and a prerequisite for this job is to get real.'' The Bangkok Post also criticized Thaksin's ``ill-advised'' visit to the cave. ``He should never have visited Liijia cave and be seen as lending support to such a hugely speculative venture based on hearsay and wishful thinking,'' it said. ``This whole episode is comic-book nonsense.'' dailynews.yahoo.com