If I could get away with it, Id make me a few gold bars! ;o)

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Sumerian.. <[email protected]> wrote:

>   *Fake gold bars! What's next?*
> By Dan Eden exclusively for viewzone.com
> http://www.viewzone .com/fakegold. html<http://www.viewzone.com/fakegold.html>
>
> December 04, 2009
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> Excerpts:
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> It's one thing to counterfeit a twenty or hundred dollar bill. The amount
> of financial damage is usually limited to a specific region and only affects
> dozens of people and thousands of dollars. Secret Service agents quickly
> notify the banks on how to recognize these phony bills and retail outlets
> usually have procedures in place (such as special pens to test the paper) to
> stop their proliferation.
>
>
> But what about gold? This is the most sacred of all commodities because it
> is thought to be the most trusted, reliable and valuable means of saving
> wealth.
>
>
> A recent discovery -- in October of 2009 -- has been suppressed by the main
> stream media but has been circulating among the "big money" brokers and
> financial kingpins and is just now being revealed to the public. It involves
> the gold in Fort Knox -- the US Treasury gold -- that is the equity of our
> national wealth. In short, millions (with an "m") of gold bars are fake!
>
>
> In October of 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars. Gold is
> regularly exchanges between countries to pay debts and to settle the
> so-called balance of trade. Most gold is exchanged and stored in vaults
> under the supervision of a special organization based in London, the London
> Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the shipment was received, the
> Chinese government asked that special tests be performed to guarantee the
> purity and weight of the gold bars. In this test, four small holed are
> drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed.
>
>
> Officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. They contained
> cores of tungsten with only a outer coating of real gold. What's more, these
> gold bars, containing serial numbers for tracking, originated in the US and
> had been stored in Fort Knox for years. There were reportedly between 5,600
> to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz. each, in the shipment!
>
>
> *What the Chinese uncovered:*
>
> Roughly 15 years ago -- during the Clinton Administration [think Robert
> Rubin, Sir Alan Greenspan and Lawrence Summers] -- between 1.3 and 1.5
> million 400 oz tungsten blanks were allegedly manufactured by a very
> high-end, sophisticated refiner in the USA [more than 16 Thousand metric
> tonnes]. Subsequently, 640,000 of these tungsten blanks received their gold
> plating and WERE shipped to Ft. Knox and remain there to this day.
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> --- On *Fri, 1/15/10, Stan Norred <[email protected]>* wrote:
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