From David Guyatt at DeepBlackLies.co.uk:
“A decades long propaganda campaign had served to focus public attention on the gold stolen from governments – known as monetary gold – as a means of eclipsing from public view far larger amounts of privately held gold that was also stolen.
“The heavy cloak of disinformation and double-talk had still another layer. By putting the spotlight on Nazi plunder from the very beginning, public attention was diverted away from the industrial scale looting undertaken by Japan’s special plunder teams known as the “Golden Lily.” And it is here that the real story dwells.”
For more on this story, read Douglas Valentine, “Gold Warriors: The Plundering of Asia,” Counterpunch, Sept. 26, 2003.
Wouldn’t a lot of it been squandered by now? It was held by central banks, governments, and various factions of the Gold Cartel. They seem like a bunch of corrupt bureaucrats that fight, collude, then fight some more.
That may explain why central banks do not want a gold audit: http://www.lewrockwell.com/holland/holland28.1.html
Some other reasons:
* Nixon was willing to give up a big chunk to get elected. Who knows what other presidents were willing to do.
* the Fed and US Gov’t used a big chunk to suppress the price of gold and hide effects from inflation of the US dollar supply.
* there is the reverse midas touch of Gov’t management: intra-gov’t fighting between bureaucrats who couldn’t manage a lemonade stand.
* the US desperate enough to go to war with the Philippines.
* the Spanish Empire faded away despite massive infusions of gold and silver.
Wow. And here I though a jet disappearing in 2003 was a big deal, it’s quite small potatoes.
Such a tangled web of webs, old and new.
The 727 that Vanished
A case pursued by the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, CENTCOM, and the sister of Ben Padilla.
* By Tim Wright
* Air & Space Magazine, September 01, 2010
http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/The-727-that-Vanished.html
Interesting story about the airline
In one of the comments to it on the site where it was posted there’s a link to a guardian article that suggests the case was actually resolved.
What do you think
In the Guardian article, First the article says, “But at least the last two letters of its former tail-number, N844AA, were still showing.”
That would be, AA?
Then that is contradicted, “There’s absolutely no doubt it’s the same aircraft, the old registration is clearly visible,” said Mr Strother by phone”
Which is it? The last two letters, or the whole number?
“The Guardian was able to furnish the American official with a photograph of the mystery plane, taken by Mr Strother.”
But they don’t put the photo in the article? That seems odd, seeing as how important the photo is.
“Maybe it won’t be back.” ???
So in other words, stop looking, don’t worry, sub-prime mortgages are contained. Just move along.
“But as for the terrorism stuff, that sounds like a complete load of rubbish.”
And don’t think there’s anything else to it either, just business as usual, just us dust bunnies here, nothing to fret about. SNAFU.
I don’t know,… seems like they’re sweeping it under the rug.
My thoughts too..
I don’t know why this one plane became so important.
I’ll have to read around that period to figure out what was going on then.
That was around the time the Iraq war began, right?