… in Spain, there are no special taxes or levies specific to the resale of gold bullion. There is thus great potential for gold (and silver) to become a money substitute among the population.
Daily Archives: 19 September 2012
Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime
The American POWs sent secret coded messages to Washington with news of a Soviet atrocity: In 1943 they saw rows of corpses in an advanced state of decay in the Katyn forest, on the western edge of Russia, proof that the killers could not have been the Nazis who had only recently occupied the area.
The testimony about the infamous massacre of Polish officers might have lessened the tragic fate that befell Poland under the Soviets, some scholars believe. Instead, it mysteriously vanished into the heart of American power. The long-held suspicion is that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t want to anger Josef Stalin, an ally whom the Americans were counting on to defeat Germany and Japan during World War II.
Documents released Monday and seen in advance by The Associated Press lend weight to the belief that suppression within the highest levels of the U.S. government helped cover up Soviet guilt in the killing of some 22,000 Polish officers and other prisoners in the Katyn forest and other locations in 1940.
The evidence is among about 1,000 pages of newly declassified documents that the United States National Archives released and is putting online. Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who helped lead a recent push for the release of the documents, called the effort’s success Monday a “momentous occasion” in an attempt to “make history whole.” (Read more)
German Court Allows Germany to Be Plundered
Patrick Barron:
“This decsion is a disaster for the German people and a disaster for the world. The flood gates of unlimited monetary inflation have been opened. German capital will be plundered by its neighbors. This is NOT a victory for Europe but a defeat for the original post war European vision of a peaceful and prosperous Europe. Now it is up to the German people to throw out Merkel and the Euro federalists and return to the original vision of a Europe of free trade, free mobility of labor, and free mobility of capital.”