15-09-2009, 11:25 AM
As a example of a false trail being laid by Authorities, which may be the game being played here, I can cite the case of Peter Johnston, an Australian who was arrested in the UK circa 1996 for trying to negotiate a false instrument - namely a god certificate with an apparent value of $7 billion - the smallest of a dozen or so certificates from the same series that Peter had access to.
During the trial phase a Brit newspaper published a story about the certificates warning "the public" not to be taken in by them. The purpose of this Bank of England inspired newspaper story was obviously not to warn the public. After all, which member of the public has an odd $7 billion in their back pocket to purchase a gold certificate?
I always believed that the story was "leaked" to scare off another buyer of another certificate of the same series that was being negotiated at the time. That buyer was a European state owned bank of considerable standing.
Despite various State authorities from the US and UK in particular (but Switzerland also), saying all certificates from this series were fraudulent, two different court cases, one in the US and another in Australia, proved otherwise.
In the US court case, the United States government itself went to considerable time and trouble to become the new legal owner of one certificate, using all sorts of unpleasant persuasion to gain control of it. Had it truly been a fake they could simply have impounded and then destroyed it as they do with fake UD dollar bills. But they didn't. The strove to become the new legal owners. In other words, the underlying certificate had genuine value of some kind.
As I believe I mentioned earlier in this thread, there has been a long running rumour/speculation that JFK reached an agreement with Indonesia's President Soekarno to gain access to certain gold reserves controlled by Soekarno. What this might have been for, if ever proved true, remains a mystery. But it is a long-running evergreen rumour.
Interestingly, the various gold certificates I referenced above come from the very same Soekarno "collection".
Every one of those certificates in that collection contained various and very obvious flaws: transparently wrong dates, misspelling of beneficiary names (sometimes hilariously so) etc etc. They were very obviously fake. Except that because every single certificate contained the same errors it became obvious these had been purposefully built into the certificates to discredit them at first sight, rather than the result of error. And each certificate had anything up to 80 pages of accompanying documents that collectively made up the whole. That's an awful lot of work and printing to put down to a momentous cock-up by an uneducated counterfeiter.
So, my personal view in light of the foregoing, is that absolutely nothing can be taken for granted. When vast sums of money are involved night is day and day is night.
We never know what the game is as we are not on the inside looking out, but on the outside looking in. And the glass window in between is reflective.
During the trial phase a Brit newspaper published a story about the certificates warning "the public" not to be taken in by them. The purpose of this Bank of England inspired newspaper story was obviously not to warn the public. After all, which member of the public has an odd $7 billion in their back pocket to purchase a gold certificate?
I always believed that the story was "leaked" to scare off another buyer of another certificate of the same series that was being negotiated at the time. That buyer was a European state owned bank of considerable standing.
Despite various State authorities from the US and UK in particular (but Switzerland also), saying all certificates from this series were fraudulent, two different court cases, one in the US and another in Australia, proved otherwise.
In the US court case, the United States government itself went to considerable time and trouble to become the new legal owner of one certificate, using all sorts of unpleasant persuasion to gain control of it. Had it truly been a fake they could simply have impounded and then destroyed it as they do with fake UD dollar bills. But they didn't. The strove to become the new legal owners. In other words, the underlying certificate had genuine value of some kind.
As I believe I mentioned earlier in this thread, there has been a long running rumour/speculation that JFK reached an agreement with Indonesia's President Soekarno to gain access to certain gold reserves controlled by Soekarno. What this might have been for, if ever proved true, remains a mystery. But it is a long-running evergreen rumour.
Interestingly, the various gold certificates I referenced above come from the very same Soekarno "collection".
Every one of those certificates in that collection contained various and very obvious flaws: transparently wrong dates, misspelling of beneficiary names (sometimes hilariously so) etc etc. They were very obviously fake. Except that because every single certificate contained the same errors it became obvious these had been purposefully built into the certificates to discredit them at first sight, rather than the result of error. And each certificate had anything up to 80 pages of accompanying documents that collectively made up the whole. That's an awful lot of work and printing to put down to a momentous cock-up by an uneducated counterfeiter.
So, my personal view in light of the foregoing, is that absolutely nothing can be taken for granted. When vast sums of money are involved night is day and day is night.
We never know what the game is as we are not on the inside looking out, but on the outside looking in. And the glass window in between is reflective.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14