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Thomas Pascoe: Revealed -- Why Gordon Brown sold Britain's gold at a knock-down price

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Of course all this was "revealed" by GATA and particularly gold price suppression litigator Reginald H. Howe not long after it happened a decade ago, and GATA has been repeatedly thrusting it at the Telegraph ever since then, but it's thrilling to see a mainstream news organization getting around to it even this late.

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South Africa mine union revolt shows cracks in ANC rule

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By Ed Stoddard and Sherilee Lakmidas
Reuters
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/04/us-safrica-unions-anc-idUSBRE8...

Shaking his fist and surrounded by angry colleagues, South African gold miner Chres Manyaka raged against "fat cats" getting rich from the sweat of the workers.

New York Times figures out that conspiracies really ARE rigging markets

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It's probably only another few decades now before the newspaper gets around to the gold and silver markets.

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Rigged Rates, Rigged Markets

From The New York Times
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/opinion/rigged-rates-rigged-markets.html

Why mine production has little influence on the gold price

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8:51a ICT Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The rig is up, Sinclair says; and Embry cautions gold, silver rig deniers

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8:40a ICT Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold mining entrepreneur and market analyst Jim Sinclair says the falling out of Barclays and the Bank of England over the rigging of the LIBOR interest rate market reports will change the markets and "the battle to stop gold has been lost." Sinclair's commentary is headlined "The Rig Is Up" and it's posted at JSMineSet here:

'Massive short-covering rally' likely in silver, GGR's Arensberg says

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8:20a ICT Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

Analyzing futures trading data and finding the big commercial traders the least short in silver in a decade, Gene Arensberg of the Got Gold Report expects a "massive short-covering rally." Arensberg's commentary is a 27-minute video presentation here:

Barclays threatens to implicate UK regulators in rate-rigging probe

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The rats are starting to turn on each other. Eventually gold and silver market rigging may be mentioned as well.

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Barclays Chief Threatens to Hit Back

By Patrick Jenkins, Brooke Masters, and George Parker
Financial Times, London
Monday, July 2, 2012

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0130d092-c473-11e1-9c1e-00144feabdc0.html

Silver market manipulation taken for granted by CNBC host and panelists

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12:15p ICT Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):

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