Daily Dispatches

11p ET Thursday, March 16, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our friend Dimitri Speck, whose statiscal research
has done much to prove the gold price suppression
scheme, has written a defense of his work, "A Reply
to the Phantom Cartel," and it has been posted at
Financial Sense here:

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/2006/0315.html

Maybe New York could open one dedicated
to derivatives and market rigging. ...

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From Agence France-Presse
Sunday, March 19, 2006

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060319/ts_afp/afpentertainmentchinameta
lsgold_060319061656

BEIJING -- Gold-hungry China plans to open what it has billed the
world's first theme park dedicated entirely to the precious metal,

Metal Is So Precious
That Scrap Thieves
Now Tap Beer Kegs

Brewmaster Combs Junkyards
For Company Property;
Stealing 3 Tons of Steel

By Joel Millman
The Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Brewmaster Neil Witte has an unusual job to do
these days: combing through scrap metal.

"There's one!" he shouted on a recent afternoon, as he tugged a
shiny, 30-pound cylinder from the mountain of stainless steel at a

Arab Central Banks Move Assets Out of Dollar

By Philip Thornton
The Independent, London
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article351127.ece

Middle Eastern anger over the decision by the US to block a Dubai
company from buying five of its ports hit the dollar yesterday as a
number of central banks said they were considering switching