Daily Dispatches

ANSWERING MY CRITICS
Boudewijn Wegerif

I am known as a monetary reformer. Now that I have come out for gold
with the Gold Anti-Trust ActionGATAI am taking flack.

"He who has the most gold winsi.e. controls the world and market place,
not to mention human lives," one critic has written. "The hoarding and
dumping of gold, and the demonetization of silver caused practically all

MESSAGE FROM JOHN MEYER
GATA Treasurer

To Bill Don Quixote Murphy and my new Cyberspace Musketeers BW and CP, I send
to you a hearty - HELLO. I report for duty ready to assume any role deemed
appropriate. Well, Murphy you did it. Its hard to believe the rush of events
since you published Scandale January 20. The events are not an accident, just
as the gold markets behavior is no accident. It took you CP to pickup the

Background Information on Boudewijn Wegerif
Vice Chairperson, Gold Anti-Trust Action (GATA)

Boudewijn Wegerif was born in Holland in 1936 and brought up in South Africa. He
is now a British citizen living in Sweden.

Wegerif was controlling director of a subsidiary publishing company and managing
editor of industrial-economic publications for South African Associated
Newspapers, now Independent News, before being banished from South Africa in

G O L D N E W S

European Central Bank board member, Sirkka Hamalainen said on Saturday:
"Gold's importance for central banks will likely fade in the long run,
but they must not rile jittery gold markets by unloading reserves." She
told a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in
Davos that gold has played a vital role as a store of value over the