‘Just bring the gold back’: RBA responds as conspiracy theories swirl around Australia’s ‘missing’ gold

Australia owns 80 tonnes of gold worth $4.4 billion but it’s not even in the country — and the internet is rife with conspiracy theories.

Is Australia’s gold really being secretly melted down and sold to the Chinese?

If you’re into conspiracy theories, talk of impending global economic collapse and have a deep distrust of central banks, you may have come across this one.

It goes like this. Most people would be aware that the Reserve Bank of Australia, like all central banks around the world, holds a portion of the country’s reserve assets in gold.

What you may not know, because it was only made public in December 2012, is that 99.9 per cent of Australia’s $4.4 billion worth is actually held by the Bank of England.

Of that gold, 11 tonnes is “leased” out to earn interest — it brought in around $700,000 last year — while the other 69 tonnes is sitting in a vault in London. Or is it?

“There are all sorts of conspiracy theories and rumours in the gold market as to what’s going on,” said economist John Adams, who has been on a crusade to find Australia’s “missing gold” in a series of videos with Digital Finance Analytics founder Martin North.

The crux of the conspiracy theory, promoted by the likes of Swiss gold trader Egon von Greyerz, is that China, India and other eastern countries are accumulating more gold than can be explained by mining production.

He believes much of it is actually western central banks “covertly disposing” of their gold, or otherwise leasing it to China and India through bullion banks which then “issue an IOU only backed by paper since the physical will never return from Asia”.

“Since 2008 just China and India have accumulated 26,000 tonnes of gold,” Mr von Greyerz wrote recently. “That is a remarkable figure and virtually the total mine production for that period.”

An audit of Australia’s gold holdings was conducted in 2013, but a freedom of information request for the findings and the final report was denied as providing the documents “would, or could reasonably be expected to, cause damage to” the relationship between the RBA and the BoE.

“In the last 20 years we’ve only seen the gold once,” Mr Adams said. “The audit was so flawed it was basically meaningless. We had to tell the BoE six weeks in advance the serial numbers of the bars we wanted to see, that gave them enough time to rig the sample.”

In response to Mr Adams’ videos, the RBA earlier this month added a new page on its website with a series of questions and answers about its gold holdings.

“The RBA’s gold is held at the BoE in an ‘allocated’ account, such that individual bars (with specified bar serial numbers) are attributable to the RBA,” it said.

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Fed in Aus seems to have a missing gold problem and this MSM site is running cover!

Phantom investigation? France delays report on mystery cases of babies born without arms

France's public health agency has postponed the release of a report on an investigation into the abnormal numbers of babies being born without arms in rural regions — a medical mystery which has baffled experts.

Three infants were born with no arms between June and November 2016 within a 30km radius of Vitrolles in the Bouches-du-Rhône region. That followed another cluster of cases near the area of Ain, where eight babies were born with the defect within a 17km radius. Similar cases have also been observed in other regions of rural France.

A nationwide investigation into the phenomenon began last October and the government had promised an update by January 31, but that date was suddenly pushed back — and the parents of affected children are becoming impatient and suspicious.

In an open letter to public health officials, a group of parents expressed doubts about the ongoing investigation and said their questions have “never had clear answers.” They accused the government of focusing on explanations which have already been dismissed by another public health body which researches cases of malformation.

Santé Publique France, the national health agency, previously conducted an investigation before the latest spate of cases — but that investigation concluded that there had not been an excessive level of incidents in Ain and that no further investigation was needed. Other experts, however, said the number of cases in Ain was 58 times the normal statistical amount.

Remera, the health body which looks into instances of malformation, carried out its own investigation in 2018. As part of it, mothers were interviewed with a “very extensive questionnaire” about their lifestyles to see if there were any similarities between their pregnancies. This led doctors to dismiss genetics, drugs, and alcohol as potential causes for the missing limbs.

Former French environment minister Corinna Lepage told RT there was probably a “fear of discovering that the causes could endanger a number of economic interests.”

https://www.rt.com/news/450278-france-babies-arms-mystery/

Texas AG Announces Voter Fraud Arrest: Woman Arrested For Illegally Voting Using Dead Person’s Identity

Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General put out a voter fraud alert Thursday and announced his election fraud unit has arrested Bernice Annette Garza for using a dead person’s identity to illegally vote in the March 1, 2016, Democratic primary election in Starr County.

Garza was indicted by a grand jury in Hidalgo County and is charged with voter impersonation, illegal voting, and providing false information on an application for an early voting ballot, the Texas Attorney General’s office announced.

It is unclear if Garza is an illegal alien or a non-citizen. Either way, she illegally voted using another person’s identity. This type of voter fraud is rampant, yet the Democrats and their moutpieces in the media call anyone who reports on voter fraud “conspiracy theorists.”

“Mail ballots are inherently insecure. Vote harvesters, who make a living by exploiting vulnerable processes intended to make it easier for people to vote, threaten the viability of the mail ballot system and must be caught and prosecuted,” Attorney General Paxton said. “My office will continue to use everything in its power to prevent voter fraud and restore integrity to the voting process in Texas.”

Last Friday, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley issued an advisory on voter registration list maintenance activity and the analysis revealed tens of thousands of non-citizens are not only registered to vote, but they are voting in elections.

The Texas Secretary of State announced Friday: 95,000 individuals identified by DPS as non-U.S. citizens have a matching voter registration record in Texas, approximately 58,000 of whom have voted in one or more Texas elections.

Voting in an election in which the person knows he or she is not eligible to vote is a second-degree felony in the State of Texas.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/texas-ag-announces-voter-fraud-arrest-woman-arrested-for-illegally-voting-using-dead-persons-identity/

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Moshiach

Bolton Pushing Violent Neocon Agenda Worldwide

Neocon Bolton is committed to punishing apostates who dare resist the writ of Washington

“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad,” are words delivered to us from history. When contemplating them today John Bolton springs to mind.

All joking aside, Trump’s national security adviser is to international diplomacy what the Hunchback of Notre Dame was to Pilates. Though reports that he is regularly driven to his office in Washington on the back of a cruise missile are yet to be confirmed, his near orgasmic exaltation of US hard power and military might suggest he would relish nothing more.

In other words, in John Bolton the world has itself an unrepentant and unreconstructed neocon. A fanatical warmonger who is now, to all intents, Donald Trump’s brain.

Afraid? You should be.

The recent picture of Trump’s national security adviser holding a writing pad, upon which the words “5,000 troops to Colombia” were scrawled, is all the evidence needed of the global calamity that is US hegemony and domination. It is not so much the ability of proponents of American exceptionalism, such as Mr Bolton, to deploy thousands of troops almost anywhere they choose in the world on any pretext – like latter day proconsuls of Rome – it’s the fact they assert the right to.

However, such action – like replacing a recalcitrant government with another while having zero respect for international law – was previously undertaken covertly but is now, in the case of Venezuela, being done openly and brazenly.Issuing diktats from Washington to sovereign countries and governments, threatening them with military aggression if they refuse to accede to those diktats, has been in keeping with the workings of this overweening superpower for decades now.

Juan Guaido, Washington’s newly appointed placeman in Caracas, is but a minor actor in the horror movie that is US power politics. He is one in a long line of such; a here today, gone tomorrow nonentity whose only qualification for the role given to him by Washington is his ability to take instructions. A fanatical hawk like John Bolton would have it no other way.

Undertaking a character study of Mr Bolton and others of his ilk throws up the dichotomy between their eagerness to hurl soldiers into battle, and personal histories which reveal extraordinary efforts to avoid going into battle themselves.

John Bolton, George W Bush, Dick Cheney, hawks and neocons all, each took steps to avoid being drafted for the war in Vietnam. Bolton was actually unabashed about ensuring that he would not be drafted, writing in his Yale University 25 year class reunion book, “I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy.”

Instead, like former President George W Bush, responsible for pushing Iraq into the abyss in 2003, Bolton joined the National Guard and stayed home. He also enrolled at Yale to study law before segueing into politics as a strident advocate of might is right, climbing the greasy neocon pole in Washington to positions of influence.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/450245-neocon-bolton-washington-guaido/

Trump Drops DACA Deal, Says GOP Is ‘Wasting Their Time’ On Border Security Talks

President Donald Trump announced in a Daily Caller interview published Thursday morning that he’s reconsidering offering Democrats an extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) Act, in return for funding a portion of the border wall, to the tune of $5 billion.

Trump indicated in his interview that he’d prefer to allow current litigation challenging both the constitutionality of the act itself and the constitutionality of his repeal to make its way through the courts before he offers any concessions on the Act, even if it means he may not get the border wall funding he’s looking for in the next round of budget negotiations.

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“I could see myself doing something for DACA but I want to find out what the Supreme Court is going to do first,” Trump told the Caller, adding that he believes its “highly unlikely” that the issue will come up.

This is a significant change from just 10 days ago, when the Trump White House offered a three-year extension on DACA, in order to protect illegal immigrants from deportation actions while the Act made its way through the courts, in return for partial border wall funding. That “compromise,” offered just before the White House copped to a three week “continuing resolution” on the budget, was suppsed to entice Democrats into an eleventh hour deal, but didn’t.

Trump’s sudden lack of interest in a DACA deal might signal an unwillingness on the part of the White House to settle for anything less than complete border wall funding, something Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced Thursday morning would not be part of any eventual budget deal.

“Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee are wasting their time. Democrats, despite all of the evidence, proof and Caravans coming, are not going to give money to build the DESPERATELY needed WALL. I’ve got you covered. Wall is already being built, I don’t expect much help!” Trump tweeted

https://truepundit.com/trump-drops-daca-deal-says-gop-is-wasting-their-time-on-border-security-talks/

Pence Calls for End to Maduro Govt: Not Time for Dialogue, It's Time for Action

US Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that all options on Venezuelan political crisis are on the table, stressing that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro should not "test the resolve of the United States".

"This is no time for dialogue. This is time for action […] The time has come to end the Maduro dictatorship once and for all", Pence told a cheering crowd at a rally.

During the talks with Venezuelan diplomats on Tuesday Pence said that Washington strongly supports the country's National Assembly and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido. Moreover, Pence said in a video message earlier this week that the US government supported Guaido’s "courageous decision… to assert that body’s constitutional powers, declare Maduro an usurper, and call for the establishment of a transitional government".

Nicolas Maduro, in turn, has slammed Pence's statement as the violation of "the rules of the game", vowing to revise relations with Washington.

Another senior US official, National Security Advisor John Bolton, claimed earlier in the day that there was alleged overwhelming support among Latin American countries for a transfer of power away from Nicolas Maduro to Juan Guaido.

Bolton also claimed Friday he and US President Donald Trump have talked several times a day about the situation in Venezuela, and there was a whole range of economic and political steps that remain to be taken, adding, however, that the Trump administration had no plans for imminent military intervention in Venezuela.

Venezuela is currently going through a political crisis, with Guaido, the head of the opposition-controlled Venezuelan National Assembly, having declared himself the country's interim president on 23 January. Maduro has accused Washington of orchestrating a coup in Venezuela, since the United States and several allies immediately recognized Guaido.

Russia, along with China, Iran, Turkey, Mexico and other states, has voiced support for Maduro as the only legitimate president of Venezuela.

On Monday, the United States blocked all of PDVSA's assets in its jurisdiction and imposed a ban on making deals with the company. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters that by blocking PDVSA's assets, the United States was taking care of this company in the interests of the people of Venezuela and also protecting its own market.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201902011072045106-pence-maduro-government-usa-venezuela/

3-day human-trafficking sting in California leads to 339 arrests

LOS ANGELES (KABC) –

Hidden in plain sight all across California are human traffickers and their victims. Operation Reclaim and Rebuild is a mission to end human trafficking and help victims caught in the system.

"A lot of them do what they do for survival," said Ray Bercini, Los Angeles County sheriff's detective.

The statewide operation spanned three days, 93 agencies and requires hundreds of law enforcement officers.

The L.A. County Sheriff's Department started their undercover operation in unincorporated Pasadena. It's an area where deputies reveal people often go to pay for sex. A handful of undercover police officers, also known as decoys, are used to lure unsuspecting johns.

During ABC7's time with the L.A. County sheriff's detectives, we witnessed multiple men pull up to the curb and engage with the undercover decoys.

Once the john and officer agreed to a price, the johns had to drive to a meeting spot to show their intent to break the law. With conveyor belt-like efficiency, offenders were processed in a nearby hotel room and quickly booked to make room for the next suspect.

The second location proved to be even busier. We joined the undercover units in Compton, where the decoys were alongside actual working women. When deputies spotted three women walking in a group, they told us their pimp was likely just a few yards away.

The undercover deputies were everywhere, not only pretending to be prostitutes, but also johns. An undercover john got one of the three women we saw to take the bait. It was only a matter of time before all three women from the group were taken into custody and two of their pimps were in a patrol car.

But authorities aren't going after the women - they're going after the pimps and johns.

"We are not just here to arrest the commercial sex workers, we are here to work with them more in a victim approach," CHP Investigator Kerri Rivas said.

Prostitution is illegal in the state of California and is considered a misdemeanor. So if prostitutes don't cooperate with authorities, they get ticketed. But if they can prove they were human trafficked through use of force, fraud, or coercion, authorities will help them.

"Sometimes it takes multiple arrests, sometimes only a couple. It's really hard to break through the fear because of the mental anguish that they go through with the trafficker. They go through psychological abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse - and that is why it takes time. It's just building that trust with them and letting them know you can trust me, I will fight for you, I will help you put your trafficker away," Rivas said.

https://abc7.com/5112123/

Information Warfare Commandos: Navy Adds New Position to Strike Group Staff

ABOARD USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN – There's a new boss in town for the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group: Capt. Steve Shepard, the first board-selected information warfare commander (IWC) assigned to a strike group as it prepares to deploy.

As IWC, Shepard is the equivalent of the carrier air wing commander; the destroyer squadron commander; and Abraham Lincoln's commanding officer on the staff of Carrier Strike Group 12 commander Rear Adm. John Wade.

His role is to oversee and coalesce all information available to the ship, including intelligence; information operations and electronic warfare; communications; weather data and, "in some cases, space," Shepard told reporters Jan. 28 during the strike group's pre-deployment training off the coast of the Carolinas.

"When I entered the Navy in 1990 – I was an intelligence officer for an A-6 squadron – there'd be 18 message boards. If you read them, you read every piece of intelligence on the ship. People would read that, and they'd be good to go. Today, there's much more information out there," he said. "We need someone to oversee that."

While information warfare commanders have deployed with carrier strike groups previously, Shepard is among the first cadre to be selected by an IW command screening board and to test the new staff construct.

During the Abraham Lincoln Strike Group's current deployment for its composite training exercise, or COMPTUEX, and subsequent deployment with 2nd Fleet this year, he will help "write the book" on how the position should be developed and utilized for future carrier strike groups.

His first mission in the new role was to pull together all strike group personnel involved in information warfare, without adding any new staff. While on COMPTUEX, he will figure out how to best support the strike group commander, providing battlefield awareness, command and control, weather data and more to "put us in a position of tactical advantage."

Shepard, a 1990 graduate of the University of Virginia, said he looks to the example set by then-Capt. Arleigh Burke at the Battle of Cape St. George in November 1943.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/02/01/information-warfare-commandos-navy-adds-new-position-strike-group-staff.html

This Abortion Facility Advertises It Performs Abortions At 36 Weeks

In what could be construed as a brazen slap in the face of those Americans who staunchly believe that an unborn child has rights, a Washington, D.C. abortion-providing facility unabashedly advertises on its website that it offers abortions up to 36 weeks.

Capital Women's Services writes that it “offers late-term abortion care up to 36 weeks under certain circumstances, such as for fetal or maternal indications. All requests for late-term abortion care are handled on a case-by-case basis after consultation with our clinicians … The U.S. Supreme Court, in its classic Roe vs. Wade Decision, ruled that abortions are legal at any gestation to preserve the life or the health of the woman."

http://www.spiritualvigor.com/2019/02/this-abortion-facility-advertises-it.html

http://www.spiritualvigor.com/2019/02/watch-dad-in-custody-battle-with-ex.html

U.S. Court Finds Syria Responsible for Killing American Journalist Marie Colvin

A FEDERAL JUDGE in Washington, D.C. has ordered the Syrian government to pay $302 million in damages for the murders of journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik in a 2012 artillery strike. The decision, issued on Wednesday, marks the first time in the seven-year conflict that a court has declared Syrian forces loyal to the government of President Bashar al-Assad responsible for deliberately attacking civilians.

“A targeted murder of an American citizen, whose courageous work was not only important, but vital to our understanding of warzones and of wars generally, is outrageous, and therefore a punitive damages award that [multiplies] the impact on the responsible state is warranted,” wrote Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

The Syrian government did not respond to the lawsuit filed on behalf of Colvin’s niece and nephew, leading to a default judgement. The suit followed from a six-year investigation by the Center for Justice and Accountability, which unearthed testimony and documentary evidence detailing how Assad’s commanders tracked and killed Colvin and her colleague on the morning of February 22, 2012 in Homs, Syria. Colvin was among the few Western journalists working from Homs, where she reported on the government’s use of rocket and artillery strikes against the civilian population trapped in the city. Also hurt in the attack that killed Colvin and Ochlik, a French photojournalist, were photographer Paul Conroy, journalist Edith Bouvier, and media activist Khaled Abu Salah.

The Assad government will almost certainly never pay the damages, but the finding establishes a significant precedent for the press, according to Scott Gilmore, the attorney who investigated and litigated the case. The ruling “recognizes that attacks designed to intimidate journalists and stifle reporting cause broad social harm and merit severe condemnation,” he told The Intercept. “The Colvin case joins Terry Anderson’s suit against Iran (circa 2000) as twin precedents establishing the specific harms to free expression when journalists are killed or detained.”

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https://theintercept.com/2019/01/31/marie-colvin-death-syria/

Zionists: Noahide World Order NWO

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Cuba Venezuela and Nicaragua are the targets.

But 2 are being hidden!