NOWHERE NEAR 100%

Due to unusual circumstances related to several different matters, a delay of at least another week is necessary before posting of the next Hat Trick Letter Gold & Energy Report. Let me explain very briefly reasons for the delay, some of which are personal. The combination of three events has left me temporarily out of action, one from a chronic condition dating back to a serious childhood injury, another from a kitchen accident, and a third from a virus microbe that has spread. So a struggle has come on the physical side, after meeting every one of 55 deadlines in 55 months. I expect to be back in the saddle, fully upright, in a matter of days, able to bang away at the keyboard. I need a little time to recover. In the meantime, I am able to read, to keep up with the developments (which flow like a crime novel and greek tragedy), and to heal. Look to the main home page on the public side of the Golden Jackass website for listed dates of the next posted reports.

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EMPHASIS ON CERTAIN TOPICS

At the same time, given the nature of the global financial structure and its rapid changes with deterioration, an altered path is necessary for the reports themselves. More flexibility will be pursued, with less volume. Many forecasts of a disastrous type have come to pass, related to insolvent banking systems, mortgage bond collapse, endless housing price declines, and economic disintegration. Hence, a decision has been made to provide less volume of detail on the banking side, which lately is coupled with syndicate confiscation of Congressional funds. The financial structure and economic forecasts have almost all come true, tragically. There is no great need to outline the gory details each month, since certain elements are becoming old news. Some folks might have noticed that less has been mentioned on housing details and mortgages lately. People want to know what is next, rather than items on Wall Street bonuses, runs on big banks like UBS, more bank shutdowns, and continued AIG parties. Focus will be given instead to LIBOR rates, USGovt sponsored mortgage rescue plans, USTreasury auctions, attempts to reflate the USEconomy, and brief summary of housing prices. Home prices continue to be the two-ton dead weight tied around the banker necks, which along with a powerful recession will force even worse bank insolvency in future months. Many stories lie in middle ground in relevance to gold, like the assured death of General Motors, retail sales erosion, the great falloff in business equipment investment, generally what I prefer to call the USEconomic disintegration (not recession).

These latter relevant topics directly relate to producing a desirable inflation environment urgently needed for gold & silver. I anticipate utter desperation to inflate inflate inflate soon, since the decision has been delayed, and most actions are reluctant so far. Also, numerous efforts have been in place to avoid outright blasts of inflation, but instead to siphon funds to the financial crime syndicates originally intended as bank system rescue. The Wall Street crime syndicate has finally revealed its true colors in open fashion, now that the current administration is winding down. They will steal as much at the eleventh hour. Of more importance nowadays is the foreign revolt against the USDollar that is brewing, defiant foreign initiatives based on their own preservation, and the gold default that is shaping up. These topics will be covered in the next posted report.

REPORT STRUCTURE

The reports on the macro economic and banking side will in the future be more selective. They will also be more brief. Perhaps a good approach might be to alternate reports on length and depth, one month a shorter Gold & Energy Report, the next month a shorter Macro Economy Report. I am weighing approaches. The bank unfolding disaster is assured, well forecasted, but whose details must be sifted and selected for direct relevance to currency issues and gold implications. I am also making some editorial decisions that might result in less rigid report structure, and less rigid schedule for delivery. I want to respond to events rather than to a calendar. My plan is to provide good usable information, and less the flood of pages. Honestly, I find it hard to avoid inclusion of information that is important or interesting. Limitations exist, not just for my time to write and analyze, but your time to read and absorb. onHonMy tendency has been to deliver too much, and I know it. This has been a constant battle. When in doubt, at times I have resorted to submitted sections as a special report. Subscribers are always free to pick and choose from well-labeled sections, and read topics of interest.

IMMEDIATE TOPIC

Furthermore, an event of huge importance is in progress this weekend. The G-20 Meeting of finance ministers has begun, which invited a wide expansion of other nations besides the inner sanctum of largely bankrupt G-7 Finance ministers. Ironically these 'less important nations' possess increasing impressive wealth, and act more as creditor nations. They stir for more power, justified by their creditor role. The gathering is billed as the Bretton Woods II Meeting, assured to be an ongoing project like the original Bretton Woods. If substantive progress is not made to install a more stable global financial system, then an implosion is assured. My research and contact by telephone and email have continued to uncover developments from this meeting, leaks from this meeting, and implications from related events. Many revolts are occurring. The USDollar will not stand in the same form afterwards, since banking systems based upon it have failed. Implications to gold are direct, profound, and hugely promising. A little more time before the G-20 Meeting digestion will be a benefit for the next report to include in detail.

PERSONAL SAFETY

A final comment is necessary on personal safety for the messenger. Some research has come my way about risk during political transition, in particular during major systemic shifts. During the time when Hitler came to power, a few young men and women were rounded up and murdered. They had chronicled the gradual loss of liberty, the installation of evil men in power, and more, as warnings to a nation. When the Iraqi War began, after weapons of mass destruction and terrorism threats came into the spotlight, some people who either exposed or were soon to expose information were murdered in the United States. Others were poisoned and debilitated. After exposure of Fannie Mae fraud, one person was targeted with poison incidents several years ago. The truth is the enemy of this USGovt regime, perhaps the most corrupt of a major industrial nation in modern history. My main hope is for criminal prosecution to come, of course outside the US like at the World Court. The risks to me are real, like to have my website shut down, for my computer to be invaded with viruses, for me personally to be poisoned or infected or even killed. My location of Costa Rica offers exactly zero added protection.

The point is that my style of public and private writing could be called reckless at times. By calling a spade a spade, by identifying some specifics on fraudulent action and highly deceptive actions, I put myself at risk. This will now change. The lack of direct mention of certain factors within certain topics, like the four major US-based crime syndicates, in no way will mean that nothing is known on my part. It means nothing will be written on the subjects in public articles, nothing in private reports. Find it elsewhere. Let me say in passing that the War on Terrorism is a smokescreen for establishment and continuation of a powerful profitable narcotics syndicate operated by the numerous US security agencies, and that almost all airline rules are to restrict competition. For instance, liquids onboard were once a common method to transport diamonds used for payments, and have nothing to do with bombs. Shoe bomb stories were to confuse dummies. Also, my Pakistani sources tell me that Osama Ben Laden might have died in 2005, and will probably live forever in the controlled US media networks. Mine is not a political newsletter, but where geopolitics directly bear on certain price structures, they will be reported at some level. I will focus my work on gold and all integrated factors that are possible within my reach. Leave the rest to major networks and investigation outfits and pioneer websites. I am unsure about future appearances at Cambridge House conferences. As confusion grows, safety is lost.

AN ACTUAL THREAT

In November 2006 in Munich Germany, when serving as speaker at a conference, I was actually threatened by a man whom I believe to work in association with US Homeland Security. He had claimed close relations with that agency (which I regard as a Gestapo), stated connection with the United Nations (probably as diversion), but offered no business card, no email address, no identity except Paul. He pretended to be my friend, which provided thin cover for his threats, made repeatedly. He confirmed a number of theories and beliefs. A bullet in the back of my head was promised, if I did not stop public mention of two factors: 1) all references to heavy Israeli influence of USGovt, USMilitary, US corporate decisions, US media networks, and 2) all specifics to the 911 events, USGovt security directives, Bush unilateral dictatorial decrees that bore in starkly similar terms the sequence used by Adolph Hitler over 80 years ago. He bristled at the term I coined, the Nazi Playbook, which apparently upset several billionaires. This guy Paul told me that German Reich passports are still used in Switzerland, and are tickets used to limit prosecution of bank crimes to this day. The delivered bullet was promised by an intelligence agency operating with prestige and effectiveness in the Middle East. They do not speak Arabic. This same agency now in my opinion controls the White House Chief of Staff position. Call it payback for favorable press coverage during the entire presidential campaign. As time passes, and the new Obama Administration appears to have strong links to the same old factions that have wielded powerful influence, I conclude my risk level has risen. I have complied, and begged off both stated topics, while they both are still highly relevant factors. These are the main reasons why I left to live in Costa Rica almost two years ago.

THE FUTURE

So I will focus to a greater extent on banks, bonds, currencies, crude oil, silver, and gold. My reports will focus less on a potential shift by Obama toward fascism in overt manner. He had to make compromises and alliances in order to win office. In my view, the incoming president will possess as little direct power as Bush, each a pawn figurehead in a vast organization. Those who point to change are extremely naïve and hopeful without basis at best, or horribly deceived and incredibly stupid at worst. My personal view is that the United States will move away from dictatorship with rampant financial crime, toward more blatant broad fascism. Disorder will usher in new controls. The fascism will give the appearance of preserving liberty and respond to the public criticism of the last eight years. Almost nothing will change in national direction though, except for some tax changes, as the nation marches inevitably toward the Third World. Waste and inefficiency are still incredible, in many respects of American life and business. It must be curtailed. Crisis management, catering to the elite, raping of the public purse, and removing liberties will continue unabated. New national initiatives are a luxury that can only be afforded if the wars are stopped, as simple as that. In fact, the USEconomic decline will accelerate unless the wars are stopped, since they are the most unproductive and costly sinkholes in modern history. My work will leave certain topics alone, unless they relate to banks, bonds, currencies, crude oil, silver, and gold. Other research arms and websites can be relied upon for further information, at their risk. My vigilance will be shared on the important financial instruments and structures.