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Of course we also had many failures with the mainstream financial news media this year -- many trips, telephone calls, and e-mails that produced nothing at all. But maybe it's just nothing yet.

-- We consulted closely with U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy, and his staff to get gold-related questions put to the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department

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-- We provided crucial assistance to the federal class-action lawsuit brought against JPMorganChase for manipulating the silver market:

http://www.gata.org/node/10448

-- We compelled the Bank of England to admit that it conceals its gold transactions and interventions in the gold market:

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-- We carried the cause of free and transparent markets in the monetary metals to financial conferences all over the world, including, for the first time, the biggest financial conference in Asia, the CLSA Investors Forum in Hong Kong in September:

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-- We disclosed that the Chinese government knows all about the Western central bank gold price suppression scheme:

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-- We organized our own conference in London in August, presenting, as speakers, most of the top people in gold investing from around the world, whose presence signified the growing respect for GATA's work. Despite some recent technical glitches, we hope to be offering DVDs of the conference proceedings for sale soon.

-- And of course through the daily e-mails of the GATA Dispatch we monitored and interpreted developments affecting the monetary metals and free markets.

But before we pat ourselves on the back too much, we have to admit that, despite all this progress, we have not yet won. As exposed as it has become because of GATA's work, central bank intervention in the gold market continues, more brazen than ever. We may have made the central banks double down, and perhaps cost them more gold than they expected to lose by this point, but they are still destroying markets and democracy everywhere. The struggle continues, and unfortunately the gold mining industry's trade organization, the World Gold Council, won't participate, despite an annual budget said to be greater than $60 million. That leaves the struggle to us -- and to you.

Your secretary/treasurer is a pretty good secretary and a fair enough typist, but a better treasurer would be traveling the world much more often, knocking on the doors of mining companies and investment houses, explaining GATA's work, and seeking financial contributions. We're not quite set up to do that, even as there are more lawsuits to bring against the bad guys; more journalists to appeal to, hector, and berate; more research to commission; and more clamor to raise around the world.

If you think that our accomplishments for 2011 were valuable, please consider helping us financially in 2012, especially if you haven't contributed financially before. We really shouldn't keep going back to the same loyal friends.

If you're an investor in mining companies, please contact their investor relations people and ask them to help us too. This is asking a lot, as mining companies are so vulnerable to the enemies of free markets in the monetary metals -- governments, which control mine licenses and enforce environmental regulations, and big banks and investment houses, which are both the agents of central banking and the main providers of capital for mine construction, mining being the most capital-intensive industry. But if we don't achieve free markets in the monetary metals, the industry that mines those metals will have no future, and it will die along with democracy and free markets.

This still seems to us to be a great struggle -- a struggle determining the value of all capital, labor, goods, and services in the world, a struggle over whether those things are to be valued in free markets in which everyone can participate, the democratic way, or by a few central bankers conspiring in secret, the totalitarian way.

That is, though it may not be fully perceived yet, at stake here is nothing less than the whole world.

If you're inclined to help, please visit here for the necessary information:

http://www.gata.org/node/16

And if you do help, please let us know your e-mail address to make it easier for us to acknowledge your generosity. We won't share your address with anyone, and the U.S. government has it already:

http://tinyurl.com/b4wca

Here's to a golden (and silvery) new year.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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-- Posted Monday, 2 January 2012 | Digg This Article