Yamashita's Gold and the Price of Gold

Although we are not the first to explore this subject, we still wish to ponder anew the implications of the Yamashita gold hoard on the price of gold today.

 

A few years ago we read an article picked up by Zero Hedge in which the analyst considered the very subject we are addressing. The author could not confirm the veracity of the Yamashita story, and we were too new to the subject to give it proper consideration. However after reading Gold Warriors, we are convinced that Yamashita gold is very real, but that its impact on gold markets is limited, or coming to an end, for a couple of reasons.

 

In the first place, not all of the gold hidden in Philippines is feasibly recoverable. So whatever its potential quantity, only a fraction has been recovered or will be recovered in the near future. Nonetheless, we estimate that 20-30,000 tons is a fair estimate of the amount recovered or recoverable.

 

Much of that number - we would venture the majority - ie 50-60% - has been recovered by both the butcher Ferdinand Marcos and their barbaric allies the Japanese. Even this amount has issues, and certainly any remaining recoverable gold, would have to overcome a number of issues, the chief of which is what the Seagraves called "sanctification". In other words, the gold is in all kinds of shapes, formats, and purity, requiring that all of this gold has to be resmelted, and then integrated into the global gold supply in order for it to be acceptable in the London market. These logistical problems are not trivial, and thus constrict the flow of gold into the market.

 

Additionally, the CIA has siphoned off much gold, further diminishing the potential supply of Yamashita gold into the marketplace.

 

A huge amount of the gold has been tied up in Santa Romana's accounts since his death in mid 1970s, his heirs having been denied the gold by the criminal banks led by John Reed's Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Wells Fargo, among others. Even so, we will assume that a good deal of it has been stolen by the banks and released into the market.

 

Finally, the Chinese have been a vacuum cleaner of gold for the past 2-3 years, importing at least 1,000 tons of gold per month according to Dr Jim Willie, an amount which now equals about 30,000 tons. Perhaps much of the gold has come from the Yamashita hoard, and sold to them at a discount. This fits with Willie's statements that the gold is coming from the Vatican, and it is a known fact that Santa Romana worked for the criminal organization known as the Roman Catholic Church headquartered in the Vatican.

 

Official US gold holdings would never be sufficient to satisfy the payoff to the Chinese for their enormous treasury holdings which they have most likely been redeeming for gold. Thus the US would need fresh voluminous sources to make good on the Chinese held debt.

 

Over the past 50 years the Philippine gold stores, provided by the Japanese during World War 2, have indeed suppressed the price of gold, and is probably the primary reason its price collapsed suddenly in 1980. It was at this time that Marcos' gold supplies were making their ways into the gold supply.

 

Thus if our estimates are approximately correct, then the available - not the theoretically potential - supply of Yamashita gold has been consumed, and we could expect to see a marked rise in the price of gold this year and in following years, especially given that its production has become only marginally economical, and in many cases downright uneconomical.

 

It may be the case that the Bush Crime Syndicate launch the nuclear attack against Fukushima not because of Japan's flirting with China as an ally or greater trading partner, but because they were being warned to disgorge themselves of the massive quantities of gold they possess on their home territory - gold which they stole from Asian countries between 1895-1945.

 

We suspect that there is another 30-40,000 tons of gold to come out of the Philippines and Japan, but we believe that neither the means nor the willingness to recover it exists among the Japanese, who are clinging to it for dear life. Gold is probably the real motive for the recent acrimony in Sino-Japanese relations.

 

With New York, London, and Vatican supplies approaching exhaustion, and with the criminal New York banks refusing to release any gold, we suspect that we are on the cusp of a major gold rally. Should more of the Yamashita gold come to market in a big way - and there are lots of obstacles to it doing so - gold's price will stabilize where it is.

 

The main point we make is that the frustration gold bugs have experienced over the past 4 years over the bear market in gold is due mainly to the release of the Yamashita gold into the market place. If we are correct that it is nearing exhaustion, the normal methods of analysis will begin to apply in predicting gold's future price. Until now, it has been prevented because most people have no clue about the Yamashita gold, and its truly epic quantities.

 

So while there is no doubt that central governments brazenly manipulate the price of gold down, the full disbursement of this hidden gold reservoir may finally limit their effectiveness in suppressing the price of gold in future months and years.

 

Copyright 2015 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

The Truth of Yamashita's Gold

While many naysayers and gainsayers damn the story of Yamashita's gold with faint praise or plausible doubts, the truth of the matter is that the gold hoard which Japan accumulated through 50 years of rape and murder in Asia is as true as the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

 

The importance of the Yamashita story cannot be overstated because it provides the universal solvent which dissolves so many mysteries about World War 2 and the US government's post war policies of favoring the Hirohito crime family and its fabulously wealthy industrial conglomerates.

 

The people who broke the story in a big way were Sterling and Peggy Seagrave who pored over a mountain of evidence to establish the truth of the story and to explain how this legendary sized gold hoard intersected with US presidential decisions which in most cases were treason against the people and nation of the United States.

 

While we will incorporate these new findings in our analysis and narrative of American history in future postings, we want to establish the evidentiary basis for the story, the first order of business which is to explain the premise.

 

While some of this information is probably old hat to most readers of these Chronicles, it helps to recapitulate the important elements of the story for clarity. The most significant element of Yamashita's gold is that it represented the enormous and systematic theft of gold, silver, platinum, precious stones, and strategic metals by the Japanese of the Asian nations it invaded from 1895-1945. Not only were the Japanese ruthlessly systematic in stealing wealth and cultural treasures, but they were barbaric and cruel beyond words in doing so. It is hard to think of these Japanese people as humans.

 

The second important element of the story is that the amount of stolen property was so vast that it was nearly unmanageable, presenting an insuperable logistical nightmare for the Japanese royal family which personally oversaw the management of the plunder. The booty was so bounteous that at least 175 sites in the Philippines were required to store it, and even that was not enough. The storage vaults were often humungous, the size of football fields.

 

While good estimates of the amount of gold are nearly impossible to assess without interrogating the Japanese royal family who kept meticulous records of their thefts, it would be safe to assume that at least 40 - 60,000 metrics tons of gold alone were stored in the Philippines.

 

The third important aspect of the story is that lootings were wealth for the Japanese royal family and their cabalists. It was not for the nation or the ordinary Japanese citizen - but strictly for the royalty and the co-conspirators who needed to be bribed to help perpetrate the larcenies, murder people who knew too much, or help hide or launder the gold.

 

The fourth consideration of the story is that the gold still exists, much of which - if not most - is still hidden on the islands, and has created over the years a cottage industry of tourist attractions, traps, and frauds perpetrated against those seeking instant wealth. A significant amount of the gold has been taken to Japan since the end of the war, in many case with the help of the US government.

 

The fifth point of significance is that the gold has been appropriated by various organizations and governments, not the least of which is that of the US, Filipino, and underworld governments and agencies, and is still a profound factor in national and international conspiracies.

 

While we could add more detail to the story, these are enough to establish its importance and relevance to the present time. The gold did not evaporate, but was disbursed to various and sundry locations for payoffs, bribes, safe-keeping, and  conspiracies.

 

Turning to the evidence, the Seagraves produced 3 CDs worth documenting their story and the movements of just a fraction of the gold, the substance of which is rich and varied.

 

Among the evidences are eye witnesses who personally witnessed the gold as it was taken into storage, such as Ben Valmores who was Prince Takeda's valet. Others such as Robert Curtis went on numerous excavations which resulted in substantial gold recoveries. One such witness, Japanese Major Kojima who was General Yamashita's driver, was tortured by Ed Lansdale but primarily by Santa Romana to reveal the hiding locations of the gold. These disclosures yielded enormous rewards which made the butcher Ferdinand Marcos a billionaire many times over.

 

Another source of evidence are official documents by the US government itself corroborating the existence of treasures such as those  produced by Douglas MacArthur's command which reached President Truman, and which resulted in all kinds of treason and murder in the decades to follow.

 

Financial and transportation documents also substantiate the stories of Yamashita's gold with huge banks resorting to legal injustices and murder to hide their records and continue their posessions of the gold streaming from the Philippine islands and the Black Eagle Trust established by MacArthur.

 

Finally, there is an abundance of legal proceedings, not the least of which was the Golden Budha (sic) case tried in Hawaii in the 1990s which not only established the existence of this gold, but also granted damages to the plaintiffs who were victims of the murderer Ferdinand Marcos, as well as restitution of 22 billion USD for the gold Marcos stole.

 

Those who maintain that the Yamashita gold is at best an unsubstantiated rumor are liars. The evidence is overwhelming, and at time torrential, documenting the existence of this legendary gold hoard without whose consideration it is impossible to understand US foreign policy and the rise of para or shadow governments which rule the world.

 

The world owes the Seagraves a huge debt of gratitude for researching and writing this story which often resulted in threats against their lives by US government officials and their agents. In future postings we will fill in the details of the story adumbrated above.

Reference
Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Gold Warriors, Verso, Brooklyn, 2005, 365pp

Copyright 2015 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Exposing the Hirohito Hoax

Many of us grew up on the lies that Japanese Emperor Hirohito (1901-89), the man whose kingdom invaded most of Eastern Asia in the early 20th century, was a mild mannered, poem writing, marine biologist who was generally aloof from the goings on of his generals, admirals, and leading bureaucrats as they prosecuted their wars in Asia. This is yet another CIA lie peddled by establishment historian prostitutes.

 

The truth of the matter is that Hirohito was perhaps the most barbaric, ruthless, vile ruler since the time of ancient Assyria, an empire well known for its terrifying cruelty. The pictures painted by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, authors of Gold Warriors, a chronicle about the vast plunder Japan took from its vanquished foes, is anything but sympathetic to the myopic propaganda peddled by the establishment.

 

The first point which the Seagraves make in the opening chapters of their book is the earliness of the Japanese attacks on Asia. World War 2 did not represent the opening act of Japanese aggression. Rather it started at least at the time of the Sino-Russian War of 1905, if not earlier.

 

In fact the Japanese had made it a high state priority to completely efface Korean nationality and identity from the earth, towards which end they butchered and enslaved millions of Koreans, to say nothing of robbing them of their financial and cultural treasures.

 

The authors also cover in considerable detail the rapes of China, Indonesia, Singapore, and other places where the Japanese armies spread their terrors. The brutal physical raping and disembowelments of civilians was as common among the Japanese soldiers as ordering a pastrami sandwich in a New York deli would be.

 

But for the Seagraves the main point of their narrative was how systematic and thorough the Japanese were in stealing thousands of years of cultural material history from their victims, especially if it were made of gold, silver, or platinum - and it wasn't just precious metals they stole. They pillaged prodigious, mind boggling quantities of precious stones.

 

At each of the episodes, statements are made which document the involvement of the Japanese royal family in the minute details of these conquests which covered at least a 50 year period. As the supreme being of the Japanese state and people, it is a laugh to suppose that Hirohito did not have a complete grasp and sanction of the methods used to subjugate foreign nations.

 

But the Seagraves give the specific example of Prince Takeda, a grandson of the Meiji emperor, who related that certain vile acts he performed were at the command of Hirohito.

 

The background of this episode is the feverish pace and secretive atmosphere under which the royals built vast, voluminous store houses in the Philippines for their plunders, one of many places where the Japanese hid their extraordinary booties. The royal family, not the least of whom was Prince Chichibu, personally supervised the construction of secret repositories for holding the treasures. So paranoid and scrupulous were they that they always ordered the slave laborers and Japanese military personnel involved in the construction of these storage sites into them at the conclusion of construction in order to bury them alive so that the secrets about the gold would not emerge. There were at least 175 of these secret locations in the archipelago alone.

 

At one point Prince Takeda told his valet Ben that he had no choice but to obey the commands of the emperor. This plunder the Japanese royal family saw as its own possession, something to which no commoner was entitled. The raping of Asia was for the personal endowment of the Japanese royal family. Not only did they steal vast quantities of priceless art and antiquities, but they destroyed them as well.

 

This vile family exists today and continues to hold nearly all of the gold, silver, platinum, precious stones, and art which it stole from Asia in the first half of the 20th century.

 

But the main point of our short essay is to document, thanks to the Seagraves, that the Japanese emperor was personally involved in the rape, subjugations, methods, and plunder of eastern Asia. He may have been adept at playing the idiot savant, but he made Genghis Khan look like a spinster Baptist Sunday School teacher.

 

Reference

Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Gold Warriors, New York, Verso, 2005

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