Canada

But unlike the Americans, who have gone decades without tracking their gold supplies, the Canadians have known that they were getting it from a country where cocaine trafficking, paramilitary violence and the gold trade are intertwined.

Yet they continued to call it North American gold.

They did so, officials explained, because before the Colombian gold arrives in Canada, a Texas intermediary mixes it with American gold. In the Mint’s eyes, the resulting mix is entirely North American.

This fiction, and the fact that perpetuating it is completely legal, is an example of how even the world’s most credible dealers allow tainted gold into the mainstream market.

Jfc. When did the idea of lying become the government-approved way of things??

Nevermind ... I know.

The NYTs overt attack on Canada is really just saying we can't and shouldn't trust American suppliers.

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Strong “and yet you live in society, curious” vibes here.

Step one to doing better is trying to do better.

Is it perfect, no. But now that we have this system we can fix this loophole.

We have many gold mines. Where does that gold go?

About illegal U.S. Command operations in the global south: That does not seem surprising with America’s (and Canada's) CIA illegal covert war operations of multiple homicides (more than hundreds, plausibly more than thousands per year going on for decades now (2026)) of gunning down and of bombing peasants in lands with concentrations of petroleum and gold and silver (e.g. Mexico, Columbia, and very recently Venezuelan parliament, and Nigerian peasant village). Even a brief surface review of a Netflix show like ‘Narcos’ shows viewers America's CIA actually have been running south american drug cartels themselves, choosing a new dictator of a corporation bigger than many countries, in batches of approximately 2 years, based on levels of fascist servitude of their discursive positions. In the collusive monopolist tv news, they have been describing their actions using smokescreens of the likes of "The War On Drugs!", "protecting kids from drugs" (instead of actually funding education about drugs for informed healthy use of healthy drugs), and "spreading democracy" using guns and bombs like poison on a toast. Concurrently, their collusive monopolist corporations have been selling cocaine, opioids and benzodiazepines, in collusive monopolist hospitals of the likes of United Health Care Corp, the likes of which have been killing patients for profit by refusing to honor insurance and hospital care contracts, under an extensively documenting surveillance apparatus of their collusive monopolist corporations of the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Palantir.

What do we recommend then? Progressive taxation campaigns, funding education, paying university-level student work of studies, decomposition of monopolies through application of the actual law (e.g. anti-trust law, armed robbery and homicide law, etc.). Like Margaret Thatcher refused to acknowledge, despite their plans of robbery of collective capital (privatization), there are many alternatives!

Or else what? Piketty (2013) argued that inequalities of the sort that such atrocities have emerged from have historically only come back down to normal levels of inequalities in the aftermath of the French Revolution and World Wars I and II.

References, recommended reading:

Paley, Dawn. 2012. “Drug War Capitalism”. AK Press. Piketty, Thomas. 2013. “Le Capital au 21e siecle.” Editions Seuil. Kropotkin, Pyotr. “The Conquest of Bread” (1892), “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution” (1902) Teachout, Zephyr. “Break’ em Up (2019)”

Happy reading!

MountainBear49

Cause this is really a top priority right now.

Also, gold is generally fungible.