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AugustReview.com [Editor's note: members of the Trilateral Commission and companies with Commission representation appear in bold type.] Since 1973, this writer has made inquiry as to the location and ownership of the vast stores of monetary gold (400 oz., .999 pure bars) in the world. There has not been a formal audit on Fort Knox, for instance, since the Eisenhower administration. Official statistics on gold holdings are often contradictory. Getting plain answers from any Central Bank in the world, including the Fed, is virtually impossible. This paper points out a pattern of manipulation that has been clearly observed by many...

Munitions pose no danger FORT KNOX — World War I-era munitions found at a construction site at Fort Knox pose no danger, Army ordnance experts determined. Construction workers at the site of the future Human Resources Center of Excellence discovered the mortar shells Friday while moving soil for a sewer system. As an additional safety measure, an expert from the Army Corps of Engineers was brought in to inspect the site and present the post with options for proper site clean up and disposal. Based on inspection findings, Col. Mark Needham, garrison commander, directed an ordnance expert be hired to...

A diversion of dollars to help fight the war in Iraq has helped create a $530 million shortfall for Army posts at home and abroad, leaving some unable to pay utility bills or even cut the grass. In San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston hasn't been able to pay its $1.4 million monthly utility bill since March, prompting workers in many of the post's administrative buildings to get automated disconnection notices. Fort Bragg in North Carolina can't afford to buy pens, paper or other office supplies until the new fiscal year starts in October. And in Kentucky, Fort Knox had to...

Explosives unit headed back into Iraqi fray By ERICA WALSH About 20 Fort Knox soldiers are on their way to Iraq, some for a second time in two years. The 703rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Detachment from Fort Knox left for Iraq on Saturday morning, family members said. This is the second deployment for the Fort Knox detachment, which spent September 2003 to March 2004 in Iraq. The unit is responsible for finding, recovering and disposing of explosive devices. About half of the group that left for Iraq Saturday also deployed to the country during the unit's first trip. The soldiers...

Army test-fires new $34 million training range By ERICA WALSH The first shots were fired on Fort Knox's newest range this week. The Wilcox Range, a multi-purpose training range, is the latest training area on post. Construction began on the $34 million project in 2002, and is about a year ahead of schedule, said Stuart Holder, range manager. The 2,500-acre range features state-of-the-art technology including digital links between tanks, helicopters, infantry in the field and instructors in the range operations center. Eventually, the units in training at Fort Knox could be linked with units in training at Fort Hood, Texas,...

Fort Knox would remain open and gain new civilian jobs and an infantry combat team -- but lose the tank-training role that traditionally has formed its core identity -- under the new Base Realignment and Closure recommendations announced by the Pentagon yesterday. Fort Campbell would lose an attack aviation battalion, but pick up a unit from Fort Gillem, Ga., which the Pentagon recommended for closure. Several small military reserve and Defense Department offices around Kentucky would be closed. But Fort Knox would take by far the state's biggest hit.

Col. Russ Gold would be willing to put the soldiers in the Bulldog Brigade up against any other soldiers in the history of the United States. "History will show soon that this mixture of Generation X and Y will equal, if not better, any other generation produced anytime in the U.S.," he said. About 75 soldiers stationed at Fort Knox were honored with a Valorous Unit Award Tuesday for their service in Iraq as members of the 1st Armored Division, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, or the Bulldog Brigade. The 3rd BCT is based at Fort Riley, Kan., but several members...

At noon today the MP's had a section of Wilson Road blocked off. It was later announced that 60+ Starlings had all died near the old Anderson Golf Course. The birds were all in a very small area. The post MEDCOM did not find any evidence of toxins, but . . . . . . . .

FORT KNOX, Ky. - Three weeks into basic training, Pvt. Timothy Wilson pretended to be an enemy prisoner of war as other recruits camouflaged with green face paint detained and questioned him. This drill in the wooded hills of Fort Knox in the past would have been saved for later in the soldiers' careers. But now that nearly half of all new soldiers go straight to Afghanistan (news - web sites), Iraq (news - web sites) or to units preparing to deploy to war, the training is being overhauled for the first time in decades to immerse soldiers into the...

One soldier waits in a Fort Knox jail. Two others rest in graves dug just months ago. The Army says the jailed soldier, Sgt. Hasan Akbar, put the other two in the ground. But nearly a year after Maj. Gregory Stone and Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert were killed in a Kuwaiti desert, Akbar still doesn't know if he will face a court-martial in which he could receive the death penalty. His family — and the families of the deceased — are hoping the issue can be resolved. All were members of the 101st Airborne Division. "We've learned a hard lesson,"...

Knox NCO killed in Iraq Staff Sgt. Richard Ramey of the 703rd EOD died Sunday from an explosion in Mahmudiyah, Iraq. Fort Knox Public Affairs OfficeStaff Sgt. Richard Ramey, 27, of Canton, Ohio, a Soldier with the Fort Knox-based 703rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Detachment, died in Mahmudiyah, Iraq, Sunday of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated.Ramey, an explosive ordnance disposal specialist had been stationed at Fort Knox since April 9, 2001. He had been in the Army since 1995.Approximately 15 Soldiers from the 703rd are in Iraq. The detachment deployed in September for a six-month rotation.At Fort Knox...

GATA's work to expose the gold price suppression scheme THE GOLD ANTI-TRUST ACTION COMMITTEE INC. -- A SUMMARY, JANUARY 27, 2002 -- In 1998, as he began www.LeMetropoleCafe.com , his Internet site of financial commentary, Bill Murphy noticed that the gold market wasn't trading as normal markets do. Eventually he sensed collusion among market participants to suppress the gold price and wrote about it repeatedly. Following Murphy's commentary with great interest, a newspaper editor in Connecticut, Chris Powell, noted that collusion to control prices is against U.S. anti-trust law and suggested that gold partisans and gold market participants mobilize against...

FRANKFURT. The Bundesbank has requested an option to sell 600 tons of the central bank's gold reserves, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Bundesbank President Ernst Welteke has proposed using the proceeds from the gold sale to set up an investment fund. Any profits would be earmarked for the government's research and education budget, the spokesman said, confirming a report by Börsenzeitung newspaper. The Bundesbank spokesman, Johannes-Rudi Kurz, said it was too early to discuss who would manage the fund. “There are various options,“ he said. “The Bundesbank could manage the fund, or the job could be outsourced to an independent...

Sick soldiers wait for treatment By Mark Benjamin UPI Investigations Editor Published 10/29/2003 3:58 PM View printer-friendly version FORT KNOX, Ky., Oct. 29 (UPI) -- More than 400 sick and injured soldiers, including some who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, are stuck at Fort Knox, waiting weeks and sometimes months for medical treatment, a score of soldiers said in interviews. The delays appear to have demolished morale -- many said they had lost faith in the Army and would not serve again -- and could jeopardize some soldiers' health, the soldiers said. The Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers are...

Graham Halksworth's neighbours knew him as a pillar of his community: a family man and a trustee of the local golf club. They didn't realise that he was quietly plotting one of the most audacious scams in history. Every Monday morning, 69-year-old Graham Halksworth would bid farewell to his wife Margaret, and leave his home at the top end of the little town of Mossley, high on the shoulder of the Pennines. Smartly dressed and carrying a briefcase, he would negotiate the steps down from their unprepossessing brick-built semi, whose only sign of pretension was its windows, leaded with an...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - A deadly grenade attack on troops sleeping in their tents in Kuwait is all the more jarring for survivors and relatives because of the man accused: a fellow U.S. soldier. An Article 32 hearing, similar to a civilian grand jury, begins Monday for Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar, who is charged with killing two officers and injuring 14 others in the March 23 attack. "It was worse than an act of treason," said retired Chaplain Maj. Thomas G. Westall, a friend of the family of one of the men killed, Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone. "The sheer...

By Evidence against the 101st Airborne Division soldier accused of killing two American soldiers in a grenade attack during the second Iraq war will be presented before a military judge Monday at Fort Knox. Sgt. Hasan Akbar is accused of throwing fragmentation grenades into three separate tents at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait, killing two soldiers and wounding 14. Except for a brief detention in Germany, he has been held in Fort Knox's regional confinement center since the March 23 incident, post spokeswoman Connie Shaffery said Friday. The Article 32 hearing is being held at Knox instead of Fort Campbell, where...

Carla Jackson had a hard time fighting back her tears. Wearing the sweatshirt she had made while her husband was in Operation Desert Storm, she was taken back by the emotion of Saturday's Support the Troops Rally at the Pritchard Community Center in Elizabethtown. "At first, it didn't seem like the community out in town or at Fort Knox was doing anything," she said, "but everyone came out in full force today." Jackson, whose husband, Tracy is a platoon sergeant deployed to Kuwait with Fort Knox's 233rd Transportation Company, was one hundreds of people who flooded the center with red,...