With the monetary metals mining industry agreeing to die quietly and its investors dying with them, the World Gold Council celebrating watches for plutocrats as its industry dies --
https://twitter.com/GOLDCOUNCIL/status/528214...1264640/photo/1
-- and the Western financial journalism celebrating central bankers instead of questioning them critically, it's getting harder to perceive GATA's constituency in particular beyond humanity generally.
At least our efforts in North America, dominated by the U.S. government and Wall Street (yes, what's the difference?), produce less and less. Efforts more distant from those financial powers seem more promising, since while in North America the consequence of the gold price suppression scheme is mainly the loss of the market economy, in the rest of the world the consequence is daily financial exploitation.
GATA is not unknown outside North America. As noted yesterday --
http://www.gata.org/node/14686
-- your secretary/treasurer will be speaking twice next month at conferences in Europe. And he has been invited to speak at three conferences in Asia in March. But travel over such long distances is expensive and the conference business, especially for conferences connected with mining, is not in a position to cover much of that expense.
Further, of course, GATA has never put a lot of effort into fundraising -- not that it would accomplish much, given the radioactivity of our mission: free markets, limited and transparent government, and fair dealing among nations and peoples.
Our support has fallen off dramatically over the last year and unless things change just as dramatically soon our operations will be severely curtailed next year; just keeping the flag flying, the Internet site operating, may become a challenge.
So, as a practical matter, who is our constituency? Only you 9,562 people who as of this morning belong to our e-mail dispatch list -- and most of you have never contributed to the organization, even as a mere dollar, euro, pound, or tiny fraction of a bitcoin from each of you would give GATA a crucial boost right now.
Providing that little bit of support is easily accomplished by credit card or bitcoin code at GATA's Internet site --
http://www.gata.org/node/16
-- but please, just new donors this time. We can't keep relying on our most loyal friends.
One more reason to help: If this doesn't work, we may have to resort to Soupy Sales methods:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OGy3Kh7yM
