Forget About Fake News Worry About Fake MoneyBy Guy Christopher The bad news is fake news is very real. The good news is fake news is nothing new. The even better news for gold and silver stackers is they have learned to live with decades of fake news about sound money. You already know all about fake news. It used to go by other names lies, propaganda, false advertising, and brainwashing, to name a few. Now we can add polling results and agenda-driven predictions to that list. The term fake news is a recent invention by mainstream liberal media to cover their asterisks after choking on pitifully biased presidential election coverage. Its an old political tactic accuse everyone else of whatever youre guilty of. Easier to disguise lousy journalism if everyones doing it. The story spawning the term fake news was a Washington Post analysis charging that Russia interfered with the presidential election, including using leaked emails to pound Hillary Clinton. The Post accused a couple hundred news publishers of being treasonous liars. The pushback quickly piled up, some of it surprisingly harsh from mainstream media. I thought it was completely ridiculous that the Post would put this sorry piece of trash on the front page, said the Washington editor of Harpers magazine. Shameful and disgusting, was the verdict by Rolling Stones star writer, Matt Taibbi. (Thats the same magazine found guilty of libel after sensationalizing a false story of gang rape at the University of Virginia). Talented, respected Hollywood actor Denzel Washington, a Clinton supporter, was upset after an erroneous news item listed him in the Trump camp. He said, If you dont read the newspaper, youre uninformed. If you do read it, youre misinformed. Washington was actually paraphrasing 19th century author and political observer, Mark Twain. Fake news has been around a long, long time. Update: The disgraced Washington Post now acknowledges its story about fake Russian news, filled with holes and inaccuracies was fake news! There is, however, a more sinister threat behind fake news than just slandering actors and politicians. Bogus hand wringing over fake news could be used to create a public clamor for standardized news acceptance of government-regulated news coverage aimed strictly at criminalizing alternative media, and could lead to government licensing of journalists. Communist China has quickly jumped in front of the crowd eager to criminalize news. Xinjaing Province officials have threatened those who defy banned news practices with heavy fines. The accused should worry imprisonment and even death sentences cant be far behind. To show everyone shes not going away anytime soon, Hillary Clinton asked Congress to crack down on fake news. Last week, Congress did just that, passing the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act. Any crackdown would mean shredding the First Amendment. Its happened before, notably in wartime, when information was severely monitored by government censors. Designating a foreign power, like Russia, as an enemy in an information war, could lead to heavy censorship again. Both Vlad Putin and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks have denied Russia had anything to do with WikiLeaks massive data dumps that so embarrassed the democrats leading up to the election. Weve seen other crackdown previews various proposed Internet regulations and so-called net neutrality. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg has so far failed to answer accusations that Facebooks News Feed routinely excludes conservative news sites and news items. Facebook counts one billion news consumers daily, making it the largest media company on Earth. None of this is surprising to sound money advocates. The U.S. and other governments have long suppressed legitimate issues of debt and sound money. Its in every big-spending governments interests that gold and silver not compete with printed currency. A compliant, State-controlled media is crucial to that news manipulation. Lies and myths about gold and silver have endured for decades, documented by dedicated publications such as Money Metals and many others. Ongoing at this moment is the most stunning financial crime story on the planet. You wont find it in your local newspaper, nor on any popular business channel. Youll find it only in specialty publications dedicated to sound money. It is Deutsche Banks stunning admission that it and other banks have criminally suppressed the paper price of precious metals for years. Deutsche Banks confession came after suspicious investors sued a string of banks. German regulators even started investigating the banks illegal actions in the gold market. To save its own hide, the bank recently agreed to turn on co-conspirators in the price-fixing scheme. Precious metals price-fixing, long suspected, alleged and denied is now demonstrated, proven, and admitted. Thats a big story, but not one that mainstream media is interested in exploring or explaining. The news that mainstream media fears to report is that price fixing is not some conspiracy theory. Of all the economic metrics manipulated by governments and banks, including interest rates and stock markets, the gold price is the one governments must control at all costs to stay in power. If ever honestly reported and explained, the Deutsche Bank story would have widespread momentous effects on the way economic worlds work just as earthshaking as the election of a political maverick to the presidency. Rather than risk the public exposure of theft, deceit and fraud, government and its compliant media will undoubtedly prefer to invent still another fake news cover story. MoneyMetals.com columnist Guy Christopher is a seasoned writer living on the Gulf Coast. A retired investigative journalist, published author, and former stockbroker, Christopher has taught college as an adjunct professor and is a veteran of the 101st Airborne in Vietnam. America sold a bill of good by Trump lol, and you BOUGHT IT. Always be a light that is shininginthedark Silver is their Achilles heel These zentral banks are all part of the banking scam. Usually, I dont respond to character attacks, considering the source. You have a number of inaccuracies in your rant. Suggest you do some reading. Point them out to me, please. Do your own work. So there are no inaccuracies because you are not able to show any, Chris. Legalized counterfeiting was completely unchained in America in 1964 when the silver was removed from our coins. Any suggestions how we put a stop to this? THAT is what we need to be discussing. Because as long as it continues, those with access to whats produced by this high-tech digital printing press, can buy anything, and anyone in unlimited quantities. 