Italy has 3rd largest gold reserves in the world
Central Bank and politicians are scrapping over who actually owns it
Wild story in front page of FT today





The systematic dismantling of Italy's economic sovereignty and its pillage—once the world's fourth-largest economy in the 1980s and 90s—was accomplished by the global banking cartel through the collusion of corrupt civil servants and politicians, including Andreatta, Monti, Draghi, Amato, Ciampi, Prodi, and Napolitano, in several key phases:
1. In 1981, Andreatta and Ciampi removed the state’s critical leverage over the Bank of Italy, preventing it from monetizing public debt—a common practice of sovereign central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve. From then on, Italy was forced to borrow from international markets at increasingly higher interest rates, leading to unsustainable debt growth. This mechanism has been used to blackmail Italy whenever issues of sovereignty or independence from Europe arise.
A clear example occurred in 2011, when the Berlusconi government was threatened after suggesting a potential exit from the Euro. The ECB sent the infamous now-leaked Draghi-Trichet letter, demanding strict structural reforms in exchange for bond market support, effectively placing Italy under an IMF-style conditional regime. The manipulated widening of the Bund-BTP spread ensued, and Berlusconi was soon replaced by the technocrat Mario Monti, a puppet of the banksters cartel.
2. Subsequently, Amato, Ciampi, Prodi, and Monti—acting in alignment with global banking interests—oversaw a sweeping privatization of Italy’s largest state-owned banks, transferring their ownership to the global banksters cartel.
3. As a direct result, control over the Bank of Italy—previously held indirectly by the state through those national banks—was effectively handed over to private banking interests.
4. Along with it went all its assets, including the substantial gold reserves accumulated by the Italian state over decades.
5. It is therefore legitimate for Italians to seek the recovery of their national gold reserves before the ECB and the global banksters’ cartel can appropriate them.
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