March 21-14. from 21st Century Wire: http://sgtreport.com/2014/03/the-latest-heist-u-s-snatches-the-ukraines-gold-reserves/
According to reports out of Kiev
(see links below), the US has quietly transfers 33 tons of Ukrainian gold out
of the country and back to vaults in the US. Presumably, this sovereign wealth
transfer would be counted as partial “collateral” for a fresh round of IMF, US
FED, and ECB paper debt that is currently being organised for dumping onto the
Ukraine.
Multiple inquiries to US Federal
Reserve administrators into the location of the Ukraine’s gold have been met
with the proverbial ‘pass the buck’, making tracking and tracking the final
resting place of these 33 tonnes very difficult indeed – but one can expect
that the NY Fed is probably the institution who is masterminding the heist.
Note how gold flows into New York,
but has difficulty flowing out of US private banking hands as is the case with the ‘confiscation’ of
Germany’s gold. Numerous attempts by Bundesbank to
repatriate its gold reserves have been met with a brick wall, and to date,
Germany has only recovered a miniscule 5 tonnes directly from the NY Fed – out
of the total 674 tonnes (an additional 32 tonnes were recovered via French
central bank).
It’s worth pointing out here that when NATO sacked Libya in
2011, one of the first items that came into question was the gold in Libya’s state-run central
bank. Prior to the NATO takeover of that country, Libya had one of
the highest per capita gold reserves in the world, alongside Lebanon, giving
Libya a distinct advantage should it carry out former Libyan leader Muammar
Muhammad al-Gaddafi’s long-term financial transition to a gold-backed
Libyan Dinar. As you can imagine, this is no longer the case in Tripoli.
Additionally, like Libya, both Syria and Iran are two of the
world’s last remaining nation states who both have state-run central banks and
gold reserves which fall outside of the world’s private central banking
syndicate.
Needless to say, you can see an obvious pattern emerging
here.
And the story continues…
THE BIG LIE + WHAT HAPPENED TO UKRAINE’S GOLD?
By PM Fund Manager Dave Kranzler
Investment Research Dynamics
The Big Lie is that Central Banks don’t care about gold. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Ben Bernanke, more than once,
claimed that he didn’t understand gold. When Ron Paul asked Bernanke in front
of Congress why Central Banks own gold if it’s irrelevant, Bernanke flippantly
suggested that it was out of tradition. In both cases Bernanke was lying and
he knew it.
In comparison, Greenspan seemed to
have some respect for the laws of economics and – at least that I can recall –
never would outright state that gold was not an economic factor.
Greenspan lied as much as Bernanke did about everything else but he never
committed himself to lie about gold. Most of you have probably read
Greenspan’s 1966 essay, “Gold and Economic Freedom” (linked).
I have read it several times because it explains as well as anything out there
why gold works as a currency and why Government-issued fiat currency does not.
What I find amazing about The Big
Lie about Central Banks and gold is that if gold really is considered to be
irrelevant, the how come Central Banks – especially the Fed – are so secretive
about their gold storage and trading activities? What’s even more amazing
is that no one other than Ron Paul and GATA asks them about this. Think about
it. GATA spent a lot of money on legal fees attempting to get the Fed to
publicly disclose its records related to the Fed’s gold activities. The Fed
spent even more money denying GATA’s quest. And how come the Fed won’t submit
to a public, independent audit of its gold vaults?
This brings me to the issue of the
Ukraine’s gold. According to public records, the Government of Ukraine owns 33
tonnes of gold that was being safekept in Ukraine. Last week a Ukrainian
newspaper reported that acting PM Arseny Yatsenyuk ordered the transfer
of that gold to the United States. The actual report is here: LINK. Jesse’s Cafe Americain provided a
translated version here: LINK.
On the assumption that the report is
true, and so far I have not seen any commentary or articles suggesting it is
not true, the biggest question is, how come the U.S. has absolutely no problem
loading up and transporting 33 tonnes of gold from Ukraine to the U.S. but
seems to have difficulty loading up and transporting any of Germany’s gold from
New York to Berlin? And how come the U.S. and Ukraine seem to care about that
gold at all, if indeed gold is irrelevant? It would seem that it would
be a lot less expensive and logistically complicated just to have the
U.S. military post a few armed guards around the gold if they’re worried about
theft. On the other hand, I’m sure Putin would be happy to buy the gold from
Ukraine.
What makes the story even more
interesting is that GATA’s Chris Powell has spent considerable time trying to
get an answer to the question of whether or not the U.S. has taken custody of
Ukraine’s gold. When he queried the NY Fed, they responded with:
“A
spokesman for the New York Fed said simply: “Any inquiry regarding gold
accounts should be directed to the account holder. You may want to contact the
National Bank of Ukraine to discuss this report” (LINK).
After trying for two days to get an answer from the U.S. State Department, they finally responded by referring him to the NY Fed (LINK).
After trying for two days to get an answer from the U.S. State Department, they finally responded by referring him to the NY Fed (LINK).
The final piece in verifying that
the report is true is deflection from Ukraine. Mr. Powell has queried the
National Bank of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Embassy in DC, and the Ukrainian
mission to the UN in NYC. Crickets. As Chris states the case:
“The
difficulty in getting a straight answer here is pretty good evidence that the
Ukrainian gold indeed has been sent to the United States.”
Unfortunately, it is likely that the
citizens of Ukraine will end up paying the same price for allowing the U.S. to
“safekeep” their sovereign gold. That price is the comforting knowledge that
their gold has been delivered safely to vaults in China under U.S./UK bullion
bank contractual delivery obligations, where it will be locked away for
centuries.
All this skullduggery over a barbarous relic that
has been deemed irrelevant by the U.S. Federal Reserve…
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