A new and troubling development is taking place in international gold markets. A trend has begun where foreign nations are withdrawing their stored gold reserves from the USA and repatriating those reserves to the European nations who own that gold. The most recent media attention has been given to a decision by the Dutch Central Bank to move a large percentage of its gold from the USA and Canada (where it has been stored) to London. The first link reports that 95 tons of Dutch gold is being moved to London from the USA and Canada for safer keeping and the second link puts the total at 86 tons. 95 tons would mean over 3,000,000 ounces of gold are being transported out of the USA to Europe for safe keeping (95 tons x 2000 pounds x 16 ounces per pound), and a total of 86 tons would be proportionately fewer ounces of gold leaving the USA. Any way you look at it, that is a lot of gold being pulled out of stockpiles of gold located at either Ft. Knox or the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank and other large banks.
It is being mostly done via a clever sale/switch technique. While a large portion of the Dutch gold is being physically transferred to Europe (via undisclosed means), a large percentage of this “transfer” is being accomplished by the Dutch selling gold in the USA and Canada and buying an equivalent amount of gold in Europe for storage in European locations. The wording in the second link holds out the possibility that all Dutch gold will eventually be transferred to Europe (either the Netherlands, London or some other location in Europe). The reason for this mass transfer of gold out of the USA and Canada to Europe is for the purpose of “crisis avoidance” inside North America, according to the first link. The second link cites “Trump’s unpredictability” as one source of the “crisis preparedness.”
The third link is a web search link for accessing more information and/or perspectives on this transfer of Dutch gold holdings out of North America to Europe.
The fourth link reports that France is doing essentially the same thing as the Dutch nation/central bank. France and/or French banks are selling 129 tons of French gold held in New York and buying a similar amount from gold sellers inside Europe. The French did not believe that their gold held in New York was being held under sufficiently strict safeguards. The fifth link has much important information in it. It reports that Germany began trying to get its gold back from the USA many years ago and it took years to receive 673 tons of German gold back to Germany from the USA, A German source who knew about these activities cited the “trust” issue as a problem with storing gold reserves inside the USA. The source states further that Germany never did receive its original gold bars back from the USA, but apparently received other gold bars instead. There are reports that Germany wants more of its gold back from the USA (sixth link). It is reported that the trend of getting national gold reserves out of the USA back to the nations that actually own the gold “is now playing out in central banks around the world.” Austria is another nation mentioned as having demanded its gold back from the USA or desiring to do so.
I can think of several reasons for this trend of other nations wanting to get their gold out of the USA back to their own vaults. The first is fears of the war being fought between Ukraine and Russia spreading into Europe via a Russian attack on NATO territory. The second reason is the political instability inside the USA (cited in the second link), and the third reason is global preparations being made behind the scenes to back national fiat currencies with gold and ending the status of the US dollar’s role as the global reserve currency. Accomplishing this goal is already a stated objective of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). If this happens, it will create chaos in the world and especially inside the USA. The US dollar would have to be devalued substantially to a level the gold supplies of the USA could actually back at a new world price for the dollar. The fact that President Trump’s administration is spending the US federal budget and dollar into oblivion makes this third possibility ever-more likely. Trump has driven the US deficit to over $40 trillion during his second term. This rapidly ballooning US debt tells the world that the USA has no intention of ever paying off its debts. When this is finally openly declared, the chaos in financial and commodity markets will be incredible.
There is much mistrust in the gold markets, and i think that is one reason nations want to store their own gold in their own vaults. The seventh link details reports of fake gold bars being discovered in national vaults or gold repositories. It reports that Ethiopia and China have been victimized by fake gold bars being found in their reserves. The fake gold bars have steel or tungsten in their cores and a thin veneer of gold paint on their exteriors to make the bar look like genuine gold when it is not. The cited links also include a statement from a German banking source that “trust” in the USA’s statements about its stored gold reserves at Ft. Knox, the vaults of the Federal Reserve Bank, etc. is diminished because it has been so long since those gold reserves have been forensically examined and audited. Indeed, a thorough audit has not been done since the early 1950s. A forensic audit is way overdue.
Senator Rand Paul took a very small “baby step” in the direction of an audit when he toured the Ft. Knox facility. The eighth link reports that Sen. Paul declared, after his short visit, that the gold was all there. Let me get this straight. He counted all 147 million ounces in a visit that was little more than a photo op? That’s laughable. A true forensic audit (the kind other nations desire to see happen) would take a lot of time over days or weeks. Since fake gold bars have been found in other nations’ gold repositories, the Ft. Knox and Federal Reserve Gold bars would all need a forensic audit. First, they would have to pass a weight test to see if it matches the known weight of the ounces of gold in the bars being weighed. That will catch any phony bars with steel contents but a fake bar with a tungsten interior will pass that test as tungsten and gold bars have the same weight. Each gold bar would need a core boring test to see if it is actually composed of gold all the way through its interior. The link indicates US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is quoted as saying the gold is audited annually. A German source cited earlier disputed that assertion. A forensic audit would also require an audit of each bar’s ownership or “paper trail” of custody and ownership. That would reveal how many millions of ounces are actually “unencumbered” (actually belonging to the USA with a clear title), and how many gold bars are “encumbered” (physically stored at Ft. Knox but actually belonging to or loaned out to another nation or third party). That is the kind of gold audit the rest of the world will eventually demand if the US hopes to keep the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
The above is a lot of technical, but very important, information. The latter day prophecies of the Bible relate that in the very end of our age before Jesus Christ quite literally comes to assume the kingship of our planet (Revelation 17:14), there will be a great contest between the current, entrenched, global elites and a new global elite which will seek to overthrow the entrenched globalists who have held sway for many centuries. Revelation 13 and 17 describe this global contest which the Bible foretells will be won by the new elites. The entrenched elites, who will be overthrown, are called “Babylon the Great” in these chapters. The new elites are called the “Beast” power. Wars may be fought for global political/financial supremacy, and the language in Revelation 17:16-17 includes very violent imagery which argues that wars will be fought for global supremacy in this yet-future contest.
For a deep dive into the prophecies about the latter days’ struggle between the current global system and the upstart new global system which is prophesied to replace the old system, please read my research paper entitled: Is “Babylon the Great” about to Fall…Ushering in a Global “Beast” System?
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