I thought I had read decades ago that while Fort Knox held some gold, the bulk of it was actually stored in vaults beneath NYC ?

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the bulk of it was actually stored in vaults beneath NYC

Wow. Are they building a large water tunnel nearby?

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
I thought I had read decades ago that while Fort Knox held some gold, the bulk of it was actually stored in vaults beneath NYC ?

That's everyone else's gold. It's under the Federal Reserve building. Basically country A will pay country B and the gold will be moved from one cage to the other.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
I thought I had read decades ago that while Fort Knox held some gold, the bulk of it was actually stored in vaults beneath NYC ?

That's everyone else's gold. It's under the Federal Reserve building. Basically country A will pay country B and the gold will be moved from one cage to the other.

Ten times whats in Kentucky.......

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:
I thought I had read decades ago that while Fort Knox held some gold, the bulk of it was actually stored in vaults beneath NYC ?

I heard that in the context of 9/11. The claim was that a bunch of gold was stored in the basement o0f the WTC buildings.

but it's been so long since I heard that, and I'm not even sure if it was ever true. Maybe one of those conspiracy theories? Dunno.

“Trump dispatches NY real estate dealmaker to solve global crises”

I can’t copy the text, but an interesting BBC article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgq0q0eq28no

^^^

Trump dispatches NY real estate dealmaker to solve global crises

When US President Donald Trump wanted someone to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to open negotiations for a potential deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he didn't dispatch his secretary of state.
The man he sent to the Kremlin to handle a titanic geopolitical challenge does not even have a diplomatic background.
Instead Trump picked his personal friend, golf buddy and billionaire real estate developer Steve Witkoff.
The president has made Witkoff his Middle East envoy. But last week the Bronx-born businessman found himself in discussions about ending a conflict in Eastern Europe - having been "with [Putin] for a very extended period, like about three hours", in Trump's words.

Witkoff was in Moscow to help facilitate a deal that saw the US and Russia swap prisoners, which was seen as signalling a possible thaw in relations between the two countries.
Witkoff also played a part in brokering the current ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, for which both Trump and his predecessor Joe Biden took credit.
Though he was not yet officially in his post, Witkoff flew to Tel Aviv to meet Netanyahu before the deal was brokered in Qatar. He then spent time with Biden's envoy Brett McGurk in Doha, who later praised their cooperation, calling it a "very close partnership, even friendship", according to the Washington Post.
Witkoff is now returning to the region, specifically Saudi Arabia, for the first US-Russian face-to-face talks over the war in Ukraine after Trump had his own call with Putin. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and national security adviser Mike Waltz are also attending.
But the bold moves made by Trump's team are stirring concern among Western allies, who fear a new world order in which key players are shut out of discussions. Ukraine and other European nations were not invited to the Saudi meeting.

So, who is Witkoff - dubbed by US media as "the man in the room", taking centre stage as more potentially consequential international talks take place?
He was one of Trump's first picks for his top team after his presidential election win in November. Trump wrote: "Steve will be an unrelenting voice for PEACE, and make us all proud."
"The president sees Steve as one of the world's great dealmakers," a White House official told Axios. Witkoff's preferred negotiating tactic was to use charm, according to another associate, but he could also turn up the pressure.
The 67-year-old was raised in Long Island, New York and trained as a real estate developer in one of America's most cut-throat markets.
As a long-time Republican donor, he has known Trump for decades, and, like the president, made his fortune in real estate in both New York and Florida.
Addressing last year's Republican National Convention, during which he recalled speaking to Trump in the aftermath of an assassination attempt, Witkoff called the other man his "true and dear friend... in good times and bad times".

The two men are also long-time golfing companions, US Senator Lindsey Graham told NBC News. "Steve and I would be the two guys who would play Trump and somebody else, and lose," Graham said.
It was during a shared golfing session in Florida last September that another alleged would-be Trump attacker was foiled by the Secret Service. Trump said he and Witkoff were bundled into golf carts as agents moved to counter a suspect in the bushes.
Graham also said that Witkoff first mentioned his interest in becoming Middle East envoy to Trump during a lunchtime conversation. "That stunned me, because I didn't know he was interested in the Mideast," Graham said.
Witkoff's remit as Middle East envoy is also reported to include diplomacy with Iran. People familiar with the matter told the Financial Times he had been chosen to spearhead a nuclear deal with Tehran as part of a broader plan to "stop the wars" in the region.

Witkoff's deal-making skills were on display during Trump's 2024 campaign. He helped to ease tension between Trump and his defeated Republican presidential primary rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Witkoff also reportedly met Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to smooth things over, after Kemp drew Trump's scorn for refusing to support his unfounded claims of fraud in the 2020 election which Trump lost to Biden.
He currently serves as chairman of the University of Miami's business school real estate advisory board, and was appointed by Trump during his first term to the board of trustees of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Maybe Witkoff can be Trumps Harry Hopkins.

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Originally posted by bdylan:
Maybe Witkoff can be Trumps Harry Hopkins.

If so, hopefully he will be less enamored with Russia and its murderous autocrat than ol’ Harry was.

Esta el WARRO!! Uh, I mean ES GUERRA!!

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1891598832284176513

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Esta el WARRO!! Uh, I mean ES GUERRA!!

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1891598832284176513

Yeah, of all the pressing problems Mexico has the name of the Gulf of America should be at the top of their list. I'm thinking once that gets solved many of Mexico's other problems will simply go away.

I keep getting surprised and more angry about this but I think everyone knows that this just the beginning.


https://x.com/DOGE/status/1891614960452522187

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The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).

In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost impossible. As of Saturday, this is now a required field, increasing insight into where money is actually going. Thanks to
@USTreasury
for the great work.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by bdylan:
Maybe Witkoff can be Trumps Harry Hopkins.

If so, hopefully he will be less enamored with Russia and its murderous autocrat than ol’ Harry was.

Indeed. Some folks believe Hopkins was an actual communist agent. I don't believe Trump associates with GDC's.

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Originally posted by 41:
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At the 6:26 to 6:34 mark. I laughed, too much, proving I still have an adolescent brain.


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The Mesican Prez bitch has a real bad case of TDS.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Esta el WARRO!! Uh, I mean ES GUERRA!!

The entire Mexican Navy will now face down the Gringo Navy at the 24th parallel, prepared to defend its Gulf from the Yankee imperialists.

El Spanish-o

Remember, the Mexican president is the one the cartels allowed to live.

The “often left blank” payments need to be audited!

I wonder what the total $ value of the $4.7 TRILLION did not have this TAS field populated?

Get to it, Big Balls, and report back to the forum by noon tomorrow!!

I have a story about gold and the mint.
Many years ago I worked as a professional photographer here in Chicago. I did Advertising and corporate brochure photography.

One day an Art Director who worked at a large Chicago ad agency called and said he had a job for Fuji Film.
At the time the Olympics in LA were coming up and Fuji was going to run a print ad for a gold coin that was dedicated to the LA Olympic games, they would give them away in the promoted contest when the Olympics started.
Since the LA Olympic gold coin was not released yet they would not allow a coin outside the mint where it was being processed, this mint was at West Point in New York.
It was agreed that we would go to New York and photograph the coin ad inside the mint.

We packed up all the photo gear we needed and flew to Hartford, then drove to West Point.
When we got to the mint we were let into the main entrance. All I remember was it was VERY OLD. Above the doors there was a large shelf, on that shelf were crates that had been opened. I asked the Mint director about the crates. He replied that they were from the MILLIONS in gold bars that President Carter had sent to Iran in order to accomplish a diplomatic mission, I can't remember now what that mission was but think it had to do with the Hostage release of the American embassy employees they held. I was shocked to hear this as I never remembered any news of us paying Iran millions in gold for hostages.

After we were cleared to enter the business side of the mint we and all are photo gear went through a number of machines to X-ray and scan us for metal content. We were told all employees go through this scan. The metal content in your body needed to match, when you leave, the same number you had when you entered.
We eventually passed and entered the production area inside one of the many vaults.
We walked pass several huge vaults that had seals on there doors. I was told that Gold was kept in those vaults even though this mint facility was primarily used for making penny's.I asked if anyone ever goes in there and was told, NEVER.

We set up a area to work and did the ads we went there to do. I remember several large rooms were people worked preparing the Olympic coins. One room they inspected the coins for quality. The best coins went to be sealed in presentation mounts. All coins were handled with cotton gloves.

I can only imagine what the inside of Fort Knox is like. I would love to see those vaults opened live on TV.