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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wouldn't there be chaos if the door swung open and the rooms were empty?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
511 Posts |
The vault isn't empty. It's full of gold-plated tungsten bars.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Funny with gold. They dig it up, only to re bury it again! (At Fort Knox)
Interestingly, I am from Oz, but my daughter in law has a brother in the U.S. Army, who is stationed at Fort Knox!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Yes Fort Knox is now empty. During the making of all those movies about stealing all that Gold there, The government moved it all from there to a different place. First the melted it all down, poured it all into molds, made statues for parks and plazas all over the USA. No one steals statues in parks so it is now finally safe. However, just in case someone wants to see it again they have made many Gold painted, Lead covered bars made of Plutonium, Uranium and Radium. If stolen and melted would now explode and be traced by the radioactivity in the area.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I saw an old English black and white movie once, called The Lavender Hill Mob, starring Stanly Holoway. The gold bullion that the crims stole was melted down into paperweight models of the Eiffel Tower, and plated with lead!
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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Kidding aside, a lot of gold is also stored at the Federal Reserve Bank Branch in Manhattan, New York.
Even foreign countries store their gold reserves there. These vaults are extraterritorial places like embassies.
I am sure there are community members who know much more about it...
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Wouldn't there be chaos if the door swung open and the rooms were empty? It would be funny if Geraldo Rivera was the one reporting from the scene. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Kidding aside, a lot of gold is also stored at the Federal Reserve Bank Branch in Manhattan, New York. What is interesting is you can't even get close to Fort Knox, but I believe the New York Federal Reserve actually has tours where you can see the gold vaults. Yep from their website Gold Vault Tour Tours are given Monday through Friday, except Bank holidays, at 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. The tour lasts approximately 60 minutes. To accommodate for security screening, arrive 20 minutes before your tour. Edited by Conder101
09/08/2010 12:37 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well, they are moving the armored divisions out of KY... and they are putting the Army Dept of Human Resources there....
Maybe there is nothing to protect?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Kidding aside, a lot of gold is also stored at the Federal Reserve Bank Branch in Manhattan, New York.
Even foreign countries store their gold reserves there. These vaults are extraterritorial places like embassies.
I am sure there are community members who know much more about it...
Not sure why you think anyone is kidding here. The real truth about the location of all our Gold is at the company that advertises on TV all the time about sending them all your OLD GOLD. Our government saw that and figured they could sell it all to them and finally pay off the national shortages. So that is now where all our Gold is located. |
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United States
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Ron Paul was just on Kitco's e-conference - he wants Fort Knox audited he is trying to get supporters for his bill to audit it.
Interesting that John Christian is on right now - saying prices are going up and he expects them to keep going. He is the same guy who testified saying there is no manipulation etc in the metals market.
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New Member
United States
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Oooppsss - not John Christian - I mean to post Jeff Christian. Sorry.
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Valued Member
United States
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Lose, lose with Fort Knox.
Let's find out which it is:
Real gold, all leased out to other countries.
Tungsten, owned by us/ leased out.
OUCH for the U.S.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Are we about coins and related topics or nutty conspiracy theories?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Why is this a "nutty" conspiracy theory? We are talking about a man who is in a position to know what is going on, making a reasonable request that the Congress and Federal Reserve are fighting tooth and nail. It is about time someone holds the Fed and Treaury's feet to the fire.Anyway, this is coin related if you want your coins to retain value!
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Posted 09/05/2010 11:22 pm
