Critical Thinking, Daily Pickings  reported on 04 December 2014

“A couple of days ago, Daily Pickings referred to the accumulation of gold by Russia and China. Back in January, we asked whether the Deutsche Bundesbank will ever see the return of its gold deposited with the US Federal Reserve? (See Boozing with Ben)

Questions are now being asked of the Ukrainian central bank – where’s all the gold?

With Its gold “vaporized”, a furious Ukraine turns on its central bankers by Tyler Durden (H/T)

Immediately after the Ukrainian coup d’etat, last April, there was a little noticed report of Ukrainian gold being airlifted to the US.

Ukraine’s Gold Reserves secretly flown out and confiscated by the New York Federal Reserve? by Prof Michel Chossudovsky

The Spoils of War and Regime Change

A Russian Internet news site Iskra (“Spark”) based in Zaporozhye, eastern Ukraine, reported on March 7, that “Ukraine’s gold reserves had been hastily airlifted to the United States from Borispol Airport east of Kiev”.

This alleged airlift and confiscation of Ukraine’s gold reserves by the New York Federal Reserve has not been confirmed by the Western media.”

Other Media echoed the report adding their own undertones

The Latest Heist: US quietly snatches the Ukraine’s gold reserves. March 21, 2014 By 21st Century Wire

Less categorical than Chossudovsky Tyler Durden from Zero Hedge  03/10/2014 tells us:

“Was the price of Ukraine’s “liberation” the handover of its gold to the Fed? A curious story, and one which should be taken with a mine of salt, has surfaced out of the pro-Russian newspaper Iskra, which reports – so far on an entirely unsubstantiated basis – that last Friday, in a mysterious operation under the cover of night, Ukraine’s gold reserves were promptly loaded onboard an unmarked plane, which subsequently took the gold to the US…”

The new Cold War is all about Money…