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7.4 Tons of Venezuela’s Gold Landed in Africa and Vanished

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Re: 7.4 Tons of Venezuela’s Gold Landed in Africa and Vanished

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> Secret deliveries to a refinery in Uganda expose a global underground economy many suspect is helping Nicolás Maduro cling to power

How dare the government of Venezuela dispose of its own gold.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-31/store-your-gold-ba...

Re: 7.4 Tons of Venezuela’s Gold Landed in Africa and Vanished

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> Gold from AGR has made its way into supply chains at U.S. companies including General Motors Co. , General Electric Co. and Starbucks Corp. , What do Starbucks and GM use gold for?

Starbucks probably paint and lettering on coffee cups. GM, circuit boards.

https://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml

Re: 7.4 Tons of Venezuela’s Gold Landed in Africa and Vanished

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> Secret deliveries to a refinery in Uganda expose a global underground economy many suspect is helping Nicolás Maduro cling to power How dare the government of Venezuela dispose of its own gold. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-31/store-your-gold-ba...

Why was this flagged?

- quote - dfeojm-zlib 34 minutes ago [flagged] [dead] [-]

More corporatist propaganda FUD desperately trying to undercut democratically-elected governments. - unquote -

Re: 7.4 Tons of Venezuela’s Gold Landed in Africa and Vanished

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> Secret deliveries to a refinery in Uganda expose a global underground economy many suspect is helping Nicolás Maduro cling to power How dare the government of Venezuela dispose of its own gold. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-31/store-your-gold-ba...

When they have liabilities that are due?

Re: 7.4 Tons of Venezuela’s Gold Landed in Africa and Vanished

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> Gold from AGR has made its way into supply chains at U.S. companies including General Motors Co. , General Electric Co. and Starbucks Corp. , What do Starbucks and GM use gold for?

Starbucks probably paint and lettering on coffee cups. GM, circuit boards. https://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml

Actually, I'd estimate that it's for use on decorative mugs, coffee containers, and the rims of sets of glassware, stuff like that.

I don't think they'd dump that much on gold leaf or flake pigment for disposable items. It's more likely for durable, reusable kitchen items, where non-corroding gold surface lends practical utility to consumer facing goods.

Either that, or there's a trade secret in their large scale industrial processes, that demands an amount of gold plated hardware to withstand amounts of heat and corrosion to protect flavor or some other quality control measure.