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- robotron3k0
looks like "counterfeiting" is the new crisis of the day behind the pandemic of the swine flu. Seems like it would be pretty simple to design, print and stamp a bunch of paper and make it looks pretty official and valuable.
"Milan (AsiaNews) – Italy’s financial police (Guardia italiana di Finanza) has seized US bonds worth US 134.5 billion from two Japanese nationals at Chiasso (40 km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland. They include 249 US Federal Reserve bonds worth US$ 500 million each, plus ten Kennedy bonds and other US government securities worth a billion dollar each.
Italian authorities have not yet determined whether they are real or fake, but if they are real the attempt to take them into Switzerland would be the largest financial smuggling operation in history; if they are fake, the matter would be even more mind-boggling because the quality of the counterfeit work is such that the fake bonds are undistinguishable from the real ones."
http://www.asianews.it/index.php…
but the bigger news will be when they start talking up the counterfeiting of silver and gold coins and bars coming out of some province in china...
- I doubt they are fake, sadly someone was trying to move a massive amount of cash and got caughtGeorgesII
- DrBombay0
- back in the early 90's, out of college, i used to work for a print shop. yeah, i got stories...robotron3k
- My cousin used to counterfeit drink tickets for outdoor music festivals, in the thousands of dollars. Closest I ever got.DrBombay
- i used to love to make all access badges to SXSW when I lived in Austin... really was fun to be red carpet.robotron3k
- Haha, nice.DrBombay
- bliznutty0
“Our country is now vulnerable,” the operative Beck declares. “Those people who would like to destroy us — our enemies like Al Qaeda. They’d like to destroy us, and they will work with anyone. There are also people like white supremacists or 9/11 truthers that would also like to destroy the country. They’ll work with anybody they can.”
yeah.. 9/11 truthers did it
- i thought the guy at the very beginning was Bob Saget at firstlocustsloth
- i just had to come back and add what an utter shit stain this man has become. He was iffy before CNN & Fox, now he's just gonelocustsloth
- Fanatical Extremists = Christian Republicansutopian
- ********0
Have you ever seen an ant colony after their hill has been destroyed? Scattering everywhere and attacking each other desperately trying to escape the magnifying glass of reality. It is fun to watch on the human level.
- TheBlueOne0
What is the incessant need to just make shit up to prove points you've already decided upon in advance that conservatives seem to have? They always end up divorced from reality. Just spent 30 minutes watching FOX and they're tying themselves in knots trying to somehow say that Hitler was a liberal, and therefore all liberals are anti-semitic. WTF. Really?
Maybe someone whould tell the jews this, because they consistently vote liberal in the US...
White Jewish:
83% Obama
16% McCainDamn jews..bunch of anti-semitics.
- Well, remember, Bush was also not a conservative...ukit
- Oh, right. I forgot.TheBlueOne
- Oh, I see, this is Fearless Leader's take, so all the sheep fall in line:
http://mediamatters.…TheBlueOne - Nazis were liberals...who knew...did they sleep through history classukit
- ukit0
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
James W. von Brunn was growing despondent.
John de Nugent, an acquaintance who describes himself as a white separatist, noticed the change when they last spoke two weeks ago.
"He said his Social Security had been cut and that he was barely making it," de Nugent said. "He felt it was the direct result of someone in Washington looking at his Web site."
De Nugent called von Brunn a genius but described the shooting as the act of "a loner and a hothead."
"The responsible white separatist community condemns this," he said. "It makes us look bad."
- ********0
- I like the way she looks like plum these days.TheBlueOne
- @3:56 is that "White Rabbit" in Papyrus on her painting? FAIL.TheBlueOne
- she looks like she be selling outmeal.********
- She needs a big honkin' Wilford Brimley 'stache on that mugTheBlueOne
- fooler20
Senators Who Opposed Anti-Smoking Bill Got Top Dollar From Tobacco Industry
file under NO SHIT SHERLOCK
- ********0
Smoking killing people did a great service to mother earth, less people to pollute and add to a growing over population problem, and best they did it of their own free will. freedom is a great thing. oh well people will always fail to truly understand what freedom is all about. thank god we had slavery to keep those savages from harming themselves in the wild.
- ukit0
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
"Iranians flood to polls for pivotal election"
Could this be the end for Ahmadinasdsaasddiejad?
- ukit0
American media aren't really focused on it, but the Guardian has pretty good coverage here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/b…
It looks like Mousavi won
- bc in the us it doesn't matter, whoever wins will be Hitler reincarnate within two days on Fox, and three weeks on CNNTheBlueOne
- Actually I think this could be a big deal. Not in terms of immediate policy maybe, but it shows that the people want to move in a more moderate directionukit
- move in a more moderate direction, and that the government (if this holds) isn't going to stand in their wayukit
- ukit0
Well daamn.
Networks are breaking the news that Mousavi won.
On the basis of massive turnout among young people and women. Apparently something like 40 out of 46 million people voted.
- DrBombay0
Would be dope, especially after Obama's speech in Cairo. Got to break that ice a bit.
- ukit0
http://www.alarabiya.net/article…
OK, scratch that. It's Ahmadinejad by 75% according to the Iranian gov. Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up there.
- PonyBoy0
they should call some folks from Florida and see if they can help them count their votes accurately
- zenmasterfoo0
I won't be surprised at all if it goes to Ahmadinejad. Just like I wasn't surprised each time Chavez somehow managed to pull a win.
- After Bush/Gore 2000 all bets are off anywhere.DrBombay
- gores stoked he didnt win that election. if he did he would be hated, and wouldnt be profiting on his green terror********
- bliznutty0
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
Henry Kissinger quote
(Something about the Iranian election reminded me of this quote)
- robotron3k0
"US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive
Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.
The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.
The radical experiment is the brainchild of Dan Kildee, treasurer of Genesee County, which includes Flint.
Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country.
Mr Kildee said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes.
Most are former industrial cities in the "rust belt" of America's Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis."
- i could think of a number of communities in a number of states that could stand to do this... interesting idea...PonyBoy
- ... and it'd keep a load of people working for sure...
... different. :)PonyBoy - yup, American cities may get to have actual parks between the communities.robotron3k
- GetRefresh would hate this ideaTheBlueOne
- it is the worst idea ever!BattleAxe