How, exactly, do you determine that fake vomit is counterfeit? And more importantly, what is the criteria for caring?
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 09/20/2009 2:16:17 PM PDT by Lorianne
Google search the title to get to story. I'm not sure I can even post the link here [whack]
This is a new story, not the same suspicious bonds from June of this year which showed up in Italy with Japanese travelers.
Need more information ...
Ping.
Thats scary.
thanks
Obama’s campaign funds?
Oh? The same news organization that has the same name as the mayor of New York City?
I wish some enterprising journalist would at least give us a few decent pictures of these instruments, both the June and August sets. All that I have seen to this point are poor pictures taken from a distance.
did they seize them or not
World-wide doubts as to the reality of US taxpayers being able to service US debt is growing. Continual counterfiet (fake) US bond discoveries can worsen the problem, obviously. People are noticing. Still, whats’ a hundred billion in a world with hundreds of trillions at risk, and, over a thousand trillion in credit derivatives in US dollars traded every year?
Something is going on!
The two men just disapared? You can bet its a CIA mission.
“The two men later disappeared and the case is still under investigation. The U.S. government bonds found in the false bottom of a suitcase carried by the men were fake, a U.S. Treasury spokesman said June 18”.
Yes, and, the IMF has just issued its first $50 billion in its new bonds...SDRs...China bought them.
How, exactly, do you determine that fake vomit is counterfeit? And more importantly, what is the criteria for caring?
IMHO, the two “Japanese” men were probably North Koreans.
Why?
1) In the recent past, North Korea has been determined to be the source of very high quality forged US$100 notes.
2) North Korea (along with Iran) are owners of the same type of Swiss (?)-made printing presses used by the United States government to print US currency and bonds.
3) North Korea has, over decades, kidnapped Japanese nationals for the purpose of providing language and cultural instruction to North Korean intelligence operatives.
4) North Korea is certainly capable of providing, through its fifth column organization in Japan, genuine Japanese passports for use by its intelligence operatives. They are also certainly capable of “disappearing” their agents (in more ways than one) once they were released from Italian custody.
5) North Korea, as a country, and its officals, as individuals, have been subject to US-orchestrated financial sanctions due to currency forging, illegal drug and arms trafficing, and the on-going dispute over its nuclear arms program.
Flooding world securities markets with high quality forgeries of US bonds to create mischief (and perhaps to pick up cash) may just be some payback from the little man with the high heels and big hair in Pyongyang.
However, you are, of course, entitled to believe whatever you wish.
Shhhh!
Thank you for the heads up on the story. We can provide links to stories at Bloomberg, no?
“We can provide links to stories at _____, no?”
I have no idea.
I’ve done it and gotten the post pulled
I’ve done it and the post stayed.
I’ve done it and gotten very rudely lambasted by other posters for the source.
I’ve posted without the link but then someone else did and the post got pulled.
I’ve posted without the link but then someone else did and the post stayed. (like this time)
In short, I give up.
I post what I want and how I want and let the chips fall where they may.
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